The Bible Studies
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Sharing the Word of God with others.
Our goal is for us to grow together in the knowledge of Our Lord Jesus Christ and to learn from each other so that the five fold ministry can be equipped to better perform in ministry. Today the world is turned off of Jesus because we all think that we are the only ones with the correct doctrines. We fight and bicker about who is right and who is wrong. The Christian world has attacked each other to the point of turning others away from the Truth of Life. Jesus said that He sent the Holy Spirit whose job is to lead us into all truth. Remember some of us are older Christians and have been into the Word a lot longer. Stop trying to do the Spirit's job. He will bear witness to the truth. You just plant the seed of truth in humility and let God do the watering. So if you don't agree with a study, humbly help us to grow by planting your seed of truth and we can aid the Holy Spirit to help us all grow as one in Him?
Jesus said, "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another". John 13:34,35
Jesus also said, "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea". Matt.18:3-6
Our goal here at Evangel-list is to grow and learn together, to get to know each other and to minister and pray for each other. As we see His day approaching it is imperitive we humbly work together as one, and learn from one another.
We want to see Jesus receive what he desired for all of us. John 17 tells us what Jesus wanted and desired us to be one with Him and His Father. His humility only proves He is the greatest among us. Enjoy one another.
Jesus Loves You!!! He Really Does
Pastor Jim and Trish
Comments
Harry Ironside once said,
"It is very evident that Christians will never see eye to eye on all points. We are so largely influenced by habits, by environment, by education, by the measure of intellectual and spiritual apprehension to which we have attained, that it is an impossibility to find any number of people who look at everything from the same standpoint. How then can such be of one mind? The apostle himself explains it elsewhere when he says, 'I think also that I have the mind of Christ.' The 'mind of Christ' is the lowly mind. And, if we are all of this mind, we shall walk together in love, considering one another and seeking rather to be helpers of one another's faith, than challenging each other's convictions".
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Jesus Loves You!!! He Really Does
Pastor Jim
An excerpt of a sermon on love by Andrew Murray
I wish now to dwell upon the passage found in Galatians 5:22:
"The fruit of the Spirit is love."
We read that "Love is the fulfilling of the law"' (Romans 13: 10), and my desire is to speak on love as a fruit of the Spirit with a twofold object. One is that this word may be a searchlight in our hearts, and give us a test by which to try all our thoughts about the Holy Spirit and all our experience of the holy life. Let us try ourselves by this word. Has this been our daily habit, to seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of love? "The fruit of the Spirit is love." Has it been our experience that the more we have of the Holy Spirit, the more loving we become? In claiming the Holy Spirit, we should make this the first object of our expectation. The Holy Spirit comes as a Spirit
of love.
Oh, if this were true in the Church of Christ, how different her state would be! May God help us to get hold of this simple, heavenly truth that the fruit of the Spirit is a love which appears in the life. Just as the Holy Spirit gets real possession of the life, the heart will be filled with real, divine, universal love.
One of the great causes why God cannot bless His Church is the lack of love. When the body is divided, there cannot be strength. In the time of their great religious wars, when Holland stood out so nobly against Spain, one of their mottoes was: "Unity gives strength." It is only when God's people stand as one body, one before God in the fellowship of love, one toward another in deep affection, one before the world in a love that the world can see-it is only then that they will have power to secure the blessing which they ask of God. Remember that if a vessel that ought to be one whole is cracked into many pieces, it cannot be filled. You can take one part of the vessel and dip out a little water into that, but if you want the vessel full, the vessel must be whole. That is literally true of Christ's Church. And if there is one thing we must pray for still, it is this-Lord, melt us together into one by the power of the Holy Spirit. Let the Holy Spirit, who at Pentecost made them all of one heart and one soul, do His blessed work among us. Praise God, we can love each other in a divine love, for "the fruit of the Spirit is love." Give yourselves up to love, and the Holy Spirit will come; receive the Spirit, and He will teach you to love more.
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Jesus Loves You!!! He Really Does
Pastor Jim