Our paragraph topic is: (The power of united prayer) Part 2.
If two of you shall agree on earth about anything, this is what Christ told his disciples. The power of agreement was given by Christ. The power of agreement is the weapon they needed. The power of agreement will reach the Father in heaven and whatever they agree upon shall be done. He told them, that they must agree before anything will be done. They must understand and know, within themselves, that coming together will gain the ear of their Father in heaven. For Christ has told them so and he has spoke it to them on earth.
What was he telling them? What was he giving them? What was he showing them about the strength and power that they had here on earth? Did they not know? Did they understand? Did they see the truth of what had been given them? Christ had to explain. He had to make clear. He had to show them that they were in him and he in them. For he said: "For where two or three are gathered together for my sake, there am I
in the midst of them."
For my sake, he told them. For they must gather for his sake. They must come together for a cause that he established. They must come together to demonstrate his passion, his love. In that gathering, in that coming together, for his sake, his presence will be. In that coming together he will reside. In that gathering they will find the spirit of Christ.
How often have we come together for his sake only to express our own will? How often have we come together to not come together, to not express his will, to not feel his presence? How often have we come together to feel the presence of ourselves and our will? Many a church meeting, a church gathering, a church group, a church function has not happened the way that it was supposed to happen. The wills of those most outspoken, those most vocal, those most with the will to have their own wills imposed, become the sake of the group. And yet Christ gave to them and gives to us today the power of agreement, and the power of gathering for his sake that we may overcome.
For evil will creep in. Evil will show its face. Evil will seek to subvert, to change, to move the gathering in such a way that is away from the will of God and away from Christ's presence. But to call upon his presence, to call upon his life, to call upon his light within us, will bind evil from entering. For the light of Christ is given to all. The life that Christ gives to us, is given to all. It is given to those who seek to find the truth of who they are. And it is with this new life that we become the children of God our Father. And as his children we call upon his Beloved Son for our redemption, our guidance, our provision, and our love.
So when we gather for his sake, we must be aware that he is in our presence. He is in the midst of the group. He sits with us, guides us, loves us, and protects us from the tricks and traps of evil that would seek to influence us. So come let us gather. Let us be aware of his presence. Let us know that he is with us. Let us trust in his guidance and his wisdom for our todays and tomorrows. For Christ is our source, our desire, our being. For in him and through him and with him we find our completion. For in him and through him and with him we are fulfilled. Christ is with the Father and the Father is with Christ and we can be with Christ. He has told us that he will be with us when we gather for his sake.
Our joy and our peace and our love comes from and through our Lord Jesus Christ. For he has given us a new life. Before, we were dead. But through his sacrifice we are now alive, if we choose. For the choice is ours to make. The choice is ours to see. The choice is ours to know, if we choose. There is another choice. But those who can see, those who are awake, those who know, do not choose death. Those who know do not choose darkness. Those who understand, do not accept the way of the world. For what does the world have to offer that can compare to what Christ gives?
Come! See the light of life that is within you. Know the truth of who you are in Christ and you will know peace. Know the truth of who you are in Christ and you will know joy. Know the truth of who you are in Christ and you will know love. Spread the word! Speak the truth! Show the love given you by Christ
. For we can only show by example who we are. We can only love by example as we are loved. We can only be at peace as peace has been given us. We can not fear and fear is not within us. Carry this message wherever you go. Show this light to whomever path you cross. And be the love that is within you as Christ has given to you. For Christ is the love of the Father and the Father loves his children.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ. The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
Our paragraph topic is: (The power of united prayer) Part 1.
Christ has given his disciples specific instructions on how to win the battle with sin. For the battle is with sin and the weapon is love. So, he tells them to bind sin on earth. Bind sin, that it will not enter into thy brother or sister. Bind evil, from thy brother or sister. Bind lust, bind false witness, bind hatred, bind anger, bind greed, bind wantonness, bind all evil that would possess thy brother or sister and take them away from thee. For sin will come. Sin will tempt. And sin will seek to take away thy brother or sister. But Christ has given them the tools that they need to do battle with sin.
With all these tools he gives them even further instructions as to what they may do to combat sin. Loose sin from thy brother. For once sin takes hold it will not let go. So Christ told his disciples that whatever they loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Whatever evil they separate from thy brother or sister on earth will be carried out in heaven. Evil will be separated by the powers in heaven. And then he gives them another tool to use against sin. He provides them with the ultimate tool that they can use against evil, the power of agreement. "I say to you further, that if two of you shall agree on earth about anything
at all for which they ask, it shall be done for them by my Father
in heaven."
They will ask for help. They will ask for forgiveness. They will ask for mercy. They who are in need, they who believe in the truth, they who awaken from the darkness, will seek thy help. They will seek the help of thy brother. They will seek the help of thy sister. They will seek the help of the church to break the grip of sin from all the brothers and sisters . And it is the duty and responsibility of the church to use all the powers given it by Christ to combat sin. For sin will come. Sin will tempt. Sin will take hold. And sin will not let go.
But Christ told his disciples that they must agree. He told them that they must recognize that they have the power to combat sin. For within them and through them sin will be defeated. But it will take the combined efforts of the spirit of two or more. It will call for the agreement of two or more spirits. It will require the agreement of the life force, of the light within, of the spiritual soul, to break the hold of sin. They will ask for thy help. They will need thy assistance. They who believe in the love of Christ, will look to the light of Christ from the depths of their darkness and ask for forgiveness to overcome the grip of sin. And it is up to two or more of you to reach into their hearts and see the call of the light of Christ that pleads for help.
Christ has given us a new life. He has restored us to the life that our Father in heaven gave to man before the fall. And with this new life we are the light that shine forth into the darkness. For the Advocate is with us. The light of Christ is with us. The spirit of awareness in the truth resides in us. And it is with that truth that we go forth into the world to carry the message that Christ has given us of the new life that is within each of our brothers and sisters. If two or more agree in the light of life within Christ then whatever they ask for will be done by the Father in heaven. This is the tool that Christ gave to his disciples and to us today.
Know the truth of who you are in Christ. See the light of new life that is within you. Welcome the light of the Holy Spirit that will come to you and you shall know the truth of who you are. For the Advocate will come. The Advocate will reside. The Advocate will protect. The Advocate will provide. And the Advocate will counsel in all things. For it is with the Advocate that we walk in the faith and truth of who we are. All things are given to us on earth. Yet we are not of the earth but are citizens of heaven, created by our heavenly Father in his image and likeness.
Come! Seek the knowledge and truth of your salvation. For in it and with it and through it you will see a new light. You will know a new truth. You will open a new door to path of your life. And you will know a new peace that surpasses any fleeting peace held here on earth. For the Father loves you. And Christ is with you. And the Holy Spirit will come to you. And you will be set free.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ. The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
Our paragraph topic is: (Fraternal correction) Part 7.
The battle is against sin and the weapon is love. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that man would be saved from sin. Man had sinned against the command of God. But God was so loving that he was merciful. God was so loving that he, through his mercy, allowed man to be saved. He did not have to. He was not compelled to. But he wanted that mankind, his precious creation, would not be lost to condemnation.
Christ came to take back. Christ came to win back. Christ came that man would have a chance to be born again in new life. Man disobeyed the command of God and sin entered the world. And sin ruled the world until Christ came. And Christ restored what was lost. Christ gave man life by paying the penalty for disobedience, the judgment for transgressing, the restitution needed to make whole again. But sin does not give up. Sin does not let go. Sin does not release its captive until forced to do so.
And Christ told his disciples that he gave them the power to separate. He gave them the power to remove sin. He gave them the power to loose sin from the soul of man by force. He told them: "And whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed also in heaven."
Be gone sin! Be gone lust! Be gone addiction! Be gone evil! By the power of Christ Jesus I loose thee. By the power of Christ Jesus I loose thee from me, from my brother, from my sister! Be gone! Separate thyself from this person and enter in no more. I bind thee by the name of Christ Jesus to enter no more into this person. These are the powers that Christ told his disciples. Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Whatever you cast out on earth shall, by the power of heaven, be carried out by the angels in heaven.
The battle is against sin and the weapon is love. The weapon is the love of God the Father for his children here on earth. Sin will come. Sin will tempt. Sin will enter. And sin will seek to take over, to control, to occupy, to drown the light of life completely until there is nothing but darkness within. But Christ came. Christ conquered. Christ rose again. And Christ lives forever seated at the right hand of the father. And he gave us the power to bind and loose that will be a command executed by the angels in heaven.
Christ came. But he did not leave us alone and lonely. For he watches over us in heaven. He sends us the Advocate for those who seek him. He protects us for those who want protection. He provides for us for those who want provision. He is our fulfillment for those who want to be fulfilled. For his love overwhelms. His love is complete. His love is all. And the his counsel is our guide. Come! Know the truth of who you are in him. Seek to find the light of life that is within you that you may know the Advocate. For with him, and through him, and by him all will be revealed.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ. The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
Our paragraph topic is: (Fraternal correction) Part 6.
If he refuses to listen, even to the church, then let him be. This is what Christ told his disciples. Let him/her be. They have become to thee as heathens. They have refused to hear. They have refused to be open. They are closed to the love of Christ that you have presented to them. They have become consumed with sin and sin has taken complete control. Sin has come. Sin has infected. Sin has possessed the mind and body and soul of thy brother/sister. Even the appeal of the church has not opened the door to thy brother or sister. They are lost.
But if he/she should listen. But if he/she should be opened. But if he or she should have some small desire to return to thee, then the church must battle with sin to open the door. The church must battle with sin to expel it completely. The church, the witnesses, and you must work to free thy brother/sister from the grip of sin. For sin will not let go. Sin will not give up. Sin will fight to hold onto thy brother/sister. But Christ told his disciples that they have a gift from heaven. They have a promise from the Father. He told them: "Amen I say to you, whatever you bind
on earth shall be bound also in heaven."
The battle is against sin and the weapon is love. And Christ gave to the disciples another weapon, to bind sin on earth. He gave them a weapon that will be accepted and carried out in heaven also. For whatever they bound on earth would be bound in heaven. Bind the demons. Bind sin. Bind Lust. Bind fear. Bind false witness. Bind anger. Cast out the evil and bind it from returning. Bind all types of spirits that come from sin. Save thy brother. Save thy sister. For the battle is against sin and we have a weapon given to us by Christ.
Sin will come. Sin will tempt. Sin will enter those that do not have a defense. Sin will occupy. And sin will take over those that do not use the tools that have been given us. But Christ has told us to win our brothers and sisters back. He has given us the formula. He has told us how to fight. But the door belongs to each of us and it is our own responsibility to keep it closed to sin. Yet we live in a world possessed of sin. We live in a world where sin is all around us. And it is up to each of us to walk by faith. It is up to each of us to walk by the light that Christ has given us.
For the light of life will lead us. The light of life will guide us. The light of life will protect us and counsel us. And the light of life will abide with us, to assist in the fight against sin. But when sin comes, fight. When sin comes, cast it out. When sin comes, bind it that it may come no more. These are the weapons that Christ has given us to defend and protect. For he knows of sin. He sees that sin will come. And he has given to us the Advocate to help us, to strengthen us, to counsel us, to show us the way. The choice is ours. The decision is ours. Do not be swayed by the tricks and traps of evil. For evil will deceive. Evil will dazzle. Evil will seek to pull you in. But if the eye is sound the body will be full of light and the light of life will endure.
Come! Open thy heart to the love that Christ has given us from the Father. Seek the love that is yours to know. Know the truth of who you are in Christ and welcome the Holy Spirit into your life. He waits for you. He seeks you. He is open to you. He brings the love of the Father to you. Follow the path before you and become the spirit that you are.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ. The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
Our paragraph topic is: (Fraternal correction) Part 5.
The battle is against sin and the weapon is love. Christ spoke to his disciples on the battle to win souls. He spoke with them about how to keep the souls that may be lost to sin. For sin will come. And sin will enter. And sin will corrupt. So the disciples had to learn the ways to fight sin. They had to learn the process, the steps, the means to combat sin once it had taken hold. For they loved each other. The disciples loved their brothers and sisters and did not want to loose them to the ways of sin.
Christ told them to meet with their brother face to face. Speak with them about their transgressions. Speak to them with love. For the battle is to win back thy brother. The battle is to win back thy sister. And if this did not work then take one or two more and speak with thy brother. For they will be witnesses as to the ways and the nature of sin. Once sin has taken hold it will not want to let go. And if this does not work then Christ told his disciples to appeal to the church. Appeal to the body of the church. For all must be made aware of the transgression that sin may not have a way into the church. But if thy brother still does not hear, then Christ told his disciples: "But if he refuse to hear even the Church, let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican."
Release them and treat them as though they are heathens. Treat them as though they are possessed of sin. Treat them as though they are lost. And let the church prey that they may be saved by the grace of God. For we are the children of God. We are created in his image and likeness. And our Father will continue to hold us in his hands until, we let go. For he loves us as his children. He provides for us as he is our father. He protects us as he is our protector. And he gave us free will as he is gracious. For the decision is ours. The choice belongs to us. The will of the father will not be imposed upon the children, but they must choose of their own free will.
So we stand at the crossroads. We walk the fence of life knowing, but not knowing, according to the flesh. For the flesh tells us that we do not know. The flesh tells us that we do not have proof. The flesh tells us that we belong to the world. The flesh blind us. The flesh weakens us. The flesh destroys the memory of who we are in Christ. And the flesh leads us to death. For Christ came that we would have life anew. Christ came to pay the sacrifice. Christ came that the light of his life would shine forth in us. He came that we would know the truth of who we are in him.
We are the aliens. We are spiritual. We are not of the flesh and not of this world. For death is only a door that opens to the spiritual that is within us. Death is the portal to eternity. Death is the beginning of life, as we have never known here in the flesh. And for those who can see, death is the transition from flesh to spirit, from worldly to heavenly, from the known to the light of life that is within. Come! See the light that Christ has given you. Know the truth of who you are. Open the eye to the soul and awaken the spirit that is you. The Holy Spirit will come and abide. The Holy Spirit will reveal. The Holy Spirit will bring light that will shine forth in your life and be your counsel. For the Father has sent him to abide with you. Follow the path before you and you will know the truth. Christ loves you and wants you to be with him in heaven.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ. The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
