Sekoutoure Abodunrin
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Thinker. Wordsmith. 100% joyful. Christ is the exegesis of God and explanation of All.
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The bodily resurrection of Jesus is proof divine that the physical aspects of my life are safe in God's hands.
February 14. One day. So many views. Whatever your views, happy are you if you don’t condemn yourself in what you allow. Whatever your posture, let the love for the gospel shine through and shape all your practice and pursuit.
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If we continually expose our hearts to poor examples from folks that we look up to, even if we don't like those examples, except we intentionally and copiously expose ourselves to good examples, we'd act out the very things we don't like.
At first, redemption is God bringing you His peace as His gift to you in Christ. As your eyes open, you see redemption is God’s gift of peace to others too. The same peace. You wear that at your armour in human engagements.
Don't be so hasty you throw away word-inspired and spirit-birthed persuasion just so you can belong in a crowd. Mobs are fickle!
Be careful what you say from how you read the holy scriptures. There's that unexplainable something that grips us when we read of the man God uses in the holy scriptures The same facts read in the holy scriptures is repeated when we read of the man God uses in the writing of the apostles. What we read of God's use of Paul, Peter, James, John, Timothy, Titus, Barnabas or even our Lord Jesus is also what we had read of Samuel, Saul and David. If we rush our reading of the holy scriptures not knowing this, that hasty slant will ultimately hinder the Man of God from maturing today - the hinderance is not in the holy scriptures but in the hardness of heart. There is a sane and humble way to read the David story (and those stories famously [ab]used to promote fleshly works and mindsets amongst ministers) that today it exercises the Man of God unto godliness, for in David the story of the solid example of the believer is told. Failing to read properly, the bible can be used to promote bondage and the enslaving of saints by ministers - the trouble is that saints who are exposed to this also end up enslaving younger saints when they become elders. Amazingly people subject others to the very things that had traumatised them when they were younger and of a purer conscience). It is the Pharisee way of reading the holy scriptures that causes men to read the David story in an abusive way that leads down a slippery slope which only serves to reveal the hardened heart of the student of scripture. In all these instances, the trouble is not with the holy scriptures. It is the hasty tendency of the fragmentary reading of the text in a way that ignores the fact that these stories are written to furnish the Man of God so that he or she is not deficient in rendering ministry to the saints that leads to the problem. The true meaning and intent of the story told in David is clearly seen in Apollos, Paul, Peter, James, John, Timothy, Titus, Barnabas and most especially our Lord Jesus. Read the scriptures together and adorn the doctrine of our Lord in your conduct and don't use scripture as a cloak for fleshly works. Be careful how you read the holy scriptures and pay attention to your emphasis from it. Do not use David in ways that the writers of the scriptures never intended for him to be used. Watch the apostles. Observe what they used David to teach. Stay with that narrative. Do not use the scripture in ways that no apostle ever used those stories. With humility, pick the bible again with awe in your heart. Read. Ingest the word. Live.
The way we are when disciples are unreliable (See Lk 22) Our ministry is our labour over men. So, Peter, a key disciple that Jesus had laboured over famously and very publicly denied ever knowing Jesus. He went into hiding in Jesus’ hour of need. He deserted Jesus - that is not a good thing Peter did. That hurts. Jesus had known in advance that Peter would make choices that would cumulatively lead to him denying Jesus. In response to what He knew ahead of time, Jesus did not adversely change towards Peter. Instead, our dear Lord prayed for Peter! He prayed for a disciple that was about to desert Him - that is the way Jesus is in us today! Upon rising from the dead, Jesus did not respond with His own denial of Peter because Peter was now friendly towards those who were enemies of Jesus. Jesus did not adopt the mindset that the friend of my enemies are my enemies, therefore Peter is now my enemy to be marked and avoided. The Lord went looking for Peter so that He could do more ministry with Peter. It is mind-boggling, the ways of our precious Lord. In response to the sustained love from Jesus, within 50 days of his denying and deserting the Lord, Peter publicly stood up and openly associated with Jesus whom he had previously deserted. Peter took a whole city by the gospel (see Acts 2). Peter had been trained by the labour of Jesus. That rich deposit of service and love never goes away. Peter could only stand to preach publicly and boldly within 50 days of denying Jesus because our dear Lord had not responded by deserting Peter who had deserted Him. Jesus did not use a the-friend-of-my-enemies-are-my-enemies mafia mindset to kill the emergence of greatness in Peter. The Lord Jesus co-laboured with Peter. How is this possible? Thanks be to God this is our heredity in Christ. it is fleshly thinking that prevents us from seeing that at that moment that Peter was denying the Lord, he was just 50 days away from boldly demonstrating the power that the labour of Jesus had in his life. True, at the point that Peter deserted Jesus, it seems pretty obvious that Peter was a time waster, a lost cause, a drain on Jesus' energy, and one that caused Him pain, but divine patience causes us to hold on knowing that just 50 days from that very point in time, as Jesus stays consistent towards Peter, many things will come together and Peter will be overwhelmed by Jesus' consistency in whom Peter will find the consistency to show forth the solid training that had been deposited in him by the Lord's labour over him. Your labour is not in vain in the Lord. Take heart, your fruit abounds in the Lord. ... to be continued