Cheerful Giver with a Heart of Love

God is love so taking care of one another is part of loving one another.  Taking care of yourself is also part of love.  Doing to others as you would have them do to you.  2 Corinthians 9 sums it up:

2 Corinthians 9:6-15
V6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly, and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
V7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
V8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.
V9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad: he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
V10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
V11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
V12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God:
V13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
V14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
V15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

Also in 1 John 3:11-18 we encourage one another to continue in God’s love toward one another:
V11 for this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
V12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
V13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
V14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
V15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
V16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
V17 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
V18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Amen.

No Condemnation, but God Does Correct To Bring Forth

No Condemnation, but God Does Correct To Bring Forth …

Condemnation is not what Jesus was about.  Yet the religious ones were quick to condemn.

Jesus is about getting you free from sin and death.  Free from condemnation and the devil.  Free from anything that is death, anything that would separate you from God who is love and is eternal life.

Jesus said in John 8:11 to the woman, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

Hebrews 12:5-11 v5…My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.  Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence; shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?  For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

He wants to set you free.  He already made provision for your liberty, for he has accomplished God’s salvation through His Spirit in Christ Jesus.

That same Spirit that brought Jesus up from the dead and the grave of sin is abiding in you to make you free.  Free from the devil, free from the disobedient rebellious spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

Romans 6:5-11  v5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
V6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin,
V7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
V8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
V9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

Hallelujah!  That is an awesome working In Us!  The Lamb of God sits upon His throne….In Us.  For He has declared us to be God’s Habitation, His Temple….if it is that you have the Spirit of the Son in you.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Defilement comes from within the heart, not by what you eat or if you eat without washing your hands.

Hebrews 12:13-15  *15 Looking diligently least any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;…

And in Matthew 15:10-11 v10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Then in Matthew 15:17-20 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
V18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart and they defile the man.
V19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
V20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

So the Holy Spirit in you is revealing Truth to you, and that word that is spirit and life, revealed in your soul and mind, begins to wash and cut away the “flesh” from your heart. This process of being born again produces the fruit of the Holy Spirit. 

Washing of Regeneration and Renewing of the Holy Spirit.

Titus 3:4-6 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to this mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost: Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;….

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

So we continue to allow the Holy Spirit to nourish us in God’s Word of Salvation.  Fellowship in Christ Jesus changes us from the inside out.  He circumcises our hearts so that we cannot defile His temple anymore.

Grace is abundant, and His Righteousness is His gift to cause us to reign with Him in Eternal Life Now.

Romans 5: 17 For if by one man’s offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.

So today, if you hear the Father’s voice…. Harden not your heart, but rather let it receive His Word that is Spirit and Life, and let Him change your heart and cut away the flesh, and allow His Son to shine through you.

1 Corinthians 6:17-20 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
V18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that comitteth fornication sinneth against his own body.
V19 What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
V20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Amen.

Lighten Your Load

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Galatians 5:1

Galatians 4:29-31 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

Born of God, after His Spirit… these are the children of God…. Children of promise.

Lighten your load from religious ceremony, and don’t put it on yourself or others.  Walk in faith of Jesus Christ and have no confidence in the flesh.  Have no confidence in the works of the flesh or religious duties.

Matthew 11:28-30 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Heavy laden means over burden with religious ceremonies.

So learn of the Lord Jesus, and have a relationship with Him. And nurture that relationship, for in doing that, you are having fellowship with the Father too.  For the Son is revealing the Father to us.  And the Father is revealing the Son to us.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

For without Christ Jesus we can do nothing.  Yet with Him, all things are possible.

Stand fast in the Liberty that Christ Jesus has provided for us, and be not entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

That does not mean to forsake the assembly together with other saints in the Holy Spirit.  But rather know that it is the works of Jesus that we walk in faith of, and obtain our liberty.

Romans 5 17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one, much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.

Amen.