"But, You Can't Fix Stupid"
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A knock...
A knock...
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’ ”
Sent
Sent
Jesus sent out these 12 after giving them instructions: “Don’t take the road leading to other nations, and don’t enter any Samaritan town.
Instead, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
As you go, announce this: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those with skin diseases, drive out demons. You have received free of charge; give free of charge.
Don’t take along gold, silver, or copper for your money-belts.
Don’t take a traveling bag for the road, or an extra shirt, sandals, or a walking stick, for the worker is worthy of his food.
“When you enter any town or village, find out who is worthy, and stay there until you leave.
Greet a household when you enter it,
and if the household is worthy, let your peace be on it. But if it is unworthy, let your peace return to you.
If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town.
I assure you: It will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
Hard truths we don’t really want to accept:
Hard truths we don’t really want to accept:
We live in an imperfect world, made imperfect by imperfect people.
We live in an imperfect world, made imperfect by imperfect people.
What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,
as it is written:
There is no one righteous, not even one.
There is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God.
All have turned away;
all alike have become useless.
There is no one who does what is good,
not even one.
Their throat is an open grave;
they deceive with their tongues.
Vipers’ venom is under their lips.
Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Their feet are swift to shed blood;
ruin and wretchedness are in their paths,
and the path of peace they have not known.
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
YOU can’t fix stupid
YOU can’t fix stupid
Therefore, did what is good cause my death? Absolutely not! On the contrary, sin, in order to be recognized as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure.
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made out of flesh, sold into sin’s power.
For I do not understand what I am doing, because I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate.
And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
So now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is sin living in me.
For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.
For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do.
Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me.
So I discover this principle: When I want to do what is good, evil is with me.
For in my inner self I joyfully agree with God’s law.
But I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this dying body?
Not everyone gets the prize
Not everyone gets the prize
“Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it.
How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.
This includes the people you may love
This includes the people you may love
There is a Hell
There is a Hell
But...
But...
God can:
God can:
God CAN fix stupid
God CAN fix stupid
Therefore, no condemnation now exists for those in Christ Jesus,
because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering,
in order that the law’s requirement would be accomplished in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
For those who live according to the flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, about the things of the Spirit.
For the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace.
For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.
Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through His Spirit who lives in you.
SOME people do get the prize
SOME people do get the prize
So, what do you do?
So, what do you do?
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Remember, you are one beggar showing another beggar the banquet.
Remember, you are one beggar showing another beggar the banquet.
Hard truth again - shake off the dust.
Hard truth again - shake off the dust.
Applaud the wins, have compassion for the lost, and store up treasures.
Applaud the wins, have compassion for the lost, and store up treasures.
“Don’t collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
But collect for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
What God can do...
What God can do...
What then are we to say about these things?
If God is for us, who is against us?
He did not even spare His own Son
but offered Him up for us all;
how will He not also with Him grant us everything?
Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect?
God is the One who justifies.
Who is the one who condemns?
Christ Jesus is the One who died,
but even more, has been raised;
He also is at the right hand of God
and intercedes for us.
Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Can affliction or anguish or persecution
or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
As it is written:
Because of You
we are being put to death all day long;
we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.
No, in all these things we are more than victorious
through Him who loved us.
For I am persuaded that not even death or life,
angels or rulers,
things present or things to come, hostile powers,
height or depth, or any other created thing
will have the power to separate us
from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!