EveryManComplete Podcast

Friendships are good, we all desire to have a few friends. If social media is any indication you would think that friends are the most important thing in the world. We boast about how many friends we have on FaceBook and other social media platforms as if it were the barometer of who we are and our status in life.
But we are told in Scripture that friendship with the world makes us an enemy of God. It's not that having friendships with others is something God looks down on but His concern comes in when our friendships in the world become the influence of how we live our lives. 
 Gal 6:14 But may it never be that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.  The Apostle Paul stated that he died daily. He died to the things in the world that drew him away from the life God had called him to. 
He stated in another place that anything that was gain to him he considered it as rubbish that he might gain Christ. The world we live in is screaming for everyone's attention, offering empty promises that leave us empty and broken. The world is under the influence of Satan himself and his objective is to lead us away from the life God desires for us to have. 
The enemy began in the Garden of Eden and has not stopped his deception and corruption for one moment. Making friendship with the world is making friends with the enemy. 
Let's open up the gospel and discover how to live in the world but not of it.

For such a time as this! In a world full of turmoil, suffering, and pain, if there is any time that men who are after God's own heart need to come together it is now.
During this ongoing pandemic, our lives and how we live them have drastically changed! How we live out our faith has dramatically changed! 
God has called us in Col. 1:28-29 to present every man complete in Christ! The enemy has done an effective job of distracting men from being what God has called us to. For us to become complete requires a commitment to one another, a willingness to get our hands dirty labor, some blood sweat, and tears, and a surrendered heart to God's workmanship. 
This is your invitation to God's call to join us to become complete together for His glory. 
You can go to http://everymancomplete.org/ and contact us at [email protected] 
Never be ashamed
Bro Jeff

Have you ever gone to a class reunion and had someone approach you to say hello and you didn't recognize them? You find out who they are and you said, "I hardly recognized you!"  There had been such dramatic change that they didn't look like you remembered them. 
When we come to Christ, there should be something significant that happens in our life that we may not look different on the outside, but how we live our lives outwardly should bring the question, "I hardly recognized you!" It's not that we are perfect, but the presence, love, grace, and power of Christ in us should make us notably different from those who know us. 
God is transforming us into the image of His Son. He is not making us into a better version of us!  We've been crucified with Christ and it is no longer we who live, but Christ!
who lives within us. Life should be different
Let's open up the gospel and discover the gospel difference!

We discover in Scriptures that God's love never fails and that nothing can separate us from the love of God. We also see that God's grace is sufficient and that where our sin abounded God's grace abounded all the more. But many times we seem to attach how we receive God's love and grace with how we receive God's blessings. 
I believe what the last stanza of the Hymn "Showers of Blessings" says sums up what I have discovered the gospel has to say concerning blessings. "There shall be showers of blessing if we but trust and obey; There shall be seasons refreshing If we let God have His way." 
God's blessings for our lives are contingent upon that two-letter word; "if".  Blessings are dependent upon our obedience. Obedience is not doing good things that we want to do but what God has called us to do. Jesus said that He could only do what He saw the Father doing and we must follow the example of Jesus and do what we see the Father doing. 
Let's open up the gospel and discover how we can know the blessings that God has prepared for us!

Where has the reverence gone? God is love! His grace is sufficient! His mercies are new every morning! He is patient and longsuffering! But He is Holy, Righteous, Sovereign, and worthy of all praise and glory!
Through our familiarity with God's word and the repetitive approach of our worship experiences, we have developed an irreverence for the God of our salvation. We honor Him with our lips but our hearts are far from Him!
The evidence of our irreverence is seen in our lack of love and respect for one another. It is seen in our political arena, our communities, our churches, and our own personal lives and families. 
We can only live the life we are called to by God through the overflow of our relationship with Him.  When our reverence for Him falters so does every other relationship we are involved in!
It's time for the people of God to repent! It's not about pointing the finger at those systems and people around us but looking to our own hearts of worship. Humbling ourselves in reverence and awe before the God of all creation. 
We must worship in spirit and truth! What's the truth about your reverence?

Scripture tells us that there are those who have ears to hear but do not hear!   Our faith is dependant upon that hearing. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.  There is more to hearing than our eardrum picking up sound waves and our brains deciphering those sounds. There is a spiritual side to our hearing and then the evidence of our hearing that brings forth fruit. 

Join us as we open up the gospel and discover how good our hearing is!

Nobody wants to be labeled a loser! But as we look into the gospel today we can discover how to avoid becoming the biggest loser!
In all four gospels, we see the verse, " if you find your life you will lose it, and if you lose your life for My sake and the gospel's sake you will find it." As seen, each of the gospels brings out this truth, each gospel has a different illustration to make this truth a personal reality to us.  
The same theme is present in each illustration, the theme of dying to ourselves and to the worldly things that call for our devotion, and making Jesus Christ the surpassing value that we live for. We have been crucified with Christ and we no longer live! This is the life that we lose! The life that was dead in sin! The life that was separated from God!
Why would we attempt to save the life, that Jesus died on the cross to set us free from? The biggest loser is the one who continues to choose the life where Jesus Christ is not the fullness of that life! If we lose our life we will find the life that comes through the resurrection power of the gospel. Jesus Christ is that life!

When I examine Scripture and see promises like, what the eye has not seen and the ear has not heard and what has not entered the heart of man all that God has prepared for those who love Him I have to wonder what have I been missing. 
When I see that His ways and thoughts and ways are not my thoughts and ways and the difference in the two is staggering; what am I missing?
When He desires to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all that I can ask or think, I'm missing something somewhere!
Let's open up the gospel and discover how our unexamined life can lead to a superficial life, robbing us of all that God has promised to us. The truth will set us free but it most likely will make us miserable before it does. God's revealing of the deep things in our lives is His great expression of love toward us that leads us into a powerful and intimate relationship with Him!

God is omnipresent! He's everywhere, He's everywhere! But yet He calls us to search for Him with all our hearts! He has prepared everything for us ahead of time! Things which the eye has not seen nor ear has heard or what has entered the heart of man for those who love Him. So how are we missing Him in the midst of the life we are living? Which way did God go?
As we open up the gospel we will discover that as His finest creation we are creative individuals. And because He has placed eternity within each one of us we can find ourselves seeking to fill that eternity with temporal things and accomplishments. Many are the plans in a man's heart but the answer comes from the mouth of God.
Because we are impatient people and self-serving in many aspects of our lives we are unwilling to wait for what God has prepared for us. We settle for good things and not God things! We build our own Tower of Babels to show off to the world and miss the glory that God has prepared for us to experience as He manifests Himself through us.
Let's open up the gospel and discover which way God is going and follow Him!

If there is any word in the English language that is overused or abused it would be the word "love"! Each individual has their own slant or expectations concerning love and how it should bring them satisfaction or happiness. But our worldly perception of love is so self-centered and manipulative that we live in a constant state of disappointment and conflict. 
God is love! But many, even in the church struggle with knowing God as love and His love for them because of their personal experience and understanding of what love is. Their disappointment hurt, and bitterness has distorted their view of God and His expression of love toward them. As they see all the suffering in the world and the evil that prevails in every corner of their world, it is hard for them to believe there is a God who still loves them.
But knowing God's love requires a relationship that has been reconciled by the cross of Jesus Christ and His death and resurrection. It requires our acceptance of the blood that was shed for our sins on Calvary. It's to know His greatest love expression of sending His only begotten Son into the world to be the propitiation for our sins.
His Holy Spirit manifests His love and grace to us every day that we might be rooted and grounded in His love and be filled up to the fulness of God. The fulness of His love! Do you know His love for you? Do you know the love that endures all things?  Do you know the love that never fails? Do you know the love connection?
If you have questions concerning this love please go to https://gospellife360.com/salvation/ and ask God to reveal His love and salvation personally to you!