Rocks OF Sin

We have an old ~Ben Franklin Wood Stove Heater~ in our living room, and it’s been there for years… It sits atop a framed bed of white rocks… Well, I never had a problem with those rocks until I had my first grandchild… Up until this point a light smack on a little hand would let a child know to leave them alone…. BUT NOT This child, she and I almost started world war three over those rocks… In a sense she won although she didn’t get the rocks, because they were a very dangerous threat to her little life, she won, in that I had to cover them where she could not see them or get to them… Preventing her from harming herself with them, and my failing to teach her ~Obedience~ as in, do as you are told, follow my teachings….
Well, in a way *IF* you read the account of Genesis, chapters 1-3... You can see again a ~Bed of Rocks~ The Rocks of sinful disobedience, and understand better how God Commands HIS children…. AN WHY! (I John 4:8) .. (I John 5:3)… “For this IS: ~The LOVE of God~ That we *Keep HIS Commandments*…. *IF* we can’t, won’t, or don’t ~Love our Maker, enough to follow HIS Commandments… what does that say of us? & God Will Not ~Fail~ as our teacher, HE Will punish us, up TO a point… BUT *IF* after that point we still disobey and reject, HE Will turn HIS Back on us and leave us TO: The *Choice* that we make….
(Titus 1:16) .. They profess that they ~Know~ God, BUT in ~Works~ they deny HIM, being abominable and disobedient & unto every *GOOD* Work ~Reprobate~.
(Romans 1:28). . Even as ~they~ did NOT Like TO retain God In their ~knowledge~. God gave them over to a reprobate mind…
(Deuteronomy 1:43-45).. & ye returned and ~wept~ before THE LORD; BUT THE LORD ~would Not~ hearken to your voice, NOR Give ear unto you….
First God IS A Loving Father, and does not want HIS children to be hurt, HE has our best interest in THE Commands that HE gives us… The ~provisions~ that HE Makes…
IN The Garden, HE could have simply just ~~HID~~ the *Tree* of Knowledge from Adam and Eve… Covered Satan with a shield preventing him from ~Tempting~, them… from misguiding or beguiling them… BUT HE Didn’t… Ever ask your self WHY? Well the answer IS Written:
(Exodus 16:4) .. God SAID: “That, *I* May ~Prove~ them, whether they ~Will~ Walk IN *MY* LAW OR No”. & (20:20).. Moses Said: “Fear not: FOR God IS Come to ~Prove~ you, AND THAT HIS FEAR, May BE Before your faces…(WHY?)… that ye sin NOT!”
Even here God could have kept, HIS children from committing the sin of disobedience to HIS Commands, HIS Will & Way… BUT, HE Determined TO Prove them TO Themselves, TO Be Obedient, TO BE Disciplined, TO BE Loyal TO Their Maker, THE POTTER.. AND Again, we are commissioned TO ~PROVE~ ourselves… not by the LORD Hiding things of the world from us so that we not fall into the temptation to sinfully disobey God‘s Word, BUT THAT ~~we~~ might Prove ourselves before the world and our Father, ~Faithful~ Loyal to God and TO HIS Son, our Savior Jesus Christ…: BECAUSE
(II Peter 3:9).. “THE LORD IS NOT Slack ..concerning HIS ~Promise~, as some men count slackness; but *IS* longsuffering to us-ward, NOT Willing That ~ANY~ should perish, BUT! That ~~ALL~~ should come to repentance… &&& that we:
(Romans 12:2) … “AND BE NOT.. *Conformed TO* this world: BUT, that ye be *Transformed BY* .. ~The Renewing OF your mind, that ye may *PROVE* what IS THAT Good, and Acceptable, and Perfect, *WILL OF GOD*.,” (Not our will but THINE, O LORD, Be done.) & To us IS Given that ~Choice~ TO: either Conform to, this world OR BE Transformed By the renewing of our minds through learning and following and staying IN God’s Will and Way through our ~~Obedient~~ walk… He does not make us walk HIS Way, BUT HE Allows us to walk where the spirit that we follow leads….
Jesus said, when He ~Prayed~ to His Father as His earthly walk was drawing to an end:
(John 17:12)… “those that THOU hast given Me, ~I~ have kept, and none IS LOST”. Did He hold them to Himself by chaining them, or by hiding all the temptations of the world around them? HOW Did He ~KEEP~ them then? READ: (v.8).. “FOR, I Have ~Given~ them *THE Words* which *THOU* hast ~Given~ Me; AND ~they~ Have ~Received~ Them, … (V.6)… AND ~they~ *HAVE KEPT THEM*…
(Mark 4:22-24) … “For there *IS* ~Nothing~ hid, which shall not be manifested; Neither ~WAS~ anything kept *Secret* .. Take ~heed~ what ye ~Hear~, with what measure ye mete, *IT* Shall be measured unto you….
Paul writes, not that Jesus Kept him from going astray BUT that he (Paul kept).. “I Keep under ~my~ body, and bring IT into ~Subjection~; lest by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway…(I Corinthians 9:27) ..
(II Corinthians 11:3).. (Again Paul Warned) … I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds be corrupted from the ~simplicity~ which IS IN Christ… (4) For *IF* he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, or *IF* you receive another spirit, or another gospel, ye ~Might~ bear (tolerate or accept) with him… (13) For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves INTO the apostles of Christ…
AND That HAS Happened in many denominations of *Religion*… The “Easter Egg” has nothing to do with, *The Resurrection of Christ*, the “Lighted Christmas Tree” & “Santa Clause” has nothing to do with, *The Birth of Christ* on this earth… AND yet so many have adamantly embraced these, and many more myths, pagan practices, false teachings as ~Truth~ thus following as Paul feared, another gospel, another spirit, beguiled by the serpent….
AND, IN THIS VERY WALK: so very many even those that call themselves followers after God’s OWN Son, have ~Proven~ themselves ~Sinfully Disobedient~ unto Gods Commandments…
Remember ALSO, “The Tree OF Knowledge” WAS NOT an ugly, despicable thing, that could be identified as something that should not be touched… BUT IT LOOKED: like IT Was Good for food, pleasant to the eyes, a tree to be desired to make one wise… (Genesis 3:6)… SO God did not display IT AS horrid with ashes of the fires of hell around IT, to discourage Adam and Eve from taking OF IT either… BUT HE Made IT tempting like so many things that are set before US today… The beauty, by mans opinion, of a taunt, shapely, sexy body to be displayed for purpose of Alluring what? Fornication, Adultery? The wealth displayed by the ~Rich & Famous~ creating What in man? Desire, of money, Envy, Jealousy. Covetousness.. AND ~YET~ God’s Commandments Tell US: ~DO NOT!~… Why? That we may: Prove AND be Proven!
Thus by the ~unhidden~ Rocks of Sin .. That God does not hide or take from before our eyes, in order that we may be tested, we walk through this life in these fleshly bodies, free to make the choice OF: obeying God, consciously under the Guidance of The Holy Spirit/Ghost, through The Righteousness OF & IN: Jesus Christ, or reach out and take of the forbidden rocks of sinful disobedience to God’s Word….
Some of these rocks may be so small that we think IT IS Aright, even Good to pick them up, BUT THE Danger of destruction IS just as great as IT IS IN The larger ones, Because, God Said, AND IT IS Written, ~Leave Them Alone~! AND Disobedience IS Disobedience…
AS A Matter of ~FACT~ we have NO Need of any ~Religion~ of mankind, *Because* we have: ~A Savior, A High Priest, AN Intercessor~, AND we have a ~Guiding Holy Spirit/Ghost/Comforter~, AND we have A: ~Written Book of ALL Instruction~ to visibly read, learn and follow…ALL Which Testify OF, Stand AS Proof OF, AND Lead ~ALL~ who Will OBEY, UNTO The LORD God Almighty and HIS Eternal Kingdom…*IF* only we humbly ~OBEY~… SOOOOoooo… Why do we find a need to develop and why would we follow ANY man made belief’s of ANY ~~Religion~~?