God does not grade individuals "on a curve" to the top far right, or to the "ungraded" far left! In fact, He (Christ) already has "graded" both of these extremes as inadequate by "grading the highWAY" straight A-head for every whosoever believes and does His Undivided Will of the Narrow-ration of His Canonical Bible, for "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth" (Isaiah 40:22). And he sits with the Father in the purity of the "great white throne" seeing all of every man, woman, and child's beings and doings.
This chart outlines the two extremes that individuals can be at any given time of their life. The "right curve" in this chart indicates the over-righteousness one can come to be; and the "curve" on the left represents those who do not acknowledge by under-righteousness God's power in their lives. The "middle" dividing line represents the "straight and narrow way" Christ spoke about when He said: "few there be that find it" (Matthew 7:13, 14).
Being And Doing
"Don't look for shortcuts to God. The market is flooded with surefire, easygoing formulas for a successful life that can be practiced in your spare time. Don't fall for that stuff, even though crowds of people do. The way to life - to God - is vigorous and requires total attention. Be wary of false preachers who smile a lot, dripping with practiced sincerity. Chances are they are out to rip you off some way or other. Don't be impressed with charisma, look for character. Who preachers are is the main thing, not what they say. A genuine leader will never exploit your emotions or your pocketbook. These diseased trees with their bad apples are going to be chopped down and burned. Knowing the correct password - saying 'Master, Master,' for instance - isn't going to get you anywhere with me. What is required is serious obedience - doing what my Father wills. I can see it now - at the Final Judgment thousands strutting up to me and saying, 'Master, we preached the message, we bashed the demons, our God-sponsored projects had everyone talking.' And do you know what I am going to say? 'You missed the boat. All you did was use me to make yourselves important. You don't impress me one bit. You're out of here.' These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock. Rain poured down, the river flooded, a tornado hit - but nothing moved that house. It was fixed to the rock. But if you just use my words in Bible studies, and don't work them into your life, you are like a stupid carpenter who built his house on the sandy beach. When a storm rolled in and the waves came up, it collapsed like a house of cards." When Jesus concluded his address, the crowd burst into applause. They had never heard teaching like this. It was apparent that he was living everything he was saying - quite a contrast to their religion teachers! This was the best teaching they had ever heard. Matthew 7:13-29. This scripture was taken from THE MESSAGE - The Bible In Contemporary Language.
The Kingdom Of God
No one needs fear a false teacher or prophet! The prophetic more abundant life, laying all lying wonders, half-truths and fables aside, is a practical enabling Super of God of our natural trinity make-up: spirit, soul and body, wherein the spirit being justified by God, then the soul being sanctified by that justified spirit, which in turn controls the body wherein "the called of God" to be and do such, give their body as reasonable service to honoring and glorifying the Kingdom of God within and throughout their whole selves as spiritual souls that die not, even when they are no longer in need of being housed as "body tents" left in the ground of this earth whence Adam's came from.
What is impossible (inconceivable) with humans in the flesh is possible with God of, in, by, for, and through His Spiritual Tutorage; because flesh unborn of spiritual conception cannot perceive to spiritual understanding - standing alone with no super of the natural to or in it. See 1 Cor. 8:14. That is, God's loving, merciful grace enables a super-natural transcendent transformation to miraculously be perceived as super-abundant; overriding our own powers by praying: "Not my will, but Thy will be done. Amen." In total dependence upon God, and not yielding to selfish ambition, we effectively overcome and stop jockeying our responsibility attaching our willingness to God's commands in the form of "biddings" ("to thine own self be true in God"). The Master Physician is always available for surgical circumcision of the spirit and returns the moral renewable resourceful strength that was lost towards becoming integrally healed, and bringing victorious fidelity to the entire well-being which now fills the vacuum left in the soul from falling from grace; or having been spiritually-born of grace from God for the very first time no matter the age or circumstantial demise one finds himself/herself into.
The greatest blessing to God, and being a blessing to fellow man alike, is to have a cognitive clear conscience of being in God's righteousness - likened to Christ - to God's pleasing of His good favor upon whosoever believes that He did it all for uswards as His Workmanship (being our Potter), and waits patiently for all to come and be included in their "own order" (1 Cor. 15:23). God even predisposes a faith seed so we can, by allowing faith to grow, trust Him to destroy the sin (errors) and their works of unrighteousness of the eyes, the flesh, and the devil.
Choosing Wise Relationships
When engaged in a problematic situation never experienced before with other Christians, it is always wise to handle it in the Light of God's Word without forsaking anyone's principles or without the Prince of all principles as the Principal foreshining and foreshadowing all concerned. The engaging individual's preferences, which are not immoral, can be negotiated upon; but only when what can be agreed upon by real essential motives of what is ascertained as good intentions to be agreeable, acceptable merits of good moral behavior. One can change, with or without another, to be moral from immoral; or to negate morality that became immoral to the corrosion of becoming amoral. The crux is each individual's prerogative in willful decision making, and no one else being helpful as a capable counselor, should defer the truth about anyone for their best good, and the effects, positive or negative, be ascertained for everyone associated with such someone(s). Remember not to forget. Many a problematic situation can be remedied by simple heart-felt forgiveness; and by realizing a very sharp turn or bend to one's path is not the end of the beginning; but rather the end of one chapter of one's life is but a new beginning for maturing gracefully onwards.
Thoughts To Ponder
Make a mess-age out of your mess! Give a testimonial message! And live that message as you age!
God judges every "whosoever believeth" through His value of Jesus; Who continuously advocates sinner's being saved!
Be brave and useful, doing exceptionally good works as a yeoman to God; leaving the yipes of hypes gathering their gripes because it is Only God Who can make another or others whole-hearted, whole-souled, or whole-bodied. God is not willing that anyone be lost. He came to earth to save the world from the Adamic sin we were all born with - not to condemn us, but to rescue us unto Himself for ourselves. Amen!
Trust the faithfulness of God and carefully watch the modern medical in-dust-ry. It can under-dust or over-dust you!
Super-ego is the part of the psyche which is critical of self or ego and enforces moral standards at a unconscious level blocking unacceptable impulses of the id. Untowards zeal deludes!
Superiority complex is popularly, a feeling of superiority or exaggerated self-importance, often accompanied by excessive aggressiveness, arrogance, etc. which are compensation for feelings of inferiority. Misguided zeal intrudes.
Fidelity looks like super-ego or superior complex on the surface; but it does not enforce or force its own way as the experience of understanding the knowledge with wisdom prevents the eventfulness of these from departing from the combined integrity of that humbling life maturely full of good works of the practical reality of Truth being God's Work-Of-Art within them. Guided zeal includes.
The worldly ambitious unbeliever. Unguided zeal excludes!
Savant is a learned person or eminent scholar.
Sap is a knowing perceiver.
Saphead is a stupid or foolish person.
95 percent of the prayers of Christendom are to get things (possessions) from God! Be careful what you ask for. God might answer your dissatisfaction with Him and give you the things you wistfully believe will make you "happy," to prove them empty of the joy he gives when serving Him wholeheartedly well!
5 percent of the prayers of Christendom are requests to have Christ's characteristics fully imbued, indued and imbrued likened to Himself. Have you vetted out your own prayers lately? Knock, seek and ask! See Matt. 7:7.
Tears may come by the bitter roots of the darkened benighted past; but joy awaits all that become the sweet release of Jesus' bright, new morning of moving into the new or newer beginning! Some who are still in darkness and despair say: "Good God, it's morning;" while others have given their darkness and despair in the favor of Christ say: "Good morning, it's You, Good God!"
If you want joy, real joy, wonderful joy; let Jesus come into your heart!
Whatever you would (desire or wish) that humans do unto you, take the initiative and do it unto them! This sums up the Law and the prophets.
In Summary
The inactivation of self-righteousness ceases when the super- sensibility of the Holy Spirit is given full control of one's spiritual soul; as the pride of the riches of this present temporal world lay fallow; the self-sufficiency of making one's self something one is not is counter-poised; rebellion as stubbornness finds no place to rest even in argumentative definitives that the five senses conjure up as just opinions, but which deflagrate intensively when the magnifying glass pin-points for degustibus non-disputandum(est) [which in Latin means "there is no argument in taste] for every "called of God" to live Christ's Altruistic Life within and throughout their soul's now, and eternally forever more.
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