Day 5; How to live

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How to live, as told to us by Lord Jesus

The words of Jesus doesn’t need to be dissected

They needs to be read in faith believing in the Lord Jesus

And taken in, and our lives molded to fit them, not they to fit our life’s.

Matthew chapters 3 - 7 starting in

• Chapter 3: 15 Jesus starts by being baptized by John to fulfill all righteousness.
• Chapter 4 Jesus is tempted in all ways and responds to the evil one by quoting the words of His Father.
• Chapters 5 - 7 In Matthew 5:3 Jesus starts laying out how we are to live to please the Father.

Read this not as a book but as if your life depended on it, for it does. Read this and drink it in, Jesus didn’t have to have someone tear His word down or dissect what He said so people would or could understand them. And His words are just as direct, powerful and understandable as the day He first spoke them.

Read Matthew 5 – 7 it should take you day’s if not weeks or months perhaps even a lifetime to eat every word Jesus spoke and allow it to become meat on your bones.

Example; 5:3 – Blessed are the poor in spirit.

If you don’t know who the poor in spirit, or what it means to be poor in spirit, simply stop and take the time to pray, ask the Holy Spirit to help you be this person and keep reading, the Holy Spirit will be faithful to show you, He will open your eyes, heart and soul to understanding as you read.

Don’t get hung up on the words if allow the Holy Spirit to guide you and teach you, (that is His job) you might come to understand that being poor in spirit is when you are not allowing your spirit to be controlled by you, and you’re not living for self, but you are allowing your spirit to be guided by the Holy Spirit of Father God, and you live to serve Him.

That if you are poor in spirit your Spirit will be weak, humble and modest, broken before the Lord allowing His Holy Spirit to be Strong in your life.

Being poor (week) in spirit surrendering your spirit to Christ and allowing His Holy Spirit to guide your life and teach you.

Read with these questions in mind;

1. Am i this person spoken of?

2. Do i live in the manner spoken of?

3. Will i chose to live as the words of Lord Jesus direct me to, or chose to not?

Chaptor 5: 3 – 16

1. How you should be
2. Who and what you are in the Lord
3. How you should live.

Chaptor 5; 17 – 48

1. Do you live in the Old Testament Ten Commandments? Or
2. Do you live in the New Testament Ten Commandments?

The difference; take the commandment thou shall not murder (Kill) Old =    Thou shall not kill. (The act of killing another person)

New =    Thou shall not kill, but I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without cause shall be in danger of judgment, and whosoever says to his brother raca shall be in danger of the council, but whosoever shall say, thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

Jesus took the commandments from an action to thoughts and emotions, if it is in your heart and mind it is as dangerous for your spirit as the act.

Now read Matthew 5: 17 – 48 Taking the time to be honest with yourself, Pray and ask the Holy Spirit to show you where you stand, and then take what the Holy Spirit shows you, and with His help adjust your life to be molded to His words and His way, to live your life so that you may enter in through the small gate.

If you are honest with Him he will direct your path.

Matthew Chapter 6:

• 1-4 Giving - which person are you?
• 5-15 Praying - How do you pray?
• 16-18 Do you fast, if so how, why?   If not, why not?
• 19-21 Where do you store your treasure?    What do you consider treasure?
• 22-23 What do you look at?     What do you allow in to your mind. (TV, movies, internet, magazines, papers) what do you take in to your life, that shows out through your eyes?
• 24-31 Who do you trust?     And what do you trust for?

Chapter 7 Read it and then honestly ask and answer these questions.

• Is this me?
• Am I living the life I should be?

Finding the narrow way that lead to the small gate is much essayer when you allow the Holy Spiritto have authority over your spirit:

"Bleassed are the poor in sprit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind by the words of God, through Christ Jesus, with the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Take the time to truly find out what the Lord has to say to you, and then live it out each day He has given you.

Tomorrow Day 6;     What are you building on?