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Do As God Does Sermon
via Dr. Bob Benchoff, ICCDBB
Palm Sunday 3/28/2010
1. God said come.
2. Come and be ye Baptized in the Name of the Lord.
3. Then after the invitation and the doing so as the Christ Jesus has done, the Christ Jesus invited you again; this time to love, that You be further enlightened in the Lord, and the commands of God.
4. Then there was a call to an even more excellent You, if you so did, that You after receiving sufficient enlightenment help others be properly called by so writing the commands of the Lord Jesus Christ, as the Holy Saints did.
5. Next is to give of Yourself more, toward as much as the Lord, and perfect, and an even more excellent amount as Your Lord and You grow together in life.
This ICCDBB Sermon focuses on You doing specifically, as stated in #5 above.
In the beginning, in the beginning of You personally now in the world, in the beginning of Your being Chosen of God, in the beginning of Your awakening in love and toward higher love with awakening unto awareness of starting to be aware of how love enables learning enlightenment unto proper logic choosing wisely, there was a call unto You. Not to logic of good and evil other than awareness [with understanding sinlessly in Jesus Christ], yet rather to the right choices, the righteous usage of logic.
Right choices of things to do exist in the world, within relative limits (see previous ICCDBB Sermons with illustrations on Circular Reasoning).
Yet if You have made goodly choices, and written the Word Of God properly, and have done as listed above in numbers 1 through 4, then it is time for doing, rather accomplishing increasingly victoriously, increasingly blessing the world with Heaven, as in number 5.
Often people fail to understand what #5 means, respectfully including goodly Christians.
People fail to do properly because they revert to selfishness at each new limit encountered or hurdle or risk, in their various perceptions. What they do is wonder what to do, such as, shall I be a missionary [but I don't like that idea, so] shall I be a preacher?, while they forget themselves and what they have already accomplished with the Lord.
If they weren't so selfishly worrying about personal concerns about obstacles and unpleasing feelings, they would have greater time in focus of what is goodly and proper in the Lord including a much longer higher more blessed more lengthy more joy outpouring list than that shown above.
Hurdles come, and if a step on the stairs seems too high, risky, scary, emotionally disturbing, and out of reach, and becomes not desired to be reached by You by choice, then if in the right direction for You, God offers You tinier steps for You, tinier solutions.
So the selfish idea is that problems come, yet of the righteous love of the Lord only conquering comes.
People in jail are very interested in visiting distant lands, so the call to become a Christian Missionary in a foreign land may excite them. The Judge and Jury may let them do that instead of [so-to-speak to ease understanding per se] rotting in jail and being a further [perhaps] burden on society.
People not in jail, people living freely, especially successful people unto their understanding(s), often don't want to rock the boat by quitting their jobs to serve as volunteers elsewhere.
The fact is, they might do better serving God from where they are already.
God already has people in other lands, though such needs continue. In other words, God has room for everyone, including for all of their blessing talents, and God is not trying to send You to Hell, rather to the contrary, God is working mightily to get You to desire to go to Heaven. Even more, God is working mightily to get You to want to work more, to get into Heaven.
More work doesn't sound good to selfish people. Selfish people are lazy, so they say Jesus Christ already suffered, so I don't have to.
To your benefit therefore, instead of telling You to "work more", let's say You should be properly self motivated. So that any "work" or function You do, is for the greater blessings of others [including You: ICCDBB thanks You, even if only in advance].
Sell all You have and give to the poor, is a scary idea to normal people, that is, it is scary to people who have forgotten the distinction Baptism made in their lives (see previous ICCDBB Sermons on the abomination of the Baptism tradition to Baptize infants, and rather such is an act of Christening [such as typically done in the Catholic faith]).
Baptizing an adult, is not merely the same as to hold an infant as the infant receives what is done unto it, such as perhaps receiving water and holy words, yet rather listen, some infants cry and are not willing to accept at the time according to their evident displeasure.
That does not make them bad more than they were. They were even a blessing from the womb, the Bible writes. So let loving those infants continue. Remember mercy. Remember You too once had evidently relative little ability.
Real Baptism is of an adult [concerning whether You have to be Baptized again remember: laws were made for man, not man for laws; women remember to follow Your man if married, and remember there are higher laws].
Real Baptism is of an adult that has suffered in the world in at least some adulthood, and then decided to no longer dwell in sins of non-Christianity, and to therefore repent and choose to be Baptized, and then to be Baptized properly by a Christian [preferably a Christian leader, such as of a Church with members as witnesses].
The point is, when a person is told to be charitable, and when a person is told to sell all and give to the poor, and if such things scare that person or cause that person to reconsider and seek an escape clause, that person [can be doing somewhat rightly, even so] has evidently forgotten when they themselves suffered in sins and that reason they chose to rather no longer sin and rather repent and seek Baptism.
Repentance and Baptism was their own idea. They suffered so repented, but then they evidently forgot.
The evidence they forgot, is that they did not immediately do the charity or selling all and that give to the poor immediately.
They also evidently forgot Bible stories similarly, such as making cake for a stranger, and oil pots that continued to produce oil for use and for making money [rather for remembering the Lord].
When people become selfish according to new burdens, in patterns they tend to forget to love, and that love includes to love Jesus Christ, including to love faithfully.
If You don't want to suffer by giving all to the poor, then listen to this mercy: relax a little, give 10% and write the events and do 10%, and see if God loves You accordingly. Test God as the Bible states, but do not sin: to test God again and again to pretend to be doing good is not to test God at all, it is become sins. So do not test God, not only for that reason. Of mercy You may test God once. After that You are on Your own [so to speak], if You want to test God again.
If You received money and time and gave the first 10% to God, of Your money and time, that is, time You specifically gave helping others [preferably as asked by the Church or at least by strangers, rather than giving Your time and efforts as You pleased Yourself to do for others], then even though it might have appeared as if there may not have been enough money to pay Your bills [as You should have written before Your test] and if it may have seemed You didn't have enough time, then after You tested God, You should have been convinced, with no need for further testing.
Importantly the thing about being so "convinced", is that God will continue to offer a gray area. In other words, You will have complications to Your test results. So as in the repent and Baptism pattern, You will again have a test result that shows clear evident value of God passing Your test, yet You will be faced with things complex, such as perhaps other people unexpectedly being involved so Your test parameters are not as You originally planned, so thereby You continue to have the option to not be faithful.
You can rise higher in faith, as is normal (see previous ICCDBB Sermons on ascending, creation, evolution, and GodMath), but then You continue to be challenged to renew Your living growing Christian faith.
In other words, when You make a breakthrough, when You advance up the stairs toward victories, solving, and the Heavens, then accordingly Your logic gives You such understanding, yet also is Your faith unsettled, as You become on higher ground, so to protect You, Jesus Christ wants Your love to so grow accordingly.
If a person has logical understanding advancement, they can have circular reasoning. Yet rather with such advancement, also grow Your love for the sake of others. Who would give You greater blessings?, if You only use greater blessings to contrary, so rather do good unto others, at least matching what You have received, or at least as much as it is possible in You.
If You cannot find it in Yourself to accomplish great steps, God will give You smaller easier steps, in other words, God will allow You to suffer in sin if that is what You truly choose and want, until You decide to stop suffering, but do not test God deceitfully lest God put an end to Your puffery.
God loves You so much, God is willing to end Your confusion, yet God gives You choice. Therefore God may let You eat Your own tail if You have one, to consume Yourself, except God loves You so much that God will not cast such pearls before such [so to speak] swine, for Your sake. God loves You so much, God will make opportunities for You, or at least make results of Your potential wrong choices more clear to You at times, so You don't continue on sinful patterns as previously.
God loves You so much as to be anxious that You learn the new better Way You are to come to better enlightenment, even the enlightening way of doing better blessings for others.
You may choose to do better.
You may make a machine, or You may make the evidently best machine, or You may make the evidently best students or You may make the evidently best teachers and machines and joy, by best serving them, by best serving God, including in specific tasks. Above is shown a money making machine. If You made a billion dollars would You be happy?, what if everybody else made a trillion, and called You lazy and stupid?; ICCDBB calls You a blessing, send forth Your blessing(s) to help others best bless, whether to make trillions and/or machines and/or top talented experts. Of course You are to bless in all ways always.
The Way Of Jesus Christ is not only giving away all the money he ever had, he even gave more than he himself in the flesh had [(Matthew 17.27) whether or not to borrow money is not the focus of this Sermon].
If You want, give not only away Your cash properly and Biblically, give also Your time and talents. Use Your talents Biblically the best to enjoy accomplishing best if that is what You want and agrees with God, and rather is what God wants. Cause others to appreciate Your top expertise You increase in them, to the top of Your ability.
And then watch Your talent grow.
Write Your Biblical Testimony of it.
Do this, even so, rather use love to remove guessing.
Generally the Bible wants people to know the commands of God. Do this, also You may opt to specifically do some Holy Work that You already know give(s) You pleasure [that You may use to give Heavenly joy to others].
You were given talent from God. You may opt to develop a specific talent given You personally, from God, for Godly Work.
If You do works of the hands, You head down toward circular reasoning, yet if You do so on a Biblical Mission, then You may suffer to do so for awhile as the burden is light.
What joy is there in heading down?, it is the command to love, the same as the return trip. Circular reasoning is of return trips, so rather return better than original, more lovingly. A great way to do this is to cause such love per talent in other people.
Now concerning Your talent possibly pleasing to You for God, You already have the laws, and of those laws those aspects of those laws that apply most to Your pleasing to You Godly Talent, are legal specifics that You may opt to further study and apply to Your specific circumstance.
So in priority, You have: Jesus Christ And You, Holy Talent, Specific Physics And Laws And Talents Of Others Expert In The Pleasing Field Of Interest To You, and You have various other helps such as love ideas, ICCDBB, and so on. Keep in mind past, current, and future experts in the field of interest can help You be pleased unto joyfulness, such as reading a past study, a current study, or reading prophecies of future areas of interest involving Your talent pleasing to You.
An important aspect is in Your properly tracing points of joy to God as the Holy Source. Organize Your thinking Biblically (see recent Sermon on: Arrange Your Thoughts).
You may decide some specific goals. If others involved are fellow workers, then You may have a head start over starting from scratch. Even so, it is easy to take things for granted, imagining some other expert already figured the pertinent details reasonably, and often it is true, though humans may make errors and have gaps in reason. Bosses often rely on personnel to fill-in the details.
Teamwork is important, similar to helping Your leader. Your leader is Jesus Christ, and He gave You other leaders, past, current, and future.
Imagine that, all those people leading Your personal crusade to have personal joy: yet it has to be done properly, Biblically.
The teams of competing contestants anxious to bring You pleasure, will often not appear so on the surface. They might want to hurt and kill You. So remember why God placed them over You or in Your realm. Please them properly. Learn about what they have to teach You, yet do as Jesus Christ does.
Learn the further specifics of Your pleasing talent. If You witness a barrier to reaching Your pleasing talent goal, use the Bible to overcome that barrier [including to please You, rather give the Lord the glory]. Or You may opt to establish a goal more simple for You to accomplish. Remember, to move a mountain can start with Your moving a single rock.
Count the cost, have You grown enough talent in others and would they enjoy joining the labor [perhaps including Your competition], is there time to finish within schedule, is Your plan [seemingly] necessary or is it optional entertainment, and so on.
As You grow Biblically traceable talents in others, not only would Your specific joy bringing plan reasonably become increasingly understood by You yet also the Bible plan would reasonably become increasingly clear to multiply joy and success. With Your new abilities to accept greater burdens, greater even more excellent overcoming joy can work.
Overcome in victory, and if You look back in circular reasoning [rather look forward unto greater missions] as is said in the world, hindsight is easy. In other words, You may have though it hard work to reach Your goal, yet after seeing the solution proven, it seems so evidently simple. So too, rather than hindsight, seek insight, and rather foresight.