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NASB | Proverbs 5:1 My son, give attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Proverbs 5:1 My son, be attentive to my wisdom [godly wisdom learned by costly experience], Incline your ear to my understanding; [1 Kin 4:29] |
Subject: Mat 5:27-28. Adultery. |
Bible Note: I want to ask you a simple question? In trying to please God do you believe that you are working for, or being a participant in, your salvation? Jesus did all the work for us when he died for us on that cross. He took upon himself the sins of the world so that if we believe in him our sins are forgiven and we attain salvation. Afterwards Jesus comes into our temple(body/heart/mind) and knits a scourge of cords and proceeds to clean Gods house, our temple, of all unrighteousness. All we have to offer in this process is sitting patiently at the door and acknowledge, with repentence and sorrow, all the filthy sin that Jesus expels from the temple. This is a revelation from God, to my mind, that helped me in stopping my foolish attempts at sexual fasts, and the such, as a means to offer up to God something more for my salvation. I found that nothing more was needed other than my telling others that "I believe in Jesus Christ and that he alone is responsible for having given me the gift of salvation, through grace". I know what I am made of and have found I need a woman to help keep the flames of lust from over-whelming me. I had let God down in the past with a promise to him concerning a fast from the flesh of my wife for forty-days. Guess what I was a miserable failure and felt really bad for having failed God so I kept trying and the more I tried the harder I fell. Finally God gave me the revelation I wrote to you above. Jesus did all the work. You should simply be thankful and accept the gift, in faith. Since I have stopped striving and now look to Jesus to help me in my daily walk I find I am getting along much better as a Christian. Do not assume you are something more than what you are. For God says in Paslm 46:10 "Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth". If you want to please God speak of his son Jesus to anyone who will listen. |