Neutral 123 wrote:KnixinSix wrote:Neutral 123 wrote:That is beautiful testimony. That is love. God's love. Sadly, atheists hate the idea of forgiveness.
God has stirred in my heart rather than pointing out the Sin of even those who judge us simply, point out the Savior.
I continuously just show people what the light of love looks like which is the revelation of Christ. God in Man and Man in God!
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 NIV
[4] Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. [5] It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. [6] Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. [7] It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. [8] Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
https://bible.com/bible/111/1co.13.4-8.NIVI first learned that the word isn't meant to be studied like an Engineering manual. Or like a book of principles you apply to your life. Rather the word is a resonant expression of your very reality once you are born again. It is going from sin consciousness which is a mind governed by to flesh to SON consciousness which is a mind governed by the Spirit!
One can not be born again before first dying. What are we dying to? Our former state of living by the flesh and the flesh perspective! We come to the Cross and die to the flesh perspective with Christ and then are resurrected into a new reality! The Spirit perspective!
I am seeing this in myself. Overcoming an intellectual understanding and being a living example. It's clear you are filled with the spirit. You get it. You are it. I am inspired by your light.
Hallelujah bro! Let me tell you, he has done such a work with me and it all came by one thing: Resting in his love. When you rest in his literally unconditional love you are having true intimacy with God. And in that place your inner glory (the Holy Spirit) overtakes the flesh reality.
Everything I do now is in the resting of his love. So it's not human effort or carnal understanding that gets in the way, it simply resting in his love as a Son. Looking in the mirror and seeing Christ. Humility is agreement with the way God sees you. Pride is actually refusing to see tourself as the way God sees you in Christ. It is continuing to allow yourself to continue to live under the condemnation of the law (an acceptance standard based on rules which define good and evil). No the word says we die to the law and made alove onto the imputed righteousness of Christ and Christ alone (the new wine reality of Son ship). The Father looks at you with perfect love and acceptance in Christ Jesus. All we do is believe and receive the eternal Spiritual reality of Son ship through Christ!
Hebrews 9:14-15 New International Version (NIV)
How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
Ephesians 1:13-14 New International Version (NIV)
When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession—to the praise of his glory.
Galatians 2:15-16, 19-21 NIV
[15] “We know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
[19] “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God.
[20] I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. [21] I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”
https://bible.com/bible/111/gal.2.15-21.NIV