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LɪᴠɪɴɢWɪᴛʜGᴏᴅ✝️😇

DrGeo4ROM.12-1&2✝️

 

My Dear Spiritual Friend,

Let us meditate on God's Words-

"For the Children of this 🌎👹 are in their generation wiser than the Children of Light”-Luke-16:8 

Some Worldly People are quite shrewd. Some can think of many ways to accumulate and Use Earthly Resources — Honestly and Dishonestly.

Lord Jesus Christ✝️, however, wants His Disciples to Use Their Worldly Resources 

In Ways that Are Spiritually Shrewd. We must not use our resources to control others and should not hoard those resources to be overprotective of our future. Instead, we must bless others. 

Benefiting Others and Using Our Earthly Resources To Be A Blessing and a friend to Others are our Christian Goals. God blesses us so that we can be a blessing to others. As we are Faithful Stewards of God's blessings, we please our Heavenly Father😇 and Store Up Our Treasures In Heaven.

This Parable is directed at the Current Disciples of Lord Jesus Christ✝️😇🕊❤️ worldwide. It raises the question: Where do they "WE Feature in this Parable⁉️

In a rather Personal Application and as a Response to the Ecclesiastical 'battles' often fought based on man-made denominational boundaries, discovering and preserving the Truth of the Gospel of Salvationbroughtby LordJesusChrist✝️😇🕊❤️, and the failure to understand ourselves as Born-Sinners will lead to an ill-fated identification with the manager that will obscure the very intent of the parable.

On a first-level reading, I think we are not the Manager who Generously Scatters God's Possession (His Word of Grace, Forgiveness, and Mercy) and continues on his journey to the very end despite adversary.

We are the Debtors in the Parable whose Debt is Graciously Reduced and Finally Totally Cancelled (cf. Col 2:14). 

An Experience of and the Continued Awareness of God's✝️😇🕊❤️ Extravagant Grace, however, Opens the Door to a Restored Relationship and a New Home for a United Family of God😇✝️🕊️❤️.

It is only when the Realisation of Indebtedness to God✝️ and His unfailing Mercy dawns on us that we then can and should - on a Second-level Identify with the Manager, the protagonist in Lord Jesus's✝️ Story. 

In his first letter to the Corinthians, Apostle Paul writes that 'men ought to regard us as Servants/Managers [oikonomous] of Christ✝️ and as those Entrusted with the Secret Things of God'😇✝️🕊 (1 Cor 4:1).

Being a Wise or a Faithful Manager means that, despite Opposition and False Accusations, we - like Lord Jesus Christ✝️, Himself - should Scatter God's😇✝️🕊❤️ Possessions Freely and Generously. 

For us, this is first and Foremost the Gospel message of a Merciful God😇✝️🕊️❤️, but it also applies to all other Goods that we Graciously Receive from God😇✝️🕊️, including Money - as highlighted by the Lukan context. 

'Divine wisdom is a matter of Giving, not hoarding for Personal Gain'.Christ Life in Real Sense IS A DETACHMENT FROM THE SATAN-LED WORLD BY AN ATTACHMENT TO LORD JESUS CHRIST ✝️ 😇 🕊 ❤️. God’s Word Teaching Us Very Strongly and Strictly in Rom.12:1&2-

"Live As A Living Sacrifice

12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 

2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will".

May God😇✝️🕊️❤️Bless Us🙌👏Amen🙏...

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LIVING GOD😇 INSIDE✝️

DrGeo4SacrificialLiving✝️

 

My Dear Spiritual Friend,

We will contemplate the "Most Complex and Complicated Human Problem for all of us today- 

"To Keep Sexual Purity".

Our Lord Jesus Christ's😇✝️🕊 Standard Regarding Sexual Purity Is Clear and Unchanging.

Lord Jesus taught that "Looking at a woman lustfully is like committing Adultery in your heart, not just the physical act. He emphasized that sin originates in the heart❤️ and involves the persistent, consensual cherishing of impure thoughts and desires, rather than simply feeling natural (Matthew 5:28).

Flee from the Sexual Temptations. Sexual Immorality not only takes from others, but it also damages ourselves. As Christians, we believe that God😇✝️🕊 Has Redeemed us and called us to honor Him through the Way we use our Bodies.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 teaches us-

“Flee from Sexual Immorality. All Other Sins A Man Commits Are Outside His Body, but he who Sins Sexually Sins Against His Own Body. Do You Not Know that Your Body Is A Temple of the HOLY SPIRIT 🕊, WHO IS IN YOU, whom you have received from God⁉️ You are not your Own; You Were Bought At A Price. Therefore Honor God✝️😇🕊❤ With Your Body."

As a Temple of the Holy Spirit🕊 Your Body should have nothing to do with immoral behavior. Don’t flirt with an immoral behavior--flee from it. 

Do not dabble with Temptation because You Will💯% fall into it. Respect the fact that God has Bought You With A Price By Staying Far From Temptation.

God’s😇✝️🕊 Plan for Sexual Purity does not look like the world’s view--It is far better!

In Matthew 19, Lord Jesus Christ✝️😇🕊 actually said, “At the beginning, the creator made them male and female and said, For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. And the two will become one flesh".

The word for these departures in the Gospels is “porneia” – the Greek term from which of course we get “pornography” in 

Matthew 5:32-

"But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving. for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and. whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery".

Mark 7:21-

"For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

By definition, porneia in the Gospels – on Lord Jesus’ lips – refers to Adultery, Pre-Marital Sex, Same-Sex Intimacy, all the other things the Old Testament lists as departures from “The Good ”. 

You may know that the Pharisees brought a woman to Lord Jesus who had committed sexual sin and asked Him what should be done with her. Should she be condemned? And He famously replied- 

"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her"- (John 8:7-11)

You may know that the Pharisees brought a woman to Jesus who had sinned sexually and asked him what should be done with her. Should she be condemned? And he famously replied, “Let the one without sin cast the first stone.”

But then in the story (You can read it for yourself in John chapter 8), He turns to the woman and says two things-

(1) I don’t condemn you, and 

(2) Don’t go on sinning.

My Dear Spiritual Friend, GOD'S ✝️😇🕊️ WORDS ROM-12:1&2 Very Strictly and Clearly Instructs Us to Live our lives "As A Living Sacrifice - 

"Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

2 Do not conform to the pattern of this 🌎 World, but be Transformed by the Renewing of your Mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will".

*Please Join, Pray & Support This God’s Mission 

-ROM-12:1&2Works👏 

May God's 

Blessings Be 

With&Within Us 

Always ✝️😇🕊❤️Amen 🙌👏✝️

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Streams in the Desert

September 8th


"Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress" (Psa_4:1).
This is one of the grandest testimonies ever given by man to the moral government of God. It is not a man’s thanksgiving that he has been set free from suffering. It is a thanksgiving that he has been set free through suffering: "Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress." He declares the sorrows of life to have been themselves the source of life’s enlargement.
And have not you and I a thousand times felt this to be true? It is written of Joseph in the dungeon that "the iron entered into his soul." We all feel that what Joseph needed for his soul was just the iron. He had seen only the glitter of the gold. He had been rejoicing in youthful dreams; and dreaming hardens the heart. He who sheds tears over a romance will not be most apt to help reality; real sorrow will be too unpoetic for him. We need the iron to enlarge our nature. The gold is but a vision; the iron is an experience. The chain which unites me to humanity must be an iron chain. That touch of nature which makes the world akin is not joy, but sorrow; gold is partial, but iron is universal.
My soul, if thou wouldst be enlarged into human sympathy, thou must be narrowed into limits of human suffering. Joseph’s dungeon is the road to Joseph’s throne. Thou canst not lift the iron load of thy brother if the iron hath not entered into thee. It is thy limit that is thine enlargement. It is the shadows of thy life that are the real fulfillment of thy dreams of glory. Murmur not at the shadows; they are better revelations than thy dreams. Say not that the shades of the prison-house have fettered thee; thy fetters are wings-- wings of flight into the bosom of humanity. The door of thy prison-house is a door into the heart of the universe. God has enlarged thee by the binding of sorrow’s chain.-- George Matheson
If Joseph had not been Egypt’s prisoner, he had never been Egypt’s governor. The iron chain about his feet ushered in the golden chain about his neck.-- Selected
 

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C.H. Spurgeon--Morning/Evening
September 6th

**Morning/Evening Devotion**


~Morning~

"From me is thy fruit found." — Hos_14:8

Our fruit is found from our God as to union. The fruit of the branch is directly traceable to the root. Sever the connection, the branch dies, and no fruit is produced. By virtue of our union with Christ we bring forth fruit. Every bunch of grapes have been first in the root, it has passed through the stem, and flowed through the sap vessels, and fashioned itself externally into fruit, but it was first in the stem; so also every good work was first in Christ, and then is brought forth in us. O Christian, prize this precious union to Christ; for it must be the source of all the fruitfulness which thou canst hope to know. If thou wert not joined to Jesus Christ, thou wouldst be a barren bough indeed.
Our fruit comes from God as to spiritual providence. When the dew-drops fall from heaven, when the cloud looks down from on high, and is about to distil its liquid treasure, when the bright sun swells the berries of the cluster, each heavenly boon may whisper to the tree and say, "From me is thy fruit found." The fruit owes much to the root-that is essential to fruitfulness-but it owes very much also to external influences. How much we owe to God's grace-providence! in which he provides us constantly with quickening, teaching, consolation, strength, or whatever else we want. To this we owe our all of usefulness or virtue.
Our fruit comes from God as to wise husbandry. The gardener's sharp-edged knife promotes the fruitfulness of the tree, by thinning the clusters, and by cutting off superfluous shoots. So is it, Christian, with that pruning which the Lord gives to thee. "My Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." Since our God is the author of our spiritual graces, let us give to him all the glory of our salvation.

~Evening~

"The exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead." — Eph_1:19, Eph_1:20

In the resurrection of Christ, as in our salvation, there was put forth nothing short of a divine power. What shall we say of those who think that conversion is wrought by the free will of man, and is due to his own betterness of disposition? When we shall see the dead rise from the grave by their own power, then may we expect to see ungodly sinners of their own free will turning to Christ. It is not the word preached, nor the word read in itself; all quickening power proceeds from the Holy Ghost. This power was irresistible. All the soldiers and the high priests could not keep the body of Christ in the tomb; Death himself could not hold Jesus in his bonds: even thus irresistible is the power put forth in the believer when he is raised to newness of life. No sin, no corruption, no devils in hell nor sinners upon earth, can stay the hand of God's grace when it intends to convert a man. If God omnipotently says, "Thou shalt," man shall not say, "I will not." Observe that the power which raised Christ from the dead was glorious. It reflected honour upon God and wrought dismay in the hosts of evil. So there is great glory to God in the conversion of every sinner. It was everlasting power. "Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him." So we, being raised from the dead, go not back to our dead works nor to our old corruptions, but we live unto God. "Because he lives we live also." "For we are dead, and our life is hid with Christ in God." "Like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Lastly, in the text mark the union of the new life to Jesus. The same power which raised the Head works life in the members. What a blessing to be quickened together with Christ!


 
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The Bent-Knee Time
September 8th

DON’T SELL YOUR BIRTHRIGHT
Dan_1:8-20
So much hinges on a single thing. Daniel was given a keen, understanding mind. He knew that he could keep it so or lose it. So knowing, he chose to be careful in his habits of life. “Pulse” for Daniel meant thoughtful moderation, self-control, which must have characterized all his round of life. Dainties may seem a small item, but Daniel would not sell his birthright of keenness and strength for a mess of dainties.
 
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