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Jesus Came That We Could Have Life More Abundantly

Mat 5:21-48 you have heard that it was said…But Jesus says…

You Have Heard Look Out For So and So

1 Cor 13  Love counts nothing wrong done against itself.

1Th 5:12   And, brothers, we beseech you to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and who admonish you,

1Th 5:13  And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

1Th 5:14  Now we exhort you, brothers, warn those who are unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

1Th 5:15  See that none gives evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both towards one another and towards all.

Have you been told, to get to know those who work among you in the context of suspicion, to be careful around those who work among you, and test them to see if they are of God?  But I say to you, that is not the context of the scripture.  It is saying, get to know the ones who labor among you, so you can learn how to lead and labor in the spirit of God, too.  Being suspicious of someone is not showing love and being peaceable to everyone.

To love someone less than another, is hatred.  God called us to show Himself through us.  If God is love then that means we need to show ourselves as loving, not suspicious.  If someone is out to get you or to steal or has whatever motive, God will give you discernment to show you how to love the dickens out of them, literally!  He will not want you to avoid them or talk bad about them.  Spreading negative thoughts and discrimination is not Godly behavior.  Judgment is to bring light, not to bring death.

If it isn’t good, DON’T SAY IT.

Gal 5:15  But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed by one another.

Eighty six percent of New York has been to church but will not go back.  Why is that?  The church has lost its first love—LOVE.  It really is simple.  If you go to someone’s house and they say, “Don’t go to this room and don’t touch that.  Please don’t sit there and make sure you don’t step on the carpet,” would you want to go back?   Simple isn’t it?  Jesus didn’t come to say fulfill the law; He did that for you.  The church’s mission is to bring souls to the knowledge of Yeshua and allow them to grow with the best teacher that brings life:  the Holy Spirit.  He is the new tutor, the teacher, the comforter.  

Gal 5:14  For all the Law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

As human beings, we tend to want to go back to the law and try to be a better person for following God better then others by searching the scripture as if we are looking for salvation in them.  The Holy Spirit will guide us into the revelation of knowledge of Jesus with a PERSONAL relationship each one has with Him.

You Have Heard it Said:  Stay Away From The Appearance of Evil!

1 Thes 5:22!! Stay away from the appearance of Evil

The Greek word pone?ros is the English word appearance and means essential character.  So in essence you can say, it is the nature of your being that should stay away from evil.  What does this mean?  

Gal 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, fightings, jealousies, angers, rivalries, divisions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Does this mean we should not go to the bar to share our testimony?  Does this mean we shouldn’t go to places that have evil things inside?  Absolutely not!  This is the biggest lie ever told to the church and is one of the reasons there is no power.  If you look at Jesus’ life, He continually went in when the sinners were and laid a testimony before them.  How can the lost know Jesus if they never go to church, and you never go to them?

Do you know how this happened?  Fear.  Fear set up boundaries in organizations that say “ If someone sees you entering a bar as a Pastor or a leader or even a lay person, then they may think, blah, blah, blah.”  Don’t let fear rule your life.  You go get the lost, and you love them as Jesus loved them.

My wife and I had a great experience at a tattoo, piercing, and hair salon.  It was one of the best times I had had in a while.  No, I don’t get out much, but when I do, its fun.  Anyway, my wife was getting her hair colored blue and black.   (It is SO awesome by the way.)  It was at a place that sin abounds.  They take job applications if you want to be a part of the sinners group, located in the Short North on High Street.  It was great.  The owner of the shop had such a prophetic gift working in him but he doesn’t know it.

When Lanita told him what she wanted, he said,” You must be heaven sent!”  We both laughed and said, “You just don’t know.”  Then for those that don’t know, Lanita was birthing this whole process out, a spiritual birth of freedom, major freedom!  This guy puts on gloves like an OBGYN and says, “You might feel a little pressure.”  We both laughed again and said, “You just don’t know.”

To make it short, the whole experience of three hours was prophetic through a guy that is a sinner, like you and me, waiting on someone to share the good news with him.  Did we?  We were not lead to that day, but when we go back, when God leads, we will share and prophecy to him the gift God has given him freely.

I said all of that to say this, don’t stay away from those who need God.  The harvest is ready to be taken in.  Go ahead, take  it in.  DO not stay away from evil but remove it by being the light.

Women being  housewives?  Proverbs 31.

Men as Church leaders only?  Cor 16:19, Luke 2:36

One Man speaking in a service and calling it order.  Cor 14:27-33

It’s all about source.  It’s not about if that person is of God or not.  It’s about what source is it coming from:  God or Satan?  When a church begins to come into the place of revival, it gets messy.  The religious say that isn’t so, some people don’t believe, crowds leave, and more come running in.  Normal God things begin to happen and all of sudden people get uncomfortable and begin testing things to see if it is God or Satan.  It really is kind of humorous.  The Pharisees tried to place that judgment on Jesus by saying Jesus cast demons out by Beelzebub.

Mat 12:23  And all the people were amazed and said, Is not this the son of David?

Mat 12:24  But when the Pharisees heard, they said, This one does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub the ruler of the demons.

Mat 12:25  And Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. And every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

Mat 12:26  And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then shall his kingdom stand?

Mat 12:27  But if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.

Mat 12:28  But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come to you.

In other words, how can I cast our demons, make some be free and love someone when Satan comes but to kill steal and destroy?  What we have to look at is, what is the source?  DO they seek after God? Do they say Jesus is the Lord and savior?  Then God must be working through and the kingdom of heaven has touched them.

The following scripture is one of the funniest I have read.

Mar 5:15  And they came to Jesus and saw him who had been demon-possessed, and had the legion, sitting and clothed and right-minded, the one who had the legion. And they were afraid.

The people just seen someone who was a nightmare, be set free, in his right mind and clothed and their reaction was fear.  They haven’t seen the power of God working before.  I want to see people to begin walking in the heavenlies so they can see the power of God working in their lives and in return see others they meet, have the power of God working in their lives.

This post is for the purpose of stirring your spirit to begin walking in power and do not be afraid of the world or of the evil in it.  I pray for you, that you would pursue God in a personal teaching with Him to show you His way, not a man showing you his way.  Dig into the word and find your freedom.  I pray freedom from the religious spirit and freedom from everything that binds you and me.  

I will follow up with part two.  It  will have some great material in it to help set you free from man’s opinion and judgments made upon you.

Pastor CJ Gaul