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1 | What do you make of this? | Heb 11:40 | Stultis the Fool | 127447 | ||
1 Corinthians 13:4-13 "Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. Do you notice a similarity between these passages and the fruits of the spirit you point to in Galatians? Perhaps you do not realize that the "fruits of the spirit" are not something we receive, but, just as a grape vine produces grapes, they are something we are to produce. What do you make of this? |
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2 | What do you make of this? | Heb 11:40 | EdB | 127469 | ||
"Perhaps you do not realize that the "fruits of the spirit" are not something we receive, but, just as a grape vine produces grapes, they are something we are to produce. What do you make of this?" "Produce" See that is just what I'm talking about love the is motivator but action is required. Ancient was saying love is all that is needed. Thank you for making my point EdB |
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3 | What do you make of this? | Heb 11:40 | Stultis the Fool | 127495 | ||
EdB... Yes, love is the motivator, and it is also the measuring stick. Also, action is required, but it is love that demands the action, and nothing else. Finally, the action must be quantified by love... if it is not, then it is of no value. There is not one thing that we do as a Christian that is not motivated by love. | ||||||
4 | What do you make of this? | Heb 11:40 | Country Girl | 127515 | ||
The debate about this subject has been going on since Martin Luther when he first put the Book of James to the very back of his Bible, because he couldn't handle its truth very well. In that book, James makes it very plain and simple that faith by itself is dead and useless without works resulting from that faith. If a person is not willing to submit himself/herself to the Lord in such a way so as to include at least some time, effort and sweat, then that kind of useless faith is no good to God. Yes, I agree with Paul, if we have all the faith in the world and don't have love, we're as useless as that musical instrument. And how can possibly have that kind of love IF we're not showing it and proving it every day of christian lives. We must do everything in our power to discover our hidden talents and adopt a ministry, pick up our cross and bear our rightful share of that burden of christian responsibility to the Lord's church. Then we can be found faithful when our Lord comes again. Blessings to you all. Country Girl |
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