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Gotta Have Love

14 Jul

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 –  1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

We cannot forget the reason of why we are to do what we do.  It needs to be for the Love of the Lord that we do it.  God created, has stuck with and has a plan of redemption for man because He loves us.

The closer we get to the Lord and the further away we get away from our selfish wants in life the better God’s love can penetrate through us and onto others.

 
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Psalm 5:4-6

13 Jul

Psalm 5:4-6 – 4 You are not a God who takes pleasure in evil;
with you the wicked cannot dwell.

5 The arrogant cannot stand in your presence;
you hate all who do wrong.

6 You destroy those who tell lies;
bloodthirsty and deceitful men the LORD abhors.

We can’t forget that we serve a just God.  He is so much Love that people forget that He
is also righteous.

This is way we can’t take sin lightly.  We can’t just do it and think it’s no big deal.  We’re going to sin without trying enough already as fallen beings.

Hell is a terrible place and is going to be where the evil, wicked, arrogant, lying, bloodthirsty, and deceitful people who choose not to repent are going.

This world is full of people who have rejected God and have those qualities.  As children of God we
have to separate ourselves.  We can’t take sin lightly, our Lord hates it.

 
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The Spirit Of Truth

12 Jul

John 16:13-14 – 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14
He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.

How do you know if the Holy Spirit is speaking to you?  If it matches up to the Word of God.

What happens if this is not the case?  Chaos!

You can have one guy saying peanut butter is the revelation I was given.  Another says oh no you have
to eat pistachio nuts at 2:00 PM every day or you won’t get certain gifts.

Without the Word of God anyone, anyone can claim they are hearing from the Lord.  Oh there are a
lot of voices talking to people out there.  It’s not fake, they are hearing voices.

In the last days people will run after things that tickle their ears but the doctrine…..isn’t sound.

1 Timothy 4:1 –  1The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and
follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.

Romans 16:17 – 17 I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.

2+2=4 or 2+2=5

Ones right and ones not.  It’s not about perspective and they both aren’t correct.  One is the true equation that adds up to truth.  You have every right to believe the second one is correct and die with that belief, but your determination and sincerity doesn’t change the truth.

Don’t seek for what makes you satisfied or matches up well with you, seek truth.  Because as sinful
human beings we don’t naturally seek what’s right or truth.  We just seek what we want and if that isn’t
what God wants, eternity isn’t ultimately going to be what you want.

The Good News is the Good News.  Once you find the truth, it will set you free.  At that time you will find out that it is who you were supposed to be all along.

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth and never contradicts the Word of God.  Who is the Word of God?  Jesus!

 
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A Seed Needs To Die To Produce More Seed

11 Jul

John 12:24-25 – 24 I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed.  But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25 The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

If missionaries only cared about their lives and what they were going to do for themselves, people wouldn’t be finding out about Jesus.  Had the prophets, disciples, and Paul not answer the call, people wouldn’t have had the truth in the form of God’s Word today and the truth revealed.  These people and millions more have died to their own lives and as a result we have all had a chance to find the Lord and the truth.

Are some called and others not?

No.

We are all called.  We are all going to be held accountable on what we have or haven’t done.

Do we all have the same talents or are we suppose to use the same gifts?  Not at all.  You were uniquely and wonderfully made.  You have talents.  God wants you to use that talent for the kingdom.  The devil wants you not to use your talent on the Kingdom or for God, but for you to use it on yourself.

Die to yourself and produce a crop.  Ask and seek the Holy Spirit in what you are supposed to do today for the Kingdom of God.  Today is a new day.  If you earnestly and honestly seek the Lord, fruit will come forth.  Even when Paul went the opposite direction the Holy Spirit was sending him at times, the Lord still used his walk at those times because he was in the Word and seeking Truth.

 
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Quote – Martin Luther

10 Jul

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming
and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
Martin Luther

You would think that this quote was made within the last 40 years.  Yet even Martin Luther was seeing it in his day around 500 years ago.

God didn’t create man to be self sufficient.

John 15:5-6 – 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like
a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.

Seek the Lord everyday and remain in Him.

 
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Our God Is Mighty

08 Jul

Psalm 147:4-5 –4 He determines the number
of the stars and calls them each by name.
5 Great is our Lord and mighty in power;
his understanding has no limit.

Don’t forget how HUGE our God is and how small we are.  To have the Creator of the whole universe unconditionally love us and all we have to do is love Him, serve Him, accept His sacrifice and make Him Lord.

How Awesome!

 
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Godless Destroy With Their Mouth

07 Jul

Proverbs 11:9 – 9 With his mouth the godless destroys his neighbor,
but through knowledge the righteous escape.

Godless people destroy the people around them by leading them astray.  That’s happening around us in all forms today.  When I was younger I was allowed to watch mostly anything I wanted.  I was influenced by the fun party movies growing up.  They made it look attractive, fun, and exciting.  Most party movies don’t show the terrible consequences that follow shortly after.  They don’t show the dead end.

That’s the way it is with all sin that is being peddled by those who don’t know God or are adverse to Him.  God is very serious though when it comes to those that spew evil from their lips and dissuade others from coming to Him.

Matthew 18:5-7 – 5 “And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. 6 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

7 “Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!

Knowledge is what will help the righteous escape.  That knowledge is that of the Lord.  Your Bible, God’s Word, is where that knowledge is available.  It’s called the Living Word for a reason.  It isn’t just that it is alive for us today, but because it will allow others to live if we share it and can get them to read it.

With their mouth the godless destroy.  There are words of life and their are words of death.  Choose to study the Word everyday that you can and choose life.

 
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Galatians 5:1

06 Jul

Galatians 5:1 – 1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

Ironic isn’t it.  The devil and evil spirits every day try to convince you that doing your own sinful thing is what makes you free.

As it turns out, freedom comes in the way of accepting Christ and having our sins forgiven.

Satan doesn’t want you to know the real slavery comes from being controlled by your sinful nature.  If you don’t think you’re being controlled by these things try giving them up.

The bigger problem many times isn’t rather you can give them up, but the fact you don’t want to and they are contrary to what the Lord wants.

We need to change our “want to”.  We need to read the Word of God and change it to “what it needs to be.”

We were made by the Lord, so don’t think that those things we are supposed to be are that alien to us.  We just have to get close to God and Christ and then it sinks in.  There’s your missing link.  It isn’t some Neanderthal, but the Holy Spirit which is disconnected until we connect Him back in through Jesus.

Since we are all sinners, it doesn’t come naturally.  It comes by allowing the Holy Spirit in to dwell.

Free yourself from your sinful nature and discover your new eternal destiny with a loving Savior and Lord in Jesus Christ.

 
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God Makes The Rules, Yet Sinful Men Won’t Accept It

05 Jul

Deuteronomy 7:1-4 – 1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites
and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— 2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.  Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. 3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.

Almost everyone who doesn’t know God well really struggles with Him sending in the Israelites to destroy nations that are in the Land.

Why was he sending them in?  Because they were evil!

Why were they evil?  Because they were serving other Gods and doing detestable things in God’s sight.

What is evil?  It’s the opposite of what God has made to be good.  God is good.  The further away from
God, the more evil things get.

So who struggles with this?  I’ll tell you.  Arrogant people who will decide themselves what evil is.  They will make that decision and will not be told by anyone what good and evil are.  They believe to go in and
destroy a nation that isn’t serving God is evil.  Who are they to say?

Look what God says in the scripture above.  Do not intermarry with them for they will turn your sons away to serve other Gods.

Then what?  The Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.

WOW!  It looks like God cares and takes this pretty serious.  So those who completely disregard His Word or look at it as if it is evil, it doesn’t look like he will be a big fan of that come judgment time.

God makes the rules.  He God, we creation.  However, with the fall came the prideful arrogant gene.

Who wants to make amends with God?  I do.  I hope you do to.  You don’t want to ultimately be on the wrong side.  If you don’t know Him and want to receive His redemption, please go to the page on
the right hand side of the blog and it will walk you through how to do so.

 
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Quote – D. L. Moody

04 Jul

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian… and most of all, his family ought to know.
Dwight L. Moody

 

Let your light shine.

Luke 8:16 –  16 “No one lights a lamp and hides it in a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, he
puts it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.

Mark 8:38 – 38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

Our relationship with the Lord should be the most important thing in our lives.  The most important
thing in anyone’s life is revealed when you know them.

Your family is your first mission field and is your biggest responsibility when it comes time to standing in front of the Lord.

 
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