Love Unites
Because Loves Unites!
Love envies not, seeks not her own, thinks no evil of others;
In other words, Love does not divide and separate.
Abide
It is Because we do not Abide in Christ that the Church is so impotent in the face of unfaithfulness, worldliness, and unbelief.
Comforter and Advocate
Comforter! called to one’s side – that is, to one’s aid.
The Holy Spirit is our Present Help.
Whenever we need His Aid, He is Always Alongside us to Help.
And Advocate! one who pleads another’s cause.
Christ Appears Before God to Plead for us – that is, to Plead for our Good.
Bearing the Full Responsibility
The Lord will NOT leave us as orphans.
He will Himself Take Care of us,
Nourishing us, Edifying us, and Bearing the Full Responsibility for us.
Tuesday October 22 2024
ACTS 2.4
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit,
EPHESIANS 5.18
but be filled in the Spirit,
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COLOSSIANS 2.6-7
as, then, you received Christ Jesus the LORD, walk in Him, being rooted and built up in Him, and confirmed in the faith, as you were taught—abounding in it in thanksgiving.
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1 JOHN 4.19-21
we love Him, because He first loved us; if anyone may say, “I love God,” and may hate his brother, he is a liar; for he who is not loving his brother whom he has seen, how is he able to love God whom he has not seen? And this [is] the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.
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JOHN 15.7
if you may remain in Me, and My sayings may remain in you, whatever you may wish you will ask, and it will be done to you.
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JONN 14.18
I will not leave you bereaved, I come to you;
Forsake All
The First Step in the Way to the Baptism of the Holy Spirit: We must Forsake All to Follow Christ.
Forsake your net.
Leave that place and Come and Follow Me.
Lord, we have Forsaken All and Followed Thee. [their homes, their families, their good name].
Men mocked and laughed at them, despised and hated.
They Identified themselves with Him; they Gave themselves Up Entirely to His Bidding.
This is the First Step…
More Reliance on the Holy Spirit
A Christian who wishes to be Delivered from the power of sin must not make provision for the flesh.
He must be watchful.
He must be more disappointed in himself and place More Reliance on the Holy Spirit.
To man this is impossible, but to God all things are possible.
By Faith
It is not only By Faith that we First Come to Christ we are United to Him,
But that it is By Faith that we are to be Rooted and Established in our Union with Christ.
Abiding in Jesus can only be By Faith.