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Volume 6 ... #16
Since All These Things We See On This Earth Will Be Destroyed, How Should We Live?
The apostle Paul said:
Acts 20 ... And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
The duty and role of a minister of God is to faithfully transmit to the people all the counsel of God.
Paul certifies that he did this.
All these examples in the Bible are what God used to show me what to do with the spiritual gift of exhortation given me by God for HIS church. I must faithfully speak every word to you that I believe to be from God exhorting the church today in ways of God ... warning the church as we live in the last days before the return of Jesus.
So far as I know, I have left nothing given me by God out of the many books and exhortations presented in book form and on our blog: Jesus Ministries Exhortations
That is the duty of a minister appointed by God to the ministry.
The ministry is THE WORD and I have been faithful to present that to you.
It is up to each of us to prayerfully live by that Word given us.
You can comfort your flesh while reading an exhortation and deceive your own selves into thinking you are doing that word. So be very careful to actually do the instruction correctly in the life you live on this present earth.
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The apostle Peter instructs:
II Peter 3 ... But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to HIS promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.
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Col. 3 ... If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things
which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your
affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead,
and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, WHO is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with HIM in glory.
People of this world do so many things and accomplish so many works.
We often look like we have no life, especially to them.
But the truth is: We are dead with Christ and our life is hid with HIM. When HE appears, then our life will also be manifest!
In truth, we have everything! though it may look as if we have nothing.
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