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* Recognize the origins of your true dignity.
*Your realization of your dignity in Christ is supported by a remarkable force.
* The Holy Spirit functions as a father in your life, mending childhood wounds and improper upbringing.
* The actual treatment for shortness of breath.
* The disadvantages of seeing yourself incorrectly.
* How to construct your true image.
If you do not realize your self-worth and your value to God, you will endure much suffering and struggle, and you will always feel the need to prove yourself. This is what causes many people to be affected by praise and slander “let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,”
Hebrews 12:1 NKJV
- Intrinsic worth:
“What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,” Psalms 8:4-6 NKJV
The psalmist asks here, “Who is a person about whom you care?” God placed you directly beneath him, followed by the angels, who are spirits who serve you. Your understanding of who you are in Christ and your self-worth is what allows you to live a victorious and victorious life here on earth, but if you do not have a proper view of yourself, you will suffer greatly and be affected by people’s praise and vilification of you. Do you see yourself as guilty and constantly reflect on your bad past? If this is the case, it is causing you to make decisions based on what others say about you, and you begin drawing your life according to that rather than what God says about you, and thus you sabotage it.
Others will see you as you see yourself:
“There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” Numbers 13:33 NKJV
Twelve men were sent to scout out the land that the Lord had promised them, and ten of them returned with bad news (eyewitness) and the others with different reports (faith reports).
Some people paint a picture of themselves based on what others say about them (beauty, money, qualifications, etc.). As a result, understand that the image in which you see yourself will be seen by others because what you see and think about yourself will follow, and this is the life of the believer who does not understand the word and whose life is drawn based on his past and the view of others towards him; as a result, you find him very interested in knowing what people say about him and analyzing their words, which makes him spiritually heavy.
Illustrative example:
if you keep telling your child, “You are a failure,” he will see himself as such and will behave accordingly when he grows up.
Look out! Your lack of realization of your image and true value is the source of your weakness and repeated fall into sin, which causes you to question your self-worth and see yourself as despised and humiliated, and from there you try to prove yourself, and you do not see the splendor in others and do not praise the positive in them so that you do not face comparisons against you, and you are internally afraid of others, and this Fear is like a snake that you nurture inside of you.
If the child sees his parents praying, “Forgive us, Lord,” he will form the impression that he is constantly under judgment and dissatisfied with himself. The solution is to find out what the word is about him
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” Romans 8:1 NKJV, not a psychotherapy.
- Your dignity is rooted in your reborn soul:
“All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory. So also, is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so, it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.” I Corinthians 15:39-49 NKJV
Glory is dazzling, and by calling it “animal,” it means that it has no soul, since animals don’t have souls.
“A righteous man regards the life of his animal, But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.” Proverbs 12:10 NKJV
It is sown in corruption,” which means it is open to destruction and dissolution. What happened to Jesus’ body when he rose from the dead will also happen to our bodies, because Jesus says “And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.” I Corinthians 15:49 NKJV- But now we have the same kind of life that Jesus had after his resurrection, with the exception of the salvation of our bodies, which means that if you get sick, you can practice your faith against the disease and be healed.
“Corruption versus incorruption”, “humiliation versus glory”, “weakness versus strength”, “animal versus spiritual” This means that incorruption (not destroying or destroying), glory, strength, and spirituality have become characteristics that distinguish us as God’s children, and these abilities are stored in your soul.
“And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.”
It does not come as “we will be clothed” in the original translations, but rather “let us walk,” as it does in the expanded translation, “As we have clothed ourselves in the image of (the man) who is from the dust, so it is necessary for us to put on the image of (the man) who is from heaven,” because we have risen with Christ, as he says in “and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,” Ephesians 2:6 NKJV; Here he is referring to the resurrected spiritual being; thus, your dignity is in your soul, and if you discover that your dignity is in what Jesus did for you, your life will be transformed.
Your dignity lies in the work of the Holy Spirit in your life:
“Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”Romans 6:4 NKJV
He who raised the Lord Jesus is the glory of the Father, who is the Holy Spirit, because he says in the letter to the Romans “But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.” Romans 8:11 NKJV; Your dignity is found in the work of the Holy Spirit, not in your efforts to demonstrate it, because the power of resurrection works in your body and soul.
- You are a treasure of great price in the sight of the Lord:
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.”
Matthew 13:44 NKJV
“The kingdom of heaven”: It is the sky on earth because the sky became open as a result of what the Lord Jesus did, and everyone who accepts the Lord Jesus as his Redeemer and Master over his life opens his eyes to the open sky, and whenever he knows who is in Christ, he deals with sovereignty and authority on earth, and thus he will not seek to prove himself or search for his dignity in something or A person, and the Lord looks at a person, whether a believer or a sinner, that he is.
- Who are you and where did you come from?!
“And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.” John 13:2-5 NKJV
“The devil having already put in the heart of Judas” means that he suggested; no idea, and Judas accepted it.
The teacher was treated with dignity, respect, and appreciation at the time, and washing the feet of the students was not an easy task. Consider a university doctor washing his students’ feet!! But there was power behind it.
You will be unable to praise others if you do not know divine praise, and you will be fearful of their advancement and development lest they surpass you. For you are unaware that you have been commended by God Himself and are blessed with all things in Christ Jesus.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ”
Ephesians 1:3 NKJV; And you rule out the possibility that this will happen to you, and as a result – unknowingly – you grind others because you do not recognize your own worth.
- What do you think about yourself?!
“For three things the earth is perturbed, Yes, for four it cannot bear up: For a servant when he reigns, A fool when he is filled with food, A hateful woman when she is married, And a maidservant who succeeds her mistress.”
Proverbs 30:21-23 NKJV
The slave sees himself as a slave and always acts like a slave, and when he gains authority over something, the entire earth is disturbed; because he does not believe he is a king, and if you practice your faith towards something, but do not realize that you are an angel and that you possess this thing, you will not see results, because the matter is not only in the spoken words, but to see the true picture of yourself.
A fool is someone who has an empty mind and is empty-headed when he suddenly has money and the world is in turmoil as a result of him. And the outrageous: if she marries, the earth is disturbed because of her; because whoever is put in a position and does not see that he is in this position ruins everything because he does not see the true picture of himself.
Because of their low spirits, the people did not believe Moses when he told them that the Lord had heard their cry and had sent Him to bring them out of Egypt “So Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; but they did not heed Moses, because of anguish of spirit and cruel bondage.” Exodus 6:9 NKJV
The smallness of the soul is caused by not seeing your true image, and the solution is to see your true value, because the one who was born of God became in glory, strength, and incorruption after Jesus’ resurrection, and glory is dignity, but he who was not born of God does not apply to him.
Your true image does not lie in your country, social status, beauty, or outward appearance, as they applauded Saul because of his height; therefore, if your dignity is based on people’s perceptions of you and does not depend on the Holy Spirit, who always praises you, it will crumble sooner or later, but your dignity lies in your resurrection with Christ.
- Understand your true dignity:
“A man who is in honor, yet does not understand, Is like the beasts that perish.” Psalms 49:20 NKJV; A person who does not recognize his own dignity is like a beast that no one cares about or considers, and they decide to slaughter it at any time.
Not understanding the word and tying your dignity to the opinion of others makes you feel insecure and always afraid without knowing why, and fear becomes a trap for you, and you must open your heart to someone who spiritually follows you so that he can help you. Perhaps you are afraid of losing your image if your lack of understanding of the Word is exposed in front of others, and you are working hard to preserve it (your statue), which is one of the reasons you respond to abuse with abuse because you do not know your true image of the Holy Spirit.
“It is not good to eat much honey; So to seek one’s own glory is not glory.” Proverbs 25:27 NKJV
If you seek your own glory, you will suffer greatly and destroy yourself; therefore, the Lord considered this matter and bestowed upon your dignity so that you do not seek it in anything or seek to glorify yourself. Rather, you must understand and follow the dignity and glory that the Lord has bestowed upon you. Dignity is knowing that you will not perish here on earth like beasts, and this has to do with your awareness of your nature, which causes a change in life situations, and the word speaks of your strength.
Vandyke translation
“The wise man fears and turns away from evil, but the foolish boasts and trusts.” (Proverbs 14:16).
Extended translation
“A wise man sees danger and prudently avoids evil, but a fool gets angry with insolence and trusts with arrogance.”
The fool shows his anger very quickly, while the wise and conscious person ignores the mistakes of others, meaning when someone insults you, ignore it and do not return the insult with an insult, and do not seek to preserve your image and dignity; Because you know and understand your position well, and psychiatry does not and will not help you realize your dignity, because it comes from what Jesus did for you, and he who continues unaware of what Jesus did for him will perish.
“For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.”
Galatians 1:10 NKJV
“Shall I sympathize?” Am I trying to persuade or please people?! You need to choose between pleasing people and pleasing God, and if you seek to please God; Some will hate you because they hate Jesus in the first place, and you are not better than your teacher. (Luke 6:40), but there are others who will feel comfortable with you because of your purity of heart and will appreciate and honor you.
This is what the apostle Paul said to Timothy, “Let no one despise your youth” (1 Timothy 4:12); That is, do not let anyone despise you or underestimate you, and this happens when you act in the right way when you realize who you are in Christ and not by studying psychology. Some may not be chosen for promotion because of their lack of purity of heart and lack of behavior in the word, and this is not a punishment from the Lord, but rather a result.
When you are malicious and arrogant in your dealings with others, the right spiritual people will understand you and will not want to deal with you, and you will find the Holy Spirit resisting you because the word says: “God resists the proud, but to the humble He gives them grace” (James 4:6). So the first thing God said to Jacob was to change his name to Israel; That is, he changes his personality even though he was blessed.
You may be blessed with healing, prosperity, and protection, but there are things in which you do not see results in your life because the motives of your heart are not pure, and you do not see the true picture of yourself, and here you must open your heart to the Word and discover who you are in Christ and not be arrogant saying: I know what the Word says completely Rather, you hope that you will be announced in your soul and thus change the image in which you see “and we are all viewed the glory of the Lord with a shredded face, as in a mirror, we seek to the one. (2 Corinthians 3:18).
When you deliberately look at the image that you discovered about yourself in the Word and that the Holy Spirit gave you at the time of your prayer, and you activate your imagination, which is the television of your soul, and you realize that you are a king and a priest, you will know to walk in this image and possess what you see and begin to walk boldly like a lion because the Word says: “…the righteous are like a lion.” fixation.” (Proverbs 28:1), and you must realize that the image in which you act and believe it about yourself is seen by others, and when you act with fear and terror, others will sooner or later discover your weakness.
It is possible that your household will turn against you because of your dependence on the Lord Jesus, so the Lord Jesus said: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.” (Matthew 10:34), but you must differentiate between the pain of persecution and the pain you cause yourself for not walking in the word.
- Know yourself from the inside:
2 Corinthians 5:16-17“Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
Do not look at anyone from a human point of view, because this is what prevents you from hearing the Holy Spirit’s voice and his point of view towards the other, because you may see a person always laughing to hide his sadness because the outward appearance does not express the person’s truth, and so do not be deceived by the appearance, but listen to the Holy Spirit who reveals the essence of matters.
Paul thought Jesus was a regular person, which was wrong. Because of this, he decided not to look at anyone from the outside, which is why Jesus told him, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.”
At first, Jesus’ family thought he was just an average person, but in the end, he won them over. So, if your home turns you down, know that they will see you for who you really are and respect and appreciate you; So, don’t try to figure out who you are based on how you look or what other people say about you (failure, spiritually unstable, useless, etc.).
You might see yourself making mistakes in the past and feel bad about yourself, or you might let Satan put bad images in your head and think that you have hurt someone, lost a loved one, or misunderstood others. Then you think about these images and feel bad, so you must be careful with your thoughts.
You have become righteous, which means you don’t think about stress (Isaiah 14:54). Because of this, you must think and expect good things. For example, if someone is late, don’t think the end of the world is coming. If the phone rings, don’t think something bad is going to happen and start freaking out. Do not be afraid to be in a place where you have bad memories because you are not controlled by your life or the past. Because you became something brand new.
You haven’t been cleaned, but you were made by God, who is the most powerful creator. “Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.” James 1-18 And the Lord Jesus overcame everything that was holding you back. This means you can be in places where you have bad memories without feeling pain or discomfort from certain sounds or smells that remind you of a bad event.
When Satan puts bad thoughts in your head and you start to believe them and act on them, you’re letting evil spirits into your life. The way to stop this is to deal with these thoughts, and if you don’t know how to do that, ask for help from people who are spiritually close to you, because if you don’t know the Bible, you’re walking among a group of spirits. “A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.” Proverbs 21:16
And you start to see things that you think are just thoughts because you don’t know that what you see changes for him. These things are actually demonic work that will kill you.
Don’t let people or situations control your life. You are in charge of your life, and the only way to win in people’s eyes is to eat the word the right way (dialect)This turns you into a lion and makes you strong in the face of life’s challenges and sure of your decisions.
- Give appreciation to God’s Word:
“For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one [a]jot or one [b]tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:18-19
“One letter or one dot,” the Lord Jesus said. “A letter,” because when God changed the name “Sarai” to “Sarah,” He added one letter to her name, and this letter was not left out. This means that God’s promise did not fail and was fulfilled in reality, and the Jews put a lot of value on what God said. So, you must value the Word. If you make fun of it, don’t value it, don’t teach it to your children, or tell others not to value it, you make yourself the smallest person in the kingdom of heaven, because there are people who work to make themselves small and people who work to make themselves big in the kingdom of God. So, if you try to rise in life without knowing the Word, you will stay small.
- Your true value lies in your soul:
” And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. 23 And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty, 24 but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it,” 12 Corinthians 21-24
God doesn’t have to see what you think is great in the same way that you do. Your greatness, dignity, and high head are all connected to the word, so even if you are persecuted, He sets a table for your troubles.
The liver and lungs don’t look pretty, but their functions are more important than those of the hands and feet, which look nice. So, the Holy Spirit wants to teach you not to judge from the outside, but to look at yourself from the inside. People may look down on you, but God doesn’t see you that way, so don’t look at yourself from a certain point of view. People look, but the Holy Spirit looks at you, and when you treat the Holy Spirit with respect, he treats you with respect in a wonderful way.
“but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose [a]praise is not from men but from God.” Romans 2:29
Yes, there is appreciation for the Jew, but it is the heart (soul) that receives God’s praise and admiration.
“For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: “This is My Beloved Son; in whom I am well pleased.” 2 Peter 1:17
The Holy Spirit gives you dignity by speaking to you the word that you drew and meditated on, just as the Lord Jesus gave dignity through the sound of the word, so hold on to the image that the Holy Spirit gives you and do not abandon it, and listen to his voice as he says to you, “You are my beloved (mature) son.” When You hear that voice, your dignity begins to show on the outside; Therefore, do not seek to prove your dignity, but only rely on the Holy Spirit.
“Therefore, the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever.’ But now the Lordsays: ‘Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.”
1 Samuel 2:30
If you treat the Holy Spirit with respect in your life, He will treat you with respect. If you don’t treat Him with respect, He won’t treat you with respect. This is not a punishment; you are the one who puts yourself in a position of honor or shame. So, Paul the Apostle says in the letter to the Philippians that he doesn’t think of himself as a Roman citizen but as someone who is in Christ and brags about that. If you realize that you are a spiritual being and live like that, the Holy Spirit will tell you, “You are my beloved Son.”
“Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will [a]set him on high, because he has known My name.
15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him and honor him. Psalm 91:14-15
“attach to me” means that he loved me and fell in love with me. Because of this, I worship and love the Lord and value His word, because He saves those who know His name. That is, his personality and how he acts makes him look good and puts him in a good position.
“Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore, get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.” Proverbs 4:7
Study the word as subjects like the child (able to be learned and corrected), and this is what the Lord Jesus said, “And he said: “Truly I say to you: Unless you turn back and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:3); Therefore, if you do not become as flexible and correctable as a child, you will not know how to deal with the Kingdom of Heaven. The more you know the true picture of yourself, the more you deal correctly with the circumstances of life; Therefore, if you are afraid of the circumstances of life, run on the word.
- Your worth comes from what Jesus made you:
“Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow [a]thereby, 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, 5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion
A chief cornerstone, elect, precious, And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame. “Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who [b]are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone, “and a stone of stumbling
And a rock of offense. ” They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed. But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;” 1 Peter 2-1:9
It is said here that this stone (Jesus) will be given to those who believe in it and treat it with respect. For those who don’t follow what the Bible says, it’s a surprise and a stumbling block. As for you, a priest and a king, you are a different person, and you have been cut off from this world because you belong to a chosen race, whether you have done great things in the past or not. You do something, so keep these images in your mind. Your dignity comes from who you are in Christ, so you don’t need to prove yourself at home or at work. Instead, you need to realize that your dignity comes from the Lord and what Jesus did for you.
Serve the Lord with all your heart not depending on your accomplishments, don’t say I’ve done too much and I need a rest, don’t feel lethargic because of past accomplishments or ashamed of past mistakes, and whether or not you accomplish anything it won’t affect or limit your dignity because you’re made into divinity in Christ in a thousand Wala. If you do not know the value of yourself and your true image, you will hinder the work of the Holy Spirit in you, or you may trust yourself based on your human experiences, but if you do not build your confidence on the biblical truth, you will be sabotaged and destroyed in your life.
“A fool’s wrath is known at once, but a prudent man covers shame.” Proverbs 12:16
When a person has a lot of thoughts and his mind is all over the place, he doesn’t know the word and the words of Satan make sense to him. His problem isn’t with Satan, and it isn’t that someone prays to him or that Satan rebukes him and responds to him from the word, though that is true at a certain level. However, there is a level where the person won’t be able to tell the difference between the devil’s words and
As for the ignorant, you will always find him intolerant and raising his voice, and there are some who train themselves to be intolerant only on the inside and not show their anger. This kind of person gets sick in the end and spends his whole life trying to prove that he is the opposite of what was said about him, because he doesn’t understand the word.
“When the righteous [a]are in authority, the people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules, the people groan.” Proverbs 29:2
Your ignorance of the word causes you to create traps for yourself without knowing it; Because the trap is something you do not know its location, and there are those who think that fear is a natural thing, but the book says about it “the spirit of fear.”
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who[a] do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” Romans 8:1
“By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left” 2 Corinthians 6:8
When you find a written right in one corner (the right-hand weapon), turn to the other corner (the left-hand weapon). This means that if you realize a biblical truth that you haven’t been living, don’t feel bad about every sin you’ve done and be sad that you haven’t been living God’s way. When you do that, you’re hitting yourself in the same corner that you study. Don’t look back at the past, because you can’t change it. Instead, focus on the future, where you can win.
If your family always talked badly about you and made fun of you, and these things left a mark on you, the solution isn’t psychological healing. It’s knowing who you are in Christ and how you should see yourself.
“Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified[a] you; ordained you a prophet to the nations.” Then said I:
“Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth.”
But the Lord said to me: “Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’
For you shall go to all to whom I send you,
And whatever I command you, you shall speak.”
The Lord told Jeremiah, “Don’t say, “I’m a boy,” because it has nothing to do with your abilities, experiences, or age. The Lord Jesus was in his thirties when he talked with the Pharisees and scribes, students of the law, with all boldness, and he wasn’t afraid of the large crowds who heard him and asked him what he said to them. He also didn’t fear the Jews. When they picked up stones to stone him, he answered them with courage, saying, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?” John 10:32
If other people think you are a carnal person, you will stay away from God for the rest of your life. If you believe these things about yourself, you will become them. When you stop thinking this way, they will laugh at you at first, but then they will start to see the truth in what you say and how you live.
- The Fatherly Work of the Holy Spirit in Your Life:
“Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.” Colossians 3:21
In the expanded version of this witness, it says, “Fathers, don’t provoke, anger, or bother your children (don’t be hard on them or annoy them), so that they don’t become angry, mean, frown, feel inferior, and be disappointed (don’t break their spirit).”
Here, the Messenger tells fathers not to provoke their children, underestimate them, humiliate them, mistreat them, or put them in a situation where they can be compared to others. Instead, they should treat their children with kindness, compassion, and love so that they don’t feel small or lose their strength.
The Holy Spirit, who is better than any earthly father and acts like a father in your life, will never make fun of you, put you down, or compare you to anyone else. If the Holy Spirit tells earthly fathers not to do something, he doesn’t do it himself. Instead, he shows you how much he cares about you and how much he loves you, and he speaks to you with encouragement and approval because he is the one who builds you up, supports you, speaks up for you, and prays for you.
Here, the Holy Spirit made a link between how the father treats the child and how strong or weak he is when he grows up. If you had harsh parents, don’t think about what they did to you. Instead, find out the real you and who you are in Christ, and know that you are a spiritual being and that your inside (your spiritual self) is renewed every day.
- Disadvantages of seeing oneself negatively:
First: You will not be able to interact with the word:
“So Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; but they did not heed Moses, because of anguish[a] of spirit and cruel bondage.” Exodus 6:9
God’s people were slaves for 400 years before the Lord sent Moses to lead them out of Egypt, yet they did not trust the word of God that he sent with Moses because they had reached the point of despair over everything. Because the people of God were used to slavery, you will not trust what the Word says about you, and you will get short of breath, bored, and give up as a consequence of your lack of comprehension of who you are in Christ. As a new creature in Christ, you embrace his ideas and fill your mind with the word and your truth, for if you don’t, he will break into your mind and plant his thoughts with you.
Because of these things, a lot of Christians feel like they can’t win in life, and they lose interest in the Bible. And many of them have a strong relationship with the Lord and don’t think it’s possible to leave Him one day. But they do leave Him after that because they don’t know the truth about Him as a son of God and that He is dear to the Lord; “The Beloved Son”; and that his price is the price of Jesus personally, because he became flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone.
o Struggling with the Lord:
“A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all [a]wise judgment.” Proverbs 18:1
The expanded translation explains this witness thus: “It is more difficult to win a struggling brother than to win a strong city, and their quarrels separate them like the beams of a castle.”
The faltering brother builds more walls around himself than a fortified city that is difficult to penetrate and needs great planning to break its fortresses; Because he does not open his heart to any spiritual words, he may agree with you in spiritual matters, but he withdraws quickly so that he does not have to open his heart to you, so that you know what is inside him or his way of thinking.
The stumbling block comes from a matter that was supposed to result in positive things, but it resulted in negative things, and the problem is not in the thing (the cause of the stumbling block), but rather the way in which the other sees it, which may cause him to stumble from it or become a blessing for him, just as Christ became a stumbling block for the Jews while he was one of It is supposed to become a source of salvation for them if they see it properly.
Not all stumbling blocks happen through people, some things are likely to become stumbling blocks for you because of your wrong view of it, for example: you may make the wonderful word of God a stumbling block for you because you get it wrong and you lose the spirit of the word because you need someone to lead you in the study of the word and guide you on any subject you study Because Satan sometimes uses the word of God and stumbles you with it, just as he fought the Lord with it in temptation in the wilderness and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: “‘He shall give His angels charge over you, and, in their hands, they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.” Matthew 4:6
A non-biblical education makes you doubt yourself and your decisions here on earth. It also makes you waver, belittle yourself, and be afraid to open the files you’ve been hiding for years because you don’t want to face the truth or be asked to do hard things, like a lazy slave who told his master: Matthew 25:24-25 “Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’
But this lazy villain’s way of thinking was wrong, and we find God condemning him “But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. 27 So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents. For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
This is the one who lives in mediocrity and does not love the Lord with all his heart and at the same time does not commit major sins such as adultery, theft and murder, and he does not realize that by doing so he does not use the nature of God that he got when he was born of God, and in God’s eyes it is called (the sin of not investing ), and he does not know that he is a stumbling and internally fortified person, and if you look at his face, you will find him suddenly sad because of his response to negative thoughts, then he smiles because of his attempt to cheer himself up with positive thoughts.
“The first one to plead his cause seems right, until his neighbor comes and examines him.”
Proverbs 18:17
When the first party presents his statements, it seems that he is right to whoever judges the matter, but when he hears the other party, he discovers that the first party is not truthful and the second is right in the matter. When you hear the testimony of the Holy Spirit about yourself, you will discover that your testimony about yourself and the image you lived your life with, you see yourself as wrong!
The Lord Jesus was confident of his opinions and decisions, so he said to the Jews “ Jesus answered and said to them, “Even if I bear witness of Myself, My witness is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from and where I am going.” John 8:14 Here, he talks about the Father’s testimony about Him, “the internal testimony,” but if you do not understand the word, do not fully trust your opinions and decisions! Rather, move and seek the help of those who follow you spiritually.
But if you understand the word well, trust in your decisions, because the Lord Jesus said that whoever follows him, that is, who knows and understands the word “Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” John 8:12 That is, his life stops being a puzzle and he becomes aware of everything around him. When you know the Bible well and study it, you’ll be able to break the first testimony (the image that Satan and people drew about you, and you became friends with it). Sin, and also repentance, is not asking the Lord to forgive you for every sin you have done. Instead, it is a change of direction, in the sense that you no longer walk in the path of sin, but in the path of the Lord.
Realize that the word is the one that paints you the true picture of yourself; so, don’t be one of the self-destructive people as the word says “in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth”
(2 Timothy 2:25) It means “those who resist themselves,” and the word makes you kind to yourself and shows you how you really look.
Sometimes when I pray for one of them I see the devil in the form of a monkey sitting on the shoulder of the person to broadcast his thoughts inside him and when I look at him the person immediately leaves and flees because of the light he saw, and surely that person can welcome him back if he responds to his thoughts that are thrown into his mind again.
Second: You become terrified in life:
You become troubled and weak in this life, your expectations of others are always negative, and you doubt everyone because you doubted more than one person and found out you were right, but that doesn’t mean you have to act this way with everyone. It’s possible that Satan is feeding this principle inside you, or the Holy Spirit may have saved you from these people, but in any case, if you don’t know the source of this principle, you can’t act this way with everyone.
The ways of the Lord are not the same as the ways of people. For instance, if you look at what God said about Saul: “..Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children[a] of Israel.” Acts 9:15, You may think for a moment that he will rise to a great position and stand before kings, but in the end, you will find him standing before kings as an accuser. So, your analyses will not always be correct.
“The wicked flee when no one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion” – Proverbs 28:1
The evil one or a believer who doesn’t know the truth about the Bible lives in fear of everything. He thinks he’s the only unhappy person on earth and doesn’t know why he’s afraid. As for a righteous believer who knows the truth of the Bible, he is brave like a lion, doesn’t get scared by situations or problems, and is always ready for life. This is because he knows what it means to be righteous and what his place is in Christ, and because he has tied his life to the Lord Jesus.
Look at how bold Jesus and his disciples were. Look at how bold Nehemiah was when he said “Should such a man as I flee? And who is there such as I who would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in!” (Nehemiah 6:11) Even though he could be killed or betrayed, he knew he was doing a great job because he knew how to judge situations. He wasn’t afraid, but instead moved through the situation like a lion.
“But the path of the just is like the shining [a]sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. the way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.”
The path of the righteous is like a bright light like the sun that increases and increases until it reaches the maximum light. As for the wicked or the troubled believer, he lives confused about his affairs and does not know why he did something, and he does not know that this is a result of his lack of knowledge and understanding of the word and its value in Christ.
Third: Seeking to please others:
“But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.” Acts 20:24
The Apostle Paul did not consider what others said about him, nor did he try to please them, but rather he sought to please God, because whoever tries to please people out of fear of their criticism becomes their slave.
The Apostle Paul says that he sees his value in Christ and knows with certainty that his honor is something that pertains to the Lord. So he doesn’t care about it. Your dignity lies in your total dependence on God, and when you try to search for your dignity, at this moment you make yourself precious to you, and therefore you will not be able to complete your call and become a sad person because your soul has become of value that you seek to build.
Fourth: Falling into sin:
You don’t have to fall into a sin, but you might make the wrong choices. This is because sin means getting off track from the goal.
“looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.”
Hebrews 12:15-16
“Bitterness” comes in the Greek language as “stabbing.” The devil always stabs your image in front of yourself and tells you, “You are very bad, and if you did a great job, you did nothing to diminish your work.” Your response to these thoughts creates a rivalry between you and yourself, and you do not know how to reconcile. With yourself or with God and you do not know the cause of this problem.
Bitterness grew inside Esau because of Rebekah’s preference for Jacob over him. As a result, he left the Lord, abused him, and gave up his rights easily, and when he asked for them with tears, he did not get them.
“lest there be any fornicator or [a]profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. 17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.” Hebrews 12: 16-17
There are believers who fell from grace because they allowed the presence of this bitterness inside them, which led them to impurity, and began to defile others with it because of their lack of understanding of the word and their constant doubts about every person who preaches the word until they appear in front of everyone to understand the word while they do not study it in the first place.
“he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.” James 1:8
“A double-minded man” The man who listens to two different voices (the testimony of people and the Holy Spirit about his image) becomes at this time unstable in all his ways; That is, in all aspects of his life, so refuse to listen to the testimony of people or Satan about you, and welcome only the testimony of the Holy Spirit about you, so that you become stable and victorious in this life.
- Making a good impression of yourself:
“For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me”. 1 Corinthians 15:9-10 Paul the Apostle was looked down on by his fellow apostles because he worked with people from other countries. They also thought he was the youngest apostle, so here he defends himself in front of his disciples. When you know who you really are and can defend yourself, you will say what the Bible says about you and not try to prove your worth by making others feel bad. There are those who see themselves as important and great in service, who despise and refuse to do small things in the field of the Lord, and always ask for big tasks justifying that they want to work more in the kingdom of God, even though the Apostle Paul himself served tables at a certain time, “Then the disciples, each according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brethren dwelling in Judea. This they also did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.” Because he didn’t care about his dignity or his image.
“But by the grace of God I am what I am” that is, “I am what I am now because of the grace given to me”; Therefore, there is a relationship between your honor and the grace of God upon your life, and this grace is given to you as a result of your appreciation and giving you honor to the word of God.
“Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;” Philipians 3:8-9
The Apostle Paul says that his dignity lies in his realization of who he is in Christ and that his entire life has become linked to Him, and that his address is Christ; So you need to know who Christ is and the city of God you were born into when you were born again, and soon this city will be tangible here on earth.
The biblical truth depicts for you who you are in Christ, so immerse yourself in it because what made the Lord Jesus able to say when he was being crucified “…Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do” (Luke 23:34), because he rose above the pain of the cross and was able to He sees the image from above, and Stephen also said: “…Lord, do not hold this sin on them…” (Acts 7:60) because they realized its true image.
There are those who forsake the Lord to preserve a friend because He fills his life without knowing that he is satisfying himself at this moment, and thus loses.
“But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.” 1 Corinthians 8:8
Whether or not you eat food that has been sacrificed to idols, it won’t hurt or help your spiritual life. Also, if someone insults you, ask yourself, “Does this make my relationship with the Lord worse or better?” When you relax in your relationship with the Holy Spirit, you realize that He is your lawyer and the one who speaks for you. You reach a point where nothing is important to you because you have tied your life to the worth you have in Christ.
“For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: “This is My Beloved Son; in whom I am well pleased.” 2 Peter 1:17
Your dignity comes through the heavenly Father revealing to you His fatherhood. Jesus took honor from the Father through the Father’s recognition of Him. You also receive honor through the Father’s recognition of you. So, he says in the letter to the Hebrews “For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren” Hebrews 2:11
“To the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He [a]made us accepted in the Beloved.” Ephesians 1:6
You are honored by the Father, kind, and blessed, so don’t worry about your dignity with other people because you know the dignity that the Lord has given you. You are born of God, a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a people of possession, and a very special person. This is your dignity, and it’s the key to growing in your love for God and getting rid of obstacles in your life.
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