Sunday, February 06, 2005
Gods work in Judgement
I told you all the Pats would win the game. I was hoping to see overtime. I got home from Church and saw the end of the game. I want to kind of look at a passage tonight that I think people use to maybe induce a works salvation. I am talking about the Just chacter of God and I want to start there perhaps and then blend in to the judgment thing. I ate lunch today with some brother and we got to talk about witnessing. I seem to want to preach hell like I did last night and it might be a thing I am going to have to change to be more effective in fishing for the Lost. Ben makes a point all the time about how people need to know the Love of Jesus and the mercy of the Lord over the Judgment of the Lord to be saved. I think about Huls and her sharing Jesus with me. She did not ever speak the name of Jesus nor did she ever really give a altar call in sharing the Lord. Jesus just was so in her that I knew. I wanted to ask her things that related to the Lord but somehow Jesus did not allow that to happen. Instead Jesus shines to me in her life and I knew Jesus was her Lord and she at one time was a Jesus freak but the more I knew I wanted Jesus in me. Laura I know your going to be in heaven and Jesus love that you shined in will be so big there. Jesus used your love to in effect make my ling for him. In ERIN she got me all obsessed not because of her but the Love she has is the Love of Jesus. I know that I never got into Jesus out of fear it was I saw the Love and heaven in that love I came to place my hope in Jesus. I did hear the message that I would go to hell for all of time if I did not but at the times I asked Jesus to save me Jesus Love alone was the factor and the reason I did it. I reflect and sure the truth of Hell did enter some into my thinking but it was the truth that Jesus Loving me and making me his was the main factor of my turning it all in to him. As I Grow and read the bible and go deep in the Lord I guess I praise the Lord for his death on the cross yet I also marvel so much more in his Love for me that made him do it. As I study the word I am confounded in the Love of Jesus that compelled me to serve him and live my life in a way to make God famous. I read more the sins I do grieve the Lord yet I am forgiven and free not to sin and I desire to please Jesus over all out of Love and not out of fear of hell.
Case and point is the way I look at this passage in the bible. I am going to try to share this with you in the light of Gods Grace
2 Cor 5 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation, which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
Here Paul is speaking to Christians on the topic of Heaven and he is telling us that we long to be home with Jesus. I do. I know that I need to be ready to go home and in Jesus I am ready but I am going at his call. I for years wanted to go on my call and make a beam line for heaven. Makes my think that I am growing because I know I got to work things out and get folks the chance to hear the Lord and see my growth so they might want what I got. I am longing for the Lord yet I want to see his people live here for him so others see the truth and love him and go to heaven.
6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
We want to be home and in heaven in our perfect bodies yet we need to walk and grow in faith in Jesus. I am as you know reporting on the things God is so we get to know Jesus more and can rest more in Jesus and his work. I want to please Jesus out of Love and not go home till he needs me. What ever I do he is here with me anyhow and his work on my heart is going to happen because I know I am growing more and more. I know I know the word and I need to keep reading it so He can use it to work me and make me a shiny light. I know the best way to thank people that helped me is to help others and be a light for Jesus where I am. Jesus is the one I want to thank and I need to reflect his love for others in my heart and life.
The Judgment Seat of Christ
9 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 11 Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.
Here is the text I wanted to hit hard it is this thing on the judgment of the Lord. I think Jesus is going to call us here and give us a paycheck type of thing. I do not see the sins will be here it is all the works we do and things we say that are going to be at this meeting. We want to live to the glory of God because this is going to make him pleased with us on that day when he gives the rewards out. What I do here is going to last forever and places me closer to Jesus forever and gives me more enjoyment in heaven. God has cast sins away so they are not in this but the works we do are. I think the terror of the Lord is the fear or respect of the lord and not danger of hell here because Hell for the people is not in the view of Paul here.
We wish to live pleasing to Jesus and love him via obeying his commands and sharing LOVE with people. Here is the bottom line for me tonight. I ought to live for Jesus and fear God in so much as to serve him so he alone is pleased and other will ask me for the hope within me and long for a walk like I have.
Shadman
Case and point is the way I look at this passage in the bible. I am going to try to share this with you in the light of Gods Grace
2 Cor 5 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation, which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
Here Paul is speaking to Christians on the topic of Heaven and he is telling us that we long to be home with Jesus. I do. I know that I need to be ready to go home and in Jesus I am ready but I am going at his call. I for years wanted to go on my call and make a beam line for heaven. Makes my think that I am growing because I know I got to work things out and get folks the chance to hear the Lord and see my growth so they might want what I got. I am longing for the Lord yet I want to see his people live here for him so others see the truth and love him and go to heaven.
6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
We want to be home and in heaven in our perfect bodies yet we need to walk and grow in faith in Jesus. I am as you know reporting on the things God is so we get to know Jesus more and can rest more in Jesus and his work. I want to please Jesus out of Love and not go home till he needs me. What ever I do he is here with me anyhow and his work on my heart is going to happen because I know I am growing more and more. I know I know the word and I need to keep reading it so He can use it to work me and make me a shiny light. I know the best way to thank people that helped me is to help others and be a light for Jesus where I am. Jesus is the one I want to thank and I need to reflect his love for others in my heart and life.
The Judgment Seat of Christ
9 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 11 Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.
Here is the text I wanted to hit hard it is this thing on the judgment of the Lord. I think Jesus is going to call us here and give us a paycheck type of thing. I do not see the sins will be here it is all the works we do and things we say that are going to be at this meeting. We want to live to the glory of God because this is going to make him pleased with us on that day when he gives the rewards out. What I do here is going to last forever and places me closer to Jesus forever and gives me more enjoyment in heaven. God has cast sins away so they are not in this but the works we do are. I think the terror of the Lord is the fear or respect of the lord and not danger of hell here because Hell for the people is not in the view of Paul here.
We wish to live pleasing to Jesus and love him via obeying his commands and sharing LOVE with people. Here is the bottom line for me tonight. I ought to live for Jesus and fear God in so much as to serve him so he alone is pleased and other will ask me for the hope within me and long for a walk like I have.
Shadman
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hey dude, How did you get your blog on the main web area?? I am a blogger too, but having trouble getting used to it.
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