Psalms: Christ’s Prayer Manual Pt. 3 ‘Creation’

PRAYING TO THE ONE WHO CREATES IT ALL

Psalm 19
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they tell the story; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.
The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes. The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever. The decrees of the Lord are firm, and all of them are righteous. These are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb. By them your servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
But who can discern their own errors? Forgive my hidden faults. Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless, innocent of great transgression. May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Praying to God based on the glory displayed in His Creation. This Psalm is a poetic look at the incredible complexity of our universe. It also identifies the author of our universe: YAHWEH! The universe testifies to HIS greatness and power; it reveals who HE is!

Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

I have heard people argue you can be a Christian and not believe in what the Bible says about the creation of the world… I don’t think you can be a ‘Biblical Christian’ if you don’t believe that the Bible is true!

Memorial Day: We honor the ultimate sacrifice of those who served in this country’s armed forces. What we are going to do today is memorialize the universe God has created and sustains. We are going to take HIS word about it and we are going to see what HE says about it and we are going to honor HIM based on what HE made.

DO you want to learn how to pray? The basis of prayer is the belief, the absolute conviction that Yahweh / Jesus Christ is who He says He is. He says He created everything knowable.

Why should we pray about Creation? Does it matter to The One True God what we believe about creation? The essential element of True Prayer is the willful and specific agreement with the will of Yahweh / Christ as revealed through Scripture and The Holy Spirit.

Psalm 104

1 Bless Yahweh, my soul! Yahweh, My Elohim, You are very great; You are clothed with glory and majesty, 2 wrapped in light as with a robe. You spread out the heavens like a curtain, 3 You laid the beams of Your palace on the water. You make the clouds Your chariot, You ride on the wings of the wind. 4 You make winds Your messengers, fiery flames Your servants.

  • We are to recognize our soul’s need for the blessing of it’s creator
  • We are to recognize His surpassing greatness, His indescribable splendor…
  • We acknowledge His complete control of all of creation
  • We affirm that all creation serves His will (our understanding is not important)

5 You fixed the earth on its foundations, never to be moved. 6 You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At Your rebuke they fled; at the sound of Your thunder they rushed away, 8 flowing over hills, pouring into valleys, down to the place You had fixed for them. 9 You determined a boundary they could not cross; they were never to cover the earth again.

  • We believe Yahweh, The Self-Existent God of The Bible, created this planet
  • We believe He divided the land from the water by His Word
  • Poetic rendering of Genesis 1 and Genesis 7, post flood at the same time

10 You make springs gush forth in the valleys; they flow between the hills, 11 supplying water to all the wild animals; the wild donkeys quench their thirst. 12 On their banks the birds of the air build their nests; among the branches they sing. 13 You water the mountains from your palace; the earth is satisfied with how You provide!

  • Not only intelligent design, but inspired design…the ultimate in creativity!
  • Talk about sustainability!
  • The interconnectedness of ecosystem into ecosystem
  • Mind boggling complexity… yet not one single thing is unnecessary
  • Each aspect of creation is perfectly cared for…by the Provider of all things

14 You grow grass for the cattle; and for people You grow the plants they need to bring forth bread from the earth,15 wine that gladdens the human heart, oil to make faces glow, and food to sustain their strength.

  • Things naturally complement each other
  • Everything part has a purpose; infinite wisdom has planned it all
  • Ultimately all of creation is under the dominion of humans
  • Dominion is stewardship and proper use…but sin can prevail in a fallen world

16 Yahweh’s trees are satisfied — the cedars of the Lebanon, which He has planted. 17 In them sparrows build their nests, while storks live in the fir trees.18 For the wild goats there are the high mountains, while the badgers find refuge in the rocks.

  • Creation is content…every second everything does what it was made to do
  • Except Humans… we are made in God’s image (the only thing)
  • No other thing in all creation rebels against the creator,

19 You made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to set. 20 You bring darkness, and it is night, the time when all forest animals prowl. 21 The young lions roar after their prey and seek their food from God. 22 The sun rises, they slink away and lie down to rest in their dens; 23 while people go out to their work, laboring on till evening.

  • God says He controls interstellar bodies, their orbits and such
  • God says He controls the habits of creatures

24 What variety there is in your works, O Yahweh! How many of them there are! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of Your creations. 25 Look at the sea, so great, so wide! It teems with countless creatures, living beings, both large and small. 26 The ships are there, sailing to and fro; Leviathan which you formed, frolics there.

  • The categories of life are unfathomable and then there is complexity within that
  • The forethought to design such detail of interconnectedness is WISDOM
  • If something exists, Yahweh made it…That is what HE says

27 All of them look to You to give them their food when they need it. 28 When You give it to them, they gather it; when you open your hand, they are well satisfied.

  • Everything in all creation is dependent on Yahweh (Made & Sustained)
  • All creation is satisfied with how Yahweh treats it / them… except some humans

29 If You hide Your face, they vanish; if You take away their breath, they perish and return to their dust. 30 If you send out Your Spirit, they are created, so You renew the face of the earth.

  • With out His care…there is nothing (Hell)
  • Everything in our world enjoys some aspect of God’s presence
  • If Yahweh does not provide HIS presence things do not exist
  • There is no reality without HIM…He defines reality

31 May the glory of Yahweh last forever! May Yahweh rejoice in his works! 32 When He looks at the earth, it trembles; when He touches the mountains, they pour out smoke.

  • Yahweh is to be given all the glory, all the time BECASUE of creation…
  • HE perfectly rejoices in what HE creates (We get to rejoice in that with Him!)
  • Absolute Sovereignty is what HE says He has… over everything

33 I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live, sing praise to My Elohim all my life. 34 May my meditations be pleasing to Him; I will rejoice in Yahweh. 35 May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more! Bless Yahweh, my soul!

  • Singing and praising The I AM, making Him MY God is for all eternity
  • Making Him ‘My God’ means I want to think about EVERYTHING as HE does!
  • It means I rejoice in Who HE Is! It means I agree with EVERYTHING He says!
  • God has declared what verse 35 says about ‘The Wicked’ & ‘Sinners’
  • I believe what He says, what He says He is going to do, and I rejoice in all of it!

Questions:

Do you fully believe what Scripture says about the beginnings of our world?

Do you fully believe what Scripture says about the flood?

Do You fully believe our world is as old as God says it is?

Do you fully believe God is in control of our climate / environment?

Do you fully believe that as Jesus Christ’s church we’re to be stewards of God’s creation?

If you believe what Yahweh / Jesus Christ has said about creation and His control of the physical universe we know… then this can be your prayer guideline. Otherwise I suggest you ask God to reveal Himself to you

If we use this psalm correctly, using the truth in it to pattern out thoughts we would pray a prayer like this:

My Lord: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; My soul was made to bless You in Your Self-Existence, in Your being MY God. Your greatness is without limit, Your control of the universe is complete, all reality is shaped by YOU! The only way to begin to describe you is through the majesty of Your creation. Your universe is an amazing monument to Your greatness

You have designed all of creation to be interdependent and to operate within creative and wise ways that YOU establish. It reveals who and what You are. From atoms to planets, You have not only created everything, you continuously sustain everything, every microsecond for all eternity. You provide and creation is content, all things ultimately honor YOU!

You have willed each and every aspect of the universe into being and you sustain each thing in ways that satisfy what you have created. All creation results from YOUR Wisdom. Only YOU spoke all things into existence, You made them what they are and placed them where they are.

Yahweh, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit; Each and every organism looks to You to provide life, only You can breathe the breath of life into things. Only You measure out death by withdrawal of Your Spirit.

Because of the Universe You created, I worship The I AM and live for You as MY God. I desire to believe in and follow Your will, your Word and Your ways. I willfully choose to think only in ways that please You Lord. I fully rejoice in everything about You Yahweh. I believe You will do everything You say You will do, and my soul will be blessed by it!

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PSALMS: Christ’s Prayer Manual Pt. 2

Psalm 2:
Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against His anointed, saying,“Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles.”
The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them. He rebukes them in His anger and terrifies them in His wrath, saying,“I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain. ”

I will proclaim the Lord’s decree: He said to me, “You are my Son; today I have become Your father. Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession. You will break them with a rod of iron; You will dash them to pieces like pottery.”
Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and celebrate His rule with trembling. Kiss His Son, or He will be angry and your way will lead to your destruction, for His wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.

The Messiah’s Return

Dietrich Bonhoeffer speaking of the mystery involved in The Davidic Psalms:

“In the Psalms of David the promised Christ Himself already speaks, or as may be indicated, the Holy Spirit. These same words which David spoke, therefore, the future Messiah spoke through him. The prayers of David were prayed also by Christ, or better yet, Christ himself prayed them through his forerunner David.

Psalm 110

1 THE I AM says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies Your footstool.”

  • God calls himself the knowable self-existent ONE
  • David writes as though observing a convo between Yahweh & Jesus
  • Christ is David’s Lord and Christ is in David praying this prayer!

2 THE I AM will send your powerful scepter out from Zion, so that You will rule over Your enemies around You.

  • God will project His power through the Christ, at the Cross in Jerusalem
  • Christ’s death and resurrection win the battle, but the enemies are still here
  • This describes the situation of Christ’s Church : Christ rules but enemies exist

3 On the day Your forces mobilize, Your people willingly offer themselves in holy splendor from the womb of the dawn; the dew of your youth is yours.

  • This is the day of Christ’s return (could not be 1st coming)
  • On Christ’s return to finalize His rule, HIS church will shine forth in sacrifice
  • They will become a glory giving army fully devoted to their Lord

Your troops will be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, Your young men will come to You like dew from the morning’s womb. NIV

4 THE I AM has sworn it, and He will never retract — “You are a Priest forever, to be compared with Melchizedek.”

  • The oath of God is Irrevocable!
  • Christ is declared as The One who can go between God & Man
  • Forever He has been that, His priesthood not like Aaron’s by like Melchizedek

5 ADONAI at Your right hand, You will shatter kings on the day of His anger.

  • This name of God speaks to His Omni-everythingness
  • His power is projected through His Messiah
  • Christ will ultimately will enact God’s wrath against Sin (2nd coming)

6 He will pass judgment among the earth, filling it with dead bodies. He will shatter heads of nations throughout an extensive territory.

  • The destiny of those who oppose the existentialist creator of the universe
  • They will be judged and destroyed
  • This will be planet wide

He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth. NIV

7 He will drink from a stream as He goes on His way; therefore He will hold His head high.

  • The Messiah will effortlessly defeat His foes, without struggle
  • The Messiah will be perfectly righteous and justified in His judgement of sin

For Christ’s followers this is a prayer to and with Yahweh, by His Spirit in complete agreement as to who His Holy One, His Anointed One, His Messiah is: JESUS CHRIST!

He is the righteous extension of The Self Existent One’s Authority just as a Son is for his Father. This is describing what God will do when HE fulfills the promise He made to David thru Nathan the prophet In 1 Chronicles 17:11-14:

When your days are over and you go to be with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor. I will set him over my house and my kingdom forever; his throne will be established forever.’”

Prayer (Psalm 110)

Father, Son, Holy Spirit; YOU declare yourself ‘The Self-existent One’ and in Your triune expression of Your Godhead, You lovingly collaborate with Your Son Jesus Christ, who was David’s Lord and MY Lord.

Father in Your perfect union with your Son and Your Spirit, You place the Son into favor and empower the eternal victory of the Messiah. Glory to YOU!

Father, Son Holy Spirit you have spoken through Your Prophet declaring that You would launch the rule of Your Christ from Your Holy Place, Jerusalem. This is where You laid down Your life compelling me to lay down mine.

Lord I believe Your Kingdom won MY salvation on the Cross of Christ and He rules My life in the midst of His enemies, Lord I pray You rule my life more fully today.

Christ Jesus, I belong to You and await the day of your return. I will be part of Your personal Honor Guard in final battle. I will come naturally to You. I will reflect Your splendor.

Lord You have promised and will not change the reality that Your Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, will act as a perfect mediator between Creator and creation. I place my faith in that mediation.

Jesus, I believe Your kingdom will come, Your enemies will know Your wrath, Your judgement and Your authoritative domination of everything. Lord this is your eternal destiny, You are pleased and fulfilled in it.

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PSALMS: Christ’s Prayer Manual Pt. 1

Overview of The Book of Psalms

Biblical Assumptions:

#1: We cannot pray as God wants us to without following HIS instructions.

  • The Lord’s Prayer
  • How God had this book written and compiled

#2: We need and have been given a ‘Prayer Manual’: PSALMS

  • Learn how to use it
  • Constant practice

#3: God wants our hearts to align with HIS…that happens in prayer

  • He wants to have the realest of communication with you
  • He wants to love on you

#4: This inspired collection was meant to be read as instruction in correct prayer to Yahweh and used in the practice of God honoring prayer.

  • We will learn prayer principals to specifically apply to our life
  • We will practice prayer in these attitudes and postures to glorify Yahweh

David’s Role In Psalms

  • Anointed King, Messianic Forefather, Prophet and Fully Surrendered Child
  • David by the Spirit writes as: Yahweh, King of God’s People, Messiah, & Man
  • Yahweh promises HIS Messiah will come from David
  • David typifies The Christ to come

Poems/Songs/Prayers Collected into Five Books

1: Covenant Faithfulness to Torah

2: Messianic Hope (Promised David)

3: Lament of Separation (Exile)

4: Cry 4 Mercy / Omnipotence in Creation

5: God Hears via Messiah & Torah

Psalm 1

1 How blessed are those who; reject the advice of the wicked, don’t stand on the way of sinners or sit where scoffers sit!

  • The collection begins with this statement
  • The end of prayer instruction from Yahweh is transformation
  • God’s Word instructs, we connect in prayer and we act like God wants us to
  • Blessing results from true belief that expresses itself in consistent action
  • Active theology: Reject philosophy & thought, do not share space with evil

2 Their delight is in THE I AM’s instruction; on His teachings they meditate day and night.

  • This delight mean the highest possible value is place upon it
  • ‘The I Am’ is a transliteration of Yahweh, the intimate, personal name of God
  • In the Psalms where you find God named as Yahweh, you will see ‘THE I AM’
  • Often this is translated as God’s Law…but instruction is a better word ‘Torah’
  • Meditating on it is PRAYER!! Prayerfully considering Yahweh’s teachings

3 They are like trees planted by streams — they bear their fruit in season, their leaves never wither, everything they do succeeds. 4 Not so the wicked, who are like chaff driven by the wind.

  • Trees planted by streams; hardwired to what they were made to need: WATER!
  • They are permanently connected to their Life Source!
  • God is what we were made to need more than anything else
  • Praying / Delighting Scripture hardwires us to The God of The Bible.
    • Connection comes from Delight? OR Delight comes from Connection? Y!
  • When we delight in Yahweh’s teaching, we learn it and then we do it (delight)
  • Delighting in Yahweh’s teaching is our Goal in prayer! Intimate Connection!
  • What does it look like when we are doing it the way God wants us to:
    • We will bear fruit in season (Do what we were made by God to do)
    • We will thrive (Experience Joy and Peace doing what God wills)
    • Christian Success = Permanent connection to The Life Source, not Stuff
  • ‘The Wicked’ are understood to be those opposed to Yahweh’s teachings
  • They have no future… no one wants to be counted amongst the wicked….
  • But here is the problem: There is NO MIDDLE GROUND!
  • We are intimately connected to God’s teachings OR we are opposed to it:

There are but two choices of destiny laid out throughout the Scriptures:

5 For this reason the wicked won’t stand up to the judgment, nor will sinners at the gathering of the righteous.

  • There is one judge: THE I AM, when HE judges them wicked then they are
  • There’ll be none without delight in HIS teaching when HE gathers HIS righteous

6 For THE I AM watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked is doomed.

  • Because THE I AM made the righteous HE gives them eternity with HIM
  • And HE gives them a delight for HIS loving, graceful instructions
  • We are to make these teaching a constant focus of our prayer
  • The Wicked = All who do not ‘delight’ in the teaching of the Biblical God / Christ

Instead of Summary & Application points I will be composing Prayers based on the instruction contained in the particular poems / songs I am expositing.

God Lord father,

I desire the blessings that come from; rejecting the advice of the wicked, going the opposite way of sin, and being anywhere YOU are rejected. Lord transform me by Your spirit to walk in Your ways. Change my thinking, my goals and my habits.

I believe such blessings are possessed by those who delightfully live out Your instructions and prayerfully consider them day and night. Father by Your spirit grow my delight in your sacred teachings. Teach me how to pray Your ways, with Your words to Your glory! May my actions and words reflect Your sacred instructions.

YOU bless those who delight in learning and living Your Word; making them as trees planted by a river. They bear fruit in season, their leaves never wither, everything they do succeeds. Lord connect me in Your life; enable me to be what YOU created me to be. I desire Your goals for my life, I desire the supernatural vitality of living out your will; thriving in ways you have ordained!

YOU tell me the fate of those who reject Your Instruction is as chaff driven by the wind, eternally unconnected to YOU. They cannot stand up to your judgment, nor will those who embrace sin eternally gather with Your redeemed. Yahweh I repent of any way, shape or form that I reject YOU, Your Messiah or Your Scripture. I Pray for all who reject YOU to repent. I have no greater need than to be connected to YOU!

For YOU watch over the way of those YOU have made righteous but those who reject YOU will be forever without YOU. Father, Lord God YOU have made me righteous in Christ. I confess YOU possess of my life, my soul, and my eternity. I pray by Your Spirit that my way becomes fully Your way. Amen!

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James: Practical Biblical Living Pt. 9

LIVING IN LIGHT OF ETERNITY

This ending section of Jame’s letter to the scatted Christian churches, is framed by the reality of Christ’s eminent return. James calls his Brothers and Sisters to live in light of Eternity. What does that mean? It means the reality of the Gospel animates & guides your entire life! Decisions and relationships, marriage, career and everything flows from the Gospel.

Six way to live in light of eternity in today’s text(For Spirit Indwelled Believers Only)

Trust Fully in God’s Timing. Give Grace To Each Other. Suffering for God = Blessing.

Don’t Make Oaths, Pray instead. Faith Healing Happens In The Body. Relational Connection Enables Eternal Correction.

James 5:7-20

7 Be patient, my brothers and sisters, as you wait for the Lord to come. Look at the farmer quietly awaiting the precious harvest. See how one has to possess their soul in patience till the land has had the early and late rains. 8 So must you be patient, resting your hearts on the ultimate certainty. The Lord’s coming is near.

  • The only way to be patient is to ‘practice patience’… you lean by waiting
  • This is all about trust! Trust in the Lord’s ways and that He keeps every promise
  • Farmers, in that day, were dependent on rain (very limited irrigation)
  • ‘Possess their soul in patience’ is the act of waiting without anxiety or worry
  • There is only one ‘Ultimate Certainty’: God / Christ
  • There is more to life than ‘This Life’! Jesus Christ is coming back to our world!
  • That is what we are to live for. THAT is what our life should reflect
  • This could be described as living in light of what you believe about Your eternity

This is the ‘Overview’ of how all members of Christ’s Body should live, it is about attitude and identity and belief.

Next, some specifics things we are to practice that flow from surrender to the Gospel of Jesus Christ; specifically Christ’s return to usher in eternity.

9 Don’t make complaints against each other in the meantime my brothers and sisters (as you wait for Christ’s return)—you may be the one at fault yourself. The judge himself is already at the door.

  • During this meantime, until Christ returns, we are to practice grace in this Body
  • This is directed to His ‘Brothers & Sisters’: Christ’s Body / Spirit Indwelt Elect
  • We don’t know the whole story, we don’t even realize if we are right or wrong
  • This is a call to grace based on humility: we know we are flawed, so we shut up
  • In this context it is about projecting your suffering and blaming others
  • The real ‘Judge’ is about to enter the room (Figuratively)
  • YOU are not ‘The Judge’, don’t act like you are.
  • Instead of complaining about others, practice patient endurance in suffering

10 For our example of the patient endurance of suffering we can take the prophets who have spoken in the Lord’s name. Remember that it is usually those who have patiently endured to whom we accord the word “blessed!” 11 You have heard of Job’s patient endurance and how God dealt with him in the end, and therefore you have seen that the Lord is merciful and full of understanding.

  • This is suffering for God’s sake, because you are living for HIM (Prophets)
  • God knows our motives. He know if we are doing things for Him or for ourself
  • Are you suffering because you are living 4 God or because you are not?
  • In the end we see from Scripture how God will bless those who endure 4 HIM

12 It is of the highest importance, my brothers and sisters that your speech should be free from oaths (whether they are “by” heaven or earth or anything else). Your yes should be a plain yes, and your no a plain no, and then you cannot go wrong in the matter. 13 If any of you is in trouble let them pray. If anyone is flourishing let them sing praises to God.

  • Highest importance here is often translated: Above all else
  • I believe this heading so to speak, is for everything that follows until the end
  • James is laying down some cultural practices for Jesus Christ’s Church
  • Again we see ‘Brothers & Sisters’… ‘Brethren’ is old school… Christ’s Body
  • Say what you mean and mean what you say! The integrity of ‘Your Word’
  • Oaths are like ‘cursing’ someone: Unauthorized invoking of God’s power

14 If anyone is ill they should send for the Church elders, who should pray over them, anointing them with oil in the Lord’s name. 15 Believing prayer will heal the sick person; the Lord will restore health and sin will be forgiven.

  • Illness can be physical, emotional or mental
  • What James prescribes is that the afflicted one must initiate the ‘Call’ 4 Elders
  • Honoring of the authority structure God has put in place is crucial
  • The Lord does the restoring, and He does it in HIS way, through HIS leaders

16 You should get into the habit of admitting your sins to each other, and praying for each other, so that if sickness comes to you, you may be healed. Tremendous power is made available through a good person’s earnest prayer.

  • We are to make freely admitting our sin a habitual lifestyle
  • This is a standard for all members of Christ’s Body: Biblical Christian Culture
  • I admit I do not habitually practice confessing my sin to anyone but God
  • We need to all share the conviction that we are to do this for real & then DO IT!

17 Do you remember Elijah? He was a human like us but he prayed earnestly that it should not rain. In fact, not a drop fell on the land for three and a half years. 18 Then he prayed again, the heavens gave the rain and the earth sprouted with vegetation as usual.

  • Humans can be part of God’s supernatural work
  • His prayer connection to God was him connecting to God’s will
  • The point is that God wants to partner with us through prayer

19 My brothers and sisters, if one among you should wander away from the truth, if another should turn them back on to the right path, 20 then you may be sure that in turning someone back from their wandering course, a soul is rescued from death, and this loving action will “cover a multitude of sins”.

  • Within Christ’s Body, we are to keep an eye on each other
  • This world is working 24/7 to make us wander from the truth
  • We need each other. So we need to get to know each other
  • If we know our Brothers and Sisters well we can help them if they wander
  • This says there is a ‘Right Path’ there is such a thing as ‘the Truth’
  • This means that God has given us His Word to study, learn and understand
  • From this comes ‘Biblical Doctrine’
  • Caring about doctrine is a worth while endeavor; something that really matters
  • Believing based on tried & true interpretations of Scripture: SAVES SOULS!
  • Believing based on tried & true interpretations of Scripture: fosters forgiveness

Do you want to be part of this? This does not happen outside of ‘Committed Biblical Community’

Six Ways to Live In Light Of Eternity

PRACTICAL BIBLICAL LIVING

Trust in God’s Timing

Absolute surrender of everything to God’s control; when, how, where and whatever HE wills. Accepting what God walks us through with patience, joy & grace.

Grace For Each Other

Being real about how much grace we have been given and then treating others in our church body with as much grace as we can.

Suffering 4 God = Blessed

Honestly living as Biblically as possible is not easy and suffering is part of the Christian life. The Biblical definition of blessed is Eternal Life with GOD.

No Oaths, Prayer Instead

Instead of dependence on our resources and words we seek the power of Christ in our lives, together in prayer. Prayer is to be our natural response to bad and good.

Faith Healing In The Body

God provides for healing of various kinds within HIS body, it happens in a committed community of shared life. This is how God intended HIS people to live and thrive.

Relational Correction

In Christ’s Body different members prayerfully correct and guide each other from a place of knowing and being known. This is how Christ’s Body comes to salvation and experiences forgiveness.

APPLICATION EXORTATIONS:

SURRENDER EVERYTHING to God for a life of peace rather than one of anxiety!

Spend your time examining yourself rather than others, that is God’s job, not yours!

Choose the eternal blessing of living honestly for God rather than your own comfort!

Speaking humbly about what you can do and seeking God for all HE can do!

Trust God’s way of providing supernatural healing through the authority of HIS Body!

Know your brothers & sisters well enough so that you can prayerfully correct them!

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