LORD OR MASTER

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                         LORD OR MASTER

    Some of you Brethren serve to keep me on my toes, and  I like that.  Here
are some additional thoughts that  will serve to identify my point of
approach to the matter.

    1)  The account of the sower sowing on various types  of soil.  Some
soils (Hearts) produced more of a crop  than others did.  And even the GOOD
soil produced 30, 60, and 100 fold.  DEGREES OF LORDSHIP is involved here.

    2)  In  the  Revelation, the seven  great  promises  are assigned  to
 those  who OVERCOME, rather  than  to  the average "Joe" Christian.

    3) In Philipians, Paul describes his struggle to  attain unto the
RESURRECTION of the dead.  The Greek word  here is  used only this one time
in the whole New  Testament.  It means a "standing out from among" the dead.

    4)  The writer of Hebrews tells of the endurance of  the heroes of faith,
and that they would not accept deliverance  (from  persecution) in order to
obtain  a  "BETTER RESURRECTION"

    5) Paul mentions his zeal to suppress tendencies of  the flesh  in  order
 to arrive at a point  of  KNOWING  HIM (Greek  Epignosis,  meaning a full,
 complete,  intimate relationship with Him).

    6)  SALVATION  is based solely upon the  shed  blood  of Jesus.
  DISCIPLESHIP results from personal  efforts  to ascertain  what things
please Him, and a  conscious  expenditure of energy to incorporate them into
our lives.

    7) Sin (Greek Hamartia) means a missing the mark (shooting  of arrows, a
falling short of the mark), and,  yes, we still do it to greater or lesser
degrees, but without the  condemnation  (Rom 8:1) that would  result  from  a
deliberate walking contrary to Godly Principles.

    God Bless!