Meaning
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The Meaning of Life
How can we know anything about anythingTo try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible? NO! That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about. Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us? How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences? We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers. Why is that? How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read. Why is that? Same scientific facts. Different answers. Same Bible. Different answers. Why is that? The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible? How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible? How do we analyze what we have seen and read? How do we interpret what we have seen and read? We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly. An example might help. Question: Why do you believe in evolution? Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact. Question: Why do you believe your science teacher? Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read. Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice. If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts. When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from? There are three possibilities.
Question: Why do you believe in creation? Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him. See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved. In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same. Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us. The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan? The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know. Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me" The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem. Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God. How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32) "If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it" Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay. "[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31). "There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48) That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own. "When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19) Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true. In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations. They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, "I guess I'm making the whole thing up." It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him. You have probably sensed that you were designed and made for better than what you have been experiencing. You probably know that you are living far below what God has planned for you. You were designed and made for glory, to have the power of the Spirit of God flowing through you. Your spirit was made to be joined to the Spirit of God. Your mind, your soul, your heart, does not function as designed without the flow of the Holy Spirit through it. You were designed to flow in submission to the mind and power of God. You were designed for something greater, and the church was designed by God for something greater than dead form and ritual or entertainment or dead speculative dissertations about doctrine. This is your destiny and purpose. The Almighty Creator God can do His works through you. That is, His Divine Love can flow through you. That is the definition of righteousness. All sin, whether it be stealing, adultery, rebellion, or whatever, is not allowing God's love to flow through you. When you try to have love in your own strength or try to manufacture human love, this is what is known as self-righteousness. Not only that, but you were designed and made to fit into a specific place in Christ's Body in a specific order defined by God. Jesus is in heaven, and He has a Body here on Earth. God's ultimate plan is to reconcile everything to Himself. God has both a process and a pattern for this reconciliation. In God's pattern and process is the true meaning of life. Anyone who does not understand this cannot possibly find the meaning of life.
You were created to be joined to God through the work that the Lord, Jesus Christ did. That joining is beyond what you can imagine. The Bible refers to this joining as the manifestation of the Sons of God and also the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. The true Church is the Body of Christ, consisting of all believers, both living and dead. The Head of the Body is Jesus in Heaven. Every member of the Body will come into complete unity with the Head in Heaven and with every other member of the Body on Earth. This will bring in that great and terrible day of the Lord. The veil of the flesh will be removed. This web site shows all these things in Scripture. Romans 8:18-23 are two of the many Scriptures that tell us about it. Actually, this good news is throughout both the Old and the New Testaments and has been hidden for almost 2,000 years, yet God restored this truth to the Church since that great move of the Spirit which started in 1948. A first step is required. First you must believe in Jesus--if you do believe, you are born into the family of God--it is a re-birth (Acts 16:31, 1 Peter 1:23). Re-birth makes you part of Christ's Body (1 Cor 12:27). Once you have been born again through the blood of Jesus, you are called to come out of the useless orders of the culture and to come into the patterns that God established for your fulfillment. You have a seed, a part of Jesus in you--Christ in you, the hope of glory (Col. 1:27). Your completeness is in finding your place in the Body of Christ, completed and fulfilled by the Head, Jesus, and the rest of the Body. Just as with the human body, everything must be in order and connected properly. The Body of Christ is being formed, and the gifts, ministries, offices, and orders of this Body are the mechanisms by which you must find your fulfillment. When it is complete, this Body of Christ is the very manifestation of the sons of God, the redemption. That is why Satan makes every effort to tell Christians that these things are not relevant, interesting, or important. The more the Body of Christ varies from the pattern of Scripture, the more useless and meaningless it becomes. Extra-biblical perversions of this Body frustrate the grace of God. The more that you are out of unity with the Body of Christ or out of the place in this Body for which God designed you, the more useless and meaningless your life becomes. To be separated from the Body of Christ is like your eye thinking it is the whole body. It is as useless as a brick without a building to be part of. It is as useless as your finger would be if you cut it off. God will not force you to fulfill your destiny, of course. It is possible, and very common, for Christians to proceed in a downward spiral, following the leading of their own fleshly nature into ungodly acts that lead to a corrupt heart that is unholy, and finally leading to a miserable, unfulfilled life.
Ephesians 4:11-16 & Romans8:18-23 As one of those who yields to the Spirit of God, here is what you can expect. As you yield to the Spirit, God will give you His thoughts, words, and actions. This will actually slowly transfigure you by planting good spiritual seed into your mind, your soul, your heart. The inconsistencies in your mind will start to die away. God will begin removing the veil of your flesh that has been blinding you. Your tastes, desires, longings, and ambitions will slowly change to be like God's. God is Love. You will have a heart full of love. Your spiritual senses will gradually be opened, and you will be gradually better able to discern the Body of Christ. Rather than being critical of your brother and sister in Christ, you will see Christ in them. Rather than condemning yourself, you will recognize that you have flesh, but the real you is the Christ in you. You will know exactly what your purpose is and what needs to be done, and you will do it by the power of the Holy Spirit. Righteousness is a free gift to you. You will love those who are not saved as God loves them and wants them to turn to Him. You will bless those who curse you and pray for those who are mean to you and use you. Eventually, life will flow to your entire being as you yield to God and He does His work through you, and it will be easier to do righteousness than to do sin.
God has a pattern for you to grow to fullness. He has a plan for you that is much higher than the plan you have for yourself. God has so much more for you than you ever imagined. He has a pattern by which you can receive all that He has for you. Trying in your own strength will do nothing for you. Trying in your own way will do nothing for you. God has a purpose for you. The way is simple. It is through the Church that the full work of Christ will be appropriated. The Church must be built according to God's pattern.
Road Map to God's Way Every Pattern In the Church Uses God's Process, Which Is By Grace Through Faith, Leading To Holiness and Redemption To Successfully Fulfill Your Purpose in Life, You Must be Born Again Why is the pattern of Scripture so important? An Orderly Way to Grow in Christ What is the manifestation of the sons of God? The Wide Way Leads to Destruction. The Spirit of Error: It Is Truth that Sets Us Free. Lies Bring Bondage. Fulfillment Through Bible Witness And Christian Witness: How Do I Witness To The Unsaved Seek to Know God. What Are the Two Main Purposes of the Church? God Has Restored Much the Is Necessary So that the Church Can Come Into the Fullness. Fulfillment Through Spiritual Music What Does The Bible Mean When It Says Not To Judge? The Purpose And Meaning of Your LifeGod's Purpose For Our Lives Is That We Become Like Jesus (Go) Don't Fall Short of the Wonderful Plans, the Destiny that God Has Planned For You. (Go) Ungodly People Miss Out, Including Ungodly Christians (Go) What is God's purpose in opening the door so I can be born into His Family? (Go) What did Satan mean when he said to Eve, you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil, what god's was he was Satan referring to? (Go) Romans 8:19 For The Earnest Expectation Of The Creature Waiteth For The Manifestation Of The Sons Of God. (Go) The Meaning Of Your Life Is In Being Like Jesus, Which Is Only Available By The Power Of The Holy Spirit (Go) How God Uses His Righteousness in Suffering to Bring Us Into Holiness and Redemption (Go) What is God's purpose for Christians? (Go) What is God's good purpose? (Go) You really do have a place or a purpose in the body of Christ (Go) What Is The Purpose Of My Life? (Go) How Can I Be Fulfilled As A Person? (Go) Does the Scripture Say that My Whole Spirit, Soul, and Body Will be Saved? Yes. (Go) What Is the Next Great Event that the Prophets Have Told Us Will Happen? (Go) Christians: A Nation of Priests and Kings? (Go) Are We Just Waiting For the Rapture? (Go) To Successfully Fulfill Your Purpose in Life, You Must be Born Again (Go) Gal 5:23 Questions and Answers: What do you mean by against such there is no law? (Go) The Kingdom of the HeavensThe Parable of the Sower Illustrates What Stops You--It Deals With Failure and Success (Go) Malachi 3:1-3 The Kingdom, Coming, and Refiner's Fire (Go) The Kingdom Of God Costs You Everything - and It Costs You Nothing (Go) Every Pattern In the Church Uses God's Process, Which Is By Grace Through Faith, Leading To Holiness and Redemption (Go) Questions and Answers: What is the Church; How should it be governed? (Go) 2 Corinthians 11:13-14, False Apostles (Go) Following people who were not sent by God (Go) God's method by which He intends to bring us all to fullness is through a body ministry operating in the Church He designed. (Go) Was Peter the foundation of the church and the first pope? (Go) Seek to Know God. (Go) Was There Such a Thing as The Apostolic Age? (Go) The Church, What Is It and What Is Its PurposeGod's method by which He intends to bring us all to fullness is through a body ministry operating in the Church He designed. (Go) Haggai 2:7-9 The Coming Glory Of The Church (Go) God Has Restored Much That Is Necessary So That The Church Can Come Into The Fullness. (Go) What is the 5-fold ministry and why is it important? (Go) The Reality of the Body of Christ (Go) Discerning Christ In Your Brother or Sister, the Gifts, Ministries, Offices, and Ordinances of the Body of Christ (Go) Are All Who Call Themselves Christians Free from Religious Systems of this Age? (Go) What are the Scriptural Christianity Teachings? (Go) What are the gifts of the Spirit and how are they received? (Go) Misconceptions About the Church (Go) Fulfillment: Understanding What It Is To Be a Christian and Understanding Christianity (Go) What is God's way to come to full maturity in Christ, and how can I know it is the right way? By the Church. By that which every joint supplies. (Go) Are the local churches to teach no other doctrine than the Apostle's Doctrine? (Go) Aren’t there false apostles and false prophets? (Go) Why is the 5-fold ministry of the Scripture so unpopular? (Go) Ephesians 4:15-16, Body Ministry By That Which Every Joint Supplies (Go) Aren't apostles something from the past? (Go) Is there really any pattern in Scripture for the Church? Yes. Most people don't like it. (Go) What does the Bible say about the government of the church? (Go) What About Pastors, Elders and Deacons? (Go) Isn't God's way like a smorgasbord where you can pick and choose what you want or don't want? No. (Go) Was There Such a Thing as The Apostolic Age? (Go) What Are the Two Main Purposes of the Church? (Go) What are the strengths and weaknesses that can be seen in the Church? (Go) If the Bible's so great, why don't the churches of today look like the church of the New Testament? (Go) What is the Real Church, and what is its purpose? (Go) What is Great Babylon and How is it Falling Today? (Go) Can human effort help the church to fulfil its mission in the earth? (Go) Is God's Way something where I can design it myself? (Go) There will be a coming together of the Body of Christ in unity? (Go) What is God's plan for building the church? (Go) How can the church come to the full glory God has planned for her? (Go) Define Church: The Greek Word For Church, Ekklesia, Literally Means Called Out of Summoned (Go) What do the Scriptures teach how God designed the Church? (Go) What is the foundation of the church? (Go) What is God's way of bringing the Church to unity and to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ? (Go) Can Spiritual Gifts, Offices, And Ministries Be Counterfeited? (Go) What Happened To the Church that It No Longer Follows the Biblical Pattern? (Go) What Is the Problem with Forbidding the People of God to Partake of the Power of the Spirit of God? (Go) Why have so many Christians rejected the traditional church organizations? (Go) Humanistic Speculations Have A Way Of Creeping Into The Church. They Are Poison From The Evil One. (Go) We Need The Church (Go) Who sets ministries in the Church and how does God say that is to be decided? (Go) Questions and Answers: What is the role of the deacons in this situation? (Go) Questions and Answers: What is the Church; How should it be governed? (Go) 2 Corinthians 11:13-14, False Apostles (Go) Don't Be Fooled By The Many False Promises Of The Worldly Systems And All Their Empty Promises (Go) Following Hireling Preachers: The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. (Go) Following people who were not sent by God (Go) Galatians 2:2 Paul Went To The Other Apostles By Revelation To Make Sure He Was Not Off Track. He Was Not Independent. (Go) Was Peter the foundation of the church and the first pope? (Go) Seek to Know God. (Go) God's Order Works. (Go) James 5:14-15, The Elders Anoint With Oil For Healing (Go) Feedback Question: James 5:13 (Go) Scriptures that use the Word, Church (Go) Taking Ground, Holding Ground, Total Victory (Go) The Problem Of Churches That Are Not Fulfilling Their Purpose. (Go) Your Purpose in Life (Go) John 3:16 What does it really mean? (Go) Why must I believe in Jesus to be saved? (Go) To Successfully Fulfill Your Purpose in Life, You Must be Born Again (Go) How Can I Introduce Foundational Truth About the Five Fold Gifting to My Church? (Go) Why is the pattern of Scripture so important? (Go) Apostles and the 5-fold Ministries In the Bible (Go) Growing in ChristEvery Pattern In the Church Uses God's Process, Which Is By Grace Through Faith, Leading To Holiness and Redemption (Go) Taking Ground, Holding Ground, Total Victory (Go) Taking Ground, Holding Ground, Total Victory (Go) Doing Right Things Right By the Right Spirit--yielding (Go) Relevance (Go) Going From Doing Right Things Right To Ever-increasing Glory To Total Fulfillment (Go) The Garden Of Our Soul (Go) God's Way (Go) The Truth And The Many Misconceptions About Righteousness (Go) The Problem Of Ungodly Counsel (Go) Don't Be Fooled By The Many False Promises Of The Worldly Systems And All Their Empty Promises (Go) Yielding Our Eyes And Our Tongues To The Holy Spirit (Go) We Need The Church (Go) The Kingdom Of God Costs You Everything - and It Costs You Nothing (Go) Encouragement (Go) Growing In Christ: From God's Righteousness To His Holiness To Complete Redemption (Go) Down To Earth Righteousness (Go) The Real Faith Of God Is What You Need For Fulfillment (Go) Real Reality. Seek Truth. Truth Fulfills. Lies Frustrate (Go) You Need Love If You Want Fulfillment, But What Is It Really? (Go) The Work of the Holy Spirit (Go) Fulfillment Through Understanding and Practicing The Power and Authority Of Rightous Prayer (Go) God's Wisdom (Go) How You Can Be Free Of Sin And Walk In Total Holiness (Go) Your Purpose in Life (Go) Author/Compiler Last updated: Dec, 2011 |
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Road Map
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The Pattern
Growing in Christ
The Manifestation of the Sons of God
The Wide Way
Christian Witness
The Real God
Purposes of the Church
Fulfillment God's way.
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God has established the pattern of Scripture, for life and for the Church. You can feel free to use the Contact Form further down on this page to ask any question regarding this pattern of Scripture. The Church, the Body of Christ, and discernment of this Body, is the method that God is using to finish the work in His Body. The Body of Christ, God's Temple, is built up by that which every joint supplies, building each other up in love, and the Temple must be built according to the pattern of Scripture. 
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Contact FormYou can feel free to use this Contact Form to ask any question regarding this pattern of Scripture. The Church, the Body of Christ, and discernment of this Body, is the method that God is using to finish the work in His Body. The Body of Christ, God's Temple, is built up by that which every joint supplies, building each other up in love, and the Temple must be built according to the pattern of Scripture. If you would like to ask any other question on any subject or submit a correction or suggestion you may use this form.Please remember to include your email address if you want an answer. John 10:35b the Scripture cannot be broken, Put a Link To This Page on Your Site. HTML Code: Links: SeekFind.net ~ The Meaning of Life The Meaning of Life Human theology and reasoning is not necessarily correct, but the Bible is without error. The Bible can only be understood by revelation, and revelation is given by the Spirit of God. God does reveal in His own way. But we only know in part. If we think we know any thing, we do not know it as we ought. We are instructed, by God, to keep seeking Him. The Holy Spirit will lead us into all truth. The truth sets us free. Lies bind us. Whoever seeks Jesus does find Him. Jesus is the truth. 
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