What does it mean to you to follow Jesus?

[JIME]

Luke 10:27-28 27 He answered: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" 28 "You have answered correctly," Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live."

True enough! And what does that mean to you in concrete terms? How does that translate into how you live your life?

I agree with Biblicist!!

What does it mean to me?

That no matter what comes my way, I am to keep my eyes focused on Jesus depending on Him, in good times and in bad times.

How does that translate into how you live your life?

Whenever I have problems I know I can go straight to the Lord with them. I have confidence that He will always be there for me, even if I mess up because of my imperfections. I know that He is forever conforming me to His likeness on a daily basis.

[Guest prayer minister]

Following the Lord Jesus Christ and personally accepting the glorious fact of His ONCE-FOR-ALL-TIME (Greek, Jude 1:3b) substitutionary sacrifice on Mt. Calvary implies surely the total & unabashed rejection of all unscriptural, false religious institutions which would attempt to "RE-SACRIFICE" Jesus Christ a million times over via "sacrifices" created by the magic of "transubstantiation" on church altars in direct opposition to settled truths in Hebrews Chapter ten, verses ten to fourteen. It's beyond naivete, a self-destructive fantasy if one ever existed. AMEN & AMEN!

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Hey Arthur,

Can I buy you a latte?

You have made your disdain of the RCC abundantly clear many times. Yeah, I got that.

But , how do YOU live out your life as a disciple of Jesus. What does He expect of you---in concrete terms.

Thanks,

Fiosh

[Guest prayer minister]

Let's get this out of the way from the start...Can we all agree that :

1. you can't "work your way into heaven" ?

2. there is no salvation without Jesus' sacrifice on the cross

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Ok, with that established, what, if anything, does Jesus expect from you as His follower?

Thanks,

Fiosh

[Guest prayer minister]

To follow him is to give up self and love others as we love our self.

and to go unto the world spreeding the word of GOD.

to lead others unto the loving grace of GOD.

to pray one for another so that GODs will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

GODs will is that none will pairish----

are you goimg, are you spreading the word of GOD, are you loving your nieghbor

as you love your self, and are you praying one for another.

[Vickilynn]

Shalom,

My answer is my life verse:

Micah 6:8

8 He has told you, O man, what is good;

and what does the LORD require of you

but to do justice, and to love kindness,

and to walk humbly with your God?

[followerofjesus]

Believe , Perform the Lords will , and lay down your life from self. When my time has ended on Earth it will be when the Lord has decided I have helped enough of my fellow man, when I'm done I'm gone man.I 'll see you all at the river of life to raise a cup.

Peace out

[peaceafire]

For me I guess I tend to keep it quite simple.."Be where I am, while I am there."

As I live my life 'in Christ' I give glory to God for those moments when I realize to follow Him is to simply be awake to that which is right before me.

For example right now I am typing in a thread to Glorify God, I pray that is what I actually do through Him, I type, and move on to the next thing that is in front of me. sometimes its prayer, sometimes its service, sometimes its self evaluation to the core of my sin, sometimes its just be still and Know God.

[Fiosh]

Let's get this out of the way from the start...Can we all agree that :

1. you can't "work your way into heaven" ?

2. there is no salvation without Jesus' sacrifice on the cross

***************************************************************************

Ok, with that established, what, if anything, does Jesus expect from you as His follower?

Thanks,

Fiosh

You are quite correct in that we do not "Work our way into heaven", but there are certain works that Jesus does expect from us as believers. We know that by the way of the book of James that faith with out works is dead. Meaning that we just can't go around saying we believe in Jesus. It takes more than that. Some have already given examples -

Matthew 16:24-27 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

There are two lives that I can choose to live on this earth - a carnal one where I live after my flesh or a spiritual where I deny my flesh to live by Christ's commandments.

The works that we do are the works of the putting away the things of the flesh and of the things that we deny ourselves so that we can do the things in which God commands of us.

Ephesians 4:21-32 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

This is also part of the will of God and Christ that also change our inner man and to quit sinning. When we change our inner man we will sin less because our hearts change to do that which Christ requires of us more than wanting to fulfill the lusts of the flesh which is sin.

What Christ requires of us is faith, love, and obedience to his words which is what makes up the New Testament.

Luke 10:25-28 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

Let's define this a little more. What does it mean to love my neighbor and myself?

Romans 13:8-10 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

We also know that if we say that we love God we will keep his commandments -

John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Remember what was said above in that in order to inherit eternal live we must love our God with all our hearts and our neighbors as ourselves. We also see that we carry these out by obeying the commandments set before us.

So we can see that along with faith and love for our God that we are also required to live our lives according to the commandments and law set before us.

Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

We see even by this scripture that it takes more than faith to enter into heaven. We must also do the will of God to enter into heaven and God's will is that deny ourselves of our lusts on this earth and walk after the commandments Christ brought to us.

Jesus' sacrifice on the cross was just the beginning of Christianity. He opened the door and it is up to us to walk through it. Christ offered his life to save the world of their sins, but it is up to me to live the life as a Christian should.

Very well said!

[MeCajunboy]

Let's get this out of the way from the start...Can we all agree that :

1. you can't "work your way into heaven" ?

2. there is no salvation without Jesus' sacrifice on the cross

***************************************************************************

Ok, with that established, what, if anything, does Jesus expect from you as His follower?

Thanks,

Fiosh

That's an easy one for me, at least!

By following Jesus, means to "be like HIM" by not repeating my sins (cross) and the like! Now, this is not an easy thing to accomplish for great lengths of time, unless you are close in your relationship with God and constantly in check with HIM. I find by giving routine thanks and praise throughout the day, helps me to stay under his shelter of protection from the daily secular misfortunes in life......Another words, to imagine everything satan despises and rejects, is what I try to anticipate and do the opposite! TO BE LIKE CHRIST!

BLESSINGS

CAJUNBOY

[Fiosh]

Let's get this out of the way from the start...Can we all agree that :

1. you can't "work your way into heaven" ?

2. there is no salvation without Jesus' sacrifice on the cross

***************************************************************************

Ok, with that established, what, if anything, does Jesus expect from you as His follower?

Thanks,

Fiosh

That's an easy one for me, at least!

By following Jesus, means to "be like HIM" by not repeating my sins (cross) and the like! Now, this is not an easy thing to accomplish for great lengths of time, unless you are close in your relationship with God and constantly in check with HIM. I find by giving routine thanks and praise throughout the day, helps me to stay under his shelter of protection from the daily secular misfortunes in life......Another words, to imagine everything satan despises and rejects, is what I try to anticipate and do the opposite! TO BE LIKE CHRIST!

BLESSINGS

CAJUNBOY

Cool way to look at it.

Thanks, Cajunboy!

F