I did this so that....

Could the reluctance to accept that which is true also prove to be just the fringe of what you've refused to believe?

Could the refusal to receive what has been freely given prove to be the evidence of a reluctance to believe there is such a thing as freedom?


How long is the testing period before something proves itself as something that truly was free?


Could refusing what is truth prove to be all that man has misinterpreted as he contemplates the possibilities as the reason(s) for his own existence?

Instead could it be said the mind that chooses to remain in bondage to a lie has also refused to be set free from the weight of his own persuasion?

Said "evidence" still requires the interpretation which only truth can present.

Are any words to be considered true simply because they've been spoken or are such words accepted as truth because of the one which authored and in turn those words get proved?

John 8:31-32

To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth , and the truth will set you free."
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What comes to mind when words such as Kingdom, Martyrdom, Christendom are heard?

The suffix "dom" suggest that the root word it's also attached to is a "state" or "place" of being.

The root word provides the frame as if the boundary of everything encompassed as each root word suggest.

When the word Kingdom is read or heard one might understand it to mean everything which belongs to the King. 

That same King whom also has dominion over everything within all that's been framed by the suggestion having added the suffix "dom".

Much like the word "World" which might suggest everything that's contained within its realized spherical presence that's made up of dirt, water and air and people.

Now let's revisit the word "World".

What if  the word "World" were used to describe a persons perception of everything that's contained within the common sphere which surrounds all humanity?

It might sound like, "Little Johnny lives in his own world"!

While using that notion as a launching pad, how could a world that also exist as freedom truly become realized by anyone from within the different cultures of that same spherical world?

Can freedom be realized while simultaneously being physically encompassed by something thought greater?

To suggest that a world that is real can exist within a world is not to suggest a world which has been dominated by the world which surrounds it?

That notion could simply be (quickly) absorbed into the definition as the state of rebellion to the more normal (commonly accepted) policies/dictates of the surrounding world.

Much like little Johnny's world which simultaneously exist within his own perception while physically existing within the greater world that's made up of dirt, water, air as well the presence of other person(s).

Picture an empty ladle that's been dipped into a bucket of water. As the ladle is submerged, it first displaces the surrounding water in the bucket and then is filled with a specific measure of water once pressed in further.

That image is how many consider the hand of God reaching down within humanity and then drawing out a chosen measurement (as if a ladle full) of people from the whole consideration of humanity.

The Israelites were and still are that chosen people, yet the height of that symbol as the entirety of its intended usage reaches far beyond the exclusion of everyone else.

His chosen people as the "Instrument" of choice was and still are being used for the benefit of so many more as if the lineage of those God would eventually call His own.

His own meaning "His" children.

When will all humanity know who those people are?

Rom 8:20-21
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
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Rom 8:18-19
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
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Not until the creation itself accepts the truth for who He is as "The Son of God" that's been sent into the world to save it which then satisfies Gods original intention(s).

The passage below doesn't depict a physical blindness or inability to hear as if physically deaf. What they couldn't see, hear or understand were the depth of His intentions/purpose's for having been chosen.


Deut 29:4
But to this day the LORD has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.


Deut 29:5-6
5 During the forty years that I led you through the desert, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet. You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
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Why did he take this approach?

Because as God says above, I did this so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

The perception of the individual within the nation of said Israelite's would be much like the laborer that's trying to install of a 470 mile long row of fence post that's also supposed to end up being "Straight".

realized expectations of it being built straight without being able to see, hear or trust the one that's watching over its construction?

It would be like the those who built the great wall of China with the full expectations of the entire wall ending up completely straight. Only centuries later to find out by way of satellite photo's that it was actually as crooked as a winding river.

Why? Because man since the beginning has proven himself notorious for taking the path of least resistance.

This above passage was spoken from God during the time when His "Chosen" people were also being lead from captivity (from Egypt). Later the picture painted shows the same Israelites circling the same mountain and the same surrounding terrain (wilderness) for 40 years.

He didn't (just leave them hanging) by telling them that they can't see, hear or understand, but He then tells them the reason why He had yet to give them the ability to see, hear and understand.

Now copy and paste that suggestion together with what those of us today have been told AND believe because we trust the author (Jesus) responsible for the words below in red ink we've also been freely given as the truth.

John 17:25-26
"Righteous Father, though the world does not know you , I know you , and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."
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The complexities (corruption) of today's world have lead much of humanity to suggest that there's nothing that is also free.

How can this be said especially in western cultures while claiming to live within the state which claims to be the status symbol of  freedom?

Is it that we don't understand all that true freedom is or that true freedom can't be realized until it's been received as if it is Free (no charge)?

Could it be because those that say they believe in Him (Jesus) have not realized the reason God sent His son Jesus as our only savior (hope) as if true freedom?

In truth, can the man/woman of today claim ignorance as could the Israelites before God made it known to them the "Why" He caused them to endure as the entirety of all they went through?

Have said Christian's today become people much like the Israelite's (fence installers) which don't know (understand) why they're also considered a people that are free while still in the midst of a surrounding world that continues to inflict so much pain?

 "Freedom" was intended to be enjoyed, yet why is it that so many refuse to accept the entire unfolding of such a great love shown which (how freedom was paid for) provides this Freedom which only comes by way of having received the truth?

Without being able to understand where the roots of that same love stem from, how can anyone maintain the hope that's needed from day to day?

Enough to then find themselves able to truthfully comprehend this declared freedom from the hand of God that is said to be Love from which freedom also came?

Now consider those in the future which may or may not find themselves pre-pared for all the trials they might endure?


How much will our decisions and actions today prove in the future that we too love them as much as the Israelites proved?

How did they prove their love?

By maintaining their belief and otherwise blind trust in the living God which is over ALL humanity which also "Looks" to somehow enjoy their very breath that's been Given while finding hope within their existence here on this sphere of dirt, water, air.


Those which you have yet to see, hear or understand (comprehend) as the reason why the truth not only can set you free, but also affords them the possibility while enduring their existence in an otherwise cruel world at the same time.

He used those in our past to now show us what we must continue to do. He said this on their end of the project;


Neh 8:10
Nehemiah said, "Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is sacred to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD  is your strength."
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He has since made known to humanity the presentation of His Son as if the Only reason why should we choose to do as anything we do while simultaneously considering what we do is also Good.


John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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The commentary of Jesus His Only Son was;


John 16:33

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
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Today (and not only on Sunday's) is that day and will continue to be until Our Lord decides to close the book where time as the world we now live in then ceases to exist.

He has blessed you in heavenly places by way of your faith in His grace, now receive it as something that is Free, because He does Love You.

That is to say regardless of what the surrounding world might otherwise suggest that you can somehow purchase by your own goodness as any realized Freedom which has attempted to present itself "as if" the Truth.


These are the words from the mouth of the one which paid the price as if our only hope of reconciliation with The God that is supreme.


Luke 18:19

"Why do you call me good ?" Jesus answered. "No one is good — except God alone.

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