Message Date: April 24, 2022
Bible
Review
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- Eternal life is to know: (Greek: “Ginosko”) to know by experience, intimately and personally
- Fellowship: partnership, (literally) participation, or (social) intercourse
- God’s jealousy: He wants something for you, not from you.
- 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13 NKJV
- 15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. II Timothy 2:15 NKJV
- You learn to be led by the inward witness by testing it against the Word.
- 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, Romans 8:16 NKJV
- 1 I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, Romans 9:1 NKJV
- Conscience: the voice of your spirit
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- It all starts with peace.
- 15 And let the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds…] Colossians 3:15a AMPC
- As you mature in your relationship with and learn to hear from Jesus, your understanding is increased and His communication gets more detailed
- But you still have to navigate the wilderness, and there is a degree of choice.
- As you mature in your relationship with and learn to hear from Jesus, your understanding is increased and His communication gets more detailed
- 15 And let the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds…] Colossians 3:15a AMPC
- Wisdom
- Sometimes if the answer isn’t clear, it’s because you have the wisdom to make the decision yourself–or God wants you to learn wisdom.
- Initiation
- Perspective is everything.
- We weren’t meant to figure life out on our own. God wants to father us. But, we have to be in a posture to receive it. What that involves is a new way of seeing, a fundamental re-orientation of how we look at life and our situation in it.
- 2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. James 1:2-4 NKJV
- Count it joy: to lead, i.e. command (with official authority); figuratively, to deem, i.e. consider:—account, (be) chief, count, esteem, governor, judge, have the rule over, suppose
- How? Knowing (ginosko)
- Trying: the proving, that by which something is tried or proved, a test
- Faith = persuasion
- Patience: cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy
- Faith is like the (car) break that brings about the desired result. Patience is like the foot that keeps the break applied until the vehicle is brought to a stop. Patience keeps faith applied in the face of adverse circumstances until the result is manifested.
- Perfect: complete (in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral character, etc.); neuter completeness:—of full age, man, perfect
- Complete: complete in every part, i.e. perfectly sound (in body):—entire, whole
- Perfect and complete have to do with what you are. Lacking nothing has to do with what you have.
- Count it joy: to lead, i.e. command (with official authority); figuratively, to deem, i.e. consider:—account, (be) chief, count, esteem, governor, judge, have the rule over, suppose
- 17 and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word’s sake, immediately they stumble. Mark 4:17 NKJV
- It all starts with peace.