WHO ARE WE???

We should be as Jesus in a lost and dying world.

Live by the Spirit. Walk by the Spirit. We reproduce who we are. Here is what we should be reproducing in ourselves and others..

"Live by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature." Galatians 5:16 (NIV)

Without holiness we will not see God (Hebrews 12:14). God tells us how to be holy as he is holy if we would only hear him. If we are living in the Spirit, it will look like this:

"But the fruit of the Spirit is LOVE, joy, peace, longsuffering(patience), kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness(gentleness), temperance(self-control), against such there is no law." Galatians 5:22-23

Faith without love makes us nothing...1 Corinthians 13:2 So what is love? God is love. We turn are love if the Spirit is dwelling in us, if we are living by the Spirit. God makes it possible to have his character in our lives...to dwell in love.

"LOVE is patient, kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth, it always protects, always trusts, always hopes always perseveres. love never fails." 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)

"Charity(love) suffereth long, and is kind, charity envieth not, charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth..." 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (KJV)

"And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him because he first loved us. if a man say i love God and hateth his brother, he is a liar for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God, love his brother also."" 1 John 4:16-21

"For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments and his commandments are not grievous." 1 John 5:3

Who are we? We should be as He is in this world. Do not let your heart be deceived. As a man thinketh, so is he....

"Eat not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats. For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. Eat and drink saith he to thee but his heart is not with thee."
Proverbs 23:6-7

"...thinketh no evil..." 1 Corinthians 13:5

So...

"Finally brethren whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise think on these things." Philippians 4:8

We should think and act only God's will in our lives. If we were created in the image of God and God is love, then we should be doing everything in the power of the Spirit, every day, to be love in this world. If God says to think on these things, then we should be thinking on them. If God left us the Holy Ghost to lead us to all truth, then let the Spirit lead to all truth. God says the fruits of the Spirit should be evident in every Christians life. God says pray without ceasing, then we should be praying without ceasing. Every move we make should be Spirit led and for his glory. God does not lie and if he says to be holy as he is holy and perfect as he is perfect, then by God's grace and mercy and the blood of the lamb, we should be holy and perfect. Wake up, rise up, take the Gospel message of salvation to all you meet, wherever you are, not just the big events and outreaches. If we each carried and shared the Lord Jesus wherever we are each day we could change the world. Those of us that work and go to school should be seen as Jesus today in this dark, lost and dying world. We should stand out, our light shining for all to see, burning with compassion for the lost, a shelter for the lost and weak. We should NEVER look like the world. Go, shed the love of Christ abroad into men's hearts. Just Go.

And when we are home, we should be praying, reading His word, and fasting for a lost world, lost family members, lost "friends". No compromise, no looking back. These are perilous times and i want to be found faithful when our Saviour returns. Amen.