BUILDING A "FIRE-PROOF" LIFE

Building a Fireproof Life

"If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire." -1 Corinthians 3:15, emphasis added

What we have been studying in Revelation is only a foretaste of what is to come. But God has not left us without instructions. In Revelation we have seen Truth to live by for a safe future. So, how do we survive in the early twenty-first century? We need to build a fireproof life. Thus, there are three truths that I want you to remember from this week so that you can truly give God what is His.

Truth 1: Jesus compares your earthly life to a building, so you must watch what you build with-and where. Jesus says to build your life with what won't burn up: "As a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one's work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is. If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are" (1 Corinthians 3:10-17).

With what are you building your life? Are you building it with wood, hay, and stubble that will burn up-or are you building your life with gold, silver, and precious stones? The gold speaks of seeking God first; the silver and precious stones speak of sacrificing your time, talents, and resources to God before they dissipate and burned up here.

Truth 2: Jesus says your life is a stewardship, so watch where you invest it. As a faithful steward, beware of investing your life-and His money-in the pursuit of so-called "Make it rich quick!" schemes. Such scams bilk people out of millions, fold companies, and cause stock market crashes.

God is going to let everyone know once and for all whom we really lived for-ourselves or for Him. He says that "we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, . . . whether good or bad" (2 Corinthians 5:10). That is decided one moment, one day, one week, one month at a time through living in the light of eternity.

Truth 3: Jesus says your life is like a race, so watch out for the rules. Know the boundaries, and keep the "baggage" at a minimum. Stay within the lines, follow the rules, and be careful to not get tripped up in the race. Paul says, "Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith" (Hebrews 12:1-2).

If anything trips you up in life, get rid of it-everything that holds you back and keeps getting caught so that it drags you down (like the long robes men wore in that day that they would tie up and tuck into their belt so they could run without getting tripped up). Check your life to see if you have piled up too much baggage that will prevent you from saying "YES, LORD"-yes to His will and His way. Can you really pull up stakes at any time to do God's will, or will it interrupt your plans? God says to keep the baggage to a minimum so that you can follow Him.

In 2 Corinthians, Paul said that the Macedonians excelled in their giving because they gave of themselves first. If you have never surrendered yourself, you need to do it now. There is no substitute for giving yourself to the Lord. You will never know the joy of the grace of giving (or any other grace) until you do!

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GETTING PICKED: TODAY GOD IS FIRST DAILY DEVOTIONAL

Getting Picked

June 5

"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit - fruit that will last" (John 15:16).

I will never forget the day in junior high school when I went to the gymnasium to view the list of those who would make the basketball team. Several of us went excitedly to see who was on the list and who was not. I made it! The feelings of exhilaration were beyond description for a fourteen year old. Those who didn't make it were sad and downcast.

Most of us growing up either landed on "picked" or the "unpicked" side of life. I often heard my daughter say, "I was the last or second to last to get picked for sports in gym class. I wasn’t very competitive.” (She wanted to be more involved in athletics but didn’t have a lot of confidence.)

It is awesome to be picked by the God of the universe to be on His team. When God chose you, He knew what He was doing. God doesn't always pick those who have the greatest skill, the greatest aptitude, or even the greatest personality. However, He always has something in mind for those He picks.

There is one thing He requires of those He picks. They are to be fruit-bearers. They are not to be fruit-makers, but fruit-bearers. Our goal should not be to bear fruit. Our goal should be to know the One who chose us and makes the fruit. When we really know the one who chose us, fruit will be a natural by-product.

Today, as you begin your workday, consider where you will drop some fruit. It might be by praying for a co-worker. It might be by simply greeting someone cheerfully during lunch. It might be by leading someone to the Savior today. Share your fruit freely....

JIMMY DeYOUNG'S PROPHETIC PROSPECTIVE DAILY DEVOTIONAL

June 5, 2017  Thank you for reading my Prophetic Daily Devotionals!   Please visit my website to learn more Bible prophecies being fulfilled in these last days.  Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. For further study - Hebrews 1:1-14 I could hardly wait to get to the book of Hebrews for our devotional thought for today. Now having said that, let's look at the first chapter of this book of the unknown author, unknown but believed by many to be the apostle Paul. That is a debate for another time. We do know that whoever the human author was, he had the entire book "breathed into" him by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the person of the Godhead who inspired the human authors, some 40 of them, over 1,500 years. These men wrote 66 books that have no contradiction and all of the authors speak of the Lord's plan for humankind throughout all the ages. God, in the past, did raise up the ancient Jewish prophets to speak His word to us. But, as the text says, "in these last days has spoken to us by His Son". Our key verse tells us where Jesus is, today. He is now seated at the right-hand of the Father in the 3rd heaven. This is an important truth. It tells us that Jesus is not on His throne, which is yet to come, in an earthly kingdom that will be set up in Jerusalem. This is key to understanding what the future holds for our Lord. His kingdom is yet to come. There is another precious truth in this first chapter of Hebrews. The reading today explains to us that Jesus is so much better than "angels", verse 4. The entire chapter tells us how superior Jesus is to angels who were created by Him. However, there is a blessing for us with the creation of angels, they are all "ministering spirits", sent by the Lord to minister to us who are heirs of the salvation that Jesus provides. These angels are to guard over us, to take us into His presence when we die, and to be "fellow servants" with us in our ministry for Him. By the way, when He does leave the right-hand of the Father to come for us to join Him, the angels will come with Him. I would love to see Him and His angels today. PRAYER THOUGHT: Thank you Lord for dispatching angels to minister to us!

PROOFS THE BIBLE IS TRUE! GREAT VIDEO

God bless and enjoy!  Share the Gospel of Salvation!.

BE YE NOT DECEIVED...STAY GROUNDED IN THE WORD OF GOD!

INSIDE THE EMPTY TOMB: SERMON BY J. VERNON McGEE

Please listen and be blessed.  Be grounded in the Word of God lest you fall into deception.  If you know your Bible, you will clearly see the lies of wolves.  Do not fall into their snares.

God Bless You All and Share the Gospel of Salvation to the World!

First Corinthians 15:1-11

Death + Burial + Resurrection in body = SALVATION BY GRACE!

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH DR. J. VERNON McGEE (GENESIS, THE GOSPEL OF LUKE AND REVELATION)

In case you haven't seen my previous posts since I started sharing Luke and Revelation, to save your inbox from being overloaded, I chose to put each one on the same post to save us both time.  He is a great man of God, older and now passed.  The thing I like about his sermons is they are Bible-based and what the Holy Bible says and not in light of the occurrences of events happening today.  That doesn't make them unimportant but if you listen to what he says the Bible tells us, you'll see just how true what he taught was.  What he said would happen (no dates) has either happened, is happening today or we see the "handwriting on the wall" and just how close we are to Christ Jesus's return.  How people can still deny the truth of the Bible absolutely stuns me.  I've loved Jesus since I met Him when I was 6 and never stopped loving and believing in Him.  Oh, how I strayed.  I am a prodigal daughter but I always thought the Bible was a bit vague on end times.  Now, it is clear to me as crystal.  Get grounded in the Word and you will never be deceived by any man.  If you know what God says and trust Him alone, you will spot the lies before you are ever brainwashed into believing their false doctrines.  God bless and PLEASE listen when you have time.  The only changes is the names as he probably never knew who Donald J. Trump was.  

Genesis - Part Seventy-Eight

The Gospel of Luke

Revelation

God Bless and Share the Gospel of Salvation to the World!

First Corinthians 15:1-11

Death + Burial + Resurrection in body = SALVATION!

Pick up your cross, deny thyself and follow Jesus Christ everywhere you go!

HEBREW WORD OF THE DAY

Taxes....

Taxes are a royal pain.  Better obey the government or we will have to write 1,000 of sentences and possibly serve one from 1-10 years, lol.



God bless and much love in Christ Jesus.

SHALOM...and pay your taxes.  Don't wanna visit you in jail, lol

NEW BLOG INFORMATION

Jesus Christ sends us out into the world to share the Gospel of Salvation.  I still plan to do my blog and participate in my communities but I've been feeling as though I'm being called to another purpose as well. I want to go out and declare that Jesus Christ is Lord God and Savior.  He is the way, the truth and the life. I want one-on-one connections.  What we do here is awesome but are we reaching the lost or preaching to the choir?  We are to love, guide, lead, support, encourage, chastise and rebuke when needed and do all we can to keep our brothers and sisters from straying. These groups are excellent for that but is there more we should be doing?  The world is not coming to us, people.  Lukewarm and fake Christians who play the hypocrite may but the world is perishing and we're doing nothing.  We've been silent too long and hope that the sinners will somehow find their way into one of our buildings.  That's not how the Bible tells us to do it and I am choosing to obey the Word of God rather than man.

We are so far off-track scripturally that if Jesus Christ returns tonight, I'm terrified we'll be the Laodecian church.  It's time to roar and do what God says and not man.  Get out of your denominational boxes and back to the living Word of God and maybe, just maybe, God can accomplish His Will through us.  Do your blogs, websites, videos and communities.  You are doing a great job as for many, that's the only church we have.  I'm starting a home church, learning sign language, studying the Word and try to make a real difference to the lost but I won't compromise His Word...ever!

I can do some but I can't do it all.  If you're willing to help and let's talk to figure out real solutions, write me at WorthyistheLamb737@aol.com.  If so, be serious.  It won't be easy but the rewards are Heavenly.  I pray you email me.  My blog and participation days will be 3 times (or more) per week, esp. my blog but I can't keep up with all my communities.  I will do my best but I'm ready to get out and lead others to Jesus Christ.  Who is with me?