Monday, February 24, 2020

Higher Ground

First

"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, 
what you will eat or what you will drink;
nor about your body, what you will put on. 
Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns;
yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not of more value than they?
Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
So why do you worry about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow:
they neither toil nor spin;
and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these.
Now if God so clothes the grass of the field,
which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven,
will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?'
or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
For after all these things the Gentiles seek.
For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness,
nd all these things shall be added to you. 
Matthew 6:25-33 

More

So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, 
"Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?"
He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You."
He said to him, "Feed My lambs."
He said to him again a second time,
"Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?"
He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You."
He said to him, "Tend My sheep."
He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?"
Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you love Me?"
And he said to Him,
"Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You."
Jesus said to him, "Feed My sheep. 
John 21:15-17 


He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me.
And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.
He who finds his life will lose it,
and he who loses his life for My sake will find it. 
Matthew 10:37-39 


If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; 
for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, 
than for your whole body to be cast into hell. 
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; 
for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, 
than for your whole body to be cast into hell. 

Matthew 5:29-30 

All

 Jesus said to him, 
"'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart
with all your soul, and with all your mind.' 
This is the first and great commandment. 
And the second is like it: '
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' 
On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." 

Matthew 22:37-40

Extra

"Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins 
who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 
Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish
Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, 
but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps
Matthew 25:1-4 

Higher Ground

 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; 
but one thing I do, 
forgetting those things which are behind 
and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
 I press toward the goal 
for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus
Philippians 3:13-14 

Better

Now this is the main point of the things we are saying:
We have such a High Priest,
who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
  a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.
  For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices.
Therefore it is necessary that this One also have something to offer.
  For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest,
since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;
  who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things,
as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle.
For He said, "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain."
But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, 
inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, 
which was established on better promises
Hebrews 8:1-6 


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