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  • The Beloved Apostle

    The Beloved Apostle

    Liturgically, we generally do not mention the encounters of the risen Christ during Lent; however as His disciples in these last days let us examine the love of Jesus for us through the letters of the Beloved Apostle: John.

    Jesus and the Beloved Apostle

    John 21:20 Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them…

    24 This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.

    25 Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

    1 John

    Walking in the Light

    1:5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

    6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

    7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

    John is not writing these letters to unbelievers or even seekers of the Truth. John is writing to the church.

    2 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin,we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous…

    9 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. 10 Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. 11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

    The beloved Apostle speaks of light and calls for love of our brothers and sisters in Christ

    John does NOT call for us to love darkness and not hate the sins of darkness.

    Do Not Love the World

    15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

    29 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

    3:2 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

    4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. 6 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.

    9 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.

    [Are you, dear brother {sister} of Christ’s calling, also convicted in any way?]

     

    11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another…

    23 And this is his commandment,that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.

    God Is Love

    4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

    That You May Know

    5:16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that. 17 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.

    18 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

     PRAY for the wandering souls of Christ’s church. He loves ALL of His sheep and rejoices over the return of even one.

    (Even now, I pray for the return of my beloved to the Lord.)

    19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

    20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding,

    so that we may know him who is true;

    and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ.

    He is the true God and eternal life.

    21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

    • If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
    • If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
    • No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.
    • We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

    hypocrite2 Beloved believer,

    How are you doing in your witness of our Lord, Christ Jesus?

    Is your witness true?

     

    Please share your witness of Truth and love.

     

  • What’s a Hypocrite to do? – 2

    What’s a Hypocrite to do? – 2

    What does Jesus Christ say of the world who will not accept Him as Lord of anything?

    The evil ones of this world “have called the master of the house Beelzebul!” 

    Did you know that this particular name for Satan means: “lord of the house” and “prince of evil spirits?”

    Jesus said the evil ones (Pharisees and others) have accused the Righteous One of being the evil lord of this world, when in fact they are ruled by the dark powers of the enemy of God Almighty.

    Christ’s further warning to His disciples: chosen servants of the Holy Heavenly House of God, will be hated even more.

    How much more will Christ haters call Christ followers ‘devils.’

    Matthew 10

    26 “So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.

    27 What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.

    28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell…

    32 So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, 33 but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.

    What is YOUR witness?

    • HYPOCRISY that points to the sin of the world (& your own righteousness)?
    • OR Do you acknowledge your many sins and Christ Jesus before the world who hates Him?

    I am a great sinner, forgiven by a Lord greater than all our unrighteousness.

    Not Peace, but a Sword

    34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. 37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

    38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

    39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

    As for the church:

    • Premarital sex? Some of us are guilty
    • Living together in sexual sin? Some of us are guilty?
    • Homosexual sin? Some of us are guilty.
    • Out of wedlock births? Some of us are guilty.
    • Fathers abandoning our children? Some of us are guilty.
    • Murdering a child by abortion? Some of us are guilty.
    • Divorce? Some of us are guilty.
    • Putting away our Christian wife? Some of us are guilty.
    • Putting out our Christian husband? Some of us are guilty.
    • Running from Christ and brothers & sisters in the Lord?  Some of us are guilty.
    • Embracing worldly ways and wicked friends? Some of us are guilty.
    • Calling our selves “christian” and accusing others of sin? Some of us are guilty.

    By the breaking of our VOWS and the witness of our rotting fruit, we have sinned against God and the Bridegroom returning for His Bride the Church.

    We, Christ’s church betrothed, are ADULTERERS

    “in a relationship” with the enemy of all Righteousness!

    And to what TRUTH does Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior call us?

    The Woman Caught in Adultery

    7:53 [[They went each to his own house,] 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst 4 they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.

    Imagine, dear sister or brother in the Lord, that this is you (a christian).

    11 … And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you;

    go, and from now on sin no more.”

    Beloved sister, beloved brother in the Lord; this is Jesus’ charge to the church:

    You have been sinners.

    Neither do I condemn you.

    Go and sin no more.

    12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

  • What’s a Hypocrite to do?

    What’s a Hypocrite to do?

    It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master.

    (It is a Higher calling, though.) It is a higher calling as Jesus pointed out also given to the Pharisees, whose hypocrisy was frequent target of our Lord.

    We should not think for one instant that we (because we are not Pharisees or teachers of scriptures) are not also call to the higher calling of Christ Jesus to REPENT of our hypocrisy.

    Proverbs 25:4-5

    Take away the dross from the silver,
    and the smith has material for a vessel;

    take away the wicked from the presence of the king,
    and his throne will be established in righteousness.

    How can Christ Jesus claim His Throne of righteousness without taking away the dross of hypocrisy from His church?

    Are you the dross?

    OR do you REPENT and as a disciple seek once more to be “like his teacher” and as one who witnesses Jesus as Lord, “the servant like his master?”

    HYPOCRISY is a warning of Christ Jesus even in this teaching of scripture (which we will reach in a moment). CHRISTIANS (disciples and servants of Jesus Christ) are NOT to live like the world we seek to convert to join us as one of the forgiven sinners of His church.

    Matthew 10

    English Standard Version (ESV)

    16 “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

    21 Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,22 and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

    tolerencecoexistWhy are you, dear brother or sister, trying for tolerance, though our Lord calls for you to be hated for His Name’s sake?

    IF those we would win to Christ Jesus see christians as “just like us” they see hypocrisy when we try to pluck the speck of sin from their lives while we witness the tree branch in our own.

     24 “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

    25 It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master.

    If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household.

    You and I are NOT above Jesus. We call Him LORD.

    Neither are we like Jesus (in many ways), but by establishing His continual righteousness in our hearts as His servants we represent the household of the King of Heaven and earth as ambassadors to those He would bring into the church family along side us (miserable sinners that you and I have been).

    To be continued…