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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God
« Last post by larry on March 24, 2024, 07:12:52 AM »
The glory of God will transform sinners into saints if they will behold it on a regular basis. It is a Bible promise.

"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."  2 Cor. 3:18.


What is the glory of God? It is His character.

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The Life of Our Savior / Re: "Living Water"
« Last post by larry on February 12, 2024, 07:36:26 AM »
In many churches there is an effort made to get church members involved in evangelism. Often that effort fails. Why? Because you cannot give to others what you do not have. Living Water cannot be given by the church board or the pastor. It is a free gift which can only be gotten when one surrenders the whole heart to Jesus. Then is given this Living Water. Then the Holy Spirit constrains those who are vitally connected to Jesus to share with others the love of God. The Living Water naturally flows from truly converted Christian to those seeking truth.
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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God
« Last post by Sean James on February 10, 2024, 05:49:13 AM »
Happy Sabbath!!

Do you remember? If you reflect on how God has treated you your whole life, it can really melt you. His goodness leads us to repentance (Romans 2:4). His love will break down the barriers that were keeping you from a complete surrender, and no matter how far you have fallen, or what you have done, there is hope for you in Jesus! Peter remembered the love of Christ after his disgraceful denial, and he was reconverted after that experience, because he remembered the love of Christ and chose to surrender all to Him. May we, too, never forget that infinite, unfathomable love!

A tide of memories rushed over him. The Saviour's tender mercy, His kindness and long-suffering, His gentleness and patience toward His erring disciples,—all was remembered. He recalled the caution, “Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.” Luke 22:31, 32. He reflected with horror upon his own ingratitude, his falsehood, his perjury. Once more he looked at his Master, and saw a sacrilegious hand raised to smite Him in the face. Unable longer to endure the scene, he rushed, heartbroken, from the hall.

Knowing that God loves us should do something to our hearts. If we love Him, we will obey Him. All of the fruits of the Spirit without one missing will come into the life of one who is truly converted in full surrender to Christ. Oh, let us remember God's love and respond to Him by yielding humble, affectionate obedience to all of His commandments!
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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God
« Last post by Sean James on February 02, 2024, 05:07:18 AM »
What a joy it is to know and love a God who sees the WHOLE PICTURE of eternity! Because He sees things that way, we can start living and thinking that way, and it changes our perspective to be one of joy and gratitude that His plan to repopulate heaven with a holy, happy family of saints from this little world will be fulfilled!

Christ declared to His hearers that if there were no resurrection of the dead, the Scriptures which they professed to believe would be of no avail. He said, “But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” God counts the things that are not as though they were. He sees the end from the beginning, and beholds the result of His work as though it were now accomplished. The precious dead, from Adam down to the last saint who dies, will hear the voice of the Son of God, and will come forth from the grave to immortal life. God will be their God, and they shall be His people. There will be a close and tender relationship between God and the risen saints. This condition, which is anticipated in His purpose, He beholds as if it were already existing. The dead live unto Him.

Praise God for the power of God to raise the dead, which is also His same power to raise us from spiritual death and make us partakers of the divine nature! When we are vitally connected to Jesus by a living faith surrender, all of the fruits of the Spirit without one missing will be seen in our lives and we will be enabled by His divine grace to love God from the heart and love others as ourselves!
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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God
« Last post by Sean James on January 27, 2024, 03:58:58 AM »
Happy Sabbath!

The roles we have and the positions we occupy in God's selfless kingdom are really about character. And that is why Jesus said what He did.

“But to sit on My right hand, and on My left,” He continued, “is not Mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of My Father.” In the kingdom of God, position is not gained through favoritism. It is not earned, nor is it received through an arbitrary bestowal. It is the result of character. The crown and the throne are the tokens of a condition attained; they are the tokens of self-conquest through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus set the perfect example of character. More than this, He died as our sacrifice to take our sinful character upon Himself. He did this to forgive and heal us, enabling us to partake of His perfect character by receiving His righteousness by His faith! Praise God for the love of Christ that constrains us to go forward in the path of self-denial because we love Him who first loved us. Such a life and character of true conversion to Christ will be manifest with all of the fruits of the Spirit without one missing as we are enabled to obey the law of God from the heart up to the light He has shown us. Each day character is being built and formed by the motives, thoughts, feelings, words, and actions we choose; if we see our need of transformation, we can go to Jesus just as we are and surrender to Him so we can partake of the divine nature! For with God all things are possible! "Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" (Philippians 1:6).
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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God
« Last post by Sean James on January 26, 2024, 07:22:04 AM »
Jesus raised the dead. He raised Lazarus, and that was such an amazing, undeniable miracle that a council was set up to try to plan what to do. Sadly, the voice of Satan was what was listened to, rather than the sweet, healing voice of the Holy Spirit.

At this council Christ's enemies had been deeply convicted. The Holy Spirit had impressed their minds. But Satan strove to gain control of them. He urged upon their notice the grievances they had suffered on account of Christ. How little He had honored their righteousness. He presented a righteousness far greater, which all who would be children of God must possess. Taking no notice of their forms and ceremonies, He had encouraged sinners to go directly to God as a merciful Father, and make known their wants. Thus, in their opinion, He had set aside the priesthood. He had refused to acknowledge the theology of the rabbinical schools. He had exposed the evil practices of the priests, and had irreparably hurt their influence. He had injured the effect of their maxims and traditions, declaring that though they strictly enforced the ritual law, they made void the law of God. All this Satan now brought to their minds.

If we choose to listen to the voice of Satan and obey his suggestions, we will manifest the works of Satan--who seeks to steal, kill and destroy. But if we listen to the voice of Jesus and surrender fully to Him, all of the fruits of the Spirit will be seen in our lives without one missing as we are enabled to do God's will revealed in His law from the new heart He gives us! Let us choose the way of faith working by love!
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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God
« Last post by Sean James on January 25, 2024, 04:43:16 AM »
The love Christ has is deep and personal. We can be His close friends--like Lazarus, Martha and Mary!

Among the most steadfast of Christ's disciples was Lazarus of Bethany. From their first meeting his faith in Christ had been strong; his love for Him was deep, and he was greatly beloved by the Saviour. It was for Lazarus that the greatest of Christ's miracles was performed. The Saviour blessed all who sought His help; He loves all the human family, but to some He is bound by peculiarly tender associations. His heart was knit by a strong bond of affection to the family at Bethany, and for one of them His most wonderful work was wrought.

Trust Him through your trials. Because Jesus loves you, He leads in the way that is best. When we surrender the whole heart to Christ, all of the fruits of the Spirit will be seen in our lives without one missing. Jesus allowed Lazarus to get sick and die, but He resurrected Him to illustrate the depth of His love and His power over death! Jesus can deliver you, too, from the power of death--sin! Trust Him fully!
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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God
« Last post by Sean James on January 24, 2024, 03:31:22 AM »
Jesus loves you. He loved the rich young ruler, too. But He loved him too much to let him pursue a course of life that would allow him to remain self-deceived, and thus Jesus called this man to follow him, sell what he had, and give to the poor. Had he done this, he could have enjoyed the love, joy and peace of the Holy Spirit with all of the attributes (fruits) of the divine nature in his life without one missing. Without making that full surrender, he would only have the transient things of this life, and an inner sorrow that could never be filled (sadly, that is what he chose).

We were made to know and love God, and apart from Him in the path and plan He has for us, our souls will not experience true life fulfillment. We need to SEE our need of Jesus, just like how Jesus addresses the Laodicean Church (Revelation 3:14-22), and when we do accept the reproof in love, we can have total character transformation by receiving Christ's gold tried in the fire (faith working by love), white raiment (Christ's perfect righteousness revealed in right doing from right motives), and eyesalve (the continual presence of the Holy Spirit to give us spiritual discernment of our continual need of Jesus). Let us allow Jesus to do the needed work in our characters by afresh beholding His infinite loveliness, yielding to Him the WHOLE heart, and walking in the path of His choosing! True, affectionate obedience to all of God's holy commandments is the fruit of knowing and loving God in a complete surrender!

The ruler's possessions were entrusted to him that he might prove himself a faithful steward; he was to dispense these goods for the blessing of those in need. So God now entrusts men with means, with talents and opportunities, that they may be His agents in helping the poor and the suffering. He who uses his entrusted gifts as God designs becomes a co-worker with the Saviour. He wins souls to Christ, because he is a representative of His character.

As we reveal Jesus in a world that is desperately in need of a revelation of lives that are not bent on self-seeking, but rather choose to live for God's glory, He is calling each of us to be "all in" for Him. Will you come to Christ as He draws you and choose to surrender all?
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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God
« Last post by Sean James on January 23, 2024, 06:21:37 PM »
Let us choose to unite with Jesus in winning souls--especially children--to Christ! All of the fruits of the Spirit without one missing will be revealed in our lives as we surrender fully to Christ and let Him live out His life in us! Praise God!

The Christian worker may be Christ's agent in drawing these children to the Saviour. By wisdom and tact he may bind them to his heart, he may give them courage and hope, and through the grace of Christ may see them transformed in character, so that of them it may be said, “Of such is the kingdom of God.”

The kingdom of God begins in the heart that is truly converted. Even a little child can have the peace and love that Jesus gives them as they grow in His grace and truth! Praise God!
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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God
« Last post by Sean James on January 22, 2024, 04:10:28 PM »
Let it go! When we surrender fully to Christ, all the selfishness and earthliness that would tend to obstruct the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness can be cast away as worthless dross so we can abide in Christ in an affectionate union and communion with the Savior who is powerful enough to restore the most broken sinner into a transformed saint reflecting all of the fruits of the Spirit without one missing! What a joy to overcome in Christ and obey His commandments because they are the definition of true happiness! We can learn from the struggles of the experiences the disciples had in finding what truly matters and keeping Christ in His infinite loveless central! Praise God for the love of Christ!

Because of their selfishness and earthliness, even the disciples of Jesus could not comprehend the spiritual glory which He sought to reveal unto them. It was not until after Christ's ascension to His Father, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the believers, that the disciples fully appreciated the Saviour's character and mission. After they had received the baptism of the Spirit, they began to realize that they had been in the very presence of the Lord of glory. As the sayings of Christ were brought to their remembrance, their minds were opened to comprehend the prophecies, and to understand the miracles which He had wrought. The wonders of His life passed before them, and they were as men awakened from a dream. They realized that “the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only-begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” John 1:14. Christ had actually come from God to a sinful world to save the fallen sons and daughters of Adam. The disciples now seemed, to themselves, of much less importance than before they realized this. They never wearied of rehearsing His words and works. His lessons, which they had but dimly understood, now came to them as a fresh revelation. The Scriptures became to them a new book.

There is no limit to what God can do with us as we are all in, all the time, all the way!!!!
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