Like it or not, every one of us is in a spiritual war. God is for us, and the devil is against us. The one we cooperate with is the one who will control us. You can’t be discharged from the service in this war, and ignorance of its extent only aids the enemy. The enemy loves to work covertly, using his only weapon, deception. In this teaching, Andrew exposes this war and the enemy for what he is.
for the word to work and to reach its
destination it has to be activated it’s
got the truth of God in it but it has to
be activated for you to experience it
and it is activated by response where
you do something if there is no action
there is no activation now it’s alive
but it’s not working for you it is the
action that activates it
verse 22 but prove yourselves to be
doers of the word and not merely hearers
who delude themselves for if anyone is a
hero of the word and not a doer he is
like a man who looks at his natural face
in a mirror and once he has looked at
himself and gone away he’s immediately
forgotten what kind of person he
he says you can be tricked
or you will be tricked
or deluded is his word if all you do is
hear it
if all you do is hear the word you will
be we will be duped
we will find no benefit of scripture
we’ll find no change in our lives we’ll
find no progress not because we didn’t
hear it but because we only heard it
he introduces us to this thing of the
mirror
he says do not be like a man who looks
at his natural face in a mirror you’ve
heard me use the somewhat humorously uh
his discussion the word man there in the
Greek it’s the word male don’t be like a
male in a mirror who looks at his face
and quickly turns away and you’ve heard
me say that’s because women don’t look
in the mirror and quickly turn away
okay women hang out in multiple mirrors
okay the the first mirror in the
bathroom that they look at to see how
messed up stuff got last night
then there’s the vanity mirror okay then
there’s the half mirror that they use to
look back at the vanity mirror
then there’s the full body mirror then
there’s the car mirror and then there’s
the mirror in your purse so there’s
mirrors
because women
don’t look in the mirror and quickly
thrown away that’s why he says the man
who beholds his natural Faith so if
there’s a man in here with a compact we
need to talk after the service
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they don’t go around the lipstick all
day and doing this all day I mean women
hang out in the mirror he says when it
comes to God’s word don’t be like a man
be like a woman
so let’s hop here
I want you to do me a favor everybody in
the room do me a favor I want you to now
as you sit here
look at your face
I want you to look at your face
are you seeing your face
you’re not seeing your face
because you can’t look at your face
the only way you know what you look like
is because of a mirror
the mirror tells you what you look like
now you may think you Halle Berry or
Denzel but the mirror will tell you the
truth
in biblical days there did not exist
glass mirrors
they did not have glass mirrors they
didn’t exist
glass mirrors or mirrors with silver in
them and that’s where you get the
reflection back and that was not created
and if you go back to look at the movies
back in biblical days you won’t see them
with glass mirrors if it’s an authentic
movie because it didn’t exist
brass mirrors
here’s brass
and they had to get the light to shine
on the on the bra against the bra and
they had to keep manipulating it until
they got a good Reflection from the
light of the Sun or from the candle to
shine against the brass and they had to
have the brass at the right place in
order to see what they look like
this is why he says in verse 25 but the
one who looks intently at the perfect
law
in other words the word will not reach
its destination if you glance at it you
must graze in it
the word the word does not do its job
because you look at it
the idea is to see your face when you go
to a mirror you go to a mirror to see
your face you want to look you want to
look at you
Merci beaucoup pour cette meditation de la parole de Dieu, ça me réconforte malgré ma situation actuelle très compliquée. Dieu est bon tout le temps, que son Nom Puissqnt soit glorifier pour toujours. Amen.