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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Monday’s Life In Him - Justified In Christ

Happy Monday Everyone! Who wants to join in “Monday's Life In Him”? It’s easy… Just grab this button below & post it somewhere either on your blog post or on your main page. Then… Write a post about HIM (Jesus) Sometimes I just post a verse, sometimes I share a short story or sometimes I write a short study.Either way… Let’s spread His Word and His Love!

^{Here is what I have for today:}

Imagine two chairs sitting across from one another.

One one side you have the seat of "Condemnation". On the other side you have the seat of "Justification". IN the middle between these two chairs is THE CROSS OF CHRIST. To get from the seat of "Condemnation" to the seat of "Justification"... the person needs to go through the Cross of Christ!!

Condemnation is not a feeling. Condemnation is our standing, our position. It is a sentence. Condemned = GUILTY!

Justification is not a feeling. Justification is our standing, our position. Justification is a sentence. Justified = INNOCENT!

Notice I did not use the words, “not guilty”. Justification is better than “not guilty” – If you are Justified, you are INNOCENT. If you are IN CHRIST then you are JUSTIFIED, INNOCENT.

A criminal can be guilty of his crime, but in court be found “not guilty” even though he is indeed guilty of his crime. The blood of Jesus and what He did on the cross makes us better than “not guilty” – it makes us INNOCENT of all charges!! We are JUSTIFIED!!

Gal. 2:16

¹⁶Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Romans 8:1 says,

"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit"

IN CHRIST!

Are you IN CHRIST?

Eph. 2:13

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Phil. 1:26

²⁶That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

“IN Christ”

The word “IN” =

G1722 (taken from Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionary)
ἐν
en
A primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state)

This relates right back to JUSTIFIED IN CHRIST!

Your POSITION is IN CHRIST.

Your POSITION is JUSTIFIED.

If you are IN CHRIST, you are JUSTIFIED.

INNOCENT!!

Set free!

Made whole!

Made whole IN CHRIST!

Praise God!

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Ok, it’s YOUR turn now.

Grab the button above & write a post about Him.

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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Wordless Wednesday

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Monday’s Life In Him–Self Righteousness

^{Here is what I have for today:}

^{Matthew 6:1-6}

¹ "Be careful! When you do good things, don't do them in front of people to be seen by them. If you do that, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

² "When you give to the poor, don't be like the hypocrites. They blow trumpets in the synagogues and on the streets so that people will see them and honor them. I tell you the truth, those hypocrites already have their full reward. ³ So when you give to the poor, don't let anyone know what you are doing. ⁴ Your giving should be done in secret. Your Father can see what is done in secret, and he will reward you. ⁵ "When you pray, don't be like the hypocrites. They love to stand in the synagogues and on the street corners and pray so people will see them. I tell you the truth, they already have their full reward. ⁶ When you pray, you should go into your room and close the door and pray to your Father who cannot be seen. Your Father can see what is done in secret, and he will reward you.

Maybe this all sounds like mumbo-jumbo, but it doesn’t to me. To me this means something very important.

We as Christians are different. We are different than other’s in the world. We stand out. We should stand out because of our light. We should stand out because we don’t do the things we used to do. We should stand out because of the love we have for others. People should be able to watch us & see Jesus through us & see that we are different.

In the case of the scripture above… these people are not standing out because of their “light”. They are standing out because they are “showing off” their “good deeds”. These people are self righteous! They want to be seen by everyone. They want everyone to see how “holy” they are. They do good things out in front of everyone purposely To.Be.Seen.

They blow trumpets in the streets when giving to the poor…

“LOOK AT ME!!!! I am so holy, I am giving to the poor!”

They stand on the street corners or in front of the church to pray loudly to make themselves look soooo holy.

Self righteousness.

Self righteousness in God’s eyes is ugly.

Need I say more?

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Monday’s Life In Him – Rainbows!

Happy Monday Everyone! Who wants to join in “Monday's Life In Him”? It’s easy… Just grab this button below & post it somewhere either on your blog post or on your main page. Then… Write a post about HIM (Jesus)Sometimes I just post a verse, sometimes I share a short story or sometimes I write a short study.Either way… Let’s spread His Word and His Love!

^{Here is what I have for today:}

^Rainbows:

^{I just thought I’d point out some interesting rainbows in scripture. Or should I say, ‘lack of’ rainbows…}

^{In Genesis 9:16 God says,}

^“When the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and I will remember the agreement that continues forever between me and every living thing on the earth."

This is because God has already destroyed the Earth twice with floods. Lucifer's Flood & Noah's Flood. So we know that the rainbow is a PROMISE from God.

Now let’s move on to God’s throne:

Rev. 4:3

… All around the throne was a rainbow the color of an emerald.

Here we see our promise from God! All around the throne was a rainbow!!

We are seeing heaven here. Heaven from the inside! Another thing that is amazing to me is the worship that will be going on in heaven! It says:

⁸“Day and night they never stop saying:
    "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.
       He was, he is, and he is coming."

⁹ These living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever.¹⁰ Then the twenty-four elders bow down before the One who sits on the throne, and they worship him who lives forever and ever. They put their crowns down before the throne and say:
¹¹ "You are worthy, our Lord and God,
       to receive glory and honor and power,
    because you made all things.
       Everything existed and was made,
       because you wanted it."

But now a different view of God’s throne:

^{Rev. 20:11}

^{Then I saw a great white throne and the One who was sitting on it. Earth and sky ran away from him and disappeared.}

^{Why white? Why no rainbow?}

^{This is the “Great White Throne Judgment” – the time when sinners will come out of hell all stand in front of God to be judged out of “the books”. One book being the “Book of Life”. A saved person (born again, child of God) will have their name written in the Book of Life but a sinner will not. The other books opened will have every single deed recorded in them. Every act, every word spoken, every thought… every single time they were told about Jesus and continued to reject Him. The sinner will be judged according to these books.}

^{Unfortunately these sinners, while standing in front of God, will not see a rainbow. They will not see a rainbow because they have no promise. They never accepted Jesus as their Savior while alive on this side of the grave. They are being judged & sentenced to hell for the rest of eternity. There is no hope for them.}

^{If we keep on reading through verse 15 it says,}

^{“And anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.”}

^{This is so sad.}

^{This is why we need to be proclaiming the gospel in all we do. We need to lead others to Christ.}

^{Jesus said, “}Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" - Mark 16:15

And we need to let our light shine. People should see Christ through us. We may be the only bible some may ever see, so “In all we do, we need to do it for the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31)

Now it’s your turn!

Write up your post about Jesus & link up here with us so we can find you! Spread His love!

Monday, November 22, 2010

Monday’s Life In Him

Happy Monday Everyone! Who wants to join in “Monday's Life In Him”? It’s easy… Just grab this button below & post it somewhere either on your blog post or on your main page. Then… Write a post about HIM (Jesus)Sometimes I just post a verse, sometimes I share a short story or sometimes I write a short study.Either way… Let’s spread His Word and His Love!

^{Here is what I have for today:}

^{Luke 8:43-48}

⁴³ Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, ⁴⁴ came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped.
⁴⁵ And Jesus said, “Who touched Me?”
When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes throng and press You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’”⁴⁶ But Jesus said, “Somebody touched Me, for I perceived power going out from Me.” ⁴⁷ Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately.
⁴⁸ And He said to her, “Daughter, be of good cheer;your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”

This women had this sickness for 12 years & spent all of her life savings on trying to get better.

She had enough faith to go touch Jesus. SHE TOUCHED HIM! She didn’t wait for Him to go to her… SHE went to Him! Just because Jesus is in heaven and we can’t physically SEE him, doesn’t mean WE can’t touch HIM.

And Jesus knew someone had touched Him because He felt the healing power leave Him. Amazing! Jesus still heals today, just go to Him!

The most amazing thing to me about this story is this: In the beginning of this story, she is called “women”. At the end of this story, she is called “DAUGHTER”!!! Jesus said, “Your faith has made you well”. Jesus not only healed her & made her well physically… but he healed her spiritually and made her well.

She is HIS now!! She is a child of God because of her faith!!

Praise God! Praise God! Praise God!

This is one of my favorite stories, I could read it over and over! I had to share this today.

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I hope you all have a wonderful week. I am leaving Wednesday for Wisconsin Dells. I can’t wait!