Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."
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Are you with God—Jesus—Holy Spirit or are you with the world’s system? Are you going to listen and act accordingly to the world’s ways or God’s ways?
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Ya know, to the world, the disciple of Jesus should be odd. We are to be as different from the world as day (12:00 noon) is different from night (midnight).
“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,” (1 John 2:15 New King James Version).
I just prayed about this and here is what God brought to my attention. You know that Matthew 22:21 tells us that the world gets your taxes but God gets your heart. And from that scripture we get the phrase, ‘Obey the laws of the land PROVIDED they don’t go against the laws of God.’ Well, what God told me is, “Loving the world is not just abiding by the practices of the world, but also obeying the laws of the land even when they go against the laws of God.”
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When one of God’s created people is sick God wants His disciple to go lay hands on that precious one for healing. But the doctors and medical studies of this world are saying that no one can see that precious one; that’s against God’s law. So, when the disciple says that they can’t go to that precious one because of what the doctors have said, well that’s loving the world.
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The News Boys have a song that says (I forget the title or exact words) that even if it was against the law to serve Christ I’m still going to serve Him. I don’t care if they arrest me, I’ll still praise my Jesus.
Many worldly institutions make the rule that there must be no prayer or even talking about anything remotely concerning God in the place of business: that’s a law of the worldly man. For one thing; that is impossible because life concerns God. And for another thing, obeying that is loving the world. I’m not telling you that you should make a spectacle of yourself, but why let the world dictate to you—the disciple of the Lord—how you are going to conduct your service to God?
“Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: ‘Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!’?” (Colossians 2:20-21 New International Version).
Let your conscience be your guide in things like this. After all, whose are you, God’s or the world’s?