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| Circuit Preacher, from holstonlegacy.com
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What?
Know ye not that your body is
the temple of the HOLY SPIRIT,
which is in you,
which ye have of GOD,
and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a Price+:
therefore glorify GOD in your body,
and in your spirit,
which are GOD'S.
I Cor. 6: 19-20
For WHOM do you evangelize?
What are you promoting with your life? If you are promoting the life-style of your community, then you are being "your own."
What are you promoting with your conversation, your words? If you are promoting "what you think", then you are still being "your own."
When you realize that YOU have been bought with a PRICE+ ... a PRICE+ that you can never repay with all the riches of this world... you will realize that you indeed are NOT YOUR OWN MASTER.
In the days of the slave markets in the ancient Roman world, slaves would be auctioned off, standing stark naked so their prospective owners could ascertain the value of their purchased property.
The Christians, who refused to attend theaters, sporting events, public baths, and other places that revealed the flesh, would go to the slave market and purchase one of these poor fellow humans.
For CHRIST JESUS, of course, was the purchase made.
The Christian would quickly clothe the nakedness of the new-bought slave... and set him or her free. For the love he bore to CHRIST JESUS, the Christian and his friends would provide the newly-freed slave with the means to make a living and an abode.
The Christian would quickly clothe the nakedness of the new-bought slave... and set him or her free. For the love he bore to CHRIST JESUS, the Christian and his friends would provide the newly-freed slave with the means to make a living and an abode.
The slave was FREE !
There were no strings attached.
The slave could take
his freedom,
his wealth,
his provision,
...and GO.
The slave was free to live his life however he wanted to live it.
the slave was welcome to attach himself to the Christian and find out WHY his life was being made so different from all the slaves he left behind in the slave market.
OR...
the slave was welcome to attach himself to the Christian and find out WHY his life was being made so different from all the slaves he left behind in the slave market.
As a witness for CHRIST JESUS, the Christians did this because...
CHRIST JESUS
DID that
DID that
FOR THEM.
HE+
set the captives
free...
- Free from sin
- free from serving self
- free from being a slave of human spirits and
- free from the control of the demonic forces.Free to follow HIM+ alone
~ WORSHIP: GUIDED MEDITATION ~
Response: O GOD, THOU knowest my foolishness: and my sins are not hid from THEE. I am NOT MY OWN; I am bought with a PRICE+.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray: but now have I kept Thy+ Word+.
Response: O GOD, THOU knowest my foolishness: and my sins are not hid from THEE. I am NOT MY OWN; I am bought with a PRICE+.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn Thy+ statutes.
Response: O GOD, THOU knowest my foolishness: and my sins are not hid from THEE. I am NOT MY OWN; I am bought with a PRICE+.
Response: O GOD, THOU knowest my foolishness: and my sins are not hid from THEE. I am NOT MY OWN; I am bought with a PRICE+.
I know, O LORD, that Thy+ judgments are right, and that THOU+ in faithfulness has afflicted me.
Response: O GOD, THOU knowest my foolishness: and my sins are not hid from THEE. I am NOT MY OWN; I am bought with a PRICE+.
WORTHY IS THE LAMB+ !
Worthy is The LAMB+ Who+
has guided my afflictions;
Worthy is The LAMB+ !
Worthy is The LAMB+ Who+
sets me free;
Worthy is The LAMB+ !
Worthy is The LAMB+ Who+
allows me to be HIS+ freed slave
...or to follow my own way;
...or to follow my own way;
Worthy is The LAMB+ !
Worthy is The LAMB+ that was slain
to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor
and glory and blessing.
Blessing and honor and glory and power
be unto HIM that sitteth upon the Throne
and unto The LAMB+
forever and ever
Amen.
