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7-30-2017 Weekly Message

Meditation of the week: Psalm 37: 1-40

Text: 3 John 1:1-14

The title of the Word: Those Who Walk In The Truth That God Pleases

           Apostle Paul wrote to Gaius that he loved the most in love with him in truth. He also testified in the Holy Spirit that he was blessed with his soul for doing what he did in the truth. He also wrote a prayer that he wishes that the fruits of righteousness will multiply as he does in the truth, as if his soul was doing well,

          Because Apostle Paul said that he loved Gaius in truth, he said that not only the  truth is in Gaius, but he heard evidence from other brothers that he would do according to the truth. Apostle Paul testified in the Holy Spirit that there is no greater joy than to hear his spiritual children walk in the truth.

         Apostle Paul said that Gaius testified about his faithfulness in doing whatever he did to his brethren and strangers because they witnessed the love he had done before the church. The brothers he spoke are those who speak of the brothers in the church, and they speak of evangelists who go as a stranger and preach the gospel to the Gentiles as themselves. Gaius was a spiritual and material servant of the members in the church, and he preached the gospel and testified that when he sent the evangelists who came to the church, he did not send them in empty hands. Also, Apostle Paul testified that he regards those who serve as Gaius as co-workers.

            Apostle Paul warned that there are not only people like Gaius in the church, but also evil workers like Diotrepe. He did not accept Apostle Paul and his coworkers, but rather that he acted as higher than them, but rather they tortured them and interfered with those who received their brothers like Gaius, and even cast them out of the church. Apostle Paul prayed for peace to the true workers, Gaius and Demetrius.

          Apostle Paul testifies to those whose soul prosper, and those who are not. Even though the soul is saved by the circumcision of Christ by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, there are those who are blessed in soul in doing what they hear in the Word of truth, and others who are lazy in reading and meditating on the Word of God, And that they are in the church.

            When God made man, He made him a living soul. But when the first man Adam sinned, because of his sin, the souls of all who are born with his blood, suffered constantly from sin, death, and curse, and were unable to rest in peace.

           God the Lord Jesus Christ has come to this earth for them that are in suffering, and loved those who must suffer forever even  after the death of the flesh, to save their soul from sin, death, and curse. The Lord Jesus  made it clear:

^28“ Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

³⁰ For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.“(Matthew 11: 28-30)

          God sees that the living souls of all men are trapped in the body of sin, bearing all kinds of burdens and living in pain, and have compassion to save their soul from the body of sin while their sinful body are living. He died for all our sins, death and curses so that we may rest forever in him. He purchased our soul  paying his blood to Satan  to redeem us,

          In the words of the disciples spoken by him, we can understand how much suffering he received in his soul for us when he prayed in the Garden Gethsemane.   “… My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death:   …” : 38)

           That is correct! Before the Lord suffered for our sins and died on the cursed wooden cross, and saved us from sin, death, and curse saving the soul of all who believe, by receiving the pains of  the soul of all the people of the world to give the rest  of the soul for us.

          Recognizing this truth, Apostle Peter testified of the salvation of the soul: ” ⁸ Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see [him] not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

⁹ Receiving the end of your faith, [even] the salvation of [your] souls. “(1 Peter 1: 8-9).

            Apostle Paul also testified about how souls were first of all salvaged from the sins of Adam and the circumcision of Christ separate from the body of death and cursing: “ In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:“(Colossians 2:11)

            Therefore, by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, those who are saved from this tremendous suffering must now live a life of flourishing souls saved by the guidance of the indwelling Holy Spirit in the truth  no more looking at the mortal flesh.  Apostle Paul still testified to the carnal Christians who were living according to the flesh: ”  [This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.¹⁷ For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

¹⁸ But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

²⁰ Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

²¹ Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.“(Galatians 5: 16-21)

            When the word of God speaks of the prosperity, it is not about the things of the flesh. By applying the word relating to the flesh. Such a false teaching make them not to led by the Holy Ghost but to lead to the things of unrighteousness. The ruler of this world, the devil, causes God’s children to follow the lusts of the flesh and eventually reap the fruits of these flesh.

       Therefore, the Lord said, “ The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have itmore abundantly.” (John 10:10). It is not the material that thieves steal, but the word of God’s truth. In the Garden of Eden, Eve was stolen from the word of God and gave all the posterity the fleshly lusts, the lust of eyes, and the pride of life.

          That is correct! Those who have received life saved by the soul will have to enjoy the blessing of the soul by enjoying more abundant life. In order to enjoy the abundant life, when we walk in the word of truth and life, we can enjoy a rich life with good soul. A rich life also belongs to Christ by bearing the fruit of the Spirit, love and joy, peace and longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance, crucifying the flesh with passion and lust, In the guidance of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5: 22-24) we are to be  blessed to win many souls in sound body as well.

 Amen! Hallelujah!