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Are we committed to serve the Lord or are we free to serve Him? If by the grace of God, we move and have our being, what needs be of the commitments to be made and to be bound in by His servants?
Do consider..... in how we speak of plans for tomorrow....
James 4: 13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
If we are committed to doing something that prevents us from partaking of another activity... how scarey is this response to be coming from the believers when He beckons us to come up hither to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb?
Luke 14:15And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. 16Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: 17And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. 18And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. 19And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. 20And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. 21So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. 22And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. 23And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.
He says that it will happen. Isn't a commitment to do something a boast towards the glory of that believer in what he or she intends to do... no matter what?
"I can't leave now for I am committed to doing this."
So the question is... do we serve the Lord Jesus Christ or do we serve our commitments to Him? Who or which is Lord/lord over us?
Galatians 5:1Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Philippians 3: 13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
We can't heed that high calling nor be free to forget what is behind us if we believe we are committed to doing something for the Lord.
Acts 17: 28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
So as we are free in serving the Lord, we stand ready by Him to leave when He calls for we are not committed to doing anything for Him for it is by the grace of God that we serve the Lord.
Bottomline: the Lord will finish His work, and that is why we can leave for the supper... or are you able to?
Ask the Lord to set you free from your religious commitment to Him and live by faith in the Son of God to serve Him... for when He calls, at that time, we serve Him by leaving everything behind. Amen.
Do consider..... in how we speak of plans for tomorrow....
James 4: 13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
If we are committed to doing something that prevents us from partaking of another activity... how scarey is this response to be coming from the believers when He beckons us to come up hither to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb?
Luke 14:15And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. 16Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: 17And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. 18And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. 19And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. 20And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. 21So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. 22And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. 23And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.
He says that it will happen. Isn't a commitment to do something a boast towards the glory of that believer in what he or she intends to do... no matter what?
"I can't leave now for I am committed to doing this."
So the question is... do we serve the Lord Jesus Christ or do we serve our commitments to Him? Who or which is Lord/lord over us?
Galatians 5:1Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Philippians 3: 13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
We can't heed that high calling nor be free to forget what is behind us if we believe we are committed to doing something for the Lord.
Acts 17: 28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
So as we are free in serving the Lord, we stand ready by Him to leave when He calls for we are not committed to doing anything for Him for it is by the grace of God that we serve the Lord.
Bottomline: the Lord will finish His work, and that is why we can leave for the supper... or are you able to?
Ask the Lord to set you free from your religious commitment to Him and live by faith in the Son of God to serve Him... for when He calls, at that time, we serve Him by leaving everything behind. Amen.
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