Rise to live. 5/17/15

Day 137 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/John.5

John 5:25-47

25 Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.

28 “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned. 30 By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.

Testimonies About Jesus
31 “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true.

33 “You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. 34 Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. 35 John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.

36 “I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, 38 nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. 39 You study[a] the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

41 “I do not accept glory from human beings, 42 but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. 43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. 44 How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God[b]?

45 “But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. 47 But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

May 17th A new center  


“And He died for all, that those who live should live no longer to themselves, but to Him who died for them and has been raised.” 2 CORINTHIANS 5:15
No longer living to ourselves is experiential. The cross is a fact that transfers the source of our lives. Now we are joined to Christ through regeneration. What is the issue of this? What is the purpose of it all? It is that we no longer live to ourselves, that we no longer take ourselves as the point of reference for anything! We no longer consult with ourselves or debate with ourselves. To live no longer to ourselves, but to Him means that we have a new center, a new source, a new base of operation. From this new source, we live to Him who died for us and has been raised.

Based upon this transfer and its experiential effect of no longer living to ourselves, verse 16 begins, “Therefore, from now on . . .” Notice the words “from now on.” In verse 15 it is “no longer,” and in verse 16 it is “from now on, we know no one according to the flesh.” This means we do not interpret people or relate to one another in the way we did in the past. “From now on” is the outcome of “no longer” living to ourselves. Because we have a new base of operation, our whole attitude about one another and how we relate to one another is changed. We no longer know each other according to the flesh. This even includes the way we are related to the Lord, to Christ. Paul testifies, “Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer” (v. 16). We do not remain in our human concepts, ideas, views, and imagi- nations about Christ. But now we are firmly, solidly established in spirit — our new base, our new source, our new center.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

Ariana,Ariel, Rene, and Willie.

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Praise Alert
Anna is out of the hospital.

National
Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International

Israel and Palestine
Iraq

Syrians

Ukraine

Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.
Families of slain Kenyans.
Families of all the recent plane crashes.

Song(s) of the Day.
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