“So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves. The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants.
And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions. But when you are directed by the Spirit, you are not under obligation to the law of Moses.
But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.” ~ Gal 5:16-18, 22-25
Sunday, March 30, 2014
No time to waste!!
“I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ,
who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and
His kingdom: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out
of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all long suffering and
teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they
have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and
they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside
to fables. 5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions,
do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry” (2 Timothy 4:1-
If we are miserly in life, then we reap accordingly: “As a man
thinks in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). Fear not!! only believe
narrowway2011
who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and
His kingdom: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out
of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all long suffering and
teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they
have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and
they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside
to fables. 5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions,
do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry” (2 Timothy 4:1-
If we are miserly in life, then we reap accordingly: “As a man
thinks in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). Fear not!! only believe
narrowway2011
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Fellowship
What is fellowship
Definition of the Greek words that translate
“fellowship” and related terms are found in various forms to reveal a deep relationship:
Itmay be said this is what jesus was speaking of nto another religion but direct connection and awareness in order to use these words an existance would have to be attaiable which allows for such closness.. walk inthe spirit and truthand spirit, sadly that is often confused with man made religion with it;s legal spirit.. But breaking free is rather simple and pure as jesus is not hard to find for the one the father draws onto himself.Koinonia: “common”; “I participate in; I share in.” (W.E. Vine, Expository Dictionary of New Testament words).Koinonia: “fellowship, association, community, communion, joint participation, intercourse”;
This type of relgionship is something that does not require special place or lanaguage or clothing and buildings it;s a place of the heart for the lord and each other what the Nt age is all about. It all for goes alot of unanswered quesntions.That does not mean we are to for go fellowship but should pursue it as the spirit led unction dictates.
- “The share which one has in anything; participation; Phil. 2:1; 2 Cor. 13:13-14; Phil. 3:10; Phlm. 1:6, 1 Cor. 10:16; 2 Cor. 7:4; Eph. 3:9.
- Intercourse, fellowship, intimacy: Gal. 2:9; 2 Cor. 6:14; Acts 2:42; Phil. 1:5; 1 Jn. 1:3,7.
- A benefaction jointly, contributed, a collection, a contribution, 2 Cor. 8:4; 2 Cor. 9:13; Rom. 15:26; Heb. 13:16.
Koinonikos: “1. social, sociable, ready and apt to form and maintain communion and fellowship; 2. inclined to make others sharers in one’s possession, inclined to impart, free in giving, liberal, 1 Tim. 6:18.”
Koinonos: “a. a partner, associate, comrade, companion: 2 Cor. 8:23; Phlm. 1:17; Lk. 5:10; Heb. 10:33; Mt. 23:30. b. a partaker, sharer in anything: 2 Cor. 1:7; 1 Pet. 10:1; 2 Pet. 1:4; 1 Cor. 10:18.” (Henry Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament)
Jesus Christ is dymanic life and faith drives the vehicle in the day to day status of knowing him. Our hope to see the regaining of the real brother hood long intended without all the human constraints of fear, doubt to a life where the power of the Spirit. So well illustred in the life of Christ and his disciples can be placed we live and walk in and aid those we meet in the spirit of love and truth.
Our hope is thsoe seeking a more complete understabnding of what these unions consist can be attained with some effort to read and learn the forms God intended.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
an alternative view of an upside down time
Hi ,the question of gun control, I do not support the gun control it's grab for power and direction in of socialism. Maybe we need car control 50,000 per year killed in the car crashes if we're going be consistent. Our culture at large has worked at break neck speed to bring the America family down to where institutionalism is become a way of life. The sad part is the loss of life, we only have our selves to blame as the family unit sacrificed for whatever reason.
One of the greatest dictators of time was note for this quote, What benefit for the governments of the world that their people do not think! I think that holds true today as it has in the past whey we repeat the same mistakes, as Einstein so well put it, his definition of insanity is to use the same thinking that got us here to try get us out. I am hoping it changes..
One has to ask the real questions, crime is caused by a heart condition just like dictators are , the desire for power over another or what some one has that does not belong to another.. Nothing new under the sun. SAME OLD foolishness... REAL LOVE HAS KNOWLEDGE.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Direction.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
-2 Corinthians 6:14-18
A more clear picture
Avoiding the pitfalls of instituionlism,
As for the size of the assembly, other than Matthew 18:20, the Bible doesn't give any indication as to how many believers have to be assembled for the group to be considered a "church" or better yet the congragation real word is assembly (we like to leave circe back at the isle she came from).
But if we take Mt 18:20 as the standard, Jesus says, "For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them." Well, there you go. And just to consider the context, the verse starts with "for" indicating it to be an explanation of what was previously said where ver inthe Nc age is nto going back tothe Ot cov when Christ has fullfileld allthe obligations without us adding the previous cov back in..
And what preceded this? Mt 18:17 speaks of "tell it to the congragation", so the context of Mt 18:20 is referring to a legitimate assembly of believers being composed of at least two or three people where they can meet and edifiy and express the out workings of their God in the form of Spirit inside in them one to another. Or the whole the body in any location or time.
Furthermore the Bible indicates that the assembly does not need leaders before they are reckoned a "congregation" see the early history of the ecclesia covers the avoidance of the bothe legal forms and pagan mergance. For it says in Acts 14:23 that Paul and Barnabas went around appointing elders for each congregation. So before they had elders they were reckoned his body.
This is in great contrast to the post-Biblical megalomaniac view of the religious elite that institutional leadership is largely what constitutes the so called"the church". Elders were older men who acted as servants not a career religion given to love and care and able to discernthe truth from false hoods..
Please keep in mind their is no need for any other medium thanChrist alone, no human buildings or go betweens, extras are all added latter on as means of wealth state power and control which in the later first century step by step it migrated into state run relgion to where the very fonders of it denied it bore any resembalance the early body apostalic body. By 300AD a mere philsopshical relgion with it;s legalist tenents of control. Sophistry and seradolism replaced the spirit led functions to legal tennets. (FairBaire1910)
The organization was deemed as largely dead, by Ireaous and in any way but other than mere word, his quote they had the book,e forms, and were completely abscent of the spirit and power there of. They were largely unconcious to the dead like condtion, and gonisis repalced revealtion with greek logic. Became wide spread which was first stated sardis like. They fallen completely inoccous to their condition.
I guess one has to wonder in all the denominal stripes and terminoloy as paul called the divded product of infacy though it;s become the normof today as a great industry, perhaps God will after 1700 years shake it down back to what his way really was?
It largely became a humanistic instution for poltical and wealth gain the truly spirit led body fell into suppression as does the preisthood of the beleivers. it needs to get back to living a dynamic union withe creator and escape out of the mnany questionable ideas it adopted out of the non scRiptural practices and forms which were used to sustain the past post aposatlic forms. Relaitonship with all the invisible influences and allow the Spirit back in his throne.Would be the best thing it ever happend here and in the west at large.
Institutionalism tends towards reducing openness to self-evaluation, testing what we are seeing or hearing. In institutionalism "self-evaluation" comes down to the leadership judging the ordinary members, but not the institutional leadership themselves being subject to judgment. Yet the Bible teaches, "Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world."
1John 4:1 By "spirit" he is referring to those who teach and preach. The Lord commands the ordinary Christian to be skeptical about all teachings and to compare them to what the Bible says. Indeed Paul commended the Bereans who exercised skepticism towards his own teachings. "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true."Acts 17:11 It's less honorable to gullibly accept whatever is taught, even if such teachings happen to be correct.
Even Jesus himself said, "If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me." John 10:37 He doesn't want gullible type of followers. Those he describes in the parable of the sower, "those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived." Mark 4:16,17
Thus we could say institutionalism tends towards producing unrooted Christians where grow this often reduced to copy cat forms.
Not that they may have a deeply rooted faith in the institution which many do, the faith needs to be placed in Jessu Christ's reality in order to sustain life given over. But having a deeply rooted faith in Christ is quite a different thing. Which is a life seperated unto response and awareness. Faith materializes into knowablea living connection, is able to know the mind of Jesus Christ, 1 Corinhians 1-3. It;s completely invested in a peronal dynamic relationship best I can say is what he has desired from all his people.The change here was derived out of connection and faith which comes when the task is directly before us.
NW
As for the size of the assembly, other than Matthew 18:20, the Bible doesn't give any indication as to how many believers have to be assembled for the group to be considered a "church" or better yet the congragation real word is assembly (we like to leave circe back at the isle she came from).
But if we take Mt 18:20 as the standard, Jesus says, "For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them." Well, there you go. And just to consider the context, the verse starts with "for" indicating it to be an explanation of what was previously said where ver inthe Nc age is nto going back tothe Ot cov when Christ has fullfileld allthe obligations without us adding the previous cov back in..
And what preceded this? Mt 18:17 speaks of "tell it to the congragation", so the context of Mt 18:20 is referring to a legitimate assembly of believers being composed of at least two or three people where they can meet and edifiy and express the out workings of their God in the form of Spirit inside in them one to another. Or the whole the body in any location or time.
Furthermore the Bible indicates that the assembly does not need leaders before they are reckoned a "congregation" see the early history of the ecclesia covers the avoidance of the bothe legal forms and pagan mergance. For it says in Acts 14:23 that Paul and Barnabas went around appointing elders for each congregation. So before they had elders they were reckoned his body.
This is in great contrast to the post-Biblical megalomaniac view of the religious elite that institutional leadership is largely what constitutes the so called"the church". Elders were older men who acted as servants not a career religion given to love and care and able to discernthe truth from false hoods..
Please keep in mind their is no need for any other medium thanChrist alone, no human buildings or go betweens, extras are all added latter on as means of wealth state power and control which in the later first century step by step it migrated into state run relgion to where the very fonders of it denied it bore any resembalance the early body apostalic body. By 300AD a mere philsopshical relgion with it;s legalist tenents of control. Sophistry and seradolism replaced the spirit led functions to legal tennets. (FairBaire1910)
The organization was deemed as largely dead, by Ireaous and in any way but other than mere word, his quote they had the book,e forms, and were completely abscent of the spirit and power there of. They were largely unconcious to the dead like condtion, and gonisis repalced revealtion with greek logic. Became wide spread which was first stated sardis like. They fallen completely inoccous to their condition.
I guess one has to wonder in all the denominal stripes and terminoloy as paul called the divded product of infacy though it;s become the normof today as a great industry, perhaps God will after 1700 years shake it down back to what his way really was?
It largely became a humanistic instution for poltical and wealth gain the truly spirit led body fell into suppression as does the preisthood of the beleivers. it needs to get back to living a dynamic union withe creator and escape out of the mnany questionable ideas it adopted out of the non scRiptural practices and forms which were used to sustain the past post aposatlic forms. Relaitonship with all the invisible influences and allow the Spirit back in his throne.Would be the best thing it ever happend here and in the west at large.
Institutionalism tends towards reducing openness to self-evaluation, testing what we are seeing or hearing. In institutionalism "self-evaluation" comes down to the leadership judging the ordinary members, but not the institutional leadership themselves being subject to judgment. Yet the Bible teaches, "Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world."
1John 4:1 By "spirit" he is referring to those who teach and preach. The Lord commands the ordinary Christian to be skeptical about all teachings and to compare them to what the Bible says. Indeed Paul commended the Bereans who exercised skepticism towards his own teachings. "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true."Acts 17:11 It's less honorable to gullibly accept whatever is taught, even if such teachings happen to be correct.
Even Jesus himself said, "If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me." John 10:37 He doesn't want gullible type of followers. Those he describes in the parable of the sower, "those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived." Mark 4:16,17
Thus we could say institutionalism tends towards producing unrooted Christians where grow this often reduced to copy cat forms.
Not that they may have a deeply rooted faith in the institution which many do, the faith needs to be placed in Jessu Christ's reality in order to sustain life given over. But having a deeply rooted faith in Christ is quite a different thing. Which is a life seperated unto response and awareness. Faith materializes into knowablea living connection, is able to know the mind of Jesus Christ, 1 Corinhians 1-3. It;s completely invested in a peronal dynamic relationship best I can say is what he has desired from all his people.The change here was derived out of connection and faith which comes when the task is directly before us.
NW
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