If anyone serves Me!

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Feb 11, 2012
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If anyone serves Me!

Joh 12:26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there also My servant shall be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
To serve Jesus is to follow Him, His great example of holiness, purity, and moral fortitude; they both go hand in hand, where serving Jesus constitutes the whole existence and being of the soul!
To serve Jesus, we must use all of our life to minister to Him, in all our thoughts, words and deeds, that should be brought forth in all purity, sincerity and love, where the greatest joy we can muster in our short lives is built upon our service to Him, and receiving the honor of almighty God!
There is nothing more satisfying in this godless world than offering up our whole life to God, by serving and ministering to Jesus, as we follow Him through the good and bad things that will occur throughout our life.
Now some teach that serving Jesus is not the gospel, and if we even try, we are out of the will of God, and taking matters into our own hands, but this couldn’t be farther from the truth!
Many also teach that if you do not belong to the organized church, and serving God through their various ministries, then you are in great sin and disobedience, because they see heart purity and obedience to Jesus as works and unable to be obtained this side of heaven. Where works unto God are good outer works such as serving at the church dinners, or cleaning the church parking lot, and giving tithes and teaching in various ministries.
Rom 14:18 For he who serves Christ in these things is well-pleasing to God, and approved by men.
But lo and behold, not many have any idea what it means to serve and obey these things of God from the heart, where the heart is made pure through the repentance process, now broken and made acceptable to God, cleansed and purged from all evil, guile, hate, envy, and lust, a ready vessel, walking the crucified life unto God in service and honor!
This is what true service to God is, a cleansed and purged mind, set free once and for all from the corrupting influence of sin, now walking in His glorious light, standing strong against the wiles of the devil, where everything you do, think and say is a sweet smelling aroma to God, coming from a heart devoted to Him, walking in newness of life, where the renewing of the mind has taken place, now totally focused on obeying the Lord from a heart made pure through faith!
But with this faithful service comes many hardships and trials promised by Jesus:
Joh 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Joh 15:20 Remember the word that I said to you; the servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept My saying, they will also keep yours.
A true servant knows His master, and obeys all His commands, thus becomes a true friend of Jesus Christ, a bondservant, no greater than Jesus, and will receive persecution and disdain, because Jesus wasn’t send to remove any of our trials for His name sake, but to give us strength to be a strong servant through them all, bold in His name and power, remembering what He and many of His true followers went through to endure to the end and receive their prize of eternal life!
Joh 14:15 If you love Me, keep My commandments.
Joh 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love, even as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that DO his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Jesus said “TO DO” but rebellious mankind says “I CANT” Jesus said “FOLLOW ME” mankind says “ITS TOO DIFFICULT” Jesus said “SERVE AND OBEY” mankind says “THIS IS NOT THE GOSPEL, OBEDIENCE ISNT NECESSARY OR A MANDATE AND SERVING CHRIST IS IMPOSSIBLE “!
1Jn 3:24 And he who keeps His commandment dwells in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit which He gave to us.
Tommy
 

Blain

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Well said Tommy:] I was actually moved by your post, But who have you been in contact with that believe such things? is that what most churches believe? it just isn't right, true servants of god WILL obey him because if we follow where he guides us we know that by obeying him regardless how scared we are we come to a point where amazing things happen before our eyes. His will is always better. If we begin our path he set before us and we stay on it we will most certainly NOT be protected from hardship but we may also see it as a blessing because we are suffering for him. To go to the deepest part of god and to become all he wants us to be we must be molded as clay, broken many times to be rebuilt even better
 

homwardbound

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And Tommy as this is brought abut in and through Faith in him, lets see a couple examples of Faith in God from the Old Testament and it was committed to them as righteousness Abraham brother was on and

And "works" are often misconstrued in the church to mean "works of the law," but in the scriptures the "works" that people did by faith had nothing to do with law. Rahab the harlot hiding the spies, Moses' parents hiding him when he was a baby, the parting of the Red Sea, etc, etc. All of those were things done in faith. Works were and always are aby-product of faith in Christ Jesus and God the Father of.
tHE COMMON MIS CONCEPTION OR MIS UNDERSTSANDING i HAVE FOUND IS fAITH IS DEAD WITHOUT WORKS.
Now this is true, for all the Saints did works,through their faith they did the works of God not man.
Works are involved in faith. Works are a by-product of Faith in Christ Jesus. Therefore this is correct but it has nothing to do with a person or persons workng with an ulterior motive that does not have LOVE God's type 1 Cor. 13