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"Be still, and know that I am God"... (Psalm 46:10) [NIV]

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Sunday, May 15, 2011


How are we fighting our sin? The joy in God is so often overlooked in Christian life, we make fighting our sin a burden and we forget that our faith is pursuing God because in there is much joy, peace, love, resources, grace, wisdom, you name it. God has such abundant things for us that when our spiritual eyes are opened, they truly pale in comparison to worldly things. Let us pursue God with a fervour that means joyfulness in God and joylessness in worldly things APART from God..
@ 10:59 PM :: How do we fight?! by Edmund 1 shared


In relation to the above, the sermon excerpt below really helps correct the error we often commit in not loving others.. It is because we are not mixing two ideas, when we truly believe the Gospel, love flows, the Holy Spirit flows, and may God help us obey unto love for Him and others and ever more..

Sermon excerpt from Desiringgod.com titled "What Man does in the New Birth":

And what does obeying the gospel mean? It means believing in Jesus, because the free offer of the gospel is “believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31; 1 Corinthians 15:1-2). The first and basic command of the gospel is not love your brother. What the gospel requires first is faith. So obeying the gospel at this basic level is having faith. You can see that’s the way Peter talks in chapter three, where the husbands without faith in Christ are described as “disobeying the word”—“Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word” (1 Peter 3:1). Not obeying the word means they are not believers. The same thing turns up in 1 Peter 2:8 (“they disobey the word”) and 4:17 (“who do not obey the gospel of God”). So, not obeying the word means not obeying the gospel, that is, not believing.

Paul talked the same way in 2 Thessalonians 1:8 where he says that God will inflict “vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.” In other words, the gospel of the Lord Jesus calls for faith, and these people did not obey. They did not believe. They rejected “the word of truth, the gospel” (Eph. 1:13, Col. 1:5).

So when 1 Peter 1:22 says that you have “purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love,” he means “you have purified your souls by faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ and this faith leads to brotherly love.” Faith works through love (Galatians 5:6). Love comes from sincere faith (1 Timothy 1:5)

Commented @ May 15, 2011 at 11:09 PM Blogger Edmund


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