Love, the Jesus Way!
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Telos: Jesus lays out an impossible task that is only possible through his grace.
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Jesus has taught an impossible plan for mankind.
Dealing with thoughts, not just actions. Judging our hearts and motives, not just what we say and do.
Pharisee’s based everything off of actions. What they did and what people saw them do.
Jesus makes it clear, that we have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
Tekel: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting;
Punching my neighbor Jeff, because he didn’t believe in Jesus.
Inspiration
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.
If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,
that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Revelation
We must accept our deficit without Christ.
We must accept our deficit without Christ.
Humility is one of the chief of all the Christian virtues; it is the hallmark of the child of God.
David Martyn Lloyd-Jones
We cannot boast in ourselves when we recognize our deficit. Not false humility, but true humility.
We cannot boast in ourselves when we recognize our deficit. Not false humility, but true humility.
Just as the Law showed the people of God, there need for help; the teachings of Christ show us we cannot live His life on our own.
You cannot live the Christ like life without first experiencing the love and forgiveness of Christ.
You cannot live the Christ like life without first experiencing the love and forgiveness of Christ.
Humility is a bag into which Christ puts the riches of His grace. The one infallible test of our holiness will be the humility before God and men which marks us. Humility is the bloom and the beauty of holiness. The chief mark of counterfeit holiness is its lack of humility.
Andrew Murray
Application
Release the love that is in your heart.
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Ask the Holy Spirit to help you.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Praying in the Philippine Jungles
Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
It is a process!
It is a process!
Transformation
You shall be..
Thats the Fathers plan for you.