"Little children your sins are forgiven and you know the Father " 1John
Ye young men the word of God dwellers in you richly and you have overcome the wicked one " 1John.
Ye fathers you know Him who is from the beginning "1John.
Little children : we are born again ! Praise the Lord and we are reconciled to the zFather .
But little children know their mother perhaps more than their father .
They know He loves them and provides for them ,but they also experience that he goes out and he comes in and have no idea of the work he does .
It takes a bit of growing up to appreciate that fact.
Young men : I wonder how many sermons / messages anyone has heard on this amazing statement ?
The word of God dwells in you richly and you have overcome the wicked one .
Jesus was filled with the Word of God ,he thought and studied it all His life . But He was also filled with the Holy Spirit .
When the devil tempted Him in the wilderness with twisted scripture . He replied " it is written "
And overcame the devil " for a season" . It was not untill Calvary was the devil "cast down " and by His death ruined the devil making an open show of him and revealing exactly what he was like .
In doing so of course revealed the nature and character and disposition of what God is like at the same time .
If we are filled with the Word of God and by that I mean not in memory alone but hidden in our heart we will and can overcome the wicked one .
For all temptations are designed to get us walking after the flesh and not in the Spirit .
Jesus was not tempted with every sin known to man . But it does say that " in all POINTS he was tempted"
What points ?
The points of the compass . The lusts of the flesh ,the lust of the mind ,the lust of the eye and the pride of life.
All temptations tempt one or the other .
"Ye fathers you know Him who is from the beginning"
Surely if you know the Lord or the Father you know Him who is from the beginning?
We need to read the Word of God so to know how to behave in every situation in our life. But often we can't do what God asks us to do. Here is where the Spirit of God comes in. He gives us the strength to do what we have learnt (and still learning) what to do by reading or hearing the Word of God. So we know, for example, that we must love pur enemies, but we cannot do that without receiving God's grace. GBU
Ye young men the word of God dwellers in you richly and you have overcome the wicked one " 1John.
Ye fathers you know Him who is from the beginning "1John.
Little children : we are born again ! Praise the Lord and we are reconciled to the zFather .
But little children know their mother perhaps more than their father .
They know He loves them and provides for them ,but they also experience that he goes out and he comes in and have no idea of the work he does .
It takes a bit of growing up to appreciate that fact.
Young men : I wonder how many sermons / messages anyone has heard on this amazing statement ?
The word of God dwells in you richly and you have overcome the wicked one .
Jesus was filled with the Word of God ,he thought and studied it all His life . But He was also filled with the Holy Spirit .
When the devil tempted Him in the wilderness with twisted scripture . He replied " it is written "
And overcame the devil " for a season" . It was not untill Calvary was the devil "cast down " and by His death ruined the devil making an open show of him and revealing exactly what he was like .
In doing so of course revealed the nature and character and disposition of what God is like at the same time .
If we are filled with the Word of God and by that I mean not in memory alone but hidden in our heart we will and can overcome the wicked one .
For all temptations are designed to get us walking after the flesh and not in the Spirit .
Jesus was not tempted with every sin known to man . But it does say that " in all POINTS he was tempted"
What points ?
The points of the compass . The lusts of the flesh ,the lust of the mind ,the lust of the eye and the pride of life.
All temptations tempt one or the other .
"Ye fathers you know Him who is from the beginning"
Surely if you know the Lord or the Father you know Him who is from the beginning?
Clearly not .
We need to read the Word of God so to know how to behave in every situation in our life. But often we can't do what God asks us to do. Here is where the Spirit of God comes in. He gives us the strength to do what we have learnt (and still learning) what to do by reading or hearing the Word of God. So we know, for example, that we must love pur enemies, but we cannot do that without receiving God's grace. GBU
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