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Life gets complicated. And it’s more than easy to just coast right along, not seeing growing changes inside me, oblivious to unconfessed sin, and unaware of how I now live life.
What escapes your notice? Paul encourages us to look carefully at how we live. Examine yourselves, he says 2 Corinthians 13:5. It may be that I have offended God. And so it is important to repent and make adjustments… be a little more Christian every moment of the day.
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Am I…
Taking hate to Holy Heaven? Your ways? Your views?
Hate is “eternal-life-changing”
Passages all in one link: 1 John 4:20, Luke 6:27, 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:11.
Experiencing Gossip the other way around
The many hardhearted mind closed
Running with sin and calling it “just fine with me”
How do you treat Christian brothers and sisters who have fallen into sin?
Running in the dirty realm of “living in sin”
Deviating from Scripture. How do they do it – these Bethel prophets and pastors?…What NAR & Bethel teach
Excerpt from Taking hate to Holy Heaven? Your ways? Your views?
To paraphrase Jesus’ words in Luke 6:35-36, He said:
Love everyone agape love, even evil people… without demanding something in return for your love – for then you will show yourself to be children of God (“and you will be sons of the Most High“). Like the Father… love — be kind, be gracious, be good, be merciful (“responsive, compassionate, tender”) — even “to the ungrateful and the wicked”.
There are those who say they are Christian, but don’t live it. Are you liking Jesus – but not enough to conform to what He taught and lived? You a fraud?
The Old Testament tells us “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”. Have you begun yet?
See 4 Bible results for “beginning of wisdom”.
Proverbs 9:10 AMP
“The [reverent] fear of the Lord [that is, worshiping Him and regarding Him as truly awesome] is the beginning and the preeminent part of wisdom [its starting point and its essence],
And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding and spiritual insight.”
Reverence God
The old term for fear means reverence. Reverence for Christ is what gives us the ability to be submissive to other believers Ephesians 5:20-21. How’s your “reverence” quotient?
When we start having trouble getting along with others, it helps to examine our “reverence” quotient. Having deep reverence for Jesus helps us think of the interests of others more highly.
Ephesians 5:15-21 *verse 21
21 [e]and subject yourselves to one another in the [f – reverence for] fear of Christ.
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When we have a deep “reverence” for Jesus, then we can more easily think more highly of others Philippians 2:3 and “subject yourselves to one another“. The verse says we do the subjecting of ourselves to another — in the reverence of Christ. Makes sense to me.
Our devotion to, and reverence for Jesus affects how we treat others. If our attitude toward Jesus is lackadaisical MerWeb – lacking life, spirit, or zest – languid, or deficient, then we lack the attitude of an obedient follower of Jesus.
Reverence for others think more highly of another
The result is lack of love for others. Are you able to think more highly of another – more than you think of yourself?
Found in Luke, the attitude of the righteous is what John the Baptist, the “forerunner”, had:
“seek and submit to the will of God“
Agape love
If we habitually do this with God, we can learn how to habitually do this with others… show more agape love to others.
Luke 1:17 “It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous [which is to seek and submit to the will of God]—in order to make ready a people [perfectly] prepared [spiritually and morally] for the Lord.”
Philippians 2:3
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit
[through factional motives, or strife],
but with [an attitude of] humility
[being neither arrogant nor self-righteous],
regard others as more important than yourselves.
FOR MORE:
Our devotion to Jesus affects how we treat others. Got the Attitude?
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Got the Attitude? Excerpt: Have you learned the attitude? The attitude of the righteous? Luke 1:17 tells us what that is.
Is your life fruit Agape Love?
What escapes your notice? Excerpt: In your opinions, harangues, commenting, social media personas MerWeb — what escapes your notice? Well, you didn’t notice, did you?! Ha! Have you been missing the realities of God present in this world?
The world of illusion of some churchgoers
See: Realities God Has Established
Positive life choices:
What God asks of us in the Bible
Rely on the Spirit of God in you
Responding to insults and losses
Being Jesus “With Skin On” for Children
I “set my mind”: See references in one link or singly: Colossians 3:2, Colossians 3:15, 1 Peter 1:15, Mark 8:33, Romans 6:13.
Being pleasing Excerpt: Little by little I have been matching-up the desires of my heart — to be the desires of what God desires. My worldview is more and more matching-up to God’s view.
See: 2 Corinthians 5:6-10
Think like God Almighty Excerpt: Pushed to conform
With so much evil growing, it is getting more and more difficult to think like God thinks. In these End Days, or, as Jesus put it 1
in Matthew 24:14 “…and then the end“. We are being pushed to conform our thinking to the way of the world.
Being faithful little by little
Act in love towards all peoples
Doing one act of love at a time
Got social justice flowing – from your insides?
Do Justice, Be Kind, and Walk Humbly with your God
Rely on the Spirit of God in you
God forgives all wrongdoings of all repentant sinners, no exception
1 John 4:20, Luke 6:27, 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:11
20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates (works against) his [Christian] brother he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
27 “But I say to you who hear [Me and pay attention to My words]: Love [that is, unselfishly seek the best or higher good for] your enemies, [make it a practice to] do good to those who hate you,
9 The one who says he is in the Light [in consistent fellowship with Christ] and yet [a]habitually hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is in the darkness until now.
11 But the one who habitually hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is in [spiritual] darkness and is walking in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
Reverence God
Ephesians 5:15-21 *verse 21
21 [e]and subject yourselves to one another in the [f – reverence for] fear of Christ.
Fearing God with awe-filled reverence
How a Christian lives life…how we live it
Examine yourselves 2 Corinthians 13:5
It may be that I have offended God...And so it is important to repent
Forgive me oh Lord for I know I have sinned
Being faithful little by little…make adjustments
Be a little more Christian…every moment of the day.
The Dangers of Consorting with Error Excerpt: Consorting with Error
Sometimes discernment is tough for the professing Christian. Wanting to stay faithful to Jesus is a rough row to hoe. Sometimes life sucks. And tempting siren songs are rife (1 John 5:19).
Faithlessness often starts
real simple:
“consorting” with the enemy.
It’s chancy to consort, to pal around with bad company. It’s a real battle – to be “in the world but not of the world”.
Jesus ate with those who were not following God. True.
But He went in with strength, and His eyes wide open. He knew their lifestyle was antithetical MirWebster to His teachings. He was a special “ambassador”, so to speak – ready for anything. We are to be that, also (2 Corinthians 5:20). Right?
Hoeing your row…a rough row to hoe
Am I…
Taking hate to Holy Heaven? Your ways? Your views? Excerpt: His disciple John: in 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:11
verse 9 The one who says he is in the Light [in consistent fellowship with Christ] and yet [a]habitually hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is in the darkness until now.
verse 11 But the one who habitually hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is in [spiritual] darkness and is walking in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
– In one link: 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:11
Hate is “eternal-life-changing”
Passages all in one link: 1 John 4:20, Luke 6:27, 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:11.
How do you treat Christian brothers and sisters who have fallen into sin?
Running in the dirty realm of “living in sin”
Why we should fear God Almighty
Six different types of Wrath from God
Your angels in Heaven are looking out for you. Fear not.
Footnotes
- Matthew 24:14 “This good news of the kingdom the gospel will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end of the age will come.”
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