Giving It All To God

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Giving It All to God

4 שְׁמַ֖עa‬ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ יְהוָ֥ה׀ אֶחָֽד׃

4 שְׁמַ֖עa‬ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ יְהוָ֥ה׀ אֶחָֽד׃

5 וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ אֵ֖ת יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ בְּכָל־לְבָבְךָ֥ וּבְכָל־נַפְשְׁךָ֖ וּבְכָל־מְאֹדֶֽךָ׃

4 fHear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And gthou shalt love the LORD thy God hwith all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy hmight.

Deuteronomy 6:4–5, commonly called the Shema after its first word (shema‘ [TH8085, ZH9048]), constitutes the very heart of the Old Testament and Jewish faith. It is Israel’s doctrinal confession in its most essential form. From a covenant perspective, it is the cardinal principle of which all else is interpretive. When Jesus was asked what is the most important commandment, he replied, “ ‘You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment” (Matt 22:37–38). The absence of rebuttal from his critics suggests that what Jesus said was commonly accepted.

The command to love (that is, in covenant terms, to obey) is predicated on the declaration of who Yahweh is. Moses said, “Yahweh is our God,” that is, the God of no other people and the only God for Israel. The phrase “the LORD alone” (see note on 6:4) affirms this conviction that only Yahweh is Israel’s God.

The fullness of such love is seen in its comprehensive expression—the whole heart, the whole soul, the full strength (Wolff 1974:53). “Heart” (lebab [TH3824, ZH4222]; cf. leb [TH3820, ZH4213]) in Old Testament physiology refers to the mind or will, the center of the intellect. “Soul” (nepesh [TH5315, ZH5883]) describes the person himself or herself, the essential being, especially the desires or longings. “Strength” (me’od [TH3966, ZH4394], lit., “muchness”) is not an element of one’s being, but of human activity, what one does. Thus, the command is to be obedient to God with fullness of being and totality of effort. The New Testament variations on this formula (cf. Matt 22:37–39; Mark 12:29–30; Luke 10:27) agree on the fundamental truths being propounded; the differences in wording may be explained by explanatory glosses in the Septuagint (Bock 1996:1025), made necessary in a more Hellenistic environment.

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37 Jesus said unto him, rThou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, sThou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang tall the law and the prophets.

You see, Jesus did not have to extend the invitation to His audience about the oneness of God because they already had grasped that concept. What His message entailed was loving God with all of one’s heart, soul, and strength.
His second theme was loving one’s neighbor as them self. Pastor spoke on Wednesday about giving:
The psalmist new this well when he wrote:
Of yourself
Time

29  bHe maketh the storm a ccalm,

So that the waves thereof are still.

Money
Talent
Ps 107:29
Let me add: your life! Who you are! Does your work in God’s kingdom define you or does the foolishness of this world:
reference Brother C.
Does your preponderance for pouting?
Does your selfish seclusion from those who need the gospel?
Let us break down what tells us:
Do the things that

The Mind

inner man, mind, will, heart

If we break this down, one can think about it this way: God is calling His children to love them with all their MIND!!!
Some of us wonder what mind we have left after the things that we have gone through in our past. The issue is not what mind we have left, but where our current mind is?
We find ourselves continually thinking if I was in charge or if I was where I wanted to be I could do things better. Maybe! However, is your mind the mind of Christ where you are currently? Where is your mind?

3 For I say, mthrough the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, nnot to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think †soberly, oaccording as God hath dealt to every man pthe measure of faith.

Romans goes onto to say that the Body has many members and not all share the same function. So my question is where is your mind? In your function or where you should be functioning or in someone else’s? Indeed, God has given every member faith, but this faith in itself does not make you better than other people.
Once again, where is your mind?
Do we desire to exalt the Lord or ourselves?
It’s hard to crucify the flesh, but it’s necessary if we want to see success.
How do you measure success?
Souls saved, Men and woman drawing closer to God, and loving people
Most importantly we should understand our success comes from God:

19 Behold, I give unto you power cto tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, dthat the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because eyour names are written in heaven.

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God has already taken the keys of sin and death…therefore, He has given us authority over the devil and his minions; however, this is not why we rejoice. We rejoice because God has made a way for us to make to heaven with Him. That day is vastly approaching and our time on this earth is coming to an end as we know it. The rapture is fastly approaching!
Church, we should be living for God like this day may be our last! We should be witnessing like Jesus will be here tomorrow to take His Church home. We should be following after the plan of salvation and living a holy Life like God’s coming back now?
If He came back tonight, would you be with Him or left behind? Now is the time to repent; Now is the time to get right with God; not tomorrow, not next week, but now!!!!
Once again, where is your mind?

16 mFor who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he †may instruct him? But nwe have the mind of Christ.

It is important to understand that Paul was battling against spiritual pride in this portion of scripture. Paul identifies that no one has a secret knowledge that is not available to every believer who desires. Paul does say that “we” have the mind of Christ. The body of Christ, which is the Church, should be a vehicle for the mind or thinking of Christ.
You will not tell God how to be God. In other words, what Paul is saying is don’t think of yourself more highly than you ought to.
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I spent such a large portion of time on the mind because it drives our actions. There are things we do that we are not even aware of because our internal mind tells us to. If these facets fail, so will the rest of our body. (i.e. heart beat, breathing)
If we do not make the mind of Christ our own mindset the Church’s vital properties will begin functions incorrectly.
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The Soul

The soul is defined as being one’s inner being. It gives identity to a person beyond life itself. It drives one to greater things when the Spirit/spirit within the body moves. If the Spirit of God dwells within us, we should be driven to do greater things for God:

23 And uthe very God of peace wsanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole xspirit and xsoul and body ybe preserved zblameless aunto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thes 5:23

12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, uHe that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and vgreater works than these shall he do; because wI go unto my Father. 13 xAnd whatsoever ye shall ask yin my name, that will I do, that zthe Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

Indeed, God is glorified in the flesh through Jesus Christ. His Spirit is now within us!

16 gThe Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are hthe children of God:

This scripture identifies that we are heirs of heaven through the adoption of God by the infilling of the Holy Spirit. Also, notice how the scripture says, “beareth witness”.
The Greek word here means: well to literally bear witness. Affirming that the Holy Spirit speaking through us in other tongues is yet another sign of the initial sonship.
Our inner being must long for that sonship! Our inner being must long to know the thoughts of God through the Holy Spirit. Church, the only way you will know the the mind or thoughts of God is through one His Logos, or word, and two prayer or communion with His Spirit.

Our Might

Our might, based on my view, is our bodily function of the spirit and mind! Our spirit must be guided by God’s Spirit; hence, our spirit should move our mind towards having the mind of Christ. The mind of Christ in action will bring about the works of Christ in the physical, but if we allow the Spirit to move, the works of God’s Spirit will take place between the spiritual and the physical.
Our actions are to guided by the mind of Christ. We must become rapture conscious in our church activities, we must be willing to become radical about the things of God. Most importantly, we must be willing to get radical about loving souls and seeing them saved!
When we begin to operate in the supernatural giftings out of love, Jesus is greatly pleased. This is what God desired to happen to heal the sick spiritually and then physically.
22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
If we would allow the Spirit to get a hold of us, we would become GLAD in the Lord:
- Giving
- Living
The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), .
- Attitude
- Determination
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