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Understanding and submitting to the Perfect will of God

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Galatians 5:24

What do we understand about crucifying our own passions and desires. Many times we have a big question in our lives what is the will or purpose of God in my life or am I leading my life as per God’s will.

The bible says in 1 John 5:14

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

In our prayers we have to identify whether I am praying as per the will of God or as per my will own will or desire to be fulfilled.

Some of us may think or quote the below verse and say I have not asked anything wrong or sinful to God.

When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. James 4:3

Our prayer maybe about good things and not evil things but all good things may not be the will of God in our lives. Without this understanding some times we move astray from God’s will and work on our own desire and sometimes feel frustrated and sad when these things  don’t happen the way we expected.

A bible teacher once quoted on how to find the will of God. When we have a good relationship with your husband or wife and spend more time with our partner we tend to know their will in the same way when we spend more time with Jesus and have a good relationship with Him we can understand the will of Jesus in our lives.

In my life when I was searching for a bride for my marriage I had a lot of confusions in mind since my marriage was getting delayed. I had the faith that God will lead me to the right person but had a tough time to find out who would that be.

A relative of mine guided me to submit myself completely to God’s will and let go of all my desires. I used to watch a lot of movies before my salvation and I had a lot of things in mind which was inside of me secretly desiring to want those. In the outer I had no much interest on that but inside my heart it was still there expecting me for those things to happen. I have attended a lot of weddings before and heard a lot of things about marriages which was there in my mind which lead me to a fix a criteria and to pray for that expect rather ask God what he wants.

When I understood this I submitted to the perfect will of God and crucified all my own desires. I wanted my wedding to be in a big church and to be in western style and I wanted all to boast how good all the arrangements were made. I wanted my wife to be of noble character but at the same time good looking. But when I submitted to the perfect will of God I let go of all these desires, crucified it in The Cross and asked The Lord please guide me the way you want my wedding to happen and I am letting all of my desires for you to take away from my heart. But to my surprise God gave me everything I previously desired for but the change is this time I didn’t want it happen yet God gave me. God always gives us the best in our lives but we should be careful that we may not always claim the blessings only to happen in our lives but to submit all our desires to God.

Whether you are buying a car, a house or even doing ministry or even daily things in your life always submit to God letting go of your own desires. God will guide you in the right way cause He is our Father and he knows what is best for our life. So how do we know we have let go of all our desires and submitted our selves to God’s will. When we dont have perfect inner peace we have not submitted to God’s will completely. When we die for our self and crucify all our desires we will have that perfect peace in us God will lead us according to His will. When we see a graveyard there will be a common word written on it. RIP (Rest in Peace). The same way if we die for our self we will have the same peace in and no unrest in our hearts.

When we take out all our own desires one by one and crucify it in The Cross there will be inner peace. And God will place His will in our hearts one by one when we take out ours one by one.

For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. Philippians 2:13

Sol.Leo

Be strong and courageous.

In the book of Joshua ,the very first chapter itself ,is written not once but four times .

• Verse 6 ,Be strong and courageous ..
• Verse 7,Be strong and very courageous.
• Verse 9 I command you — Be strong and courageous .
• Verse 18 So be strong and courageous .

^{God was just preparing Joshua ,to be strong and courageous. God had a plan for Joshua ,and He was assuring him  ,that He will be with him He will never leave nor forsake him. While God was speaking to Joshua ,his faith was on the rise ,he had full assurance that God was with him, and He will never fail him.}

Listening to the voice of God and obeying Him is what God wants from His chosen ones . Why was God telling Joshua to be strong and courageous ?

Joshua was appointed as a new leader of Israel. After Moses death ,Joshua had to bring the Israelites into the promised land.

God was placing a huge responsibility on Joshua’s shoulders; forty years before that, the Israelites were on the brink of entering the Promised Land but because of their unbelief that generation spent forty years in the wilderness .That was not the will of God had for them .God’s heart desire was to bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey. He wanted to give them Land filled with large and beautiful cities they did not build,house filled with good things they did not fill , wells they did not dig ,vineyards and olive trees they did not plant (Dt.6:10 to 11).

God wanted to see His children live a life of abundance .They  were never sick, never were they hungry ,there was no lack for them.

He wanted them to enjoy the fruits and labour of another .

In other words ,He was willing to give them readymade  ,that the giants had built.

Out of the 12 spies sent by Moses to spy the Land (Numbers14 :7-9) these 10 spies saw huge giants , and fear gripped them ,even though they were able men who feared God.They were men of Truth and hated covetousness .Despite having all the leadership attributes none of these spies or leaders whom Moses appointed entered the Promised Land ,except Joshua and Caleb , because these two focused on the promises and goodness of God .

Actually the people of Israel had seen God’s mighty hand when they crossed the Red Sea ,they saw the miracles God showed to His people when Pharaoh rebelled against God .They saw the water turned into blood .The plague of frogs , gnats ,flies ,plague against livestock hail ,death of Egypt’s firstborn .

The 10 lacked courage and fear paralyzed them because these leaders were fearful and the entire generation was robbed of God’s promises in their lives .

Many times we too have such problems in our lives ,instead of fixing our eyes on Jesus ,we look at our problems and we fail ,negativity enters our mind ,fear grips us ,we become doubtful ,and nothing seems to go right .

Let us be like Joshua and Caleb and focus on God .

Father , You are a loving God ,your desire is to see your children enjoy the abundant life in Christ .Teach us  to stay focused on Your goodness , by worshipping You in spirit and Truth . Being obedient to Your Living Word ,but to fix our eyes on Jesus the author and developer of our faith .

He is the Promised Land ,flowing with milk and honey .

No matter what comes our way  ,challenges. problems ,tension ,sickness , we choose to see how Christ has paid the price in full for us so that we enjoy the abundance of His unconditional love ,peace  protection and provision in every area of our life .Thank You Lord ,be glorified in our lives .

Sol.Helen Pereira

Difference between praying in the spirit and praying in the tongues:

Praying always in the Spirit with all kinds of prayers and requests, and being alert for this with all perseverance and requests for all saints. (Ephesians 6:18)

 praying in the Spirit and praying in tongues refer to separate, though related things. Not all Christians have the gift of tongues (speaking in a language they don’t know).  However, Paul tells all to pray in the Spirit, i.e., pray from your innermost being and not merely your head.

 So praying in the Spirit and praying in tongues are prayers that originate from the spirit of the person praying.  Praying in the Spirit relies on the Holy Spirit to help, whereas praying with the spirit (or in tongues) is possible because of the Holy Spirit. Both are spiritual prayers, but one is a special case with regard to the language spoken.

Our spirit is engaged with God’s Spirit and He speaks out things in prayer that could never otherwise have occurred to us. These are not prepared prayers but spontaneous, Spirit-led utterances in our known language. Jesus said that the Holy Spirit would “show us things to come” (John 16:13), so at times such utterance may take the form of praying for future events understood only in the infinite mind of God. It could include prophetic utterances speaking forth the perfect will of God into certain situations, or proclamations of God’s Kingdom and will, establishing them in the spiritual realm.

Such utterance proceeds from the same well as the supernatural utterance in tongues. At times the Holy Spirit may prompt you to pray in tongues, and then directly from the same flow bring forth interpretation of what has just been said, thus establishing it in the heart and mind of the believer, and affecting God’s will in the spiritual realm.

Such prayer is powerful and carries great authority. We are no longer ‘asking’. When spiritual utterance in our known language begins to flow from our inner man, the answer is coming forth. It carries the authority of the One who is speaking, the Spirit Himself. It may include the declaration of Scripture, or the proclamation of known or unknown truths, yet is endued with creative power; it has the stamp of divine endorsement.Hence every believer is encouraged to press into this as well as other kinds of prayer, knowing that the Lord is the Spirit (2 Cor 3:17), and that He is looking for someone who will yield their heart and voice to Him in order that He can birth God’s purposes in to the earth.  Such prayer is speaking under divine inspiration just like the gift of prophecy, and is open for all believers who will work with the Holy Spirit in the realm of prayers.

 Tongues has many benefits for the believer who exercises the gift. It is not just a one-time manifestation, but a permanent gift given when the believer who receives baptism in the Spirit, and is thereafter at the believer’s disposal. Tongues can be exercised at the will of the believer. We do not have to wait for a special anointing to come upon us; we can open our spirit at any moment and speak forth in our prayer language.

Benefits of tongues include the following (the benefits listed are not in any order of importance):

• The ability to speak directly to the Father (deeper intimacy)
• The ability to build yourself up spiritually
• The ability to worship God in Spirit and truth
• The ability to pray the perfect will of God (even when it is unknown)
• The ability to engage in spiritual warfare at a higher level
• The ability to speak and call forth God’s prophetic purposes
• The ability to release spiritual refreshment
• The ability to operate in the spiritual realm with greater accuracy and effectiveness: human spirit, not the mind. They can be in a human language unknown to the speaker, or in a language not of this world.

Paul refers to tongues as being either the tongues of men or the tongues of angels. Both are supernaturally inspired and carry significance in the spiritual world:

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels…” (1Cor 13:1)

“There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without significance.” (1 Cor 14:10 NKJV)

 The Scriptures clearly define a major category of ‘praying in the Spirit’ as praying in tongues. Consider the following Scriptures:

“praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—” (Ephesians 6:18 NKJV)

“But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,” (Jude 1:20 NKJV)

“For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.”   (1 Corinthians 14:2 NKJV)

“For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding.” (1 Cor 14:14-15 NKJV)Tongues allows the disciple to pray in a manner which brings forth and prays according to the perfect will of God. It allows us to harmonise our prayers with the prayers of Christ, through His Spirit, and intercede on behalf of the saints. Yielding to the Spirit at this basic level often carries the praying believer into the deeper levels of utterance

“So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.”  (Rom 8:26 AMP)

At times the Lord by His Spirit may roar and cry out through us in holy indignation against His enemies and ours:

“The Lord will go forth like a mighty man, He will rouse up His zealous indignation and vengeance like a warrior; He will cry, yes, He will shout aloud, He will do mightily against His enemies.” (Is 42:13 AMP)

The disciple must learn to yield to many flows from the inner man, including aggressive flows that devastate the enemy, and destroy demonic bondages.S peaking in tongues is a vocal miracle. So, no matter how often we do it, we must never cease to reverence it. We must be careful not to grieve the Holy Spirit by flippantly turning our mouth on automatic pilot, chattering away in tongues while our minds wander off to the baseball field or the shopping mall. Such a heartless manifestation of tongues is not only unprofitable for us, it is rude…

…(many) have the mistaken idea that because our minds don’t understand the words we are saying, it makes no difference what we do with them. Nothing could be further from the truth. For tongues to be the genuine form of communication God designed it to be, we must have our hearts and minds hooked up to Him. Mentally we may not be able to grasp exactly what we are saying but we can maintain an attitude of reverence and appreciation for God, turning our attention toward Him as we speak.

^{Making that one adjustment alone will change the way many of us now use tongues. For if we must employ our whole selves – heart, mind and mouth – in the effort, we won’t be so apt to resort to tongues simply because we’re too lazy to put together a prayer with our understanding.”}

Prayer:

Lord help us to pray in the spirit with understanding and truth, & also give us the gift of speaking in tongues. We understand both are important Thank you for teaching us this valuable lesson of effective and fervent prayer.Help us to build your kingdom on earth.. Amen hallelujah.

Sol.Celin Portia

KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORD OF GOD

Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.

Psalms 119:105 NKJV

The Word is light to our path and so we should have the knowledge of  the Word. When we lack the knowledge of the word we get misguided by false prophets.

By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. Matthew 7:16-17 NIV

Jesus is warning people against false prophets. They misguide people with their dreams and visions and people are easily carried away by their stage performance. Recently I saw a video of a performance on the stage; a so called  famous spiritual leader waved his hands with a great shout and people were falling down. He continued doing that several times, shouting ” take it, take it, and people kept falling and behaving hysterically. It’s explained to be anointing. Has Jesus done like this? What’s the purpose of giving and receiving this sort of anointing? In the Bible we have seen people convulsing and twisting and wiggling themselves when evil spirits left them. What is the spirituality of such stage performances and the resultant falling, rolling and wiggling?

People throng around such heroes and look forward to the next stage show to be anointed. And we find that such famous leaders are extraordinarily rich and influential persons who claim to serve Christ. When Judas came to betray Christ some people who were with him fell down.

Now when He said to them, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground.

John 18:6 NKJV

And when Jesus was on the mount  and He appeared in His Glory, as He transfigured the disciples fell down.

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. John 14:12 NKJV

These performers might be claiming  they have power from these above verses wrongly quoting and interpreting these verses to the people.

Prophet Ezekiel speaks the Word from God:-

The conspiracy of her prophets and Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, so that I am profaned among them. Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord had not spoken.

Ezekiel 22:25-26, 28 NKJV

Today also these things are happening and people do not realise their traps. All these because we lack knowledge of the Word of God.

Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. Matthew 22:29 NKJV

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. Hosea 4:6 NKJV

People lack knowledge, of the Word of God and so are victimized by false prophets and false spiritual leaders. Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper. Psalms 1:1-3 NKJV

So, delight in His Word and you will prosper.

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;

Psalms 19:7-8 NKJV

Prayer:

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.

Sol.Salomi Kurian

What to do to Receive God’s Peace?

Philippians 4:7

“And the peace of God, which passed all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus”

Whether they are personal struggles, family troubles or community crises . “Peace will come as we must know that God’s only Begotten son has power to soothe our aching souls.

Jesus Christ died so that we can be saved and experience joy in this life. Find the happiness that can come because of him. He came to this world to give peace of God to us.

People often ask for God’s assistance at life’s Lowest points. But God your heavenly father, loves you and offers his hand in good times as well as bad. You can always turn to God in prayer. Praying to God bring answers and inner peace

God is our Heavenly Father:

The old Testament teaches that you were created in God’s own image (Genesis 1:27). Just as your mother and father created your physical body, your heavenly father created your spirit . That’s why God is called the Father of Spirits (Hebrew 12:9). This familial relationship means that you can turn to him when you need help.

Because God is your father he loves us and want to help us through our challenges . God’s Love is constant

In the New Testament, Jesus explains that because God is perfect. He knows perfectly how to help us when we ask him , and he wants to help even more than a loving earthly father desires to help his children

“If a son shall ask bread any of you that is a father , will be give him a stone? or if he ask a fish will he for a fish give him a serpent? If he then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children how much more shall your heavenly father give The Holy spirit to them that ask Him? (Luke 11:11,13)

God wants us to grow:

Because God loves us , he doesn’t eliminate trials and hardships from our life. Death, illness, financial hardships, natural disasters, and many other difficulties are part of God’s plan for long term happiness, because they allow us to learn and grow and become a better person. It may not seem like it when we are in the middle of a trial , but the Apostle Paul taught that this “light affliction is only temporary and can lead to a “for more exceeding and eternal weight of glory (2 Corinthians 4:17) Every challenge we face can help us progress. especially we turn to God for help.

God respects our freedom

We have no control over sense of life’s difficulties but rather it is a direct or indirect result of our choices , Because he loves us. God gave us tendency or freedom to make decisions. Our free will enables us to make good choices that lead to happiness, it also makes us accountable for bad choices , which lead to immediate or eventual unhappiness. God will not intervene in our choices. He allows us to decide for ourselves and to learn from the consequences. Yet he does offer the ultimate help to overcome mistakes and sins – the saving power of Jesus Christ . No matter how bad our circumstances may become or how many wrong choices we may have made , we can always choose to change and find peace through Jesus Christ .

Even through God’s love for us is constant , we must turn to him for help. We can do to seek God’s assistance in our life through exercising faith in God, prayer, and keep God’s commandments

The scriptures teach “Behold, the Lord estemeth all flesh in one ” In other words, every person is equal in God’s eyes. He loves all of his children. That verse continues “He that is righteous is favored of God” That does not mean that God has favorites.

It does mean that those who are righteous . those who follow him and do what he asks- qualify for God's favors, or bless us when we keep His commandment . God blesses us and His peace fills us. Amen

Sol. Arokia

TOWARDS VICTORY

“He said to Joshua” As Captain of the host of the Lord am I now come” Josh 5:14 a.

After crossing Jordon, people of Israel had to wage a number of wars to conquer Canon. The first challenge awaited was Jericho. Before that, God asked Joshua to do two important things. The first thing was to make flint knives and circumcise the men of Israel  All people who came out of Egypt (men of military age) were circumcised, but died on the way due to disobedience to God. But the men born in the desert had not been circumcised. So Joshua did circumcision to the men of the whole nation. They remained in the camp until they were healed. Then God said to Joshua. “Today I have rolled away the reproach from you”. They named the place as Gilgal. By this way the covenant made by God with Abraham was renewed. God once said to Abraham. “This is my covenant with you and your seed after you, Every man child among you shall be circumcised”. (Gen: 17.10.)

Spiritually speaking, each believer is waging a war against Satan. Victory is sure when we wear the armour of Jesus and fight with Satan  We have to eliminate  all unwanted elements from our hearts, like envy, jealousy malice pride etc. When the holy spirit dwells in us, all evil will vanish away. Then Jesus lead us to victory.

Moses said “Circumcise therefore the skin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked” (Deu: 10.16)

True circumcision is circumcision of the heart and by the spirit and not by the written code (Romans 2.29)

Jesus said that each of our organ to be removed, if it tends to sin (Circumcised). (Mathew 5: 29, 30)

If your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away. It is much better for you to lose a part of your body than to have your whole body thrown in to hell.

If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is much better …….thrown in to hell.

So to be true conquerors, let us circumcise our hearts and each organ of our body by eliminating all evil.

The second thing god asked Joshua to do was to observe the Passover.

Witness:

^{Noah obeyed God and God rescued his family from flood. Abraham obeyed, and he was certified as a righteous man. Joseph obeyed, he was placed in high position. Moses obeyed God’s voice and he became a mighty leader.}

Prayer:

Oh, Holy Spirit, help us to circumcise our hearts and souls and give us victory in our endeavours. Amen.

                                                 SOL.VICTY MITHYLA

Praise the Lord Jesus Christ for the procession of His people going into the sanctuary in worship will draw Gentiles to the Light. The evil spirits which deceived people in the form of different gods with healing, protection & magical powers has lost its power and fading away without any followers.

Ps 68:24-26 & 32-35.  

This is what the Lord spoke in monthly worship 1st May 2023

The victorious procession of the Ark of the Covenant led Israel up into Jerusalem and the earthly representation of heaven on earth the Sanctuary or the Temple but Jesus leads us up and into heaven itself something Old Testament people like David only looked forward to but we look back to how it has been done by God through the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ God’s Son.  

• The procession that leads us to heaven (vs. 24)

• The procession that is full of singing and music (vs. 25)

• The procession that is characterized by praise to God (vs.26)

• The procession that contains all levels of human society.

“Praise God in the great congregation; praise the Lord in the assembly of Israel”.

As Christians gathering together to worship and serve each other we too are the great congregation of the Lord the church of Jesus Christ the assembly of God on earth. What should we do when we come together as this great congregation of God’s people on earth?

David’s answer is, “Praise God” and this is what Paul continually encouraged all the churches he wrote to do as we see from Colossians 3: 15 – 17,

“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.

Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.    

David calls on all the kingdoms of the world to sing a great praise to the Lord.

“The psalmist sees the conversion of the world to God to be so certain he calls on all nations to join in the song”. 

Praise the Lord who leads us in a victory song. As we follow Jesus, he helps all day long. Jesus died to save us Gave his life for us. Join the great procession that leads to victory. He is with us always. As we walk his way Jesus is the answer for our world today.    

  Sol Joan

Resistance to Temptation

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation because when he stood the test he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.

James1:12

Human beings are to face temptations daily. We are prone to sins also .The desire is in us to have or to do something wrong. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak..
Any thought or speech or deed against the commandments of God is sin. Man has a free choice of being faithful or unfaithful to God.

Temptation is not a sin but yielding to temptation is sin. we should be vigilant to stay away from tempting situations. Everyone will be dragged into temptation by the devil or by our own evil desire.

Adam and Eve were victims of the temptation. David was another victim of temptation. They failed to resist the temptations and so they were punished. Devil attempted to lure our Lord Jesus by offering worldly power and honour and authority.

But Jesus drove away the devil through the word of God.Devil was defeated by our lord Jesus. He taught us how to resist temptation and how to tackle the devil using the word of God. The temptations can be resisted by implementing the following strategies.

We should meditate on the word of God daily specially in morning hours.
Turning to God in early morning is a good way to fight against temptations.
We should ask guidance and seek strength from God to resist temptations.

In Luke 22:39-40 our Lord asks us to pray that we will not fall into temptation.
Luke11:4 our lord asks us to pray that we are not led into temptation
Hebrew4:15 tells us that relying on Jesus can help us resist temptation
1corinth10:13 proclaims that God wont let people be tempted beyond they can handle.
We should submit ourselves to God. Then the devil will flee away.james1:12 stresses the need of seeking forgiveness with genuine heart.

We should seek forgiveness when we fail in the temptation. We should flee away from tempting situations just like joseph who fled away from the wife of his master who compelled him to commit adultery

^{In my life I didn’t seek the guidance of God when I was tempted by the devil and fell deep into the pit of sin. And led a sinful life for many years and I lost the hope of salvation
Lost all the blessings in my life. lost my father who was so upset about my life. Relatives and friends became enemies. I lost all my properties and had to face so many difficulties . Once I thought of suicide also .However I sought forgiveness of God. By the grace of God I came out of my sinful life and our Lord forgave me and accepted me as His son .Now He leads me in all aspects.}

If we resist the temptation and stood the test God promises us the crown of life.Let us be blessed to receive this crown .Amen

Sol.Subramaniam

” For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

              Mathew 5 : 20

What does the Bible verse Mathew 5 : 20 mean ?

         Pharisees were religious  teachers at the time. They taught Moses’ laws to the  people of Israel. They were pretty much as nowadays rabbis

         The problem with them was that they were often hypocrites. I think that probably not everyone of them was such,  but most of them where. But the biggest problem was that they were teaching that you shall earn your righteousness by deeds, by fulfilling the law and by following rules, given by Moses. The problem was that nobody could fulfill the law unless he didn’t do any sins his entire life. Not a single sin.

          It says, ” For whoever keeps the whole  law and yet stumbles at just one  point is guilty of breaking all of it.”

James 2:10    

         And when Jesus came,  He brought the good news to the people. He has told them that there’s no need to strive in  fulfillment  of the law, because He has come to do that. He has come so our fate won’t be decided upon our deeds, but upon God’s grace.

     How to surpass their righteousness ?

It’s through Jesus.

           It’s through grace that Lord has given us in Jesus Christ, when He died for our sins.  And if wasn’t those in Jerusalem who killed Him. It was me, you and every other human that ever existed. We killed Him with our sins. But He said:

        ” Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” 

Luke 23:34

          We can gain righteousness only  through Jesus’ sacrifice. We must accept what He has given us in order to become righteous.

        ” Lord made Him who had no no sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness  only by lord’s grace through Jesus Christ.  How to do that ?  We have to understand that we were a sinner. Jesus came because of sinners, not because of the righteous ones.

          ” This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of Lord, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Jesus Christ.”

Romans 3:22-24.

         Then we have to accept what Jesus has given us, His sacrifice. Give your life to Jesus, let Him be your Lord, your Guide, your teacher, and the most important, your Messiah.

Prayer

       " Jesus, we know we are sinner. We know we have done wrong in our lives. And we know that we can't be saved by our own works. Come into our lives and change it. We want to be a new person/creation. We give you our lives, do something with it. Amen."

Sol. Dr. Mohan Parmar

Get your conversation aright

Psalms  50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

God is not mocked for what a man sows he shall surely reap. Is your conversation aright dear friends? Check it. It’s because of our conversation not right there is no salvation manifesting. It is we should order our conversation aright and not blame others, it is so very easy to blame others. The blame game cannot last for long. There is no fear of God in their lives. What does Jude speak about these people.

Jude  1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. You see speak evil of dignities and despise dominion.

They are unable to stop judging inspite of repenting every night and day. Why?

Genuine repentance and reconciliation brings deliverance and freedom from sin. Jesus loved Judas inspite of knowing that he would betray Jesus. What a beauty to know Christ Jesus of the bible. Love covers multitude of sins. Can you and I say love covers multitude of sins. Love suffers long. It means and speak about patience. It is the Love of God that enables us to love the people all around us. What a change took place because of the Love of God poured in us by the Holy Spirit of God. Speaking evil of others specially dignities is because of the lack of Love of God in us.

^{Dear brethren let us ask God to pour out His love daily into our lives so that we release this love to others constantly without wavering, and putting our conversation aright so that the salvation of God is manifested around us. God’s Word is true, therefore We can trust His Word and depend on Him. Let’s make a decision to put always our conversation aright by Faith and surely God’s wonderful salvation will manifest in all places we minister to.}

Praise to the name of Jesus who makes us always triumphant as we trust Him alone.

Sol. Francis