THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCE 2-7-2021 VIDEO CHURCH LIFE OR
One of the issues we face as the American Church is it we have great truth of scriptures that have become doctrine instead of experience. Experience means to encounter to see for yourself, to contact God for yourself. Jesus shares hands on experience with the disciples in doing the work of the kingdom. We must experience God for ourselves not by hearsay.
MATT 23:13 Great sorrow awaitsyou religious scholars and you Phariseessuch frauds and pretenders! You do all you can to keep people from experiencing the reality of heavens kingdom realm.Not only do you refuse to enter in, you also forbid anyone else from entering in! TPT
Matt 3:7 When John realized that a lot of Pharisees and Sadducees were showing up for a baptismal experience because it was becoming the popular thing to do, he exploded: "Brood of snakes! What do you think you're doing slithering down here to the river? Do you think a little water on your snakeskins is going to make any difference?
8 It's your life that must change, not your skin!
9 And don't think you can pull rank by claiming Abraham as father. Being a descendant of Abraham is neither here nor there. Descendants of Abraham are a dime a dozen.
10 What counts is your life. Is it green and blossoming? Because if it's deadwood, it goes on the fire.
11 "I'm baptizing you here in the river, turning your old life in for a kingdom life. The real action comes next: The main character in this drama compared to him I'm a mere stagehand will ignite the kingdom life within you, a fire within you, the Holy Spirit within you, changing you from the inside out.
12 He's going to clean house make a clean sweep of your lives. He'll place everything true in its proper place before God; everything false he'll put out with the trash to be burned." MSG
HEB 12:18-23 For we are not coming, as Moses did, to a physical mountain with its burning fire, thick clouds of darkness and gloom, and with a raging whirlwind.
19 We are not those who are being warned by the jarring blast of a trumpet and the thundering voice; the fearful voice that they begged to be silenced.
20 They couldnt handle Gods command that said, If so much as an animal approaches the mountain it is to be stoned to death!
21 The astounding phenomena Moses witnessed caused him to shudder with fear and he could only say, I am trembling in terror!
22 By contrast, we have already comenear to God in a totally different realm, the Zion-realm, for we have entered the city of the Living God, which is the New Jerusalem in heaven! We have joined the festal gathering of myriads of angelsin their joyous celebration!
23 And as members of the churchof the Firstbornall our names have been legally registeredas citizens of heaven! And we have come before God who judges all, and who lives among the spirits of the righteous who have been made perfect in his eyes TPT
Ex 29:46 And they shall know [from personal experience] that I am the Lord their God, Who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them; I am the Lord their God. AMP
Job 42:5 I admit I once lived by rumors of you; now I have it all firsthand from my own eyes and ears!
6 I'm sorry forgive me. I'll never do that again, I promise! I'll never again live on crusts of hearsay, crumbs of rumor." MSG
Phil 3:10 I gave up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally, experience his resurrection power, be a partner in his suffering, and go all the way with him to death itself. MSG
Heb 8:10 Now, Instead of documenting my laws on stone, I will chisel them into your mind and engrave them in your inner consciousness; it will no longer be a one side of the pier. I will be your God and you will be my people, not by compulsion but my mutual desire.
11 Knowing Me will no longer be a Sunday school lesson, or something taught by persuasive words of doctrine neither will they know me on account of family tradition or door to door evangelism. Everyone from the most unlikely to the most prominent people in society, will know me inwardly. Mirror
WOMEN AT THE WELL---John 4:39 Many of the Samaritans from that village committed themselves to him because of the woman's witness: "He knew all about the things I did. He knows me inside and out!"
40 They asked him to stay on, so Jesus stayed two days.
41 A lot more people entrusted their lives to him when they heard what he had to say.
42 They said to the woman, "We're no longer taking this on your say-so. We've heard it for ourselves and know it for sure. He's the Savior of the world!" MSG
John 14:12 I want you to be fully convinced about this, anyone whos belief concludes in who I am, will also do the works that I do. And because of my relocation to continue to be face-to-face with my Father, the works that the believer will do, will be of greater proportion and global influence; the Father is as present in you as he is in me. Mirror
2 Cor 13:5 Test yourselves to make sure you are solid in the faith. Don't drift along taking everything for granted. Give yourselves regular checkups. You need firsthand evidence, not mere hearsay, that Jesus Christ is in you. Test it out. If you fail the test, do something about it. MSG
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2 Cor 13:5 I implore you to examine faith for yourselves in order to test what it is that you really believe. Faith is so much more then the mere veneer of superstitious belief in a historic Christ; faith is about realizing Jesus Christ in you, in the midst of contradiction! Just as ore is placed into a crucible, where the doss is separated from the gold in the furnace, come to the conclusion for yourselves of his indwelling! Should it appear to you that Christ is absent in your life, look again, you have obviously done the test wrong! Mirror
Rom 5:2 Jesus is Gods face to face grace embrace of the entire human race. So here we are, standing tall and the joyful bliss of our redeemed innocence! We are Gods dream come true! This was Gods idea all along! Mirror
Eph 3:19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! AMP
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Eph 3:19 I desire for you to become intimately acquainted with the love of Christ on the deepest possible level; far beyond on the reach of mere academic, intellectual grasp. Within the scope of this equation God finds the ultimate expression of their image and likeness in you. Mirror
Mal 3:12 "You'll be voted 'Happiest Nation.' You'll experience what it's like to be a country of grace." God-of-the-Angel-Armies says so. MSG
John 8:32 Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you." MSG
JOHN 17:13 But now I am returning to you so Father, I praythat they will experience
and enter into my joyous delight in you so that it is fulfilled in them and overflows. TPT
1 Cor 7:22 I'm simply trying to point out that under your new Master you're going to experience a marvelous freedom you would never have dreamed of. On the other hand, if you were free when Christ called you, you'll experience a delightful "enslavement to God" you would never have dreamed of. MSG
Gal 1:4 We know the meaning of those words because Jesus Christ rescued us from this evil world we're in by offering himself as a sacrifice for our sins. God's plan is that we all experience that rescue.
5 Glory to God forever! Oh, yes! MSG
PHIL 3:10-14 And I continually long to know the wonders of Jesus more fully and to experience the overflowing power of his resurrection working in me. I will be one with him in his sufferings and I will be one with him in his death.
11 Only then will I be able to experience complete oneness with him in his resurrection from the realm of death.
12 I admit that I havent yet acquired the absolute fullness that Im pursuing, but I run with passion into his abundance so that I may reach the purpose that Jesus Christ has called me to fulfill and wants me to discover.
13 I dont depend on my own strength to accomplish this; however I do have one compelling focus: I forget all of the past as I fasten my heart to the future instead.
14 I run straight for the divine invitation of reaching the heavenly goal and gaining the victory-prize through the anointing of Jesus. TPT
2 Peter 1:1 I, Simon Peter, am a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. I write this to you whose experience with God is as life-changing as ours, all due to our God's straight dealing and the intervention of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ. MSG
1 John 1:3 We saw it, we heard it, and now we're telling you so you can experience it along with us, this experience of communion with the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ. MSG
1 John 1:6 If we claim that we experience a shared life with him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we're obviously lying through our teeth we're not living what we claim.
7 But if we walk in the light, God himself being the light, we also experience a shared life with one another, as the sacrificed blood of Jesus, God's Son, purges all our sin. MSG
1 John 3:16 This is how we've come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves. MSG
1 John 3:24 As we keep his commands, we live deeply and surely in him, and he lives in us. And this is how we experience his deep and abiding presence in us: by the Spirit he gave us. MSG
Heb 4:11 Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter that rest [of God, to know and experience it for ourselves], that no one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience [into which those in the wilderness fell]. AMP
1 Cor 14:3 But when you proclaim his truth in everyday speech, you're letting others in on the truth so that they can grow and be strong and experience his presence with you. MSG
Eph 5:10 And try to learn [in your experience] what is pleasing to the Lord [let your lives be constant proofs of what is most acceptable to Him]. AMP
Phil 4:23 Receive and experience the amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, deep, deep within yourselves. MSG