STUDIES FROM BRETHREN IN CHRIST

6/25/2023 ~ Works By Example

👷   WorksByExampleAM.mp3 (32m 11s)      WorksByExample.pptx        Darkness cannot overtake the power of God’s Light In our quest to achieve, direction of thought defines our essence. ... "Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." ~ Hebrews 3:15 Actions Declare Character Act on His Word 🡡 Hear His Voice   Harden your heart   🡣     Do not act on His Word     ... "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent." ~ John 6:29 Belief is buried in what one holds deepest                                              Trust         Accept as true                               Be certain of   Have faith in                            Have confidence in        Believe in Him                                        Consider For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. ~ Ephesians 2:10 The image of God is intended for all His creatures                                  Eternity                   Love                                                    Loyalty          Truth                          Righteousness       Wisdom                               Friendship    🡢 God prepared beforehand 🡠             We should walk in them ... not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. ~ Ephesians 5:15-17 ... affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. ... ~ Titus 3:8 "... Therefore by their fruits you will know them. Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven." ~ Matthew 7:16-21 The fruits of spirit reveal the soul   ● By their fruits you will know them Good tree bears good fruit 🡢 Pruned Bad tree bears bad fruit 🡢 Burned   Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,'   shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he Who does the will of My Father in heaven Without honesty there is no reward   To enter the kingdom of heaven   🡡 Who does the will of God in heaven ... Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers. ... ~ 2nd Timothy 2:13-16 Decent sanity breaks-up without sense of God   If we are faithless, He remains faithful Remind them of these things charging them not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers   ● Be diligent to present yourself approved      to God, a worker who does not need to be      ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth   name calling     gossip ⮣  profane and idle babblings  ⮢ they will increase to more ungodliness ... A true witness delivers souls, But a deceitful witness speaks lies. ~ Proverbs 14:23-25 Truth lifts souls while liars abysmally descend    Crown of the wise = their riches        The foolishness of fools = folly                       🡩       A true witness delivers souls     A deceitful witness speaks lies                             🡣 ... so great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, ... ~ Hebrews 12:1 Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all. ~ 1st Timothy 4:15 "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven." ~ Matthew 5:16 Each of us holds a talent no others possess. To find this quality, and use it to bring about benefits, for self and others, is the best a soul can achieve. Nirvana is a quest in obtaining personal awareness. It is not a competition with others but a honing of personal excellence. Jobs in the mundane world can sour a soul in recognizing what is finest in given gifts, especially when drawn into apathy and cynicism. To be in front of the war of social indifference, passion must be ignited to pursue those hobbies or aptitudes meant to fulfill living one’s life. Too many leave with no legacy, for they themselves never find the meaning of their greatest purpose. Without personal purpose, life becomes lost. Love is taken away when anxiety is filled with depression. And let our people also learn to maintain good works, to meet urgent needs, that they may not be unfruitful. ~ Titus 3:14 Best use of resources over frivolous irresponsibility   Learn to maintain good works          ⮡  to meet urgent needs              ⮡  not be unfruitful Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need. ~ Ephesians 4:28 Our best actions come by what we give to others                taking   Who stole steal no longer             ⮡  let him labor                         ⮡  working what is good                                    🡣                             to give who has need ... be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; ~ Colossians 1:9-10 Knowledge with understanding only applies if employed   Do not cease to pray     ⮡  ask that you may be filled with 🡣 knowledge of His will   in all wisdom / spiritual understanding        ⮡  may walk worthy of the Lord             ⮡  fully pleasing Him, being fruitful                        in every good work   ● Increasing in the knowledge of God   In the vast arena of life choices are made, and must be made, if spiritual salvation is to enter a soul’s existence. To dismiss consciousness of conscience is to the detriment of a soul. Oblivion is guaranteed for the dishonest and unfruitful as they pillage the land. Eons of man have chosen lies over truth. The children, struggling to become adults, have suffered for lack of truth without honest mentors. Institutions are rooted in the mired condoning of lies to boost selfish monetary profits. Corporations instruct employees to lie, the works of greed. Without honesty, the light only dims for the hope of freedom, where love can flourish. Truth is found by believing in God’s Word of Life ● Hear God and do not harden your heart to Him ● To believe in Jesus is a working call by God ● God created His creation to uphold good character ● God wills we be careful and understand His will ● God wills we constantly maintain good works ● A soul will be known by the fruits they produce ● God wills we recall His warnings of ungodliness ● God sees labors of the humbly wise & deceitful liars ● God calls for us to meditate upon His words of truth ● God wills we shine with our good works ● Said to learn to maintain the needs of good works ● God wills that we forgo thievery for giving hearts ● To pray unceasingly seeking & applying His truths God will judge hearts as seeking Him over self-seeking. Darkness has no source.