Saturday, August 29, 2015

Love is Patient 8/29/15

Day 239- Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/1Cor.10


1 Corinthians 10:19-33

 19 What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? 20 No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. 22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

 23 All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things edify. 24 Let no one seek his own good, but that of his [a]neighbor. 25 Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience’ sake; 26 for the earth is the Lord’s, and [b]all it contains. 27 If one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, eat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience’ sake. 28 But if anyone says to you, “This is meat sacrificed to idols,” do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience’ sake; 29 I mean not your own conscience, but the other man’s; for why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience? 30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered concerning that for which I give thanks?

 31 Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 32 Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God; 33 just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but the profit of the many, so that they may be saved.


Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

 August 29th

 Perfection in my response

"Jesus said to him, I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven." Matthew 18

What is the perfect church? It is a forgiving church. It is a longsuffering church. It is an enduring, patient, caring church that is receiving all the failing, sinful, ungodly people who have Christ in them. There is forgiveness up to seventy times seven. And there is love and there is mercy. There is this kind of relationship that you do not find in any other place. In other places, when someone treats me unfairly or I am offended, I leave and go somewhere else. But that does not accomplish the Lord's desire to perfect the church in the realm of God's unconditional love. This is the meaning of His prayer in John 17:23, "that they may be made perfect into one." Being perfected into one is simply this:the love of God being perfected in us toward one another. This does not mean the perfection of your condition. It means the perfection in my response to your condition-- how I receive you, love you, pray for you, and have mercy toward you. It is how I receive you and make you the object of God's love, no matter what condition you are in.
The church is filled with the love of God-- the love He has toward us, the love we have toward Him, and the love we have toward one another. How marvelous that this is the love in the church. The love- life in the church is the unconditional love of God coming to us. We know what He has done for us. We know how He has received us. Now that same love is demonstrated toward one another

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