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8 Sep 2019

                 

 

September 8, 2019

For E - Anger, Forgiveness & Being Like Christ - Foundational Truths 

Galatians 5: 21

 

Galatians

When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, your lives will produce these evil results:  sexual immorality, impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure, idolatry, participation in demonic activities, hostility, quarreling, jealously, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, divisions, the feeling that everyone is wrong except those in your own little group, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other kinds of sin.  Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God. 

 

   

 

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 Thoughts....

 

 

Anger is usually rightly justified....like when Jesus knocked over the tables of the money changers in Matthew 21.12.  Clearly Jesus got angry, but it was righteous anger. 

Forgiveness is NOT about letting others off the hook. They shouldn't be.  But let GOD deal with them as HE sees fit. He knows what they did to you.  In Matthew 5 Jesus said, "But I say if you are angry with someone, you are subject to judgement!"  Note the exclamation point as to how he said it.

Forgiveness is about letting their actions, and those who commit them, go from captivity of anger within yourself; letting go of them giving them empowerment over your life, thoughts, actions.  In Luke 6:37c, Jesus is quoted as saying, "If you forgive, you will be forgiven.

Forgiveness is about cleansing self from all the rot another, others, sought toinstill, or have instilled, so that THE Holy Spirit can enter unto/into you with love, kindness, gentleness and self control, allowing freedom and openess to TRUE love and embrace of Father God Almighty, Jesus, who wants to be FULLY your Savior, LORD, brother and friend, and Holy Spirit, who will carry you throught the ways and biways of life to help you best stand in solidarity with God, Jesus, Holy Spirit for the world....AGAINST what the world injects, slams, offers....or doesn't.    

Alone?  Want to be alone?  It's okay to be alone....but not to hide. Use alone time as a time to be with Holy Spirit.  See Matthew 4 when Jesus went to the wilderness, led by the Holy Spirit, to spend time with him and be built up, fortified, fully immersed with Holy Spirit, so as to be best protected and strengthened for all God had called him to do in the world.     

Want others around you?  They will come, as soon as you make room for them by letting go of all the dark, sinister, and evil things that have prevailed upon you, been pent up within you. See Matthew 4 where Jesus entered a thriving megalopolis of people....where he began to preach...."Turn from your sins and turn to God because the Kingdom of God is near."  The rest is history of how many have surrounded him since.  

Don't think you have 'a little piece of your heart' left to give for fear of final breakage?  TRUST God, Jesus & Holy Spirit to build your heart for, and give you their strength, for the fullness of love for them and others.  

Will you get hurt?  Does a bear.....  You will undoubtedly be hurt by the world in the frailty of your mind, spirit, heart, body.  Humans, animals, vegetation hurt alike....having all been made by God.  

But in that instant, you will be able to look to God, Jesus and Holy Spirit and say, "Come", knowing they WILL envelop you in their heart, arms, spirit for the uplift you need in every situation if you....

1.  Believe in God, Jesus, Holy Spirit.

2.  Believe that God made Jesus' death and resurrection mean something....with Jesus taking upon himself OUR sins, allowing US forgiveness, giving US the opportunity for everlasting life.  Acts 4:11-12

3.  Make Jesus THE loving LORD of your life. 

4.  Ask Jesus to baptize you with the Holy Spirit.  Luke 24:49, Acts 2:1-47

5.  Allow yourself to be fully immersed and surrounded with Holy Spirit, his direction, love, knowledge, wisdom, discernment, understanding.  Accept/receive all his fruits (Galatians 5:22-26) and gifts (1 Corinthians 12, 13, 14.), so you may KNOW the Way (God), the Truth (Holy Spirit), and the Light (Jesus) and live in and with their love. 

6.  Don't dabble in Christianity, LIVE in it.  See John 14 & 15.  Galatians 5:1-26. 1 John 2:37

7.  In John 14:6 Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No one can come to the Father except through me."  Also remember this from Acts 4:11-12 when Holy Spirit said through Peter, "For Jesus is the one referred to in the Scriptures where it says, 'The stone that you builders rejected has now become the cornerstone.' (Psalm 118:22)  There is salvation in no one else!  There is no other name in all of heaven for people to call on to save them."  

8.  Paul said, "For no one can lay any other foundation than the one we already have - Jesus Christ."  1 Corinthians 3:11.

9.  Keep your eye on the prize.  Phil 3:13-14

10.  In everything give thanks. Phil 2:9-11, Phil 4:6-7 and Thes 5:16-22.

11.  Go forth....tell all the world about Jesus....making nations of believers.   Matt 28:18-20 and Luke 24:13-49.

12.  PRAY. 

 

 

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Let Us Pray

 

 

God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, please forgive me of my sins, so that I will be healed.  Help me to forgive those who have sinned against me....and you....and others I love.  Remove from me the sin called anger, and all the pain I've suffered over the years.  Open my heart and mind to want to know you, believe in you, receive you, and want, as well as accept, all you have to give me, in the fullness of your everlasting love.  And then let me not be remiss about thanking you. Fill me to overflowing with your Holy Spirit, so that I may go forth to share who you are, that you are, and how wonderful you are, and all you have to give....life everlasting.  Thank you !  I praise you !  I thank you !  I love you !   Amen !  

        

 

 

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Let us hear from Paul as he prays:  

When I think of the wisdom and scope of God's plan, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.  I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you mighty inner strength through his Holy Spirit.  And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in him.  May your roots go down deep into the soil of God's marvelous love.  And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is.  May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it.  Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

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  One last thing....

 

 

Jesus' Prayer of Thanksgiving

'The Unforced Rhythms of Grace'

 

 

"Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer:  "Thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth.  You've concealed your ways from sophisticates and know-it-alls, but spelled them out clearly to ordinary people.  Yes, Father, that's the way you like to work."

Jesus resumed talking to the people, but now tenderly.  "The Father has given me all these things to do and say.  This is a unique Father - Son operation, coming out of Father and Son intimacies and knowledge.  No one knows the Son the way the Father does, nor the Father the way the Son does.  But I'm not keeping it to myself; I'm ready to go over it line by line with anyone willing to listen."

"Are you tired?  Worn out?  Burned out on religion?  Come to me.  Get away with me and you'll recover your life.  I'll show you how to take a real rest.  Walk with me and work with me - watch how I do it.  Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.  I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn how to live freely and lightly.

 

Matthew 11:  25-30

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