How To Keep Living For Jesus

How To Keep Living For Jesus

1) Continue daily to seek Jesus without sinning

     To keep living for Jesus continue daily to seek Jesus without sinning. Remember quitters never win and winners never quit. According to the bible faith with victory occurs after continuous asking for a blessing regardless of what you feel or see. Hebrews 11:6 says But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.   Be like the widow at Luke 18:2 that got a blessing by her continual requests to an evil judge. 

     Keep asking Jesus for your needs and Jesus will honor your faith and grant your requests when you stop sinning. It's wrong when someone says if you ask more than once for anything you have no faith. The bible says just the opposite; We need to keep asking over and over again for our needs which will increase our faith and get our needs met. Be like the Lord Jesus at Matthew 26:44 who prayed the same words three times for a blessing. This scripture says And He (Jesus) left them, and went away again; and prayed the third time, saying the same words.

     The story about the widow who got blessed by her continual requests to a wicked judge is at Luke 18:2 that says There was in a city a judge which feared not God, neither regarded man. And there was a widow in that city and she came unto him saying, avenge me of mine adversary? And he would not for a while but afterward he said within himself, though I fear not God, nor regard man, yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.  

How To Keep Living For Jesus

2) Daily abide and live for Jesus denying worldly sin

     If you want to keep living for Jesus with blessings, you must abide and daily stay with Jesus while you deny the temporary pleasures of this sinful world. Jesus promised at John 15:7 If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you. In other words when you abide and stay with Jesus daily, you'll ask for the right things and get your requests answered. Remember though to avoid sin because sin blocks blessings where prayers are not answered. Psalm 66:18 says If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. 

     To be blessed by Jesus you have to keep going forward with Jesus (daily reading the Word, praying, and going to church). You can't stop living for Jesus, back up and return to the sins of this world. Abiding and living for Jesus is like flying in an airplane, An airplane is different than any other form of transportation. When anyone rides a horse they can stop and go back. When anyone drives a car, they can stop and put it in reverse and go backwards. You can stop a train or locomotive and even stop a ship with an anchor. But abiding and living for Jesus is like flying on a plane; An airplane can't stop after it takes off; if it stops, it drops. And if a christian stops living for Jesus by sinning in the world, he will drop and suffer trouble in this world. Jesus said at John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. 

     Abiding and living for Jesus to be blessed is like riding a bike up a hill. If you don't do anything to keep pedalling the bike uphill, the bike will go backwards. Likewise if a christian is trying to climb up God's hill for a blessing away from the world, he will go backwards into trouble when he stops reading his bible, stops praying, and stops going to church. 

     A christian is going backwards when he says I got my life fixed up years ago; Now I can relax, enjoy the world while I rest every day. This lazy man says I do my exercises every day; Every morning I nod my head up down up down and then I do both eyelids. This christian will experience trouble for failing to abide and live for Jesus each and every day. It's like swimming; You have to continually tread water and keep swimming or else you'll sink. You have to continually stay in the Word, pray, and attend church, or else you'll sink into the troubles of this sinful world. 

     Remember the world is an enemy to our Lord Jesus and christians. James 4:4 says Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. A country preacher said that because the world is our enemy, find out which way the world is going and go in the opposite direction. Don't float downstream with this fading world in temporary pleasure; instead make an effort with our Lord Jesus to go upstream against the world's current abiding with Jesus every day.

How To Keep Living For Jesus

3) Don't allow the world to stop you from living for Jesus

     Astronomers say that the smaller a planet is, the less gravitational pull it has; the bigger a planet is the more gravitational pull it has. For example the moon is smaller than the earth and has less gravitational pull. Everything on the moon is lighter and a person can jump six times higher on the moon than on earth. But a planet the size of the sun that is bigger than the earth has greater gravitational pull where no one can stand up because the gravity is too heavy. 

     Therefore, the bigger the world or planet is, the more it will pull people down and can't be avoided. On the other hand, the smaller the world or planet is, the easier it will be to be free from it's influence. Remember since the world is an enemy to God, if you love the world more than Jesus and make it big, it will be hard for you to avoid troubles from the world. But if you love Jesus more than the world (making the world small) you will experience peace and freedom with God. We are in this world but not of this world. We have to shop for food, go to work, and pay bills. But please keep the world little and Jesus and the Word of God big to get blessed. 

     Don't be like the following people who let the gravity of this world pull them down away from the blessings of Jesus. Instead of going to church on Sunday, these people say Sunday is my only day to rest; These people will get up at 4AM on Sunday morning to fish, hunt, or play golf all day long. Fishing, hunting, and playing golf are not bad but should not be a substitute for attending church on Sunday. These people complain in church saying the old seats are uncomfortable but they'll sit on a concrete bleacher and watch a football game for five hours in the cold. 

How To Keep Living For Jesus

4) Don't take the easy way out following the path of least resistance

Keep working for Jesus; Stay in church, Read the Word, Keep praying

     A man once asked What makes a river crooked? The preacher replied Same thing that makes a man crooked; Following the path of least resistance. Notice in the above picture how the river avoids the mountain and follows the path of least resistance going around the mountain in the valley. But to keep living for Jesus you have to be a good soldier and endure hardness determined with Jesus to overcome the troubled mountains in your path. 2 Timothy 2:3 says Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 

     Paul asked at Galatians 5:7 Ye did run well; Who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth. Don't be hindered and follow the path of least resistance by returning to temporary worldly pleasures that end up in misery and death. After salvation stop swearing because Ephesians 4:29 says Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers. After salvation, don't gamble and drink beer at the bar with your old worldly friends. Once these old worldly friends find out that you have Jesus, you won't have to leave them; they'll leave you. This is because 2 Corinthians 6:14 says Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness. 

How To Keep Living For Jesus

5) Remember put forth an effort to live for Jesus and don't by lazy

     Remember to keep living for Jesus takes an effort where each day you determine to deny sin and live holy for Jesus. Ephesians 4:27 says Neither give place to the devil. Proverbs 23:21 says For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Don't be like the man that said I'm a light eater; As soon as it gets light I eat. This reminds me of the selfish man that kept building bigger barns to store food so he could eat drink and be merry. God called this man a fool and told him that night that he would die. Remember the warning from Luke 12:15 that says Take heed and beware of covetousness; for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. 

     To end up today's bible study I will explain what happened after Robert Robinson wrote the blessed hymn called Come thou fount of every blessing. After Robert wrote this blessed hymn, he sinned and went back into the world. While traveling on a train, he sat by a lady who said I'm reading a wonderful hymn and lo and behold it was Robert's hymn Come thou fount of every blessing. The lady told Robert Do you know this hymn? Robert weeped and said I wrote it. When I was right with God I wrote that song. Robert said I'd give anything to feel the peace and joy I had when I wrote that song. The lady said well your song says streams of mercy never ceasing call for songs of loudest praise. And Robert's own words convicted him and he got right with God. Click this youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax_NMWLEb6U to hear the blessed hymn Come thou fount of every blessing. I pray in Jesus name it blesses people everywhere with great peace, joy, and strength. Right now get saved and enjoy the blessings of our Lord Jesus. Repent, decide to stop sinning, confess everywhere that Jesus is God, and believe the gospel that Jesus died for you on the cross, was buried, and rose again.

     Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing

Come thou fount of every blessing; Tune my heart to sing thy grace

Streams of mercy never ceasing; Call for songs of loudest praise

Teach me some melodious sonnet; Sung by flaming tongues above

Praise the mount, I'm fixed upon it; Mount of thy redeeming love

Sorrowing I shall be in spirit; Till released from flesh and sin

Yet from what I do inherit; Here thy praises I begin

Here I raise my Ebenezer; Here by thy great help I've come

And I hope by thy good pleasure; safely to arrive at home

Jesus sought me when a stranger; Wondering from the fold of God

He to rescue me from danger; Interposed His precious blood

How His kindness yet pursues me; Mortal tongue can never tell

Clothed in flesh till death shall loose me; I cannot proclaim it well

O to grace how great a debtor; Daily I'm constrained to be

Let thy goodness like a fetter; bind my wondering heart to thee

Prone to wander, Lord I feel it; Prone to leave the God I love

Here's my heart O take and seal it; Seal it for thy courts above

O that day when freed from sinning; I shall see thy lovely face

Clothed then in blood washed linen; How I'll sing thy sovereign grace

Come my Lord, no longer tarry; Take my ransomed soul away

Send thine angels now to carry; Me to realms of endless day

     I have enjoyed writing this bible study today for our Lord Jesus. Feel free to email Brother Bob anytime at rz9tlm@gmail.com or write to Brother Bob Malkin, 2233 Pinetree Lane, Apt. N., Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068. (614) 604-7133. Till we all meet again soon to lift up our Lord Jesus, everyone have a blessed day in Jesus name.