Remembering the Christ - 2005/03/24 07:27Hi Friends,
Since the Memorial day has already started for many of our friends around the world I thought it would be nice to have a thread of rememberance of our Lord, Savior, Friend and most loving Son's words and thoughts.
Perhaps just a quote or two or a loving sentiment of rememberance of him and how much he taught us and loved us and loves us still.
My thoughts: Jesus loved with his whole heart. He loves with his whole heart still. In rememberance of him I quote these words of his,
"These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you and your joy may be made full. This is my commandment that you love one another just as I have loved you. No one has love greater than this, that someone should surrender his soul in behalf of his friends. You are my friends if you do what I am commanding you. I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, because all the things I have heard from my Father I have made know to you." John 15:11-15
From these loving words we learn we can have joy to the full in the service of God as Jesus also had. That loving one another in the manner Jesus loved us is a firm commandment from the Son of God. Jesus' love for God and man caused him to live a life of service even to give his life for his fellow.
Most of us will never have to give our life for our brother but we can give our time to our fellow, our financial help, our spiritual help and encouragement, our heartfelt warm embrace and welcome. These are all things Jesus also gave with love and if we give these with love we love "just as I (Jesus) loved you."
Please, if you like, add your own rememberances.
Peace and love to all my friends in Christ. Josh
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Epignossis
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Re:Remembering the Christ - 2005/03/24 07:53John 18:20-26
20 "I make request, not concerning these only, but also concerning those putting faith in me through their word; 21 in order that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am in union with you, that they also may be in union with us, in order that the world may believe that you sent me forth. 22 Also, I have given them the glory that you have given me, in order that they may be one just as we are one. 23 I in union with them and you in union with me, in order that they may be perfected into one, that the world may have the knowledge that you sent me forth and that you loved them just as you loved me. 24 Father, as to what you have given me, I wish that, where I am, they also may be with me, in order to behold my glory that you have given me, because you loved me before the founding of the world. 25 Righteous Father, the world has, indeed, not come to know you; but I have come to know you, and these have come to know that you sent me forth. 26 And I have made your name known to them and will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in union with them."Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone thinks he has acquired knowledge of something, he does not yet know it just as he ought to know it. But if anyone loves God, this one is known by him - 1 Cor 8:1-3
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Re:Remembering the Christ - 2005/03/24 10:13Thanks for that Josh. Yes Jesus selfless love is something that is so meaningful for us. With regard to ourselves, and how we often feel unworthy of his love and the love of our Father, I really like Jesus words to the leper at Mark 1:40. I still can't read them without getting choked up
"There also came to him a leper, entreating him even on bended knee, saying to him:
'if you just want to, you can make me clean'
At that Jesus was moved with pity, and he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him:
'I want to. Be made clean'
And immediately the leprosy vanished from him, and he became clean."
No matter how 'unclean' we feel ourselves to be, or how unworthy, we should have no doubt that Jesus is moved with pity for us too. If we are willing to put faith in him and be 'healed', we need have no doubts that, truly: "He wants to".
Much Philia.
Phi.
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Re:Remembering the Christ - 2005/03/24 13:14Dear Brothers and sisters
hope all are well and anticipating the memorial of our dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who who lived and died for us and did the will of His Father perfectly.
Matthew 28;39 and he went forward a little, and fell on his face and prayed saying,My Father, if it is possible let this cup pass away from me: never the less not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life
Much peace to all
Sandra
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Josh
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Re:Remembering the Christ - 2005/03/24 15:06Thanks friends, for your comments.
Good health to you! Josh
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Re:Remembering the Christ - 2005/03/24 15:31Goodness, there is so much but what I appreciate the third most besides the eternal life He's offered me is His mercy, respect, and love He had for women.
John 8:7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard [it,] being convicted by [their] conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest [even] to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, "Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?" 11 She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more." 12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life."
Jesus knew she had sinned. He didn't carry around stones as the Pharisees did to condemn people to death. He didn't humiliate the woman who had sinned. He told her privately "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more."
For a woman to touch a Jewish man on during her menstrual was a sin under Torah. Did Jesus blast the trembling woman who had been bleeding for twelve years for touching him? Luke 8:48 And He said to her, "Daughter, be of good cheer; your faith has made you well. Go in peace."
Ahhh yeah, and what about the Samaritan woman who not only sinning big time but was also considered to be a "half breed" a "dog" because she was a Israelite mixed with gentile. It was considered a sin and shocking by any Jews standard. Does he condemn her? No, he offers her the water of life. John 4:13 Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 "but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."
Nothing comforts me more than having a King that had such a high regard, respect, and love not only for sinners but for women.
Now the second most thing I appreciate about Jesus is His love. Ephesians 3:19 tells us that we can't even comprehend the love of Jesus.
and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
Just a hint of that is shown when Jesus was on the stake and He asks God's forgiveness for those that killed Him.
Luke 23:34 Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." And they divided His garments and cast lots.
If only I had a tenth of that type of mercy and love.
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