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
August 28, 2023 - Exhortation
Posted 08-28-2023 at 07:52 AM by Albert Finch
The Bible counsels us to be very careful and guard our thoughts as well as what we ponder within our heart because that will set the cadence of our life. "Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life. " - Proverbs 4:23
Christ Jesus, in His gracious message on the mountain, informs us that it is the pure in heart that see God. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." - Matthew 5:8
The writer of the book of Hebrews again admonishes us to actively seek, and powerfully pursue, purity and holiness, if we are going to see and behold the Lord. "Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord." " - Hebrews 12:14
The Believer is already sanctified. "By God's will we have been sanctified once and for all through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus, the Messiah." -- Hebrews 10:10
We maintain our holiness through affirming and meditating our oneness with Christ Jesus throughout the day. Christ is holy -- we are "in Him " so we are holy. The Believer is not trying to get holy -- he is holy in Christ. When we sin, we repent into the heavenly, holy example -- never losing our right standing with God -- continuing to advance God's Kingdom through our Christ calling. Peace is a fruit of our oneness with Christ.
ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY
Christ Jesus, in His gracious message on the mountain, informs us that it is the pure in heart that see God. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." - Matthew 5:8
The writer of the book of Hebrews again admonishes us to actively seek, and powerfully pursue, purity and holiness, if we are going to see and behold the Lord. "Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord." " - Hebrews 12:14
The Believer is already sanctified. "By God's will we have been sanctified once and for all through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus, the Messiah." -- Hebrews 10:10
We maintain our holiness through affirming and meditating our oneness with Christ Jesus throughout the day. Christ is holy -- we are "in Him " so we are holy. The Believer is not trying to get holy -- he is holy in Christ. When we sin, we repent into the heavenly, holy example -- never losing our right standing with God -- continuing to advance God's Kingdom through our Christ calling. Peace is a fruit of our oneness with Christ.
ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY
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