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You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Galatians 1:10 http://www.dailybiblestudy.org
10 For [gar] do I [peitho] now [arti] persuade [peitho] men, [anthropos] or [e] God [theos]? or [e] do I seek [zeteo] to please [aresko] men [anthropos]? for [gar] if [ei] I [aresko] yet [eti] pleased [aresko] men, [anthropos] I should [an] not [ou] be [emen] the servant [doulos] of Christ. [Christos] KJV-Interlinear
10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ. NASB A question and a contrast are proposed. Do you as a person, seek to please others, or do you seek to please God? But be careful with how you answer this question, because if you reply, God, and do not follow Gods will, then you become a liar and a fraud. The question also gives us the choice between the only two choices that we have. We are seeking the approval of humanity, or we are seeking the approval of God. There is no third choice. Approval from or for yourself is the same as choosing humanity. Any rejection of Gods will, is a choice for man. Any non-compliance with Gods will, is a choice for man. There is only one choice for seeking the approval of God, and that is by complying with Gods will. You cannot have it both ways. If you seek the approval of God, then you cannot seek the approval of man. If you seek the approval of man, then you cannot seek the approval of God. For by seeking the approval of man is to act out in accordance with those things that people expect from you, lest you be ostracized or rejected socially. You have to go along with the popular beliefs or ideas or opinions. You have to put on a public face and hide your private face, lest people reject you. And who wants to be rejected? If you are the hermit type, the anti-social type, and if you just want to have things your way, then that too is an anti-God posture. In either case, rejecting people or trying to gain the approbation of people, is an anti-God pattern of life. Trying to put on a front, trying to impress people, trying to act spiritual, when you have no spiritual content within you, makes you phony and a spiritual fraud. There is only one way to please God, and that is by obeying Gods mandates, thus fulfilling the things that He expects of you, and not by pursuing your own definition of the spiritual life. God spells out his expectations clearly in the scriptures. We have studied them in great detail over and over. And simply put, they are not what you do in life, but what you think. And what you think, spiritually speaking, is influenced by what you know, which is affected by what you learn and how you learn. Namely through a daily study of the Word of God.
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
