Be generous. Give to the poor. Get yourselves a bank that can’t go bankrupt, a bank in heaven far from bank robbers, safe from embezzlers, a bank you can bank on. It’s obvious, isn’t it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being.

So, if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up and be alert to what is going on around Christ — that’s where the action is. See

Here’s what I’m saying: Ask and you’ll get; Seek and you’ll find; Knock and the door will open.

God, who gets invited to dinner at your place? How do we get on your guest list? “Walk straight, act right, tell the truth.“Don’t hurt your friend, don’t blame your neighbor; despise the despicable. “Keep your word even when it costs you, make an honest living, never take a bribe. “You’ll never get blacklisted if you live

“What do you think? Which of the three became a neighbor to the one attacked by robbers?” “The one who treated them kindly,” the religion scholar responded. Jesus said, “Go and do the same.”

All the same, the great triumph is not in your authority over evil, but in God’s authority over you and presence with you. Not what you do for God but what God does for you — that’s the agenda for rejoicing.

Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.

Here in this great gathering for worship I have discovered this praise-life.And I’ll do what I promised right here in front of the God-worshipers.Down-and-outers sit at God’s table and eat their fill.Everyone on the hunt for God is here, praising God.“Live it up, from head to toe. Don’t ever quit!”

In alert expectancy such as this, we’re never left feeling shortchanged. Quite the contrary — we can’t round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit!

You’ve been with me all this time, Philip, and you still don’t understand? To see me is to see the Creator. So how can you ask, ‘Where is the Creator?’ Don’t you believe that I am in the Creator and the Creator is in me? The words that I speak to you aren’t mere words.