"One verse in every six in the first three Gospels relates either directly or indirectly to money. Sixteen of our Lords forty-four parables deal with the use of misuse of money. A loving, joyful, liberal giving to the Lord’s work is an acid test of a spiritual heart, pleasing to God."
William Allen
WORK THE SCRIPTURES BEFORE PUBLISHING
Part 5 of 6 New Beginnings – The Passover:
When we come to know the Lord in the intimacy He has called us to we see through His eyes, hear through His ears, understand through His mind, and develop the compassion of His heart… this is what it means to walk in the Spirit of God.
“Have this attitude in yourselves
which was also in Christ Jesus,
who, although He existed in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant,
and being made in the likeness of men.
Being found in appearance as a man,
He humbled Himself
by becoming obedient to the point of death,
even death on a cross.
For this reason also, God highly exalted Him,
and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow,
of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.”
Philippians 2:5-11 NASB
When we walk in the authority of His power and glory, the cares which once preoccupied our hearts and thoughts, fade in comparison to the majesty of His presence and the import of His will for our lives.
The world may be consumed with the financial collapse of the stock market, the brazen actions of rogue nations, the pestilence of a pandemic or the war torn nations of the world. But when we get caught up in His Spirit and begin to exercise kingdom principles we will see as the prophet Isaiah saw, that the whole earth is filled with His glory, in the face of these seemingly insurmountable issues.
“And one called out to another and said,
‘Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts,
the whole earth is full of His glory’."
Isaiah 6:3 NASB
The things of the earth are real, but the things of God’s kingdom are far greater, in importance and relevance.
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways My ways, declares the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are My ways higher than your ways
and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:8-9 NASB
Are hearts and minds are made new in the blood of Christ. We are wise to be cognizant of the issues of this age, but if we are continuing to be anxious over the things of this world, then we have taken our eyes and assurance off Jesus. The battle is the Lords, but our eyes must be disciplined to keep our focus and faith in and on Him.
“…and that all this assembly may know
that the LORD does not deliver by sword or by spear;
for the battle is the LORD'S
and He will give you into our hands."
1 Samuel 17:47
If we are not abiding in Christ then there is no good thing in us. The Word says that our hearts and flesh are desperately wicked… so much so that we can’t understand the magnitude of our own deception.
“Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers,
beware of the false circumcision;
for we are the true circumcision,
who worship in the Spirit of God
and glory in Christ Jesus
and put no confidence in the flesh”
Philippians 3:2-3 NASB
“For I know that nothing good dwells in me,
that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me,
but the doing of the good is not.”
Romans 7:18 NASB
“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing;
the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.”
John 6:63 NASB
“The heart is more deceitful than all else
and is desperately sick;
Who can understand it?”
Jeremiah 17:9 NASB
“He who trusts in his own heart is a fool,
but he who walks wisely will be delivered.”
Proverbs 28:26 NASB
But the Good News of the Gospel message is that we no longer have to live in our old sinful nature. The resurrection life of Jesus Christ brings us new life in Him.
"I have been crucified with Christ;
and it is no longer I who live,
but Christ lives in me;
and the life which I now live in the flesh
I live by faith in the Son of God,
who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
"I do not nullify the grace of God,
for if righteousness comes through the Law,
then Christ died needlessly."
Galatians 2:20-21 NASB
When Jesus proclaimed “Teleos” (It is finished) from the Cross of Calvary, he meant just that! Our Salvation, Deliverance and Healing are each complete in His finished work. Much of the church is living with one foot in the kingdom and the other in the world. James warns us that such a mix lifestyle will lead to our lives being totally unstable.
“For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,
being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”
James 1:7-8 NASB
Maturity in the Lord has little to do with the human effort of our flesh, and everything to do with becoming intimate with Him. The more we press into His presence through fellowship, the Word and the Spirit; the more useful we will be in establishing His kingdom – the heavenly realm – here on the earth. Jesus is the complete package, He really doesn’t need our help, but He does need and require our surrender and obedience to His call and His Word.
He is the firstborn of all creation (Colossians 1:15) and the first of many brethren.(Romans 8:29). Everything was created by the Lord and everything is held together by Him (Colossians 1:16-17). All things, including the significance of your life and mine, will be summed up in Christ Jesus! (Ephesians 1:10)
Jesus by His grace has given us the power to walk in victory over every evil by His Spirit.
It’s not my might not by power, but by My Spirit…
William Allen
WORK THE SCRIPTURES BEFORE PUBLISHING
Part 5 of 6 New Beginnings – The Passover:
When we come to know the Lord in the intimacy He has called us to we see through His eyes, hear through His ears, understand through His mind, and develop the compassion of His heart… this is what it means to walk in the Spirit of God.
“Have this attitude in yourselves
which was also in Christ Jesus,
who, although He existed in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant,
and being made in the likeness of men.
Being found in appearance as a man,
He humbled Himself
by becoming obedient to the point of death,
even death on a cross.
For this reason also, God highly exalted Him,
and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow,
of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.”
Philippians 2:5-11 NASB
When we walk in the authority of His power and glory, the cares which once preoccupied our hearts and thoughts, fade in comparison to the majesty of His presence and the import of His will for our lives.
The world may be consumed with the financial collapse of the stock market, the brazen actions of rogue nations, the pestilence of a pandemic or the war torn nations of the world. But when we get caught up in His Spirit and begin to exercise kingdom principles we will see as the prophet Isaiah saw, that the whole earth is filled with His glory, in the face of these seemingly insurmountable issues.
“And one called out to another and said,
‘Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts,
the whole earth is full of His glory’."
Isaiah 6:3 NASB
The things of the earth are real, but the things of God’s kingdom are far greater, in importance and relevance.
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways My ways, declares the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are My ways higher than your ways
and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:8-9 NASB
Are hearts and minds are made new in the blood of Christ. We are wise to be cognizant of the issues of this age, but if we are continuing to be anxious over the things of this world, then we have taken our eyes and assurance off Jesus. The battle is the Lords, but our eyes must be disciplined to keep our focus and faith in and on Him.
“…and that all this assembly may know
that the LORD does not deliver by sword or by spear;
for the battle is the LORD'S
and He will give you into our hands."
1 Samuel 17:47
If we are not abiding in Christ then there is no good thing in us. The Word says that our hearts and flesh are desperately wicked… so much so that we can’t understand the magnitude of our own deception.
“Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers,
beware of the false circumcision;
for we are the true circumcision,
who worship in the Spirit of God
and glory in Christ Jesus
and put no confidence in the flesh”
Philippians 3:2-3 NASB
“For I know that nothing good dwells in me,
that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me,
but the doing of the good is not.”
Romans 7:18 NASB
“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing;
the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.”
John 6:63 NASB
“The heart is more deceitful than all else
and is desperately sick;
Who can understand it?”
Jeremiah 17:9 NASB
“He who trusts in his own heart is a fool,
but he who walks wisely will be delivered.”
Proverbs 28:26 NASB
But the Good News of the Gospel message is that we no longer have to live in our old sinful nature. The resurrection life of Jesus Christ brings us new life in Him.
"I have been crucified with Christ;
and it is no longer I who live,
but Christ lives in me;
and the life which I now live in the flesh
I live by faith in the Son of God,
who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
"I do not nullify the grace of God,
for if righteousness comes through the Law,
then Christ died needlessly."
Galatians 2:20-21 NASB
When Jesus proclaimed “Teleos” (It is finished) from the Cross of Calvary, he meant just that! Our Salvation, Deliverance and Healing are each complete in His finished work. Much of the church is living with one foot in the kingdom and the other in the world. James warns us that such a mix lifestyle will lead to our lives being totally unstable.
“For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,
being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”
James 1:7-8 NASB
Maturity in the Lord has little to do with the human effort of our flesh, and everything to do with becoming intimate with Him. The more we press into His presence through fellowship, the Word and the Spirit; the more useful we will be in establishing His kingdom – the heavenly realm – here on the earth. Jesus is the complete package, He really doesn’t need our help, but He does need and require our surrender and obedience to His call and His Word.
He is the firstborn of all creation (Colossians 1:15) and the first of many brethren.(Romans 8:29). Everything was created by the Lord and everything is held together by Him (Colossians 1:16-17). All things, including the significance of your life and mine, will be summed up in Christ Jesus! (Ephesians 1:10)
Jesus by His grace has given us the power to walk in victory over every evil by His Spirit.
It’s not my might not by power, but by My Spirit…
“Then he said to me, This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel saying,
'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts.’”
Zachariah 4:6 NASB
When we stumble and fall, it is never due to the fact that we lack the power to resist the temptation that is before us, it is because we fail to choose to walk in obedience to what He has proclaimed over our lives.
“And He has said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness’ Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.”
2 Corinthians 12:9 NASB
There is no “can’t” when you are walking in the Truth.
We may refuse to walk in the truth by stating “I will not” or “I did not,” but in Christ we can do all things by His grace, and in the power of His Spirit.
I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me."
Philippians 4:13 NASB
In Christ, and in Christ alone we have become a new creation for a new beginning. We can do all things for the sake of the Gospel of Jesus Christ simply by abiding in Him. The word abiding means literally to “live in.” When our life source is the source of all life we will always experience blessing and victory.
“For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this,
that one died for all, therefore all died;
and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.
Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh;
even though we have known Christ according to the flesh,
yet now we know Him in this way no longer.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature;
the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
Now all these things are from God,
who reconciled us to Himself through Christ
and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,
namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself,
not counting their trespasses against them,
and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ,
as though God were making an appeal through us;
we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf,
so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
2 Corinthians 5:14-21 NASB
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In Christ, and in Christ alone we have become a new creation for a new beginning. We can do all things for the sake of the Gospel of Jesus Christ simply by abiding in Him. The word abiding means literally to “live in.” When our life source is the source of all life we will always experience blessing and victory.
“For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this,
that one died for all, therefore all died;
and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.
Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh;
even though we have known Christ according to the flesh,
yet now we know Him in this way no longer.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature;
the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
Now all these things are from God,
who reconciled us to Himself through Christ
and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,
namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself,
not counting their trespasses against them,
and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ,
as though God were making an appeal through us;
we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf,
so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
2 Corinthians 5:14-21 NASB
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