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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Our Most Important Behavior

Our Most Important Behavior
                                       
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Jesus taught us many behaviors.  
     But, there is only one that is most important.

Our most important behavior is -
     not Being Nice,
     it is not loving our enemy,
     it is not feeding the hungry,
     it is not helping the sick,     rather...
     

Our most important behavior is
  Pursuing a Righteous Relationship with God in
     Seeking His Kingdom,
           Learning to Love and Trust Him more,
             to better understand His will for our lives
              through the Guidance of the Holy Spirit
                Provided by our belief in and salvation of Jesus,

All this to better discern our sinfulness,
      to better understand our need for repentance
           creating a greater internal desire for God's Forgiveness.

Then and only then do we really feel the need to live in submission to God's will and in humility for all He does and provide for us.

In this, we then begin to really Trust God and only in trusting God can we truly come to love Him as we should.

In is only trusting God 
that we can Righteously
 show our True humility by
      helping the sick,
      feeding the hungry,
      loving our enemy,
      being nice and 
           all the other behaviors Jesus taught us.

Perhaps, best of all, in our Righteous relationship with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, the Fruit of the Spirit descends on us, especially the Peace of Mind that passes all understanding.

Thanks be to God


Scriptural Foundations of 
        Our Most Important Behavior

We must remember that the words of Jesus was not the words of just any teacher or prophet.  

Many times He said, "I tell you the truth.....".  His words have  the absolute Ring of Truth because of one thing, 
      His Resurrection.  

It is in His resurrection that God, the Creator of the Universe, the one True God verified, sanctified, and made Holy the life and teachings of Jesus.  

Failing to bring into our heart the Holy Spirit to absorb the life and teachings of Jesus and live according to His word is truly a road block of eternal proportions possibly leading to an eternal death.

Seeking God: 
  
Matthew 6:33
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness,                          and all these things will be given to you as well.
                
Love God:   
Matthew 22:37
Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'

Trust Him:   
John 14:1
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.


God's Will:

·        John 6:40 NIV
For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."

·        John 14:23 NIV
Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

·        Matthew 7:21 NIV
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

·        Mark 8:38 NIV
If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Manwill be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels."

·        John 12:26 NIV
Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father willhonor the one who serves me.

·        Matthew 26:42 NIV
[Jesus gives us the example:]  He went away a second time and prayed, "My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done."

Guidance of the Holy Spirit:

·        John 14:26 NIV
[Jesus promises the Holy Spirit]  But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
  • Matthew 3:11 NIV 
     [The coming of John:]  "I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Mark 13:11 NIV

Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Luke 10:21 NIV

At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.

Luke 12:12 NIV

for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say."
  • John 14:15 NIV

    [Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit] "If you love me, you will obey what I command.
    • Acts 4:12 NIV

      • 10 then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.
        11 He is " 'the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone. '
        12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."


        Fruit of the Spirit

      Galatians 5:22 NIV
      22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

      23  gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 


Thanks Be to God





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