Absolutely right on target!! Thanks for sharing!!!Easy G (G²);61383260 said:Just some food for thought, if I may share
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Absolutely right on target!! Thanks for sharing!!!Easy G (G²);61383260 said:Just some food for thought, if I may share
Motives are major factor, indeed. And it should be remembered that God will sometimes lead us to such situations not so much to feed the hungry and possibly change them....Last year God really challenged me about my motives...
Why do you do the things you do... because you are expecting something in return or just because it is right?
example...
Do you feed the poor because you want them to come to church or just because they are hungry?
We should feed them because they are hungry and let God give the increase...
Cool to know. Thanks for always giving real things for people to think about in fellowship/dialouge...especially as it concerns putting your faith into action in a manner worthy of being seen as right actionAbsolutely right on target!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Oh I realize the difference, but even though the Holy Spirit dwells in the saved,they may not want to believe God can speak to their heart. What they have is fire insurance .There is a difference between being indwelled of the Holy Spirit (which every believer is) and being baptized in the Holy Spirit (which every believer is not). When one becomes born again, the Holy Spirit comes in and lives within him. Being baptized in the Holy Spirit is a choice to allow the Holy Spirit to lead (which doesn't mean that at times we won'd push Him back and get proud in our own ability). I'd like you to consider two events:
John 20:21-22...and...
21 So Jesus said to them again, Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you. 22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:1-4The first, when we obtain salvation, we are indwelled with the Holy Spirit. The second is the baptism of the Holy Spirit, as Jesus said in Acts 1 just before He ascended to His Father....
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.
Acts 1:5So, yes and no: not baptized, but all believers are indwelled of the Holy Spirit and are under His helps (He is our helper).
5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.
This is absolutely true. And it is why in my last couple of posts I began to put quotes around the "spiritually" religious.
The 'war on poverty' was declared a few presidents ago. Is that national faith in action?
How has helped the poor? They sure have multiplied since the war started.
Work your faith, and you will see faith with works.
Motives are major factor, indeed. And it should be remembered that God will sometimes lead us to such situations not so much to feed the hungry and possibly change them....
....but to change us as we humble ourselves and do His will, not for return (emotional or otherwise), but simply to see His will be done. God leaves no stone unturned: you will be changed.
So, can you be so spiritual that you are no earthly good? Who cares if we are? And is that bad? What if we simply focused 100% of our being on our spiritual side and ignored this earth and what is in it? Would that please God? Perhaps that's how we got to where we are today. Hmm?
I have never agreed with that statement, I believe the more spiritual we are (not obnoxious with it) it will be attractive to people and they will be drawn to us and we will be of more earthly good...
I sometimes think this statement is a cop out for carnality, I need to be a little carnal or I am no earthly good...
We've all heard the saying: "So spiritual that you are no earthly good."
Any truth to this?
This topic reminds me of another way some put it. A friend was called a "goody two shoes".
Take it as a compliment I say. Better than being a baddy two shoes.
How much better this world would be if we are were more heavenly minded. It would effect our walk in this world, not of it.
Dr. Martin Luther King was an adulterer and a wife abuser. I never have understood those, especially Christians, who praise him.
Gxg (G²);61385789 said:Do you think it's possible for the Lord to bring people to us and yet others in the very act of helping them don't change? In line with the concept of the Lord allowing us to make decisions and not forcing anyone to change even when He brings the opportunity to allow for hearts to be changed to be more like Him? Personally, I can think of several examples where others noted that they took care of others the Lord sent and yet for years did so with the wrong kind of mindsets because they didn't see what the Lord wanted to do inside of them. Mabye it could be chalked up to some things happening in their own time...but I do wonder.
Excuse me? Perhaps you mean like David in the Old Testament, who despite his faults was chosen by God.
Dr. King was an extraordinary man. Did Easy G not tell truth in his post/questions?
And what of your past? Should we point at your sins? Or should we point at you through the Blood of Christ? For God SHALL measure you in the manner you measure others. I'd be careful of that.
If you read my post thoroughly you would see I was talking about Christians who PRAISE King.
It's one thing to accept him - and me and you - as a human being with failures and successes. It's another to worship and praise him, which is what is done.
Galatians 2:6 MSG
As for those who were considered important in the church, their reputation doesnt concern me. God isnt impressed with mere appearances, and neither am I.
NKJV
But from those who seemed to be somethingwhatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God shows personal favoritism to no man.