Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Monday, May 8, 2023
Matthew 6:14 Christ on Forgiveness.
I take this from this RSV, Matthew ch6 v14.
"..if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you..."
Point 1) Some of the prosperity denominations go after Mark ch 11, with the "faith to move a mountain..."
Point 2) Some soft pastors like Joyce Meyer know enough of human beings that they know we have a lot of trouble sometimes forgiving others.
WHAT IF:
what if we used our faith, applied it to forgiveness..... "Lord help my unforgiveness....."
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Spurgoen on the Lord's work through him.
He never leaves a work unfinished; this would not be for His glory, nor would it be like Him. He knows how to accomplish His gracious design, and though my own evil nature and the world and the devil all conspire to hinder Him, I do not doubt His promise. He will perfect that which concerneth me, and I will praise Him forever. LORD, let Thy gracious work make some advance this day!
-Charles Spurgeon
Rejoice always, pray continually.... Thessalonians and James 5
"Rejoice always, pray continually..."
There's a kind of joy or peace, even in the middle of war and famine--this shields a part of the believer's spirit, if not the body outright.
"The prayers of [the righteous] availeth much."
Keep joy, nurture it, and it will grow like the ten bags of money that the master of the parable gave to the workmen. Bury it, and it does you know good; an active, lively faith grows like the hardiest of plants.
The mantra of the core of the Gospel. Love, hope and peace, to those added mercy and knowledge.
I had a mantra. "God is love, hope and peace."
Christ tells the young man that the chief commandment is to love God.
Paul tells us Christ is literally our hope in glory.
Paul later says Christ is peace that surpass understanding.
We can add to the secret sauce of the Gospel: knowledge and mercy.
Paul also says the knowledge of God surpasses understanding, and in the book of Romans, he more than makes the case that we have received grace in the form of very undeserved mercy, indeed, "the bowels of mercy".
God is so good.
That knowledge, and particularly knowledge of God's mercy, is part of that "mystery of the Gospel".
Imagine it, Christ as the Divine word, and belief part of "knowledge". Part of the active faith then, is not just living a life of outward love, as in works, but in the meditative, contemplative reverie of receiving that love, hope, peace and mercy, translating that into a head knowledge, from just a heart feeling. In the sense of bringing it into our minds, into the natural world, God's supernatural spirit, we open the opportunity for Satan to corrupt, but we also have it translate like a TV dinner of spirituality for others, a newspaper of Christ, we are but transmitters of the Gospel, and the Gospel is love, hope, peace, mercy and knowledge.
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