Love Fulfilled Ministry

do you know because if you present yourself like as to the extent listening, existing which you obey, either sin to the extent of death, either listen to the extent of righteousness. Now, the grace of God, because existing of sin, you listened now from the heart to the type of teaching which you committed (Romans 6:16-17) Baptism is often expressed as the commitment to follow Jesus. And it is but many are not taught its teachings, as Paul writes "the type of teaching which you committed" so do not understanding the meaning of the underling commitment. If I am not taught what I am committing to, in regards to baptism, then how can I understand it's commitment? The scriptures give us the meaning of this  commitment. We are free in Christ, in regards to the Mosaic Law, but not all things are beneficial to me and some can actually bring my into captivity again to the flesh (1 Corinthians 6). The Spirit and the flesh are opposed to one another thus as a believer I must learn t...

Father forgive them for they know not what they do ( Luke 23:34) Many verses in the scriptures about forgiveness that I read are in context, speaking to those in the body of Christ. For example, "Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive" (Colossians 3:13). Certainly, they apply to forgiving those in the world, but the world has no idea, they are without God, without hope, and act according to the world and its sinful passions. when reviled [he] did not revile in return, suffering [he] did not threaten but commended himself over to the one who judges justly (1 Peter 2:23) The word reviled means to attack; to wrong; to persecute even. Persecution is one of the ways the evil one uses to cause us as believers not to grow into maturity. Paul writes, forfeiting grace can cause a root  bitterness to grow and defile. Persecution is unfair treatment toward a person or group which ...

obtaining now the end goal of your faith, the salvation of your soul (1Peter 1:9) Jesus is our Savior, not just when we first believed but he continues to save. We are saved and enter the kingdom of God through new birth of the Spirit, and through the atoning blood of Jesus. We have testimonies from God of these, of the Spirit that testifies we exist his children and of the blood that testifies we are forgiven. There is the believing faith of our Salvation, that marks and seals us as his children (Ephesians 1:1-13-14). And there is the perfection or maturing of our faith where we become sons. ... run with endurance the race set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith... (Hebrews 12:2) The word perfector in this verse and the "end goal of your faith" used in the first verse have the same root word  télos meaning "consummated goal." The idea is like pointing or aiming or looking through a telescope and seeing the object clearly in si...

blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:10-12) The word persecuted here is interesting in Greek, it has the meaning persecuted but the meaning to press forward, pursue, run after. Jesus said, "seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness..." (Matthew 6:33). When we seek his righteousness and are persecuted but continue forward, seeking it above all we are blessed.  ... yet having no root in himself but exists continuing for a limited time, now, suffering or persecution comes the word falls away (Matthew 13:21) To grow one needs to have deep roots, which Paul writes are faith and love (Ephesians 3:17; Colossians 2:7). And there is a greater love in Christ that can not separate us from him, thus a stronger bond. There is a growth process that matures a child, to a young person, to an adult, this is why Jesus gives gifts to the church (Ephesians 4:10-16).  That we grow into the fullness of Christ ...

But Yahweh was with Joseph extending his lovingkindness, giving him favor in the eyes of the ruler of the prison (Genesis 39:19-21) The story of Joseph includes much wrong in the beginning, he was thrown into a pit by his own brothers to die but instead a band a slave traders just happened to be passing by so they sold him into slavery, where he ended up at Potiphar's house, Pharoah's captain of the guard. Joseph was a handsome man and Potiphar's wife desired and tried to get him to sleep with her but he would not wrong Potiphar nor sin against God. So in spite she falsely accused him of rape and he was thrown into prison. Just imagine this happening to you. Joseph clearly had faith but did that alone sustain him through these times? ... rather faith is energized through love (Galatians 5:6) When Joseph was thrown into prison we read God extended his lovingkindness to Joseph. It was faith energized through love that sustained him through this tribulation. The word energize...

exists no fear in love, rather maturing love drives out the fear because fear has punishment. Now, the one fearing is not matured in agape love (1 John 4:18) God chose us and blessed with all the spiritual blessings in the heavenlies (Ephesians 1:1-14). God put it on my heart to read this chapter over and over again, I can paraphrase it pretty well. It is about what Christ has done for us and how we are blessed in him. From the riches of his grace and glory, and to the praise of his grace, God has blessed us. He sealed us with his Holy Spirit as a guarantor of our inheritance, which he explains in the In the next chapter, making us alive in Christ when we were dead in our trespasses and sin. He did this because he was rich in mercy through his great love, to demonstrated to the ages coming the surpassing riches of his grace in lovingkindness to us in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 1:4-9). We are blessed because God loved us. Faith working through love we are matured to be like him. for the L...

because the one who sows to his own flesh from the flesh reaps corruption, now, the one sowing to the extent of the Spirit, from the Spirit reaps eternal life (Galatians 6:8 ) "Paul writes we have the "first fruit" of the Spirit within us that groans inwardly awaiting our full adoption, the redemption of our bodies (Romans 8:23). So we are a new spiritual being, made alive in Christ, but we reside in a body that is not redeemed, where sin lies, and where the flesh is opposed to the Spirit (Romans 7:14-25; Galatians 5:16-18). We live in a corrupt body and are enticed by fleshly desires and worldly lusts. Though we are forgiven and born of the Spirit, what we sow determines the well-being of our soul, or what James calls wholeness (James 1:5). Or what Paul calls having a good conscience before God." *  What we sow determines the fruit we bear. therefore if together raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ exists seated at the right hand of God, mindful ...