Post by revrob1 on May 17, 2010 11:14:40 GMT -5
Rev Robert C Arnold
.MARK 8:34
"TAKE UP HIS CROSS"
THE CROSS OF CHRIST IS A SYMBOL OF SUFFERING.
1PET 2:21;4:13
DEATH.ACTS 10:39
SHAME .HEB 12:2
RIDICULE.MAT 27:39
REJECTION. 1PET 2:4
AND SELF DENIAL.MAT 16:24
MY NOTES....WHEN WE AS BELIEVERS,TAKE UP OUR CROSS AND FOLLOW CHRIST.
WE DENY OURSELVES,AND COMMIT OURSELVES TO FOUR AREAS OF STRUGGLING:
1.WE SUFFER IN A LIFELONG BATTLE AGAINST"SIN"
2.BY CRUCIFYING OUR "SINFUL:DESIRES"
3.WE SUFFER A WAR AGAINST SATAN AND THE POWERS OF HIS DARKNESS AS WE ADVANCE THE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
4.WE EXPERIENCE BOTH HOSTILITY OF THE ADVERSARY AND HIS DEMONIC HOST.
PERSECUTION THAT COMES FROM THAT COMES FROM "STANDING AGAINST "FALSE TEACHERS WHO DISTORT THE TRUE GOSPEL"
WE SUFFER THE HATRED AND SCORN AND RIDICULE OF THE WORLD OF SINFUL MAN WHO KNOWS NOT THE SAVIOR AS WE DO.
BY TESTIFYING IN LOVE THAT THE WORLDS DEEDS ARE EVIL.
BY SEPARATING OURSELVES FROM IT BOTH "MORALLY AND SPIRITUALLY."
AND BY REFUSING TO ACCEPT ITS STANDARDS AND ITS VIEWS...OR CONFORM TO ITS UN BIBLICAL SYSTEMS.
WHEN WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE WOMAN WHO RIDES THE BEAST THEN WE ARE CONSIDERED THE ENEMY OF THE WORLD BECAUSE WE WILL NOT CONFORM...
"WE WILL NOT GIVE IN"AS I SAID AND WILL KEEP SAYING AS PAUL DID..."WE ARE ALIENS WE ARE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THIS WORLD WE ARE VISITING UNTIL WE ARE CALLED TO OUR REAL AND TRUE HOME...THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN" AS MY BROTHER IN THE MINISTRY READ THIS VERY BOOK AND CHAPTER AND VERSE I WENT HOME THINKING DEEPLY ON THIS AND GOD TOLD ME TO SIT DOWN AND BREAK THIS DOWN...AND HE DROVE IT HOME TO MY HEART AND MY MIND AND MY SOUL...GOD BLESS YOU MY BROTHER AND FRIEND REV TROY
SO AS IT IS MY MANDATE FROM GOD ON MY LIFE THAT I SHARE WHAT I HAVE LEARNED AND WHAT GOD HAS ME TO SHARE WITH ALL WHO WILL HEAR IN LOVE REV ROBERT C ARNOLD FOR HIS SERVICE DAILY AND TO HIS GLORY FOR LIFE/AMEN