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Message Subject Christian Bible EXPOSED!!!!
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He has set His love on us and desires to enjoy intimacy with us.

John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

The reason we are saved is to know Him and The Father intimately.

When we focus on our performance, Christian service becomes perfunctory and lifeless. When we are obsessed with Him, our service is literally energized with divine life.

It really strokes our human ego to think we can do something for God.
Yet the truth is that we cannot. Only God can do something for himself. In His infinite grace, He allows us to participate in what He is doing by placing His life inside us and then expressing His life through us. If we aren't operating in that mode, then all we do adds up to zero.

Jesus came to reveal His Father to the world, but He didn't accomplish that goal by His own strength and ability.

John 14:8-10 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.

Abiding in Christ simply means living each moment totally depending on His life within us to cause us to be all that He has called us to be and to do all that He purposes for us to do.

John 15:4-5

We are not to take the matter of abiding as complicated, it simply means we choose to let Him do the living through us at every moment of our life.

Many people struggle with the question, "Why am I not fulfilled when I am doing all the things that I believe God wants me to do?"

It's because Gods purpose is not that we should focus on doing the right things, rather He wants us to focus on Him.

Obedience occurs as we trust Jesus within us to fulfill the desires of His Father through us.

As Jesus does that, we fulfilled the commands of scriptures. On the other hand, when we simply do what the bible instructs, that is not Godly obedience. It is nothing more than compliance.

Sometimes we can comply with Bible commands just like an unsaved person can choose at any particular moment to make a right choice instead of a wrong one.

For instance the bible says not to steal. Even an unbeliever can live up to that standard. However, just making the right choice is not obedience. That kind of choice is nothing more than empty, lifeless compliance. It requires no divine life whatsoever.

Why Does Jesus Live inside Us

1. Jesus comes into us so our sins can be forgiven.

2. He comes into us so we can go to heaven.

3. Jesus comes into us so that we will know how to live.

Christian living is not me serving Jesus. It is not me living for Him. It is not me doing the things that God instructs me to do. The Christian life is Him. The grace walk is nothing less than Christ-life. It is New Testament Christianity. It is Christ being Christ in us and through us every moment.
 
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