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The five minute Bible study: Jesus went about doing good! · Spending time with Dr. Christina

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  Hello and welcome back to my podcast spending
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  time with dr. Christina. We're in season 7 Episode
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  9 and we're talking about Jesus in particular
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  how Jesus went about doing good This is actually
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  one of my favorite parts of the New Testament
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  because this is everything that we should be
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  doing Everything as his people his disciples
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  as Christians, whatever you want to call it when
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  we follow God And we are about His business.
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  We should be doing good. And I know a lot of
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  people are thinking, well, what exactly does
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  that mean? And what is that going to take from
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  me? Am I able to give what's required? Well,
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  everyone should be able to give what's required
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  because it's free, just like the gospel, the
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  good news. It is free. And when we think about
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  Jesus going around doing good, We should know
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  that not only like in the previous episode he
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  was moved about with compassion but Jesus was
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  also great in kindness and great in Mercy and
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  great in grace Jesus looked for people whom he
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  can help he looked for them. He didn't shy away
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  from them He was on the front line help in all
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  those whom believed Now let's look to a passage
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  Acts 10 38 it says how God anointed Jesus of
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  Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power and
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  he went about doing good and healing all that
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  were oppressed of the devil for God was with
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  him Jesus went about doing good this is what
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  we should be doing again he healed people oppressed
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  of the devil also something we should be doing
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  part of the great commission When we see people
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  that are in need, we should help them and not
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  think twice about how it's gonna look, how it's
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  gonna sound, or anything like that. We should
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  be... Available to anyone that sincerely has
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  a need and you may be thinking Well, how am I
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  gonna know that they have a need? Well number
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  one, I think you're gonna be quickened in your
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  spirit The Holy Spirit will quicken you to move
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  with compassion like Jesus and to help that person
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  This is not a case where we need to do the math
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  and rocket science and thinking, well, this person
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  is a crook or they're trying to trick me or this
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  and that. No, we should never be in a place where
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  we're automatically thinking somebody is not
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  worthy of help. We should help as much as we
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  can help others. And if anything, we should be
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  humbled by this experience, humbled that God
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  is using us. to help someone. This is not something
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  you want to talk about. This is a sacred moment
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  even. When we help someone we should do it in
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  quiet. We should do it in secret as the Bible
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  tells us to. We never should let even the right
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  hand know what the left hand is doing. Let's
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  not be like the Sadducees and the Pharisees talking
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  about things that we think that are good that
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  we're doing. Because a lot of times when we say
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  things like that, that good is dissipated and
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  taken away. And what I mean by that is that normally
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  God will make it up to us. He makes it up to
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  us. But when we put things out there about good
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  that we're doing, we've taken the reward already.
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  We've taken it by saying it. So why would God
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  make up to something that we think that we've
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  done in our own strength, our own might? No,
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  it's not our might. It's His might, His might
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  and His power. Does God work through us to help
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  others? And you know, when we think about this,
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  Jesus, the Son of God, didn't look for anything
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  for himself. He looked to help people and to
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  give honor and glory to God. He didn't look for
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  people to pay them or pay his ministry or pay
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  him per se for any kind of deliverance he did
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  or any kind of help he gave. No, he did everything.
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  to the glory of God in fact even when Jesus was
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  on the cross in Luke 23 34 and his enemies seemed
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  like they were getting the best of him he still
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  said father forgive them for what they did because
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  they know not what they're doing even then He
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  had grace and mercy toward others, giving glory
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  to God, standing in the gap for us. And this
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  is what we need to be. We need to go about doing
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  good, not looking for any kind of motive behind
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  it, any kind of payback or retribution. We should
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  be doing everything to honor God. So I hope this
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  message has been a blessing to you. And I hope
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  as you go through your week, you can be just
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  like Jesus, going about doing good. Until the
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  next time I wish you all a very great week.