Today, to all Steemers who follow me in this prestigious information network, I bring you a great truth, which is necessary to know, because, every day we see that people want to be more and more independent of others. Children often anxiously wait to be of age to achieve their independence from parents, not taking into account what would imply that independence, resulting in a degenerate freedom in debauchery. For this reason there are many mismatches in the people who make up this society.
Jesus Himself said in John 5:30, "I can do nothing of myself. As I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just, because I seek not my will, but the will of him that sent me. "
He gave us the example in his earthly ministry that the authority of which he set out is to do the will of his heavenly Father and not to disobey or to walk alone in what he could do in his own will.
We see how the decision to follow a different path to what God has told us to do only brings bad consequences and this is not from now on, but rather the opposite as we see in what did Adam and Eve who disobeyed God wanted to do their their own way contrary to what He had said, thus bringing the entrance of sin to humanity and therefore the loss of communion with God.
This example is so prevalent today that even we must know that we must submit to the authorities set by God, on earth, whether within congregations or in earthly governments.
I make a parenthesis here, because I leave the clarification of the fact that if by any circumstance, any of these human authorities, try to force us to do any activity contrary to God's will and personal mandate, which we each have within the plan reconciliation given by God to his Church. Then and only then can we disobey what we are being told to do, so it should not be a way of living in disobedience to our authorities, and only if it is compromised the biblical principles left by God to his Church. This will be a point that we can deal with more deeply at another time.
What I want to express in this opportunity is that if each of you desire to have some degree of authority within the body of Christ. We must be subject to authority, that is, first subject to God, after the authorities left by God in the Church and also those left by Him in the society where we live.
Jesus himself did not come to abrogate the law, but to fulfill it and more of this, to have an even more strictly holy life based on the love of God (Matthew 7:17: "Do not think that I came to abolish the law or the prophets; to abrogate, but to fulfill. ").
He was subject to being baptized by John the Baptist, thus fulfilling the law, as evidence of what was said above (Matthew 3.13-15).
The fact that the Word of God tells us to be subject to Him has a great significance in the fruits that result from this subjection, is expressed in John 15: 5 "I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; Here you tell us plainly that only if we are subject to Jesus as our Lord and Savior, can we bear the fruits that God is demanding from his faithful children, and also tells us that anyone who does things for if alone separated from God, even though it has an appearance of goodness, it will be like that branch, (branch), which is separated from the main trunk of the tree (Jesus), dried and bearing no fruit, but only serves to be burned . But when the branch is attached to the tree it will bear much fruit, and a worthy fruit, then the same God will prune it so that it bears more fruit than it has carried until the moment.
For this reason I leave to you the secret of being able to bear much worthy fruit within the body of Christ; which is none other than to remain subject to Jesus, as the only one who has life in himself, and thus we have a life full of the purpose of God for us and our neighbor.
My beloved Steemers, it will be until a next opportunity and that the blessings of God, his fullness, peace and his grace abound in you.
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