RRR_Fellowship
Ever hear something and you say that's just profound? One time I heard somebody say that in order to love other people. You have to love yourself. In order to forgive other people, you have to forgive yourself.
If you have an unforgiving spirit, if you have an unloving nature, you're gonna find it actually impossible to forgive other people and to be loving. I think one of the things that it's really good to remember is we're all sinners.
We're all saved the same way; by grace through faith. We are all sinners, and the truth of the matter is we sin, constantly, not because we want to; not because it's deliberate, not because it's something that we feel that we have to do.
We sin volitionally; volitionally constantly, and here's the thing(!). Remember that because we're sinners, and because we're all saved in the same way, there is no levels to faith, there are no super saints if you're born again, you're in the boat.
You're wanna take a thought about recounting the fact recertifying the fact that you're in the boat, the fellow ship and the fellowship means there's no superiority. There's humility and service that's what Jesus instructed us to be. Servants to one another serving one another.
You want to know what's hard to do? You want to know why the body of Christ is having difficulties in the "Rock-a-Billy's social media?
Let's get it done in a second. And if you don't respond precisely, as I want you to, I'm going to be upset, buddy; age"? That's what's come upon us; in 2025; is instantaneous, everything we've gotten used to instantaneous everything, and we've also gotten used to disposable.
So when it comes to recertifying faith, we've gotten used to the idea that if something doesn't work, you just throw it away, if you don't like something that someone's doing you just cancel him out, you just take them off your list of friends. You just don't have anything to do with them anymore.
And so when it comes to recertifying, we don't want to fight the fight that is involved in loving folks.
Because love means discomfort. Agapao love means sacrificial love;and there isn't anything when it's sacrificial, that is not gonna cost you, and if it doesn't cost you, it's not sacrificial.
So the final step of recertifying your faith, you've remembered that you're a sinner saved by grace, and that we're all sinners, and that there are no super saints, and that you don't Lord anything over anybody in this walk with Jesus. And as you recount, the number of times that he's forgiven you for being how you are when you get that way, then it comes to the fact that we want to recertify that we are in touch with our own fallibility, and we want to let people that we're trying to bring back to Jesus, those people that were working with as disciples to bring them back to Jesus, we want to let them know, we know we're sinners.
One of the best things that Pastor Terry Hughes has ever done as a Pastor is he is humble, and he's humble when it comes to the fact of the matter that we're all sinners, and he has projected that loving nature he has into the body of Christ around him. He is a disciple maker of the first nature and a man that I am proud to say, is a fantastic Pastor.
When you are no longer working with your disciples. What will they say of you?
I want your legacy to be that legacy, where people say, "You know, what(?) we knew Corrie, but we didn't know; she wrote that book? We didn't know about the hiding place. We didn't know she was gonna be Corrie Ten Boom we just thought she was Corrie, who hung out with us." "We knew that was put upon her with the wheelchair, but to us she was just always Joni."
Listen You have the ability to touch people's lives that no one else can touch, don't ever let the adversary. Satan, take that away from you. Because Christ put that in you through his blood.
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