PASSIONATE PURSUIT...HOW CAN WE COMPARE?

2 Corinthians 10:8-12
FOR THOUGH I SHOULD BOAST SOME WHAT MORE OF OUR AUTHORITY, WHICH THE LORD HATH GIVEN US FOR EDIFICATION, AND NOT FOR YOUR DESTRUCTION, I SHOULD NOT BE ASHAMED:
THAT I MAY NOT SEEM AS IF I WOULD TERRIFY YOU BY LETTERS.
FOR HIS LETTERS, SAY THEY, ARE WIGHTY AND POWERFUL; BUT HIS BODILY PRESENCE IS WEAK, AND HIS SPEECH IS CONTEMPTIBLE.
LET SUCH AN ONE THINK THIS, THAT WE ARE IN WORD BY LETTERS WHEN WE ARE ABSENT, SUCH WILL WE BE ALSO IN DEED WHEN WE ARE PRESENT.
FOR WE DARE NOT MAKE OURSELVES OF THE NUMBER, OR COMPARE OURSELVES WITH SOME THAT COMMEND THEMSELVES: BUT THEY MEASURING THEMSELVES BY THEMSELVES AMONG THEMSELVES, ARE NOT WISE.
The Lord uses the Apostle Paul to confirm that we indeed have been given authority but it is to be used to lead and guide a sister and brother about in the path of righteousness. We ought not abuse the privilege of being in unity with his Holy Ghost. He gave us power and authority for the edification and the building of the body and not to destroy each other.
Therefore, let us be reminded that we are to seek ye first the kingdom of God and all of his righteousness and all other things will be added. The things that we speak of in letter in what ever form of communication should have actions of obedience and we our obedience is fulfilled the Lord will surely handle those that trouble us. The word is alive. Jesus is our lively hope. He has made us lively stones and no gate of hell can prevail against us.
Sying these things, let us not give into the multitude and the popular way of hypocrisy and self-righteousness. They boast of themselves and compare themselves with themselves while attempting to condemn the guiltless. There is none righteous and there is no condemnation in Christ. Therefore, Let us keep ourselves in the love of Christ. Some put themselves as a standard in the flesh and do not impart of the righteousness of Christ. We must keep Jesus Christ and King David as a standard in our lives to live by.
Matthew 12:7
BUT IF YE HAD KNOWN WHAT THIS MEANETH, I WILL HAVE MERCY AND NOT SACRIFICE, YOU WOULD NOT HAVE CONDEMNED THE GUILTLESS.
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