The Perfect Work - Part #8
We concluded The Book of James and We are Enlightened to know the Hope of our Calling! The Hope of our Calling is The Perfect Work in Us!
James 5 Patient until the Coming of Our Lord!
James 5:1-19, Ephesians 1:18, 2 Peter 1:4, Romans 12:1-2, 2Timothy 3:16-17, Zechariah 4:6, Ephesians 2:10, Is 55:8-13, Rev 2:26, Rev 19:11
WHAT A TIME UNDER THE TREE, WE ARE ENLIGHTENED!
We concluded The Book of James and We are Enlightened to know the Hope of our Calling! The Hope of our Calling is The Perfect Work in Us! The Perfect Work of God, in the Life of Jesus Christ that WE BE as We are created….the new creations, born again, people of GOD, in the Earth!
The Work of Perfection begins with the Sacrifice of His Son, Jesus who loved us in the darkness of our lives. He loved us unconditionally, which means He loved us to die for us even when He knew on our own we would never appreciate, comprehend or love Him in return.
Jesus did it and He did it all, The Sacrifice, The Faith, The Grace, The Mercy, The Compassion…Just like His Father, Our Father who is The Creator of ALL!
The Perfect Work in Us continues in Jesus that we grow and mature in our divine nature. That the carnal thinking and carnal mindsets are RENEWED in the higher thoughts and ways of Our God. What is carnal thinking? The nature of the human mindset without God or His way, His truth in and of Jesus Christ.
The Perfect Work is to bring us UP in Jesus and His Word that God's “Handy Work” is seen and known in our gifted lives as the children of God!
Jesus has demonstrated and brought the Right Way of thinking and doing, loving and enduring with the expectation and anticipating of the supernatural truth of God’s desire in and through us! The Book of James, as written by Holy Spirit through the Life of Apostle James, REMINDS, REFRESHES us that Jesus has something to say about our worship unto Our Father, in our endurance of this Journey called life, and our interactions with others!
The Father has a “Good Work” in us, and when we know The Good Work and do not do it, WE CHRISTIANS are producing sinful acts and dishonoring the One who begets, loves, and saved us.
The Book of James Instructs, Builds, Edifies Us to be HEARERS AND DOERS OF the Word! To Hear and NOT do…. is sin.…. And we are His Children!
Read the Book of James AGAIN and seek the Father for His thoughts and His ways concerning;
Trials, Temptations, Taming the Tongue, Discernment and Decisions, Treatment of others, The rich and riches, the poor, the Sick, the Suffering, the Cheerful and those wondering from the Truth!
Apostle James makes it clear…Our Father has something to say about all these areas, and what He says is righteous and His holiness. Are you in His will and willing before Him in even these? The question that is asked is, WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? This is the question we must ask ourselves daily, the answer will encourage you or bring The Light to a dark place as one in Jesus Christ.
I pray You seek What the Father is saying to us today, and remember and trust that it is in Jesus Christ, that He hears and will empower you to honor Him, in your seeking! Jesus is Coming Back for those who have conquered and keep His Word until the end.
BE FAITHFUL BECAUSE FAITHFUL AND TRUE IS YOUR LORD!
It’s an Intentional Journey….It’s the Godly Life!
Frances Archer
Terebinth Moreh Ministries
The Perfect Work - Part #7
The purpose of a question is to EVOKE, ENGAGE, and EMPOWER your MIND to ANSWER! What is more important is WHO is asking for an ANSWER!
James 4 Questions Questions Questions!
James 4:1-17, John 21:15-25, 1 Corinthians 2:14, 1 John 5:3, John 14:15, John 14:21, Ephesians 4:30-5:17, John 15:14-15, Romans 8:7, Romans 16:17, John 8:15,
The purpose of a question is to EVOKE, ENGAGE, and EMPOWER your MIND to ANSWER! What is more important is WHO is asking for an ANSWER! Apostle James asks several questions in James 4 that bring our minds, and thoughts to examine ourselves and the Body of Christ we are ONE with! He brings the very confession of our mouth to confront the submission of our hearts. Encouraging us to ask ourselves, Am I truly a Hearer and Doer of our Lord Jesus Christ, to Glory of Father?
Apostle James from Chapter 1, now in Chapter 4 continues to in practical wisdom expose the ACTIONS and WAYS of Ones in Jesus Christ and the Fruit they bear. “What is your Life?” James asks the people of God. This is not a question of self-examination but a question to define the great meaning; THE ANSWER of your remembrance, your recall, your thoughts of YOUR life…What is it?
IS IT A POSSESSION OF GOD? 1 PETER 2:9
IS IT A TEMPLE OF GOD? 1 CORINTHIANS 3:16
IS IT OWNED BY GOD 1 CORINTHIANS 6:20
IS IT CREATED BY GOD? 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17
Of the 5 questions we discussed Under The Tree, The last question demands an answer from within each of us daily. If THIS LIFE, is given to steward as the possession of God, does THIS LIFE honor the Giver of Life?
Each of us must answer these questions daily in spirit and truth! They must be answers that demonstrate with a willing heart the gratitude for the gift of Life in Jesus Christ! Remember it’s not Apostle James asking the questions in scriptures, but the Holy Spirit revealing to us the very voice of God. (2Peter1:21)
Be encouraged today, that God has given us the Holy Spirit in the Life of Jesus Christ, that we have the Helper to answer the questions of our lives, but we must give Him all of us that we become all of Him…our minds, our wills, our emotions, to the saving of our very souls.
What is your life? Answer: It’s God!
If that is your truth, Live it in Jesus’ Name!
IT’S AN INTENTIONAL JOURNEY….IT’S THE GODLY LIFE!
Frances Archer
Terebinth Moreh Ministries
The Perfect Work - Part #6
The Tongue is an interesting part of the human body! It forms sounds and words by coordinating intricate movements to blend sounds that shape the very air that comes from very lungs.
Your Tongue and Your Wisdom: Are you Peculiar in your trials, treating others, & now…your Tongue and Your thought?
James 3
James 3:1-18, 1 Corinthians 2:13-14, Hebrews 10:38, 1 Corinthians 2:10-11, 2 Corinthians 5:7, John 16:13, Romans 1:28-32, Deuteronomy14:2, 1 Peter 1:9, Romans 6:13, Romans 12:1-2, Hebrews 1:2
The Tongue is an interesting part of the human body! It forms sounds and words by coordinating intricate movements to blend sounds that shape the very air that comes from very lungs. What we hear is the purpose of the tongue to PRODUCE WHAT THE MIND INSTRUCT IT TO SAY! The tongue is a tool of the body to express and reveal the thoughts, decisions, attitudes, and mind of yourself called Wisdom!
Apostle James in chapter 3 dealing with those who call themselves teachers reveals to us as those Born Again, that “we all" stumble in many ways. He goes on to tell us that “IF a man does not stumble in what he SAYS he is a perfect man.” A person who has matured, come to the completeness of Mind, Spirit, and Body in Jesus Christ!
OUR WORDS, SPEECH, OUR CONVERSATIONS CAN MAKE US STUMBLE AWAY FROM THE THINGS AND THOUGHTS OF OUR LORD!
THINK ABOUT THAT! As James tells us, it should not be that way!
We have the responsibility as those who honor Our Lord, and Our Father to use the Tool of our body to produce from our mind, God's Thoughts; the holy wisdom from above.
We have the responsibility to submit to God in humility to the thinking, and consciousness to His Word as revealed in The Bible that we have His Wisdom to function and operate as His righteous spirits in the earth!
You are a STEWARD of GOD’s Words, His Wisdom, and His Way!
Questions to Consider Today!
*What do you Do with the Knowledge of His Word through the Tool of your tongue?
* Are your Thoughts and your Talk PEPCULAR, different from the world?
Deuteronomy 14:2 includes the verse "For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.(1 Peter 2:9, Titus 2:14)
BEING PECULIAR AS ONE BORN AGAIN IS THE HOLINESS OF GOD SHINING LIGHT UNTO TO HIM!
YOUR TALK SHOWS IT ALL!
It’s an Intentional Journey….It’s the Godly Life!
Frances Archer
Terebinth Moreh Ministries
The Perfect Work - Part #5
What KIND OF FAITH is the Apostle James speaking of in Verse 14? He describes a FAITH that has no “works” of what is known in the heart and mind of someone who “says” they are Born Again.
Can “Such” faith save him? That’s the Question we dove deep into The Word of God to Hear What the Father is Saying!
James 1:25, James 2:14-26, James 2, Ephesians 2:8-9, John 6:29, John 9:4, Matthew 11:2, John 10:25, Matt 5:16, Mark 14:6, John 3:19, Acts 7:22, 13:2, John 14:12, Hebrews 11:1-6, Joshua 2:8-12, 1 Peter 1:9, Galatians 5:22-25
What KIND OF FAITH is the Apostle James speaking of in Verse 14? He describes a FAITH that has no “works” of what is known in the heart and mind of someone who “says” they are Born Again.
You have to ask yourself, is this the same FAITH that God gives us to be born (Ephesians 2:8)? Is it even the FAITH that one Born Again lives revealing God from Faith to Faith (Romans 1:17), better yet is this the same FAITH that brings us to the expected end of salvation (1Peter 1:9)????
Apostle James reminds the Believers and Followers and Servants, the BROTHERN of Jesus Christ, that FAITH, given by God through which GRACE travels is A Faith that has Evidence: "Works" of The Perfect Work within each and every WHOSOEVER(John 3:16).
The Perfect Work of God in you is made Perfect, Complete, and Fulfilled by Works OF Faith! Faith is not completed without the RESPONSIVE EVIDENCE of your belief in God and His Word that has MADE you! Faith: the knowledge, truth, and understanding discerned by Holy Spirit to you,(1 Cor 1:24) Concerning Your God, Your Lord, and King that is known in your mind and heart. Faith MUST become Your truth that you produce Who You Are, The Righteousness of God! You Be Holy as I am Holy, Says the Lord! (1Peter 1:16)
Hearers and Doers of The Word are the Perfects Work of God. Hearer and Doers sacrificially give their lives to Christ, just as Christ gave His life for us…That’s why we are called Friends of God! WE Hear and Do in response to the Great Love and Power of God the Father, in His Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ!
Faith(Hebrews 11:1) is the beginning Works of God in the Believer, but for it to BE COMPLETED…the Evidence of His Work(of Faith) must be SEEN, DEMONSTRATED, EXECUTED IN YOU, IN THE EARTH! If not, it is not completed therefore it is dead, void in the Believer’s life!
What does it Profit you Brother and Sister in Christ to “Say” and you have no “Works?” Is your Confession of Christ, maturating you, growing you, increasing you, multiply you OR are you dead? Does Christ in you produce the Great Work of Saving Grace in your life, that you BE in the Image and likeness of your Lord of Confession? Questions are Mirrors, look and Don’t Forget! God does mighty exploits through us, but His GREAT WORK is IN US! (John 6:29)
Live out your Faith, completing it with God's works! Not to please man, but that mankind be able to SEE your God and His Great Truth and Way in YOU! Be the Evidence, The Witness, The Living Sacrifice that you ARE the Proof of His Good and Pleasing Will in the Earth (Romans 12:1-2)
RETHINK YOUR WORKS In The LIfe of Jesus!
Frances Archer
Terebinth Moreh Ministries
The Perfect Work - Part #4
The law of liberty is not a set of rules or regulations, rituals, or ceremonies. James, who is Jewish and now Born Again, reminds dispersed Christians they are NOT under the previous Law of “Do Right” and “God will Bless You”.
James 1:25, James 2:12, Romans 6:23, John 3:33, Galatians 6:2, Romans 8:1-4, Deuteronomy 10:17, Galatians 5:1, 6:2, Matthew 22:38-40, Hebrews 10:16
THE LAW OF LIBERTY! THIS IS YOUR FREEDOM…
The law of liberty is not a set of rules or regulations, rituals, or ceremonies. James, who is Jewish and now Born Again, reminds dispersed Christians they are NOT under the previous Law of “Do Right” and “God will Bless You”.
But NOW! They are under the FREEDOM that Jesus Christ has walked them right IN through faith. Apostle James brings to the forefront of their very thinking that because of THIS FREEDOM, God the Father sustains you, keeps you, matures you, protects you, carries you, empowers you, and blesses you!
In this Freedom given By Jesus Christ IN His life, you are not to forget you are created and made a new creation in Christ when you consider God and His people. What are you to remember?
That IN Jesus Christ you ARE:
The Family of God Romans 8:14
The Possession of God 1 Peter 2:9
The Temple of God 1 Corinthians 3:16
The Glory of God Colossians 1:23
The law of liberty is the fundamental principle (authoritative Word of God) and godly standard (quality) that transcends from the Old Testament into the New Testament because they are God’s Character! His principle is like Him, Righteous and Holy! God measures and judges “GOODNESS” “Righteous” and “HOLY” by Himself!
You are Free to Worship God with all your heart, mind, soul, and your strength, and Trust Him for your keeping because He is YOUR Father IN Jesus Christ!
You are Free to Love your neighbor as yourself (the self, the worthy person Jesus died for) and be dependent on God to supply your every need even when “neighbors” do not in return.
Freedom in the fundamental principles of God is that you are empowered by the Holy Spirit who dwells in you to Freely Serve God in the Life of Jesus Christ! And Blessings Come from God Himself in the obedience of The Way to live like God, reflecting Him in moral actions and deeds of your life.
You don’t have to manipulate God to Bless you! In the life of Jesus Christ given, you have access to every spiritual blessing through obedience! Apostle James tells us to “look into the law of liberty” and “Continue” in it, be “Doers” of it!
What does Jesus teach and demonstrate to us in the Word of God, concerning our reasonable service of Worship?, How to treat people? How to meet the needs of others? How to endure in the sacrifice of self for the “will of God”? Look into The Word, find the answer, Continue in the principles of God in your mind and exercise them in your life…That is what you are Judged by, Your Obedience of Christ’s reflection of God, IN Christ! It’s called Freedom! It’s called Rewards!
James 2:12 (AMP) Speak and act [consistently] as people who are going to be judged by the law of liberty [that moral law that frees obedient Christians from the bondage of sin].
Frances Archer
Terebinth Moreh Ministries
The Perfect Work - Part #3
We are to Honor the people, those created by HIM! We are to hold them, in high regard...WHY? Because God created them and Values them, all of us! This includes Christians and those to be born again!
We thank Jesus for Revelation and Wisdom to be led by the Spirit of God in our daily relationships with people.
Scripture references: James 2:1-12, Deuteronomy 10:17
We are to Honor the people, those created by HIM! We are to hold them, in high regard...WHY? Because God created them and Values them, all of us! This includes Christians and those to be born again! The Father demonstrates His great value to all mankind in that he sacrifice His son for our very lives! Who are you to demean, devalue or dishonor God's created ones? Jesus died for them too!
With this mindset, we are to honor those, created by God, fairly! We are not to practice favoritism based on earthy hierarchies, possession, power, or positions! Our value of others should always be founded on the value of God towards them, and He treasures them whether you do or not!
Trust God to connect you, prosper you, increase you, and satisfy your every need, not man. He may use your brothers or sisters in the blessing of you, but the source IS and will always be Our Father!
Treat all people with honor and respect, kindness and agape love, as an obedient priests and kings of the Lord Jesus in the earth. Do not devalue another because of world perceptions of status to satisfy the selfishness of your flesh. Treat people as led by the Holy Spirit demonstrating the Good and Acceptable Will of the Father and the Faith of your confession!
God is not a respecter of persons, but He FAVORS His creation... people. Let's be like Him, it is called Agape. After it is all said and done by Him, the thing that will remain is Him, and He is LOVE!
Rethink your Relationships and Interactions with others, are they of the God kind?
1 John 4:16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them..
Great Blessing,
Frances Archer
Terebinth Moreh Ministries
The Perfect Work - Part #2
James, the leader of the dispersed people of God, now foreigners in foreign lands, gives the Great Godly Wisdom to Count the current conflicts in their lives as JOY!
Study References: James 1, John 1:14, Philippians 2:7, John 10:29, Job 1,2
RETHINK YOUR TRIALS!
James, the leader of the dispersed people of God, now foreigners in foreign lands, gives the Great Godly Wisdom to Count the current conflicts in their lives as JOY!
JOY!? In times of financial, personal, situational, and circumstantial difficulty…I am to count MY TRIALS, to THINK of THEM as a gladness, a benefit, or even a profit in my life? What would even motivate me to purposely THINK, COUNT, or CONSIDER…my struggles as….. JOY?
The only reference we have as Born Again Christians is the example of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Jesus not only reveals the Father’s will through the Mighty Word of the Holy Scriptures, but He also demonstrates The Word, in earth as a HUMAN! If we are being conformed into His image, His Footsteps are our Stepping Stones!
How did Jesus come into the trial of dying a horrendous death for the beloved of God and have JOY? His motivation; His passion, His inner zeal, and His humility are to……Please God, who is Our Father!
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2
The JOY of Christ was rooted and established in God the Creator, Himself NOT “a feeling” or “outside influence”! The JOY of Christ was rooted in the Father’s predestined willingness to fulfill His own great pleasure and the power of His all-knowing, divine nature to use even the battles of our lives to complete what He started!
The trials in the Father’s Hands may be uncomfortable or even an unyoking place, however as a Born Again Believers in Jesus Christ….”Have you considered by Servant Job?” takes on a whole new meaning!
RETHINK your trials…. Past, present, & the ones to come! As God’s children, His sons and daughters, He is with us and He does not change His mind! It’s in our dirty places whether allowed or orchestrated, that God is doing a MIGHTY WORK IN US…
It’s Called the Perfect Work!
JAMES 1:4 BUT LET PATIENCE HAVE ITS PERFECT WORK, THAT YOU MAY BE PERFECT AND COMPLETE, LACKING NOTHING.
Frances Archer
Terebinth Moreh Ministries
The Perfect Work - Part #1
Perseverance…Endurance…Patience…is an Attribute of God(2Pet3:9)…. Its called Longsuffering! Here’s the RUB..its in you if you are Born Again!
MEDITATING ON JAMES 1
Scripture References: Mark 12:29-30, Revelation 4:11, 1 Samuel 15:22, Romans 10:2
Perseverance…Endurance…Patience…is an Attribute of God(2Pet3:9)…. Its called Longsuffering! Here’s the RUB..its in you if you are Born Again! Pushed out by the Trials and Test of your life!! It is the Work of Patience…Endurance…Perseverance that Matures, Brings Completeness And it the Way of No Lack!!
IF you are NOT growing in Christ, becoming more of Him each day…
IF you NOT recalling your Hope and future of Eternal life you live…
IF you have Lack of the known promises of God in your life…
CONSIDER your NEXT Trial or Test as The Joy of the Lord and Let IT have it’s Perfect Work in You! God’s Hands not only GIVE , they MOLD you!!
Read James 1 AGAIN and Renew your Mind! TMM