My brothers and
my sisters today I would like to meditate with you about knowing God. But we
still don't know the Evangelical God? In principle Yes, but not always practice
no. What do you mean? Be in a church and actively participating in its programs
and have no knowledge at God?! It is not possible. Answer this is not possible.
But it is possible Yes. Jesus had his disciples and the crowds. The disciples
were the closest group of Jesus. Were those whom Jesus taught so that they
transmit their teachings to others? But the crowds Jesus didn't trust such a
task. The crowds have a superficial knowledge of God and of the things related
to him. There is no intimacy between God and the crowds though. But God love
them. All people are objects of God's love. But it is not
all really close to God and have all a commitment with God. Within our churches
we see that often. But pastor how do I know if a person is actually a disciple
of Christ or just a follower, part of crowds? There may be other ways to
discover it. But the most efficient is to note what type of action and
especially of people's reaction. The disciple of Jesus acts as his master.
Again here I remember the book In your steps, what would Jesus do? Does Jesus
in my place would do things like I'm doing? Generally are a lot ourselves. Our
"I" is always in evidence. We have a way of being and not make the
slightest effort to change even though this way even though we're harming
others. Jesus loved the world, the
others. There is in Jesus no attitude that demonstrates selfishness or
self-centeredness.
The Bible tells
us that he being like God didn't have this for the usurpation to be as to God,
but he humbled himself going to death and death cross. In other words, Jesus
Christ out of love for me and you if emptied of his glory coming to us. So my
brothers and my beloved sisters so we know if someone is in Christ, just look
at your behavior. How the person who says to be in Christ? She is or is not
maybe, ... with your Christ. I think we've all heard the famous phrase from Gandhi
to address a Christian: I love your Christ, but I hate your Christianity. This
means: your Christ is good. But you are far from being equal to him. We are
working in the Church Discipleship. But the strong emphasis of this program
that is old, because it is the order of Jesus expressed in Mt. 28: 18-20
"go and make disciples" of Jesus is to testify.
Without testimony
there is no how to make disciples. Dear I ask here: what are you talking about
those people who hear us say that we know the Lord, that we are followers of
Christ. Are in simple things and we don't we imagined, but they're watching us. So if our life is not equal to
life of Jesus these our observers never will believe in Jesus that we preach.
That's why I read Hosea 6: 1-3. For we know the God we must approach
him. God cannot be a possibility. God has to be real and our relationship with
him also. Darlings and dear let's be honest. Our behavior, our conduct, our
words, the way we deal with situations and with people we recommend? Would
Jesus do things the way we've been doing? Respond to the way people have
responded. How would make Jesus?
God is
Merciful. I'm sure that if we seek him heart saying, Lord dear, changes my
life. I want to be a faithful servant. I want to be a Christian in the true meaning of the term. The Lord will
hear us, will forgive our sins and we will be what tells us Ac. 1: 8,
witnesses. But a witness who does not know that about who a witness they have
with him a full intimacy. Our relationship with God must obey an order growing. The
line needs to be always in arising, rising. Darlings and dear let’s not be those
who are satisfied with a little God and settle. Let’s want more, always more
than
of God. We have
a hymn in the hymnal that Evangelical says: more of Christ I want to have ... More,
more of Christ.
As nobody can
give what you don't have we can only give God if we have it in our hearts. We
know well the God and divulge to others making disciples. Let's not allow our
conduct demonstrates that we don't have intimacy with God and yeah we are
intimate, friends. Amen. Rev. Jesué Francisco da Silva
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