Friday, August 21, 2015

We are wise in Christ! 8/21/15

Day 231 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/1Cor.4

1 Corinthians 4

The Nature of True Apostleship
4 This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. 2 Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. 3 I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. 4 My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. 5 Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God. 6 Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, “Do not go beyond what is written.” Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over against the other. 7 For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not? 8 Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have begun to reign—and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you! 9 For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings. 10 We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored! 11 To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. 12 We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; 13 when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world—right up to this moment.

 Paul’s Appeal and Warning
14 I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children. 15 Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. 16 Therefore I urge you to imitate me. 17 For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.
18 Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you. 19 But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have. 20 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. 21 What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline, or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?

 Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

 The blood is active August 21st
“Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, in the blood of the eternal covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.” HEBREWS 13:20-21
That the God of peace brought up from the dead the Lord Jesus “in the blood of the eternal covenant” means that the power of resurrection was in the blood. Then Paul immediately applies this resurrection power to us: “. . . make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight.”
When the Lord was in the tomb, that was a death situation. There was no feeling, there was no sensation. There was a cessation of any kind of feeling. It was blank because death was there in the tomb. Yet the blood was working all the time. The blood never ceased. And it was the power of the blood that raised Him from the dead. It was the blood of the eternal covenant. That means the effectiveness of the blood is operating in us and over us when we do not feel a thing. Be sure that when you are the lowest and when you have no emotion, the eternal blood is there. The blood of the eternal covenant is there doing in us what is well pleasing in God’s sight. Our relationship with God is steady and constant. He is operating in our environment, moving a few things around to bring us to Himself directly. All the while, the blood is there. The blood is active. Its effectiveness stands sure without interruption.

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