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Campus Meeting - 2009-10-09 |
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Written by B@LSU Staff
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Thursday, 08 October 2009 21:36 |
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We met last night for the weekly campus meeting of The Believers at LSU and the fellowship was very rich. During the meeting we enjoyed another item of the truth from the book Romans - The Human Conscience as the Law to the Gentiles. Long before the Law of God was given to the Jews at Mt. Sinai, God created man in a very special way, with a human spirit, the leading part of which is the conscience.
Romans 2:14 and 15 say,
"For when the nations, who have no law, do by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves: who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing joint witness, and their reasonings accusing or else excusing one another."
The function of the conscience is just the same as the function of the law. The conscience works to accuse you or excuse you. When the conscience accuses you it means that you are wrong, and when it excuses you it means that you are right. There is something within you by nature, in your nature, that condemns, accuses you or justifies, excuses you. The function of the conscience has preserved the human race throughout history. Simply trusting in the law, the courts, and the police force would not work adequately. There is the need of a fine, inner, and deeper work—the function of the conscience. The function of the conscience not only condemns us, but also causes us to have feelings of shame. But how the human situation has deteriorated in the past fifty years! Today there is open immorality. Some people even boast of their immorality without any sense of shame. It seems as if they do not have a conscience. They are like animals. What is the difference between man and the animals? Man has a conscience that causes him to have a sense of shame.
What is man to do? When he sins, his conscience reubukes him. He often does not want to hear the conscience's rebuke and attempts to drown out the conscience's voice with his reasonings or even willfull disregard. There is only one thing that can deal with the guilt and stains of sin and rebellion in our conscience. Your conscience needs the precious blood of Christ. Hebrews 9:14 says,
"How much more will the blood of Christ...purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"
The blood of Christ is powerful enough to purge, or cleanse, your conscience from every guilty stain.
However, sometimes after you confess and apply the blood you may continue to have some bad feeling within. Does this indicate that your sin is not forgiven? Or that the blood of Christ does not work? Or that something further is needed? You must answer, "Absolutely not!" Where, then, do these bad feelings come from after you have confessed and applied the blood? Their source is God’s enemy, Satan. God has a very short memory when it comes to your confessed and forgiven sins. Jeremiah 31:34 says:
"I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
If God forgets your sins, you may forget them also. Don’t remind God of something He has already forgotten.How then do you deal with Satan's accusations? If you confess your sin and claim the precious blood, yet some uneasiness continues to tug at you within, you should stop praying immediately. Do not confess anymore. Rather, turn to the source of the accusation and say something like this: "Satan, I have confessed my sin to God. He has forgiven my sin, and the blood of Jesus Christ has cleansed me from it. This uneasiness that I sense right now is not from God; it is from you, and I reject it! Satan, now you must look at the blood of Christ. That blood answers every one of your accusations." Try speaking to Satan in this way. When you use the blood in this way, Satan is defeated and he knows it. Revelation 12:10-11 says,
"The accuser of our brothers has been cast down....And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony."
The Christian life is a kind of warfare. For this warfare, you need the proper weapons. One important weapon which you must utilize is the blood of Christ.
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Labor Day Blending Conference |
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Written by N. K.
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Wednesday, 09 September 2009 16:32 |
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Over the Memorial Day holiday I was fortunate enough to travel with three dear brothers to the Southeast Blending Conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida. I have been to many conferences before, but I find it impossible to withhold/hoard the large supply of spiritual riches my journey has uncovered. I will do my best to share the absolute best of the spoils that I have unearthed.
The title of the conference was, ”The Living of a Believer Who Enjoys the Lord in the Body of Christ for the Fulfillment of God’s Eternal Purpose.” Brother Ron Kangas'’s first message changed my very concept on how I view the Lord. In the past, I would agree that Christians could be described as pious, humble, or even content. However, the Lord wants us to enjoy him. Our Christian life should be full of joy! A joyless Christian life is one where something foreign is reigning in us and occupying us. This results in a robbery of the proper enjoyable Christian life. Song of Solomon says, “Your love is better than wine.” The wine in this verse represents the things of the world that usurp the Lord and end up sapping us of our enjoyment of him. We can each personally fill in the blank. Lord, let your love be more enjoyable than Super Bowl wine. Lord, let your love be more enjoyable than romance novel wine. Lord let your love be more enjoyable than Facebook/Twitter/Fantasy Football/Ipod wine. There are many things today that distract us young people from the pure enjoyment of the Lord.
The second portion of riches that I received from Brother Ron’s speaking was the matter of our divine romance with the Lord. As depicted in Song of Solomon, the Bible is a holy romance in the most pure and holy sense, of a universal couple- God in Christ as the Bridegroom and God’s redeemed people as the bride. Were you aware that we are the Lord’s very bride? This is a matter that many masculine brothers have difficulty grasping, but this comes straight from the Bible.
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Campus Meeting Updates - Weeks 2-5 |
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Written by B@LSU Staff
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Wednesday, 07 October 2009 19:18 |
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We have made it through the first five weeks covering The Crucial Points of the Truth in Romans. As we previously wrote , in the first meeting we enjoyed a bird's-eye view of 21 crucial points of the truth revealed in the book of Romans. See the August 27, 2009 report for the details and a copy of the handout with all the points.
On September 3, 2009 we enjoyed a wonderful truth - in His resurrection, Jesus Christ was designated to be the Son of God!
But wait! Wasn't Jesus Christ always the Son of God? Why then does it say in Romans 1:3-4:
"Concerning His Son, who came out of the seed of David according to the flesh, Who was designated the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness out of the resurrection of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord."
Get the outline from the meeting (attached below) to understand.
On September 10, 2009, we continued on the line of Jesus Christ designated to be the Son of God with a consideration of the difference between Jesus Christ as the only-begotten Son of God and Jesus Christ as the first-born Son of God. Have you ever considered that? And if Jesus Christ is the first-born Son of God, what does that make us? - The many sons of God! Hallelujah! 1 Peter 1:13 says
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,"
When Jesus as the Son of Man through death and resurrection was born to be the firstborn Son of God, the millions of God’s chosen people were born in the same birth. You can get this outline below, as well.
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Pursuing with those who call on the Lord |
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Written by N. K.
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Saturday, 15 August 2009 00:00 |
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I entered LSU as a newborn Christian with my priorities as follows: school, work, and any excess/leftover time for my relationship with Christ. My time with LSU Believers has been a blessed and encouraging four year process of putting Christ into the forefront of my life. I now experience Christ as my daily supply, not just someone that I acknowledge once a week for an hour or two. Believers at LSU has given me opportunities to progress in my walk with Christ through: meetings with the other students on campus, eating/fellowship (amazing food!) at local kind and generous family households, Bible studies on campus, college conferences, and prayer meetings. Meetings are never structured or rigid. One recent get together was simply a group of students, alumni, and Christians of all ages singing hymns on couches. Someone brought up a prayer burden and within minutes we were all sharing in his burden and sharing some of our own. Just meeting with the students has revolutionized my view on being a Christian. We are not alone in our walk with Christ. The Christian life is a corporate life. Without other brothers and sisters our faith can so easily be snuffed out, but when we are together we can be burning for the Lord! Students in Believers at LSU are simply living out 2 Timothy 2:22, "But flee youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart." |
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