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Advisor For Week Of January 26, 2014 Daily Bible Readings The Apostles'
Creed Original Prayers And Blessings For All People
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WORSHIP SERVICE
Welcome to you, in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Please also see and receive "Two Blessings For You, The Readers Of This
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1. Invocation - Inviting The Lord to be with us.
O Lord, we pray that You will join us now,
As we have come together in Your name.
Please let us know that You are really here,
And help us to be pleasing in Your sight.
In Jesus' holy name we pray, Amen.
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2. - Opening Song
"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"
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3. - The Lord's Prayer - with Music Video and MP3 reading
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4. - DAILY BIBLE READINGS - Updated Automatically Each Day
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5. - Declaration Of Faith: The Apostles' Creed - with MP3 reading
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6. - Prayer4You - Original Prayers And Blessings For All People
"For Courage When You Need It Most"
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7. - Extra Song
"How Great Thou Art"
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8. - A Ceremony For Holy Communion
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9. - Invitation To Accept Jesus Christ As Your Personal Lord And Saviour
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10. - Rededicate Your Life To Jesus Christ
If you are a Christian who has fallen away from the Lord, now is the time
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11. - Closing Song
"What A Friend We Have In Jesus"
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12. - Benediction
Blessings to you, whoever reads this message. May
you thrive and prosper in all things. May the One God,
Creator of all things, and His only-begotten Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ, guide you and protect you and
comfort you and love you, now and forever.
Amen.
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Blessings to you in Jesus Christ our Lord.
This Worship Service is now complete. Next you will find the Progressive
Christian Advisor.
Rev. Bill McGinnis
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PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN ADVISOR
Understanding God's Law
By Rev. Bill McGinnis, Director - Internet Church Of Christ -
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The complete Law Of God demands total perfection from us, and it is
impossible for us to fulfill. No mere human has ever fulfilled it, and
none ever will.
The complete Law Of God is more demanding than even the strict Mosaic Law
the Jews tried to follow. One of the very first things Jesus did in His
ministry was to point out that the Law Of Moses was deficient in six
respects:
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1. He expanded the prohibition against killing (murder), to include a
general prohibition against anger. (See Exodus 20:13, compared to Matthew
5:21-26.)
2. He expanded the prohibition against forbidden acts, to include a
general prohibition against desire to commit forbidden acts. The example
He chose to use was the forbidden act of adultery, but the principle
applies to all forbidden acts: wanting to do it is the same as doing it,
under God's Law. (See Exodus 20:14, compared to Matthew 5:27-30). This is
an impossible standard for mere humans to meet: desiring to sin is the
same thing as actually committing the sin! Who is free of sinful desires?
Nobody!
3. He eliminated easy, non-consensual divorces, in which the husband "put
away" the wife for almost any reason (uncleanness) he wanted. And He
expanded the concept of adultery to include all divorced persons who
remarry. Yes, that's what He said. Read Luke 16:18. We can dance around it
all we like and pretend He said something else. Or we can go through a
phony "annullment" and pretend we weren't really married when we were. But
He said what He said. (See Deuteronomy 24:1, compared to Matthew 5:31-32
and Luke 16:18.)
4. He expanded the prohibition against false oaths, to include a general
prohibition against all oaths. (See Leviticus 19:12, compared to Matthew
5:33-37.)
5. He abolished the Law Of Retaliation, which entitled an offended person
to take vengeance on the offender, "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth . . . "
(See Exodus 21-23-25, compared to Matthew 5:38-40.)
6. He expanded the Law Of Love to include everyone, even enemies. (See
Leviticus 19:18, compared to Matthew 5:43-48.)
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Jesus emphasized the insufficiency of Mosaic law by pointing out that the
Pharisees, who were meticulous keepers of the Law Of Moses, were not
righteous enough for God.
"For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the
scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of
heaven." (Matthew 5:20 RSV)
So what, then, are we to do? If we cannot keep God's Law, how are we ever
going to please Him enough to get into Heaven?
God, in His mercy towards us, has given us The Way to do this: JESUS
CHRIST.
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Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no
one comes to the Father, but by me." (John 14:6 RSV)
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If you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord, you are saved from the penalty of
breaking God's Law, which all of us surely break,
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"because, if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and
believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will
be saved." (Romans 10:9 RSV)
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Under the Law, there is no forgiveness of sin without the shedding of
blood, and Jesus shed His blood for us so that we might live. He paid the
penalty of all our sins for us.
Hebrews 9:22 (RSV)
"Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with
blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no
forgiveness of sins."
1 John 1:7 (RSV)
"but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we
have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus
his Son cleanses us from all sin."
Romans 6:23 (RSV)
"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is
eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
By accepting Jesus Christ as Lord, we have satisfied all the requirements
of God's Law, because Jesus Himself has paid all the penalties for us. We
are then clean and debt-free to God, thanks to Jesus.
From then on, we are bound not by the detailed requirements of God's Law,
which are impossible for us to keep, but by the Law Of Love, which God now
accepts as total fulfillment of His Law. And the Law Of Love is this:
"LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."
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For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, "You shall love your
neighbor as yourself." (Galatians 5:14 RSV)
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And who is your neighbor? Your neighbor is everybody else, all other
people, not just people in your own group. This is the meaning of the
Parable Of The Good Samaritan. (See Luke 10:25-37.)
Are we then free to disregard all of the known details of God's Law? Is it
then permissible for us to murder and rape and steal? Of course not,
because all of these things are inconsistent with loving your neighbor as
yourself. Anything which is inconsistent with love is still opposed to
God's will and is thus still a sin for us.
But many details of God's Law no longer apply to us, as long as we have
accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and we love our neighbor (everybody
else) as we love ourselves. Jesus paid the price for our past sins; and
love for neighbor is accepted by God as fulfilling all of His law now and
in the future.
And even if we do sin, God will overlook it as long as we truly love
others as we love ourselves.
Romans 13:9 (RSV)
The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not
kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other
commandment, are summed up in this sentence, "You shall love your
neighbor as yourself."
Romans 13:10 (RSV)
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling
of the law.
James 2:8 (RSV)
If you really fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture,
"You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
Proverbs 10:12 (RSV)
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
1 Peter 4:8 (RSV)
Above all hold unfailing your love for one another, since love
covers a multitude of sins.
Some people might say that these teachings are "soft on sin;" that they
teach people to break God's commandments; that I will surely go to Hell
for teaching these things.
In reply, I will say that the Legalists themselves are guilty of throwing
stumbling blocks in the way of people who might otherwise become perfectly
good Christians. How many people are lost to Christ only because they are
taught (incorrectly) that merely thinking about sex is an unacceptable
sin? or that all sexual activity before marriage is a sin? or that
forbidden sexual desires, such as homosexuality, make them unacceptable to
God? How many people are lost to Christ only because they are taught
(incorrectly) that material possessions are evil? How many people are lost
to Christ only because they are taught (incorrectly) that Christ demands
self-denial and mortification of the flesh at all times? How many people
are lost to Christ only because they are taught (incorrectly) that Satan
is in charge of the world and that all worldly things must be avoided?
I rest my case on Galatians 5:14 which states it just as clearly as it can
ever be stated:
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For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, "You shall love your
neighbor as yourself." (Galatians 5:14 RSV)
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If you don't believe this, you don't believe the Bible.
Belief in Christ pays for all your past sins; then with His Holy Spirit in
you and guiding you, love for neighbor covers all sins in the future.
You are free in Jesus Christ, our Lord!
IN SUMMARY:
"For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this:
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." - Galatians 5:14 (KJV)
And who is your neighbor? Everyone is your neighbor!
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So . . . "Love your neighbor as yourself" means "Love all people as
yourself," since everyone is your neighbor.
Therefore, God's One Law for all Mankind must be, "Love All People As
Yourself." Nobody is excluded.
May the Lord bless this presentation of His holy Word.
Rev. Bill McGinnis <><
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