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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.
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"JESUS IN YOU" BY DAVID MCMILLEN
JESUS IN YOU
IF YOU WERE ASKED WHO IS THE GREATEST MAN THAT EVER LIVED, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? ME TOO...JESUS. LET'S READ MATTHEW 11:11 "Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he." DO YOU STILL THINK JESUS IS THE GREATEST MAN? I KNOW HE IS, AND I KNOW YOU KNOW IT TOO, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY IT IS JOHN THE BAPTIST. THEY HAVE MISSED THIS VERSE COMPLETELY AND DON'T UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW COVENANT. THE DIFFERENCE BEING THE LAW AND GRACE.
DID YOU EVER THINK YOU ARE GREATER THAN JOHN THE BAPTIST? YOU ARE IF YOU ARE BORN AGAIN. THAT IS WHAT THE LAST PART OF THAT VERSE IS SAYING. JOHN WAS THE GREATEST OF THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS BUT HE WAS NOT BORN-AGAIN OR A NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST, AS WE ARE. (2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.) AS 2 PETER 2:4 SAYS WE ARE ALSO "partakers of the divine nature" AND 1 JOHN 1:2 "now are we the sons of God". JOHN WAS UNDER THE OLD COVENANT AND NONE OF THESE PROMISES WERE YET IN EFFECT BUT SINCE JESUS, THEY ARE NOW IN EFFECT. GOD SAW ALL THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS THROUGH THE LAW BUT HE SEES US THROUGH JESUS. THIS IS WHY JESUS SAID THAT WE WERE GREATER THAN JOHN.
WHAT WE HAVE TO DO IS LIVE UP TO THOSE STANDARDS. WE SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT NOT ONLY GOD BUT EVERYONE ELSE SEES JESUS IN US. IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CARRY OURSELVES IN A WAY THAT WILL GLORIFY HIM. IF WE ARE HEIRS AND JOINT-HEIRS WITH JESUS, LET'S ACT LIKE IT. WE SHOULD ALWAYS SHOW JESUS IN US TO NON-BELIEVERS BECAUSE THERE IS A CHANCE THAT IT WILL OPEN THEM UP TO RECEIVING HIM AS THEIR SAVIOR.
HOWEVER, WE SHOULD ALWAYS DO THIS TO BELIEVERS ALSO. IF YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING THAT IS OFFENSIVE TO A CHRISTIAN, ESPECIALLY A NEW CHRISTIAN, YOU ARE TREADING ON DANGEROUS GROUNDS IF YOU DON'T STOP. JESUS DOES NOT LOOK LIGHTLY ON THESE THINGS. HE EVEN TELLS US THAT IN MATTHEW 18:6 "But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." WE MUST ALWAYS BE CAREFUL IN WHAT WE ARE DOING AS WE NEVER KNOW WHO MIGHT BE WATCHING.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
