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“Do you love me more than these?”
More than sex. More than Envy. More than money. More than fame, profit, ownership, pride, humility, lawfulness, religion, …
“If you love me you will obey my commands.” want to stop sinning? Learn to love the Lord.
His Word is true God cannot lie if we love him we will obey his commands.
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You who think the Lord is an angry beast of a God:
You do so because you are His enemy. How does it make logical sense to consider your enemy in a good light? He desires you to become His friend. But your pride is holding you back.
Look how you curse His Holy name. Isn’t that to be expected? Won’t an enemy curse his foe? But that is not what God desires. He sits ready to forgive your unholy, godless, and utterly profane life.
Your enemy is beautiful, lovely, righteous, eternal, endlessly powerful, forgiving, and full of grace. This is what you hate. Don’t you think it a bit odd that you should hate what you adore in yourself and others?
Yet, we warn. Yet we speak on His behalf among men. Yet we invite as He has taught us to do. Yet we pour out our words and very lives to convince His enemies to enter His camp as friends. But who hears? Who understands? Who bends their wicked will so that they can peer out at what is Good?
8Taste and see that the Lord is good;
blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
9Fear the Lord, you his holy people,
for those who fear him lack nothing.
10The lions may grow weak and hungry,
but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
11Come, my children, listen to me;
I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
12Whoever of you loves life
and desires to see many good days,
13keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from telling lies.
14Turn from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it. (Psalm 34)
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Could I give my all I would still feel inept. All I have is what has been given. What should I give that belongs to me?
Ah, I will give my desire. But I will get hungry soon. Thirst will come to me. And what good is it if I die in my desire to give Him what is mine?
I will give Him my words. Evidently, I have plenty of those. But He already has The Word. And one was enough to satisfy the Living God.
How about I just give Him thanks. And put down any thought that I can offer Him something He doesn’t already own.
How about I give Him my ear. Let me strive to hear what the Lord has already said. Then, perhaps, I will be allowed to hear what He is ready to say to me now.
How about I give Him time in prayer. Yeah. That’s a good idea. I’ll make it my desire to sit before Him and lift up my soul to His Holy Throne. And while I’m there, how about giving Him the troubles of others.
What can I give Him? I can give Him my very life. From now to the end of my days in this place of testing. Isn’t that what He has already told us He desires?
If you were to go so far as to mimic the ways of the past, in which Christians were killed for what they believe, you would be no closer to success. For you would only have murdered the Lord’s people. You would not yet have touched the living God nor rendered him any harm.
And let us suppose that you confront the best scholar of Christ. We will allow that, by the standards of logic and science, a man might obliterate the testimony of Christ. But your victory is only among men. You have yet to appear before the living God and give the arguments you think are true.
I tell you a truth. We are all a product of the father of life. This father has provided his beautiful son that we may own hope to live. And those who hope do not hope only, but we have the testimony within us from he who cannot lie.
What I have told you here is true. And the point of this article is that your denial of the truth means nothing.
By His Grace
English: 4 days of Evangelism Training in Southern California provided by LivingWaters Ministry. Obeying the great commission of Jesus Christ. “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to everyone” Mark 16:15 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I will confess that, at first, it’s really difficult to summon the strength to speak publicly about Jesus. But I will also confess that once you start it is impossible to stop.
He is so full of what is good, and the world around us is so full of what is evil. To love him is to tell others. It is not so much that we are commanded to go to all the world, but we find ourselves compelled to go to all the world.
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You can only wear what we tell you. If you dress differently you will be punished.
You can only say what is appropriate. Inside those words is freedom.
We lay down the construct for social acceptance. Those who live within it are free to live. Those who do not live with in our social construct will find themselves persecuted, ridiculed, marginalized, and in the end, destroyed.
This is what the world says by all the things it expects from its citizens. The great majority obey. But there are a few who would rather die than submit.
I speak of those people who live under the construct of Eternity. They recognize that the body is nothing. It is as if the plastic wrap with which we keep our sandwiches. It is like the cloud which brings the rain. Once the rain has fallen, no one cares about the cloud.
Wake up and look about you. Are you really free to live your life? Or have you given them authority over everything you are?
To break free is extremely expensive. No man can do it alone, for no man can afford it. But when a man tries in the name of Christ Jesus he will find success. You can be free to live. You do not need to obey the world.
We: Live, Die, Face Judgment. Jesus or die twice.
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