Being in tune with God

Too many Christians do forget that they have to come in unity with Christ and with God in the same manner that Jesus is one with God.

Too many Christians overlook that God has a purpose to save the world through Jesus; and what the importance is of the role of faith in Jesus as the means of salvation.
Too many Christians have made Jesus in their god instead of believing that he is a man of flesh and blood, who really was tempted (remember God cannot be tempted) and really died at his impalement (remember God cannot die).

In this son of God people can find rest. He not only did the will of his Father, and not his own will, which he would have done in case he is God, He shall not condemn us but judge us on how we reacted on his words and his showing the Way to God. We can not stay blind and deaf, and should react accordingly how we receive insight and take steps according the truth we find. Than we have to show if we want to stay of the world and preferring to keep to human dogmas or to be part of Christ not being of the world but of God, loving His commandments and believing His Words.

By accepting Jesus and following him we shall find life will become much easier to bear. In him we shall be able to find wholeness and well-being and the courage to come closer to his heavenly Father the One and Only True God.

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Additional reading:

1. About unity
2. Unity with Christ
3. Outflow of foundational relationship based on acceptance of Jesus
4. Maintaining unity of Spirit in the bond of peace becoming one with God
5. Authority given to him To give eternal life
6. Not bounded by labels but liberated in Christ
7. A participation in the body of Christ
8. Preparation for unity
9. Manifests for believers #5 Christian Union
10. One Mind, One Accord
11. Come ye yourselves apart … and rest awhile (Mark 6:31)
12. Lonely in the crowd
13. Atonement And Fellowship 4/8
14. Atonement And Fellowship 6/8
15. Unity doesn’t mean uniformity
16. To whom do we want to be enslaved
17. Let us become nothing, and Christ everything
18. En Soma: One Body
19. United people under Christ
20. Commitment to Christian unity

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• Unity (africanaprincess.wordpress.com)
  Within the body of Christ we all have a role and purpose and there is no distinction with the Lord. The Lord is the same over all who call on His name. We are all called to be a witness and to spread the Gospel to all nations.  Let your light shine so the world may know that you are in Christ Jesus!
• What the Bible says about Worry/Anxiety (livinginhisfootsteps.wordpress.com)
  Don’t be anxious about anything, but pray in everything with thanksgiving. Then the incomprehensible peace of God will guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus.
• matthew 6: 33-34 (forwhatiwanticanwait.wordpress.com)
  Our Heavenly Father sustains birds that do not sow or reap; we need to have the faith that Jesus will sustain us. 
• Reflection on Philippians 3 (jesusaves.net)
  Christ should be at the centre of all we do as we press forward towards the Goal of eternal life being already citizens of heaven. So let us rejoice in the Lord, be united in prayer and meditate on what is right and holy. This will help us put other’s needs before ours.
• God Did Not Abandon Jesus – Conclusion (instrument-rated-theology.com)
  If God abandoned Jesus, even for a moment, for that moment Jesus was just a human. This is in clear contradiction to the entire message of the gospel of John.
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  If Jesus’s prayer for the church was based on his unity with his Father, and if that unity was “revoked” or “abandoned,” then what does that teach us about the unity of his believers? Can we accept division in Christ’s church because Jesus and his Father experienced division?
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  Jesus’s death was ultimately unnecessary. If God was with Jesus before Jesus died, and if he was with Jesus as he died, then the atonement was accomplished simply by the suffering of Jesus. His death was superfluous.
• God’s Great Power (genesisone.wordpress.com)
  The same God who raised Jesus from the dead can raise us from spiritual death. Whether or not we perceived it at the time that power of God was operating in our lives in a way that assured us of eternal life – a life that physical death cannot harm.
• Live with expectation (takeaminute.net)
  The term “born again” refers to spiritual birth (regeneration)—the Holy Spirit’s act of bringing believers into God’s family. Jesus used this concept of new birth when he explained salvation to Nicodemus (see John 3). This term is a wonderful metaphor of new life from God. You cannot be a Christian without a fresh beginning based on the salvation Christ brings. To be born again is a magnificent gift from God.
• Romans 15:5-6 – May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind (church4u2.wordpress.com)
  May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  – Romans 15:5-6 (NIV)
• Dig for Friday the 10th of April…. you’ve just got to love those buts #02…..Romans 6 v23 (heilanword.wordpress.com)
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Christian teaching

John 5:19-20; 30

We went through John chapter 5 in some detail last Summer. But I want to go back to it today, or to a few verses from it, to look at a particular topic – being in tune with God so that we do his will.

I think we all know in general what God’s will is for our lives from the Scriptures. For instance we are to share the good news of Jesus, and we are to love our neighbors. But I want to cast a vision for you of being so in synch with God that we not only know the general framework of God’s will, but we can also be guided by God in very specific ways in specific situations.

So God opens a door for you to share the gospel, and you know how to do this, but you are also listening for what…

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Deuteronomy 4- Is God in Close Proximity?

Those who love יהוה Jehovah God should be clinging to יהוה our Elohim who has taught us laws and right-rulings. Those Words and commands יהוה our Elohim has given the world from one generation to the next we either can ignore or take them to be truthful and most important for our life. We should better guard them and follow them up, for this is our wisdom and our understanding.

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Additional reading:

• Life with God
• Our relationship with God, Jesus and each other

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• Treasure (presencenow.be)
  As a verb the word treasure means to cherish, to love, to hold closely, to value, to adore, to be devoted to. So what do I value? What do I cherish?
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  The more we believe deep within our hearts and souls, that God loves us, the more we treasure Him. We quit overvaluing lesser things and devote more and more of ourselves to Him. His love is that good.
• Light, life and love in the Word (dailymedit.wordpress.com)
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  Everything originally emerges from the word of God, and everything else in our lives founded on the world will endure as God’s word is.  The word of God was recommended by Paul as the building block of our lives. The word of God is infused with the light, life and love of God.
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  Similarly, anyone who enticed others to worship other gods, even family members were not to be followed and should be put to death. If they heard of towns whose inhabitants were worshipping other gods, they were to kill all of that town, destroying even their livestock. The spoils of the town were to be set on fire as a huge burnt offering to the Lord. They were to keep nothing from such towns.

• Deuteronomy: A Commentary (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
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• in the Daily Verse: Deuteronomy 6:4 (faithfulprovisions.com) “The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.” that Lord is the Only One God: “Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה {Jehobvah} our Elohim, יהוה {Jehovah} is one!

In Christ Alone Devotions

It would be hard to believe that in the time of Moses there would be Deists. You know, a person who believes that God created the world and just left it by itself to run its natural course. It is like a scientist creating a robot and then setting it free in the world and never coming in contact with it again. However, today there may be remnants or even hybrid forms of that philosophy that was born in the 17th century. Lets see what God has to say about that.

⁵ “See, I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it. ⁶So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes…

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