1 Peter 4:1-6
4:1 Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin.
As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.
For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do — living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.
They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you. But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged according to men in regard to the body, but live according to God in regard to the spirit.
NIV
2 Sam 23:1-7
These are the last words of David:
"The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man exalted by the Most High,
the man anointed by the God of Jacob, Israel's singer of songs:
2 "The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me;
his word was on my tongue .
The God of Israel spoke, the Rock of Israel said to me:
'When one rules over men in righteousness, when he rules in the fear of God,
he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth.'
"Is not my house right with God?
Has he not made with me an everlasting covenant,
arranged and secured in every part?
Will he not bring to fruition my salvation and grant me my every desire?
But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns, which are not gathered with the hand.
Whoever touches thorns uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear;
they are burned up where they lie."
NIV
Ps 2:9
9 You will rule them with an iron scepter;
you will dash them to pieces like pottery."
NIV
What is ANY mans prologue or prelude in this Life? As if the Lead in to what he as a man does have to say about the God he once rejected. sw
Who is the man who is not heard because of "Who" He is or Not. sw
Job 32:6-14
So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said:
"I am young in years, and you are old; that is why I was fearful,
not daring to tell you what I know.
I thought, 'Age should speak; advanced years should teach wisdom.'
But it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
It is not only the old who are wise, not only the aged who understand what is right.
"Therefore I say: Listen to me; I too will tell you what I know.
I waited while you spoke, I listened to your reasoning;
while you were searching for words,
I gave you my full attention.
But not one of you has proved Job wrong;
none of you has answered his arguments.
Do not say, 'We have found wisdom;
let God refute him, not man.'
But Job has not marshaled his words against me,
and I will not answer him with your arguments.
NIV
Is what a man "Believes" somehow established as TRUE in this world only because he's allowed himself to be "Convinced"? Having been persuaded by "What" though if same is NOT also proved to be TRUE?
And who is that will also offer UP the believable type of "Reasoning" that also proves to have been the cause ANY man has also "Adopted' a persuasive "Life Governing" doctrine here in the earth?
Is True Life and Godliness ONLY about what a man CHOOSES to believe or NOT?
Or is being lead by ONE and the SAME spirit of GOD the ONLY sign of a TRUE repentance ONLY God will accept? And that because same is also TRUE?
2 Cor 7:9-11
For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us.
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done.
At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
NIV
Without the foreknowledge the Psalmist was also a "Prophet" of God, who can ANY man also hear speaking as if through a prophet who is "Of God'? And that without also Knowing the sound (tone) of God when HE does speak?
Does this type of prophet have nothing to offer that will also "Profit" a man? And who is ANY believer in the PROMISES of God who does not likewise also "Prophecy" in like manner?
Whether it be "Little rocks" or "Huge Boulders", exactly what does a "Talking Rock" sound like if NOT the ROCK of the ages?
Acts 2:17-18
"In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.
Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. NIV
"Brothers, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day.
But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne.
Seeing what was ahead, he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to the grave, nor did his body see decay.
God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of the fact.
Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.
For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said,
"'The Lord said to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." '
NIV
I said to the LORD, "You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing."
As for the saints who are in the land, they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight.
The sorrows of those will increase who run after other gods.
I will not pour out their libations of blood or take up their names on my lips. NIV
Man being of the type of task "Oriented" type of creation, history has also proven him (man) to be what to DATE? And as such who is also "Without God"?
How has the naked efforts of mankind also worked out for him (mankind) to date in terms MASS production and or a type of life cycle that keeps "Repeating"?
To then TRUTHFULLY consider the Fruit brought forth by WAY of a TRUE "Discipleship" that is also IN KEEPING with......?
And what type of "Ship" was it that also "Proved" itself capable of surviving the deluge (flood) of Gods type of wrath whenever it has come upon mankind (creation)? Especially if the finite ship buidling instructions were NOT adhered to would the SHIP itself also survived the storm?
Have you ever sat and truthfully considered EXACTLY who it was that also established and assigned the title of a "Good Samaritan"? And that while also KNOWING....Only God is GOOD?
How about the type of empty praise whenever someone is attempting to "Patronize" or maybe "Indoctrinate" a person whenever it's said on the trailing end of provided instructions, "Good Job" or 'Well Done"?
And who has been YOUR teacher (Instructor)?
Gal 6:6
Anyone who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with his instructor.
NIV
Job 35:2-8
2 "Do you think this is just?
You say, 'I will be cleared by God.'
3 Yet you ask him, 'What profit is it to me,
and what do I gain by not sinning?'
4 "I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.
Look up at the heavens and see;
gaze at the clouds so high above you.
If you sin, how does that affect him?
If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
If you are righteous, what do you give to him,
or what does he receive from your hand?
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself,
and your righteousness only the sons of men.
NIV
If the ONE who has GIVEN the Instructions to follow is NOT the ONE also GIVING the praise that follows suit, exactly who's plagiarizing who in terms of "Empty Praise" (Glory Given)?
In terms of ANYTHING being over the top or maybe TOO MUCH of any one things, is there truly such a thing as a type of BEING who is also ....."Too Spiritual" in the sight of God?
Once again how dangerous is to not only toy with words, but toy with the TYPE of divine words God also used in order to somehow shape and form what else? Yet to whom will those type of words also prove to have possessed MEANING? And what is the Mean Value of ANYTHING?
And who is it that's also weighing WHO is spiritual and who is NOT? And as such in the sight of God and in terms of a brother as if from the SAME womb?
Is there such a thing as Carnal encouragement and Spiritual DISCOURAGEMENT?
In terms of OWNERSHIP, who has somehow weighed any Child as if their OWN simply because this child came through ones birth canal? And what if Christ had also been considered in such a fashion?
How CAN it also be said that Christ came to HIS own yet his OWN did NOT accept Him? Accept Him (Obviously not) yet accept Him for "What" if NOT..... THE CHILD sent OF GOD?
And why is it so difficult in this world for any child born into an otherwise Godless environment of a parental type of oversight (village) to also find it difficult to somehow relate to a father who is otherwise invisible?
What type of vision and words could somehow serve a certain type of people within a village that has truthfully reconsidered the words of a prophet that suggest, "father forgive them for they know NOT what they do'?
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! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 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. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
NIV
Or would it be more accurate to suggest someone who is being "Too Spiritual" should interpret as though a type "misrepresentation" ......in the sight of God?
Some might even try to suggest "Hypocrite"? Yet without truthfully considering exactly who was NOT also a sinner when they truly have been accepted of God who has Honestly assessed who with having become a "Hypocrite themselves? And as such because the one judging DOES know what is RIGHT in the sight of God?
And who is the type of man who condemns and/or convicts another based ONLY on what is TRUE without also having simultaneously passed "Judgment' on his own personage?
John 4:21-24
Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth NIV
2 Cor 5:11-15
Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men.
What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.
We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.
If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
NIV
In my youth I was taught NOT to play with 'Fire" for all the obvious reasons. More importantly within the full scope and possibility of my own "Hurt".
No comments:
Post a Comment