Our best is GOD’S best on earth. Love acts!
In Galatians chapter 1 is where Paul received his revelation:
11 Beloved ones, let me say emphatically that the Gospel entrusted to me was not given to me by any man.
12 No one taught me this revelation, for it was given to me directly by the unveiling of Jesus the Anointed One.
15 But then God called me by His grace; and in Love, He chose me from my birth to be His.
16 God’s grace unveiled his Son in me so that I would proclaim Him to the non-Jewish people of the world. After I had this encounter I kept it a secret for some time, sharing it with no one.
17 And I chose not to run to Jerusalem to try to impress those who had become apostles before me. Instead, I went away into the Arabian Desert for a season until I returned to Damascus, where I had first encountered Jesus.
The Gospel is a Gospel of redemption.
The Gospel is committed to our trust.
The Gospel of redemption is for all people, the whole world.
Paul had a revelation for action.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2nd Corinthians chapter 5:
19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And He gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.
In other words, it was through the Anointed One that God was shepherding the world, not even keeping records of their transgressions, and He has entrusted to us the ministry of opening the door of reconciliation to God.
20 We are ambassadors of the Anointed One who carry the message of Christ to the world, as though God were tenderly pleading with them directly through our lips. So we tenderly plead with you on Christ’s behalf, “Turn back to God and be reconciled to Him.”
Paul also wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans chapter 1:
9 God knows how often I pray for you. Day and night I bring you and your needs in prayer to God, whom I serve with all my heart by spreading the Good News about His Son.
And in 1st Timothy chapter 1:
11 that comes from the glorious Good News entrusted to me by our blessed God.
The world is out there and they need us. There is an urgency for action.
And the Beloved disciple wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st John chapter 2:
2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
GOD’S Word is provable. GOD’S Love is irresistible, and we are to share HIS Love. We are to fulfill the Will of GOD. We need to make Christianity practical to the world and not use church speak that they don’t understand.
What is spiritual maturity? It is the state of being fully developed where we not only hear Our Heavenly Father, but we respond to His Word and take the appropriate action.
Jesus spoke in John chapter 6:
38 For I have come down from Heaven, not to do My own Will, but the Will of Him Who sent Me.
Jesus spoke in John chapter 15:
9 “I Love each of you with the same Love that the Father Loves me. You must continually let My Love nourish your hearts.
10 If you keep My commands, you will live in My Love, just as I have kept My Father’s commands, for I continually live nourished and empowered by His Love. 11 My purpose for telling you these things is so that the joy that I experience will fill your hearts with overflowing gladness!
12 “So this is My command: Love each other deeply, as much as I have Loved you. 13 For the greatest Love of all is a Love that sacrifices all. And this great Love is demonstrated when a person sacrifices his life for his friends.
14 “You show that you are My intimate friends when you obey all that I command you.
15 I have never called you ‘servants,’ because a master doesn’t confide in his servants, and servants don’t always understand what the master is doing. But I call you My most intimate friends, for I reveal to you everything that I’ve heard from My Father.
16 You didn’t choose me, but I’ve chosen and commissioned you to go into the world to bear fruit. And your fruit will last, because whatever you ask of My Father, for My sake, He will give it to you!
17 So this is My parting command: Love one another deeply!”
Jesus spoke in Acts chapter 1:
8 But I promise you this-the Holy Spirit will come upon you and you will be filled with power. And you will be My messengers to Jerusalem, throughout Judea, the distant provinces-even to the remotest places on earth!”
It is good to study to show yourself approved, but at some point, we are to become active in doing what we have been instructed to do.