Receiving Jesus Christ as Your Lord and Savior
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…but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings… —1 Peter 4:13
If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others. Because of this process, you will never be surprised by what comes your way. You say, “Oh, I can’t deal with that person.” Why can’t you? God gave you sufficient opportunities to learn from Him about that problem; but you turned away, not heeding the lesson, because it seemed foolish to spend your time that way.
The sufferings of Christ were not those of ordinary people. He suffered “according to the will of God” (1 Peter 4:19), having a different point of view of suffering from ours. It is only through our relationship with Jesus Christ that we can understand what God is after in His dealings with us. When it comes to suffering, it is part of our Christian culture to want to know God’s purpose beforehand. In the history of the Christian church, the tendency has been to avoid being identified with the sufferings of Jesus Christ. People have sought to carry out God’s orders through a shortcut of their own. God’s way is always the way of suffering— the way of the “long road home.”
Are we partakers of Christ’s sufferings? Are we prepared for God to stamp out our personal ambitions? Are we prepared for God to destroy our individual decisions by supernaturally transforming them? It will mean not knowing why God is taking us that way, because knowing would make us spiritually proud. We never realize at the time what God is putting us through— we go through it more or less without understanding. Then suddenly we come to a place of enlightenment, and realize— “God has strengthened me and I didn’t even know it
If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others. Because of this process, you will never be surprised by what comes your way. You say, “Oh, I can’t deal with that person.” Why can’t you? God gave you sufficient opportunities to learn from Him about that problem; but you turned away, not heeding the lesson, because it seemed foolish to spend your time that way.
The sufferings of Christ were not those of ordinary people. He suffered “according to the will of God” (1 Peter 4:19), having a different point of view of suffering from ours. It is only through our relationship with Jesus Christ that we can understand what God is after in His dealings with us. When it comes to suffering, it is part of our Christian culture to want to know God’s purpose beforehand. In the history of the Christian church, the tendency has been to avoid being identified with the sufferings of Jesus Christ. People have sought to carry out God’s orders through a shortcut of their own. God’s way is always the way of suffering— the way of the “long road home.”
Are we partakers of Christ’s sufferings? Are we prepared for God to stamp out our personal ambitions? Are we prepared for God to destroy our individual decisions by supernaturally transforming them? It will mean not knowing why God is taking us that way, because knowing would make us spiritually proud. We never realize at the time what God is putting us through— we go through it more or less without understanding. Then suddenly we come to a place of enlightenment, and realize— “God has strengthened me and I didn’t even know it
Wisdom From Oswald Chambers
We begin our Christian life by believing what we are told to believe, then we have to go on to so assimilate our beliefs that they work out in a way that redounds to the glory of God. The danger is in multiplying the acceptation of beliefs we do not make our own.
We begin our Christian life by believing what we are told to believe, then we have to go on to so assimilate our beliefs that they work out in a way that redounds to the glory of God. The danger is in multiplying the acceptation of beliefs we do not make our own.
Wisdom From Jesus Christ
There are 2 paths.
One to hell.
One to God.
You can only be on 1 of them.
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wwjd_kilden
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The Pharisees and scribes tried that. Didn't work
We are saved by faith. Actions should follow to honor God, but they don't save us
You are wasting your time if you are not obeying all of the commandments, all of the time.
Perfection is the standard.
No deviation, no equivocation.
What you and others who purport to 'obey the commandments of Jesus Christ' are doing is following commandments of your own creation, not the commandments that Christ preached.
To actually obey Christ is to say that if your eye offends, you cut out your eye, or if your hand offends, you cut off your hand. That's what Christ preached.
Jesus actually raised the bar on the Law - preaching its spirituality - not only doing the sin condemns you, but even thinking about doing the sin or thinking the thoughts that lead to sin (whether you actually do the deeds or not) condemn you.
So to achieve what you are proposing here is an impossibility. No one before you has done it; no one after you will ever do it. If we could, we wouldn't need Christ:
21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” (from Gal. 2)
You're sending yourself and others who may listen to you on a fool's errand.
-JGIG
Zero Scriptures to back up that statement.
Not one.
Obey what?
We are told this internally in John's gospel:
28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” (from Jn. 6)
34 "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." (from Jn. 13)
29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” (from Jn. 6)
34 "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." (from Jn. 13)
Again, John defines those commandments internally in his letter:
23 And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. 24 Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us. (from 1 Jn. 3)
It really is that simple
.-JGIG
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ember
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No I am not. All my time belongs to Jesus.
After all it was He who rescued me from hell
and resurrected me from the dead.
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Nothing is impossible to me. But there again. I am not you.
The reason you can't is because you do not have the Spirit to do so.
How would you know anything about them? You can't even say about you.
Besides they had not the Spirit of God.
I am going to make a very bold statement to all of you.
NONE OF YOU
And I say none of you...
Yes this means even you.
None of your righteousness exceeds the righteousness
of the pharisee's and Sadducee's.
EVEN IN ALL THEIR HYPOCRISY
They were closer to God and sinned less than any of you.
NONE OF YOU
And I say none of you...
Yes this means even you.
None of your righteousness exceeds the righteousness
of the pharisee's and Sadducee's.
EVEN IN ALL THEIR HYPOCRISY
They were closer to God and sinned less than any of you.
T
Tintin
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