Frustration is one thing that compromises compassion. It is the inability to control things that upset and annoy you that blocks the joy compassion can bring. Frustration is a form of heart control, not mind control. Without the heart, the mind only has the choice between fight or fligh.
Colossians 3:1-17
Therefore, if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you died and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.
One of the problems people have is that they let other people set their mind for them. If someone says fear this, you fear that because that you haven't matured in Yahusha Hamashia called Jesus Christ. It is in Him is where our minds should be. If we are in Yahusha, we are next to Yahuah Elohiym in Heaven and then Elohiym will know us who have Salvation through Yahusha Hamashia our Master and Teacher. If we set our own minds in Heaven, we will not loose the ability to have compassion on Earth.
When Christ, who is our life, is manifested, then you also will be manifested with Him in Glory. Therefore, consider the members of your earthly body as dead to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
We have life eternal because we our in Yahusha Hamashia and He is in us. The Spiritual Entanglement with sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed has died. We now have become Spiritually entangled with Yahusha in Heaven. I believe our Born Again Spirit makes an appearance in Heaven but our consciousness does not. Perhaps it works like a transformer where electricity transfers from one coil to the other coil. Our consciousness picked up the words of Elohiym through the Born Again Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the avenue in how our spirit travels.
On account of these things, the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. But now you also, lay them all aside: wrath, anger, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth.
When you were born from your mother's womb, you were predownload with wrath, anger, malice, slander, and abusive speech. As a baby all this was below the surface. As you became more mature, wrath became a hit with your hand, anger perhaps sticking out your tongue, malice knocking over your sibling's creation, slander was calling others degrading names and abusive speech would be calling someone an idiot. It's only when we come to know Yahusha Hamashia as Master and Savior is when these words are not just layed aside, but rooted out of our soul. Some day the entire world will face Yahuah Elohiym's wrath after a coming Christian Holocaust. After 42 months, there will be a Crusade called Armageddon where Yahusha Hamashia will command His Angels and Saints to take Earth away from Evil.
Do not lie to one another, since you put off the old man with its evil practices, and have put on the new man who is being renewed to a full knowledge according to the image of the One who created him, a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, and freeman, but Christ is all and in all.
These verses speak of our old spirit having been removed from our being. A new Spirit, part of a new Spiritual Eve was created when Yahusha Hamashia's side was speared by the Roman guard while hanging on the cross. Our old spirit was vacuumed up by that crucifixion upon being Born Again. This leaves our soul with old baggage from our old wicked spirit. This is why we must leave that baggage behind. What is beautiful about being born again is that there is no difference between you or any other born again person on Earth, including the Pope if he is born again.
So, as the elect of God, Holy and Beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience; bearing with one another, and graciously forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone, just as the Lord graciously forgave you, so also should you.
When we get born again, we have a spiritual heart transplant. If we didn't, our old wicked heart would reject the Born Again Spirit we received. This new heart is entangled with the heart of Yahusha Hamashia. It has been pre downloaded with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience; bearing with one another, and graciously forgiving each other. We loose a heart of stone and receive a living spiritual heart. Forgiveness is complicated thing. If we cannot forgive, it becomes like a cancer growing within your soul. Eventually you will loose your soul and your Born Again Spirit will be like it was never created for you. But the question is, how can we forgive when they did such an evil thing to us? You know you are not alone in this situation. To those who require much, much is given. In other words it takes a lot to forgive such a wicked horrible person. Receive Salvation in Yahusha Hamashia and receive His mercy. His mercy endures forever. As for the wicked evil person that did such a horrible act of rebellion against everything that is Holy and beautiful, trampling on the meek, they too have a choice. They can hold onto their Evil and burn in Hell or loose it by their own choice and follow Yahusha Hamashia. But that is the extreme of forgiveness. There are born again people that have trouble day to day. With that we just bear with them and be gracious.
Above all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.
In these 14 English words, 9 in Greek, there's great depth in their meaning. I let Google translate this 14th verse from the Greek.
"But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection."
At first glance these translations are very similar.
LSB: Above all these things
G-T: But above all these things
LSB: put on love,
G-T: put on love,
LSB: which is the
G-T: which is the
LSB: perfect bond of unity.
G-T: bond of perfection
The question is, is there a difference between a perfect bond of unity and a bond of perfection? I checked two Greek translations and both agreed that it is a bond of perfection. The added word of unity is a restatement of of bond.
The bond is like that of ligaments by which the members of the human body are united together. We see in Acts 8:23 that gall of bitterness is bonded to unrighteousness. This is saying that resentment and corruption is the body of inequity. Like a Bride of Satan, an unjust judge that leaves you naked and destitute.
But with Yahusha Hamashia called Jesus Christ, it is a bond of love. We cannot use the English word for love because of its many messages it may suggest. It's a bond of agapē. (ag-ah'-pay). It's more like a quality of well meaning; kindness. It's like your hand washing your foot. Or a foot taking all the weight of the body repeatedly.
When there is no well meaning kindness in Church, the church will not grow. New people will look elsewhere until they get weary of looking. Then they will give up on Church.
The question is, is there still a body of believers without an organization called the Church? Yes, there is a loose organization without any clear connections such as funding or elected leadership. Yahuah Elohiym doesn't need funding or leadership that went to college for their title. The only visible connection is well meaning kindness. They will speak with people they never met knowing they are connected by their love for Yahusha Hamashia.
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body, and be thankful.
By letting the peace of Elohiym rule in our hearts, it is like an award and a blessing to us. He is not a rejected Elohiym wanting to be King of the universe, He wants to be merciful to all who hear Him and receive His mercy.
An assembly of believers being called in one body is like many atoms that are held together. With atoms it is an electrical atraction between their negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons causing a chemical bond acting like a powerful "glue". With believers in Yahusha Hamashia it is compassion that holds believers together. Instead of electrons and protons, it's a spiritual entanglement between the body of believers and Yahusha Hamashia.
Atoms are split by bombarding them with a heavy, unstable atomic nucleus with a particle, typically a neutron. Satan who was a Cherub named Heylel BenSahar corrupted his Wisdom dividing one third of the Angels away from Yahuah Elohiym. He then divided Adam and Eve away from Yahuah Elohiym. We could say Spiritual fission. If spiritual fission is not stopped, all that veas ever good, pure and loving would be destroyed. However the Holy Spirit within us as believers is greater than Satan's spiritual nuke. By being called in one body, the Spiritual Entanglement with Yahusha Hamashia prevents us as believers in Yahusha Hamashia from being divided spiritually. Satan uses simple things like jealousy of material things to divide us. Pride of material causes believers to think they are greater than the poor believers. It's all a covenant with foolishness. This is why we must not only have compassion for your buddy, but have compassion for those who you don't associate with.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with gratefulness in your hearts to God.
Here we see the Word of Yahusha dwelling in the Born Again Believer. His Word brings the richness of Wisdom of teaching, admonishment, Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing and gratefulness in our hearts. The Spirit of Wisdom is one of the Spirits of the Holy Spirit. But we have a Born Again Spirit within us pre downloaded with the wisdom of these seven things. The pattern is that we learn His wisdom followed by firm warnings. It is only then we we can rejoice with reading, singing, spontaneous singing and prophecy. Feeling our Soul and Spirit being grateful is like setting next to Yahuah Elohiym Himself.
And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
When I study for theses blogs, I do it to learn. I do it in the name of Yahusha Hamashia. So yes I give all credit to Yahuah Elohiym who people call God.
