Never Enough HEB 13:5,6 By Dr. Paul Chappell

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Never Enough

by Dr. Paul Chappell

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

Hebrews 13:5-6

A few years ago, the Wall Street Journal reported: “A pair of True Religion’s Super T jeans, identifiable by their over-sized white stitching, cost around $50 a pair to make, were sold wholesale at $152, and retailed for $335. One brand consulting expert noted, 'The cost of creating those things has nothing to do with the price. It is all about who else is wearing them, who designed them, and who is selling them.'”

It isn't on any list of businesses you might find, but much of our world is shaped and directed by the discontent industry. Advertising, media, and public figures all send us the message that what we are or what we have doesn't measure up, and we should be looking for something new. If we just got that car or this house or that perfume or this job, we could be happy, the message tells us. But it is a false promise. A person who is not content with what they have today will not be content with what they get tomorrow, no matter how great or impressive it is.

The only true source of contentment is found in the person of Jesus Christ, who has graciously given us much more than we deserve and who has promised to meet every need that we have. David wrote, “Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over” (Psalm 23:5). Faith believes that God will keep His promises, and that in having Him we already have everything we need. That is our most powerful protection against the sin of covetousness.

Today's Growth Principle:
Unless our contentment is in Christ, we will never be satisfied—no matter how much we get.

Keep The Fire Bright A.B Simpson

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Keep The Fire Bright

Let us abide in Him. It is much easier to keep the fire burning than to rekindle it after it has gone out. Let us not have to remove the cinders and ashes from our hearthstones every day and kindle a new flame; but let us keep it burning and never let it expire. Among the ancient Greeks the sacred fire was never allowed to go out. So, in a higher sense, let us keep the heavenly flame aglow upon the altar of our hearts. It takes much less effort to maintain a good habit than to form it. A true spiritual habit once formed becomes a spontaneous tendency of our being, and we grow into delightful freedom in following it. Let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works (Hebrews 6:1); whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing (Philippians 3:16). Every spiritual habit begins with difficulty and effort and watchfulness. But if we will only let it get thoroughly established, it will become a channel along which the currents of life will flow with divine spontaneousness and freedom. As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him -Colossians 2:6

The Standard Eph 4:13 by A.B Simpson

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The Standard
God loves us so well that He will not permit us to take less than His highest will. Some day we shall thank our faithful Teacher who kept the standard inflexible and then gave us the strength and grace to reach it. We shall thank Him who would not excuse us until we had accomplished all His glorious will. Let us be inexorable with ourselves. Let us mean exactly what God means, and have no discounts upon His promises or commandments. Let us keep the standard up, and never rest until we reach it. Let God be true, but every man a liar (Romans 3:4). Even if we fail a hundred times, let us not accommodate God's ideal to our thinking, let us rather be like the brave ensign who stood in front of his company waving the regimental banner. When the soldiers tried to call him back, he only waved the banner higher and cried, "Don't bring the colors back to the regiment; bring the regiment up to the colors." Forward, forward, leave the past behind thee, Reaching forth unto the things before; All the Land of Promise lies before thee, God has greater blessings yet in store. Unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ -Ephesians 4:13

The Father Luke 10:21 by F.B Meyer

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THE PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

"In that same hour He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, that Thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes: yea, Father; for so it was well pleasing in Thy sight."-- Lk 10:21.

IN THAT same hour. It was an hour of great congratulation for the little band of disciples. The seventy had returned with joy. They had tried the talisman of His Name with demons and disease, and it had triumphed. Our Lord yielded to the gladness of His followers, and gave Himself up to an unusual burst of happiness.

Notice His habitual mode of address to God. Twice He speaks to Him as Father. Thus in joy, equally as in the sorrow of Gethsemane and the anguish of death, the Fatherhood of God was the Rock of Ages to the Man Christ Jesus, in the cleft of which He hid Himself. Only Jesus knew what God was and could be to the lonely soul. As the mountain is reflected in the lake at its foot, so the Father saw Himself perfectly reflected in Jesus.

Inscribed over the portico of an Egyptian temple are these words: "I am he that was and shall be, and no man hath lifted my veil." In this connection it is significant that when our Saviour died, the veil of the Temple was rent from the top to the bottom. Before that hour the knowledge of God had been confined to the few elect souls, and to these it came as through a glass darkly; but from that hour the innermost secret of God's love has been disclosed. And that unveiling of the Father's heart is typical of the work of our Lord for us all.

We must be child-like. The ways of God are revealed unto babes. The child is pure; is humble. It is to the transparent and simple heart that Jesus waits to give Himself.

We must be prepared to say Yes to God. Our Lord was face to face with one of the great mysteries of Providence; why certain things are hidden from some and revealed to others; but He rolled the whole perplexity back on the Father, and was at rest. When in a deaf and dumb school, a visitor wrote on the blackboard: "Why did God make you deaf and dumb, and me able to speak and hear?" One of the children took the chalk and wrote beneath: "Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Thy sight."

We must pass on to others what we know. He will not teach us merely for our own gratification, but that we may benefit others thereby.

Love Tied Up in "NOTS" 1 Cor. 13 by A.B Simpson

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Love tied up in nots

The graceful dress of the Hindu woman is fastened upon her person by means of a single knot. The long strip of cloth is wound around her so that it falls in soft folds like a ready-made garment. The end, however, is fastened by a little knot, and the whole thing hangs by that single fastening. So it is in the spiritual life; our habits of grace can be compared to garments. It is also true that the garment of love, which is the beautiful adorning of the child of God, is entirely fastened by little nots. If you will read First Corinthians chapter 13 with care, you will find that most of the qualities of love are purely negative. Love . . . envieth not, love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil. Here are "nots" enough to hold on our spiritual wardrobe. Here also are reasons enough to explain the failure of so many, and the reason why they walk naked, or with torn garments, allowing others to see their shame. Let us look after the nots. Charity . . . doth not behave itself unseemly -1 Corinthians 13:5

The List Of The Eye J.H Jowett

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THE LUST OF THE EYE

Genesis 13:10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.

LOOK at Lot. He was a man of the world, sharp as a needle, having an eye to the main chance. He boasted to himself that he always “took in the whole situation.” He said that what he did not know was not worth knowing. But such “knowing” men have always very imperfect sight. Lot saw “all the well-watered plain of Jordan,” but he overlooked the city of Sodom and its exceedingly wicked and sinful people. And the thing he overlooked was the biggest thing in the outlook! It was to prove his undoing, and to bring his presumptuous selfishness to the ground.

Look at Abram. His spirit was cool and thoughtful, unheated by the feverish yearning after increased possessions. He had a “quiet eye,” the fruit of his faithful communion with God. He was more intent on peace than plenty. He preferred fraternal fellowship to selfish increase. And so he chose the unselfish way, and along that way he discovered the blessing of God. “The Lord is mindful of His own. He remembereth His children.” In the unselfish way we always enjoy the Divine companionship, and in that companionship we are endowed with inconceivable wealth.

The Bird Song Col 2:10 Gene Kissinger

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 redeeming the time brothers podcast a podcast by Gene Kissinger and Norman Kissinger, two brothers who spent their lives in ministry and raising large families. Our desire is to provide a digital place for those who longed to belong. And as always, we want to leave a nightlight on for you that nightlight is of Colossians chapter two and verse 10, just part of the verse, ye are complete in him, ye are complete in him, and that him is Christ and that you are ye as you are completeness is found in Jesus, he completes me. Yeah, that's what sometimes people say in relationship, she completes me he completes me. Jesus completes us. He's the one that was designed to complete us because we were designed to be in relationship with God. And Christ is the WAY TO HAVE relationship with God. And you may wonder what that has to do with birds. Vance havner, graduated at the same class as Billy Graham out of Columbia Bible Institute. At that time now, Columbia Bible University, he was a great preacher, dynamic preacher, he had a hobby, he loved birdwatching, when he would go to a place he would always take his binoculars and go out and get quiet, and watch the birds and it brought a source of comfort to him.  One of the things that he noted about birds was birds don't sing because they have the answers,  birds sing, because they have a song.  In the Bible we're compared to birds in multiple places.  Jesus would say, consider the the birds of the air. They don't toil and they don't sow into barns, they don't do that kind of stuff,  But God takes care of them.  Then it talks about your worth in other places where God is talking about birds.  He says that a sparrows is sold for half a farthing or you can get to two for a penny, but God notices when one of those sparrows falls out of the air. And then he says, aren't you much more valuable than a sparrow that falls out of the air? But these birds that God watches over them.  They have a song, they don't sing, because they have all the answers but they sing because they're connected to God.  And because they're connected to God, They have a song in their heart. 

    you and I, we don't have all the answers. I don't know what's gonna flow out of all this stuff that's taken place in politics and in our nation right now. I don't have all the answers. But I have a song, because I see Jesus and Jesus has the answers.  His eye is on the Sparrow and I know HE watched me, he is taking care of me.  I'm watching him.  He is the one who has all the answers, I can have a song in my heart and that song is a song of joy, I don't have to be in despair because of this mess that's going on. God never intended this to be the ultimate kingdom, the ultimate kingdom is his kingdom. In fact, he makes it quite plain in the book of Daniel, that all earthly kingdoms will be crushed by a stone that's cut out of a mountain and it rolls down. And it destroys this statue that represents all human government. And that and that stone is Jesus and it becomes an everlasting kingdom. And he's  going to rule with a rod of iron, he's going to rule in a way that none will gain say, he's going to rule in a way that's perfect, and that there'll be no graft or corruption or power politics or back room trading, or all the nonsense that goes on back in DC.    I've been back there, man, I've sat in the offices of congressmen and senators, these guys don't have the answers.  if you you hitch your wagon to any politician, or any political party, they're going to disappoint you. You need to hitch your wagon to Jesus Brother, you need to hitch your wagon to Jesus sister, because he's the one that's got the answers. These political people they don't know.

Now you need to vote,  and vote as biblically as you can for the best candidate you can. But you need to understand something your ultimate allegiance is to Jesus Christ. And because you look to Jesus, you can have a song in your heart. And you don't gotta be in a sense of dismay, 

    Hey, I love you. Jesus loves you. Let's pray. Dear Lord God, I thank you for this day, I pray that you would be with those in leadership in our nation, help them to guide us to a peaceful resolution to this. But Lord also we pray that you would protect our freedoms and protect our ability to be able to have free speech and to vote and to get our message out God we ask for that as well.  Lord we cast all of this on you trusting your watch care, we know that you're taking care of us and we know that you've never fumbled and stumbled you've never made a mistake in the entirety of eternity God we can trust in you. And we just pray that you would be with us in this moment, calm our hearts, and give us back our song because our song comes from watching you not from having all the answers because we know that this side of eternity we won't have all the answers, but you do and we trust you. We don't lean  on our own understanding but in all of our ways we're acknowledging you. Watch out over us as we follow you tonight in Jesus name, amen.

God bless you. I love you But Jesus loves you far more. And you have a great night because no matter who is in the White House, Jesus is on the throne.

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