Living Between the Extremes - Lesson 6 - Biblical Boundary #4

If the Lord returned at this moment, would I be ashamed?

I have spoken previously about my theories of the DVD selections when we get to heaven.
When we have to give account of our actions will they be on display for all to see.
Scripture says yes.

Just like others ask where we were on September 11th
Will they ask where we were when we were raptured?

What if the Lord walked into our homes at any moment?
What if He visited us at work?

What if Pastor visited us at home when we were not expecting it.
What if our children hid a video camera in the home?
What if we were secretly on some reality program?

We think about what if the Lord returned at any moment.
But what about the thought of Him living inside us.
What do we put him through?

Our foundational verse is…

Proverbs 11:1-3 ‘A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight. When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom. The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.’

Do we have manic-depressive tendencies?
Traveling from one pole to the other?
Are we either on fire for the Lord
Or raging as the heathen?

Would we be pleased if our children acted like us?
Is the Lord pleased with our actions?

Opening thoughts





1 Corinthians 1:8, ‘Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.’

As a parent is responsible for the actions of their child up to a certain point
Or a certain age.
For how long is the Lord responsible for our actions…
If ever?





Our own worst enemy is our mind,
Looking back we think things and do things that don’t seem like it was us.
Sometimes awesome things that the Lord does through us
And sometimes the opposite of awesome things that
We are not proud of.

Colossians 1:21-22, ‘And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:’

Alien… not us
Now let’s look at those words again.
We see the past tense, present tense than the future tense.

Where do you reside?





We trust Him with our salvation
We trust Him with protecting our loved ones when they are away.
We trust Him to keep our cars in tack and
The airplanes we fly in to stay also in tact.

Why then do we think it is up to us to walk the perfect line.
Why do we think it is salvation by faith and then
Maintenance of salvation by works?

1Thessalonians 3:13, ‘To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.’

Are we afraid to ask the Lord to keep us strong?
Because we might not like the way He will do it?

Your thoughts here…





1 Corinthians 5:5, ‘To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.’

Are we in the early stages of Job?
Hurt everything around him, but don’t touch his body.
OK, you can hurt his body but don’t kill him.

Scripture also talks about if your eye offendeth,
To pluck it out.
Can we then imply that He will pluck it out if we don’t?

We also know that ‘talents’ will be taken away from us if we don’t use them wisely.

My thought were are that if we aren’t asking the Lord to help us with our problems,
Someone else by default is ‘helping’ us with our problems.

What can you share with us here?





1 Thessalonians 5:23, ‘And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.’

Your thoughts…





God saved us.
Yes, He also gave us a free will.
We have liberty, but not a free pass to sin.

God works through us,
And He allows us to do His work.
We are not doing His work.

I believe we are afraid to ask Him to help in certain areas.
Answer.
Say you are sorry,
Ask forgiveness,
Then ask Him to help.

I am not going to fill in the blanks.
You can in your head.


If He returned at this moment, would I be ashamed?
Our children hurt us a times,
Our children anger us,
Our children annoy us,
And our children try us.
Do we love them any less?

Do we punish them and not feed them – No.
They may not have their favorite meal but they will eat.
What about our heavenly father?

Do we pluck our children’s eye out – No.
If they play with sharp sticks long enough they will pluck it out themselves.
What about our bodily pain?

Is it our children’s job to make us love them?
Is it our children’s job to make us proud?
What about our relationship with Him?





If shame, embarrassment, guilt or any of those things are creeping in,
Get them right at that moment.
Ask Him to help you.

There in lies the balance.
Work like it is all up to us,
‘ and pray as if it is all up to Him.

Live like He is returning at this moment.
Get a WWJD bracelet.
He is ready to help you be stronger today
Than you were yesterday.

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