Rise Up O Men Of God
What are you talking about?
Submitted by JoseApodaca on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 02:53.
As life rolls by we have a tendency to forget who we are, some may not even realize who they are. Well who are you? When things happen Maybe some one makes you mad or a certain situation frustrates you what do you do? People have a mechanism within their brain to tell them a story whether it be true or false. Most of the time it is false.
Then words of choice fly, Do we condemn others or our selves? Do we curse them? I would have to say yea sometimes. Yes I fit into this as well. When we are born again we are a new creation.
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Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. |
Then if this is the case what are we telling our selves? We have our Identification in Christ, However we have the right to choose to identify with the things of this world.
Lets take a look at what God says in His word and what we can identify with.
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Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: |
Have you ever thought to tell your self you are justified FREELY by His GRACE because you have been REDEEMED! What a change of vocabulary that would be.
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[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. |
How about this one there is therefore now when? NOW NO condemnation to them YOU are them in Christ Jesus. This is something else we can identify with
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What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us? |
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He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? |
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Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth. |
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Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. |
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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? |
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As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. |
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Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. |
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For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, |
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Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
Well How do yo like them apples? If God be for us who can be against us? Is this something yo can identify with? These are words written to you! For you to be built up. Verse 32 He delivered His Son all and gives us freely all things.
Lets keep going is there anything that can separate us from the love of Christ? Nay NO! nothing can separate us from the love God has for us! we have Christ in us and if we choose to live like we do we need to tell ourselves what we have and are according to God's Word. Likewise we need to be ready to build each other up the same way, yes sometimes there needs to be an ass chewing a little confrontation and in these cases we need to be listening to God and ask His wisdom. Far too many times we correct those we love and those we don't with words that lack wisdom.
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So we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. |
When we take this verse to heart and place it in the depth of our mind we see that God has made one body it is The Body of believers Christ being the head. Not the leader of some Church or organization.
And here is the kicker, it does not matter what denomination you choose to be a part of. If you are born again you are a member and I need you just as much as you need me! End of story.
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Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. |
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But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. |
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For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. |
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For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. |
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There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. |
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And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. |
Here you go we are justified by faith, we are children of God By faith or ( believing ) in Christ Jesus we are all one in Christ and if we are Christ's we a re heirs we share fully all that Christ has. Is this somethin you are able to identify with? Well you should of you don't this is what God has made you to be and if you are going to tell your self things that make a great story... well then I suggest you tell yourself some of this!
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Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ: |
God is so faithful he has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in Heavenly places in Christ, It is all because of what Christ accomplished that we have this and all we had to do is believe, Jesus had the hardest part in all this. Thank God He raised him from the dead!
Proverbs 18:4 Amplified Bible
4The words of a [discreet and wise] man's mouth are like deep waters [plenteous and difficult to fathom], and the fountain of skillful and godly Wisdom is like a gushing stream [sparkling, fresh, pure, and life-giving].
verse 21 same version
21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]. Words have power they can build up or tear down, we are the authors of the book we write. Wisdom should be at the forefront of our minds. What we say has an impact on the outcome of situations it is up to tell our selves the story that will build us up so that we can build others up. What we put in comes out, so go out and put the words God has placed in His word for you to live a life that is more than abundant!
