Only years later to discover you're just now "Meeting" the evidence that SHOULD have proved years ago you were headed in the opposite direction Of God?
Even further down the line You find that all the prior years of servitude that were supposedly "For God" somehow Failed to draw you much less anyone else any "Closer to God" than was before?
Now being possessed by the Type of Attitude where you've found yourself positioned so far out of touch with what You once thought you "Believed" was true?
The type of place where you now struggle trying to remember WHY it was God touched you back whenever He did? In terms of any persons Attitude, what happens when we "Forget" specific facts?
As if now trying to hang on by your spiritual fingernails for no other reason except to One Day Go to Heaven?
Are there any examples of this type of "Out Of Touch" Attitudes that can and have also been found by You in the "Words Of God'? And what is Hunger and Thirst symbolic of when talking about any persons Attitude that's also been "Expressed" in some fashion?
What is it that seems to Rise Up within a person when some "Outsider" comes along and tells our person, "I don't LIKE Your Attitude'? Whenever words "Like" these are chosen exactly "WHO" are these words attempting to Target and/or ADDRESS? Especially when these type words beckon/express a perspective that sounds as if the person has NO CLUE where your from?
Below is a biblical example. Exhibit "A" is Stephen.
Without feeling somehow Obligated to add to what has been said about Stephen, it should be Obvious by what has been said ABOUT him as to "Who" his creator is. The one thing missing though in the "Retelling" of this scenario is his physical presence? That said, what would prove to you to BE evidence based only on what you've read or heard?
Here's the eye opening caveat if you'll allow it, "Based on what you're convinced you know today to be trustworthy, true and consistent about God, at what POINT when reading ANY type of physical Printed material do all your Trailing thoughts also point directly to the Will Of God?
What evidence would prove to You exactly which of these two men (Saul - Stephen) were simultaneously convinced at the time of their interaction together captured in Holy Writ that both were doing the right thing at the same TIME? This place for lack of a better term where their two worlds (realities) seem to collide in this Story in the Book of Acts?
Both personalities convinced in the moment and beyond individual doubt (Stephen & Saul) they were Doing the WILL of God? What they were each convinced of as if everything we can ONLY read about today they'd each committed their person(s) to DO? As if both men were walking hand in hand with God?
Here's the question that should make many supposed believers who are also in Christ TODAY wince if Nothing has since changed and a TRUTHFUL comparison were DRAWN across many generations?
In terms of a case that's been "Reopened" (as if Your eyes today) and if You were chosen to be a Jury member reviewing the provided EVIDENCE how would you find?
The type evidence that can only be validated based on what YOU believe to be TRUE in the Attitude of Gods Mind? As if what was TRUE back then remains the SAME today Which man in your Opinion would You find guilty of being opposed to God based ONLY upon what each is somehow SEEN doing?
Now add this one caveat, put your person in the STEAD of SAUL and make every effort to NOT show special favoritism?
One must also remember there is a Judge who will steer this committee (jurors) based on WHAT? The ADMISSIBLE "Evidence?
Also keep in mind and heart all that you and I read also happened where? In the SIGHT of God (the Judge).
Was anyone convicted of a crime?
Was there a Jury of 12 pooled?
Was there a recorded court case held for the GUILTY?
Was there or has there since been a VERDICT declared?
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
Exactly who did the existing LAW at that time apparently PROTECT?
Who established the LAW of that time?
Acts 6:8-10
Now Stephen , a man full of God's grace and power, did great wonders and miraculous signs among the people.
Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called)-Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria as well as the provinces of Cilicia and Asia.
These men began to argue with Stephen , but they could not stand up against his wisdom or the Spirit by whom he spoke.
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And Saul was there, giving approval to his death.
On that day a great persecution broke out against the church at Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.
NIV
John 1:1-2
In the beginning was the Word , and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
NIV
And if it is BELIEVED that The Word is representation of a person, who would that knowing POINT towards based on what YOU suggest YOU have and continue to "Believe"?
Obviously there's a past tense, when reading about the past, yet who's NOT reading as if PRESENT tense?
The Apostle's of the past who also authored what Believers who are in Christ take to heart and suggest they also believe are ALL dead, Right?
Or would it be more accurate to suggest they're ALL physically dead?
Today should either type of death also be considered to BE complimentary for those who ARE "Alive" because of what God has said?
Heb 3:16-19
Who were they who heard and rebelled?
Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was he angry for forty years?
Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?
So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief .
NIV
1 Cor 10:11-13
These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. 12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.
NIV
If Christ is not the beginning, the middle and the rest of God in the story Being Told, what has been suggested of those who claim to be In Christ in terms of an eternal Life. sw
Who's denied Christ without having more highly esteemed and predetermined through whom He chooses to reveal a part of himself through. sw
1 Cor 12:21-31
The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!"
In the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor.
And the parts that are unrepresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment.
But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.
If one part suffers , every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
(And if the Church is the spiritual ADDRESS is the WHERE all these many parts will also be assembled, whose to know what part is which and who belongs where in this same Body when no one truly seem to KNOW or TRUST the other(s)?
Is the question of this DAY, "Who's NOT asking GOD or WHO is it that see's it as if a NEED that the will of God for today remains a MYSTERY so that everyone is found ACCEPTABLE beyond their entry and unique salvation unto the Kingdom of God?
And as such without GODLY character overseeing this process? And how does any child's dream to become anything of greater value die without having been TOLD and having BELIEVED it is IMPOSSIBLE by those in AUTHORITY?)
And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?
Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? But eagerly desire the greater gifts. NIV
How valuable are any of the Gifts given to the Church if they are NOT somehow expressed In Love?
Ps 37:4
Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.
NIV
What man is going to ask of God if that man sees himself or others as UNDESERVED, yet truly why does any man NOT want someone else to HAVE or POSSESS riches that COULD benefit his OWN ...Person?
If "In Christ" there is only ONE "Glove or Shoe" that does fit ALL could that only be possible because the 'All" are ONE?
Are some NOT asking because they do NOT believe and others ARE asking yet are also NOT receiving because they're asking with wrong motive?
And what does the Body of Christ in the earth today NEED? Power? Authority? The approval of God?
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
How valuable are any of the Gifts given to the Church if they are NOT somehow expressed In Love?
Is there a reason God suggest a man gouge out an eye if it is 'Offensive"? Or was God providing counsel to ONE spiritual man HE is raising Up in the earth?
Exactly what or whom also resides within or behind ANY 'Title" or 'Label" mere men attach? To then ask the same about what God has given to the Church for its own edification?
Exactly what WAS it about the Apostle Paul by way of his is own admission who confessed to the Glory of his own "Weakness" unto the Lord was how he became who we today can ONLY read about?
The same single minded man who said, "Follow me as I follow Christ"?
Who today is denying the need for this same type of Weakness in the Body of Christ as if a part of that same Bodies weakness that's also BEING seen by a slowly dying world that is in need of same?
Is it the same body today whose' bold claims Deny it NO longer has need of Apostle's? The same ones who seem to struggle and feud over exactly who it is that's DOING the will of God today?
Surely the Body is suffering today, yet is it also TRUE that it is Gods who's unwilling to DO what His son died in order to provide, "In order so that No Man Should Perish"?
What GOOD can benefit a mans soul who claims he can see, if what he suggest he has seen does not somehow move him in the only Right direction. sw
In a place where there's no room for repentance, exactly who should be assumed has taken it's place if not Pride. sw
Luke 13:24
He said to them, 24 "Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.
NIV
Luke 13:24
He said to them, 24 "Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.
NIV
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