18. Wala ka sa Lolo ko. He is protected from the evil one, that's what the Lord Jesus prayed for him. Amen.
10 September 2020
Jesus Prays for His Disciples
15 “My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.”
John 17
Jesus Prays to Be Glorified
1 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:
“Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.
3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”
John 17
Jesus Prays for All Believers
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,
21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”
The prayer of the Lord Jesus for his disciples is for them to be protected from the evil one, and the same for all who will believe in Him.
Part of the Lord's prayer: ‘And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.’ (Matthew 6:13)
I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I believed in Jesus Christ and have put my faith in Him as my personal Lord and Savior, 16 years ago.
One day, my children's children will say, wala ka sa Lolo ko, he is protected from the evil one, that's what the Lord Jesus prayed for him.
The Evil One. The Devil.
James 4
Submit Yourselves to God
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Temptation. Ten Commandments.
Yet, for me the worst temptation, subtle self-righteousness.
I would feel so good putting into the offering bag a hundred-peso bill and giving some coins for alms. And then I feel entitled to justify my small mistakes, until my heart became callous that I could justify my sins. I regarded myself as having earned my own comfort.
Deuteronomy 8
17 You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.”
18 But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.
Lamentations 3
22 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
23 They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness. Amen.
The Natural Man. The Spiritual Man. The Carnal Man.
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1 Corinthians 2:14 NKJV)
The natural man may be defined as an individual who operates entirely on human wisdom. These same people may acknowledge Christ as a wonderful teacher or example but they miss the real purpose of why He came into the world.
Those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are themselves subject to no one else's scrutiny. (1 Corinthians 2:15 NRSV)
The spiritual man is one who is characterized by the leading of the Holy Spirit. The Bible encourages believers to let the Spirit lead them. The spiritual man produces the fruit of the Spirit.
Galatians 5
22 The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
1 Corinthians 3 Sectarianism Is Carnal
1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.
2 I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able;
3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?
Sectarianism occurs when members of different denominations within a faith display bigotry and prejudice toward each other.
Matthew 26
Gethsemane
41 “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
One of the greatest champions of Christian faith is Augustine born in a small North African province, his mother was Christian and his father was a noble Roman.
Many today lead lives that parallel the life of Augustine - born in the shadow of a church, reared in a Christian atmosphere, but in college years confronted with periods of doubt and unbelief. Augustine experienced the depths of sin, for a number of years he lived a double life of immorality, yet he found that the grace of God is greater than the greatest sin.
Augustine believed everyone has sinned and come short of God's standard. He discovered that for the search for meaning in life, the answer is not in sin, loose living, or in philosophy, but in a personal relationship to Jesus Christ.
In spite of the life that he lived before he found Christian faith, he made one of the greatest contributions to Christianity that has been made since the time of Apostle Paul.
Augustine is one of the few men in history who is equally loved and respected by Catholics and Protestants alike.
After his conversion, Augustine was confronted by a former acquaintance with whom he had been immoral. She called his name and Augustine didn't answer. Finally, he said, "That was the old Augustine, I am the new one." The difference in a person's life should be evident following conversion to Jesus Christ. (Heroes, Dr. Harold J. Sala, pages 68 - 70)
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