.:. the Necessity of LOVE .:.

Eu venho estudado muito sobre o Sermão do Monte e gostaria de compartilhar isso com você.


As principais características da cultura do Reino de Deus são apresentadas em Mateus 6. Nós podemos encontrar lá que Jesus nos chamou para uma vida de dar e servir, oração, perdão, jejum, simplicidade e confiança, tudo vindo de um coração de AMOR. Gostaria de dizer que é importante nós entendermos que essas são características de UM assunto sobre o Reino de Deus. Isso tudo não é uma lista de o que fazer que podemos marcar se fazemos ou não. Nós devemos tentar aproximar desde estilo de vida sem querer um crachá religioso ou a glória do homem. Em vez disso nossa busca deve por um estilo de vida com um coração cheio de amor genuíno por Deus e pelo desejo de abençoar os outros.


Quando levamos em consideração as características do Reino, isso nos mostra que é óbvio que essas características não podem ser vividas sem a intervenção de Deus em nossas vidas. É contra nossa natureza de pecado servir alegremente e perdoar outros que fez algo errado conosco. Quando nós passamos por uma experiência íntima com o coração do Pai que nos ama extravagantemente, nossas motivações mudam. 
Deixa eu tentar ilustrar isso. Muitas vezes nós lemos a Bíblia e consideramos que é um peso e um desafio muito grande tentar seguir aquilo tudo. O mandamento de ser paciente que nós encontramos em 2 Timóteo 2:24 para a maioria de nós parece impossível de obedecer porque nós estamos dramaticamente tocados pelo desejo de satisfação imediata. Porém todo mandamento na Bíblia é um convite de Deus para nós. Ele está nos convidando a conhecer Ele pelas características que Ele está nos chamando a viver. Quando Deus nos convida a ser paciente, Ele está dizendo "Você sabe como eu sou paciente com você?" Quando damos conta que o Seu amor é paciente e Seu coração é longânimo, somos obrigados a ser paciente com os outros. 


Jesus usou a maioria de Seu tempo de pregação e ministração ensinando os conceitos que Ele introduziu no Sermão do Monte. Na Última Ceia, Jesus compartilha com seus discípulos as revelações mais queridas do coração Dele. Assim como muitos homens à beira da morte ele guardou as realidades mais importantes para o fim. Em três diferente momentos Ele enfatizou sobre o "novo mandamento" - "amar o próximo como Eu te amei". Quando eu penso nisso eu chego a uma conclusão que para vivermos realmente a cultura do Reino, nossos corações deve ser motivado por amor. Creio que Jesus estava dizendo, " Você pode ainda achar que meu Reino é uma lista religiosa de o que fazer mas é realmente sobre AMOR. Meu mandamento é que você saiba do meu amor de uma forma profunda quer irá te instruir a amar os outros".


Que Deus abençoe você que isso sirva de crescimento assim como tem sido para mim. 


I have been studying about the Sermon on the Mount and I would like to share this with you. 
The man characteristics of the culture of the Kingdom of God are explained in Matthew 6. There we find Jesus calls us to the lifestyle of giving and serving, prayer, forgiveness, fasting, simplicity and trust, all issuing from a heart of LOVE. I would like to say that it is important to understand that these are characteristics of ONE who is a subject of the Kingdom of God. They are not "to do list" of virtues that we check off. We must approach this lifestyle without the motive of receiving a religious badge or the praise of men. Instead, we must pursue this lifestyle from a heart of genuine love for God and the desire to generously and liberally bless others.


When we consider the characteristics of the Kingdom, it becomes obvious they can't be lived without God's intervening in our lives. It is against our sin nature to serve joyfully, give liberally and forgive others who have wronged us. When we experience intimacy with the heart of the Father who extravagantly loves us, our motivations begin to change.
Let me try to illustrate. Many times we read the Bible and consider to directives weighty and challenging. The command to be patient which we can find in 2 Timothy 2:24 seems impossible to obey to most of us who are dramatically in touch with our desire for instantaneous satisfaction. However, every command in the Scripture is an invitation from God to us. He is inviting us to know Him through the very characteristic He is calling us to live. When God instructs us to be patient, He is actually saying, "Do you know how patient I am with you?" When we realize that His love is exceedingly patient and His heart is longsuffering, we are compelled to be patient with each other. 


Jesus spent the majority of His three and a half year teaching ministry emphasizing the concepts that He introduced in the Sermon on the Mount. At the Last Supper, Jesus shared with the disciples the revelations that we the most dear to His heart. As many men near death would do, He had saved the most important realities to emphasize until the very end. He emphasized three different times His "new commandment" - "love one another as I have loved you". When I think about this I get to a conclusion that in order for us to actually live the culture of the Kingdom, our heart MUST be motivate by LOVE.
Essentially, Jesus was saying "You can still think think that my Kingdom is about keeping a religious to do list, but it's really about love. My commandment is that you know My love for you in such a deep way that it instructs and compels your heart to love one another"


Blessings. 

Blurred lines

How can something that feels so right be so wrong?

I thought I knew where the line in the sand was drawn.  There was no question about it. I thought I had the answers and it was so clear...but the lines have become blurred. So many things which I thought I understood, I now have so many questions about. Right and wrong is no longer black and white. Love is no longer one dimensional, it is pleasure, it is pain and it is commitment. You have to be broken to be remade and you have to be hurt to learn how to forgive. Everything I have been taught and told my whole life...I now see differently. What is truth? What is opinion? I am discovering who I am, I am sick of being told who I SHOULD be! Truth is so rare to find, and I am so tired of lies. We are so easily influenced, we no longer search things out for our self. We are like brainwashed robots sometimes, we eat whatever is fed to us. Why are we satisfied with the ordinary, why don't we go after the extraordinary? When I stop for a moment and observe those around me I see how many of us are so lost and confused. We are all seeking answers, we are all searching for that thing to satisfy the emptiness in our soul. I am so tired of a religion, don't give me your opinion, don't give me tradition...give me JESUS! I don't want your watered down gospel.  I want the Jesus that saves, I want the Jesus who raises the dead, I want the Jesus who goes against the flow, I want the Jesus that remakes broken lives. I don't want your tamed, religious Jesus...don't give me your crap 'cause I don't want to hear it! Don't tell me that everything is black and white, 'cause it's not. Don't pretend to have all the answers and don't tell me how to live my life

What is truth and what is a lie?

Where are the lines not blurred?