Living right in a wrong world
Good morning everyone I would like to repost a lesson that I did on this subject a couple years ago that I think would still benefit us today.
Lets ask the Holy Spirit to reveal Gods word to us.
Let it be even as I ask dear Lord amen.
This lesson needs to be refreshed in our minds and hearts as the day of the Lord draws near.
LIVING RIGHT IN A WRONG WORLD.
How come as children of God we can easily believe in God and that He indeed exists. Yes even we may have surrender our lives to Jesus as our Savior. But! have we Surrender our self’s to Him so that He can live His life though us to show us how the Father wants us to live.
The Word of God tells us that we must make Him the Lord of our lives as well as our savior.
I will list some verse’s that gives this truth to us. In all verses Jesus as is called Our Lord.
Rom 1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
Rom 1:7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called [to be] saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 4:24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
Rom 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
In this verse below it is given unto us that we are to live (Reckon) our lives as thou we are deed to our past lives making Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ok now lets take a look at What it means to call Jesus Christ Our Lord.
1- he to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has
power of deciding; master, lord .
2- the possessor and disposer of a thing
3- the owner; one who has control of the person, the master
4- It is a title of honor expressive of respect and reverence,
with which servants greet their master.
5-We must remember that this title is given to: God, the Messiah, Christ Jesus. The second person of the triune God Head.
It is easy for us to believe that God created heaven and earth. But some how we fail to believe the rest of the story that is recorded in His word to us.
We make the mistake of saying, Well! we have given our self’s to God and it is His responsibility to take care of us.
Brothers and Sister we are wrong in our presumption that He will take care of us without doing our part.
Just what is our part we might ask ourselves?
God has giving us a road map for living our lives for Him. It is called the Holy Bible and it is a sad statement on our part because we fail to consult the Bible (Gods Word to us)
for His principles of right living.
The times that we do read His Word we read it in the flash with no understanding and we become confused about the things of God.
So we live our lives thinking that God has let us down.
Mic 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
What a sad, sad commentary on our part. We miss out on the very best things that God has for us So we refuse to believe what God has and is showing us in His word to us. As noted in verse below.
Mat 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Mat 13:23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that hearth the word, and understand [it]; which also bearish fruit, and brunet forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
We make our traditions from false teaching of Gods word to us and then we call our traditions the truth of Gods word. Then we lead a life that is wrong and displeasing to God.
Mar 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Because of our refusal to accept the absolute truth of His word to us we live in sin, our lives is miserable because of these sins.
WE try to live our lives our own way, and do not have the foggiest knowledge of how God want us to live and how He wants to bless us
1Jo 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jo 2:16 For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jo 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
1Jo 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Jesus said in John 8 31-32 that if we continue in His Word then we shall know the truth and the truth shall make us free.
Jhn 8:31 ¶ Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, [then] are ye my disciples indeed; 

Jhn 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
We are so busy living it our own way that we leave God completely out of our lives.
Thus we go back into being captives once again in the darkness that we came out of.
This is the main reason that we are not live our lives victorious in Jesus.
We can not see because of the darkness of sin in our lives.
You see we must believe that God is who He says He is.
Exd 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Just how do we do this? WE DO IT BY FAITH IN THE LIVING WORD TO US. HEARING AND THEN OBEYING.
Rom 10:17 So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
If we do not do all things in faith it is sin in Gods eyes.
Then we can not live right in this world that has gone bad.
Rom 14:23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith: for whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin.
WE live by faith not by sight. We must take time to study the word of God, learn what it says and then do it.(obey,0bey.) What it instructs us to do. If we do this, we can then began to live a righteously life and thus avoid the pitfalls of sin.
Being set free we then can live right in a world that has gone bad.
Jhn 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Jhn 4:24 God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.
Brother and Sister we are A Spiritual People, A holy people that has been set aside for God as such we must live accordingly, in order to live a rigorous life before God. Because God is a Spirit we are created in His image. We must live our lives as being spiritual in order to please our God.
Jhn 4:24 God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
End of Part One
YBIC
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