19 “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”
Gal 2:19-21
--Previous Message--
: 1 Samuel 16:7 ESV
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: But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look
: on his appearance or on the height of his
: stature, because I have rejected him. For
: the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on
: the outward appearance, but the Lord looks
: on the heart.”
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: Ancient Greek wisdom invites us not to place
: too much trust in appearances, there being
: an understanding that the exterior is
: nothing more than an attempt to impress
: those easily impressed by an attractive
: image.
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: Our mirror image speaks to our perceived
: need to view the outer person, the mask that
: we deliver to the world as if to say...this
: is who I am.
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: The wisest of observers of human kind
: constantly remind us that there is in the
: human heart another life, filled with all
: that is our true self waiting to be
: embraced, that we may come to know our
: complete self.
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: Self deception is a daily travelling
: companion, for each of us understands that
: our mask is a comfortable display of
: everything that we wish the world to believe
: is our true self.
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: The heart of the matter is inviting us to
: face the truth alive within our very
: being, inviting us to follow Him, that He
: may guide us into realising all that we are,
: His outreach into the lives of all who
: through chance encounters, enter our life
: for us to assist.
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: “In loving thou dost well, in passion not,
: Wherein true love consists not: Love refines
: The thoughts, and heart enlarges; hath his
: seat
: In reason, and is judicious”
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: ~John Milton, Paradise Lost
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