Pastor Edward J. Collins

Eusebeia Bible Church - Pastor Ed Collins
Let All That You Do Be Done In Love
January 3, 2012

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Public Facebook Comment
Oh, goodness. How the heck did I get "friended" by a bunch of right-wing Nazis? You people need to seriously get a grip.

“His voice”
Refers to the Word of God; this is how He leads us all even today - by means of BD communicated from the pulpit.

Careful Who You Follow
People with “agendas” use people and then leave them because they have no real love for them.

2Co 2:17
For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.

“know”
from ginosko - means to know by means of BD; more BD means greater relationship; greater love for TLJC leads to greater sharing of the love in Heaven

Intimate Love
“Knowing” our Shepherd is a very personal love affair. We have the privilege because in His office as Shepherd, He first laid down His life for His sheep.

The Love In Heaven
To know the perfect God is to know love and happiness. This eternally exists in full measure between Father & Son in Heaven.

2Ti 3:12
Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Our Great Shepherd’s Counsel
Our Lord said in Mark 4:24 “Take care what you listen to…”

Divine Partnership
If you guard the light in your soul, the light in your soul guards you! John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you…”

“for everything that becomes visible is light”
refers to the fact that divine perception reveals the true nature of an object (whether it’s good or bad); truth is always light

“Seeing It All” as Truth
The Bible never says that possessing divine viewpoint means we get to wear rose-colored glasses! Truth shines light on everything - the good, the bad, and the
ugly.

Prescription Lenses
It’s impossible to respond appropriately to the stimuli in life if it’s consistently perverted in the first place due to a flawed system of perception.

Casting Passive Votes
Sometimes not speaking up while in direct contact with evil will be perceived as a passive form of acceptance/affirmation by others in the group.

The Value of Testing
When you have the capacity by means of grace, your faith WILL be tested, it’s the fundamental premise of the Appeal Trial in the A.C.

Rev 3:10
‘Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing [Tribulation], that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test [peirazo] those who dwell on the earth.

Rom 6:13 [KJV]
Neither yield [paristemi] ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield [paristemi] yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Rom 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present [paristemi - take marching orders] your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

Comfortably Numb
Many prefer the numbness of religion over Truth because the Truth turns on the lights! (eg: John 3:20)

Someone always takes offense with the Truth. (eg: the arrogant)
To take offense with the Truth is to have first taken offense to God’s grace!

Subtle Bullying
This “bullying” of grace may not be immediately identifiable as it is craftily and subtly perpetuated behind the scenes through media, schools, the Internet, etc.

“be on the alert”
from gregoreo - is the command to apply BD, to spend it on every situation; to be alert as a result of having divine viewpoint

“stand firm in the faith”
from stekete en te pistei - the command for stability in life; to be grace-oriented as a result of BD in the sphere of pistis (BD)

“act like men”
from andrizo - the command to noble mental attitude; to be poised under pressure; to respond confidently to the pressures of life

“be strong”
from krataioo - means to manifest power from the 2SPO’s; to remain dynamic; to live the dynamic spiritual life

1Co 16:13 [PTEJC Lay Translation]
Spend your BD, quit second-guessing it, pick up your skirt, live the dynamic spiritual life by means of the 2SPO’s.

Adam Clarke (1Co 16:14)
Let all your things be done with charity - Let love to God, to man, and to one another, be the motive of all your conduct.

Matthew Henry (1Co 16:14)
There is a great difference between constancy and cruelty, between Christian firmness and feverish wrath and transport. Christianity never appears to so much advantage as when the charity of Christians is most conspicuous when they can bear with their mistaken brethren, and oppose the open enemies of their holy faith in love, when every thing is done in charity, when they behave towards one another, and towards all men, with a spirit of meekness and good will.

Double-Edged Sword
Our thoughts/actions always bear inward and outward fruit. Fruit of the Tree of Life (love) promotes stability and unity. Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (hate) promotes instability and disunity.