Randy Bell
6 Mar 2019

Commands of Christ

Command 3: Rejoice Part 2 Five Secrets To Becoming A Bright Light For Christ! (audio/video)

“God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers. Be happy about it! Be very glad! For a great reward awaits you in heaven. And remember, the ancient prophets were persecuted in the same way.” Matthew 5:11-12 (NLT2)

“But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?”

“And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.” [Matthew 5:44-48]

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Randy Bell
9 Mar 2019

Commands of Christ

Command 4: Let Your Light Shine! (audio/video)

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16)

The Secret of Becoming A Bright Light Is To Overcome Evil With Good!

“But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you”

“Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:21).

It is through good works that we put to shame those “that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ” (I Peter 3:16).

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Randy Bell
15 Apr 2019

Commands of Christ

Command 5: Honor God’s Law (video)

“Don’t ever think that I came to set aside Moses’ Teachings or the Prophets. I didn’t come to set them aside but to make them come true. I can guarantee this truth: Until the earth and the heavens disappear, neither a period nor a comma will disappear from Moses’ Teachings before everything has come true. So whoever sets aside any command that seems unimportant and teaches others to do the same will be unimportant in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does and teaches what the commands say will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. I can guarantee that unless you live a life that has God’s approval and do it more faithfully than the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:17-20 GW)

#1 Misinformed people today think Jesus removed the Law and instead we live by grace [meaning we do not have to obey God and we still go to heaven]
“Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.” [verse 17 NKJV]

#2 Jesus fulfilled God’s Law
He fulfilled the prophecies and analogies in the Law related to Him
Example 1: spotless, sacrificial Lamb of God [John 1:29]
Example 2: “a man of sorrow, and acquainted with grief” [Isaiah 53:3]

#3 His complete fulfillment of all these things has great significance for us
– when a person is born again, he enters into Christ and is given the fulfillment of Christ [Christ died and paid in full your punishment for sin]
– He died for sin, we died through Him, He was buried, through Him we are buried, through His resurrection, we have new power inside to fulfill His standard of the Law!

#4 Therefore the Old Testament Law and Prophets reveals the person and work of Jesus
“Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?”  And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.” (Luke 24:25-27)

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Randy Bell
21 Sep 2019

Commands of Christ

Command 6 Part 1: Be Reconciled (video)

“So if you are presenting a sacrifice at the altar in the Temple and you suddenly remember that someone has something against you, leave your sacrifice there at the altar. Go and be reconciled to that person. Then come and offer your sacrifice to God.”
Matthew 5:23-24 (NLT2)

In part 1 you will learn that pride and anger will destroy any dreams of reconciliation in any relationship. But our Lord commands that a true follower will not and cannot let anything stop them from rebuilding relationships. Humility is the only path that will bring true reconciliation and Christ shows us the way.

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