MUCH LOVE IN CHRIST JESUS
First Corinthians 15:1-11
Ephesians 2:8-9
John 3:16-17
Romans 3:23 and 6:23
Acts 3:37 (KJV ONLY)
Saturday, June 16, 2018
WE NEVER WALK ALONE
Matt.28:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Hebrews 4:
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 13:
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
KNOWN TO GOD WHO LOVED US THEN!
Eph.1:
4 according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:5 having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.7 in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
TALK THE FAITH AND WALK THE TALK
Let's look carefully at the encounter Jesus had with Satan. IT WAS PREDESTINED! Our life in Christ was predestined. No moment in the life God gave us is meaningless. One day we will see Jesus face to face. At that moment we will have been perfected by Him. And we will know Him as He is with eyes of unhindered sight and without a sin nature! This is an incredible reality that awaits us.
Matthew 4:
4 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6 and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9 and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
By the way, Satan certainly attacked our Lord on many occasions after this one. We can be sure that God's faithful will always be subject to attacks from demons. That's their job! They serve Satan BUT they are under God! Created by God, they are not separate from His will for His Glory. REMEMBER JOB.
So count it a good sign ! Yes, a good sign when under attack. Attacks can be subtle as Satan tried with Jesus! "IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD..." then show me PROOF! Certainly Jesus could have said (if he was prideful which he was not and would not sin! OK Satan watch this...!) And how did Jesus respond?
BY SCRIPTURE.
He did not get angry. He did not get upset. He did not hold a grievance afterwards. Jesus knew Satan could not be anything but what he is. This was not a conversion possibility as we have with lost sinners.
THINK THIS WAY. WE NEVER WALK ALONE
God is training us up for more faithful service by all the experiences we have. None are exceptions. Everyday we get up and every thought and experience we have with ourselves and others is another MOMENT IN OUR LIFE'S TIME IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR.
SANCTIFICATION
Is a setting apart unto God, is threefold: It is already complete for every saved person because our position toward God is the same as Christ's position. Since we are in Christ, we are set apart unto God in the measure in which Christ is set apart unto God. However we retain our sin nature, which cannot be eradicated in this life. Therefore, while our standing in Christ is perfect our present state is no more perfect than our experience in daily life. There is therefore a progressive sanctification wherein we are to "grow in grace" and to "be changed" by the power of the Holy Spirit.(we sin and sin binds the Spirfit and stops the progression of becoming more holy unto God. Thus we pray daily according to 1 John 1:5-10; 2:1-2). God never leaves us being sealed in us in the Holy Spirit; [Eph. 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption] but will discipline us]: But God will discipline us: Hebrews 12:10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
We believe also that we will be fully sanctified in our yet imperfect state as we are now sanctified in our standing in Christ when we shall see our Lord and shall have been transformed at the moment He calls us up and be "like Him."
1 Cor.15:
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
WE ARE BEING MADE HOLY
John 17:
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Heb.10:
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb.10:
14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. (progressively now and finally at Christ's call to come up)
2 Cor.3:
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Cor. 7: (SIN NOT = do not practice sinning and without conviction by the Holy Spirit which is evidence of not being saved)
7 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Eph.4:
24 and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Eph.5:
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 that he *might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.* (when we will see Jesus at the rapture we will see Him as He is through eyes without sin anymore! And we will REJOICE in Heaven in the New Jerusalem, our home Jesus prepared for us!
1 Thess.5:
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
WE NEVER WALK ALONE
God has appointed all our days and RIGHT NOW this is when we are here, and GOD called us into this time and we are in places God has assigned by His will for us as well as choices we make which God knew in advance AND will use for His glory IF WE SUBMIT. What is submit? Walk by the Holy Spirit and NOT our carnal nature. And even this is known by God!
We want to please God. We want to walk and live in the faith we have and that is always through the Holy Spirit. God KNOWS all our sins ! and bled His sinless blood to cover them ALL! ("Propitiation" : AN ATONING SACRIFICE: JESUS PAID OUR SINS DEBT) What a GOD we have! What a Savior!
We are to SUBMIT, in that we are to be led by the Holy Spirit in this truth that nothing that happens and anywhere we are is by chance and does not concern our walk with GOD and our becoming holy like unto Jesus. This we will reach one day when Jesus calls us up. But we are :
ON THE ROAD TOWARDS GLORY AND HE IS LEADING US ACCORDING TO THE EXTENT OF OUR SUBMISSION TO HIS WILL THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT IN US AND BY HIS WORD OF TRUTH
IN THIS UNDERSTANDING THAT NOTHING THAT HAPPENS AND ANYWHERE WE ARE , WE ARE ON GOD TIME AND BY FAITH (according to His word) ENCOUNTER OUR REALITY AND THE GREATER THIS TRUTH IS, THE MORE JESUS LIKE WE ARE LIVING IN HIM ACCORDING TO HIS WORD.
EVERY MOMENT CAN BE A MOMENT THAT OUR HEART BEATS WITH THIS REALITY: GOD IS TRAINING US UP. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS READY 24/7 TO INFORM US AND LEAD US AND BRING TO MIND BY HIS WORD (BIBLE STUDY) SOMETHING FOR GOD AND ANOTHER MOMENT IN HIS TIME (OURS TO REALIZE) WHEN HIS GLORY CAN SHINE THROUGH US .......IF WE FULLY APPRECIATE WE ARE ON:
GOD'S TIME ! & WE NEVER WALK ALONE.
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Hebrews 4:
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 13:
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
KNOWN TO GOD WHO LOVED US THEN!
Eph.1:
4 according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:5 having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.7 in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
TALK THE FAITH AND WALK THE TALK
Let's look carefully at the encounter Jesus had with Satan. IT WAS PREDESTINED! Our life in Christ was predestined. No moment in the life God gave us is meaningless. One day we will see Jesus face to face. At that moment we will have been perfected by Him. And we will know Him as He is with eyes of unhindered sight and without a sin nature! This is an incredible reality that awaits us.
Matthew 4:
4 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6 and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9 and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
By the way, Satan certainly attacked our Lord on many occasions after this one. We can be sure that God's faithful will always be subject to attacks from demons. That's their job! They serve Satan BUT they are under God! Created by God, they are not separate from His will for His Glory. REMEMBER JOB.
So count it a good sign ! Yes, a good sign when under attack. Attacks can be subtle as Satan tried with Jesus! "IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD..." then show me PROOF! Certainly Jesus could have said (if he was prideful which he was not and would not sin! OK Satan watch this...!) And how did Jesus respond?
BY SCRIPTURE.
He did not get angry. He did not get upset. He did not hold a grievance afterwards. Jesus knew Satan could not be anything but what he is. This was not a conversion possibility as we have with lost sinners.
THINK THIS WAY. WE NEVER WALK ALONE
God is training us up for more faithful service by all the experiences we have. None are exceptions. Everyday we get up and every thought and experience we have with ourselves and others is another MOMENT IN OUR LIFE'S TIME IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR.
SANCTIFICATION
Is a setting apart unto God, is threefold: It is already complete for every saved person because our position toward God is the same as Christ's position. Since we are in Christ, we are set apart unto God in the measure in which Christ is set apart unto God. However we retain our sin nature, which cannot be eradicated in this life. Therefore, while our standing in Christ is perfect our present state is no more perfect than our experience in daily life. There is therefore a progressive sanctification wherein we are to "grow in grace" and to "be changed" by the power of the Holy Spirit.(we sin and sin binds the Spirfit and stops the progression of becoming more holy unto God. Thus we pray daily according to 1 John 1:5-10; 2:1-2). God never leaves us being sealed in us in the Holy Spirit; [Eph. 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption] but will discipline us]: But God will discipline us: Hebrews 12:10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
We believe also that we will be fully sanctified in our yet imperfect state as we are now sanctified in our standing in Christ when we shall see our Lord and shall have been transformed at the moment He calls us up and be "like Him."
1 Cor.15:
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
WE ARE BEING MADE HOLY
John 17:
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Heb.10:
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb.10:
14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. (progressively now and finally at Christ's call to come up)
2 Cor.3:
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Cor. 7: (SIN NOT = do not practice sinning and without conviction by the Holy Spirit which is evidence of not being saved)
7 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Eph.4:
24 and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Eph.5:
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26 that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 that he *might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.* (when we will see Jesus at the rapture we will see Him as He is through eyes without sin anymore! And we will REJOICE in Heaven in the New Jerusalem, our home Jesus prepared for us!
1 Thess.5:
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
WE NEVER WALK ALONE
God has appointed all our days and RIGHT NOW this is when we are here, and GOD called us into this time and we are in places God has assigned by His will for us as well as choices we make which God knew in advance AND will use for His glory IF WE SUBMIT. What is submit? Walk by the Holy Spirit and NOT our carnal nature. And even this is known by God!
We want to please God. We want to walk and live in the faith we have and that is always through the Holy Spirit. God KNOWS all our sins ! and bled His sinless blood to cover them ALL! ("Propitiation" : AN ATONING SACRIFICE: JESUS PAID OUR SINS DEBT) What a GOD we have! What a Savior!
We are to SUBMIT, in that we are to be led by the Holy Spirit in this truth that nothing that happens and anywhere we are is by chance and does not concern our walk with GOD and our becoming holy like unto Jesus. This we will reach one day when Jesus calls us up. But we are :
ON THE ROAD TOWARDS GLORY AND HE IS LEADING US ACCORDING TO THE EXTENT OF OUR SUBMISSION TO HIS WILL THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT IN US AND BY HIS WORD OF TRUTH
IN THIS UNDERSTANDING THAT NOTHING THAT HAPPENS AND ANYWHERE WE ARE , WE ARE ON GOD TIME AND BY FAITH (according to His word) ENCOUNTER OUR REALITY AND THE GREATER THIS TRUTH IS, THE MORE JESUS LIKE WE ARE LIVING IN HIM ACCORDING TO HIS WORD.
EVERY MOMENT CAN BE A MOMENT THAT OUR HEART BEATS WITH THIS REALITY: GOD IS TRAINING US UP. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS READY 24/7 TO INFORM US AND LEAD US AND BRING TO MIND BY HIS WORD (BIBLE STUDY) SOMETHING FOR GOD AND ANOTHER MOMENT IN HIS TIME (OURS TO REALIZE) WHEN HIS GLORY CAN SHINE THROUGH US .......IF WE FULLY APPRECIATE WE ARE ON:
GOD'S TIME ! & WE NEVER WALK ALONE.
Chaim, least
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