Jesus has given Himself for us, He came to earth and put up with pain and suffering so that we would not have to spend eternity in hell.

Jesus the definition of love played out so that it can be seen, and we can know how it is to work.

 

He did not come that we may be free of pain and suffering He told us that if the world hates Him than the world will hate us also, that is the ones who follow His teachings, obey His teachings and live a good pure and up right life, we are told to be holy as He is holey and we are told to love.

 

Love is one of the most freely but yet misused words in the American language also one of the most misunderstood,

Christ is love and we are to be like Christ;

Christian = to be Christ like or to be like Christ

 

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that who so ever believes in Him should not parish but have ever lasting live

 

1Coritheans 13:1

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

 

Love is patient

Love is kind

Love is not jealous

Love does not brag

Love is not arrogant

Love does not act unbecomingly

Love does not seek its own

Love is not provoked

Love does not take into account a wrong suffered

Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

Love bears all things

Love believes all things

Love hopes all things

Love endures all things

 

But we are taught to be act and do the opposite The world says self comes first and if it feels good do it no matter who it may heart because your feelings and your wants and desire, your needs, your wishes are more important than anyone else’s you have the right you are better than others.

 

You want to be called a Christian then act like Christ and give up your rights for the good of others, give of yourself so that others may see Christ throw you.

Love is an action not a feeling, you can take the list above and practice each ne one at a time and learn to have true love in your life shinning out for others to see Christ working in you. There is a reason patient is at the top of the list for if you are patient you will have the rest, you will be content.

 

Go show love the love of Christ to everyone who crosses your path.

If you do what you know you will know what to do

 

You want to learn what the word of God is telling you then do what God has already told you what to do

 

Studding the word every day and never applying what you have been told does not make you an educated person or a Christian

 

For you can spend every day studding how to play the piano read all the books watch others play listen to piano music all day but until you set down and put your fingers to the keys you will never know how to play.

 

You can go to church every Sunday and hear something new, you can even study the word of God verse by verse chapter by chapter and never know what it says

 

I say this because:

Survey one;

A question was asked of a gathering of 462 people after hearing a well-spoken pastor speak for 30 minutes

1. “What did Pastor -------- say?

2.What did He speak on?”

92% did not know 92% could not even tell you the main subject of the 30 minutes

 

One person wrote: “I have no idea, I’m here because my parent’s brought me, I’m still working on applying what He said two weeks ago.”

one out of 462 gave the right and respectable answer

 

For if you are not applying what you have been told you are only fooling yourself to say you are learning more and more each day because you are studding

 

for knowing something is not the same as knowing how to do something and you can only know how to do something by doing it,

 

So you tell others I am a Christian a follower of Christ! if you are going to protray your self as a Christian, then start living like a child of God and obeying the basics from the book of God.

Follow and live the Ten Commandments,

Ho you say that’s the Old Testament we live in the New Testament, well ok then live and follow the two the two given by Christ Him Selfe, "You are to love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and soul" and the second "love your neighbors as your self"

For Christ is Love and if you do not love all mankind you are not following or obeying the will of Christ or Father God Himself.

 

You are to love the man and heat the sin, not heat the man and tolerate the sin.

 

before you try to learn one more pice of information learn to live what you already know.

Matthew 7:12-13

“In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.

 

Matthew 7:14

“For the gat is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

 

The fat lady might be able to ding but can a fat person go throw a small gate? Answer “No”

 

But we are not talking about a physical fat person; we are talking about s person fat with sin, people who are caring around so much baggage they have a hard time going throw their day minding their own business.

 

And what might the baggage be; Pride, anger, bitterness, an attitude of superiority, a puffed up self-worth, an inflated ego

These and more are things that don’t seem to take up a lot of space but when it comes to spiritual manners they are like carrying an invisible full grown elephant around on your back.

 

Sin; sin is what will keep you from finding life what will keep you from going throw the small gate, So many people talk about the BIG pearly gates, when they should be more concerned about the small gate.

 

I picture it as a small wooden garden gate with a arch over it, flowers growing around the edges of the gate and over the arch, and Jesus standing there saying come in My good and faithful servant, you made it

 

And that narrow path is a path without pride and argents, a path with no self-first, no self-pity a path of minding your own business making sure your life is in good standing with the Lord not making sur everyone ells is doing what you think is right.

A path of loving kindness, where helping the person beside you too see Christ and not yourself is of greater value and more important to you than your own self value, pried and ego

 

So look in your spiritual mirror what luggage are you packing around you shouldn’t be luggage that will keep you from entering throw the small gate?

Anger, is it a bitter heart, self-worth, argents, pride, pain, is it an attitude, is it a bad thought life, is it sin

 

Jesus told us that our thoughts and our words are just as dangers as our actions,

Matthew 5 Jesus says

Matthew 5:21 you shall not commit murder but I say to you

Matthew 5:27 you shall not commit adultery but I say to you

These two examples show that Jesus is just as concerned with our thoughts as He is with our actions.

 

So take off the baggage including the baggage of your thoughts which are not in line with the teachings and will of Christ

 

Find that narrow path leading to the small gate and stay on it,

be one of the few.

Can anyone out there explain to me why the Church in America is so week???

We set under what are supposed to be some of the best teachers, teaching from the best book ever written,

 

So what is the problem???

Why has the average Christian lost his or her spine???

     1. Won’t stand for up is good and puts up with what is evil, music, movies, internet, conversation and people

Why don’t we stand for what is right???

Why don't we not stand in the Lord and do and say the right things???

     1. Fear of man?

     2. Fear of retaliation?

     3. Or is it a lack of knowledge of what the Lord has said?

 

Why can’t we pray continuously (never ending prayer)?

Why do we bow to the world when it tells us we can’t pray in public???

     1. no one has to know you are even doing it!

     2. you don’t have to close your eyes to talk to God!

     3. you don’t have to be loud or obnoxiously about it!

 

I think the number one reason is fear,

fear of what man may say about us,

they will call us names

they will make fun of us,

they will be mean to us,

they won’t like us

 

These are the typical reasons given by youth, but it is really no difference for a grownup but the grownup usually has learned how to redirect a conversation so they really never have to say the truth,      that they are afraid.

 

We are told in the word of God do not worry do not fear.

But if you need someone to fear, you better fear the wrath of God, for the God who created you is the only one who can destroy your soil, Father God is the only one who can send you to hell.

And -no- the popular belief that everyone is going to enter in to the kingdom of God, well the truthis that it is a lie for Christ Himself stated, you deny Me before man and I will deny you before my Father,

He has also said

“the way is narrow and the gate is small that leads to the kingdom of God and few there are who find it”

And He said

“you say you have done all these things in My name but I never knew you, Depart from me”

 

You want to make it to heaven?

then you better be more concerned about what Christ has said rather than what the world is saying, for the world can only kill the body, but the Lord God can throw you in to hell.

 

Make a choice this day too follow and obey the Lord.

or the world and end up in hell for eternity, for only the creator of the heaven’s and the earth can alow you too enter in to the Kingdome of Father God for eternity.

 

It is your choice where you end up.

 

So either do the right thing, or pay the fat lady when she’s throw singing.

 

The choice is yours

Mark 13:1

One day as Jesus came out of the Temple, one of his disciples said to him, Master, look at what wonderful stones, and what wonderful buildings are here.

Then Jesus answered and said to him, “Do you see these great buildings?

There will not be left one stone upon another that will not be thrown down. And as he sat on the Mount of Olives, over against the Temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him secretly,

Tell us, when will these things take place?

And what will be the sign when all these things will be accomplished?

Jesus answered them, saying; See to it that no one misleads you.

For many will come in my Name, saying, I am Christ, and they will deceive many, leading them away from the truth.

 

There is something here that I have seen a glimpse of but thank i now see more clearly and somewhat understand.

The disciples who made the statement about the wonderful stones and the wonderful buildings are the same people today that see a big fancy building as a sign of something good. It is amazing how in this country and just about every other country a big church is looked upon as a healthy prospers church, but in some other countries people are willing to stand or set out in the weather just to hear the word of God.

 

Jesus said feed my sheep, Jesus said take care of the widow and the orphan, Jesus said give to caesar what is caesars, and give to God what is Gods.

We are also told to bring in to the store house so that none will be in need.

 

But instead Christians seem to try and hold on to everything they can get their greedy little hands on, when it comes to the widow and orphans it seems except for Christmas they are forgotten just like the elderly that are taken to an old folk’s home dropped off and forgotten.

 

And when it comes to bringing to the store house so that none will be in need instead what is brought in pays large salary’s and for upkeep of a building that most of the week sets empty,

 

millions of dollars that could have been spent to help the body but instead are squandered on worldly things to make a good impression on people who could care less about the things of God, most non-believers see the waist of the church of today and the hypocrisy.

 

Our concept between a need and a wont are so scored up, we think more is better, the more we can get and hold on to the better off we are,

if I am told I need it I must need it.

Our time is spent striving to make that next dollar so we can spend it on the next frivolous thing we tell our self we need,

and when it comes to the church it is no different, leadership think a big fancy building is going to draw in the crowds, so they can gather more money to receive a larger salary and build a bigger kingdom for them self’s, and it seems to work that way but the body is not feed to grow and follow Christ it seems to be grown to follow the man, his words and to buy his books, not the book of God.

 

i do know there are some large churches that do still care for the flock but they are few and far between.

 

think about it the Lord said to take care of His sheep not dump your dollars in to a building so the building can save people, He said the buildings will be flattened. (yes He was speeking of Him self but He was also speeking of the kingmoms we build)

 

The average mega church in 2014 had a budget ranging between $2,000,000 and $10,000,000 dollars and the head pastor was paid from $147,000 to $400,000 plus housing expense, ministry expense and health insurance, travel expense, and was set up with a retirement account.

(This is according to the US Church foundation that keeps track of such things)

 

How many people could have been helped just from the salary and benefits of one of these pastors?

 

My question;

Why are we paying so much out for something that was given to us for free?

i understand the verse that speaks of a worker is worth of His pay, put when his pay is ten times more the average member in the church something is wrong.

 

And when a church spends millions upon millions of dollars to erect a building when members of that body can hardly afford their home and to put food on the table something is wrong.

 

We have been deceived and led astray like lams to the slaughter, by the ones who are suposto build us up, teach and protect us.

 

Think about it.