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Believer's Worldview - Curtis Smale
Tuesday April 24, 2007
1) John 6;47 "Most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in Me HAS everlasting life."
2) In Him we have the forgiveness of sins.
3) You are free in Christ.
4) There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
5) The truth will make you free. (And strong!)
6) To the pure, all things are pure.
7) Freedom.
8) Enjoy the life God has given you on the earth.
9) He will fill your mouth with laughter.
10) Do not worry.
11) He will bless you.
12) His peace is beyond your understanding..
9) Love is creative.
10) Forgiveness sets you free of depression. (tormenters.)
11) Take care of the body God gave you.
12) You are not under law but under grace.
13) The power of words.
14) Devastating quietness and truth.
15) He will keep you in perfect peace as you set your mind on Him.
16) God is the source of mental health.
17) Faith.
18) He who walks with the wise grows wise.
19) He who walks with the angry, faithless, depressed, unhealthy or stupid grows that way.
20) God has promised to provide for you. Trusting that promise eliminates worry.
21) Give the Word of Truth to those who want it.
22) Who cares if I die? I have Jesus. I have no fear of death or Hell.
23) There is room for many things in life.
24) God is with you--always.
25) God is in control.
26) Pray, believe and receive.
27) You will find rest for your soul in Jesus.
28) You find strength in your brothers and sisters in the church.
29) We were *born again* the moment we believed in Jesus.
30) We were *baptized into Christ* the moment we believed.
31) We were baptized into Christ's death and resurrection.
32) Everything not of faith is sin.
33) God is my Creator.
34) Quality, details, meaning and distinctions count for a lot.
35) Pray to Jesus.
36) Don't compare yourself to others.
37) If you follow Jesus, you will not walk in darkness.
38) Believers never perish.
39) Money is not my God.
40) Whoever lives and believes in Jesus shall never die.
41) I have everlasting life in Jesus.
42) I am in Jesus and Jesus is in me.
43) Jesus said that if we love Him, we will obey His commands.
44) Jesus gives us the peace that passes all understanding.
45) Believers abide in Jesus, and get their strength from Him.
46) Believers are surrounded by the love of God in Jesus Christ.
47) We are sanctified by the truth. God's Word is truth.
48) His peace is with us.
49) The love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
50) Believers are on their way Home.
51) Believers are justified by Jesus' blood and saved from the wrath of God for our sins.
52) I have everything I need in Jesus and through Jesus.
53) Our old sinful nature was crucified with Christ on the cross.
54) I am dead to sin, in Christ.
55) Fight the good fight of faith.
56) The gift of God is eternal life.
57) Sing a new song to God.
58) Romans 8:1
59) To be spiritually-minded is life and peace.
60) Glory will be revealed in believers.
61) All things work together for those who love God.
62) We follow God in our conscience.
63) Salvation is of God's Grace and faith, not by works.
64) Be kind and affectionate to each other, with brotherly love.
65) Walk in love.
66) We get joy and peace from believing in Jesus.
67) God did not send Paul to water-baptize people, but to preach the Gospel.
68) Believers are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in us.
69) Believers have liberty in Christ.
70) Use your talents gifts and abilities to the glory of God.
71) Believers were all baptized into Christ by the Holy Spirit.
72) Love rejoices in the truth. (1st Corinthians 13)
73) Choose good friends: evil company corrupts good habits.
74) If anyone does not love Jesus, let him be cursed. (2nd Cor. 16:22.)
75) Believers will receive rewards in Heaven for every little thing we do for Jesus, in His power.
76) Believers are sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
77) Believers have put on Christ as our white robe of righteousness and absolute purity.
78) Walk in the Spirit.
79) The Spirit of God produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
80) Believers were sealed with the Holy Spirit Himself, sealed with God Himself.
81) Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth.
82) Build up yourself and others with words.
83) Give grace through your words.
84) Throw away anger, bitterness and evil speaking.
85) Avoid dirty an discouraging talk.
86) Be strong in God.
87) Live worthy of the Gospel of Jesus.
88) All things are worthless compared to Jesus.
89) God comforts us with His Spirit.
90) Dwell on truth and goodness.
91) Make Jesus your solid foundation, your firm ground, your Rock against the storms of life.
92) Grace is our only Hope.
93) Be humble.
94) Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly.
95) Walk in wisdom.
96) Make the most of opportunities to lead people to Jesus.
97) Speak with grace.
98) Be strong in the grace of Jesus.
99) Depart from evil, sin and wrongdoing.
100) Jesus is with the spirits of believers.
101) The glory of Jesus is brightness.
102) The Word of God is sharp, and penetrates into the hearts and minds of people.
103) Pursue peace.
104) Stand strong through testing and the Lord will deliver and exalt you..
105) The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in need.
106) If God has made you wise, show it by your wise conduct.
107) Be humble in the sight of God and He will lift you up.
108) Submit to God. Resist the devil.
109) What is highly valued among men is worthless in the sight of God.
110) Work hard.
111) Watch your words--they have power.
112) Encourage others to go in the right direction.
113) God will part waters for you, he will make a way for you and calm the storm.
114) Purify your soul through obeying the truth.
115) God will deliver you. Trust Him. Rejoice!
116) God has a history of answered prayer and deliverance with every believer.
117) Heaven is beyond your imagination.
118) Praise God for the stars, the work of His hands, His wondrous works.
119) Everything is ultimately meaningless for those without God inn their lives.
120) Be wise--fear, love and trust God.
121) Jesus is the prophesied Messiah of the Old Testament.
122) God is the heavenly Father of all believers.
123) Jesus is coming back to Earth soon, to judge evil people and take believers to Heaven.
The Lord will destroy all evil people, all unbelieving sinners, in Hell, forever.
124) Believers have a spirit that is alive to God.
125) Be compassionate, tenderhearted and courteous--do not return evil for evil.
126) Walk in the light.
127) Then Bible says that if you don't love everyone, then you don't love God, either.
128) Whoever believes in Jesus has been born of God.
129) 1st John 5:13 God wants everyone who believes in Jesus to KNOW without doubt that they have forgiveness, everlasting life and that Heaven is guaranteed.
130) Build up yourself and others in faith in Jesus.
131) Worship God.
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In a fallen and sinful world,
total peace would be a horror beyond imagination.
It would mean that
there was no longer
anything
worth
fighting for.
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*** The closer you get to God, (through God's grace in Christ, Bible reading, faith, prayer, obedience and fellowship with other believers in Jesus), the more you realize how disgusting and wretched and dirty you are without Him.
*** The closer you get to God, the more real and true you realize all of these truths are.
*** Humility flows easily from a person who realizes he is evil without God. Who realizes that he is getting ALL of his goodness from God, like a pool gets water from a hose. We got no goodness without Him.
*** The closer you get to God, the more you realize how insignificant, sinful and ordinary even the greatest of humans are.
*** The closer you get to God, the more you realize how much humans (including yourself) have always been doing absolutely nothing but pushing God away--that no one ~of his or her own power~ has EVER been "searching for God"!! As C.S. Lewis said, talking about "man's search for God" is like talking about "the mouse's search for the cat." Vutt a joke!
*** If you ain't prayin', you ain't lovin' with God's kind of love.
*** Go from grace to grace, from light to greater spiritual light, in Christ, through grace, His truth, and obedience.
*** If you ain't readin' the New Testament, you ain't aligning your mind with the truth. You ain't.
*** If you ain't forgivin' everyone of everythin' constantly, you're walkin' in darkness.
*** God is mysterious and unfathomable. Yer brain ain't gonna figger Him out.
*** Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims know all about Jesus, and have known the truth about Him for close to 2,000 years. They just reject Him, just like most of the ancient peoples, except for the chosen few who came to faith, such as Rahab the prostitute.
*** Self-Centered Pride is the greatest sin. It is the devil's sin. Satan's evil. This is why so many of the "good" people in churches who don't really believe in Jesus are going to end up in Hell. They think they are "good" all by themselves, not realizing that they are as cut off from God as a prostitute or a serial killer! They do no have God's goodness, which is Christ, and only Christ. There are people in your family like this.
*** God's Spirit and His Word can go anywhere to anyone at any time.
*** We need God for *forgiveness* more than for anything else.
*** Did you pray today for God's love to come through you, you who are new creations in Christ?
*** The word "Grace" means "gift." Receive the spiritual ability God gives you as a "gift."
*** Christians ARE better than other people--but ONLY because of CHRIST, NOT because of themselves.
*** Read the Bible for a glimpse of where you're going--one way or the other...
*** Your spirit is your intuition, conscience and your ability to have communion with God. Your spirit is NOT your mind nor your emotions.
*** Dramatically evil people who come to faith seem get one initial dramatic change toward basic decency--then they get on a slow, progressive path of grace like the rest of us.
*** Is God's worldview in every part of your life?
*** "Grace is for giving."
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If I weren't a Christian, I would probably be a Buddhist. But Buddhism does not provide the forgiveness of sins. Buddhism does not have the Holy Spirit. Buddhism does not have The Father. Buddhism doesn't have pure Scriptures. And Buddha ain't Jesus. And there seems to be no end to the journey in Buddhism. And there are major errors of truth in Buddhism regarding the nature of reality. Nevertheless, despite all this, every once in a while, the Buddha wrote something really cool. Check it out.
A man approached the Blessed One and wanted to have all his philosophical questions answered before he would practice.
In response, the Buddha said, It is as if a man had been wounded by a poisoned arrow and when attended to by a physician were to say, I will not allow you to remove this arrow until I have learned the caste, the age, the occupation, the birthplace, and the motivation of the person who wounded me. That man would die before having learned all this. In exactly the same way, anyone who should say, I will not follow the teaching of the Blessed One until the Blessed One has explained all the multiform truths of the world-that person would die before the Buddha had explained all this.
-from the Majjhima Nikaya From "Teachings of the Buddha," edited by Jack Kornfield, 1993. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications,
'Cept it ain't the Buddha, but God you should be listening to.
This sounds kinda like a parable of Jesus. Someone theorized that Buddha, may have ultimately gotten his wisdom from Solomon.
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Most people do not know it, but "separation of church and state" refers to the state keeping it's nose out of the church's affairs, not the reverse.
The false understanding of the "separation of church and state" has been extrapolated into all areas of life.
Just yesterday, in the break room at Virgin Mobile, where I work, I was standing next to a young man of about 20. I struck up a conversation with him as we watched a comedian on TV. (We both had gotten bloody noses because of Colorado Springs' elevation and dryness, and I made a comment about that.)
I noticed immediately that the TV had been changed from FOX to TBN, the Trinity Broadcast Network--the Christian station. I saw the crown icon in the lower right of the screen.
The young man made the comment that he was surprised that the TV was switched to the Christian station at the workplace.
Interesting that people falsely apply this false standard of "separation of church and state" to private business enterprises.
Private business enterprises can broadcast Billy Graham all day long, and lock it onto the Christian channel, if they want. They have the freedom to run their businesses the way they want.
People are starting to forget that people have freedom in America.
(Of course, people also have the freedom to protest things in the workplace.)
The thing that we should be concerned about is that people seem to think that the liberal "politically correct" point of view is the default position of American law.
It's not.
So please don't be intimidated by the false rules of Post-Christian America.
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