God is Love and found in Him are the riches of your TRUE identity

Are we living in a shrinking world where the majority of things being maintained have also proved to be the descendants of the obsessive desire to be observed as though something more?

Are we living in a world that is slowly losing it's "Mind"? A mind that has been established and set on the things of this dying world?

Sounds like gloom and doom some might say, yet what is the truth concerning all that is to "Come" as part of the future? Would it be safe t conclude that "What you can't see depends on what you believe to be true"?

I don't ask this as if to resurrect the tired and all but silent battle of opinions that wages between wealthy Christians and those who believe Christians should also be poor if they want to be thought of as Godly.

I'm of the opinion this "Religious" state of mind should find both sides guilty of one and the same thing. Guilty to mean both are acting "Out" of a competitive spirit and at the root of that spirit is "Pride"

It's really easy to see, yet only if and when it's remembered that God is "One" and the following wisdom is God inspired.

Prov 13:10-11

Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
KJV

A mindset that has become such that is more conscious of itself (identity) rather than God as One as our mutual "Christ".

A world where man looks across the expanse of all that's been created and then as if above the Lord who created the entirety of what He intended for His pleasure? Only then to circle back and conclude there must be something more to this whole event that's being called "Life".

Shrinking to mean a smaller state of awareness that's continually being divided and then robbed by way of demands presented which then require an even greater amount of our time, thoughts and devotion as to the absolute terms of what does make us blameless and holy "In His sight".

Eph 1:3-10
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.

In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment — to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.
NIV

Have you ever found yourself wondering who's at work behind the scene building this rail system the desires of humanity seems to be on? As well who's driving the seeming run away train that's nearly out paced the rate the tracks are put in place?

Do we as inhabitant's living in our own little worlds within this world find it easier to blame our faults on something we claim is invisible?

Do we perpetuate the thoughts and cause that employ's the notion as if the importance of maintaining the lie of "invisibility" because we've enjoyed (duplicity) denying the truth?

The truth concerning the indulgent lie to self which says that "Others" are NOT able to "See" the soulish inhabitant that resides in the flesh?

As such we've each tried to label as though unique and that because of all that we assume can be seen as the result of everything that's been associated and glorified as if the flesh suit we wear is somehow blessed and responsible for such a great victory?

u·nique: Being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else.

We'll sing to God be the Glory yet where are the results of what God has done? Who's judging what God has done as we STILL find our NEW being (creation) in this flesh as though a new suit the soul has put on as one that Only Christ has given as well the abilities accredited to the flesh?

The following is the grand finale yet it should then be nothing more than complete validation of what the world had to wait to see in it's fullness because it was blind to the otherwise known truth within us that held fast to the claim as though, "Christ In Us" (as the body of Christ).

When will the bride make herself ready? When will she allow herself to washed in the words of Christ so she can put on the fine bright and Clean linen given to her to wear?

Rev 19:6-8

"Hallelujah!
For our Lord God Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory!
For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready .
Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear."
NIV

1 Cor 15:53-54
For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable , and the mortal with immortality.

When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable , and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."
NIV

Because it's not been thoroughly taught as though important and even more "Received" as though true, men discount the consideration of not only what others may or may NOT see, but also who the "Others" includes.

Is what the "They" that are watching still "See" the familiar and varied expression(s) of a selfish soul that's been studied for centuries or the increasingly victorious revelation of a greater work that's being done day to day?

Such as the (Outward resurrection) outward yearning of their newly born again spirit which God not only gives but even more was given as the result of such a great sacrifice in order to make available for the world to see through us as the "Church"? (Ekklesia = The called out)

The more common opinion of man being of the selfish nature which also sired his fallen status, it's always about "Self".

Once again the audience the new creation is supposed to be also displaying our NEW creation to is NOT just our fellow man. What God has done within us is to be placed on display for a much larger and eternal audience.

Don't bite on the bait any longer in thinking our great salvation ONLy has to do with the "Us or the You".

The Son's of God were intended to display to all that are watching Gods true Glory which is all that He has done within us as His heirs and that of His righteousness.

Why? Because He has already spoken that which has already come to pass in the eternal realm. That which is eternal and everlasting is the reward. That which does not survive the condemnation of that which does NOT last.

 Eph 3:10-11
His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known --------> to the rulers and authorities ----> in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NIV

What should the world see as well the one who is said to rule it (fallen world)? 

The power of our testimony as to the great thing God has done and that within us as the work of Christ?

What God has done is so masterfully full of wisdom right beneath the nose of his otherwise blinded enemy and that by his own pride concerning all that He assumes He has accomplished otherwise contrary to the heart and hand of God.

Many say out loud as if not realizing the absolutes of what they're suggesting, "I just want to be me the way that I am" as well "God loves me the way that I am"! If that is true just how much of the old you is going to survive the transformation process leading into the New Creation which then enjoys the presence of God for eternity?

Is this true that God loves every ounce of your being to include the lack of faith? Or the part of you that depends upon the provision of the world OR does God love who He intended you to become in through the work of Christ?

When you suggest that God see's you, does He see YOU as righteous because of the Blood stained covering you now wear having put on "Christ" as Lord and Savior" OR does he see you as outside of Christ while claiming Christ as Lord for the way you try to see or cause yourself to be seen by way of your own reasoning?

Wouldn't the latter consideration then suggest that God is "Unjust" in His verdict handed down concerning those to be "Found" guilty of having denied the truth?

Just food for thought for those that have been saved from the high dive board of life.

Assuming the trial has already taken place because we already have the verdict, which will it be?

Will it be the guilty that defines the innocent or the picture of innocence which then defines those that are guilty?

If we have the verdict why doesn't that then suggest all that remains is the determination as to who and what was on trial?

Meaning the list handed down which does not contain the names of the guilty, but those that have been found innocent whose names have since been recorded in the book of life and those as the heirs of God.

Those that have proved the verdict of guilt to be righteous not only having fallen short of God's glory but even more their continued refusal to be reconciled unto to God as a son and heir of righteousness and that by faith in the grace of God only because He is also the God of "Mercy" (love).

I know, I know you've already heard it, read about it and bathed in it, BUT have you believed it with all that you are?

In terms of all that I am I personally haven't to date. The same is the result of many things, yet I can only claim what I have been given to be true beyond the consideration of those same things.

I know this to be true because there is not a day that has passed that I have not been compelled to repent of certain thoughts which I now know can lead to even worse outward signs of inner activities that still lurk within me from time to time.

Thoughts which lead to actions, actions when revisited which then cause a sense of separation from God, separation that leads further into to the thought of guilt, guilt that gives our mutual enemy a foot hold within the conscience and then a seared conscience which undermines our confidence in ALL that Jesus accomplished on the cross.

Most of which I personally have either planted or allowed to be planted in my mind over the years.

Only since the day that I embraced the truth concerning not only the verdict, but also the awareness of the wisdom of God presented as Christ did I then realize what I had been observing the most.

I've since discovered that it was I that either chased the desires which oppose the heart of God or they've pursued and caught me because I "Gave" such things "More" than a mere glance as though worthy of my attention I then paid to such things.

John 3:19-21
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.

Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."  
NIV

If all men that are considered guilty at some point in the sight of God were to individually acknowledge their guilt, what might the specific commonality of this guilt look like? 

The A-Z list of things most opinions consider to be as THE things we DO as though sinning or will it be the (singular) Sin held in common of "Unbelief"? 

Unbelief in what though?

Unbelief in the truth as it is intended to manifest because it was not only a promise made, but a promise made by God that the person of Christ we claim also dwells richly within us has reached the place of dominance?

(In a world where words still have meaning, the term Lord when properly translated in any language also suggest the personage who dominates and or has maintained Dominion). 

The presence of His person whom our body and soul (person) has since allowed to prosper to the place of significant influence that would NOT then lead our physical form (presence) into these particular "Acts" which gave cause to evil in order to be visible as if glorified?

Now as if an Identifiable existence as something God has full intentions of getting rid of when He does release His wrath?

God frames perfection with His words, yet all that resides outside this frame is not part of the picture. God forewarns mankind about the results of the life that's spent the spiritual economic value of itself purchasing such desires.

His words come from infinite wisdom and insight. Wisdom that has not only peered into the hearts and minds of all mankind, but also the individual desires men have within them which then causes men to chase after these same (common) desires.

We also have an enemy that has had years and or centuries to study all that we do and say. How long will a man deny the common things which plague his self efforts?

I encourage you not to try and hide behind context when you read this next passage as though somehow a certain "Type" of believer that is exempt from one and the same consideration as to what God says is evil.

Pay attention to how "THEY" are described if you can't bare to peer into what they also do when viewed in full context.

Rom 1:32
Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. 
NIV

Do you still want no part of being persecuted for BEING a Christian?

If your heart is ready, read what causes "Those" which supposedly do not judge evil as though evil in the sight of God as well what the righteous pursue unto eternal life.

Rom 2:7
To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
NIV

Rom 8:5-8

Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires ; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires .

The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. 

It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.
NIV

God allows believers in Christ to judge themselves so they will NOT be judged, yet this self judgement can not also be void of the truth as though a license to continue or wink at evil behavior despite the fact we've all at some point participated in the sinful DOING. 

It's getting easier to demonize just about anything in this world yet only when the truth is applied, but if we were to examine where demons originated what might we find?

Do we forget that the demonic realm we try to understand as though invisible was once a part of what was once considered to be good? What man fails to understand is what translates evil as though the invisible to the realm of "Visibility".

That is to suggest that today IF where we (man) now find ourselves also as "Fallen" beings AND when we truthfully consider that 1/3 of the entire angelic host that did 'Fall" also "FELL"  from a prior status or standing, what might we conclude?

That one third of the angelic simply 'Flopped" and fell beyond recovery? What would that suggest concerning a God that is Love if we choose to believe such a stand "alone" notion?

Was it that they simply woke up one day and fell so far away from the hand of God? The same God that can and is willing to forgive and heal? So far away to where He could not somehow also reach and in turn heal them?

Or is it that the said distance became greater because they continued to reject His hand of reconciliation while continuing in their persistent rebellion?

Continue to mean up to the point where God declared "Enough" and shut the door as though their particular (epoch) opportunity to be reconciled had ended?

It is important that we as believers who also see ourselves in the continual need of a savior (Christ) also understand this or else we can never gain an understanding into what the Apostle Paul spoke of concerning the beloved of God whom will also be judging angels.

That is to suggest not only judgment that's found in the equilibrium of a God's that is Love, but also a God that is Love that extends towards us as more than a mere one time chance.

As this thought progresses I hope to attempt pry open and to look deeper into not only "Why" humans are deceived, but how they reach the point as a being that are all but in need of continually being supposedly deceived in order to justify their future decisions made in order to somehow observe themselves as though "Righteous".

Deceived to the point which then nearly demands the response(s) which then draws some even further away as the voice of deception is followed.

A question that should provide rays of hope might be, "Why would an angel of darkness today find themselves having to parade around (move among us) as though an angel of "Light"?

Is it that God can NOT see these host(s) of darkness when they do come calling or that man is not able to SEE them when they cloak themselves in false light?

I pray you've found this edifying within your God infused spiritual man and that you'll join me in the pursuit of not only what qualifies our righteous consideration having believed, but also as we learn to expect even more from a God that is willing to pour out on those who are willing to please Him in all He that he leads us to do.

Good Enough (part two)

Before a person can determine the true meaning of "prosperity", shouldn't the value of life first be established?

If the view point of Jesus is sovereign in your life should one want to know what He has to say about life?

Life as such that man values as his own soul?

It's one thing to be gracious in giving, yet it can take a life time to truly realize the power of Grace which manifest as the "How to graciously receive a true gift"

Gracious to mean pure "Joy" and that without somehow feeling we can somehow rob from the giver by giving back an equal or greater gift than the one we've been given.

Mark 8:36-37
What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul ? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul ?
NIV

If any life as an existence were to serve you as your life unfolds before God, where would you look to see God's opinion?

The opinion of God below in this passage of Holy writ was said to have been formed before either child had done either "Good of Bad". An opinion which shows the equality and or equal opportunity where two lives side by side are then lived out to fruition.

God's opinion was also declared before either child had physically committed their being to doing wrong or right.

How is it possible for anyone to express an opinion concerning an unborn child that's "DONE" anything whether "Good or Bad"?

Think about it, these two twins hadn't even lived a minute in this world yet God had already formed an opinion of them both? 

How does their lives now serve you and I as "We" now know in advance God's opinion concerning all that He has already provided by way a promise He (God) made to those who believe in Him?

That same opinion which was then verbalized as though a summation and commentary concerning the (prior to) lives of these twins that had yet to unfold?

In that He (God) expressed His love for one as though more than (above) the other?

Rom 9:10-15

Not only that, but Rebekah's children had one and the same father, our father Isaac. Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad — in order that God's purpose in election might stand: not by works but by him who calls — she was told, "The older will serve the younger."   

Just as it is written: "Jacob I loved , but Esau I hated."   

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses, 

"I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."   

NIV

Both children having come from the same womb as well the loins of the same father (Issac) which one thought so little of His inheritance God had provided?

What was the essence of their inheritance if not the identity each could gain in the form of a blessing which would then result in both of them prospering in their individual blessings spoken over their lives?

The author of Psalms describes someone who trust's in their wealth and boast of their riches as not only a deceiver but more by adding emphasis as a "Wicked" deceiver.

Ps 49:5-9
Why should I fear when evil days come, when wicked deceivers surround me —
those who trust in their wealth and boast of their great riches?

No man can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for him —
the ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough - that he should live on forever
and not see decay.

What have YOU proved with the gain God has given to You? How much of all that you consider to be "Gain" also pertains to Life and Godliness while looking ahead to life eternal?

How much of YOU have you exerted in all of your said giving and that towards the purpose(s) and intentions of the Lord?

The opening question was asked, "When does simply being "Good" or doing good then prove to be "Good Enough"?

Now lets add context to this question, "As if you desire the Grace of God which will also save you, when is doing or being good, good enough?

Good enough to the point where you somehow now either "Deserve" or find yourself able to "Purchase" the grace of God that is able to save you?

Maybe we should be asking, when and how will I mature in the Lord within this great thing He has done which came in the form of a gift that's been given"?

Luke 8:14
The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life's worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature.
NIV

Has your said "Faith" become the result of everything you've assumed you've given for the sake of Godliness?

Can you bargain with God with the wealth you've acquired while in this life? Meaning you've given what you consider to be "Generously" and that to the best of the best charities among society?

Or maybe you've built one, ten or a hundred shelters for widows and orphans and have the property deeds to prove it?

Maybe you've given to your local church all of your earning years and have receipts to prove it? How much is enough and that in the sight of God?

Maybe the question should be, How much of You have you held back from the Lord?

At what point is all of your said "Giving" only the result of your personal celebration of your newly born identity God has made available to you "Through" the giving of His Son?

The price paid by God having not only established the price, but also made payment to Himself that is "Enough"? Enough that is to satisfy the cost, because He is God almighty over and above ALL mankind?

How can you give to or payback a God that ALREADY has and owns all that you possess?

Who has given YOU what you supposedly "Own" or possess? How much of what possess YOU are you going to take with you when death heralds its roll call?

Have no fear as I have no want of your money or your time other than sharing in the mutual encouragement and strengthening which pertains to what God has done.

Acts 20:32-35
"Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

I have not coveted any one's silver or gold or clothing. You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions.

In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
NIV

When you give anything, give to the expansion of the kingdom, yet also while remembering the "Kingdom of God is within You" and that same kingdom also has a "King".

His name? Emanuel.....

Love yourself yet Love God the giver of our Christ even more. Today and every day is the day and not just one day or season the world has tried to capture as "Christmas".

For the saints of God as though a day set aside that's been labeled Christmas we celebrate the gift "We've been given" by the "Good" grace of God as though the preservation of the gift given to man.

Why? Because God Loved Him!...Amen

Good Enough

When does simply being "Good" or doing good then prove to be "Good Enough"?

Assuming the person which ask is also in pursuit of the truth, wouldn't ANY answer to that question then require that "Truth" alone is the only One who is then found "Worthy" enough to respond?

What if everything mankind considers or is judging as though "Good" is also to suggest that each individual by way of this process is determining the "Personage" or personality of their God?

That is to suggest that a mans opinion concerning God also sets in place (establishes) the spiritual "Eyes" through which he then hopes to see and come to know more fully the God that is Good through those same eyes?

Ps 73:1
Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

Mark 10:18-19
"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good — except God alone.
NIV

To be continued......

Innocence, Justification and the Freedom found in Christ

I'm going to jam alot of theology here with this next question. I'm of the opinion that only the consideration regarding the "Truth" causes someone to stumble over any question being asked?

When does the mind of a person stop "Repenting"?

Let that simmer in the back of your mind as we hopefully move along in this mutually edifying and lengthy thought below.

What is it about the birth of a child most parents (those assumed adults) love to marvel over when we see a "New Born"?

Is it only the scent of their skin as though the clean and fresh aroma or is there more?

Is it more about the depth of their person we're somehow momentarily able to peer into when we SEE them as though small? Small which somehow allows us to gauge at least one end of the spectrum? May the front end of the full spectrum as the consideration of their "soul"?

As though a soul with a clean slate that has yet to "Observe" sin?

Observed to mean something heard? Heard to mean something that can Now be seen. Something seen because it's been brought "Into" Focus and pondered?

Something pondered upon which then becomes the desired. Desired to the point of being conceived. Conceived and then gestated unto the "Birth" process as something which then takes on a life of its Own.

Sounds like an alien movie plot doesn't it...

As a side bar, don't ever under estimate the lengths to which God will go in order to get His view (vision) across to the otherwise blind or seemingly dead (sleeping) spirit and soul and that because of the Love He does have for the spirit and soul He also caused to manifest at the address he gave them (YOU).

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
NIV

Matt 18:14
In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost. 
NIV

Back to the Babes!

Do we somehow look at this infant in hopes to catch a glimpse of all that's been stored within this little bundle of joy that God has already placed on the inside of this compact package?

Who is "Able" to open this gift as though it has a "seal" in order to bring forth the "Potential"? As though the essence of this gift that's been placed within it? Just as importantly who is NOT able to open and bring forth this same potential?

Exactly how many parent child interactive studies need to be conducted before one could answer such questions?

Most people would quickly assume I'm talking about "Physical" ability which then produces long term monetary success, fame, fortune or tangible virtues which I'm not.

Instead I'm only speaking in terms of the otherwise invisible contributors. Contributors that man and his sciences will probably never be able to measure as the "Absolutes".

For now many will choose to leave such things where they "Leave" them to be and without a proper "Name".

They get treated as though the X factor in an unsolved algebraic formula because nothing else has been given an assigned or identifying mark (Name).

In my opinion and because potential has no proper name, it will in the life of many continue on and remain misunderstood as simply yet another "realm". Please take notice that I intentionally did NOT define potential as either being something negative or positive.

Why? Because when it becomes something considered measurable it can then be qualified and assigned a name as though something that takes up time and or space.

Have you ever noticed that most invisible considerations usually fall under the category of "Influence"?

Things most every one have encountered yet no two can ever seem to agree upon as it pertains to labeling such things?

We don't understand them so instead we give them fictitious names which then allows them to hide or remain hidden as if they just "Drift" around us.

Influences which then have an affect on whatever faculties our individual being has yet never really comes to "Know" much more about these invisible influences beyond doubt before their person exits this world?

Considerations such as, does the individual ever truly recognize where the potential within themselves comes from? What causes them to recognize where such things come from?

Who was originally intended to aid in finding ourselves "Able" to recognize inner potential? What can affect this potential? The importance of who judges potential whether it's to BE considered positive or negative results or maybe good or evil while in this world?

Just a side thought but have you ever taken notice that few can talk about good or evil without somehow getting around to splitting them with a topic that has them opposed to each other?

I want to now give the this said potential a little more shape and form by attaching the word "Spiritual Potential".

Does the release of this gift's spiritual potential first require a "Vision"? Is it simply a matter of not hindering the potential contained in this gift which will then recognize for itself its "Full" potential as though brought to fruition?

As though this potential has it's own vision as if its inner strength?

How much of our spiritual vision is based on what we "Hear"?

What if there is no "Vision" for this spirit potential? What if vision is the spiritual potential (power) that has yet to exist within any child?

What if this spirit potential is much like ones "Faith" which God says comes by hearing and that by His words has yet to be placed within this small vessel? Who can see and who can see enough to bless another?

Rom 10:17
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
KJV

Surely parents can pray that God bless THEIR child, yet what if he already has? 

What if they prayed Lord help ME to be a blessing to this Child by providing me with the words that will draw out the vision you intended for this child so that I might Help as a servant and NOT hinder what you intended to be FOR them? (Emanuel)

What if the goal of parents that are also spirit "Filled" as Christ ambassadors is somehow getting the effects and "Affection" of Gods word into this vessel as though the ultimate expression of God's Love?

And we who believe call God our Father....?

Many try to MAKE their children either to be their servants or to be their friends. Those that have taught a worldly type of Friend-SHIP treat them (children) as friends before they've been taught How to be the type of Friend God defines as a "Friend".

Those that teach the way of slavery teach them slavery unto the world as they've truly teach them little to nothing about the Fathers business except how to approach God as though a slave.

John 15:13-16
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.

I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit — fruit that will last.
NIV

2 Cor 6:1-2
As God's fellow workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain. For he says,

"In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you."

I tell you,  now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.
NIV

How many Live's and how many RECORDED life examples will God use in order to show us (Mankind) the One each also pointed to in the future as the Christ (Savior)? How many will he send in order to point "Back" to the One that has already "Come" as the ONE?

How effectual do you suppose the thought of Noah's sons and there wives hearing as the reason 'WHY' they were building the ark when Noah was asked Why? 

Did he simply say to them, "Because I said so" or maybe was He as though full of Gods grace truly able to SEE and share what He could continued to SEE? 

Could he have said by way of words of His own choosing "Because God Loves and has chosen us because WE have believed Him"? 

Do you suppose his sons already had the notion in their hearts and minds that their father was righteous in God's sight? If yes and and by way of what tangible things did they gauge (measure) their thoughts? If we paint them out to be Super humans, how can their lives touch us where we find ourselves? 

How much more Christ who saw the importance to present himself in the same Flesh we wear today as hope filled "Living" beings within that same flesh handed down from the Garden (Adam)?

Is it possible that maybe they had seen as well received a portion of God's favor upon Noah as their father all long up until this point? Evidence which then "Helped" persuade them to "Believe" and follow his example?

Unless man is different today, how would the life of Noah as well his "Son's" existence play out in terms of the parent child relationship of today as both were striving in order to believe what God told them was headed their way?

Would they stay faithful to not only each other but towards the cause as if the NEED of building a SHIP because it is was the SHIP that would also save them and the ones they've loved from God's coming wrath?

What is coming as if any different in terms of results? Is what IS coming Forever lasting or is it soemthing that will simply pass like a bad case of  Intestinal Gas?

Why the emphasis on everlasting (forever)?

Because no one within all that frames the "Truth" can say, "I did NOT know" such a day was coming.

Instead in all truth those that did not know can only say, "I did NOT know such a day was coming because I did NOT believe in the ONE that was sent to warn and SAVE me such a day that was coming"....

Why only ONE?

Because it is Impossible for Christ as the ONE sent to Lie.The ONE in whom "No Sin" was found to be IN Him. Once again the chicken or the egg?

Which came first, the lie or sin as the result of the lie?

Matt 24:37-39
As it was in the days of Noah , so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 

For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 

and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. 

That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
NIV


Destroyed yes, though not by water this time, but wrath and fire that will destroy what we understand as the physical existence of humanity and the world that's surrounds our NEWLY born identity?

Our identity that's going to be kept safe within the relation SHIP that's being built by Jesus the Christ as our Father?

Would believing our father suffice today especially if all that do believe Our father were also staying and working to help building a mighty 'ARK"?

How important then is the said "Example" pro-vided when we (believers) then consider Christ as our example having become said "Adult's" (matured) and that not only in Christ but as though an integral part of Christ?

Are children building things these days? Are they helping to build anything these days? Have they been prepared to participate in the building process? If so for the building of what? Who has taught them and who is blamed for NOT teaching them?

How long does it take to build a spiritual Ark when the labor force is made up of nothing but prodigal children? Just because we see what we do does NOT mean all that we see was also as though The will of God in action and that while in the flesh.

Only because Jesus has been given the 'Authority" to answer what we consider the tough questions can He then also "Provide" us who do believe with the answer we 'Need"? Authority on any level must first be given before it's true power is the direct result of someone having "Realized".

Truth is authority, yet individually in the life of a person is "Believing" also the GIVING of that authority to the One that is "Righteous"  in all that is said?

Even further all the above because of an even greater authority GIVEN to Him?

Luke 13:2-5
Jesus answered, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?

I tell you, no!

But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 

Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them — do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? 

I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish."  
NIV

How Did Noah's sons go about such a consideration as spending YEARS building sweating and tiling without at some point abandoning the vision? Is it the age old debate once more about the Chicken or the Egg as to which came first?

How important then does the SAME type of obedience then become which then SERVES as the benefit of both parent and child as it plays out in their day to day relationship? Who will inspire who in moments of weakness if Children remain children in the mind of the parent?

It's easy to be on the outside when considering one mans relationship to God, as we can see how the world around Noah SAW this same thing.

What about those that look at this same relationship from the "Inside"? Wouldn't they have to be on the inside too? How can they preceive as though from the inside if they're never brought INSIDE?

Noah's wife was one consideration as His wife as though an opinion made from the inside, yet what about his sons within and as though a part the relationship Noah and his wife had and shared?

Sons who not only believed but also believed enough to to convince their wives to "Stay" and help Noah because they too believed in this God and the cause as the Need for an Ark built?

What could they "SEE" as though a mutually shared vision and what helped build (establish) that vision within them all?

Is it all only to remain a "Great Mystery" or are we willing to look "Into" the matter?

Did they all have the same vision?

If yes, how did they come to share this same vision?

We can see today from our vantage point in time and know that God so loved the world before it was populated. We also know that God still gives men free will as we can witness this as those who heckled Noah and His sons while building the Ark.

Stop and think not only of the faith Noah must have had as though his ability to hear God, but also His sons as compared to what most see today as rebellious children?

We can blame the world today, yet was that what Noah did while in a world that soon to be destroyed while in the midst of behavior bound for hell?

Did Noah persuade His sons and their wives because He alone had such great passion for the things of God?

Noah knew something and possessed the ability to persuade His sons AND their wives to stay the course. Think for a moment just how many years while the ark was being built did his sons stay vested in the undertaking? How would that look in your life today?

See not real threat on the horizon of tomorrow? Just because we can't SEE any  threat that's also thought REAL, what does that speak? I personally see it as the sank of ignorance.

As if "Glance" at something you can't see which then becomes the manifestation of what WAS once was only the likes of a "Nightmare".

I'm not coming down on parents or preachers because I too am a parent who (like it or not) stands in the office of a preacher of sorts at times which enables me to also SEE what frustrates otherwise GOOD preaching from the pulpit.

What I'm suggesting is that the preacher needs to believe and that same believing then interpret however need be effectual and that Only done out of Love for all that Christ is and has accomplished on the cross.

Love certainly does alot, yet even more when it's been interpreted as Love as God alone see's it.

Especially in light of learning, what learning is, being apt to teach, where learned behavior comes from as well the understanding and power of words spoken, which are then "Observed" in action as though the "Truth"?

Dare I now ask "Do you consider yourself ready to have Children" if any of the above is deemed as true?

Prov 5:22-23
The evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him; the cords of his sin hold him fast.

He will die for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
NIV

Rom 5:12-14
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned— for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.

When the apostle Paul uses words such as "AGAIN" in his speech (writings) it's as if he's hi-lited a very specific and important point of "Context".

I want to draw your attention to what Paul said concerning the full "Accounting" of sin. Paul made it a point to present sin as though "One Sin" and that by way of entry into this WORLD through "One Man" as if all that followed that one man until the time of Moses.

Rom 5:15-16
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!

Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man's sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification.
NIV

Is it a matter of simply getting ON the boat as I'm sure many tried to DO in the day of Noah?

Is the world going to burn or is the righteous going to come out from the furnace having been thrown into the furnace?

No matter how you see what you NEED to see unlike your spirit and soul you presently are not able to SEE, what are you hoping to preserve?

Just because you do NOT have children or may have chosen NOT to produce children still does not escape the reality of how you as though your spirit soul and body came into being.

Is this life only about everything Your flesh and all that it enjoys or will make it your concern to be about Your soul which God not only gave to you but as such you should love enough to also see it saved?

Is it only preserving people or is about saving souls?

Start with your own. Love your own soul enough to see that is gets saved, but in order to be saved you must also come to know why Saved and the Amen, but also saved from WHAT?

There is only one Sin that will send you to hell, and that is the Sin of Unbelief in Christ Jesus.

How the word Believe" interprets in the life of a believer is also framed ONLY by what Jesus alone says Love is and Does as did His father who not only told Him but also demonstrated through Him those same things....

Just shoot me now! (part two)

The children of the devil are the very one's that have believed His lies. Having placed the lies he speaks above and beyond what God says will cause any of us to be seen as "righteous" in the "sight of God" and his angelic host.

Like it or not we're ALL on display in what we do.

We often despise what we can't control especially in the form of "How" what we say or do is then interpreted by others.

Acts 2:13
Some, however, made fun of them and said, "They have had too much wine."
NIV

Moses struck what I call the "Glancing" blow, yet my interpretation of the importance of the glance is based on the "Why" Moses felt compelled to glance this way and that way BEFORE he delivered the fatal blow.

Yet still God was able to transform this same man over time did He not?

The same man that is was said at a certain time about Him was that He (Moses) was the most humble man in all the earth. When was the last time you saw a humbled present day murder?

Ex 2:12-13
Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?"

The man said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian ?" Then Moses was afraid and thought, "What I did must have become known."
NIV

Are we fast approaching the time of need of our deliverer? The one that can save us from ourselves?

If this is true as well the spirit of the Lord, are many truly being interpreted based on what we've hoped others are not able to see as though our hearts concealed?

How much of what we've assumed has been kept concealed has now resulted in the increasingly corrupt world we now find ourselves living in? Is it less corrupt NOW than it was where we read what we do in the bible when it was less physically crowded?

We find it easy to condemn the killer because of the evidence of what they DO, yet we'll forget that what was in their heart as sin was BEFORE what they supposedly DID wrong.

After the "Fact" is simply the fallout that has since found its way OUT into the open where everyone that have eyes can NOW see and that said seeing "Beyond" doubting.

I don't share what I share as though an original thought of my own. I simply find it worthy of repeating as though true because I know how "forgetfulness" has plagued humanity.

If a man wants said "Acountability" reminders at every turn of his life, simply say what is true at all times and you'll be met with those same words everywhere you go because no one will allow YOU to forget what you preach when they're accused of a crime against God.

That being especially true in an ever shrinking world we live in because eyes are everywhere, what establishes true relationships are dying while the majority are denying it.

I say that if evil is NOT being seen (perceived) to be on the rise its the direct result of what most have realigned evil to be. IMO, evil might seem to be on the rise as though an increase yet more so now because it has fewer physical places to hide.

It's shrinking because of the evil that is truly within the heart of men as such that God forewarned him (man) about...such evil that knows nothing better to do with the freedom he's been given except to hand it over to the one which causes evil to be called evil to begin with.

Because the world is shrinking in such a fashion, that which is evil within a man NOW has no choice but to try and alter what gets socially perceived as the "Truth" in order to make room for the essence of himself (selfish soul).

How else can he then hide his offense(s) in order to camouflage what he does so well in his own deception? He's simply creating more real estate because he's running out of sand dunes in order to hide the bodies...

God knew before the foundations of the world were formed that man would sin, yet was this whole event we encounter only about us? Only when we only think on ourselves individually once more?

That line of thinking might have worked IF it ALL were only about you alone and God....

I'm personally confident God has mastered the craft of making things from "Clay", yet breathing HIS likeness into anything was and still IS a very personal event as such a thought that He loved beyond the measure of a man to do so....

Man has simply failed to remember the heights from which he's fallen in terms of Holiness, who he (Man) is in the eyes of god and that as such that IS in the presence of God (the Great I AM).

Matt 15:19-20
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder , adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man 'unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean.'"
NIV

If man does not see how responsible he is for what he has believed, then why would Jesus offer as encouragement as though the first born (of the beloved of God)?

Can a man (posses) something and never realize its reward?

John 14:21
Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."  
NIV

How important is not only our understanding concerning all that faith accomplishes, but even more the importance as our confidence in God who we then trust with the remainder of the life we now live?

Not because we HAVE believed (past tense) but because we DO believe that He hears our pleas. He hears us because He has "touched our infirmities.

As though the needs of His children who have come to KNOW Him because we DO trust all that love IS and DOES because He is more than able because of the ALL that He IS as our GOD.

Who enables us because He also defines this same God above all others in the minds of mankind? 

Jesus the Christ!

John 16:25-27

"Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. 

In that day you will ask in my name. 

I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. 

No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
NIV

I don't consider it a crime to ask so I will, "Have you only believed there is a God or do you believe He is your God because He sent His son as His likeness in order to reintroduce Himself to you?

Heb 8:10

This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts.

I will be their God , and they will be my people.
NIV

Acts 10:45-46
The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles .

For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God.
NIV

1 Cor 14:21
"Through men of strange tongues and through the lips of foreigners
I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me,"
NIV

Do not become the "THEY" of today who have hardened their hearts towards God.

Instead "Today" being "The Day" when you seek to hear His voice do not allow what you've chosen to believe stand in the way of your own reconciliation to the only God that is able to prove that He is righteous and "True".

What is it that you must do?

Only truly believe in His son that HE sent for You.

By His grace and because of His mercy He'll finish what He begins in terms of a relation-ship he starts and He WILL see it through until it's become a finished work that's pleasing because of what Believing in Him has accomplished.

Just shoot me now!

The one fits all phrase "love the sinner yet hate the sin" is a tired web of deception. That's like saying "I love the devil, but I hate what he does".

Where in hell did that come from?

God gave man the gift to hate that which is evil, yet has man truly learned to hate evil when he sees evil in every instance? What about when a man see's the need within himself to be delivered "From" hell?

Surely he then needs to see streets paved with gold where there are no more tears of sorrow? What doe this man then place his hope in? The picture painted of streets made of gold and the fact he'll never grieve again OR the truth about the root cause from which he's been delivered?

What has unbelief allowed into your life? I'm not only talking about benefits from Heaven, yet what I'm wanting to focus on is what believing in anything truly accomplishes.

Why shouldn't a man (person) be made aware of the same evil which includes the evil this same man has failed to acknowledge? By having failed to acknowledge it as "evil" wouldn't this practically make it a welcomed guest into his own life?

Who is capable of and strong enough to wade into the line of cover fire being presented as though the one who's trying to protect what a person believes to be true?

Jesus and his apostle's as the likes of the apostle Paul as faith filled servants said a lot of things in their life time. The large lot of those same things they said lead them to be crucified, slapped, beaten, stoned, jailed and eventually silenced (killed).

Did they say what they did out of love or because of the love for all they did believe to be true?

Were they then abused and said "Mis-treated" because of what they said was found offensive? Enough to then be judged as though a liar leveling false accusations? Only later to be blamed as a "Blasphemer" because the first charge(s) wouldn't stick to those accused?

Just because your not struck by the very one you've confronted does not mean you've not touched the nerve of someone else who is more than willing to also slap you.

That is of course unless the one that does slap you is a slave unto another master against their own free will?

Is it that believers fail to see the hand of our enemy rise to slap us OR have we failed to hear the command given to slap us because of what we've said?

Because of what this world seems to know all too well about itself, who is considered worthy of confronting what God defines as sinful behavior?

Has faith in Christ now become such that doesn't matter, "Because we are all either considered saved sinners or perfected hypocrites? Now because of the confession made of "Being" a sinner have since lost or denounced the right to address the sinful behavior we try to convince ourselves and others God no longer see's?

Think about it, why was Paul slapped? Was it because he called them law breakers or in softer terms "Hypocrites" or for having found and declared himself cleared and that in his own conscience towards God having fulfilled his duty?

Acts 23:3
You sit there to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck!" NIV

Having failed to see God as the ONLY one that is good makes room for so much more in our lives. When we don't this way, how does the consideration that ONLY "God is good" remain true? Truth which then serves us as believers in a God that is said to be Good in ALL that he does? 

How can it serve in any capacity unless we also come to know beyond doubt about the things Goodness either does or doesn't do despite being wrongfully accused?

All that GOOD does as though a consideration of any matter at hand which is then "Drawn" in order for all men to reach for one and the same conclusion?

As believers in Christ we say we get the part about God that says "God is Love", yet did we truly receive the portion of God that is "Love" and that as His spirit?

That same spirit which then compels us to do what we choose to do having come into aggreement with that same spirit?

1 John 4:17-18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
NIV

Why does a mere man feel as though the weight of what God has placed upon him when His word says His burden is Lite? The same God who then tells the man to love his enemies having satisfied the greatest fear any man should have which is death?

Would you deem it to be true if I suggested that God would not instruct you to do anything He himself has not already done? That to include that God would not ask you to do something he has also NOT made you capable of doing?

Is God true or are you the liar that now gives the order to slap because you've found what is being said offensive?

How far does the hand of unmerited favor reach in your life? How hard is any job thought to be difficult without the fore thought of all that might prevent success?

Was the ruin Moses saw because of what He believed concerning God OR because of what he knew about man which included himself (the ones he was being tasked with watching over)?

If Moses were to be viewed as the author of these following passages, how would this commentary about himself sit with you? Especially if you were to read 12:3 before you read what came from his mouth in chapter 11?

Num 12:3
3 (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)
NIV

Num 11:13-17
 I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me. If this is how you are going to treat me, put me to death right now — if I have found favor in your eyes — and do not let me face my own ruin."

The LORD said to Moses: "Bring me seventy of Israel's elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people.

Have them come to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you. I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take of the Spirit that is on you and put the Spirit on them. They will help you carry the burden of the people so that you will not have to carry it alone.
NIV

Just how important is the spreading of the Gospel as opposed to NOT having spread the gospel? Not having spread the gospel which then as though somehow a mystery that leads your fellow "Man" to his own ruin as the end result?

Do we as believers NOT want success to take its spiritual course in time as such appointed by the mouth of God? If we do hope for success in such an endeavor then surely we must pray the same strength that only He has as if our hope being able to "SEE" the remainder of Gods enemies since reconciled to Him.

When something gets killed what dies with it? How different the office of the apostle's of Christ if it were to also be killed off?

Anything the believer in Christ is given is not given for personal gain. Instead it's given for the mutual edification of the entire Body Of Christ.

Lest we forget when one part of the body suffers the whole then suffers with it?

James 4:2-3
You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive , because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
NIV

Surely the Lord loves mankind even while he was a sinner, yet that understanding was not intended to continue as though a license to continue to sin.

Does unbelief only plague your life or do you find the mercy of Gods grace as the unmerited favor of God which only provides what you want?

We'll coin catch phrases like, "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make Him drink" yet what image does that require when we wrongfully borrow from this type of metaphor?

Does that picture also require a bit and bridle OR does it require the image of a carrot, apple or a bucket of water in the hand that is considered able to lead that horse anywhere?

Is it about the apple or water or does it have more to do with "hunger or thirst" doing their part in the leading?

Ps 32:9-11
Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you.

Many are the woes of the wicked, but the LORD's unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in him.

Rejoice in the LORD and be glad, you righteous; sing, all you who are upright in heart!
NIV

How does the believer love another that's trapped in sin while forgetting about the potential troubles that might also come "Their Way"?

Is that "Way" your way or is it the way of the Lord?

Has the governing rules of a life in Christ changed since these words were spoken? If so, by what authority?

Matt 22:29
Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God
NIV

Rom 1:16
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
NIV

Maybe your gift is that you've not found yourself in need of deliverance from something which can bind you, but what about those that have found themselves bound?

How much of what YOU choose to believe is ONLY for your eternal benefit?

Surely if we can read that the kingdom of God is not about words alone, but it's about "Power" yet where does this endowment of power come from? 

The Gospel?

The gospel as the power of God is what the believer is supposed to be battling the spiritual cause's of evil with and not just words and and money. Those things contianed in the Gospel were intended to be used in order to attract those that do find themselves in "Need".

Why? Because they have since found themselves in "Need" of all that God not only has to offer but alsothat He is "Willing" to offer to those in need of Him.

Jesus didn't dabble with the demonic nor did the Apostle's, yet they believed beyond doubt they had also been given dominion over such evil forces.

Who would possibly benefit from any OTHER type of attitude which concern the Lord that is Love?

Being nice is one thing and usually proves only to be temporary in light of the things which wage war against the said "Believer's" true Identity.

A child being influenced and that by the wrong sort speaks to lack of what?

Spiritual Parenting? Parented as though sinners themselves who also wink at what?

The truth maybe?

What defines who God's children are in contrast to what also defines who the children of Devil are?

How are we to discern between the two if everything we believe stays locked away in our tidy little minds?

To be continued if You'll join me in the mutual effort to believe and to put on the mind of Christ

Will you miss Jesus while on your mission to heaven?

Momentum is not always a good thing, especially when you are wanting to come to an abrupt stop in order to hit your intended target.

I'm a fanatic for a good sci-fi movie especially those that involve activities which take place in outer space. I personally enjoy the story line where there's only One shot at saving the day which leaves little to zero room for mistakes.

Those scenes where the astronaut is tethered and then launched from the space craft with just enough oxygen to accomplish the task at hand and with the added twist that when they launch themselves toward their target they use all the jet pack fuel getting there with no room for miscalculations.

That's talking about "Science "Fiction", but what I want to take a look at today is something many opinions consider to be "Fiction".

In the mind of the person that is willing to believe there is hope, yet is it this same "will" which leads us to believe that somehow then brings what we have believed into manifestation?

Would it not be more accurately observed that we too who have "Agreed" (believed) would then get to enjoy "Seeing" what was prophesied come to pass?

Why were the biblical prophets of old also called "Seers'?

What caused them to be able to "See" into a realm where the things of the future then "Took or Assumed" their rightful place within the coming time(s)?

Did they always get to enjoy what came to pass?

Wouldn't that depend upon how we who are examining that same question as though in their stead also define as our present understanding concerning what "Joy" is today?

There is Almighty Power and there is the pursuit of power that looks to suppress, displace or overthrow the joy of the Almighty and those who hope to bath in its beauty to include the timing of all that the Almighty has appointed to assume its rightful place in time.

What a believer should want is for the "The One" that was sent from the Almighty (and that to include everything He did prophecy) to eventually come to pass. It is His prophecy that we as believers should also want to enjoy as such that we place our hope in.   .

We hope not only as though what He says is true, but as such that becomes our reality that is real in that it becomes a "Hope" that speaks "Now' (today). This same hope that has little regard for the things which cause the fears of a surrounding world.

The fears, cares and anxieties presented by a world which all but looks to suffocate their dying spiritual condition as though breathing air that has NO life in it much like a fire that laps all the oxygen out of the air.

In terms of there being said "Different" realms and all those that are outside the said realm of a present reality, how many of those realms exist because of a lie and how many of those realms otherwise invisible to the naked eye are tried and have proved to be true (real)?

Is it once again back to square One, as in "What is the "Truth"?

I want to talk about a word that has been traditionally taught as though the bedrock of Christianity.

It's a word that most Christian's want to hear as though a statement of closure as if to say "It is done" or "Mission accomplished".

The root word is "Saved" and the expanded version of that is better known as "Salvation".

When You hear someone suggest they're "Saved" what do you hear being spoken? Is it something you've found nestled between the realm of 'Hope" and what you are willing to accept as "Reality"?

Let me ask this, where is truth in the midst of what you have hope for?

Assuming your hope IS something of greater worth than all you possess, is it a beautiful picture of "Hope" painted upon your heart which cause others to at least pause as if able to see something peculiar?

Having been found peculiar and attractive even if in an odd way and that only because of it's surrounding contrast?

If you were to attempt to render God on a canvas who would it look like? If you asked a thousand people to render God what would their portrayal of God speak?

We joke when we see the rendering of a person on a wall whose eyes move when someone walks past. We can look at our own image in the mirror yet forget that our eyes require staying fixed no matter the attitude our bodies might twist and turn in order to see the "Rest" of ourselves.

Ether way both speak that what we're looking at is also alive.

Unfortunately there are many Gods in the minds of men , but how has the God that you serve touched your heart?

Does your picture of God and savior only display YOU going to heaven?

People being the humans that they are, we seem to have become addicted to hearing things the way WE want to hear them in our efforts to maintain our unique mindset(s) or comfort zone found "our Way"!

Some have to hear what they want to hear as though listening to their particular genre' of music. Some like it country, some like it jazzed up, some like to rap it and some like to hear a choir sing it.

Have you ever shared something with someone and they'll disagree to then assume the posture as though their willing to stay engaged yet only under the terms where their version gets equal air time and stated as though the Gospel?

After hearing them out as if a rebuttal to what you just said "your" next thought is, "I thought that's what I just said"?

What is it that truly gets revealed through these type of exchanges?

In terms of the everlasting or eternal perspective, is it that Jesus saves You because of your personal understanding concerning the relationship you have with Him or are you saved because Your ability to relate to Him has been opened and made available?

If your life testimony were being recorded in the mind of God  as though fire and spiritual relationship where others can find warmth, how hot is you flames?

Picture the apostle Peter standing around the fire barrel where he denounced knowing Christ when asked if he was with one of those with Him (Jesus)?

Just imagine the things of this world as if they ask of us daily, "Are you with Him"?

What if someone's grandfather followed Christ, but their earthly father didn't?

Where would such a consideration then find us today if both had since passed away leaving you with nothing to consider?

What do you do now? What would you then look to as if a picture of God?

Will you leave behind words alone or words that are alive and active?

Do you feel like a slave to this world and the things that seem to dominate the minds of mere men that are of this world who have failed to show forth the genealogy embedded in Faithfullness towards the one true God

Neh 9:32-38
"Now therefore, O our God, the great, mighty and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love, do not let all this hardship seem trifling in your eyes — the hardship that has come upon us, upon our kings and leaders, upon our priests and prophets, upon our fathers and all your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.

In all that has happened to us, you have been just; you have acted faithfully, while we did wrong.

Our kings, our leaders, our priests and our fathers did not follow your law; they did not pay attention to your commands or the warnings you gave them. Even while they were in their kingdom, enjoying your great goodness to them in the spacious and fertile land you gave them, they did not serve you or turn from their evil ways.

"But see, we are slaves today, slaves in the land you gave our forefathers so they could eat its fruit and the other good things it produces.

Because of our sins, its abundant harvest goes to the kings you have placed over us. They rule over our bodies and our cattle as they please. We are in great distress.

"In view of all this, we are making a binding agreement, putting it in writing, and our leaders, our Levites and our priests are affixing their seals to it."
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There are a multitude of ways to express the same thing, yet how many "Ways" are there where two or more people come into agreement on any one particular thing?

Now take the essence of what's been expressed above and transplant that into a mutually understood classroom setting

What happens when the voice of authority in a contemporary setting loses it's said strength or power within that setting?

I can almost hear someone saying, "That would depend on the age and or the level of maturity of the students?

Alas, we've hit pay dirt!

Now, copy and paste that over to a bible study setting most rely upon as the venue where what they believe is shaped and molded.

Same dynamic' in play with teacher and students, except in this setting it's been clearly broadcast the context as though the only requirement is Spiritual Maturity?

What is automatically assumed?

Put the lid on that thought and set it to the back burner for a few as I want to now apply something a little more foreign to some.

Now, lets add life to this classroom and invite Jesus as the teacher, and some of His faithful witnesses who can testify to His teaching. What do we then believe when all other voices are silenced?

It should only be the flesh which finds a GOOD mystery as such that remains a mystery.

I encourage you as you make the choice to believe. Stop trusting only in what you feel and instead trust only because of the authority you've given unto Christ that now causes you to believe and continue to learn so you CAN truly feel His Love for you.

Trusting the dead will rise is where the battle begins and that because you see yourself as though dead without Jesus Christ.

1 Cor 15:50-54

I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."
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Ask yourself this before you read this next segment "Who are They and who is he talking to when the author says You"?

2 Thess 1:9-10
They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.
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