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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

DAILY BREAD OF LIFE

(KJV.)  2 CORINTHIANS 13:5-7


(5)  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith;  prove your own selves.  Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
(6)  But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
(7)  Now I pray to God that ye do no evil;  not that we should appear approved,  but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.


CHECK ENGINE LIGHT IS ON!


Brethren, in the above text, Apostle Paul advises believers to inspect carefully what their attitudes and behaviors are in the faith of the righteousness of our Father through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, to determine if they are truly Christians, show that they possess godly attributes; be certain that they know who they are in the faith, that the spirit of Jesus Christ dwells richly in them; except they have declared ourselves as sinners?;  may God forbid!;  it is easy to call ourselves believers, carry our bibles to go church on worship days, for the world to see that we are of faith, and walk in righteousness;  however, that alone does not make us true believers; true believers have to show the attributes of our Father, and of Jesus Christ; sharing his love, forgiveness, mercies, compassion and deliverance etc...;  all these are his attributes, if we have the Holy Spirit, and are walking in his righteousness, then automatically, we should possess these same attributes; as believers, if we find ourselves caught up in any ungodly behaviors, such as murdering, enviousness, hatred,, gossiping, back-biting, drunkenness, stealing, swearing falsely, fornicating, committing adultery etc....we have erred from the faith of the righteousness of our Father through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior; believers, the check engine light is on; we need to double check ourselves, make rightful turns back to Jesus Christ; because we were once sinners, but are no longer categorized as sinners because of shed blood of Jesus on cross of Calvary; he paid for all our iniquities, past, present and future sins; therefore, he understands our present situations, and not condemning anyone on this earth now, but giving everyone second, third, fourth chances to amend our ways and receive salvation, free grace and life everlasting.

Case in point,  as believers, we are being tested regarding our faiths at all times; what we have to realized is, when we pass testing periods successfully, we upgrade ourselves into next level of our faith into our destinations; however, if we fail any test, we have second, third, and fourth chances to retake those tests over; when we are being tested and for some reasons, we fail any test, let us not feel condemn or worry ourselves over things we do not have control over; there are more chances available to retake those tests again by the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; because, we are not condemned sinners, but believers walking in the grace of our Father through Jesus Christ; today, what Jesus is saying to humanity and at all times is;  "come unto me, with all your labors and heavy laden, I will give you rest, and go and sin no more!";  we cannot refuse such free grace and peace; therefore, it is time to come to Jesus!

Brethren, after we are redeem by the sacred blood of Jesus, set free from bondage of iniquities into the faith of Jesus Christ;  let us not go back to enslave ourselves or try to prove ourselves to others that we have received the grace of our Father by our own human efforts; but rather, show the world the newer versions of ourselves; that we are redeemed of our Father through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, trust and believe in him, walk in his righteousness; let our attitudes and behaviors show who we have become by his grace and resist ungodly ways of our old selves; embrace our newer selves in good faith; in other for the world of darkness to see our lights of glories and give all glories to our Father through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior;  let us be truthful, trust worthy, bear fruits of righteousness; despite the fact that we were once sinners, we are no longer called sinners but children of our Father, saved by grace; for it is written in the book of Ephesians 2:8, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: therefore, grace is a gift from our Father unto humanity;  let us enjoy this free grace, love one another with the love of our Father through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior forevermore.


CONCLUSION:


Dearly beloved, in the text of today; Apostles Paul advises all believers, to double check themselves in the faith, of the righteousness of our Father through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior;  at times, we tend to pass judgments on others; not realizing that we were all sinners saved by grace;  if we analyse what is going on in our lives against the scriptures everyday, we will find out that though we have been saved by the blood of Jesus Christ, we are still sinners, but it only by the blood of Jesus that we have not been consumed by the wrath of our Father; therefore, let us give people, we view as sinners, benefit of doubts, pray for them that someday they will receive awakening spirits, turn away from ungodliness and come into the lights of redemption; therefore, let us leave all judgments to Jesus Christ, there is a day set for judgment; however, to bring others who may be going astray from darkness into lights of redemption, we have to preach truthfulness of matters, allow our voices to be heard on matters leading to damnation of humanity, but do all things with humility and respect for others; state our positive points clearly but without condemnations, for we ourselves were once sinners, but saved by the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ forever and evermore.  Amen and Amen!


QUOTE OF THE DAY:


(KJV.)  Romans 8:10  And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.  

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