KarenAnn456

Because the non-Christians know that their account of their actions will be revealed and they have shame and guilt in the life style which they sinned and did against God. We Christians don't want there to be nothing left that will stand up for good, because we know we will be held accountable and the things we did not repent from will be judged against us. We are to live our life from now on, letting each day count, living for Christ and repent and turn away from our sins and walk in the spirit, not the flesh. Knowing that Christ died for our sins and if we live accordingly, God will judge us accordingly and say "I see the blood of Jesus and your sins have been washed away".

Because non-Christians feel guilty for their choice of lifestyle, and when we as Christians don't join in with them, it makes them feel like we are judging them only because of their own shame. They feel if we join in with them, they can justify their actions and say we are no different then them. We are to resist temptation, stay away from slippery places that we know we don't belong. Keeping your eyes on the Lord, stay in fellowship and prayer. If we don't slip, show repentance and also ask the people to forgive you bad example as a child of God.

Christ had nothing more to do with those sins he took to the cross, for our salvation. We should have the same attitude, not living after the flesh and our worldly ****, but to cease any further conection with our past sins that we are dead to. To live for the things of God, not the things of our old nature of the world.

Looking your best as a christian women is to have a clean apperance and simple style of dress, hair and that is not too over done but smart, because this is a good first time appearance you are showing of yourself and you don't want to make others think your cheap, unlady like. This says something about how you conduct your life. There is a balance on how you dress, if this is your whole life and it consumes you, then you have lost that simple balance of not putting too much in how your outter body looks, concern yourself with your inner self, your spirit and heart and your relationship with God. The balance is simple dress, and being clean, but be more concerned on what the inside looks like, than the out side.

It is very difficult for us humans to submit to one another, whether we know we are wrong or right. We have this baggage called our flesh which is very proud. When we are prideful our flesh hates submitting or humbling ourselves to one another. It is better to pray and ask the Lord to work out our differences and to be silent when we don't agree and feel it would be better to do our way. This is the true submissiveness, to submit even when we feel we could run the show better. Submission is wrong for a christian when it is against Gods way or against God and damaging to our christian walk and also if it is sin. That doesn't mean to go over board and always looking for a way out of submitting.

We are still living in this world of flesh and blood, with Satan tempting all. When we walk in our flesh, our emotions start ruling over us and we give power of the flesh to sin. We don't have to because Jesus died and took all our sins and we don't have to walk in the flesh, we can walk in the spirit; keeping our eyes on the Lord and trusting not in ourself but in Christ Jesus. Live for righteousness is choosing to remain in the spirit and bring glory to God through Jesus and have faith and trust in the righteousness of the Lord to keep me in His ways.

The fact that Jesus took all my sins that I would ever coment, I felt I worth dying for on the cross/wooden tree, taking all my sins upon himself that I could be delevered from all my sins and be given salvation with eternal life. It is so prescious, that words can not give justice to what Jesus did for me. Jesus knew this was the only way for my true salvation. It has nothing to do with anything I can boast in, only the love, mercy and grace and the suffering Jesus did for me. It's a debt that can never be repayed for earned. The only thing I can do is believe and trust on the Lord Jesus as my Lord and Savior. Thank you Jesus.

Jesus, who had no sin, took on the sins of all mankind, because that was the only atonement that God could except to give us forgiveness of sins. No one was worthy, only Jesus, the son of man. Jesus suffered in many ways when He bore our sins into his soul. He never knew no sin, or had ever sinned. Therefore when He did take on our sins, He was seperated from God, because God can not have fellowship with sin. Jesus felt alone, when out of the presence of God, which He had always had before. Jesus was not just a man, but the Son of God, Jesus Christ our Lord, who took those sins to the cross for us, and died and rose the third day and was dead to the sins he bore for us. He broke the chains of sin and death and now we have salvation through His sacrifice. God gave him the grace to make it through, but I don't think it was something he took without cost or a price. Jesus suffered greatly for us!

Jesus' sinlessness is the importance of our salvation, only could Jesus have intercession with God, our Father and only could he be the atonement for our sins. God can not have fellowship with sin, the only way for our salvation was through our mediator, Jesus. He took all our sins, so that we could live. Jesus, who knew no sin before, experienced and took on all the sins of the people of the world, and broke the pattern (the chain of sin and death) for me and you. Knowing no sin, I can't even begin to put it into words, what pain and seperation from His Father, God. Never being seperated before, that alone had to be such a terrible feeling alone, and then to bare all our sins of the world, never knowing sin before, I can't imagine anyother deep pain and suffering than what our Lord Jesus went through alone, to be obedient to the Father, God. Jesus was not just a man, but the son of God, Jesus Christ. Jesus was obedient to His father God, no matter what the cost, because He knew His Father loved Him and He trusted God, even though He would suffer, He knew God the Father would renew Him in the end, because God is True, Faithful, all loving, all knowing and His mercy and grace is neverending. Jesus counted the cost, because of their bond of love, Jesus knew mankind had only this chance to be saved. Thank You Lord for your abundant caring and love and mercy!!!

The Bible, The Living Word teaches us how to praise and worship God. By living the truth, from the inside(our heart) and the outside (the way we live our life obedient to God). Praise and worshiping the Lord, comes in many different ways, but the bottom line, does it honor and bring glory to God by what we are doing. Some of the other ways are: walking in the spirit, believing on Jesus as our Savior, repenting, praises by song, thanksgiving, being a witness and bright shining light to a empty world, growing in the Lord, submitting our heart, body and soul to the Lord, receiving His love and mercy. Its being pleasing to God that brings Him joy to see a child of God presenting ourselves as living sacrifices to Him, this is the greatest praise of Love we can show God. Come into the presence of the Lord, pray for God to mold you and shape you into that child of His, to teach you to be pleasing to Him. Then all other things spiritually will be granted you, because Love is the greatest gift. To love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, mind and soul. Then, to love thy brother as thyself. With this our life we be pleasing to the Lord, because with this all the things God has called us to be and do the will of God.

living a life as a servant of God, walking in the Spirit, and actions from the heart to show that God has called me as His child and He has all great and glorious things for me. Living my life by the power of the Lord, showing that God is the delight of my life. I want to live my life as a servant of God, in the Spirit and from the inside out, the heart to outward actions. Being yeilded to the ways of the Lord, not the ways of the world. This inspires me to want to be more like Jesus, so I can be a servant He can use. I want to be pleasing to the Lord and bring glory to His name. I desire a deep love relationship and be more established in my walk and life as a child of God. "open my eyes Lord, I want to see Jesus" I want to be a witness for Jesus. I pray about these things on a regular bases.

Yes, I have always had a problem with feeling of little to no worth or value. That is until I heard the Good News and received Jesus as my Savior. We are more valuable than any worldly riches, God's love is so great for us, that it can't even be put into justifiable words. God sent Jesus to die for our sins that we could have everlasting life. There is no greater gift than this. We can't put it next to the accounting records of the world, because we are dealing with an everlasting assets that will never lesses or change, it stays and remains just as good as the day we received it..our gift, hope and glory that we are a full child of God. So, to be seeking the Lord, service, being a spirit filled loving child of God by being yeilded and obeident, that I can enter in the kingdom on the final judgement day. Showing God how truely thankful I am, and to please Him out of love.

First of all there is all different types and conditions of judgement. I feel people hate to be judged period, because it put a revealing light on them and they don't want to fail in there judgement. It makes them feel less than and exposes their faults and weaknesses. When it comes to God's final judgement, those that refused Jesus as their savior, they refused the biggest love gift God has layed out for us to receive. If you refuse Jesus, the biggest sacrifice God could offer for a world with out atonement and hope, our Lord has given us the opportunity to be saved from this judgement that would seperate us from fellowship with the Lord and we would be found guilty with out the price Jesus paid for us. When the Gospel is left out or ignored in a persons life, when the final judgement comes, they will be left out too. The Holy Spirit teaches, and ministers to us, it is the living Word. Without setting your sights on heavenly things instead of the world, you need to become more like Jesus and that is holy and excepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you want to learn how to please God and serve God because He first loved you. We are to be holy, set apart from the ways and things of this world that cloud our fellowship with God. If you don't do this on the final judgement you will be judged and what will be left, will you enter or will you have nothing holy left standing, like the cleansing blood of Jesus and a spirit that glorified the Lord, or empty vain and worldly actions showing no glory to God at all.

To be holy, to submit your life after God and to fashion your life on a daily bases after the life of Jesus according to the Word of God, pray that the Lord guide you and inable you to walk as Jesus did. The only way I am holy, because Jesus lives in me. Jesus is holy and his holiness makes me holy. Being submitted to Jesus, I am a child of God, saved by Jesus, makes me holy. In the sense of being obedient to be holy, takes a inward motion of my heart, outward motion of my daily way of like and in the spirit being committed, obedient and faithful due to God's faithfulness. It is a way of like, but impossible with out Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. My biggest struggles are getting caught up in the world and the things around me, bills, finances, ect. My most hardest is staying consistant with my walk, I wavier or go up and down like a roller coaster. I pray for a consistant christian walk, so my life would be a light to those around me and bring glory to God. More of Jesus and less of me!

We are new creatures in Christ, set apart from all our old worldly ways. Be holy and obedient. Yielding to the Holy Spirit, renewing your spirit daily, seeking after the things of God and be obedient to God's calling. It inspires us and gives us hope, the hope that Jesus will be coming to take us and be with Him for all eternity, with no more sin, sickness, pain or suffering. The Lord has the best for us, and His love is beyond compare of anything we know, with no boundries or limits. We are told to be ready and watching, be like and fashion our life after the life of Jesus, being guarded by a sober and clear head and heart, not clouded by fake imatations (drugs/alcohal). If we don't live everyday as this could be the day the Lord will come for His children, then we won't be ready and watching. Our hope will also wither away and we'll be caught up in the things of the world, instead of the things of the spirit and the ways of the Lord. The Lord will have come and we will be left behind, because we were doing our own thing instead of being that child of the Lord.

Our whole reason for joy is because of what Jesus did for us because He loved us first and we received the gift of salvation through faith in all that Jesus has done for us. This is why we are able to have this unspeakable and glorious joy. It is not a worldly joy that usually passes just as quickly as it comes. This joy we are referring to is that spiritual joy the fills up within our spirit like a endless flowing river of life springing up inside us. So it is not essentially emotional, but very much alive and spiritual that only the believers of Christ can enjoy by believing in Jesus as their savior. The pursit of happiness is something you are looking for from some source of position, ownership and so on here on earth. Where as this is something you can't earn, it is a free gift: Eternal Life by receiving Christ Jesus and what He did on the cross for us and He lives within us today and that is our joy, and He is coming to take us home to be with Him for all eternity.

The last big trial/test that put me through a refinement was: I couldn't stand being close to this person, who got on my nerves and really got under my skin. The Lord kept putting this person right next to me and showed my I needed to love this person as a part of our christian family. To love one another is a testamony that Christ lives in us. Well, I tried but burnt out, finally I really gave it to the Lord, and He did that great work in my heart. I had a real love for this person, and the Lord worked it through me by His love and power. God will always be there to empower us and get us through our every trial, He doesn't expect us to do it alone. Just like our last question, the Lord supplies us with His Love, keeping a watchful eye on us always, and He will deliever us out of every trial, big and small. Has we are delievered out of each trial and brought closer to the Lord, we see His faithfulness and Love and giving of His self, that we are blown away by the Lord's mercy and love for us and we trust Him more and more through each test/trial. Praise God for His faithfulness.

To watch over us, protect us, keep us until Jesus comes to conimate our salvation when He comes for us. We are to believe in what the Lord says is true and He will do what His Word says, so have faith in the Lord and walk in that faith, which He will instill in us us we only step out in faith!

They do come together in this instance. When Jesus died by using his blood he shed on the cross that allowed us entrance to the forgiveness and true salvation of God. Now by not being obedient to what God requires of us, by the unrepayable deed that Jesus did for us would be of no respect or love to our Lord. One is empty without the other; God's grace and our obedience. Faith to be applied in our daily christian walk requires that we be responsible by the Word of God to know and to apply our walk, seeking the Holy Spirit to teach and minister God's Word. Then by using stepping out in faith and taking an action of walking the walk, not just talking the walk is what a balance and christian walk is about. Saying love all day, but not having any love present in my life is empty. If I share about love and live it that's action.

QUOTE=Pastor Ralph,Jan 22 2004, 02:45 PM]Q1. (1:1) How would you describe the behavior of a Christian who identifies more with his present homeland than his heavenly one? Have you ever caught yourself doing this? What has to happen to get our spiritual priorities straight? Following things of the flesh instead of things of the spirit. They lost the zeal and love toward heavenly things and the fire has been put out. Now the carnal man is back running his own life outside of the path that the Lord leads us down. Their eyes on the things of the world and not on the Lord. Yes, I have been there many times. I had to repent asking the Lord to forgive me of my selfwill and rebellion against Him. Return to my first love, the Lord and seek Him first. Reclaiming my citizenship with Him in heavenly places, by seeking Him on a daily bases and walking in the Spirit in lieu of the flesh. Lay my burdens down and let the Lord do His healing touch on me and stay focused on the Lord and things of the Lord, Not on the empty, sinful world of flesh and pride, death and deception. We must feed from the Word of God daily the grow spirtiually and to stay spirtiually strong to stand against the tests and lies of the enemy, Satan/Devil. So be renewed in the spirt of the Lord, submitting all to the Lord God Almighty. Praise Jesus for His faithfulness and tender mercies. Post by: KarenAnn456