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.
NIV
How does what God created liberate itself?
The creation need only to "Believe" every word that has come from the mouth of God!
What if God were to show you presently what your are NOT?
As if part of the whole that has been since the beginning, how could he unless you also saw yourself somehow mixed in with the whole batch of dough He's using to illustrate His perspective?
And then that same God shows you in His next breath what He intended you to look like THEN in another day?
Do you say to yourself, "Why that's impossible! How can I? I could never accomplish becoming the image of what you have shown me"?
If you've said those words, you have spoken truly!
Luke 1:35-38
The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.
So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. For nothing is impossible with God."
"I am the Lord's servant," Mary answered. "May it be to me as you have said." Then the angel left her. NIV
What has anyone who says they've believed IN Christ also pursued as if the Power of God if not what God alone defines as His "Form" of righteousness?
Is it your faith you're so concerned about as if the measure you pursue or is it the measure of the faith of God you hope to be endowed with as if also "Your" faith?
Wouldn't that depend on what ONE looks like to you?
Some believers seem to love to chase the value of specific numbers found in scripture as if to decode what has been said. Numbers such a 3, 7, 8, 11,12, yet they'll forget that Jesus prayed FOR those who do believe will also become ONE.
Ps 57:1
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me, for in you my soul takes refuge.
I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.
NIV
Maybe if some were to actually be truthful as to why there are so many different opinions concerning the Holy Spirit they might also see that they are also talking about ONE and the same God whom also gives that same spirit to as many as do have that deposit as His guarantee?
Religion argues over a lot of foolish issues, yet they'll discuss even more how little they do KNOW to be true about the person of God they say they represent.
It might be hard to see that which is otherwise invisible within the physical representation of a person, yet how hard is to see the manifestation of the presence of the Holy Spirit God Promises to give to those who believe?
You can give a scientific calculator to a toddler, yet what use is it except relatively cheap entertainment if the toddler is never taught how to tap into its contents and put what is otherwise available to GOOD use?
For that matter simply teach them HOW to read the owners manual for themselves and watch how much more they discover having invested their own time and interest that JUST might prove to be MORE than your own....
Don't fear, the children WILL know more, yet only those who have been taught what is "Righteous" as if seen THROUGH God's sight.
Many speak as if for God when they suggest something to be "IN God's sight", yet is that in all truth not an EXTERNAL perspective.
Some will argue for the benefit of their small world , "Well, You know what I intended those words to mean IN what I said"!
Really and how are the kids doing today? Are they JUST like you OR have you JUSTIFIED away the why they do look and act the way they do?
Matt 17:20
He replied, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." NIV
What would Christianity be today if only the words of Christ were the "Full" context of the bible that is truly "Believed"? And what if the ONLY opinion concerning all that is true about GOD were ONE and the same OPINION concerning the frame of that picture?
As well when those same words were read or heard, it was clearly understood what was said about Him was given to interpret "Literally", yet wouldn't that require that God be the only ONE which then provides the interpretation?
How JUST and how simple is the declaration below in terms of the GREAT "I Am"?
Spiritually speaking, who is Israel as seen through Gods eyes if not Christ himself and who represents as if the suffix attached to Israel the "Ites" of today?
Many suggest today that they are the suffix at the end of the name of Christ (Christ-ians)
Those same Christ--IANS or the Israel-ITES as if the mini Me's of God.
How different do the hands and feet of Christ under His Headship appear today as IF willingly participating as has been depicted by the words of God?
Will it be the OLD and the New children of God who see His face? Wouldn't that also depend upon exactly who IS "Israel" as seen through the eyes of God?
There IS more to said about faith than believing God simply IS and IF being ONE with Him is the HOPE we hold onto as "Believer's", how then can we DO anything as if pleasing that is also NOT acting as the Heart of that same faith and that as ONE?
The "Institution" as if what the people are calling "Church" is also an institution that is divided against itself at present, however be thankful that some have managed to survive the effects of that same "Institutional-ized" WAY of thinking.
Jesus said I am the Way. Jesus also said He is the Truth and Life. None of those stand opposed to the other.
Ex 3:14
God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM . This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'"
NIV
Because I live, you also will live.
NIV
How do His words THEN find "YOU"?
How many third person conversations have YOU had or heard told? Those where someone has a friend who knew a friend that knows a guy who also knows THE Guy?
Would some of those scenarios then qualify as if a "Parable" told?
Why not?
Is it because what's missing from the parable is the reality that ONLY the truth can reveal? As if the personage of the third person "IN" the parable being talked ABOUT was what the whole parable was intended to be about?
If you DID know and truly believe that it is IMPOSSIBLE for God to lie, would you say that the ones who killed the son mentioned below did NOT know that the one they killed was "The Heir?
Many assume because they personally didn't drive the nails or thrust the spear into the side of Jesus that they too did NOT participate in His death, yet they'll forget that it is the Life of His Spirit and the truth concerning His Life their own life now either testify's to or NOT.
What is the crime?
In my opinion it's "Hiding the Truth you claim is in you"!
Maybe others can't find the truth IN you? Maybe you see what you've been told is in you as if the size of a Mustard seed and that seed is now somewhere IN there among all the other clutter?
I sometimes find the humor when I think of child hood story of the "Pea" beneath the mattress.
Some might ask, "How have I hid the truth"?
The truth IS, many claim the "Truth" is within them yet its been treated a if it's "Lost"!
And who is your "Brother"? Who IS His brothers keeper? Many only hear the story told of Cain and Abel, yet is that distant form or a parable also the essence of the story that is also the last story being told today?
If the Lord Jesus as the First Born of the Beloved of God is not the one we are JOINT heirs with as if our brother, TRULY what have we preserved in theses clay Jars we seem to be so fond of?
Consider deeply the soil, the vineyard and the seed sown?
Many assume that a Gentile is a Non Jew, yet I would argue a Gentile spiritually speaking is defined as someone that see's the ways of God through the eyes of their otherwise OWNED and trusted imperfect futility.
Considered imperfect How? ....Only when compared to the Love of God He has already shown and given to us to show forth as the Love of Christ we claim is shed abroad in our hearts and that because of everything we say we believe to be TRUE!
Eph 4:17-19
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.
NIV
Matt 21:38-39
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him and take his inheritance.' So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
NIV
The Apostle Paul later confessed that He acted out of "Ignorance" while persecuting Christians for what "They" chose to believe to be true about that Guy (Jesus the confessed son of God) many people were talking about .
What Paul did not say is that he did NOT know, but instead that he "ignored" the otherwise obvious truth he later believed. Could that be why he later found himself able to speak as he does below?
Acts 3:17-18
"Now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance , as did your leaders. But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Christ would suffer. NIV
Zech 7:11-12
"But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and stopped up their ears.
They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the LORD Almighty was very angry.
NIV
I pray this has been encouraging and a healthy reminder of the substance we claim as our faith in Christ. Please join me later as I hope to be able to share the efforts of mining in the words of God as such that is available to everyone who has not allowed their hearts to be hardened.
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