Monday, October 7, 2013
PHILIPPIANS 4:19 GOD MEETS OUR NEEDS IN CHRIST JESUS
GOD IS A GOD OF PRINCPLE, NOT PEOPLE. GOD HAS PROVIDED FOR ALL OUR NEEDS THROUGH THE WRITTEN WORD OF CHRIST. GOD'S WORD SAYS I WILL MEET ALL YOUR NEEDS ACCORDING TO GOD'S GLORIOUS RICHES IN CHRIST JESUS. AMEN!
PHILIPPIANS 3:8b-9 THAT I MAY GAIN CHRIST
That I may gain CHRIST and be found in CHRIST, not having a RIGHTEOUSNESS of my own that comes from the LAW, but that which is through FAITH in CHRIST- the RIGHTEOUSNESS that comes from GOD and is by FAITH. I am RIGHTEOUS in CHRIST through GOD. AMEN!
Thursday, October 3, 2013
ROMANS 13:8-14 LOVE FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS NEAR
LET NO DEBT REMAIN OUTSTANDING, EXCEPT THE CONTINUING DEBT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER, FOR HE WHO LOVES HIS FELLOWMAN HAS FULFILLED THE LAW. THE COMMANDMENTS, "DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," "DO NOT MURDER," "DO NOT STEAL," "DO NOT COVET," AND WHATEVER OTHER COMMANDMENTS THERE MAY BE, ARE SUMMED UP IN THIS ONE RULE: "LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF" (YOU MUST LOVE YOURSELF). LOVE DOES NO HARM TO ITS NEIGHBOR. THERFORE LOVE IS THE FULFILLMENT OF THE LAW.
AND DO THIS, UNDERSTANDING THE PRESENT TIME. THE HOUR HAS COME FOR YOU TO WAKE UP FROM YOUR SLUMBER, BECAUSE OUR SALVATION IS NEARER NOW THAN WE FIRST BELIVED. THE NIGHT IS NEARLY OVER; THE DAY IS ALMOST HERE. SO LET US PUT ASIDE THE DEEDS OF DARKNESS, (SINS) AND PUT ON THE ARMOR OF LIGHT (OBEDIENCE TO GOD'S WORD). LET US BEHAVE DECENTLY, AS IN THE DAYTIME, NOT IN ORGIES AND DRUNKENNESS, NOT IN SEXUAL IMMORALITY AND DEBAUCHERY, NOT IN DISSENSION AND JELOUSY. RATHER, CLOTHE YOURSELVES WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,(EPH 6:13-18) AND DO NOT THINK ABOUT HOW TO GRATIFY THE DESIRES OF THE SINFUL NATURE (THE OUTTER MAN). AMEN!
AND DO THIS, UNDERSTANDING THE PRESENT TIME. THE HOUR HAS COME FOR YOU TO WAKE UP FROM YOUR SLUMBER, BECAUSE OUR SALVATION IS NEARER NOW THAN WE FIRST BELIVED. THE NIGHT IS NEARLY OVER; THE DAY IS ALMOST HERE. SO LET US PUT ASIDE THE DEEDS OF DARKNESS, (SINS) AND PUT ON THE ARMOR OF LIGHT (OBEDIENCE TO GOD'S WORD). LET US BEHAVE DECENTLY, AS IN THE DAYTIME, NOT IN ORGIES AND DRUNKENNESS, NOT IN SEXUAL IMMORALITY AND DEBAUCHERY, NOT IN DISSENSION AND JELOUSY. RATHER, CLOTHE YOURSELVES WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,(EPH 6:13-18) AND DO NOT THINK ABOUT HOW TO GRATIFY THE DESIRES OF THE SINFUL NATURE (THE OUTTER MAN). AMEN!
ROMANS 12:9-21 HOW I LIVE LOVE
LOVE MUST BE SINCERE. HATE WHAT IS EVIL; CLING TO WHAT IS GOOD (THERE IS ONLY GOOD OR EVIL). BE DEVOTED TO ONE ANTHOR IN BROTHERLY LOVE. HONOR ONE ANOTHER ABOVE YOURSELVES. NEVER BE LACKING IN ZEAL, BUT KEEP YOUR SPIRITUAL FERVOR, SERVING THE LORD. BE JOYFUL IN HOPE, PATIENT IN AFFLICTION, FAITHFUL IN PRAYER. SHARE WITH GOD'S PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED. PRATICE HOSPITALITY.(1 PET 4:9-10)
BLESS THOSE WHO PERSECUTE YOU; BLESS AND DO NOT CURSE. REJOICE WITH THOSE WHO REJOICE; MOURN WITH THOSE WHO MOURN. LIVE IN HARMONY WITH ONE ANOTHER. DO NOT BE PROUD, BUT BE WILLING TO ASSOCIATE WITH PEOPLE OF LOW POSITION. DO NOT BE CONCEITED.
DO NOT REPAY ANYONE EVIL FOR EVIL. BE CAREFUL TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT IN THE EYES OF EVERBODY. IF IT IS POSSIBLE, AS FAR AS IT DEPENDS ON YOU, LIVE AT PEACE WITH EVERYONE. DO NOT TAKE REVENGE, MY FRIENDS, BUT LEAVE ROOM FOR GOD'S WRATH, FOR IT IS WRITTEN: "IT IS MINE TO AVENGE; I WILL REPAY," SAYS THE LORD. ON THE CONTRARY: "IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, FEED HIM; IF HE IS THIRSTY, GIVE HIM SOMETHING TO DRINK. IN DOING THIS, YOU WILL HEAP BURNING COALS ON HIS HEAD."
DO NOT BE OVERCOME BY EVIL, BUT OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD. AMEN!
BLESS THOSE WHO PERSECUTE YOU; BLESS AND DO NOT CURSE. REJOICE WITH THOSE WHO REJOICE; MOURN WITH THOSE WHO MOURN. LIVE IN HARMONY WITH ONE ANOTHER. DO NOT BE PROUD, BUT BE WILLING TO ASSOCIATE WITH PEOPLE OF LOW POSITION. DO NOT BE CONCEITED.
DO NOT REPAY ANYONE EVIL FOR EVIL. BE CAREFUL TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT IN THE EYES OF EVERBODY. IF IT IS POSSIBLE, AS FAR AS IT DEPENDS ON YOU, LIVE AT PEACE WITH EVERYONE. DO NOT TAKE REVENGE, MY FRIENDS, BUT LEAVE ROOM FOR GOD'S WRATH, FOR IT IS WRITTEN: "IT IS MINE TO AVENGE; I WILL REPAY," SAYS THE LORD. ON THE CONTRARY: "IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, FEED HIM; IF HE IS THIRSTY, GIVE HIM SOMETHING TO DRINK. IN DOING THIS, YOU WILL HEAP BURNING COALS ON HIS HEAD."
DO NOT BE OVERCOME BY EVIL, BUT OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD. AMEN!
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
ROMANS 10:17 FAITH COMES FROM HEARING THE MESSAGE
Consequently, FAITH comes from HEARING the MESSAGE, and the MESSAGE is HEARD through the WORD of CHRIST JESUS. So when I HEAR or READ the WORD I LISTEN for the SPIRIT to understand the MESSAGE. As I repeat this process daily MY FAITH INCREASES and MY RELATIONSHIP with GOD GROWS! AMEN!
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
ROMANS 7:21-8:17 LIFE THROUGH THE SPIRIT
So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being (MY spirit) I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of SIN at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? THANKS BE TO GOD- through JESUS CHRIST our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the SINFUL NATURE (THE FLESH) a slave to the law of SIN. THEREFORE, there is no CODEMNATION for those who are in CHRIST JESUS, because through CHRIST JESUS the law of the SPIRIT OF LIFE (THE HOLY SPIRIT) set me free from the law of SIN and DEATH. For what the LAW WAS POWERLESS to do in that it was WEAKEN by the SINFUL NATURE (THE FLESH), GOD did by sending his own SON (JESUS) in the likeness of SINFUL MAN (THE FLESH) to be a SIN OFFERING. And so GOD CONDEMED SIN in SINFUL MAN (THE FLESH), in order that the RIGHTEOUS REQUIREMENTS of the law might fully met in us, who do not LIVE according to the SINFUL NATURE (THE FLESH) but according to the SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT).
Those who LIVE according to the SINFUL NATURE (THE FLESH) have their MINDS set on what that nature DESIRES (Gal.3:19-21); but those who LIVE in accordance with the SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT) have their MINDS set on what the SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT) DESIRES (Gal.3:22-23). The MIND of SINFUL MAN (FLESH) is DEATH, but the MIND CONTROLLED by the SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT) is LIFE and PEACE; the SINFUL MIND(the MIND set on the FLESH) is HOSTILE to GOD. It does not SUBMIT to GOD'S LAW, nor can it do so. Those CONTROLLED by the SINFUL NATURE (THE FLESH) cannot please GOD.
You however are CONTROLLED not by the SINFUL NATURE (THE FLESH) but by the SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT), if the SPIRIT OF GOD (THE HOLY SPIRIT) LIVES in you. And if anyone does not have the SPIRIT OF CHRIST, he does not belong to CHRIST JESUS. But if CHRIST JESUS is in you, your BODY (THE FLESH) is DEAD because of SIN, yet your spirit (THE INNER MAN) is alive because of RIGHTEOUSNESS (RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD). And if the SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT) of GOD who RAISED JESUS CHRIST from the DEAD is LIVING in you, GOD who RAISED JESUS CHRIST from the DEAD will also give LIFE to your MORTAL BODIES (THE FLESH) THROUGH GOD's SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT), WHO LIVES IN YOU!
THEREFORE, BROTHERS, we have an OBLIGATION- but it is not to the SINFUL NATURE (THE FLESH), to LIVE according to it. For if you LIVE according to the SINFUL NATURE, you will DIE; but if by the SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT) you put to DEATH the MISDEEDS (SINS) of the BODY (THE FLESH), you will LIVE, because those who are led by the SPIRIT OF GOD (THE HOLY SPIRIT) are SONS of GOD. For you did not RECIEVE a spirit (THE INNER MAN) that makes you a SLAVE again to FEAR, but you RECIEVED the SPIRIT OF SONSHIP (ADOPTION). And by HIM (THE HOLY SPIRIT) WE CRY," ABBA, FATHER". The SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT) HIMSELF testifies with OUR spirit (THE INNER MAN) that we are GOD'S CHILDREN. Now if we are CHILDREN, then we are heirs- heirs of GOD and co-heirs with JESUS CHRIST, if indeed we share in HIS (CHRIST) SUFFERINGS (HE SUFFERED for our SINS) in order that we may also share in HIS (CHRIST) GLORY (ETERNAL LIFE). AMEN!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the SINFUL NATURE (THE FLESH) a slave to the law of SIN. THEREFORE, there is no CODEMNATION for those who are in CHRIST JESUS, because through CHRIST JESUS the law of the SPIRIT OF LIFE (THE HOLY SPIRIT) set me free from the law of SIN and DEATH. For what the LAW WAS POWERLESS to do in that it was WEAKEN by the SINFUL NATURE (THE FLESH), GOD did by sending his own SON (JESUS) in the likeness of SINFUL MAN (THE FLESH) to be a SIN OFFERING. And so GOD CONDEMED SIN in SINFUL MAN (THE FLESH), in order that the RIGHTEOUS REQUIREMENTS of the law might fully met in us, who do not LIVE according to the SINFUL NATURE (THE FLESH) but according to the SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT).
Those who LIVE according to the SINFUL NATURE (THE FLESH) have their MINDS set on what that nature DESIRES (Gal.3:19-21); but those who LIVE in accordance with the SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT) have their MINDS set on what the SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT) DESIRES (Gal.3:22-23). The MIND of SINFUL MAN (FLESH) is DEATH, but the MIND CONTROLLED by the SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT) is LIFE and PEACE; the SINFUL MIND(the MIND set on the FLESH) is HOSTILE to GOD. It does not SUBMIT to GOD'S LAW, nor can it do so. Those CONTROLLED by the SINFUL NATURE (THE FLESH) cannot please GOD.
You however are CONTROLLED not by the SINFUL NATURE (THE FLESH) but by the SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT), if the SPIRIT OF GOD (THE HOLY SPIRIT) LIVES in you. And if anyone does not have the SPIRIT OF CHRIST, he does not belong to CHRIST JESUS. But if CHRIST JESUS is in you, your BODY (THE FLESH) is DEAD because of SIN, yet your spirit (THE INNER MAN) is alive because of RIGHTEOUSNESS (RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD). And if the SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT) of GOD who RAISED JESUS CHRIST from the DEAD is LIVING in you, GOD who RAISED JESUS CHRIST from the DEAD will also give LIFE to your MORTAL BODIES (THE FLESH) THROUGH GOD's SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT), WHO LIVES IN YOU!
THEREFORE, BROTHERS, we have an OBLIGATION- but it is not to the SINFUL NATURE (THE FLESH), to LIVE according to it. For if you LIVE according to the SINFUL NATURE, you will DIE; but if by the SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT) you put to DEATH the MISDEEDS (SINS) of the BODY (THE FLESH), you will LIVE, because those who are led by the SPIRIT OF GOD (THE HOLY SPIRIT) are SONS of GOD. For you did not RECIEVE a spirit (THE INNER MAN) that makes you a SLAVE again to FEAR, but you RECIEVED the SPIRIT OF SONSHIP (ADOPTION). And by HIM (THE HOLY SPIRIT) WE CRY," ABBA, FATHER". The SPIRIT (THE HOLY SPIRIT) HIMSELF testifies with OUR spirit (THE INNER MAN) that we are GOD'S CHILDREN. Now if we are CHILDREN, then we are heirs- heirs of GOD and co-heirs with JESUS CHRIST, if indeed we share in HIS (CHRIST) SUFFERINGS (HE SUFFERED for our SINS) in order that we may also share in HIS (CHRIST) GLORY (ETERNAL LIFE). AMEN!
Romans 3:21-22 RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH FAITH
Now a RIGHTEOUSNESS from God,(right standing with god) apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who BELIEVE! ( I BELIVE, I am RIGHTEOUS in JESUS CHRIST!) AMEN!
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