Have you ever watched one of those "Horror" movies where the teenager is totally oblivious to the villain lurking in the shadows?
You sit for 20-30 minutes watching their interaction and begin to find yourself slowly being pulled into the drama where these two animated figures do what they do?
You then find that you're so drawn into what you're SEEING you then hear your inner voice say, "Turn around you idiot, he's right behind you"!
The adult world is supposed to know these type of man made productions have their origin in the 'Imagination" of mere men, yet how relevant in terms of what a Believer "In Christ" suggest they also believe comes into play from one day in the supposed "REAL WORLD"?
Comes into play, but also under 'Who's" conditional influence?
As if trying to visualize what a great cloud of witnesses's might look like who've since "Crossed" over of ahead of us into the heavenly realm, what would your imagination also suggest that congregate might be saying aloud to you and I who are still here?
Saying to us as if they cane see things we can't presently SEE?
I read somewhere in the words of God He's mentioned the word "Noble" and "Ignoble Purposes"in the same breath (sentence), yet who gets to decide which is which in this world if not those whom God decides has become the Poster Child of either meaning?
I personally think its too easy to lose SIGHT of the truth in that not only do we HAVE an eternal enemy of the spirit NATURE, but also The entire ADMINISTRATION of the Angelic Host who belong to GOD are also spirit(s).
To then think that when we lose sight of these type of THINGS among many other considerations, is it also possible we also stand at risk should our thoughts of our God go the same "Way"?
I know some who've found out the hard way just how much can be discovered about a person by simply rummaging through there Garbage. Even by our own admission (no pun intended) we've heard said "One mans Garbage is another mans Treasure"
My question is, is there a spiritual "Image" of this type rummaging around in the garbage of our thought life that's allowed or maybe considered 'Fair Game" because it has been tagged and labeled as if sitting unattended to out on the curb in front of our House?
Think about in this world we'll hear suggest to a Tangible person, "I'm not letting you get in my Head" yet what does that mean? Is there a spiritual version of that as well?
And what is that differentiates the type thoughts of a "Mere man" verses the thoughts of the "Spirit" type within ALL men?
If God were the ONLY type of spiritual voice supposedly "Out there" knocking on the door of our mind wouldn't that prove to be "Great New"s?
But wouldn't that also by default prove that man is the "Gate Keeper" of his own mind?
Now let's revisit something else we say we already "know"? In the natural world in which we live and breath how does man view the type of person whose supposedly been "Demonized"?
I'm a slow learner, but how does anything find itself on the short list of God under any category?
Especially the type of list which suggest GOD said, "Can't Touch This'? I seem to remember a Tree Once on that short list? I also seem to remember the Life within a man named Job that was NOT allowed to be touched?
Nearly everything else around this man could be manipulated and/or destroyed, but NOT what GOD considered to be His LIFE!
Stop and think to what has been said AND Heard by most people when it is spoken, "You've ruined My Life'!
Once the personage of a human has been 'Demonized" exactly how easy is for a large number to gather around to join in on the "Hate Fest"?
And what if the spirit that has found a home (even if Temporary) doesn't WANT to be labeled in order to remain FREE to roam, what would You suggest has become the LEAST 'Obvious" place to try and hide?
Think about the "Snake" along these same lines? Been around for quite some time , Right? And if memory does serve me the way I hope it was designed by God to serve, the snake was here before whom else? Doesn't make the snake older than dirt, but the man that came from the dirt? Very possible....
Now just think to how long the snake has not only survived in this world having been the "First" spiritual possession (Host) recorded in the bible, but also on the other side of having been thoroughly "Demonized"
The very type who works tirelessly at convincing the mind of a man to "Cease" from labeling THINGS for what they ARE in this world?
Yet here is one of the things mere men forget about the counsel of God? More often contention among believers is Not about is God TRUE or Not, instead it's now about who and what as if the topic has "Morphed"?
it's being shifted to HOW what a man believes to be TRUE about God also gets "APPLIED" and to what?
To what could either be compared to in THIS world?
And exactly what is it that's at the "Heart" of ANY mans own "Deception" if NOT his personalized version of "Ignorance and Unbelief"?
And if there were ANY type of danger when a man considers himself in ONLY in a "Unique" fashion, what then does such a man also risk having "OVERLOOKED'?
And if such a man overlooks anything how does this same man only later TRUTHFULLY summarize his own DECEPTION?
And if God does NOT live in a temple built by human "Hands", who has failed to consider the likeness of whose mind those same hands that have built are also somehow attached to?
Consider the proverbial Hand of God whose body could NOT be seen by those viewing the mystery of merely a hand doing the writing on the proverbial WALL in the Moment?
Is there a reverse angle perspective between this realm (world) men have failed to Consider or even challenged their minds to delve into in ALL honesty?
In terms of "Deception, the requirement of the possession of something or someone in order to "DECEIVE, who could then interact with humanity in order to realize the AFFECTS of same? And what would YOU suppose would be the most effective TYPE of approach?
Who TODAY is NOT making the INQUIRY unto GOD where the slaughter of the SHEEP who do belong to God is TRULY taking place? Does the sheep need to be deceived before being "Lead"?
NO, yet only whenever what other consideration has dominated the "Landscape" of reasoning? The sound of GODS voice maybe? The voice that also sounds like what if NOT the proverbial TRUMPET CALL?
And who is that could also somehow SLEEP through the TRUMPET CALL and NOT rise in that DAY?
Please, Please do NOT "Try" to hear what I'm NOT saying or suggesting, because God does HAVE MANY in your city and in MANY others. If there is a troubling consideration though and is does have to DO with the who "factor"!
That factor being what if NOT...WHO is also able to "Discern" the difference between ANY two DIFFERENT types of spiritual activity within any "GOD" Given moment?
Matt 23:1-4
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.
So you must obey them and do everything they tell you.
But do not do what they do , for they do not practice what they preach.
They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. NIV
There are MANY today who are suggesting they too sit in that 'PROVERBIAL" seat (Moses) and just as many whose message(s) sound just LIKE the intent of the LAW declared by Moses? The proof of that being the bondage of many.
How many listening to however many different versions of their OWN message(s) also clearly understand what the Gospel of "Repentance" deeply desires to rescues them FROM?
As if "True Repentance" according to CHRIST is only a one time (momentary) "Event"?
The type of event where a KNOWN liar who does have a history repeats a TRUST worthy phrase they're not even sure they totally understand? And how can they understand unless they been TAUGHT?
Let's face it as if we do desire to become mature in the entire consideration of ALL that God says He is and that under the clears terms of ALL that He has ALREADY done.
Under the GODLY terms of a transformation, if a type of person went to bed fat or stupid should that person also expect to wake up as if "Charles Atlas or Einstein?
You do if that's the TYPE of miracle You believe YOUR God PROMISED...YOU!
EXACTLY why do most churches NOT allow a New Convert" to speak to an assembly of God's people as if AUTHORITY?
To then TRUTHFULLY consider some why some New Converts will be allowed to Publicly pray over as for and/or on behalf of Gods people, yet NOT be allowed to TEACH? I'm still NOT sure I see the Godly SANITY in these type of gestures, but I DIGRESS!
And what is TRUE authority without the AUTHOR also being present in what's been presented for CONSIDERATION?
And if the words of ANYONE else were to be considered to be close to zero AFFECT who then does that by DEFAULT also exclude?
Isa 55:10-11
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void , but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
KJV
Was there a TRUE reason as to why STEPHEN during his own STONING could somehow SEE what He did SEE? The type of sight that caused him to utter what TYPE of words?
2 Cor 11:13-15
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light . It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.
NIV
And personal opinion having been based on what YOU and I also suggest we do KNOW BEST?
At what CRITICAL point in ANY mans life could the type of counsel prove itself for ALL that it IS such as, "Let God be True and Every Man a Liar' prove to be a great starin
Alter Ego"?
Have you ever sat and pondered what could "Possibly" be at the Heart of "Poor Reasoning" as to the WHY even many who suggest they're believers seem to have NO IMMEDIATE sense of FEAR in their PRIVATE thought life much less their PUBLIC life that pertains to God?
Could part of any persons "Deception" prove to be that He as GOD has merely been kept in a type of "Isolation"?
Whenever someone suggest the dots have are starting to connect, at what point has this same person "Concluded" those SAME dots are also connected "TO" their point of ORIGIN on ANY type of DIVINE level?
Man being only a part of "All" that he truly is in any given moment, is it possible for him to run out of words that will argue both for and against everything he chooses to "Believe". sw
Is there a difference between preparing a room for a temporary "Guest" and someone who's been reconsidered as a "Permanent" resident in your "Household". sw
Why would it ever be presented (as if a need) there TRULY is a difference when a man tries to consider a part time "Christ In him" as if somehow a different type of inhabitant should he reconsider his person somehow as if a BEING who's ... "In Christ"?
Has man become that "Flirtatious"? To then truthfully reconsider the type of man who truly IS.."Flirting with Disaster'?
And how would either of those considerations find agreement with type of promise from the Lord which MORE than suggest, "I will NEVER leave YOU, NOR forsake YOU"?
Quite possibly (should a person allow it) the lead declaration into an even higher type of THOUGHT that further emphasizes the greater reality in that 'Greater is He that is IN YOU than He that is IN ...."The world'?
Why is it many can WATCH a movie or TV program about BEING possessed by demons and BELIEVE it's POSSIBLE, whereas merely the THOUGHT of somehow being POSSESSED by the spirit of CHRIST then SEEMS to lack "What"?
A type of animated example that can ALSO be SEEN?
Acts 17:28
For in him we live and move and have our being .' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'
NIV
And that within the nutshell in both somehow having "Become" ONE with each other?
Have you ever seriously considered what a "Rich Welcome" as was intended by God COULD be "Likened To"? To what could this type of consideration be "Compared"?
2 Peter 1:10-11
Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
NIV
Have you ever considered how a room full of "Estranged" people could ever reach an agreement as to 'Who" the teacher in the room needs to be? And as such without having to refer to their qualifications. sw
What if the only righteous definition of Agape Love were understood by way of knowing "The Lamb of God was slain before the foundations of the earth were formed. sw
What happens to the alter ego when a person has truly "Adopted" the thought they are best judged whenever assumed they're alone within the "Safety net' of their own thoughts? And who has truly become the fisher of men. sw
What if all men were willing to accept that "No Soul" is going to escape "Facing" the truth at some point of the souls existence? Could that be a contributing factor as to why some only see the permanent death of "Awareness" as the only viable alternative. sw
What if fleeting strength and beauty were seen as a gift from God? How many will also learn to value the beauty of real 'Strength" when it does come. sw
How many opportunities in life are missed for all they could have "Otherwise" proven to be?
In your life will it prove to be because of the "Fashion" of the presentation? Because the messenger in "Your" opinion came to You for all the wrong reasons?
How confused has any man since become in terms of NOT only what Love is, but WHO Love is?
As if an extension of that same Love of God how does that type of Love also present itself in this world?
I can almost hear it whispered now, It depends on "Who" you ask?
In terms of Origin, who's also attempting to redefine the type of Love God has prepared in "Advance"?
Why is it such a hard "Open Faced" question to answer whenever ANY "Type of Person" is asked what the original definition of Love is? Exactly where has Love been TAKEN in this world?
Why isn't THE only acceptable answer of ALL people, "God Is Love'?
Why is it so easily understood whenever someone has supposedly "Dated" themselves when questioned, yet the same ones will fail to recognize whenever the spirit of "Ignorance and Unbelief" tries to defend itself?
If there were ANYTHING that could somehow complicate the words of the spirit of God how would you FIND same as if the heart of the matter?
What type of harm does a man TRULY understand who invites harm upon himself should such a man continue to view Christ from a worldly point of View?
Surely He was once considered to be the Son of Man yet what type of man did those type of thoughts produce? At what point does He as Christ become the Son of God who's also in His RIGHT state of Mind?
The type of outlook that has failed to acknowledge who by way of a promise is said to also be on the Inside of those who HAVE BELIEVED the words of God as their CREATOR?
And if walking by faith is NOT seen as though walking by way of HIS eyes what has any man also truly REALIZED?
If ONLY what WILL last is ONLY what is REAL, what has anyone truly REALIZED having "Believed"?
How long is a person WILLING to remain thought of as though a FOOL for CHRIST? And as such without finding they've had to FIRST consider what LOST looks like?
What if the best and worst Sermons ever preached could ONLY be measured when compared to the Heart of God?
2 Cor 5:16-21
So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view . Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them.
And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. NIV
What has any man become if NOT for the MERCY of God He has shown in our failed attempt(s) at being "Righteous"? And as such if Christ does NOT prove be the ONE who was able to HUMBLE you before The Lord?
1 John 4:8-12
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love .
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
NIV
If it is known in advance the truth hurts, who then would find it a need to demonize the messenger only after the message was given?
In this blog I wanted to delve into an area that's historically proven to cause discomfort. There's a reason why these type of messages have and will continue to prove not to be for those who "See" themselves outside the "Purview" of the Godly persuasion.
I'm of the opinion every man has his own vision, whereas not everyone will see the same things based on what they've refused to 'Believe" to be "True".
Is there a true reason why those who do claim to be "Believers" In Christ do seem to get not only uncomfortable but quite animated when someone other than 'Self" camps out on one particular God oriented topic?
What is it about a "Crowd" that could somehow make any type of person feel safe? Especially if also trying to define the essence of "There's strength in Numbers"?
Just to be clear what I'm not talking about is the type of "Crowd" a pursued criminal tries to blend into while being chased!
What is the true reason why the origins of an "Ugly" rumor proves more difficult to find the 'Source'? Especially when a "False Witness" gets mentioned. sw
Have you ever heard someone trying to defend the otherwise "Alter Ego" of another person? The type of "Choice words" carefully sought out as if saying, "I was just trying to soften the Blow"?
And how many today can honestly deny that "self" was NOT an active participant within any type of Judgement passed?
When does the question, "What would You have done in their situation" prove to have nothing to do with what ANYONE does Wrong?
What is false humility if God is NOT the one who has humbled a man? And as such as if beyond ALL doubt?
Deut 8:3-4
He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
NIV
What has a man concluded should he convince himself God has nothing MORE to say other than what is Written? What has this type of man also concluded as he ponders within his soul, "I wonder what type of Judge will preside over MY Trial?
What has been said when a man "Throws himself on the Mercy of the court room" only to then find himself faced with the harshest of Judgement passed?
Have you ever given much serious thought to what a persons "Alter Ego" could prove if BOTH 'Ego's KNEW beyond doubt what a TRUE friend DID look like on the OTHER side of ANY scenario?
al·ter e·go
noun
- a person's secondary or alternative personality.
- an intimate and trusted friend.
And what do harsh words spoken in love also Hope to prevent if NOT "Immaturity"?
Truly what would qualify as the GREAT escape if a person that does see themselves in the sight of A GOD that doesn't also insist "Maturity" is the overall "Objective"?
Who better to choose if NOT 'Self" or those who think like self in order to justify ANY mans "personal opinion of 'Self'? To then think to what a self defense network or "Assembled Team" that's easily mobilized truly looks like within the life of a "Manipulator"?
And what might a mans justification sound like today?
"I might have beaten the servants, BUT at least I wasn't drunk when I did'!
Luke 12:45-48
But suppose the servant says to himself, 'My master is taking a long time in coming,' and he then begins to beat the menservants and maidservants and to eat and drink and get drunk.
The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
"That servant who knows his master's will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be beaten with many blows .
But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows .NIV
And how does One minor detail also decide the outcome of any type of recorded LAW if even as few as ONE small consideration can be 'Excluded"?
Why does the Christianity sort of today nearly insist upon the prerequisite in order to talk openly "About" Life and Godliness also requires a "Crowd"?
Years ago my wife and I were no less than seven years members of a relatively small church. We chose to sign up for a small group meeting where only the supposed adults in the congregation had been invited to attend.
I vividly remember the moment when we were handed and asked to 'Endorse" a "Nondisclosure" agreement in order to be able to sit in on these meetings.
I simply say it this way, later that evening in private my "Wife" reminded me of a sermon preached in that same church about what a 'Prenuptial Agreement" must look like when presented to the spouse who's also "In Love'!
And what does two men fighting look in the middle of no where look like verses the image of two that are fighting in crowd? To then task those observing "Who started the fight" as if they're all nothing more or less than "Innocent Bystanders"?
Does God only talk about "My MAN" Or does God primarily speak in terms of His People even when only mentioning "Adam'? Meaning More than ONE?
When He as God does speak to humanity in "Plural" terms who does that leave to speak and or relate to God on personal TERMS? To suggest in HIS (Gods) physical (tangible) "Absence"?
And how can a man whose been dead for hundreds if not thousands of years speak the langauge being spoken today?
Is there a difference between a Monologue and Dialogue within in a relationship with God? Wouldn't it depend upon the individual type of environment? Maybe, as to whether or NOT God does find it a need to TEACH the specific's on a particular topic more clearly?
As if HE is the "Private Tutor" who also specializes in REMEDIAL courses?
It' easily accepted what "Cheating Self" ultimately looks like within the established ranks of "Academia', but what about within the ranks of "Life and Godliness", who's to say Right?
Exactly how many VOTING children within a household does it require to OUT VOTE Mom or DAD within the scope of 'Parental Topic's?
To then truthfully consider which God appointed model's in the earth were also intended to shadow the likeness of ALL that TRUE... In heaven?
Have you ever sat and truthfully considered how a room full of people could ever discover on their Own WHO the teachers in the ROOM....Need to Be?
Does God as a GOOD Father somehow KEEP FAMILY secrets? The type of God that tells one child this yet keeps those same things close chested when discussing life with His other children?
Even if maturity were somehow factored in to the question being asked, how does whomever also find their person in relation to GOD when being compared to whomever else?
What would that type of relationship LOOK like in the natural if it were somehow compared? Who's to say, Right? And as such with ANY real degree of 'Authority"?
And what do the "Power" brokers of this world say whatever it is they have need of saying?
Those who want to seem as if they are in sole possession of better understanding of a type of power OVER wherever it is THEY also SEE themselves?
Do they only see themselves in this world whenever they do speak in their "Native Language"?
Those who've been recorded as having a personal relationship with God? Personal relationship with god that also looks like 'Who"?
with God as onlytheir Life and sense of Godliness is a topic that's 'Strictly" between "Me and God"?
What is it about humanity and discomfort that seems to rise up whenever someone talks about God and Godliness?
More often than not "What takes place" whenever others seems to "Make the Choice" in terms of "What they think they're hearing said"?
As if whenever someone else chooses to talk about life and Godliness their method of speech somehow gets translated into to what they "Personally" may or may NOT be doing, "Right"?
Why is it so easily obvious whenever someone (unaware) seems to have hit the proverbial Nerve or sore subject, the conversational topic can Usually easily be redirected without missing a beat?
Not only about what God says Godliness looks like, but just as important what any "God Given Day" in the life of a "Believer" should look like.
As such that also seems to revolve around what many also hope points directly "At" in terms of all they've somehow "Done" for God one on their own and those same things being done within a seemingly 'Shrinking" small world!
Have you ever tried to challenge YOUR godly type of reasoning with the "Why" it often seems so difficult to separate The One True God within a conversation? The type of conversation that bnegan with a trype of Godliness yet since seem to require being "Redirected" or in some cases totally "Abandoned"?
All for the sake of what, "Keeping the Peace"?
The same type of Peace that also began with a conversation about the type of peace that YOU believe only "Godliness" in your life has also promotes?
Having departed from these supposedly Godly type of conversations (for whatever reasons) where you've since found your person under the impression you have "Less" in common than you DO have inn common with these people? Not only less in common with them, yet now a seemingly greater internal struggle having listened to their "Reasoning" as to why you MIGHT have a difference of "Opinion"?
Is there a true reason why "Yesterday and Tomorrow" seems to be the type of guiding light against which 'Today" somehow gets measured?
To suggest that as long as today somehow interprets differently everything is "Alright"? And often times that same measurement then being weighed against 'What"?
What those around us within the supposed body of Christ are also supposedly 'Doing" or NOT within that same consideration in the sight of God?
Rom 1:18-20
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
(And if God Is, Does, Has and Continues to make anything 'Plain" to anyone whether those on earth or in heavenly places, how does He continue to make it plain and THROUGH whom if NOT the said sufferings of the corporate "Church"?
This same type of teaching (school master) that also suggest BY NOW ....Many by NOW ought already be TEACHERS?)
Was the Apostle Paul ONLY trying to SOUND gracious in his presentation of the administration of God? Or was Paul being SINCERE in His offering of himself in that He truly is and was LEAST of ALL God's people as compared the 'Sum total" in the sight of God?
Is there a true reason NOTHING more is rarely seen or heard once a person perceives they HEARD of SEEN ...ALL they personally Need to KNOW? Is this type of discussion ONLY talking about everything that needs to be KNOWN about mankind OR "The LORD?
And who today is it that's also SOMEHOW providing this type of "Measurement" that's also found to be within the type of world God is always talking about?
Eph 3:8-13
Although I am less than the least of all God's people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.
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.
In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. 13 I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
NIV
(As if somehow Justified' because someone claims to either know or NOT know something "Specific" about the "Will of God" does their assertive claim somehow allow their "Individual" assessment that's been MADE to circumvent what ALL men have been subjected to?
And because many have gravitated "Together" for a specific CAUSE does their "Enjoined" agreement also somehow circumvent what ALL men have been subjected to?
What if the seemingly simplest consideration could prove to have had EVERYTHING to do WITH what what ANY person could have somehow MISSED, what would "You" assume that One consideration is?
Many would suggest that One consideration to be "Christ", and they would be Right, yet does that also somehow MYSTERIOUSLY and immediately make them ONE with Christ? The same type of "Oneness" he put on display in His Obedience unto what many are claiming to be OUR Father whom also presently only APPEARS to be (reside) in Heaven?
If "Yes" what more could be said to such a mindset?)
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
NIV
Is it One thing to always be seen as if GOING to the Show, as opposed to never being PART of the SHOWING?
I hope to be able to continue this at a later time. sw
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Yet who not only put them there at the 'pinnacle" of that seat, but also who is capable of proving they were Given the RIGHT to BE there if NOT the Lord? And what does it LOOK LIKE whenever the people CHOOSE who they want as their KING?
Is it the man that drives out a demon or the finger of God? That finger also being the 'Undeniable" representative of who?
Luke 11:20
But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come to you.
NIV
And if it is ONLY by the FINGER of God by which demons are driven OUT of a man, is it TRULY any wonder WHY is MUST Be beaten as if a DRUM as to WHY God no longer has need of expressing His person in this world in that same FASHION.....Today?
And if there are NO demons today, nor DEMONS capable of possessing a said SAINT, is it truly any wonder whey the demographics on the outside look very similar to those MASSED as though in the HOUSE OF GOD that's NOT been built by HUMAN HANDS?
Jer 7:16-17
16 "So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen to you.
Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem
NIV
Many are getting FAT in the House of God, yet there are MANY more who are less than LEAN and for ONLY ONE reason.
Fat people fall as do ALL people yet when FAT people fall the tendency is Fat people fall MUCH harder!
For those who insist upon remaining "Politically Correct", you can substitute the word FAT with the softer word, "Heavy"!
1 Sam 4:18
When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off his chair by the side of the gate. His neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had led Israel forty years.
NIV
Prov 19:11
A man's wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense.
NIV
Acts 7:57-60
At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him, 58 dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.
While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Then he fell on his knees and cried out, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them."
When he had said this, he fell asleep.
NIV
Yes there's always HOPE! Consider the the 'Entirety" of the making of the MAN Saul whenever you doubt!
Even if from Womb to Tomb who gets to decide the truthful meaning of either?
There's ALWAYS...the REST of the Story to Consider before a STUDIOUS (prudent) decision can be MADE!