14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Sometimes it is a little irritation and provocation. Sometimes it is some petty grievance we stop to pursue or adjust. Sometimes it is somebody .
The Promised in heavenly realm. under the terms of God’s covenant with Abraham, whom God promised to make the progenitor of a great nation.
Galatians 3:20 King James Bible
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. We are as closely connected to Him as the branches of a vine are connected to its stem.
Lev. 9.When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement he can make for it is, to warn others not to fall into the like.The Phocians behaved with so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense.In theology, the expiation of sin made by the obedience and personal sufferings of Christ.
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God has wooing us together making us accountable to enter into a holy place called
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And So here we are planted by the hand of God and if God planted us in Him our soul is anchor to the Lord. Production of fruit by varies trails and much tribulations.
Psalm 1:3 King James Bible And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
The trails are there to make us strong. Trails come at our weakest moments. That is the very state Satan comes seeking a way in.
Yet when we are weak God makes us strong in God. we live and breeve and have our being.
After He has cut and frame the world is now able to inhabited the beauty that God has expose. God’s magnificent handcrafted work has allow us to be called the Sons and daughters of the most high God..
We have emerged from the waters of from the hood and see the marvelous works of God.
By speaking in Love walking in Love never forsaking this live walk . Never giving nor allowing the enemy to have a foot hole in life.
Romans 5:20-21 King James Bible Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Say to your flesh you can not renovate this temple anymore. Today I am serving you an eviction notice.
Cut off from the trunk, a branch is dead. Just as a vine’s branches rely on being connected to the trunk from which they receive their energy to bear fruit.
Jesus’ disciples depend on being connected to Him for their spiritual life and the ability to serve Him effectively.
The fruit we produce is that of the Holy Spirit love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22–23). Our source of life and spiritual fruit is not in ourselves; it is outside us, in Christ Jesus.
We can live, live rightly, and serve Him effectively only if we are rightly connected to Him in a faith and in this love walk relationship.
Then Jesus underscored His point even more strongly by saying, “Apart from me you can do nothing” (John 15:5).
This illustration of the vine and branches is not thoughtless generality or careless simile. It is absolute, stark reality.
No believer can achieve anything of spiritual value independently of Christ Jesus. He also reminds us that there are some who are “in” Him who bear no fruit.
But these are not, as some would suppose, true branches that just happen to be fruitless. All true branches bear fruit.
Just as we know a healthy, living tree by the good fruit it produces, so do we recognize fruitless branches as having no connection to the True Vine.
This is why Jesus tells us, “By their fruit you will know them” (Matthew 7:16–20). Those who do not produce good fruit are cut away and burned. The reference here is to apostates, those who profess to know Christ but whose relationship to Him is insincere. He neither called them nor elected them nor saved them nor sustains them.
Eventually, the fruitless branches are identified as not belonging to the Vine and are removed for the sake of truth and the benefit of the other branches.
So, we depend on Jesus for everything, starting with our very life. For in Him we live and move and have our being.
Acts 17:28 including our reconciliation with God through Him (Romans 5:10). No one can serve God effectively until he is connected with Jesus Christ by faith.
Jesus experience every trail heart break betrayal temptation and though He went through He was determined to do the Fathers will.
Jesus wanted His friends, not only those eleven, but those of all time, to know that He was not going to desert them, even though they would no longer enjoy His physical presence.
The greater the trail the greater the temptations. Every temptation and trail is to build you up to serve Gods people. That you will be able to stand and withstand every wind and every firm of docture that comes your way.
There are some things we must go through to stay fix in God. You see we live in a world that wants to destroy all who are connected to the vine.
not only does this analogy give us a very good visual of what we now have with the Lord, but it also gives us one more important piece of revelation – and this second piece of revelation being given to us by the Lord is what He will be expecting from each one of us once we are fully grafted back into Him.
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.” (John 15:1-8)
We must bear fruit or will be disconnected to the vibe.
What good is fruit when it
As you will see in the second sentence of this verse, God will now be expecting all of us to produce good fruit for Him, and if we do not, then He may just cut us off from Him just like a branch can be cut off from a tree, and from there, we can wither and die and then be thrown into hell.
Even the earth dirt climbs up to support itself by winding round and about to fixed the rising elements by seizing any fixed thing with its tendrils or claspers.
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Dr. Christina Theresa Maxwell
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