Man: The Dwelling Place of God – Chapter 1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3242797/posts
The Call of Christ – Chapter 2
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3244492/posts
What We Think of Ourselves is Important – Chapter 3
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3246397/posts
The Once-born and the Twice-born - Chapter 4
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3247452/posts
On the Origin and Nature of Things-Chapter 5
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3250352/posts
Why People Find the Bible Difficult - Chapter 6
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3253131/posts
Faith: The Misunderstood Doctrine - Chapter 7
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3255583/posts
This is especially true for Libtards who it seems hate themselves as well as others.
Love can never be demanded or commanded, or else it’s not true love.
Jesus was setting the law, the bar so high just as he said “ For I tell you, except your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and pharasies, in no case shall ye enter into the kingdom of heaven “ Matthew 5:20
Was it not one of the disiples who said that who can be saved then ?
Jesus Christ was setting the law, or standard so high that it IS impossible for mere mortal man to abtain by his own efforts.
A man must be born again not of flesh and blood, but by the holy spirit.
Let the bible explain, or interpret the bible.
I John 4: 9, 10
By this the Love OF God was manifested in us, that God sent his only begotten son into the world so that we might live through him.
In this is Love, Not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Let us focus on the love OF God towards us, and our love for him and others will happen naturally.
Man can not, man can not in his own abilities or strength.
The old saying a man is as good as his word is true but only in the most stable of men and women.
For instance a person will even surprise them selves the things they may say when needled by a liberal socialist.
Mathew 21
28 But what think you? A certain man had two sons; and coming to the first, he said: Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
29 And he answering, said: I will not. But afterwards, being moved with repentance, he went.
30 And coming to the other, he said in like manner. And he answering, said: I go, Sir; and he went not.
31 Which of the two did the father’s will? They say to him: The first. Jesus saith to them: Amen I say to you, that the publicans and the harlots shall go into the kingdom of God before you.
The liberal socialists will whine trying to force some one else to feed the children but they would not give any one the sweat from their brow to keep them from dying of thirst.
1John 3
18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Mathew 22
6 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
The things Jesus spoke of concerning love is in doing.
as in do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Luke 6
31 And as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them in like manner.
1John 3
17 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
James 2
15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
The love of God is not in saying but in doing, the things Jesus said is the will of God.
“The problem is not a light one.”
Truth, An old British preacher said, “We don’t just sit there like a blob, waiting for God to HAPPEN on us!” But something in us longs for inspiration. I don’t want to feel like I’m driving my own ship. Don’t many unbelievers WILL themselves into lives of great success, morally and financially? Many atheists are nicer than Christians!
Well amen, and so what! God knows those who are His, and He is doing things in us that are invisible to the carnal eye. We want to walk worthy, yet come up short on this end. Jesus intercedes for us in a FOREVER capacity, our very own “priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek”. Scripture is filled with these mind-boggling truths about the superiority of Christ and what that means for us as we battle against the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places: we have an ADVOCATE WITH THE FATHER!
We MUST know and believe that Jesus Christ has satisfied our sin debt once for all! Why? Because it is the Truth. It is this essential truth that Satan and his children attack at every turn. If the evil one cannot touch our salvation—and he cannot; those saying otherwise are calling God a liar!—he most certainly will try to turn us in on ourselves when we sin and drive us away from the STEADFAST LOVE OF THE LORD. Simple, basic, devastating.
Dead religion is on standby, ready to tell you what you must now DO to get back in God’s favor. Sorry, it’s been DONE by ANOTHER. Our work is to “believe in the one He has sent”. Think it’s work to operate in unbelief towards God and put confidence in the flesh? No no no, that’s going with the flow of all mankind. Scripture shows us clearly how awesome is Jesus! Our faith/belief finds rest in glorying in Him, knowing rest in HIS righteousness that is given to us as a free gift.
With this firm foundation we can, with Paul, “struggle with all His energy that he powerfully works within (us)”!