02/04/2024 Church service

周日礼拜

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         Physician, Heal Yourself  医生啊，治好你自己吧

 
Luke 4:23: Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’”
路 加 福 音 4:23: 耶稣又说∶“当然你们会对我引用这句俗话：医生啊，治好你自己吧。你们还会说：我们已经听说了你在迦百农的所作所为，那么，就在你的家乡再做一遍吧！” (page 1664)

John 5:24: “I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.”
約 翰 福 音 5:24 :“我实话告诉你们，谁听我的话，又信仰派我来的那位，谁就会得到永生，就不会被定罪，他就已经出死入生了。" (page 1725)

1 Cor 1:30,31: “It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption— in order that, as it is written: ‘Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.’”
歌 林 多 前 書 1:30,31: 他是你们在基督耶稣之中的生命源泉，做为上帝的馈赠，基督成为我们的智慧、正义、圣洁和救赎。 31 因此，正如《经》上所说的那样∶“夸耀的人应该在主内夸耀！” (pg 1848)
Psalm 143:5: I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all Your works and consider what Your hands have done.
詩 篇 143:5: 我 追 想 古 时 之 日 ， 思 想 你 的 一 切 作 为 ， 默 念 你 手 的 工 作 。(page 1026)

Heb 12:2 - We must keep our eyes on Jesus, who leads us and makes our faith complete. He endured the shame of being nailed to a cross, because he knew that later on he would be glad he did.
希 伯 來 書 12:2: 让我们把目光集中在耶稣身上，他是我们的信仰的先驱和完善者。他为了前方等待着他的欢乐，忍受了十字架上的痛苦，蔑视被钉死在十字架上的耻辱，如今他已经坐在了上帝宝座的右边。(page 1955)

 

 

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Heal Thyself
Luke 4:23

Monday morning – waking up after a near sleepless Sunday night.

Even my coffee needed coffee.

I found myself re-reading my message from the previous day. I needed to “hear” that message again for myself.

Sometimes even with all the best intentions in the world, I still find myself coming up short again the promises I make to myself concerning having more discipline, better habits and routines. Things I need to do or undo to achieve what I want to achieve.

People are sometimes grateful for compulsive duties because if they didn't have
those, they wouldn't know what to do with themselves.

We fill our lives with “stuff” – sometimes harmful stuff, when our lives are not fulfilling.
Do you understand what I'm talking about?

We can have all of these other things fulfilled and yet, ant the end of the day we still end up in front of a mirror.

? Don't you think it's about time that we slowed down,
that we sat down quietly somewhere and we looked inside our lives and we
looked around at the results of our living up until now and we say to
ourselves, 'As much as I resist self-change, self-investigation,
self-knowledge - as much as I resist it, I'm going to go ahead with it
anyway because my life as I am now unliving it, not living it, my life as I
am now living is not expressing all that is within me – all that God created me to be.'"

(last week) "Personal growth is a process where we begin to lose the limitations of who we were in recognition of who we can become."

(YouTube) Kung Fu Master training an American man: “In order to create something new on you, you need to get rid of some old stuff
…and getting rid of some old stuff sometimes means it's painful, because this world is not teaching you how to let go of things. This world is teaching you how to try and get more and more.”

(from last week) Jesus said in John 12:24 – “Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.”

? What do you need to die to in order to come back to life – to a new beginning?

We all still are a work in progress, but start at the right truth – this scripture:

John 5:24: “I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.”

“Physician, heal thyself”
This is Jesus quoting an Old Testament saying.

In layman’s terms, “before attempting to correct others, make sure that you aren't guilty of the same faults.

I used to have someone I worked with (on my days on the night shift)_ that would deliberately try to irritate me and harass me – all night long – until I finally lost my cool and snapped back at him.
– and then he would grin a devilish grin and say, “Uh Huh. Got you!”

Although even the Apostle Paul admitting to weakness and shortcomings, as Christians, we are held to a higher standard than what the rest of the world is accountable to.

The world is looking to us to fall – or at least stumble badly enough that they can say, “Uh-HUH!”

Like the Pharisees saying of Jesus, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they want to point to us and say, “I know you. I grew up right down the street from you. You’ll blow it soon. enough. You may call yourself a Christian, but you’re not any better than the rest of us.”

Prov 24:16 “ … for though the righteous fall seven times”

We have to fight the good fight of faith.
We have to go from Worrier to Warrior.

1 Cor 1:30,31: “It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption— in order that, as it is written: ‘Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.’”

Our spiritual growth and sanctification is a work of God, through the Word of God and the Holy Spirit as we make that our desire, our devotion, and let go and let God do the work in us.
How to Let Go and Let God, One Day at a Time
1. Identify what you can control—and what you can't. ...
2. Address what you can control. ...
3. Surrender what you can't control. ...
4. Meditate on the promises of your faithful God. ...
5. Choose a “letting go” motto. (Declaration of Faith)
6. Resolve not to act on fear but on faith.

1) Identify what you can control—and what you can’t.
controlling what you can—not what you can’t.
Much of our inability to “let go and let God” stems from our failure to recognize that often the things that stress us and worry us are things we can’t control. (why I rarely watch the news)
2) Address what you can control.
Take appropriate action. In fact, very often, inactivity breeds worry, even depression.
One antidote to worry and stress is action. So, instead of brooding over your situation, take action on the things you can control (which almost exclusively pertain to you and your attitudes; funny how that works).
3) Surrender what you can’t control.
In the words of the late theologian E. Stanley Jones, “Surrender the thing you fear into the hands of God. Turn it right over to God and ask Him to solve it with you. Fear is keeping things in your own hands; faith is turning them over into the hands of God—and leaving them there.”
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
4) Meditate on the promises of your faithful God.
The psalmist sang, “I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all Your works and consider what Your hands have done” - Psalm 143:5
Replace your frantic thoughts with calming thoughts, based on God’s promises such as, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” - Hebrews 13:5
5) Choose a “letting go” motto.
Select a memorable verse or phrase that you can repeat to yourself throughout the day to keep your mind and spirit from descending into worry.
For example, “in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength” (Isaiah 30:15, KJV) or “It is well with my soul.” You might even choose a new one every day or every week.
6) Resolve not to act on fear but on faith.
To quote Methodist missionary E. Stanley Jones again, “Never act on a fear, for fears are usually false…. Don’t build your life according to any pattern shown to you in the valley of fear. Wait till you get to the mount of faith and then build your life plans.”
What is keeping you stuck in patterns that do not produce good results in your daily life?
Stop identifying as “I Am” with things that are undesirable and start making time to analyze those patterns of thought and actions. We need Divine Replacement of those stumbling blocks.
7) Focus your mind and heart on trusting God today.
Jesus said, “Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own” (Matthew 6:34, NIV).
Jesus didn’t suggest that we won’t have trouble; far from it. (“In this world you will have tribulation”)
He did say, however, that we should focus our minds and hearts on this day and its challenges. That’s plenty.
The same God who is with us and empowers us to meet today will be there tomorrow.
So maybe “let go and let God” isn’t expecting too much. If, that is, we do it one day at a time.
Prayer of St Francis: “It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”

• Can we die to our fears?
• Can we die to our previous stories of failure and regrets?
• Our “somebody done somebody wrong song?”

Daily desire and pursuit of GOD

“Morning, by morning…”

Heb 12:2 - We must keep our eyes on Jesus, who leads us and makes our faith complete. He endured the shame of being nailed to a cross, because he knew that later on he would be glad he did.

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Phenix City  AL  36870
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