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Mike's Short Thought for Today
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August 2011 |
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01/08/2011 Sport and Entertainment go on with
large following. Yet the World is in turmoil and self
destructing.
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02/08/2011 Love! During August, I will be
looking at love as described in Matthew 11:29-30
"Take my yoke upon you and
learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and
you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy
and my burden is light."
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03/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: You
need the Holy Spirit of God to give you the true meaning
of these Verses in the Holy Bible.
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04/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: By
Yoke our Lord Jesus
means, His will and authority. To be yoked to Him, is to
know that we are going in His direction, not ours or our
Churches.
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05/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: What is
it to take the yoke of
Christ?
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05/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued:
Christ's yoke is easy. YET!
So many Christians seem not to want it.
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08/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: Nominal
Christianity is hard work, so why do so many Christian
Leaders prefer it to being yoked
to Jesus?
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09/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: We are
yoked to Jesus by love. The
Nominal Christian is yoked to their chosen "Christian"
religion. That is why they are like they are. It's sad!
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10/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: His
yoke allows us to live with
perfect love and restraint. For only God truly knows
what we need for both the good of Us and the good of the
World we live in. Only the Nominal Christian
thinks otherwise.
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Matthew 11:29-30 continued: How do you know if a person
is yoked to Jesus? Easy!!!
They show it! You can't miss it! If they don't show it,
then they aren't yoked!
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12/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: When
you are yoked to Jesus,
other people that you interact with, know it and react
to it. With differing results.
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15/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: Why do
true Disciples of Jesus yoke
themselves to Him? It's easy! They have come to know His
perfect love for them, weak and evil though they are.
How can you not respond to God's perfect love? Well, a
lot of people who call themselves "Christian" do not
seem to want to.
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16/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: The
Nominal Christians where I live want me to be
yoked to them. Thus they
say, "It don't matter what Church you join, just join
one." However, I am already yoked
to my Lord, so I cannot do what they require. For then,
I would be as unsaved as them.
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17/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: Being
yoked to Jesus is easy and
it's very agreeable. It is good for Us, the Planet, the
Kingdom of Christ. It's a win, win, win, win, situation.
The losers are those who call themselves Christian, but
are not yoked to Jesus.
What a miserable life they must be leading as they
conform to a Christian Religion that is no good to
anybody. Least of all themselves.
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18/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: As a
Disciple of Jesus, I get negative responses from some
people when they find out that I love Jesus. As a member
of Sagazone, a Social Website, I attend Meets with other
Sagazoners. Some of whom behave badly towards me. Mind
you, there are others who give me welcome hugs and warm
smiles, accompanied with terrific banter. Being
yoked to Jesus affects how
I behave towards those who hate me.
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19/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: Us
Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, are
yoked to Him because we
love Him. His reward for our love is His love. So! He
first loved us and we loved Him back and His love is all
we desire. Why? Because that is all we need. Those false
Christians do not know His love, so they suffer in a way
they do not know. To live without receiving Christ's
love is indeed Hell.
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22/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: We are
born with a Body, a Soul, and a Spirit. Hence the
Christian terms: Lost Souls and Spiritually born again.
Until we feel the perfect love of the Lord Jesus and
respond by loving Him back, thus becoming
Yoked to Him. Our Souls
remain lost, our Spirits remain dead, and our Bodies
live for the good of our Selfishness, not for the good
of Ourselves, Others, the World, and God.
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23/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: If you
are yoked to the Lord Jesus
Christ, you will find that some who hate you, do so
because they envy you your love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self
control, even your certainty. All the things that result
from being yoked to Christ.
Don't hate them, rather feel sorry for them and help
them to get what you have.
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24/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: If you
become yoked to Jesus,
never, ever, let anybody, yes anybody, come between you
and Him. Why? Because He is both your Lord and Saviour.
To become unyoked from Him is folly in the extreme.
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25/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: For the
Nominal Christian, being yoked
to the Lord Jesus is hard. That is, being a Christian is
hard as they probably are not
yoked to Jesus in the first place. They just do
not show the love of Christ at all.
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26/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: When a
Christian is not yoked to
Jesus, they are probably yoked
to the law of the Holy Bible. Therefore, their Christian
religion is a perfect bondage. Whereas, to the Disciple
who is yoked to his Lord
Jesus it is a perfect freedom.
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30/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: There
are those Christians who are that for selfish reasons.
They read the Holy Bible or listen to the Preacher in
Church. And consequently, when they hear these words of
the Lord Jesus, they say, "Yes, I am
yoked to Him!" But when you
observe them, they find it hard to be
yoked to Him. It is not
their love in response to His love that
yokes them, it's their fear
of Hell or hope for Heavenly Rewards. OR, even their
position of power in a Church because they say the right
things to look good to their Followers.
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31/08/2011 Matthew 11:29-30 continued: This is
the last thought on this wonderful teaching from the
perfectly loving Lord Jesus Christ. Your Soul must be
saved! And for it to be saved, YOU must be
yoked to Jesus by both His
perfect love and your imperfect love. If YOU are not
yoked to Him as He requires
YOU to be...... Then, sigh, YOUR Soul will be destroyed.
So do it now, open YOUR heart to the Holy Spirit of God
and be saved by the Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of
this evil and wicked world you belong to. God bless you.
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