Sunday, October 4, 2009

CHRISTIANS MUST SEEK A LIFE OF GIVING

Posted by George Soepboer Sr

Christians must seek a life of giving, not a life of getting for then we do not live for God.

Christians must be different then all of the other people for Christians are the light and salt of this world for God.
( Matthew 5:13-16 ).

The people who do not live for God seek for self-gratification in the things that are placed on this world by God, and in the things that are placed by satan on this world of God. self-satisfaction can come in all sorts of forms for people who do not live for God. For the people who turn their back on God always seek for things that make them feel good apart from seeking fellowship with God. Whatever they look for and strive for on this world must make them happy for they do not seek their happiness by God. Also when those people please other people or help other people they please themselves not God, for when they do good to others they look for self-gratification not to bring honor to God, for their heart is filled with pride and self-righteousness but they do not humble themselves before God.
( Luke 18:10-14 ).

Self-gratification comes in a variety of different ways when people do not live for God. But their ambitions are all the same for they all wish to be recognized and glorified by other people but they do not seek the honor of God,. Their way of life is the works of evil, not the way of God. Also the people that sound humble and look humble are filled with pride and self-satisfaction for those people also wish to be recognized by others but they also do not give glory to God, for they do not humble themselves before God. Anyone who does not humble themselves before God and does not admit that they are in need of God do not live for God.
( Jeremiah 44:10 )( James 4:13-17 ).

All of the people that do not live for God seek their own way of life but not the way of God. Their whole life is wrapped up in self not in the things of God. None of those people will sacrifice their feelings and pride by given their life to God, therefore pride controls their life for they do not live for God. Anyone who lives in pride does not live for God, for all pride and self-confidence is hated by God.
( Mark 7:20-23 ).

What is glorified and honored and lifted up by people is hated by God. Only if people truly humble themselves before God are they in the will of God.
( Luke 16:15 ).

Christian may not live in pride on this world for they must live humbly before God. But many Christians live in pride like the people that hate God, for many Christians also do not live humbly before God. Many Christians are proud of the way they live for God and they are proud because of the good things they do for God. It makes them feel good within if they do things in the name of God and in the name of the Jesus the Son of God. Many Christians live a self-righteous life that is hated by God. Christians that are proud do not live for God for all pride is hated by God.
( 1 John 2:15-17 ).

We can only please God if we humbly trust God and humbly live with God.
( Micah 6:8 ).

All pride and lofty things on this world will someday be removed by God and destroyed by God.
( Isaiah 2:12-22 ).

Only the people that live humbly with God will be honored by God, for only those people please God.
( Matthew 23:1-11 )( Luke 14:11 )( Luke 18:9-14 )
( James 4:6 )( 1 Peter 5:5-6 ).

Christians must be pleasing God for they have received a new life within by the grace of God. Therefore they must live humbly in that new life with God.
( 2 Corinthians 5:17 ).

When we are reborn within by God then we have received the Holy Spirit within of God. When we have received the Holy Spirit within of God then we must live by the Spirit of God, for that is the only way we can please God.
( Romans 8:4-14 ).

Faithful Christians are the salt of this world for God; through the faithful Christians the world is tolerable to God. As salt brings taste to food so the faithful Christians bring taste to the world by God. Therefore we must truly seek to live for God, for if we do live like the rest of the people of this world then we will be condemned by God like the other people of the world who do not please God. When we are condemned by God then we will end up in hell with all of the other people who do not belong the kingdom of God.
( Matthew 5:13 )( Matthew 25:30 ).

The life of a Christian must be filled with God, and a life of a Christian must be controlled by God. Therefore we must not only place our faith in Jesus the Son of God as our only lifeline from God to God, but we also must surrender our whole live to God to be controlled by God. Only if we are controlled by God can we truly live humbly for God and with God.
( Ephesians 3:14-19 ).

If we wish to be the salt on this world for God then our whole life must be in the hands of God. Because if we truly wish to live in the new life that we have received within from God by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God through Jesus Christ the Son of God then we must be willing to live by the Spirit of God.
( Romans 8:4-14 ).

Before we received the new life within from God we are no different then all the people who do not obey God, however, when we are saved from the power of satan by God then we received the freedom and strength from God to be the salt on this world for God, for then we are renewed within by God by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God.
( John 3:3-6 ).

Christians must be willing to live in that freedom that they have received within from God by obeying God if they wish to stay in fellowship with God like Adam and Eve did have to obey God if they wish to live on this world with God.
( Genesis 2:15-17 ).

Through Jesus Christ the Son of God we can all live in that freedom with God. For Jesus the Son of God paid for that freedom for us on the cross when He died to remove all of the sins that are standing between the people and God.
( Romans 5:12-21 ).

When we are forgiven of our sins by the grace of God through Jesus Christ the Son of God and we have received the Holy Spirit within of God then we have received a new life within from God.
( 2 Corinthians 5:17-18 )

Adam made us and this whole world a slave to satan and sin when he turned his back on God. But Jesus Christ the Son of God made us free from them sins by God when He removed the sins that stand between us and God by paying with His life for our sins by God, therefore when we have received the new life within from God by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God through Jesus the Son of God then we can live in friendship and fullness on this world with God like Adam and Eve lived before they turned their back on God, for that is paid for by Jesus Christ the Son of God.
( Romans 5:12-21 )

But we must be willing to live in that new life for God and with God. Because when we are renewed within by God then we have the freedom to obey God or not to obey God, like Adam did have before he turned his back on God. Adam and Eve lost that freedom when they turned their back on God for then they were removed from that friendship and fullness by God. But Jesus the Son of God opened that way again for us by God when He died on the cross for our sins by God. However, when we have received that freedom within from God to live in friendship and fullness with God then we must seek to obey God.
( Romans 6:1-4 )( Colossians 3:1-17 )

The only way we can live in that friendship and fullness on this world with God is by the Spirit of God, for that is the only way that we can truly live for God and obey God, because it is only when we receive the help of God by Spirit within us of God that we can become the salt of this world for God. But we must have a willing heart and mind to seek for the will of God after we have received that new life within of God.
( Romans 8:1-14 )

If we do not have the Holy Spirit living within us of God then we must humbly repent of our sins by God, and then we also must give our whole to God, then we must ask for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God by God. If we humbly ask for that gift by God then we will receive the indwelling of the Spirit of God.
( Luke 11:9-13 ).

When we have received that new life within of God and we live in friendship and fullness on this world with God then we are not only the salt of this world for God but then we are also the light of this world for God .If we live in any other way than we will never please God, for that is the only way to please God.
( Matthew 5:14-16 ).


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