2 Chronicles 7:14; 1 Corinthians 1:10, Colossians 3:1-17
We are walking in today: Consider Yourselves: One Body, Many Members!
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his morning we welcome Deacon Troy Wagner who is bringing us a word from the following scriptures:
2 Chronicles 7:14 (AMP)
If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, pray,
seek, crave, and require of necessity My face and turn from their
wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal
their land.
1 Corinthians 1:10 (AMP) But I urge and entreat
you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be
in perfect harmony and full agreement in what you say, and that there be
no dissensions or factions or divisions among you, but that you be
perfectly united in your common understanding and in your opinions and
judgments.
Colossians 3:1-17 (AMP) 1) If then you have been
raised with Christ [to a new life, thus sharing His resurrection from
the dead], aim at and seek the [rich, eternal treasures] that are above,
where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2) And set your minds
and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the
things that are on the earth. 3) For [as far as this world is concerned]
you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.
4) When Christ, Who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with
Him in [the splendor of His] glory. 5) So kill (deaden, deprive of
power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses
and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice,
impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and
covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other
created things instead of God). 6) It is on account of these [very sins]
that the [holy] anger of God is ever coming upon the sons of
disobedience (those who are obstinately opposed to the divine will), 7)
Among whom you also once walked, when you were living in and addicted to
[such practices]. 8) But now put away and rid yourselves [completely]
of all these things: anger, rage, bad feeling toward others, curses and
slander, and foulmouthed abuse and shameful utterances from your lips!
9) Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old
(unregenerate) self with its evil practices, 10) And have clothed
yourselves with the new [spiritual self], which is [ever in the process
of being] renewed and remolded into [fuller and more perfect knowledge
upon] knowledge after the image (the likeness) of Him Who created it.
11) [In this new creation all distinctions vanish.] There is no room for
and there can be neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised,
[nor difference between nations whether alien] barbarians or Scythians
[who are the most savage of all], nor slave or free man; but Christ is
all and in all [everything and everywhere, to all men, without
distinction of person]. 12) Clothe yourselves therefore, as God’s own
chosen ones (His own picked representatives), [who are] purified and
holy and well-beloved [by God Himself, by putting on behavior marked by]
tenderhearted pity and mercy, kind feeling, a lowly opinion of
yourselves, gentle ways, [and] patience [which is tireless and
long-suffering, and has the power to endure whatever comes, with good
temper]. 13) Be gentle and forbearing with one another and, if one has a
difference (a grievance or complaint) against another, readily
pardoning each other; even as the Lord has [freely] forgiven you, so
must you also [forgive]. 14) And above all these [put on] love and
enfold yourselves with the bond of perfectness [which binds everything
together completely in ideal harmony]. 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, in that peaceful state] to which as [members of
Christ’s] one body you were also called [to live]. And be thankful
(appreciative), [giving praise to God always]. 16) Let the word [spoken
by] Christ (the Messiah) have its home [in your hearts and minds] and
dwell in you in [all its] richness, as you teach and admonish and train
one another in all insight and intelligence and wisdom [in spiritual
things, and as you sing] psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, making
melody to God with [His] grace in your hearts. 17) And whatever you do
[no matter what it is] in word or deed, do everything in the name of the
Lord Jesus and in [dependence upon] His Person, giving praise to God
the Father through Him.
Click here to listen to this powerful word from God. Yeah and amen!
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