Our hearts are drawn from the gospel of subjectivity. Subjectivity means that the foundation of our relationship with God is our changing feelings and emotions.
God created us with emotions. Sometimes we feel great, happy and grateful. Then perhaps we feel blessed by God. But there are also other days. Days that start like this: alarm clock rings, it rings and rings, you're sleepy, you do not want to get up. Before you start to get out of bed to hear the voice in my head. "Today is Thursday, oh no, I meeting with the boss. Has he heard of it, what did I do? "You get up from bed and still hear the voice," I should start practicing, but my back hurt. What is the problem with the car, which came out yesterday? I wonder how much it will cost to fix it. Oh, not yet paid the rent. "
walk into the kitchen to make breakfast and hear" what a mess, I should not watch TV last night, but I'm lazy. Why nobody helps me in this house? There is no coffee!? "
"I have no strength."
Are there days?
Everyday we have a choice to listen to ourselves and our ever-changing emotions, or to talk to you about niezmieniających truths about who God is and what he did for us on the cross.
Life is hard, full of problems, but also joy. If passively listening to myself, most days of your life will be an emotional roller coaster. You'll be high, and half hours later in the valley.
Is it weird that we're unhappy? In practice, the foundation of our life are our emotions. It is not God's plan. Instead of passively listen to each other, we need to talk. We recall the gospel.
Our problem is that too much focus on ourselves and our feelings. for a look at our souls, when we should look at what Jesus did on the cross for us.
what is now I say it is one of the biggest problems in my personal life. Over the past six months and may from time to Stoverowie returned to the States, I began to have such a small depression. Sometimes two or three days in a row, I was very sad, it was very difficult to work, it was hard for me to pretend that everything is fine or even play with the kids.
These valleys do not start for no reason. I once got a call from my parents about it, what are the major problems in my family in the United States. And after that conversation I was in the valley for two days. Also, the conflict in the church for perseverance of the saints was the reason for several such days. I recently learned that my brother resigns from his position in the church, and I felt that if you allow it, then again I'm in the valley.
What is this pastor? What is an example for others? My life the past few months really looked like an emotional roller coaster. I did not have a stable foundation. Too much focused on ourselves instead of Jesus. Too much listening to myself, instead of saying the gospel.
But thank God that the Holy Spirit, using a sermon that I listened and Sarah, who talked with me, showed me that my behavior is sinful. I am grateful to God that he showed me that I can not passively listen to myself, I have to say.
What is subjective is always changing, like the sand in the sea. But what is the objective is stable as a rock. When we look at our interior to focus on what is subjective, changing and temporary. When we look outside, at what Jesus did, to live according to that which never changes, which is totally true and trustworthy. Martin Luther wrote, "righteousness Christ is entirely outside us and above us. "
As in practice we can speak of the gospel? I have four ideas.
First, learn the gospel by heart, you could speak the gospel. These are the passages that I recommend.
Rome. 8:31-34 If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but he gave up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who will accuse God's elect? After all, God justifies. Who will condemn? Jesus Christ, who died, more raised, which is on the right hand of God, after all, this intercession for us.
Isa. 53:3-6 was despised and forsaken by men, a man of sorrows, the suffering experienced as that which covers the face, he was despised, and we esteemed him. But he bore our diseases, our suffering has taken upon himself. And we esteem him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities. He was penalized for our salvation, and by his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, each of us veered to his own way, and the Lord touched his punishment for iniquity of us all.
Rome. 3:23-26 For all have sinned and lack the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus, Whom God has set the expiation by his blood, effective through faith, for to show his righteousness by the fact that the patience of God indulgently referred to the previously committed sins, To demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Rome. 5:6-11 Christ Indeed, while we were yet weak, in due time died for the ungodly. It is rare that someone would die for a just, quickly as a good one ready to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Even more so now been justified by his blood, we shall be saved from his wrath. If fact, being enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now dostąpiliśmy reconciliation.
1 Cor. 15:3-4 First, because I gave you what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to Scriptures, and that he was buried, and that on the third day was raised from the dead according to the scriptures,
2 Cor. 5:21 On the one who knew no sin to be sin for us made us It made the righteousness of God.
Gal. 2:21 Do not reject God's grace, because if the law is justice, then Christ died in vain.
Secondly, pray gospel. It's not complicated. I just thank God for the blessing of eternal life, purchased by the death of Jesus. Confess that through the action of Jesus on the cross, you have fellowship with God, which enables you to prayer. Give thanks that Jesus took the wrath of God for you. Thank Him that through the cross of Jesus, you are reconciled with God allowing that Spirit can dwell within you, leading you, strengthening you to be able to resist sin and serve God.
Thirdly, sing gospel. Listen to Christian music. If you need, buy good music. But most of us have access to Internet at home, so you can listen to music for free for the NP. Grooveshark. I do not just listen to music on like a Christian, but the search for songs that speak of what Jesus has done for us, not songs that say about us and what we feel or what we do for Jesus. This is not a sin to occasionally sing about our orders, to follow Jesus. NP.
decided to follow Jesus / 3x
will not come back, not coming back anymore.
will not come back, not coming back anymore.
But we should often sing to praise God for what he did.
Lord gave grace to a weak,
And the humble house in the city her.
Mr. darkness turns into day,
sanctification is dead bodies.
For the LORD is salvation,
; Water among rocks,
light in the night.
For the LORD is salvation,
; He bought us and conquered death.
Fourth, remind yourself how you changed the gospel. Paul is a good example. Thirty-some years after her new born Paul wrote, "Despite the fact that before I was a blasphemer and a persecutor and oppressor, but I obtained mercy,"
Paul never forgot who he was before God changed it through the gospel. We have in this respect to imitate Paul. Each of us can say, before I was a _____________. (A liar or a thief, or adulterer, or yet another sinner). But God intervened and changed me. God changed my heart. God saved me.
Remind yourself of what God did in your life. I recommend you to write your own testimony of how God worked in your life. Not just write, "I accepted Jesus." But to write about how God is holy and you were the object of his wrath because of the particular sin. Do not be ashamed to describe the sins that have been in your life. And then write about how God saved you and changed. This will be an encouragement to you and may also for others.
At the end I say that if we remain passive, then the gospel is not the center of our lives. Of course, we legalistami. Of course, we live under condemnation. Of course we listen to our feelings and the foundation of our life is subjective. If you only listen to the sermon today, and nothing that you do not, the gospel does not become the center of your life. When I wake up tomorrow morning, you will have the choice to either listen to each other or talk.
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