20/20 Focus on JESUS

20/20 Focus on JESUS
Each day we need to keep our eyes focused on JESUS - 20/20! I am sorry that I did not continue this blog into the beginning of 2021. Nine months passed by before I was convicted to return to this blog and encourage us to look at JESUS, with clear vision, via a daily scripture reading. Yellow highlights are names/descriptions of JESUS that we'll add to the list on the right.

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

2020 for JESUS - Day 280: JESUS is JESUS OUR LORD... THE LORD... GOD... THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST... THE GOSPEL...

 

1 Corinthians 9:1-18

“Am I not free? 

Am I not an apostle? 

Have I not seen JESUS OUR LORD

Are you not the result of my work in THE LORD? 

Even though I may not be an apostle to others, surely I am to you!

For you are the seal of my apostleship in THE LORD.

This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me. 

Don’t we have the right to food and drink? 

Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and THE LORD’s brothers and Cephas? 

Or is it only I and Barnabas who lack the right to not work for a living?

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense?

Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its grapes?

Who tends a flock and does not drink the milk? 

Do I say this merely on human authority?

Doesn’t the Law say the same thing? 

For it is written in the Law of Moses:

‘Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.’

 Is it about oxen that GOD is concerned? 

10 Surely HE says this for us, doesn’t HE?

Yes, this was written for us, because whoever plows and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest. 

11 If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you? 

12 If others have this right of support from you, shouldn’t we have it all the more?

But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.

13 Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar? 

14 In the same way, THE LORD has commanded that those who preach THE GOSPEL should receive their living from THE GOSPEL.

15 But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me, for I would rather die than allow anyone to deprive me of this boast. 

16 For when I preach THE GOSPEL, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach THE GOSPEL! 

17 If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me. 

18 What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching THE GOSPEL I may offer it free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights as a preacher of THE GOSPEL.”

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