Archive for August, 2011
FROM STUMBLING BLOCK TO A STEPPING STONE, PART 1
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Then let us no more criticize and blame and pass judgment on one another, but rather decide and endeavor never to put a stumbling block or an obstacle or a hindrance in the way of a brother….Romans 14:13 AMP
Can you really turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone?
This next verse in our series mentions BOTH A Stumbling Block and A Hindrance. We all know what a stumbling block is – well, it’s something we trip over and sometimes, in embarassment, almost fall over! The next word, Hindrance, is particularly important as the ORIGINAL word for it is “Scandalon”. If this looks familiar – it is!
The word Scandal comes from it! What the Apostle sent by Christ is relaying is, in this life, people are going to try to trip us up! Literally, morally, spiritually and otherwise, they are going to try to bring us down! An immature believer is just that – immature. At some point in our Journey with Jesus, we were all immature.
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DO NOT BUY THE BREAD OF THIS WORLD!
Sunday, August 14th, 2011
But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.'” Matthew 4:4 NASB
This powerful verse quoted by Jesus, right back in the devil’s face, was given during the “temptation of Christ” in the wilderness after Jesus had fasted for 40 days. Now a fast by both Jesus and Moses and others, during Bible days, meant – NO FOOD!
Here is what Jesus is really saying to this evil scoundrel, in bullet point to drive it home:
* This is NOT about you.
* This is about My Father God’s REVEALED Word – RHEMA.
* This Rhema is His revealed Truth for mankind to live by.
* This Rhema carried the repository of all which SUSTAINS.
* That which sustains is not found in physical food only.
* Physical food perishes and is expelled.
* If that food was good, it nourishes, if it was not, it causes heartburn.
* Therefore, man’s lifetime should not be wasted chasing these things.
* The life of a man or woman is more than just seeking that which fills us daily.
* But combined with the riches of God through the Truthful Revealed Word of God – we have found the true meaning and fountain of Live!