Going to church, reading the bible, listening to Christian music will not advance your spiritual life. These activities may give you more understanding but until you are ready to lay down your life and take up your cross this leads nowhere.
What I am talking about is the sacrifice of self to advance the cause of Jesus Christ in the world. There is a destiny that God had for each of us that only we can personally discover. We can discover it only by detaching from the world and making ourselves available for the Holy Spirit. By detaching from the world--now you have time--the commodity that most Christians are not willing to give.
Jesus said, "Self-help is not help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, to finding yourself, your true self. (Matthew 16:25)
"God has planted eternity in the human heart." (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
"Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the work I plan for him is not fit for the Kingdom of God." (Luke 9:62)
"The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me." (Acts 20:24)
"We have been sent to speak for Christ." (2 Corinthians 5:20)
"We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:10)
Albert Finch
www.thekeys2kingdom.com
What I am talking about is the sacrifice of self to advance the cause of Jesus Christ in the world. There is a destiny that God had for each of us that only we can personally discover. We can discover it only by detaching from the world and making ourselves available for the Holy Spirit. By detaching from the world--now you have time--the commodity that most Christians are not willing to give.
Jesus said, "Self-help is not help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, to finding yourself, your true self. (Matthew 16:25)
"God has planted eternity in the human heart." (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
"Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the work I plan for him is not fit for the Kingdom of God." (Luke 9:62)
"The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me." (Acts 20:24)
"We have been sent to speak for Christ." (2 Corinthians 5:20)
"We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:10)
Albert Finch
www.thekeys2kingdom.com
Love And Power
Posted 08-14-2023 at 04:42 PM by Albert Finch
1 Corinthians 13:1,2 - "13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing."
Power or Love?
This question is often posed among Believers. Sometimes it is said in other ways. We might say, "Seek the Giver not the gifts." We might point out 1 Corinthians 13 -- "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels...though I have the gift of prophecy...though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains..." because that was the post-Pentecost assumptive standard for ministry.
There was never to be a juxtaposition of power vs. love. The standard was and IS that you should have this POWER, but it benefits YOU nothing if you are not motivated by love. But other people DO profit from demonstrations of the supernatural power.
There never was a standard that powerless Christianity is okay as long as you have love. If it were so, Jesus would not have told them to go wait in an upper room for supernatural POWER (Acts 1:8). He would have just said, "Remember to be loving with people as I have shown you for 3 plus years."
ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY
Power or Love?
This question is often posed among Believers. Sometimes it is said in other ways. We might say, "Seek the Giver not the gifts." We might point out 1 Corinthians 13 -- "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels...though I have the gift of prophecy...though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains..." because that was the post-Pentecost assumptive standard for ministry.
There was never to be a juxtaposition of power vs. love. The standard was and IS that you should have this POWER, but it benefits YOU nothing if you are not motivated by love. But other people DO profit from demonstrations of the supernatural power.
There never was a standard that powerless Christianity is okay as long as you have love. If it were so, Jesus would not have told them to go wait in an upper room for supernatural POWER (Acts 1:8). He would have just said, "Remember to be loving with people as I have shown you for 3 plus years."
ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY
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