It's Fathers Day

Very few things of importance are being defended in the days we find ourselves in. It's unfortunate but at the top of that list is the "Father".

It's always assumed that Father is strong, courageous, he never taste pain and if he does he's not supposed to show it. Father also gets blamed for such foolish thinking as if a mans world.

Father is not someone you would expect to see crying or sitting around having had his feelings hurt, but yet do we ever ask ourselves why? 

In some homes Father is the least observed face in the house, yet does anyone truly care enough to ask why?

Father is supposed to be a good if not "The" bread winner and keep food on the table, the kids in new shoes and keep Mom happy so everyone else will be happy. Of course Father can only be so wise until Father forget's and has to be reminded that "A happy wife equals a happy life"?

Father is expected to speak very few words in the course of his life yet at the top of that list of words He's expected to speak on a regular basis is the word "Yes".

Father is supposed to keep an open and full wallet on his person at all times. Father is supposed to know how to fix anything that breaks and that without having a care or asking how those things got broke to begin with.

Father is supposed to be the one that has all the answers when everyone else has exhausted their own opinions before asking for his.

Father is expected to be patient and quietly accept the blame when things don't go according to "everyone" else's plans in the house.

Father is expected to be able to bring swift order to the household when it's members can't agree and in the next moment manage himself adorable to the point as if their friend.

Father is expected to act his own age as well like a 10 year old at the drop of the hat. Father is expected to intuitively know the depths of engendered differences and that to include how to read minds and forecast moon cycles.

Father is expected to have few emotions nor is he's entitled to respond differently as does everyone else.

As everyone else gets older Father is still expected to keep up with the latest and comment even less than he did the day before.

Father is expected to make himself available just in case someone might have a question and be silent when nobody wants the answer.

It's assumed Father knows the answer to everything except what matters in the moment.

Father is only entitled to think when prompted and always do the right thing.

Fathers are expected to be seen and not heard and know when such a miracle should take place.

Fathers are expected to never tell a lie, yet tolerate and over look as many as are told.

Fathers are expected to act surprised and feel loved year after year with the same tie he gets at Christmas, his birthday and Fathers day.

It's expected that as Father gets older He knows less and less and should be grateful as if he also played a role in all that he now see's in His household.

So to all you Fathers out there, I bid you good tidings and I hope you enjoy and have a blessed Fathers Day as we each marvel at the expectations that have been placed on the office of a "True Father".

I wish it could be said without argument and be said especially in the household that belongs under the Father as it has been written.

As Fathers and as we reach for the full potential that can be found in the word "Realize" let us as Fathers remember our own Father the "Way" He would have us to. amen

Acts 4:18-19

Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 

But Peter and John replied, "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God .

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1 Cor 11:3-4

Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. 

Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.

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John 20:10-17

Then the disciples went back to their homes, but Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. 

They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?" 

"They have taken my Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put him." At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. 

"Woman," he said, "why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?" 

Thinking he was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him." 

Jesus said to her, "Mary." 

She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher). 

Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father , to my God and your God.'"  

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"Yes" they replied

The words of God declares that Jesus didn't simply make a bold declaration below. Instead it says He "Answered".

What was the question He was responding to though?

In terms of the person of Jesus I think many over look the cardinal rule in that He was also given the 'Title" of "Rabbi" (teacher). Even fewer will even further extend that same "Grace" of authority towards the men that He (Jesus) hand picked from among the ranks of humanity and then taught.

In the culture of America today very few can find themselves able to authorize someone other than themselves or popular opinion to teach them what they say they also "Want" to come to understand.

Concerning the truth I've learned that a truthful statement will not contradict itself. It can be stated front to back or back to front and NOT loose the essence of it's meaning. Further evidence of such a thought would be that the person of Jesus would never contradict Himself in what He says.

All that being based on the belief that it is "Impossible" for Him to lie!

It's easy to suggest that we've built our house of understanding as it concerns the divine by way of the principle "Line upon line and precept upon precept", yet what if we "Forget" our "Lines"?

That to me would make for a scattered presentation or botched performance, wouldn't it?

Especially if we installed the context of the rendering of a familiar "Play"?

I constantly hear men saying you must consider the "Context" which surrounds what Jesus said, yet I believe when Jesus speaks, "He is the context".

I believe reaching the place of 'The" divine understanding of Christ is left up to "Straining" minds of men that have since found themselves prepared (as if willing) so they can look beyond the normality's of what man assumes is in "Order" in this world.

And that would be in order for man to then see the divine "Context"

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."  NIV

I've always been amazed when I drive through a mountainous roadway or tunnel through the side of a mountain, to then think what was involved to make my commute today one that is less treacherous.

There have been times when I can visualize men cutting down tree's, dynamite blasting and heavy equipment cutting a swath through a heavily wooded area yet this only speaks to the labor aspect in order to make such a luxury available

Such images don't even touch the planing and coordination considerations it must have took in order to complete such an undertaking.

John 14:10-12
The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 

Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. 

I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
NIV

And men say to themselves when they repeatedly fall, "We've All fallen Short of the GLORY of God" as if to suggest "This is our way" and they would be right if speaking only of times that have since past.

Has there been a path cleared for a "New Creation"? Has there been an example left behind to since follow? Has man once again placed his now "Owned" expectations upon his own understanding?

Where then is the Faith that is also pleasing to God?

Heb 11:5-6
For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. 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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What is earth bound Context and what is divine Context?

Because man has assigned Jesus his New address in heaven alone, has he forgotten His lines that are now in play?

Who were the forceful men being spoken of? Why the inference of the least in the kingdom of heaven? What were these prophets speaking of as if in the future if not about Christ and His Kingdom? Were they received and understood?

And where is the kingdom of heaven today if NOT within YOU?

Rev 19:10

At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "Do not do it! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy ." 
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Matt 11:12-13
From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it. For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.
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Luke 17:20-21
Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, "The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you ."  
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Matt 10:6-7
Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. As you go, preach this message: 'The kingdom of heaven is near.
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Matt 13:51-52

"Have you understood all these things?" Jesus asked. 

"Yes," they replied. 

He said to them, "Therefore every teacher of the law who has been instructed about the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old."  

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John 17:24-26
"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. 

"Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."  
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Zeph 3:11-13
On that day you will not be put to shame for all the wrongs you have done to me, because I will remove from this city those who rejoice in their pride.

Never again will you be haughty on my holy hill. But I will leave within you the meek and humble, who trust in the name of the LORD.

The remnant of Israel will do no wrong; they will speak no lies, nor will deceit be found in their mouths.
They will eat and lie down and no one will make them afraid."
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Lord come quickly!

As a Christian you will find yourself at certain times and locations where all you have to stand on is the dirt directly beneath your feet and that while trying to maintain the nurturing belief that tells you God still owns the whole earth and everything in it. sw

Learning to accept all that's contained in the suggestive word "Lord" includes everything your Lord of choice has said and does and for the sake of being given the label as your "Lord".

The word "believer" among many others that have historically been associated with the Christian Faith based words related to choice(s) seem to be loosing their foothold within the "Social" arena of opinions.

Just as equal, there was once a closet that also had a lock on the door which housed other uncertain types of mindsets that were once considered tolerant or active participants in the "Offensive" of their behavioral traits.

That once quiet and small closet where the likeness of adulterers, rapist, murderers, homosexuals and pedophiles were routinely locked away from the main stream of people that flowed through your Township.

That was in a day of a life on "Easy Street" where darkness was dark and light only promoted what was considered "Good". Today, what is Hot and what is cold? Is it the realm of a world where being luke warm makes for poor discernment?

A world where an enemy can simply blend in and cloak the manifestation of their darkest thoughts? Thoughts that "were" once their "Inner" most desires that have since become the surrounding environment we all suffer and wade through as if the exercise of our endurance?

A world where self indulgence knows no boundaries. The environment where self control now only understands law to be the teeth of its enforcement and that only when caught in the "Act"?

The question that never seems to get asked is "Who gave them the key to get out" or in terms only flood survivors can understand, "Who helped them get on board" the ship that's now close to sinking?

Who were the ones that supposedly "Reformed" them? Who were the ones that raised them without a familiar sense of remorse?

Who were the ones that never questioned them? Who were the ones that turned their heads when their behavior was conducting itself in dark alley's and shadows? Who were the sitting Judges during their tenure of influence in this world?

If you don't already know I'll give you a hint, "The liars did it"!

Every last single one of them formed the very chain that pulled them into the boat!

I can hear it now, "That's might sound like news, but how do we get them OUT of the boat WE are in"?

Solutions!

Everybody in these days want quick solutions or the quick fix. The answer is, "You don't"!

What can you do AFTER they've already been served their acquittal?

Presently you're stuck with them, their opinions and their ability to further influence this world until their replacement enters this world!

The only way to deal with them under the current terms and rights given them by way of agreement is to birth them out.

Wait just a minute before you turn the channel, hear me out?

We can borrow from the divine principles already established and in place. As is anything that also has a new beginning, there's a starting point or point of entry. There's only one basic principle involved and it begins with "YOU"!

You  must be born again of Gods word and His spirit having then become a NEW creation that is loyal and dedicated to the LORD who stands over and governs this kingdom Principle!

Stop living as if there's nothing that can or can't be done that pertains to You and quit blaming all else on a God you've spent your life trying to mold from everything that is false.

What is it other than "Unbelief" that could cause a man to "Find" himself unable to view the One that also created man basically from "Nothing" as the same One that can give to you the very life giving breath this same "Nothing" then breathes?

And that on the other side of this imperfect life man seems to want to hold so dearly to?

What are the struggle's of an imperfect being if not for the CAUSE of what man has since learned and allowed himself to be indoctrinated (steeped) in?

Why does imperfection cling to thoughts of having been made imperfect? Why can't this being that has "Fallen" in love with the excuse of it's own imperfection instead view the Truth as if a rescuing tide of refreshing?

Could the root of the problem still be this very "Imperfection"? And the very substance of this imperfection is it's own inability to choose right from wrong and that in all instances? Who should this person of imperfection then turn to?

Who is worthy of declaring what the voice of perfection (God) says if all men have been tried, found guilty and sentenced to a life that now suffers from the net result of  "Imperfection" Inc.?

Why is there a rising fear of a New World Order? An "Order" that could possibly be induced by forces that are also "Beyond" the control of mankind unless man has become so familiar with himself and as if the TRUE potential which stem from his own "Imperfections"?

What is this struggle of imperfection about if not ALL that Love is and does while here and that while having been told we were made and designed to be in the Likeness of One creator?

Why the high rising banter over the "Grand prize" and seeming dominate voice as it concerns "Creation"?

Why are the rocks found in the foundation of Christianity so sought after with hammer and chisel? Why are the rocks of Christianity so aggressively being removed from the expanding fields of other religions?

Why the unsettled issues that pertain to life, mortality and morality that obviously wage war against and create seemingly uninterpretable statistic's?

The same growing potential found within the rule book of "Stats" which only seem to concern the corporate existence of mankind when they're NOT found in his favor?

And all the above having since been placed (planted) on a sphere that's being influenced by an opposing force which still looks and hopes to prevail? Prevailing in terms of the sought power that's "Since" been unearthed as if to sufficiently prove Right another voice that has spoken?

1 Peter 1:22-25

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.   For you have been born again , not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

For, "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever."

And this is the word that was preached to you.
NIV

No flood is required, no massive fire where only the witches and warlock's get burned at the stake. Such a time for those events is down the road in another day that will be under the directive of the Lord and His sovereignty.

Some might suggest that a persons "Perspective" is only the results a chosen sampling pool, yet does that hold true as if the cumulative result(s) of humanities choices that have also been repeatedly "Tested" throughout time?

The words from the mouth of God suggest to Christians their faith will be tested.

Many consider the testing of their faith to interpret as if something that's been taken "Personal". The God reality is the mutual benefit then enjoyed by the whole (Body of Christ) as the whole is brought to maturity being made complete.

The entire story of Job looses it's meaning when the truth does NOT maintain both the front and back side of everything we read he survived.

God spoke and labeled him as a "Righteous" being named Job BEFORE and after he went through everything he did.

Don't view a mans "doubt's" as if true weakness, instead view doubts as a weakness that only God can convert into real strength.

We're drowning in a world that loves to produce doubt, yet the objective of doubt is to drowned out what God has declared through everything He's also created!

There's an old song that has a line in it that says, "Don't you listen to what man say's". That man is the voice of one that looks to undermine everything the creation of God speaks otherwise!

Heb 11:27
By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible
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Rom 1:20
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 .
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James 1:2-8

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.

Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does. 
NIV

Even more as we are being rescued by the content of Gods helpful words, it also states that a very specific group of people also once put Him to the test for 40 years.

How do you read what God framed and named that time period where He was tested?

There's more to be mined from the word passage below than meets the natural eyes. As if conditional, these words state "If" you hear His voice do not harden your hearts".

If that statement does NOT somehow apply to you personally, then continue on as if to consider it obvious God is NOT speaking to you! yes, you're free to continue to enjoy your present freedom as long as it continues while doing what you've been doing all along.

Yet if you have or even think for a moment you have heard His voice, I urge you to stop what you're doing, turn your attention towards Him, listen and listen closely.

Heb 3:7-9
"Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.
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If you can allow the question, how can the spirit of God compare what their fathers did hundreds of years prior to what those who were present at the time of the above address?

Those who have yet to find themselves on the receiving end of poor "Statistic's" may also still have their heads buried where the sun doesn't shine.

If you can find it possible, "Let's be real"! Let's get comfortable in the skin we hide our true nature beneath. Let's take a closer look at what compels you to think and process those same thoughts to then do and say what you do?

When you grow tired of the misery found within your own words only then will you discover the power found in the words of your creator!

I've yet to meet the person who does not want to meet the ONE that created them with exception to those whose fear and concern for His being is only a "Fear" factor the way the world goes to great lengths in order to define fear.

Soon enough we all will meet with the one whose words were proved to contain the sufficient power that has shaped and formed us into all that we've since become.

Having become all that we've believed to be true!

Having believed and fallen in love with the content of  those same words we have loved more than a life that proves to be "True" and everlasting.

When someone says to You, "I don't know You" how much more context do you need in order to hear what they've just told you in plain terms?

Luke 13:26-27
"Then you will say, 'We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.' 

"But he will reply, 'I don't know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!' 
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Manhandled or Judged by the "Law"

I'm of the opinion the "True" expression as the Mercy and Grace of God is one of the most beautiful thoughts a person could "Ever" have as it pertains to God and a relationship with Him.

True to suggest something that is without blemish or stain.

If in fact you do see stains that would be due to the direct results where mankind and his reluctance towards repentance and change that has since "Man Handled" this message!

Some have even come to express it's depth (if that's even possible) as the "Too Good to be true" Gospel.

One of the most perplexing things I've seen within the book ends of everything today that "Hopes" to also define Christianity is exactly where and how does the Law of Moses and the freedom that is found in Christ fit into the "New" Covenant Gospel?

The same Gospel which Christ, His Apostle's and many of "Their" disciples lived and died in order for it to become "Well" establish in the earth. When I suggest "Well" established I also mean such that is considered "Healthy" and thriving as if a "Living" organism.

Established and then preached not only during the time period of the 1st century Church but also throughout history leading into "Today"?

The likes of mankind's own justification has reached as far as the white House in more recent years. Some that have actually been caught in deal breaking scenario's and taken to task for their under lying belief systems have been recorded saying such things as "The ways of the Bible are old and need to be updated to match today's standards" found in society.

This of course is only "After" circling the modern day wagons that are now only the shadowy voices of modern day "Clergy". Those photo shots and sound bites where the name under fire then bites his lower lip on Queue as the clergy form an "AA" (arm-in-arm) semi-circle around him in a warm embrace as if a public apology.

Because every difficult discourse does have its own context, certain facts should still remain on the other side despite everything else we suggest governs our personal conclusions drawn.

If you'll allow a few preliminary questions to be asked maybe your own responses will also help you reach the same conclusions I have?

Of course these can only be answered by those who claim Jesus the Son of God as their Lord and savior who was also sent from God Almighty as if also the ONE that will Judge in that day?

As well the mandates of the "NEW" covenant Jesus died in order to establish that "Have" already satisfied the wrath of God? The same wrath He describes whenever He is exposed to and is confronted with the clearly understood consideration of mankind's "Sinful" behavior?

Let's roll the tape.....

Are you going to be judged according to the mandates and sentencing that's laid out in the "Laws of Moses" on the day of Judgement all mankind will face?

Would you consider yourself "Stain Free" once you do examine those same laws as compared to your life lived?

What are the Laws of Moses? Are they only the Ten Commandments many love to defend "Today" as if the only Laws that were given to Moses for the benefit and keeping of the children of Israel?

How deep have you looked into the other 600 plus governing laws that were given to Moses as if the supporting framework of the over shadowing "Big Ten" commandments?

What happened to those who also broke the "Law" under the Old Covenant 'Mosaic Laws"?

Was it not the sentence of "Death" whenever there was a breach of those Laws that did not come with another alternative?

What was the "First" recorded breach as well the sentence handed down?

Who ultimately decided the fate of this aw breaker whenever the people as a whole could NOT decide?

Num 15:32-36

While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. 

Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly, and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him.

Then the LORD said to Moses, "The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp."

So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Was the breach of law this man performed the act of picking up fire wood? Was it that He picked up sticks on the mutually and clearly understood and acceptable day of the Sabbath they ALL were told to honor?

Let's examine the Ten Commandments and see which "One" of those laws his particular action violated?

Do we find written within the 10 commandments, "Thou shalt not pick up fire wood on the Sabbath"? No!

What do we find?

Ex 20:8-11

"Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.

For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
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Is it any wonder why today those who have one foot in the Old testament and one in the New seem as though stretched to the point of nearly being torn between these two realms? They're being stretched so thin almost to the point where they're now Translucent?

Thin enough to where light is now nearly able to pass through them?

Paul Harvey was a strong radio voice in his time. His one liner which lead to his continued broadcasting success was, "The Rest of the Story". How true is such a suggestion?

I don't think its the the rest OF the story being told by God, instead I see it as the "Rest" that's found IN the story God has given to humanity concerning ONLY one man who is also THE Christ!.

The story that is applicable every single waking day we enjoy. What is this day?

Today is the day the Lord has made, so be filled with His Joy! The only kind of Joy that He can provide from day to day in the assurance of His promises kept!

The promises made and kept that ONLY His seal of approval can keep assured until that day!

What seal is that you ask? The mutual seal and guidance of His his spoken words which became flesh who then dwelt among mankind for a short period time. The proof, validation and guaranteed deposit of His Holy Spirit to whosoever will in their complete acceptance of His person as their Lord!

The substance of something that is greater and stronger than the mere affordable words spoken from the mouth of a historically proven bunch of liars, thieves and murderers!

The signed sealed and delivered scroll upon which your name will hopefully be written and read from in that day. The day when the Sons of God are revealed for not only who they are but even more the "WHY" they have "WILLED" themselves over to be considered as if the Beloved of the Lord!

If the very breath you breath is not for the sake of Christ I would advise you to reread the conditions set forth by the Lord as if your personal preview of the landscape set aside for those who think they can EARN their way into His Bosom!

THE standard of Love has already Proved himself, yet as we consider our own reconciliation unto our God who is LOVE what will we find as the final assessment of our likeness in that day?

WERE you once a sinner whose NOW seen through the eyes of mercy who's since been given the power and family plans as to HOW to overcome the works of the devil while in this life or WILL you remain a defeated and Lifeless hired (paid) hand of the "One" you've stated is also your "Lord' who now sits at the right hand of Gods favorable throne of Grace?

If you are a hired hand you should consider yourself paid in full once you expire from this world.

John 10:7-20

Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy ; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. 

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. 

So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 

"I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the Father knows me and I know the Father — and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. 

The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life — only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father."  

At these words the Jews were again divided. Many of them said, "He is demon-possessed and raving mad. Why listen to him?"
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Given the 'Right" to become

In terms of Contrast, how does one learn to truly appreciate without it? 

1 John 4:16-18
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love . Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. NIV

Reality is the realm that will continue with or without you? 

There's a world full of commentary, yet what of the realm only the Truth can reveal?

Mark 8:29
"But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?" 
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Stating something plainly does not guarantee its acceptance.

 Acts 26:22-23
I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen— that the Christ would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to his own people and to the Gentiles."
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John 1:10-13
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.

NIV

Righteous expectation should be a fitted suit that's proudly worn.

 Col 1:19-22
For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.
NIV

Failing to address what is otherwise true does not vacate the end result.

John 3:5-8
Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 

Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 

You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.' 

The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."  NIV

Division is merely subtraction that takes away from the presentation where truth is made whole. 

John 17:22-23
I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. NIV

Is a man truly blind because of ignorance or because he can't see himself fumbling around in the dark?

John 3:19
This is the verdict : Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. NIV

In this world the presentation of truth requires the breath of life and a physical address in order to prove the example for which it was sent. 

Hearing is not believing nor is deception seeing what it's not able to defend against.

Wisdom is the never ending inquiry that began by way of the spirit of the fear of the Lord. 

Theology in part nor partial truth equate to clarity.

1 Tim 4:1-2
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.  NIV

Seeing is not believing unless you live in a perfect world.

1 Tim 5:24-25
The sins of some men are obvious, reaching the place of judgment ahead of them; the sins of others trail behind them.

In the same way, good deeds are obvious, and even those that are not cannot be hidden.
NIV

Deception is no longer an accuser or an intruder when reasoning has welcomed it. 

Deception has to hide itself in a beautiful Garden.

How long does a man wonder around in the cause of his words he's placed his own hope in?

John 5:46-47
If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?" 
NIV

True prophesy is advance notice of God of things to come and the reward found, the fruit of righteousness it produces.

The power that's been vested in the tongue is more than a toy in a world that's governed by the influence of mere children.

1 Cor 13:11
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child , I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.

NIV

Prov 18:21
The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

NIV

James 3:4-6

Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
NIV

Finding yourself listening until the end of a matter does not entirely define who you are. 

An enemy does not promote Godly counsel nor do they always dress like an enemy.

The world did not just wake up one day and find itself entirely corrupt nor does the church God considers the apple of His eye.

2 Cor 11:14-15
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

Have you ever truly become someones friend until the day you receive the "Right" to that justification?

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!