SELF-
IN the world I was SELF-centered,
IN religion I became SELF-righteous.
IN Christ I died and He now lives.
Don’t be deceived by doctrines of SELF-work.
God is the only one who can change you;
Our only job is to let Him.
To surrender SELF.
Galatians 2:21
If righteousness were through the law,
then Christ died for no purpose.
The hard part is letting go of our qualifications for righteousness
and walking in the freedom of death to SELF.
But the reward is inexplicably great.
The Son of God present among you.
just a thought…
Doctrines rescue us from relationship with God. But since doctrines are a part of our religion we write doctrines about relationship. Before you know it we find ourselves so very bound up we can’t see which way is up , and which way is out. Scary.
fav
This is my favorite page in all of the Bible…. It’s the one that separates in the Old and New Covenants.
us being right, ever?
When infused with the person of Holy Spirit we become awoken to the weaknesses and failures of everyone around us. A fight to use that info is constantly happening, the evil one loves to come in under the guise of religious and lawful thought turning those perceptions into a very satisfying fuel for why you are more right than all those people. Can anyone relate?
The truth of the Gospel is that no-one has hit the bullseye of rightness and upright morality ever, save One, Jesus Christ. He is the only way to have righteousness and that righteousness is only given to those who admit their own failure, and turn away from those failures. Acknowledging the poorness of our abilities. In response Jesus offers us the abundance of His righteousness that He offers us as a gift. This concept is what makes us have any measure of righteousness, not just on one occasion in a baptist church, but on any occasion, ever.
This gospel is the healing factor for our every moment. It is to be infused in every thought, word, and deed.
And that new discernment that’s fun to bash others with? It is a gift given to us as a result of Holy Spirit living inside out bodies. It is to be used to access God and to pray that The Gracious Healer would work in the areas of our friends lives God is revealing to us. Praying that, by the blood of Jesus, a miracle would take place, that God would impart His rightness to that area.
Holy Spirit is working within those who have accepted Christ to bring every person into purity, none have accomplished %100 purity especially not me. And if we get any nearer to %100 it will only be because we are gaining more revelation of how powerful and effective the cross of Christ was.
The gospel stands above every other teaching, and every other teaching must find itself interpreted in light of the true gospel that rightly bestows all glory, honor, and praise unto Jesus Christ. For that is what those in heaven are viscerally proclaiming right now… can you hear it. It is good news indeed.
odd doctrine and the love of money
These things be teaching and exhorting;
3if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words — those of our Lord Jesus Christ — and to the teaching according to piety,
4he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,
5wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;
6but it is great gain — the piety with contentment;
7for nothing did we bring into the world — [it is] manifest that we are able to carry nothing out;
8but having food and raiment — with these we shall suffice ourselves;
9and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,
10for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;
11and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;
12be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.
1 Tim 6:3-12
No More Invitations to Jerusalem
It’s pretty easy to see why New Testament gifts aren’t manifesting in many of today’s churches. It’s because our actions and interactions within our communities are most like the Old Testament.
God took on flesh, died, and resurrected so that we could chose to die daily and be embodied by this resurrected God.
”Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:1-2
The Old Testament had a man of God, a temple, and a worship experience at the temple where God was.
The New Testament has made us men and women of God, it’s made us temples of God, and the worship is our submission to God inside the temple of our bodies. There is still community, but one where God has gifted each part of His “body (New Testament term)” to build up one another.
clean knees
From my perspective those who have “a good theology” often have the cleanest knees. Letting go of “my theology” and letting God have the room He demands has justly broken me to weariness in light of His spender and goodness. It’s only biblical… you encounter God and are broken down.
