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Stamped For The Dance  I am a lousy dancer. I really
am. Now you need to know in sixth grade though, I learned
how to minuet and to square dance. Did very well those
two dances and by junior high I started to get introduced
to the fast dance. I was in trouble. So I kinda laid
backed while all my friends jumped and spun to
"Shaft" and "Saturday Night Fever"
and those songs. By the time I had gotten to high school,
I thought that somehow I ought to be able to come close.
And so, I mustered up the nerve and I walked out onto the
gym floor and tried to step out the beat of "Born to
be Wild." By the time I was done my friends had
convinced me I was born to be seated.This
month we are going to focus on what it is to dance with
our walk in Christ. Using the word from I Thessalonians
4, verses 1 through 7, we will learn that we indeed are
invited not to a dogged religious plod, but to a living,
spirited dance. Especially for the rhythmically impaired
like me. I want us to focus our time together as we lay
out the dance steps of the truth that God has made us.
You see the truth is, we were made to dance. We were
created to move in sync with the God who created us for
Himself --to be in relationship with Him. Listen to
Paul’s insights from I Thessalonians 4: |
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| I Thessalonians 4:1-7 1: Finally, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, you do so more and more. 2: For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3: For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from unchastity; 4: that each one of you know how to take a wife for himself in holiness and honor, 5: not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God; 6: that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we solemnly forewarned you. 7: For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness. |
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you- --urge you is more like it --that you keep on doing
what we told you to do to please God, not in a dogged
religious plod, but in a living, Spirited dance. You know
the guidelines we laid out for you from the master Jesus.
God wants you to live a pure life .... God hasn’t
invited us to a disorderly unkempt life but into
something holy and beautiful --as beautiful on the inside
as the outside. Imagine a conversation between the
BIG THREE -- you know --Father, Son , and the Holy
Spirit. It’s just before the world was created and
imagine they are sitting there sipping their Celestial
Seasons herbal mint tea. The Spirit says to God,
"I’m just a little bit nervous about this idea
of giving human beings free choice. I mean you know we
already suffered that loss in the angels department with
Lucifer when he tried to have his own free choice and
bailed on us. Are you sure you want to allow humans to
make their own choices? You know everything, but I would
guess that these humans will try to become God instead of
being like God. |
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