Quiet Time #2 - It is Not About You

Quiet Time #2 - It is Not About You

- July 19, 2017

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast." Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV

Religion is man's way of reaching up to God. Each preaching things that people ought to do or not to do and more often than not giving the false notion of being right or getting right before they can come to God. And this is true of all religions -- the focus is "works" and man-made doctrine.

Now what is unique with Christianity is Christ didn't come to establish a religion.

He came down to restore what was lost. He didn't made rules or regulations to come near Him. He Himself came to us -- reaching down to us. Offering us grace which we do not deserve, as a "gift" we did not earn with anything we did or can ever do or can offer back to Him in return.

Christ did the reaching, He did the heavy lifting. He showed us where we came from, where we are now, and where we are headed.

We come to Him with nothing more than an open mind, a contrite heart and a broken spirit on bended knees and out stretched arms, believing in Him, accepting His finished work, receiving His gift, praising Him, being hungry for Him and His presence and living each new day finding His will for our lives.

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The Shepherd and His Flock

“I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep. The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.” Jesus used this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them.

Therefore Jesus said again, “I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."

John 10 (NIV 84)

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If you have issues with Hillsong or Bethel or Elevation or any of the so-called heretical churches or preachers, we are not condoning any false teachings. There is always something we can find wrong in all churches, including the one we call ours. But there is one faith, there is one baptism, there is One God, there is One Spirit and One Savior, Jesus Christ. If we agree on all these then let's all work together for good. The Lord is coming back. Let us stop wasting time with nitpicking, criticizing other believers because they wear strange clothes or sing weird songs, or read a version of the bible we don't, or speak in tongues or do or believe something which we don't, instead let us do what God has really called us to do. God has called each one of us to do something. Let's do that.