Surrounded by Your glory What will my heart feel Will I dance for You Jesus Or in awe of You be still Will I stand in Your Presence Or to my knees will I fall Will I sing hallelujah Will I be able to speak at all I can only imagine I can only imagine So TRUE BLESSING BE MULTIPLIED TO YOU THROUGH THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD And through the SON, JESUS. He's the Christ. The Yeshua Homeshiak!.
Tuesday, April 05, 2016
Monday, April 04, 2016
Terrifying Facts brought out by C.S. Lewis for our "nearly desperate" condition.
When you have realised that our position is nearly desperate you will begin to understand what the Christians are talking about. They offer an explanation of how we got into our present state of both hating goodness and loving it. They offer an explanation of how God can be this impersonal mind at the back of the Moral Law and yet also a Person. They tell you how the demands of this law, which you and I cannot meet, have been met on our behalf, how God Himself becomes a man to save man from the disapproval of God. It is an old story and if you want to go into it you will no doubt consult people who have more authority to talk about it than I have. All I am doing is to ask people to face the facts—to understand the questions which Christianity claims to answer. And they are very terrifying facts. I wish it was possible to say something more agreeable. But I must say what I think true.
FROM CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOR BY CS LEWIS
There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was "The sort of person who is always snooping round to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it." And I am afraid that is the sort of idea that the word Morality raises in a good many people's minds: something that interferes, something that stops you having a good time. In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations. When you are being taught how to use any machine, the instructor keeps on saying, "No, don't do it like that," because, of course, there are all sorts of things that look all right and seem to you the natural way of treating the machine, but do not really work.
My 2 cents:
Jesus came to enable us to obtain Abundant Life real living but not what you think of slavery to Christ as a feel good Gospel is. We relinquish rights to Christ. This is painful. It's also comforts. Unless we're born again we can't really appreciate this committment to be alive and real. We know we were bought with a Price and we're not our own but to glorify God honor God with our body our mind. He fulfilled the requirement of the Law even every moral rule that exposed our sinful life. As Lewis would put it, the machine is well oiled and can run smoothe. Christ succeeded to tell about the machine's oiled running well and did something about it effectually. He did succeed where every man failed at it. By Covenanting with God being Born Again denying ourselves, taking up our cross as Romans 6:11-13 describes we now have freedom to choose really for the first time moral right choices after the HOLY SPIRIT! The Holy Spirit wishes right moral choices! That's not a strange statement. We're alive to God now. Galatians 5:1 says to stand firm in the liberty Christ gives. We can love each the others with Agape God's kind of love and therefore love God's way which does no harm to his neighbor and is seen then in the fulfilling of the Law or Christ IN you, the hope of glory. The Pentateuch or five Books of Moses were given to expose our shortcomings and now leads us to Christ and union with Him with a view to the Promises granted (the well oiled well working smoothly machine.) These are not machinations for Jesus is our replaced life exchanged for sin, failure, misery, fears, death fear, etc.. Becoming as a child we can be converted. Now we experience more of love, joy, peace, etc. Children are trusting. They have great difficulty trying to deceive, are vulnerable, and exist from God's standpoint, a sheep. Better a millstone hung around one's neck than to offend one of these little ones. Christ says the Kingdom belongs to such as these. Let's be disciples and hear commands of Lord Jesus as friends of God obeying from the heart asking for rain of the Holy Spirit to bring revival through us and dwell by the Spirit within to fill us to fullness and dwell in our midst. Obeying what you hear God's Voice is going to put you on a Solid Foundation in the storms of life. Teach to observe all Christ said and did. For the Narrow way is to life, broad to destruction. Choose life, choose our Lord Messiah inside and out.
FROM CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOR BY CS LEWIS
There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was "The sort of person who is always snooping round to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it." And I am afraid that is the sort of idea that the word Morality raises in a good many people's minds: something that interferes, something that stops you having a good time. In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations. When you are being taught how to use any machine, the instructor keeps on saying, "No, don't do it like that," because, of course, there are all sorts of things that look all right and seem to you the natural way of treating the machine, but do not really work.
My 2 cents:
Jesus came to enable us to obtain Abundant Life real living but not what you think of slavery to Christ as a feel good Gospel is. We relinquish rights to Christ. This is painful. It's also comforts. Unless we're born again we can't really appreciate this committment to be alive and real. We know we were bought with a Price and we're not our own but to glorify God honor God with our body our mind. He fulfilled the requirement of the Law even every moral rule that exposed our sinful life. As Lewis would put it, the machine is well oiled and can run smoothe. Christ succeeded to tell about the machine's oiled running well and did something about it effectually. He did succeed where every man failed at it. By Covenanting with God being Born Again denying ourselves, taking up our cross as Romans 6:11-13 describes we now have freedom to choose really for the first time moral right choices after the HOLY SPIRIT! The Holy Spirit wishes right moral choices! That's not a strange statement. We're alive to God now. Galatians 5:1 says to stand firm in the liberty Christ gives. We can love each the others with Agape God's kind of love and therefore love God's way which does no harm to his neighbor and is seen then in the fulfilling of the Law or Christ IN you, the hope of glory. The Pentateuch or five Books of Moses were given to expose our shortcomings and now leads us to Christ and union with Him with a view to the Promises granted (the well oiled well working smoothly machine.) These are not machinations for Jesus is our replaced life exchanged for sin, failure, misery, fears, death fear, etc.. Becoming as a child we can be converted. Now we experience more of love, joy, peace, etc. Children are trusting. They have great difficulty trying to deceive, are vulnerable, and exist from God's standpoint, a sheep. Better a millstone hung around one's neck than to offend one of these little ones. Christ says the Kingdom belongs to such as these. Let's be disciples and hear commands of Lord Jesus as friends of God obeying from the heart asking for rain of the Holy Spirit to bring revival through us and dwell by the Spirit within to fill us to fullness and dwell in our midst. Obeying what you hear God's Voice is going to put you on a Solid Foundation in the storms of life. Teach to observe all Christ said and did. For the Narrow way is to life, broad to destruction. Choose life, choose our Lord Messiah inside and out.
Sunday, April 03, 2016
Diluting the Message is as Abandoning Christ’s Gospel. Speak the whole truth.
Abandoning Christ’s Gospel We should not abandon preaching and leading others to Lordship Salvation. I myself was saved hearing Christ is my Savior from sin and sins, mine, and that He wanted to be direct, be master, King, even Lord over all I am and ever hope to be, produce, become, and decide, know, experience!! When we dilute the Message of the Cross, the Kingdom, the Name, the Gospel by easy Salvations like a scorecard in our pocket we Abandon Christ's Gospel because He has said to make Him Lord as well, Savior and make disciples that deny self, take up their cross, and follow Him.
Saturday, April 02, 2016
Brokenness -- The Beginnng Of Revival
Brokenness – The Beginning Of Revival
By Roy Hession
We want to be very simple in this matter of revival. Revival is just the life of the Lord Jesus poured into human hearts. Jesus is always victorious. In heaven they are praising Him all the time for His victory. Whatever may be our experience of failure and barrenness, He is never defeated. His power is boundless. And we, on our part, have only to get into a right relationship with Him, and we shall see His power being demonstrated in our hearts and lives and service, and His victorious life will fill us and overflow through us to others. And that is revival in its essence.
Broken to His Will
If, however, we are to come into this right relationship with Him, the first thing we must learn is that our wills must be broken to His will. To be broken is the beginning of revival. It is painful, it is humiliating, but it is the only way. It is being “Not I, but Christ” (Gal. 2:20), and a “C” is a bent “I.” The Lord Jesus cannot live in us fully and reveal Himself through us until the proud self within us is broken. This simply means that the hard unyielding self, which justifies itself, wants its own way, stands up for its rights, and seeks its own glory, at last bows its head to God’s will, admits its wrong, gives up its own way to Jesus, surrenders its rights and discards its own glory – that the Lord Jesus might have all and be all. In other words it is dying to self and self-attitudes.
And as we look honestly at our Christian lives, we can see how much of this self there is in each of us. It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life (the mere fact that we use the word “try” indicates that it is self who has the responsibility). It is self, too, who is often doing Christian work. It is always self who gets irritable and envious and resentful and critical and worried. It is self who is hard and unyielding in its attitudes to others. It is self who is shy and self-conscious and reserved. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us, for all the fruits of the Spirit (they are enumerated in Galatians 5), with which God longs to fill us, are the complete antithesis of the hard, unbroken spirit within us and presupposes that it has been crucified.
Will We Say “Yes, Lord”?
Being broken is both God’s work and ours. He brings His pressure to bear, but we have to make the choice. If we are really open to conviction as we seek fellowship with God (and willingness for the light is the prime condition of fellowship with God), God will show us the expressions of this proud, hard self that cause Him pain. Then it is, we can stiffen our necks and refuse to repent or we can bow the head and say, “Yes, Lord.” Brokenness in daily experience is simply the response of humility to the conviction of God. And inasmuch as this conviction is continuous, we shall need to be broken continually. And this can be very costly, when we see all the yielding of rights and selfish interests that this will involve, and the confessions and restitutions that may be sometimes necessary.
Jesus Broken for Us
For this reason, we are not likely to be broken except at the Cross of Jesus. The willingness of Jesus to be broken for us is the all-compelling motive in our being broken too. We see Him, who is in the form of God, counting not equality with God a prize to be grasped at and hung on to, but letting it go for us and taking upon Him the form of a Servant – God’s Servant, man’s Servant. We see Him willing to have no rights of His own, no home of His own, no possessions of His own, willing to let men revile Him and not revile again, willing to let men tread on Him and not retaliate or defend Himself. Above all, we see Him broken as He meekly goes to Calvary to become men’s scapegoat by bearing their sins in His own body on the Tree.
In a pathetic passage in a prophetic Psalm, He says, “I am a worm and no man” (Psa. 22:6). Those who have been in tropical lands tell us that there is a big difference between a snake and a worm, when you attempt to strike at them. The snake rears itself up and hisses and tries to strike back – a true picture of self. But a worm offers no resistance, it allows you to do what you like with it, kick it or squash it under your heel – a picture of true brokenness. And Jesus was willing to become just that for us – a worm and no man. And He did so, because that is what He saw us to be, worms having forfeited all rights by our sin, except to deserve hell. And He now calls us to take our rightful place as worms for Him and with Him. The whole Sermon on the Mount with its teaching of non-retaliation, love for enemies and selfless giving, assumes that that is our position. But only the vision of the Love that was willing to be broken for us can constrain us to be willing for that.
“Lord, bend that proud and stiff-necked I,
Help me to bow the head and die;
Beholding Him on Calvary,
Who bowed His head for me.”
Constant Yielding
But dying to self is not a thing we do once for all. There may be an initial dying when God first shows these things, but ever after, it will be a constant dying, for only so can the Lord Jesus be revealed constantly through us. All day long the choice will be before us in a thousand ways. It will mean no plans, no time, no money, no pleasure of our own. It will mean a constant yielding to those around us, for our yieldedness to God is measured by our yieldedness to man. Every humiliation, everyone who tries and vexes us, is God’s way of breaking us, so that there is a yet deeper channel in us for the life of Christ.
You see, the only life that pleases God and that can be victorious is His life – never our life, no matter how hard we try. But inasmuch as our self-centered life is the exact opposite of His, we can never be filled with His life unless we are prepared for God to bring our life constantly to death. And in that we must co-operate by our moral choice.
Cups Running Over
Brokenness, however, is but the beginning of revival. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer “yes”? Revival is when we can say “yes” at any moment of the day. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God’s work – it is all of grace. All we have to do is to present our empty, broken self and let Him fill and keep filled. Andrew Murray says, “Just as water ever seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds you abased and empty, His glory and power flow in.”
The picture that has made things simple and clear to so many of us is that of the human heart as a cup, which we hold out to Jesus, longing that He might fill it with the Water of Life. Jesus is pictured as bearing the golden water pot with the Water of Life. As He passes by, He looks into our cup and if it is clean, He fills to overflowing with the Water of Life. And as Jesus is always passing by, the cup can be always running over. That is something of what David meant, when he said, “My cup runneth over.”
This is revival – you and I – full to overflowing with blessing ourselves and to others – with a constant peace in our hearts. People imagine that dying to self makes one miserable. But it is just the opposite. It is the refusal to die to self that makes one miserable. The more we know of death with Him, the more we shall know of His life in us, and so the more of real peace and joy. His life, too, will overflow through us to lost souls in a real concern for their salvation, and to our fellow Christians in a deep desire for their blessing.
Under the Blood
Only one thing prevents Jesus filling our cups as He passes by, and that is sin in one of its thousand forms. The Lord Jesus does not fill dirty cups. Anything that springs from self, however small it may be, is sin. Self-energy or self-complacency in service is sin. Self-pity in trials or difficulties, self-seeking in business or Christian work, self-indulgence in one’s spare time, sensitiveness, touchiness, resentment and self-defense when we are hurt or injured by others, self-consciousness, reserve, worry, fear, all spring from self and all are sin and make our cups unclean.
But all of them were put into that other cup, which the Lord Jesus shrank from momentarily in Gethsemane, but which He drank to the dregs at Calvary – the cup of our sin. And if we will allow Him to show us what is in our cups and then give it to Him, He will cleanse them in the precious blood that still flows for sin. That does not mean mere cleansing from the guilt of sin, nor even from the stain of sin – though thank God both of these are true – but from the sin itself, whatever it may be. And as He cleanses our cups, so He fills them to overflowing with His Holy Spirit.
Ongoing Cleansing
And we are able daily to avail ourselves of that precious blood. Suppose you have let the Lord Jesus cleanse your cup and have trusted Him to fill it to overflowing, then something comes along – a touch of envy or temper. What happens? Your cup becomes dirty and it ceases to overflow. And if we are constantly being defeated in this way, then our cup is never overflowing.
If we are to know continuous revival, we must learn the way to keep our cups clean. It is never God’s will that a revival should cease, and be known in history as the revival of this or that year. When that happens it is due to only one thing – sin, just those little sins that the devil drops into our cup. But if we will go back to Calvary and learn afresh the power of the blood of Jesus to cleanse moment by moment from the beginnings of sin, then we have learnt the secret of cups constantly cleansed and constantly overflowing. The moment you are conscious of that touch of envy, criticism, irritability, whatever it is – ask Jesus to cover it with His precious blood and cleanse it away and you will find the reaction gone, your joy and peace restored and your cup running over. And the more you trust the blood of Jesus in this way, the less will you even have these reactions.
But cleansing is only possible when we have first been broken before God on the point concerned. Suppose we are irritated by certain traits in someone. It is not enough just to take our reactions of irritation to Calvary. We must first be broken, that is, we must yield to God over the whole question and accept that person and their ways as His will for us. Then we are able to take our wrong reaction to Jesus, knowing that His blood will cleanse away our sin; and when we have been cleansed from sin, let us not keep mourning over it, let us not be occupied with ourselves. But let us look up to our victorious Lord, and praise Him that He is still victorious.
Maintaining the Peace of God
There is one simple but all-inclusive guide the Word of God gives to regulate our walk with Jesus and to make us know when sin has come in. Colossians 3:15 says, “Let the peace of God rule in your hearts.” Everything that disturbs the peace of God in our hearts is sin, no matter how small it is, and no matter how little like sin it may at first appear to be. This peace is to “rule” our hearts, or (a more literal translation) “be the referee” in our hearts. When the referee blows his whistle at a football match, the game has to stop, a foul has been committed. When we lose our peace, God’s referee in our hearts has blown his whistle! Let us stop immediately, ask God to show us what is wrong, put by faith the sin He shows us under the blood of Jesus, and then peace will be restored and we shall go on our way with our cups running over. If, however, God does not give us His peace, it will be because we are not really broken. Perhaps we have yet to say “sorry” to somebody else as well as to God. Or perhaps we still feel it is the other person’s fault. But if we have lost our peace, it is obvious whose fault it is. We do not lose peace with God over another person’s sin, but only over our own. God wants to show us our reactions, and only when we are willing to be cleansed there, will we have His peace.
Oh, what a simple but searching thing it is to be ruled by the peace of God, none other than the Holy Spirit Himself! Former selfish ways, which we never bothered about, are now shown to us and we cannot walk in them without the referee blowing his whistle. Grumbling, bossiness, carelessness, down to the smallest thing are all revealed as sins, when we are prepared to let our days be ruled by the peace of God. Many times a day and over the smallest things we shall have to avail ourselves of the cleansing blood of Jesus, and we shall find ourselves walking the way of brokenness as never before. But Jesus will be manifested in all His loveliness and grace in that brokenness.
Take the First Step
Many of us, however, have neglected the referee’s whistle so often and for so long that we have ceased to hear it. Days follow days and we feel we have little need of cleansing and no occasion of being broken. In that condition we are usually in a worse state than we ever imagine. It will need a great hunger for restored fellowship with God to possess our hearts before we will be willing to cry to God to show us where the blood of Jesus must be applied. He will show us, to begin with, just one thing and it will be our obedience and brokenness on that one thing that will be the first step into revival for us.
By Roy Hession
We want to be very simple in this matter of revival. Revival is just the life of the Lord Jesus poured into human hearts. Jesus is always victorious. In heaven they are praising Him all the time for His victory. Whatever may be our experience of failure and barrenness, He is never defeated. His power is boundless. And we, on our part, have only to get into a right relationship with Him, and we shall see His power being demonstrated in our hearts and lives and service, and His victorious life will fill us and overflow through us to others. And that is revival in its essence.
Broken to His Will
If, however, we are to come into this right relationship with Him, the first thing we must learn is that our wills must be broken to His will. To be broken is the beginning of revival. It is painful, it is humiliating, but it is the only way. It is being “Not I, but Christ” (Gal. 2:20), and a “C” is a bent “I.” The Lord Jesus cannot live in us fully and reveal Himself through us until the proud self within us is broken. This simply means that the hard unyielding self, which justifies itself, wants its own way, stands up for its rights, and seeks its own glory, at last bows its head to God’s will, admits its wrong, gives up its own way to Jesus, surrenders its rights and discards its own glory – that the Lord Jesus might have all and be all. In other words it is dying to self and self-attitudes.
And as we look honestly at our Christian lives, we can see how much of this self there is in each of us. It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life (the mere fact that we use the word “try” indicates that it is self who has the responsibility). It is self, too, who is often doing Christian work. It is always self who gets irritable and envious and resentful and critical and worried. It is self who is hard and unyielding in its attitudes to others. It is self who is shy and self-conscious and reserved. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us, for all the fruits of the Spirit (they are enumerated in Galatians 5), with which God longs to fill us, are the complete antithesis of the hard, unbroken spirit within us and presupposes that it has been crucified.
Will We Say “Yes, Lord”?
Being broken is both God’s work and ours. He brings His pressure to bear, but we have to make the choice. If we are really open to conviction as we seek fellowship with God (and willingness for the light is the prime condition of fellowship with God), God will show us the expressions of this proud, hard self that cause Him pain. Then it is, we can stiffen our necks and refuse to repent or we can bow the head and say, “Yes, Lord.” Brokenness in daily experience is simply the response of humility to the conviction of God. And inasmuch as this conviction is continuous, we shall need to be broken continually. And this can be very costly, when we see all the yielding of rights and selfish interests that this will involve, and the confessions and restitutions that may be sometimes necessary.
Jesus Broken for Us
For this reason, we are not likely to be broken except at the Cross of Jesus. The willingness of Jesus to be broken for us is the all-compelling motive in our being broken too. We see Him, who is in the form of God, counting not equality with God a prize to be grasped at and hung on to, but letting it go for us and taking upon Him the form of a Servant – God’s Servant, man’s Servant. We see Him willing to have no rights of His own, no home of His own, no possessions of His own, willing to let men revile Him and not revile again, willing to let men tread on Him and not retaliate or defend Himself. Above all, we see Him broken as He meekly goes to Calvary to become men’s scapegoat by bearing their sins in His own body on the Tree.
In a pathetic passage in a prophetic Psalm, He says, “I am a worm and no man” (Psa. 22:6). Those who have been in tropical lands tell us that there is a big difference between a snake and a worm, when you attempt to strike at them. The snake rears itself up and hisses and tries to strike back – a true picture of self. But a worm offers no resistance, it allows you to do what you like with it, kick it or squash it under your heel – a picture of true brokenness. And Jesus was willing to become just that for us – a worm and no man. And He did so, because that is what He saw us to be, worms having forfeited all rights by our sin, except to deserve hell. And He now calls us to take our rightful place as worms for Him and with Him. The whole Sermon on the Mount with its teaching of non-retaliation, love for enemies and selfless giving, assumes that that is our position. But only the vision of the Love that was willing to be broken for us can constrain us to be willing for that.
“Lord, bend that proud and stiff-necked I,
Help me to bow the head and die;
Beholding Him on Calvary,
Who bowed His head for me.”
Constant Yielding
But dying to self is not a thing we do once for all. There may be an initial dying when God first shows these things, but ever after, it will be a constant dying, for only so can the Lord Jesus be revealed constantly through us. All day long the choice will be before us in a thousand ways. It will mean no plans, no time, no money, no pleasure of our own. It will mean a constant yielding to those around us, for our yieldedness to God is measured by our yieldedness to man. Every humiliation, everyone who tries and vexes us, is God’s way of breaking us, so that there is a yet deeper channel in us for the life of Christ.
You see, the only life that pleases God and that can be victorious is His life – never our life, no matter how hard we try. But inasmuch as our self-centered life is the exact opposite of His, we can never be filled with His life unless we are prepared for God to bring our life constantly to death. And in that we must co-operate by our moral choice.
Cups Running Over
Brokenness, however, is but the beginning of revival. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. If we were asked this moment if we were filled with the Holy Spirit, how many of us would dare to answer “yes”? Revival is when we can say “yes” at any moment of the day. It is not egoistic to say so, for filling to overflowing is utterly and completely God’s work – it is all of grace. All we have to do is to present our empty, broken self and let Him fill and keep filled. Andrew Murray says, “Just as water ever seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds you abased and empty, His glory and power flow in.”
The picture that has made things simple and clear to so many of us is that of the human heart as a cup, which we hold out to Jesus, longing that He might fill it with the Water of Life. Jesus is pictured as bearing the golden water pot with the Water of Life. As He passes by, He looks into our cup and if it is clean, He fills to overflowing with the Water of Life. And as Jesus is always passing by, the cup can be always running over. That is something of what David meant, when he said, “My cup runneth over.”
This is revival – you and I – full to overflowing with blessing ourselves and to others – with a constant peace in our hearts. People imagine that dying to self makes one miserable. But it is just the opposite. It is the refusal to die to self that makes one miserable. The more we know of death with Him, the more we shall know of His life in us, and so the more of real peace and joy. His life, too, will overflow through us to lost souls in a real concern for their salvation, and to our fellow Christians in a deep desire for their blessing.
Under the Blood
Only one thing prevents Jesus filling our cups as He passes by, and that is sin in one of its thousand forms. The Lord Jesus does not fill dirty cups. Anything that springs from self, however small it may be, is sin. Self-energy or self-complacency in service is sin. Self-pity in trials or difficulties, self-seeking in business or Christian work, self-indulgence in one’s spare time, sensitiveness, touchiness, resentment and self-defense when we are hurt or injured by others, self-consciousness, reserve, worry, fear, all spring from self and all are sin and make our cups unclean.
But all of them were put into that other cup, which the Lord Jesus shrank from momentarily in Gethsemane, but which He drank to the dregs at Calvary – the cup of our sin. And if we will allow Him to show us what is in our cups and then give it to Him, He will cleanse them in the precious blood that still flows for sin. That does not mean mere cleansing from the guilt of sin, nor even from the stain of sin – though thank God both of these are true – but from the sin itself, whatever it may be. And as He cleanses our cups, so He fills them to overflowing with His Holy Spirit.
Ongoing Cleansing
And we are able daily to avail ourselves of that precious blood. Suppose you have let the Lord Jesus cleanse your cup and have trusted Him to fill it to overflowing, then something comes along – a touch of envy or temper. What happens? Your cup becomes dirty and it ceases to overflow. And if we are constantly being defeated in this way, then our cup is never overflowing.
If we are to know continuous revival, we must learn the way to keep our cups clean. It is never God’s will that a revival should cease, and be known in history as the revival of this or that year. When that happens it is due to only one thing – sin, just those little sins that the devil drops into our cup. But if we will go back to Calvary and learn afresh the power of the blood of Jesus to cleanse moment by moment from the beginnings of sin, then we have learnt the secret of cups constantly cleansed and constantly overflowing. The moment you are conscious of that touch of envy, criticism, irritability, whatever it is – ask Jesus to cover it with His precious blood and cleanse it away and you will find the reaction gone, your joy and peace restored and your cup running over. And the more you trust the blood of Jesus in this way, the less will you even have these reactions.
But cleansing is only possible when we have first been broken before God on the point concerned. Suppose we are irritated by certain traits in someone. It is not enough just to take our reactions of irritation to Calvary. We must first be broken, that is, we must yield to God over the whole question and accept that person and their ways as His will for us. Then we are able to take our wrong reaction to Jesus, knowing that His blood will cleanse away our sin; and when we have been cleansed from sin, let us not keep mourning over it, let us not be occupied with ourselves. But let us look up to our victorious Lord, and praise Him that He is still victorious.
Maintaining the Peace of God
There is one simple but all-inclusive guide the Word of God gives to regulate our walk with Jesus and to make us know when sin has come in. Colossians 3:15 says, “Let the peace of God rule in your hearts.” Everything that disturbs the peace of God in our hearts is sin, no matter how small it is, and no matter how little like sin it may at first appear to be. This peace is to “rule” our hearts, or (a more literal translation) “be the referee” in our hearts. When the referee blows his whistle at a football match, the game has to stop, a foul has been committed. When we lose our peace, God’s referee in our hearts has blown his whistle! Let us stop immediately, ask God to show us what is wrong, put by faith the sin He shows us under the blood of Jesus, and then peace will be restored and we shall go on our way with our cups running over. If, however, God does not give us His peace, it will be because we are not really broken. Perhaps we have yet to say “sorry” to somebody else as well as to God. Or perhaps we still feel it is the other person’s fault. But if we have lost our peace, it is obvious whose fault it is. We do not lose peace with God over another person’s sin, but only over our own. God wants to show us our reactions, and only when we are willing to be cleansed there, will we have His peace.
Oh, what a simple but searching thing it is to be ruled by the peace of God, none other than the Holy Spirit Himself! Former selfish ways, which we never bothered about, are now shown to us and we cannot walk in them without the referee blowing his whistle. Grumbling, bossiness, carelessness, down to the smallest thing are all revealed as sins, when we are prepared to let our days be ruled by the peace of God. Many times a day and over the smallest things we shall have to avail ourselves of the cleansing blood of Jesus, and we shall find ourselves walking the way of brokenness as never before. But Jesus will be manifested in all His loveliness and grace in that brokenness.
Take the First Step
Many of us, however, have neglected the referee’s whistle so often and for so long that we have ceased to hear it. Days follow days and we feel we have little need of cleansing and no occasion of being broken. In that condition we are usually in a worse state than we ever imagine. It will need a great hunger for restored fellowship with God to possess our hearts before we will be willing to cry to God to show us where the blood of Jesus must be applied. He will show us, to begin with, just one thing and it will be our obedience and brokenness on that one thing that will be the first step into revival for us.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Bethel Assembly of God: Matthew #32 Matthew Chapter 24
Bethel Assembly of God: Matthew #32 Matthew Chapter 24: The slides for this study can be found here
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When I surrendered onto the Life-preserver of the Gospel Ship of which Christ was my Captain even of Salvation as a sinner saved or slave to Christ at an Altar in church and made Him Lord I knew it would not be an easy way. The way of the Cross never is. Self has to be defeated until revived life and consciousness is all His: He's Lord. The path of God's forgiveness is inside precious in the timetable of life and it's effect is strewn with casualties of invisible war as well that are shipwreck but then also there are those overcomers (hupernikao Greek for more than conquerors: overcomers Romans 8:37) in our Lord's army, disciples. These are folk who are alive to God through New Testament Promises in their consciences those with stable backbone, rescued by our Lord, Born Again, who want to see Eternity in their mortal living constantly consistently. They do battle on their knees fight the good fight to see loved ones enter the Kingdom of Heaven. It would not cease to solve every one of my problems I knew when I came to Christ much earlier as a child of four. But safely by His grace I knelt and knew inside I would lay low the enemy of my soul if I became a Blood Washed Born Again Child Of God Christian testifying witness to Him through His lentil and door posts crossed by my Saviors Blood through mercy to myself, Salvation.
My godly parents gave me a great head start in life as dynamic examples of heritage in legacy passing on what it means to be a Born Again Christian living Holy for Christ's Coming. I made the decision to confess I'm a sinner as than I a child in my Mom's Toddler class at Church. My public personal life in school until college was kept social by mechanical structure and nurture coming at me to discipline me. I even had a Mechanical Drawing class for six years with a gentlemanly Luthren professor. It was through tight places of thilipses as is the Greek word for that convex condition we all find ourselves in at times of troubles and difficulties in getting past a point and through that vertex of struggle tunneling through He gave me a spirit of victory from Jesus my Savior that Great Shepherd of the Sheep in overcoming sin and difficult circumstances honoring Christ and God in all things about which the world at the time which consisted of fellow students unsaved associates at public school could observe in, about me.
But God's Spirit inside prevailing dwelling in me and living through me enables my life in our Lord planting in me His seed of the Word of God. Just abiding in Him, Jesus Christ, is the Source and means to grow. The Lord is the reality to be laid hold of (paralambano in Greek) Who is that great object to our faith Who is involved deeply in the struggle to live after the Spirit successful even by our God Adonai. The struggle was just the irritation in the oyster of my life to help The Pearl Of Great Price, Christ grow within me large in my heart. Any success whether outwardly, inwardly, or occupationally has been and will be obedience and to the glory of our LORD. Amen.
My godly parents gave me a great head start in life as dynamic examples of heritage in legacy passing on what it means to be a Born Again Christian living Holy for Christ's Coming. I made the decision to confess I'm a sinner as than I a child in my Mom's Toddler class at Church. My public personal life in school until college was kept social by mechanical structure and nurture coming at me to discipline me. I even had a Mechanical Drawing class for six years with a gentlemanly Luthren professor. It was through tight places of thilipses as is the Greek word for that convex condition we all find ourselves in at times of troubles and difficulties in getting past a point and through that vertex of struggle tunneling through He gave me a spirit of victory from Jesus my Savior that Great Shepherd of the Sheep in overcoming sin and difficult circumstances honoring Christ and God in all things about which the world at the time which consisted of fellow students unsaved associates at public school could observe in, about me.
But God's Spirit inside prevailing dwelling in me and living through me enables my life in our Lord planting in me His seed of the Word of God. Just abiding in Him, Jesus Christ, is the Source and means to grow. The Lord is the reality to be laid hold of (paralambano in Greek) Who is that great object to our faith Who is involved deeply in the struggle to live after the Spirit successful even by our God Adonai. The struggle was just the irritation in the oyster of my life to help The Pearl Of Great Price, Christ grow within me large in my heart. Any success whether outwardly, inwardly, or occupationally has been and will be obedience and to the glory of our LORD. Amen.
Why do I feel I shouldn’t tarry?
Too soon I did bring some friends to see,
To them the pearl - just a silly mystery.
I should have dug deeper all around its sides,
For they couldn’t see the beauty in its disguise.
So vast is the meadow to get to it,
But I found a shortcut and long do I sit.
We talk there a lot, as I dig in the sand
It will forever be too large for my hand.
But oh what it does to my heart and soul,
Working at the dirt on my own with the Lord.
When after a season tears of toiling and deep pain,
My pearl more visible, Jesus says its spiritual gain.
Nothing can replace it, so large in my thoughts,
As large as in Revelation, 1,500 miles is a lot.
I was led to that pearl, and at first I didn’t see
Why it needs to remain forever too big for me.
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Bethel Assembly of God: What do you see? Luke 19:29-44
Bethel Assembly of God: What do you see? Luke 19:29-44: The slides for this study can be found here
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Thursday, March 24, 2016
Friday, March 18, 2016
Bethel Assembly of God: Matthew #31 Matthew Chapter 23
Bethel Assembly of God: Matthew #31 Matthew Chapter 23: The slides for this study can be found here
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Thursday, March 17, 2016
Bethel Assembly of God: Matthew #29 Matthew Chapter 22
Bethel Assembly of God: Matthew #29 Matthew Chapter 22: The slides for this study can be found here
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Bethel Assembly of God: Becoming One: One 'Stone' Peter 2:4-10
Bethel Assembly of God: Becoming One: One 'Stone' Peter 2:4-10: The slides for this study can be found here
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Monday, March 14, 2016
Friday, March 11, 2016
God's LOVE Drew us to Salvation's Plan and God Woos us to respond to Him. God's shocking love and indiscriminate grace in Father Son and Spirit, God's LOVE in the Holy Trinity.
Monday, June 4, 2012, 3:40 PM 4/19/2016 Imagine Luke 15 tells the story of the Prodigal son returned redeemed home which means bought back by the Father God in His Most High (El Elyon) Magnificent Love and being the Lavish Father that He was He rejoices that His prodigal son has come home wooed and in excellent balance to do so! With indiscriminate common grace the Father prevents the son on tip toes from speaking guilt of talking too much to possibly disqualify himself before the Father even in excuses (but by the way of confession of the lost son being it was enough to please the Father though, before God the Father also in the Parable) He Gives the forgiveness instead and profusely to the prodigal son that the son gets hugs, a ring, sandals, weeping for joy by His Father etc. and a party given by Love of our Lavish Father God for kind forgiveness! FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. JOHN 3:16 Jesus came to the world and this earth not to judge it but to save it primarily the first time. Verse 17. The Gospel: A Coming To Christ. How Would You Like To Or Feel Up To Forgiven Saved Becoming An Intimate Friend Of God And Alive to God in An Abundant Life In Accepting Adoption Into God's Family, a Friendship with God by responding to God's gracious invitation to Salvation In Christ From Him in His Word the Bible for This Zoe Life (God-kind) in The Preparation For And Expectation of an After-Life Someday In Heaven? I have followed Christ. A wretch though I am God saved me. Confession is not a work but instead it's a means a way to be honest before God in God's eye. It's an invitation to let God search me and know me, try me, and lead. Have you been raised in the faith like I and found Christ later than I or before? Being raised in the faith did not save me at four but making a decision to accept Christ as my own Savior and follow through in living in Him did. Is your aim at Heaven? Are you growing lukewarm or are you hot?! Do you know He loves you respectfully and to aid you to be hot not just lukewarm? He wants to make you shine. Do you know Salvation involves discipleship to fully realize that God's plan for you is in His love? His test in the discipleship way is to be faith-filled along the way spending time with God all the time and Jesus whatever may befall and is for us to be developing in being a disciple and in being aware of God's working within being cemented in a Blood Covenant in His Son with Promises, the goal in Him. I'm saved in bold assurance in His hand! God's grace is power to keep you saved from God as Jesus is Lord obediently IN you in confidence. Do you know this? Let our response be to make Him Lord, Savior. Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Christ. And follow through you surrendering, with Jesus saving helping, daily on the Altar of God you are placing you a living sacrifice laid bound to the altar bound by grace, mercy, and love to prepare to see Him today in hearing from Him and obedience with a look to fulfillment of seeing Him in Heaven someday Romans 12:1; 6:11-13? Do you see Him in your days alive working moving? Is He working moving acting alive along side you? Is He in you mightily? Is His love meaning more to you? Do you know to what extent God went through to Die on a Cross and Rise Again for you? He goes through His wallet photos extensively to show through His action figure (Christ) to us His mankind: How He loves us so very much individually each in this wonderful lavish almighty unconditional personally satisfying edifying uniquely expressing His image to each individual-as-if-He-the-only-one-to-us-sending Divine/human (Jesus is called the son of man,) love? We must appropiate for ourselves that love in all its facets embracing in Salvation ourselves as one for Whom Christ won Eternal life beseeching for us to come to Him, came for a'Dying. It was my sin that killed Him. Can we not indeed be broken together and open and talk about this? It was for me He Died, He offers forgiveness and newness of life and what about you? Who do you see, Jesus to really be? He makes His invitation to come to Him complete to us and we respond in His time and way. As you lay open your Bibles you won’t find the Autograph (Original Manuscript) but you will find our Savior Jesus within its pages written of so obtain a good translation if you seek to find Him. He will be found by you if you seek Him with all your heart and read an Evangelical supported Text of the Bible. Only the Autographs of each of the Bible books are inspired actually in the original Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew. But are you getting to know with experiential knowledge the God of the Bible of these verses?! The Living God reigns. Get to know Him. He's knowable on a personal one to one relational basis. How many versions are good for us with no change of need to 99.9999% of the text like indeed the New American Standard! Not any.
So you believe God would like to personally treat you to knowing (ya da in Hebrew, know) Him in a relationship that saves from hell, death, sin, and the grave or fear of death and delivers from a sinful lifstyle and habit to the uttermost? And He, liking you too and finding you (as He did Abraham, Moses, or the Apostle Paul) in re-creation of you in Born Again Salvation and giving you such a transformed abundant justified changed life from the heart now as they had on earth and in Heaven perfected will aimed for? For God is a personal God and longs to be our Father this way meaning similarly individually bent but no carbon copy to each one of us is given but to each knowable by grace through faith God is stamping out a tupos (image in Greek) because these people honored Him and He showed. There was prosperity in Biblical characters too but not without revival in the heart like we're used to in New Covenant living in Jesus sitting in the Heavenlies for the adventure took them everywhere and every which way but loose as they little expected. For love from God does not disqualify anyone nor give up on you nor does it not disregard the small of our back as it engages, grips our heart as we are cared for concernedly by Him and watched over by Him we, practicing humility before Him alone when looking at the forest for all the trees in His hand thou Jacob son of Israel (Messianic Jews) and Body of our Lord Hebrews 6:10. Our God is not too small. He's a Jewish Jesus. He knows us all by name and sees everything. Nothing is a secret to Him. He calls us by our first name also like He did to Mary at the Empty Tomb. He's familiar and acquainted with all our paths and ways and He scrutinizes our path Psalm 139:1-3 He promises to us as an overcomer, a stone written with a name written on it known only to its owner Given to us as overcomers, individual believers in Him Revelations 2:17. Even like Cheers, the comedy TV show God knows us familiarly but He remains Holy. He sees us through the lens of His Son's Righteousness. Like a weaned child we can be before Him, satisfied! Content! He is to be feared and trembled before reveranced even with rejoicing. Even to the very hairs on our head numbered He knows intimately the name HE calls us by! He loves us while we were still sinners of His plan.
Like a nursing Mother will not forget her child so He has us in His arms held and won't forget us Isaiah 49:14,15. Listen to a song, Just Be Held by Casting Crowns and Beautiful by MercyMe. If He knows the name of every star that is then He surely knows us inside and out and upside and down by implying reference in astronomy. He knows the intricate makeup of every cell in us. He is the glue by which all things hold together. In Him all atoms hold together. He saw us being knit together in our Mother's womb and He knew every one of our days being formed before any of them came to exist. And He loves us mightily STRONG in DYING ON THE CROSS. You see God became one of us, a human, a man. God visited mankind and dwelt among us and showed us what God is like, that He is good, holy, and redeemed us, bought us back from slavery to sin and we are not our own. Really! God wants a personal knowing of you in return and the reciprocity of continuing to know Him enduring to the end. But to do that for everyone He Died on Calvary so personally He without having invading our will with He searching in us is let into your conscience by introspection and examination to place His Son's Blood in you and He will save us if we let Him. But in introspected examination searching yourself are you building up one another and is He helping build a House for God with you (Temple for the Holy Spirit) of obedient response to His call and coming of you in returning to Him (Isaiah 55:1-11)? If so there is Heavenly gold in this. I Corinthians three, the Bema Seat. We're not talking abundance of material things in coming to Him nor complete answers to problems we may engage in nor meat and drink but of the heart, His Presence a problem solver Savior, devotion to Christ, adoration in the little crevices and heart beat of our soul in intimacy with Him in the Kingdom of God in salvation, in the Name and Adventure walking worthy of His call for dwelling the Spirit! God is no respecter of persons. He will reward anybody who is faithful who is having faith in Him alive in the Kingdom: righteousness, peace, and joy, in the Holy Spirit. Be caring for the weightier matters of the law such as justice, peace, mercy, and faithfulness being Born Again Mt. 23; Romans 13,14; Hebrews 11:1, Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Without faith it is impossible to please God. For He that comes to God must believe that He is and is a rewarder of them that dilligently seek Him! Faith is not faith in faith at all but in a godly place leaning depending on God YAW Elohim Adonai El Shaddai where God is. In Salvation we are hid with Christ in God. He's our point of contact.
He's after our heart life and longs after us to have a perfected spirit in us in Christ not like the Pharisees who majored in minors like washings, offerings, and fastings. We need to reverence Him instead of observing by focusing in Pharisaical behavior of one another observed among our associates at Bethel Assembly. But instead especially our allegiance/availability is to become reversed from this world and in the Spirit intact back to His Presence as we approach Him and focus on what He gives. From being forgiven by God fact is we draw from the wells of Salvation. He's earned a place in our heart of daily honor devotion approaching falling in love with Him, as He, Himself loved us first and for our love shown Him He rescued us at Calvary as He in sending His only Son two thousand years before to buy us back He Ransoms us and reveals to us His Real life Divine calling to Save and live IN US. His reality is Heaven and on His Throne, our Rock to found your edifice on as He wants us in relationship to Himself and in love in this relationship in fellowship strongly furthering His Kingdom as His childlike children specially attending Church (hint, here is mine: Bethel Assembly,) and enjoying everyone’s individual personality in His Body of believers! There are so many ethnic origins of nations in individuals in Christ's Body. He's created such a tex mix. He doesn’t like us at a distance but near because spiritually pride is sin to us and any haughtiness indeed does hurt. But we still draw near to Him and His Presence boldly by the Blood. Also we want to be childlike not childish because there is a difference. A wise man such (Walter Beuttler,) has said in order for God to do That something for us, He has to do something with us, so that He can do something to us! God was in the cross reconciling men to Himself. God allows us the faith to believe which is a resaoned response to Finished Work of Christ on the Cross to bring us into zeal! Jesus said, "Zeal for You [Father] and Your House has eaten me up." Do you have His Gift of Salvation and do you follow Christ places so much it hurts? Do you recognize He gives you faith to believe as His Creation present active indicative in most verses mentioned in the Word which is a verb tense of belief and to keep on believing? And that He loves you as Daddy (not especially a sugar daddy,) but in believing on Him as Source, or Provision (supply?) and a good good Father! This special love He loves you with is for caring at the unique person you are and creation He made you in closeness and is concern-ed love by God our good Father Abba Papa and is Savior to you because He chooses to love you making you free a sovereign to choose Jesus Christ with an abandonment to your free will dynamic thus you remain sovereign under Lordship to Christ. Freedom is not always a safe thing thus but it can be safe if You and me is you and God and not 'Him and I.' It becomes eternally 'edge of the ledge' dangerous if you do not take in the whole counsel of the Word of God to be saved in relationship to God and not necessarily 'religious religion' "finding you."
This is because hearing God and not obeying Him is like witchcraft and rebellion. But He gives more grace. But the secret to better than sexual freedom of this world's thinking controlled by Satan and or sensuality in us is in love Agapeon for God or receiving and/or responding to God's kind of love for us in not holding your sour thoughts to the grace of God in this realm and praising, loving, worshipping serving Him, not failing to find grace always in every way and path. Grace is for obedience. Consider God’s Revelation of Himself in of all books, the Bible! He demands we use our will to choose to decide Him in Salvation and choose Him in His Presence inside always for no choice is eternal destruction! Eternal Destiny is at stake! Really! Jesus, His Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection is key! We hold no other Salvation than Atonement through Christ's Blood over sin and all it's wreck to change us. Hell will be death working backwards in fire's lake conscious and regrets awaits this for those on the fence. Freedom from sin this day He promises you in your getting saved coming to Him weary from heavy labor on your back and becoming His. Gone all my sins are gone! Come to Jesus Christ becoming a work in progress in getting to know Him for the rest of your life passively from His work at the Cross within in your heart: for working this out is to will to do and will His good pleasure with a godly pursuit actively in finite yoked-to-Jesus spurts moment by moment adventure of knowing Him by Divine Nature and Love for Him opening up to His Will in His Majesty and Magnificence! What would it take for you to show this faith and love increasingly for or towards our Jehovah God in this Christian life we call Salvation in relationship? YES, Oh How He loves you greatly in the Son. And yes our seeming control of things in life is an illusion. We can surrender control to God or choose money in this world's system to seeming have control. Jesus said, "You can't serve both God and mammon." Will you choose surrender to Christ's will? Do you realize serving money systems is a dead end? That is how not to have an object to your faith. But decide to choose God as faith's object and not faith in faith! Make Jesus God and Lord. It matters because the object of faith is for faith to have its root to become God so stay with that aspect not clinging so tightly to material possessions but abiding through Christ Jesus gently meekly laying hold of He Who is saving us present tense in Eternal time as well. Christ Himself makes peace between us and God and has this Done through His work on the cross of His shed Blood and earthly life in Perfection and His is a Perfect Sacrifice to propitiate (Satisfying to God well for sin,) or Atone for to make a person's faith's decision to believe GOD to save us justified from sin (past, present, and future,) which is the only choice for real Godly life. It is Christ we live for through appropriation of Him to a relationship to God BY THE SON’s Finished Work applied to us. Just as an animal was chosen for sacrifice in olden days for its perfection from defect and perfect age to give to the priest for Atonement so the Innocent Lamb of God, Jesus Died for your sins as perfect Sacrifice for Justice before a Merciful Holy God. That little lamb couldn't 'cut the mustard,' but Christ DID! Jesus is your great High Priest correction our Great High Priest purging our conscience for rooted forgiveness inside and by His Word sprinkling our hearts from an evil conscience and cleansing us from dead works to serve the Living God from our conscious conscience!! There is no formula to God. There are no methods. There are no glib phrases to repeat to know God, but in Christ in prayer: know His Personhood: that He is the way, the truth, and the life and in that (testimony) of Christ Savior and Lord personally individually we’re born again following! John 14:6.
We’re each called to our own spiritual adventure and spiritual heart change surgery! But all come through the Blood of Jesus Christ to New Covenant relationship! You can draw near to God and He will draw near to you. You can submit to Him and the devil will flee from us. You can have in your benefit file cabinet ethereally of what God has done FOR YOU by God's Salvation in knowing about Him greatly on the way to firsthand experiential experience knowing Him by getting saved which is the goal. With the pain evident by ethos and pathos known only to you and God, from Him that you are a sinner admit this first and chiefest sinner in addition that you desperately need to know from Ephesians chapters one and two and the Book of Hebrews ch. 9 and ch. 10 that the way is open and plain by the Word made flesh and dwelling among us, Jesus Christ, to become alive to God and you are laid bare and spiritually made open ready to this Salvation by a New Covenant Relationship in fact born from an Old one that now in new wine skins is made a new and living way to God and is available through the Body of our Lord and His Blood to save! Desperate, orphaned by this world, helpless a sinner we came to our Lord Jesus this way, hopeless. (And that in Finished Work of Jesus Christ God loves you almightily STRONG, justifies you, and transfers His Victory your way by just your faith in Him!) For in His Presence yes in His fullness of Presence there is joy, rooted in Christ fullness of joy to be had!; pleasures at His right hand forevermore and this all had in knowing God through Christ simply put. In Him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. It’s not pie in the sky by and by, but by Jesus and His words followed obeyed abundant life in our Lord if you will spend time with Jesus to discipleship. No rose garden promised but led along by ardent penetrating Truth to deny self, take up your cross and follow Him Who Is a Person, Jesus Christ! Follow Him as I do and others. Put God with everything within you first, in you by faith! Cast down your idols. Put on the Lord Jesus Christ. Make the flesh have no comfort relatively (relatively means by comparison.) Jesus is coming back for ready people some "angry young men" Randy Stonehill penned lyrics. Men who fight for God's right ways and His honor: angry about sin and its harm to anyone and willing to do something. Knowing ironies of His Kingdom and having the peace with God from God that induces us to be fighting the Lord's battles love and really love on others good with Agape. This starts with slavery to Christ's ways even servanthood. Servants have no will of their own but their Master's. They volunteer this status. We are friends of God in Christ if we do what He commands. So Salvation starts with Finished Works on the cross appropiated and responding to grace and our forgiveness of sins from God and is expressed in results working out of us: effects like servanthood to the Lord and the wind listing to blow through everyone born of the Spirit to the effect the Devils works are destroyed by Christ within and glowing through us! Eternal life which starts at the Death on the Cross in identification of Jesus in us or Resurrection for us even for each of us and it radically changes us by transforming us from faith to faith, glory to glory! With tears I pray the things that break God’s heart will break your heart and mine. Humbly with tears also I wish for you to embark on this road to God that, “aims at Heaven!” and hits it every time! (This was a C.S. Lewis phrase - "Aims at Heaven.") For His ways are so much greater than ours! And His Thoughts are so much higher than our thoughts! The cross is our stepping stone not stumbling block to this victory triumph state. We're not as an ant but as Nike (more than conquerors) overcomers in Him of finding every day in the Lord‘s will mystery even of the hidden maztsa of Christ life in the Passover Seder we press on. Keep in mind the destiny of Jesus for us of Heaven is a disciple's counted cost daily to follow Him. Indeed it is foolishness this preaching to some who are blind to not discern spiritual things as real but they are foolish to disbelieve the cross was a triumph act indeed closing their ears. “The fool has said in his/her heart, there is no God.“
Living the Christian life is not in self-glory nor selfishness nor to be lived in self-righteousness nor pity for self, but humbly Salvation received, and restored, passively but actively believed and born into us New Birth out, and best lived extroverted and actively expressed by faith through grace. Grace has and must have a showing up response to it. Speak the truth to one another in love. Christ is our righteousness to the end of the law and we cry to Him open and honest facing our facts of sins we’ve committed to God need forgiveness and that we’re sinners before Him condemned but for Him to give us Godly sorrow too to give repentance to us not to be repented of or not in any worldly sorrow of any kind felt we turn to Him. We’re a work in progress in Salvation and He’s working in us and on us with the Hammer (of the Word,) and sometimes Screwdriver of His love instead intended to make us sharp. Self-glory itself or any of self will as a part of self-effort to work to earn pleasing to get to God we CEASE from as we put aside performance oriented treadmill works trying to earn salvation but doomed to frustration behind us but instead in the Spirit through Christ knowing Him encountering Him suddenly learning grace and humbly genuine authentically coming to Him as because of mercy and grace from God humbly received and without fear we strive to be like Christ. In other words we seek to be fishers of men and watch our image from God pattern that it's a strut or sprint that it is progressing in longer streaming strides in the Lord truly dignified and seeking His face consistantly constantly circumspect becoming authentically humble like Philippians chapter two: our Lord's kenosis, self-emptying.
Jesus our Messiah Christ by Who He was genuinely destroyed the work and power of the Devil literally walking into a room and breaking his weapons jujitsu in two declaring glorious Victory, making an embarrassing and woeful fateful end to the devil squashing his head then and his works demolished soon in future tense in display God gives us the feed over and will in a future tense legislation to give us a view over them of their destruction that is, of the devil and his demons crushed and under our Lord's foot Colossian 2; Genesis 3:15; Romans 15. We're enlisted in our Lord's army to enforce this destruction and devastation execution punishment over Satan by the authority left by Jesus Christ as His deputies as we get the Spirit Anointed urge by God to step in to victory humbly spiritually even do something worthily obeying Christ! Christ came out of an empty Tomb to fill our empty hearts and "we be sweet" is His "It is finished" victory within! Benny Hester wrote or sang a song in Contemporary Christian music called, “When God Ran, “about how God longs to come to each one of us who were 'sinning' but returning to Papa Abba as children born once now born twice saved, and as prodigals repenting and stopping sin as a habit and lifestyle who Christ gives the power to do so we do and so we love Him and He longs to fill us His Body with His ever scented Presence and with Godly love unto Resurrection Life in the Son in newness of life. Except you become as little children and receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, you will not see it nor enter it nor will you be saved. Therefore, the noblest act for any of us to do is to sit at the feet of Jesus who is the exact image and representation of God and learn by emptying ourselves of pride and humble become as Born Again. Preferably in a prone position humbly with good posture always, we worship Him though posture doesn't matter. Jesus spoke of His Father, “Sanctify us by Thy Truth. “ “Thy Word is truth. “ So should we have this attitude of humility in coming to the Word to change as we pray to Our Heavenly Father! We can learn by this statement in Romans 6:23 that man is totally depraved and has the witness of God in His existence inside himself and it’s so that He needs a Savior and Lord. Attributes of Adam flock to tell its so on a daily moment by moment basis. Christ is the end or fulfillment of righteousness to all who believe for righteousness and forgiveness period rather than work for their salvation for those who exert effort on their part for righteousness of their own are doomed from the start to finish re: repeated frustration. Its by grace! Alone! For Salvation man needs a Savior and Jesus is He of necessity and we must know he is given alone Acts 4:12. There's an influence for God we must live and transmit. Jesus is to be believed in for salvation literally His Name, Jesus Christ: for grace charis is a good fragrance aroma even Life to us saved and is His Personal Trait within and we’re to worship Him for mercy shown us as we come to know Who He is more as God in the flesh, a Personal God. We must be light by living a life worthy of our calling. He is able to save you by His Death and Resurrection through His Blood imputed (see Oxford Dictionary), imparted to the uttermost aspect of us who are kept by His Power, blessed in Him. You have a piece in this puzzle to play even contribute to His Body for edification if you endure in this re: the end. He wants us to be like His Son, made over in His Image renewed. In His love He means to love us in revival so we can be transformed to glorify and enjoy Him forever and then to help us to give to the common good to the end meaning “Rapture,“ or the death you die not spiritually but only in and to this earthly tent, your self will. You are Members of Christ in particular. When one member suffers we all suffer and when one member is honored we all are honored. You endure well THROUGH temptation contributing to edifying others instead in love for you will live forever in either hell or heaven...and He gives His Beloved sleep. But in Christ life begins at being born again! Hell is a real place and don’t go there.
Be qualified not cast away. When you're saved really experience and determine honestly to have time spent with Jesus well at every chance you get and obey His commands as saved even ready to the life prepared that is salvation from the wrath to come or Great Tribulation. If the Rapture comes to pass and occurs in immanence you are living in relationship to God by faith through grace with faith obedient, faith can keep you so you can be caught up in being "snatched" up to the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall you ever be with the Lord Jesus! Draw comfort from these words. You're not earning God's love in loving Him but responding in appreciation to grace unmerited, the Gift of Salvation. Comfort one another with words like these! Doesn't this sound like something you’d like? Alternatively, learn to like? Love maybe? Read I Thessalonians 4:13-17 and I Corinthians 15:1-7ff. Imagine thinking, “I’m good enough to enter Heaven because my good outweighs my bad and then finding my Standard is no good either, because I stumble over scandals even other little things in attempting to be good in little stuff and I can say He may honestly say then, “I never knew you, depart you to outer darkness.” In your realer moments you know it is true of us all. We need a Savior Who if we commit to would never leave us nor forsake us: JESUS! Follow Him where He is. Even if you feel church is not for you to attend faithfully, get saved anyway despite any hypocrites and Obey His Word everywhere extremely even if it don't make sense. Even if it's not Church all the time for you to remember this place is for worship remember it is a Hospital for sinners and hurting often and always, a ship to find rescue from sin and all its wreck so develop sensitivity to the sensitive nature of sensitivity His Voice masters.
In context, "God be merciful to me a sinner," was heard said by a Tax-gatherer who was someone Jesus told as one who humbles himself before God he beating upon his breast in personal dread for his sins in preparation to see God. The Pharisee was a total lost opposite in proud thought. Jesus told the interpretation of this about people who think themselves righteous and show contempt for others. This parable shows humility before God by this publican who came home justified and exalted in due time having humbled himself bowing low before God in petitions and supplication, worship of God for Who God is in aided humility. In keeping with the line of scripture I’m towing my family in to all be One in Christ, for I'm following unified LOVE I‘ve found in Him from Him: that God is love and Jesus shows it personally by His Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection and Subsequent Risen Life. We must all get humble even must bow down low before God and accept in prayer this born again relationship for God says you won't see God nor His Kingdom without Him. His way of Rescue from the sinfulness and insidiousness of sin in this world is grounded in sins that we have committed by error of commission and omission seen forgiven now in the present even taken away within a Relationship with Him and sanctification then on!. Just by being born from Adam, we are responsible for grace has a response with it and this is because we all were in Adam when he fell in His genes. This invitation to pursue God for all its worth (brave inside) is a testifying too that Jesus Paid It All; that the deliverance over sin Christ won to gain our salvation for us was complete and makes us whole; it follows...WE MUST BE BORN AGAIN AS INDIVIDUALS AND INTO A CORPORATE BODY! In Christ or Born of God, in relationship to Him like hand in glove, father and son or daughter in Family! No religion too! As a popular song lyric puts it *BUT IN GENUINE RELATIONSHIP TO GOD! *YES! The Word of God says God created man in the image and likeness of God. It declares man suffers irreparably, or beyond hope from the fall of Adam the first man. Law only shows up our sin. It's our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Genesis declares in the account record that their fall brought substantial crises to man and that this happened just as they disobeyed God's command to not eat the fruit of the tree God said no to eat as a direct command but disobeyed. Man thinks of loopholes first all the time in sinning but in this he was and is Divinely made in God's image in vestiges latent so man thinks, “how do I fix this,?" He then made fig leaves to cover his and her skin before a Holy God in a religious act but God came the Redemptive way to man and made provision to restore man to Himself without help from man for that redemption of the likeness and image of God to be returned. God made animal clothes. Simple. He slew a sacrifice and it was the first one required. Even this expresses the thought more robustly that the Lamb of God was slain from before the Foundation of the world for God provided firstly AN EVERLASTING Covenant by sacrifice and we play a part in it by having faith. Even today in this very moment God would love to love on you for you to order your life anew and lifestyle aright and show you He has a Divine plan for you to live just “in the dust of the Rabbi, JESUS CHRIST “God-breathed (inspired: theopneustos in Greek) and for that likeness or image of God to be restored for you; for me. This is EMT aid (emergency medical tech) by God or CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation God performs on you (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation of the heart and life through spirit in-breath or electro-cardio diagnosis (Hebrews 4:12) that aids in newness of life heart health like in our new mind in I Corinthians 13.) Jesus is da MAN! The Word made flesh has and is dwelling dwelt among us. And I can see in my mind's eye in the unknown for me on my plate to believe the likeness to Christ aspects of being in-breathed of Father God our Creator in us that He has vested interest in because He gave Jesus. In His investments in natural creation acts and in the Finished Work on Calvary it was this as well as that done both by the Almighty because of His love Agape for man that we enjoy. Without regard for who we are in our person alone and in His Own Personal Way Amazing Unconditional personal LOVE IS SHOWN US nonetheless, from His Throne and His long-hearted unmerited grace passion-shown long suffering enduring Sovereignty and Love. He has worked sacredly to appoint Justification to us in the cross and for me for a time in particular of being saved in the moment of today because grace is of God alone in its saving aspect always and for us all so let it to happen is my prayer. After being saved God wants to PROVE His people true and to test their innocence to the unsaved to save many more! Only His saved children get disciplined by Him at all and that is literally His begotten love from our good good Daddy Father in Heaven! His Kind of Love is Indescribable, Untamable, and Unstoppable; even so we can be motive intended by Him miraculously to do His with pleasure! Ask the Savior inside to save you and make you His! If God be for us who can be against us! For Christ's Body! He's the abundance in the Harvest! We're His co-laborers. Therefore let us go to Him outside the Camp, bearing His reproach, Heb. 13:13 (witnesses.) “For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which is to come.”
Hebrews 13:14 Through Him then let us be offering up the sacrifice to God continually that is the fruit of our lips confessing His Name!! Verse 15. By David Candel
So you believe God would like to personally treat you to knowing (ya da in Hebrew, know) Him in a relationship that saves from hell, death, sin, and the grave or fear of death and delivers from a sinful lifstyle and habit to the uttermost? And He, liking you too and finding you (as He did Abraham, Moses, or the Apostle Paul) in re-creation of you in Born Again Salvation and giving you such a transformed abundant justified changed life from the heart now as they had on earth and in Heaven perfected will aimed for? For God is a personal God and longs to be our Father this way meaning similarly individually bent but no carbon copy to each one of us is given but to each knowable by grace through faith God is stamping out a tupos (image in Greek) because these people honored Him and He showed. There was prosperity in Biblical characters too but not without revival in the heart like we're used to in New Covenant living in Jesus sitting in the Heavenlies for the adventure took them everywhere and every which way but loose as they little expected. For love from God does not disqualify anyone nor give up on you nor does it not disregard the small of our back as it engages, grips our heart as we are cared for concernedly by Him and watched over by Him we, practicing humility before Him alone when looking at the forest for all the trees in His hand thou Jacob son of Israel (Messianic Jews) and Body of our Lord Hebrews 6:10. Our God is not too small. He's a Jewish Jesus. He knows us all by name and sees everything. Nothing is a secret to Him. He calls us by our first name also like He did to Mary at the Empty Tomb. He's familiar and acquainted with all our paths and ways and He scrutinizes our path Psalm 139:1-3 He promises to us as an overcomer, a stone written with a name written on it known only to its owner Given to us as overcomers, individual believers in Him Revelations 2:17. Even like Cheers, the comedy TV show God knows us familiarly but He remains Holy. He sees us through the lens of His Son's Righteousness. Like a weaned child we can be before Him, satisfied! Content! He is to be feared and trembled before reveranced even with rejoicing. Even to the very hairs on our head numbered He knows intimately the name HE calls us by! He loves us while we were still sinners of His plan.
Like a nursing Mother will not forget her child so He has us in His arms held and won't forget us Isaiah 49:14,15. Listen to a song, Just Be Held by Casting Crowns and Beautiful by MercyMe. If He knows the name of every star that is then He surely knows us inside and out and upside and down by implying reference in astronomy. He knows the intricate makeup of every cell in us. He is the glue by which all things hold together. In Him all atoms hold together. He saw us being knit together in our Mother's womb and He knew every one of our days being formed before any of them came to exist. And He loves us mightily STRONG in DYING ON THE CROSS. You see God became one of us, a human, a man. God visited mankind and dwelt among us and showed us what God is like, that He is good, holy, and redeemed us, bought us back from slavery to sin and we are not our own. Really! God wants a personal knowing of you in return and the reciprocity of continuing to know Him enduring to the end. But to do that for everyone He Died on Calvary so personally He without having invading our will with He searching in us is let into your conscience by introspection and examination to place His Son's Blood in you and He will save us if we let Him. But in introspected examination searching yourself are you building up one another and is He helping build a House for God with you (Temple for the Holy Spirit) of obedient response to His call and coming of you in returning to Him (Isaiah 55:1-11)? If so there is Heavenly gold in this. I Corinthians three, the Bema Seat. We're not talking abundance of material things in coming to Him nor complete answers to problems we may engage in nor meat and drink but of the heart, His Presence a problem solver Savior, devotion to Christ, adoration in the little crevices and heart beat of our soul in intimacy with Him in the Kingdom of God in salvation, in the Name and Adventure walking worthy of His call for dwelling the Spirit! God is no respecter of persons. He will reward anybody who is faithful who is having faith in Him alive in the Kingdom: righteousness, peace, and joy, in the Holy Spirit. Be caring for the weightier matters of the law such as justice, peace, mercy, and faithfulness being Born Again Mt. 23; Romans 13,14; Hebrews 11:1, Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Without faith it is impossible to please God. For He that comes to God must believe that He is and is a rewarder of them that dilligently seek Him! Faith is not faith in faith at all but in a godly place leaning depending on God YAW Elohim Adonai El Shaddai where God is. In Salvation we are hid with Christ in God. He's our point of contact.
He's after our heart life and longs after us to have a perfected spirit in us in Christ not like the Pharisees who majored in minors like washings, offerings, and fastings. We need to reverence Him instead of observing by focusing in Pharisaical behavior of one another observed among our associates at Bethel Assembly. But instead especially our allegiance/availability is to become reversed from this world and in the Spirit intact back to His Presence as we approach Him and focus on what He gives. From being forgiven by God fact is we draw from the wells of Salvation. He's earned a place in our heart of daily honor devotion approaching falling in love with Him, as He, Himself loved us first and for our love shown Him He rescued us at Calvary as He in sending His only Son two thousand years before to buy us back He Ransoms us and reveals to us His Real life Divine calling to Save and live IN US. His reality is Heaven and on His Throne, our Rock to found your edifice on as He wants us in relationship to Himself and in love in this relationship in fellowship strongly furthering His Kingdom as His childlike children specially attending Church (hint, here is mine: Bethel Assembly,) and enjoying everyone’s individual personality in His Body of believers! There are so many ethnic origins of nations in individuals in Christ's Body. He's created such a tex mix. He doesn’t like us at a distance but near because spiritually pride is sin to us and any haughtiness indeed does hurt. But we still draw near to Him and His Presence boldly by the Blood. Also we want to be childlike not childish because there is a difference. A wise man such (Walter Beuttler,) has said in order for God to do That something for us, He has to do something with us, so that He can do something to us! God was in the cross reconciling men to Himself. God allows us the faith to believe which is a resaoned response to Finished Work of Christ on the Cross to bring us into zeal! Jesus said, "Zeal for You [Father] and Your House has eaten me up." Do you have His Gift of Salvation and do you follow Christ places so much it hurts? Do you recognize He gives you faith to believe as His Creation present active indicative in most verses mentioned in the Word which is a verb tense of belief and to keep on believing? And that He loves you as Daddy (not especially a sugar daddy,) but in believing on Him as Source, or Provision (supply?) and a good good Father! This special love He loves you with is for caring at the unique person you are and creation He made you in closeness and is concern-ed love by God our good Father Abba Papa and is Savior to you because He chooses to love you making you free a sovereign to choose Jesus Christ with an abandonment to your free will dynamic thus you remain sovereign under Lordship to Christ. Freedom is not always a safe thing thus but it can be safe if You and me is you and God and not 'Him and I.' It becomes eternally 'edge of the ledge' dangerous if you do not take in the whole counsel of the Word of God to be saved in relationship to God and not necessarily 'religious religion' "finding you."
This is because hearing God and not obeying Him is like witchcraft and rebellion. But He gives more grace. But the secret to better than sexual freedom of this world's thinking controlled by Satan and or sensuality in us is in love Agapeon for God or receiving and/or responding to God's kind of love for us in not holding your sour thoughts to the grace of God in this realm and praising, loving, worshipping serving Him, not failing to find grace always in every way and path. Grace is for obedience. Consider God’s Revelation of Himself in of all books, the Bible! He demands we use our will to choose to decide Him in Salvation and choose Him in His Presence inside always for no choice is eternal destruction! Eternal Destiny is at stake! Really! Jesus, His Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection is key! We hold no other Salvation than Atonement through Christ's Blood over sin and all it's wreck to change us. Hell will be death working backwards in fire's lake conscious and regrets awaits this for those on the fence. Freedom from sin this day He promises you in your getting saved coming to Him weary from heavy labor on your back and becoming His. Gone all my sins are gone! Come to Jesus Christ becoming a work in progress in getting to know Him for the rest of your life passively from His work at the Cross within in your heart: for working this out is to will to do and will His good pleasure with a godly pursuit actively in finite yoked-to-Jesus spurts moment by moment adventure of knowing Him by Divine Nature and Love for Him opening up to His Will in His Majesty and Magnificence! What would it take for you to show this faith and love increasingly for or towards our Jehovah God in this Christian life we call Salvation in relationship? YES, Oh How He loves you greatly in the Son. And yes our seeming control of things in life is an illusion. We can surrender control to God or choose money in this world's system to seeming have control. Jesus said, "You can't serve both God and mammon." Will you choose surrender to Christ's will? Do you realize serving money systems is a dead end? That is how not to have an object to your faith. But decide to choose God as faith's object and not faith in faith! Make Jesus God and Lord. It matters because the object of faith is for faith to have its root to become God so stay with that aspect not clinging so tightly to material possessions but abiding through Christ Jesus gently meekly laying hold of He Who is saving us present tense in Eternal time as well. Christ Himself makes peace between us and God and has this Done through His work on the cross of His shed Blood and earthly life in Perfection and His is a Perfect Sacrifice to propitiate (Satisfying to God well for sin,) or Atone for to make a person's faith's decision to believe GOD to save us justified from sin (past, present, and future,) which is the only choice for real Godly life. It is Christ we live for through appropriation of Him to a relationship to God BY THE SON’s Finished Work applied to us. Just as an animal was chosen for sacrifice in olden days for its perfection from defect and perfect age to give to the priest for Atonement so the Innocent Lamb of God, Jesus Died for your sins as perfect Sacrifice for Justice before a Merciful Holy God. That little lamb couldn't 'cut the mustard,' but Christ DID! Jesus is your great High Priest correction our Great High Priest purging our conscience for rooted forgiveness inside and by His Word sprinkling our hearts from an evil conscience and cleansing us from dead works to serve the Living God from our conscious conscience!! There is no formula to God. There are no methods. There are no glib phrases to repeat to know God, but in Christ in prayer: know His Personhood: that He is the way, the truth, and the life and in that (testimony) of Christ Savior and Lord personally individually we’re born again following! John 14:6.
We’re each called to our own spiritual adventure and spiritual heart change surgery! But all come through the Blood of Jesus Christ to New Covenant relationship! You can draw near to God and He will draw near to you. You can submit to Him and the devil will flee from us. You can have in your benefit file cabinet ethereally of what God has done FOR YOU by God's Salvation in knowing about Him greatly on the way to firsthand experiential experience knowing Him by getting saved which is the goal. With the pain evident by ethos and pathos known only to you and God, from Him that you are a sinner admit this first and chiefest sinner in addition that you desperately need to know from Ephesians chapters one and two and the Book of Hebrews ch. 9 and ch. 10 that the way is open and plain by the Word made flesh and dwelling among us, Jesus Christ, to become alive to God and you are laid bare and spiritually made open ready to this Salvation by a New Covenant Relationship in fact born from an Old one that now in new wine skins is made a new and living way to God and is available through the Body of our Lord and His Blood to save! Desperate, orphaned by this world, helpless a sinner we came to our Lord Jesus this way, hopeless. (And that in Finished Work of Jesus Christ God loves you almightily STRONG, justifies you, and transfers His Victory your way by just your faith in Him!) For in His Presence yes in His fullness of Presence there is joy, rooted in Christ fullness of joy to be had!; pleasures at His right hand forevermore and this all had in knowing God through Christ simply put. In Him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. It’s not pie in the sky by and by, but by Jesus and His words followed obeyed abundant life in our Lord if you will spend time with Jesus to discipleship. No rose garden promised but led along by ardent penetrating Truth to deny self, take up your cross and follow Him Who Is a Person, Jesus Christ! Follow Him as I do and others. Put God with everything within you first, in you by faith! Cast down your idols. Put on the Lord Jesus Christ. Make the flesh have no comfort relatively (relatively means by comparison.) Jesus is coming back for ready people some "angry young men" Randy Stonehill penned lyrics. Men who fight for God's right ways and His honor: angry about sin and its harm to anyone and willing to do something. Knowing ironies of His Kingdom and having the peace with God from God that induces us to be fighting the Lord's battles love and really love on others good with Agape. This starts with slavery to Christ's ways even servanthood. Servants have no will of their own but their Master's. They volunteer this status. We are friends of God in Christ if we do what He commands. So Salvation starts with Finished Works on the cross appropiated and responding to grace and our forgiveness of sins from God and is expressed in results working out of us: effects like servanthood to the Lord and the wind listing to blow through everyone born of the Spirit to the effect the Devils works are destroyed by Christ within and glowing through us! Eternal life which starts at the Death on the Cross in identification of Jesus in us or Resurrection for us even for each of us and it radically changes us by transforming us from faith to faith, glory to glory! With tears I pray the things that break God’s heart will break your heart and mine. Humbly with tears also I wish for you to embark on this road to God that, “aims at Heaven!” and hits it every time! (This was a C.S. Lewis phrase - "Aims at Heaven.") For His ways are so much greater than ours! And His Thoughts are so much higher than our thoughts! The cross is our stepping stone not stumbling block to this victory triumph state. We're not as an ant but as Nike (more than conquerors) overcomers in Him of finding every day in the Lord‘s will mystery even of the hidden maztsa of Christ life in the Passover Seder we press on. Keep in mind the destiny of Jesus for us of Heaven is a disciple's counted cost daily to follow Him. Indeed it is foolishness this preaching to some who are blind to not discern spiritual things as real but they are foolish to disbelieve the cross was a triumph act indeed closing their ears. “The fool has said in his/her heart, there is no God.“
Living the Christian life is not in self-glory nor selfishness nor to be lived in self-righteousness nor pity for self, but humbly Salvation received, and restored, passively but actively believed and born into us New Birth out, and best lived extroverted and actively expressed by faith through grace. Grace has and must have a showing up response to it. Speak the truth to one another in love. Christ is our righteousness to the end of the law and we cry to Him open and honest facing our facts of sins we’ve committed to God need forgiveness and that we’re sinners before Him condemned but for Him to give us Godly sorrow too to give repentance to us not to be repented of or not in any worldly sorrow of any kind felt we turn to Him. We’re a work in progress in Salvation and He’s working in us and on us with the Hammer (of the Word,) and sometimes Screwdriver of His love instead intended to make us sharp. Self-glory itself or any of self will as a part of self-effort to work to earn pleasing to get to God we CEASE from as we put aside performance oriented treadmill works trying to earn salvation but doomed to frustration behind us but instead in the Spirit through Christ knowing Him encountering Him suddenly learning grace and humbly genuine authentically coming to Him as because of mercy and grace from God humbly received and without fear we strive to be like Christ. In other words we seek to be fishers of men and watch our image from God pattern that it's a strut or sprint that it is progressing in longer streaming strides in the Lord truly dignified and seeking His face consistantly constantly circumspect becoming authentically humble like Philippians chapter two: our Lord's kenosis, self-emptying.
Jesus our Messiah Christ by Who He was genuinely destroyed the work and power of the Devil literally walking into a room and breaking his weapons jujitsu in two declaring glorious Victory, making an embarrassing and woeful fateful end to the devil squashing his head then and his works demolished soon in future tense in display God gives us the feed over and will in a future tense legislation to give us a view over them of their destruction that is, of the devil and his demons crushed and under our Lord's foot Colossian 2; Genesis 3:15; Romans 15. We're enlisted in our Lord's army to enforce this destruction and devastation execution punishment over Satan by the authority left by Jesus Christ as His deputies as we get the Spirit Anointed urge by God to step in to victory humbly spiritually even do something worthily obeying Christ! Christ came out of an empty Tomb to fill our empty hearts and "we be sweet" is His "It is finished" victory within! Benny Hester wrote or sang a song in Contemporary Christian music called, “When God Ran, “about how God longs to come to each one of us who were 'sinning' but returning to Papa Abba as children born once now born twice saved, and as prodigals repenting and stopping sin as a habit and lifestyle who Christ gives the power to do so we do and so we love Him and He longs to fill us His Body with His ever scented Presence and with Godly love unto Resurrection Life in the Son in newness of life. Except you become as little children and receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, you will not see it nor enter it nor will you be saved. Therefore, the noblest act for any of us to do is to sit at the feet of Jesus who is the exact image and representation of God and learn by emptying ourselves of pride and humble become as Born Again. Preferably in a prone position humbly with good posture always, we worship Him though posture doesn't matter. Jesus spoke of His Father, “Sanctify us by Thy Truth. “ “Thy Word is truth. “ So should we have this attitude of humility in coming to the Word to change as we pray to Our Heavenly Father! We can learn by this statement in Romans 6:23 that man is totally depraved and has the witness of God in His existence inside himself and it’s so that He needs a Savior and Lord. Attributes of Adam flock to tell its so on a daily moment by moment basis. Christ is the end or fulfillment of righteousness to all who believe for righteousness and forgiveness period rather than work for their salvation for those who exert effort on their part for righteousness of their own are doomed from the start to finish re: repeated frustration. Its by grace! Alone! For Salvation man needs a Savior and Jesus is He of necessity and we must know he is given alone Acts 4:12. There's an influence for God we must live and transmit. Jesus is to be believed in for salvation literally His Name, Jesus Christ: for grace charis is a good fragrance aroma even Life to us saved and is His Personal Trait within and we’re to worship Him for mercy shown us as we come to know Who He is more as God in the flesh, a Personal God. We must be light by living a life worthy of our calling. He is able to save you by His Death and Resurrection through His Blood imputed (see Oxford Dictionary), imparted to the uttermost aspect of us who are kept by His Power, blessed in Him. You have a piece in this puzzle to play even contribute to His Body for edification if you endure in this re: the end. He wants us to be like His Son, made over in His Image renewed. In His love He means to love us in revival so we can be transformed to glorify and enjoy Him forever and then to help us to give to the common good to the end meaning “Rapture,“ or the death you die not spiritually but only in and to this earthly tent, your self will. You are Members of Christ in particular. When one member suffers we all suffer and when one member is honored we all are honored. You endure well THROUGH temptation contributing to edifying others instead in love for you will live forever in either hell or heaven...and He gives His Beloved sleep. But in Christ life begins at being born again! Hell is a real place and don’t go there.
Be qualified not cast away. When you're saved really experience and determine honestly to have time spent with Jesus well at every chance you get and obey His commands as saved even ready to the life prepared that is salvation from the wrath to come or Great Tribulation. If the Rapture comes to pass and occurs in immanence you are living in relationship to God by faith through grace with faith obedient, faith can keep you so you can be caught up in being "snatched" up to the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall you ever be with the Lord Jesus! Draw comfort from these words. You're not earning God's love in loving Him but responding in appreciation to grace unmerited, the Gift of Salvation. Comfort one another with words like these! Doesn't this sound like something you’d like? Alternatively, learn to like? Love maybe? Read I Thessalonians 4:13-17 and I Corinthians 15:1-7ff. Imagine thinking, “I’m good enough to enter Heaven because my good outweighs my bad and then finding my Standard is no good either, because I stumble over scandals even other little things in attempting to be good in little stuff and I can say He may honestly say then, “I never knew you, depart you to outer darkness.” In your realer moments you know it is true of us all. We need a Savior Who if we commit to would never leave us nor forsake us: JESUS! Follow Him where He is. Even if you feel church is not for you to attend faithfully, get saved anyway despite any hypocrites and Obey His Word everywhere extremely even if it don't make sense. Even if it's not Church all the time for you to remember this place is for worship remember it is a Hospital for sinners and hurting often and always, a ship to find rescue from sin and all its wreck so develop sensitivity to the sensitive nature of sensitivity His Voice masters.
In context, "God be merciful to me a sinner," was heard said by a Tax-gatherer who was someone Jesus told as one who humbles himself before God he beating upon his breast in personal dread for his sins in preparation to see God. The Pharisee was a total lost opposite in proud thought. Jesus told the interpretation of this about people who think themselves righteous and show contempt for others. This parable shows humility before God by this publican who came home justified and exalted in due time having humbled himself bowing low before God in petitions and supplication, worship of God for Who God is in aided humility. In keeping with the line of scripture I’m towing my family in to all be One in Christ, for I'm following unified LOVE I‘ve found in Him from Him: that God is love and Jesus shows it personally by His Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection and Subsequent Risen Life. We must all get humble even must bow down low before God and accept in prayer this born again relationship for God says you won't see God nor His Kingdom without Him. His way of Rescue from the sinfulness and insidiousness of sin in this world is grounded in sins that we have committed by error of commission and omission seen forgiven now in the present even taken away within a Relationship with Him and sanctification then on!. Just by being born from Adam, we are responsible for grace has a response with it and this is because we all were in Adam when he fell in His genes. This invitation to pursue God for all its worth (brave inside) is a testifying too that Jesus Paid It All; that the deliverance over sin Christ won to gain our salvation for us was complete and makes us whole; it follows...WE MUST BE BORN AGAIN AS INDIVIDUALS AND INTO A CORPORATE BODY! In Christ or Born of God, in relationship to Him like hand in glove, father and son or daughter in Family! No religion too! As a popular song lyric puts it *BUT IN GENUINE RELATIONSHIP TO GOD! *YES! The Word of God says God created man in the image and likeness of God. It declares man suffers irreparably, or beyond hope from the fall of Adam the first man. Law only shows up our sin. It's our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Genesis declares in the account record that their fall brought substantial crises to man and that this happened just as they disobeyed God's command to not eat the fruit of the tree God said no to eat as a direct command but disobeyed. Man thinks of loopholes first all the time in sinning but in this he was and is Divinely made in God's image in vestiges latent so man thinks, “how do I fix this,?" He then made fig leaves to cover his and her skin before a Holy God in a religious act but God came the Redemptive way to man and made provision to restore man to Himself without help from man for that redemption of the likeness and image of God to be returned. God made animal clothes. Simple. He slew a sacrifice and it was the first one required. Even this expresses the thought more robustly that the Lamb of God was slain from before the Foundation of the world for God provided firstly AN EVERLASTING Covenant by sacrifice and we play a part in it by having faith. Even today in this very moment God would love to love on you for you to order your life anew and lifestyle aright and show you He has a Divine plan for you to live just “in the dust of the Rabbi, JESUS CHRIST “God-breathed (inspired: theopneustos in Greek) and for that likeness or image of God to be restored for you; for me. This is EMT aid (emergency medical tech) by God or CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation God performs on you (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation of the heart and life through spirit in-breath or electro-cardio diagnosis (Hebrews 4:12) that aids in newness of life heart health like in our new mind in I Corinthians 13.) Jesus is da MAN! The Word made flesh has and is dwelling dwelt among us. And I can see in my mind's eye in the unknown for me on my plate to believe the likeness to Christ aspects of being in-breathed of Father God our Creator in us that He has vested interest in because He gave Jesus. In His investments in natural creation acts and in the Finished Work on Calvary it was this as well as that done both by the Almighty because of His love Agape for man that we enjoy. Without regard for who we are in our person alone and in His Own Personal Way Amazing Unconditional personal LOVE IS SHOWN US nonetheless, from His Throne and His long-hearted unmerited grace passion-shown long suffering enduring Sovereignty and Love. He has worked sacredly to appoint Justification to us in the cross and for me for a time in particular of being saved in the moment of today because grace is of God alone in its saving aspect always and for us all so let it to happen is my prayer. After being saved God wants to PROVE His people true and to test their innocence to the unsaved to save many more! Only His saved children get disciplined by Him at all and that is literally His begotten love from our good good Daddy Father in Heaven! His Kind of Love is Indescribable, Untamable, and Unstoppable; even so we can be motive intended by Him miraculously to do His with pleasure! Ask the Savior inside to save you and make you His! If God be for us who can be against us! For Christ's Body! He's the abundance in the Harvest! We're His co-laborers. Therefore let us go to Him outside the Camp, bearing His reproach, Heb. 13:13 (witnesses.) “For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which is to come.”
Hebrews 13:14 Through Him then let us be offering up the sacrifice to God continually that is the fruit of our lips confessing His Name!! Verse 15. By David Candel
Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Bethel Assembly of God: Being One: One Grace Romans 12:1-8
Bethel Assembly of God: Being One: One Grace Romans 12:1-8: The slides for this study can be found here The Handout Referenced in this sermon can be found here
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Sunday, March 06, 2016
Bethel Assembly of God: Matthew #29 Matthew Chapter 22
Bethel Assembly of God: Matthew #29 Matthew Chapter 22: The slides for this study can be found here
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Saturday, February 27, 2016
My Thesis: How can we enjoy God's Presence to the core?! As God's *called *out ones?! Ekklesia in Greek.
2/27/2016 Gayle Erwin's - The Nature Of Jesus 2- Youtube
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Made whole diesothesan means to be made whole through and through. A complete restoration takes place within the person. The person is complettely cured, spiritually and inwardly, as well as physically and outwardly.
The above healing is what Christ did for some sick folk at Genesserat in Matthew 14:34-36, and He most assuredly can do the same for you in Redemption and "Thereapuo" healing in Christ's Salvation Atonement which is by His Blood for Jesus's Sake! Diesothesean is the Greek word for wholeness in verse thirty six and is only mentioned in this place as this Greek word.
Let nothing be unreal in honest Abe you but in much thought honestly before God let nothing be less real and by all possible means more real as time goes on than this abundant life in Him. Gaining Christ and Heaven and you get them both when you have the Savior Jesus Christ (Lambano, Greek received. Another word is: laid hold of.) You OBTAIN LIFE REAL LIFE in the Born Again Salvation experience in the Savior receiving Him following HIM! "Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory." Colossians 3:1-4. Experience more scriptures in abiding in Christ (Greek, menos,) and some to Salvation that follow. All the verses are in The New American Standard Bible. Imagine that by the possibility of coming to Christ leaving all behind in admitting to being a sinner, and actually committing to BELIEVING in the crucified /Resurrected Christ of these and other scriptures like these because through the Holy Ghost being placed within you, you can through a move of God in a congregational sermon service or meeting or through a personal witnessing tool obtain through the Blood of Christ, Salvation, "a friendship even a relationship with God of peace through choosing (God has chosen you in Christ) to be 'in Christ' and be on the road to abundant life" in The Gospel Message of Salvation from God following through a part of Christ's Family!! You obtain peace with God in this relationship of satisfaction and a newness of life. Knowing the Living Word, Jesus Christ, as Savior from sin and King of your life even Lord so that believing on Him, even positively encountering Jesus of The Gospels, (A Literal Greek Translation being read) reading Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and internalizing it you're introduced to the Living Exalted Word, JESUS Who is Christ (Messiah,) you're saved as you receive heart knowledge from the Holy Spirit as to New Testament Christian Testimony. It's not a bunch of Hokus Pokus, rituals, rules, nor even regulations (some wrongly presume laws or "rules" of the Bible are presumebably for society's knitting together some or even an explanation of all that's unknown,) in following Christ but humbly instead knowing God simply through the Son and better indeed in personal experiential knowledge by experience (Epignoskgo) all the time getting to know God personally through God's Son in His Resurrected Presence in your heart and life perceiving Holy Spirit living unto Holiness Corinthians 3:2,3! It's living the Jesus Style humbly! God does breathe in you wind (Theoneoustos in Greek) of the Spirit of God and the Seed of the Word. Guided by Him and led of Him, The Savior Jesus won't leave you helpless nor leave you at all fact, nor fail you at all nor let you down at all! He grants wisdom to those who ask so ask. Without faith it's impossible to please Him. He rewards the diligent in our searching for the lost and we getting them and us with them TO HIM Hebrews 11:6. Peace begins with God in Christ knowing you through the Holy Spirit by Christ's Finished Work. Start a life of faith believing in the Savior turning your eyes upon Jesus and love God! Trust Him with all you've got within you for it's at His Word you lean in dependence and acknowledging Him as your all in all, your everything that He is your Source and shield and bulwark, high tower. Acknowledge Him in all you say and do and you will know His hand on you. You can surely confess being a sinner knowing inside you have been too proud to acknowledge your need for help from God before and now want to receive Christ's sacrifice being Saved, Born Again! Remember it's a relationship in and with God by a new and living way in Born Again Newness entwined to us, sewn into fabric of life, granted or endowed to us to help us worship our Heavenly Father God through the Lord Jesus Christ and not a religion we grasp at. Talk to Him. There's strength in that Divine connect. Matthew 3:7 says Jesus thought man-made religion was a viper brood of white washed sepulchers but Phillipians 2:6,7 that He was equal to God not thinking that was something to be grasped but instead He was made a servant even to death so should we. In the cross at the Death of Christ He was God in our place even at the Empty Tomb our Atonement. God's move in His hand will lead us to abundant pardon then for we need our sins forgiven most definitely if we haven't had the pleasure nor delight and God will answer prayer prayed for that in Jesus, our New Covenant for "we who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us: which we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;" "and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own Eternal blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. ..How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" Hebrews 6:18b,19;9:17,18; 2Cor. 3.
Pastor Rich says in his recent sermon, "Scripture in Galatians 3:2 asks, "Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law or by the hearing of faith?" It's a rhetorical question but the plain obvious answer is we receive by the hearing of faith. Faith has to put God, the Source, as its Object. Its not faith in faith in other words. Faith in God is very real. Christ is the waters at the oasis in our desert. The Person and Work of Christ is the essence of the real reality that would fill us with spiritual vehemence to live properly even good satisfaction in Christ and starve us for every good thing supposedly this world has to offer us presuming to satisfy us but instead we're hating sin and sinning as an Eternal itch which gets us. We need God alone and a great hunger for Him. Christ's Person and Work will fuel God's Desire for real zeal at our reception of that hunger. His Person and Work within is His Holy will for us to know and confidently fuels His Desire and passions in motivation as we are getting to know Him in sanctification. To accept Christ as the focal point of all life and our Salvation, quickly determine you are in the ballpark of the right idea of Who He is and in the right ballpark generally as well. Pray a side holster of a prayer something like this: Dear Abba Daddy, God I confess I'm a sinner completely exposed to Your Searchlight in Your Word and I'm sorry for my sins and failing of your laws. Confessing I'm a chiefest of sinners I want to turn from them (my sins) and repent. I want to receive Christ and love and serve You! I believe Jesus Died, that His victory Ultimately was very great on the cross and resurrection and makes me risen inside though also crucified according to Gal. 2:20 and He's the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6) and He's My Beloved Abba's God Only Begotten Son God says, and for being our substitute on the cross I'm thankful, grateful, and content. Humbly I come to You God and accept Your Son (God's Only Begotten of God meaning First of Creation or Resurrection,) Jesus my Savior and Lord over sin, death, Hell, and grave. It's by grace I'm saved to good work to perform greater works Christ did first fore-ordained in Eternity for me to do so. In Jesus Name, Amen. Now follow Him. Moment by moment deny yourself, lose your life in this world, take up your cross, and follow Him. It's daily surrender.
It's an inner glorious inward life. It's a wonderful adventurous life. Would to God revival come. Character within is created by God immediately at Salvation given by Him in and you're ushered into God's Kingdom of His Son by His love for you, you increasing in passions for godly things. Further God ignites these passions with His sparks. Cultivating inner love for God by His placing His Holy Spirit in you we dwell with God's Presence intensely while we become like Him transforming from faith to faith glory to glory healing to healing. The Holy Spirit is central to a right foundation in Christ, and being made in Christ's image because He's creating desire for Jesus's lifestyle inside as in Hilarious Giving to God first, not just money also, a Holy godly attitude in lifestyle, and passions for doing the right thing, attitudes, and Lordship over our check books, we learn about the right fear of Him. God gives us all one heart one mind (homotheumaden in Greek) and puts His Holy Spirit IN us. To reverence Him is to know His honor and/or terror. We serve with reverent fear and respect and rejoice with trembling. We work out our salvation with fear and trembling.
Christ left us and Ascended On High and when He did He sent us the Holy Spirit. The Spirit's given for convincing, conviction, and judgment for indwelling in us that we might be where He is and His fire is and know that He is Holy (Quidosh in Hebrew) and be available for His use. He's our sanctuary as well. He's got our hand in His and He keeps us. "Modern day idols have to be taken out like worry and fear," Pastor Rich says Ez. 11:10-12,13,19-21; 36:25-28. He doesn't change our personality but He does change our individuality some giving passion from Him until we reflect Jesus Christ in us being changed outwardly and inwardly even transformed into the same image from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of our Lord to be like His image 2 Cor. 3:18. He gives to us even taking away the veil completely away within us giving a soft heart. We're looking at His example even willing then and always to do His will. You can have a lot of externals without having God within so be sure you have the right Hermaneutic real yielded sparked devotion to Him Born Again. Being Born Again you can see and tell what the Kingdom of God should be by the Holy Spirit. It's righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. It's the rule and reign of the Holy Spirit and Jesus in the life of the believer. In the Word of God the majority of Jesus's parables declare and show the highlightedness of the Kingdom of God. A spark of His love for us in us will spark a passion. We will have new ability to see as He sees and loves. Love has to be connected back to Jesus Christ and being grateful in Him and He giving contentment. "God cannot be giving us Power if we do not want a Holy Character as well," my Pastor Rich Catapano says. "He can take that love of power right out of us and give us desire to be humble," He adds. Humility and being preferring other believers others-centered is always good for a right cause. Humility is being no less nor more than who God created you to be. The humble are eventually exalted and the proud are humbled. But agape love expressed humbly can give us the right amount of power in humility to lovingly fascilitate revival should God send it. Revival is a Sovereign move God performs. "It's like whipping each other forward in a roller derby which would win a roller derby contest as a team of people and horses would win pulling in the grape harvest. We would gather the grape of the harvest as reaching what's before us to the high calling of God and placing the grape in the basket of the Christian in front by placing it next to us, cutting off the right from our right side and placing it with the left hand in our brother's basket," my Pastor says. It's a picture of unity in diversity.
He can help us love Him with a humility to a level that we wish to be great or greatest in the Kingdom of God but through servanthood quality specially with willingness to serve each other to be lowest in rung of the ladder service to Him (underrowers of the lowest third level on a ship as Paul refers to His service) and through that same worship of Him to be greatest in willingness to be lowest in social status as well to serve God by serving God others-centered. Jesus said the greatest would be the serving of the elder as to the younger and individually servant of everybody. God wants to bring the corrective power of our passion. When we stray it will convict us and bring us back into great shape." Dave speaking: I'm Born Again and my goals in trying to be a better Christian is to be more like Christ and a kingdom and priest unto God. And I want to minister to God and do His will and this delight is to be without being a bigot, a racist, nor any nature a hypocrite. A few good Salvation verses:
INTRODUCTION. And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12.
It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all. I Tim. 1:15
For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. John 3:17.
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. John 15:1-3.
Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?” Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.” And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, “Be saved!” Acts 2:37-40a.
There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, but of God. St. John 1:9-13b.
For God so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, shall not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16.
But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. This is a trustworthy statement; and concerning these things I want you to speak confidently, so that those who have believed God will be careful to engage in good deeds. These things are good and profitable for men. Titus 3:4-8.
And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. Little children. I John 5:11-13;20,21a.
But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. John 20:31
Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.You must be Born Again. John 3:3,5.
and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him— Colossians 3:10.
“Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. John 14:1-3.
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Hi! Dave! I love the Lord because He heard my voice and my supplication. We must be men of lionheart bravery embracing the unknown in Christ excitedly fervent in faith juxstusupposing adventure with Christ faithfully with being introduced as to the King of kings, men in Christ, stalwarts. Faith is a calm assurance even a certain feeling, a firm certainty in spite of everything coming against it. Faith is a confident trust in God Jesus is enough and not healthy, wealthy, and wise as the answer. We will leave the results of prayer with God but prayer for salvation of everyone including unsaved family members is inclusive. What does it mean to serve the Lord in a foreign land? Even among lions? It takes a bold faith. Yes we should serve (even in a lion's den or in captivity be courageous) and sing there to Him too in joy." Psalm 137:4 (Dave's transliteration.) I shall lift up the cup of Salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord. Psalm 116:1,13. Even as Isaiah 40:1,2, "Comfort, comfort my people for her warfare is accomplished and her iniquities forgiven!" The last two verses were given by my beloved Pastor at my parents death ten years apart approximately my Mothers, Psalm 116 concerning "precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of saints," and, "taking the cup of salvation," and Dad's Isaiah 40:1-31, the Isaiah account speaking for God's Care, Strength, and Goodness.
Our God is Great! Grand! His thoughts and ways are much higher and much greater than our thoughts and ways. "And (you are sinners, lost)..such were some of you: (But God has saved you,) But you were washed, you were sanctified, but you were justified, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God," I Cor. 6:11. I'm forgiven. Oh say but I'm glad! I'm obedient to the Heavenly Vision and His invitation to the Divine occurrance at Calvary that to ask Christ inside and subsequently be saved! I received Salvation from Him at once encountering Jesus. The Holy Spirit came inside. Heaven awaits those accepting God's Invitation to become born again following to the end enduring and they gain assurance. In Titus 3:7 we have the promise of the hope of Eternal Life in Jesus Christ. The Promise is from Him, Everlasting Life or Eternal Life for from Everlasting to Everlasting (we know) He is God and we are the sinner turned Saint now obedient one to the faith Romans 1:5. If we live by the Spirit let's walk in cadence in the Holy Spirit. Gal. 5:19 We aren't called to change so much as to be called into Life, Christ's life within John 10:10.
He pre-knows us and pre-identifies us to be adopted 'in Christ.' He knows this as fact as something that already occured before our natural birth and as sacred knowledge now for us in Eternal time and true spiritual joy in our Rebirth if we continue in Christ to the end. He knows every hair on our head and every expectation we have of what HE will do for us like giving peace and grace to obey laying up treasure in Heaven we will do through His Spirit we truly understanding Matthew 6:25-34 for Matthew 6:19-24. Even within our anticipatory hope in Him He will do as He instructs and we acknowledge Him changing us and He moving mountains within. What He intends in His way and His timing He loves us with too. He's actively working out within us Salvation, knitting every single thing that happens together to work for our good Romans 8:28. There is no luck just trust in God and go with the flow of the Holy Spirit. It means God is Sovereignly in control even without us seeing how or why. Our lives are like the wind blowing everywhere the Holy Spirit lists it in being born of the Holy Spirit John 3:8. He provides for us everything we need Phillipians 4:19! He lets good win over the devil and all evil and good win over death Revelation 22:21. "Do homage to the Son," the Psalmist, David pens or in other words, kiss the Son. Psalm 2:12. He would get angry without the Holy Spirit's wind so do this by drawing near. "His Word is pure like gold extra purified or pure seven times over like silver refined in an oven seven times Psalms 12:6. God makes confident in His Voice with His Word of grace in the New Covenant of His Blood He put in place through His Atoning Sacrifice in Blood in us Matthew 26:27,28. By the Word of God I'm helpless to save me being born in transgressions and sins BUT GOD Who is rich in mercy saves me, forgives, forgave me, regenerated me, roots me forever in His Son. As I root sin out according to His help, He convicts and tears us broken binding us up also with healing. He made me alive in Christ: and for me to be made Holy in the future state also having fallen upon the Rock, which is Christ, should Jesus tarry occur being first born again born but of God continuing to fellowship in the Son and with the Father. Ephesians 2:1-10; I John 1; 3:2. We're a part of the Family of God, Born Again, having entered the Kingdom of God by translation.
Being an heir of God and co-heir with Christ by faith I'm sitting in Heavenly places with Christ and I feel confident to write like this. My goal is to imitate Christ as best I can to be a humble reflection of His life and not to be like an imitation but to be an imitatOR. Imitations can be forgeries but imitators of Christ can have a chance at likeness to Christ Ephesians 5:1,2. Here I stand Romans 5:1. I'm Holy at once at Salvation and over a lifetime too at a High Price, meaning the Work of Calvary Paid in full sin's bill of wages which is death, so at once at my belief I'm saved but continuously continually exerting faith He transforms me also into someone with newness of living in conformity to Christ's model for a whole intimate pathway in Jesus to be like our Father Holy God through time II Peter 1:3-11. Firstly be rightly related to God by receiving Christ, as Savior and as Lord. Jesus YHWH said, in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven in reality one must enter through the Door and Gate which is He Himself and be born again John 3:3,5, and in this hear on good ground the word of the Kingdom to produce yield growing Matthew 13:1ff. Obedience is better than sacrifice. We want to be forever fruit bearing God's fruit making the tree good, a disciple of the Kingdom of God, a wheat bunch not a tare at harvest Romans 6; Galatians 5:22,23. There are nine fruits or perhaps love as a fruit and its eight-fold commentary, (the other eight fruits listed,) on love. Our love response to being loved by God at the cross, is being made sanctified for Heaven to be like Him in the process, a reflection of Christ's, and occurs mysteriously so in the end result we'll hear, "well done, good and faithful servant, you have been faithful in a few things, you can be ruler over many things, enter into the joy of thy Lord."
"Becoming faithful in little things." What does that mean to us? He's Holy, Yet Loving, not willing that any should perish. We want to return thanks. We don't want to despise the day of small beginnings, scriptures includes. Within our relationship with God obedience to Him is primary. It should mean intimate revelation of Who God Is and Jesus, and the Who the Holy Spirit is also along the way of where we journey or are going. We're to desire increase in personal growth in knowing who I am and enhanced faith in Who He is. I stand totally undeserving of all this FROM HIM and everything that follows BUT GOD, BUT GOD Who is rich in mercy and supremely almighty in strength and under Whose hand I bow and gently humble myself kneeling even prostrate on the floor too, indeed HE exalts me in His Due time. This way in He being our mighty King revealed inwardly majestic yet gentle in His Character and grace at the Cross in graciously loving-kind chesed with gentle tenderness example: He forgives and forgave, thank His wonderful grace and He grants us through His Merciful Grace, to have Eternal life through Christ. An old hymn says, "It is joy unspeakable.., full of glory."IT IS JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY!! This forever life starts when we're Born Again!
As I stand at the Awesome Wonderful Wondrous Cross, "Upon which the Prince of Glory Died," and when I survey this wondrous Cross upon which Jesus Christ died where my tears and the tears and love of HIM weighed my Savior down and love and sorrow flowed mingled down, this God actually planned as a tremendous Victory in His sight. Man is learning this awesome exponential infinite victory Christ obtained. Let us ponder and worship the blueprint reason why He came. He took our place on the cross bearing our penalty for sin. The cross is an affront to our minds some. It was there the burden of my heart rolled away as Jesus Sovereignly made me whole (Greek for made through and through cured, a complete restoration: spiritually and inwardly, physically and outwardly and in every other way whole, diesothesan in Greek) by taking my sins away when I asked Him to Matthew 1:21. He made me whole to be the WHOLE unique person David. All sins were forsaken too because in joy JESUS TOOK them away and I followed through Acts 3:19. It was as far as the east is from the west they were taken away gone out-a-here Psalms 103:11-17.
He gives us to Himself The Savior does and welcomes us into His Holy Kingdom to be Holy sons of His (in Renewed Natures.) Phil. 1:6 says we can be confident God will complete, definitely complete the work He started within us. God reached out to infect mankind and me too after a while (John 17:20) with offered wholeness which is a good thing and a sure blessing even Salvation of the soul from sin. All our sins can be thought a ball of sin, Pastor Rich Catapano of our local Assemblies of God Church says. God's Holy Work (God's Atonement) brings peace with Himself and is for us to believe in the Only Begotten Son of God Jesus Christ and continue believing in this One God Sent, Jesus The I Am That I Am of God John 6:29. Receiving living manna, Heaven's Bread, God only can make a revelation to us or someone else using our words and other lelao (chirping gossiping of the Gospel) words from others to bring conviction to become saved. Never underestimate the evangelistic need to be responsible to tell others of hell and heaven in the realm of the good news of the Salvation we share a part in accomplishing. Intercessary prayer and up close and personal testimony of God's working in us is ours and is persuasive of the Lord to convict others even proportionately with the Holy Spirit's help. His Presence is the answer and answers. We bring condemnation if we add to it (His words) but we should not. Pray in every situation we find ourselves that times of refreshing will come from the Presence of the Lord. And intercede that revival will come and conviction will come to all that hear and that hearing with ears to hear will occur and with all that will happen God may be glorified, enjoyed forever as the Westminster Catechism says. Christ is God and we want to be enjoying, and glorifying God in making Him known. He's our waters of oasis in the desert. The Pentecostal way is fruitful in the sharing of God's whole counsel if we pray and sincerely ask God for wise aid from elders and pastors. The Promise of God is from Everlasting to Everlasting that of Eternal life of Salvation in Christ in making Him Lord and Savior keeping Jesus Christ within faithfully revealed from out of us and I or we being awestruck pondering to joy the obedience expected of ourselves. We want to do this walk of His walk in End Days talk to the end persevering faithfully to earthly existence end by bringing via the Message of the Gospel to everyone our influence for God as He sees giving it. We recognize its not about me or us but Him! We say He's worthy and surrendering all we may not be able to attentive give the Gospel to everyone we meet but by faith our spirits will touch others, reach through a hand up, a word aptly spoken, an act to help somebody or gesture warmly given to contribute to warn and teach all men in all wisdom! That's in Colossians. Keep The Living Word Jesus written inside within your heart by enthroning the Holy Spirit of God and without in sparks of passion of love from God and for God 2 Corinthians 3:2,3. Salvation is by faith which is Christ in you, the hope of glory abiding in Jesus The Incarnation of God John 15:1; Colossians 1:27; Hebrews 1:3. By heeding the Word the Bible hiding portions of it in your heart Psalm 119:11 you will escape pollutions of the world Gal. 1:4, or performing sin habitually Rom. 6:1, for you'll be ear awled to being a bondslave of Christ, baptized into Christ's death and Risen will abide in Him by grace and hear teaching obeying meticulously methodically circumspectly the New Covenant in which is grace to help to obey in fullness. By faith Jesus Christ and God can do anything (with God anything is possible) and bring Salvation to anyone and at any time so let's be faithful to testify to others and bring a word, in season, that it might bring grace in seasoned salt to those that hear Colossians 4:6.
There's an incorruptibility about God and His way, spontaneously extremely obeying what Christ says meaning do it quickly following through. We can have a perfect conscience before God in Christ pleasing Him by faith. The softest pillow it is said is a clear conscience. Develop sensitive sensitivity to the sensitiveness of the Sensitive Voice of the Holy Spirit and progress in efforts to gain Christ to have extreme obedience to Him meaning not what we want but His will looking up in His eyes. In faith live before Him and repentance (Greek Metanoia) from His conviction observing the kindnesss of God leading us to change our minds. I obeyed at an Altar of God at a Gospel believing Bible supporting and Bible touting Assembly of God Church Altar (our Bethel) that I approached, and walked up front and to the altar furniture, knelt, and gave my heart to Jesus Christ, a sinner come undone and without one plea but that Thy Blood was shed for me and I came Face to face with our Lamb of God, Lord and Savior Jesus Christ because like He called every contrite penitent sinner, and student who became a disciple later that He asked questions of, I came too just as I am. I had people praying for me in the pew and at the altar. I really actually made commitment to Him to follow Him and be saved and became a disciple of God's Kingdom as did they, hopefully. By the way I've attended by faith faithfully the same Church for fifty eight years!!
Something happened to me inwardly innerly within as Jesus in virtue came into me my heart and I was saved and I committed my life to follow Him. It's a Simple fact: Christ engages us by showing us encounter, "..the superlative of Holiness," as Simon Ponsonby writes in his book, The Pursuit Of The Holy, and thereby God's conquering our softened hearts in kindness and gentle forbearance with us by the tasting and seeing of us that He is good and the Truth Who is Jesus. He confronts us with His pure Holy commands to either obey Him or disobey Him and we choose life to serve Him all our days while He changes us mysteriously. He transforms lives. What someone used to do they now don't do now anymore for they love God sincerely. They do the do's with passion leaving no time for the don'ts. It's gradual and grateful in God's way and in His timing how God exposes our wrong and we can confess our sin and He stitches us up binding us up healed spiritually in saving our souls in our eye salve from Him (see Revelations 1-3) in our profession of faith in Him. Being a Christian should be about what we do do rather than what we don't do which it is so often. The Savior won my heart when I got saved and I profusely rejoiced in sins forgiven. Like Peter getting out of the boat I said, "Command me, Lord, and He did." He showed me what a life looked like ahead He had for me in my walk (on water) in my spirit through peace. Thank God for miraculous salvation and in Catharsis I bowed my head and heart to His awesome Holiness to obey His calling out but for the do's don'ts mentally dwell on the don'ts but dwell on them to die crucified as God replaces your dead thinking at your thinking being renewed in His Presence even newness of life and openness of heart in our Lord Jesus for The Account is settled, founded, established long ago at Calvary is the Eternal positional truth. Believe this?! Do the do's with eager ambition and the don'ts will fall into line.
The Price is Paid in full and Jesus did it!! The war with man's sin is over. Sin lost. He defeated the devil. Jesus took the keys of sin and death. I gave up surrender of me and my sins including everything I have to Him and now He's my all in all, my everything. I submitted to Him for the character He wants of me to be evident as well as powerful Christ led living in the Holy Spirit. I went after His call. Whatsoever my hand found to do I did with all my might. Christ moving through a personal witness and testimony from Mother to me wondrously saved me, and He became my Lord even Savior. "If you want to know The Word, hang out with Jesus," Pastor Rich says. He will become real!
In our hearts and in His call to march to Mt. Zion, our goal is to enter that New Jerusalem, where our God keeps a accurate precise record of everyone written in the Lamb's Book of life and what they do even gold, silver, and precious stones, or God's gems for only those persons whose names are written in it (and kept by Him as you keep in His hand) will go to God's Heaven. Onward Christian Soldier for the Bible is clear on this in the Book of Revelation chapters 13:8, and 20:15 and Daniel 12:1. I hid His Word in my heart that I might not sin against Him.
Our Lord, the Savior, The Magnificent Majestic Jesus Christ our Messiah and God's Perfect Lamb keeps preserved for us a godly inheritance, a bag if you will of our God's Eternal riches in grace in kindness to us even in rewards accurately securely kept for us, as we do everything unto Him in the Name of the Father and in the Son for this He does for all His saints (the called out ones ekklesia in Greek.) The called out ones are not just called but responders even first responders some of them. And the inheritance is in Jesus Christ kept preserved in Heaven for the Day of Condemnatory Judgment for unbelievers (The Great White Throne) and Day of Celebration and great rejoicing for the believer, (The Judgment Seat (Bema Seat) of Jesus Christ.) We don't claim an inheritance now but we're just stewards. We surrender what we can when we can to His Lordship counting all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Savior and Lord. Paul put everything on the dung heap as is the understanding but for this. Paul wanted the intimate knowing of Christ in the power of His Resurrection, the suffering, the fellowship of His sufferings.
God puts JESUS CHRIST, to be Lord, and to be the King of the Universe, King of Kings, and Lord of lords, and judge of all mankind. And this summing of all things in Jesus Christ is to be revealed to us in faith and specifically specially at His Second Coming even the Kingdom of God in fullness. We've come to Christ, a living cornerstone, rejected of men, accepted by God, indeed repentant over sins committed with a willingness to change and do the right thing, (metanoia in Greek), restored, and in committment to accomplish restitution acts, changed in thoughts, thought patterns, and spiritual thinking, and actions. It's one hundred eighty degrees turn in coming genuine to Christ Who is our Life. In Christ we're making an about-face turning difference with regard to sin becoming like Him in the process. Christ within makes a difference to be transformed as we become Born Again! We're new creatures more aware in the Heavenlies of God's Grace rather than lies and deception on earth all around us. We're even knowing with confident assertion how wealthy in riches of grace of God by God's forgiveness we are as we have received forgiveness once and for all at Salvation and how greatly in merciful lowly humility our calling out is as we're being transformed into Christ's image from faith to faith in the Family, la Familia then on! Let's walk in Him as we have received Him Colossians 2:6 says.
As we ultimately make it to the unutterable inestimable faith more precious than gold, weight of glory in Heaven through this veil of tears being overcome by His overwhelming Calvary Cross Works spiritually (Romans 8:18) with every footstep a poetic footprint stomped on His surgical surgery to us within in our adventure with Him laying us bare before Him upon life's journey way we're blamelessly innocent hopefully and firmly listen to this Family, we're innocent as children are childlike as we can sing every day a song of deep worship, praise and thanksgiving 'til the morning and evening is through for we're in joy and/or Eternal happiness. For the Blessed Lord in our lives is FOR us and loves us and we're just before HIM, as if we had never sinned! Hallelujah! I'm humbled by His mercy, His merciful Majesty, His Magnificent unique attention. It's all in Christ! He's Creator/Sustainer too John 1:1-10; Col. 1:16. As Commander in Chief of The Lord's Armies He came in Joshua's time. We bow in worship in spirit and truth and adoration of Himself Joshua 5:13-15. This is Jesus in our Old Testament making an appearance.
It's our privilege to let it be known the message of truth of Gospel in scripture to the Body of Christ and those standing outside the same. we leave the door open until they become alive to the Spirit hearing aright the Voice of God.
I humble myself under the mighty hand of God for showing us and myself how great our God is continually and even my forgiveness from Him of sins forgiven realized in Salvation intimate that is in grace and our mind of Christ which we are freely given, compelled to act to, and to reveal itself within us, to expose any sin, convict and convince through us and to us, use us, and to be IN us flowing as a mighty Niagra of His Presence in our hearts, as His Christ's ambassadors of Reconciliation II Cor. 5:19 as well, justified, minds emptied of ego of all kinds which allows us to know Him in might intimately. Yes ego destruction is there from Him to raise a Standard even the new heart we're given from Him and His heart to be revealing to us in Him the disciples of the Kingdom, the princes of the Kingdom of God, and the real sons of God in Liberty the leading of God's Spirit by example Romans 8:14. For we love not our lives to the death in this born again Christian life as we deny self, take up our cross and follow Christ loving the Blood of Jesus everywhere applied in I John 1:9 and Romans 5:15 Grace abounds; Romans 6:11,13. We reckon ourselves dead to sin via 6:11 and obey verse 6:13 to present our body parts to God alive to God, and yield them alive to God as instruments of right living to God and via verse 19 to Holiness, again alive to God! Chapter 12:1 and verse two takes this a step further to the presenting our bodies for sacrificial service alive in renewing of minds. We can't have verse two without verse one and vice versa. This translates into the whole person obeying our Savior with His created rod in His Hands like He did for Moses and Elijah and our availability to be Matadors who allow each other with contributing brave encouragement to get them through to Christ (like a bull in the arena.)
And by the Spirit of God we're putting the self life to death in mercy crucified and in testimony we are given from Him Rev. 12:11, for we're humbly alive to Him Romans 6:11-13. Christ calls each of us to obey Him talking softly or loud on life's journey even witnessing to Jesus closely holding to His hand being upon us aware of His hand holding us. We buffet (not Buff-AY) our bodies even with extreme obedience with whole-hearted passionate pleasing of God BY FAITH. We sleep on our pillow in safe peaceful fellowship with God for forgiveness of sin, from God permeates. We count healing of old habits on a par level with physical healing like the Books of Peter says in I Peter 2:21-24. We have a position even of peace in right standing being Born Again a royal priesthood, holy nation, in sonship not because of rules and regulations we keep but inner relationships particularly our relationship with God through Christ. Powerfully relational with God, the Bible describes God's Character as Utmost Holy, set apart from all sin and uncleanness and continuously being instantaneously setting apart from sin and uncleanesss within the world on a continual basis. We are sharers together of His mercy and grace and pursue His holiness. That focal point of Christ will keep us until even someday holiness will be perfected (teleos) in our bodies perfected in Heaven Phil 3:20. We're sharers together unified in one purpose as He allows each of us in His Holiness to partake Hebrews 12. Hebrews 12:7-11 says, "It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness." Choose healing specially healing of the mind and spiritual feeling in the Lord. Choose healing of mind and spiritual building up feeling specially when life is hard hearing Jesus gently firmly calling. Come up higher Rev. 4:1. The Parousia or Rapture is always immanent meaning could happen anytime. Comfort with these words.
When He Who is our life will appear in glory we will too be with Him in glory and be like Him seeing Him as He is. Every day we look for His return wanting our utmost separate and only for His Highest. Sanctification thus follows justification or right standing with God as a separation unto God of ourselves in every area, making Jesus Lord. He's cutting separating us for His use. My Godly passion and my emotion is to be a New Testament Christian living every day a reflection of Jesus Christ with His warm superlative passion for souls within. May His way and Power within hold the reins calling the shots, as Lord. He's separating the Holy from the profane or even the Holy from sin in me until I'm definitely more like Him even like as a tempered metal. As a surrendered godly slave of His then I have been crucified with Christ, dead to me, raised together with Him risen within identifying with Him I will obey His fervency to bring me into preps for abundant life. This means also His Desire is for me to crucify my flesh and having crucified my fleshly desires with their affections and lusts that are not proper if indulged in before marriage to prosper in being Risen with Christ too inside. I further deny myself surrendering my mind will and emotions to God experiencing God's spark to grace to obey His Holy Spirit. We daily want to please Him claiming His approval in our worldview and in sound teaching we hold to, to be abiding in our Lord alive to God fully. Daily obedience to God in Christ is primary and not distractions to His High Holy Purpose in and for us. We should visit the sick, infirm, imprisoned, widows, orphans, disadvantaged, and feed the poor. We should listen to God patient and be full in the fullness with the Holy Spirit to obey. Selfishness should rightly diminish in and through us and selflessness continue.
Pastor Rich of our Church has a very interesting challenging paragraph on the features of denying self, taking up our cross, and following Christ which follows: "The cross does not mean merely bearing one's particular hardship in life, such as poor health, abuse, unemployment, invalid parents, an unsaved spouse, a wayward child. The cross is always an instrument of death, not just an object to carry or bear. The Christian is to die mentally and actively (to self will.). He is to deny himself daily. He is to let the mind of Christ, the mind of humbling himself to the point of death, be in him and fill his thoughts every day (Phil. 2:5-8; 2 Cor. 10:3- 5). He is to put his will, his desires, his wants, his ambitions to death. In their stead, he is to follow Jesus and to do His will all day long. Note this is not negative, passive behavior. It takes positive, active behavior to will, to deny self, to take up one's cross, to follow Christ. A person has to act, work, get to it, be diligent, consistent, and enduring in order to die to self. There are several ways the believer dies to self. Romans 6:11-13 spells out the ways as clearly as they can be."
I believe Pastor Rich has got an excellent handle on this topic. I met Jesus at the crossroads where the two roads met as a broken sinner indeed falling on Jesus's neck even falling on the Rock which is Christ, and was changed transformed into a lump of clay or coal to become a son in son-ship with Christ in salvation at the calling of my heart to the heart of God within from the Word of God passionately lived out by God's Spirit on the road to Galilee. I was Saved a diamond in the ruff. I wanted to see the Savior everywhere to fall on Him and sit at His feet and humbly bow to the God of Heaven. My life has a spark especially at the Church Altar Christ has enthroned in my heart and hopefully daily my lifestyle shows. I'm different because of Him. I'm spiritually changed by daily now presenting my body to Him a living sacrifice pleasing to Him in renewal from His Standard of Holy lifestyle within enthroned. He calls me a son of the Kingdom in the end should I keep in His hand which is my desire greatly as is His. Pastor Rich Catapano uses Phil. 2:5-8 with II Cor. 10:3-5 very well together as follows:"The cross is always an instrument of death, not just an object to carry or bear. The Christian is to die mentally and actively. He is to deny himself daily. He is to let the mind of Christ, the mind of humbling himself to the point of death, be in him and fill his thoughts every day.." (Phil. 2:5-8; 2 Cor. 10:3- 5). We do well to heed his words and obey the spirit and meaning of his words through the Holy Spirit in doing so too in putting to death the self-life and ego and live crucified of the old life ad infinitim by living in no self will but Agape love and mercy lowering ourselves to lowest least rung on the ladder to serve Jesus Christ in love in compassion of potentially actively serving all people walking with our Lord in His mind and heart for the lost, for the hurting, in love prospering for Him and others and The Holy Spirit's joy! Jesus is joy! Resurrection living flows! We make JESUS Lord serving Him calling on Him for guidance in things large and small. We let the words of Christ ruminate within us and experience God and fullness. Agape love is motive in purity in obedience to Christ leading us into compassion of others in the spleen to (Greek healing therapeuo) heal and this practically takes on practicality in ministering with our time in love and mercy and in Phileo love expressed as well. Its God's Kindness to remember His kindness leads to Repentence by conviction of us in order to feel what He feels and break our hearts for what breaks His. This is not condemnation but Christ's burdens and we need to know the difference Romans 8:1.
Here is a quote from Rev. Rich Catapano, "And the test of a servant is how he responds when you treat him like one. In other words how will he act when treated poor rather than react. In the Bible people didn't think of themselves as an end in themselves but called to wash each other's feet (specially in the Early Church.) They did.. with an attitude of service, joy, love, and a hand extended by humbling themselves and saying, "Lord however you want me to serve!," says Pastor Rich. "Lord help us to lay aside the me and lay hold of YOU!" No matter how jarred the cardboard cup God pushes around what's inside 'til it comes out Matthew 15:17-19; Eph. 4:24,25 so let's be sweet examples to the flock.'In the dramatic historical present' flow of the New American Standard Translation Bible the spending quality humungous more mega time with Christ is my and our focused goal at Bethel Assembly of God Church in Franklin Square, New York. Fixing our eyes on Jesus among a great cloud of witnesses is also our goal. The Concept of the Altar of God, & The Person of our Savior and Lord: Jesus are IN me, in my spirit and I am New. I'm a new creation. I am His Holy Temple and I'm destined to belong to Him. I have a new mind, a new heart, a new spirit, and new nature from God in me. I'm a partaker of His Divine Nature whole. Seeking God loving Him with the First and Greatest Commandment as it is being asked and commanded of me, I would minister to Him firstly and would like to show compassion to people like He does. I WANT to see people as He does and see my life through His eyes in order to love them to the cross and Resurrection. Seeking Christ I seek the Hidden treasure of Christ and Salvation in the field He was in and am selling everything to buy that field for that Who is Hidden in the field the Christ even The Kingdom of Heaven of which He rules.
There are precious moments along the path Christ planned for me at first works of Salvation for Him to produce (see Rev. 2:5, Jesus speaks to the Ephesians Church) saying yes to Christ in sincere faith, obedience, and in first love, follow through. Our Lord said, Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and love your neighbor as yourself. On this hangs all the Law and Prophets. Love your home Church well. Knowing God first means God knows you in a personal intimate sense for you know it too invisibly by faith having coming to Jesus and honestly continuing in Him attending Church faithfully He having found you. I've accepted His Son's Sacrificial Death for myself being born again at a public altar here. The two words Father God are terms of endearment of intimacy for God for Who He is for He's truly Holy love. Given the wholly high cost of discipleship to count up to follow Jesus I believe we should all count the cost and surrendered be willing to pay it and to follow at His feet. In other words I plucked down my desires and rights on the table at that moment and reminded myself moment by moment at the Cross as well as daily anywhere: to do the same violence to my personal rights moment by moment as I did at Salvation at first always because God gave grace to repent and faith to believe and committment to follow through. This does not mean I'm a dishrag but that I do stand up for the truth. I lose my life in this life to find it in the next one. I hope to be a good steward of all I'm given by God and to be a fisher of men. All of salvation is by grace but our response must have good deeds. I became a child of God through New Birth and as Born Again was given the Holy Spirit. I fell upon the stone which is Jesus and all He stands for by The Holy Spirit's help and in God's sight potentially I was claimed by God a child of His, sorry for my sins a runt of a child of four years old is when this happened willing to change meaning repent of sin to the end. I heard that God is love and now I really would want to hear it expressed in a variety of spiritual feelings as with then so now in 2016 the year of our Lord because I see it with the eyes of my heart enlightened and lifted gentle by His Mighty Holy Presence.
In addition God's Love has lifted me from the pursuit of hills but from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord! Even the God of Heaven and hell. God lifts my view. Now I walk and I talk with the King. I'm adventuring where His Throne is to the Heavenly City where God is the architect of His blueprints. I'm on His side here with Him He at the helm of His Gospel ship and I want the Salvation of everyone in the boat because His Presence never fails, never leaves nor forsakes. His love never fails, it never gives up and never lets down. He is Commander-in-Chief of the Lord's Army and I bow to Him prostrate on the floor. I see what He offers me, down here my sins forgiven, up there a home in Heaven which is in prime varied prism colors of the color spectrum, and a zestful sparky abundant life here. I'm invited, Praise God that's the way for me. I have come to Jesus Christ at the cross and empty tomb to have my sins forgiven and taken away by Christ following the Christ for a newness of living lifestyle. I remain in the general area of the Cross to further go beyond the Empty Tomb to aim where He can be more to me in Resurrection living expressed by and in a brand new case of newness of living of myself belonging to Him. I'm denying myself and taking up my cross and following Christ. I'm crucified with Christ and obeying His Voice in acts of self-denial denying self-interests daily to obey/please Him and allow His Life to surface out in me Galatians 2:20. I'm being romanced by God like Christian in Pilgrim's Progress!
I'm born again from Him Who is Alive The Living Word & in Him I'm dead to my rights or dying a death to my own rights, my ambitions, will, desires, wants, and therefore I am leaving them at the door of ops so I can go to the foot of the cross for orders of Him like an armed forces serviceman fights for right yielding rights to His CO. I voluntarily become an obedient slave, living crucified yet resurrected and in Him, alive yet dying profusely to the self-life with all the affections and lusts of it nailed to Christ's cross which are further nailed to the wood of the cross in the present moment for the self life of me to be off the throne of my heart and life and the putting on the Lord Jesus on the heart's throne continuously living for Him by The Holy Spirit's power so I cling to Him. I have a measure in His victory. I have given him the nails to my cross and coffin.
I want godly passion to be in me examples of which are: to love the Lord, obeying, praying, serving, praising, and worship, etc. I have a sense of awe and wonder as to Holiness first as Moses who was raised up to deliver Israel in the desert was told by Jehovah God to take off his sandals, 'for this is Holy ground.' Moses saw by the godly fire that was not consumed that God is Holy and to be Reverenced in Awe. This Holiness God showed Moses is to me like Christ showed just before His Death on the Cross also requesting of His Father having finished all things and knowing all power was given into His hand, asked each disciple individually if He could wash their feet with the towel with which He was girded with His hands and then went out of His way (to Power over every thing) to wash dirty feet and washed the feet of each of the disciples before His Cross Death (and I gratefully give thanks in gratefulness receiving from Him.) This tangible example of our Lord's humble action spiritually even symbolically showed me His Holiness in example form so I can reach out and grab His love to myself. For in His separating from sin each disciple by name He did such Holy love Shepherd work in washing feet so coming to serve and not to be served indeed but to serve by example, even being a Ransom for many. And as a shepherd inspects a flock and cares for his sheep every so often (maybe once a year?) and becomes the gate at night for the sheep herd also who congregate together in a group in the pen to ward off wolf attacks, so this separation God puts between the Holy and the profane between the Holy and sin even in the case of sheep profoundly cared for by shepherds and Ultimately He the Good Shepherd Great proved to me God was Who He said He was. He's Compassionate, Holy, Righteous, All-Powerful, Loving, Gracious, Tender, Merciful, Just, Gentle, and indeed a Totally Perfect Being and His word convinced me to come His way to Him through the Son of God Jesus to the Father. The intricacy of God's Creation's design further confirmed God's existence Psalm 139, 19, Job 38,39; John 1:1-10. Thus I have faith in God, in His Providence to provide for my needs Phil 4:19. Staying humble under His hand I'm aggressively obeying His eye. Staying focused on Jesus in all things I'm learning of Heavenly Father His will for me with and without fleeces and how to confirm it to myself by the Word of God I'm listening to, and via others. The Holy Spirit makes it real.
From His Work Done, I do just what Jesus says to do from hearing His Still Small Voice. I may trip over my feet at times and hurt my toes by deliberate disobedience for that being a very stupidity of enormous proportions but Jesus is Judge AND Lawyer and He pronounces forgiveness and in my confession lifts me up to press on and go directly to the light Phil. 2:1-13; I John 2:1,2. Humbly I approach His awesome Presence beating my breast, a sinful man, O Lord but kneeling too. But by the Blood and Work of Christ and the Spirit I'm forgiving others, freely, because I'm forgiven an infinite and finite debt. This Christian life lived out of me additionally in my actions of grateful thankfulness is in response to His grace alone. I'm sorrowful but ever rejoicing for godly sorrowful works repentance not to be regretted of, for sure. Encouraged of God my expression sparks explosive pulsing God's love and passion in my life. My attitude believing for encouragement ably in the Lord to aid each other is fully hopefully in motive to contribute even shine my light before all men emphazizo (Greek disclosed) in His Light disclosing His willing and His doing Phil 2:13. This is what God is after, our heart simply put to contribute to the common good. When He has won our heart He can spark our passions and mark them godly ones that prove them able through the Holy Spirit dynamics. This brings encouraging disclosure of God's great love to us in all circumstances as we each contribute talent. When He has won our hearts He can HEAL our spirits, (healing, Greek "therapeuo,") progressively. Our perfect spirit's (now that you're saved is perfect in position) need is for God to come in and make changes to our soul. We are told in the imperative to guard our hearts diligently for out of it are the wellsprings of life. That's in Proverbs 4:23. We see what He's doing Pastor Rich says, like a microscope viewing a small area of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon prep area because that's all we see while God sees the whole thing.
I can humbly try to be like God, be weeping God's tears, be a man of prayer, pray God's prayers, dream God's dreams as I'm a joy-filled Born again believer, a little Christian, a little Christ gratefully a saved individual thankfully hid with Christ in God by the power of God BY THE GRACE OF GOD kept because of the Finished Work of Jesus: This Atonement, of Christ at Calvary as I respond in kind Col. 3:3. My anchor holds and grips the solid Rock steadfast for I seek those things above where Christ is seated with the Heavenly Father God above at Father's Right hand and I enjoy profound sitting in the Heavenlies with Him Eph. 2:5,6. With an Eternal vantage point up at this view I'm sparked with passion to be in love with God, enjoy Him forever in unlimited unmerited grace, mercy, love, and favor from Him and glorify Him every chance I get. I am given mercy full and free and grace unbounded. In obeying Him I hear Christ's Still Small Voice more clear Hebrews 4:13-16. Like the consecrated priesthood of Levi, the first priest being Aaron of the Old Testament they with those saints (Hebrew saints, haggios) looked ahead to Messiah. I have Christ's Blood applied symbolically to the right ear, for understanding and the right thumb of the right hand, for hearing and the right big toe of the right foot (I look back to the Cross) to go in through wilderness hand and foot. I go where Jesus goes. Whithersoever Christ goes I go. He's the very Lamb of God. That's the way it is. To remind me that The Holy Spirit is applied at Salvation Oil is Anointed over the Blood. His Word with passion travels and accomplishes the thing that pleases Him even to where He sends it. Isaiah 55:11. My transliteration.
He is my Abba Daddy. He's a good good Father Who is all that is good. I just buried a good friend who died of cancer but another friend in the same timeframe survived open heart surgery, praise God! The friend who survived is doing lots of ministry where I live. This is God's benefit for both to happen even in disguise with one. The Lord gives. The Lord takes away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord! From His goodness we have grief and Salvation (II Corinthians 5:17,18) for it's newness of Life and its all of grace. For Christ's obedience offered to His Father and God we serve His proffering reach outreach hand up to us given which is in the Cross and Resurrection and not by works of righteousness of anyone's nor by ourselves in any stretch of the imagination to the lost. He's Creator and we Creation. We can't earn this. We can't earn this grace. His right hand got Him the victory at the Cross. We are humbled and stand AMAZED in the Presence of the Nazarene! I'm standing and kneeling (both) at the Cross humbly urging others to do the same under God's influence to get every man there by willingly obeying the Holy Spirit to heed Christ's Voice having heard or heeded His call to Salvation knowing Why He Died we persuade others. Presently I'm publicly taking a complete stand for Christ in fullness of the Spirit being humble to follow my Pastor's wisdom in this. He has created cut Covenantial Relationship with me to have separated Chesed (God's Lovingkindness in Covenant Relationship,) with Him separated from sin and on His theological spiral with me (NOT comprehensive by any sense but the combined theological knowledge I have,) in Christ and I'm on Holy ground in Salvation taking off my sandals before Him in His sight. I'm receiving (Greek lambano) Jesus and walking to more lay hold Him everywhere and to be open in heart present tense, past, and future. Justification by faith is His doing at the Cross. I'm on a mission from God in the good and the bad in good times and through all situations. Through tough times and in all kinds of adversity of various (Greek, Thilipses, tight almost immovable places) light momentary affliction scripture says to make it through is only with His help. To be a victor in Christ, having done all, stand. Afflictions like oysters are annoying to open become eclipsed by glory effortlessly standing in the Armor of God. In this I'm joyfully whole and blessed to help others to the reconciliation I've found to God in/through Christ. Even when suffering wrongfully for Christ or righteousness I'm going through it. (Thilipses tight place in Greek) cause taking a stand in God's armor to armpit alertness continually to be lifted up taking a stand for righteousness and for the Name. The Bible calls me blessed when I suffer for Christ's sake and not for my own mistake. I in 'unjust' circumstances doing the right thing and suffering for it I'm blessed with Christ in the school of prayer with the Spirit of God in me and upon me and I'm blessed. My own faults bring suffering too but the Spirit helps with the infirmity (weakness.) We seek His fullnes to be blameless without spot or defect before Him.
The goal of faith is to live pleasing to God in love. Let Jesus be exalted in you and making Him Lord in everything. I'm in Christ for the long haul marathon in this race. I'm totally submerged, submitted, and submitted committed coming up from the waters of Baptism to Him in the fullness of His Death and Resurrection speaking in other tongues. In enduring persevering longsuffering to possible death or on a cross of God's doing being under His surgery He doing a number on my mind for I'm for the Name Romans 6:1-7. I was Water Baptized at twelve and Baptized in The Spirit with speaking in other tongues at fourteen being Baptized into Christ Romans 6:1-7; Acts 2,8,10,19. I'm casting down every thought or imagination or divine argument that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. I'm victor even more than a conqueror living victorious in our Lord rejoicing in Jesus and His Name Who is our Rock, Bulwark, Fortress, Deliverer, and Shield, and in the High Tower of His Name even on God's mountain where the air is rare!
He's a Giving God and leaves a good heritage. HE'S dwelling IN and through me. HIS Word dwells richly within and is The True life of my life replacing my life with His Life and joy. I'm dead, I died with Christ. Christ is my life and I'm living by faith in His Life and by faith further His life Galatians 2:20. Like a wild olive shoot grafted into an olive tree Jesus is Life within. Jesus is my imputed infused Righteousness as my name is a small part of His Name Romans 6:1. I'll have no other Savior I Corinthians 15:58. I'm just not kidding about this new reality having accepted Jesus as my Savior and Lord as a four year old child through the Holy Spirit's conviction. I'm free from sin now working out my Salvation in Union life reckoning myself dead indeed to sin Romans 6:13, 11 in a sense of newness of life in Him (II Corinthians 5:17) and alive to God now. I'm yielded being renewed in the spirit of my mind in the likeness of God's likeness and image which is Created in holiness and righteousness of the truth. I'm becoming a slave bond-servant of Christ to Him He making me a son in the process and the final decisions of control in all decisions is His because He's Lord. I'm fascinated, contributing to the common good, shining, and letting my light shine before all men that they may see the good works by which He transforms my life making changes. I'll someday (in Heaven) be His reflection in the mirror by His mercy and grace as He's calling the shots and I trust Him.
Recently as a Gideon (of twenty years a runner) I am looking to have Refined refired character from Him and love that is genuine. Distributing God's Word comes with the love of God outward as I distribute Bibles handing them out prayerfully to a person to win precious souls to our Lord. I'm surrendering to Him my willingness breaking walls apart of supposed offense and hurt so I turn on the faucet of forgiveness so it can flow like a river through me, in me, and out of me. I'm to guard my heart (Prov. 4:23) with all diligence and to be humbling myself before Him. In heart and soul all the time I'm recognizing He's in control. Through the Son I'm coming to God daily surrendering willingness in His goals for me. I'm conversing in awe with Him evermore talking it up with Him so because of what He did: love me at Calvary. I came to be a beggar at first but able through His help to call myself chiefest of sinners. Because of Second Birth Born Again life I'm joyful to tell other beggars where to find Bread. The bread is Jesus Christ, The Bread of Life. God is my Source and my everything, all in all. As with this Great Good Shepherd, Who holds me, a lamb in His arms nurtured to be in Him I'm thus in vitality greatly nourished. Sick sheep don't eat. He saves me from being dinner or lamb-chop and/or pork chop from false teachers going where food is not beneficial. Spiritually green pasture and still water instruct me to go to Christ to learn when I'm exalted in haughtiness or selfish pride of my own achievements learning Who He Is and humbly who I am: in essence, His creation, humbly, and He, everything. I'm giving to God the Highest Widest possible glory submissively under His hand, and I'm decreasing, He, increasing. I'm weaned like a child in this.
People need a power transformer transfigured relationship with God not just a religious environment. Do not attempt this without Jesus. Jesus is central. He has to be Mediator. My enthroning Him within my heart Lord is my best love response. Have the Son inner inwardly within and you have THE LIFE. By default the opposite is true also. I'll admit, altruistic desires nonetheless interfere with prayers and goals pressing me forward for I want to let Christ have the rule and reign over my life and follow Christ near and close every way I traverse. In all situations I want to leave all behind yes everything every last aspect ANY possession tries to put a hold on me or make me covet or to feel, behind. I take due diligence to realize my works apart from God's work in me are finished because just as God finished His works the seventh day I rest in His Rest because he that has entered God's rest has ceased from his own works as He did from His. His Salvation is great like this rest is to us. I want to labor to enter that rest with total absolute abandon, trusting, circumspect, and with confidence from He the Spirit, to follow through. To finish strong and with a thorough abandonment to be open in Him I'm doing all His will by faith which is my delight and desire. His will is real and my delight.
I have triumphant victory over the schemes of the Enemy. Being aware of them aptly more specifically alert to me I'm aware of just how unfairly deceptively subtle (when tempted) his tactics are and lying lies are. I know Christ in constant warfare for the Salvation of souls by it. I don't get offended period. I forgive. I have patience and ask God for more potential hurt decide not to get hurt by. Christ is our Mighty Warrior in the midst. He works fighting the satan's deceptive flanking maneuver from the side. I can gain Christ by me but not war him (satan) for Christ defeated him even his minions too by Jesus stepping into the room and he and they falling down paralyzed knocked out good a spectacle before all men. So then I won't have to fight he or them either for Christ already did. They're defeated. I take heed lest I fall sure. I'm triumphant overcoming in the Lord from being gummed by ignorance of his diabolical deception in the history of my existence and from tiredness from his influence indirect I'm now winning triumph. I individually agree with God about everything He's saying in His Word and profoundly agree with it. I walk in agreement with Him. The battle is truly the Lord's. Alive to God, The newness of life, new man, and armor of God we all put on then being believers to triumph over the schemes of the devil or schemes of his minions and so we do this. The schemes, not the devil himself nor his minion's but the schemes we stand firm against and don't give ground to but drawing a line in the sand, "here and no further," we say, and so we outwit him and them and tire him and them out. With our resist him and them motion he and they flee. These afflictions become eclipsed by glory standing in the Armor of God effortlessly for I'm whole and blessed to be there. The Armor of God in His Presence is going before me as it's also the Armor of light mostly defensive but our weapon is the Word of God. I'm casting down every thought or imagination or divine argument that sets itself or exalts itself against the knowledge of God and employing from God something positive in faith outwitting the devil's scheme, tactic, or flanking maneuver for I'm God's child instead of victim. I'm victor more than a conqueror living victorious rejoicing in Jesus and triumphant for His Sake. The devil the adversary will try to obstruct the follow through. Satan's name means enemy, adversary. I individually agree with God about everything He's saying in His Word and profoundly agree with it. I walk in agreement with Him. The battle is truly the Lord's. I stand still and see the Lord's Salvation. I'm being renewed in the spirit of my mind to put on the New Self which is created in true holiness and righteousness of the truth Eph. 4:24,25. I put off the old self which is rotting and put on the new self which in the likeness of God Has been created in knowledge of truth. The battleground is the thinking. The devil can get mad all he wants for he lost this soul he thought he had. First we submit to God! Then resist spiritual wickedness even in high places. Lift the shield of faith to quench fiery darts. He was destroyed at the cross and Jesus is going to see how that lives out. I am saved to take an authoritative right stand a right position with my Creator. In the relationship to God I have peace for the Blood within. I'm blessed and learning how to worship Him fully with joy, love in spirit and truth, worship. I'm knowing He's FOR ME and I'm always under-girded by His hand and through Him I'm by His aid ably showing mercy to the Body too being empathetic in the beloved. I humble myself under God's mighty hand for in His hand is the best place to be. I'm accepted in the beloved and by Him accepted even first come first serve at Banquet times so I'm hungry to accept one another contributing to the common good showing compassion as He did me, empathizing rather than sympathizing where I can. Sympathy as such is powerful in writing a card, a hospital visit, but ultimately limited to the written word, a sentiment. Empathy or feeling other's pain brings relief to others stitching them or binding wounds up, winding bandage and antiseptic edifying them gifting them inner healinglike them building them up in love but sympathizing makes one stand aloof. Only God does great healing is the ultimate truth. We are God's pawns, healers, and observers but doing the greater works He is honored for as His collective Body in the world Christ said we would do. C.S. Lewis called us 'little Christ's.' Empathy is listening well even performing healing (therapeuo) by the Anointed Christ and us His reps ministering to others in agape! This is spelled T-I-M-E. And love and action. I rely on Holy Spirit ministry fullness for the next step (Greek parapeteoo,) within the cadence of walking by the Spirit. I am attached to Him abiding in the Lord enjoying His touch in other words firmly abiding in the Lord and rejoicing in Him evermore. He at times carries us with one set of footprints! Praise God!
I'm for God's glorifying Jesus alone in my ministry and NOT myself! Let Jesus decide rewards, credit, or glories! I like being unsung and among Church family fairly given a fair shake but in Him. I want to look to the interests of others caring concerned about showing compassion unconditionally and in phileo love unto Agape at them. I lay all my dead works apart from Christ down and on the dung heap and if there are any left, burn them immediately completely. Triumphing in the cross which is God's victory which was shown to be Victorious over sin, death, grave, hell, and the devil, and at the Empty Tomb victory was played out which is the ultimate expression of good. I'm an Assembly of God adherant in victory. God's mercies towards me inspire me in my spleen to show others compassion like the Good Samaritan or Jesus weeping over Jerusalem! Jehovah Elohim Adonai Abba is the God of compassion, of all comfort! God is calling us to have compassionate hearts of mercy and bowels and do something in social righteousness in Him in love to share the comfort God gives us through trials. If I by grace can make in love Agape, Phileo example lovingly then that decision of connection with God that of seeing others like God sees them I will do well. And cement that and treat them like that in the way of Jesus greater works I will be blessed and happy. I by His grace want as well to obtain the desire to be pressing in for the prize in Christ of Gentle Kind Tenderness in chesed (Covenant Lovingkindness) in Christ's godly spiritual human temperament ready and available for use. His Lovingkindness is better than life. His ways are higher His thoughts are greater than ours.
Freely you have received, freely give.To Him Who has, more shall be given and he shall have an abundance (of hearing God's words.) The Bible is firmly clear, "God is love." He is love not that loves but that He is love! He will not cry out to argue nor cry in the streets to announce Himself to sinners nor quench a wick that is smoldering at all but let it kindle as needed. The smallest spark He will encourage. By that love agape let us serve one another and build each other up but don't get tangled up by other's left hand/foot behavior. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood. His yoke is wearable and is big enough for two for He will lead both pushing the plow. Even the ox is there not muzzled strengthened by prayer. Ask, seek, knock for everyone who asks, receives, he who knocks, opens, and he who seeks finds. And I'm praying for open doors with utterances to be a witness to make CLEAR the Gospel individually with more of me BEHIND ALL OUTREACH though there is more suffering for Christ that occurs that way and I'm studying fervently in white hot flames of love to obey God's call in me to fervency and seeking His will reverently and awesomely in wonder to be a mighty bold witness to be proclaiming His Message of the Gospel (Carrusso in Greek meaning 'bringing down a great message') and be one in Him of Christ Jesus alone with one mind and heart, and mouth unified in glorifying Him in His Body (homotheumadan in Greek. Win disciples to Christ preaching the Gospel. Be a witness. It's GOOD NEWS. When necessary use words like John Wesley said. And pray for yours and their salvation like Charles Finney or praying Hyde or the Wesley's, John and Charles. Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God often and He will lift you up in His Due time. Worship Him truly meaning every moment give Him overwhelming worth-ship as to His Holy Nature and Character and surrender to His Majesty even adoration of Him and give Him His Due honor Due His Name and even in down time worship Him in spirit and truth realizing anything is possible with God. Dream big dreams of God's Dream. In all situations rejoice in the Lord and count your blessings. Positively believe that even to a corpse He is Able to do anything, anything being possible with God so glorifying Him you are abiding in Jesus as well as shining your light dead to dead works alive to Him as in giving constant glory continually to Him! I'm purifying myself of all filthiness of flesh and spirit (by the Holy Spirit) in the Holiness of God! Transliteration Of II Cor. 7:1. He is with us always even to the end of the world never to leave nor forsake us (Mat. 28:20) so persevere to the end though hated or loved for Jesus Christ with you/in ya. Abide in Christ. Commit your way to the Lord trust also in Him and He shall bring it to pass Psalm 37:6. In Jesus Name, that Name which is above all others, matchless. Amen. Http://www.bethelagny.blogspot.com. Http://www.blogtalkradio.com/davidcandel. Http://www.davvvyc.blogspot.comSubmitted by DAVID CANDELFor the benefit of the Body of Christ.Dave
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