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For John
Posted : 27 Oct, 2011 03:18 AM
John, look what I said to Muslims ref.to our conversation:
So, brothers, we know that God calls us to repent, abandon our sins and live implementing the laws of the Son of God Jesus. The Holy Scripture says that God is the Spirit. And we should worship God in the Spirit and Truth. When we repent and believe that Jesus is the Son of God, then we are born of God. It means God/the Holy Spirit will actually live inside of our bodies. And His manifestation will be seen to other people. They will see His Fruits/the fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Let me remind you which the fruits of the Holy Spirit which God expects to see in our lives:
�But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.� (Galatians 5:22)
Love
Joy
Peace
Longsuffering
Kindness
Goodness
Faith/Faithfulness
Gentleness
Self-control
One of men, I talked to, Phillip John, said:
�Bahira who is a doer of this scripture you or the Holy Spirit.�
Good question.
God forgives our sins but we need to do our part- to ask forgiveness.
God forgets our sins but we need to do our part- to confess our sins.
God forgives our sins but we need to do our part- abandon our sins and lovers.
God gives us eternal life through the FAITH in the Son of God but we need to do our part- to live as God commands us walking in FAITH.
So, God expects our cooperation.
Then we will see that God lives in us, if we OBEY:bow: His Commandments.
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ�s sake hath forgiven you. Eph 4:32
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love :hearts:does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely:boxing:, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love :hearts:never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
1 Corinthians 13
The Greatest Gift
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
Brothers, if God lives in us, He transforms us and our lives.
Let me say it so: if you did NOT transform your life, you do not live with God.
If God lives in us, we should be TRANSFORMED, i.e. we should cooperate with God and REPENT, ABANDON our sins and lovers, OBEYING and IMPLEMENTING what God says.
If you do not want to abandon your sins and live a holy life then God does NOT live in you.
Did you know that?
Jesus said: "I Never Knew You"
�Not everyone who says to Me, �Lord, Lord,� shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, �Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied :angeldevil:in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?� And then I will declare to them, �I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness:angeldevil:!� Matthew 7:21-23
That's why we all need to be born of God. We need to live in a renewed life. God should live in us and we should die for our sins. We should be HOLY like God is HOLY.
The Scripture says that without righteousness :angel:no one will see God.
Ponder!
1 John 4
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God;
and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.
4:8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
4:9 By this was God's love revealed in us,
that God has sent his one and only Son into the world
that we might live through him.
4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us,
and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
"Aoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation - the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.
4:11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
4:12 No one has seen God at any time.
If we love one another, God remains in us,
and his love has been perfected in us.
How can His LOVE :hearts:be perfected in us?
My love or His LOVE?
God lives in us and He transforms us. He does not allow us to sin. He is teaching us. He saves us and He gives us love to each other and faith. He is the source of life. If we live in sins, God does not live in us. We are abandoned by the holy God in this case.
So, if God lives in us, He acts in us and these actions are called 'the manifestation of God' or the fruits of the Holy Spirit.
This love:hearts::hearts: is a clear proof of regeneration/the new birth, and is a touchstone of our professed faith in Christ. Let's read the beautiful description of the nature and effects of love.
So, we are able to see and know God through Love for people, brothers and God.
Do you remember what John asked:
�You are communicating as if the Holy Spirit does this in the life of the Holy Spirit.�
If the Holy Spirit lives in us then His LOVE will be perfected in us.
If the Holy Spirit lives in us, then we will see:
Love
Joy
Peace
Longsuffering
Kindness
Goodness
Faith/Faithfulness
Gentleness
Self-control
We even will control ourselves to run away from temptations and adultery to live a HOLY life because God commands us to be HOLY.
It means we will see the fruits of the Holy Spirit/God in our lives.
Because the nature/essence of God is LOVE.
Those who hate people are murderers. Jesus said that.
And murderers will NEVER inherit the Kingdom of God.
You Will Know Them by Their Fruits
Jesus said:
�Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep�s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Therefore by their fruits you will know them. Matthew 7: 15-20
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