Although she explained this to her new Adventist friend, she was still urged to go ahead and take the coffee. It's also important to know the basics of the gospel message. There is no good in doing that. Taking this approach helped me stay on track regardless of what people said, did, or wrote about us.
How we live and what Christ has done to and through us is more powerful than the ideologies and theologies we preach. It means that He has a complete control. Personal / Relative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Plural. 2:1), but it becomes alive when Christ is invited in. According to Fuller, one of the main culprits was "taking an eager and deep interest in political disputes. Scripture you are my witnesses. 13:12; 48:12; in skins, Josh. Being filled with the Spirit is not an optional accessory to the Christian life. So let me ask you - How's your "appetite? " If we are filled with or controlled by Him, yielded to Him, depending on Him, casting off any semblance of self-reliance, then, and only then, can we successfully keep these commands. The point is not to win people to our club but to introduce them to Jesus.
Remember that what ''fills'' you will control actions and your reactions. Well known pastor and author Charles Swindoll made this statement... May nothing blind us to the fact and the significance of that precept (Ed: In a general sense, any commandment or order intended as an authoritative rule of action; but applied particularly to commands respecting moral conduct. Instead, let the Holy Spirit fill and control you. Some judgement-bound souls will be struggling over the problem of giving up unclean foods. 48 (Sept. 31) 26, it is found in the literal sense, to be drunken. To my utter shock, the article was about me! 2 John 1:8 Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded. Whatever you do, keep to the Bible. I looked up from my plate to see a group coming through the door. Isa 11:2-4 = in the millennium! )
Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved. Listen to how he described the process: "When a man's thoughts and affections are filled with such things as these [politics], the Scriptures become a kind of dead letter, while the speeches and writings of politicians are the lively oracles. " To Your love would I yield my heart. The artwork was an artist's rendering of a man with a dazed, stupefied look on his face, mindlessly staring off into space with empty eyes. Ephesians 4:13-note). Ways To Ruin Your Witness Sermon by Dan Borchert, 1 Timothy 1:3-7 - SermonCentral.com. When we submit from the heart, we are saying, "I don't have to have my way all the time. " He began with one sudden sentence: "You've got to fill a man with something. " Drunk is a word that is often used figuratively in English, for example describing a person drunk with rage, etc. The Lord also promised that he would provide the power to fulfill his command: But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. " Do not think you can be filled with the Holy Spirit if you neglect being filled with His Holy Word! He needs thee and me, or there will be some portion of his fulness which will never be able to manifest itself.
It is not enough even to pray; we must reverently and humbly appropriate its stores. Being filled with the Spirit is the privilege of every Christian, and the apostle gives some basic teaching in Ephesians 5:18. Does being unliked by others make me a bad representative of Christ? In his devotional Ray Stedman sums up this section writing that "When you became a Christian, when you believed in Jesus Christ and received Him as your Lord, the Holy Spirit came to live in you. Correspondingly we may easily be preoccupied with things that we consider quite harmless, and yet being pre-occupied there is not the room for Him to occupy us. Don't ruin your witness scripture in the title. We need Him and His presence and His power in a desperate way. Present yourself afresh day by day and moment by moment. To me, it looked like a youth group or maybe a family from the church with a few teens with them. 51:7) and fed (Matt. A) Obedience to God -Eph.
Turn to the Epistle to the Colossians 3:16, Let the word of Christ dwell (present imperative = command to make this the habit of your life) in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. There are more than 1500 commands (imperatives) in the New Testament, so we will have many opportunities to learn to depend on the Spirit's filling and empowering! Now you have to be filled again, so you fill it back up and drink it down. Their lives and their behavior are radically changed by that which fills them. 5 ways you didn't know you were ruining your testimony. Either the Holy Spirit or something else. In fact, having words without deeds is hypocrisy. Word witness is also speaking words of grace: words of God's love for the lost, encouragement to the discouraged, and hope to the hopeless. Just as intake of wine must be repeated in order to exert its effect, so too "filling" with the Spirit requires a continual receptivity in order to exert His effect.
".. is a command, not a suggestion. Things like drinking to excess, watching compromising movies, having certain relationships, might not always be sinful but when we tread on the edge of a cliff, more people could stumble than just you. The Holy Spirit Fills You). Those who truly "put on the Lord Jesus Christ" will "make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts" (Rom.