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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:52 |
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." Galatians 5:22-23
Talking with a good brother, I realized that sometimes we wonder if the Christian life is easy or hard living, and reached the following conclusion:
"The Christian life is neither easy nor difficult, impossible. The Christian life can be lived only the Holy Spirit in us. Its fruit is the Christian life is the life of Jesus Christ. Everything else is a poor imitation that does not give satisfaction to which he lives, or God, or convicts who see it. "
Taking as a starting point we will say these words while the believers not to "take up the cross every day," Luke 9:23 the Holy Spirit is free to them and their fruit will not only will the works of the flesh. The Word exhorts us to "walk in the Spirit" but this is not speaking in tongues, but let the Spirit living in us freely, is to let his fruit may appear in our lives and its fruit is love, joy, peace, patience gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance.
Can you imagine that in everyday life of believers to manifest this? Could there be fights? What a testimony to the world! In heaven will be like always, there will be none of the meat that is: "Are manifest works of the flesh, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these, about which I warn you, as I have told you before, that those who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. "Galatians 5:19-21
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Friday, 11 March 2011 22:22 |
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"When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, not overwhelm you. When you walk through fire you shall not be burned, neither shall the flame scorch you. "
Isaiah 43.2 The beautiful writing in the book of Psalms says, c. 40 "... to do thy will, O God, I delight and thy law is within my heart, I announced your justice in the congregation, not refrained my lips, JHWH you know ...." Because doing His will must be our delight, our joy, our life. And here we are with a sword in our hands, with no other recourse than the sword of justice to deal with the enemy. When we are talking about the fire, we're talking about an element of nature that God has used to symbolize the very presence of the Holy Spirit, a symbol of purification of anointing, consecration, so much so that even the most precious metal on the face of land has been used as a symbol of the Christian life in their daily walk. The Bible tells us that if gold is tested by fire, the impurities remain in the essence of the item and the Christian faith if, even more precious that gold is tried by fire that can not be pleasing to which Jesus Christ came to earth, a holy being, a being consecrated, set apart for a living and coexist in the presence of God Almighty. The fire, symbol of the Holy Spirit is dedicated to purify, to cleanse, to stop something undesirable, to remove the imperfections of an item. So if our faith is tried by fire (problems, tests, adversities) our heart, our mind, our spirit can not be instrument element to dwell in the heavenly places, may not be awarded, may not rewarded. So today I will only limitedly two examples of this powerful teaching. The first is found in Hebrews chapter 1, verses 6-7 says, "And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, worship him all the angels of God. And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits and His ministers a flame of fire. "
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Friday, 23 April 2010 00:00 |
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In today want to start with a joke. Some time ago heard a joke about a marriage, which I found very funny. It turns out that the husband was asking his wife what she would like gifts for him birthday, she quickly replied that he wanted him to buy a Jaguar. He answered and said he did not think that kind of gift was a good idea. But she insisted that all her friends saying they had received one of their husbands and that she wanted one. Again he said he did not think this was a good idea. But she insisted and insisted. She insisted so much that he finally bought the Jaguar, and Jaguar two weeks ate. What comedian, right?
But this joke serves as a good illustration of the item we will be exploring today. The reality of all is that many times we ask the Father, with considerable emphasis. We insist and insist, without stopping to take into account and consider the implications of our insistence, more importantly, we forget to emphasize what we must always insist that this is the will of God for us.'s Why Today in the desire to examine some historical details that we reveal what we can influence to insist on things that are not in the will of God, and the consequences that these things can occur in our lives. We now turn to the Word of God.
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Monday, 25 May 2009 18:03 |
For we that are in this tabernacle groan in anguish, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up by life. 2 Corinthians 5.4
Many times we see in our daily walk, the filth and corruption, and often even in our daily life we can observe directly or indirectly interfere or not, every day we disappoint most of the world and the country where God lets us live, as little as far the rules over the evil in our world, it often seems that even God himself has placed us here, before this context corrupt vain, cruel and vile the Bible: Daniel 4.17 "The sentence is decree of the watchers, and by that of the holy ones, so that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men, and that what he wants to give it, and sets over it the basest of men "Without But the decrees of God are impregnable, often "cruel" and "unfair" seems to us, but God is sovereign means one who exercises supreme authority and independent Why? Because God has a purpose in all this time is wrong, what a personal opinion, even personal view is that the Lord wants to squeeze more filthy every element that could contaminate the holy body of God, and I say this because if God permits many who confess to be Christians or Protestants are persecuted, and many of apostates and deny ourselves to believe in God and reject the power to proclaim his kingdom, and bear witness to their presence in our being.
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