September , 2019

For R - Are You Calling God A Liar? 

1 John 1: 1-21

1 John

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God.  And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too.  We know we love God's children if we love God and obey his commandments. Loving God means keeping his commandments, and really that isn't difficult.  For every child of God defeats this evil world by trusting Christ to give the victory.  And the ones who win this battle against the world are the ones who believe that Jesus is the son of God.

And Jesus Christ was revealed as God's Son by his baptism in water and by shedding his blood on the cross - not by water only, but by water and blood.  And the Spirit also gives us the testimony that this is true.  So we have these three witnesses - the Spirit, the water, and the blood - and all three agree.  Since we believe human testimony, surely we can believe the testimony that comes from God.  And God has testified about his Son.  All who believe in the Son of God know that this is true. Those who don't believe this are actually calling God a liar because they don't believe what God has testified about his Son.

And this is what God has testified:  He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.  So whoever has God's Son has life; whoever does not have his Son does not have life.

I write this to you who believe in the Son of God, so that you may know you have eternal life.  And we can be confident that he will listen to us whenever we ask him for anything in line with his will.  And if we know he is listening when we make our requests, we can be sure that he will give us what we ask for.

If you see a Christian brother or sister sinning in a way that does not lead to death, you should pray, and God will give that person life.  But there is a sin that leads to death, and I am not saying you should pray for those who commit it.  Every wrong is a sin, but not all sin leads to death.

We know that those who have become part of God's family do not make a practice of sinning, for God's Son holds them securely, and the evil one cannot get his hands on them.  We know that we are children of God and that the world around us is under the power and control of the evil one.  And we know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us understanding so that we can know the true God.  And now we are in God because we are in his Son, Jesus Christ.  He is the only true God, and he is eternal life. 

Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God's place in your hearts. 

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 Thoughts....

Bottom line:  If you miss your wife, and want to be with her, and she died believing in God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, and eternal life, she went to heaven.  What are you believing and doing to insure you get to be with her in paradise....heaven? 

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Let Us Pray

God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, I've been wrong it seems.  I've been sinning by your standards.  I've known it and not cared.  I have not loved you with my whole heart....maybe not even part of my heart.  I have not loved my wife and family as I should have, nor my neighbor, and never as myself....for I haven't pretty much loved myself too much most times.  I've been selfish, self centered, arrogant, demeaning, disrespectufl, hurtful and a whole lot more.  Maybe I've acted out because I've been hurt, am hurting, and want others to hurt, so they know my pain.  I'm angry.  Over a lot of things.  Some things I've brought on myself.  But I'm hard pressed to own it.  Some ways I've been good and done good.  But based on all that I've read, none of that matters except for me sinning.  I'm supposed to say I'm sorry, but I don't know that I am yet.  I know I may not live long, or longer, but I am not ready to give up who I am, for I only have me, and all that I am, well, this is how I know me.  How do I go on if I don't even know me?  I guess you will work it out in me..... if I ask.  I gotta tell you the only reason I am considering this is because I miss my wife and I was kinda hopin' to be with her again some day, but your words tell me I have to straighten up and fly right....I just don't know if I can or want to, even though I was taught about you at an early age.  I sort of believe in you, maybe I just don't really believe in me.  Either way, I'm not sure I want to ask forgiveness because it might mean I have to change and I don't know if I want to.  But I do want to be with my wife again....I kinda feel so lost without her.  But maybe it is better if she is without me, if I caused her a lot of pain and suffering.  So I guess I got some thinkin' to do, God.  I hope you'll give me some time to rethink some things before you decide to end my life.  I still would like to be with my wife....it's awful lonely without her. So thanks for listening, maybe you will consider it a start between us.  Have a nice day.  Bye for now.  Amen I guess.               

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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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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."

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Matthew 11:  25-30

  The Message

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