Results of Loving
Look and live, Gaze and give
Look and live, Gaze and give
By: Pastor David M. James
Main Text: Colossians 1:1-12 AMP
Focus on V10-11
1. Bearing Fruit
Growth: you have to be fed, watered, stimulated, accountability (leadership, HS)
Reproduction: spiritually mature. (just like our natural bodies)
Change: Fruit comes from the nourishment of the root. Carnal root= carnal fruit.
Love, Joy, Peace, Longsuffering, Gentleness, Goodness, Faith, Meekness, Temperance.
Sin will stop you from bearing fruit:
Sin of Commision: willfully do what God says not to do. (living together without marriage)
Sin of Omission: willfully not do what God says to do. (get married, be a light, salvation)
2. Knowledge (not the same as Widsom)
Being fruitful will increase your hunger for Knowledge.
Deeper love and understanding of God’s Word. (can you name 66 books?)
Do you know where certain verses are found, or do you misquote them often?
How many of you try to learn a new verse every week? Each month? Each year?
John 8:32 NIV,(they shall know the truth, free) No truth, no victory, just religion.
Able to teach others.
3. Endurance, patience, joy
Gal. 6:9 NIV Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Daniel 7:25 TLB He will defy the Most High God and wear down the saints with persecution, and he will try to change all laws, morals, and customs. God's people will be helpless in his hands for three and a half years. (out of context) That spirit is here in the USA leadership today. (I John 4:3)
Endurance: first attack Revelation 2:1-5 NIV, Lost first love, (use note definition)
They had not lost their first love, they abandoned it in the pursuits of earthly responsibilities. The Ephesians were so busy working for God they had no time to intimacy with God. Their focus had been mis-directed. Works based salvation vs Grace/mercy/faith based salvation. Catholocism vs true Christianity.
AD75 vs AD2008 Hermeneutics= beguiling spirit from fresh revelation.
One of the most frequently asked questions that comes up among church leaders had to do with the apparent lack of commitment of members. People will attend church on Sunday morning looking so Pious, yet they fail to live like Christians the rest of the week. Others receive the Lord, baptized, even perhaps baptism in the HG, are excited and faithful for a season. And then they vanish. Or perhaps they still keep coming and never grow beyond pre-school.
That is a beguiling spirit at work in their lives. You should have and develop a natural progression in the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God. (knowledge)
It should no longer be a fight to grow, but great satisfaction to learn verses etc.
Read the title of the message again, Look and live, step one, Gaze and give, life to Christ,others!
How many of you still read Proverbs every morning? Are you still learning from Proverbs?
Gal. 6:7-8 NIV(explain the law of this)
Patience: Heb 12:1-3 KJV
The Believers life is an endurance race not a sprint.
Isa 28:10 KJV
10 For precept must be upon precept, (precept upon precept); line upon line, here a little, and there a little. (Prov. Saturday 12th, money little by little)
Joy: Gal. 5:1 KJV Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. (NIV= slavery, Judiasm, religion)
2 Cor 3:6 KJV
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter (Law, religion PDJ), but of the spirit: for the letter(Law, religion PDJ) killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Gal. 5:18 NIV But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.
Religion, trying to live by the law always steals the JOY that is our gift as Believers.
You will live constant failure and repentance. It removes the Sanctification Gift.
You can always tell religious people, baptized in lemon juice, YUCK!
Col. 2:14 NIV having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. (10 books teach the cross)
Gal. 4:7 KJV Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Were His children, New Testament joint-heirs of Jesus, no more laws!
Focus on V10-11
1. Bearing Fruit
Growth: you have to be fed, watered, stimulated, accountability (leadership, HS)
Reproduction: spiritually mature. (just like our natural bodies)
Change: Fruit comes from the nourishment of the root. Carnal root= carnal fruit.
Love, Joy, Peace, Longsuffering, Gentleness, Goodness, Faith, Meekness, Temperance.
Sin will stop you from bearing fruit:
Sin of Commision: willfully do what God says not to do. (living together without marriage)
Sin of Omission: willfully not do what God says to do. (get married, be a light, salvation)
2. Knowledge (not the same as Widsom)
Being fruitful will increase your hunger for Knowledge.
Deeper love and understanding of God’s Word. (can you name 66 books?)
Do you know where certain verses are found, or do you misquote them often?
How many of you try to learn a new verse every week? Each month? Each year?
John 8:32 NIV,(they shall know the truth, free) No truth, no victory, just religion.
Able to teach others.
3. Endurance, patience, joy
Gal. 6:9 NIV Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Daniel 7:25 TLB He will defy the Most High God and wear down the saints with persecution, and he will try to change all laws, morals, and customs. God's people will be helpless in his hands for three and a half years. (out of context) That spirit is here in the USA leadership today. (I John 4:3)
Endurance: first attack Revelation 2:1-5 NIV, Lost first love, (use note definition)
They had not lost their first love, they abandoned it in the pursuits of earthly responsibilities. The Ephesians were so busy working for God they had no time to intimacy with God. Their focus had been mis-directed. Works based salvation vs Grace/mercy/faith based salvation. Catholocism vs true Christianity.
AD75 vs AD2008 Hermeneutics= beguiling spirit from fresh revelation.
One of the most frequently asked questions that comes up among church leaders had to do with the apparent lack of commitment of members. People will attend church on Sunday morning looking so Pious, yet they fail to live like Christians the rest of the week. Others receive the Lord, baptized, even perhaps baptism in the HG, are excited and faithful for a season. And then they vanish. Or perhaps they still keep coming and never grow beyond pre-school.
That is a beguiling spirit at work in their lives. You should have and develop a natural progression in the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God. (knowledge)
It should no longer be a fight to grow, but great satisfaction to learn verses etc.
Read the title of the message again, Look and live, step one, Gaze and give, life to Christ,others!
How many of you still read Proverbs every morning? Are you still learning from Proverbs?
Gal. 6:7-8 NIV(explain the law of this)
Patience: Heb 12:1-3 KJV
The Believers life is an endurance race not a sprint.
Isa 28:10 KJV
10 For precept must be upon precept, (precept upon precept); line upon line, here a little, and there a little. (Prov. Saturday 12th, money little by little)
Joy: Gal. 5:1 KJV Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. (NIV= slavery, Judiasm, religion)
2 Cor 3:6 KJV
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter (Law, religion PDJ), but of the spirit: for the letter(Law, religion PDJ) killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Gal. 5:18 NIV But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.
Religion, trying to live by the law always steals the JOY that is our gift as Believers.
You will live constant failure and repentance. It removes the Sanctification Gift.
You can always tell religious people, baptized in lemon juice, YUCK!
Col. 2:14 NIV having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. (10 books teach the cross)
Gal. 4:7 KJV Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Were His children, New Testament joint-heirs of Jesus, no more laws!
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