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One Love
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| Posted 5/30/2007 6:19 PM (GMT -6) |   | |
5/27/2007 – Doing the Teachings of Jesus, Greg Boyd
Sermon length is 45:15 minutes
Sound, wise teaching has no real effect in our lives if the teaching is not put into active, continuous practice. As we have seen throughout the “Sermon on the Plain” in Luke 6, Jesus lays out the demands and blessings of living as a disciple in the Kingdom of God. Jesus concludes his teaching with a challenge to his followers to embody his teachings and put them into living action.
Here were Greg's summations of some of the teachings of Luke 6...
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Luke 6:20-26
Consider yourself blessed when you're poor, hungry, sorrowful, and persecuted. Consider yourself in danger when you're rich, well fed, full of levity and popular.
Luke 6:27-35
Never retaliate. Live with outrageous, reckless generosity. Hold onto nothing as though you own it. Love in a way that is ridiculous in the eyes of the world. Be as merciful to others as your Father has been merciful to you.
Luke 6:37-38
Never judge others. Forgive all people for wrongs done to you. Live with outrageous generosity, trusting God's promise that he will meet your needs and that every sacrifice you make will come back on you as a blessing.
Luke 6:39-41
Watch out for the blind religious leaders who get life from their religion and from their followers. If you follow me, expect to suffer, for I suffered and the student is to be like the trainer.
Luke 6:41-42
Don't look for dust particles in others eyes but become aware of planks in your own. Don't eat of the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but eat from the tree of life, which is Jesus Christ. Bear good fruit, not thorns.
Luke 6:46-49
Don't just hear my teachings. Make sure that you do them. Prepare for a coming flood by building a good foundation. Make calling me "Lord" a reality in your life by living in obedience to my teaching.
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Greg simply asked everyone (including himself) the honest question: Are we really living out Jesus' teachings? Are we REALLY?
For some great context, listen to all the "Beautiful Mess" sermons. They're great.
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be One, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be One as we are One— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete UNIty. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to SONship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 5/30/2007 6:24 PM (GMT -6) | | "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say? As for those who come to me and hear my words and put them into practice, I will show you what they are like. They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. But those who hear my words and do not put them into practice are like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete."
Luke 6:46-49 (TNIV)
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Those who listen to the word but do not do what it says are like people who look at their faces in a mirror and, after looking at themselves, go away and immediately forget what they look like. But those who look intently into the perfect law that gives freedom and continue in it—not forgetting what they have heard but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.
James 1:22-25 (TNIV)
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One from my own thoughts...related...
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
Matthew 7:21-23 (TNIV)
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be One, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be One as we are One— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete UNIty. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to SONship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 5/30/2007 6:29 PM (GMT -6) | | Unconditional submission/obedience to God is one of the Master's "lessons" to us.
Isn't this what Jesus learned by his sufferings in self-giving?
If we are truly no better than our Master, then it seems that we must learn unconditional obedience through suffering as well. And like Jesus, we can anticipate our glorification after our humiliations.
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During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be One, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be One as we are One— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete UNIty. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to SONship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 5/30/2007 11:12 PM (GMT -6) | | "If a brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying 'I repent,' you must forgive them."
I don't do this well at all right now. Sheesh. 
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be One, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be One as we are One— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete UNIty. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to SONship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. | | Back to Top | | |
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selah
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| Posted 5/30/2007 11:42 PM (GMT -6) | | |
AMEN D. Preach it!
Do you see how incredibly GREAT the Bible is now? 
I LOVE those verses from Luke 6. Absolutely love them!
Blessings,
Bible-girl
(Watch out, if you keep this up I'm going to nickname you "Bible-guy!")
"When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love."
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Post Edited (selah) : 5/31/2007 5:02:28 AM (GMT-5) | | Back to Top | | |
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