What does the above tell me? That still this believer has not seen Christ.
There is no question of us being good enough. If you see the cross, and
Jesus and how He works, and He has shown you how little one does in comparison,
our works are merely an offering of praise.
This is not a doctrine, or belief system, it is a reality in our hearts.
It is about sorrow, pain, suffering, loss, failure, repentance, confession and faith.
Now contributors share to the limit of their own walk. Paul put it like this
Do everything without complaining or arguing,
so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe
as you hold out the word of life--in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing.
Philippians 2:14-15
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:10-14
We are working to walk in the way of Jesus, to follow and obey, to have the life
He has planted within and to run with abandon.
Paul and Silas in prison, what did they do?
They brought them before the magistrates and said, "These men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar
by advocating customs unlawful for us Romans to accept or practice."
The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten.
After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully.
Upon receiving such orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
Acts 16:20-25
This is the power of Gods Holy Spirit in men of power and resurrection. Humble vessels, accepting
the suffering given to them by man, and lifting up Gods Holy name in praise and thanks, Praise the Lord.
There is no question of us being good enough. If you see the cross, and
Jesus and how He works, and He has shown you how little one does in comparison,
our works are merely an offering of praise.
This is not a doctrine, or belief system, it is a reality in our hearts.
It is about sorrow, pain, suffering, loss, failure, repentance, confession and faith.
Now contributors share to the limit of their own walk. Paul put it like this
Do everything without complaining or arguing,
so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe
as you hold out the word of life--in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing.
Philippians 2:14-15
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:10-14
We are working to walk in the way of Jesus, to follow and obey, to have the life
He has planted within and to run with abandon.
Paul and Silas in prison, what did they do?
They brought them before the magistrates and said, "These men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar
by advocating customs unlawful for us Romans to accept or practice."
The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten.
After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully.
Upon receiving such orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
Acts 16:20-25
This is the power of Gods Holy Spirit in men of power and resurrection. Humble vessels, accepting
the suffering given to them by man, and lifting up Gods Holy name in praise and thanks, Praise the Lord.
