Tag: God is love

Believe!

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Our primary call in life (as Christians) is to believe. BELIEVE, not perform, Believe. Many people have been duped into thinking that our call in life depends on our performance. That’s an old covenant mindset. The new covenant is all about believing.

“And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.”

1 John 3:23

Interestingly love is described in this manner:

“Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, DOES NOT KEEP AN ACCOUNT OF A WRONG SUFFERED, it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; it keeps every confidence, it BELIEVES ALL THINGS, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails…”

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

If we love one another we would believe in Christ which is in each other. We would not keep an account, measuring each other up to see if we fit the mold of a child of God. Love believes in a person before the person’s exterior looks like a child of God. “For we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Cor. 5:7) and “From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh” (2 Cor. 5:17).

Surround yourself with people who believe, and try to limit your time with those who do not. Performance-based Christians will only make you feel heavily burdened (see Luke 11:46), but those who believe will lighten the load by pointing to Jesus. Surround yourself with people who believe in Jesus in you, not those measuring you by your performance.

“…which is Christ in you, the hope of glory”

Colossians 1:27

It was while we were yet sinners that God gave his son (see Rom. 5:8). He wasn’t waiting for you to measure up to a standard. He believed in you (that is Christ in you) before you even knew a standard. Remember he is the one that justifies the ungodly (see Rom. 4:5), and the same one who calls those things that be not as though they were (see Rom. 4:17). He calls and he qualifies (justifies). Surround yourself with those who believe in the God who is at work in you, not those who are more concerned about your performance than your trust in the Creator.

Trust in Him, Jesus is the salvation of your soul. God bless you all! Our Father loves you!

Good and Bad Judgments

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Jesus said, “Do not judge, so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you” (NASB, Mat. 7:1-2).

Sometimes we can be very critical of others but what if God was to use our own standard of judgment against us? Would we be able to withstand his judgment?

Check out today’s video and learn more.

God is Light (2)

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Do you know who resisted the kingdom of God the most back in Jesus’ day? It was religious people who desired physical perfection and not mercy. It was people who wanted to see God’s wrath taken out on the ungodly. It was people who didn’t understand the meaning, “You desire mercy and not sacrifice.” It was those same people who thought they were representing God because He is holy and set apart from sin that resisted His Kingdom the most.

I just listened to someone that said if they had only one scripture in the entire Bible and the rest would not exist to us then they would keep Romans 3:23. Because, and I quote, “In this passage is found the very salvation of man.” Romans 3:23 says, 

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"

There is no salvation in this message. It only leaves you right where you were before, accused, and condemned before God. Some religious sects of Christianity have built their entire ministry off of the ministry of condemnation, but scripture says that ministry has been done away with (reference 2Corinthians chapter 3 below). Why would you continue to build upon something that has been destroyed?

Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life. But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excells. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remains is glorious.

2 Corinthians 3:6-11

The Pharisees (religious leaders) who built their ministry off of condemnation were in opposition to the King who was bringing His Kingdom. Get in line with the message of God, “that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.”

There are a couple times in the gospel of John that Jesus referenced himself as the light of the world and then he would execute some type of judgment. The woman caught in adultery. Jesus shows mercy, “I am the light of the world.” The man who was born blind, and the disciples asked who did the sin the parents or the man? Jesus said, “Neither… I am the light of the world.” Then heals the man.

He was executing God’s judgment on these matters and then equated himself to the light. Because He is the light of life! His judgments manifest the glory and knowledge of God. God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. For a woman condemned by her sins, mercy triumphs over judgment. A man born blind because of the effects of sin, I have come to give them life and life more abundant.

Get in line with the message that we have received from Him.

“This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.”

1 John 1:5-7