In other words, that are not so Obvious!

It's easy to suggest that fighting against God is a losing proposition yet what might that process look like from an earth bound creatures perspective?

Have you ever stopped and truthfully considered what CAN a created being as if an enemy of the Lord do here in the earth that could in ANY fashion somehow shrink or take away from "Who " God is?

Not only that, but in order for someone to consider themselves an enemy of God, they'd also need to know the specific details in order to know that "What" they were DOING also opposed His will?

It's one thing to operate with a lack of knowledge and I think the common sense counsel would label such things as a mistake. It's yet another to operate out of "Ignorance".

For the sake of the word masters who love to make words do the things they shouldn't, what does the essence of the word "Ignore" suggest?

The world I live in has accepted this word as if a verb is a cognitive action taken by someone who knew the truth of  a mater yet they turned acted as if opposed to what they claimed they were at least made "Aware" of.

That should NOT conclude that such a person who saw or encountered the same things then interpreted those same things as did those who "Believe" differently.

How then have we arrived at such a place where the word "Ignorance" then suggest a "New" of different event took place as though it defines and then divides those who do know and those who don't know and that because of what they choose to believe to be "True"?

Here's where the word "Believe, Hypocrite and Ignore" stand in a face off.

A face off to mean, "Would the real Meaning reveal yourself by taking off the mask you're wearing"?

Not to frame God too tightly and in terms there only being ONE true God and creator of all mankind, you've either heard the truth and don't believe (Ignore) or you haven't heard the truth and as a result are now and have been operating from a place that is without knowledge of the truth?

Or is it possible you've believed a lie concerning the person of God and all that He has done?

The Apostle Paul suggested that He acted out of "Ignorance" when he did the things he did as if opposed to God, but he also included for clarity the word "Unbelief" in the same utterance.

Paul saw and heard but he chose to ignore what he saw and heard as IF the truth.

What Paul chose not to believe was the truth about a certain "Man" named Jesus who also turned out to be the son of the same God he once that he thought he knew.

1 Tim 1:13-14
Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief .

The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.    NIV

1 Sam 17:47
All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give all of you into our hands."
NIV

2 Chron 20:15
This is what the LORD says to you: 'Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's.
NIV

Notice the following does not state that we are to directly engage our enemy the devil because in a physical sense we can't, but instead because we are believers we then have been enabled to interpret the secrets to the kingdom of heaven which then reveal the "Schemes" of the devil.

Why? Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven reside in the "Truth"

Where are the "Keys" to the kingdom of heaven? You'll only find them when you truly "Believe" the words that have come from the mouth of God.

Who is ABLE to faithfully relay the words God has spoken if not One who is carried along by the same Holy spirit that is also of God?

Eph 6:11-12

Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood , but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

NIV

There is however another battle, yet is it being interpreted and fought as if it's already been "Won"? 

Fighting a loosing battle is never any fun and even less when those battles are against ourselves.

In terms of the knowledge that can only be found in the midst of the Alpha and Omega, only those who are willing to accept that the war has been won can then also lay down their carnal weapons they're attempting to use in a their otherwise "Not so obvious" spiritual battles.

The bad guy with a knife or gun are the easy ones to interpret as if those that have yielded their vessel and to whom? What about those that are not so "Obvious" in everything that they choose to do?

Those to mean, the vessels what may or may NOT fully know they've become a part of a wide sweeping "Scheme"?

Understanding the "Who" and coming to terms with the "Why" you're battling can sometimes cause a battle to be over much quicker and that because you've realized where the strength of your "Assumed" adversary comes from.

Have their been times when you've finally figured out that you were the one aiding the enemy and NOT someone else? Aiding your enemy by providing what some might term "Intel"? Specific details that end up harming you the way only a True enemy can?

Many sets of earth bound ears only hear what they've decided to selfishly interpret.

What many seem to forget is when the word "They and Them" gets used those words are not only speaking in terms of only the inhabitants of the earth but instead in general terms to the "Chosen" enemies of God?

Chosen? How are they chosen?

Through the exercising of their own "Will".

Until the soul (will) of a person realizes it is "Free" to choose, has that same same soul truly made a choice all it own?

When it is said of a child that "They have come of age", what does this statement suggest?

They've realized within their soul that they are "Free" to choose? This type of freedom can only present itself once the apparent cost have been weighed. It those NOT so obvious "Cost" that WILL always "EVENT-ually" catch us!

ALL of the those considered as the enemies of God can not interpret the parables uttered from the mouth of a savior sent to humanity (Sons of men).

Only those that CAN hear are also those that CAN see and understand and those that CAN are those who have "Believed".

Matt 13:11-13
He replied, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 

This is why I speak to them in parables: 

"Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. 
NIV

If earth bound thinking were to overcome the events found in the earth, do they not all require meeting with at least one death before the eternal reward is fully realized?

When you find yourself opposed to the hand of God at work, more often what you're fighting against is the very shaping of the image God had in mind for you before the battle even began.

An image though small as it may seem at the time is only part of the entire consideration of what God is doing in the earth.

As if a part of something He's created that can only be found on the other side of a particular set of circumstances or conditions.

Where's the bridge from here to there some might ask?

It's built from a unique rock God has termed "Faith" and you don't just happen upon this rock called faith. You might stumble over it, but that's only when it's attempting to introduce itself to you. That rock still requires you recognizing its unique significance.

If you don't "Know" the "Who" that also tells you what to "Believe" how can you ever come to "Know" what Faith truly is?

NOT knowing would be like looking for a particular type of rock in a field full of rocks not having ever seen one before?

What many can't seem to reconcile is a God that says "God is Love" to then associate that with the "Way" God then introduces you to the true essence of "Love" and that followed by enormity of how a love that is also "True" functions here in the earth.

Some of the worst battle's ever fought might have began in the name and for the sake of love, yet their ending has nothing to do with Love. Doubt what I suggest, then consider domestic violence in a household that claims God is present and sovereign in the mind of ALL the inhabitants of that same household?

Please join me in a better time and place that only God can provide where we can each be edified in His eternal purposes and intentions for those who choose to believe the truth. It truly is better to give than to receive once you've believed!

Esau, the conductor of his own Train

Things that get said in a lifetime have a limited opportunity to find their everlasting home sw. 

Every waking day begins with the evidence assumed to be true about love and the accompanying woes of life, only then to find the next day holds a new set of circumstances that now require their own interpretation. sw

As believers in Jesus as our savior, how true to OUR emotions are we?

Those same emotions we also claim escort us from one set of circumstances to the next in our daily lives?

If you're still with me in this thought, when it's suggested below "Don't fall", what have you read? Does the image of a undefined weight come to mind? Maybe as if a weight that can cause your knee's to buckle if it's carried too long?

It's never inferred that man will NOT encounter temptation as if it were a weight, no instead the word of God suggest that this person can find relief from this weight!

1 Cor 10:12-13
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.

How often DO we allow ourselves to be trapped by not only our own emotions, but also tempted by the emotions of others?

In order to hear the true "Rest" in what's being said, the first thing the hearer NEEDS to truly understand is the word, "Brother"

Gal 6:1-2
Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently.

But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted . Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
NIV

Matt 4:1
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.
NIV

How can Jesus touch the essence of our human weakness if we assume that we as 2/3 mere mortals are not also tempted by the same devil Jesus was? 

And since the same sun that shown when Jesus was here also shines today, how different the following words when we think upon ourselves?

How can we also be partakers in a divine nature if we only see ourselves as if AWAY and at a distance?

Isa 26:9-10

My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you.

When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

 

Though grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness;

even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and regard not the majesty of the LORD

NIV

Ps 119:28

My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word. 

NIV

What course of action does an enemy held in "Common" take while being compelled in this robbery as if after the very "Essence" of everything which compels OUR soul(s) to then act?

Is he only after the results of our said "Emotions"?

Is this one enemy in common only after the net result of our actions or is this enemy after what causes our emotions to run away with our souls?

Who's spirit has performed falsely and whose spirit have we followed as though our father? sw

Just how strong and potent is the truth in your life? Is it more powerful than the commonality and influence of our bodily glands?

Is life only about training our Hormones or mastering a specific PH chemical balance in our bodies?

Such a realm where the likes of psychology would rather you were "Trained" to respond?

Trained to respond in such a way that only their accept-able written code and recorded methods seem to be the overshadowing influence that also "Works"?

Please don't hear what I'm NOT saying, because there is a place for secular (worldly) psychology.

That place is wherever the absence of Christ is and that only long enough in order to sustain a person's physical body until the point in time where "Truth" can enter their lives and address the root of the "REAL" problem.

Please hear me when I say, "I have NO PROBLEM with sedating or medicating someone in order to keep them from harming themselves or others" just as long as Truth is given the opportunity to also do a GOOD work in their mind as well.

Rom 12:2
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will.
NIV

Money can not purchase "True" relationship(s) despite what psychology and false religion try to sell. The only thing either of those can supply is the false sense of a relationship that requires payment in order to sustain itself.

Brethren acting out of the purest sense of love and loyalty to one and the same Father of us all and only because we have fulfilled the duty of all that we've believed to be "True".

The thought of living vicariously through another is NOT some vague notion. God desires to LIVE through as many as will believe that He too maintains this desire to do so, yet what would that also require?

Possibly getting to "Know" Him"?

Not that I expect that everyone will like me or enjoy what I do say, but if you don't at least listen to me how will you know whether of NOT you also like the person presenting as if for your own consideration (judgment)?.

Many will suggest that God hears them and there would be absolutely nothing wrong with that thought, but let me ask you this, how many personalities do suppose would call You a friend for any length of time if you were the ONLY the only one being heard?

Jesus try's to tell us when it's recorded, "Jesus wept" or "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful" as does the apostle Paul. They try to tell us that there is more to love than many are "Willing" to look into as if a pair of eyes.

2 Cor 7:8-11
Though I did regret it — I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while— yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance.

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.
NIV

The world would have you to think that it's ONLY mission in this world is for you to be comfortable in your "Own" skin. That sounds great, but how is that working out for those who do believe in Christ as if the very essence in Christ having come in order to save us from what mankind alone assumed was "Right"?

Comfortable "Now" and comfortable for eternity obviously interpret differently, yet it's always in the revealing of the truth when True comfort comes along as if the suit it's being asked to wear.

Are you truly a fish out of water because you've decided to jump into the boat or one that's been caught and cast upon the shore for dinner?

The Lord that is Good set the life of Esau before our eyes so that we wouldn't take lightly the divine nature of such a great salvation as our inheritance.

Too much emphasis often gets placed ONLY upon the acceptance of the Father, whereas the adopted son must also ACCEPT the father as He is so that He too might fulfill the obligation as if the Father.

Be careful when you pass judgement not only as though a son who desires acceptance, but also for the sake of what the one True Father has determined a true friend is and does.

Heb 12:14-16
Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy ; without holiness no one will see the Lord.

See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.
NIV

Lev 20:25-26
You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own. NIV

1 Peter 1:17
Since you call on a Father who judges each man's work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear.
NIV

There's a reason the church of today looks to distance itself from the likes of the church of Corinth more often depicted in holy writ, yet the truth be known the greatest lesson for the church today could more than probably be found in the letters written concerning the behavior of the church that was in "Corinth".

It's never only been about the fruit. I don't know about you but I've eaten some beautiful fruit in my life that was either sour or bland!

The Fruit that will remain having survived the freedom of choice

It seemed good to redirect the previous monologue titled "Jesus said..and through Whom".

What came to mind was the question, "What is the fruit of Righteousness"?

Fruit that contains the incorruptible seed is the only fruit that will in turn yield the fruit of righteousness because it was plucked from the tree that is "Righteous". sw

What good purpose can any parable serve if the one speaking the parable is not clearly understood to be in possession of God given insight. sw

Which is easier to believe, "I did not know and so in turn I did wrong" or "I did what is wrong because I gave no fore thought for the sake of the one who is seen as righteous in the sight of God". sw

 Prov 23:24
The father of a righteous man has great joy; he who has a wise son delights in him.
NIV

Ezek 3:20-21
"Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. Since you did not warn him, he will die for his sin. The righteous things he did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for his blood.

But if you do warn the righteous man not to sin and he does not sin, he will surely live because he took warning, and you will have saved yourself."
NIV

Matt 10:40-42
"He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives the one who sent me. Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and anyone who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward. 

And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward."  
NIV

Moving ahead I wish to borrow from a thought I once had. That thought came in this form, "What did Adam and Eve consider to be evil prior to eating from the Tree in the midst of the Garden God instructed them NOT to eat from?

What was the name of that "Tree"?

Were Adam and Eve at that prior time before their fall abounding only in the Love of God?

Abounding in terms of their knowledge which at that time came directly from God? Were they abounding in Gods insight (freedom) as God then demonstrated having given the one He created the liberty to name every living creature He also presented to Adam so that he in turn might name them?

As he named them were the words Adam pronounced simply words or did the words Adam spoke require the used facility of the "Breath" which God also gave to dirt which God then gave the Name, "Adam"?

Breath given to man in order to then enunciate "Given" names to all living creatures (provide their genesis)?

Names which have even to this day survived the turmoil of this fallen world in which we live?

Was it actually the fruit they ate that opened their eyes (insight)? Fruit that God also made and that because He also created the Tree it came from? Fruit that also had seeds in it?

OR was it the serpent that corrupted the essence of men (dust) who then opened himself by allowing the seed from another source to be received within himself to then manifest to the point to where they then acted and took from the fruit from the same tree?

In terms of giving ones self away, what did God form man from?

What would Adam still be to this Day if God had NOT Breathed life into him?

If the word of God is believed man was formed from the "Dust" (dirt) of the Earth and IF Adam gave himself away who did Adam give himself to? Did Adam simply give away the dirt his presence came from OR did Adam give away his God given dominion over the use of the spoken word(s)?

Have you ever watched CPR being administered to a dying person? To then observe the same type of Godly dispensation of breath as if the "Living" who then dispenses what they have living within them to the dying person?

In order to live does it require a man to also "Remember" to command his lungs to draw in air or does a man continue to draw air into his lungs because of his will to live that may or may NOT also be conscious?

In terms of sharing ones will to live, do the lungs hear words or does the Mind? How important does ones words then become in terms of reaching the person being considered as unconscious?

Rom 13:11

And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
NIV

What then was planted in the dust Adam was made from if not something spiritual in the form of words (fruit)?

If God is believed, would His breath used to pro-nounce words also prove to be "Seed"?

As do all things which also pertain to God as if the creator, ALL things He made will in their turning follow and that according to everything which is willing to follow the nature of His own spiritual order.

Gen 1:12-13
The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
NIV

Mark 4:30
Again he said, "What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? NIV

Mark 4:31

It is like a mustard seed , which is the smallest seed you plant in the ground.
NIV

To borrow from what we understand today about gardening, were there now also "Weeds" planted in the soil God gave the name Adam?

Phil 1:9-11
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ — to the glory and praise of God.  NIV

What can become the righteous fruit of God if not THE fruit that also comes forth simply because God has spoken it into being (manifestation)?

How important then does the word "Believe" become as if it were the only way to consider Gods will which then becomes your own reality?

How valuable then does this fruit of righteousness then become and that beyond satisfying "Your own" appetite? Is it always marketable? No, obviously not in all instances yet at what point does the fruit YOU eat appear to others as something that also contains spiritual nutrional value?

In terms of others eating the same type of fruit based only the appearance of the fruit versus eating from the same tree, does the fruit you eat also have seeds in it?

Seeds that have not been corrupted (genetically altered)?

That would all depend upon the seeds found in the fruit your eating would it not?

Don't believe the Lie, all fruit has seeds.

If your being told "This one fruit has NO seeds, then ask "Where does any fruit come from if not the seed"?

Jesus said....and that through Whom?

Rom 8:20-21
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

John 14:19
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. 

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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.

But we didn't know Lord!

John 1:6-14
There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.  

He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.

Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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John 16:2-11
They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you . I did not tell you this at first because I was with you. 

"Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief. 

But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 

When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me; 

in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned. 
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Jer 1:4-19

The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart;I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."

"Ah, Sovereign LORD," I said, "I do not know how to speak; I am only a child."

But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am only a child.' You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. 8 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you," declares the LORD.

Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, "Now, I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant."

The word of the LORD came to me: "What do you see, Jeremiah?"
"I see the branch of an almond tree," I replied.

The LORD said to me, "You have seen correctly, for I am watching to see that my word is fulfilled."

The word of the LORD came to me again: "What do you see?"
"I see a boiling pot, tilting away from the north," I answered.

The LORD said to me, "From the north disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land.

I am about to summon all the peoples of the northern kingdoms," declares the LORD.
"Their kings will come and set up their thrones in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem;they will come against all her surrounding walls and against all the towns of Judah.

I will pronounce my judgments on my people because of their wickedness in forsaking me,in burning incense to other gods and in worshiping what their hands have made.

"Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be terrified by them, or I will terrify you before them.

Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar and a bronze wall to stand against the whole land — against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests and the people of the land.

They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you," declares the LORD.
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Luke 19:39-44
Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"

"I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out ."  

As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace — but now it is hidden from your eyes. 

The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. 

They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God's coming to you."  
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Alienated

Is your eternal salvation held secure only by what you choose to believe also to be "True"?

The question the spirit of God has been asking all men since his fall in the Garden is, "Who told You"?

Have you found it difficult to understand the collective word(s) of "God" as if what you assume you do know has been based upon what man has taught you?

What can a man teach about a "Person" as if the Love of God unless he too has encountered the Love that is also of God?

Even then is that man's ability to translate his own encounter the exact thing which limits the more complete explanation and commentary concerning the Lord (God)?

In terms of an even more accurate depiction of God what has ANY person assumed they can teach you as it pertains to the Son of God?

The same Son of GOD said "Christianity" has been trying to "Represent" for several centuries?

If the primary task as if placed upon the individual and the collective church were in question, what would that task be if not "Believing"? Yet what does that involve if not everything that we claim to be?

In terms of failure, how would one know IF Christianity is failing or falling short in the attempts made as if the Church (physical body OF Christ) which goes about the daily affairs as if the continuance of the daily business carried out on behalf of the Son of GOD?

Couldn't the simple test be, does the collective church look and or perform like the Son of God yet on a larger and MORE wide spread scale? Are the same qualities found at the same address where He (Jesus) has said he will also be in their midst in terms of believers?

Are there recorded reports of thousands at a time being converted as was after Christ was crucified? As though we're still reading the history of the body of Christ in the making?

Just how difficult is it to hear different teachings that conflict with each other? Those which fail to come into agreement with the remainder of what's being presented as if on God's behalf?

More often all that's accomplished is ones own frustration when conflict (strife) rears its head. Once this takes place 'Pride" steps in and has its way with you which then leads you right back to where you were before you were while being "Introduced" to the word "GOD" which stands in order to represents his person.

Why does most teaching about God and His Son find conflict whenever the original design of everything God also created has been painted as the perfect picture which was intended to represent His person?

The same God who created ALL things great and small to include everything that enjoys breath and life?

Have you ever heard it said in terms of God being confusing, "It requires someone other than God to complicate what God has otherwise gone to great lengths to make plain to man"?

I believe that whatever it is that's being taught that goes against what God has otherwise explained through ALL that He's created is a lie.

As if someone that's just beginning to step out and discover who God is what could you conclude about God if all you were to first read is the following words ABOUT God? recorded words as if God spoke them to mankind so that He could share those words with his fellow man?

What would you consider to be missing?

Could it be "Belief"? That to mean believing what has been said about GOD is also True?

Ps 146:9
The LORD watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
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Prov 22:12
The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
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Just for the record, what God has created includes His son Jesus the Christ who God also purposed as the savior of man!

Let NO man say to you and you then believe what's been said as if about GOD, if that same voice includes the inference "I don't know God or There is NO God"! That's no more factual in terms of stating the truth than is someone that says there is a GOD who sent His Son some two thousand years AGO.

Especially when neither can be seen without first "Believing" what's been said ABOUT any type of a GOD for that matter.

Is there any difference between some one who denies the truth and someone who looks to "Suppress" the truth" so that person won't be forced to accept what's said as IF it is the "Truth"?

When the said truth of a matter eventually does show up, does that always mean everyone involved automatically accepts "Truth" as if absolute?

Is there truly anything "Worse" than someone who thinks they only suppress knowledge?

Now, a question aimed at those who do believe in Jesus the Christ and Son of God, "Is there anything worse than the person or voice who finds personal comfort by way of suppressing what is TRUE concerning God or Christ Jesus?

If "NO", who then makes the determination concerning what is true among any said "Group" of believers? Who ultimately decides what is true and what is false if NOT that same group (congregation) as IF one opinion that gets expressed?

If that be true how does each sitting member then cast their personal ballot (Lot) concerning not only what is corporately being taught, but more importantly 'What is true that is Being Taught" which then gets taxed with expectations which are then placed upon what Christ is WILLING to do on behalf of WHO He is?

Not to dwell there, but it is food for thought.

The higher point is, what should those same congregates (members) then expect the Lord to manifest as if what they say they believe is NOT true concerning His person?

Who then among that same group gets to enjoy the intimacy of a TRUE relationship with Christ while in the midst of such things? Just how much of a struggle comes along when an individual chooses to think otherwise concerning who Christ Is AND all that He is WILLING to do and why?

There is no accuracy in corporate prayer unless everyone believes the same thing. Accuracy to mean who did Jesus respond to in terms of ones Faith, belief and absolute confidence in Him (Christ). How so?

It's too easy for one person to then come along and explain away how or what Jesus is being accredited for.

Those that Represent God were NOT intended to be or become politicians. The despised "World already has enough of those".

You truly want to find out who are the righteous people are in ANY congregation?

The "First" issue you'll need to flesh out is "What qualifies a righteous man in God sight"!

Where would you find such qualifications?

In the very Book you're claiming you consider to also be Holy!

Playing with the words of God historically has always proven fatal when given ENOUGH time, yet same can only be seen when each event has been truthfully examined and pieced together according to ALL that is True.

Some still enjoy playing with words AND time simply because God is merciful and has NOT struck them dead on the spot and yes it is proving to be fatal within the body of those who say they believe what Jesus said.

We do have an enemy and his MO is to kill, steal and destroy what might otherwise have proven to be the manifest truth God's word was intended to produce.

It's easy to explain away what's not being heard, yet it's proves to be much harder to try and explain the unexplainable.

What is Faith and what Is does the word Believe" truly mean? Even more what is the end result?

Has God's word(s) become "Old news" or just news that keeps getting older and fading away OR is it still your daily bread?

Occasionally God will give you enough bread that last for two days, yet the real strengthening comes day to day in our dependence upon everything God's word supplies daily and in accordance with what we perceive to be our NEED.

Heb 11:1-2
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. 
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To be continued.....

Amazed and taken

"Amazed' is a powerful word when it's found flowing in the veins of commentary, yet today it seems to have little influence in the absence of miracles as such that Only God can perform. sw

I hope to set the tone for this blog entry by introducing the thought that Jesus was and is the ULTIMATE believer! Believer in what some might ask?

That He was the SON of God All mighty who actually DOES maintain and from everlasting to everlasting sustains all power and authority in Heaven AND on earth.

The question for humanity still remains open for most in that, "Who do we say that we are"? And that in relation to Christ"?

The next question should be, "Have we taken ownership of that response as Jesus also had to do whenever we try to consider what God has asked of us as believers in HIM"?

The word says that those that have ears to hear will only be those who are are also raised unto life eternal. I think it a good question that needs consideration today primarily among those stating they follow Christ.

I'm not talking about hearing your preacher, your father or mother, I'm speaking about distinctly hearing the voice of the Spirit of Christ as Your God and then responding? What does He tell YOU to do from one day or moment to the next?

Does the distinct sound of His voice break through the noise of this world? Have you trained your ears to hear His voice as opposed to the voice of your own soul?

Can you or have you heard the voice of God and with clarity enough that you can say with the utmost confidence you're being lead by His spirit in your daily affairs here on earth?

If "Yes", what if you also knew that declaration were going to be placed on trial at some point in your life?

We can say we know who Christ is, and we can say we belong to Christ but can we say in all truth we KNOW what eternal life is as if the same way we know Christ?

If we can accept the following at face value, what could we as said believers conclude we need to fine tune our spiritual ears to?

John 17:3
Now this is eternal life : that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
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Is that food for thought, or the kind of food you haven't acquired a taste for "Yet"?

Who is this man in this story and what was he NOT willing to believe prior to the arrival of a greater need than he'd previously perceived?

The salvation of all men will always pertain to what Love is willing to and all that Love can do

John 4:47-50
When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death. 

"Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders," Jesus told him, "you will never believe ."  

The royal official said, "Sir, come down before my child dies." 

Jesus replied, "You may go. Your son will live." NIV

The man took Jesus at his word and departed. NIV


Matt 11:23
If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom , it would have remained to this day. NIV

Acts 13:12

When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, for he was amazed at the teaching about the Lord. NIV

If Christianity were only understood to be about faith "In Christ", should a unbeliever be amazed when they don't expect to see the evidence of the person being preached?

It was recorded of Pilate that he was "Amazed" yet it is NOT recorded that Pilate also believed in Christ.

Mark 15:4-5
So again Pilate asked him, "Aren't you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of."

But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed . NIV

A person can be amazed as well perplexed at what they see, yet still not believe in the person of Christ Jesus. Believing in what if not for all that He is capable of ? Capable as though the full vested power of God almighty does rest on Him as God's Son. Did Pilate fail to acknowledge such power actually did rest on Jesus as did all others that failed to believe in Him up to that point?

Such divine power that was given to Him to dispense at His discretion yet He did not always find opportunity to use that same power at all times.

If the reader of the account(s) of Jesus were to take what was written about such instances WITHOUT additional commentary, what would You conclude prevented Him from performing as is the GOD you've only heard about and are being asked to believe in?

He had at both at His discretion not only because he had been given all power and authority, but also because He has been entrusted to act as does His heavenly Father and within the same limitations.

Many seem to enjoy talking about why He didn't do many more miracles and healing's than He did yet even fewer will express "WHY" He did do as much as He did as if they "Know" him, yet when a prayer doesn't get answered Nobody seems to know much about God all the sudden.

It's just to easy to say, His ways are higher than ours and we just can't Know why He does what He does. How does that square with a father and son or husband and wife imagery Jesus constantly uses as the metaphor of an intimate relationship?

I believe much of what people DON'T seem to want to Know about Christ can be found in those same cracks that seem to continually prevent is from having a intimate relationship.

I personally believe that as a good and thorough of a teacher that Jesus IS, the essence of the very things that continue to plague most marital and parent/child relationships will prove to be an exact fit as to everything that prevents man from KNOWING his God better than he presently does.

We're not where we are by accident and without reason, yet what do we know right? I mean we're all imperfect or at least that's what our default claim to fame is, yet what does that say about victory that can only come through Christ? That is unless we can do what we need to do on our own in order to be considered righteous?

I believe God has not left anyone with a relational problem that is WITHOUT a solution IF and When He is heard the way He needs to be heard.

I believe every single relational issue a family has the cure for whatever that ails it can be found somewhere in Holy scripture, whether between the husband and wife, father and son, mother and daughter or any mixture of all the above.

Jesus set these godly relational metaphors before all humanity as if "Prime" example's yet man still chooses to throw out the guidelines that cause those examples to manifest in his own life. He continually looks to rewrite the script that defines Godliness.

When the words of God become flesh and dwell among us, guess whose flesh those words have chosen to wear?

In terms of teaching and or making disciples, how can a man explain to another that God can be trusted when all other earthly explanations do nothing more than try to prove that God is as unpredictable and unapproachable as man is?

Years ago I had a man ask me, "How do I know your God is the real God as compared to the God the Muslims and Buddhist try to tell me about"? He went on to suggest that my God was nothing more than words and stories as is the God(s) they worship and go into detail about.

Needless to expound it caused great pause within me....

What separates Jesus from all other God's? The fact that Jesus was real? The fact He IS real? The undeniable evidence He does have the authority to re-present God here in the earth?

If "Yes" then what would cause man to assume that Jesus would tell those that believe in Him to go and DO much more if they too didn't go with that same authority as if wearing the Signet Of "THE KING" as living proof?

People of God, "In exact and clear terms WHAT have we believed"?

What could frustrate such a suggestion though? The doctrines, traditions and opinions of men or being task with believing, given a commission to share that same Gospel without the power to go and do likewise?

Why would the mind oppose such a consideration? Because we know ourselves better than God? Because we've listened to what the "Man" has told us so that he too won't have this same expectation grinding on his soul?

Is the challenge what man can do or is what God can and is Willing to do when we find ourselves willing to go?

How can a man serve God unless God arrives at that location (address) first?

John 12:26
Whoever serves me must follow me ; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me. NIV

Surely Jesus fed thousand's yet did those thousands believe in Him to deliver them unto their eternal salvation because He fed them bread and fish or was this act of kindness simply the personage of Jesus on any given day? The act of kindness clearly understood as though able to attract the one common interest of hunger found within all mankind unto to Himself? Sound like a man feeding hungry pigeons?

If life after death is an eternal matter, how does feeding someone cause them to believe in Jesus for their eternal life as their only means for existing once their bellies are full? Hungry pigeons see no relevance beyond being fed in the moment do they?

Many say they teach about the Lord through giving, yet how amazed are those listening once they've received what has been freely given? What CAN be freely given that can NOT be duplicated and counterfeited that also has "Eternal value"?

Where is the economy today where something of this type of value can also be redeemed and realized here and now?

Are said believers in their deity of choice today only teaching that their God and Lord is impotent or that their God of choice only responds when He or She is in the mood to respond to ones prayers?

Could it be that what  man believes concerning His chosen God is only capable of performing equal to all that same man is willing to believe to be true about that same God?

What if believing in the One true God proves to be more than saying "I Believe"? What if all that is wanting to be considered to be found full of truth also has to prove that truth has value?

What if believing In the one true God requires the full investment of everything that a man is?

What if that full requirement is met only by way of believing in the One that same God sent so that he (man) could accurately address and believe in the One and only true God?

That to include what a man thinks, says and Acts upon as compared to all that God says is real though presently unseen. True yet said to be false at nearly every turn and everlasting only because Jesus as his savior is the only one that can deliver the reward contained in any promise made as one that's been kept?

What if man has not been placed in the judgment seat of his own earnest state of mind in his pursuit of God? What if God does know when a man is fully invested in his pursuit? What if when wrestling with God, he knows when a man has exerted his full potential strength?

What if the refiner does test the purity of such a substance? It being weighed as such which should be found to be more precious than gold, rubies and riches of this world? What could prove the value of such a substance and how could it be established? Could it be ones faith which heralds, "I believe"?

The state of mind of a man which then shows forth as if the end results of his own thoughts? Such a man whose efforts are compelled by the desires of God? Those same desires being defined Only by the very words of God which actually gives those desires shape & form as if substance which exist?

Thoughts that have nothing but respect for the unrelenting pursuit of God (seeking) as though Jacob wrestling with the angel of God? That same type of man that is unwilling to let go until he'd received his blessing from God?

Unless God renames any of us who say we believe, what have we truly become unless that same name we all share also be "Israel"?

(Israel means he struggles with God) NIV

Gen 33:19-20
There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel .  NIV

(El Elohe Israel can mean God, the God of Israel or mighty is the God of Israel) (NIV)

Gen 32:26-28

But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."

The man asked him, "What is your name?"

"Jacob," he answered.

Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome."
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As though the Glory of God that is being used in the tug-a-war between the opinions of men and the everlasting effects of words of God.

Heb 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists AND that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
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The basis of our mutual struggle with sin is nothing new to this day regardless of any other justification that would have you to believe to the contrary.

Gen 4:7
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door ; it desires to have you, but you must master it."
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Instead man aided by the false testimony concerning God continues to try and reinvent the rules of engagement. A venue where man finds himself engaged in his own efforts of trying to find himself reconciled unto God (rejoined with God).

Where's the doorway back to God?

Accept the truth that if it were NOT for the mercy of God being extended towards him, mankind could have never found his way back to God because He is Holy and righteous. Why? Because God is all in!

Your creator and savior (Christ Jesus) has spoken it and has placed His word above all else that can be said about Him...

With that said, are you truly wrestling with God and what He says or are your still wrestling with what mere men assume they have to say about God?