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Pentecost 29 About Invitations
Pentecost 29 About Invitations
Message Bible---Rom.8:9-11 “ But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells—even though you still experience all the limitations of sin—you yourself experience life on God's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's! “
Here Paul is quite clear about what God has given him, a personal experience of the Holy Spirit’s work. The Holy Spirit for Paul is the dynamic power, force and energy of God, the Person who makes faith happen. Three things result because of the Spirit’s presence. First, God takes residence in your life. Second, God relates to you. Third, God effectively lives and breathes through you.
First, Residence
When you invite people to come visit and maybe spend a period of time with you, you are very conscious that someone else is in the house and you gear yourself to make their visit a pleasant one. You rethink your menus. You make sure they have clean linens. You look out for their welfare. You really put them first in your plans. “What should we do while they are here?” “Maybe they’d like to tour the town, go to a play or to the beach.” You tend to put them ahead of yourself as you host them.
Second, Relationship
As people stay with you get to know more about what they are like. You converse while you travel about, eat and relax together. You share personal stories. You get an inner sense about them. You deepen your knowledge of them, and they you, what they like and don’t like, which enables you to discover things you didn’t know about them and your experience of them is enriched. You develop a mutual bond.
Third, Effect
During their stay your visitors have deepened their impression on you. You hear not only what they say but how they say it. You grasp attitudes and opinions that you find yourself passing on to others. You might even end up saying what a great visit it was and you want them to come back, “Now ya’ll come back, ya heah?”
Apply all this to the Lord who says, (The Message Bible Rev. 3:20-21) "Look at me. I stand at the door. I knock. If you hear me call and open the door, I'll come right in and sit down to supper with you.” If we invite Him in He will be our lifetime eternal elder brother who brings His Father and Spirit. Think about what Jesus endured to offer Himself at our front door, the door to our heart and mind. Now think about the effect over time, over circumstance and over experience.
It is time of us to be like Jesus and knock on the doors of the minds and hearts of those with whom we come in contact and ask them permission to enter with faith, with hope and with love? Isn’t it time to see the plight of those still trapped in the ghettoes of Applying the above to our faith, isn’t it time, always a time, an opportunity to be institutional religion that deny personal salvation, social status, cultural deception and emotional pain and knock on their doors offering them deliverance and salvation? Maybe we can offer an invitation to share conversation at your house or a coffee shop or when those passing moments of encounter at the supermarket present themselves.
Paul puts it plainly about Jesus, “I'm writing this letter so you'll know how things ought to go in God's household, this God-alive church, bastion of truth. This Christian life is a great mystery, far exceeding our understanding, but some things are clear enough:
He appeared in a human body,
was proved right by the invisible Spirit,
was seen by angels.
He was proclaimed among all kinds of peoples,
believed in all over the world,
taken up into heavenly glory.” (1Tim.3:15-16 The Message Bible)
More on the Spirit and the Word, …Stay tuned…….
Message Bible---Rom.8:9-11 “ But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells—even though you still experience all the limitations of sin—you yourself experience life on God's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's! “
Here Paul is quite clear about what God has given him, a personal experience of the Holy Spirit’s work. The Holy Spirit for Paul is the dynamic power, force and energy of God, the Person who makes faith happen. Three things result because of the Spirit’s presence. First, God takes residence in your life. Second, God relates to you. Third, God effectively lives and breathes through you.
First, Residence
When you invite people to come visit and maybe spend a period of time with you, you are very conscious that someone else is in the house and you gear yourself to make their visit a pleasant one. You rethink your menus. You make sure they have clean linens. You look out for their welfare. You really put them first in your plans. “What should we do while they are here?” “Maybe they’d like to tour the town, go to a play or to the beach.” You tend to put them ahead of yourself as you host them.
Second, Relationship
As people stay with you get to know more about what they are like. You converse while you travel about, eat and relax together. You share personal stories. You get an inner sense about them. You deepen your knowledge of them, and they you, what they like and don’t like, which enables you to discover things you didn’t know about them and your experience of them is enriched. You develop a mutual bond.
Third, Effect
During their stay your visitors have deepened their impression on you. You hear not only what they say but how they say it. You grasp attitudes and opinions that you find yourself passing on to others. You might even end up saying what a great visit it was and you want them to come back, “Now ya’ll come back, ya heah?”
Apply all this to the Lord who says, (The Message Bible Rev. 3:20-21) "Look at me. I stand at the door. I knock. If you hear me call and open the door, I'll come right in and sit down to supper with you.” If we invite Him in He will be our lifetime eternal elder brother who brings His Father and Spirit. Think about what Jesus endured to offer Himself at our front door, the door to our heart and mind. Now think about the effect over time, over circumstance and over experience.
It is time of us to be like Jesus and knock on the doors of the minds and hearts of those with whom we come in contact and ask them permission to enter with faith, with hope and with love? Isn’t it time to see the plight of those still trapped in the ghettoes of Applying the above to our faith, isn’t it time, always a time, an opportunity to be institutional religion that deny personal salvation, social status, cultural deception and emotional pain and knock on their doors offering them deliverance and salvation? Maybe we can offer an invitation to share conversation at your house or a coffee shop or when those passing moments of encounter at the supermarket present themselves.
Paul puts it plainly about Jesus, “I'm writing this letter so you'll know how things ought to go in God's household, this God-alive church, bastion of truth. This Christian life is a great mystery, far exceeding our understanding, but some things are clear enough:
He appeared in a human body,
was proved right by the invisible Spirit,
was seen by angels.
He was proclaimed among all kinds of peoples,
believed in all over the world,
taken up into heavenly glory.” (1Tim.3:15-16 The Message Bible)
More on the Spirit and the Word, …Stay tuned…….
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