Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Today's lesson was: God wants me to be a loving person.

God has two big rules:

• Love God
• Love others

I'll let you review the lesson which began on page 197.

Two people in today's study class said something that I just had to write down.

Miss Carol told us about Andrew Murray's book Humility. She said that what he wrote we would find eye opening.

Mr John said something that I will be taking to heart: "Prayer ought to augment and not replace our time, treasure, and talent as we help others."

Team Angel

 

Angel was brought before us as a prayer request from a friend of Carol's. His parents are nurses and they adopted him after caring for him. While Angel is inspiring, it is his mother who keeps capturing my heart with her beautifully worded prayer requests and descriptions of what her boy is going through. Please pray with us that God's love continues to show brightly through this family.

https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Team-Angel/222567347803759?id=222567347803759&sk=info 

The Spurgeon Lectures - John MacArthur will be in KC!

'nough said

show love

Not too long ago Humberto was kind enough to have an advocate from The Voice of the Martyrs stop by our Bible Study. I signed up to the Facebook page, and last night they wrote about a woman who was imprisoned in China, and they were asking for letters for her as she is very ill and suffering.

There are other prisoners listed on this website as well.

Could you take a moment or two and choose a prisoner for Christ and write to them?

They've made it easy for us by having phrases we can choose from in the prisoners own language. We can then print what we have chosen and mail it.

Such a simple way to show someone who is suffering for their faith - Christ's love.

http://www.prisoneralert.com/ to write a letter

http://www.persecution.com/ Voice of the Martyrs

Tuesday's Bible Study

We continued with Lesson 15, the section that deals with conflicts that come outside of the church (page 191).

How do you feel about this statement?

usurping

“I know he’s a Christian but I don’t like him. Well, learn to like him now because you are going to be spending eternity with him.” ~ Heard on the Turning Point radio program with Dr. David Jeremiah.

Jesus the Judge

For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son.
John 5:22

Some of the most scathing words recorded in the Bible are those of Jesus in Matthew 23:13-39—the section where He passes judgment on the hypocrisy of the Pharisees. Seven times He says, "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees!" He accuses them of being hypocrites, blind guides, blind fools, blind men, and snakes, and says they are like dirty dishes and tombs—clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.

Is this the same Jesus who said, "Judge not, that you be not judged" (Matthew 7:1)? Yes, the very same. So is Jesus the hypocrite in this case—telling others not to judge but acting like a judge Himself? No, because He knew why He had been sent into the world. Jesus knew that the Father has "committed all judgment to the Son" (John 5:22). Jesus' entire life—His words and His works—was a judgment on this fallen world. On occasion, He put those judgments into specific words as He did with the Pharisees. And He will do it again when He returns as Judge of the nations at His Second Coming.

We are not to judge one another because God has "committed all judgment to the Son." When we place ourselves over others as judge, we are usurping a place given by God to Jesus alone.

No man's conscience is to be a judge for another.
Charles H. Spurgeon