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Building the Church part 1 of 3
1 Cor 6:19-20 (KJV) "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? {20} For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." Religious people in this world are getting saved over and over. Where’s the commitment? They need to understand it is a life decision as important as who they will marry. The decision is who will they serve? The WORD from the Lord is: Do Not Give Up. God’s hand is working in your lives. Who knows where God will use us. If we are serving God and times are Hard, it is God’s hand. It isn’t easy to learn new things. It isn’t easy going where we have never been. Don’t give up with others. The same God you serve is the same God they serve. If they are a mess, and their mess makes your neatness messy, then to God be the glory. He put you two together. Teenagers comment that good looking people say they’re ugly. Who is God, the one who made us? We all have defects. That is what makes us beautiful. Alone we are in the image of Adam, but together we are in the image of God. 1 Cor 3:10-15 (KJV) "According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. {11} For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. {12} Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; {13} Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. {14} If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. {15} If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire." This fire is what judges our works. If we do what we want to do and are not led by God in our decisions (agendas) we can do what we want, but these works will be destroyed. The good news is we will still be saved by this very same fire. We must build this tabernacle within. This being must be made holy and clean unto the Lord. Not by natural things but by spiritual things. (HOLINESS) We need to be working for the Master Builder; building upon the foundation which he has laid before us. Let us use precious stones which he will provide. He is not a task master making us make our own bricks. If we use hay, wood and stubble, we will not pass the test. These things which we make ourselves will be burned up, yet those precious stones which he gives us will not be destroyed they will last.
-Pr. S. Chad Ross February Newsletter 2007 | What Are You Preparing For? | Test of Time Pastor's Journal February 2006 | The Battle | Building the Church part 1 of 3 |
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