Thursday, September 17, 2015

God bless you! 9/17/15


Day 258- Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/2Cor.10


2 Corinthians 10

Paul Defends His Ministry

I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!— 2 I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, 6 being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.

7 Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we. 8 For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed. 9 I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters. 10 For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.” 11 Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present. 12 Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.

13 But we will not boast beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, to reach even to you. 14 For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ. 15 We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be greatly enlarged, 16 so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another's area of influence. 17 “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” 18 For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.


Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

The cross to our members September 17th

“Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.” COLOSSIANS 3:5

The world is filled with all the things that stimulate the flesh — the television, the radio, the music, the lyrics. Even the atmosphere in many worldly places is designed by the devil to ruin humanity for God’s purpose. It causes humanity to become lower and lower in uncleanness, looseness, fornication, in all the moral filth that is filling the earth today. So I say strongly that we need to exercise our spirit to be strict with everything immoral; otherwise there is no way to grow in our Christian life. Some may think that this kind of fellowship is only for the unmarried. But this is as much for the married as for the unmarried. The flesh does not cease at marriage. Lust does not stop, evil passion does not stop. It may continue in married life. This is why Paul said, “That each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God” (1 Thess. 4:4-5). Possessing your own vessel can refer to possessing your own body, or it can also be understood as possessing your spouse. Even in a legitimate marriage relationship, Paul exhorted that the believers were to be sanctified.

We were not called to uncleanness, but we were called in holiness and honor (v. 7). This means we need to be specific to apply the cross to our members. Our members here are not spoken of as being our eyes, ears, or mind. Paul actually refers to our members as fornication and uncleanness. That is how constituted the flesh is with sin. So we must put to death. We must kill. Do not entertain. Do not think. Do not let anything start. Immediately interrupt it with your spirit. Allow your spirit to come out and put it to death. “Lord, I am in Your economy. I am not here being wasted in filth, wasted with my eyes, wasted with my mind, wasted in my flesh, giving my body to uncleanness. I am not here for that. My body is to be sanctified. It is to be holy. It is Yours, and one day it is to be conformed to Your glorious body.” In this way, we inwardly apply the cross to our members.


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