Christ is the Mystery no 197
Review no 20 Christian Life no 4
The Attitude of Christ
Brian Kocourek, pastor
Tonight
we will review several sermons from our series in Christ is the mystery and
this will be no 20, and we will begin with Christ
is the Mystery no 126 Christian Life
No 7 The Attitude Of Christ
Let's
remain standing as we take our text and read from Philippians 2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in
Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels
and mercies, 2 Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like minded, having the
same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of
mind let each esteem each other better than themselves. 4 Look not every
man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 5 Let
this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the
form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself
of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was
made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he
humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the
death of the cross. 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him
a name which is above every name:10 That at the name
of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and
things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye
have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my
absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God
which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure. 14 Do
all things without murmurings and disputings: 15 That
ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst
of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of
Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
Let me read this from the version called the Message: 5-8 Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought
of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself
that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges
of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having
become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t
claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and
then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a
crucifixion.
And
from the Amplified Bible: 5 Let
this same attitude and purpose and [humble] mind
be in you which was in Christ Jesus: [Let Him be your
example in humility:]
Let's bow our hearts and our heads in a word of prayer.
You may be seated.
I think in reviewing this sermon we will find out what having
the right mental attitude is, and what the right mental attitude
will produce, and why we must have
the right mental attitude, and how our mental attitude affects
those around us, and how a wrong mental attitude can cripple our
walk, and the walk of those we have influence over.
Now, Webster’s New
World Dictionary: defines attitude as: aptness, or
inclination, and further states, the position or posture assumed
by the body in connection with an action, feeling, or mood, etc. The
word attitude is also defined as a manner of acting,
feeling or thinking that shows one disposition or opinion. Now, if you
caught the main points in each of these definitions, The first stating that attitude
is the posture or position of the body in reference to or in connection with an
action, feeling, or mood, and the other is the action, feeling or
thinking that shows your opinion, disposition or mindset.
So we are
looking at the position or posture of the body, and those
attributes that manifest themselves outwardly when you are thinking, feeling. In
other words, given the DOXA of God is His values and opinions, then we are looking at the expression of those values and
opinions, if you have the same attitude as Christ.
So the
expression is what gives others the opportunity to either see Christ or just
another human person in their fallen condition. Therefore, attitude is not just a mental
cognizance,
or a mental understanding, or a mental leaning,
but rather attitude
is an outward expression of your disposition, it is an outward
expression of your
feelings, it is an outward expression of your thoughts, it
is the connection of the body to those thoughts, and how
the body expresses those thoughts. That’s what attitude is.
Remember, the
Apostle Paul told us that "Ye are written epistles, written in your flesh" to show the world the
attitude of Christ. And the key is that it Shows how we feel,
it Shows or expresses just what we are thinking about almost
anything.
The Bible
tells us that God would send forth an angel, to "mark those who sigh and cry because of the
abominations done in the city." The sighing and crying is the bodies response to
what was being done in the city, and that is an outward expression of what their
attitude was inside their soul.
Your
attitude then shows outwardly what you are thinking inwardly. You can not hide an attitude, it shows, it manifests.
You might be able to hide your thoughts but an attitude goes beyond your thoughts.
Attitude speaks of
the expression of your disposition. The way
you show it in your body language; in your eyes, in your facial expression, in your tone of voice, and in your posture.
Therefore attitude is the expression of
your opinion, and your disposition. Now the word disposition
comes from two words, dis, and position.
Together they speak of the putting in order and refers to the normal aspects of ones nature. Therefore what
we see in attitude is the disposition or the setting in order or the
outward reflection of ones true nature.
So what is the right mental attitude? Well, to
have the right attitude means you would first have to have right
thoughts about whatever the object of your thinking is. And that means
you must have the right
opinion, and there's only one right opinion and that is God’s opinion.
What does God think about it.
Because after all, His thoughts are not our thoughts, for His
thoughts are higher than our thoughts, and if we are to have a right thinking about anything,
it must be what God first thought about it. And in order to know what God’s
thoughts are about anything, it must come through the instrument of His Word,
for out of the abundance of the mouth the heart speaketh.
Therefore if
we are to have the right attitude then we must have the attitude that was in
Christ Jesus. What was Jesus attitude. What
was Jesus bodily expression and manifestation concerning the things God called
for him to do?
As we read for our text, the Apostle
Paul said in Philippians 2:5 "Let this mind be in you, which was
also in Christ Jesus:" And the word mind here is the same Greek
word Phroneo that is used for the word like minded. Let this mind that was in Christ be in you. That’s the key that Paul is bringing to us here,
and it is a gift from God that only those whom God chooses can receive that
gift.
Notice Paul says in Romans 15:5 "Now the God of patience and consolation grant
you to be like minded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: And notice then that it is according to Christ Jesus , the Anointed Jesus. So we see that
God has given us a gift to be like minded,
and not only to be like minded, but like minded towards one another and notice he tells us, ACCORDING to Christ Jesus. Now, the only way we
can be like minded is if we have the same mind. So he is telling us here the
same thing he is telling us in Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you,
which mind was also in Christ Jesus.
And we know
this can only come as God has ordained it to come.
In John
1:12 we read, 12 But as many
as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them
that believe on his name: Notice
it says, "But as many
as received him", (Who? Christ the
Word) and the word received here was translated from the Greek word
Lambano which means "to take
to one's self, lay hold upon, take possession of, i.e. to appropriate to one's self 3e) reach after, strive to obtain)" and we see that it is those
people who appropriate to
themselves the anointing, Christ the Word, and the Bible continues, "to them gave he power" ...
Now this word power is the Greek word exousia which means 1) power of choice, So we see God
gives us a gift, and that gift is the power to make a right decision. And that decision is to become a son,
or act like a son ought to act. To become what we are actually ordained to be.)
"to them gave he power to become the sons of
God", (now this
word "become" comes from the Greek word ginomai, and it does not mean you were given
power to change specie. You were a hog, and now you have power to become a
lamb. It does not mean that you were a seed of the devil and now you have been
given power to become a seed of God. No, it means: to become fulfilled as.
In other words, God gives you the power to make the right decision to come into
manifestation what you already are. The Message says it best. John 1:12 But whoever
did want him, who believed he was who he
claimed and would do what he said, He made to be their
true selves, their child-of-God selves. These are the God-begotten, not blood-begotten, not
flesh-begotten, not sex-begotten.
That is why the Apostle John
can tell us that we already are sons of God but we just don't look and act Like sons of God would look and act. And he says it takes
the Appearing of Christ to bring this out in us.
1 John 2:2 Beloved, now
are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be
like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Again I will read from The
Message Bible 1 John 2:2 But friends, that’s exactly who
we are: children of God. And that’s only the beginning. Who knows how we’ll end
up! What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we’ll see him—and in
seeing him, become like him. All of us who look forward to his Coming stay
ready, with the glistening purity of Jesus’ life as a model for our own.
Therefore in understanding what the
right mental attitude is, that it is an expression of God’s opinion
living itself and expressing itself in your body.
Then the next thing we must look at is what the right mental attitude will
produce in us.
I am the resurrection and
life 52-0810A P:61 It's your attitude towards it. Your
attitude towards God's Divine gift, will get you
just what you ask for. Do you understand? Oh, how I'd like to stop right
here, Brother Boze, and punch that for about a half
hour, but I can't do it. Your attitude: God can send a gift, and no matter what you... Depends on what attitude
you take towards it. Look at them who smote His face and spit on Him, and
everything, was no virtue there. But a woman that
believed the Word touched the hem of His garment, was
healed. Is that right? All right. It depends on
what you think about it. God sends it. It's your attitude towards
any Divine gift, determines what you get out of it. So
there...
Hebrews 11: Now faith is the substance of things hoped
for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good
report. 3 Through faith we understand that
the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen
were not made of things which do appear. 4 By
faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by
which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts:
and by it he being dead yet speaketh. 5 By
faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not
found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this
testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith
it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that
he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him. 7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not
seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house;
by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which
is by faith. 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a
place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he
went out, not knowing whither he went. 9 By faith he
sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in
tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and
maker is God. 11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to
conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because
she judged him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore sprang there even of
one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and
as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. 13 These all died in
faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and
were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were
strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things
declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been
mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had
opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a
better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be
called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. 17 By faith
Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the
promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 Of whom it was said, That in
Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 Accounting that God was able to raise him
up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure. 20 By
faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. 21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed
both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff. 22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of
the departing of the children of
Notice by the reading of Hebrews 11 how their
faith was a display of their attitude towards God’s Word.
Proving His word 65-0426
P:12 But before we pray for the sick, we've got to get the people in
that attitude. It's the attitude that always brings the results. It's the
attitude that you take towards God. Here's a woman touched His garment; she
was healed with a blood issue. A soldier spit in His face, and put a crown of
thorns on His head, and felt no virtue. It's your approach. The attitude is
what it takes. And that's what it is tonight, dear friend; it takes the
attitude. We are, and believe that we are in the Presence of Jesus
Christ, but it's your attitude that brings the results. The mechanics is
here and so is the dynamics. If you can just get started, God will do the
rest.
In 1 Corinthians
In other words what good would it do to
do those things if you did not believe that in sowing you would also reap what
you sowed? We see the farmer plows in hope expecting to reap from his
efforts. You see when you are sowing with an expectation you sow
with a right heart and a right mind, and thus a right attitude. But if you go through the motions
without a true expectation, then your attitude will show.
Romans 8:24-25 For we are saved
by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he
yet hope for? 25 But if we hope for that we see
not, then do we with patience wait for it.
If you do not see it then you are still
hoping, but when you have seen it, it shows that your hope has become
manifested.
Brother Branham said in his sermon, Expectations 50-0405 P:13 Just for a little text, if I should call
it that, I want to speak for a moment or two on the word of "Expectation.
"We always get what we expect. When people expect anything, well
then they usually get what you look for. It's the mental attitude that you
have. Remember this, and never forget it. The right mental attitude
towards any promise of God will bring it to pass, the right mental attitude
towards any promise of God. It doesn't take gifts of healing to heal sick people, any person in here has a right to meet Satan
anywhere, if you're a Christian, and defeat him on any grounds that he could
stand on. When Jesus Christ was here on earth, and in Him dwelled the fullness
of the Godhead bodily, all the great powers of God was in His Son, Christ
Jesus. For the Scripture tells us that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. All things was delivered unto Him, though
He spoke nothing but what the Father told Him. He healed no one but what He
first saw being healed. For He said, "Verily, I say unto you, The Son can do
nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." That was
Now, brother Branham said you get what
you expect. And you know it is not as amazing that Jesus walked on water,
because he was the Son of God, but what is truly amazing is that Peter
was able to walk on water as well until he lost his focus. He
lost his expectation. And the Scriptures tells
to be careful not to loose our reward.
Now, We are
examining what an attitude is and what the right mental attitude is. We find
that there is only one right attitude and that is what God thinks about
it, and His actions toward the object of the attitude. We
found that Jesus Christ
came to earth to display to the world God’s attitude towards the world, the sinner and the Seed of God.
Therefore the right mental
attitude will produce what it is meant to produce. We saw in the Book
of Hebrews a handful of people and we examined there reaction to the Word of
God. Their reaction to the promises of God was their attitude towards God
and His Word, for He is the Word. We showed by many infallible
Scriptural proofs that the right mental attitude towards any divine promise of
God will bring it to pass. Remember the Roman Centurion who simply said "just speak the word and my servant will be
healed". He
understood authority and thus he got what he expected.
Therefore we must understand “Why
we must have the right mental attitude”.
Now there are several reasons why we
must display the right attitude towards God’s Word.
1. Our
attitude will produce a result, depending on the attitude we
display.
2. Our
attitude does not create an atmosphere, but rather expresses the atmosphere in
which we live. It is the expression of the nature of your soul
and thus it creates an atmosphere around you of who you are. You are
identified with the attitude you express.
3. And thus you are judged, and will be
judged for the attitude you display to others, and the attitude you display
toward God.
4. Thus your attitude will not only
affect your own self, but has an affect on others as well.
Now, you
might ask, why must we have a right attitude, but remember,
it is the attitude that brings the results. If you do not come with the right
attitude you will never get anything from God except a rebuke, and hardship.
And that's the way it is with anyone in life. You all know in raising children,
that's one of the first things you teach your children, is to have a
right attitude towards others and to have respect for Mom and Dad,
and authority. And that's the way it is with God.
There's no one who would
rather people treat them like dirt than with respect. Show respect and
you'll get respect in return. Show contempt and you'll receive contempt. You
reap what you sow. To have friends you must show
yourselves friendly.
If someone is in need and they politely
ask for help, I'll usually do what I can to help them out. But as soon as they
get uppity and start demanding help, that's when I just close up and won’t help
them any more. I have experienced that in the mission field. There were some
pastors overseas that we enjoyed helping, but when some of them got uppity and
started demanding we help them, and we owed it to them, it just shut down the
compassion I had for them, and left me feeling empty of compassion for them.
With no more compassion for them, why should I bust and work three jobs to
support them?
When divine love is
projected 57-0126E P:19 Then when you become a son or a
daughter of God, your disposition changes; your attitude changes; your all,
your look towards life and towards others changes.
You are not the only one living on this
planet, and the blessing from God that you receive also affect the people in
which you associate with. When you are blessed you become a blessing to
others. The atmosphere of blessings you live under does not just shine just
for you. If it were not for the blessings of God shining down upon the Elect,
the whole world would be under a curse right now. God send you rain and the
weeds praise God also for the same rain he sent to bless you with.
Deuteronomy 28 speaks of Blessing and cursing that we
can expect to receive depending on our attitude towards God and
His Word. If we receive and respect God and His Word, we are blessed, but if we
reject God and His Word we are cursed.
Deuteronomy 28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt
hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all
his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set
thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall
come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the
LORD thy God.
Notice we are told that we won’t even
see them coming, until they are upon us and have overtaken us. One day you just
wake up and everything seems to be going your way. That is the blessing of God.
Now, I don’t have time to read to you all these blessing, but just open your
Bibles at home and study this chapter and see how the blessings of God in just
about every aspect of Life are there fore you if only you will hearken
diligently, which means to use diligence in paying attention to the Word of
God. But the same holds true for those who will not do so, only the same things
you are blessed in for hearkening become curses for not hearkening.
Deuteronomy 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not
hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his
commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these
curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
You see, the results you get depends on what attitude you display towards God and His
Word.
Now, remember, Your
attitude creates an atmosphere, or an environment. Brother Branham said in his
sermon, God in His people
50-0227 P:20 Your attitude towards the gift will determine your healing.
Again from his sermon, Resurrection of Lazarus 50-0813A P:43 Why, she knew if God was in Elijah, surely
He was in His Son. Hallelujah. That's right. There, she said, "If I can only get to Him, I'll find out the
reason my brother died".
So she pressed right on through that crowd of unbelievers. When she got down
there to where He was...Now, look, seem like... (Closely now.
I'm going to close just in a minute.) Seem like that she had a right to upbraid
Him, doesn't it? Say, "Why didn't You come to my brother?" Scold Him. "Why didn't You come
to my brother?" If
she would've approached in that attitude, she'd have... That miracle
would've never happened. It's your attitude of approach, how you
approach anything. If you come... Like on the gift
here, you've got to approach the gift in the right way. You've got to approach
God in the right way... You can't come, say, "Now, Lord, looky here. I've been a pretty good fellow. I've... Get
some hand-me-downs. But I'll tell You; I want You to
take me tonight and say..." No, no. God don't take it like that. You come God's provided way, or
you don't come at all. That's right. That's true.
Wedding supper 56-1006 P:35 God wants a Church that He can lay His hands on. I don't care how
little it is. "Two or three gathered in My Name, I'll be in their midst," not just speak
it. Then you say, "Well, we gather in His Name." Speaking the Name of Jesus by word
is not what He meant, so much as it is the attitude that you're gathered in, the environment of the Name
of Jesus. "When you gather in My Name, then ask what you will." It's the motive that you come in, the attitude.
It's an attitude instead of so much of a calling a Name. Sinners call that Name
on the street, curse it and everything else. But it's the environment that
you're in, the attitude that you come, coming in Jesus' Name.
Brother Branham said in the sermon We would see Jesus 62-0627 P:15 depends on the attitude that we take. Now, God always sends
His gifts and things into the generations, into the churches; and whatever
attitude the people take, that's the results of what they get. We know
that. You... God doesn't push Himself on anyone. You have to want Him.
And in the sermon, God Hiding in Simplicity 63-0317M 6-1 {30} he said, When a minister walks into a congregation of people
praying in the anointing of the Spirit, you're bound to hear from heaven. That's just all. There's no way to keep
from it. But if you walk into confusion, then you're so confused, the Spirit's
grieved.
So, you get what you are looking for. If
you come to church looking to hear from God you will, but if you
come to find something to criticize you will find that too. So you see
the importance of our attitude and the atmosphere that it creates. As I
mentioned earlier, we set an atmosphere by the attitude we express by our
body language, and the tone of our voice, and the way we look and the way we
posture our body. Body language means something to people, and it means
something to God. It expresses our attitude. It is an expression
of the true nature of our soul.
God in His people 50-0227
P:3 And then, as I bring Christ to you, He will be on your hand. And you'll
have to answer for what attitude you took towards it: if you turned it
down, or if you accepted it. God will have you to answer for your attitude of
this meeting, so you must realize it's a very sacred thing.
Notice what he is telling us here. Not
only do you receive what you expect, but you will also be judged for your
attitude. It is the attitude that expresses what we are, and that you
will be judged for. And you will take your attitude with you because your
attitude is an expression of your character. It is an expression in your body
of the nature of your inner man. And for that you will be judged.
And that led us to Christ
is the Mystery no 127 Christian Life No
8 Written Epistles where we took for our text 2 Corinthians 3:1 Do we begin again to commend
ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of
commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? 2 Ye are our
epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 3 For as much as
ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us,
written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of
stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 4 And such trust
have we through Christ to God-ward: 5 Not that we are sufficient of
ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
Explaining healing and Jairus 54-0216 P:37 "Right now we are the sons of God. It does not appear what we shall be, but we know we'll be
like Him". What
you are here is a reflection of what you are somewhere else. "Those who He called, He justifies." Is that right? "Those who He justified, He has glorified." Already in the Presence of the
Father, we have a glorified body. Whew! Wasn't that deep? All right. We'll find out whether it's right or not. "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we
have one already waiting." Is that right? That's right. So right now, and what we
are here, is a reflection of what we are somewhere else. So if your deeds
are evil, you know where it comes from. You know where your other body's a
waiting.
In
the next paragraph number 208, where brother Branham
says, "Now, notice, God making Himself
known. Not... We're not suppose to make converts to
Christianity by a government, but by the revelation of Christ in you as God was in Christ. As
God was in Christ, Christ in you. What God did in Christ, Christ does
in you. What signs did God in Christ, Christ does in you. Oh, isn't
that beautiful? Oh, my. I like that. Jesus said "at that day (that's this day), at that day (when this revelation's made known)
you will know that I
am in the Father, and the Father in Me, I in you, and you in Me. (When the revelation's made manifest,)
at that day, you shall
know that I and the Father are One. I'm in the Father, and the Father's in Me. Then when the revelation comes forth, then it's I in you and you in Me." There you are. See the manifold
threefold... What for? To bring it back. We've got to be...
In Elisha the prophet brother Branham said, "God will make your body obey your faith." And what is Faith? Is it not a
revelation? Then "God
will make your body obey your revelation." If God's whole creation must obey His will, and
we see the moon must give her light, and the sun must come up to give its light
every day, and we see the waves obeying his command, then how much more our own
bodies that are His creation as well. And what about our inner man, the new
creation who is formed after His likeness?
Harvest time 64-1212 P:85 It's got to be quoted just the way He said It. Then, if It's
quoted right, He'll vindicate It to be so in your life.
"That's how all
men know you're written epistles read of God." Written epistle is "Bible." Is that right? An epistle is the
Bible. And you're a written Bible reflecting His Word, that perfect man
again, in God.
Seed of discrepancy
65-0118 P:23 He was the interpretation of the Word. And
every born again son and
daughter of God of this age is the interpretation of the Word. You are written epistles, read of all men. Yes. Notice, He said, "In vain they do worship Me,
teaching discrepancy for doctrine. In vain do they worship Me,
teaching for doctrine the discrepancy, doctrine of man, creeds of man, teaching that to be the Word of God, when
it has nothing to do with the Word of God."
We would see Jesus
62-0727 P:33
That's the reason Christians, I think it's so real tonight, that we should
live the right kind of a life, because, there's many people won't take time
to read the Bible, but they'll read you. See, you are a written epistle of God, a real, true, born
again Christian is the Word expressed again, because you're written epistles of God, read of all
men. What type of
person should we to be if we know that our lives is an open, living Bible to
the unbeliever, to
express God in our own life?
Influences
64-0215 P:15 Remember the Bible said, "You are living, written epistles read of all
men." Now, many
people won't read the Bible. But God has made you a living representative. You
are a walking letter, should be a walking Bible, Christ in you. You should be the walking Word
of God. And if
you profess to be a Christian and not that, your influence, what you're influencing,
will make you have to answer for many souls that you've turned aside, away from
Christ, in that day of the judgment
Shalom 64-0112 P:5 God is in man. And He's identifying Himself today in His church. In
the born again Christian, God identifies Himself, that He remains God. And the
outside world will only know God as they see God in you and I.
That's the only way that they'll know God, is when we are written epistles,
epistle of the Scripture, we are read of all men. And the life that we live reflects
what's on the inside of us. A man is identified by the works that
he does. So our works should be good (See?), always good, because we are
representing our Lord Jesus Christ.