Jesus Fellowship: Fight the Good Fight of Faith. 10/26/15

Day 298

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https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/1Tim.6

1 Timothy 6

6 Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants[a] regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. 2 Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved.

False Teachers and True Contentment

Teach and urge these things. 3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound[b] words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, 4 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 5 and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain, 7 for we brought nothing into the world, and[c] we cannot take anything out of the world. 8 But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

Fight the Good Fight of Faith

11 But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 13 I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before[d] Pontius Pilate made the good confession, 14 to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

17 As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. 18 They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, 19 thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

20 O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,” 21 for by professing it some have swerved from the faith.

Grace be with you.[e]

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

Inner blessedness October 26th

“And blessed is he who is not offended in Me.” MATTHEW 11:6
The New King James Version, as well as others, translates the phrase “in Me” as “because of Me.” But the Greek preposition isen(ejn)withthedativecase,nottheprepositiondia(dia)v withthe accusative case. Thus, this phrase is better translated “in Me,” as in the American Standard Version. So it would read, “Blessed is he who is not offended in Me,” or “Blessed is he who is not offended in this union with Me, or in relationship to Me.” Here the Lord is speaking specifically about John the Baptist. But the way He says it — “blessed is he” — includes all of us. It not only applies to the disciples at that time, but it also opens up a crucial principle in our own experience with the Lord.
The Lord characterizes our inward state as blessed. He is attributing the inward state of blessedness to our abiding in Him, remaining in union with Him, while He handles us, while He allows circumstantial environments over our lives, while He does what He does over us. We know that nothing is an accident in the lives of God’s chosen ones. As the elect we are living under the mighty hand of God. There is a purpose in the universe over all of us. God has an ongoing goal over us year after year, month after month, day after day, even moment by moment. That goal is His Son — that we would enjoy His Son and be conformed to His Son and manifest His Son in our mortal flesh, so that we could utter the same testimony that Paul uttered, “For to me, to live is Christ” (Phil. 1:21). With this goal, with this view, the Lord says, “And blessed is he who is not offended in Me.” In your union with Him, in your relationship with Him, in how He is handling you, in how He is allowing things to be the way they are with you, He adds the word “blessed.” This means happy.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

Anna, Ariana, Ariel, Georgie, Wes, and Zoe.