Jesus Fellowship: Faith in the Incarnate Son of God. 12/6/15

Day 339

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1 John 5
Faith in the Incarnate Son of God

5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

6 This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7 For there are three that testify: 8 the[a] Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 9 We accept human testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. 10 Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Concluding Affirmations
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

16 If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that you should pray about that. 17 All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.

18 We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them. 19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. 20 We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

21 Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

December 6th

"But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's day:yea, I judge not mine own self." 1 Corinthians 4:3 (KJV)
Man's day is a term used in contrast to the Lord's day. Man's day means that man's opinion and man's judgment hold sway. Man's day means that it is man's turn to judge, view, and analyze. The Lord's day means that the Lord comes in, as in Revelation 1:10:"I was in spirit on the Lord's Day." On the Lord's day the Lord came in to walk among the churches to judge them (Rev. 23). The Lord's day means that now it is the Lord's turn to judge. With this realization Paul says, "Yea, I judge not mine own self." He is saying that he is not trustworthy to analyze himself.
Then in verse 4 Paul continues, "For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord." To deal with our fallen state of subjectivity, we just need to stop ourself. Do not interpret anything concerning yourself or others. Do not argue or debate with yourself. Do not analyze yourself. Do not trust your view, opinion, and reasoning. Call a halt to this self that has controlled and lived out its life for so many years.
The way to be transferred out of your self and into the spirit is to stop your self. Say, "Lord, I open to You with Jeremiah 17:9, 'The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?'" Who can know the heart? Who can know our real state? Verse 10 says, "I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind." The Lord is the One who is qualified to know you and change you. In the New Testament, there is a compound Greek word translated "heart- knower." The Lord is the Heart- knower. He is the One who really knows your heart accurately

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

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