Luke 6:12-49, I Kings 8
The title of the Sunday school lesson is “Live to Benefit Others”. That’s a command! When we ponder it we are immediately
stuck by our inadequacies, even worse, we may not even want to live for the
benefit of others. However the
passage records Jesus demanding it of us.
What are we to do?
The corresponding passage in I Kings 8 gives the answer. In that passage we find the ark being
moved into the temple. Solomon
knew this was only a symbol for God moving in. Listen to verse 27.
“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain Thee,
how much less this house which I have built!”
There is only one thing in the whole universe that can contain God and
that’s a human. Upon
acceptance of Christ as our sin sacrifice God literally moves into us. He lives in us in His Holy Spirit form. That’s how the writer of the Sunday
school lesson can expect us to “Live to Benefit Others.” We can’t, but God Almighty through
Christ Jesus in the Form of the Holy Spirit can!
Whew!!! That’s good. I knew
I couldn’t do that. Don’t you just
love God! Saved us from ourselves again!!!
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