Treasured Truth

Battling Satan in our own power is futile. Today, Pastor Ford explains that in Jesus, we have a big brother who is watching our back and will go to battle for us against Satan.

Others can tell how much we love Jesus by the way we serve Him. They can tell by the way we give to Him. They can tell by the way we worship Him. You see, a lot of us have a “Zirconium Jesus.” Because if we all had a “Diamond Jesus” then there’d be nothing that would keep us from going crazy about the Lord Jesus Christ! Find out what this means on today’s Treasured Truth.

As we live the Christian life, we need a love that will sacrifice for the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Because many of us have praise for Christ on our lips, but the rest of our lives doesn’t demonstrate our love for Him. In other words, according to Pastor Ford, we often have high praise, but low living!

As we wrap up this study from Genesis 2 and take a concluding look at “the perfect guy” we can thank God for His grace and His power, as He continues the job of shaping us and molding us into His image. As long as we don’t become too stubborn, by not allowing Him to work in our lives, the Lord is continually making us into the people He wants us to be—whether that’s the “perfect guy” or the “perfect gal.”

As we continue to look at the character of “the perfect guy,” Pastor Ford suggests that husbands, instead of putting down their wives because of their weaknesses, should rather strive to become their strength in their weaknesses. Then those husbands can become like Jesus to their wives. Because that’s exactly what the Bible says, that a man ought to be like Jesus to his wife.

How do you know if you’re on your way to becoming “the perfect guy”? One way is to look at your stewardship in the areas of time, talent, and treasure. Are you following the Lord’s commandments about those areas in the way you’re supposed to be following? The perfect guy has resources that have been given by God and he exercises good stewardship of those resources.”

Sometimes it can seem that battling sin and temptation is a hopeless effort. But we need to realize that we are not fighting for victory, but fighting from victory, because Christ has already defeated Satan and conquered sin for us.

Before you make a commitment in a relationship, you should really consider some facts about the person with whom you are seeking a relationship. Pastor Ford will urge us to quit making deep commitments to shallow people. According to him, there’s too many who are making Mercedes investments into “hooptie” people. Find out what the means on today’s Treasured Truth.

The perfect guy will be someone in whom Jesus is resident and through whom the power of the Holy Spirit can be observed. So he has the residency of Christ and he has transparency. We’ll also see that he has security and liberty. Pastor Ford asks, “What else could you want in a man?”

Nowadays, women often find themselves in relationships with men who don’t really think it’s important for dating to lead to marriage. This seems to be acceptable within today’s popular culture. But as we consider some Biblical principles of dating and relationships, Pastor Ford explains that if a man will not be accountable to anyone, and he's not willing to a woman his last name, then he won’t be responsible as somebody with whom to be in a relationship.