We are gathered together in God’s House of Worship…Why? Let us search our thoughts, our hearts, our minds, and most of all, let us search the scriptures, found written in God’s Holy Book the Bible…It will teach us what God expects of us….It will teach us of God the Father, HIS Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost…..It will teach us how to worship in spirit and truth….as the Spirit guides…as the Father Commands…as the Son taught…that we should….
(Romans 4:20)…He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in
faith, giving glory to God;…. Do we do this in Church?
(I Corinthians 2:5).. That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power
of God…. Do we realize that God is more powerful than the nation in which we live, as we lift up the flag and salute and pledge our loyalty to it before God in HIS House? IS This NOT The same as pushing THE: *ENSIGN* (flag) OF God’s Kingdom, HIS OWN Son, Jesus Christ, (Isaiah 11:10-!2).. aside for a show of ~~PRIDE~~ in an earthly nation? DO we ever ~STOP~ & ~THINK~ of what we are doing, why, and how *IT* affects our very ~~Testimony~~ of ~Sincere~ *Faith? AND What comes of ~This ~~PRIDE~~?
(I John 2:16)..”The ~Pride~ of life, IS NOT OF the Father, BUT IS OF The world… (Mark 7:20-23)..Jesus, lists ~Pride~ as an evil that comes from within and defileth ~~ALL~~ men along with deceit, blasphemy, foolishness.. (Proverbs 16:18).. ~~Pride~~ goeth before destruction….
(Exodus 34:14).. “thou shalt ~Worship~ *NO* other God: FOR THE LORD, whose NAME IS Jealous, ~IS A Jealous God”….
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When we are giving these praises to the flag and to the nation and to men are we growing in the faith of God by hearing HIS Word, or are we showing our faith to be in men?
(John 12:39-44)….HE hath blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts…why? ..because they
loved the praise of men more than the praise of God…..Jesus cried and said.. “he that believeth on Me, believeth not on Me, but on HIM that sent Me.”
What does God Command be done in HIS House of Worship? Consider This!
(Psalm 100:3-5)… “Know ye that the LORD *HE* IS GOD:” Know Who and What? “It Is HE that hath made us and not we ourselves;” Who made us that we should lift ~ourselves~ up? “we are HIS people and the sheep of HIS Pasture” …Whose people are we? Our own person to do as we please or a ~Great earthly Nation~? “Enter into HIS Gates with thanksgiving,” Enter into our gates & courts or HIS? “and into HIS Courts with Praise: be thankful unto HIM,” Who do we owe thanks to in HIS House? The Church officials, the Pastors, our friends? “and Bless HIS Name” …Whose IS HIM? Whose Name do we lift up in Praise? . “For the LORD IS Good;” Why? “HIS mercy is everlasting; and HIS Truth endureth to all generations” …How far does this passage stand through TIME? those that lived in the days of King David? Peter and Paul? The Roman days? Or To ALL Generations? …. When ~DID~ God *Change*, so that we ~NO LONGER~ are required to ~Honor~ HIM? WHEN DID GOD make THE ~~NEW~~ Commandment that now HIS children, The Sheep of HIS Pasture, could give their ~Praise~ to each other, an earthly nation, a nationally proclaimed celebration, include pagan cultural traditions in the services carried out where HIS people come to gather to Worship God in the building set aside for ~THIS Purpose~….??? OR IS IT Today, as IT Was with the Israelites of old, They have mingled with the heathen nations until the “Temples” set aside for True Worship, have been defiled, because of fleshly minds” … (I Corinthians 3: 17)
(Mark 7:6b-7)..”people honoureth ME with their lips, but their heart is far from ME.. IN vain do they ~~Worship~~ ME.. teaching for ~Doctrines the commandments of men~~.”
Does the Written Accounts of Jesus Birth, or Crucifixion, penned by men that walked with Jesus give record, OF: men bring gifts and honoring each other, before God, or singing songs of praise to the nations in which these events took place, OR praising each other because they were born on this earth during this day and lived on this earth to see these events happen? Folks back up a step or two and take a more extended arms length ~~LOOK~~ AT What we do, what we show, how we worship before the world that is seeking leadership from: The people that claim to be God’s disciples, ministers, children….
When we are calling folks to stand in the front of the Church and lifting them up in songs of praise because they had a fleshly birthday this day, or because they have lived in fleshly marriage for a year or more, or for some work that they may have done in the Church what are we doing? Who are we honoring in God’s Gates and Courts?
This seems to be a good thing to do, it makes people feel special, so it is understandable from a fleshly point of view. But! It would seem that if anything be done in God’s House of this nature it would be better to remember and give thanks unto the LORD for the day that HE saved our miserable souls. The day that HE saw fit to forgive us, by convicting us of our sins and short comings, and laying that burden upon our hearts by the Holy Spirit, and drawing us to HIM, God the Father, by HIS Son, Jesus Christ….Once again, WHY do we enter into HIS Gates??
(Proverbs 14:12)...there is a way which seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof are the ways of death....
(Romans 3:31)….Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we
establish the law…. Because we think ourselves saved does that exempt us from following the Commandments of God? Does this give us the liberty to decide for ourselves what is righteous in our worship, what we want to do?
(Romans 1:28)...And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them
over to a reprobate mind… When we assume that we know, in our finite minds, right and wrong and see no need to consult the Written Word of Commandment that God gave us to obey, that teaches us HIS Will and Way for us, what will happen? What has happened to God’s children down through the ages when they decided to do what pleased men, themselves, instead of following God’s Own Will and Way?
These scriptures are written plain enough to understand without explanation, one must sincerely read them AND comply.
(I John 4:1)…Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God:
because many false prophets are gone out into the world….
(Job 22:23) …. If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away
iniquity far from thy tabernacles….
Ever wonder if we the people that claim to be followers of and claim the Name of God’s Son Jesus Christ, would cleanse HIS House of Worship and return to pure worship in HIS Gates & Courts what a great blessing could be brought to the Church??? Why do we doggedly stand on men’s tradition’s and claim pride in the ways of the world, instead of humbling ourselves to read study and obey God’s Will and Way? Where does judgment begin? What belongs to God?
We walk ~Proudly~ into the doors and pray for God to cure our diseases of flesh: cancer, aids, all the terrible things that befall us….We circulate letters asking folks to pray that man, scientist, doctors ~WILL~ find a cure for these things… TO Stand up and fight to keep God on Caesars money, Keep God in the court systems and schools… make man stop killing, but help man to kill by supporting soldiers of war, keep this nation free, but don‘t tell us what to do… Confusing? WELL, God IS NOT A yo-yo, or an object that we the people can ~Put~ Somewhere, OR ~Take~ out of something…as we see fit… We finites fail to realize THE HE IS: The Cure of all these things… HE IS: the Power that Retrieves, Relieves, and Retains, HIS children that seek to do HIS Will and Walk in HIS Way, THAT humbly bow down before HIS Throne IN obedient, respectful fear of HIS Might… IN Pure Love …IT IS IN THIS POWER, THIS LOVE That we MUST build up ~~HOPE~~ strengthen our ~~Faith~~ Establish our Trust and Allegiance… NOT IN the ~Pride~ of nations, people, of things of the world led by Satan…. (Man does ~NOT~ live by bread alone… BUT ~~BY~~ Every WORD OF God…Luke 4:4) &(4:8).. IT IS WRITTEN: “Thou shalt Worship THE LORD thy God, AND HIM Only shalt thou ~Serve~” … &&& (4:12)… “Thou shalt ~NOT~ Temp THE LORD thy God” … How many times and in how many ways are we tempting God to reach down in punishment for the transgressions, Because, we turn our faces to the world… God did not send HIS Son to be propitiation of our sins that we can run rampant ~~With~~ the world… BUTTT:
(I John 2: 1- 7) we have an ~~Advocate~~ with the Father, Christ Jesus, the ~righteous~.. He IS The ~~Propitiation~~ for our sins, and not for ours only but for the world he that saith “I know Him” and keepeth not His Commandments IS A liar, and the truth IS not in him… I write NO New Commandment, BUT and old commandment from the beginning…. AND This brings us right back TO: (John 2:15-16)… “Love ~~NOT~~ the world, neither the things in IT, IF any man love the world, the love of the Father IS NOT IN him… FOR the *PRIDE* of Life IS NOT of ~~The Father~~…… Romans 10:17)… So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God....
Monday, April 25, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Breaking THE Mold
Breaking the ~mold~ It is so very hard to break off the chains, climb out of the rut, of men’s traditionally formed sin… The *SIN* OF deliberately disobeying God’s Commands of Following HIS Will & WAY, as opposed to mans traditions OR attempting to mix the ~TWO~ together by trying to ~Put~ Christ where we want Him, rather than humbly bowing down TO our Father‘s Will AND Following Jesus IN His Way….. IN Fact IT IS Impossible for us to do alone, we must first bow in humble repentance, step out of our ~OWN~ comfort zone molding and seek God’s Will & Way, obediently accepting the Guidance of The Holy Spirit, and searching the Doctrine of The Father, That HIS Son Jesus Delivered unto mankind..
(John 7:16-17)…Jesus Said: “MY *Doctrine* IS NOT Mine, BUT *HIS* that Sent Me… *IF* any man will do *HIS* Will, he shall know of the ~Doctrine~ whether IT BE of God, or whether I speak of Myself”…. (AND SO IT IS: with the written Word, IF any man will read, study, learn, *AS IT IS Written*, through the Guidance of the Holy Ghost, they will be led to the Truth and Will be able to discern the Right from the Wrong… Which IS Why God had HIS Words Penned down and Preserved down through the ages)….
(I Corinthians 10:11).. NOW ~ALL~ these things happened unto them for *Ensamples*: &AND & they ~ARE~ *Written* for our admonition, ~UPON~ The *Ends* of the World TO come… (Isaiah 30: 1 & 8-9).. “WOE unto the rebellious children,” Saith THE LORD, “That take counsel, BUT Not of ME; that cover with a covering but NOT OF *MY* Spirit, that they may add sin to sin.” “NOW Go, ~WRITE~ *IT* Before them in a table, and *NOTE* IT IN A ~BOOK~ that *IT* may BE FOR Time ~TO COME~ AND Forever and Ever: That this IS A rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear ~~THE LAW OF THE LORD~” … (we teach thou shalt not lie all day long, and then turn around and teach that when the children hunt eggs they are looking for Jesus… DUH…) Jesus was not buried in an egg, AND He IS NOT Buried Today, BUT Thank God THE Father, He IS Risen, giving us hope of the Resurrection to life eternal… IF we bury Him in an egg every year, how vain IS our teaching? How rebellious are we?
I’m not speaking of the family get together at a certain time, or a group of friends that come together and have fellowship, a seasonal time when we all come together to enjoy a meal, bear gifts to each other, remember old times…
I am speaking of: “The Reason’s OF These Season’s” …. What ~Drives~ folks into a false traditional belief ? Men’s created puns that sound ~Good~ and are designed to ~Look~ Righteous, that we all have fallen for at one time or another, and then somehow or we get caught up in it, as a true belief of Righteous Tradition… BUT! IF we would continually return to ~The Written Word~ for proof of our acts, consult the Father IN the Name OF Jesus Christ HIS Son, and ~Obediently~ *FOLLOW* THE Guidance OF THE Holy Ghost, we would save ourselves a lot of heart ache, pain, and suffering….
(Mark 7:7).. “HOWBEIT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING FOR DOCTRINES THE COMMENDMENTS OF MEN”. & (v.13).. “Making The word OF God OF None Effect BY your tradition….
There was a time when every where you looked there was a tag on the vehicles: A Cross, and the words: “Jesus IS MY CO-Pilot”… What IS wrong with this? IT Looks good, righteous, shows our dedication to Christ, right? OR Does IT Really show our self-centered, ~ALL About ME~ attitude that has been the down fall of many through ~Vain-Glory~…
(Philippians 2:3) .. “Let ~Nothing~ be done through *Strife & Vainglory*: But in lowliness of mind, … (v.16) ~~Holding~~ forth THE *WORD* OF Life: That I May Rejoice in the “Day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain” … (our ~Works~ IS our labour, and they show whether we are in Christ or of the world…)
AS IN: “I’m Driving this car, and I’m bringing Jesus along for the ride, because I can do as I please and He will follow ME, I can PUT Jesus where I Want Him… how many *I‘S* here? *I* am the potter and He is the clay in MY Testimony…. BUT What does the Bible Really teach us? *I* do the ~Leading~ Jesus IS The ~Follower~, SOOOOoooo… very many things that are taught in the Churches reflect just this attitude of man… AND Where does that show that these folk stand?
(Mark 6:6)… “These people *Honoreth* Me with their lips, BUT their heart IS far from Me”.
An old childhood game that we played at school, “Follow The Leader”, we used to enjoy it until the leader led us somewhere we didn’t want to go…like into a brier patch… then we quit on them…
WELL, Christ, as our Leader Will Only lead us down/into that ~Path~ of Righteousness… Guided BY The Holy Spirit, IN THE WILL OF God THE Father… IF we stumble into the brier patch, He will gently guide us out, *IF* we *Follow* His Guiding Direction… BUT, IT IS When we step up and put ourselves ahead as The Leader that we get into a big mess…The we turn around and holler, WHY? Lord, Why you do this to me? Help ~ME~ …
AND Many have attempted to do that in this modern day world….. Which IS Why this world IS In the mess IT IS…. BUT there again: AS IT IS Written these things ARE to come to pass, WHAT WE Must remember IS: God laid down *TWO* ~Ways~, *TWO* ~Paths~, & we gotta be on our toes, mind out P’s & Q’s, Pay Attention TO where we place our feet as we Step through this life, because there are *Big* piles of sin laying around everywhere, sorta like in the cow pasture…. WHICH IS WHY! We MUST Follow our Leader, Jesus Through the fields of this world unto the end, Letting The Holy Spirit Be our Guide, as we stay IN Step Behind Him on the Narrow Path that leads to life….. NOT OUT on our OWN….
(Colossians 2:6-8).. AS ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, ~SO~ *walk* ye IN Him: (NOT IN Front of Him) Rooted and built up IN Him, and established in THE ~Faith~ AS ye have been taught, abounding therein ~With~ *Thanksgiving*…. How often do we gather together into a meeting as Paul said we should be assembled, and Begin our services by Giving Thanks to God? How often do we gather into a service and praise each other for: things of the flesh? Birthdays, anniversaries, worldly accomplishments, “Look AT: *YOU* or Look AT: *ME*: instead of LOOK TO God?
SO IT IS The same scenario, with the seasons, the traditions of man-made days of celebrations, mothers, fathers, wars, hero’s, where IS THIS Written?
“The Reason OF The Season”, yeah, God, IS The REASON OF ALL Seasons, GOD THE Unit of ONE, The Father, The Son, & The Holy Ghost, because without HIM we could do nothing, (John 15:4-5) for HE brings the rain and causes the sun to shine. God IS God ALL The Time and where we should and can reflect, upon the Biblically Written Accounts of The Birth, Crucifixion, Resurrection, & Ascension of Christ, and the Sacrifice that God THE Father Made in Sending HIS Only Begotten Son, AND The Sacrifice that The Son Made, through Obedient Death unto the Cross, (Philippians 2:8) to try and mix these accounts into a seasonal celebration, loaded with falsely vain teachings IS an abomination…. Misleading the sheep, pulling down the fence of protection around them and letting them out into the world….. IT IS A Shame and “Woe unto the Pastors, that destroy and scatter the sheep OF *MY* Pasture! Saith THE LORD. (Jeremiah 23:1)
(John 7:16-17)…Jesus Said: “MY *Doctrine* IS NOT Mine, BUT *HIS* that Sent Me… *IF* any man will do *HIS* Will, he shall know of the ~Doctrine~ whether IT BE of God, or whether I speak of Myself”…. (AND SO IT IS: with the written Word, IF any man will read, study, learn, *AS IT IS Written*, through the Guidance of the Holy Ghost, they will be led to the Truth and Will be able to discern the Right from the Wrong… Which IS Why God had HIS Words Penned down and Preserved down through the ages)….
(I Corinthians 10:11).. NOW ~ALL~ these things happened unto them for *Ensamples*: &AND & they ~ARE~ *Written* for our admonition, ~UPON~ The *Ends* of the World TO come… (Isaiah 30: 1 & 8-9).. “WOE unto the rebellious children,” Saith THE LORD, “That take counsel, BUT Not of ME; that cover with a covering but NOT OF *MY* Spirit, that they may add sin to sin.” “NOW Go, ~WRITE~ *IT* Before them in a table, and *NOTE* IT IN A ~BOOK~ that *IT* may BE FOR Time ~TO COME~ AND Forever and Ever: That this IS A rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear ~~THE LAW OF THE LORD~” … (we teach thou shalt not lie all day long, and then turn around and teach that when the children hunt eggs they are looking for Jesus… DUH…) Jesus was not buried in an egg, AND He IS NOT Buried Today, BUT Thank God THE Father, He IS Risen, giving us hope of the Resurrection to life eternal… IF we bury Him in an egg every year, how vain IS our teaching? How rebellious are we?
I’m not speaking of the family get together at a certain time, or a group of friends that come together and have fellowship, a seasonal time when we all come together to enjoy a meal, bear gifts to each other, remember old times…
I am speaking of: “The Reason’s OF These Season’s” …. What ~Drives~ folks into a false traditional belief ? Men’s created puns that sound ~Good~ and are designed to ~Look~ Righteous, that we all have fallen for at one time or another, and then somehow or we get caught up in it, as a true belief of Righteous Tradition… BUT! IF we would continually return to ~The Written Word~ for proof of our acts, consult the Father IN the Name OF Jesus Christ HIS Son, and ~Obediently~ *FOLLOW* THE Guidance OF THE Holy Ghost, we would save ourselves a lot of heart ache, pain, and suffering….
(Mark 7:7).. “HOWBEIT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING FOR DOCTRINES THE COMMENDMENTS OF MEN”. & (v.13).. “Making The word OF God OF None Effect BY your tradition….
There was a time when every where you looked there was a tag on the vehicles: A Cross, and the words: “Jesus IS MY CO-Pilot”… What IS wrong with this? IT Looks good, righteous, shows our dedication to Christ, right? OR Does IT Really show our self-centered, ~ALL About ME~ attitude that has been the down fall of many through ~Vain-Glory~…
(Philippians 2:3) .. “Let ~Nothing~ be done through *Strife & Vainglory*: But in lowliness of mind, … (v.16) ~~Holding~~ forth THE *WORD* OF Life: That I May Rejoice in the “Day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain” … (our ~Works~ IS our labour, and they show whether we are in Christ or of the world…)
AS IN: “I’m Driving this car, and I’m bringing Jesus along for the ride, because I can do as I please and He will follow ME, I can PUT Jesus where I Want Him… how many *I‘S* here? *I* am the potter and He is the clay in MY Testimony…. BUT What does the Bible Really teach us? *I* do the ~Leading~ Jesus IS The ~Follower~, SOOOOoooo… very many things that are taught in the Churches reflect just this attitude of man… AND Where does that show that these folk stand?
(Mark 6:6)… “These people *Honoreth* Me with their lips, BUT their heart IS far from Me”.
An old childhood game that we played at school, “Follow The Leader”, we used to enjoy it until the leader led us somewhere we didn’t want to go…like into a brier patch… then we quit on them…
WELL, Christ, as our Leader Will Only lead us down/into that ~Path~ of Righteousness… Guided BY The Holy Spirit, IN THE WILL OF God THE Father… IF we stumble into the brier patch, He will gently guide us out, *IF* we *Follow* His Guiding Direction… BUT, IT IS When we step up and put ourselves ahead as The Leader that we get into a big mess…The we turn around and holler, WHY? Lord, Why you do this to me? Help ~ME~ …
AND Many have attempted to do that in this modern day world….. Which IS Why this world IS In the mess IT IS…. BUT there again: AS IT IS Written these things ARE to come to pass, WHAT WE Must remember IS: God laid down *TWO* ~Ways~, *TWO* ~Paths~, & we gotta be on our toes, mind out P’s & Q’s, Pay Attention TO where we place our feet as we Step through this life, because there are *Big* piles of sin laying around everywhere, sorta like in the cow pasture…. WHICH IS WHY! We MUST Follow our Leader, Jesus Through the fields of this world unto the end, Letting The Holy Spirit Be our Guide, as we stay IN Step Behind Him on the Narrow Path that leads to life….. NOT OUT on our OWN….
(Colossians 2:6-8).. AS ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, ~SO~ *walk* ye IN Him: (NOT IN Front of Him) Rooted and built up IN Him, and established in THE ~Faith~ AS ye have been taught, abounding therein ~With~ *Thanksgiving*…. How often do we gather together into a meeting as Paul said we should be assembled, and Begin our services by Giving Thanks to God? How often do we gather into a service and praise each other for: things of the flesh? Birthdays, anniversaries, worldly accomplishments, “Look AT: *YOU* or Look AT: *ME*: instead of LOOK TO God?
SO IT IS The same scenario, with the seasons, the traditions of man-made days of celebrations, mothers, fathers, wars, hero’s, where IS THIS Written?
“The Reason OF The Season”, yeah, God, IS The REASON OF ALL Seasons, GOD THE Unit of ONE, The Father, The Son, & The Holy Ghost, because without HIM we could do nothing, (John 15:4-5) for HE brings the rain and causes the sun to shine. God IS God ALL The Time and where we should and can reflect, upon the Biblically Written Accounts of The Birth, Crucifixion, Resurrection, & Ascension of Christ, and the Sacrifice that God THE Father Made in Sending HIS Only Begotten Son, AND The Sacrifice that The Son Made, through Obedient Death unto the Cross, (Philippians 2:8) to try and mix these accounts into a seasonal celebration, loaded with falsely vain teachings IS an abomination…. Misleading the sheep, pulling down the fence of protection around them and letting them out into the world….. IT IS A Shame and “Woe unto the Pastors, that destroy and scatter the sheep OF *MY* Pasture! Saith THE LORD. (Jeremiah 23:1)
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Airplane Flight
The plane came to an abrupt stop after a bumpy landing in the grass beside the pond…. Rushing over, we carefully inspected the hull of the plane for breaks, because this plane had to lift us up to safety out of the mire that we found ourselves engulfed by… IT WAS our ONLY HOPE!
For in the distance all around were the fires of destruction, black smoke rising, even the pond was black and stagnant with the mud’s of rotting fleshly life..
As we inspected, a lady emerged to instruct us on boarding the plane, announcing that a wing of the plane had been cracked in the landing and would need to be repaired… We stood there, in the woods alone, nothing in sight but destruction, with ~nothing~ to fix the wing of a plane…
Someone said, here is a roll of duct tape and we set out taping the damaged wing….. Someone else said, “this is a joke, this tape will not hold up under the pressure that the wind exerts in taking off, much less the flight” ….
The instructor, informed us that the tape would hold ~IF~ we applied *IT* Faithfully… BUT, she said that isn’t the worst problem that you have…. Because when the plane landed in this mess, the pilots legs became dislocated, offset, out of place and he cannot fly the plane in this condition, we must repair his legs…..
My heart sunk, cause I did not have a clue as to how anyone of this group, could ~FIX~ the pilot’s legs… BUT, I was brave, and concluded that ~IF~ the duct tape could hold the wings on with enough ~Faith~, then IT ought to fix the pilot’s legs… So I stepped up and said, “let me go in with the duct tape and maybe I can tape them in place enough that the pilot can fly us ~ALL~ to safety” ……
The instructor said, “NO, no one can approach the ~pilot~ bodily, and the duct tape ~WILL~ grossly contaminate the sanctity of the pilot”…. BUT, the instructor went on to say, “you can reach in spiritually and realign the legs and they will mend themselves”… This confused me greatly, but I was willing to do what must be done in order to save the people standing in the path of destruction, from a horrible doom… Soooo, I looked into the ~cockpit~ with a spiritual eye that the ~Instructor~ gave me to see with… AND: TO my surprise and amazement, the ~Pilot~ WAS, ~ALL~ Crystal Clear Glass.. I could see right through him, BUT IT WAS brilliant.. IT WAS, a feeling of elation to be able to see this… as I looked upon this Magnificent Being, seated in the ~Cockpit~ positioned before the controls of the plane, I saw, that the legs were indeed completely severed at the shin bones, with the feet part shifted slightly forward, from the knee joints… I didn’t know what to do, for I felt that I was unworthy to touch This Wonderful Being, but the ~Instructor~, said, “Do not touch with your hands, but with your heart reach out within your spirit, and let the flow of love move the legs back where they belong, and they Will be healed.”
I watched as the legs slide back into place and then the skin of the plane became dense again and I could no longer see the Pilot, BUT, the Instructor, said, “It IS Time to board the plane, the fires of destruction are drawing near, and we must be on our way.”
As some, fretted again about the duct tape on the wing the Instructor, assured us that what was on the outside was unimportant, that IT would hold as far as we needed to go… BUT that the inside must be pure as crystal, unbroken, untainted by the fleshly world, in order to make this flight….
I woke up from this dream, somehow greatly refreshed in the Spirit… Assured, by faith, in hope, in the LOVE of God….. Also understanding that, our ~works~ MUST be crystal clear, thus showing our faith, in God’s Love, and NOT, contaminated by the ways of Satan’s world of flesh… AND we are not saved by works, but by our works we prove our walk, our faith, where our hope love and trust IS placed….
We can’t teach of God’s Kingdom, by attempting to mix *IT* with the nation’s of this world.
We can’t teach of God’s Son, Jesus Christ, the Truly Written, Blessed Accounts of His Wonderful LOVE, by mixing *IT* with pagan customs, and tradition’s of men…
We can’t reach in with unclean hands and touch the saving ~Grace~ OF God, to receive *IT*, but we must receive *IT* spiritually, with untainted humble obedience in God’s Will and Way, not weighed down in the mire of false teachings, broken vows of service made before our Heavenly Father, contaminated by the abomination that maketh desolate, the things which cause folks to look off in the wrong direction, thus turning their faces away from The ONE True God, drawing them to cast their eyes lustily upon the ways of a lost and dying world……
AND YES, folks, TIME IS Running out… IF Peter, James, John, and Paul were living in the last days, 2000 years ago, then we are surly living in the last of the last days…. AND when our eyes are closed in death, and the spirit that THE LORD gave to us that we came to be a living soul, is brought back to our Maker, this flesh drops back to the earth from which IT came, then ~ALL~ for us as individuals is done, we have only to await our time to board the train on which we ourselves purchased the ticket to eternity, with the life that we proved to live here in these fleshly bodies, through the choice that we made…. Whether: to eternal life or death
(Deuteronomy 7:7).. The LORD ~DID NOT~ set HIS Love upon you, ~NOR Choose you~, because ye were more in number than any people….(9)… Know ye therefore that the LORD thy God, *HE IS God*, The faithful God, Which keepeth covenant & mercy.. WITH ~them~ that *Love* HIM &&& *KEEP* HIS Commandments… to a thousand generation…
(Deuteronomy 30:15-16)… SEE, *I* (THE LORD) Have ~SET~ Before thee this day: ~Life and good~ & ~death & evil…In that I Command thee this day ~~TO Love the LORD they God, ~TO walk *IN* HIS Ways, & ~TO *KEEP* HIS Commandments….
Noah did not find ~Grace~ in the eyes of the LORD, by being close friends with the ways of the world, and partaking in pagan customs, cultures, and men’s traditions…. Those were the ones standing on the outside when the rains began.. BUT, Noah through ~~Obedient~ Faith, Proved BY HIS works of Obedience TO God’s Will and Way, found ~Grace~ in the eyes of the LORD……(Genesis 6:8) IT would be good to read the whole account in Genesis chapters 6 - 9.. And take note of how many times Noah’s obedience came before the LORD…. (9:1).. AND God blessed Noah…
God sent HIS, Son Jesus Christ to be that Eternal Sacrificial Lamb, that men could by ~Faithful Obedience~ live eternally in God’s Kingdom, not made by hands… Which IS THE Only Way That we can ~Truthfully~ teach of *IT*… Showing others where their ~Salvation lies~… For IT Does not lie in a painted egg that represents a fleshly birth, nor does *IT* spring forth from under a tree cut down and brought in to be decorated with lights and an image of a baby placed under it… BUT We must teach the ~Pure Unadulterated Gospel of Christ~, AS IT IS Written, for us to teach, and OF God’s Kingdom, AS Jesus Taught of IT When He walked among men teaching, showing them, proving God’s Way… IN THE Will of His Father and ours…
We cannot save a single soul, but IT IS our ~commission~ TO Teach them of the Way, The Truth, The Light, The Life, by teaching them in Truth…. No man can come to the Father ~~EXCEPT~~ by Jesus Christ The Son, (John 14:6) and no man Comes TO Christ, except the Father ~Draw~ him.. (John 6:44).. (Romans 8: 14) As many as ~are~ led BY the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God…
(Romans 10:15).. How beautiful are the feet of them that preach The Gospel of Peace, and bring Good tidings of Good Things…
(II Timothy 3:16-17)..~~ALL~~ Scripture IS given BY Inspiration of God, & IS profitable FOR Doctrine, FOR Reproof, FOR Correction, FOR *INSTUCTION* IN Righteousness, THAT the man OF God may Be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto ~~GOOD~ Works…. &&&
(II Timothy 4: 3-4).. FOR the ~time~ will come when they will not endure ~~Sound Doctrine~~ but after their ~~OWN~~ Lusts shall heap to themselves ~~Teachers, having itching ears… &&& Shall turn their ears away from the truth, and shall be ~~Turned~~ unto *Fables*…
I read in the news post that a religious society is presenting a big, “Easter Egg Hunt”, in order to spread hope to the underprivileged children, teaching them of The Hope that lies in The Resurrection of Christ… I read IT over the second time, to try and find just where that hope can lie in the ~coloring, hiding, and hunting of: Easter eggs…. AS I Read these verses came to mind…. Where IS THE Truth, in this? According TO: AS IT IS WRITTEN, IN: The Holy Bible, Jesus the Son OF God The Father, The Lamb of God, NOT a colored egg.
I can find no where that Jesus IS referred TO as: a rabbit, egg, or chick.. Only: References to His being: The ~Lion~ of the Tribe of Juda; The ~Root~ of Jesse.. (Revelation 5:5) & Reference TO: His being; ~The Vine~ (John 15:1)… we being the branches, showing a specific order in which we are to understand our place and our actions accounted for….
FOR God The Father said: “MY people hath been ~lost sheep~: their shepherds hath caused them to go astray”… (Jeremiah 50:6)… & Jesus said: “ I am the door of the sheep”, “a stranger they will not follow”, & “My ~sheep~ hear My voice and I Know them & they follow Me”… (John 10: 4-5; 7; 27) SOOOOoooo… why are so many following strange customs rather than standing on the True Gospel of Christ…
What will these children remember? Who found the most eggs or the egg with the money hidden in it? Or sadly, the bully that knocked them over and took their precious find of colored eggs…
What will they look forward TO?? Another ~~Egg Hunt~~~ next year? What ~~Hope~~ Are we teaching them IN This….?
Any way you look at IT, they will remember the pagan event, they may respond IF asked, as they are taught by adults that Easter IS about Christ… but that IS ~ALL~ that they can say…
I listened to the little ones coming into the Sanctuary from their Sunday classes, talking all about how they colored eggs, and ate candy, what fun they had, some with fake tattoo’s pasted on their little faces of chicks, biddies, and maybe a cross mixed in with it.. Teaching a practice that IS forbidden In The Bible, IN the place where their ~joy~ should be what they learned of their LORD and Savior….
I am not saying that: children can’t have fun, that we can’t have events in which the children can play good healthy games… and Yes, These games can and should teach, good morals, clean habits, love and compassion, not competition, which IS another draw back of large egg hunts, some get pushed aside while others push and shove and take away from the weak and small, not a good Christian teaching either, IS IT?…
BUT they should not be taught as being a part OF OR ~THE~ “Blessed Event’s That our Heavenly Father Gave, when HE Sent HIS Son To be born on this earth and to give His life a ransom sacrifice for ~ALL~ mankind” …. But teach the children of God’s Love as IT IS Written, forbidding them not:: to come unto Christ… AND we are guilty of forbidding them to come to Christ when we mix in these pagan customs with the True Accounts of THE Gospel…. Because we do as the LORD said IN Jeremiah… cause them to go astray, placing their eyes in the world and not on Christ… Think seriously about what, why, and how we teach, our precious children… Just because we were taught wrong, doesn’t mean we can’t repent of our way, and go back to the ~Right~ Way…
Peter, Paul, John, Never taught of these things, IT WAS brought about by men better than 300 years after they lived… mans need for greed, to increase numbers in the Church…. What IS Written: The LORD did NOT set HIS LOVE upon you because you were many in ~number~… BUT The LORD keepeth covenant with them THAT LOVE HIM AND Keep HIS Commandments… (Deuteronomy 7)…. Think About *IT*!
For in the distance all around were the fires of destruction, black smoke rising, even the pond was black and stagnant with the mud’s of rotting fleshly life..
As we inspected, a lady emerged to instruct us on boarding the plane, announcing that a wing of the plane had been cracked in the landing and would need to be repaired… We stood there, in the woods alone, nothing in sight but destruction, with ~nothing~ to fix the wing of a plane…
Someone said, here is a roll of duct tape and we set out taping the damaged wing….. Someone else said, “this is a joke, this tape will not hold up under the pressure that the wind exerts in taking off, much less the flight” ….
The instructor, informed us that the tape would hold ~IF~ we applied *IT* Faithfully… BUT, she said that isn’t the worst problem that you have…. Because when the plane landed in this mess, the pilots legs became dislocated, offset, out of place and he cannot fly the plane in this condition, we must repair his legs…..
My heart sunk, cause I did not have a clue as to how anyone of this group, could ~FIX~ the pilot’s legs… BUT, I was brave, and concluded that ~IF~ the duct tape could hold the wings on with enough ~Faith~, then IT ought to fix the pilot’s legs… So I stepped up and said, “let me go in with the duct tape and maybe I can tape them in place enough that the pilot can fly us ~ALL~ to safety” ……
The instructor said, “NO, no one can approach the ~pilot~ bodily, and the duct tape ~WILL~ grossly contaminate the sanctity of the pilot”…. BUT, the instructor went on to say, “you can reach in spiritually and realign the legs and they will mend themselves”… This confused me greatly, but I was willing to do what must be done in order to save the people standing in the path of destruction, from a horrible doom… Soooo, I looked into the ~cockpit~ with a spiritual eye that the ~Instructor~ gave me to see with… AND: TO my surprise and amazement, the ~Pilot~ WAS, ~ALL~ Crystal Clear Glass.. I could see right through him, BUT IT WAS brilliant.. IT WAS, a feeling of elation to be able to see this… as I looked upon this Magnificent Being, seated in the ~Cockpit~ positioned before the controls of the plane, I saw, that the legs were indeed completely severed at the shin bones, with the feet part shifted slightly forward, from the knee joints… I didn’t know what to do, for I felt that I was unworthy to touch This Wonderful Being, but the ~Instructor~, said, “Do not touch with your hands, but with your heart reach out within your spirit, and let the flow of love move the legs back where they belong, and they Will be healed.”
I watched as the legs slide back into place and then the skin of the plane became dense again and I could no longer see the Pilot, BUT, the Instructor, said, “It IS Time to board the plane, the fires of destruction are drawing near, and we must be on our way.”
As some, fretted again about the duct tape on the wing the Instructor, assured us that what was on the outside was unimportant, that IT would hold as far as we needed to go… BUT that the inside must be pure as crystal, unbroken, untainted by the fleshly world, in order to make this flight….
I woke up from this dream, somehow greatly refreshed in the Spirit… Assured, by faith, in hope, in the LOVE of God….. Also understanding that, our ~works~ MUST be crystal clear, thus showing our faith, in God’s Love, and NOT, contaminated by the ways of Satan’s world of flesh… AND we are not saved by works, but by our works we prove our walk, our faith, where our hope love and trust IS placed….
We can’t teach of God’s Kingdom, by attempting to mix *IT* with the nation’s of this world.
We can’t teach of God’s Son, Jesus Christ, the Truly Written, Blessed Accounts of His Wonderful LOVE, by mixing *IT* with pagan customs, and tradition’s of men…
We can’t reach in with unclean hands and touch the saving ~Grace~ OF God, to receive *IT*, but we must receive *IT* spiritually, with untainted humble obedience in God’s Will and Way, not weighed down in the mire of false teachings, broken vows of service made before our Heavenly Father, contaminated by the abomination that maketh desolate, the things which cause folks to look off in the wrong direction, thus turning their faces away from The ONE True God, drawing them to cast their eyes lustily upon the ways of a lost and dying world……
AND YES, folks, TIME IS Running out… IF Peter, James, John, and Paul were living in the last days, 2000 years ago, then we are surly living in the last of the last days…. AND when our eyes are closed in death, and the spirit that THE LORD gave to us that we came to be a living soul, is brought back to our Maker, this flesh drops back to the earth from which IT came, then ~ALL~ for us as individuals is done, we have only to await our time to board the train on which we ourselves purchased the ticket to eternity, with the life that we proved to live here in these fleshly bodies, through the choice that we made…. Whether: to eternal life or death
(Deuteronomy 7:7).. The LORD ~DID NOT~ set HIS Love upon you, ~NOR Choose you~, because ye were more in number than any people….(9)… Know ye therefore that the LORD thy God, *HE IS God*, The faithful God, Which keepeth covenant & mercy.. WITH ~them~ that *Love* HIM &&& *KEEP* HIS Commandments… to a thousand generation…
(Deuteronomy 30:15-16)… SEE, *I* (THE LORD) Have ~SET~ Before thee this day: ~Life and good~ & ~death & evil…In that I Command thee this day ~~TO Love the LORD they God, ~TO walk *IN* HIS Ways, & ~TO *KEEP* HIS Commandments….
Noah did not find ~Grace~ in the eyes of the LORD, by being close friends with the ways of the world, and partaking in pagan customs, cultures, and men’s traditions…. Those were the ones standing on the outside when the rains began.. BUT, Noah through ~~Obedient~ Faith, Proved BY HIS works of Obedience TO God’s Will and Way, found ~Grace~ in the eyes of the LORD……(Genesis 6:8) IT would be good to read the whole account in Genesis chapters 6 - 9.. And take note of how many times Noah’s obedience came before the LORD…. (9:1).. AND God blessed Noah…
God sent HIS, Son Jesus Christ to be that Eternal Sacrificial Lamb, that men could by ~Faithful Obedience~ live eternally in God’s Kingdom, not made by hands… Which IS THE Only Way That we can ~Truthfully~ teach of *IT*… Showing others where their ~Salvation lies~… For IT Does not lie in a painted egg that represents a fleshly birth, nor does *IT* spring forth from under a tree cut down and brought in to be decorated with lights and an image of a baby placed under it… BUT We must teach the ~Pure Unadulterated Gospel of Christ~, AS IT IS Written, for us to teach, and OF God’s Kingdom, AS Jesus Taught of IT When He walked among men teaching, showing them, proving God’s Way… IN THE Will of His Father and ours…
We cannot save a single soul, but IT IS our ~commission~ TO Teach them of the Way, The Truth, The Light, The Life, by teaching them in Truth…. No man can come to the Father ~~EXCEPT~~ by Jesus Christ The Son, (John 14:6) and no man Comes TO Christ, except the Father ~Draw~ him.. (John 6:44).. (Romans 8: 14) As many as ~are~ led BY the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God…
(Romans 10:15).. How beautiful are the feet of them that preach The Gospel of Peace, and bring Good tidings of Good Things…
(II Timothy 3:16-17)..~~ALL~~ Scripture IS given BY Inspiration of God, & IS profitable FOR Doctrine, FOR Reproof, FOR Correction, FOR *INSTUCTION* IN Righteousness, THAT the man OF God may Be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto ~~GOOD~ Works…. &&&
(II Timothy 4: 3-4).. FOR the ~time~ will come when they will not endure ~~Sound Doctrine~~ but after their ~~OWN~~ Lusts shall heap to themselves ~~Teachers, having itching ears… &&& Shall turn their ears away from the truth, and shall be ~~Turned~~ unto *Fables*…
I read in the news post that a religious society is presenting a big, “Easter Egg Hunt”, in order to spread hope to the underprivileged children, teaching them of The Hope that lies in The Resurrection of Christ… I read IT over the second time, to try and find just where that hope can lie in the ~coloring, hiding, and hunting of: Easter eggs…. AS I Read these verses came to mind…. Where IS THE Truth, in this? According TO: AS IT IS WRITTEN, IN: The Holy Bible, Jesus the Son OF God The Father, The Lamb of God, NOT a colored egg.
I can find no where that Jesus IS referred TO as: a rabbit, egg, or chick.. Only: References to His being: The ~Lion~ of the Tribe of Juda; The ~Root~ of Jesse.. (Revelation 5:5) & Reference TO: His being; ~The Vine~ (John 15:1)… we being the branches, showing a specific order in which we are to understand our place and our actions accounted for….
FOR God The Father said: “MY people hath been ~lost sheep~: their shepherds hath caused them to go astray”… (Jeremiah 50:6)… & Jesus said: “ I am the door of the sheep”, “a stranger they will not follow”, & “My ~sheep~ hear My voice and I Know them & they follow Me”… (John 10: 4-5; 7; 27) SOOOOoooo… why are so many following strange customs rather than standing on the True Gospel of Christ…
What will these children remember? Who found the most eggs or the egg with the money hidden in it? Or sadly, the bully that knocked them over and took their precious find of colored eggs…
What will they look forward TO?? Another ~~Egg Hunt~~~ next year? What ~~Hope~~ Are we teaching them IN This….?
Any way you look at IT, they will remember the pagan event, they may respond IF asked, as they are taught by adults that Easter IS about Christ… but that IS ~ALL~ that they can say…
I listened to the little ones coming into the Sanctuary from their Sunday classes, talking all about how they colored eggs, and ate candy, what fun they had, some with fake tattoo’s pasted on their little faces of chicks, biddies, and maybe a cross mixed in with it.. Teaching a practice that IS forbidden In The Bible, IN the place where their ~joy~ should be what they learned of their LORD and Savior….
I am not saying that: children can’t have fun, that we can’t have events in which the children can play good healthy games… and Yes, These games can and should teach, good morals, clean habits, love and compassion, not competition, which IS another draw back of large egg hunts, some get pushed aside while others push and shove and take away from the weak and small, not a good Christian teaching either, IS IT?…
BUT they should not be taught as being a part OF OR ~THE~ “Blessed Event’s That our Heavenly Father Gave, when HE Sent HIS Son To be born on this earth and to give His life a ransom sacrifice for ~ALL~ mankind” …. But teach the children of God’s Love as IT IS Written, forbidding them not:: to come unto Christ… AND we are guilty of forbidding them to come to Christ when we mix in these pagan customs with the True Accounts of THE Gospel…. Because we do as the LORD said IN Jeremiah… cause them to go astray, placing their eyes in the world and not on Christ… Think seriously about what, why, and how we teach, our precious children… Just because we were taught wrong, doesn’t mean we can’t repent of our way, and go back to the ~Right~ Way…
Peter, Paul, John, Never taught of these things, IT WAS brought about by men better than 300 years after they lived… mans need for greed, to increase numbers in the Church…. What IS Written: The LORD did NOT set HIS LOVE upon you because you were many in ~number~… BUT The LORD keepeth covenant with them THAT LOVE HIM AND Keep HIS Commandments… (Deuteronomy 7)…. Think About *IT*!
Monday, April 11, 2011
Passover; Easter; OR Gospel OF Christ
*IF* … the chocolate bunny and colored eggs have nothing to do with the, “Crucifixion & Resurrection” OF Christ Jesus, THE Very Son of God, Why are they ~Associated~ with IT? By calling *IT* Easter?
AND very *TRUE* they have nothing to DO With the Memorial of THIS Most Holy and Blessed TO BE Remembered Event! SOOOOoooo…. WHY Mix IT ALL UP INTO ONE AFFAIR? Because IT IS ~Adultery~ to bring unclean things into God’s Worship, spiritual fornication, the same as IT IS Adultery for a woman or man to have an illicit affair with another person…or to mix the customs of a pagan ritual in with a sacred service to the ONE True God….
Read: THE Accounts in: (Matthew 27 & 28), (Mark 14- 16), (Luke 22-24), AND (John 18-21) of the Blessed Event… There IT IS Written AS a “Pure Account” and up to the present has not been rewritten to include the abominations of man‘s traditions…however, man IS trying to rewrite even the Bible to suit themselves, changing words, adding to, taking away from, even leaving out complete verses that do not read according to the way that man ~~wants~~ to Believe….
Read: The ~origin~ of Easter According TO The Secular accounts in the Encyclopedia’s & Dictionaries… History of: Easter…. What has one to do with the other?
Most ~~ALL~~ Accounts of the Origin and Celebration OF Easter: confirm that IT IS A pagan celebration, having been carried on centuries before the Birth of Christ on this earth… BUT, man adopted these customs to be included in with the Passover to Memorialize the Resurrection of Christ, The Passover Lamb, of God our Heavenly Father….
NOT, the Easter rabbit… Why would we, IF, we truly believe that Easter IS Passover, NOT be offended at anyone calling a rabbit, an Easter Rabbit, IF Easter truly IS About Remembering the Resurrection of The Lamb of God, as our Savior?
Or IS IT That we get so engrossed in the ways of the world that we really can’t see any further than the murky mire of false teachings, that has been the custom of the people for so many generations….
Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia 1972 (vol.8 pg.267) states: Easter, a Christian festival, embodies many ~~Pre-Christian~~ traditions….The origin of the ~~Name~~ IS unknown …but…scholars believe that IT comes from Eastre, the Anglo Saxon name of a Teutonic goddess *OF* ~Spring & fertility…..AND Included the Easter rabbit, and colored eggs, symbols of fleshly fertility…
Right or Wrong, Good Or Bad, True or False in regards to mans book, IT IS Fact according to God’s Holy Inspired Book, penned down by the prophets..
Most of the Secularly Written Books Include the pagan events that were added to the account of the Crucifixion & Resurrection of Christ, referring to: *IT* as a ~Christian~ celebration, ~~Observed~~ by both Christians and non-Christians alike, &&& This IS True: BUT WHY? Why would a TRUE Christian Memorial Appeal to a non-Christian person? Because IT IS Contaminated with the world? Because IF you bring out a Bible, even some Christians will get ready to go, not wanting to read and really learn, AS IT IS Written… But you give them a party with food, drink, and good times and they are ready to go…..
The very people that claim to STAND for Christ, have NOT Stood where they have vowed before HIM that they would stand, sorta like Peter vowed never to deny Christ, but he did, and so do we by mixing these things into the Memorial of what these books refer to as: “The Most Sacred Day of the Christian people”. ***IF***….. Think about *IT*.
IF Easter, IS indeed a pagan celebration to a false goddess, a seasonal event of the spring equinox, or what ever man may want to reference **IT** AS: then IT ain’t got no more to do with the Crucifixion & Resurrection, of Christ….. than the chocolate rabbits and colored eggs, and by mans own admission they don’t…
SOOOOooo… how can we truthfully say: “We are gonna make a ~Stand~ for Jesus” AND Still include these things in our services before the world, of The Blessed Memorial of our Savior? AND STILL Call *IT* Easter?
Why on earth would we NOT Call: The Memorial of Christ, AS IT IS Written for us to call IT: THE Gospel of Jesus Christ…. As in (Romans 1:16) “For I am not Ashamed OF: “The Gospel of Christ”: For *IT IS* THE Power of God unto Salvation to every one that ~believeth~…(17) FOR Therein IS THE Righteousness of God revealed from ~~faith to faith, AS IT IS Written, THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH… AND!!!
(Colossians 3:1-2)… *IF*..ye ~then~ be ~risen~ With *Christ*, seek those things which ~ARE~ Above, where “Christ sitteth on The right Hand of God”… Set your affection on things above, not on things of the earth….
(I Corinthians 15: 12-14)… *IF* Christ be not risen: then our preaching IS IN Vain…. So *IF* we are celebrating a fleshly birth, then we are lost… Because Christ was not born of the flesh in the Resurrection, BUT was Resurrected a Spirit Body, which IS What He gives us to look forward to… (v.44) .. IT IS Sown a natural body; IT IS Raised a spiritual body….
How on earth can our faith be strengthened in Christ, *IF* we are busy defending a pagan cultural belief????? OR DO we ~Really~ Believe? Pray tell IT to me….
Even ***IF*** the one time that the ~~~word~~~ Easter is used in the Bible, in (Acts 12:1-5) does indeed refer to and IS Interrupted from the Word ~~Passover~~~… this still does not have to do with the way that we as ~Christians~ followers of God’s Only Begotten Son, should Remember THE Memorial of our LORD… Because IT Reads… (v.3)..Those were the days of unleavened bread… which begin after the Passover Day.. READ: (Exodus 12:14) The Passover being the 14th day of the first month and the beginning of the days of unleavened… &, Herod, saw that ~IT Pleased the Jews, to put the follower of Christ, James to death, and determined to do the same to Peter, ~who Stood for Christ~ not the worldly customs, SOOOOOooo… there again, the Christians were gathered in Mary’s house praying, (v.12)… not eating the Passover meal, nor hunting Easter eggs, as celebrating the ~~Spring Solstice~~……
Strange that the world gets it right sometimes by advertising their goods as: “A Spring Celebration-a-thon”, but placing the religious items associated with IT on sale to make a profit of the Memorial Of Christ, thus really making a ~Mockery~ of God… and the followers never protest this, but flock to the market to buy the wares of the merchants….. IF anything we should be offended at this, rather than being offended when someone tries to get us to see that: THE True Bible Account of: The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ has nothing to do ~With~ the celebration of spring…the renewing of a fleshly life that WILL wither and die…
A Season in which the pagans celebrated the fleshly birth… sometimes going so far as to sacrifice their own children so that the gods would be pleased with them and bless them with more children thus ~~Increasing their numbers~~ and the rabbits and eggs were symbols of fleshly fertility…
We, who are followers of Christ, should be looking forward to a ~~Spiritual~~ birth, not being reborn into the flesh, but a heavenly resurrection, as in THE Way that Christ being ~~FIRST IN ALL Things, made for us….(Acts 26:23)…(Revelation 1:17-18)… Christ did ~~ALL~~ this for us, to show us the WAY… Christ IS The Perfect Sacrificial LAMB of God… HE IS our “Passover”… not our Easter celebration… SOOOO LET us Keep THE Memorial AS Paul Wrote:
(I Corinthians 5: 7-8)… “Purge out therefore the old leaven, ~that~ ye may be a ~NEW~ lump, as ye are unleavened. FOR even Christ our *Passover* IS ~Sacrificed~ for us… Therein let us ~Keep the feast~.. *NOT* With old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness:…BUT… *WITH* The Bread OF ~Sincerity AND Truth~…”
When we mix in the customs or the names of pagan deities, then we are holding onto, and committing spiritual adultery with old leaven… SO *IF* we declare that these things have nothing to do with Christ, and yet we hold onto them in ~~Name~~, how can we take a stand for Christ in ~Sincerity & Truth~?
Let us give ~Thanks~ TO God the Father, in Jesus Name for HIS Love in Truth and Honesty, as The Bible Instructs us to… Taking our stand on: The True Gospel of Christ, and God’s Kingdom, AS IT IS Written. NOT as the manmade occasion that IT became as a result of: The Rulings of the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, that ruled the ~Easter~ festival should be celebrated throughout the Christian world on the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox; but IF the full moon occurred on a Sunday then so as not to coincide with the Passover festival,…Easter would be commemorated on the Sunday following… So that Easter and Passover not coincide with each other.. (F&W vol. 8 Pg. 268-9) Strange… There ARE Two Occasions here….
Somewhere down the line man combined it into one Word and made IT To Be One occasion and attempted to accomplish the thing that man is best at trying to do, “Put God IN IT Where man Wants HIM”…. Rather than: “Follow Christ in humble obedience OF: The Will & Way of God the Father”.
(Romans 10:15).. How beautiful are the feet of them that preach The Gospel of Peace, and bring Good tidings of Good Things…
AND very *TRUE* they have nothing to DO With the Memorial of THIS Most Holy and Blessed TO BE Remembered Event! SOOOOoooo…. WHY Mix IT ALL UP INTO ONE AFFAIR? Because IT IS ~Adultery~ to bring unclean things into God’s Worship, spiritual fornication, the same as IT IS Adultery for a woman or man to have an illicit affair with another person…or to mix the customs of a pagan ritual in with a sacred service to the ONE True God….
Read: THE Accounts in: (Matthew 27 & 28), (Mark 14- 16), (Luke 22-24), AND (John 18-21) of the Blessed Event… There IT IS Written AS a “Pure Account” and up to the present has not been rewritten to include the abominations of man‘s traditions…however, man IS trying to rewrite even the Bible to suit themselves, changing words, adding to, taking away from, even leaving out complete verses that do not read according to the way that man ~~wants~~ to Believe….
Read: The ~origin~ of Easter According TO The Secular accounts in the Encyclopedia’s & Dictionaries… History of: Easter…. What has one to do with the other?
Most ~~ALL~~ Accounts of the Origin and Celebration OF Easter: confirm that IT IS A pagan celebration, having been carried on centuries before the Birth of Christ on this earth… BUT, man adopted these customs to be included in with the Passover to Memorialize the Resurrection of Christ, The Passover Lamb, of God our Heavenly Father….
NOT, the Easter rabbit… Why would we, IF, we truly believe that Easter IS Passover, NOT be offended at anyone calling a rabbit, an Easter Rabbit, IF Easter truly IS About Remembering the Resurrection of The Lamb of God, as our Savior?
Or IS IT That we get so engrossed in the ways of the world that we really can’t see any further than the murky mire of false teachings, that has been the custom of the people for so many generations….
Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia 1972 (vol.8 pg.267) states: Easter, a Christian festival, embodies many ~~Pre-Christian~~ traditions….The origin of the ~~Name~~ IS unknown …but…scholars believe that IT comes from Eastre, the Anglo Saxon name of a Teutonic goddess *OF* ~Spring & fertility…..AND Included the Easter rabbit, and colored eggs, symbols of fleshly fertility…
Right or Wrong, Good Or Bad, True or False in regards to mans book, IT IS Fact according to God’s Holy Inspired Book, penned down by the prophets..
Most of the Secularly Written Books Include the pagan events that were added to the account of the Crucifixion & Resurrection of Christ, referring to: *IT* as a ~Christian~ celebration, ~~Observed~~ by both Christians and non-Christians alike, &&& This IS True: BUT WHY? Why would a TRUE Christian Memorial Appeal to a non-Christian person? Because IT IS Contaminated with the world? Because IF you bring out a Bible, even some Christians will get ready to go, not wanting to read and really learn, AS IT IS Written… But you give them a party with food, drink, and good times and they are ready to go…..
The very people that claim to STAND for Christ, have NOT Stood where they have vowed before HIM that they would stand, sorta like Peter vowed never to deny Christ, but he did, and so do we by mixing these things into the Memorial of what these books refer to as: “The Most Sacred Day of the Christian people”. ***IF***….. Think about *IT*.
IF Easter, IS indeed a pagan celebration to a false goddess, a seasonal event of the spring equinox, or what ever man may want to reference **IT** AS: then IT ain’t got no more to do with the Crucifixion & Resurrection, of Christ….. than the chocolate rabbits and colored eggs, and by mans own admission they don’t…
SOOOOooo… how can we truthfully say: “We are gonna make a ~Stand~ for Jesus” AND Still include these things in our services before the world, of The Blessed Memorial of our Savior? AND STILL Call *IT* Easter?
Why on earth would we NOT Call: The Memorial of Christ, AS IT IS Written for us to call IT: THE Gospel of Jesus Christ…. As in (Romans 1:16) “For I am not Ashamed OF: “The Gospel of Christ”: For *IT IS* THE Power of God unto Salvation to every one that ~believeth~…(17) FOR Therein IS THE Righteousness of God revealed from ~~faith to faith, AS IT IS Written, THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH… AND!!!
(Colossians 3:1-2)… *IF*..ye ~then~ be ~risen~ With *Christ*, seek those things which ~ARE~ Above, where “Christ sitteth on The right Hand of God”… Set your affection on things above, not on things of the earth….
(I Corinthians 15: 12-14)… *IF* Christ be not risen: then our preaching IS IN Vain…. So *IF* we are celebrating a fleshly birth, then we are lost… Because Christ was not born of the flesh in the Resurrection, BUT was Resurrected a Spirit Body, which IS What He gives us to look forward to… (v.44) .. IT IS Sown a natural body; IT IS Raised a spiritual body….
How on earth can our faith be strengthened in Christ, *IF* we are busy defending a pagan cultural belief????? OR DO we ~Really~ Believe? Pray tell IT to me….
Even ***IF*** the one time that the ~~~word~~~ Easter is used in the Bible, in (Acts 12:1-5) does indeed refer to and IS Interrupted from the Word ~~Passover~~~… this still does not have to do with the way that we as ~Christians~ followers of God’s Only Begotten Son, should Remember THE Memorial of our LORD… Because IT Reads… (v.3)..Those were the days of unleavened bread… which begin after the Passover Day.. READ: (Exodus 12:14) The Passover being the 14th day of the first month and the beginning of the days of unleavened… &, Herod, saw that ~IT Pleased the Jews, to put the follower of Christ, James to death, and determined to do the same to Peter, ~who Stood for Christ~ not the worldly customs, SOOOOOooo… there again, the Christians were gathered in Mary’s house praying, (v.12)… not eating the Passover meal, nor hunting Easter eggs, as celebrating the ~~Spring Solstice~~……
Strange that the world gets it right sometimes by advertising their goods as: “A Spring Celebration-a-thon”, but placing the religious items associated with IT on sale to make a profit of the Memorial Of Christ, thus really making a ~Mockery~ of God… and the followers never protest this, but flock to the market to buy the wares of the merchants….. IF anything we should be offended at this, rather than being offended when someone tries to get us to see that: THE True Bible Account of: The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ has nothing to do ~With~ the celebration of spring…the renewing of a fleshly life that WILL wither and die…
A Season in which the pagans celebrated the fleshly birth… sometimes going so far as to sacrifice their own children so that the gods would be pleased with them and bless them with more children thus ~~Increasing their numbers~~ and the rabbits and eggs were symbols of fleshly fertility…
We, who are followers of Christ, should be looking forward to a ~~Spiritual~~ birth, not being reborn into the flesh, but a heavenly resurrection, as in THE Way that Christ being ~~FIRST IN ALL Things, made for us….(Acts 26:23)…(Revelation 1:17-18)… Christ did ~~ALL~~ this for us, to show us the WAY… Christ IS The Perfect Sacrificial LAMB of God… HE IS our “Passover”… not our Easter celebration… SOOOO LET us Keep THE Memorial AS Paul Wrote:
(I Corinthians 5: 7-8)… “Purge out therefore the old leaven, ~that~ ye may be a ~NEW~ lump, as ye are unleavened. FOR even Christ our *Passover* IS ~Sacrificed~ for us… Therein let us ~Keep the feast~.. *NOT* With old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness:…BUT… *WITH* The Bread OF ~Sincerity AND Truth~…”
When we mix in the customs or the names of pagan deities, then we are holding onto, and committing spiritual adultery with old leaven… SO *IF* we declare that these things have nothing to do with Christ, and yet we hold onto them in ~~Name~~, how can we take a stand for Christ in ~Sincerity & Truth~?
Let us give ~Thanks~ TO God the Father, in Jesus Name for HIS Love in Truth and Honesty, as The Bible Instructs us to… Taking our stand on: The True Gospel of Christ, and God’s Kingdom, AS IT IS Written. NOT as the manmade occasion that IT became as a result of: The Rulings of the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, that ruled the ~Easter~ festival should be celebrated throughout the Christian world on the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox; but IF the full moon occurred on a Sunday then so as not to coincide with the Passover festival,…Easter would be commemorated on the Sunday following… So that Easter and Passover not coincide with each other.. (F&W vol. 8 Pg. 268-9) Strange… There ARE Two Occasions here….
Somewhere down the line man combined it into one Word and made IT To Be One occasion and attempted to accomplish the thing that man is best at trying to do, “Put God IN IT Where man Wants HIM”…. Rather than: “Follow Christ in humble obedience OF: The Will & Way of God the Father”.
(Romans 10:15).. How beautiful are the feet of them that preach The Gospel of Peace, and bring Good tidings of Good Things…
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Our Works Prove Our Walk
It’s A ~Buyers Market~ whether it be of trade goods, *OR* beliefs of Religions… IF *IT* ~Sounds Good~, tickles the ears, IF *IT* ~Looks Good~, pleasures the fleshly eye, then folks tend to jump on board without even considering the ~false prophets~ OR ~the antichrist~ that walk about like wolves, ~IN~ sheep’s clothing to deceive the world, making broader the path of destruction of which Satan himself laid the gravel to pave the path, ~FROM Which *IT* Came…..
(Jude 11)..Woe unto them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the ~error~ of Balaam--- FOR--- reward…(12)..they are ~spots~ in your feast of charity…(16)..walking after their ~OWN~ lusts; & their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having ~men’s persons~ in admiration because of advantage…..
(Jude 17-19)…*Remember* …the words spoken before by the Apostles of Jesus Christ: “There should be, *Mockers* in the ~Last Time~… who should walk after ~Their OWN~ ungodly lust… they who separate themselves; sensual, having NOT the Spirit….
STOP! Put on brakes before you swallow what is being taught, hook, line, and sinker. Open your eyes and SEE! What lies around you. LOOK! Into the Written BOOK Divinely Inspired for ALL Instruction, into ~ALL~ Things, and IF IT Ain’t Written there as being ~~Acceptable~~ to our Maker, LORD God Almighty, Heavenly Father, AND HIS Son, Jesus Christ, then we need, NO! we ~Must~ *Leave IT Alone!
There ARE preachers that will tell you anything you want to hear, how you can get rich quick through religion, how you can straddle the fence and serve God and mammon too, be friends with the world on the right and sidle up to God on the left, and this IS Good because, Jesus died for ~ALL~ These things and that makes us free…. But, *IF* you check *IT* out in The Holy Book, you will see a whole nuther story…… There are some preachers striving to preach the True Unadulterated Gospel, but they are few and far between and you won’t find them winning popularity contest…..
BUT! No matter what *IS* preached, when we stand before the ~Great Throne of Judgment~ we stand alone, with only ~our~ works to show before us, written, and we will be judged from the works ~Written~ in this ~Book~.
(Revelation 20:12-13)… AND I Saw the dead, small and great, stand before God: and the ~~Books~~ were opened… and the dead ~were judged~ out of those things which were written in the books, ~According TO *their* works…
No, we are not, and can not be saved by our works, for we are saved through Jesus Christ, *The Only Way* unto good works, and if our works are found in the debt of the worldly ways, we are not IN Christ… IT IS our works that ~Show~ which side of the fence we are standing on, which *Pathway* we are traveling, whether the broad & spacious way that leads to destruction, OR The Narrow Path, ONE Way, Jesus Christ, unto Salvation….
(Ephesians 2:10)… we ~are~ HIS workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, WHICH God hath ~BEFORE~ ordained that we should walk in them…
This ain’t no new way of walking, but God planned this ~Way~ that we Must walk long ago… IT Ain’t changed…. BUT God gave and gives us a choice, to walk this way to life, or walk our own, ~new~ way unto eternal destruction… our works prove our walk…
(Titus 1:16)… They *Profess* that they ~Know~ God: BUT! In *Works* they deny HIM, being disobedient, and unto ~Every Good Work~ reprobate….
You’ll know them by ~their~ fruits…(Matthew 7:16)…
(Jude 11)..Woe unto them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the ~error~ of Balaam--- FOR--- reward…(12)..they are ~spots~ in your feast of charity…(16)..walking after their ~OWN~ lusts; & their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having ~men’s persons~ in admiration because of advantage…..
(Jude 17-19)…*Remember* …the words spoken before by the Apostles of Jesus Christ: “There should be, *Mockers* in the ~Last Time~… who should walk after ~Their OWN~ ungodly lust… they who separate themselves; sensual, having NOT the Spirit….
STOP! Put on brakes before you swallow what is being taught, hook, line, and sinker. Open your eyes and SEE! What lies around you. LOOK! Into the Written BOOK Divinely Inspired for ALL Instruction, into ~ALL~ Things, and IF IT Ain’t Written there as being ~~Acceptable~~ to our Maker, LORD God Almighty, Heavenly Father, AND HIS Son, Jesus Christ, then we need, NO! we ~Must~ *Leave IT Alone!
There ARE preachers that will tell you anything you want to hear, how you can get rich quick through religion, how you can straddle the fence and serve God and mammon too, be friends with the world on the right and sidle up to God on the left, and this IS Good because, Jesus died for ~ALL~ These things and that makes us free…. But, *IF* you check *IT* out in The Holy Book, you will see a whole nuther story…… There are some preachers striving to preach the True Unadulterated Gospel, but they are few and far between and you won’t find them winning popularity contest…..
BUT! No matter what *IS* preached, when we stand before the ~Great Throne of Judgment~ we stand alone, with only ~our~ works to show before us, written, and we will be judged from the works ~Written~ in this ~Book~.
(Revelation 20:12-13)… AND I Saw the dead, small and great, stand before God: and the ~~Books~~ were opened… and the dead ~were judged~ out of those things which were written in the books, ~According TO *their* works…
No, we are not, and can not be saved by our works, for we are saved through Jesus Christ, *The Only Way* unto good works, and if our works are found in the debt of the worldly ways, we are not IN Christ… IT IS our works that ~Show~ which side of the fence we are standing on, which *Pathway* we are traveling, whether the broad & spacious way that leads to destruction, OR The Narrow Path, ONE Way, Jesus Christ, unto Salvation….
(Ephesians 2:10)… we ~are~ HIS workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, WHICH God hath ~BEFORE~ ordained that we should walk in them…
This ain’t no new way of walking, but God planned this ~Way~ that we Must walk long ago… IT Ain’t changed…. BUT God gave and gives us a choice, to walk this way to life, or walk our own, ~new~ way unto eternal destruction… our works prove our walk…
(Titus 1:16)… They *Profess* that they ~Know~ God: BUT! In *Works* they deny HIM, being disobedient, and unto ~Every Good Work~ reprobate….
You’ll know them by ~their~ fruits…(Matthew 7:16)…
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Examples Set Before The World
What did Jesus ~Commission~ the Apostles, His disciples, us, to do before He left this earth?
(Matthew 28:10-20)..Jesus SAID: “Go ye therefore, & *Teach*.. ~ALL~ Nations, Baptizing them in the Name ~~OF The Father~~, AND OF The Son, And OF The Holy Ghost: *Teaching* ~them~ TO Observe *ALL* things whatsoever I have commanded you: AND, Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world….
Notice He did not say, go out and shoot the doctors, performing abortions, Go burn the books of false teachings, go stir up nations to kill innocent people with dogmatic acts and protest marches… BUT Jesus said, *Teach*, & we Best *Teach* by example, by proving ourselves obedient to God’s Will and Way, and IF we don’t walk in the Truth, How can we expect to Teach The Truth….???
IF, I tell you that *IT* IS Wrong to kill, God’s Command States, thou shalt not kill, and I’m standing there with a gun in my hand, firing at a doctor who is about to take the life of an unborn baby… What example am I setting, where IS my witness going? Who am I teaching and what….? What did Jesus say TO DO? Take the life of a person to save another, a life for a life, OR that IF a man lay down his own life for a friend there is not greater love.. (John 15:13) The Written Book of Instruction THAT God The Father had revealed to the prophets, to pen down, Jesus Christ, God’s Only Begotten Son, ~verbally~ *Spoke* to the Apostles and they wrote of them, and God has *Preserved* down through the ages for us to read, learn, and share with a lost and dying world, did not, nor does not, condone taking matters into our ~own~ fleshly hands and making a mockery of God’s Word, DOES *IT*?
(Galatians 6:7-8)… Be not deceived, God IS NOT Mocked: ~FOR~ whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap….. FOR he that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting…
(Romans 12:1-10)… Paul Wrote: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ~ye~ present ~your~ bodies.. *A living sacrifice, holy, acceptable* UNTO God, &&& Be *NOT* conformed to this world: ~~BUT~~ be ye transformed by the *Renewing* of your mind, THAT ye MAY *Prove* What IS That ~GOOD~, & ~Acceptable~, & ~Perfect~ *Will OF God*…
(NOT unto The World as we do when we stand and howl, pick up our fleshly weapons against those of false beliefs, when we tattoo our bodies with emblems that God forbade, when we take part in pagan customs of men‘s traditions, and claim IT IS For Christ, and there are many, many such things that folks do that contaminates their ~bodies~ thus making their *living sacrifice* an abomination before the LORD.)
(Romans 12: 14) “BLESS them which persecute you:…~BLESS, AND Curse Not.” Avenge *NOT* yourselves, BUT Rather give place unto wrath: *FOR IT IS Written*, “Vengeance IS MINE, *I* Will Repay,” SAITH, THE LORD…
(Romans 12:20-21)… Therefore IF thine enemy hunger, ~~Feed him~~ *IF* he thrist, give him drink; For in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head, *BE NOT* ~Overcome~ OF evil, BUT *Overcome* evil with ~~Good~~….
LOOK!, take note of, learn a lesson from” the pastor that wanted to do something other than: ~preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove; rebuke; exhort with ~ALL~ *longsuffering and Doctrine*… (II Timothy 4:2)
This pastor wanted TO Act; take matters into his own hands, show the world his protest against a false teaching by burning a book… his protest caused the loss of innocent lives, his example set, made a fleshly example of destruction, rather than exhorting ~life~ in the Spirit, *Teaching* God’s Written Word, following the ~Examples~ that Jesus set for us to follow in, undaunted by the worldly ways going on around him…but walking steadfastly IN God’s Holy Written Book of Instruction, on the Path of Righteousness, Through Jesus Christ, God’s Son….
He sowed to ~his~ flesh… and now his ministry is corrupt… What did he hope to prove by this act…. AS opposed TO: simply instructing the parishioners as Jesus said we should?
The same things is accomplished when we protest taking God off of the currency of this nation or the pledge to this nations flag… THIS IS Things of the world and thus apply to the world…God’s Kingdom IS NOT OF This world…. And IF we *Teach* of God’s Kingdom and Jesus Instructed, then we must teach from God’s Written Book, the Things that pertain TO HIS Kingdom, not teach and protest the things of this world that belongs to Satan… AS Jesus Said: SO we MUST DO:
“*Teaching* them to observe ~ALL~ things whatsoever *I* Have Commanded!”
This is a trap that many pastors, leaders fall into… wanting to go out of ~THE WAY~ and do something dramatic on their own… thus misleading the congregations to greatly err in *NOT* knowing THE Scriptures….
(Psalm 95: 7-10)..harden ~NOT~ your heart.. Forty years long was I grieved with ~this generation a people that ~DO ERR~ *IN* their heart, they have ~NOT~ known *MY* WAYS: unto whom I sware in *MY* Wrath, they should not enter into *MY* Rest.
(Isaiah 9:16)..The ~Leaders~ of this people cause them to err;
(Matthew 22:29)..Jesus SAID: “ye do ~ERR~, not knowing *The Scriptures*, NOR the Power of God….
HOW Often do we ~ERR~ in our ways… NOT Knowing the Scriptures… Think about *IT*… IS IT NOT sad that many Christian’s join in and set wayward examples for non-Christian folk in the celebration of the coming of ~Spring~ Easter~ the solstice, in the same manner that IT WAS Celebrated by the heathen many years before Christ was born on this earth… IN the times when THE LORD God, commanded that HIS people take no part in their customs? Yet, today HIS people declare *IT* good to make IT a part of the Biblical Account THAT God had preserved for us to read, follow, and *Teach* to ~ALL~ Nations…OF the Sacrifice and Resurrection OF HIS Son... And YET, we teach an untruth by example, by word of fleshly mouth, by the taking into our own hands something that IS Unchangable and turning it into a ~False~ Celebration….. When ~WILL~ folks learn?
This people DO ERR, not knowing *MY* (THE LORD God) WAYS… NOT knowing THE Scriptures, NOR The Power of God… they should NOT Enter into *MY* REST!
Why can we not read, accept, share THE Gospel AS IT IS Written? Why must mankind strive to change IT INTO an abomination, and lead others astray, bringing about death and destruction? Instead of giving the life sustaining food, OF The Bread of Life, IN Truth and Honesty, Jesus Christ…
(John 6:35).. Jesus SAID: “I am the ~Bread OF Life~ he that *cometh* TO Me, shall never hunger… & (v.38). For I came down from heaven: *NOT TO DO* My ~OWN~ Will But THE *WILL* OF HIM That sent Me….
So IF Jesus came to do HIS Fathers Will only, where do we think our privilege comes from to rearrange the Gospel of Christ as IT IS Written, to include the celebration of a pagan culture of the coming of the season ~Spring~, call IT Easter and ~ALL~ IS Well? IS that not calling the thorn a rose and attempting to pass it off as a sweet smelling savor of Eternal life, when the spring festival is a tribute to: a rebirth of fleshly life, not a Spiritual Life…. As IT IS Written, we must be ~~Born again~ does not mean born again to the flesh, but in the Spirit…
(John 3:3 & 6).. JESUS SAID: “Except a man be born ~again~, he cannot *see* the ~Kingdom of Heaven… (Suppose that IS Why so many are trying their best to change, and save the kingdoms of the world, protest marching and partitioning to change them to fit their own ideas of ~Righteousness~?)
That which IS born of the flesh IS flesh, & that which IS born of the Spirit IS spirit… (So, if we follow the ways of the world in the celebrating the renewing of fleshly life each spring, then we are born of the flesh…AND BY intertwining the True Gospel of Jesus Christ into this celebration does not make IT Right, but rather teaches to harm in false prophesying. BUT IF, by the renewing of our minds, we are transformed in the spirit to present our bodies that living sacrifice unto the LORD, we are sowing to the Spirit and thus putting away ALL form of false teachings….. RIGHT? IT IS Going By *THE BOOK* as Jesus SAID: for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders: IN SO Much that, if it were possible they may deceive even the very elect. (Matthew 24:24)
Well, they have deceived many a leader into believing and teaching that IT IS Good to teach the Gospel of Christ and OF God’s Kingdom by mixing in these joyful worldly events to keep people happy, bring the heathen into the fold by allowing them to bring in their customs and traditions of things offered to their gods…. Man taking things into his own hands, making *Religion* Paganly Beautiful, rather than following and *TEACHING* the ~~TRUE Unadulterated Commands and Statutes of God Almighty… THUS Broadening the path way that leads to eternal destruction…
(Matthew 28:10-20)..Jesus SAID: “Go ye therefore, & *Teach*.. ~ALL~ Nations, Baptizing them in the Name ~~OF The Father~~, AND OF The Son, And OF The Holy Ghost: *Teaching* ~them~ TO Observe *ALL* things whatsoever I have commanded you: AND, Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world….
Notice He did not say, go out and shoot the doctors, performing abortions, Go burn the books of false teachings, go stir up nations to kill innocent people with dogmatic acts and protest marches… BUT Jesus said, *Teach*, & we Best *Teach* by example, by proving ourselves obedient to God’s Will and Way, and IF we don’t walk in the Truth, How can we expect to Teach The Truth….???
IF, I tell you that *IT* IS Wrong to kill, God’s Command States, thou shalt not kill, and I’m standing there with a gun in my hand, firing at a doctor who is about to take the life of an unborn baby… What example am I setting, where IS my witness going? Who am I teaching and what….? What did Jesus say TO DO? Take the life of a person to save another, a life for a life, OR that IF a man lay down his own life for a friend there is not greater love.. (John 15:13) The Written Book of Instruction THAT God The Father had revealed to the prophets, to pen down, Jesus Christ, God’s Only Begotten Son, ~verbally~ *Spoke* to the Apostles and they wrote of them, and God has *Preserved* down through the ages for us to read, learn, and share with a lost and dying world, did not, nor does not, condone taking matters into our ~own~ fleshly hands and making a mockery of God’s Word, DOES *IT*?
(Galatians 6:7-8)… Be not deceived, God IS NOT Mocked: ~FOR~ whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap….. FOR he that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting…
(Romans 12:1-10)… Paul Wrote: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ~ye~ present ~your~ bodies.. *A living sacrifice, holy, acceptable* UNTO God, &&& Be *NOT* conformed to this world: ~~BUT~~ be ye transformed by the *Renewing* of your mind, THAT ye MAY *Prove* What IS That ~GOOD~, & ~Acceptable~, & ~Perfect~ *Will OF God*…
(NOT unto The World as we do when we stand and howl, pick up our fleshly weapons against those of false beliefs, when we tattoo our bodies with emblems that God forbade, when we take part in pagan customs of men‘s traditions, and claim IT IS For Christ, and there are many, many such things that folks do that contaminates their ~bodies~ thus making their *living sacrifice* an abomination before the LORD.)
(Romans 12: 14) “BLESS them which persecute you:…~BLESS, AND Curse Not.” Avenge *NOT* yourselves, BUT Rather give place unto wrath: *FOR IT IS Written*, “Vengeance IS MINE, *I* Will Repay,” SAITH, THE LORD…
(Romans 12:20-21)… Therefore IF thine enemy hunger, ~~Feed him~~ *IF* he thrist, give him drink; For in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head, *BE NOT* ~Overcome~ OF evil, BUT *Overcome* evil with ~~Good~~….
LOOK!, take note of, learn a lesson from” the pastor that wanted to do something other than: ~preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove; rebuke; exhort with ~ALL~ *longsuffering and Doctrine*… (II Timothy 4:2)
This pastor wanted TO Act; take matters into his own hands, show the world his protest against a false teaching by burning a book… his protest caused the loss of innocent lives, his example set, made a fleshly example of destruction, rather than exhorting ~life~ in the Spirit, *Teaching* God’s Written Word, following the ~Examples~ that Jesus set for us to follow in, undaunted by the worldly ways going on around him…but walking steadfastly IN God’s Holy Written Book of Instruction, on the Path of Righteousness, Through Jesus Christ, God’s Son….
He sowed to ~his~ flesh… and now his ministry is corrupt… What did he hope to prove by this act…. AS opposed TO: simply instructing the parishioners as Jesus said we should?
The same things is accomplished when we protest taking God off of the currency of this nation or the pledge to this nations flag… THIS IS Things of the world and thus apply to the world…God’s Kingdom IS NOT OF This world…. And IF we *Teach* of God’s Kingdom and Jesus Instructed, then we must teach from God’s Written Book, the Things that pertain TO HIS Kingdom, not teach and protest the things of this world that belongs to Satan… AS Jesus Said: SO we MUST DO:
“*Teaching* them to observe ~ALL~ things whatsoever *I* Have Commanded!”
This is a trap that many pastors, leaders fall into… wanting to go out of ~THE WAY~ and do something dramatic on their own… thus misleading the congregations to greatly err in *NOT* knowing THE Scriptures….
(Psalm 95: 7-10)..harden ~NOT~ your heart.. Forty years long was I grieved with ~this generation a people that ~DO ERR~ *IN* their heart, they have ~NOT~ known *MY* WAYS: unto whom I sware in *MY* Wrath, they should not enter into *MY* Rest.
(Isaiah 9:16)..The ~Leaders~ of this people cause them to err;
(Matthew 22:29)..Jesus SAID: “ye do ~ERR~, not knowing *The Scriptures*, NOR the Power of God….
HOW Often do we ~ERR~ in our ways… NOT Knowing the Scriptures… Think about *IT*… IS IT NOT sad that many Christian’s join in and set wayward examples for non-Christian folk in the celebration of the coming of ~Spring~ Easter~ the solstice, in the same manner that IT WAS Celebrated by the heathen many years before Christ was born on this earth… IN the times when THE LORD God, commanded that HIS people take no part in their customs? Yet, today HIS people declare *IT* good to make IT a part of the Biblical Account THAT God had preserved for us to read, follow, and *Teach* to ~ALL~ Nations…OF the Sacrifice and Resurrection OF HIS Son... And YET, we teach an untruth by example, by word of fleshly mouth, by the taking into our own hands something that IS Unchangable and turning it into a ~False~ Celebration….. When ~WILL~ folks learn?
This people DO ERR, not knowing *MY* (THE LORD God) WAYS… NOT knowing THE Scriptures, NOR The Power of God… they should NOT Enter into *MY* REST!
Why can we not read, accept, share THE Gospel AS IT IS Written? Why must mankind strive to change IT INTO an abomination, and lead others astray, bringing about death and destruction? Instead of giving the life sustaining food, OF The Bread of Life, IN Truth and Honesty, Jesus Christ…
(John 6:35).. Jesus SAID: “I am the ~Bread OF Life~ he that *cometh* TO Me, shall never hunger… & (v.38). For I came down from heaven: *NOT TO DO* My ~OWN~ Will But THE *WILL* OF HIM That sent Me….
So IF Jesus came to do HIS Fathers Will only, where do we think our privilege comes from to rearrange the Gospel of Christ as IT IS Written, to include the celebration of a pagan culture of the coming of the season ~Spring~, call IT Easter and ~ALL~ IS Well? IS that not calling the thorn a rose and attempting to pass it off as a sweet smelling savor of Eternal life, when the spring festival is a tribute to: a rebirth of fleshly life, not a Spiritual Life…. As IT IS Written, we must be ~~Born again~ does not mean born again to the flesh, but in the Spirit…
(John 3:3 & 6).. JESUS SAID: “Except a man be born ~again~, he cannot *see* the ~Kingdom of Heaven… (Suppose that IS Why so many are trying their best to change, and save the kingdoms of the world, protest marching and partitioning to change them to fit their own ideas of ~Righteousness~?)
That which IS born of the flesh IS flesh, & that which IS born of the Spirit IS spirit… (So, if we follow the ways of the world in the celebrating the renewing of fleshly life each spring, then we are born of the flesh…AND BY intertwining the True Gospel of Jesus Christ into this celebration does not make IT Right, but rather teaches to harm in false prophesying. BUT IF, by the renewing of our minds, we are transformed in the spirit to present our bodies that living sacrifice unto the LORD, we are sowing to the Spirit and thus putting away ALL form of false teachings….. RIGHT? IT IS Going By *THE BOOK* as Jesus SAID: for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders: IN SO Much that, if it were possible they may deceive even the very elect. (Matthew 24:24)
Well, they have deceived many a leader into believing and teaching that IT IS Good to teach the Gospel of Christ and OF God’s Kingdom by mixing in these joyful worldly events to keep people happy, bring the heathen into the fold by allowing them to bring in their customs and traditions of things offered to their gods…. Man taking things into his own hands, making *Religion* Paganly Beautiful, rather than following and *TEACHING* the ~~TRUE Unadulterated Commands and Statutes of God Almighty… THUS Broadening the path way that leads to eternal destruction…
Friday, April 1, 2011
Robbing God IN HIS House Of Prayer
THIS IS: The Church House, & This Is The Steeple…Open the door and here’s the people… A popular little finger game that folks play with their children… It teaches them of the Church House and that people gathered in it. BUT For ~WHAT~ do the people gather in? To serve: THE LORD IN HIS House ~OR~ *Themselves*?
(Psalm 100: 3-4).. *KNOW* ye ~THAT~ THE LORD, *HE* ~IS~ God: ~~IT IS~~ *HE* that hath Made ~us~ and *NOT* we ourselves; ~we~ are HIS people, & the sheep OF: HIS Pasture…. J <SO>J we are TO: “enter into HIS Gates //WITH// Thanksgiving, and into HIS Courts //WITH// Praise: BE Thankful and Bless HIS NAME”!!! BUT DO WE?
In this world of fast paced, motorized, appliance savvy, get work done quickly, ~save *OUR* time~ so that we got *More* Play Time… the fantasizem has sadly, but boldly spilled over into the meetings held in the Houses Set Aside for God’s people to gather to Worship The LORD in ~Truth & Honesty... in Song Praise, Giving of Thanks FOR HIS Blessings, AND TO: Hear the Written Word that HE Has Provided for us to Read, Learn, Discern, Share With a lost and dying world.. Ever stop and ~Consider~ the many ways that, we as a people who call ourselves after the Blessed Name of God’s OWN Son, Jesus Christ, disrespect, disobey, show ~NO~ Honorable Fear before God, Here where we gather in the guise of purpose to worship our Savior? IN other ~Words~ how many ways are we Robbing God ~IN~ HIS House?
This is not even an accidental, “Oh, I did not plan this It just happened offense”, but it was a well planned course of action… Folks, bring books of merchandise for sale into the meetings to pass around for others to look at and place orders in and then at the end of the service return them to the seller and their weeks work is done… or they have helped their child’s school project sales by doing this during meeting time, and saved *Themselves* a bundle of time, attended the meeting, and they are on ~TOP~ of everything… Right?
OR, sadly they are teaching their child to have a rebellious, attitude by encouraging them TO: bring their books into the meetings and quietly get their homework during the service, and then they can have more free time, TO play… Good Training? Well, at least they are in Church, but at what cost, when this child is grown and steps out into the world with both feet, instead of the one that you encouraged them to keep over the fence, then you scratch your head and wonder why? “I just cannot understand what happens to a child, when they reach a certain age they become rebellious”. WELL, IS That not what they have been taught from the cradle by the parent…? Go back and read: (Psalm 100)
Oh, we make many excuses for the things that we do…for example when we save a little of our after or before Church time by, tip toeing across the Sanctuary during ~prayer time~ to discuss with a friend something of importance about the meeting, what we are going to cook for the social, or taking this time for a bathroom trip, or just raising our head and opening our eyes to see what our neighbor is doing, minds not present in prayer, but wondering about. … None of this of course can be disrespectful, because, ~WE~ *ARE* Present and accounted for, we did not miss the meeting so we are under the protection of: What? Presence in the building?
How do the Church leaders, encourage *Robbery* by their appeasement plan to make folks feel good about themselves, fulfilled in the ways of the world. By honoring each ones fleshly birthday, anniversary, the troops of war, the nations many holidays? I have heard people walk into the Sanctuary and proudly announce today IS *MY* birthday, and I came here this morning to be sung to… OR today IS ~Mothers/Fathers~ *DAY* and we want to be recognized today for our accomplishments as: GOOD: Parents…. (Go Back and READ Psalm 100)
Another innocent act of teaching your child rebellion, from the cradle is playing [peek-a-boo] with a baby, during prayer time…sadly this is the beginning OF: Wrong training, because even in this early stage a child is beginning to realize that a parent IS teaching them that IT IS Okay to play during service, in that the parent IS playing with them. BUT! Then unjustly when a child is called down for acting up in a meeting, the first thing out of a parent’s mouth IS: “YOU Know better than to play in Church don’t you?”. I AM Strongly against the separating of children from the parents during Church Services, but believe that a child should remain with the parents and be trained rightly by them, not put into a child’s Church to play games… OR allowed as a group of children to sit together on a bench apart from their parents, where they can draw pictures, talk, play games, cell phone videos and learn nothing of proper behavior in God’s House of Worship, as well as purpose a distraction to the service for others…
I am also in great favor of properly teaching the parents respect, so that they can teach their children..
Another good excuse IS: This Building is not the temple of God so what we do there is not disrespectful, but what we do with, how we care for and present, our bodies… WELL? Bring out the ~mirror~ and show me the difference, whether we are present in a worship service and show a disobedient attitude, or walking down the street, are we not, as the embodied temple of God not present and responsible for our actions? IT IS ALL the same… BUT we have come together with other followers of Christ in a building to Worship the LORD, not praise each other, or have our accomplishments, that really aren’t even ours be praised….
Then there IS a great danger in lifting our ~youth~ up in praise for their accomplishments, giving them a very false since of fleshly self fulfillment in their religious achievements and belief’s… that they not lift up their young heads in ~~vain pride~…
(Proverbs 8:13)… The ~fear~ of The LORD IS: to hate evil: *pride* & arrogancy…
(Proverbs 13:10).. Only by *Pride* cometh contention…(disagreements, arguments)
(Proverbs 16:18)… *PRIDE* goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
(I Timothy 3:6)..Not a novice, (a beginner, just learning) lest being lifted up with pride, (self satisfying) he fall into the condemnation of the devil…
AND OF Course, there are many more ways, including these listed, that we rob God in our walk through this life that HE granted to us in the beginning… Ever get red-faced ~Angry~ because someone used and took advantage of your hospitality, your good nature…. WELL, think about IT How do you suppose The LORD feels when we show such inconsiderate disrespect before HIM IN HIS House of Worship… That man set aside especially for the ~~PURPOSE~~ OF the children of God gathering together in HIS Name as One with the Father and the Son in a service of Exhortation, building up each other IN Faith in the LORD? What did God HAVE Written for HIS children ~ALL~ throughout the ages to follow??? Did Jesus approve of doing anything in the Temple but Using IT AS God Intended?
(John 2: 13-17)…Jesus went up to Jerusalem, (this was the Jews Passover, and they weren’t hunting eggs)… BUT….He found in the Temple those that sold…money changers… (NOW many say that this only applies to the buying and selling of beast to be sacrificed by the priest for the sins of the people, and that IS ALL That *IT* applies TO: BUT… IS NOT: *Buying & Selling*… Buying & Selling, exchanging money in the Temple, or gathering House of God’s people, or have I lived under a rock toooo long? ANY WAY… Jesus, made a scourge of small cords, and drove them out of the Temple, AND Jesus said: “Take these things hence; *Make NOT* My Father’s House a house of merchandise”…
Unless I am terribly blind and can’t read the encyclopedia’s The word Merchandise, means: TO trade in, buy, or sell, goods for profit…. AND IF you are buying OR selling: Avon, Stereo’s, Books, Products for school, in God’s House of Worship, IS IT NOT FOR Profit? AND IS IT NOT Being Done IN God’s House of Worship, During the Services Set Aside FOR? GO Back AND Read Psalm 100, again what part was missed?
(Isaiah 30:1 & 9)… God gave Isaiah Warning FOR Who?… Those that we lost in the world, OR FOR: HIS, “rebellious children”…. “Woe TO: the *rebellious children*,” saith THE LORD, “Those that take counsel, ~BUT~ *NOT* OF ME (THE LORD); and that cover with a covering, BUT NOT OF *MY* Spirit, that they may ~ADD~ sin to sin… This is a *rebellious* people ~~Lying children~ children that ~Will NOT~ hear the law of the LORD…
When we are sitting in a service where The Written Word of God IS being read and taught, prayer is being offered up, and praises sung to God, and we are involved in anything else, our full attention IS NOT focused on the LORD, but rather on what we are doing… We are not hearing the “Law of God: SO we are What?
(Ezekiel 12:2).. The LORD said to Ezekiel: “Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of: a *rebellious* house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not; FOR They ~ARE~ A *Rebellious House*……. IS This how we are today Also… God does not change, IN HIS Exactness, SO we can’t shun HIS Commands, OF Obedience to HIS Will and Way… AND THE opposite of ~Obedience~ IS What? What did Satan do in the garden? Obey and worship God, OR Rebel and Challenge God… ????
(Jeremiah 5: 21-24)…Hear this O ~Foolish~ people, & without understanding; which have eyes, and see not, ears, & hear not:… “Fear ye ME NOT? “ Saith, THE LORD: “Will ye ~NOT~ Tremble at MY Presence… BUT, this people hath a ~revolting and a rebellious ~heart~; they ~ARE~ revolted and gone…..”
How many ways do we ~rebel & challenge~ God, in HIS House of Prayer, where we gather, and then turn and ask HIS favors, HIS blessing for ourselves?
(Jeremiah 7:13-16)…saith THE LORD; “I spake unto you rising early and speaking, ~but~ ye heard ~NOT~ & *I* (THE LORD) called you, but ye answered NOT…. Therefore Will I do unto this House which IS called By MY NAME, & I Will Cast you out… Therefore pray ~NOT~ for this people, neither lift up a cry of prayer ~FOR~ them… *For* I Will Not Hear ~thee~… OH, this was before Jesus, some contend? BUT!
Can we get into a bad place by continually rebelling and not showing humble obedient fear of God, paying attention to HIS Word? Listening TO HIS Command, HIS Call…?
(Romans 1:21)… ~BECAUSE~ That, When they Knew God, (not the unlearned heathen, BUT the ones who Know God)… They glorified *HIM (God)* Not as *GOD*, neither were ~Thankful~; BUT became ~~Vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened… OH, this IS After Christ came, AND you know what, God has NOT changed.
Read IT ALL In The Bible & consider IT… Think God IS Happy with our indifferent attitudes in HIS House, when we gather to Worship HIM, BUT do everything on this earth of the flesh, but, & instead of: Worshiping our LORD In spirit & truth?
(Psalm 100: 3-4).. *KNOW* ye ~THAT~ THE LORD, *HE* ~IS~ God: ~~IT IS~~ *HE* that hath Made ~us~ and *NOT* we ourselves; ~we~ are HIS people, & the sheep OF: HIS Pasture…. J <SO>J we are TO: “enter into HIS Gates //WITH// Thanksgiving, and into HIS Courts //WITH// Praise: BE Thankful and Bless HIS NAME”!!! BUT DO WE?
In this world of fast paced, motorized, appliance savvy, get work done quickly, ~save *OUR* time~ so that we got *More* Play Time… the fantasizem has sadly, but boldly spilled over into the meetings held in the Houses Set Aside for God’s people to gather to Worship The LORD in ~Truth & Honesty... in Song Praise, Giving of Thanks FOR HIS Blessings, AND TO: Hear the Written Word that HE Has Provided for us to Read, Learn, Discern, Share With a lost and dying world.. Ever stop and ~Consider~ the many ways that, we as a people who call ourselves after the Blessed Name of God’s OWN Son, Jesus Christ, disrespect, disobey, show ~NO~ Honorable Fear before God, Here where we gather in the guise of purpose to worship our Savior? IN other ~Words~ how many ways are we Robbing God ~IN~ HIS House?
This is not even an accidental, “Oh, I did not plan this It just happened offense”, but it was a well planned course of action… Folks, bring books of merchandise for sale into the meetings to pass around for others to look at and place orders in and then at the end of the service return them to the seller and their weeks work is done… or they have helped their child’s school project sales by doing this during meeting time, and saved *Themselves* a bundle of time, attended the meeting, and they are on ~TOP~ of everything… Right?
OR, sadly they are teaching their child to have a rebellious, attitude by encouraging them TO: bring their books into the meetings and quietly get their homework during the service, and then they can have more free time, TO play… Good Training? Well, at least they are in Church, but at what cost, when this child is grown and steps out into the world with both feet, instead of the one that you encouraged them to keep over the fence, then you scratch your head and wonder why? “I just cannot understand what happens to a child, when they reach a certain age they become rebellious”. WELL, IS That not what they have been taught from the cradle by the parent…? Go back and read: (Psalm 100)
Oh, we make many excuses for the things that we do…for example when we save a little of our after or before Church time by, tip toeing across the Sanctuary during ~prayer time~ to discuss with a friend something of importance about the meeting, what we are going to cook for the social, or taking this time for a bathroom trip, or just raising our head and opening our eyes to see what our neighbor is doing, minds not present in prayer, but wondering about. … None of this of course can be disrespectful, because, ~WE~ *ARE* Present and accounted for, we did not miss the meeting so we are under the protection of: What? Presence in the building?
How do the Church leaders, encourage *Robbery* by their appeasement plan to make folks feel good about themselves, fulfilled in the ways of the world. By honoring each ones fleshly birthday, anniversary, the troops of war, the nations many holidays? I have heard people walk into the Sanctuary and proudly announce today IS *MY* birthday, and I came here this morning to be sung to… OR today IS ~Mothers/Fathers~ *DAY* and we want to be recognized today for our accomplishments as: GOOD: Parents…. (Go Back and READ Psalm 100)
Another innocent act of teaching your child rebellion, from the cradle is playing [peek-a-boo] with a baby, during prayer time…sadly this is the beginning OF: Wrong training, because even in this early stage a child is beginning to realize that a parent IS teaching them that IT IS Okay to play during service, in that the parent IS playing with them. BUT! Then unjustly when a child is called down for acting up in a meeting, the first thing out of a parent’s mouth IS: “YOU Know better than to play in Church don’t you?”. I AM Strongly against the separating of children from the parents during Church Services, but believe that a child should remain with the parents and be trained rightly by them, not put into a child’s Church to play games… OR allowed as a group of children to sit together on a bench apart from their parents, where they can draw pictures, talk, play games, cell phone videos and learn nothing of proper behavior in God’s House of Worship, as well as purpose a distraction to the service for others…
I am also in great favor of properly teaching the parents respect, so that they can teach their children..
Another good excuse IS: This Building is not the temple of God so what we do there is not disrespectful, but what we do with, how we care for and present, our bodies… WELL? Bring out the ~mirror~ and show me the difference, whether we are present in a worship service and show a disobedient attitude, or walking down the street, are we not, as the embodied temple of God not present and responsible for our actions? IT IS ALL the same… BUT we have come together with other followers of Christ in a building to Worship the LORD, not praise each other, or have our accomplishments, that really aren’t even ours be praised….
Then there IS a great danger in lifting our ~youth~ up in praise for their accomplishments, giving them a very false since of fleshly self fulfillment in their religious achievements and belief’s… that they not lift up their young heads in ~~vain pride~…
(Proverbs 8:13)… The ~fear~ of The LORD IS: to hate evil: *pride* & arrogancy…
(Proverbs 13:10).. Only by *Pride* cometh contention…(disagreements, arguments)
(Proverbs 16:18)… *PRIDE* goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
(I Timothy 3:6)..Not a novice, (a beginner, just learning) lest being lifted up with pride, (self satisfying) he fall into the condemnation of the devil…
AND OF Course, there are many more ways, including these listed, that we rob God in our walk through this life that HE granted to us in the beginning… Ever get red-faced ~Angry~ because someone used and took advantage of your hospitality, your good nature…. WELL, think about IT How do you suppose The LORD feels when we show such inconsiderate disrespect before HIM IN HIS House of Worship… That man set aside especially for the ~~PURPOSE~~ OF the children of God gathering together in HIS Name as One with the Father and the Son in a service of Exhortation, building up each other IN Faith in the LORD? What did God HAVE Written for HIS children ~ALL~ throughout the ages to follow??? Did Jesus approve of doing anything in the Temple but Using IT AS God Intended?
(John 2: 13-17)…Jesus went up to Jerusalem, (this was the Jews Passover, and they weren’t hunting eggs)… BUT….He found in the Temple those that sold…money changers… (NOW many say that this only applies to the buying and selling of beast to be sacrificed by the priest for the sins of the people, and that IS ALL That *IT* applies TO: BUT… IS NOT: *Buying & Selling*… Buying & Selling, exchanging money in the Temple, or gathering House of God’s people, or have I lived under a rock toooo long? ANY WAY… Jesus, made a scourge of small cords, and drove them out of the Temple, AND Jesus said: “Take these things hence; *Make NOT* My Father’s House a house of merchandise”…
Unless I am terribly blind and can’t read the encyclopedia’s The word Merchandise, means: TO trade in, buy, or sell, goods for profit…. AND IF you are buying OR selling: Avon, Stereo’s, Books, Products for school, in God’s House of Worship, IS IT NOT FOR Profit? AND IS IT NOT Being Done IN God’s House of Worship, During the Services Set Aside FOR? GO Back AND Read Psalm 100, again what part was missed?
(Isaiah 30:1 & 9)… God gave Isaiah Warning FOR Who?… Those that we lost in the world, OR FOR: HIS, “rebellious children”…. “Woe TO: the *rebellious children*,” saith THE LORD, “Those that take counsel, ~BUT~ *NOT* OF ME (THE LORD); and that cover with a covering, BUT NOT OF *MY* Spirit, that they may ~ADD~ sin to sin… This is a *rebellious* people ~~Lying children~ children that ~Will NOT~ hear the law of the LORD…
When we are sitting in a service where The Written Word of God IS being read and taught, prayer is being offered up, and praises sung to God, and we are involved in anything else, our full attention IS NOT focused on the LORD, but rather on what we are doing… We are not hearing the “Law of God: SO we are What?
(Ezekiel 12:2).. The LORD said to Ezekiel: “Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of: a *rebellious* house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not; FOR They ~ARE~ A *Rebellious House*……. IS This how we are today Also… God does not change, IN HIS Exactness, SO we can’t shun HIS Commands, OF Obedience to HIS Will and Way… AND THE opposite of ~Obedience~ IS What? What did Satan do in the garden? Obey and worship God, OR Rebel and Challenge God… ????
(Jeremiah 5: 21-24)…Hear this O ~Foolish~ people, & without understanding; which have eyes, and see not, ears, & hear not:… “Fear ye ME NOT? “ Saith, THE LORD: “Will ye ~NOT~ Tremble at MY Presence… BUT, this people hath a ~revolting and a rebellious ~heart~; they ~ARE~ revolted and gone…..”
How many ways do we ~rebel & challenge~ God, in HIS House of Prayer, where we gather, and then turn and ask HIS favors, HIS blessing for ourselves?
(Jeremiah 7:13-16)…saith THE LORD; “I spake unto you rising early and speaking, ~but~ ye heard ~NOT~ & *I* (THE LORD) called you, but ye answered NOT…. Therefore Will I do unto this House which IS called By MY NAME, & I Will Cast you out… Therefore pray ~NOT~ for this people, neither lift up a cry of prayer ~FOR~ them… *For* I Will Not Hear ~thee~… OH, this was before Jesus, some contend? BUT!
Can we get into a bad place by continually rebelling and not showing humble obedient fear of God, paying attention to HIS Word? Listening TO HIS Command, HIS Call…?
(Romans 1:21)… ~BECAUSE~ That, When they Knew God, (not the unlearned heathen, BUT the ones who Know God)… They glorified *HIM (God)* Not as *GOD*, neither were ~Thankful~; BUT became ~~Vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened… OH, this IS After Christ came, AND you know what, God has NOT changed.
Read IT ALL In The Bible & consider IT… Think God IS Happy with our indifferent attitudes in HIS House, when we gather to Worship HIM, BUT do everything on this earth of the flesh, but, & instead of: Worshiping our LORD In spirit & truth?
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