Monday, September 10, 2012

Ones who have been called out...

What is the life of a Christian supposed to be like? A vacation? Too often people hurry, study, and prepare themselves for becoming a Christian, then when the water dries off they sit back and relax. Christianity is not about relaxation! We have been called to do something. What? See for yourself...

1 Corinthians 5:11-21 (SAM)
11 Therefore having known the fear of the Lord we persuade men, but we have been revealed to God; and I hope also to be revealed in your conscience.

12 We are not again commending ourselves to you but giving to you opportinity of boasting in behalf of us, so that you might have something to say to the ones boasting in face and not in heart.
13 For if we are out of our senses, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.
14 For the love of the Christ holds us fast, after judging this, that one died in behalf of all, therefore (the) all died;
15 and he died in behalf of all, so that the ones living might not live for themselves but for the one who died and was raised in behalf of them.

16 Therefore from now on WE know no one according to the flesh; if we even knew Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him no longer in this way.
17 Therefore if a certain one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away, behold new things have become;
18 But (the) all things are out of the God who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave to us the service of reconciliation,
19 in that God was in Christ reconciling world to himself, not counting (the) their trespasses to them and putting the word of (the) reconciliation in us .
20 Therefore we are ambassadors in behalf of Christ as (the) God urging through us; we beg in behalf of Christ, you be reconciled to (the) God.
21 The one who did not know sin was made sin in behalf of us, so that WE might become justice of God in him.

Ephesians 2:10 (SAM)
10 For we are work of him, being created in Christ Jesus on the basis of good works which the God prepared beforehand, so that in them we might walk.

What is it we have been called to do? You see it, now let's do it :)

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