There are sooooooo many little sayings printed over pictures that folks pass around as their way of rallying for a cause…SOME claim to testify OF The Love of Jesus BUT: manage to throw in the sly statement: *IF* you pass this to others ~Something Good~ is going to happen to you in such `n` such a short time… BUT *IF* you don’t pass *IT* on then that means that you don’t love Jesus and you follow evil… Sound familiar? For Example:
There IS one that has several flags blowing in the wind with instructions to pass *IT* on to ~support~ those injured in battle… WHY? What support does *IT* really show? The ~Words~ read: “The United States Flag does not fly because the wind moves past *IT*… The flag flies from the last breath of each military member who has died protecting *IT*…
IS This OR Does This build up our witness of the Power and Might of THE LORD God and HIS Son Jesus… How many really testify of/in Truth, and/or build *Faith* in the folks who see and read them… OR does this sort of “Pass IT ON“, message support The ~god~ of this world? Would we not offer ~~BETTER~~ support of and for the troops, their families, the folks all around us *IF*, we simply send forth a prayer chain which IN Truth, could/would be more beneficial to ~ALL~?
(James 5:16b)… the effectual fervent prayer of ~a righteous~ man availed much…
The Greek words here effectual: ejnerghvß means ~to be active~ & fervent: ejnergevw means to be operative, at work, doing…. So we must show ourselves to be putting forth a greater effort in fulfilling the LORD’S Will though our daily activity. NOT wasting ~The Time Which God gives us to be HIS witness here on earth, showing forth our effortless following the leader of the world….
Other lies reflected in these few words: AS IT IS Written IN (Ecclesiastes 12:7b).. The spirit ~Returns~ to unto *GOD* WHO gave *IT*… IT doesn’t fly through the air causing flags to wave… AND!
The US flag nor any other flag does not fly because men have fought to raise IT up, BUT, IF you read the ~Examples~ God had written in HIS BOOK OF ~ALL~ Instruction… The flags fly IN HIS Wind THAT HE causes to blow, and because HE HAS Allowed IT TO BE SO For a while….
(Psalm 147: 5).. ~GREAT~ IS our LORD, and great IS HIS Power: HIS Understanding IS Infinite… & (v.18b).. HE causeth HIS wind to blow and the waters to flow…
We may hear this IN Church, but when we leave we quickly forget ~Truth~ and slip back into the world of Satan’s ~Make believe~ following…
Then again sometimes IT IS the way a message IS delivered, mixed with the customs and celebrations of pagans, that water down the ~~Truth~~ and make IT Into a lie so that we hear and follow what we `Think~ is truth…. This could be the cause of many a downfall, lack of Truthful Witness. A steady constant walk with the LORD IS a must *IF* we ~Hope~ to attain the goal of life eternal in God’s Kingdom… SO this should be a constant in our thoughts, so that there is no room left for the foolishness of Satan to inch his way in… Because !
Satan IS going to make IT easy for us to follow his way, by whispering in our hearts, this *IS* good this will make us to be godly *IF* we follow suit… BUTTTTTT!
*IF*, you have a constant communication with THE LORD God Almighty our Heavenly Father, through the proper channel of HIS Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, under the Guidance OF The Holy Ghost, AND THEN *IF* you read the Bible That was Divinely Inspired, and penned down by ~~Faithful~~ prophets and servants of old, AND THEN, *IF* you are willing to humbly obey the Instructions that God gave us, you ~~Will~~ look before you leap into the traps and snares of Satan set forth to ~~LOOK~~ righteous, and recognize that they are painted white on the outside, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones, (Matt. 23:27b). by the adversary THE *father of the lie…* Which IS what the printing of the words over the flags ARE! Read ALL of the warning of Jesus written in Matthew 23, over again, often!
Because, God created The wind, God causes the wind to blow, so that which stands in the wind IS blown by The winds that God HIMSELF Created… not the breath of a dying soldier…
We have ~ALL~ lost loved ones in battles of war… BUT our hope for their sakes, as well as their loved ones still here, and ourselves, MUST BE placed in The LORD God Almighty, not in a made up heart wrenching story of mankind…
Our witness must be IN Truth and Honesty, OF God’s Holy Word, Not in a pictured fantasy created by the serpent….
AND *IN* showing *True Faith* through our Honesty Witness, AND our ~Obedient~ walk through this world, WILL have a greater impact/benefit on those who must fight Caesars battles, those who lose loved ones in these battles, those who are searching for comfort, and peace, for *IT* Will NOT BE Found in a ~Lie~ of Satan…. Be careful what you repost as being ~IN~ Agreement with… *IT* just may be a cunningly placed word of ~Trickery~… and as was done to Eve…. BE Very Careful of what you ~ARE~ *IN* Agreement with, Search The Scriptures for ~~PROOF~~, through pray for Guidance BY The Holy Spirit to help you understand and learn.
GO-GO-GO to The Bible, Read, Read, Read, AND Learn, Learn, Learn, so that the traps of Satan will lay bare and empty, and the witness given of the LORD WILL BE Filled with HIS Promises: helping others to Grow IN “FAITH, HOPE, & LOVE”!
Monday, April 30, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Cain And Abel Twins?
There is always a controversy about one Bible Scripture or another… AND I must admit that I have been so confused at times because of the things that some preachers or teachers, say “IS Written,” OR “This IS What This Particular Verse of Scripture means,” until I go digging through the rest of the Bible For Verification of what has been said….. Well, this is what I found so far of one subject…. Were Cain and Abel ~Twins~..?
(Genesis 4:1-2).. AND Adam ~~Knew~~ (Hebrew word -Yada` meaning to lay with or ~know~ intimately as used here, but there are several uses for the word “knew” )… Eve, his wife; and she ~conceived, and bare Cain, (Now here is where the first clue to many tales that are floating off of the tongues of men lies. AS IT IS Written, Adam ~Knew~ had relations with his wife and she became pregnant ~~with~~ Adam’s child and she bore a son, Cain, realizing and declaring Cain to be a man from THE LORD. Because without God we can do nothing… BUT many folks teach that Cain was conceived by Eve from the serpent in the garden to be evil… THIS IS Clearly NOT what IS Written! IS IT?) ..(v.1b) and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. (2a) .. And she again bare his brother Abel… (Well, the same example applies here, many are teaching that because IT IS Written, that she ~Again Bare~ It is implying that this is the same pregnancy, same delivery, of Cain’s brother Abel, as a ~twin~… BUT, the Hebrew word “again” IS “Yacaph”, meaning; to add to, increase, do it again… and she did it again several more times because Adam was the father of many sons and daughters, (Gen.5:4).. So whether IT Be Written: “again she bare”, or “she again bare”, it still means the same thing… just that she had another son at some point… nine months later or ten years later…. AND in (Gen. 3:20).. Adam called his wife’s ~name~ “Eve” ~Because~ she was the mother of ~~ALL~~ living…
Also IT doesn't reference that Adam knew his wife in verse 4 of chapter 5 for every time he begat many sons and daughters, so why must it reference that Adam ~~KNEW~~ his wife a second time in order to bear a second son Abel? It also has at this point dropped Cain and Abel from the written lineage.. they are not even listed in the lineage of Adam in: (Gen. 5) nor (I Chronicles 1) as in (Luke 3:38,) Jesus came through Seth, the important point.... Again when Seth was born it did state that Adam knew his wife again, but it doesn't state whether this was the third birth or the fifteenth, just that Seth was born to Adam, through which the lineage of Jesus Christ the Son of God would come...
There are many ~tales~ of this verse, one is that Cain & Abel both had twin sisters, where IS IT Written? There is a tale that Cain was the offspring of an adulterous affair by Eve with the serpent.. and then Adam came into her and she conceived Abel in the same pregnancy... making proof that they were twins...And making their sin sexual when their sin ~WAS~ the same as all through history and as ours today, “Disobedience unto God’s Way, HIS Commands”.. In fact there are many different renditions of this account, BUT… from what I have found there IS No Divinely Written Proof… By which The Comforter testifies to us of these things.. So in the fear of adding to or taking away from the written words, AS IT IS Written in (Deuteronomy 4:2) & (Revelations 22:18) warns against, I dare not assume to add to or make changes to the Scriptures, but only to accept them in good faith, AS they are written…
Another thought to consider, The Book of Genesis was penned down by Moses, who also wrote the rendition of the births of Esau and Jacob, Isaac’s sons AND, he referred to them as twins, how they struggled in the womb…(Genesis 25: 21-25) Since Moses wrote both passages, although this too is a controversial issue, it seems that he would certainly have made it clear that Cain and Abel were also ~twins~… AND yes, there were interpreters and translators that wrote the Bible, into English, but it still holds a distinct difference in writers style. IF you read the writings of a certain author very much you begin to see a type of order, a fingerprint in their delivery of points, the same as you find in a certain artist, work is identified by their unique strokes with the brush, a writer delivers his messages in the same manner each time… Example, the Zane Gray series, IF I did not see the name of the author or a title of the story, I would recognize the style of writing as that of Zane Gray…So IF you read a Bible Book enough the style of the writer becomes evident…Just like I can’t read some folks writings because of their style, and I’m sure some folks can’t read mine, unless they learn to recognize my writingprint… Try reading the things that John wrote, and then compare them to Luke‘s… And OF Course, we must do this under the guidance of the Comforter, The Holy Spirit Who, THE LORD God sends to ~testify~ to our hearts the Truth OF the things that Are Written…
Esau and Jacobs births are referenced as representing two nations, two manners of people.. This is not hidden for us to seek out this information, nor to make assumptions of… and Cain and Abel were pointed to as examples of the difference between righteous and evil… lessons taught of the error of our ways through disobedience, and the opposite, humble obedience to God’s Will and Way… and The need to walk by ~~FAITH~~… they carry a message in their life story, although short….
(Hebrews 11:4) … BY *Faith* Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that ~~he was righteous~~, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh…. (Good example for us to pay attention to today.)
(I John 3:12)… Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother… And wherefore slew he him? (why did he Cain kill him Abel his brother?) Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
Obviously spurred by the evil jealousy of vain thinking which is written of throughout the Bible.
Some folks use this verse, however, as ~their proof~ that Eve had relations with the serpent and that Lucifer, the devil was indeed Cain’s biological father… BUT, we gotta get the picture into focus.. SO read:
(I John 3: 1-11) and it will be clear that As Jesus Said in: (John 8:44).. “ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.” *IF* we prove obedient to God The Father, then we resist the temptation of the devil as it is written in (I John 3:10) whosoever doeth not righteousness IS NOT OF God, neither he that loveth ~~NOT~~ his brother… so it is a spiritual matter, of who we follow that makes the devil our father…. AND, Eve realized and stated that she had gotten a man from The LORD, so when we get the rest of the story the point of The Book becomes more clear….. We just gotta digest *IT* a little at the time in order to learn… Like the mule that climbed out of the well by stepping up on one shovel of dirt at the time…. If the farmer had dumped a truck full of dirt in the well all at one time the mule would have been buried, suffocated, and died, but one shovel at the time allowed the mule to keep, shaking it off and stepping up until he could walk right on out of the well….. Amen?
(Jude 1:11) .. Woe unto them! For ~they~ have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core…
(Genesis 4:1-2).. AND Adam ~~Knew~~ (Hebrew word -Yada` meaning to lay with or ~know~ intimately as used here, but there are several uses for the word “knew” )… Eve, his wife; and she ~conceived, and bare Cain, (Now here is where the first clue to many tales that are floating off of the tongues of men lies. AS IT IS Written, Adam ~Knew~ had relations with his wife and she became pregnant ~~with~~ Adam’s child and she bore a son, Cain, realizing and declaring Cain to be a man from THE LORD. Because without God we can do nothing… BUT many folks teach that Cain was conceived by Eve from the serpent in the garden to be evil… THIS IS Clearly NOT what IS Written! IS IT?) ..(v.1b) and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. (2a) .. And she again bare his brother Abel… (Well, the same example applies here, many are teaching that because IT IS Written, that she ~Again Bare~ It is implying that this is the same pregnancy, same delivery, of Cain’s brother Abel, as a ~twin~… BUT, the Hebrew word “again” IS “Yacaph”, meaning; to add to, increase, do it again… and she did it again several more times because Adam was the father of many sons and daughters, (Gen.5:4).. So whether IT Be Written: “again she bare”, or “she again bare”, it still means the same thing… just that she had another son at some point… nine months later or ten years later…. AND in (Gen. 3:20).. Adam called his wife’s ~name~ “Eve” ~Because~ she was the mother of ~~ALL~~ living…
Also IT doesn't reference that Adam knew his wife in verse 4 of chapter 5 for every time he begat many sons and daughters, so why must it reference that Adam ~~KNEW~~ his wife a second time in order to bear a second son Abel? It also has at this point dropped Cain and Abel from the written lineage.. they are not even listed in the lineage of Adam in: (Gen. 5) nor (I Chronicles 1) as in (Luke 3:38,) Jesus came through Seth, the important point.... Again when Seth was born it did state that Adam knew his wife again, but it doesn't state whether this was the third birth or the fifteenth, just that Seth was born to Adam, through which the lineage of Jesus Christ the Son of God would come...
There are many ~tales~ of this verse, one is that Cain & Abel both had twin sisters, where IS IT Written? There is a tale that Cain was the offspring of an adulterous affair by Eve with the serpent.. and then Adam came into her and she conceived Abel in the same pregnancy... making proof that they were twins...And making their sin sexual when their sin ~WAS~ the same as all through history and as ours today, “Disobedience unto God’s Way, HIS Commands”.. In fact there are many different renditions of this account, BUT… from what I have found there IS No Divinely Written Proof… By which The Comforter testifies to us of these things.. So in the fear of adding to or taking away from the written words, AS IT IS Written in (Deuteronomy 4:2) & (Revelations 22:18) warns against, I dare not assume to add to or make changes to the Scriptures, but only to accept them in good faith, AS they are written…
Another thought to consider, The Book of Genesis was penned down by Moses, who also wrote the rendition of the births of Esau and Jacob, Isaac’s sons AND, he referred to them as twins, how they struggled in the womb…(Genesis 25: 21-25) Since Moses wrote both passages, although this too is a controversial issue, it seems that he would certainly have made it clear that Cain and Abel were also ~twins~… AND yes, there were interpreters and translators that wrote the Bible, into English, but it still holds a distinct difference in writers style. IF you read the writings of a certain author very much you begin to see a type of order, a fingerprint in their delivery of points, the same as you find in a certain artist, work is identified by their unique strokes with the brush, a writer delivers his messages in the same manner each time… Example, the Zane Gray series, IF I did not see the name of the author or a title of the story, I would recognize the style of writing as that of Zane Gray…So IF you read a Bible Book enough the style of the writer becomes evident…Just like I can’t read some folks writings because of their style, and I’m sure some folks can’t read mine, unless they learn to recognize my writingprint… Try reading the things that John wrote, and then compare them to Luke‘s… And OF Course, we must do this under the guidance of the Comforter, The Holy Spirit Who, THE LORD God sends to ~testify~ to our hearts the Truth OF the things that Are Written…
Esau and Jacobs births are referenced as representing two nations, two manners of people.. This is not hidden for us to seek out this information, nor to make assumptions of… and Cain and Abel were pointed to as examples of the difference between righteous and evil… lessons taught of the error of our ways through disobedience, and the opposite, humble obedience to God’s Will and Way… and The need to walk by ~~FAITH~~… they carry a message in their life story, although short….
(Hebrews 11:4) … BY *Faith* Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that ~~he was righteous~~, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh…. (Good example for us to pay attention to today.)
(I John 3:12)… Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother… And wherefore slew he him? (why did he Cain kill him Abel his brother?) Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
Obviously spurred by the evil jealousy of vain thinking which is written of throughout the Bible.
Some folks use this verse, however, as ~their proof~ that Eve had relations with the serpent and that Lucifer, the devil was indeed Cain’s biological father… BUT, we gotta get the picture into focus.. SO read:
(I John 3: 1-11) and it will be clear that As Jesus Said in: (John 8:44).. “ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.” *IF* we prove obedient to God The Father, then we resist the temptation of the devil as it is written in (I John 3:10) whosoever doeth not righteousness IS NOT OF God, neither he that loveth ~~NOT~~ his brother… so it is a spiritual matter, of who we follow that makes the devil our father…. AND, Eve realized and stated that she had gotten a man from The LORD, so when we get the rest of the story the point of The Book becomes more clear….. We just gotta digest *IT* a little at the time in order to learn… Like the mule that climbed out of the well by stepping up on one shovel of dirt at the time…. If the farmer had dumped a truck full of dirt in the well all at one time the mule would have been buried, suffocated, and died, but one shovel at the time allowed the mule to keep, shaking it off and stepping up until he could walk right on out of the well….. Amen?
(Jude 1:11) .. Woe unto them! For ~they~ have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core…
Monday, April 23, 2012
Tattoo Statistics
(Revelation 22:7-16)… AS IT IS Written, AS Jesus Said: “Behold, I (Jesus) ~Come~ quickly: blessed IS he that keepeth the sayings of the ~prophecy~ OF ~This~ BOOK…” AND when I (John) had heard and seen theses things I fell down to worship before the feet of, *The Angel* which shewed me these things, *He* (The Angel Jesus) saith unto me (John), “See thou do it not: FOR *I* am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, & OF them which keep The Sayings of This Book: Worship God.” AND He (Jesus) saith, “Seal ~NOT~ the sayings of the prophesy of This BOOK: FOR The Time IS AT Hand… He that IS unjust, let him be unjust still: he that is filthy, let him be filthy still: AND he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. AND Behold, *I* (Jesus) come quickly; AND My reward IS with Me, TO give every man according as his work shall be.. *I* am Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and the End, The First and the Last, Blessed ~~ARE~~ they that do *HIS* (JEHOVAH God, THE Father) Commandments.. That they may have the ~~Right~~ to the ~Tree OF Life~~~…”
You know, folks are gonna do what they ~want~ to do regardless of the warnings that are given them, about life, death, & punishments… God Knows this, And Had Jesus give the final warning to John, saying, let them go on doing what they see fit to do and Jesus metes out the rewards for their works, either good or bad….
Now, folks are gonna make some kind of excuses for doing what ~They~ want to, rather than proving obedient to God’s Word or Written Command… A popular excuse for teens to offer to parents IS: “Well, everyone else IS doing IT, IT IS The *NEW* thing.” Parents wanting to give their children ~~ALL~~ the opportunities that other children have, wanting them TO Fit IN, give in and decide ALL ON their ~OWN~, that maybe this one little thing isn’t as bad as folks make *IT* out to be… Surely God will forgive this ~one little abomination~, this one time breaking of HIS Statute, maybe HE will just overlook IT, or Surely IT Will be hidden from God’s Eyes, by the ~blood of HIS Dear Son, Jesus Christ~, *IF* we claim Him…. AS we do whole heartedly at Christmas Time after the glitter and make believe magic is all over, or at Easter time after the eggs are colored found, and the partying is done….. The world can see a pattern, why can’t the people that call themselves followers of Christ see *IT*?
Where the ~trend~ for *Tattoos* is nothing new, the last few months *Tats* have gone from ~~Fad~~ to raging unstoppable pandemic… In the past the one reason to “Ink UP” was to confirm your status AS: “Bad to the Bone”, a scary outsider, rebel outlaw sociopath..
Where this has faded into a more subtle reason for tattooing the flesh, feeding this temptation to the more milder mannered class of folk, a cunning tactic of the serpent marking the cuts into the skin with colored objects, for so called beauty, the trend has evolved into more of a rebellion against, one greatly ignored “Command” from THE LORD, God Almighty… TO HIS people… and that Command has not been made null and void because Today IS “Modern Times.”
This should be the *FIRST* and only reason TO Abstain from having cuts made in your fleshly bodies, Because God Said NOT TO, so we who call ourselves HIS people should *Obey* HIS Word, HIS Will, HIS Way, HIS Command….
But there are more reasons that hit closer to the flesh IF one needs to live in the flesh and by the flesh, rather than walk by the Spirit….
Think of the ~Time & money~ wasted, while you are putting your body under the hands of someone with the tools to ~kill~, literally…. NOT TO Mention, the diseases that can and do arise as a direct result of this practice… Think a little deeper, spiritual if you will… God has said, *IF* you break HIS Commandment, you will pay a price… NOW what price are you willing to pay? Other than taking food off the table out of your children’s mouths, and time away from their Biblical Teaching/Training that ~YOU~ as a parent should be doing.. Rather than chasing helter-skelter through the world and *ITS* Ways.
New studies have resulted in revealing the dangers of cutting your flesh, and painting the cuts… Among which is: Hepatitis, and other blood-born diseases that man in all his education, ~Can’t Cure~…. Some affecting the ~lymph nodes~ and spreading throughout the body, breaking down it‘s natural, God given defenses… We know that the LORD giveth and the LORD taketh away, but we expect that we can just do as we please with ~~NO~~ consequences, don’t we? We are in control of our lives until we are in dire sickness, in trouble, and then we remember and hollar, LORD, help us…
Although most folks have all this knowledge already, they know the resulting dangers of doing this, as well as the outcome of sucking up the alcoholic beverages that bring a moment of pleasure but in the end ~WILL~ destroy the fleshly body, it’s liver, it’s organs… AND the result of the fleshly life ending cancers that sucking on a cigarette will bring… but does this deter them…
IT IS Easier to Ignore, “thou shalt NOT”… than to prayerfully overcome the temptations and live this life according to God’s Will for us, so most folks take THE: *ME* road, what *I* want…
The world recognizes that there just could be, ~dark forces~ at work in society today, because folks have gone mad in their running wild through life, doing things injurious to their health, calling IT a good time, fun trips, in reality, “Blatant Rebellion” OF God’s Word…
Tattooing IS A “culturally” sanctioned form of cutting and painting the flesh that IS spreading like wild fire… Reckon Why? Read The Bible and you will understand why…
(Revelation 2:7).. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches; to him that ~~Overcometh~~ will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God….
Notice IT IS NOT Written, to him that jumps into the fads of the world and takes part in all IT’S culturally pagan practices, BUT to him that Overcomes… Keeps free from…
(Leviticus 19:28).. “Ye ~Shall NOT~ make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, not print any marks upon you: *I AM THE LORD*…”
(II Corinthians 6:17)… “Wherefore come ~Out~ from among them, and be ye separate,” saith THE LORD, and “touch ~NOT~ the unclean thing, and I Will Receive you….”
Why do we not teach our children this, rather than teach them that Jesus Loves you just as you are, tattoos and all… and He IS faithful to forgive you… BUT, *IF* you run out and do these things ~~AFTER~~ you have claimed to Follow Him? What then? Will you crucify Christ day after day in a tattoo parlor? He IS Faithful to His Fathers Commandments FIRST… and IF you will not Transform your way of living and repent of your sins which THE LORD God has Commanded that you do not do, then there WILL BE consequences… TO Pay! A sadly received word, “Depart from Me, I Never Knew you.”
You know, folks are gonna do what they ~want~ to do regardless of the warnings that are given them, about life, death, & punishments… God Knows this, And Had Jesus give the final warning to John, saying, let them go on doing what they see fit to do and Jesus metes out the rewards for their works, either good or bad….
Now, folks are gonna make some kind of excuses for doing what ~They~ want to, rather than proving obedient to God’s Word or Written Command… A popular excuse for teens to offer to parents IS: “Well, everyone else IS doing IT, IT IS The *NEW* thing.” Parents wanting to give their children ~~ALL~~ the opportunities that other children have, wanting them TO Fit IN, give in and decide ALL ON their ~OWN~, that maybe this one little thing isn’t as bad as folks make *IT* out to be… Surely God will forgive this ~one little abomination~, this one time breaking of HIS Statute, maybe HE will just overlook IT, or Surely IT Will be hidden from God’s Eyes, by the ~blood of HIS Dear Son, Jesus Christ~, *IF* we claim Him…. AS we do whole heartedly at Christmas Time after the glitter and make believe magic is all over, or at Easter time after the eggs are colored found, and the partying is done….. The world can see a pattern, why can’t the people that call themselves followers of Christ see *IT*?
Where the ~trend~ for *Tattoos* is nothing new, the last few months *Tats* have gone from ~~Fad~~ to raging unstoppable pandemic… In the past the one reason to “Ink UP” was to confirm your status AS: “Bad to the Bone”, a scary outsider, rebel outlaw sociopath..
Where this has faded into a more subtle reason for tattooing the flesh, feeding this temptation to the more milder mannered class of folk, a cunning tactic of the serpent marking the cuts into the skin with colored objects, for so called beauty, the trend has evolved into more of a rebellion against, one greatly ignored “Command” from THE LORD, God Almighty… TO HIS people… and that Command has not been made null and void because Today IS “Modern Times.”
This should be the *FIRST* and only reason TO Abstain from having cuts made in your fleshly bodies, Because God Said NOT TO, so we who call ourselves HIS people should *Obey* HIS Word, HIS Will, HIS Way, HIS Command….
But there are more reasons that hit closer to the flesh IF one needs to live in the flesh and by the flesh, rather than walk by the Spirit….
Think of the ~Time & money~ wasted, while you are putting your body under the hands of someone with the tools to ~kill~, literally…. NOT TO Mention, the diseases that can and do arise as a direct result of this practice… Think a little deeper, spiritual if you will… God has said, *IF* you break HIS Commandment, you will pay a price… NOW what price are you willing to pay? Other than taking food off the table out of your children’s mouths, and time away from their Biblical Teaching/Training that ~YOU~ as a parent should be doing.. Rather than chasing helter-skelter through the world and *ITS* Ways.
New studies have resulted in revealing the dangers of cutting your flesh, and painting the cuts… Among which is: Hepatitis, and other blood-born diseases that man in all his education, ~Can’t Cure~…. Some affecting the ~lymph nodes~ and spreading throughout the body, breaking down it‘s natural, God given defenses… We know that the LORD giveth and the LORD taketh away, but we expect that we can just do as we please with ~~NO~~ consequences, don’t we? We are in control of our lives until we are in dire sickness, in trouble, and then we remember and hollar, LORD, help us…
Although most folks have all this knowledge already, they know the resulting dangers of doing this, as well as the outcome of sucking up the alcoholic beverages that bring a moment of pleasure but in the end ~WILL~ destroy the fleshly body, it’s liver, it’s organs… AND the result of the fleshly life ending cancers that sucking on a cigarette will bring… but does this deter them…
IT IS Easier to Ignore, “thou shalt NOT”… than to prayerfully overcome the temptations and live this life according to God’s Will for us, so most folks take THE: *ME* road, what *I* want…
The world recognizes that there just could be, ~dark forces~ at work in society today, because folks have gone mad in their running wild through life, doing things injurious to their health, calling IT a good time, fun trips, in reality, “Blatant Rebellion” OF God’s Word…
Tattooing IS A “culturally” sanctioned form of cutting and painting the flesh that IS spreading like wild fire… Reckon Why? Read The Bible and you will understand why…
(Revelation 2:7).. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches; to him that ~~Overcometh~~ will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God….
Notice IT IS NOT Written, to him that jumps into the fads of the world and takes part in all IT’S culturally pagan practices, BUT to him that Overcomes… Keeps free from…
(Leviticus 19:28).. “Ye ~Shall NOT~ make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, not print any marks upon you: *I AM THE LORD*…”
(II Corinthians 6:17)… “Wherefore come ~Out~ from among them, and be ye separate,” saith THE LORD, and “touch ~NOT~ the unclean thing, and I Will Receive you….”
Why do we not teach our children this, rather than teach them that Jesus Loves you just as you are, tattoos and all… and He IS faithful to forgive you… BUT, *IF* you run out and do these things ~~AFTER~~ you have claimed to Follow Him? What then? Will you crucify Christ day after day in a tattoo parlor? He IS Faithful to His Fathers Commandments FIRST… and IF you will not Transform your way of living and repent of your sins which THE LORD God has Commanded that you do not do, then there WILL BE consequences… TO Pay! A sadly received word, “Depart from Me, I Never Knew you.”
Thursday, April 19, 2012
On Saving Children
Is a child really ~saved~ because a parent, teacher, or other adult, has coaxed them into saying, “I Love Jesus?” Folks point to the scripture written in: (Luke 18:14b-17) as a means of justifying their actions in this… Which IS something we ~ALL~ should really consider, and search the Scriptures of God’s Book of Instruction, for ~truthful~ answers… Because What Jesus SAID WAS: “everyone that ~Exalteth~ himself shall be abased; and he that ~Humbleth~ himself shall be *Exalted*….” (NOW, have you ever heard someone that coaxed a little child into ~getting~ Baptized, “Crow” about how “little oneie” has accepted Jesus?) They brought unto Him (Jesus) also ~infants~, that He would touch them: (touch them to bless them, with His healing touch fleshly or spiritually?) BUT, when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them… BUT, Jesus called them unto Him, and said, “suffer (Allow) *Little children* to come unto Me, and forbid them not: for such IS the *Kingdom OF God*… Verily I Say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive *THE Kingdom OF God* as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.”
The word ~suffer ~ here means to: allow; permit; as in do not prevent or stop the little children from coming TO Jesus…. BUT, to persuade little ones to be baptized for the increase of numbers, or for a false sense of security, or to put a feather in your ~won~ cap as in, “Look at ME, Look what I did, I led a child to The LORD”, is not indicated here at all…. The people brought the infants to Jesus, not to a world of make believe in hopes that they find Jesus somewhere in the mix, or that He would just magically appear to them… BUT they brought the infants TO Jesus… as we should do in this day and time… from Infancy a child IS capable of hearing what IS Read to them, and learning… SO *IF* WE read The Scriptures IN Truth to them, *IF*, we truly ~Believe~ in our won hearts that The Holy Ghost Will and Does Guide us in learning and understanding the things that God would have us to know, then ~we~ should be able to realize and accept that The Spirit Will lead our children also… we don’t need to play the dangerous games of the world with them, calling *IT* teaching them on a level in which they can understand…..
Do children not understand ~WAR~, they run and shoot at each other and yell, “I’m gonna kill you”… don’t they? From tots on up, this is a popular pretend game….
Do children, not get feed sexual promiscuity information, how to be a Jezebel, from the cradle up… and how to dress and act alluringly in this game of “Beauty Contest”… ?
Do children not understand the lies of fabled tales of make believe that takes the place of an actual belief in God, BY replacing HIM with the magic’s of Harry Potter, Vampires, witches, oh, good witches is different, huh? Astrology, horoscopes, tattoos, Ouija boards, delving into the ~Unknown~ at ~ALL~ levels… of danger to life eternal… And accepting IT as just a harmless passing game of fantasy… IS *IT* Really???
What we must look AT IS: What did Jesus Command us to do?
(Matthew 28:19-20) … “Go ye therefore, and ~TEACH~ All Nations, baptizing them in the NAME OF The Father, and OF The Son, and OF The Holy Ghost: … Teaching them to *OBSERVE* ~ALL~ things whatsoever I (Jesus) have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world, Amen.
NOW, What did Jesus Command? To teach the children to put tattoos of on their flesh? To run about hunting hidden colored eggs for Jesus? To sit wide eyed and wait for the ~Magic of Santa Claus~? And then simply just say, IN ALL This Pagan Mess, “I Love Jesus”, and get baptized and I’m good to go on doing what I’ve been taught by the world?” OR, DID Jesus SAY?
(Matthew 24:14) .. “THIS ~Gospel~ OF *THE Kingdom* shall be preached in all the world for a witness UNTO ~ALL~ nations; and then shall the end come.”
(Galatians 3:8).. AND ~The Scripture~, foreseeing That God would *Justify* the heathen through faith, ~Preached~ Before *THE Gospel* Unto Abraham, saying, “IN thee shall ~all~ nations be blessed.”
Now, Did Abraham live as he pleased, taking on all the customs of the nations around him? Do we show our ~Faith~ IN God, by chasing after the fads, celebrations, traditions of men of the world, led by Satan? Should we teach these things to ~Little ONES~ and then lead them to say, “I love Jesus”, and tell them that *IF* they do this they are saved? OR…… IS ALL These things really ~~Preventing~~ them from coming TO Christ, BECAUSE we are leading them into a ~Lie~ of the devil, and in all actuality teaching them that God doesn’t really mean what HE Says… Because we can really have our cake and eat IT TOOOOOOOOOO……? We can play in the world, with the world, take part of all that the serpent has to offer us AND still be saved, because we utter words with the tongue that Jesus wants to hear, but our heart IS far from Him, because of the way and what we are taught, we are all caught up in the traditions of men and customs of the pagan, idol worshipers…
(Matthew 15:8) AS JESUS SAID: “this people draweth nigh unto Me with their mouth, and honoreth Me ~with~ their *Lips*; but their heart IS ~~Far From Me~~~….”
This IS exactly what we are teaching our children to do as we mix and infiltrate the customs of the nations, of the world of unfaithful unbelievers, seekers of the pleasures of the world and It’s god Mammon into any Biblical Account….
We ARE NOT Teaching our children to ~Live~ by faith, but to live after the ways of the heathen nations… AND then telling them ALL that they have to do IS Say: “I Love Jesus”, OR “I Believe Jesus Loves ME”… and they are saved and can be Baptized, and are set for life because Jesus will not let them do anything to separate themselves from Him. IS All this Actuality, *Preventing* or suffering them NOT, to come unto Him? We have a world full of folks that claim to be followers of Christ, BUT their hearts are far from Him, AS He knew and foretold that there would be…AS He Spoke to the crowds in warning of their walk through this life….
(Matthew 7: 12-27).. Saying.., “Enter ye in at the ~strait gate:~ FOR wide IS the Gate, and broad IS the ~way~ that leadeth to **Destruction**.” (Can a way be any broader than a path that ~Allows~ for ~ALL~ the customs of the world to be celebrated in with the Blessed memorials of The Son of God, His Gospel, and tainting the Pure Gospel of God’s Kingdom? We‘d best be **Thinking* seriously about the path out feet trod while our mouth is spouting follow Jesus) … “Because, ~Strait~ IS The Gate, and Narrow IS The *WAY* (Truly Christ) which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find IT…” (I’d really be thinking about this Word of Jesus, while I’m bragging about how many folks actually call, themselves *Christians*, counting the numbers to add up a great lot, AND IT would be very advisable to read, study, and learn what the LORD God had Written and Preserved for us to “Know”.) … Because Jesus SAID: “Beware of ~false prophets~, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves… Ye shall know them by their fruits… (When wolves produce wolves you can know that IT IS A ~Wolf~… Right?… When folks that call themselves Christian, produce others that call themselves Christian, but walk hand in hand with the world, well then, what has been produced? True Christians in the “Narrow Path”, or World Walkers in the Broad Way?)
“Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” (21).. “Not every one that ~~Saith~~ UNTO ME, Lord, Lord, shall enter into *The Kingdom OF Heaven*; BUT, he that doeth the ~Will OF My Father~ which IS IN Heaven…. AND Many will say To Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy NAME? Cast out devils and ~IN Thy NAME~ done many wonderful works? And then *I* (Jesus) Will Profess unto them, I never knew you; depart from Me, ye that work iniquity….” (Iniquity here in Greek IS: Anomia - meaning: the condition of ~without~ law, or because ignorant of IT, because of violating IT, contempt of IT…)
AND Jesus Said, that He did not come to take away the ~Law~ or to change one jot or title that IS The Law OF *Obedience* to God’s Will and Way, Until ~ALL~ be fulfilled… Until heaven and earth pass away…. And earth is still here and the last time I looked up the sky had not fallen…so heaven is still Heaven…. (Matthew 5:8)… fulfill means to be satisfied… and Jesus Satisfied the Law of Sacrifice, BUT the Law of Humble Obedience TO God’s Will AND Way, has been and Will Always Be… So we can’t walk our way, embrace the heathen way and satisfy or prove obedient unto THE LORD. Please Don’t take my word for IT, BUT Do search the Scriptures and seek the Words of Jesus in prayerful Earnest seeking the Guidance of The Holy Spirit to lead you to The ~Knowledge and understanding~ that The Father Commands that we have…..
*IF*, you want to see a child saved, teach him/her TO Read: The Bible KJV, Read *IT* to them not a man made, happy pretend book of games…designed by man to entertain a child into believing IN Jesus, And that refers to Jesus in some faint form or fashion. Humbly offer prayers to God THE Father IN The Blessed NAME OF HIS Son, Jesus Christ, AS Jesus Said we should DO, that the Holy Spirit guide them and you into ~~ALL~~ things that *IS* pleasing unto God The Father, each and every day… not into the world to play….
The word ~suffer ~ here means to: allow; permit; as in do not prevent or stop the little children from coming TO Jesus…. BUT, to persuade little ones to be baptized for the increase of numbers, or for a false sense of security, or to put a feather in your ~won~ cap as in, “Look at ME, Look what I did, I led a child to The LORD”, is not indicated here at all…. The people brought the infants to Jesus, not to a world of make believe in hopes that they find Jesus somewhere in the mix, or that He would just magically appear to them… BUT they brought the infants TO Jesus… as we should do in this day and time… from Infancy a child IS capable of hearing what IS Read to them, and learning… SO *IF* WE read The Scriptures IN Truth to them, *IF*, we truly ~Believe~ in our won hearts that The Holy Ghost Will and Does Guide us in learning and understanding the things that God would have us to know, then ~we~ should be able to realize and accept that The Spirit Will lead our children also… we don’t need to play the dangerous games of the world with them, calling *IT* teaching them on a level in which they can understand…..
Do children not understand ~WAR~, they run and shoot at each other and yell, “I’m gonna kill you”… don’t they? From tots on up, this is a popular pretend game….
Do children, not get feed sexual promiscuity information, how to be a Jezebel, from the cradle up… and how to dress and act alluringly in this game of “Beauty Contest”… ?
Do children not understand the lies of fabled tales of make believe that takes the place of an actual belief in God, BY replacing HIM with the magic’s of Harry Potter, Vampires, witches, oh, good witches is different, huh? Astrology, horoscopes, tattoos, Ouija boards, delving into the ~Unknown~ at ~ALL~ levels… of danger to life eternal… And accepting IT as just a harmless passing game of fantasy… IS *IT* Really???
What we must look AT IS: What did Jesus Command us to do?
(Matthew 28:19-20) … “Go ye therefore, and ~TEACH~ All Nations, baptizing them in the NAME OF The Father, and OF The Son, and OF The Holy Ghost: … Teaching them to *OBSERVE* ~ALL~ things whatsoever I (Jesus) have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world, Amen.
NOW, What did Jesus Command? To teach the children to put tattoos of on their flesh? To run about hunting hidden colored eggs for Jesus? To sit wide eyed and wait for the ~Magic of Santa Claus~? And then simply just say, IN ALL This Pagan Mess, “I Love Jesus”, and get baptized and I’m good to go on doing what I’ve been taught by the world?” OR, DID Jesus SAY?
(Matthew 24:14) .. “THIS ~Gospel~ OF *THE Kingdom* shall be preached in all the world for a witness UNTO ~ALL~ nations; and then shall the end come.”
(Galatians 3:8).. AND ~The Scripture~, foreseeing That God would *Justify* the heathen through faith, ~Preached~ Before *THE Gospel* Unto Abraham, saying, “IN thee shall ~all~ nations be blessed.”
Now, Did Abraham live as he pleased, taking on all the customs of the nations around him? Do we show our ~Faith~ IN God, by chasing after the fads, celebrations, traditions of men of the world, led by Satan? Should we teach these things to ~Little ONES~ and then lead them to say, “I love Jesus”, and tell them that *IF* they do this they are saved? OR…… IS ALL These things really ~~Preventing~~ them from coming TO Christ, BECAUSE we are leading them into a ~Lie~ of the devil, and in all actuality teaching them that God doesn’t really mean what HE Says… Because we can really have our cake and eat IT TOOOOOOOOOO……? We can play in the world, with the world, take part of all that the serpent has to offer us AND still be saved, because we utter words with the tongue that Jesus wants to hear, but our heart IS far from Him, because of the way and what we are taught, we are all caught up in the traditions of men and customs of the pagan, idol worshipers…
(Matthew 15:8) AS JESUS SAID: “this people draweth nigh unto Me with their mouth, and honoreth Me ~with~ their *Lips*; but their heart IS ~~Far From Me~~~….”
This IS exactly what we are teaching our children to do as we mix and infiltrate the customs of the nations, of the world of unfaithful unbelievers, seekers of the pleasures of the world and It’s god Mammon into any Biblical Account….
We ARE NOT Teaching our children to ~Live~ by faith, but to live after the ways of the heathen nations… AND then telling them ALL that they have to do IS Say: “I Love Jesus”, OR “I Believe Jesus Loves ME”… and they are saved and can be Baptized, and are set for life because Jesus will not let them do anything to separate themselves from Him. IS All this Actuality, *Preventing* or suffering them NOT, to come unto Him? We have a world full of folks that claim to be followers of Christ, BUT their hearts are far from Him, AS He knew and foretold that there would be…AS He Spoke to the crowds in warning of their walk through this life….
(Matthew 7: 12-27).. Saying.., “Enter ye in at the ~strait gate:~ FOR wide IS the Gate, and broad IS the ~way~ that leadeth to **Destruction**.” (Can a way be any broader than a path that ~Allows~ for ~ALL~ the customs of the world to be celebrated in with the Blessed memorials of The Son of God, His Gospel, and tainting the Pure Gospel of God’s Kingdom? We‘d best be **Thinking* seriously about the path out feet trod while our mouth is spouting follow Jesus) … “Because, ~Strait~ IS The Gate, and Narrow IS The *WAY* (Truly Christ) which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find IT…” (I’d really be thinking about this Word of Jesus, while I’m bragging about how many folks actually call, themselves *Christians*, counting the numbers to add up a great lot, AND IT would be very advisable to read, study, and learn what the LORD God had Written and Preserved for us to “Know”.) … Because Jesus SAID: “Beware of ~false prophets~, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves… Ye shall know them by their fruits… (When wolves produce wolves you can know that IT IS A ~Wolf~… Right?… When folks that call themselves Christian, produce others that call themselves Christian, but walk hand in hand with the world, well then, what has been produced? True Christians in the “Narrow Path”, or World Walkers in the Broad Way?)
“Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” (21).. “Not every one that ~~Saith~~ UNTO ME, Lord, Lord, shall enter into *The Kingdom OF Heaven*; BUT, he that doeth the ~Will OF My Father~ which IS IN Heaven…. AND Many will say To Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy NAME? Cast out devils and ~IN Thy NAME~ done many wonderful works? And then *I* (Jesus) Will Profess unto them, I never knew you; depart from Me, ye that work iniquity….” (Iniquity here in Greek IS: Anomia - meaning: the condition of ~without~ law, or because ignorant of IT, because of violating IT, contempt of IT…)
AND Jesus Said, that He did not come to take away the ~Law~ or to change one jot or title that IS The Law OF *Obedience* to God’s Will and Way, Until ~ALL~ be fulfilled… Until heaven and earth pass away…. And earth is still here and the last time I looked up the sky had not fallen…so heaven is still Heaven…. (Matthew 5:8)… fulfill means to be satisfied… and Jesus Satisfied the Law of Sacrifice, BUT the Law of Humble Obedience TO God’s Will AND Way, has been and Will Always Be… So we can’t walk our way, embrace the heathen way and satisfy or prove obedient unto THE LORD. Please Don’t take my word for IT, BUT Do search the Scriptures and seek the Words of Jesus in prayerful Earnest seeking the Guidance of The Holy Spirit to lead you to The ~Knowledge and understanding~ that The Father Commands that we have…..
*IF*, you want to see a child saved, teach him/her TO Read: The Bible KJV, Read *IT* to them not a man made, happy pretend book of games…designed by man to entertain a child into believing IN Jesus, And that refers to Jesus in some faint form or fashion. Humbly offer prayers to God THE Father IN The Blessed NAME OF HIS Son, Jesus Christ, AS Jesus Said we should DO, that the Holy Spirit guide them and you into ~~ALL~~ things that *IS* pleasing unto God The Father, each and every day… not into the world to play….
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Stepping Out OF The Way OF Protection
Leaning toward a ~desire~ to seek things of the *Unknown* will definitely result in A Generous ~Delight~ of Satan TO help you to find what you prove that you are searching for by possessing and showing this desire … BUT, what you find will not be what you think you are searching for, or even what IT May appear to be. Rather, This WILL PROVE To Be a life endangering step out into the darkness, and from under the protective wing, of The Lord Jesus.
(Job 31) Read All verses And learn… Job certainly knew that he must maintain an obedient stance in the Will and Way of The LORD, OR punishment would come….. As he spoke of The Almighty God, saying, “Doth not HE See my ways, and count ~all~ my steps? IF I have walked with vanity, OR IF, my foot hath hasted to deceit; let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity… & IF, my step hath ~turned out of The Way~, and mine heart walked ~AFTER~ mine eyes, and IF, any ~BLOT~ hath cleaved to mine hands; .. I should have denied the God that IS Above..”
Job realized that anything out of Gods Way, was a blatant denial of God… Do we possess that same realization? Do we even stop our random running through the world long enough to ~Think~ About *IT*? What the world has to offer has been sanctioned by the ~serpent~, AND HAS BEEN forbidden BY THE LORD, IN HIS Book of ALL Instruction that God had penned down by faithful men of old, and preserved for us today to read and use as a guide to memory…. The Holy Ghost, testifies of these things and verifies our actions in them *IF* we pay attention to His warning… BUT then *IF* we won’t read the Bible and heed what is written there, will we pay attention to the Spirit?
While claiming to be followers of Christ, we are steadily walking in the ways of the world, embracing IT as good, righteous, as longs as ~~WE~~ put God in it…
We tattoo our bodies, maybe with a cross, to make IT Good, instead of a skeleton of the dead, BUT, what IS The difference *IF* IT IS Written, “Ye Shall NOT make ~~ANY~~ cuttings in your flesh for the dead, NOR print ~ANY~ marks upon you,” I am THE LORD! (Leviticus 10:28) NOTE, IT Isn’t Written ye shall not make any evil prints upon you, only good ones that can point to Jesus, MY SON, does IT? NOR, a mark that may protect us from evil, or to remember our loved one passed on, NONE, ZERO, ZILCH, IF you claim to follow Christ then there IS TO BE NONE, NOT ANY Cuts, or Prints upon your body…..
*IF* we claim TO Know the LORD God Almighty The Father, AND HIS Son, Jesus Christ, Then we MUST Follow The teaching, the statutes, the commands that God had penned down for us to follow….. WE must put our Trust in God Almighty for our ~Safety~, our memory of loved ones, our walk through this world must reflect a presence in our heart of God’s Love, HIS Guidance, and Direction, not Satan’s way of rebellion and denial of God….
We must bear only THE Marks of The Lord in our body…. AS Paul Declared.
(Galatians 6:17).. From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus…. (Paul didn’t sport tattoos to share the Gospel, but spoke IT as Jesus Said we should…..)
(Revelations 14:11)… The smoke of their torment ascendeth up ~forever and ever: and they have no rest day not night, who worship the beast and ~his image~, and whosoever receiveth the ~mark~ of *his name*…..
Now, think About these verses a bit. *IF* we bear the marks of Christ, we cannot bear the marks of the devil unless we step out of God’s Way and forfeit the protection of Christ… Because… IT IS Written:
(II Corinthians 6:14) .. Be ye ~NOT~ unequally yoked together with *Unbelievers*: FOR what fellowship hath ~Righteousness with unrighteousness~? What communion hath ~Light~ with darkness?
(Ephesians 5:11) .. AND have ~NO~ fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but Rather ~Reprove~ them… (to reprove, means to speak in ways of correction to turn them from the error of their ways…..) BECAUSE!
(I John 1:6-7) … *IF*, we say that we have fellowship with Him, (Christ) and walk in darkness, we *LIE*, and do NOT the Truth: BUT *IF* we walk in the “LIGHT”. as HE (God THE Father) IS The Light, we have fellowship one with another, AND The Blood of Jesus Christ, HIS Son, cleanseth us from ~ALL Sin~… (Always take NOTE OF THE *IF*.)
AND Then another seemingly harmless way of stepping out of God’s Protective Way IS: Seeking the spirits of those gone on before us… Reading our Daily Horoscope…. Following after the elements of unknown, whether in the guise of just for the fun of entertainment or for the reality of seeking “Good Luck” in our daily life… Maybe to entertain the thought that a dead loved one, a psychic, or the horoscope of aligned stars and signs, will reveal to us a buried treasure, or keep us out of harms way, get us a job promotion, bring us something special… ALL That *IT* does IS Bring us into a conflict with God’s Will for us… Guide us ~Out of~ HIS Way, and into the broad and spacious path that the serpent paves with alluring things for us to follow… AND, little by little, so subtly we take step after step, until our eyes are so blinded that we can’t see THE Light anymore… and we stand in the darkness looking back, scratching our heads, wondering where did we go ~Wrong~…… When all we gotta do IS: Read, Study, Follow God’s Written Word, Humbly Come before HIS Great Throne in Obedient Prayer, continually walking with a prayer or a song of praise of God on our lips, WILL Keep our thoughts aimed in The Right Direction, and our heart settled in God’s Will and Way… BUT Don’t forget the ~LOOK~, keep your eyes cast away from the world and on The LORD….
(Psalm 5:3)… My voice shalt THOU hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will ~I~ direct my prayer unto THEE, and will *Look up*….
(Leviticus 19:31)… Regard ~NOT~ them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am THE LORD you God….
(Isaiah 45:22) … “LOOK Unto ME, and be ye ~Saved~, *ALL* the ends of the earth: FOR I am God, and there IS NONE Else.”
(Isaiah 8:22).. They shall ~LOOK~ unto the earth; and behold ~trouble & Darkness, dimness of anguish;~ and they shall be driven ~TO Darkness~….
(Isaiah 31:1)…. Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, trust in chariots, because they are many and strong; but they look NOT unto the Holy One OF Israel, Neither seek THE LORD!…
(Isaiah 8:19) … AND when they shall say unto you, “Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and mutter: should not a people ~SEEK~ unto their God? For the living to the dead?”
(Luke 24:5)… as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, “Why seek ye The Living among the dead?”
SO, we either seek Life IN The Fathers Kingdom, The Things which are Above, Walk with Christ, God’s OWN Son, and follow the Guidance of The Holy Ghost, ~OR~ we seek the things of the world, the unknown, the mystical magic of mankind’s traditions, all set forth by the serpent to help those who are too curious to remain faithful to God Almighty, to make IT Easy to fall from The narrow path of righteousness and land on the broad and spacious path leading to eternal destruction… Satan IS very helpful *IF* we simply cast a glance, he will shine his glamour in our eyes, *IF* we crack the door of our heart, he will put his foot right in, and *IF* we take a step out, he has laid for us a slippery slide right into the ways of the world, his world of destruction… AS Jesus Said, and IT IS Written IN:
(Mathew 23:37)… “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathered her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.”
ARE we ~Willing~ to Humbly Bow down IN Obedience TO God’s OWN WILL For us, or do we continually rebel to follow a lost and dying world…. By taking part in ~ALL~ the glitter and glitz that Satan has spread about his kingdom on earth for a little while….
(Job 31) Read All verses And learn… Job certainly knew that he must maintain an obedient stance in the Will and Way of The LORD, OR punishment would come….. As he spoke of The Almighty God, saying, “Doth not HE See my ways, and count ~all~ my steps? IF I have walked with vanity, OR IF, my foot hath hasted to deceit; let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity… & IF, my step hath ~turned out of The Way~, and mine heart walked ~AFTER~ mine eyes, and IF, any ~BLOT~ hath cleaved to mine hands; .. I should have denied the God that IS Above..”
Job realized that anything out of Gods Way, was a blatant denial of God… Do we possess that same realization? Do we even stop our random running through the world long enough to ~Think~ About *IT*? What the world has to offer has been sanctioned by the ~serpent~, AND HAS BEEN forbidden BY THE LORD, IN HIS Book of ALL Instruction that God had penned down by faithful men of old, and preserved for us today to read and use as a guide to memory…. The Holy Ghost, testifies of these things and verifies our actions in them *IF* we pay attention to His warning… BUT then *IF* we won’t read the Bible and heed what is written there, will we pay attention to the Spirit?
While claiming to be followers of Christ, we are steadily walking in the ways of the world, embracing IT as good, righteous, as longs as ~~WE~~ put God in it…
We tattoo our bodies, maybe with a cross, to make IT Good, instead of a skeleton of the dead, BUT, what IS The difference *IF* IT IS Written, “Ye Shall NOT make ~~ANY~~ cuttings in your flesh for the dead, NOR print ~ANY~ marks upon you,” I am THE LORD! (Leviticus 10:28) NOTE, IT Isn’t Written ye shall not make any evil prints upon you, only good ones that can point to Jesus, MY SON, does IT? NOR, a mark that may protect us from evil, or to remember our loved one passed on, NONE, ZERO, ZILCH, IF you claim to follow Christ then there IS TO BE NONE, NOT ANY Cuts, or Prints upon your body…..
*IF* we claim TO Know the LORD God Almighty The Father, AND HIS Son, Jesus Christ, Then we MUST Follow The teaching, the statutes, the commands that God had penned down for us to follow….. WE must put our Trust in God Almighty for our ~Safety~, our memory of loved ones, our walk through this world must reflect a presence in our heart of God’s Love, HIS Guidance, and Direction, not Satan’s way of rebellion and denial of God….
We must bear only THE Marks of The Lord in our body…. AS Paul Declared.
(Galatians 6:17).. From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus…. (Paul didn’t sport tattoos to share the Gospel, but spoke IT as Jesus Said we should…..)
(Revelations 14:11)… The smoke of their torment ascendeth up ~forever and ever: and they have no rest day not night, who worship the beast and ~his image~, and whosoever receiveth the ~mark~ of *his name*…..
Now, think About these verses a bit. *IF* we bear the marks of Christ, we cannot bear the marks of the devil unless we step out of God’s Way and forfeit the protection of Christ… Because… IT IS Written:
(II Corinthians 6:14) .. Be ye ~NOT~ unequally yoked together with *Unbelievers*: FOR what fellowship hath ~Righteousness with unrighteousness~? What communion hath ~Light~ with darkness?
(Ephesians 5:11) .. AND have ~NO~ fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but Rather ~Reprove~ them… (to reprove, means to speak in ways of correction to turn them from the error of their ways…..) BECAUSE!
(I John 1:6-7) … *IF*, we say that we have fellowship with Him, (Christ) and walk in darkness, we *LIE*, and do NOT the Truth: BUT *IF* we walk in the “LIGHT”. as HE (God THE Father) IS The Light, we have fellowship one with another, AND The Blood of Jesus Christ, HIS Son, cleanseth us from ~ALL Sin~… (Always take NOTE OF THE *IF*.)
AND Then another seemingly harmless way of stepping out of God’s Protective Way IS: Seeking the spirits of those gone on before us… Reading our Daily Horoscope…. Following after the elements of unknown, whether in the guise of just for the fun of entertainment or for the reality of seeking “Good Luck” in our daily life… Maybe to entertain the thought that a dead loved one, a psychic, or the horoscope of aligned stars and signs, will reveal to us a buried treasure, or keep us out of harms way, get us a job promotion, bring us something special… ALL That *IT* does IS Bring us into a conflict with God’s Will for us… Guide us ~Out of~ HIS Way, and into the broad and spacious path that the serpent paves with alluring things for us to follow… AND, little by little, so subtly we take step after step, until our eyes are so blinded that we can’t see THE Light anymore… and we stand in the darkness looking back, scratching our heads, wondering where did we go ~Wrong~…… When all we gotta do IS: Read, Study, Follow God’s Written Word, Humbly Come before HIS Great Throne in Obedient Prayer, continually walking with a prayer or a song of praise of God on our lips, WILL Keep our thoughts aimed in The Right Direction, and our heart settled in God’s Will and Way… BUT Don’t forget the ~LOOK~, keep your eyes cast away from the world and on The LORD….
(Psalm 5:3)… My voice shalt THOU hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will ~I~ direct my prayer unto THEE, and will *Look up*….
(Leviticus 19:31)… Regard ~NOT~ them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am THE LORD you God….
(Isaiah 45:22) … “LOOK Unto ME, and be ye ~Saved~, *ALL* the ends of the earth: FOR I am God, and there IS NONE Else.”
(Isaiah 8:22).. They shall ~LOOK~ unto the earth; and behold ~trouble & Darkness, dimness of anguish;~ and they shall be driven ~TO Darkness~….
(Isaiah 31:1)…. Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, trust in chariots, because they are many and strong; but they look NOT unto the Holy One OF Israel, Neither seek THE LORD!…
(Isaiah 8:19) … AND when they shall say unto you, “Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and mutter: should not a people ~SEEK~ unto their God? For the living to the dead?”
(Luke 24:5)… as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, “Why seek ye The Living among the dead?”
SO, we either seek Life IN The Fathers Kingdom, The Things which are Above, Walk with Christ, God’s OWN Son, and follow the Guidance of The Holy Ghost, ~OR~ we seek the things of the world, the unknown, the mystical magic of mankind’s traditions, all set forth by the serpent to help those who are too curious to remain faithful to God Almighty, to make IT Easy to fall from The narrow path of righteousness and land on the broad and spacious path leading to eternal destruction… Satan IS very helpful *IF* we simply cast a glance, he will shine his glamour in our eyes, *IF* we crack the door of our heart, he will put his foot right in, and *IF* we take a step out, he has laid for us a slippery slide right into the ways of the world, his world of destruction… AS Jesus Said, and IT IS Written IN:
(Mathew 23:37)… “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathered her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.”
ARE we ~Willing~ to Humbly Bow down IN Obedience TO God’s OWN WILL For us, or do we continually rebel to follow a lost and dying world…. By taking part in ~ALL~ the glitter and glitz that Satan has spread about his kingdom on earth for a little while….
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Who Carried, The Cross OF Wood?
A “Picture”, is worth a thousand words or so *IT* is said, BUT, a “Picture” can also be dreadfully deceiving. With the new age of electronics comes the ability to alter pictures to make them look very real… But hand painted pictures of long ago could not be trusted as honestly factual… For instance… How many pictures of Jesus struggling up Calvary’s Hill with the wooden cross on His Shoulder, are painted… Enough to make folks take the picture for granted, without actually reading The Written Account, to retrieve the facts as Matthew, Mark, Luke,. And John, actual man who were present and walked this earth with Jesus, Wrote of them? Leading many astray in a simple fact can and does set up a domino effect IN ~ALL~ Truthful Facts AS IT IS Written, IN The Accounts That God, The Father had penned down and preserved for us to read and follow…..Which accounts for many misconceptions that are taught of “The Gospel OF Christ”…. In many Houses of Worship… Folks don’t Stop, Look, OR Listen, To The Word AS IT IS Written In The Bible….. But rather run off randomly, willy-nilly after things that look good, but are sadly laced with false teachings, pagan traditions, some deeply rooted by the serpent, purposefully to drive a wedge between the weak minded folks who fall for these things and a true belief in/of our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, HIS Only Begotten Son, and The Holy Ghost…. Jesus warned of this very thing in many of His speeches…
(Mark 13:22)… Jesus SAID: “For false Christ’s and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect…The KJV Bible Account Reads:
(Matthew 27:32) …As they came out, they found ~A man of Cyrene,~ Simon by name: *him* they compelled to bear His (Jesus) Cross… Read the whole account in The KJV of your Bible please…. Verses 26-36 at least…
(Mark 15: 21)… They ~compel~ (forced to do) one *Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear His (Jesus) cross.
(Luke 23: 26) .. And As they (the soldiers), led Him (Jesus) away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on *him* (This Simon), they (the soldiers) laid ~The Cross~, that he (Simon) might bear (carry) IT ~After Jesus~……
(John 19:16-17).. Then delivered he (Pilate) Him (Jesus) unto them to be crucified. AND they took Jesus, and *Led Him (Jesus) Away*. (17) And he (Simon) bearing His (Jesus) Cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which IS called in the Hebrew, Golgotha……
NOW, This is just one small example of one big problem, that is rapidly spreading, in these last days… One more example of the how and why people so readily accept the pagan rituals that have been incorporated into the Blessed Accounts of The Gospel of God’s OWN Son, Jesus Christ, which IS: His Birth, His Life, His Sacrifice, (Which was the actual cross that only He, Jesus bore was His Obedient Sacrifice) His Resurrection, AND His Ascension… Something that is rarely spoken of His Ascension… Folks want to keep Him on The Cross for their eyes to gaze upon…Like the serpent of brass, that was lifted up the second time for the flesh,. rather than To Look upon Him (Jesus) with the spiritual eye, as He sits at the Fathers Right Hand upon The Throne AS our High Priest, to make Intersession for us to, The Father…. Maybe that IS why so many people can’t or don’t see a need to even be obedient to the Words of Jesus as He prepared to leave this earth, saying. Pray to the Father ~IN~ My Name (John 16:23-24), and many more, yet you hear prayers offered up, “in yore name…”. this is not what Jesus Commanded, but those that claim to ~Love~ Him can’t or won’t even do this.
The best reason that I can see TO Teach In The Honesty and Truthfulness OF God’s Written Word Only, Read These Accounts IN The Bible, not some mans incredible play or act that is supposed to be very helpful in teaching the Gospel… Because man, can’t help but change the True Facts to please himself, and make the Accounts more dramatic for the pleasure of men’s eyes, rather than the security of men’s salvation…..
(Mark 13:22)… Jesus SAID: “For false Christ’s and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect…The KJV Bible Account Reads:
(Matthew 27:32) …As they came out, they found ~A man of Cyrene,~ Simon by name: *him* they compelled to bear His (Jesus) Cross… Read the whole account in The KJV of your Bible please…. Verses 26-36 at least…
(Mark 15: 21)… They ~compel~ (forced to do) one *Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear His (Jesus) cross.
(Luke 23: 26) .. And As they (the soldiers), led Him (Jesus) away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on *him* (This Simon), they (the soldiers) laid ~The Cross~, that he (Simon) might bear (carry) IT ~After Jesus~……
(John 19:16-17).. Then delivered he (Pilate) Him (Jesus) unto them to be crucified. AND they took Jesus, and *Led Him (Jesus) Away*. (17) And he (Simon) bearing His (Jesus) Cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which IS called in the Hebrew, Golgotha……
NOW, This is just one small example of one big problem, that is rapidly spreading, in these last days… One more example of the how and why people so readily accept the pagan rituals that have been incorporated into the Blessed Accounts of The Gospel of God’s OWN Son, Jesus Christ, which IS: His Birth, His Life, His Sacrifice, (Which was the actual cross that only He, Jesus bore was His Obedient Sacrifice) His Resurrection, AND His Ascension… Something that is rarely spoken of His Ascension… Folks want to keep Him on The Cross for their eyes to gaze upon…Like the serpent of brass, that was lifted up the second time for the flesh,. rather than To Look upon Him (Jesus) with the spiritual eye, as He sits at the Fathers Right Hand upon The Throne AS our High Priest, to make Intersession for us to, The Father…. Maybe that IS why so many people can’t or don’t see a need to even be obedient to the Words of Jesus as He prepared to leave this earth, saying. Pray to the Father ~IN~ My Name (John 16:23-24), and many more, yet you hear prayers offered up, “in yore name…”. this is not what Jesus Commanded, but those that claim to ~Love~ Him can’t or won’t even do this.
The best reason that I can see TO Teach In The Honesty and Truthfulness OF God’s Written Word Only, Read These Accounts IN The Bible, not some mans incredible play or act that is supposed to be very helpful in teaching the Gospel… Because man, can’t help but change the True Facts to please himself, and make the Accounts more dramatic for the pleasure of men’s eyes, rather than the security of men’s salvation…..
Monday, April 9, 2012
Have We Gotten TOO Big For Our Own Britches?
Have we gotten ~TOO~ BIG~ for our britches… Busted the seams right out of “Obedience to God’s Way”, by setting up and holding ON TO so many, “Religious Practices & Traditions”?
Think about *IT*! What did Jesus Speak, Teach,? Go your way and do what seems righteous in your own eyes, invent ~New Ways~ to draw people to Me?
I heard a preacher, who was praising his congregation for their wonderful egg hunt and how it was such a great witness of: THE LORD, God and HIS Kingdom… HOW? Pray tell IT TO ME, Sir, can one witness of God’s Kingdom in a traditional custom practiced, before God’s Own Son came to be born on this earth… A Custom That THE LORD, forbade during the days of the kings, a custom which caused the downfall of the most intelligent king of all time, Solomon….
Read (I Kings 11: 4-10).. Earnestly and carefully…
What was taught in The Old Testament as well AS THE NEW?
(Hosea 6:3).. Then shall ~we~ Know, *IF* we “FOLLOW” on to ~Know~ THE LORD: HIS going forth IS Prepared as the morning, and HE Shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth…. (There IS Written: *IF* ~we Follow~, not If we blasé our own path….. As so many today are doing and calling it just and righteous because it is a good sound way of teaching The Gospel…)
What Exactly DID Jesus come to earth teaching?
(Matthew 8:22)… Jesus SAID, “Follow Me and let the dead bury the dead.”
(Matthew 8:22).. Jesus SAID:, “IF any man ~Will Come~ After ME, let ~him~ deny himself, Take up ~his~ cross, and follow Me.” (So, many folks want to parade the cross of Jesus under the pretense of serving Him, while thinking that they are hidden by His Cross, from the sins ways of ~Disobedience~ To God’s Will and Way, that they continue to follow after…)
Again AS IT IS Written:
(Deuteronomy 30:11).. This *Commandment* Which I, (THE LORD) Command thee this day, *IT* IS NOT Hidden from thee, neither IS *IT* Far OFF…. (But how many people take the time, make the effort, show enough care, to pick up THE Bible That THE LORD Had penned down and preserved for us to have as a guide, a written account of HIS Will and Way for us to follow, AND Actually try to learn The Contents of *IT*… WE claim we don’t have time, but we have time for everything of the world, we have time to follow the pernicious ways of false teachings, and we ASSUME TO Make up our own religions, and belief’s, because of our own arrogance and he said, she said, so IT Must Be Good….. BUT Jesus Said:
(Mark 4:22)… “There IS Nothing ~Hid~, which shall not be manifested; neither anything kept ~Secret~, but that *IT* shall come abroad..” (So our claiming Jesus with our mouth, while we got our hands all mixed up in the ways of the world, won’t keep hidden the disobedience that we are blazoning displaying before the world, bringing wrath upon the Church of Christ….
(II Peter 2:2).. Many shall ~Follow~ *Their Pernicious Ways*; by reason of whom the “Way of Truth”, shall be evil spoken of….
(Colossians 2:1-3)… *IF* ye then be ~Risen with Christ~, seek those things which *ARE Above*, where Christ sitteth on the Right Hand OF God.. Set your ~Affections~ on the things Above, ~~NOT~~ on the things of the earth.. For ye ~ARE Dead~, and your life is hid, With Christ In God…. (Many take this 3rd verse only and run with IT to believe that what they do IS Hid in Christ and God can’t see their sins, so they can do what they deem righteous and all IS wellllll… BUT This IS Not what the whole statement tells…. There IS THAT *IF* and The Command TO *Seek*…and, as Hosea Wrote, we must come TO Know The LORD, by paying attention to HIM, and we mere lumps of clay MUST Follow… So many want to lead, and will make The *BOLD Statement* that IT IS Good *IF* we put Jesus In IT, that makes *IT* Right… BUT we cannot put Jesus anywhere, we are not the Potter, to make anything right, BECAUSE, The ~Right Way has already been made, we must be the obedient followers IF we will enter into the DOOR of God’s Kingdom…..
(John 10:4-5)… Jesus SAID: “When He, (The Shepherd), putteth forth His Own sheep, He goeth ~Before~ them, AND the sheep *Follow* Him: ~For they *Know* His Voice and a stranger will they ~NOT Follow~, BUT Will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.” ….. (So IF Jesus puts us forth, then we Will follow Him, but IF we set out to make our own religion, following the traditions, we can readily know that Jesus did Not put us forth..
Maybe that IS the key to the reason that so many, who call themselves Christian, are dabbling in the ways of the world, they spend TOO much time *Listening* TO the voice of the strange things of the world: “Vampires, Werewolves, Walking Dead, Harry Potter and Wizards, Astrology Horoscopes, Tattoos, Pagan Practices, Seasonal Traditions, Ghost Seekers, Sexually Displaying our bodies in skimpy, bare apparel, Games, Drunken Parties, Contest, Competitions, AND Many MORE ALL OF Which ARE, Advertisements of Satan The Serpent, who should be totally Estranged from God‘s people… not mixed up with them. BUT jealousy, and envy raises up their ugly heads as we ~~LOOK~~ at the world around us and all that IT Has, the fun, the profit, the pleasures even though fleeting, and we jump right into the mix….. Thinking that we can just take Jesus with us… BUT, we are soooo Sadly Wrong…..
(John 21:22) AGAIN JESUS SAID: “IF I Will that he tarry till I Come, what IS that to thee? Follow thou Me!
(*IF* God The Father, chooses to allow all this to go on in the world, and, *IT IS Written* that HE Does, then IT IS Nothing to US, Except, TO Keep ourselves ~Free~ From *IT*… Our hand to the plow of “Sharing The Gospel OF God’s Kingdom IN Truth and Honesty, ~NOT~ mixing the ways if the world into it to contaminate the Gospel of God’s OWN Son… The Bible warns of all these things, IN Writing, that we must avoid, keep ourselves free from, but IF we don’t care enough to read, take heed, and walk away from these things, then we ~Will~ be found standing with the adversary, on judgment day.. This IS the choice that God does give us to make, to ~Follow~ HIS Son Jesus, OR The World led by Satan… AS IT IS Written we Must Keep ourselves where we belong, no man can take us away from the Hand of Christ, but we ourselves can turn away, like a dog to his own vomit.)
(Jude 1:21)..Keep ~yourselves~, *IN* The LOVE OF God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life…
(Romans 12:2)… AND Be not conformed to this world: but be ye ~Transformed~ BY *The Renewing of your mind*, that ye may ~Prove~ what IS that Good, Acceptable, and Perfect Will OF God…
So many Who call themselves Christians, today have the “Mike Hammer, can’t Touch This, Syndrome”, to their delusional failure… I’ve heard so many say that “Once Saved Always Saved, and *IF* we fall away It IS because we weren’t saved to begin with, and that ’s ~MY~ opinion.”… Here is the failure, “That’s MY Opinion”… We don’t have to Depend on our ~Own~ opinion for anything because God Had IT Written for us to *Follow*… We just have to Obey, and read *IT*, learn *IT*, & do *IT*…. AND that part IS ALL up to us… Like the old saying goes, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.”.. Well, you can tell folks all day long to read and learn, *AS IT IS Written*, BUT you can’t make them do IT… and we can sing, I’m saved all day long, but that doesn’t mean we are IF we are not following THE Way Jesus Taught, IN The Will and Way of God The Father…. Our Way, Our Opinion, ain’t worth a hill of beans in the middle of a fire ant bed, *IT* IS God’s Teachings, WHAT THE LORD SAID, Through HIS Son Jesus, The Word, as He delivered The Word To be Written, by men, for men to: *FOLLOW*….. Not to mix and mingle with men’s opinions and pagan traditions…
(II Corinthians 11:14-15)… No marvel; for Satan himself IS transformed into an angel of light,,, therefore IT IS No great thing IF his ministers also be transformed as ministers of *Righteousness*; whose end shall be according to ~~Their Works~~….
We must repentfully, and prayerfully, crawl back into the "britches" that fit, *IF* we will be honest servants of The LORD God Almighty, and joyfully walk in them to Follow God's Will and Way, AS Jesus Said.
Think about *IT*! What did Jesus Speak, Teach,? Go your way and do what seems righteous in your own eyes, invent ~New Ways~ to draw people to Me?
I heard a preacher, who was praising his congregation for their wonderful egg hunt and how it was such a great witness of: THE LORD, God and HIS Kingdom… HOW? Pray tell IT TO ME, Sir, can one witness of God’s Kingdom in a traditional custom practiced, before God’s Own Son came to be born on this earth… A Custom That THE LORD, forbade during the days of the kings, a custom which caused the downfall of the most intelligent king of all time, Solomon….
Read (I Kings 11: 4-10).. Earnestly and carefully…
What was taught in The Old Testament as well AS THE NEW?
(Hosea 6:3).. Then shall ~we~ Know, *IF* we “FOLLOW” on to ~Know~ THE LORD: HIS going forth IS Prepared as the morning, and HE Shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth…. (There IS Written: *IF* ~we Follow~, not If we blasé our own path….. As so many today are doing and calling it just and righteous because it is a good sound way of teaching The Gospel…)
What Exactly DID Jesus come to earth teaching?
(Matthew 8:22)… Jesus SAID, “Follow Me and let the dead bury the dead.”
(Matthew 8:22).. Jesus SAID:, “IF any man ~Will Come~ After ME, let ~him~ deny himself, Take up ~his~ cross, and follow Me.” (So, many folks want to parade the cross of Jesus under the pretense of serving Him, while thinking that they are hidden by His Cross, from the sins ways of ~Disobedience~ To God’s Will and Way, that they continue to follow after…)
Again AS IT IS Written:
(Deuteronomy 30:11).. This *Commandment* Which I, (THE LORD) Command thee this day, *IT* IS NOT Hidden from thee, neither IS *IT* Far OFF…. (But how many people take the time, make the effort, show enough care, to pick up THE Bible That THE LORD Had penned down and preserved for us to have as a guide, a written account of HIS Will and Way for us to follow, AND Actually try to learn The Contents of *IT*… WE claim we don’t have time, but we have time for everything of the world, we have time to follow the pernicious ways of false teachings, and we ASSUME TO Make up our own religions, and belief’s, because of our own arrogance and he said, she said, so IT Must Be Good….. BUT Jesus Said:
(Mark 4:22)… “There IS Nothing ~Hid~, which shall not be manifested; neither anything kept ~Secret~, but that *IT* shall come abroad..” (So our claiming Jesus with our mouth, while we got our hands all mixed up in the ways of the world, won’t keep hidden the disobedience that we are blazoning displaying before the world, bringing wrath upon the Church of Christ….
(II Peter 2:2).. Many shall ~Follow~ *Their Pernicious Ways*; by reason of whom the “Way of Truth”, shall be evil spoken of….
(Colossians 2:1-3)… *IF* ye then be ~Risen with Christ~, seek those things which *ARE Above*, where Christ sitteth on the Right Hand OF God.. Set your ~Affections~ on the things Above, ~~NOT~~ on the things of the earth.. For ye ~ARE Dead~, and your life is hid, With Christ In God…. (Many take this 3rd verse only and run with IT to believe that what they do IS Hid in Christ and God can’t see their sins, so they can do what they deem righteous and all IS wellllll… BUT This IS Not what the whole statement tells…. There IS THAT *IF* and The Command TO *Seek*…and, as Hosea Wrote, we must come TO Know The LORD, by paying attention to HIM, and we mere lumps of clay MUST Follow… So many want to lead, and will make The *BOLD Statement* that IT IS Good *IF* we put Jesus In IT, that makes *IT* Right… BUT we cannot put Jesus anywhere, we are not the Potter, to make anything right, BECAUSE, The ~Right Way has already been made, we must be the obedient followers IF we will enter into the DOOR of God’s Kingdom…..
(John 10:4-5)… Jesus SAID: “When He, (The Shepherd), putteth forth His Own sheep, He goeth ~Before~ them, AND the sheep *Follow* Him: ~For they *Know* His Voice and a stranger will they ~NOT Follow~, BUT Will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.” ….. (So IF Jesus puts us forth, then we Will follow Him, but IF we set out to make our own religion, following the traditions, we can readily know that Jesus did Not put us forth..
Maybe that IS the key to the reason that so many, who call themselves Christian, are dabbling in the ways of the world, they spend TOO much time *Listening* TO the voice of the strange things of the world: “Vampires, Werewolves, Walking Dead, Harry Potter and Wizards, Astrology Horoscopes, Tattoos, Pagan Practices, Seasonal Traditions, Ghost Seekers, Sexually Displaying our bodies in skimpy, bare apparel, Games, Drunken Parties, Contest, Competitions, AND Many MORE ALL OF Which ARE, Advertisements of Satan The Serpent, who should be totally Estranged from God‘s people… not mixed up with them. BUT jealousy, and envy raises up their ugly heads as we ~~LOOK~~ at the world around us and all that IT Has, the fun, the profit, the pleasures even though fleeting, and we jump right into the mix….. Thinking that we can just take Jesus with us… BUT, we are soooo Sadly Wrong…..
(John 21:22) AGAIN JESUS SAID: “IF I Will that he tarry till I Come, what IS that to thee? Follow thou Me!
(*IF* God The Father, chooses to allow all this to go on in the world, and, *IT IS Written* that HE Does, then IT IS Nothing to US, Except, TO Keep ourselves ~Free~ From *IT*… Our hand to the plow of “Sharing The Gospel OF God’s Kingdom IN Truth and Honesty, ~NOT~ mixing the ways if the world into it to contaminate the Gospel of God’s OWN Son… The Bible warns of all these things, IN Writing, that we must avoid, keep ourselves free from, but IF we don’t care enough to read, take heed, and walk away from these things, then we ~Will~ be found standing with the adversary, on judgment day.. This IS the choice that God does give us to make, to ~Follow~ HIS Son Jesus, OR The World led by Satan… AS IT IS Written we Must Keep ourselves where we belong, no man can take us away from the Hand of Christ, but we ourselves can turn away, like a dog to his own vomit.)
(Jude 1:21)..Keep ~yourselves~, *IN* The LOVE OF God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life…
(Romans 12:2)… AND Be not conformed to this world: but be ye ~Transformed~ BY *The Renewing of your mind*, that ye may ~Prove~ what IS that Good, Acceptable, and Perfect Will OF God…
So many Who call themselves Christians, today have the “Mike Hammer, can’t Touch This, Syndrome”, to their delusional failure… I’ve heard so many say that “Once Saved Always Saved, and *IF* we fall away It IS because we weren’t saved to begin with, and that ’s ~MY~ opinion.”… Here is the failure, “That’s MY Opinion”… We don’t have to Depend on our ~Own~ opinion for anything because God Had IT Written for us to *Follow*… We just have to Obey, and read *IT*, learn *IT*, & do *IT*…. AND that part IS ALL up to us… Like the old saying goes, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.”.. Well, you can tell folks all day long to read and learn, *AS IT IS Written*, BUT you can’t make them do IT… and we can sing, I’m saved all day long, but that doesn’t mean we are IF we are not following THE Way Jesus Taught, IN The Will and Way of God The Father…. Our Way, Our Opinion, ain’t worth a hill of beans in the middle of a fire ant bed, *IT* IS God’s Teachings, WHAT THE LORD SAID, Through HIS Son Jesus, The Word, as He delivered The Word To be Written, by men, for men to: *FOLLOW*….. Not to mix and mingle with men’s opinions and pagan traditions…
(II Corinthians 11:14-15)… No marvel; for Satan himself IS transformed into an angel of light,,, therefore IT IS No great thing IF his ministers also be transformed as ministers of *Righteousness*; whose end shall be according to ~~Their Works~~….
We must repentfully, and prayerfully, crawl back into the "britches" that fit, *IF* we will be honest servants of The LORD God Almighty, and joyfully walk in them to Follow God's Will and Way, AS Jesus Said.
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