are we after knowing God and doing His will?
https://youtu.be/V1pUGs3Fu8o “Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death in regard to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to…
https://youtu.be/V1pUGs3Fu8o “Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were put to death in regard to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to…
https://youtu.be/B88njOyMVHM “For whoever does the will of God, this is My brother, and sister, and mother. Mark 3:35 NASB2020 https://bible.com/bible/2692/mrk.3.35.NASB2020 God has come to earth looking like us and has…
https://youtu.be/bLze422Asbk “I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall…
https://youtu.be/_DHYwABeFIc “And he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear a message from His mouth.…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djaJ6b_TOh0 ““Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.” And He answered and said to them, “Why…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEjwgIZNteg “And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQsxLmkwAfk “Then He left the crowds and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_3mN2AX9g “Then He began to reprimand the cities in which most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent.” Matthew 11:20 NASB2020https://bible.com/bible/2692/mat.11.20.NASB2020 God has a purpose in doing…
1 John 2:2-6, 9-11, 15-17 records, “I write this, dear children, to guide you out of sin. But
if anyone does sin, we have a Priest-Friend in the presence of the Father: Jesus Christ, righteous Jesus. When He served as a sacrifice for our sins, He solved the sin problem for good—not only ours, but the whole world’s. Here’s how we can be sure that we know God in the right way: Keep His commandments. If someone claims, “I know Him well!” but doesn’t keep His commandments, he’s obviously a liar. His life doesn’t match his words. But the one who keeps God’s word is the person in whom we see God’s mature love. This is the only way to be sure we’re in God. Anyone who claims to be intimate with God ought to live the same kind of life Jesus lived. Anyone who claims to live in God’s light and hates a brother or sister is still in the dark. It’s the person who loves brother and sister who dwells in God’s light and doesn’t block the light from others. But whoever hates is still in the dark, stumbles around in the dark, doesn’t know which end is up, blinded by the darkness. Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.” MSG
Summing up these verses as a Christian definition: obey Jesus by living like Jesus who displayed God’s love by loving people and not the world. Simple not easy. Our constant wanting is hard, whether it is wanting pleasure, power, or possessions. People are hard, they irritate and aggravate us. Obedience is hard, dying to self, making others more important than myself, serving constantly, giving generously, forgiving unconditionally, overwhelming!
Hebrews 12.1-3 asks, Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the
way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls! MSG
The key to finishing well in this Christian life is to stay focused on the eternal life to come. They key to finishing well in this Christian life is not to focus on comfort, ease, and accomplishment in this world but to focus on receiving God’s praise, approval, and reward in the next world. Difficulty from serving God, persecution from men for acknowledging Jesus, suffering for conviction of God’s truth, are badges of honor, are means for making us like Jesus, and are proof that we are in Him and He is in us.
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