So often we ~fool~ ourselves into thinking that “WE” can save ourselves by taking the surface steps laid down by mankind’s teachings, BUT, when trials and tribulations come into our lives, we falter and fall from the perch that we placed ourselves upon… Just AS Jesus Said:
(Matthew 4:) .. (v.4).. And when the sower planted the seeds.. Some fell by the ~Way side~ and the fowls came and ate them up… (v.19) ..When anyone heareth the *Word OF The Kingdom* and understand *IT* Not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown, in his heart, this IS The seeds that fell by the way…
(Read this carefully, consider IT, prayerfully ask the Holy Spirit to guide your thoughts in it, and think about the whole picture, IS IT Still Good, to plant the seeds of The ~Truth~ of Gods Kingdom into the ears of little ones, all mixed up in the fables of pagan cultures? So many folks fall into the trap OF looking at the “Joneses” they are having a ~Good~ time in their Church, so why don’t we do what they are doing? Did we prayerfully search the Bible to SEE IF what they are Doing IS Accepted By The Father, and The Son, and Led By The Holy Spirit? OR, do we just accept IT Because, IT looks righteous? Many religious practices are growing on the way side, and are doomed to be eaten by the fowls… Do we really want to join them? Read ON!)
(Matthew 4:) .. (v.5/6) Some fell upon stony places where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had ~NO Deepness~ of earth, and when the sun was up, they were scorched and because they had ~NO ROOT~ they withered away…
(v.20/21).. He that received the seed into stony places, the same IS he that ~Heareth~ the Word, and that anon (anon here means sincerely; immediately) with joy receiveth IT: YET he haveth ~Not Root~ in himself, but dureth for a little while for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the ~Word~, by and by he IS Offended….
(Oftentimes we set out on a journey of our OWN righteousness in life, we feel good about IT, we see nothing wrong with IT, we are moving right along with the things that we have learned of man as being good, IT IS even sanctioned by Christian Stores, preachers, leaders, so we gotta be ~Right~.. Then someone sites us to a Bible Scripture that we should have read, but haven‘t, and we are offended, our sincerity of faith IS challenged, because our actions have been brought into question.. And immediately we think, how dare anyone question ~MY~ intentions when Jesus IS MY Maker, Judge, and He ~Knows~ MY heart, and I AM working for Him.. Really? Then why has The Written Word, not been personally searched, but taken for granted because he said/she said? Preachers/teachers which feed the flocks fairy tales, which is joyfully received in a tainted form of worldly ways, is in the position of false teachers, leading the sheep away from the fold… Because they receive the word of the Gospel but it is painted with make-up of the harlot and clothed in the attire of the pagan gods… SO *IT* has *NO ROOT* in the fertile word of truth, but is grounded in false teachings made up by mans imaginations in an attempt to make the learning of the Gospel interesting to draw eager ears….Little ones are adamantly taught, “Jesus Loves ~YOU”, while they are out looking for colored eggs and praising Santa for the gifts that ~~HE~~ brought them… But never are they taught The Very First Commandment: “Thou shalt ~~LOVE~~ The LORD thy God with ~~ALL~~ thy heart, soul, mind, and all thy strength.” (Mark 12:30)
Because being taught this would make them realize that there IS A Path that they must walk, a behavior that they MUST Follow, and make null and void the teaching that Jesus Loves you no matter what you do, so IT IS okay to disobey God’s Written Word and do as you please, because Jesus Still Loves you… Really?
(Matthew 7: 22/23).. “Many Will say, to Me in that day Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy Name?” … “Then I Will Profess unto them, I Never Knew you: Depart from Me ye that work iniquity.” ( the word iniquity -Anomia- here means without the law, with contempt and violation of the law, because of ignorance of the law.) & (v.24).. “Therefore ~whosoever~ heareth these sayings OF Mine, AND Doeth Them, I Will liken him unto a wise man, who built his house upon a ~Rock~.
(I Timothy 4:3/4).. The time will come when they will NOT endure ~Sound Doctrine~; but after their *OWN* lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears… AND they Shall turn away their ears ~from The Truth~, and shall be turned unto fables…
(Rabbits that carry baskets of colored eggs and hide them for the children to hunt, and IT Somehow has something to do with Christ Resurrection? Miracles that only occur because of a certain time of year when people turn their ~OWN~ hearts to being charitable to the less fortunate and share the gift giving that is associated with being “Santa’s Helpers”… ?
NOW, take a good look at exactly what IS being ~ACCEPTED~ by the Church leaders as alright, It’s Okay, That IS A Good way to explain The Bible, Teach IT to the children… IS IT ~Transformed~ to AS IT IS Written, OR IS, AS IT IS Written ~Conformed~ to the world by the teachers? Have we really read THE Bible To SEE or do we use our *OWN* Judgment? Remember our own judgment IS just that , The Holy Spirit, The Comforter, leads us IN and By The Word to testify to our hearts of: The Father and The Son Jesus Christ, and HE WILL ~Teach~ us ALL things… BUT we must listen, obey, follow, humbly read and pray to the Father in Jesus Name, lending our thoughts to the Comforter, not making our ~~OWN~~ decisions, our OWN way…
(John 14:26)… But The Comforter, Which IS The Holy Ghost, Whom the Father Will Send In My (Jesus) Name, He ~Will Teach you All Things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you…
(HOW Can we KNOW, “Whatsoever Jesus Said?” Because *WE* *KNOW* What WE KNOW*, What “WE’ KNOW? Where IS IT Recorded of ~What Jesus Said~? In the many books of make believe written by mankind, OR in The Bible that God the Father had penned down by faithful men of old, AND we can only *Know* what the Holy Spirit Leads us TO Know, through the prayerful reading of The Scriptures, not what we think we Know of our OWN Thoughts plucked out of thin air?)
The third parable of the seeds of the Gospel of Gods Kingdom planted..
(Matthew 13:) .. (v.7) .. Some fell among the ~thorns~ and the thorns sprang up and choked them… (v.22) .. He that received seed among the thorns IS he that heareth the ~Word~; and the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches , choke the ~Word~ and IT Becomes unfruitful..
(Think that living a lavish life before other fellow Christians or those struggling in the world to make ends meet, seeking the place to find salvation, IS Good?… Does this show your charity before mankind? Flashing your bangles, baubles, and blings, only shows off a vain and haughty spirit. Tattooing your body with things pretty to the world… reading your daily horoscope, chasing spirits of the dead by ~ghost hunting~ working day and night to store up riches on this earth, rather than spending your time learning what The LORD would have us to know and teach to our children… And there is a list of things a mile long or more, that reflects false teachings AND spreading the Seed OF Truth among the thorns….) BUT!
(Matthew 13:) .. (v.8) .. Other fell into ~GOOD~ ground and brought forth fruit… (23) He that received seed into the ~GOOD~ Ground. IS he that ~~Heareth~ the Word, and ~Understand *IT*… AND Also Beareth and ~Bringth Forth ~~Good Fruit~~….
We can bring forth fruit all day long, BUT IF our actions, manner, dress, composition proves to be all in the vanity of the world, what good is the foul fruit that we bring forth?
(Matthew 7: 18) A ~GOOD Tree~ cannot bring forth ~evil fruit~, neither can a ~Corrupt tree~ bring forth ~Good Fruit~.
When we stumble and fall, instead of looking at others who ~Made~ us fail by hurting our feelings about OUR Goodness, we should Look AT What we Think IS goodness, and seek the guidance of the Holy Ghost to show us the TRUE Way, prayerfully seeking forgiveness for our shortcomings and failures before The Father….
IT IS ~ALL~ Written IN God’s Holy Word, we must read, learn, hold IT Dear in our Hearts, follow The Teachings laid down by the Son Jesus Christ, From The Father IN Heaven, and brought to our memory BY The Holy Ghost, in our humble obedient seeking, through prayer for This Guidance, in Jesus Name,,,
(Proverbs 2: 1-2) ,, IF thou Wilt Receive *MY* Words, and hide MY Commandments with thee, SO That thou incline thine ~ear~ unto wisdom and thine ~heart~ to understanding….
(Proverbs 3: 1) .. Forget NOT MY Law, BUT ~KEEP~ MY Commandments.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Sunday IN Church !!
So NOW we have a group of children that have made it through the nursery/tot class in Sunday School, and are ready to move up to the next level… “Age” group… Their qualifications being their age. They recieve a certificate of accomplishment, which is greatly deserved because they have really excelled at what they have been given.
The teachers, have lovingly cared for ~ALL~ their fleshly needs.. Providing them with juice cups, cookies, toys to play with, changed their diapers and diligently met the physical needs of each child…. BUT!
In the area’s of preparedness in obedience, discipline, behavior in Church, and Biblical Introduction, IF grades were honestly given out, to students and teachers as well, there would be zero’s across the board in all these areas… SAD! SAD! SAD!
And some folks want their child IN Sunday School to learn what they don’t know of The Bible… Another SAD also… Oh, excuse me, the walls do point somewhat to the Bible with cute pictures of Noah’s Ark, sheep, and such *IF* the children look they can see…. BUT THEN
IF one pays close attention in a meeting, to the manner the service is carried out in Most Sanctuaries, *IT IS* Sadly apparent that there IS Much MORE of the World present than the Spiritual Guidance needed to prepare even aged adults to face the onslaught of Satan’s devices, and lures into the sin of ~~Disobedience~~… Reckon that IS WHY, there are so many pagan customs and rituals of man incorporated and accepted into the services today as a good invention of man‘s imagination?
(I Thessalonians 4:11)… Study to be ~Quiet~, to do your own business, and to work with your own hands as we commanded you… Study What?
(II Timothy 2:15- 16)… Study to ~~Shew~~ thyself Approved~ unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth…. BUT shun ~~Profane and Vain babblings~~; for they ~~WILL Increase into more ungodliness… Study What? Books of the imaginations, fabled tales of mankind, OR THE BIBLE, God’s Book OF *ALL* Instruction that we need to know, follow, ~Obey~! WHY THE BIBLE? What does the vain babblings of of man lead TO?
So now we have children, that have been reared under the gossipy tongues of the good ladies that cared for their physical beings, moving up to a new class where they meet and ~Learn~ what?
Coloring books, crayons, more food, drinks, and play time.. But they are introduced also TO: fake tattoos, teaching them that *IT IS* A Good thing to paint your flesh, in direct contrast to The Teachings of our LORD… AND not only that but they are given super hero pictures to color because that is what they like, and after all the super hero’s do fight for what is right, so we teach that they are fighting for Jesus on His side… Never mind that IT IS A FAKE, A LIE, it seems good IT makes the children happy, so IT Must be okay… And the deacons, director, and preacher all approve with just appeasing the children, keep them quiet by letting them have their fun.
So many of these false teachings are even sold in packets in “Christian Book Stores” But then it makes money, and what harm can a little ~~USE~ of ones imagination do?
(Genesis 8:21) .. The ~~Imagination~~ of man’s heart IS evil from his youth… (what IS evil? Harmful, disagreeable, disobedient, to be in the position of the adversary which challenged God in the beginning.)
(Genesis 6:5) ..God SAW that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that !Every Imagination~ of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually….
(Jeremiah 13:10) .. This ~Evil~ people, which refuse to hear MY Words, which walk in the *Imagination* of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle which is good for nothing… (The girdle of false teachings mixed all up in the truths of God’s Written Book of ALL Instruction, may hold all the ~junk~ in for a while but soon the seams will split and junk goes flying everywhere spreading the infection of Satan’s filth all over the place…)
(Luke 1:51) .. HE (The Father) hath shewed strength with HIS Arm, (Jesus) HE Hath scattered the proud in the ~imagination~ of their hearts…
Think that as a *teacher* in God’s House of Prayer, *IT ISN’T Important* TO Adamantly Keep The Study Solely in God’s Written Word? Can we really afford to use our imagination in the teaching of little minds, IN The ONE Place that they expect to learn OF: “The Path OF Righteousness”?
There is a dozen eggs that is sold by Christian Book Stores, during this time of year, that IS Nothing more than an abomination to the Memorial of The Resurrection of Jesus… IT IS called a teaching tool to help little ones learn of the resurrection, and each brightly colored plastic egg contains a symbol that points to this event… BUT what does the package point to? Did the Mary’s that went to the tomb, the women that ~First~ carried the message of The Gospel OF Christ Resurrection, on that early morn go there to hunt eggs, or to deliver them to the feet of the pagan goddess, (False gods) to appease her so that they would be blessed with increase in the new year? Was there room for any of this silliness in the *Serious Thoughts* OF their minds? NO! But the pagans DID! So now we are gonna teach the children that this is a good thing to enact the false teachings of pagan worship and call IT good in the eyes of our Maker, and The Father of Jesus Christ? *IF* we do then our ~Report Card~ will show a Zero Minus or lower than, because we are teaching our children lies and deceitfulness…Their minds and hearts are being fill with abominable trash and taught that IT IS Good!
How many other things are brought into the Sunday School Classes, and taught to the children that IS IN FACT A LIE?
Teachers Open your Bibles and Read, Study, Learn, Before you mislead, little minds…. Pretty IS NOT always Righteous… The old saying, “Beauty IS IN The eye of the beholder”, may be acceptable in and to the flesh, but to our Maker, our LORD, only our ~Obedience~ in righteousness IS acceptable for ~Favor~ in God‘s Eyes….
(Proverbs 3:1-7)… My son, ~Forget Not~ MY Laws, but let thine heart Keep MY Commandments, for length of days, long life, and peace shall they add to thee.. Let Not mercy and truth forsake thee, bind them about thy neck, write them upon the table of thine heart, so shalt thou find ~~Favour~~ and good understanding in the Sight of God and man… Trust IN The LORD with all thine heart and lean NOT unto thine own understanding IN All thy ways *acknowledge* HIM (God not the false teachings of the world) and HE Shall direct thy paths.. Be NOT Wise in thine own eyes, fear the LORD and depart from evil…
Genesis 6:8).. Noah found Grace in the eyes of the LORD… HOW? He Proved obedient unto God… What IS Grace? God’s Favor…
SOOOooo…. What do we need to do? Step out on our own, seek our OWN imaginations of our fleshly heart, or that of others to teach in, follow the ways of the world… please ourselves in fabled tales to paint a rosy jovial picture of a ~Serious~ matter? OR Do we need to approach The Most Serious Matter of Teaching God’s Word IN Sunday School in The earnesty with which IT WAS Meant to be taught according to the Manner in Which God’s Son Jesus Christ came teaching IT?
(Luke 4:16).. Hr (Jesus ) came to Nazareth where He had been brought up, and ~~AS His Custom was, (What He did always) He wnet into the Synagogue On the Sabbath Day and He (Jesus) stood up to read .. (What DID He Read? The latest Comic Book of Caesar‘s Invention pr man‘s fables of entertainment? NO!) (v,17).. He Read The “Book of The Prophets”… (The Old Testament) on this day IT Was from the Book of Isaiah, 61: 1-2) … The Spirit of the LORD IS upon me, Because HE Hath Anointed me to preach the Gospel….. (Not The Trash of a lost and dying world BUT) The deliverance of the captives, and The Acceptable Year of THE LORD…..
The teachers, have lovingly cared for ~ALL~ their fleshly needs.. Providing them with juice cups, cookies, toys to play with, changed their diapers and diligently met the physical needs of each child…. BUT!
In the area’s of preparedness in obedience, discipline, behavior in Church, and Biblical Introduction, IF grades were honestly given out, to students and teachers as well, there would be zero’s across the board in all these areas… SAD! SAD! SAD!
And some folks want their child IN Sunday School to learn what they don’t know of The Bible… Another SAD also… Oh, excuse me, the walls do point somewhat to the Bible with cute pictures of Noah’s Ark, sheep, and such *IF* the children look they can see…. BUT THEN
IF one pays close attention in a meeting, to the manner the service is carried out in Most Sanctuaries, *IT IS* Sadly apparent that there IS Much MORE of the World present than the Spiritual Guidance needed to prepare even aged adults to face the onslaught of Satan’s devices, and lures into the sin of ~~Disobedience~~… Reckon that IS WHY, there are so many pagan customs and rituals of man incorporated and accepted into the services today as a good invention of man‘s imagination?
(I Thessalonians 4:11)… Study to be ~Quiet~, to do your own business, and to work with your own hands as we commanded you… Study What?
(II Timothy 2:15- 16)… Study to ~~Shew~~ thyself Approved~ unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth…. BUT shun ~~Profane and Vain babblings~~; for they ~~WILL Increase into more ungodliness… Study What? Books of the imaginations, fabled tales of mankind, OR THE BIBLE, God’s Book OF *ALL* Instruction that we need to know, follow, ~Obey~! WHY THE BIBLE? What does the vain babblings of of man lead TO?
So now we have children, that have been reared under the gossipy tongues of the good ladies that cared for their physical beings, moving up to a new class where they meet and ~Learn~ what?
Coloring books, crayons, more food, drinks, and play time.. But they are introduced also TO: fake tattoos, teaching them that *IT IS* A Good thing to paint your flesh, in direct contrast to The Teachings of our LORD… AND not only that but they are given super hero pictures to color because that is what they like, and after all the super hero’s do fight for what is right, so we teach that they are fighting for Jesus on His side… Never mind that IT IS A FAKE, A LIE, it seems good IT makes the children happy, so IT Must be okay… And the deacons, director, and preacher all approve with just appeasing the children, keep them quiet by letting them have their fun.
So many of these false teachings are even sold in packets in “Christian Book Stores” But then it makes money, and what harm can a little ~~USE~ of ones imagination do?
(Genesis 8:21) .. The ~~Imagination~~ of man’s heart IS evil from his youth… (what IS evil? Harmful, disagreeable, disobedient, to be in the position of the adversary which challenged God in the beginning.)
(Genesis 6:5) ..God SAW that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that !Every Imagination~ of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually….
(Jeremiah 13:10) .. This ~Evil~ people, which refuse to hear MY Words, which walk in the *Imagination* of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle which is good for nothing… (The girdle of false teachings mixed all up in the truths of God’s Written Book of ALL Instruction, may hold all the ~junk~ in for a while but soon the seams will split and junk goes flying everywhere spreading the infection of Satan’s filth all over the place…)
(Luke 1:51) .. HE (The Father) hath shewed strength with HIS Arm, (Jesus) HE Hath scattered the proud in the ~imagination~ of their hearts…
Think that as a *teacher* in God’s House of Prayer, *IT ISN’T Important* TO Adamantly Keep The Study Solely in God’s Written Word? Can we really afford to use our imagination in the teaching of little minds, IN The ONE Place that they expect to learn OF: “The Path OF Righteousness”?
There is a dozen eggs that is sold by Christian Book Stores, during this time of year, that IS Nothing more than an abomination to the Memorial of The Resurrection of Jesus… IT IS called a teaching tool to help little ones learn of the resurrection, and each brightly colored plastic egg contains a symbol that points to this event… BUT what does the package point to? Did the Mary’s that went to the tomb, the women that ~First~ carried the message of The Gospel OF Christ Resurrection, on that early morn go there to hunt eggs, or to deliver them to the feet of the pagan goddess, (False gods) to appease her so that they would be blessed with increase in the new year? Was there room for any of this silliness in the *Serious Thoughts* OF their minds? NO! But the pagans DID! So now we are gonna teach the children that this is a good thing to enact the false teachings of pagan worship and call IT good in the eyes of our Maker, and The Father of Jesus Christ? *IF* we do then our ~Report Card~ will show a Zero Minus or lower than, because we are teaching our children lies and deceitfulness…Their minds and hearts are being fill with abominable trash and taught that IT IS Good!
How many other things are brought into the Sunday School Classes, and taught to the children that IS IN FACT A LIE?
Teachers Open your Bibles and Read, Study, Learn, Before you mislead, little minds…. Pretty IS NOT always Righteous… The old saying, “Beauty IS IN The eye of the beholder”, may be acceptable in and to the flesh, but to our Maker, our LORD, only our ~Obedience~ in righteousness IS acceptable for ~Favor~ in God‘s Eyes….
(Proverbs 3:1-7)… My son, ~Forget Not~ MY Laws, but let thine heart Keep MY Commandments, for length of days, long life, and peace shall they add to thee.. Let Not mercy and truth forsake thee, bind them about thy neck, write them upon the table of thine heart, so shalt thou find ~~Favour~~ and good understanding in the Sight of God and man… Trust IN The LORD with all thine heart and lean NOT unto thine own understanding IN All thy ways *acknowledge* HIM (God not the false teachings of the world) and HE Shall direct thy paths.. Be NOT Wise in thine own eyes, fear the LORD and depart from evil…
Genesis 6:8).. Noah found Grace in the eyes of the LORD… HOW? He Proved obedient unto God… What IS Grace? God’s Favor…
SOOOooo…. What do we need to do? Step out on our own, seek our OWN imaginations of our fleshly heart, or that of others to teach in, follow the ways of the world… please ourselves in fabled tales to paint a rosy jovial picture of a ~Serious~ matter? OR Do we need to approach The Most Serious Matter of Teaching God’s Word IN Sunday School in The earnesty with which IT WAS Meant to be taught according to the Manner in Which God’s Son Jesus Christ came teaching IT?
(Luke 4:16).. Hr (Jesus ) came to Nazareth where He had been brought up, and ~~AS His Custom was, (What He did always) He wnet into the Synagogue On the Sabbath Day and He (Jesus) stood up to read .. (What DID He Read? The latest Comic Book of Caesar‘s Invention pr man‘s fables of entertainment? NO!) (v,17).. He Read The “Book of The Prophets”… (The Old Testament) on this day IT Was from the Book of Isaiah, 61: 1-2) … The Spirit of the LORD IS upon me, Because HE Hath Anointed me to preach the Gospel….. (Not The Trash of a lost and dying world BUT) The deliverance of the captives, and The Acceptable Year of THE LORD…..
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Sundday School IN Church
Sunday IS quickly rolling in, and *IF* you are a teacher of Sunday School what IS your plan for teaching the little ones of: God The Father, Jesus Christ HIS Son, And The Holy Ghost? OR as a nursery/tot teacher are you simply looking forward to meeting with your friends in the nursery to catch up on the weekly ~Gossip~ while the children play, or holler, or fight over the ball? DID you not realize that your job IS just as important as the man’s that stands behind the pulpit to deliver the message of God. *IF* not more?
Because *IT IS* your responsibility TO: teach the very basic rules OF: “Shush” “Be Quiet”, “Listen”, “Pay Attention”, “HEAR”!
(Proverbs 22:6) Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from *IT*.
From ~The Cradle UP~, Sunday School should be the ~Training~ time of: *Behavior* in the Sanctuary, teaching the Bible TO little ears in a way that makes them eager to learn more of The Bible, as they age, so that as adults they have grown into a strong desire to eat the meat instead of remaining on the bottle of milk that they were fed in the nursery ….AND ~Nothing~ of the world should be offered in ANY Age Sunday School Class.. Like fake ~tattoos~, pagan pictures of worldly celebrations, fairy tale junk, super hero’s ect…..
Sadly though, what you find in the nurseries, are a group of Church ladies gathered together in the name of baby sitting, while spending this time in a gossip session of: ALL about, she said, he said, and so now we spread…
Even ~Babies~ can be taught that this is a, “Shush” “Quiet” Time… *Listen* & “OBEY“!… Oh, sure Babies cry, and keepers should cuddle, rock and soothe, with quiet shushing utters, not yell out the gossip of the lip over the crying infant…..
(Proverbs 16:28) .. A forward man soweth strife, and a whisperer (bearer of tales, gossip) separateth chief friends.
(I Timothy 4:7) Refuse ~profane and old wives’ fables,~ and ~exercise~ thyself Rather unto godliness…
Some nurseries are equipped with sound systems so that the messages from the Sanctuary is piped in, so even toddlers should be encouraged to: “Listen”… as well as the teachers or keepers, because many Churches provide nurseries all through the services, taking the children out of the Sanctuaries, away from parents…
But then some Churches leave the children with the parents in the Sanctuary, to play. Parents tote in toys by the bag full to entertain the children with while distracting the ones who want to pay attention to the message…. So IT IS A rocky situation, that really falls back in the lap of the parents, and the ground work that they lay in basic teaching of the children.. The ~Authority~ that they show in bringing their children to serve the LORD… BUT IT Still does not ~excuse~ the Sunday School teacher, that the parent entrust their child to, TO learn.
Sunday School teachers should be carefully screened and chosen by their: attitude toward The Bible, and IT’S Content, and their ability to reveal IT free of the worldly concerns and garbage……
(Deuteronomy 6: 5- 8) .. Thou Shalt *Love* THE LORD thy God with ~~ALL~~ thine heart, soul, and might, and these ~~Words~~ which *I* (THE LORD) Command thee this say, shall be in thine heart, AND thou shalt teach them ~~Diligently~~ unto thy children, and shalt ~~Talk~~ OF Them, when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and risest up, and thou shalt ~~Bind~~ them for a sign upon thine hand and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes, and they shall ~~Write them upon the posts of thy house and on thy gates…
Kinda sounds like IT IS Very Important that we teach our children to be dedicated to learning the Words, and following them, rather than giving them the world all mixed up in a failed attempt to teach God’s Written Word.. We are Quick to teach and tell them, “Jesus Loves *YOU*!” But we fail miserably in teaching them that: *THEY* Must ~~LOVE~~ the LORD with ~ALL Their heart~.. Not just a portion that is left over after all the things of the world have passed through IT.
*IF* The Commandments of God, the First being TO: Love The LORD Thy God, IS Important enough to be carried continually in our hearts, then isn’t IT Important enough to be taught and magnified in Sunday School?
Most Churches that you enter into this day and time seem to reflect the exact opposite.. OF: the Sanctuaries of old or the dedicated in Christ..
In fact many who ARE dedicated in Christ have vacated the Churches of the World. Because there is NO sanctity to be found there anymore.
IT IS ~ALL~ about the world.. Games… Mockeries… Children spend most of their time in Sunday School playing Games of The world, eating drinking, laughing talking, more than they do in actual learning of behavior in the learning of God’s Written Word….. BUT Then they are doing what they ARE Taught, and following the examples set by the adults…..
(II Timothy 4:4)… And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned into *fables*….
Because *IT IS* your responsibility TO: teach the very basic rules OF: “Shush” “Be Quiet”, “Listen”, “Pay Attention”, “HEAR”!
(Proverbs 22:6) Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from *IT*.
From ~The Cradle UP~, Sunday School should be the ~Training~ time of: *Behavior* in the Sanctuary, teaching the Bible TO little ears in a way that makes them eager to learn more of The Bible, as they age, so that as adults they have grown into a strong desire to eat the meat instead of remaining on the bottle of milk that they were fed in the nursery ….AND ~Nothing~ of the world should be offered in ANY Age Sunday School Class.. Like fake ~tattoos~, pagan pictures of worldly celebrations, fairy tale junk, super hero’s ect…..
Sadly though, what you find in the nurseries, are a group of Church ladies gathered together in the name of baby sitting, while spending this time in a gossip session of: ALL about, she said, he said, and so now we spread…
Even ~Babies~ can be taught that this is a, “Shush” “Quiet” Time… *Listen* & “OBEY“!… Oh, sure Babies cry, and keepers should cuddle, rock and soothe, with quiet shushing utters, not yell out the gossip of the lip over the crying infant…..
(Proverbs 16:28) .. A forward man soweth strife, and a whisperer (bearer of tales, gossip) separateth chief friends.
(I Timothy 4:7) Refuse ~profane and old wives’ fables,~ and ~exercise~ thyself Rather unto godliness…
Some nurseries are equipped with sound systems so that the messages from the Sanctuary is piped in, so even toddlers should be encouraged to: “Listen”… as well as the teachers or keepers, because many Churches provide nurseries all through the services, taking the children out of the Sanctuaries, away from parents…
But then some Churches leave the children with the parents in the Sanctuary, to play. Parents tote in toys by the bag full to entertain the children with while distracting the ones who want to pay attention to the message…. So IT IS A rocky situation, that really falls back in the lap of the parents, and the ground work that they lay in basic teaching of the children.. The ~Authority~ that they show in bringing their children to serve the LORD… BUT IT Still does not ~excuse~ the Sunday School teacher, that the parent entrust their child to, TO learn.
Sunday School teachers should be carefully screened and chosen by their: attitude toward The Bible, and IT’S Content, and their ability to reveal IT free of the worldly concerns and garbage……
(Deuteronomy 6: 5- 8) .. Thou Shalt *Love* THE LORD thy God with ~~ALL~~ thine heart, soul, and might, and these ~~Words~~ which *I* (THE LORD) Command thee this say, shall be in thine heart, AND thou shalt teach them ~~Diligently~~ unto thy children, and shalt ~~Talk~~ OF Them, when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and risest up, and thou shalt ~~Bind~~ them for a sign upon thine hand and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes, and they shall ~~Write them upon the posts of thy house and on thy gates…
Kinda sounds like IT IS Very Important that we teach our children to be dedicated to learning the Words, and following them, rather than giving them the world all mixed up in a failed attempt to teach God’s Written Word.. We are Quick to teach and tell them, “Jesus Loves *YOU*!” But we fail miserably in teaching them that: *THEY* Must ~~LOVE~~ the LORD with ~ALL Their heart~.. Not just a portion that is left over after all the things of the world have passed through IT.
*IF* The Commandments of God, the First being TO: Love The LORD Thy God, IS Important enough to be carried continually in our hearts, then isn’t IT Important enough to be taught and magnified in Sunday School?
Most Churches that you enter into this day and time seem to reflect the exact opposite.. OF: the Sanctuaries of old or the dedicated in Christ..
In fact many who ARE dedicated in Christ have vacated the Churches of the World. Because there is NO sanctity to be found there anymore.
IT IS ~ALL~ about the world.. Games… Mockeries… Children spend most of their time in Sunday School playing Games of The world, eating drinking, laughing talking, more than they do in actual learning of behavior in the learning of God’s Written Word….. BUT Then they are doing what they ARE Taught, and following the examples set by the adults…..
(II Timothy 4:4)… And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned into *fables*….
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Messenger OR The Message
Where should our focus be IF we claim to be teachers, preachers, messengers of The Kingdom of God?
(Proverbs 25:13).. As the ~cold of snow~ in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.. BUT!
(Proverbs 13:17).. A wicked messenger falleth unto ~mischief: BUT a faithful ambassador IS health….
There are links to sights that promise sound message in God’s Written Word, BUT, when you address that link to read: “The Message of The Gospel”, what you find IS a promotion of self… Look AT ME what I’ve Got, What I can offer, and the message *IF* There Is any *IS* a tiny one paragraph of few words, that IS Lost in the jargon of the writer that has elaborately designed a site for their own promotion…..
This IS NOT the way Jesus Taught, This IS NOT The way IT IS Written That Jesus Taught, AND *IF* we are going to proclaim The Gospel Message, That *IT* Be Received, shouldn’t we humble ~~Ourselves~~ at least to a level of belief, obedience, TO The Written Word, The Commands That God THE Father Gave us, Through HIS Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ… Keeping The Message ~Pure~ and unadulterated by the world or our own praise, honor, and glory of self?
(Malachi 2:7)… For the ~priest’s~ lips should keep knowledge, AND they should seek the law at his mouth: for ~he IS the~ “messenger of the LORD of hosts.”
(Malachi 3:1)… Behold, I Will Send, MY messenger, and he shall prepare the way before ME: and the Lord whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His Temple, even the Messenger OF The Covenant, Whom ye delight IN: Behold, He shall come, saith THE LORD of hosts…
*IT* Was Prophesied, by messengers of THE LORD! AND THEN!
(Matthew 3:1).. In those days came ~~John the Baptist~~, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea. AND THEN JESUS SAID!
(Matthew 11:10-11).. “For this IS he, of whom *IT IS Written*, behold, I Will send MY messenger before they face, which shall prepare the way before Thee…” Verily I say unto you, “Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding, he that ~~IS Least~ in the Kingdom of Heaven, *IS* greater than he.”
NOW take a moment to really consider what IS Written, AND don’t take what I have written, but open your King James Version of The Bible or an older version and read *IT*. Consider the Words That ARE Written, carefully, Pray sincerely that The Holy Ghost guide you into ~The~ knowledge that Jesus Christ would have you to learn, and share, with a “repentant, obedient, heart and mind… and let The Holy Ghost reveal the content of *THE Message* unto you, for the messenger that delivers *IT* IS the least of ~all~…
AS John the Baptist, did not abide in fancy temples, lined with gold to deliver the message of the Coming of God’s Kingdom, The Savior, The Son of God. He did not wear fancy robes, eat t-bone steaks, and caviar, but lived in the wilderness, and ate locust and honey, BUT faithfully paved the way for Jesus Christ THE Son of God…. He never promoted himself or bragged, “Look AT *ME*, how the LORD has blessed me with worldly things because I am good and I came before Christ did he? Consider this in the preaching and teaching of The Gospel OF Christ, and The Kingdom of God…. When either hearing or delivering the message.
Even Paul, had a thorn in the flesh to keep him from rising up to be ~TOO~ high on himself, in proud vanity of the world and It’s goods.
(II Corinthians 12:7).. And ~lest~ I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of revelations, there ~Was Given~ to me a “thorn in the flesh”, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure….
Then What Did Jesus Teach OF: Attitudes, Gratitude’s, Lifestyles?
(Luke 12:31).. “But rather ~~SEEK~~ ye The Kingdom of God, AND ~~ALL~~ these things shall be added unto you…. (We don’t gotta go out shopping for: fame, glory, riches, wealth, fortunes… Because we don’t need any of that To teach of God’s Kingdom, and *IF* we are teachers of God’s Kingdom we really need to Keep ourselves out of this life style Because, to promote IT tarnishes our witness before The LORD and man…
(James 1:11) for the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withered the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in ~His Ways~…
When we rise up in ~pride~ over our beauty, our intelligence, our talents, our gains, we are putting ourselves under the ~rising sun~ of destruction that withers and destroys our testimony of of The Kingdom of God…
We would do well to teach our children this, rather than teach them to follow the world in it’s fads, trends of beauty, make believe, and such….
(Jeremiah 9:23-24)… Thus saith The LORD, “Let NOT the ~wise~ glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let NOT the ~~Rich~~man flory in his riches: But, let him that *Glorieth* glory in This, that he understand and knoweth ME, That I am THE LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and ~~Righteousness,~~ In the earth: FOR IN These things I Delight,” Saith, THE LORD…
(Luke 17:21) .. Again Jesus Said, “Neither shall they say, Lo here! OR , Lo, there!, FOR Behold, The Kingdom of God *IS* within you.”
(John 3:5) .. Jesus answered, “Verily, Verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom OF God.”
So, there is definitely something that we, the clay, must do, and that something IS, we must humbly bow before The Potter in humble obedience, adhering TO HIS Will and Way, not attempting to preach the Gospel in our own, defiant proudness in our accomplishments, our amasses of wealth, what we can do… For without God we can do nothing… So our walk and our talk MUST reflect our humbleness in serving The LORD, IN worshiping The LORD, IN Testifying of: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost, and our manner and attitude MUST reveal our humble Thankfulness of HIS Mercy, not our accomplishments……
A good rule of thumb for “Christians”. *IF*, you feel the need to tell someone that you are A Christian, Then maybe you’d best take another look into the mirror of your life… At your manner of dress, IS your fleshly body covered well or do you reveal every skin cell on it? IS IT covered with the tattoos of Satan’s world? What does your face reveal? Is your make-up akin to Jezebel’s? What does you attitude reveal? Better than thou because , I AM Something Else? IF, a person IS A True follower of Christ, their walk in life, manner of dress, state of mind, *Attitude* of humble obedient thankfulness, will reveal The Kingdom of God within themselves… A Testimony of itself.
(Proverbs 25:13).. As the ~cold of snow~ in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.. BUT!
(Proverbs 13:17).. A wicked messenger falleth unto ~mischief: BUT a faithful ambassador IS health….
There are links to sights that promise sound message in God’s Written Word, BUT, when you address that link to read: “The Message of The Gospel”, what you find IS a promotion of self… Look AT ME what I’ve Got, What I can offer, and the message *IF* There Is any *IS* a tiny one paragraph of few words, that IS Lost in the jargon of the writer that has elaborately designed a site for their own promotion…..
This IS NOT the way Jesus Taught, This IS NOT The way IT IS Written That Jesus Taught, AND *IF* we are going to proclaim The Gospel Message, That *IT* Be Received, shouldn’t we humble ~~Ourselves~~ at least to a level of belief, obedience, TO The Written Word, The Commands That God THE Father Gave us, Through HIS Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ… Keeping The Message ~Pure~ and unadulterated by the world or our own praise, honor, and glory of self?
(Malachi 2:7)… For the ~priest’s~ lips should keep knowledge, AND they should seek the law at his mouth: for ~he IS the~ “messenger of the LORD of hosts.”
(Malachi 3:1)… Behold, I Will Send, MY messenger, and he shall prepare the way before ME: and the Lord whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His Temple, even the Messenger OF The Covenant, Whom ye delight IN: Behold, He shall come, saith THE LORD of hosts…
*IT* Was Prophesied, by messengers of THE LORD! AND THEN!
(Matthew 3:1).. In those days came ~~John the Baptist~~, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea. AND THEN JESUS SAID!
(Matthew 11:10-11).. “For this IS he, of whom *IT IS Written*, behold, I Will send MY messenger before they face, which shall prepare the way before Thee…” Verily I say unto you, “Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding, he that ~~IS Least~ in the Kingdom of Heaven, *IS* greater than he.”
NOW take a moment to really consider what IS Written, AND don’t take what I have written, but open your King James Version of The Bible or an older version and read *IT*. Consider the Words That ARE Written, carefully, Pray sincerely that The Holy Ghost guide you into ~The~ knowledge that Jesus Christ would have you to learn, and share, with a “repentant, obedient, heart and mind… and let The Holy Ghost reveal the content of *THE Message* unto you, for the messenger that delivers *IT* IS the least of ~all~…
AS John the Baptist, did not abide in fancy temples, lined with gold to deliver the message of the Coming of God’s Kingdom, The Savior, The Son of God. He did not wear fancy robes, eat t-bone steaks, and caviar, but lived in the wilderness, and ate locust and honey, BUT faithfully paved the way for Jesus Christ THE Son of God…. He never promoted himself or bragged, “Look AT *ME*, how the LORD has blessed me with worldly things because I am good and I came before Christ did he? Consider this in the preaching and teaching of The Gospel OF Christ, and The Kingdom of God…. When either hearing or delivering the message.
Even Paul, had a thorn in the flesh to keep him from rising up to be ~TOO~ high on himself, in proud vanity of the world and It’s goods.
(II Corinthians 12:7).. And ~lest~ I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of revelations, there ~Was Given~ to me a “thorn in the flesh”, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure….
Then What Did Jesus Teach OF: Attitudes, Gratitude’s, Lifestyles?
(Luke 12:31).. “But rather ~~SEEK~~ ye The Kingdom of God, AND ~~ALL~~ these things shall be added unto you…. (We don’t gotta go out shopping for: fame, glory, riches, wealth, fortunes… Because we don’t need any of that To teach of God’s Kingdom, and *IF* we are teachers of God’s Kingdom we really need to Keep ourselves out of this life style Because, to promote IT tarnishes our witness before The LORD and man…
(James 1:11) for the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withered the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in ~His Ways~…
When we rise up in ~pride~ over our beauty, our intelligence, our talents, our gains, we are putting ourselves under the ~rising sun~ of destruction that withers and destroys our testimony of of The Kingdom of God…
We would do well to teach our children this, rather than teach them to follow the world in it’s fads, trends of beauty, make believe, and such….
(Jeremiah 9:23-24)… Thus saith The LORD, “Let NOT the ~wise~ glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let NOT the ~~Rich~~man flory in his riches: But, let him that *Glorieth* glory in This, that he understand and knoweth ME, That I am THE LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and ~~Righteousness,~~ In the earth: FOR IN These things I Delight,” Saith, THE LORD…
(Luke 17:21) .. Again Jesus Said, “Neither shall they say, Lo here! OR , Lo, there!, FOR Behold, The Kingdom of God *IS* within you.”
(John 3:5) .. Jesus answered, “Verily, Verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom OF God.”
So, there is definitely something that we, the clay, must do, and that something IS, we must humbly bow before The Potter in humble obedience, adhering TO HIS Will and Way, not attempting to preach the Gospel in our own, defiant proudness in our accomplishments, our amasses of wealth, what we can do… For without God we can do nothing… So our walk and our talk MUST reflect our humbleness in serving The LORD, IN worshiping The LORD, IN Testifying of: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost, and our manner and attitude MUST reveal our humble Thankfulness of HIS Mercy, not our accomplishments……
A good rule of thumb for “Christians”. *IF*, you feel the need to tell someone that you are A Christian, Then maybe you’d best take another look into the mirror of your life… At your manner of dress, IS your fleshly body covered well or do you reveal every skin cell on it? IS IT covered with the tattoos of Satan’s world? What does your face reveal? Is your make-up akin to Jezebel’s? What does you attitude reveal? Better than thou because , I AM Something Else? IF, a person IS A True follower of Christ, their walk in life, manner of dress, state of mind, *Attitude* of humble obedient thankfulness, will reveal The Kingdom of God within themselves… A Testimony of itself.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Noah's Ark, A Child's Story
(Genesis 7:1) ..THE LORD Said unto Noah, “Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before ME in this generation.”
(Genesis 6:5)..God saw that the ~wickedness of man~ was great in the earth, and that every *Imagination*, of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually… (v.12) God ~LOOKED~ upon the earth, and, Behold, IT WAS Corrupted; for ~ALL~ flesh had corrupted *HIS WAY*, upon the earth……
Something to think about when we read this account and then flash forward to the present day and time…. Most times we hear words, but don’t get the full meaning, or pay attention to what IS Really being said in the writing of the Bible… For instance ~Wickedness~ DOESN’T have to be the evil that folks think IT IS, as in drunken debauchery, brawls and such, but rather IT IS Simply and act of displeasing, something distasteful, (look up the entire meaning) as IN Displeasing unto God… And what IS Displeasing TO GOD? Disobedience!… Simply Put! *IF*, God’s Word states, don’t pick the roses,” then that IS What IT means and although it may seem that there is nothing bad at all about simply picking a rose, IT IS A thing OF Wickedness IF God said do not do IT.. IT IS Evil in The Sight of God, BECAUSE, IT IS A Blatant act of ~~Disobedience~~…
Well, we hear and see so many times Bible Principles, God’s Statutes, trashed by. Movies, games, celebrations, clothing, pictures, tattoos, horoscopes, symbols of pagan gods and false teachings, everywhere one looks today, there before our eyes IS Evil and Wickedness, and yet, ~followers~ of Christ, God’s Only Begotten Son, will pass *IT* OFF AS, “Oh, *IT’S* just a movie, or It’s just a picture painted on our body, or *IT’S* just for fun, reading of our fortunes,” everyone knows that it is make believe, so it doesn’t hurt to let the children watch *IT*.” ~Every *Imagination* of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually~??? Reckon God really didn’t mean this? Does God Lie? Does God Joke? Does God play, play like or make believe games? OR IS God The SAME Yesterday, Today, and Forever? SERIOUS!
(Isaiah 40:8) .. The grass withered, the flower fadeth, BUT The Word of our God shall *Stand For Ever*.
(Hebrews 13:8)… Jesus Christ the *SAME* yesterday, today, and For ever…
SO *IF* Christ IS The Same does not that Make God The Father The Same Also?
(Galatians 6:7)… Be NOT Deceived: God IS NOT Mocked: For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap…
So *IF* we live this life here mocking God by taking part in the things that HIS Written Word Declares Wicked, warning us to leave IT Alone, then we are mocking God and our reward will be a mocking of the lack of sincerity that our lives have proved…
The account of Noah and The ARK, has long been used and told as just a child’s story, placed by mankind, together in the same category as all the other fairy tales told to children.. Along with the fairy tales that men have turned the accounts of The Birth and Resurrection of Christ, the Son of God INTO, with the false teachings added into them of: Santa and his miracles and the rabbit and his colored eggs that paint a fairy tale story out of a true account….Seriously?
IT IS Claimed that children respond better to these accounts when they have something entertaining that their little minds can associate with… BUT!, out of the same mould comes the magical movies, horrors of the dead, ghost, witches, vampires, games of war, guns, killing fighting, tattoos, horoscopes OF Satan’s tools, which are presented to little minds to be entertained with.. Something wrong with this picture, this excuse, this reasoning?
Well, IT has been around for years hasn’t IT? About six-thousand years or more…. Ever since The garden… Man has proved disobedient… BUT many believe that since God sent HIS Son to pay the sin debt, then there IS NO Sin… Reckon how many believed that in the days of Noah? Most likely they ~Believed~ that their way was Right TOO. Nothing Wrong with having fun and living the good life. Noah was just a mad man, an imbecile, a lunatic, and a ~fanatic~, for building a boat on dry land, `Y` there was just ~NO~ reasoning to ~IT~… IT was unnecessary.
That is the opinion that many folks of this day have of the messenger that delivers the message of: ~~Belief, Faithful Obedience, and True Worship OF~~, The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost….
Why, did The LORD give Noah the Command TO build an Ark, When HE IS AN ALMIGHTY God and could have just caused ~~ALL~~ the disobedient people’s lungs to fill with their own fluid and drown? Noah would not have had to lift his hand in labor -- and build a boat on dry land, and all the animals would have been saved…. Logic? Yeah, man’s.
Flash forward to, today with this thought.. Animal activist would not have been unhappy with the destruction of all the animals, so God could have kept them happy and peaceful… This would have been ~A GOOD THING~ right?… Noah and his sons could have just laid back with the rest of the folk and enjoyed the good life that the world had to offer, and this too would have been good. Right? He would have fit in with the crowds of folk that lived back then…
Why, does HE NOT JUST wipe out ~~ALL~~ the disobedient people today, leave the earth intact for the ~righteous~ folk?…
ONE, God’s Plan IS, HIS Plan and we, mere mortals of clay are not to question, nor try and put God where ~WE~ want HIM, but we are the clay and should faithfully accept the mold that The Potter makes us into. What HE Sees Fit that we should ~Follow~..…
(Isaiah 64:8) .. But NOW, O LORD, THOU Art our Father; we are the clay, & THOU our POTTER; we ~ALL~ are the Work of THY Hand.
TWO, There IS None righteous on this earth…
(Romans 3:11).. AS IT IS Written, There IS None Righteous, No Not One..
Three, wasn’t The Accounts of ~~ALL~~ things written in God’s Word The Bible, Written there for a purpose? And that Purpose IS: For mans benefit! Not his entertainment… (All things were written?)
(Romans 15:4).. Whatsoever ~Things~ Were *Written* Aforetime, Were Written for ~our~ *Learning*, that we through patience and Comfort of, ~The Scriptures~ might have hope..
Hate the ~messenger~ *IF* you must, but remember that an angel IS merely a messenger from God… May Be that God will forgive you of this feeling of hate toward HIS messenger… BUT, there WILL BE NOT Forgiveness for the unrepentant, blatant disobedience of God’s Message..
(Ezekiel 3:20) .. When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die.. Because thou hast not given him warning he shall die in his sins, and ~his *Righteousness* which he hath done~ shall not be remembered, BUT, his blood will I require at thine hand….…
(Romans 12:2) Be ~~NOT~~ Conformed to this world: BUT Be ye ~Transformed~ BY the ~~Renewing~ of your mind that ye may prove what IS that Good, and Acceptable, and Perfect, Will OF God….
If we today read the account of Noah and the Ark IT Should remind us that we must be ~~Obedient~~ unto God’s Will, and Walk IN HIS Way, leaving the world to it’s maker and ruler…. Not make a game of child’s play out of a lesson that God has given for us for our benefit… IT IS SO Very Important that we set the example of seriousness in God’s Way, before our children, not foolishness of the world…..
(Genesis 6:5)..God saw that the ~wickedness of man~ was great in the earth, and that every *Imagination*, of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually… (v.12) God ~LOOKED~ upon the earth, and, Behold, IT WAS Corrupted; for ~ALL~ flesh had corrupted *HIS WAY*, upon the earth……
Something to think about when we read this account and then flash forward to the present day and time…. Most times we hear words, but don’t get the full meaning, or pay attention to what IS Really being said in the writing of the Bible… For instance ~Wickedness~ DOESN’T have to be the evil that folks think IT IS, as in drunken debauchery, brawls and such, but rather IT IS Simply and act of displeasing, something distasteful, (look up the entire meaning) as IN Displeasing unto God… And what IS Displeasing TO GOD? Disobedience!… Simply Put! *IF*, God’s Word states, don’t pick the roses,” then that IS What IT means and although it may seem that there is nothing bad at all about simply picking a rose, IT IS A thing OF Wickedness IF God said do not do IT.. IT IS Evil in The Sight of God, BECAUSE, IT IS A Blatant act of ~~Disobedience~~…
Well, we hear and see so many times Bible Principles, God’s Statutes, trashed by. Movies, games, celebrations, clothing, pictures, tattoos, horoscopes, symbols of pagan gods and false teachings, everywhere one looks today, there before our eyes IS Evil and Wickedness, and yet, ~followers~ of Christ, God’s Only Begotten Son, will pass *IT* OFF AS, “Oh, *IT’S* just a movie, or It’s just a picture painted on our body, or *IT’S* just for fun, reading of our fortunes,” everyone knows that it is make believe, so it doesn’t hurt to let the children watch *IT*.” ~Every *Imagination* of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually~??? Reckon God really didn’t mean this? Does God Lie? Does God Joke? Does God play, play like or make believe games? OR IS God The SAME Yesterday, Today, and Forever? SERIOUS!
(Isaiah 40:8) .. The grass withered, the flower fadeth, BUT The Word of our God shall *Stand For Ever*.
(Hebrews 13:8)… Jesus Christ the *SAME* yesterday, today, and For ever…
SO *IF* Christ IS The Same does not that Make God The Father The Same Also?
(Galatians 6:7)… Be NOT Deceived: God IS NOT Mocked: For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap…
So *IF* we live this life here mocking God by taking part in the things that HIS Written Word Declares Wicked, warning us to leave IT Alone, then we are mocking God and our reward will be a mocking of the lack of sincerity that our lives have proved…
The account of Noah and The ARK, has long been used and told as just a child’s story, placed by mankind, together in the same category as all the other fairy tales told to children.. Along with the fairy tales that men have turned the accounts of The Birth and Resurrection of Christ, the Son of God INTO, with the false teachings added into them of: Santa and his miracles and the rabbit and his colored eggs that paint a fairy tale story out of a true account….Seriously?
IT IS Claimed that children respond better to these accounts when they have something entertaining that their little minds can associate with… BUT!, out of the same mould comes the magical movies, horrors of the dead, ghost, witches, vampires, games of war, guns, killing fighting, tattoos, horoscopes OF Satan’s tools, which are presented to little minds to be entertained with.. Something wrong with this picture, this excuse, this reasoning?
Well, IT has been around for years hasn’t IT? About six-thousand years or more…. Ever since The garden… Man has proved disobedient… BUT many believe that since God sent HIS Son to pay the sin debt, then there IS NO Sin… Reckon how many believed that in the days of Noah? Most likely they ~Believed~ that their way was Right TOO. Nothing Wrong with having fun and living the good life. Noah was just a mad man, an imbecile, a lunatic, and a ~fanatic~, for building a boat on dry land, `Y` there was just ~NO~ reasoning to ~IT~… IT was unnecessary.
That is the opinion that many folks of this day have of the messenger that delivers the message of: ~~Belief, Faithful Obedience, and True Worship OF~~, The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost….
Why, did The LORD give Noah the Command TO build an Ark, When HE IS AN ALMIGHTY God and could have just caused ~~ALL~~ the disobedient people’s lungs to fill with their own fluid and drown? Noah would not have had to lift his hand in labor -- and build a boat on dry land, and all the animals would have been saved…. Logic? Yeah, man’s.
Flash forward to, today with this thought.. Animal activist would not have been unhappy with the destruction of all the animals, so God could have kept them happy and peaceful… This would have been ~A GOOD THING~ right?… Noah and his sons could have just laid back with the rest of the folk and enjoyed the good life that the world had to offer, and this too would have been good. Right? He would have fit in with the crowds of folk that lived back then…
Why, does HE NOT JUST wipe out ~~ALL~~ the disobedient people today, leave the earth intact for the ~righteous~ folk?…
ONE, God’s Plan IS, HIS Plan and we, mere mortals of clay are not to question, nor try and put God where ~WE~ want HIM, but we are the clay and should faithfully accept the mold that The Potter makes us into. What HE Sees Fit that we should ~Follow~..…
(Isaiah 64:8) .. But NOW, O LORD, THOU Art our Father; we are the clay, & THOU our POTTER; we ~ALL~ are the Work of THY Hand.
TWO, There IS None righteous on this earth…
(Romans 3:11).. AS IT IS Written, There IS None Righteous, No Not One..
Three, wasn’t The Accounts of ~~ALL~~ things written in God’s Word The Bible, Written there for a purpose? And that Purpose IS: For mans benefit! Not his entertainment… (All things were written?)
(Romans 15:4).. Whatsoever ~Things~ Were *Written* Aforetime, Were Written for ~our~ *Learning*, that we through patience and Comfort of, ~The Scriptures~ might have hope..
Hate the ~messenger~ *IF* you must, but remember that an angel IS merely a messenger from God… May Be that God will forgive you of this feeling of hate toward HIS messenger… BUT, there WILL BE NOT Forgiveness for the unrepentant, blatant disobedience of God’s Message..
(Ezekiel 3:20) .. When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die.. Because thou hast not given him warning he shall die in his sins, and ~his *Righteousness* which he hath done~ shall not be remembered, BUT, his blood will I require at thine hand….…
(Romans 12:2) Be ~~NOT~~ Conformed to this world: BUT Be ye ~Transformed~ BY the ~~Renewing~ of your mind that ye may prove what IS that Good, and Acceptable, and Perfect, Will OF God….
If we today read the account of Noah and the Ark IT Should remind us that we must be ~~Obedient~~ unto God’s Will, and Walk IN HIS Way, leaving the world to it’s maker and ruler…. Not make a game of child’s play out of a lesson that God has given for us for our benefit… IT IS SO Very Important that we set the example of seriousness in God’s Way, before our children, not foolishness of the world…..
Friday, January 13, 2012
What Does Our Fruit Prove?
What IS our ~Fruit~? Scripture States:
(Luke 6:44) ..As Jesus Said: “Every ~tree~ IS Known by ~his own~ *Fruit*… For of thorns men ~DO NOT~ gather figs, NOR of a bramble bush gather they grapes…”
(Matthew 13:23) .. Jesus Said: “he that received ~seed~ into the ~good ground~ IS he that ~~Heareth~~ The Word, AND understand *IT*, which also beareth *Fruit*…”
Still a mystery? IF we hear the ~Truth~, Search out what we hear in The Bible To Prove IT True, and share it with others we are then planting the proper seed to bring forth ~Good Fruit~. BUT, IF we hear the mixed up words of men’s traditions, false teachings filtered into the Bible Truths, and spread them among the people we are spreading the lies of the adversary thus producing bad fruit….
Karpos - Greek word for “fruit” definitions among many: that which originates or comes from something, an effect, result work, act, deed used in fig. discourse of those who by their labors have fitted souls to obtain eternal life
Most folks never consider the actual ~Growth Process~ of our ~Fruit~, And that *IS* Most Important.. The ~Seed~ that IS cast forth to *Sprout* IS a direct reflection on the tree that IT springs forth from…. The branch which puts forth leaves, flowers , and then burst forth in The Fruit of the Tree IS ~Vital~ to the growth of more ~~GOOD Fruit~~……
IF a ~branch~ becomes diseased, the fruit that IT cast forth is diseased also, and sprouts forth diseased upshoots… which spread more and more disease….
So IF we are running with the world, tattooing our bodies, reading our ~daily horoscopes~, playing Santa, Easter bunny, mixing up different ~Religions~ with the True Bible Teachings, we ARE NOT Planting ~~GOOD SEEDS~~, even though these things may seem harmless and may bring us a sort of joyous fun…. AND Again Jesus SAID:
(Matthew 7:17-19) .. “Even SO ~Every Good Tree~ bringeth forth ~Good *Fruit*~, BUT a ~corrupt tree~ bringeth forth ~evil *Fruit*~… A ~Good Tree~ Cannot Bring Forth evil fruit, neither can A corrupt tree bring forth ~good *Fruit*… ~EVERY TREE~ that bringeth NOT Forth Good *Fruit* IS Hewn Down, AND Cast Into the fire.”
So think seriously about what your are teaching, how you are presenting IT, so as not to mix into the Blessed Gospel of Christ and the Kingdom of God any bad fruits of the false teachings of the world, thus bringing forth and spreading diseased seeds among the children… Remembering Jesus did not say, that these false teachings were okay, they would be corrected, and forgiven, He Said, they will be cut down, And cast into the fire. AND What IS the ~Bad Seed~? Murder, stealing, gambling, drunkenness all the things that we folk believe and view as bad?
(Luke 8:14).. Again Jesus Said. “And That which ~Fell~ among thorns ARE THEY, WHICH, When they Have ~Heard~, Go Forth, AND ARE Choked with ~~The Cares and Riches, and Pleasure of ~~THIS LIFE~~ and bring *NO FRUIT* to **Perfection**…
We can testify to every one that we meet, “we Love Jesus”, but IF we are embracing the things of the world as we speak, we are spitting in the wind with our testimony, Because we can ~Bring NO *Fruit* to perfection~, by planting the seeds of the world in the minds of those that we meet.. Oh, we may be working hard AT Planting seeds, but what kind of seeds are we planting and what kind of fruit is springing forth? All we are doing IS showing the world that To love Jesus IS nothing more than living this life as we please, keeping step with the pleasures of men’s traditions of seasonal parties, games contest of competition, seeking pleasures outside of the realm of God’s Teachings that HE HAD Written for us to follow in HIS Book of Guidance…. AS Jesus Said Again:
(Matthew 12:33).. “Either Make The ~Tree GOOD~, and his *FRUIT* Good, OR else make the tree ~Corrupt~, and his *Fruit* corrupt: For the ~Tree~ IS Known by his *FRUIT*.”
(Luke 8:15) .. “But, that on the ~GOOD Ground~ are they, which in an honest and good heart, having … ~HEARD THE WORD~, *KEEP IT*, and bring forth *Fruit* with patience.”
(Note NOT with pleasure, but with patience.) Then again in John, Jesus Said:
(John 15:1-2).. “I am The True Vine, and My *Father IS The Husbandman. Every ~branch~ in Me that beareth NOT *Fruit* HE Taketh Away:” (Sound like once saved always saved… if we are the branches and we dilly-dally around in the world and don’t bring forth ~Good Fruit~ what did Jesus Say? “Every Branch *IN ME*”… So IF we are in Christ and we fail we are taken away…) “AND Every Branch that beareth fruit, HE purgeth it, that it may bring forth more *Fruit*…” (The Father ~Purges~ or cleanses, gets rid of the undesirable mess in our lives, there again *IF*, we bring forth *Good Fruit*, BY *Planting Good Seeds*, The Father will cleanse us and keep us… But IF we get all mixed up in the cares and traditions of this world we are cast out.) How ARE we Cleansed?
(John 15:3-4) “NOW, you ARE Clean ~Through~ the Word That I (Jesus) have spoken unto you.. Abide *IN* Me, and I in you. As the ~branch~ Cannot bear *Fruit* of Itself, except it abide in the Vine, no more can you except ye abide in Me.”
(Oh my, what does this statement do to the theory that we can do what we want to in Gods House of Prayer as long as ~WE~ Put God In IT? Jesus does not say that He will abide IN What we plant, But we must abide in The Vine, to be clean through the Word That He speaks, not what man speaks and deems good.) (v.5).. “For Without Me (Jesus) ye can do nothing”.. Along with the rest of the verses, this doesn’t mean we can do nothing, for we can certainly do that which seems righteous to us, but IT Does Mean that what we deem righteous, IS, Because we must do that which Jesus Says IS Righteous, that Which The Father Deems To Be Good.. Through and by abiding IN The True Vine Because there IS AN *IF*.
(John 15: 6-7)… “*IF* a man ~Abide~ NOT IN Me, he IS cast for as a branch and IS withered; and men gather them and cast them into the fire that they might be burned…” (BUT) “*IF* ye abide in Me, ~AND~ My Words ~Abide~ in you, ye shall ask what ye will and *IT* shall be done unto you.”
A wonderful promise that we should take seriously. Flirting with the world is not worth the risk of losing out on this promise… A temporary fix of good time in the ways of the world, will lead us into a habit of following the world, and ultimately to the downfall and destruction of our future by holding onto the ways of men and their traditions…
(Genesis 1:12).. In The Very Beginning.. “The ~tree~ yielding fruit, whose ~seed~ was in itself, after his kind, and God saw that IT Was Good…
(Genesis 3:3) .. But the *Fruit* of the tree which IS In the midst of the garden, God ~HATH SAID~, “ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.”
All through the Bible there is reference to the Fruits.. Pattered after the Command From the very beginning, and that Command IS, *OBEDIENCE* unto God The Father… And there IS Warning from Genesis Through Revelation of what the consequences of Disobedience will be…
(Ephesians 5:9).. For The *Fruit* of The Spirit IS IN ALL Goodness and Righteousness and Truth.
(Hebrews 13:15).. By Him, (Jesus Christ) therefore let us offer the ~sacrifice~ of Praise To God continually, that IS The *Fruit* of our lips, giving thanks to HIS NAME..
Notice it doesn’t read, after we have praised each other for our fleshly births, anniversaries, the nation, it’s occasions, and of men’s days, we are to then Praise the LORD and Give HIM Thanks, BUT IT States: “Offer the sacrifice of Praise Continually To God.” This world and all in IT Will Pass Away, and ALL The Feel Goods that we have contributed to someone ahead of God’s Praise will be gone with it, BUT God’s Kingdom and HIS Glory WILL Stand Forever, and SO Will HIS Words OF Promise, TO Receive us into HIS Kingdom *IF* we Remain IN The Vine and Obediently Plant Good Seeds, and To Cast us into the Fires of Destruction *IF* we step out into the world and contaminate the branch with the disease of Satan…..
(James 1:27)… Pure *Religion* and undefiled before God and The Father IS This, TO visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself ~Unspotted~ From The *world*…
SOOOOoooo… *IF*, one Claims TO Love Jesus, Then one MUST have ~Religion~, BUT IT Must Be The Pure undefiled by the world Religion OF: Transkei - Greek Word for religion which IS: Religious ~Disciplined~ Worship… How many Services Adhere TO This? Because So many take in the pagan customs and false teachings and call IT Religion it tarnishes the minds of all those who truly seek to serve the LORD IN Honesty and Truth, WHICH IS WHY, IT IS up to Each individual TO: Seek the Truth in Prayer To: God the Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ HIS Son, asking that The Holy Spirit BE the Guide to teach, and lead you into ALL Things, bringing to mind the things which Jesus Spoke when He walked about teaching men on this earth, and of Coarse one MUST Seek The Written Word of ALL Instruction that God and penned down by faithful men of old, and has had preserved for us to use as a reminder of things we need to know and must do.
IT may not seem the best way to make a body feel good, but IT IS To the Betterment of ALL IF we stand strong in our praise to God and set forth faithful examples for those that are viewing the seeds that we are casting forth.. Because IT Ain’t about making a body ~Feel~ Good, IT IS Rather About Delivering The Gospel IN Truth and Honesty for the benefit of the lost.
(Luke 6:44) ..As Jesus Said: “Every ~tree~ IS Known by ~his own~ *Fruit*… For of thorns men ~DO NOT~ gather figs, NOR of a bramble bush gather they grapes…”
(Matthew 13:23) .. Jesus Said: “he that received ~seed~ into the ~good ground~ IS he that ~~Heareth~~ The Word, AND understand *IT*, which also beareth *Fruit*…”
Still a mystery? IF we hear the ~Truth~, Search out what we hear in The Bible To Prove IT True, and share it with others we are then planting the proper seed to bring forth ~Good Fruit~. BUT, IF we hear the mixed up words of men’s traditions, false teachings filtered into the Bible Truths, and spread them among the people we are spreading the lies of the adversary thus producing bad fruit….
Karpos - Greek word for “fruit” definitions among many: that which originates or comes from something, an effect, result work, act, deed used in fig. discourse of those who by their labors have fitted souls to obtain eternal life
Most folks never consider the actual ~Growth Process~ of our ~Fruit~, And that *IS* Most Important.. The ~Seed~ that IS cast forth to *Sprout* IS a direct reflection on the tree that IT springs forth from…. The branch which puts forth leaves, flowers , and then burst forth in The Fruit of the Tree IS ~Vital~ to the growth of more ~~GOOD Fruit~~……
IF a ~branch~ becomes diseased, the fruit that IT cast forth is diseased also, and sprouts forth diseased upshoots… which spread more and more disease….
So IF we are running with the world, tattooing our bodies, reading our ~daily horoscopes~, playing Santa, Easter bunny, mixing up different ~Religions~ with the True Bible Teachings, we ARE NOT Planting ~~GOOD SEEDS~~, even though these things may seem harmless and may bring us a sort of joyous fun…. AND Again Jesus SAID:
(Matthew 7:17-19) .. “Even SO ~Every Good Tree~ bringeth forth ~Good *Fruit*~, BUT a ~corrupt tree~ bringeth forth ~evil *Fruit*~… A ~Good Tree~ Cannot Bring Forth evil fruit, neither can A corrupt tree bring forth ~good *Fruit*… ~EVERY TREE~ that bringeth NOT Forth Good *Fruit* IS Hewn Down, AND Cast Into the fire.”
So think seriously about what your are teaching, how you are presenting IT, so as not to mix into the Blessed Gospel of Christ and the Kingdom of God any bad fruits of the false teachings of the world, thus bringing forth and spreading diseased seeds among the children… Remembering Jesus did not say, that these false teachings were okay, they would be corrected, and forgiven, He Said, they will be cut down, And cast into the fire. AND What IS the ~Bad Seed~? Murder, stealing, gambling, drunkenness all the things that we folk believe and view as bad?
(Luke 8:14).. Again Jesus Said. “And That which ~Fell~ among thorns ARE THEY, WHICH, When they Have ~Heard~, Go Forth, AND ARE Choked with ~~The Cares and Riches, and Pleasure of ~~THIS LIFE~~ and bring *NO FRUIT* to **Perfection**…
We can testify to every one that we meet, “we Love Jesus”, but IF we are embracing the things of the world as we speak, we are spitting in the wind with our testimony, Because we can ~Bring NO *Fruit* to perfection~, by planting the seeds of the world in the minds of those that we meet.. Oh, we may be working hard AT Planting seeds, but what kind of seeds are we planting and what kind of fruit is springing forth? All we are doing IS showing the world that To love Jesus IS nothing more than living this life as we please, keeping step with the pleasures of men’s traditions of seasonal parties, games contest of competition, seeking pleasures outside of the realm of God’s Teachings that HE HAD Written for us to follow in HIS Book of Guidance…. AS Jesus Said Again:
(Matthew 12:33).. “Either Make The ~Tree GOOD~, and his *FRUIT* Good, OR else make the tree ~Corrupt~, and his *Fruit* corrupt: For the ~Tree~ IS Known by his *FRUIT*.”
(Luke 8:15) .. “But, that on the ~GOOD Ground~ are they, which in an honest and good heart, having … ~HEARD THE WORD~, *KEEP IT*, and bring forth *Fruit* with patience.”
(Note NOT with pleasure, but with patience.) Then again in John, Jesus Said:
(John 15:1-2).. “I am The True Vine, and My *Father IS The Husbandman. Every ~branch~ in Me that beareth NOT *Fruit* HE Taketh Away:” (Sound like once saved always saved… if we are the branches and we dilly-dally around in the world and don’t bring forth ~Good Fruit~ what did Jesus Say? “Every Branch *IN ME*”… So IF we are in Christ and we fail we are taken away…) “AND Every Branch that beareth fruit, HE purgeth it, that it may bring forth more *Fruit*…” (The Father ~Purges~ or cleanses, gets rid of the undesirable mess in our lives, there again *IF*, we bring forth *Good Fruit*, BY *Planting Good Seeds*, The Father will cleanse us and keep us… But IF we get all mixed up in the cares and traditions of this world we are cast out.) How ARE we Cleansed?
(John 15:3-4) “NOW, you ARE Clean ~Through~ the Word That I (Jesus) have spoken unto you.. Abide *IN* Me, and I in you. As the ~branch~ Cannot bear *Fruit* of Itself, except it abide in the Vine, no more can you except ye abide in Me.”
(Oh my, what does this statement do to the theory that we can do what we want to in Gods House of Prayer as long as ~WE~ Put God In IT? Jesus does not say that He will abide IN What we plant, But we must abide in The Vine, to be clean through the Word That He speaks, not what man speaks and deems good.) (v.5).. “For Without Me (Jesus) ye can do nothing”.. Along with the rest of the verses, this doesn’t mean we can do nothing, for we can certainly do that which seems righteous to us, but IT Does Mean that what we deem righteous, IS, Because we must do that which Jesus Says IS Righteous, that Which The Father Deems To Be Good.. Through and by abiding IN The True Vine Because there IS AN *IF*.
(John 15: 6-7)… “*IF* a man ~Abide~ NOT IN Me, he IS cast for as a branch and IS withered; and men gather them and cast them into the fire that they might be burned…” (BUT) “*IF* ye abide in Me, ~AND~ My Words ~Abide~ in you, ye shall ask what ye will and *IT* shall be done unto you.”
A wonderful promise that we should take seriously. Flirting with the world is not worth the risk of losing out on this promise… A temporary fix of good time in the ways of the world, will lead us into a habit of following the world, and ultimately to the downfall and destruction of our future by holding onto the ways of men and their traditions…
(Genesis 1:12).. In The Very Beginning.. “The ~tree~ yielding fruit, whose ~seed~ was in itself, after his kind, and God saw that IT Was Good…
(Genesis 3:3) .. But the *Fruit* of the tree which IS In the midst of the garden, God ~HATH SAID~, “ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.”
All through the Bible there is reference to the Fruits.. Pattered after the Command From the very beginning, and that Command IS, *OBEDIENCE* unto God The Father… And there IS Warning from Genesis Through Revelation of what the consequences of Disobedience will be…
(Ephesians 5:9).. For The *Fruit* of The Spirit IS IN ALL Goodness and Righteousness and Truth.
(Hebrews 13:15).. By Him, (Jesus Christ) therefore let us offer the ~sacrifice~ of Praise To God continually, that IS The *Fruit* of our lips, giving thanks to HIS NAME..
Notice it doesn’t read, after we have praised each other for our fleshly births, anniversaries, the nation, it’s occasions, and of men’s days, we are to then Praise the LORD and Give HIM Thanks, BUT IT States: “Offer the sacrifice of Praise Continually To God.” This world and all in IT Will Pass Away, and ALL The Feel Goods that we have contributed to someone ahead of God’s Praise will be gone with it, BUT God’s Kingdom and HIS Glory WILL Stand Forever, and SO Will HIS Words OF Promise, TO Receive us into HIS Kingdom *IF* we Remain IN The Vine and Obediently Plant Good Seeds, and To Cast us into the Fires of Destruction *IF* we step out into the world and contaminate the branch with the disease of Satan…..
(James 1:27)… Pure *Religion* and undefiled before God and The Father IS This, TO visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself ~Unspotted~ From The *world*…
SOOOOoooo… *IF*, one Claims TO Love Jesus, Then one MUST have ~Religion~, BUT IT Must Be The Pure undefiled by the world Religion OF: Transkei - Greek Word for religion which IS: Religious ~Disciplined~ Worship… How many Services Adhere TO This? Because So many take in the pagan customs and false teachings and call IT Religion it tarnishes the minds of all those who truly seek to serve the LORD IN Honesty and Truth, WHICH IS WHY, IT IS up to Each individual TO: Seek the Truth in Prayer To: God the Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ HIS Son, asking that The Holy Spirit BE the Guide to teach, and lead you into ALL Things, bringing to mind the things which Jesus Spoke when He walked about teaching men on this earth, and of Coarse one MUST Seek The Written Word of ALL Instruction that God and penned down by faithful men of old, and has had preserved for us to use as a reminder of things we need to know and must do.
IT may not seem the best way to make a body feel good, but IT IS To the Betterment of ALL IF we stand strong in our praise to God and set forth faithful examples for those that are viewing the seeds that we are casting forth.. Because IT Ain’t about making a body ~Feel~ Good, IT IS Rather About Delivering The Gospel IN Truth and Honesty for the benefit of the lost.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Assembling Of "I-Me-My"
Wouldn’t IT BE Wonderful “IF”,
Folks could assemble Together with ONLY The LORD.
Leaving out ~ALL~ The “Me-I-Mys”,
That toot their “OWN” Horns for fleshly reward.
Where THE Holy Spirit Abides
He Testifies of The Father and The Son.
Bringing to ~Mind~ The Words Jesus Spoke
Drawing us together with THEM AS One.
Sadly so many Meeting Houses
Have leaders that lift themselves up on the shelf,
With “I” did this, “My” family IS That,
AS for “ME”, “I” really “Think” this IS For “Myself.”
Either, ~ALL~ About “ME”, OR “MY” fleshly gain
“MY” Riches, “MY” Fortunes, OR “MY” Fame,
OR, ~Poor Ole~ “ME”, can’t you ~ALL~ see
The financial bind, of “MY” Pain?
When ~ALL~ is said and ~ALL~ is done
The Meeting Together ended and departed,
One must stop, look, and scratch their head,
Wondering DID God’s Praise ever get started?
For we were called to assemble ourselves
Together to Honor HIS Holy Name,
But ~ALL~ that ever got declared
Was fleshly human pain or gain…
What Ever Happened TO:
“Preach ~The Word~, Be Instant IN & Out OF Season,
Rebuke, Exhort with ~ALL~ longsuffering and *Doctrine*.”
Did man get lost IN His Own Way of Reason?
In Assembling ourselves together for purpose,
In Assembling ourselves together for purpose,
OF ~Exhorting~ one another in The Word.
Won’t keep one strong in the end, *IF*,
Worldly pain or gain IS ALL That’s Ever Heard.
*IF* the ~Exhortation~ IS IN the ways of man
What “I” have ~Accomplished~ in this life.
For IF One has lived His life IN Christ,
Then IT IS Mirrored in ones speech, not strife.
IT Shows forth in the way one conducts themselves,
The clothing upon ones back,
The manner of speech, the way we teach
IT ISN’T found in a Bankers Sack.
OR Trophies of contest winners,
Ones who struggle to get to the top of the heap,
OF worldly rewards of silver, gold,
None of which will our souls ~Prove~ to Keep.
BUT There IS Only *ONE* Worth the Honor
OF Praising, OF Lifting HIS Holy Name Above,
That IS God The Father IN Heaven Which Sends,
Through HIS Son, Jesus Christ, “HIS ETERNAL LOVE.”
First Rights Composed 01-08-2012
By: Charlotte A. Barfield
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
The Fork In The Road
There IS a ~Fork~ in the road of everyone’s life, a ~decision~ of, which direction one must take.. IT Looms ever before us, and daily we must take The *RIGHT* Fork.. AS Jesus Described IT IN Warning:
(Matthew 7:13-14).. AS Jesus Said, “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for ~wide~ IS the gate, and broad IS The Way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because ~STRAIT~ IS The Gate, and Narrow IS THE WAY, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find IT.”
(Luke 13:24)… Again Jesus Said, “Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.”
The ~Choice~ of which road to take IS Given us by THE Father… Similar and in the same context that HE Gave Adam and Eve and, all born on this earth since, A Choice: TO Obey ~OR~ TO Rebel….
AND OF Course, the road that leads into the ~Fork~ IS the “Luke Warm” Path which will eventually veer off into the path of destruction..
(Revelation 3:15-16)… Jesus Said, “I Know thy ~Works~, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold OR hot… SO THEN, Because thou art ~~Lukewarm~, and neither cold nor hot, I Will Spur thee out of My Mouth….”
So for the ones who try to straddle the fence and walk with one foot in the world to appease the nations, their customs and celebrations, and with the other foot walk into the Sanctuaries toting in the trash of the world continually, beware of the ~Lukewarm~ path that is being trod….
(Deuteronomy 30:19-20)… “I Call Heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I (THE LORD) have ~SET~ Before you, “life & death”, “blessing & cursing”: Therefore **CHOOSE** life, that both thou and thy ~Seed~ (children) may ~Live~: That thou mayest *LOVE* the LORD thy God, and thou mayest *OBEY* HIS VOICE, and that thou mayest *Cleave* unto HIM: FOR HE IS thy life, and the length of thy days…
So many run about teaching and preaching, “God loves us,” “Jesus Loves you,” BUT I never hear IT Taught, that ~~we, the people~~ Absolutely MUST *LOVE* The LORD with ~ALL our hearts…. LOVE Must be reciprocated in a marriage doesn’t *IT*?
(Jeremiah 21:8) .. Thus saith THE LORD; “Behold, I Set before you the ~Way of life~ and the ~way of death~…
(John 5:24).. (Jesus reiterated this same message) .. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth My Word, and believeth on HIM that Sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but IS passed from death into life.”
(Romans 8:6) .. (Paul understood the message).. “For to be carnally minded IS death, but to be spiritually minded IS life and peace”…
Most folks consider being carnal as; drunkenness, depravity, more or less something that someone else is doing, never looking at our own doorstep as to the carnal things that we may be seeking, and to be carnal IS simply to be concerned about ones own self, what we are gonna eat, what fun we are gonna have, actually a selfish attitude in the ways of the world… Something to chew the fat over isn’t it?
(Revelation 2:10) (AND Yet Again Jesus promised), “Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: Behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days, ~~Be thou *Faithful*~~ unto death, and I Will give thee a crown of life.”
In this and ALL the scriptures that I find, Jesus never promised that He would just move into our bodies, take over our thoughts and keep us in The Will and Way of The Heavenly Father, BUT He Did However, set a choice before us and a purpose to fulfill until the end of our fleshly life here on this earth.. That task was TO: Believe to the point of ~Faithful Obedience~ IN His Father and IN The Fact That His Father sent Him and that His Father and ours Will send a Comforter, the Holy Spirit or Ghost to Guide us, and to Testify of Both the Father and The Son to our heart and conscious and Again *IF*…. AS Jesus said:
(John 14-15) .. “*IF* ye ~Love~ Me., Keep My Commandments.”
We expect Jesus and The Father to Love us, but do we really love them as Jesus said we should?
Notice Jesus said *IF* and *Keep*..giving us the choice and task OF keeping His Commandments, He didn’t say I Will Hold you and won’t let you stray away from My Commandments, But He gives us that decision… He did promise to help us, to keep the enemy from us *IF* we keep our faces turned to Him… But He did not promise to hold us *IF* we decide we want to diddle in and with the ways of the world….
(John 14:16) Jesus again said, “And I will pray the Father, and HE shall give you another ~Comforter~.., that He may Abide with you forever.. (17) Even the spirit of ~Truth~, whom the world cannot receive, because IT seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him.. (24).. He that ~Loveth~ Me NOT, keepeth NOT My sayings: AND The ~word~ which ye hear IS Not Mine, But The Father’s which sent Me. (26) But, The Comforter, Which IS The Holy Ghost Whom The Father Will Send in My Name, He shall ~Teach~ you ALL things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
(John 15:26) .. “But, When The Comforter IS Come, Whom I will send unto you From The Father, even The Spirit of Truth, Which proceeded From The Father, He Shall Testify of Me.”
So, did Jesus walk about the earth testifying that God the Father lives in Me so I have nothing more to do, because He will not leave me and whatever I do IS good, and what ever happens to you just happens because God does not favor you, HE favors ME Only? OR DID Jesus, humbly and obediently walk about the land teaching and preaching the Kingdom of God, and The Way That leads to eternal life that ~ALL~ who hear and receive the message have the same opportunity to seek the rebirth.. The putting away of the fleshly actions and receiving the new spiritual walk in Christ? ….
(John 17: 3).. Jesus said, “This IS life eternal, that they might know THEE, The Only True God, and, Jesus Christ, Whom THOU Hast SENT.” (6).. I (Jesus) have manifested (Clearly made known), THY NAME unto the men… & they ~have kept~ THY Word. (8). “For I Have given them, THY Words which THOU hast given Me.” (20).. “I (Jesus) Pray NOT for these alone, BUT for them also which shall believe on Me through their word: (21) That they ~~ALL~~ may be ONE: as THOU, Father, art in Me, and I in THEE, that they may also, may be ONE in US: that the world may ~believe~ that THOU hast ~Sent~ Me.”
When we hear and see folks, no matter what walk of life they profess to trod, making fun of, mocking and joking about The Heavenly Father, HIS Kingdom, HIS Son, OR The Holy Ghost, what does this prove them to be? IT Shows only that they do not possess the proper fear of GOD. Leading us to conclude that we need to keep ourselves free of interaction with these people… Keep our witness plain and clear that we are humble servants of THE LORD, not frivolous participants of the world led by Satan and his demons… Look carefully before we take that step out onto the ~Wrong~ *Fork of The Road*!
(Matthew 7:13-14).. AS Jesus Said, “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for ~wide~ IS the gate, and broad IS The Way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because ~STRAIT~ IS The Gate, and Narrow IS THE WAY, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find IT.”
(Luke 13:24)… Again Jesus Said, “Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.”
The ~Choice~ of which road to take IS Given us by THE Father… Similar and in the same context that HE Gave Adam and Eve and, all born on this earth since, A Choice: TO Obey ~OR~ TO Rebel….
AND OF Course, the road that leads into the ~Fork~ IS the “Luke Warm” Path which will eventually veer off into the path of destruction..
(Revelation 3:15-16)… Jesus Said, “I Know thy ~Works~, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold OR hot… SO THEN, Because thou art ~~Lukewarm~, and neither cold nor hot, I Will Spur thee out of My Mouth….”
So for the ones who try to straddle the fence and walk with one foot in the world to appease the nations, their customs and celebrations, and with the other foot walk into the Sanctuaries toting in the trash of the world continually, beware of the ~Lukewarm~ path that is being trod….
(Deuteronomy 30:19-20)… “I Call Heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I (THE LORD) have ~SET~ Before you, “life & death”, “blessing & cursing”: Therefore **CHOOSE** life, that both thou and thy ~Seed~ (children) may ~Live~: That thou mayest *LOVE* the LORD thy God, and thou mayest *OBEY* HIS VOICE, and that thou mayest *Cleave* unto HIM: FOR HE IS thy life, and the length of thy days…
So many run about teaching and preaching, “God loves us,” “Jesus Loves you,” BUT I never hear IT Taught, that ~~we, the people~~ Absolutely MUST *LOVE* The LORD with ~ALL our hearts…. LOVE Must be reciprocated in a marriage doesn’t *IT*?
(Jeremiah 21:8) .. Thus saith THE LORD; “Behold, I Set before you the ~Way of life~ and the ~way of death~…
(John 5:24).. (Jesus reiterated this same message) .. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth My Word, and believeth on HIM that Sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but IS passed from death into life.”
(Romans 8:6) .. (Paul understood the message).. “For to be carnally minded IS death, but to be spiritually minded IS life and peace”…
Most folks consider being carnal as; drunkenness, depravity, more or less something that someone else is doing, never looking at our own doorstep as to the carnal things that we may be seeking, and to be carnal IS simply to be concerned about ones own self, what we are gonna eat, what fun we are gonna have, actually a selfish attitude in the ways of the world… Something to chew the fat over isn’t it?
(Revelation 2:10) (AND Yet Again Jesus promised), “Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: Behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days, ~~Be thou *Faithful*~~ unto death, and I Will give thee a crown of life.”
In this and ALL the scriptures that I find, Jesus never promised that He would just move into our bodies, take over our thoughts and keep us in The Will and Way of The Heavenly Father, BUT He Did However, set a choice before us and a purpose to fulfill until the end of our fleshly life here on this earth.. That task was TO: Believe to the point of ~Faithful Obedience~ IN His Father and IN The Fact That His Father sent Him and that His Father and ours Will send a Comforter, the Holy Spirit or Ghost to Guide us, and to Testify of Both the Father and The Son to our heart and conscious and Again *IF*…. AS Jesus said:
(John 14-15) .. “*IF* ye ~Love~ Me., Keep My Commandments.”
We expect Jesus and The Father to Love us, but do we really love them as Jesus said we should?
Notice Jesus said *IF* and *Keep*..giving us the choice and task OF keeping His Commandments, He didn’t say I Will Hold you and won’t let you stray away from My Commandments, But He gives us that decision… He did promise to help us, to keep the enemy from us *IF* we keep our faces turned to Him… But He did not promise to hold us *IF* we decide we want to diddle in and with the ways of the world….
(John 14:16) Jesus again said, “And I will pray the Father, and HE shall give you another ~Comforter~.., that He may Abide with you forever.. (17) Even the spirit of ~Truth~, whom the world cannot receive, because IT seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him.. (24).. He that ~Loveth~ Me NOT, keepeth NOT My sayings: AND The ~word~ which ye hear IS Not Mine, But The Father’s which sent Me. (26) But, The Comforter, Which IS The Holy Ghost Whom The Father Will Send in My Name, He shall ~Teach~ you ALL things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
(John 15:26) .. “But, When The Comforter IS Come, Whom I will send unto you From The Father, even The Spirit of Truth, Which proceeded From The Father, He Shall Testify of Me.”
So, did Jesus walk about the earth testifying that God the Father lives in Me so I have nothing more to do, because He will not leave me and whatever I do IS good, and what ever happens to you just happens because God does not favor you, HE favors ME Only? OR DID Jesus, humbly and obediently walk about the land teaching and preaching the Kingdom of God, and The Way That leads to eternal life that ~ALL~ who hear and receive the message have the same opportunity to seek the rebirth.. The putting away of the fleshly actions and receiving the new spiritual walk in Christ? ….
(John 17: 3).. Jesus said, “This IS life eternal, that they might know THEE, The Only True God, and, Jesus Christ, Whom THOU Hast SENT.” (6).. I (Jesus) have manifested (Clearly made known), THY NAME unto the men… & they ~have kept~ THY Word. (8). “For I Have given them, THY Words which THOU hast given Me.” (20).. “I (Jesus) Pray NOT for these alone, BUT for them also which shall believe on Me through their word: (21) That they ~~ALL~~ may be ONE: as THOU, Father, art in Me, and I in THEE, that they may also, may be ONE in US: that the world may ~believe~ that THOU hast ~Sent~ Me.”
When we hear and see folks, no matter what walk of life they profess to trod, making fun of, mocking and joking about The Heavenly Father, HIS Kingdom, HIS Son, OR The Holy Ghost, what does this prove them to be? IT Shows only that they do not possess the proper fear of GOD. Leading us to conclude that we need to keep ourselves free of interaction with these people… Keep our witness plain and clear that we are humble servants of THE LORD, not frivolous participants of the world led by Satan and his demons… Look carefully before we take that step out onto the ~Wrong~ *Fork of The Road*!
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