Laboring Together

The nature of this addiction is the act of devoting or giving up in practice the state. It's the the state of being totally devoted to something. Total dedication. So they have disposed of their ways and have devoted themselves to serve the saints, to do service to the people that were around them, supplying their wants, helping and assisting them on all occasions, [00:44:31] (24 seconds)  #DevotedToServe

I'm asking for you to open mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things. Right now, I'm just seeing the bad. I'm seeing all the negative that's going along with it. I don't like it. God, I'm asking your help for me to see the goal and the purpose and the intent. And if not, just help me to see your power and your strength and give me the right attitude. Give me the right spirit. God, I'm resting on you. [00:38:57] (24 seconds)  #SeeGodsPurpose

When we recognize that we are walking in the flesh, it's we when we stop and say, time out. I'm walking in the flesh. I recognize it. I'm all self centered. I'm all this. I'm all focused on my problems. Time out. God, I need you. Peter's prayer. Help. Peter's short prayer. Right? Help. Lord, save me. [00:39:38] (26 seconds)  #SaveMeLord

The very best thing we can do is to recognize the weakness and futility of our own righteousness and fall upon his righteousness. As I mentioned that verse in Isaiah this morning, in rest and returning, lying on him, trusting in him and his righteousness. The word rest upon properly means to pitch a tent upon and then to dwell in. [00:36:17] (26 seconds)  #RestInHisRighteousness

He warns them here, don't be entangled again with that yoke of bondage. The Judaizers were there trying to draw them back under the law. You've gotta keep the Sabbath day. You've gotta do these things. You've gotta do these things in order to to please God. No, he says. I've come to fulfill those things. Those are fulfilled in my life and death. Jesus Christ was the picture or he was the fulfillment of the picture of the Old Testament sacrificial system. [00:23:51] (23 seconds)  #FreedomInChrist

But all it did for me then it solidified in my life that if if I can lose my salvation, then it becomes a work. Then it's not through the power of God and God's lying then. He's not giving me that truth. He's the one that keeps me. It's his righteousness that covers mine, that covers my sin. It's all about him. [00:25:47] (20 seconds)  #SalvationByGrace

Charity is the grounds of it all. It's the basis. It's the foundation of it all. It's the greatest of these things. Without charity, without love towards god, without god's love flowing through us, all our works and things are a sounding brass. They're annoying. They're they're they're distracted. They're not they're not for the honor and glory of God. Then he goes on to describe, what does charity do? [00:41:59] (23 seconds)  #LoveIsFoundation

This this person died on a cross, the worst death you can die. What kind of power is that? That's weakness. No. That's that's the power of an infinite god and creator to humbly come down and to take our punishment and to submit to this death when he did not have to. Nothing could have held him on that cross. He held himself there. He kept himself there. [00:22:19] (25 seconds)  #PowerInTheCross