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(Acts 17:11: Please learn to do your own Bible Studies like this one – here)
The Kingdom Of God – The Pearl of Great Price
This Below Is The Foundation Of A Healthy Friendship With God, Yourself, Your Spouse, Your Friends, Your Family, Colleagues, Neighbors, And All Others
This is about: Unity, patience, reconciliation, forgiveness, suffering, non-retaliation, staying in the love of the Father (only running further in), looking to the cross of Jesus – and there see His pure real lived-out – proven by death and suffering, love for all, doing that, taking a beating, glorifying God, choosing life, love, and enduring pain and death – for love.
When hurt: Can you start by choosing not to be retaliating? But simply lovingly expressing you are suffering and enduring unfair, unjust treatment.
Both parties in a conflict can do that. God did that in Christ.
Then, as step 2, when non-retaliation, but realization and expression of suffering is achieved, then you can take the next step and speak life and justice and forgiveness (the letting go of attacks) – in spite of unfair, unjust treatment and suffering.
Bible Principles Make Better Sense Now (please look all words and sentences below up in the Bible yourself)
This is the essence of: Humility, brokenness, weakness, being like a child, gentleness, seeing in part, being careful when we think we stand, that we do not fall, being hungry, being thirsty, being on-fire. This is the essence of repentance, and admitting we are sick, and need healing. It’s the opposite of being proud, judgmental, self-sufficient, and giving up.
When we look to the cross – and live by the cross. Then God can lift us up. When we behave like Jesus. Then we can bear much good fruit – when the grain falls into the ground and dies… – like Jesus did – we do and live.
Please Read Every Word Here Carefully
This wholehearted, all-in, proven love for us through His unjust suffering and death for us (and it was the plan of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit for eternity) – is what leads us to trust Him, Jesus, the Father, the Spirit, wholeheartedly – all-in. We must base all of our lives and decisions on this love. Now I can willingly, eagerly, obey Him, for I fully trust He loves me and is my best friend!
This is my secret superpower – to look at Jesus who fully loves me even though I have done nothing to deserve it – and follow His example. Then I am healthily transformed and nicer to be around.
Further Resources
To read positive life changing and selfish life breaking teaching – see all I’ve got here. Let God lead you to what to engage with first: All Bible studies and teachings.
And here is my YouTube course on the very minimum foundations of normal discipleship: Watch the foundational discipleship course.
To become an “Action Christian” – sign up on my website: ActionChristianity.com.
