Pure Motives: The Foundation of Spiritual Life

Jun 23, 2025

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“Because of our faith we are gathered here this morning.”
“The teachers of the law are to teach the word of God in the Bible. But do we truly understand the substance and essence of the word in the Bible?”
“We might talk a lot about doctrines, but we might not understand what these doctrines are about. Talk about these doctrines, we have to ask ourselves what is our motive.”
“Sometimes, we might want to impress the others. Others to think that we know a lot. Even as a teacher of the law, sometimes we might not be trying to help the others understand what is said in the Bible.”
“Indeed, it is always a struggle that we are unable to live up to what we said.”
“It might be hard for us to imagine why some people would boast about these things, or try to do research and emphasize all these things of genealogies and bloodline in order to understand the word of the gospel.”
“It's hard for us to imagine why would they boast about this as if only when you preach about things like this you are someone unique, you're special you have in -depth knowledge of all these things.”
“Paul said, if you want to differentiate the truth from the false, ????????? ,????. If you have a selfish motive, and that is not real.,????. And if he does not have a good heart, that is also false.”
“I think those with a good conscience, will always try to help, think of others. ???? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??”
“It talks about a genuine trust, is about relationship, it is as if I 'm in - depth to you, because of lack of faithful ness, and therefore I want to fulfill that depth, and be faithful. Really sincere towards God.”
“So if I truly trust God with all sincerity, surely God will reward me. And I always say, when we talk about faith, we should all also think about faithfulness. Because faithfulness is about relationship.”
“So when you lose faith, means that when you did not deliver what you promised, unfaithful. So if you did not fulfill what you promised, you are not faithful. I promise you are an unfaithful person.”
“If we know many academic, ????????? ,???????????, and try to advertise ourselves and we live a life that is very often unfaithful, we don't deliver our promise. ???????????, and we continue serving, and then we serve for one year, two years, three years, four years, five years, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years. ?????????????????? What kind of spiritual project are we building?”
“The more you serve, would you be more fearful? ?????????? Do you know why you are fearful? ??? ,???? You're worried that the truth will be revealed, your secret exposed. And even worse, on one hand, you're worried that you'll be exposed, and the other hand, you try to package it, cover it even more.”
“??????????????? Your teaching does not reflect the truthfulness of God's teaching. Your teaching has nothing to do with God's will to edify in Christ Jesus.”
“And this local church does not represent the whole of God's household. ???????????? ,????????????? And a local church does not represent the whole of God's heart for this whole world.”
“To understand what this fullness of Christ is, we need to have imagination, but also to read the Bible. At the seminary, we have to read a lot, and we have to be good at the theology.”
“Do not because of the chaos and also destruction in this world, you forgot what God is doing in Christ.”
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