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Set your mind on things that matter // Coloque sua mente nas coisas que importam

Tradução: O fruto que você pode ver é sempre o resultado da raiz que você não pode ver.


You might be aware of the things that have been happening in Chile it is a very sad and complicated reality. People are doing horrible things the even I that consider myself with a more liberal in left view of politics and stuff, I am appalled. I would say that what is going on in Chile is the terrorism of the people who have no regard for opinion, law and I dare to say, for human life.

 

My husband is from Chile and sometimes he tries to call those primitive human beings of animals, I say that it is an offense to the animal kingdom. Although we, humans, are part of this Kingdom, usually I think we are at the bottom of the evolutive chain.

 I can explain by the word of God why primitive human beings act in a worse manner than other animals. As you might have once wondered, as I have, animals didn't sin. They can't go against God. God made it that way. So, they are pure creatures. Their nature is simply different from ours. It is not better or worse. Just different. We cannot compare ourselves with them.

 However, human beings think they are better than any other living beings on planet earth. But these are those people who have set their goals of life selfishly on material things like money.

In Romans 8: 5-6 it is written, ‘for those who live according to the flesh set their minds on things of the flesh (material, perishable, mortal) but, those who lives according to the spirit set their mind on things of the spirit (imperishable, immortal, non-material), to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

I'll try to be brief.

What could possibly be  “things of the Spirit”? you may wonder. Galatians 5: 22-23 - but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Now, think about it. Can you see those things in those people? Can you buy any of those? Are those things any perishable? The answer to all these questions is no, you simply can't. Why?

The answer is in Galatians 5:19-21 “Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these.

 

Tell me, we see these things on those people, to be honest, we see all of it all the time, everywhere. Some of them became just normal and acceptable. So when people set their minds on material things like power and money (being money the root of all evils) we clearly see all those things around. Some people don’t want to admit it because it is a “Christian thing”, “I don’t believe in God, therefore..”

You know, just because people say that they don’t believe in God or in the Bible, the fact is they are still here, the Bible has survived, gosh! How many attempts have there been to destroy it? God and His word will still be immortal whether you believe in Him or not, on the other hand, we primitive or not human beings are 100% mortal.

 

When we set our mind on things like the fruit of the Spirit, the reward is life and peace. I can’t say the same for those who set their mind on power, money and the other flesh-stuff, their reward is death (neither peace nor life).

Você pode estar ciente das coisas que estão acontecendo no Chile, é uma realidade muito triste e complicada. As pessoas estão fazendo coisas horríveis, mesmo eu que me considero com uma visão mais liberal da política de esquerda e tal, estou chocada. Eu diria que o que está acontecendo no Chile é terrorismo de um povo que não tem consideração pela opinião, pela lei e, atrevo-me a dizer, pela vida humana.

 

Meu marido é chileno e às vezes tenta chamar esses seres humanos primitivos de animais, digo que é uma ofensa ao reino animal. Embora nós, humanos, façamos parte deste Reino, geralmente penso que estamos na parte inferior da cadeia evolutiva.

 Posso explicar pela palavra de Deus porque os seres humanos primitivos agem de maneira pior do que os outros animais. Como você já deve ter se perguntado, assim como eu, os animais não pecam. Eles não podem ir contra Deus. Deus fez assim. Então, eles são criaturas puras. A natureza deles é simplesmente diferente da nossa. Não é melhor nem pior. Apenas diferente. Não podemos nos comparar com eles.

 No entanto, os seres humanos pensam que são melhores do que quaisquer outros seres vivos no planeta Terra. Mas essas são aquelas pessoas que estabeleceram seus objetivos de vida egoisticamente em coisas materiais como dinheiro. 

Em Romanos 8: 5-6 está escrito, 'para aqueles que vivem de acordo com a carne, fixam suas mentes nas coisas da carne (materiais, perecíveis, mortais), mas aqueles que vivem de acordo com o Espírito pensam nas coisas do Espírito (imperecível, imortal, imaterial), colocar a mente na carne é morte, mas colocar a mente no Espírito é vida e paz.

Vou tentar ser breve.

O que poderia ser “coisas do espírito”? você pode imaginar. Gálatas 5: 22-23 - mas o fruto do Espírito é amor, alegria, paz, paciência, bondade, fidelidade, mansidão e domínio próprio.

Agora, pense sobre isso. Você pode ver essas coisas nessas pessoas? Você pode comprar alguma dessas? Essas coisas são perecíveis? A resposta a todas essas perguntas é não, você simplesmente não pode. Por quê?

O porquê está em Gálatas 5: 19-21 “Agora as obras da carne são evidentes: imoralidade sexual, impureza, sensualidade, idolatria, feitiçaria, inimizade, contenda, ciúme, acessos de raiva, rivalidades, dissensão, divisão, inveja, embriaguez, orgias, e coisas assim.

 

Diga-me, vemos essas coisas nessas pessoas, para ser honesto, vemos tudo isso o tempo todo, em todos os lugares. Alguns deles se tornaram apenas normais e aceitáveis. Então, quando as pessoas colocam suas mentes em coisas materiais como poder e dinheiro (sendo o dinheiro a raiz de todos os males), vemos claramente todas essas coisas ao redor. Algumas pessoas não querem admitir porque é uma "coisa cristã", "Eu não acredito em Deus, portanto ..."

Sabe, só porque as pessoas dizem que não acreditam em Deus ou na Bíblia, o fato é que ainda estão aqui, a Bíblia sobreviveu, meu Deus! Quantas tentativas foram feitas para destruí-la? Deus e sua palavra ainda serão imortais, quer você acredite Neles ou não, por outro lado, nós, seres humanos primitivos ou não, somos 100% mortais.

 

Quando colocamos nossa mente em coisas como o fruto do Espírito, a recompensa é vida e paz. Eu não posso dizer o mesmo para aqueles que colocam sua mente no poder, dinheiro e outras coisas da carne, sua recompensa é a morte (nem paz nem vida).

 

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  1. Sim, pura verdade. Não é fácil, mas nossa luta é essa de vencer nossa própria vontade, pra fazer a de cristo..pois Jesus amou e morreu primeiro por mim. Amo meu Senhor eSe preciso for morrerei por ele.

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