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consider Acts 1:1
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to d<span style="font-weight: bold">o</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold">teach</span>,</div></div> KJ
You see so many ministers that stand up to preach the Word and they preach it and preach it and then a little while later they run off and they get into some kind of gross kind of sin and everybody in the congregation falls apart and they don't know what's going on.
You say, "Well, yeah, but I know one thing, you can learn all the facts in the world and if...and if it's not part of your life, it doesn't mean anything." <span style="font-weight: bold">And you are absolutely right and that's exactly what it means in verse 1 when it says Jesus began both to what? To do and to teach. And you notice which comes first? That's right, you can teach when you're doing it. </span>It's tough to teach when you're working toward getting to the place where you can do it. First, it's a part of your life. Then you can really teach it. And so what kind of knowledge is He talking about? <span style="font-weight: bold">Not head knowledge but living knowledge</span>. -
Re: consider Acts 1:1
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Now this is what the whole Christian life really boils down to.
As a Christian, you can go two ways. I'll try to give you a vivid illustration just visually.
As a Christian, you're here, you can go down, you can go up, it's your choice. The road down proceeds on this basis, self-effort is step one; disobedience immediately follows and is involved, step two; failure, step three; loss of intimate fellowship, step four.
As soon as you go your own way, do your own thing, it's a decline. You start out: self-effort, disobedience, failure, loss of intimate fellowship.
The other option, divine effort, obedience, success, intimate fellowship. And every Christian goes one of those two ways and most of us jump back and forth. And the mature Christian is the one who has the increased frequency on the upswing.
<span style="font-weight: bold">You see, the Christian life is a matter of frequency.<span style="font-style: italic"> It's not a matter of perfection, it's a matter of frequency. </span></span><span style="font-style: italic">And the more you grow in Christ</span>, the <span style="font-weight: bold">more frequently you're on the up. It's as you grow in Christ that obedience begins to outweigh disobedience. </span>
And so you see what happens here is you can go two ways...you either go down and the road down is self-effort, disobedience, failure, loss of intimate fellowship, or, God's effort, divine effort, supernatural effort, spiritual effort, whatever you want to call it, obedience, success, intimacy. .
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