The word “WHY”, *IS an adverb .. Used to ask or talk about the ~reason, ~ cause, ~ OR ~purpose of something~~*…. BUT *IT* IS Also a tiny seed that IS Planted by the adversary, the serpent, Satan the Devil, Lucifer, TO: grow doubt, TO: lure one away from their walk OF: faithful obedience in the Lord… Although the ~word~ “WHY” IS NOT Used in the Written Account of man’s first sin, his fall from grace in the garden, the indication and the usage of IT’S meaning IS Written there…
(Genesis 3:1)… the serpent said: “Yea, (Meaning what cause) hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree in the garden”? … IN this one word, Satan placed the seed of doubt in the mind of Eve… Finishing IT OFF or throwing in the fertilizer that makes IT grow with: “Ye shall ~NOT~ surely die”… and then adding more growth hormone with, “your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be AS gods, knowing good and evil”….
(Grace: from the beginning to the end of the Scriptures, IS: “Favor, OF God, *IF* HE IS pleased with us, our humble actions, our Obedience TO HIM.” AS: ~Noah found ~~Grace~ in the eyes of the LORD through, his obedience unto God’s Word!~ (Gen:6:8) AND …
(Hebrews 12:5-15) … “Despise NOY the chastening of The LORD, NOR Faint when thou art rebuked of HIM” … we gave reverence of our fleshly fathers who chastened us or corrected us.. Make straight the paths of your feet.. “Looking diligently ~LEST~ any man ~~FAIL~ OF THE ~Grace~ OF God: lest ~ANY Root of *Bitterness* springing up trouble you, and therefore ~~Many~ Be defiled…
(Many preachers carry a message of: “Once saved Always Saved” and nothing you can do will cause you to fall from that Saving Grace, Because IT IS A Free Gift from God… AND IT IS True that IT IS Freely Given, BUT IT can be lost because IT first was earned, not worked for, but earned BY, proving an obedient walk in HIS Son Jesus Christ, BUT IF Satan can plant that seed OR ~Root~ of bitterness in our fleshly minds making us turn our spiritual eye from Christ and to the world then we are stepping out onto a slide that will plummet us out of that favorable state of grace… causing the LORD to turn us over to a reprobate mind… (Romans 1:28)
(II Peter 3:18)….. “Beware, lest ye ~ALSO~ being led away with the *Error* OF The wicked, ~~FALL~~ from your own steadfastness… BUT! Grow IN *Grace*, and IN THE Knowledge OF our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ… TO Him Be Glory both now and forever…
Folks don’t realize nor do they want to recognize THAT, *IF* we find ~Grace~ in the eyes of the LORD through humble obedience in the accepting of His Son Jesus Christ, AS our Savior, we can also ~FALL~ out of that ~gift of Grace~ by a disobedient walk, in that ~we~ are in the position of *Rejecting* the very gift that God gave, just the same as first couple did in the Garden… Jesus offers and we must first accept and then we must ~~Grow~~ in that ~~Grace~ or favor~~ by humbly obeying God’s Will and Way and that IS Done by learning HIS Commandments, HIS Statutes in HIS Holy Book OF INSTRUCTION, The Bible… TOO many times folks take that first step and then from the false teaching of many they don’t take another step forward, but go on living in the world, embracing the things that it has to offer, and thinking all is well, IT IS GOOD, because that IS THE TREND OF THE MODERN UP TO DATE Day of The Church….
(Genesis 1: 31)… “God saw everything that HE Had Made, and behold IT Was Good” … So God favored HIS Whole creation ~Until~ Satan rose up to challenge and planted the seed of doubt in the first pair and they proved disobedient…. (Isaiah 14:9-17)
(Matthew 16:7-8) …. As the disciples reasoned among themselves, questioning… as in reference TO why? … Jesus said, “Oh, ye of: “little faith,” why reason among yourselves”… &
(Matthew 16:23- ) as Peter, meaning ~good~ rebuked the Lord not wanting that He should suffer, saying, “Be it far from thee, Lord, this thing shall not be unto Thee”… BUT Jesus, corrected Peter, reprimanded him, saying, “Get thee behind Me, Satan: thou art and offence unto Me, for thou ~~Savourest~~ NOT the things that be of God, BUT Those that be of men…
SO when we are sinking down in fleshly despair of the things that are going on around us, we are looking to the things of men and not the things of God… IN our not understanding, we are crying out why? To those around us, and questioning The LORD God, OF HIS Power… Because, IT IS HE That hath made us and not we ourselves…. (Psalm 100:3)
This IS a very short Chapter, BUT ONE That carries a great impact, and IF WE read IT recite IT Often, taking IT TO Heart, being instant always of and in IT’S Content we would grow stronger and more secure in our walk with the LORD God, our Heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ HIS Son….
The wrong IS not the question of why, but the oversight of NOT searching the answers that THE LORD Provided for us in HIS Book of Instruction and keeping our focus on God’s Will and Way, not what we think IS right or wrong, good or bad… for our thoughts are NOT HIS …and we question God’s Authority, HIS INFINITE Position, many times with our own why’s…and attempting to answer them ~Without~~ HIS Written Instruction…
When Peter questioned Jesus, saying :What shall this man do? Jesus replied, “*IF* ~I~ Will that he tarry till ~I~ come, *What IS IT TO thee*? *Follow thou Me*!!! (John 21:21-22)
He was showing an example to all of us in this statement… THAT… what the Jones have or have not, what goes on in the world around us, what others do or do not, IS not for us to question or fret over, BUT ~~our~~ each one of us, as individuals ~HAVE ~ A walk that we must prove, and through this personal walk only can live be attained in the promised land with Christ… No one else can walk IT for us, and neither can we walk IT for another, SO all the whys that we can ask of others is only vanity… BUT we must prove our own steps, keeping our eyes focused on the LORD, and not on the ways of the world, because there is where we will fall into the ways of destruction..
Which IS Why IT IS Vain to rally and praise the government for anything because IT IS a nation of man of the world of Satan the IS Doomed, under God’s Promise of “A New Jerusalem”.. (Revelation 3:12, & 21:2) and to step out in the world and protest with it against this and that that it is doing IS standing in opposition of The LORD, Because HE HAS Said, and SO IT Will BE Done…(Ecclesiastes 3:14).. WE are TO Teach the Worldly Nations of God’s Kingdom, (Matt.28:18-20)… NOT attempt TO change the worldly nations with compromise by protesting, fighting, and feuding…lifting up any one nation of this world as being the righteous kingdom of God, BECASE God’s Kingdom IS NOT OF THIS WORLD! A Big Part of that teaching IS found IN the examples that we prove by our life that we live… showing our loyalty to God by observing HIS Statutes, NOT BY our straddling the fence with one foot in the world…
Our personal walk ~Must~ BE focused on/in Jesus Christ… our eyes stationed on the Father’s Throne, our work MUST be the works that The Father, JEHOVAH God, laid out for us to perform, and THAT *IS* teaching and preaching the Gospel of God’s Kingdom, and of HIS Son Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world… IF we are asking why these things be in the world then our doubt has taken our eyes off of God’s Kingdom, OFF OF HIS Son, Jesus Christ, Because we have not been found reading and learning HIS Written Book that tells us, *AS IT IS Written* AS Jesus said, “All these things ~must come~ to pass” … READ: (Matthew 24:all) carefully and you will see…then shall ~~they deliver you up to be afflicted~ ye shall be hated… offended…false prophets shall arise….
IT IS Going according TO God’s Will and we must strive to stay IN HIS WAY, taking our eyes of the ways of the world, spitting out the seed that Satan tries to choke us with and keep a ~Strong~ focus on the LORD, on HIS Teachings… Remembering Always IF IT Looks Good IT may Be and most likely IS OF The Devil, take time to search IT Out in God’s Book of ALL Instruction before you take part in *IT*, because taking part in just one small innocent looking event that IS not sanctioned by the Father, can plow the furrow, opening the field for Satan to plant his seed of doubtful destruction…..
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
The ROOT OF ALL Celebrations
(Exodus 20:12) … “Honour thy father and mother, that thy days may be long upon the earth, upon ~The Land~ Which *THE LORD* thy God ~Giveth thee~.. “ Also (Matthew : & 15:4 17-18 & 19:19)… (17)… Jesus SAID: “Why? Callest thou Me ~Good~? There *IS* ~None~ *GOOD* But ONE, That *IS* God: BUT *IF* thou will ~Enter Into Life~, *Keep THE Commandments*… So just reading this one verse, WHY? On earth would we want to lift up our parents or any one or thing in the ~Services~ set aside for the Worship of God, BUT our Heavenly Father? IF Jesus can truthfully Say there IS None Good except God, then we are trying to do the same thing that Lucifer purposed to do and rise above the throne of God or else lift the ones that we are honoring in God’s House over and above the Mighty Throne of God… A dangerous place to plant our feet….
(Mark 7: 9) “Full well ye ~Reject The Commandment of God that ye may ~Keep~ your own tradition” … (13) .. “Making THE Word OF God OF NONE Effect through your tradition” --IN Fact I find may places where IT IS Written, Honor your father and mother, BUT NO Where Do I Find IT Written, Lift them up before others… That honor is what we each individual, owes our parents, in caring, respecting, obeying them… NOT making others feel bad because we have ~Good~ parents and someone to lift up before them as to brag of what we have, when so many others have not! BECAUSE, Think about IT Please! THIS IS NOT A Testimony OF God’s Greatness, BUT A Bragging of: Look at Me and mine…
How many ~War-babies, were left to unwed mothers overseas where the soldiers went through in war… and were then abandoned by their mothers and families because they were mixed? How may parents sit in jails today because of lives of crime while the children grow up as wards of the state in orphanages? .. How many struggle through this life because of uncaring abusive parents?… AND Then Because the government calls for an official day TO Honor: our parents setting IT ON The Day that WAS put aside many years ago For the Purpose of Worship and resting in the LORD, the very place that many go to seek, help, & hope in this life, are forced to sit through a service where the people that call themselves: Christians, and thus are supposedly displaying THE LOVE OF Christ TO ALL, are honoring their own, lifting one up over the other, making those without feel bad, bringing pain to memories of loss… IS This The Way OF THE LORD?
When Christ showed compassion what did He do? Lift up one man over the other, one person above the other, lift up fleshly births, raise the flag of the nation in which He was born in His teachings of: His Father’s Kingdom OR The Good News of Life Eternal IN IT? AND What Did Jesus commission US TO DO? Celebrate the fleshly ways in the Synagogues and Temples OR Did He read from The Scriptures Only?
What did Paul Instruct Before God AND The Lord Jesus Christ, To teach The World OR The Word?
(II Timothy 4:2-4).. “Preach ~THE WORD~ Be Instant IN Season, Our OF Season, Reprove, Rebuke, Exhort With ~ALL~ longsuffering AND *Doctrine*…. 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… AND they shall turn away their ~Ears~ from the *Truth*, and shall be turned unto fables…. (Sound Like the present day?)
Time has evolved into the day in which people have walked far away from True Bible Teachings, from following ~Faithfully~ the way that Jesus laid out for His followers to travel through this world led by Satan….
Ask anyone and they can tell you that Satan rules the world, and yet these same people will blindly run willy-nilly after ~ALL~ that the world offers that ~LOOKS~ good, feels harmless, seems to be sorta religious in a way and so IT Must be Right With The LORD.
For Instance: The many days of celebrations that are declared to be proper, placed on calendars, AS Recognized Holiday’s by the government of this country, BUT are cleverly designed by ~the Ruler~ of this world TO draw folk away from a faithful walk with the LORD…
At this point many readers WILL, say: “pshaw, there ain’t nothing wrong with honoring your father, mother, grandparents, soldiers, war dates, presidents, what ever the world sees as being worth honor among men…. In men’s traditions…”
WELL! Have you ever stopped and ask yourself, “Why are all these days set to be celebrated on Sunday, the day set aside for Worship of the Lord, AND Brought INTO The Very House Built For HIS people that claim the Name of HIS Son, to gather into ~FOR THE PURPOSE OF Worshiping The LORD,” and IT has been around for hundreds of years, ever since the days when the calendar was printed out and IT was chosen by early Christians as the day OF the Week in which TO: Celebrate the Resurrection of Christ on a weekly basis,,,
Ever sincerely wonder WHY? IF SO, did that ~wonder~ run deep enough that you were led to search out God’s Written Word To *SEE* IF these days OF men’s celebrations are truly a ~~GOOD~ thing before THE Eyes OF God, OR a ploy of Satan the Adversary TO: lure away silly women & men to serve him in the battle that IS raging in these end days?
(Jeremiah 29:13) … The LORD God, our Heavenly Father, THE Father of Jesus Christ SAID: “Ye shall ~SEEK~ *ME*, And ~FIND~ *ME*, when ye Shall ~Search~ For *ME* With ~ALL~ your heart…” Also (Matthew 7:7)
Not half a heart because the other half IS all tied up in a celebrations of the world!
(II Timothy 3: 1-2)…”KNOW” also, That in the last days, ~perilous times~ Shall Come…men shall be ~~Lovers OF their Own selves~~ …. (5) .Having A Form OF: godliness, BUT denying The Power Thereof: from such turn away… (6) ..FOR OF This Sort are ~They~ which creep into houses and lead ~captive~ silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, (7)… EVER Learning, & Never Able TO: Come to the knowledge of THE Truth….
There IS A LOT Written in these few verses….Keeping in mind THAT *SIN* IS nothing more than being found ~Disobedient~ TO God’s Command…Going Against HIS Will, IN Search OF Our OWN WAY… Men and women that seek their own gratification at being sung to in God’s House OF Worship in ~honor~ of their fleshly birthdays/anniversaries… claim a form of godliness in this but IT IS NOT helping anyone come to a Knowledge of the truth of God’s Way for HIS children… AND The Bible warns that we must turn away from these things…… Has IT Been read, seeking TO Find The Right Way OR looked over in order to justify, still living in the world of Satan and patronizing his way? …
(II Timothy 3:15).. From a child thou hast know ~~THE Holy Scriptures~~ which ARE Able TO make the Wise unto ~Salvation~…. Why on earth would we ignore them…?
Then, Every Sunday Meeting has a theme of the world filtered INTO IT, AS Well, AS Vacation Bible School, Children’s Groups, Women’s Groups, ALL have the “Living Water” OF God filtered by men’s or silly women’s hands, bringing into the teachings of God’s Word, the ~ways~ OF A Lost & Dying World, led by the dragon, the roaring lion seeking whom he can destroy, IN The Battle of Spiritual Life…..
(Galatians 5:17)…For the flesh lusteth ~Against~ the Spirit… (So if we bring into our services anything of the fleshly world of Satan, we have created a war amongst the people who are called by the Name of Christ… Placing them under the flags of ALL Religions of the World or the flag of the country is creating a war amongst the members, NOT bringing IN THE Peace OF God through HIS Written Word, BY HIS Son Jesus Christ….. Because IT Draws attention away From God and places IT On The things of the World led by Satan… Folks just don’t seem to grasp the fact THAT: This battle ain’t about having a good time, eating your cake and keeping IT Too… IT IS About Eternal life and where we, each Individual, WILL Spend IT… AND *IF* The Church fails to being to the people , THE Pure Waters of Life by allowing IT TO RAIN Down IN IT’S Pure STATE, untouched by the hands of mankind and wrapped up in their foolish traditions brought about by the hand of the Adversary Satan the Devil, then the Church and IT’S leaders are sadly dropping the ball on those that seek to find The Way, The Truth, AND The Light OF LIFE unto Righteousness and Salvation IN Christ Jesus…. NOT That The Church CAN Save, BUT Jesus sent us forth TO Teach The Gospel, pure and unadulterated by the world, that ALL Nations WILL BE Baptized IN THE NAME OF, The Father, AND OF THE Son, AND Of The Holy Ghost, and we are not doing that when we mix the world and all of IT’S celebrations into our services, set aside to deliver this Gospel unto men…
(James 1-2) … From Whence Come wars? & fighting’s Among you? Come they not hence, even of your lust that war in your members…. Ye lust and ye have ~NOT~..BECAUSE..~ ye ask amiss…(5).. Do you think that the *Scripture* saith in vain? … (8) Draw nigh unto God and HE Will draw neigh unto you, cleanse your hands && purify your hearts, ye ~Double -Minded…
There IS NO Way to serve God and the world of Satan TOO…. Every Congregation that tries to do this brings stress and strife to IT’S members and causes a ~DEEP Chasm~ TO Be formed among the members…
IS THERE ANY CHURCH That gathers to Worship The LORD and HIM Alone, IN Spirit AND IN Truth, AND Does NOT Bring any part of the world INTO IT’S Service? OR has all the Churches adopted the world as their most important guide in the Houses Built for the children of God to gather together to worship as One In the Lord? To Preach AND Teach The Word, letting The Pure River of Life Saving Waters Flow through their services unadulterated by the hands of Satan’s lost and dying world of men’s traditions……?????
(Mark 7: 9) “Full well ye ~Reject The Commandment of God that ye may ~Keep~ your own tradition” … (13) .. “Making THE Word OF God OF NONE Effect through your tradition” --IN Fact I find may places where IT IS Written, Honor your father and mother, BUT NO Where Do I Find IT Written, Lift them up before others… That honor is what we each individual, owes our parents, in caring, respecting, obeying them… NOT making others feel bad because we have ~Good~ parents and someone to lift up before them as to brag of what we have, when so many others have not! BECAUSE, Think about IT Please! THIS IS NOT A Testimony OF God’s Greatness, BUT A Bragging of: Look at Me and mine…
How many ~War-babies, were left to unwed mothers overseas where the soldiers went through in war… and were then abandoned by their mothers and families because they were mixed? How may parents sit in jails today because of lives of crime while the children grow up as wards of the state in orphanages? .. How many struggle through this life because of uncaring abusive parents?… AND Then Because the government calls for an official day TO Honor: our parents setting IT ON The Day that WAS put aside many years ago For the Purpose of Worship and resting in the LORD, the very place that many go to seek, help, & hope in this life, are forced to sit through a service where the people that call themselves: Christians, and thus are supposedly displaying THE LOVE OF Christ TO ALL, are honoring their own, lifting one up over the other, making those without feel bad, bringing pain to memories of loss… IS This The Way OF THE LORD?
When Christ showed compassion what did He do? Lift up one man over the other, one person above the other, lift up fleshly births, raise the flag of the nation in which He was born in His teachings of: His Father’s Kingdom OR The Good News of Life Eternal IN IT? AND What Did Jesus commission US TO DO? Celebrate the fleshly ways in the Synagogues and Temples OR Did He read from The Scriptures Only?
What did Paul Instruct Before God AND The Lord Jesus Christ, To teach The World OR The Word?
(II Timothy 4:2-4).. “Preach ~THE WORD~ Be Instant IN Season, Our OF Season, Reprove, Rebuke, Exhort With ~ALL~ longsuffering AND *Doctrine*…. 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… AND they shall turn away their ~Ears~ from the *Truth*, and shall be turned unto fables…. (Sound Like the present day?)
Time has evolved into the day in which people have walked far away from True Bible Teachings, from following ~Faithfully~ the way that Jesus laid out for His followers to travel through this world led by Satan….
Ask anyone and they can tell you that Satan rules the world, and yet these same people will blindly run willy-nilly after ~ALL~ that the world offers that ~LOOKS~ good, feels harmless, seems to be sorta religious in a way and so IT Must be Right With The LORD.
For Instance: The many days of celebrations that are declared to be proper, placed on calendars, AS Recognized Holiday’s by the government of this country, BUT are cleverly designed by ~the Ruler~ of this world TO draw folk away from a faithful walk with the LORD…
At this point many readers WILL, say: “pshaw, there ain’t nothing wrong with honoring your father, mother, grandparents, soldiers, war dates, presidents, what ever the world sees as being worth honor among men…. In men’s traditions…”
WELL! Have you ever stopped and ask yourself, “Why are all these days set to be celebrated on Sunday, the day set aside for Worship of the Lord, AND Brought INTO The Very House Built For HIS people that claim the Name of HIS Son, to gather into ~FOR THE PURPOSE OF Worshiping The LORD,” and IT has been around for hundreds of years, ever since the days when the calendar was printed out and IT was chosen by early Christians as the day OF the Week in which TO: Celebrate the Resurrection of Christ on a weekly basis,,,
Ever sincerely wonder WHY? IF SO, did that ~wonder~ run deep enough that you were led to search out God’s Written Word To *SEE* IF these days OF men’s celebrations are truly a ~~GOOD~ thing before THE Eyes OF God, OR a ploy of Satan the Adversary TO: lure away silly women & men to serve him in the battle that IS raging in these end days?
(Jeremiah 29:13) … The LORD God, our Heavenly Father, THE Father of Jesus Christ SAID: “Ye shall ~SEEK~ *ME*, And ~FIND~ *ME*, when ye Shall ~Search~ For *ME* With ~ALL~ your heart…” Also (Matthew 7:7)
Not half a heart because the other half IS all tied up in a celebrations of the world!
(II Timothy 3: 1-2)…”KNOW” also, That in the last days, ~perilous times~ Shall Come…men shall be ~~Lovers OF their Own selves~~ …. (5) .Having A Form OF: godliness, BUT denying The Power Thereof: from such turn away… (6) ..FOR OF This Sort are ~They~ which creep into houses and lead ~captive~ silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, (7)… EVER Learning, & Never Able TO: Come to the knowledge of THE Truth….
There IS A LOT Written in these few verses….Keeping in mind THAT *SIN* IS nothing more than being found ~Disobedient~ TO God’s Command…Going Against HIS Will, IN Search OF Our OWN WAY… Men and women that seek their own gratification at being sung to in God’s House OF Worship in ~honor~ of their fleshly birthdays/anniversaries… claim a form of godliness in this but IT IS NOT helping anyone come to a Knowledge of the truth of God’s Way for HIS children… AND The Bible warns that we must turn away from these things…… Has IT Been read, seeking TO Find The Right Way OR looked over in order to justify, still living in the world of Satan and patronizing his way? …
(II Timothy 3:15).. From a child thou hast know ~~THE Holy Scriptures~~ which ARE Able TO make the Wise unto ~Salvation~…. Why on earth would we ignore them…?
Then, Every Sunday Meeting has a theme of the world filtered INTO IT, AS Well, AS Vacation Bible School, Children’s Groups, Women’s Groups, ALL have the “Living Water” OF God filtered by men’s or silly women’s hands, bringing into the teachings of God’s Word, the ~ways~ OF A Lost & Dying World, led by the dragon, the roaring lion seeking whom he can destroy, IN The Battle of Spiritual Life…..
(Galatians 5:17)…For the flesh lusteth ~Against~ the Spirit… (So if we bring into our services anything of the fleshly world of Satan, we have created a war amongst the people who are called by the Name of Christ… Placing them under the flags of ALL Religions of the World or the flag of the country is creating a war amongst the members, NOT bringing IN THE Peace OF God through HIS Written Word, BY HIS Son Jesus Christ….. Because IT Draws attention away From God and places IT On The things of the World led by Satan… Folks just don’t seem to grasp the fact THAT: This battle ain’t about having a good time, eating your cake and keeping IT Too… IT IS About Eternal life and where we, each Individual, WILL Spend IT… AND *IF* The Church fails to being to the people , THE Pure Waters of Life by allowing IT TO RAIN Down IN IT’S Pure STATE, untouched by the hands of mankind and wrapped up in their foolish traditions brought about by the hand of the Adversary Satan the Devil, then the Church and IT’S leaders are sadly dropping the ball on those that seek to find The Way, The Truth, AND The Light OF LIFE unto Righteousness and Salvation IN Christ Jesus…. NOT That The Church CAN Save, BUT Jesus sent us forth TO Teach The Gospel, pure and unadulterated by the world, that ALL Nations WILL BE Baptized IN THE NAME OF, The Father, AND OF THE Son, AND Of The Holy Ghost, and we are not doing that when we mix the world and all of IT’S celebrations into our services, set aside to deliver this Gospel unto men…
(James 1-2) … From Whence Come wars? & fighting’s Among you? Come they not hence, even of your lust that war in your members…. Ye lust and ye have ~NOT~..BECAUSE..~ ye ask amiss…(5).. Do you think that the *Scripture* saith in vain? … (8) Draw nigh unto God and HE Will draw neigh unto you, cleanse your hands && purify your hearts, ye ~Double -Minded…
There IS NO Way to serve God and the world of Satan TOO…. Every Congregation that tries to do this brings stress and strife to IT’S members and causes a ~DEEP Chasm~ TO Be formed among the members…
IS THERE ANY CHURCH That gathers to Worship The LORD and HIM Alone, IN Spirit AND IN Truth, AND Does NOT Bring any part of the world INTO IT’S Service? OR has all the Churches adopted the world as their most important guide in the Houses Built for the children of God to gather together to worship as One In the Lord? To Preach AND Teach The Word, letting The Pure River of Life Saving Waters Flow through their services unadulterated by the hands of Satan’s lost and dying world of men’s traditions……?????
Saturday, June 18, 2011
The Battle OF Sin
Planting and Sowing
What ARE we Growing?
To which spirit do we lend our ways?
For there IS A Battle to win
Against disobedience of sin
Proving our walk through our earthly days.
Clearly there IS A Battle to be fought, every minute of every day that we live upon this earth in these old fleshly bodies… AND ~we~, ALL OF US, must fight IT continually.. Men, women, and children, for the adversary Satan the Devil IS not resting on his laurels, but rather he is busy as he can be, going about this earth as a ~roaring lion~ seeking whom he may destroy… (I Peter 5: 1-11).. The elders among you… feed the flock of God, taking the oversight…being ensamples to the flock.. Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder, yea, all of you be subject one to another, AND BE clothed ~with~ humility: FOR God Resisteth The Proud, & Giveth grace to the ~humble~.. Humble yourselves *Under* The Mighty Hand OF God that HE may exalt you ~in due time~… ~BE Sober, BE vigilant:~ Because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour: whom resist steadfast in the faith…
So there IS A Battle to be won, and IN order to win a battle the soldiers must be equipped with the proper weapons for the fight… Something that many children learn young, from the games of war that is presented to them, the heavier and stronger the weapon, the better your chances of winning… For instance, you don’t ride off into battle against a giant, equipped with a feather and a piece of cake… BUT you carry A ROCK, and a sling….
Neither can you suit up in the Protective Armor of battle, with a hoola hoop, or be mentally prepared to fight the war, by singing happy birthday, OR serve up the food that strengthens for ~The Battle~ by passing out hotdogs and hamburgers, dyed eggs… and such things of the this world… BECAUSE!
Simply put, that IS The equipment that Satan the Adversary uses… NOT that any of this IS Evil, just as a pencil made to write with IS NOT A gun or a weapon of destruction, BUT IT CAN BE USED TO KILL… IT can be used to destroy, in more ways than one… ie “the pen IS Mightier than the sword”! In that it can bring about the cessation of one’s earthly life by using IT as knife for stabbing the victim, or by writing vile and untrue things about a person destroy their reputation… BUT
ANYTHING that IS put into, the Truly Written Bible account of: Jesus Christ IS Just AS destructive as the pen… IT can and often does lead to spiritual death, in the hands of Satan because, we, who call ourselves with the service of our lips, followers of Christ, placed IT there…. Instead OF using God’s Unadulterated Holy Written Accounts of HIS Only Begotten Son IN THE Truthful Content AS IT IS Written, we have made a game of it, a fun time in the world, adding to IT the customs of the people, AND promoting them in our services where we are gathered to ~Honor~ The Memory of Jesus and what He did for us…
NOT Only that but we make a party out of just about every meeting with something of the world, of the flesh, anything to keep Satan happy we figure out a way to do, rather than demand as Jesus did not yield to the flesh BUT HE SAID:
(Luke 4:4-12)… “IT IS Written, thou shalt not live BY bread alone, BUT BY EVERY WORD OF GOD”… “GET thee Behind Me Satan: FOR IT IS Written, Thou shalt worship THE LORD thy God, AND HIM Only shalt thou serve…” “IT IS Said, thou shalt not ~tempt~ the LORD thy God”…
AND with some of the simplest, most innocent looking things we do all the things above that Jesus rebuked the Devil for… We tempt The LORD, when we step out in our ~own~ thinking, by deciding that it looks good and IT seems harmless, and IF we put God into IT, add a few Bible verses in IT then that makes IT good and we can us IT TO Teach the children with and they will enjoy IT and learn while they are having fun…. Nothing wrong here, this IS Good thinking of young modern day folks… Times have changed, and people don’t walk where they need to go, and the burdens have been lifted that were placed on their shoulders. Man has invented modern convinces and made life easier and so we don’t have to live like they did… God Understands, HE Knows that our thoughts are in the right place…. BUT,
IS that what HE HAD Written for us to follow? Modern time’s way of thinking? HAS God Changed to reflect ~Modern Times~ Life styles? Does HE Approve of women running around half naked? OF playing voodoo games, horoscope reading, witchcraft, vampires, spirit seeking, tattoos, seeking the things of and taking part in the nations of this world that are lost and dying? OR did HE have warning written: TO Come out from among them and *Touch NOT*, the unclean thing…(Corinthians 6:17) .. . Certainly HE did not say mix the unclean thing in MY way and all will be well…. AND THE BIGEST MISTAKE That folks make IS IN Thinking that they can ~JUST PUT~ God where they want HIM… Folks IT Ain’t never worked that way, NOR Will IT Ever, According TO: God’s Written Word… The clay can never mold the potter…. Thus we can’t put God any where, BUT we must be where HE IS, we MUST Follow HIM, HE Does NOT Follow US…. (Isaiah 64:8) & (Romans 9:21)
(Hebrews 13:8-9)… Jesus Christ THE SAME yesterday, today, and forever.. Be Not ~~Carried~~ About with divers and *Strange* doctrines, FOR IT IS A Good thing that the heart be established ~WITH GRACE~ *NOT* ~With meats, WHICH HAVE NOT Profited them that have been occupied therein…
SO while we are spinning our wheels or webs of entanglement in Satan’s world of pleasures, trying to make a game of fun out of learning or teaching, What IS Written for us to follow, IT Might do us well TO Read and Learn a bit of Instruction, Exhortation IN Truth… BECAUSE
This IS where HE gives us choice STILL… there are ~TWO~ paths, and there IS NOT A Gray area in between them.. Where we may walk, BUT many Churches have attempted to invent a gray area… a place where the members can have their cake and eat IT TOO… Where folks can straddle the fence and claim Christ, while living ~WITH~ the world… BIG Difference.. We must walk through this world, we must live in this world until our earthly life IS Done, BUT, we are not to be a part of this world… we are nothing more than strangers passing through a foreign land, IF we are truly followers of Christ…
The only way to Follow Christ IS TO Learn OF Christ.. And when we feel the urging of the Spirit to humbly repent and accept that walk with Christ, accept Jesus into our heart, to let the Holy Spirit Guide us, we gotta then and IT IS ours to learn to resist, the spirit of evil that pulls us into the world… IT IS ALL Written in the Bible, THE Book of All Instruction that The Father Had written and preserved for us to use as a Guide through this life… WE gotta be Interested Enough to seek IT out for Instruction… For proof, For protection against making the Wrong decision in matters of this life…
(Ephesians 6: 11-18)… Put on the whole armour of God.. (v.17).. AND The Sword OF the spirit which IS THE Word of God….
WE have a duty, a decision to make, a choice IS given us BY God, every day as long as we live in these fleshly bodies… That choice IS: to serve God IN Truth and honesty or follow the ways of Satan… Jesus will not hold us IF we want to look back into the world… The Spirit will convict us ~~IF~~ we are paying ~Attention~~ TO the right spirit…. REMEMBER… there are two spirits biding us follow… AND we have to be equipped to KNOW Which IS The Right Spirit! How do we do that? BY staying ourselves up in the: INSTRUCTIONS Written In the Bible, Gods Book of Instruction, BY Walking about with a prayer in our hearts instead of the ways of the world… BY Keeping our thoughts focused on the things above, not on the things of this world…. AND IF we can’t see the difference, we may be walking on the wrong path…
Thursday, June 16, 2011
The Question OF: Perfection
(Philippians 3: 12 & 15)… ~NOT~ AS though I had already attained, either were ~already~ *Perfect*: BUT I *Follow* ~AFTER~….IF that I may apprehend that for which Also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus…
(Colossians 1:27-28) … To whom God would make known ~What *IS* The Riches~ of the glory, of this mystery among the Gentiles; Which *IS* “Christ” *IN* ~you~, The hope of Glory..… Whom we ~Preach~ , ~Warning~ every man in ~ALL~ wisdom; that we may present every man *Perfect* IN Christ… (our works can all be in vain even though we have put all that we have into IT, IF we don’t search the scriptures and Prove what we are doing.. ~TO BE IN~ God’s Will and Way)…
If we can prove IT by the Written Word, then we have no need to fret or be angry IF someone rejects or challenges IT, we need only, present the Written Scripture proving our works, by The Bible….. AS James said:
(James 2:22).. Seest thou how ~Faith~ wrought (operates) *With* ~works~, & BY ~works~ was *Faith* MADE ~~Perfect~~… (24)..by ~works~ a man *IS* ~Justified~ & Not By ~Faith Only… (26) .. For as the body IS dead without the spirit, SO *Faith without works* IS Dead Also…
Our testimony of our walk as a Christian IS based as much or more on our appearance, our works in this life, than what we speak.. We can verbally claim Christ all day long til the cows come home, but *IF* our walk, our works, our actions, does not prove or back-up that claim, then ALL IS Vain… Like the song we sing: “Let Others ~SEE~ Jesus In You”…. WELL, our works MUST Show our faith or else our faith is dead… Dead because others cannot see IT in our walk…
You hear folks say he lost his testimony, because he was seen in a bar drinking and carousing… Well, our testimony can be & IS just as lost IF we follow the ways of and promote the false idols of this world, even though IT may seem innocent, IT may be only a picture, or a doll, or a song, and we think our thoughts, hearts, and minds to be in the right place, and according to our growth in the Written word that is all that we can see, BUT the thing that makes IT ~Wrong~ *IS*.. According to: The Biblical teachings that God had penned down and preserved for us to follow IT IS unacceptable, it either IS or IT represents something that IS an abomination to God… For instance, a statue that is prayed to by some as their god… we look at a picture of that statue as okay, nothing wrong with *IT* it is only a picture, and we don‘t pray to IT, or look at it as an idol… BUT, they did and do and they see us as compromising our Faith in The True God for their god, this IS not leading them TO God, but leading them further astray as well as ourselves….
We have failed to search out the scriptures and just decided that because someone said, or a store has it to sell, then IT must be good and we stake our lives on that rather than stake our lives on What God Gave US TO ~~Follow~~….
(Romans 10:3)…For they being ~ignorant~ OF God’s Righteousness, have ~Not~ *Submitted* themselves unto the righteousness of God….
(Isaiah 56:10)… HIS ~watchmen~ Are blind: they are ~ALL~ ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark: ~Sleeping~, ~lying down~, loving to slumber… (11)… & they are shepherds that ~Cannot understand: they look to ~their own~ WAY….
(Acts 17:30-31) … THE Times of this ~Ignorance~ God winked AT; BUT NOW *Commandeth* ALL men to repent:… Because HE hath appointed a ~DAY~ , in which HE Will judge the world IN righteousness…..
Folks rest in the fact that Jesus came, paid the sin debt. Believing now what they do IS alright, because they can do on their own, and Jesus will follow them… they couldn’t have *IT* more backward… God winked at their mistakes before Christ came, Before the Gospel was preached, BUT NOW, there IS NO Excuse for ignorance, Because HE HAS Given us a Book of ALL Instruction to read, learn, and follow… AND IN This day and age of ~education~ reading, writing, arithmetic, people have more access to the Reading of the Written Word… AND The Big thing, People no longer have need to bring a sacrifice to a human priest and study the ~laws~ of how and what to give for their sins, Because THAT IS what Jesus DID take away….BUT He did NOT take Away the Command of ~Obedience~ and Submission TO: God the Father, IN HIS Will and Way… NOW we only have to repent, & Follow, in humble obedience, believing, living, and praying to the Father, through and in Christ Name, AND That IS our ~Faithful work~… But we can’t walk around in ignorance of the Word and Serve God in HIS Will and Way, and there IS No More Excuse for us to do that….
Stop, Look, Listen: … Listen to what is going on around you, do you hear sheep blatting out praise to God, see, humble obedient people following the teachings of the Bible, OR goats, rebelling against the Biblical teachings because IT IS NOT convenient for their likes, their walk in the world, praising each other, for their own ~Good~ works, testifying to their own goodness, praising and lifting up the ways of the world of flesh… DO others see Jesus IN you, or the world of Satan…
(Romans 8:31)… “*IF* God be for us, then who can be against us”?
(II Timothy 3: 16-17)…*ALL Scripture* IS Given BY ~Inspiration~ OF God, AND IS Profitable FOR Doctrine, Reproof, Correction, For Instruction in Righteousness… ~~~That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto ALL good works… (So if we search out the scriptures before we accept a doctrine as righteous we would save ourselves a lot of problems.)
(Romans 12:2)…”Be ye 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….
(Luke 18:19)…JESUS SAID: “Why callest thou Me good, there IS none Good, save One, and That IS , God!
(I Corinthians 11:31)… “IF we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged, BUT when we are judged we are chastened of the LORD, that we should not be condemned *with* the world…”
ALL Judgment belongs to The LORD, but our actions reveal where our loyalty is placed… SO Stalking & gossip IS not my style, neither IS IT my position to Judge any one, that IS between THE LORD, & each Individual... What I write IS what IS written IN THE Bible, That The LORD leads me to Share with others... Just like what folks do IS their business, IT IS my position TO carry THE Gospel Message, IF IT Stings then, maybe IT should be checked out in THE WRITTEN WORD, NO ONE IS Perfect Except God.
IF we feel that we are being looked at through judgmental eyes, being critiqued by others whom we consider to be just plain being busy bodies, looking down their nose at the world, maybe we need to get in sync with our own actions… LOOK into the mirror of what we are all about… what are we showing to the world… The judgment of others that IS on us IS NOT to judge whether we are sentenced to heaven or hell, because that DOES Belong TO God and TO HIM Alone…IT IS Written in the Book of life… AND ~our~ *Works* DO stand before us on the day of Judgment AND what IS written *THE* works that we have performed in this fleshly life WILL determine where will spend eternity … (Revelation 20:11-15).. NOT my words, But The Divinely Inspired Words of God Written by the faithful servant of Jesus Christ, John…
HE IS THE Judge seated on the Great Throne, which awards life eternal according to the choice that we have made, in this fleshly life… AND HE IS THE ONE WHO carries out that sentence…
The world made up of people ~ALL~ around us can and ~DO~ judge ~From~ our actions. AND, ~our~ *Actions *Show Proof* as TO: our stand in faith, in our walk with and in Christ… Whether we are True, according TO AS IT IS Written in God’s Holy Word the Bible, servants of Christ, OR whether our actions prove us to be friends of the world of Satan… Else HOW would we be able to see, know, and OBEY the command TO: “Come out from among them”?
(II Corinthians 6:16-17) …what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? ..wherefore come out from among them, & Be ye a separate people, saith the LORD and touch not the unclean thing… & I WILL Receive you… SO IT IS A Matter of growth, can we look at ourselves through the Written Pages of God’s Holy Book of ~ALL~ Instruction TO: Judge ourselves, that we be NOT judged??? That we be NOT Condemned with the world? No one IS perfect, we ~ALL~ make mistakes, but the danger IS IN making a mistake and then failing to correct IT when IT has been brought to our attention that IT IS NOT According TO: AS IT IS Written…
Folks look at the scripture IN Which Jesus Said: Judge ~NOT~ lest you be ~Judged, as a freedom from looking at themselves, and that the world can’t judge us… BUT *IF* we read the Whole story or as: Paul Harvey always said, “The Rest OF The Story”… we would understand that YES, we have a duty to fulfill that our actions be not judged as proving us to be friends of the world instead of followers of Christ! IN Fact, our visible walk can and does: either draw others to serve the LORD in Truth, turns them away because they see the compromise of the Truth, or leads them to walk vainly in the flesh, deceiving themselves by the actions of one that proclaims Christianity, but walks in the world, that this IS righteousness, thus living in the lie of Satan. What does our walk through this life ~Testify~ of us?
(Colossians 1:27-28) … To whom God would make known ~What *IS* The Riches~ of the glory, of this mystery among the Gentiles; Which *IS* “Christ” *IN* ~you~, The hope of Glory..… Whom we ~Preach~ , ~Warning~ every man in ~ALL~ wisdom; that we may present every man *Perfect* IN Christ… (our works can all be in vain even though we have put all that we have into IT, IF we don’t search the scriptures and Prove what we are doing.. ~TO BE IN~ God’s Will and Way)…
If we can prove IT by the Written Word, then we have no need to fret or be angry IF someone rejects or challenges IT, we need only, present the Written Scripture proving our works, by The Bible….. AS James said:
(James 2:22).. Seest thou how ~Faith~ wrought (operates) *With* ~works~, & BY ~works~ was *Faith* MADE ~~Perfect~~… (24)..by ~works~ a man *IS* ~Justified~ & Not By ~Faith Only… (26) .. For as the body IS dead without the spirit, SO *Faith without works* IS Dead Also…
Our testimony of our walk as a Christian IS based as much or more on our appearance, our works in this life, than what we speak.. We can verbally claim Christ all day long til the cows come home, but *IF* our walk, our works, our actions, does not prove or back-up that claim, then ALL IS Vain… Like the song we sing: “Let Others ~SEE~ Jesus In You”…. WELL, our works MUST Show our faith or else our faith is dead… Dead because others cannot see IT in our walk…
You hear folks say he lost his testimony, because he was seen in a bar drinking and carousing… Well, our testimony can be & IS just as lost IF we follow the ways of and promote the false idols of this world, even though IT may seem innocent, IT may be only a picture, or a doll, or a song, and we think our thoughts, hearts, and minds to be in the right place, and according to our growth in the Written word that is all that we can see, BUT the thing that makes IT ~Wrong~ *IS*.. According to: The Biblical teachings that God had penned down and preserved for us to follow IT IS unacceptable, it either IS or IT represents something that IS an abomination to God… For instance, a statue that is prayed to by some as their god… we look at a picture of that statue as okay, nothing wrong with *IT* it is only a picture, and we don‘t pray to IT, or look at it as an idol… BUT, they did and do and they see us as compromising our Faith in The True God for their god, this IS not leading them TO God, but leading them further astray as well as ourselves….
We have failed to search out the scriptures and just decided that because someone said, or a store has it to sell, then IT must be good and we stake our lives on that rather than stake our lives on What God Gave US TO ~~Follow~~….
(Romans 10:3)…For they being ~ignorant~ OF God’s Righteousness, have ~Not~ *Submitted* themselves unto the righteousness of God….
(Isaiah 56:10)… HIS ~watchmen~ Are blind: they are ~ALL~ ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark: ~Sleeping~, ~lying down~, loving to slumber… (11)… & they are shepherds that ~Cannot understand: they look to ~their own~ WAY….
(Acts 17:30-31) … THE Times of this ~Ignorance~ God winked AT; BUT NOW *Commandeth* ALL men to repent:… Because HE hath appointed a ~DAY~ , in which HE Will judge the world IN righteousness…..
Folks rest in the fact that Jesus came, paid the sin debt. Believing now what they do IS alright, because they can do on their own, and Jesus will follow them… they couldn’t have *IT* more backward… God winked at their mistakes before Christ came, Before the Gospel was preached, BUT NOW, there IS NO Excuse for ignorance, Because HE HAS Given us a Book of ALL Instruction to read, learn, and follow… AND IN This day and age of ~education~ reading, writing, arithmetic, people have more access to the Reading of the Written Word… AND The Big thing, People no longer have need to bring a sacrifice to a human priest and study the ~laws~ of how and what to give for their sins, Because THAT IS what Jesus DID take away….BUT He did NOT take Away the Command of ~Obedience~ and Submission TO: God the Father, IN HIS Will and Way… NOW we only have to repent, & Follow, in humble obedience, believing, living, and praying to the Father, through and in Christ Name, AND That IS our ~Faithful work~… But we can’t walk around in ignorance of the Word and Serve God in HIS Will and Way, and there IS No More Excuse for us to do that….
Stop, Look, Listen: … Listen to what is going on around you, do you hear sheep blatting out praise to God, see, humble obedient people following the teachings of the Bible, OR goats, rebelling against the Biblical teachings because IT IS NOT convenient for their likes, their walk in the world, praising each other, for their own ~Good~ works, testifying to their own goodness, praising and lifting up the ways of the world of flesh… DO others see Jesus IN you, or the world of Satan…
(Romans 8:31)… “*IF* God be for us, then who can be against us”?
(II Timothy 3: 16-17)…*ALL Scripture* IS Given BY ~Inspiration~ OF God, AND IS Profitable FOR Doctrine, Reproof, Correction, For Instruction in Righteousness… ~~~That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto ALL good works… (So if we search out the scriptures before we accept a doctrine as righteous we would save ourselves a lot of problems.)
(Romans 12:2)…”Be ye 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….
(Luke 18:19)…JESUS SAID: “Why callest thou Me good, there IS none Good, save One, and That IS , God!
(I Corinthians 11:31)… “IF we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged, BUT when we are judged we are chastened of the LORD, that we should not be condemned *with* the world…”
ALL Judgment belongs to The LORD, but our actions reveal where our loyalty is placed… SO Stalking & gossip IS not my style, neither IS IT my position to Judge any one, that IS between THE LORD, & each Individual... What I write IS what IS written IN THE Bible, That The LORD leads me to Share with others... Just like what folks do IS their business, IT IS my position TO carry THE Gospel Message, IF IT Stings then, maybe IT should be checked out in THE WRITTEN WORD, NO ONE IS Perfect Except God.
IF we feel that we are being looked at through judgmental eyes, being critiqued by others whom we consider to be just plain being busy bodies, looking down their nose at the world, maybe we need to get in sync with our own actions… LOOK into the mirror of what we are all about… what are we showing to the world… The judgment of others that IS on us IS NOT to judge whether we are sentenced to heaven or hell, because that DOES Belong TO God and TO HIM Alone…IT IS Written in the Book of life… AND ~our~ *Works* DO stand before us on the day of Judgment AND what IS written *THE* works that we have performed in this fleshly life WILL determine where will spend eternity … (Revelation 20:11-15).. NOT my words, But The Divinely Inspired Words of God Written by the faithful servant of Jesus Christ, John…
HE IS THE Judge seated on the Great Throne, which awards life eternal according to the choice that we have made, in this fleshly life… AND HE IS THE ONE WHO carries out that sentence…
The world made up of people ~ALL~ around us can and ~DO~ judge ~From~ our actions. AND, ~our~ *Actions *Show Proof* as TO: our stand in faith, in our walk with and in Christ… Whether we are True, according TO AS IT IS Written in God’s Holy Word the Bible, servants of Christ, OR whether our actions prove us to be friends of the world of Satan… Else HOW would we be able to see, know, and OBEY the command TO: “Come out from among them”?
(II Corinthians 6:16-17) …what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? ..wherefore come out from among them, & Be ye a separate people, saith the LORD and touch not the unclean thing… & I WILL Receive you… SO IT IS A Matter of growth, can we look at ourselves through the Written Pages of God’s Holy Book of ~ALL~ Instruction TO: Judge ourselves, that we be NOT judged??? That we be NOT Condemned with the world? No one IS perfect, we ~ALL~ make mistakes, but the danger IS IN making a mistake and then failing to correct IT when IT has been brought to our attention that IT IS NOT According TO: AS IT IS Written…
Folks look at the scripture IN Which Jesus Said: Judge ~NOT~ lest you be ~Judged, as a freedom from looking at themselves, and that the world can’t judge us… BUT *IF* we read the Whole story or as: Paul Harvey always said, “The Rest OF The Story”… we would understand that YES, we have a duty to fulfill that our actions be not judged as proving us to be friends of the world instead of followers of Christ! IN Fact, our visible walk can and does: either draw others to serve the LORD in Truth, turns them away because they see the compromise of the Truth, or leads them to walk vainly in the flesh, deceiving themselves by the actions of one that proclaims Christianity, but walks in the world, that this IS righteousness, thus living in the lie of Satan. What does our walk through this life ~Testify~ of us?
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Gods OF This World
IT is sad but true that cell phones, have become the backbone of this world, replacing the friendships and strengths, of human to human bonds and communications… Developing a great chasm in the strength of ~oneness~, tearing apart the framework of marriage, between man and woman, AS Well AS the marriage of the Church….. (The plague of electronic gnats?) A tiny device that separates the human race making all vulnerable to the adversary…. AND IS making a pretty vivid scene in the Houses of Prayer, displaying a lack of discipline and obedient state of mind of leaders…
A note of interest: A spoken message the other day… The difference between a preacher and a pastor:
A Preacher is a person that brings to the congregation the messages that the people want to hear, teaches only what he is allowed to speak in order to keep the people happy…AND wouldn’t dare speak out about any Biblical Subject that would make the folks unhappy, because they want to indulge in it… like: tattoo’s; flags; idols, symbols, competition, holidays and loyalty..
A Pastor IS a person that leads the congregation in the laws and statutes of: God’s Written Word the Bible for their own sakes, and IF they get angry at being corrected then he presents them with the proof of his speech, thus teaching them in God’s Will and not mans…preparing them for the second coming of Christ…that they not be caught sleeping along with the world.
Hitler put to death those that were not loyal and would not perform his salute to the flag of the Great Nation of Germany…. How different is it here today?
Remember when Obama failed to place his hand over his heart during the playing of the “National Anthem” and ~salute the flag on ~veterans day~ how the press took it to the top of the news heap, calling for political death….
The Statue of Liberty, belongs to this nation just as the Statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had erected in Babylon and demanded that ~At the sound of the music~ everyone come and bow down before it… IT IS NO Different on the grounds around the Statue, IF The National Anthem IS played, everyone IS expected to stand at attention, remove their hats in respect, place their hands over their hearts and face the flag, this is the same thing as a gesture of worship… (Daniel 3:1-7)
The “Statue of Liberty” is standing in the same position as the gods and goddesses of ancient days… IT IS Looked upon as the ~symbol~ of our freedom in this country.. Just as the ancients did their gods and goddesses.. AND YET… IT IS celebrated in our Churches, presented to our children even to the point of placing their little faces in the cut out poster to have their pictures made as being the face of ~THE~ “Statue”…
(Jeremiah 2:11) … Hath a nation changed their gods?… which are YET NO gods… BUT MY people have changed their glory for that which IS NOT Profitable….
AND you might keep in mind that the company that sells these programs also sells the items of false religious beliefs, it is called seeking to make a profit, by merchandising what sells… Not necessarily selling only that, which IS beneficial to ~Eternal life~…
(Leviticus 19:23)… “Ye ~Shall NOT~ make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, ~NOR~ *Print* any marks upon you: I am THE LORD!” & (20:6).. “The soul (person) that turneth after such as have ~familiar spirits~, and after ~wizards~, to go a whoring after them, I (THE LORD) WILL Set MY Face Against them, I Will Even set MY Face against that soul” … (20:7-8).. “Sanctify yourselves therefore and be holy: FOR I am THE LORD your God… AND ye
~Shall Keep~ MY Statutes and do them: I am THE LORD ~Which~ sanctify you.”
This IS a commandment of the LORD along with the Ten -plus many more that The LORD has given for HIS children TO: OBEY!
How much more plainer can God’s Holy Written Word of HIS Statutes for us to follow Get? Want ~New Testament~?
(Philippians 2:12).. “Work out your ~own~ *salvation*… with fear and trembling… FOR IT IS God, which worketh in you both to Will and to do HIS Good Pleasure…
When we are working out our own salvation with fear and trembling we are rendering ourselves ~~Obedient~~ TO God’s Will and Way, not our own and thus IT IS God that works in us… BUT… IF we are rebelling against God’s Statutes, we are walking in conflict against THE LORD’S Will and thus we are being led by the spirit of the adversary, Satan the devil…
Tattoo’s and Horoscopes ARE an abomination before the LORD today just the same as they were in the Old Testament Days… God did not change HIS Commands about our being loyal and obedient to HIM, TO HIS Will and Way, that IS NOT Why HE Sent HIS Only Begotten Son that we could walk about in the sins of rebellious belief as does Satan the dragon, the roaring lion seeking whom he can devour… ( I Peter 5:8)
We are Still under the Laws and Statutes that God set forth for HIS children unto ~ALL~ generations to follow, obey, serving HIM IN HIS Will and Way only….
Something to sincerely think about… *IF* we tattoo our bodies, seek horoscopes, take our steps through this life just outside of the Box of Complete Surrender in Obedience to God The Father… Where does the Bible warn us in the Words of the prophets, and of God’s Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, that we are walking? Who does IT warn is our father? Where does Paul warn that God will put us IF we can not make the complete commitment to serve HIM IN HIS Will and Way?
(Romans 1:28)… “AND Even As they ~DID NOT~ *like* to retain God IN their knowledge, God gave them a reprobate mind….” (32) .. “who knowing The ~Judgment~ of God, not only do the same, BUT have pleasure in them that do them…” (Romans 1:21-23)
(Titus 1:16) … “They ~profess~ that they *Know* God: BUT! In works they deny HIM, being abominable, & disobedient, and unto every ~Good Work~ Reprobate…”
SOOOOooooo…. When we follow the world, run out and get our bodies tattooed, seek the pleasures of reading our daily horoscopes for ~the fun of IT~ images of ~the Statue of Liberty~ which IS according to The Written Word, a false idol…because IT IS Looked upon as the symbol of the freedom of this nation…come and present, bring it into the services in God’s House of Prayer, while standing in the position of leaders of the little children, what on earth have we done?
(Leviticus 26:1) (Deuteronomy 4: 23-25) (II Chronicles 33:7) (Romans 1:23) (Nahum 1:14) (Daniel 3:15) (Psalm 106:18) (Isaiah 40: 19-20 & 44: 9-10) (*Isaiah 45:20) (Jeremiah 51: 17)
(Ezekiel 8: 3) … Read all these in the Bible
Read the Written Word with conscious mind set in humble obedience to God’s Will and Way and The Holy Spirit will guide you to a better understanding… BUT IF you don’t want to know and will not read IT, then the consequences will be as those in:
(Revelation 19:20)…. “AND The Beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, ~with which he deceived~ them ~~ That HAD *Received* ~The Mark of The beast…~~ AND Them that worshiped his image… THESE Were cast ~alive~ into a lake of fire burning with brimstone…. Think Seriously before you act…
When you have tattooed your body all over you have marked yourself with the markings of the beast which IS empowered BY the Dragon, the Serpent, the Devil and thus having taken his mark upon your fleshly body you are willfully giving your spiritual body over to him for in this very act you have rejected the LORD God because HE Has Said, ~DO NOT~ and you *DID*…
(I Corinthians 6:19-20) What? Know ye not that your body is the ~Temple of THE Holy Ghost~ which IS In you, which ye have OF God and ye are not your own… AND This IS written TO: those who claim to have been saved and Know the LORD and are leaders of the people that call themselves HIS Church… that are in the position’s of teaching and setting examples for young ones to follow..
SOOOOoooo,,, when you mark your body all over with tattoo’s Because you want to, you have defied God, the same as a street gang defiles and destroys the property of another with their ~graffiti~…. We ARE either going to serve God or HIS adversary the Devil, we can’t ride the fence and dangle one foot in the world and it’s ways while proclaiming Christ on the other side…. AND How can you teach those of the world that are lost IF you can’t follow the Teachings of God the Father through Christ, in obedience, yourself?
A note of interest: A spoken message the other day… The difference between a preacher and a pastor:
A Preacher is a person that brings to the congregation the messages that the people want to hear, teaches only what he is allowed to speak in order to keep the people happy…AND wouldn’t dare speak out about any Biblical Subject that would make the folks unhappy, because they want to indulge in it… like: tattoo’s; flags; idols, symbols, competition, holidays and loyalty..
A Pastor IS a person that leads the congregation in the laws and statutes of: God’s Written Word the Bible for their own sakes, and IF they get angry at being corrected then he presents them with the proof of his speech, thus teaching them in God’s Will and not mans…preparing them for the second coming of Christ…that they not be caught sleeping along with the world.
Hitler put to death those that were not loyal and would not perform his salute to the flag of the Great Nation of Germany…. How different is it here today?
Remember when Obama failed to place his hand over his heart during the playing of the “National Anthem” and ~salute the flag on ~veterans day~ how the press took it to the top of the news heap, calling for political death….
The Statue of Liberty, belongs to this nation just as the Statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had erected in Babylon and demanded that ~At the sound of the music~ everyone come and bow down before it… IT IS NO Different on the grounds around the Statue, IF The National Anthem IS played, everyone IS expected to stand at attention, remove their hats in respect, place their hands over their hearts and face the flag, this is the same thing as a gesture of worship… (Daniel 3:1-7)
The “Statue of Liberty” is standing in the same position as the gods and goddesses of ancient days… IT IS Looked upon as the ~symbol~ of our freedom in this country.. Just as the ancients did their gods and goddesses.. AND YET… IT IS celebrated in our Churches, presented to our children even to the point of placing their little faces in the cut out poster to have their pictures made as being the face of ~THE~ “Statue”…
(Jeremiah 2:11) … Hath a nation changed their gods?… which are YET NO gods… BUT MY people have changed their glory for that which IS NOT Profitable….
AND you might keep in mind that the company that sells these programs also sells the items of false religious beliefs, it is called seeking to make a profit, by merchandising what sells… Not necessarily selling only that, which IS beneficial to ~Eternal life~…
(Leviticus 19:23)… “Ye ~Shall NOT~ make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, ~NOR~ *Print* any marks upon you: I am THE LORD!” & (20:6).. “The soul (person) that turneth after such as have ~familiar spirits~, and after ~wizards~, to go a whoring after them, I (THE LORD) WILL Set MY Face Against them, I Will Even set MY Face against that soul” … (20:7-8).. “Sanctify yourselves therefore and be holy: FOR I am THE LORD your God… AND ye
~Shall Keep~ MY Statutes and do them: I am THE LORD ~Which~ sanctify you.”
This IS a commandment of the LORD along with the Ten -plus many more that The LORD has given for HIS children TO: OBEY!
How much more plainer can God’s Holy Written Word of HIS Statutes for us to follow Get? Want ~New Testament~?
(Philippians 2:12).. “Work out your ~own~ *salvation*… with fear and trembling… FOR IT IS God, which worketh in you both to Will and to do HIS Good Pleasure…
When we are working out our own salvation with fear and trembling we are rendering ourselves ~~Obedient~~ TO God’s Will and Way, not our own and thus IT IS God that works in us… BUT… IF we are rebelling against God’s Statutes, we are walking in conflict against THE LORD’S Will and thus we are being led by the spirit of the adversary, Satan the devil…
Tattoo’s and Horoscopes ARE an abomination before the LORD today just the same as they were in the Old Testament Days… God did not change HIS Commands about our being loyal and obedient to HIM, TO HIS Will and Way, that IS NOT Why HE Sent HIS Only Begotten Son that we could walk about in the sins of rebellious belief as does Satan the dragon, the roaring lion seeking whom he can devour… ( I Peter 5:8)
We are Still under the Laws and Statutes that God set forth for HIS children unto ~ALL~ generations to follow, obey, serving HIM IN HIS Will and Way only….
Something to sincerely think about… *IF* we tattoo our bodies, seek horoscopes, take our steps through this life just outside of the Box of Complete Surrender in Obedience to God The Father… Where does the Bible warn us in the Words of the prophets, and of God’s Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, that we are walking? Who does IT warn is our father? Where does Paul warn that God will put us IF we can not make the complete commitment to serve HIM IN HIS Will and Way?
(Romans 1:28)… “AND Even As they ~DID NOT~ *like* to retain God IN their knowledge, God gave them a reprobate mind….” (32) .. “who knowing The ~Judgment~ of God, not only do the same, BUT have pleasure in them that do them…” (Romans 1:21-23)
(Titus 1:16) … “They ~profess~ that they *Know* God: BUT! In works they deny HIM, being abominable, & disobedient, and unto every ~Good Work~ Reprobate…”
SOOOOooooo…. When we follow the world, run out and get our bodies tattooed, seek the pleasures of reading our daily horoscopes for ~the fun of IT~ images of ~the Statue of Liberty~ which IS according to The Written Word, a false idol…because IT IS Looked upon as the symbol of the freedom of this nation…come and present, bring it into the services in God’s House of Prayer, while standing in the position of leaders of the little children, what on earth have we done?
(Leviticus 26:1) (Deuteronomy 4: 23-25) (II Chronicles 33:7) (Romans 1:23) (Nahum 1:14) (Daniel 3:15) (Psalm 106:18) (Isaiah 40: 19-20 & 44: 9-10) (*Isaiah 45:20) (Jeremiah 51: 17)
(Ezekiel 8: 3) … Read all these in the Bible
Read the Written Word with conscious mind set in humble obedience to God’s Will and Way and The Holy Spirit will guide you to a better understanding… BUT IF you don’t want to know and will not read IT, then the consequences will be as those in:
(Revelation 19:20)…. “AND The Beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, ~with which he deceived~ them ~~ That HAD *Received* ~The Mark of The beast…~~ AND Them that worshiped his image… THESE Were cast ~alive~ into a lake of fire burning with brimstone…. Think Seriously before you act…
When you have tattooed your body all over you have marked yourself with the markings of the beast which IS empowered BY the Dragon, the Serpent, the Devil and thus having taken his mark upon your fleshly body you are willfully giving your spiritual body over to him for in this very act you have rejected the LORD God because HE Has Said, ~DO NOT~ and you *DID*…
(I Corinthians 6:19-20) What? Know ye not that your body is the ~Temple of THE Holy Ghost~ which IS In you, which ye have OF God and ye are not your own… AND This IS written TO: those who claim to have been saved and Know the LORD and are leaders of the people that call themselves HIS Church… that are in the position’s of teaching and setting examples for young ones to follow..
SOOOOoooo,,, when you mark your body all over with tattoo’s Because you want to, you have defied God, the same as a street gang defiles and destroys the property of another with their ~graffiti~…. We ARE either going to serve God or HIS adversary the Devil, we can’t ride the fence and dangle one foot in the world and it’s ways while proclaiming Christ on the other side…. AND How can you teach those of the world that are lost IF you can’t follow the Teachings of God the Father through Christ, in obedience, yourself?
Sunday, June 5, 2011
The Garden
What happened in “The Garden”? The very first couple, a male and a female created in the image of God, ~Made~ The First *Choice* and that choice was TO: *Disobey* The Word of God, the first commanded, statute of “thou shalt not”, which became the: first sin… AND *IN*, (Because OF) This Choice TO *sin* they came to ~~Know~~ *Good & Evil*… Giving the disposition of *Choice* To mankind throughout the ages, through today, and so *IT* Will BE, until ~ALL~ things are Accomplished, *AS God Proclaimed,* & *AS IT IS Written*..
(Genesis 2:16-17)… Obviously the decision to ~Disobey~ was made before they ate of the Fruit of the: Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil…Because this knowledge made them realize that they were wrong…. AND they were cast out of the garden before they could have the opportunity to eat of the tree of life…. Because they proved untrustworthy in making the choice to disobey…propituation
On this choice the whole of the Biblical Instruction IS based…. Since Adam & Eve made that first conscious decision to *Ignore* God and HIS Word, and do what they thought was good, based on what they wanted, *The Sin of Disobedience* has and does run prevalent among men of ~~ALL~~ walks in this life, whether: Atheist, Agnostic, or Christian.
Mankind has tried throughout the ages to sugar coat, change, cover, explain away with falsities the: Commands that God Put before HIS creation TO Obey.. Especially since Christ came to be born on this earth, walked among men exampling ~Obedience~ TO His Father and ours in the heavens….
Men jumped on this as a ~Free ticket~ to sin, to disobey the Father’s Word, because Jesus gave His life’s blood to: be the propitiation of through ~faith~ in his blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of ~Sins~ that ARE Past, through The forbearance of God… (Romans 3:25) & SO, (31)… Do we than make void the law through faith? God Forbid! Yea, we establish The Law…….
(I John 2:1-2) … John Wrote: these things ~That ye sin Not~.. AND *IF* ~Any~ man sin, we have an Advocate with The Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous…& He *IS* The ~Propitiation~ for our sins: AND NOT for our sin’s only, BUT also for the ~Sins~ OF The Whole World….
Not that He IS Automatically ~Saving ~ us or the whole world, BUT That the Stage Has been set, The Price has been paid, The Way *HAS* Been Made, that *IF*… (Still giving us a choice, the same choice that Adam and Eve was given, “To Be OR Not TO BE”…. we must willfully prove ~Obedient~ to God’s Commands….
(I John 2: 3-6)…. AND Hereby we do ~Know~ that we ~Know~ Him, *IF* we keep His Commandments… (For, Because, IF, OF Choice)…. He that saith, “I KNOW Him”, AND keepeth ~NOT~ His Commandments, *IS* A liar and the truth IS NOT In him…. (Who IS the father of the lie? The same is the father of a person that claims to ~Know~ Christ and yet Still walks in the world IN *Disobedience*)
(v.5) .. BUT! Whoso ~Keepeth~ His word, IN Him IS the Love of God *perfected*: hereby we know that we are *IN* HIM… &&& He that *Saith* HE abideth IN him, ~Ought~ himself ~ALSO~ TO walk, even as He walked…..
We are ~Still~ living in the days OF decision, OF choice, the choice to obey our Father and walk through this life in the Way, according TO: the example that HIS Son set out for us to walk in… We are not magically lifted up on pedestal to look down our noses at the world, and yet do the things that the world does, AND because IT IS us that does them IT IS Good and Righteous, because Jesus died for our sins…. NOOOOO! Rather, *IF* we claim the Blessed Name of God’s Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, and we walk in this world calling ourselves: Christian, then our walk should and must reflect Christ, as surely as a reflection IS Seen, in the ~Living Water~…. AND our walk WILL prove to be ~Separate~ From the ways of the world…
(Genesis 3: 9-11)… The LORD God, called unto Adam and said; “Where art thou?” .. Adam said: “I was ~afraid~ Because I was *Naked*; & I hid myself” … God replied, “Who told thee that thou wast ~naked~ hast thou eaten of the ~tree~ whereof I ~Commanded~ that thou shouldest *NOT* eat?”
I find it very interesting that in the choice of disobedience that Adam & Eve made, they realized that their nakedness was unsightly and feared…. Yet today, people ~LOOK~ for excuses to display their nakedness… They parade around the Church yards, and in the Sanctuaries, barely covered by garments… Did Jesus shed His life’s blood that people could be so brash? Baring ones body IS: A dishonor of God’s creation….
(Exodus 32:25)….Moses ~Saw~ that the people were *Naked*, .. ~UNTO their *shame* among their enemies~….
(Revelation 16:15)…. BEHOLD: I come as a thief, Blesses *IS* he that watcheth, AND Keepeth his garments, lest he walk ~Naked~ AND they see his shame….
(one that calls themselves: A Christian, not only should, but absolutely MUST, maintain a walk that reflects The righteousness of our LORD, whether in their works, spirit, or bodily clothing…) AS James Wrote:
(James 2:18)… “Show me thy faith ~Without~ works, and I will show thee my faith ~~*BY*~~ my ~Works!” & (2:26) … “AS the body without the spirit *IS* dead, SOOOooo Faith ~without~ Works *IS* dead Also” ….
(Matthew 7:16)… “Ye shall ~Know~ them by their fruits”…. (Do you expect to find a gathering of the world in the place that IS Called God’s House of Prayer? OR Do you look for a place that reflects the: Holy Spirit, The Righteousness of Christ, The Sanctity of God to assemble yourselves together in Thanksgiving and Prayer to God the Father in the Name of and through HIS Son Jesus Christ?)
Action, Appearance, Accountability, the AAA’S OF Christianity… IS A MUST *IF* we are even going to attempt to or lay claim to an attempt to *OBEY* THE Command that Jesus Christ gave to ALL who would follow Him, before He returned to His Father, and ours in the Heavens….
(Matthew 28:18-20)… “Go ye therefore AND *Teach* ~~ALL~~ Nations, baptizing them IN The Name OF: The Father, AND OF The Son, AND OF The Holy Ghost:” (Teaching them what? To run around in and before the world naked, showing their bodies to their shame, tattooing their flesh, running amuck in the movie, make believe, horoscope reading wizardry, vampire chasing witchery of Satan the dragon? OR!) .. “~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.”
Did Jesus mean that whatever we do He IS With us, OR did He mean *IF* we follow His Way and Do His Commandments? What DID Jesus say?
(Luke 9:62)… “*NO* man, having put his hand to the plough, AND ~Looking~ back, ~*IS*~
Fit for ~The Kingdom of God!”
SOOOoooo…., we have a choice from the git go, a conscious ~action~ to do or not to do, we have a conscious appearance to make, setting and example of Christ in us, coming out of and putting away the world, and we have to be accountable for the actions that we choose… SO as we stand IN the shoes of teaching, preaching, leading, the lost to Christ, the little children, the innocents, we MUST wear a ~peculiar~ pair of shoes… the kind that makes the type of tracks that Jesus laid down in His walk about this earth… We can’t flip-flop along with the rest of the world, and teach the world tooooo follow Christ in the Kingdom of God also…
(Genesis 2:16-17)… Obviously the decision to ~Disobey~ was made before they ate of the Fruit of the: Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil…Because this knowledge made them realize that they were wrong…. AND they were cast out of the garden before they could have the opportunity to eat of the tree of life…. Because they proved untrustworthy in making the choice to disobey…propituation
On this choice the whole of the Biblical Instruction IS based…. Since Adam & Eve made that first conscious decision to *Ignore* God and HIS Word, and do what they thought was good, based on what they wanted, *The Sin of Disobedience* has and does run prevalent among men of ~~ALL~~ walks in this life, whether: Atheist, Agnostic, or Christian.
Mankind has tried throughout the ages to sugar coat, change, cover, explain away with falsities the: Commands that God Put before HIS creation TO Obey.. Especially since Christ came to be born on this earth, walked among men exampling ~Obedience~ TO His Father and ours in the heavens….
Men jumped on this as a ~Free ticket~ to sin, to disobey the Father’s Word, because Jesus gave His life’s blood to: be the propitiation of through ~faith~ in his blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of ~Sins~ that ARE Past, through The forbearance of God… (Romans 3:25) & SO, (31)… Do we than make void the law through faith? God Forbid! Yea, we establish The Law…….
(I John 2:1-2) … John Wrote: these things ~That ye sin Not~.. AND *IF* ~Any~ man sin, we have an Advocate with The Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous…& He *IS* The ~Propitiation~ for our sins: AND NOT for our sin’s only, BUT also for the ~Sins~ OF The Whole World….
Not that He IS Automatically ~Saving ~ us or the whole world, BUT That the Stage Has been set, The Price has been paid, The Way *HAS* Been Made, that *IF*… (Still giving us a choice, the same choice that Adam and Eve was given, “To Be OR Not TO BE”…. we must willfully prove ~Obedient~ to God’s Commands….
(I John 2: 3-6)…. AND Hereby we do ~Know~ that we ~Know~ Him, *IF* we keep His Commandments… (For, Because, IF, OF Choice)…. He that saith, “I KNOW Him”, AND keepeth ~NOT~ His Commandments, *IS* A liar and the truth IS NOT In him…. (Who IS the father of the lie? The same is the father of a person that claims to ~Know~ Christ and yet Still walks in the world IN *Disobedience*)
(v.5) .. BUT! Whoso ~Keepeth~ His word, IN Him IS the Love of God *perfected*: hereby we know that we are *IN* HIM… &&& He that *Saith* HE abideth IN him, ~Ought~ himself ~ALSO~ TO walk, even as He walked…..
We are ~Still~ living in the days OF decision, OF choice, the choice to obey our Father and walk through this life in the Way, according TO: the example that HIS Son set out for us to walk in… We are not magically lifted up on pedestal to look down our noses at the world, and yet do the things that the world does, AND because IT IS us that does them IT IS Good and Righteous, because Jesus died for our sins…. NOOOOO! Rather, *IF* we claim the Blessed Name of God’s Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, and we walk in this world calling ourselves: Christian, then our walk should and must reflect Christ, as surely as a reflection IS Seen, in the ~Living Water~…. AND our walk WILL prove to be ~Separate~ From the ways of the world…
(Genesis 3: 9-11)… The LORD God, called unto Adam and said; “Where art thou?” .. Adam said: “I was ~afraid~ Because I was *Naked*; & I hid myself” … God replied, “Who told thee that thou wast ~naked~ hast thou eaten of the ~tree~ whereof I ~Commanded~ that thou shouldest *NOT* eat?”
I find it very interesting that in the choice of disobedience that Adam & Eve made, they realized that their nakedness was unsightly and feared…. Yet today, people ~LOOK~ for excuses to display their nakedness… They parade around the Church yards, and in the Sanctuaries, barely covered by garments… Did Jesus shed His life’s blood that people could be so brash? Baring ones body IS: A dishonor of God’s creation….
(Exodus 32:25)….Moses ~Saw~ that the people were *Naked*, .. ~UNTO their *shame* among their enemies~….
(Revelation 16:15)…. BEHOLD: I come as a thief, Blesses *IS* he that watcheth, AND Keepeth his garments, lest he walk ~Naked~ AND they see his shame….
(one that calls themselves: A Christian, not only should, but absolutely MUST, maintain a walk that reflects The righteousness of our LORD, whether in their works, spirit, or bodily clothing…) AS James Wrote:
(James 2:18)… “Show me thy faith ~Without~ works, and I will show thee my faith ~~*BY*~~ my ~Works!” & (2:26) … “AS the body without the spirit *IS* dead, SOOOooo Faith ~without~ Works *IS* dead Also” ….
(Matthew 7:16)… “Ye shall ~Know~ them by their fruits”…. (Do you expect to find a gathering of the world in the place that IS Called God’s House of Prayer? OR Do you look for a place that reflects the: Holy Spirit, The Righteousness of Christ, The Sanctity of God to assemble yourselves together in Thanksgiving and Prayer to God the Father in the Name of and through HIS Son Jesus Christ?)
Action, Appearance, Accountability, the AAA’S OF Christianity… IS A MUST *IF* we are even going to attempt to or lay claim to an attempt to *OBEY* THE Command that Jesus Christ gave to ALL who would follow Him, before He returned to His Father, and ours in the Heavens….
(Matthew 28:18-20)… “Go ye therefore AND *Teach* ~~ALL~~ Nations, baptizing them IN The Name OF: The Father, AND OF The Son, AND OF The Holy Ghost:” (Teaching them what? To run around in and before the world naked, showing their bodies to their shame, tattooing their flesh, running amuck in the movie, make believe, horoscope reading wizardry, vampire chasing witchery of Satan the dragon? OR!) .. “~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.”
Did Jesus mean that whatever we do He IS With us, OR did He mean *IF* we follow His Way and Do His Commandments? What DID Jesus say?
(Luke 9:62)… “*NO* man, having put his hand to the plough, AND ~Looking~ back, ~*IS*~
Fit for ~The Kingdom of God!”
SOOOoooo…., we have a choice from the git go, a conscious ~action~ to do or not to do, we have a conscious appearance to make, setting and example of Christ in us, coming out of and putting away the world, and we have to be accountable for the actions that we choose… SO as we stand IN the shoes of teaching, preaching, leading, the lost to Christ, the little children, the innocents, we MUST wear a ~peculiar~ pair of shoes… the kind that makes the type of tracks that Jesus laid down in His walk about this earth… We can’t flip-flop along with the rest of the world, and teach the world tooooo follow Christ in the Kingdom of God also…
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Does Where We Live, Influence Our ~Life~?
Does where one choose’s to live have an influence upon their life? Both spiritual & fleshly?
~AND~ DO we choose where we live - or- are we put there, by chance, circumstance, condition?
What *IS* The Greater ~Influence~ In & On our earthly walk and our spiritual life?
(Ecclesiastes 9:11).. “Time & Chance happens to them all”…. BUTttt…
How ~ARE~ we to know *IF* IT IS, just chance that happens to us:
*OR*, IF IT IS ~our~ own doing, our own choice that put us where we are:
*OR* *IF* IT IS God’s Purpose for us that we are where we are?
WELL, as my mother used to say in jest, “A WELL, IS a deep subject for such a shallow mind”… AND I suppose for one to understand the jest of *IT*, one would have to have lived in the days when, wells were dug to draw water up out of, with an old wooden bucket…
That being said, and thinking about *IT*, really reflects a cold hard fact… BECAUSE… the thing IS that many people don’t ~Think~… Don’t use their ~spiritual~ mind or heart to lead them, but with the fleshly eye, they jump headlong into a world that looks good, seeking great riches, fortune and fame…. Take a scripturally accounted person for instance…
(Genesis 13: 10-11)..Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld ~ALL~ the plain of Jordan, that IT was well watered everywhere: even as the garden of the LORD .. And chose him all the plain of Jordan… (IT ~Looked~ good, righteous, like the Garden of The LORD, BUT IT WAS an Evil, place of disobedience….. Sound like a lot of religions today? They look good, seem righteous to the fleshly eye, but searching the Holy Scriptures, The Written Word of God, Will prove otherwise…because it Will show that they serve the fleshly man and not the spiritual heart.)
(II Peter 2:1-22)… Read the whole chapter, a good lesson.. (7-8) ..“Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: *FOR* that righteous man dwelling among them and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day ~With~ *Their* unlawful deeds….
*AND YES* the LORD, sent two angels to deliver Lot out of Sodom & Gomorrah before HE destroyed IT, BUT living there DID NOT Help LOT…. AND it was his choice to live there…
Just as IT IS our choice to: live in the cities of little or no morals, among those that seek the world… IT IS our choice to buy the harmful games and allow ourselves and our children to be brought into and under the influence of them, watch the movies that are made seemingly worse than anything that Sodom & Gomorrah could offer up, follow the styles of clothing, or lack of it, painted hair, tattoo’s, modern lifestyles of: “ALL About ME” attitudes….
There *IS* circumstance, over which we have NO control… Lot was born where God saw fit that he be placed… BUT, Lot chose to live in Sodom & Gomorrah, and God Allowed him to go where he chose…. SOOOoooo…. God IS THE Same Today as HE Was Yesterday…
WE, must ~First~: Learn to humble ourselves and accept that which God gives us, with thankful hearts. Then we must *Always* seek guidance by the Holy Spirit, before we make a move, before we follow a way, before we ~Take Part~ *IN* an event or action that can and defiantly will have an influence on our lives, our fleshly life here on this earth, and our eternal life beyond….. AND Yes there will be that tug that Satan places on our fleshly heart to pull us in the wrong direction, BUT there IS that Divine Guidance *IF* you earnestly seek *IT*. WITH: the ~humble Obedient Prayer~ to the Father IN Jesus Name….
IT IS Always GOOD TO search the Scriptures that God had penned down and preserved down through the ages for us to use as a guide, ~A Remembrance~ of the things that HE Expects of those who call themselves after HIS Son Jesus Christ….
(Deuteronomy 6: 1-25) Read IT ALL in the Bible: (v.7) .. “Thou shalt ~Teach~ them diligently unto thy children”… (v.8).. “~BIND~ them as a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes” … (v.12).. “Then *Beware*, lest thou forget the LORD”… What IS the Subject? “(v.2).. “That thou mightiest ~Fear~ THE LORD thy God, TO *KEEP* ~ALL~ HIS Statutes & HIS *Commandments*” …. AND there are more than *10* IF you read the whole Bible, BUT *IF* you ~Respectfully~ *OBEY* the First, you Will humbly follow all the rest…
We sometimes can’t help the circumstance that we are placed in, BUT how we react TO, and deal with that circumstance, has a great influence upon the outcome of our life….
Which IS Why we must be so careful not to be influenced by a Sodom like world of wild abandon, a lifestyle of the rich and famous, falling pray to the wiles of Satan in our quest to ~~BE~~ Somebody, BUT Rather accept the humble means that the LORD has given us and be content with serving HIM IN HIS Will and Way…
AS DID Job… (Job 1&2) Rich with everything he needed, but Satan challenging God, was allowed by God to take everything that Job had except his life… Through this Job proved faithful to God and was blessed with *More* than he had in the beginning…. (Job 42:10 & 12)… OR:
As the Israelites, Gods chosen people that HE had placed in the bondage of Egypt because of their ~~Disobedience~~ TO: Teach them to follow HIS Way… AND yet in HIS Love for them HE made a way of ~Deliverance~ for them, TO: bring them out of that bondage, the terrible life that the Egyptians was inflicting upon them, for they were used as slaves there… BUT what did the Israelites do the minute that Moses left their sight?… First they ~~Looked~~ to Moses as the ~One~ that was freeing them, Instead of God… so that when he was out of their vision, they returned to: The Influence that they had experienced in the place where they had lived… Making false gods, copies of what they had learned of the Egyptian gods, to themselves out of their earrings and items of gold… (Deuteronomy 32:1-11)… So the influence of the place that they had lived, had set in their hearts in a way that was an abomination to God, and they turned quickly aside from HIS Commanded Way, even after they had seen the miracles that HE had performed at the Red Sea…
BUT How ~ARE~ we to know *IF* IT IS, just chance that happens to us:
*OR*, IF IT IS ~our~ own doing, our own choice that put us where we are:
*OR* *IF* IT IS God’s Purpose for us that we are where we are?
We would best do as The Bible warns us that we should DO! … Understand first that GOD *IS* Almighty, IT IS HE that hath made us and not we ourselves…..(Psalm 100:3) In Fact we should read ALL this chapter and take heed, TO: come before HIS Presence with thanksgiving, humbly ~Obeying~ *ALL* HIS Commandments… and how can we KNOW HIS Commandments? READ Them as HE HAS HAD THEM Penned and Preserved for us to Follow….. AND Then we MUST *Follow* Them… Accepting God’s Power and Guidance of the Holy Spirit as our ~ALL~… not mans… Faithfully Believing, & Humbly Obeying, AS IT IS Written from Genesis to Revelation that we MUST DO!
God sent HIS Son as an ~ALL Time~ sacrifice for the sin of man… BUT IT Isn’t Written THAT He covers our ~Chosen~ sinful walk of Disobedience… Our flirtation with Satan in the world, governed by the ~adversary~ Satan the Devil…. THE Bible Does, However, Warn us that *IF* we choose that walk, we will reap of the same reward that IS Prepared for the Dragon and ~~ALL~~ his followers…. ALL that has had their eyes filled with the lust of the ways of this modern day: Sodom & Gomorrah…
(Revelation 20:15)… & Whosoever *WAS NOT* found written in the ~Book OF Life~ was cast into the lake of fire…
(Revelation 21:27)… (1) In the New Earth… (27)… there shall in no wise enter into *IT* anything that defileth *IT*, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: BUT They which ~ARE~ *IN* The Lamb’s Book OF Life…
SOOOoooo… IF we live a life here that IS Disobedient to God’s Will and Way, following the traditions of men, looking to the ways of the world, seeking vain glory, where do you think our names will be found? .. ARE we really supposed to ~Love~ this life here in the flesh so much that we can’t turn IT - A - loose? OR are we to look to and LOVE our Heavenly Father and HIS Son Jesus Christ MORE, so that we choose to follow them and not the ways of the world?
Read: (John 12:23-26)
~AND~ DO we choose where we live - or- are we put there, by chance, circumstance, condition?
What *IS* The Greater ~Influence~ In & On our earthly walk and our spiritual life?
(Ecclesiastes 9:11).. “Time & Chance happens to them all”…. BUTttt…
How ~ARE~ we to know *IF* IT IS, just chance that happens to us:
*OR*, IF IT IS ~our~ own doing, our own choice that put us where we are:
*OR* *IF* IT IS God’s Purpose for us that we are where we are?
WELL, as my mother used to say in jest, “A WELL, IS a deep subject for such a shallow mind”… AND I suppose for one to understand the jest of *IT*, one would have to have lived in the days when, wells were dug to draw water up out of, with an old wooden bucket…
That being said, and thinking about *IT*, really reflects a cold hard fact… BECAUSE… the thing IS that many people don’t ~Think~… Don’t use their ~spiritual~ mind or heart to lead them, but with the fleshly eye, they jump headlong into a world that looks good, seeking great riches, fortune and fame…. Take a scripturally accounted person for instance…
(Genesis 13: 10-11)..Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld ~ALL~ the plain of Jordan, that IT was well watered everywhere: even as the garden of the LORD .. And chose him all the plain of Jordan… (IT ~Looked~ good, righteous, like the Garden of The LORD, BUT IT WAS an Evil, place of disobedience….. Sound like a lot of religions today? They look good, seem righteous to the fleshly eye, but searching the Holy Scriptures, The Written Word of God, Will prove otherwise…because it Will show that they serve the fleshly man and not the spiritual heart.)
(II Peter 2:1-22)… Read the whole chapter, a good lesson.. (7-8) ..“Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: *FOR* that righteous man dwelling among them and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day ~With~ *Their* unlawful deeds….
*AND YES* the LORD, sent two angels to deliver Lot out of Sodom & Gomorrah before HE destroyed IT, BUT living there DID NOT Help LOT…. AND it was his choice to live there…
Just as IT IS our choice to: live in the cities of little or no morals, among those that seek the world… IT IS our choice to buy the harmful games and allow ourselves and our children to be brought into and under the influence of them, watch the movies that are made seemingly worse than anything that Sodom & Gomorrah could offer up, follow the styles of clothing, or lack of it, painted hair, tattoo’s, modern lifestyles of: “ALL About ME” attitudes….
There *IS* circumstance, over which we have NO control… Lot was born where God saw fit that he be placed… BUT, Lot chose to live in Sodom & Gomorrah, and God Allowed him to go where he chose…. SOOOoooo…. God IS THE Same Today as HE Was Yesterday…
WE, must ~First~: Learn to humble ourselves and accept that which God gives us, with thankful hearts. Then we must *Always* seek guidance by the Holy Spirit, before we make a move, before we follow a way, before we ~Take Part~ *IN* an event or action that can and defiantly will have an influence on our lives, our fleshly life here on this earth, and our eternal life beyond….. AND Yes there will be that tug that Satan places on our fleshly heart to pull us in the wrong direction, BUT there IS that Divine Guidance *IF* you earnestly seek *IT*. WITH: the ~humble Obedient Prayer~ to the Father IN Jesus Name….
IT IS Always GOOD TO search the Scriptures that God had penned down and preserved down through the ages for us to use as a guide, ~A Remembrance~ of the things that HE Expects of those who call themselves after HIS Son Jesus Christ….
(Deuteronomy 6: 1-25) Read IT ALL in the Bible: (v.7) .. “Thou shalt ~Teach~ them diligently unto thy children”… (v.8).. “~BIND~ them as a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes” … (v.12).. “Then *Beware*, lest thou forget the LORD”… What IS the Subject? “(v.2).. “That thou mightiest ~Fear~ THE LORD thy God, TO *KEEP* ~ALL~ HIS Statutes & HIS *Commandments*” …. AND there are more than *10* IF you read the whole Bible, BUT *IF* you ~Respectfully~ *OBEY* the First, you Will humbly follow all the rest…
We sometimes can’t help the circumstance that we are placed in, BUT how we react TO, and deal with that circumstance, has a great influence upon the outcome of our life….
Which IS Why we must be so careful not to be influenced by a Sodom like world of wild abandon, a lifestyle of the rich and famous, falling pray to the wiles of Satan in our quest to ~~BE~~ Somebody, BUT Rather accept the humble means that the LORD has given us and be content with serving HIM IN HIS Will and Way…
AS DID Job… (Job 1&2) Rich with everything he needed, but Satan challenging God, was allowed by God to take everything that Job had except his life… Through this Job proved faithful to God and was blessed with *More* than he had in the beginning…. (Job 42:10 & 12)… OR:
As the Israelites, Gods chosen people that HE had placed in the bondage of Egypt because of their ~~Disobedience~~ TO: Teach them to follow HIS Way… AND yet in HIS Love for them HE made a way of ~Deliverance~ for them, TO: bring them out of that bondage, the terrible life that the Egyptians was inflicting upon them, for they were used as slaves there… BUT what did the Israelites do the minute that Moses left their sight?… First they ~~Looked~~ to Moses as the ~One~ that was freeing them, Instead of God… so that when he was out of their vision, they returned to: The Influence that they had experienced in the place where they had lived… Making false gods, copies of what they had learned of the Egyptian gods, to themselves out of their earrings and items of gold… (Deuteronomy 32:1-11)… So the influence of the place that they had lived, had set in their hearts in a way that was an abomination to God, and they turned quickly aside from HIS Commanded Way, even after they had seen the miracles that HE had performed at the Red Sea…
BUT How ~ARE~ we to know *IF* IT IS, just chance that happens to us:
*OR*, IF IT IS ~our~ own doing, our own choice that put us where we are:
*OR* *IF* IT IS God’s Purpose for us that we are where we are?
We would best do as The Bible warns us that we should DO! … Understand first that GOD *IS* Almighty, IT IS HE that hath made us and not we ourselves…..(Psalm 100:3) In Fact we should read ALL this chapter and take heed, TO: come before HIS Presence with thanksgiving, humbly ~Obeying~ *ALL* HIS Commandments… and how can we KNOW HIS Commandments? READ Them as HE HAS HAD THEM Penned and Preserved for us to Follow….. AND Then we MUST *Follow* Them… Accepting God’s Power and Guidance of the Holy Spirit as our ~ALL~… not mans… Faithfully Believing, & Humbly Obeying, AS IT IS Written from Genesis to Revelation that we MUST DO!
God sent HIS Son as an ~ALL Time~ sacrifice for the sin of man… BUT IT Isn’t Written THAT He covers our ~Chosen~ sinful walk of Disobedience… Our flirtation with Satan in the world, governed by the ~adversary~ Satan the Devil…. THE Bible Does, However, Warn us that *IF* we choose that walk, we will reap of the same reward that IS Prepared for the Dragon and ~~ALL~~ his followers…. ALL that has had their eyes filled with the lust of the ways of this modern day: Sodom & Gomorrah…
(Revelation 20:15)… & Whosoever *WAS NOT* found written in the ~Book OF Life~ was cast into the lake of fire…
(Revelation 21:27)… (1) In the New Earth… (27)… there shall in no wise enter into *IT* anything that defileth *IT*, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: BUT They which ~ARE~ *IN* The Lamb’s Book OF Life…
SOOOoooo… IF we live a life here that IS Disobedient to God’s Will and Way, following the traditions of men, looking to the ways of the world, seeking vain glory, where do you think our names will be found? .. ARE we really supposed to ~Love~ this life here in the flesh so much that we can’t turn IT - A - loose? OR are we to look to and LOVE our Heavenly Father and HIS Son Jesus Christ MORE, so that we choose to follow them and not the ways of the world?
Read: (John 12:23-26)
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