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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God

« Last post by Sean James on November 03, 2023, 06:39:29 PM »

The work of Mary was just the lesson the disciples needed to show them that the expression of their love for Him would be pleasing to Christ. He had been everything to them, and they did not realize that soon they would be deprived of His presence, that soon they could offer Him no token of their gratitude for His great love. The loneliness of Christ, separated from the heavenly courts, living the life of humanity, was never understood or appreciated by the disciples as it should have been. He was often grieved because His disciples did not give Him that which He should have received from them. He knew that if they were under the influence of the heavenly angels that accompanied Him, they too would think no offering of sufficient value to declare the heart’s spiritual affection.

Let’s allow Jesus to fill our hearts with His converting love to overflow in being a blessing as He first blessed us! All of the fruits of the Spirit without one missing will be manifest in the life that is fully surrendered to Him! Let’s show Jesus our heart’s spiritual affection who left heaven to make heaven accessible to us by His great sacrifice!

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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God

« Last post by Sean James on November 02, 2023, 04:05:59 AM »

Praise the Lord! We can receive Jesus as a personal Savior and what a difference He makes in our lives! We become NEW in heart and mind (taking away the old evil heart of unbelief) and He fills us with the Holy Spirit so love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, and righteousness in truth burst forth from our converted lives like living waters, blessing ALL WHOM WE MEET!! Not one of the fruits of the Spirit will be missing as long as we are abiding in Jesus in a living faith surrender and walking in all the light of His truth He has given us! Stay connected and let God send you forth as a missionary!!

It is when Christ is received as a personal Saviour that salvation comes to the soul. Zacchaeus had received Jesus, not merely as a passing guest in his home, but as One to abide in the soul temple. The scribes and Pharisees accused him as a sinner, they murmured against Christ for becoming his guest, but the Lord recognized him as a son of Abraham. For “they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.” Galatians 3:7.

When we know who we are in Christ, and we have no doubt of God's goodness or of His power to save, deliver and guide in each situation we face, what have we to fear? Let us not allow any sin to sever the vital union and communion of our souls with Christ! He is SO GOOD TO SAVE US FROM SIN!! Let others know what Jesus has done for you if you have indeed chosen to go ALL IN for Jesus like Zacchaeus did! Hallelujah!!!

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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God

« Last post by Sean on November 01, 2023, 05:09:16 AM »

Let’s cheerfully follow Jesus’ example of living to bless others by surrendering fully to Him! He motivates and empowers us to obey Him out of love and live with all of the fruits of the Spirit in our lives without one missing!

“The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Among His disciples Christ was in every sense a caretaker, a burden bearer. He shared their poverty, He practiced self-denial on their account, He went before them to smooth the more difficult places, and soon He would consummate His work on earth by laying down His life. The principle on which Christ acted is to actuate the members of the church which is His body. The plan and ground of salvation is love. In the kingdom of Christ those are greatest who follow the example He has given, and act as shepherds of His flock.

“We love Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19).

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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God

« Last post by Sean James on October 31, 2023, 04:10:49 AM »

Fighting against God? Sounds insane! That's what was going on among the religious leaders trying to plan the death of Jesus, the Resurrection and the Life. Seriously--how would killing the Man who can raise the dead prevent Him from coming back from the dead? Satan imbued the minds of those fighting against the convicting, wooing voice of the Holy Spirit. Satan is a liar. Let's NOT LISTEN TO OR ACT UPON HIS LIES!!

In this council, assembled to plan the death of Christ, the Witness was present who heard the boastful words of Nebuchadnezzar, who witnessed the idolatrous feast of Belshazzar, who was present when Christ in Nazareth announced Himself the Anointed One. This Witness was now impressing the rulers with the work they were doing. Events in the life of Christ rose up before them with a distinctness that alarmed them. They remembered the scene in the temple, when Jesus, then a child of twelve, stood before the learned doctors of the law, asking them questions at which they wondered. The miracle just performed bore witness that Jesus was none other than the Son of God. In their true significance, the Old Testament Scriptures regarding Christ flashed before their minds. Perplexed and troubled, the rulers asked, “What do we?” There was a division in the council. Under the impression of the Holy Spirit, the priests and rulers could not banish the conviction that they were fighting against God.

And the evidence is left for us to choose who we will follow. Jesus only desires to bless us and save us from sin, giving us the eternity of bliss He has planned for us. Satan only desires to steal, kill and destroy us. Do we have any reason to doubt the goodness of God or the wickedness of Satan? Remember--anything that contradicts the word of God proceeds from Satan, so the safest thing to do is to FILL YOUR MIND AND HEART with ALL of God's word so you can walk in harmony with the "divine nature" (2 Peter 1:4) as you surrender fully to Christ! As you fully surrender to Christ as you are motivated by His infinite loveliness, He will imbue you with all of the fruits of the Spirit without one missing as your life is empowered to true obedience to all of God's commandments! Walking with Jesus in His will is FAR BETTER than trying to fight against God.

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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God

« Last post by Sean James on October 30, 2023, 04:42:12 AM »

Christ has set the example as to how we are do all things--in cooperation with Him, as He did all things in cooperation with the Father. So it is with us. "For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building" (1 Corinthians 3:9). In surrendering fully to the Holy Spirit, confessing and forsaking every sin that He has revealed, and walking in all the light He has shown us, we become imbued with all of the fruits of the Spirit without one missing so we are truly effectual laborers together with God for the fulfillment of His mission to bless and save.

In all that He did, Christ was co-operating with His Father. Ever He had been careful to make it evident that He did not work independently; it was by faith and prayer that He wrought His miracles. Christ desired all to know His relationship with His Father. “Father,” He said, “I thank Thee that Thou hast heard Me. And I knew that Thou hearest Me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that Thou hast sent Me.” Here the disciples and the people were to be given the most convincing evidence in regard to the relationship existing between Christ and God. They were to be shown that Christ's claim was not a deception.

By faith and prayer God is still willing to do miracles through us as we cooperate with Jesus by the Holy Spirit to the glory of the Father. While Christ in cooperation with the Father raised Lazarus from the dead, is it not a great miracle that we can be resurrected from spiritual death and live a consistent life in Christ in cooperation with Him by the Holy Spirit? We need to be in such close union and communion with God that we are discerning what His plans are so His mission goes forward in the power of the Holy Spirit!

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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God

« Last post by Sean James on October 29, 2023, 05:29:49 AM »

It makes SO MUCH SENSE!

When we surrender fully to Jesus, we get to share the joy of winning souls so they can experience the blessedness of living forever with Him and be forever with the angels and all the redeemed! It is akin to insanity to hold on to the temporary, passing pleasures of this life and refuse to fully surrender to Christ, who knows what is best and plans for the good of His creatures! There is far greater joy in His service than any worldly, temporary attraction; the Bible calls it the attempt to "enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season" (Hebrews 11:25), but without Christ in the heart, even in those "pleasures" (so-called) there is a lack of peace in the heart. What good is that? "There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked" (Isaiah 57:21). Sadly, when the rich young ruler turned away from Jesus' affectionate call to obey Him in everything as would be evinced in selling all he had so the young man could go full-time in ministry with Jesus, he turned away. His high position and riches were his idol, and he chose the things that pass away instead of the things that last for eternity. What will last for eternity? The word of God and the souls who are redeemed by it. That includes your soul if you choose to surrender fully to Jesus! Then all of the fruits of the Spirit without one missing will be manifest in the life because the heart is the abiding place for Jesus! In true obedience to all of God's commandments, selfless ministry becomes the highest delight of those who know the true riches--godly character and the winning of souls!!

When Christ's followers give back to the Lord His own, they are accumulating treasure which will be given to them when they shall hear the words, “Well done, good and faithful servant; ... enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” “Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Matthew 25:23; Hebrews 12:2. The joy of seeing souls redeemed, souls eternally saved, is the reward of all that put their feet in the footprints of Him who said, “Follow Me.”

So let's do what makes sense. Let's surrender ALL TO JESUS!!! You will NOT regret it--for the rest of eternity!!!

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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God

« Last post by Sean James on October 28, 2023, 03:57:11 AM »

Happy Sabbath! Look to Jesus, the Pattern of godly character for us to follow! By surrendering fully to Him, He gives us a new heart and mind imbued with the Holy Spirit so love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, meekness, goodness, faith and temperance flow forth in the life without one of the traits of the divine nature missing!

Jesus was the pattern for children, and He was also the father's example. He spoke as one having authority, and His word was with power; yet in all His intercourse with rude and violent men He did not use one unkind or discourteous expression. The grace of Christ in the heart will impart a heaven-born dignity and sense of propriety. It will soften whatever is harsh, and subdue all that is coarse and unkind. It will lead fathers and mothers to treat their children as intelligent beings, as they themselves would like to be treated.

"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets" (Matthew 7:12). Let us heed the golden rule and be a blessing to others by abiding in Jesus! True obedience to His law of love comes from beholding Him and being changed into His image, from glory to glory, from character to character!

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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God

« Last post by Sean James on October 27, 2023, 06:28:10 AM »

Let's help build up the kingdom of God by following Christ's method that brings true success!

Not by the decisions of courts or councils or legislative assemblies, not by the patronage of worldly great men, is the kingdom of Christ established, but by the implanting of Christ's nature in humanity through the work of the Holy Spirit. “As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12, 13. Here is the only power that can work the uplifting of mankind. And the human agency for the accomplishment of this work is the teaching and practicing of the word of God.

When Jesus is received as a personal Savior from sin into the life and we abide in Him, His kingdom of grace begins in our hearts and we partake of His divine nature which is revealed in true obedience to God's commandments up to the light we have received with the accompanying witness of all of the fruits of the Spirit in the life without one missing! As such a complete surrender is continued in the Christian life, we can go from victory to victory in extending the triumph of the cross, for Jesus is coming very soon to take His converted children home!

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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God

« Last post by Sean James on October 26, 2023, 04:36:37 AM »

As we become imbued with the Holy Spirit by surrendering fully to Christ's saving grace and partake of the divine nature, God calls us to ministry!

“Ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness.” Galatians 6:1. By faith and prayer press back the power of the enemy. Speak words of faith and courage that will be as a healing balsam to the bruised and wounded one. Many, many, have fainted and become discouraged in the great struggle of life, when one word of kindly cheer would have strengthened them to overcome. Never should we pass by one suffering soul without seeking to impart to him of the comfort wherewith we are comforted of God.

There are souls in need all around us. With the overflow of genuine conversion manifesting all of the fruits of the Spirit without one missing, we are empowered to go forth to seek and save the lost in a continual union and communion with Christ! Praise God that there will be more souls in heaven as a result of us cooperating with Christ in His unselfish ministry!

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The Life of Our Savior / Re: The Glory of God

« Last post by Sean James on October 25, 2023, 08:01:08 AM »

Let us not neglect the light of heaven-sent truth! As we are given opportunity to know and follow truth, let us act on it, and not sin willfully, for this grieves the Holy Spirit. As we come to Christ just as we are and are drawn by His loveliness, all of the fruits of the Spirit will be revealed in the life that yields fully to Him! Because we love Him, we will be empowered to obey Him up to the light He has revealed to us!

The True Witness says, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock.” Revelation 3:20. Every warning, reproof, and entreaty in the word of God or through His messengers is a knock at the door of the heart. It is the voice of Jesus asking for entrance. With every knock unheeded, the disposition to open becomes weaker. The impressions of the Holy Spirit if disregarded today, will not be as strong tomorrow. The heart becomes less impressible, and lapses into a perilous unconsciousness of the shortness of life, and of the great eternity beyond. Our condemnation in the judgment will not result from the fact that we have been in error, but from the fact that we have neglected heaven-sent opportunities for learning what is truth.

God is so good to us and is patient with us, and He calls us to surrender because His light is the best way to live! Apart from Him, we perish. Let us abide in Jesus!!