Robert McLaughlin Bible Ministries |
Arizona Conference 2009. Part 2.
Knowing that God loves you is a process.
There is no reality in your life until it is reality from thinking or what is in the right lobe of the soul called the heart in the Bible.
This is the love which God has from His own perfect righteousness, from His perfect character, from His own perfect integrity, and from His own perfect virtue.
JOH 15:16 “You did not choose Me, but I chose you”
God’s love for us is based upon who God is not who we are.
MAL 3:6 “For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.”
ACT 2:23 this Man [Jesus Christ], was delivered up by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God,
His love for us was not based upon something we did or did not do;
EPH 1:3-4 tells us that!
EPH 1:3 Worthy of praise and glorification be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
EPH 1:4 just as He elected us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him.
EPH 3:20 – He is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us
Grace Bible Church
Pastor-Teacher
Rory Clark
Friday,
January 16, 2008
The Christian Walk Has Dynamic Dimension
May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you. JUD 1:2
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant…
1CO 13:4
does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered…
1CO 13:5 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth… 1CO 13:6
…bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things.
Love never fails… 1CO 13:7-8a
…but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away… 1CO 13:8b
SIT-WALK-STAND
The Christian Way of Life begins by SITting.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ…
EPH 1:3
The Christian Way of Life continues by WALKing.
Therefore I (Paul), the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called. EPH 4:1
The Christian Way of Life continues by STANDing.
Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. EPH 6:11
SIT-WALK-STAND
The Christian Walk Has Dynamic Dimension
People like to think in models.
I say models PREVENT thinking.
Extraordinary Golf:
The Art of the Possible
by Fred Shoemaker
SIT-WALK-STAND
…and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. EPH 2:6
For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. 1CO 12:13
Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it. HEB 4:1
…and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. JOH 10:28
so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. 2TI 3:17
When Satan answered the Lord, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
Have You not made a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land… JOB 1:9-10
“But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you… MAT 5:44
But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”
MAT 13:57
Then his (Job’s) wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!”
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips. JOB 2:9-10
…(that you believers in Christ) may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth (the ten problem solving devices) and length (bible doctrine) and height (the rewards of the Christian life) and depth (the portfolio of invisible assets)… EPH 3:18
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm (in the freedom) and do not be subject again (ever) to a yoke of slavery. GAL 5:1
Shoemaker
“There is no freedom in formula.”
Shoemaker
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
“How do I live the
Christian Way of Life?”
Shoemaker
“What shot would I hit
if it were just up to me?
Which it is…”
What would your Christian Way of Life be like if it were up to you? Which it is…
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm (in the freedom) and do not be subject again (ever) to a yoke of slavery. GAL 5:1