Know his death and pain

We long to know his power and reign but do we know his death and pain. (From a random song)
Father forgive them for they know not what they do. (Jesus on the cross)

If we truly knew his death and pain, and the the fact that each time we sin he had a pain that he had to endure for us. We are crucifying Christ everytime we sin, we would understand the importance of getting victory! We would stop in our tracts and ask God for the victory each time.

The Call

II Chorinthians 6

4But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
6By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
7By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
9As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
10As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Put imaginations and all thoughts in Gods Controll

2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Its striking of how we are to put our sins, worries of other people, and evil thoughts in Gods control, because when we try to control them, we fall, and fail to do the right thing every time, bring it into the obedience of Christ. let God give you the victory, let God be the one to work out a situation in other people life, instead of thinking only of evil in other people lives let God work through you, to encourage and help others. but dont try to change others in your own strength, thats Gods job.

Gal 6:13

For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

When the world tries to persuade you into doing what they do, they are not doing it because they care about you, they make you their friend, and makes you scared to stand up for God for fear of losing the friendship, their desire is to have people like you and me, following them so that they can say look at all the followers i have, and not doing it because the truly care about you. or to have a relationship that is used to encourage one another, their reasons are selfish!

James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Are you the man's man?

Galations 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Do you want to be man's man or Christ's servant, obviously Paul chose to be God's servant, and look what happened to his life!

An obvious comparison is David and Saul. Saul was Man's favorite guy, good looking, tall, strong, and ended up being a known as a bad king. David was Christ's servant, tho not perfect but, known as a man after God's own heart!

Jordan

God and his wisdom

God is a whole lot better than us, he does things with the things everyone gets to use, in a completely different way.

• With love he saved the world, and guides us

1. Love in today's world, leads to some pretty harsh decision's
2. Love also turns to hate, and divorces.

• With power God healed and helped others

1. With power thousands of Jews were killed on holocaust

• Being a king he chose to be a pauper

1. being a pauper we try to live like kings, selfishness, greed.

• With blood God saved the world

1. With blood we kill many in wars, and murders.

And yet he saved us.

You can add a lot more to this list, the way God does things, and the way we do them, is a very big contrast.