Eph 5:9 That You Bear Much Fruit

                                        
Luke 16;1-15   Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
 1Co 13:1 ASV - If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
1Co 13:3 ASV - And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
But what will it profit a man to gain the whole world and loose his soul , Money is not evil ! but to love it is Evil . I knew an older man once and he would always tell me it is better to give than to receive .  He had lost three fingers in an accident in his early years , he would left up this hand and make a fist and tell me Son you can never out give God and you can never out squeeze him. 

I am reminded of the widows mite in giving .
Luk 21:1 KJV - And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.     And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.      And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:       For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her want hath cast in all the living that she had.   Faith is the substance of things hoped for , your total faith in Gods will for your life is absolutely contrary to carnal thinking . 
1Co 2:12 ASV - But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.
1Co 2:13 ASV - Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual words.
1Co 2:14 ASV - Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.          

  So your faith is made perfect through your obedience to Gods word ,   John 16  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come.  There are two baptizems for those that believe,  according to scripture as to Acts 2 :38 Peter said it is nessary for your salvationto be saved , Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly, that God hath made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom ye crucified.  Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what shall we do?  And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.   With out the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins . We must have the blood applied to our hearts as to the Passover Lamb .                                     
 Jesus blood was shed to remit the sins of man.   Remission    Greek: aphesis  Deliver, Deliverance, Deliverer:   denotes "a release, from bondage, imprisonment, etc." (the corresponding verb is aphiemi, "to send away, let go"); in Luk 4:18 it is used of "liberation" from captivity (AV, "deliverance," RV, "release").    Luk 4:18 ASV - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,
When Peter spoke these words to these men that were pricked in their hearts with Godly sorrow , He was speaking of the truth in Romans 6 ,  The only way to live for God is to die to self and pick up your cross and follow Jesus .  So we are baptized unto his death and unto his resurrection if we die with him we shall also resurrect with him to newness of life .    Rom 6:4 ASV - We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.  To be baptized in water is to be buried in the earth as Jesus was , and to rise with him is to receive his spirit of a new life .
2Co 5:15 ASV - and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.
2Co 5:16 ASV - Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
2Co 5:17 ASV - Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
2Co 5:18 ASV - But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation;
God filling people with his spirit daily , he is no respecter of men        Act 19:1 ASV - And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper country came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples:  and he said unto them, Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they said unto him, Nay, we did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was given.   And he said, Into what then were ye baptized? And they said, Into John's baptism.    And Paul said, John baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe on him that should come after him, that is, on Jesus.    And when they heard this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.     And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.     And they were in all about twelve men.    Baptized unto remission of our sins and Baptized of his holy spirit filled with his presence
Mar 16:15 ASV - And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.   He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned. And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;  they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken unto them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.   And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.    This my friend is a commandant of Christ not just to those disciples but it says to the whole world to the whole creation of man kind.  Be not deceived ask the Lord if this is true and for you Luk 11:9 ASV - And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.  For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.     And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent?   Or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?   If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Lastly I will give one last verse of scripture ,       Jhn 12:46 ASV - I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me may not abide in the darkness.    And if any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.   He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.   For I spake not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.        And I know that his commandment is life eternal; the things therefore which I speak, even as the Father hath said unto me, so I speak.                       Rev 20:12 ASV - And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.    Gods word will Judge every man in the last day He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.  May God shine his light of truth on you my friend 
Eph 5:8 ASV - For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light                           (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),    proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;
Jhn 15:8 ASV - Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my disciples.