Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

To the unmarried, un-yoked young people, my prayer is: "Let them have EYES FOR YOU and let them have EYES FOR OTHERS THAT HAVE EYES FOR YOU."

This is the product of an indwelling reality. The reality is pretty awesome: Being the Temple of God; God making His dwelling  among us; God walking with us; He welcomes us; He will be our God and we His people. He will be a Father to us, and we sons and daughters to Him.

OF COURSE this will have implications of who we make intimate, emotional, soul-requiring, moral agreements with, especially marriage.

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Tough listen today. On a plane: We have to start with one of my favorite NT verses “In a day of salvation I have helped you.” Though something is required of the new believer, he or she is also getting divine assistance.  Heavenly Help comes at the moment of greatest need: the pointy end of spiritual conviction.

Then Paul makes a list that his critics were using to DIS-qualify his ministry.  Instead, Paul uses these exact situations to ENDORSE his ministry.  He turns the CONDEMNATIONS to COMMENDATIONS in the upside down world of spiritual truth.  The Corinthians have already been tempted to vote for the slicker, richer, easier competing super-apostles.  The things that Paul and other Christian workers endure should ENDORSE their authenticity.

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There is a divine "ACCOUNTING" that is grossly in our favor.  From our standpoint, our sins are transferred to Jesus; His righteousness is accounted to us.  Good deal.

From Jesus' position, though He was sinless, the Sins of believers were transferred to Him and His righteousness is imputed to all believers.  Bad deal.

One of my responses is Yahoo! This divine accounting has worked out marvelously for me.  The other is grief; that such a costly rescue plan had to be enacted on my behalf.

Join me for a 7 minute consideration in Isaiah 53 as it predicts our real verse of 2 Cor 5:21 about 700 years earlier.  Then subscribe on FB group page Be With Me, Google, apple, spotify podcast, or bewithme.us

Jesus becomes something He was not (sin-marred) so we could become something we are not (right before God). 

Jesus was found to be sin so we could be found in Him.

Join me for 7 minutes as we swim in thunderously deep waters of wonder.  You'll see the HEART of God; The CREATIVITY of God; The ability of God; and the WILLINGNESS of God,  I know all the verses of the Bible are good, but this one is especially good. I don't want you to miss it.  

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We are charged to be AMBASSADORS.  That is, we are to carry a message to the world.  The world is just a fancy term for one individual after another.  God comes primarily to people one at a time.

The message is one of reconciliation.  We can be right with God and be restored.  Guess who wandered away?  Guess who violated the contract?  Guess who has a crime that needs to be paid for?  

Today then, either BE reconciled, or if you are found in Christ as we meet this morning, then GO and reconcile.

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Paul goes ALL-IN with his relationship with Jesus.  He bets big.  He bets it ALL.  

He commits to living a life of PERSUASION.  All his priorities center around a message of reconciliation with the Almighty.  He de-prioritizes profit, position, and appearances for the ongoing pounding home of the gospel. 

He longs for his real home, that is HEAVEN, but in the meantime, as long as the Lord gives him breath, he's going to be faithful to persuading others to the winsome gospel. If you want a "super-apostle", you'll have to look elsewhere.  Paul has gone ALL IN, not on himself, but on  the message of Jesus.  Listen 7 minutes with me and see if he makes the right bet. bewithme.us [email protected] apple, google spotify podcasts. like and subscribe.  Go all in with 7 minutes tomorrow too. 

There is only one PLACE left on Paul's BUCKET LIST. And there is only one PERSON left on hist bucket list.

Paul says he longs to be AWAY from here, so he can go to his real desire: to be HOME with The Lord.

This earthly tent is a little groan-y.  Our heavenly home is one of glory.

Join me as we hear Paul's desire to be really really HOME and finish his bucket list.

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You currently live in a tent that is temporary and falling apart.  We appropriately groan to be out of such tents.  We long for a dwelling place that is just plain BETTER.  This is exactly what God has in mind.

God has a BUILDING, that is ETERNAL, in a nicer NEIGHBORHOOD prepared for His family.  Best of all, you get to have God as your NEIGHBOR.  Who wouldn't long for such a place?

Mortal dwelling tents are going to be swallowed up by life.  Our crappy physical covering of our souls will be exchanged for newer, better, and eternal residences built by God.  I can't wait!  

In the Meantime, subscribe at bewithme.us and apple podcasts and I will see you tomorrow if I am still in this decaying TENT.

You may be feeling like you have LOST HEART.  You certainly have good reason.  Our OUTER SELF is wasting away.  The non-soul part of us falling apart, made out of clay, afflicted, perplexed and struck down. 

But wait! Those are also the very ingredients that can  be used to look past them into the eternal so that we are RENEWED. The same circumstance that could possibly lead to us LOSING HEART can also be the same circumstances that can PREPARE us for eternity. When all is washed away, what is left?

Paul points to difficult times HELPING to point us toward hope in being raised like Jesus and in being with Jesus.  Thank you Lord for difficult circumstances?!?!?! Exactly.

Let this podcast help anchor your daily, perhaps morning, renewal. May it HELP YOU prepare you to do the right thing with circumstances that otherwise could cause you to LOSE HEART.  Anchor your effort by going to bewithme.us or apple podcasts to subscribe for a daily encouragement .  

The context of the famous Jar of Clay passage is in light of CHRISTIAN WORKERS, specifically those occupying the office of Leader/Elder/Overseer/Shepherd/Teacher and probably here Apostle.  It is a difficult job that Paul in both INSUFFICIENT for and blessed with competence, call and capability for.

The Pastor job is not without its' difficulty.  There is affliction, perplexing, persecution and a bit of striking.  No picnic, but there is preservation too.  They are NOT crushed, driven to dispair, forsakenness of destruction.  The Lord is in it. '

Let's appreciate the difficult job that our dear Pastors do.  Let's try to be a joy to them.  They are doing it for our joy.

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