All You Need Is Love

Many Christians live by their religious standards and judge others by these same standards completely missing their new covenant with God.
Love the Lord with all you are and others just as God loves you through grace.
They will not confess their sin of rejecting grace, they deny the work of the cross and accuse others of living outside of salvation (your going to hell because you live in sin).

They deny their jealous hearts, judging others with opinion and gossip. Romans 11 concludes with the simple message; who do we think we are that God might owe us favor because of our labor or love. We were all born rejects, undeserving people unworthy, unrighteous. We have no right to pound our religion on the Innocent heart, it hardens them to grace. How dare we push our own family away from God because they are undeserving living in sin.

We are outsiders to His chosen people, we are the non-Jewish Gentiles. So who then are we but undeserving outcasts to the law and favor of God. Only through His love of each and every individual person did Christ open the door to his heart, not because we deserved or deserve anything.

Even now as representatives, as heirs to God's grace, we see ourselves above the less intelligent, less blessed. Oh, we can deny it and go on continuing our judgement that we so think we earned, living the lie. The blood of Jesus Christ still covers us regardless because salvation is God's gift, undeserved.

They will know we are Christians by our love.

God never abandoned the Israelite people even though He should have time and time again. His grace, His love is beyond understanding. The door is always open not only for the Jew's but everyone, it is His promise
Paul teaches to the Gentile world, you and I, that God is in total control of everything, who are we to question his ways.
God owes us nothing but chooses to give abundantly, look it up, Romans 11.

We must stop the judgement and allow God's Spirit to work through us. We can judge and condemn ______________, or we can do the right thing, allow God's grace to work in our life through love.

All we need is love!



Thanks Kim, for the inspiring video.
Uncle Phil.

Now If...

Now God, if you get me out of this I promise to...

Making conditions is how we ourselves are tempted, if I just do this once, I won't do it again even though it is wrong.

Satan tempted Jesus this way, now if...

Why would one expect answered prayer when there are conditions present. Is that how we con our parents, our friends our children; in the end selfishness gets us nothing.

Matthew 4:7 (AMP)
7 Jesus said to him, On the other hand, it is written also, You shall not tempt, test thoroughly, or try exceedingly the Lord your God.

If we could just learn to be honest with ourselves, we would give humility more room to grow. Our hearts would just melt more into His.

There is nothing wrong with endurance and patience, it draws in comfort and love.

Seek Ye First The Kingdom Of God...

Mark 12:30-34 (AMP)
30 And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your life) and out of and with all your mind (with your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength. This is the first and principal commandment.
31 The second is like it and is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.
32 And the scribe said to Him, Excellently and fitly and admirably answered, Teacher! You have said truly that He is One, and there is no other but Him;
33 And to love Him out of and with all the heart and with all the understanding [with the faculty of quick apprehension and intelligence and keenness of discernment] and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
34 And when Jesus saw that he answered intelligently (discreetly and having his wits about him), He said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of God. And after that no one ventured or dared to ask Him any further question.

How about that, loving God-loving each other, being Christ like prepares us. You dont need a ticket, just thank the lord Jesus Christ.

Matthew 6:33 (AMP)
33 But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.

Spiritual Transformation

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New Character:

Colossians 3:12 (AMP)

12 Clothe yourselves therefore, as God’s own chosen ones (His own picked representatives), [who are] purified and holy and well-beloved [by God Himself, by putting on behavior marked by] tenderhearted pity and mercy, kind feeling, a lowly opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, [and] patience [which is tireless and long-suffering, and has the power to endure whatever comes, with good temper].

John 14:27 (AMP)

27 Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.]

Galatians 5:22-23 (AMP)

22 But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness,
23 Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law [that can bring a charge].

Old Character:

Galatians 5:19-21 (AMP)

19 Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency,
20 Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies),
21 Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Problem Solving Through Spiritual Truth

Here is a great example of God's Spirit at work in us.
This problem comes from the Internet: http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/amplified_bible_exposed.htm

The Amplified Bible and NIV are being attacked as being diabolical and straight out of the pits off hell. The example given comes from to Philippians 2:6.

Philippians 2:6 (Amplified)
6 Who, although being essentially one with God and in the form of God [possessing the fullness of the attributes which make God God], did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained,

Philippians 2:6 (New International)
6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

Philippians 2:6 (King James)
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

The Amplified and NIV say that Jesus could not grasp equality with God yet, the King James version says that Jesus Christ did NOT consider it robbery to be EQUAL with God, a contradiction.

Is it true or false?

Common sense says its plausible, but what about Spiritual sense?
First we need to understand who wrote this verse and who it was written to.
Then we need to understand the context, the message.

PAUL AND Timothy, bond servants of Christ Jesus (the Messiah), to all the saints (God’s consecrated people) in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the bishops (overseers) and deacons (assistants):

We are in the audience.

Read the context, verses 1-11 and see how God speaks to you about this message.
Are all three versions teaching the same thing or is it distorted.

I read it:
Humble yourself to seeing others higher than your self, sensitive to their ways and needs above yours, just as Jesus made Himself unequal to God in obedience, till His Death.

KJV- Even though Jesus knew it was not robbery to be equal to God (as the Jewish people would have thought), He made Himself unequal to God in obedience until His death.

AMP,NIV- Even though Jesus, possessing the fullness of the attributes which make God God, did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained by His people; so He humbled Himself in obedience till His death.

I like the way the Amplified Bible expands the message, God's word.

Remember the first King James translation was lacking the ability of the time to more accurately translate to English as later in time when the New King James came along. Technology has helped us better understand the process of translation from Hebrew and Greek, to English. The Amplified version actually represents a more accurate translation, it explodes with the beauty of words, God's words.
It is estimated that in the next fifteen years, every language on Earth will have its own translated Bible.

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