✝ Daily Encouragement (9/25/23) "Rich In Christ"
Published: Mon, 09/25/23
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"Rich In
Christ"
Message summary:
Today, wherever you live and whatever degree of
earthly riches you may have, rejoice that all who have been redeemed are rich in Christ!
Listen to our message on your audio player.
"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich" ( 2 Corinthians 8:9).
Ester just celebrated her fifth year work anniversary at Fuddruckers, a hamburger restaurant. She's always happy to see people she recognizes but last Friday evening she had a more interesting exchange of conversation than usual
with a guest. She writes the following story:
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Friday evening was like any other workday for me. I was on the floor making sure the tables were clean and I noticed this guy who looked very familiar. I walked around, trying not
to
be a stalker, while I was racking my brain trying to remember where I had seen him before. After a few minutes I considered that he might have been in a movie I've seen. After I went back to the dish room to do some of the dishes, and do some more thinking, it finally occurred to me where I thought
I had seen him before.
After a few more minutes I got the courage to go back on the floor, walk up to him and ask, "You wouldn’t have been in the movie "COURAGEOUS" would you?" He replied, "Well yes, I
was!" Then I excitedly blurted out, "JAVIER, the snake king!" (My favorite scene in the movie.) After finally figuring out who he was and where I had seen him we had a friendly conversation. He recently moved his family to this area (Hershey, I think). I also met his two daughters and I told him how much I loved that movie. And of course I had to get a selfie with
him!
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Javier comes on the scene as a down on his luck day laborer whom the four policeman befriend and include in their group. Ester alluded to a scene where Javier shares about a gang he had been in called the Snake Kings which really just
amounted to him and his brothers. A link is provided below to the humorous scene.
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Now that's a great message regarding a perspective of what really comprises true wealth. (See the scene in a video link below.) The film is a timely message so desperately needed in our time. In fact in my chaplaincy ministry I have had
occasions to especially recommend it when challenging men to be good husbands and fathers.
But today I want to consider a richness we all have in Christ.
"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich"
(
2 Corinthians 8:9).
What a powerful description of the
Gospel.
Henry Morris
writes,
"He was the Creator of the entire cosmos (Colossians 1:16ff), with all its infinite riches, yet He left it all to die a cruel death, utterly impoverished, with even His meager garments stripped away as He
was spiked to the Cross. See also the even more graphic testimony in Philippians 2:5-8. This great gift of grace is the standard against which our own practice of the grace of giving must always be compared." (Defender's Study
Bible)
"Become rich" is used here figuratively of our spiritual riches in Christ.
David Guzik writes, "
Because of Jesus’ poverty and all that was related to it, we can become rich. We have a share in Jesus’ eternal, heavenly wealth because He came and had a share in our
poverty."
Today, wherever you live and what ever degree of earthly riches you may have, rejoice that all who have been redeemed are
rich in
Christ!
Yesterday we sang a song in church titled "Christ Is Enough" and it's a reminder that the riches of this world can never satisfy our spiritual needs, Only Christ can meet that need and He is enough, for He is everything I
need.
Christ is enough for me
Christ is enough for me Everything I need is in You Everything I need
Be encouraged today,
(Hebrews 3:13
)
Stephen & Brooksyne
Weber
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Today's Suggested Music and Supplemental
Resources
"Christ is Enough"
Watch video on YouTube Shane and Shane
"Courageous" Watch video on YouTube Casting Crowns The theme song to the movie. "As For Me And My House" Watch video on YouTube John Waller Another outstanding song from the movie.
Here are the words to the Courageous resolution:
I do solemnly resolve before God to take full responsibility for myself, my wife, and my children.
In the course of preparing for this message I came across these thoughts
likely written many years ago.
John Butler - WAR ON POVERTY 2 Corinthians 8:9
“For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.” (2 Corinthians 8:9). A few decades ago our government launched into what was widely hailed as the ‘War on poverty.’ A better program against a poverty the news media will not talk about is God’s program to eliminate spiritual poverty. FIRST—THE PROMPTER OF THE PROGRAM “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Divine grace is the motivator of this poverty program. God was not seeking votes for a political office when He put the Gospel program in action. His grace was trying to save people from the damnation of hell fire. Grace is that which brings about our salvation. We cannot buy it, earn it, or merit it, but grace alone seeks us out to save us. “For by grace are ye saved” (Ephesians 2:8) says the Scripture. SECOND—THE PRICE OF THE PROGRAM “Though He was rich yet for your sakes He became poor.” We talk a lot about salvation being free and it is to man. But it cost God a bundle. It cost God the death of His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, and our text says it cost Jesus His wealth. He willingly gave up His wealth so that we might be rich spiritually. I have never heard of any politician becoming poor in order to support the government’s poverty program, but there is so much fraud in the program that many rascals (politicians and others) have become rich at the expense of the poor. THIRD—THE PLACE OF THE PROGRAM “That ye through his poverty might be rich.” This program is to help people spirituality. An unsaved person is broke spiritually. He is bankrupt and hopelessly in debt. The Gospel message, however, is to make the spiritually poor the spiritually rich. The world is not interested in such a program. They live for the material and the only poverty they see is materially. How tragic. In order to get into heaven you need spiritual wealth. Material wealth will do you no good but Christ has provided spiritual wealth for your impoverished soul. FOURTH —THE PRODUCT OF THE PROGRAM “Ye through His poverty might be rich.” There is no richness like being saved. That is the greatest wealth ever. You can have millions and even billions of dollars in the bank materially and not have the greatest wealth of all. Poverty of the soul is the greatest peril you can have. If you have poverty of the soul when you die you will to straight to hell for eternity. But with Christ you can be spiritually wealthy and only the spiritual wealthy will have heaven for their eternal abode. Finally today:
Each morning we receive a message from Richard Dresselhaus, a retired pastor
friend from San Diego. Today's message hits the spot:
What is happening? That is a question many are
asking.
With gender identity a matter of choice…unborn children denied the opportunity to live…marriage no longer exclusive to male and female -- what is happening? Common sense is trivialized…rules of decency ignored…long-held traditional ridiculed – what is happening? It is as if there is an invasion of demons – sent from hell itself to pervert and destroy all that is honorable and decent. What was once thought unthinkable is now celebrated. So…what should godly people do? Pray – ask God to send a wave of conviction. Take a stand – resist what is evil. Accept opposition – know that godliness comes with a price. “…the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.”
His blog is titled "One For The Road"
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