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“No Middle Ground”

Posted by mcoxbmi on January 31, 2020
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Click Here To Download This Message – 080210 – No Middle Ground

Righteousness and right standing with God is an exciting subject.

Most of us mistakenly think that in order to be righteous I myself have to make myself righteous. The truth is I cannot do enough in my own strength to make myself righteous before God. Righteousness or right standing with God is a free gift from God. God is the only one that can make us right with Him. Righteousness cannot be earned; it is a free gift from God. There is no amount of works that I can do that will ever make me right with God.

Either we are right or we are wrong. There is no middle row. There is no neutral. Either we are saved (Born Again) or we are not. Either we are in darkness or we are in the light. Either you are walking with God or you are not walking with God. There is no middle ground.

Righteousness is simply being right. God said Today I present to you, Life and Death, Choose Life. If you are going to be right you have to do it God’s way. You have to choose Life.

The only one that can determine whether I am right or wrong is me. You say then, ok then I am right. No, you have to choose and act on what God says is right. God determines what is right and wrong but I am the only one that can choose to be right or wrong. God’s ways are the only ways to be right. Our set stands of being right has already been set by God Himself.

It is harder to live wrong than it is to live right. The only real peace in life comes from being right. God has made a way but He will not make us walk in it.

Psalm 34: 12 – 15 (Amplified Bible) What man is he who desires life and longs for many days, that he may see good? (13) Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
(14) Depart from evil and do good; seek, inquire for, and crave peace and pursue (go after) it! (15) The eyes of the Lord are toward the [uncompromisingly] righteous and His ears are open to their cry.

There is a big difference between walking right with God or right with the flesh and the world. The fruit and the effect are going to come from one or the other.

Psalm 33: 18 – 22 (Amplified Bible) Behold, the Lord’s eye is upon those who fear Him [who revere and worship Him with awe], who wait for Him and hope in His mercy and loving-kindness, (19) To deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. (20) Our inner selves wait [earnestly] for the Lord; He is our Help and our Shield. (21) For in Him does our heart rejoice, because we have trusted (relied on and been confident) in His holy name. (22) Let Your mercy and loving-kindness, O Lord, be upon us, in proportion to our waiting and hoping for You.

We need to be making a daily and moment by moment heart check in our lives. What is the motive behind what I do? Do we walk with God here but not here?

Romans 8: 5 – 6 (NKJV) For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. (6) For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

 

“Love Never Fails”

Posted by mcoxbmi on January 26, 2020
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Click Here To Download This Message – 151011 – Love Never Fails

What would you do if you had the Master Key to Life, your life and lives of others? What would you do with it? Better yet; what are you doing with it?

What is a Master Key? A Master Key will open every lock

There are several keys to Life in God’s Word. The Bible itself is a key to life. It spells out in details the keys to life and death.

Love is the Master Key of Master Keys. Love is the Master Key to all life. The Master Key to Marriage, family, all of your relationships, business, health, freedom from fear, worry, depression, and everything that can come against man.

Mark 12: 28 – 31 …The first and principal one of all commands is: … And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your life) and out of and with all your mind (with your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength…The second is like it and is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

Matthew 22: 40 (Amplified Bible) These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the Prophets.

When we love God with all our hearts, all of our souls, and all of our minds we become divinely connected with God Himself. The more we love God the more we become connected to God and experience His love for us and through us in ever increasing ways. This is God’s greatest desire.

1st Corinthians 13: 4 – 8a (Amplified Bible) Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. (5) It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]. (6) It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail. (7) Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. (8a) Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end].

The power flow in our lives and in the Church flows from our Love for God.

Agape Love is unlimited, Agape Love can never be overcome, Agape Love never fails, Agape Love is Eternal without ceasing, Agape Love transcends Time and Eternity, Agape Love is the most powerful force that exist in both Time and Eternity. God’s Agape Love is the reason for creation of both Time and Eternity, Heaven, Earth, and Hell and all that is or ever will be.

The only limit that God’s Love has where we are concerned is the limit that we Love God.
This is also our limit.

“We Hold the Key of Choice”

Posted by mcoxbmi on January 24, 2020
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Click Here To Download This Message – 150712 Choice – The Determining Factor

Deuteronomy 30: 19 – 20 (Amplified Bible) I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you, life and death, the blessings and the curses; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live (20) And may love the Lord your God, obey His voice, and cling to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

We are the one that decides which law is operating. One of the Master Keys to Life is our choice. We hold the key of choice.

The only weapon that Satan has is deception. Everything he does has its root in deception. In order for him to operate in your life he has to deceive you into agreeing with him. You actually give him a key or doorway in. The key that Satan uses to bind and lock you up is deception or lie. He has always operated by deception. He cannot operate any other way.

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil… for he is a lair himself and the father of lies and all that is false.

Satan is Hate itself and the father of lies

A deception does not work unless the person being deceived does not know that it is a deception.
It is not a deception if you know that you are being deceived.

If you are not in the Word and the Word is not abiding in you will not know that you are being deceived. If you do not know the Word and the Ways of The Lord you will not recognize the deception.

So what is our weapon against him? What is the Key that unlocks deception? How do we recognize a deception? – Truth

John 8: 31 – 32 (Amplified Bible) So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in Him, If you abide in My word [hold fast to My teachings and live in accordance with them], you are truly My disciples. (32) And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.

“Free Indeed”

Posted by mcoxbmi on January 8, 2020
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Click Here To Download This Message – 190421 Free Indeed

How do we see the Cross?

The Cross is all about new life and real freedom

Jesus came to bring new life. To set the captives free.

Jesus came to bring reconciliation between God the Father and mankind. New life in Christ Jesus. That is what the Cross is all about.

2nd Corinthians 5: 18 – 19 (Amplified Bible) But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself [received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself] and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation [that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him].
(19) It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favor).

No matter how big the hurt. No matter how heavy the burden, no matter how far down you have gone there is still help available for you.

There is One Who can make a way where there is no way.

There is someone real and who does love you just as you are. He can raise you up and restore your life and joy. He can give you rest for your soul.

Whatever the need or problem, Jesus is the answer.

Matthew 11: 28 – 30 (Amplified Bible) Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.]
(29) Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls.
(30) For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good–not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne.

“Overcoming Weariness”

Posted by mcoxbmi on January 6, 2020
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Click Here To Download This Message – 190804 Overcoming Weariness

One of the issues that we all face from time to time is weariness.

Weariness can be a major hindrance in our lives.

The Word of God has a lot to say about becoming weary and fainting and how to overcome and prevent it

Weariness effects our prayer life, our faith, our strength, our peace, our rest, our relationships, and even our health.

Most of us focus so much on the problems and issues of life that it causes us to stress, worry, and fear. We can then become depressed and lose heart. We are focusing on the wrong things.

What we focus and meditate on is what we will become. We have the right and power to choose and change what we focus and meditate on.

We must govern what we focus on.

Philippians 4: 6 – 7 (Amplified) Bible) Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God. (7) And God’s peace [shall be yours,

Galatians 6: 9 (Amplified Bible) And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.