Thread: A question on Christian Scripture.

Originally Posted by shooter74743

I think that I understand what you are getting at in regards to steps, practices, & guidelines to overcome from being a "baby" to growing spiritually to a "mentor". I think it's actually a good question that we should ask ourselves. More than likely many of us would say that we haven't been a servant as we should have. I haven't. We have allowed other priorities to consume what little time we seem to have in a day. I will have to say that I think things are a little more complicated with our daily life compared to 1k-2k years ago. We are given that "free will" and it's up to you and I to feed our holy spirit and become the men we should be.

Scott

Something I hear from someone every day: I don't have time. Or words to that effect. A thing that I try to never say.

There are things I want to do and don't want to do. Some I need to do and some I should do. The ones that cause a bad situation to occur are those when it is both: don't want to and should.

Where do priorities come from? If I can always and only do what I should be doing then there is time enough to do everything.

matthew 6: 22-29
²²The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
²³But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
²⁴No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
²⁵Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
²⁶Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
²⁷Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
²⁸And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
²⁹And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.


The lillies and the fowls only do what is necessary. They do not have or experience time. They only exist in the eternal moment of this one to the next. Obviously though there is a time for planning. Jesus did not just happen to see a donkey walking by and hop on and say "let's see where this donkey is going" He sent an apostle to fetch one and told them where they were going.



Philippians 2
¹If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
²Fulfil ye my joy, *that ye be likeminded*, having the same love, being of one accord, *of one mind.*
³Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but *in lowliness of mind* let each esteem other better than themselves.
⁴Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
^5*Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
⁶Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:*
⁷But made himself of no reputation, *and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:*





I hope those red asterisks will separate out a few phrases enough for emphasis as you read the whole passage so not to be considered out of context. To me this is some meat.


I am unsure how this is preached today, but I would think telling a babe in Christ that he is(can be) equal to God may cause some confusion.


To be clear the passage says to allow this "one mind" which was also the same mind that was in Christ- a guy who thought it not robbery to be equal with God-. Was he God, are we God? It says "in the form of God"


God as form- material existence.


I like where this is going. The verses from Phillipians came from my searching the word Servant as suggested by Scott