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2007"><U><I><B>February 11, 2</B></I></U></A><I><B>007</B></I></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="11d6f40a0.gif" border=0 width="500" height="10" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <I> <A NAME="february_4_2007"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I><I>February 4, 2007</I></div> <div> <A HREF="http://nbfirving.net/mp3/Blessed%20Assurance/blessedassurancept1.mp3" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://nbfirving.net/mp3/Blessed%20Assur"><U><B><IMG SRC="11e5cf680.jpg" border=0 width="207" height="104" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>   (Right click mp3 logo and "Save Target As" to download).</B></div> <div> <I><B>PHILLIPIANS 3:3</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >   For we [Christians] are the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit and by the Spirit of God and exult and glory and pride ourselves in Jesus Christ, and put no confidence or dependence [on what we are] in the flesh and on outward privileges and physical advantages and external appearances-</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>PHILIPPIANS 3:9 </B></I></FONT><I> </I>And that I may [actually] be found and known as in Him, not having any [self-achieved] righteousness that can be called my own, based on my obedience to the Law's demands (ritualistic uprightness and supposed right standing with God thus acquired), but possessing that [genuine righteousness] which comes through faith in Christ (the Anointed One), the [truly] right standing with God, which comes from God by [saving] faith.</div> <bR> <div> <B>The bible talks about 2 routes to righteousness.  One you can get by good works, which is the kind we go for first; but there is another kind of righteousness that is available to us and it is righteousness through Christ.  Righteousness is right standing before God.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>If you don't catch the trust of resting in the righteousness of Jesus, you can spend years (some believers spend a lifetime) trying to earn the right to answered prayer - or to earn the right to approach God.</B></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>PHILIPPIANS 3:4-6</B></I></FONT><I>  Th</I>ough for myself I have [at least grounds] to rely on the flesh. If any other man considers that he has or seems to have reason to rely on the flesh and his physical and outward advantages, I have still more!  <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >5</FONT>Circumcised when I was eight days old, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew [and the son] of Hebrews; as to the observance of the Law I was of [the party of] the Pharisees,  <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >6</FONT>As to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and by the Law's standard of righteousness (supposed justice, uprightness, and right standing with God) I was proven to be blameless and no fault was found with me.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>PHILIPPIANS 3:7 </B></I></FONT><I> </I>But whatever former things I had that might have been gains to me, I have come to consider as [one combined] loss for Christ's sake.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>PHILIPPIANS 3:8</B></I></FONT><I>  </I>Yes, furthermore, I count everything as loss compared to the possession of the priceless privilege (the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth, and supreme advantage) of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him [of perceiving and recognizing and understanding Him more fully and clearly]. For His sake I have lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish (refuse, dregs), in order that I may win (gain) Christ (the Anointed One),</div> <bR> <div> If I want to have this righteousness in Christ, I must let go of all this righteousness I think I can earn by good behavior.  Christians do good works not to get God to have us or accept us or to earn from God but because of His love for us and our love for Him.  <U>Motive is important to God.</U></div> <bR> <div> Are you doing what you are doing truly to earn brownie points with God?  Our part in serving is to do what He has called you and giving you grace to do - because of love.</div> <bR> <div> There is nothing wrong with the Lord giving you special training in order to develop you.  He knows us and knows what we need and how to train us as soldiers.  We do or don't do because of is His leading and because we love Him and follow His voice - not to earn righteousness. </div> <bR> <div> There is a difference between praying X amount of time a day trying to earn something from God and praying X amount of time because you love Him.  <U>Motive is important with God</U>.</div> <bR> <div> Why are you doing what you are doing for God?   Is it because you are afraid not to, or because you love Him so much you can't help it?</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>PHILIPPIANS 3:10 </B></I></FONT><I>  </I>[For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope]</div> <div> <I>MATTHEW 26:41</I>    All of you must keep awake (give strict attention, be cautious and active) and watch and pray, that you may not come into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I> <A NAME="february_11_2007"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I><I>February 11, 2007</I></div> <div> <A HREF="http://nbfirving.net/mp3/Blessed%20Assurance/Blessedassurancept2.mp3" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://nbfirving.net/mp3/Blessed%20Assur"><U><B><IMG SRC="11e5cf680.jpg" border=0 width="207" height="104" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div>             (Right click mp3 logo and "Save Target As" to download).</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>JAMES 4:13-16 (Amplified) </B></I></FONT><I>    </I>Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city and spend a year there and carry on our business and make money.      Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? You are [really] but a wisp of vapor (a puff of smoke, a mist) that is visible for a little while and then disappears [into thin air].   <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >15</FONT>You ought instead to say, If the Lord is willing, we shall live and we shall do this or that [thing]. <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >16</FONT>But as it is, you boast [falsely] in your presumption and your self-conceit. All such boasting is wrong.</div> <bR> <div> It is by faith in Jesus Christ that we have righting standing with God. We must approach what we do with confidence in Him. "I'm right with God because of Christ alone, not because of anything I do." We do good things because we love God, not to get God to love us!</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>PSALM 103:12-15</B></FONT><I>   </I>As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >13</FONT>As a father loves and pities his children, so the Lord loves and pities those who fear Him [with reverence, worship, and awe]. <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >14</FONT>For He knows our frame, He [earnestly] remembers and imprints [on His heart] that we are dust. <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >15</FONT>As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>PSALM 103:17</B></I></FONT><I>   </I>But the mercy and loving-kindness of the Lord are from everlasting to everlasting upon those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him, and His righteousness is to children's children</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>HEBREWS 4:15-16 </B></I></FONT><I>  </I>For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning. <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >16</FONT>Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God's unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>JAMES 1:2-5 </B></I></FONT><I>  </I>Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren, whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into various temptations. <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >3</FONT>Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of your faith bring out endurance and steadfastness and patience. <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >4</FONT>But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be [people] perfectly and fully developed [with no defects], lacking in</div> <bR> <div> nothing. 5lf any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him.</div> <bR> <div> When you have trouble, even if it is trouble you got yourself into, you can ask God for help and He will help you. He rescues; He gives direction on how to get out of it. He will help you without reproach or fault finding. He will not rub your mistake in your face. People may do so - but God will not. Go boldly before the Throne.</div> <bR> <div> Weakness is a part of you. Give yourself permission to be weak. I am not talking about sin as a lifestyle. God made you weak to need Him. If you could live the perfect life, you would not need Jesus!</div> <bR> <div> Honesty about weakness is not weakness. If I spend a day under condemnation and guilt for what I did or did not do yesterday, I miss what He had in mind for me today.</div> <div> Receive forgiveness; Appropriate the Blood of Jesus. Come boldly! Get right back in step with your walk. Put your confidence in Christ - not in your experience, position, education, money, not in yourself, in other people, your good looks, or your health. Put your confidence in Christ alone!</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>MARK 9:31-34</B></I></FONT><I>    </I>For He was [engaged for the time being in] teaching His disciples. He said to them, The Son of Man is being delivered into the hands of men, and they will put Him to death; and when He has been killed, after three days He will rise [from death]. <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >32</FONT>But they did not comprehend what He was saying, and they were afraid to ask Him [what this statement meant].   <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >33</FONT>And they arrived at Capernaum; and when [they were] in the house, He asked them, What were you discussing and arguing about on the road? <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >34</FONT>But they kept still, for on the road they had discussed and disputed with one another as to who was the greatest.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>GENESIS 32:24</B></I></FONT><I>  </I>And Jacob was left alone, and a Man wrestled with him until daybreak.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>GENESIS 32:27-31</B></I></FONT><I>    </I>[The Man] asked him, What is your name? And [in shock of realization, whispering] he said, Jacob [supplanter, schemer, trickster, swindler]! <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >28</FONT>And He said, Your name shall be called no more Jacob [supplanter], but Israel [contender with God]; for you have contended and have power with God and with men and have prevailed. <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >29</FONT>Then Jacob asked Him, Tell me, I pray You, what [in contrast] is Your name? But He said, Why is it that you ask My name? And [the Angel of God declared] a blessing on [Jacob] there. <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >30</FONT>And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel [the face of God], saying, For I have seen God face to face, and my life is spared and not snatched away. <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >31</FONT>And as <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >he passed Penuel [Peniel], the sun rose upon him, and he was limping because of his thigh.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>2 </B><I><B>CORINTHIANS 12:9</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>   </I>But He said to me, My grace (My favor and loving-kindness and mercy) is enough for you [sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness. Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me!</FONT></div> <bR> <div> I will glory in my weakness. My weakness is an opportunity for God to show His strength.</div> <bR> <div> <B>/ </B><I><B>CORINTHIANS 1:27 (New King James) </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>    </I>But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty;</FONT></div> <bR> <div> He chooses the weak to confound the wise.</div> <bR> <div> The weak thing that has its source in God is stronger than the strongest of men.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Copyright 2008,  New Beginnings Fellowship, All rights reserved.</div> <div> For site problems contact <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:tschuessler@nbfirving.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:tschuessler@nbfirving.net"><U>web-master</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=37 BGCOLOR="#666699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="04500250erlcjm.gif"> <div> <A HREF="covenant.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="2/18, 2/25 3/4/2007"><U><IMG SRC="0400e0e0.gif" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>   <A HREF="chrishall012807.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="January 28, 2007"><U><IMG SRC="0410e0e0.gif" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>        <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14">    <A HREF="pastor.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pastoral Ministry"><U><IMG SRC="0430e0e0.gif" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>