Bible Study Our Daily Living In Christ

[Soul man]

The message of God to the unsaved world is that they believe on the Lord Jesus Christ who is offered to them in limitless grace. The message to the saved and born-again is that they walk worthy of the calling wherewith they are called.
One of the most difficult things to do, as a Christian, is to pinpoint exactly how every believer is to live. It is difficult because it is not God’s intention that every believer live the same or be the same manifestation of the Christ who is in each believer. Actually, the very heart of the message of the Christ-life is that Christ will flow out of each human being differently, and because there is only one Son, God has elected that all who are created in His likeness and image should be different so that one Son might be manifested unto Him in many various ways. This means that stereotype religion and doctrine, derived to make all believers look and act alike, are not only error but are a tremendous effrontery to the Christ who has been birthed in the believer, Gal. 3:16. It is God’s grace that has allowed Christ to come into the believer, regardless of the believer’s condition of sin and the kind of person he is. It is God’s intention that Christ shall swamp and overwhelm all that the believer previously was by the Christ-life, but by no means is the distinctiveness of that believer taken away because Christ flows out of him.

 

[th1b.taylor]

Thank you.

 

[Chopper]

Soul Man, your message to all of us is extremely relevant. Bravo my friend. The only thing that I'd like to add is a few verses on LOVE. It just seems to fit into your thinking and teaching.

1John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
4:14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
4:21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

I hope you don't mind my butting in.

 

[Soul man]

It is the greatest love story to ever be told.

 

[Chopper]

It is the greatest love story to ever be told.

O my goodness, are you right? YES!! Can you believe that the Creator of Heaven and earth called you and me to Himself and then presented us to Jesus? Sometimes it seems so impossible that out of the millions of folk who are not drawn to Jesus, but we are! What an honor to be known and saved by Almighty God the Father and His beloved Son, the Christ Jesus....John 17:6 "I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word." KJV.

 

[Soul man]

The love of God as you know Chopper can be so misinterpreted by many. The world would claim "if God is love" why do bad things happen.
Atheists Would claim the same thing only "that proves God doesn't exist."
Christians have had their doubts I'm sure about the love of God at times. Knowing and understanding the plan of God and how He uses everything in creation for good, toward His ultimate goal of redeeming humanity. It goes beyond finite comprehension, the knowledge of good and evil can not understand the things of God. Two knowledges exist in this earth, the knowledge of good and evil, and the knowledge of the Lord, His knowledge. His knowledge is the only knowledge that fits life here as we know it.
The love of God makes no sense to the carnal mind. I believe in deliverance for the bound, but there comes a time when a person must choose, do I love God more than I love myself. That is where the love affair is, of course we can say it is more for the mature in God but it is a message, a story, that needs to be told to the young.

 

[Chopper]

You are so right on Soul Man. I love how you express yourself. God has certainly gifted you in explaining God's way that a new babe in Christ would understand. An old Saint put it this way...."Preachers, put the cooky jar down where the kids can get the cookies." Soul Man? You do that to the glory of God. Bravo.