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Ours is a world of enormous pain and endless hurt.
Every one of us knows someone who is enduring an intensely difficult time of physical or emotional trauma—or both. Maybe it’s even you?
The apostle Paul wrote extensively about the pain in this life. He endured sleeplessness, sickness, and hunger. He suffered at the hands of evil men many times. But in spite of his circumstances, Paul kept his eyes on Jesus, “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us” (Romans 8:18).
That was a timely note from Chuck heard weekdays on KKIM at 6:30am and 6:30pm
As Chuck encourages us,let us keep our eyes on Jesus. Pastor Garland Moore preached on that one Sunday and it really had an impact on me.
Let us look at Romans 8:9
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not HIS.
Let us go to verse 10…….
And if Christ is in you, the body is DEAD because of sin, but the SPIRIT is LIFE because of righteousness.
verse 11
But if the SPIRIT of HIM who raised JESUS from the DEAD dwells in you, HE who raised CHRIST from the DEAD will also give LIFE TO YOUR MORTAL BODIES through HIS SPIRIT who dwells in you.
jump ahead to verse 13…….
For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
That for me is the bottom line………are we living with Christ or living in the flesh? Are we going to have eternal life with our Almighty Father……..or will we live in hell?
I really don’t know if this is Preached about enough in Church and talked about..It is not meant as Fire and Brimstone.it is meant as the TRUTH it is in God’s Word.
So let us keep our eye’s on Jesus……..I know that heaven is a prepared place………we just need to be prepared.
Just one more thing…………
Let me just share this from Chuck Swindoll on the Flesh and Spirit……….
There are two natures struggling for control in this world……”the Flesh”., our old nature, and “the Spirit,” the gift of God’s presence within us.
Existing in the flesh can involve a headlong pursuit of sin. After all, the flesh is hostile to God. (Picture that in your minds, my friends…in the flesh, Hostile to God) before we received His grace and before His Spirit took up residence within us, the flesh craved only evil. (What are you craving today? Our Lord Jesus Christ? or the flesh? evil doings? are you going through life in the energy of the flesh? darkness? or Light?)
Christians have been known to abandon themselves to wrongdoing for a variety of reasons. Some spectators would suggest they were not genuine believers at the time, but we can only speculate.
Those who train hard, expecting to leap into heaven under their own power, will “fall short.” That’s the old-nature of thinking.
AWESOME words from Chuck Swindoll…….
So as we close this morning…..we have sorrow all around us……..Lovely people losing their loved ones…..but our faith is in our Lord Jesus Christ and eternal life with Him. Let us keep our eye’s on Jesus!
It is so hard to lose our loved ones here on earth…I talked to my friend Lee last night he just lost his wife of many, many years………and she is in heaven and he is here on earth………left alone……….and he misses his wife greatly…….
Let us pray for all those who have lost loved ones recently……….Let us pray for all those ill at this time………let us all pray for all those suffering right now, wether it is a job lost, or a marriage in trouble…….we all know people that are suffering, it may be you………Let us all keep our eyes on Jesus and the Promises that our Lord makes to us in His Word……yes they are promises and He never has broken one! Dive into the Lord’s Word today my friends, and let us ask ourselves what are we going to do today to point someone to Christ? Let us bring comfort to those around us. let us share with others about fleshly thinking….Let us be BOLD in our faith! In the name of Jesus, AMEN!
In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and family
ps….Let us pray for BREAK THROUGHS for our LORD! Turning Darkness into Light with the POWER of the HOLY SPIRIT!