There comes a time when talking about certain things over and over can get old. There are also times when a person should get tired of hearing themselves talk about themselves.
In my estimation true relationship requires being "Given"the opportunity to find out about the other person in order to reflect upon one another. There is a difference between a measured release and a Flood" of Information that can also drowned the other person.
Transparency is one thing whereas using the guise of transparency to try and cleanse your soul as if a confessional understanding of this word I'm of the opinion if a person in a relationship does NOT ask specifically about a matter, DO NOT volunteer information they did NOT request. Most assume they have to reveal
Everything their past holds, yet more often the "Release" of this information is just that a release to somehow "Cleanse" their Conscience. Chances are if you weren't assume the thought never crossed their mind. If it did cross their mind leave them in control of what THEY are willing to further investigate or NOT. Accountability is a two way street.
How different is a True relationship with the Lord?
Years ago I made the tough choice to prune a few of these type of people from my own life. The depth of this type of person will only allow you so far into their own lives yet they have no problem constantly probing into your life almost as if an excuse to not have to investigate their own.
It's almost as if they're constantly on a recon mission trying to gather "Intel" about you rather than employing a mutually understood "quid-pro-quo" type of approach.
What most souls do NOT trust about other souls is what those other souls then do with such information once they've obtained it. If you your looking for a friend, does a friend sit quietly while you do harm to your own soul (self)?
How then do you see Christ? As a friend who says nothing? Has He been reduced to a slave of a friend who only agrees with the harmful things your soul has justified?
That is if you can also accept the word "Justified" also then suggest, "Just as if I had"?
What has any man truly become who is also without the opinion of God? As if the ONLY opinion that's true? Even more who is the man that refuses to be questioned by the truth no matter the likeness of the one sent to question him?
Don't get me wrong because I too love a good round or two of "Poker" but even in poker there comes a time when your hand gets "Called" out.
You can spend months or years trying to get to know these type of people, yet after some times lapses it usually dawns on you that you really don't know any more about them today than you did 2 years ago..
Don't hear what I'm not saying because there are times when we just need good listener to enter our circumstances or else practice being one.
I just had to come to terms with the reality there are friends and there are "Killers".
Have you ever mistakenly invited this type of person into your circle only later find you only invited yet another "addict" whose drug of choice is drama? So much that you either begin to feel like a "Voo Doo Doll" or "Crash Dummy" they use to test drive their own advice?
Those type that are quick to give you their "Advice", yet you rarely see them applying that same advice in their own lives?
Maybe there's more to the root word "Vice" than we've been willing to look into?
Maybe there's also more to type of person who understands the value of Faith, Believing and Trusting as if a friend we've yet to encounter within the full scope of everything that "Truth" is?
Have you ask yourself lately "Just" how great is God you take time to "Observe" as though something that is only as beautiful as it is within the eye of the "Beholder"?
There's power in a name and in their given title yet without knowing and trusting in the source of that same power how can a man ever learn to trust in the name or the title that's been assigned?
If you can't see from there to wherever it is that You are now, is it any hope that's also "Real"?
Ps 89:19-37
Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: "I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have exalted a young man from among the people.
I have found David my servant; with my sacred oil I have anointed him. My hand will sustain him; surely my arm will strengthen him. No enemy will subject him to tribute; no wicked man will oppress him. I will crush his foes before him and strike down his adversaries.
My faithful love will be with him and through my name his horn will be exalted.
I will set his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers. He will call out to me, 'You are my Father, my God, the Rock my Savior.' I will also appoint him my firstborn, the most exalted of the kings of the earth.
I will maintain my love to him forever, and my covenant with him will never fail. I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.
"If his sons forsake my law and do not follow my statutes, if they violate my decrees and fail to keep my commands, I will punish their sin with the rod, their iniquity with flogging; but I will not take my love from him, nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.
I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered. Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness — and I will not lie to David — that his line will continue forever and his throne endure before me like the sun; it will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky."
NIV
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
What is a disciple if not a type and shadow of the same thing?
If truth were understood as the only survivor God has proved able to withstand the test of time, why then does man not find himself facing the opposite direction of an unpleasant ending. sw
If all that a man does were understood to be in direct relation to everything he also believes to be true, why question what any man does. sw
When does the compulsion to learn leave the heart of a father as though it were a desert. sw
Is a mans integrity not also a mans retention capacity. sw
What type of voice questions a starving man about where his next meal comes from. sw
How can a father discipline a child that does not recognize him as their father. sw
What does authority look like where a man also finds himself able to teach his brother in the light of truth. sw
When true Forgiveness becomes more than a feeling that can change at any given moment, only then can it become the place where two or more can find agreement on a regular basis. sw
There is a kind of evil that would have you to think you're not only one of the last ones but also among the least informed whose unjustly entered the room. sw
Do not spend or waste your days chasing a Joy that does not also belong to the Lord. sw
The man that has failed to see the reflection of his brother in the eyes of the Heavenly Father has only failed to see himself. sw
If God chose to prove himself an absolute mystery in the minds of men then why dispatch the message He's made himself known by way of his messenger. sw
John 16:15
All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you. NIV
John 5:19
Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing , because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
NIV
In terms of a existence, who has thought themselves able to limit what God intends. sw
What harm can result in knowing the answer to a question before you truly understand the question being asked. sw
If all that a man does were understood to be in direct relation to everything he also believes to be true, why question what any man does. sw
When does the compulsion to learn leave the heart of a father as though it were a desert. sw
Is a mans integrity not also a mans retention capacity. sw
What type of voice questions a starving man about where his next meal comes from. sw
How can a father discipline a child that does not recognize him as their father. sw
What does authority look like where a man also finds himself able to teach his brother in the light of truth. sw
When true Forgiveness becomes more than a feeling that can change at any given moment, only then can it become the place where two or more can find agreement on a regular basis. sw
There is a kind of evil that would have you to think you're not only one of the last ones but also among the least informed whose unjustly entered the room. sw
Do not spend or waste your days chasing a Joy that does not also belong to the Lord. sw
The man that has failed to see the reflection of his brother in the eyes of the Heavenly Father has only failed to see himself. sw
If God chose to prove himself an absolute mystery in the minds of men then why dispatch the message He's made himself known by way of his messenger. sw
John 16:15
All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you. NIV
John 8:47
He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God." NIV
1 John 4:6
We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us ; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
NIV
1 John 4:6
We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us ; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
NIV
Why does a man not have to pay His shadow to be like Himself. sw
John 5:19
Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing , because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
NIV
Rom 4:4-8
Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an obligation.
However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.
David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
"Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him."
NIV
God does not ask a question that is not worthy of the righteous response that Only He can provide. sw
Isa 28:23-26
Listen and hear my voice ; pay attention and hear what I say.
When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing the soil? When he has leveled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin?
Does he not plant wheat in its place, barley in its plot, and spelt in its field? His God instructs him and teaches him the right way.
NIV
Everything that complicates who God is belongs to one that is Not ONE with God. sw
Ps 25:3
3 No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse. NIV
If a man sees himself standing on the promises of God why should he be afraid of jumping in or out of the water. sw
Ps 25:3
3 No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse. NIV
If a man sees himself standing on the promises of God why should he be afraid of jumping in or out of the water. sw
If you have to sneak up on a man in order to tell him about God, has that man truly been asleep. sw
In terms of a existence, who has thought themselves able to limit what God intends. sw
What harm can result in knowing the answer to a question before you truly understand the question being asked. sw
Eph 5:14
This is why it is said:
"Wake up, O sleeper , rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
Eph 5:8-14
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord.
Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible.
NIV
What is the verdict if not everything that has already been judged? Are you also convinced you've also "Believed? The very word(s) that have come from the mouth of God?
What is the substance as thought the evidence in which you've placed your eternal hope?
Surely God spoke John 3:16, yet did He also speak His verdict into the annuls of time as if speaking to those those He will find guilty of living a "Lie"?
There is a type of imperfection that tells a lie and there's certain type of evil that lives in order to continually give life to his words. sw
There is a type of imperfection that tells a lie and there's certain type of evil that lives in order to continually give life to his words. sw
John 3:19-21
This is the verdict : Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
NIV
A good brother can only remind his brother of the "True Wealth" both will "Hopefully" inherit when their true identity has been revealed. sw
Rev 3:3
Remember , therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.
NIV
What Good is water if you don't come clean or leave thirsty. sw
A good brother can only remind his brother of the "True Wealth" both will "Hopefully" inherit when their true identity has been revealed. sw
Rev 3:3
Remember , therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.
NIV
What Good is water if you don't come clean or leave thirsty. sw
Monday, August 18, 2014
For the sake of the Servant who responds to righteousness
How curious is a man when certain things don't seem to agree on the surface and at what point will he quit digging having convinced himself above all else he's seeking the unsearchable. sw
Is it a Godly question to inquire of the Lord, "When did my life begin and end if not in You". sw
The stones only have reason to cry out when all else God also created refuse to. sw
Isa 19:20-22
When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them.
So the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the LORD. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and keep them.
The LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them.
NIV
Matt 6:33-34
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. NIV
Who has truly ruled the heart of a man which measures the truth within him as if complete trust in the Lord. sw.
Is the living of a lie only the consideration only when caught living a life also assumed to be a secret life. sw
When a man concludes God does not want to be found in a specific manner, has that man not also determined his condition to be terminal?
The opportunistic nature of pride takes notice when truth no longer rules. sw
Such competition does not end well when the governmental interest of the souls mind has been divided and wagered. sw
Is a man only considered foolish only when caught in the act of sin. sw
Rev 22:14-15
Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.
Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
NIV
Just how long is everlasting where the verdict of God continues to remind the soul there was a season it refused the God sent symbol of His mercy and just enough grace in order to be found?. sw
John 8:6-8
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin , let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
NIV
The winning formula where the influence of "Peer" pressure then finds for itself a new home, is when the soul has been blinded with words and opens the door. sw
Come all who have set aside the blessings of the "Fathers house! May the blessings of the Father be received and flow down upon the face of gladness as though the true anointing upon the Headship we claim to be alive within those who do believe. sw
The religious spirit finds a way in when the soul of a man realizes he's become impaired because of all that a religious mind chooses to be believe. sw
Justice, truth and mercy when acting as one are not blind. sw
True mercy has already reached the conclusion of the matter before offering itself to another. sw
The potential of a question can only be found once tossed against the unyielding rock of the ages. sw
The rhetorical question in search of the truth also assumes the truthful answer comes from the depth of the Spirit of The Lord. sw
2 Peter 2:4-10
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)
if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority.
NIV
Gen 19:6-11
Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."
"Get out of our way," they replied. And they said, "This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge! We'll treat you worse than them." They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
NIV
Is it a Godly question to inquire of the Lord, "When did my life begin and end if not in You". sw
The stones only have reason to cry out when all else God also created refuse to. sw
Isa 19:20-22
When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them.
So the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the LORD. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and keep them.
The LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them.
NIV
Matt 6:33-34
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. NIV
Who has truly ruled the heart of a man which measures the truth within him as if complete trust in the Lord. sw.
Is the living of a lie only the consideration only when caught living a life also assumed to be a secret life. sw
When a man concludes God does not want to be found in a specific manner, has that man not also determined his condition to be terminal?
Such competition does not end well when the governmental interest of the souls mind has been divided and wagered. sw
Is a man only considered foolish only when caught in the act of sin. sw
Rev 22:14-15
Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.
Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
NIV
Just how long is everlasting where the verdict of God continues to remind the soul there was a season it refused the God sent symbol of His mercy and just enough grace in order to be found?. sw
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin , let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
NIV
The winning formula where the influence of "Peer" pressure then finds for itself a new home, is when the soul has been blinded with words and opens the door. sw
Come all who have set aside the blessings of the "Fathers house! May the blessings of the Father be received and flow down upon the face of gladness as though the true anointing upon the Headship we claim to be alive within those who do believe. sw
The religious spirit finds a way in when the soul of a man realizes he's become impaired because of all that a religious mind chooses to be believe. sw
Justice, truth and mercy when acting as one are not blind. sw
True mercy has already reached the conclusion of the matter before offering itself to another. sw
The potential of a question can only be found once tossed against the unyielding rock of the ages. sw
The rhetorical question in search of the truth also assumes the truthful answer comes from the depth of the Spirit of The Lord. sw
2 Peter 2:4-10
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)
if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority.
NIV
Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."
"Get out of our way," they replied. And they said, "This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge! We'll treat you worse than them." They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.
But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
NIV
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
How many is "One"?
How much of a believers sense of worth has been founded upon "How" they interpret not only the things of this world, but themselves as if a "Significant" participant within the lives of others?
Religion has placed more emphasis upon the saving of ones 'Own" soul that it all but bypasses the reasoning for the grace of God He intended to equally reach out to all mankind.
Many people believe many "Different things" all of which help shape and form the possibilities then discovered within their ability to reason through all that they assume they know about the person of God.
When and "If" the facts get boiled down to their essence, what do "Believers in Christ" truly believe to be true about the person of Christ as if EVERYONE is talking about the same person?
Some might ask why would those details be so important?
Simply put if ALL "People" were to see themselves the same "WAY" as if through His eyes, wouldn't that interpret into needing 'Fewer" details about Him? More people (personalities) usually interprets "More" differing opinions, yet how clear is One spirit, One Christ and One Baptism?
How much less would there be to debate or argue about if the mention of God were ONLY talking about "ONE" and the same GOD as though God's ONE and ONLY Begotten Son?
Is the reason (truth) Jesus did NOT consider it robbery from God to think on Himself as though God because they performed in heaven and here in the earth as though "One"?
In human terms they both have the same agenda?
Jesus did NOT say "By this SOME will know", instead He said "By this ALL men will know"!
What is the "THIS" he was speaking to?
Was it as simple as most think in terms of their own understanding as it concerns Love?
Or was he pointing us to do the impossible (Love at ALL times) as such that NO man is capable of doing what He did without Him as their guide and continual "Inspiration"?
Have you ever broke the word "In-spir-ation" down into smaller pieces? How can we if our spiritual understanding (Insight) remains "External"?
Why does God tells those who suggest they worship Him must also worship him in Spirit AND in "Truth"?
Why not just "Spirit"?
Could it be that the additional qualification of "Truth" also defines a specific type of Spirit?
Are there ANY other types of Spirit's we know of have or have at "least" read about in Holy depiction?
Clearly we can read the demons in this man ALSO Knew who Jesus was, yet thy did NOT worship Him did they? Clearly the demons OBEYED Jesus, yet once again did they "Worship" Jesus?
These demons were even smart enough to have said all the right things such as "The Most High God" yet did their actions follow suit without being MADE (Commanded) to obey?
How many "People" suggest that they OBEY Jesus and how many of those also suggest they WORSHIP Him in Truth?
1 Sam 16:14
Now the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him.
NIV
DO we NOW stop, ask and deeply consider, "Who is My brother"? Maybe just as equal, "How will I know who is my brother and who is NOT while here in the earth"?
John 13:34-35
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
NIV
Exactly how many different ways can the thought of "One" be inferred?
In terms of somehow hoping to emulate Christ here in the earth, where then is the "Hope" that is also true if the entirety of our hope in Him has only been based "Realizing ourselves being "Saved"?
Many find themselves satisfied with, I'm eventually "Going" to end "Up" in heaven, yet how does that testimony then "Play" out as if their own commentary in terms their personal "Tape Reel" of their life lived while here?
When this life ends, what has any man become if the TRUTH is NOT found in the retelling of his story?
When was the last when we rolled the tape of our personal story where we also "See and hear" ourselves responding to Jesus who in the moment was also Lord over those momentary choices being made?
The continuance in the claim of imperfection somehow seems diametrically opposed to a series of victories won in life and those same realized victories ONLY because we see them as the GLORY which actually do belong ONLY to Christ.
What is the consideration of the Glory of Christ?
How do we see His Glory if not THROUGH the things that Only He could endure? Exactly how much of His Glory was the direct result of Gods Glory working THROUGH Christ Jesus?
How much of Christ Glory do we see today also working through the appointment of OUR person here in the earth? Enough that the Lord could say today as He did to Paul as though talking about an "Address" that belongs to God?
Acts 18:9-11
One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: "Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent.
For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city."
So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.
NIV
Is it still any REAL wonder why many don't see themselves preaching the Gospel in their daily events along the WAY?
God didn't suggest Paul preach about his own person (saul), or use his person to emulate God's word. Instead it says, "Teaching Them the WORD of God"!
And ONLY because Paul was since found preaching Christ beyond his former established person (Saul) could his more recent actions then be brought into question, "Who is this man named Paul and WHAT is he preaching"?
It's too easy to suggest to ourselves "I'm NOT a teacher" nor am I an "Apostle" or an "Evangelist" yet are you NOT a disciple of Christ?
You might have allowed your body to be used in order to bring other small bodies into this world, but what did you "teach" them?
Still don't see yourself as teacher?
Much like guns don't kill people, it's people who kill people, neither do babies kill people, yet do babies grow up and kill people!
Exactly who are you emulating IF Christ has finished His purpose and the Apostles have completed their task?
Didn't Christ give of himself to many to be many different things? And if He gave from himself what did we inherit through what He freely gave? What are the details of Christ from which He gave?
In terms of a NEW creation what ARE His virtues as though He is still alive that He he also dispensed to humanity? Did He give this NEW born again creation a New mind that only tries to RELATE to imperfection still being OWNED?
Did He give us the "Mind" of His person that's NOW being found lacking in many area's?
Was it not He (Christ) who gave some to be a part of the all that they are within the body now desiring to be recognized as His body? A body that now has it's temporary residency in the earth?
So you've convinced yourself God did not make you to be a Apostle nor an evangelist, preacher, teacher or a prophet? Who then are you while claiming to be a child of God and in what capacity are you now functioning as that same Child that is Of God that Jesus said is "One"?
At what point will we have a truthful "Sit down heart to heart" with God and ask Him why we don't see such things today in terms of God being able to hear himself say, "Fear Not because I have MANY people in this city?
Still don't see different spirits today? Still don't believe there are Prophets in our midst today nor the testimony of Christ need be continued? Exactly whose spirit do you claim dwells richly within You?
Sound along the lines of what adam heard in the Garden, "Who Told you that you were Naked"?
Whose picture is in your wallet and who have YOU believed?
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."
NIV
Religion has placed more emphasis upon the saving of ones 'Own" soul that it all but bypasses the reasoning for the grace of God He intended to equally reach out to all mankind.
Many people believe many "Different things" all of which help shape and form the possibilities then discovered within their ability to reason through all that they assume they know about the person of God.
When and "If" the facts get boiled down to their essence, what do "Believers in Christ" truly believe to be true about the person of Christ as if EVERYONE is talking about the same person?
Some might ask why would those details be so important?
Simply put if ALL "People" were to see themselves the same "WAY" as if through His eyes, wouldn't that interpret into needing 'Fewer" details about Him? More people (personalities) usually interprets "More" differing opinions, yet how clear is One spirit, One Christ and One Baptism?
How much less would there be to debate or argue about if the mention of God were ONLY talking about "ONE" and the same GOD as though God's ONE and ONLY Begotten Son?
Is the reason (truth) Jesus did NOT consider it robbery from God to think on Himself as though God because they performed in heaven and here in the earth as though "One"?
In human terms they both have the same agenda?
Jesus did NOT say "By this SOME will know", instead He said "By this ALL men will know"!
What is the "THIS" he was speaking to?
Was it as simple as most think in terms of their own understanding as it concerns Love?
Or was he pointing us to do the impossible (Love at ALL times) as such that NO man is capable of doing what He did without Him as their guide and continual "Inspiration"?
Have you ever broke the word "In-spir-ation" down into smaller pieces? How can we if our spiritual understanding (Insight) remains "External"?
Why does God tells those who suggest they worship Him must also worship him in Spirit AND in "Truth"?
Why not just "Spirit"?
Could it be that the additional qualification of "Truth" also defines a specific type of Spirit?
Are there ANY other types of Spirit's we know of have or have at "least" read about in Holy depiction?
Clearly we can read the demons in this man ALSO Knew who Jesus was, yet thy did NOT worship Him did they? Clearly the demons OBEYED Jesus, yet once again did they "Worship" Jesus?
These demons were even smart enough to have said all the right things such as "The Most High God" yet did their actions follow suit without being MADE (Commanded) to obey?
How many "People" suggest that they OBEY Jesus and how many of those also suggest they WORSHIP Him in Truth?
1 Sam 16:14
Now the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him.
NIV
Mark 5:6-9
When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. He shouted at the top of his voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?
Swear to God that you won't torture me!" For Jesus had said to him, "Come out of this man, you evil spirit !"
Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?"
"My name is Legion," he replied, "for we are many."
NIV
John 13:34-35
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
NIV
In terms of somehow hoping to emulate Christ here in the earth, where then is the "Hope" that is also true if the entirety of our hope in Him has only been based "Realizing ourselves being "Saved"?
Many find themselves satisfied with, I'm eventually "Going" to end "Up" in heaven, yet how does that testimony then "Play" out as if their own commentary in terms their personal "Tape Reel" of their life lived while here?
When this life ends, what has any man become if the TRUTH is NOT found in the retelling of his story?
When was the last when we rolled the tape of our personal story where we also "See and hear" ourselves responding to Jesus who in the moment was also Lord over those momentary choices being made?
The continuance in the claim of imperfection somehow seems diametrically opposed to a series of victories won in life and those same realized victories ONLY because we see them as the GLORY which actually do belong ONLY to Christ.
What is the consideration of the Glory of Christ?
How do we see His Glory if not THROUGH the things that Only He could endure? Exactly how much of His Glory was the direct result of Gods Glory working THROUGH Christ Jesus?
How much of Christ Glory do we see today also working through the appointment of OUR person here in the earth? Enough that the Lord could say today as He did to Paul as though talking about an "Address" that belongs to God?
Acts 18:9-11
One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: "Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent.
For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city."
So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God.
NIV
Is it still any REAL wonder why many don't see themselves preaching the Gospel in their daily events along the WAY?
God didn't suggest Paul preach about his own person (saul), or use his person to emulate God's word. Instead it says, "Teaching Them the WORD of God"!
And ONLY because Paul was since found preaching Christ beyond his former established person (Saul) could his more recent actions then be brought into question, "Who is this man named Paul and WHAT is he preaching"?
It's too easy to suggest to ourselves "I'm NOT a teacher" nor am I an "Apostle" or an "Evangelist" yet are you NOT a disciple of Christ?
You might have allowed your body to be used in order to bring other small bodies into this world, but what did you "teach" them?
Still don't see yourself as teacher?
Much like guns don't kill people, it's people who kill people, neither do babies kill people, yet do babies grow up and kill people!
Exactly who are you emulating IF Christ has finished His purpose and the Apostles have completed their task?
Didn't Christ give of himself to many to be many different things? And if He gave from himself what did we inherit through what He freely gave? What are the details of Christ from which He gave?
In terms of a NEW creation what ARE His virtues as though He is still alive that He he also dispensed to humanity? Did He give this NEW born again creation a New mind that only tries to RELATE to imperfection still being OWNED?
Did He give us the "Mind" of His person that's NOW being found lacking in many area's?
Was it not He (Christ) who gave some to be a part of the all that they are within the body now desiring to be recognized as His body? A body that now has it's temporary residency in the earth?
So you've convinced yourself God did not make you to be a Apostle nor an evangelist, preacher, teacher or a prophet? Who then are you while claiming to be a child of God and in what capacity are you now functioning as that same Child that is Of God that Jesus said is "One"?
At what point will we have a truthful "Sit down heart to heart" with God and ask Him why we don't see such things today in terms of God being able to hear himself say, "Fear Not because I have MANY people in this city?
Still don't see different spirits today? Still don't believe there are Prophets in our midst today nor the testimony of Christ need be continued? Exactly whose spirit do you claim dwells richly within You?
Sound along the lines of what adam heard in the Garden, "Who Told you that you were Naked"?
Whose picture is in your wallet and who have YOU believed?
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."
NIV
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
So it is with Christ (Part II)
Earlier I was attempting to flesh out "How" a group of people desiring to be a "pleasing" assembled group of people unto God, might one day realize themselves as a people that's been "Well" established in the WAY of God.
I see the following a "Must Ask" question, "Is this life only about the results of what men do FOR God OR does the whole process we term "Life" all have just as much to do with the clear delivery of a deeper message to some others than can only be realized when God alone is "Believed"?
I suppose when we boil down to its essence what actually ails a true relationship with God, it's when we find such to be our "Self' oriented nature that prevents a True relationship with Him.
Beyond ourselves those said "Others" being of the sort which can only be realized once all that does exist and take place in the heavenly realms gets truthfully "Acknowledged" as to how God defines those same "Beings"?
As though the eternally important ramifications that speak to the WAY things God originally intended them to be managed in this world. Certain considerations which are then observed and followed as if the "Wisdom" of God has been "Found" worthy.
Wisdom which then points EVERYTHING God also created towards the example He would eventually send as His Christ that was given to this same created BEING God termed "Man" (Adam).
Wisdom that is "Proved" righteous as to how we (BECAUSE WE ARE BELIEVERS) live out our lives in the midst of such a great and far reaching "Truth" that has since become OUR collective reality.
"Pleasing" intended to interpret as a group of people which recognize themselves as though One and the same body, "God" alone "Chose" to assemble.
God chose to frame this image in one place as though One spiritual man being raised up in the earth and in another place One spiritual House with many rooms He will also "Indwell"!
Was Jesus NOT the leading edge of this living example? This same process and example "Given" to mankind in whom ONLY the Holy Spirit can then accomplish as our mutual and eternally mindful guide?
Does God only ask rhetorical questions without also providing the answer OR does He ask questions He trust the Holy Spirit will respond to once ask in a momentary revealing by way of the "Truth"?
Such divine moments that are ONLY relative to ALL that was accomplished through Christ and HIS example?
Does this also sound the likes of the "First" Adam BEFORE His soul was corrupted by the Hell bound Lie(s) satan spread in the Garden?
1 Cor 2:15-16
The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?"
But we have the mind of Christ.
NIV
I have to believe that the Apostle Paul was never found writing (sharing) from a clouded perspective, but from within the ranks of the understanding God had made clear to him enough that He (Paul) found himself able to righteously share.
Basically, Paul couldn't preach about the WAY of God until he'd lived through the essence of that same message he later preached.
Jesus as the likeness of all that was given to Paul to preach since he'd deemed the message of Christ "Such great Revelation" is only able to be poured into the earthen vessel where "Believing" the words of God come first.
First to mean the mind of that same vessel that's been made ready (believed) in order so that it CAN receive from God in order to House (Contain) a more complete revelation of that same message that concerns Christ in terms of His (Christs') influential capacity and involvement here in the earth within the hearts and minds of men.
The evidence of such influence which then affects not only that same being that message indwells, but also the surrounding world where God has also planted that same "Being".
Having then by way of His spoken word(s) appointed Him (man) to have dominion over such a consideration and that only because this Man (Adam) has since discovered the Wisdom of God to be "True".
Who is the "APOSTLE" Paul if not yet one more living example through which God has went to great lengths in order to make Himself known to ALL men?
In some parts of the world the word "Apostolos" still infers what we term here in the US as the"Mail Man".
In fact it can still be found written as such on the sides of the mail delivery trucks in certain cultures.
I didn't make that up, but as is everything we "Choose" to believe, the evidence remains invisible until we too then see it in order that it prove itself to be the PRE-requisite.
The telling of the Apostle Paul's story only became a Godly story worth retelling AFTER he (Saul) had received the entitlement to do so.
Enough that He (Paul) was now pleading for some NOT to be discouraged at His suffering many had heard about as though a weakness they might have in common. A weakness then considered as such that might somehow diminish what God was otherwise going to accomplish through the full effects and delivery of the Good News (Gospel) concerning Christ.
Yes the same "Greatly" admired Apostle whom God clearly anointed with the Grace to hand out what some might term "Napkin's" to where people would then be physically healed from the ailments found in their bodies simply by coming in contact with the "Virtue" (power) of God "Believed" to be upon those same napkins.
Why "Believed" and what medium did God choose to be used in order to deliver this same power? Why didn't God use a bolt of lightning or a talking horse in order to introduce the likes of Paul to the doubt filled and unbelieving people there at the time of Paul's tenure in the earth?
Apparently God thought it wise to demonstrate His power through a Napkin or maybe the powerful image of a mans shadow passing by and healing the sick as did Peter's in one story line?
What was their soon to follow testimony with respect to NOT only "Shadows" of things to come, but maybe more important the intent of ANY shadow that God also "Cast" for "Good" reason in order that the greater reality might then be found IN CHRIST?
Col 2:17
These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
NIV
What does God try to tell man takes its rightful place when he (man) looses his connection with God who is also the head?
Col 2:19
He has lost connection with the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
NIV
How else can God demonstrate anything he has to say to man unless He also takes him (man) by the hand on a stroll down the middle of all that is in a man? That in order to reveal to him (man) all that's in play within his being?
In the sight of men was Paul's greatness because He (Paul) was found to be "Believable" in the hearing and sight of the "People"?
As though THE God chosen messenger, disciple and Apostle sent of God who told them they would be healed AND followed suit by dispensing napkins as such having himself "Believed" in the same virtue of the One True God!
Many see the miracles that took place under the hands of Paul as though the focal point of the grace of God, yet He tries to tell us who now find ourselves struggling to believe His message sent (as did some back then), that His grace was such that was given Him (Paul) was in order so that he (Paul) might find himself able to preach concerning the 'Mystery of Christ"!
This same mystery concerning the Intent in Christ coming that had been kept Hidden in God up to that point in time.
Eph 3:8-13
Although I am less than the least of all God's people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.
His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.
I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
NIV
How "Just" and how great is the hope found within the overall "Being" that now defines its self as though a "Believer" who is also discovered as though ONE with God?
That same oneness being realized as "Glory" in such a fashion where ALL now "Know" and understand the importance of this consideration that reaches beyond the placement of doubt and unbelief?
It now reaches into such a place that ushers in the freedom and confidence which displaces a previous and poorly established sense of doubt and unbelief? As such that now delivers them to the God appointed place where they each (including the Gentiles) have determined they're "Accepted" of God?
In terms of "That was then and This is NOW" at what point does this same collective group who were at some point ALL beings recognizing themselves as "Sinners" who now find themselves acceptable to God?
At what point does this group "Realize" as the content of all that they choose to believe to be true as it concerns God is now being transformed through the "Renewal" process of their minds?
Quite frankly is such a message being taught today and that in ALL that "Truth" is as though a person?
Exactly how might this "Renewal" of their minds come to pass if NOT by way of exposure to all that Truth is as it concern the presence of Christ who walked among men?
It's one thing to simply send a message to humanity yet it's entirely another event to demonstrate the intent of that same message.
Surely God can put a NEW spirit within a man, yet how does this NEW spirit guide in the process where the MIND of the soul is then renewed?
That same part of a man that attempts to reason and formulate his thoughts in order so that He (man) can then find himself able to "Relate" to God?
The God derived objective being an absolute doubtless "Reconciliation" unto ONE and the same God who is the creator of ALL things both great and small?
It's one thing for God to think of mankind one "Way", yet what happens when "How" a man thinks (reasons) does NOT agree with what God knows it "True"?
The phrase "It is what it is" does NOT depict someone that has "Learned" how OR why it's important to reason together WITH the spirit of "God".
The "WAY" the word "Obey" has been introduced to mans reasoning faculty works as does a LAW that's directly opposed to the very nature that opposes a Man.
That Nature being the way God created this same man to "Be" and further "Become" in terms of his maturation in this earth while under the governing tutelage of "Truth and Righteousness".
I pray that you've found this encouraging, yet encouragement can only reach as far as does the things we believe to be True about God.
As is Pain or Comfort found in our lives, "Lies" are also an important part of our transformation, yet only when they've been properly aligned with their deceptive source the WAY God would have them to BE considered.
I see the following a "Must Ask" question, "Is this life only about the results of what men do FOR God OR does the whole process we term "Life" all have just as much to do with the clear delivery of a deeper message to some others than can only be realized when God alone is "Believed"?
I suppose when we boil down to its essence what actually ails a true relationship with God, it's when we find such to be our "Self' oriented nature that prevents a True relationship with Him.
Beyond ourselves those said "Others" being of the sort which can only be realized once all that does exist and take place in the heavenly realms gets truthfully "Acknowledged" as to how God defines those same "Beings"?
As though the eternally important ramifications that speak to the WAY things God originally intended them to be managed in this world. Certain considerations which are then observed and followed as if the "Wisdom" of God has been "Found" worthy.
Wisdom which then points EVERYTHING God also created towards the example He would eventually send as His Christ that was given to this same created BEING God termed "Man" (Adam).
Wisdom that is "Proved" righteous as to how we (BECAUSE WE ARE BELIEVERS) live out our lives in the midst of such a great and far reaching "Truth" that has since become OUR collective reality.
"Pleasing" intended to interpret as a group of people which recognize themselves as though One and the same body, "God" alone "Chose" to assemble.
God chose to frame this image in one place as though One spiritual man being raised up in the earth and in another place One spiritual House with many rooms He will also "Indwell"!
Was Jesus NOT the leading edge of this living example? This same process and example "Given" to mankind in whom ONLY the Holy Spirit can then accomplish as our mutual and eternally mindful guide?
Does God only ask rhetorical questions without also providing the answer OR does He ask questions He trust the Holy Spirit will respond to once ask in a momentary revealing by way of the "Truth"?
Such divine moments that are ONLY relative to ALL that was accomplished through Christ and HIS example?
Does this also sound the likes of the "First" Adam BEFORE His soul was corrupted by the Hell bound Lie(s) satan spread in the Garden?
1 Cor 2:15-16
The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
"For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?"
But we have the mind of Christ.
NIV
Basically, Paul couldn't preach about the WAY of God until he'd lived through the essence of that same message he later preached.
Jesus as the likeness of all that was given to Paul to preach since he'd deemed the message of Christ "Such great Revelation" is only able to be poured into the earthen vessel where "Believing" the words of God come first.
First to mean the mind of that same vessel that's been made ready (believed) in order so that it CAN receive from God in order to House (Contain) a more complete revelation of that same message that concerns Christ in terms of His (Christs') influential capacity and involvement here in the earth within the hearts and minds of men.
The evidence of such influence which then affects not only that same being that message indwells, but also the surrounding world where God has also planted that same "Being".
Having then by way of His spoken word(s) appointed Him (man) to have dominion over such a consideration and that only because this Man (Adam) has since discovered the Wisdom of God to be "True".
Who is the "APOSTLE" Paul if not yet one more living example through which God has went to great lengths in order to make Himself known to ALL men?
In some parts of the world the word "Apostolos" still infers what we term here in the US as the"Mail Man".
In fact it can still be found written as such on the sides of the mail delivery trucks in certain cultures.
I didn't make that up, but as is everything we "Choose" to believe, the evidence remains invisible until we too then see it in order that it prove itself to be the PRE-requisite.
The telling of the Apostle Paul's story only became a Godly story worth retelling AFTER he (Saul) had received the entitlement to do so.
Enough that He (Paul) was now pleading for some NOT to be discouraged at His suffering many had heard about as though a weakness they might have in common. A weakness then considered as such that might somehow diminish what God was otherwise going to accomplish through the full effects and delivery of the Good News (Gospel) concerning Christ.
Yes the same "Greatly" admired Apostle whom God clearly anointed with the Grace to hand out what some might term "Napkin's" to where people would then be physically healed from the ailments found in their bodies simply by coming in contact with the "Virtue" (power) of God "Believed" to be upon those same napkins.
Why "Believed" and what medium did God choose to be used in order to deliver this same power? Why didn't God use a bolt of lightning or a talking horse in order to introduce the likes of Paul to the doubt filled and unbelieving people there at the time of Paul's tenure in the earth?
Apparently God thought it wise to demonstrate His power through a Napkin or maybe the powerful image of a mans shadow passing by and healing the sick as did Peter's in one story line?
What was their soon to follow testimony with respect to NOT only "Shadows" of things to come, but maybe more important the intent of ANY shadow that God also "Cast" for "Good" reason in order that the greater reality might then be found IN CHRIST?
Col 2:17
These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
NIV
What does God try to tell man takes its rightful place when he (man) looses his connection with God who is also the head?
Col 2:19
He has lost connection with the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
NIV
How else can God demonstrate anything he has to say to man unless He also takes him (man) by the hand on a stroll down the middle of all that is in a man? That in order to reveal to him (man) all that's in play within his being?
As though THE God chosen messenger, disciple and Apostle sent of God who told them they would be healed AND followed suit by dispensing napkins as such having himself "Believed" in the same virtue of the One True God!
Many see the miracles that took place under the hands of Paul as though the focal point of the grace of God, yet He tries to tell us who now find ourselves struggling to believe His message sent (as did some back then), that His grace was such that was given Him (Paul) was in order so that he (Paul) might find himself able to preach concerning the 'Mystery of Christ"!
This same mystery concerning the Intent in Christ coming that had been kept Hidden in God up to that point in time.
Eph 3:8-13
Although I am less than the least of all God's people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.
His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.
I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
NIV
How "Just" and how great is the hope found within the overall "Being" that now defines its self as though a "Believer" who is also discovered as though ONE with God?
That same oneness being realized as "Glory" in such a fashion where ALL now "Know" and understand the importance of this consideration that reaches beyond the placement of doubt and unbelief?
It now reaches into such a place that ushers in the freedom and confidence which displaces a previous and poorly established sense of doubt and unbelief? As such that now delivers them to the God appointed place where they each (including the Gentiles) have determined they're "Accepted" of God?
In terms of "That was then and This is NOW" at what point does this same collective group who were at some point ALL beings recognizing themselves as "Sinners" who now find themselves acceptable to God?
At what point does this group "Realize" as the content of all that they choose to believe to be true as it concerns God is now being transformed through the "Renewal" process of their minds?
Quite frankly is such a message being taught today and that in ALL that "Truth" is as though a person?
Exactly how might this "Renewal" of their minds come to pass if NOT by way of exposure to all that Truth is as it concern the presence of Christ who walked among men?
It's one thing to simply send a message to humanity yet it's entirely another event to demonstrate the intent of that same message.
Surely God can put a NEW spirit within a man, yet how does this NEW spirit guide in the process where the MIND of the soul is then renewed?
That same part of a man that attempts to reason and formulate his thoughts in order so that He (man) can then find himself able to "Relate" to God?
The God derived objective being an absolute doubtless "Reconciliation" unto ONE and the same God who is the creator of ALL things both great and small?
It's one thing for God to think of mankind one "Way", yet what happens when "How" a man thinks (reasons) does NOT agree with what God knows it "True"?
The phrase "It is what it is" does NOT depict someone that has "Learned" how OR why it's important to reason together WITH the spirit of "God".
The "WAY" the word "Obey" has been introduced to mans reasoning faculty works as does a LAW that's directly opposed to the very nature that opposes a Man.
That Nature being the way God created this same man to "Be" and further "Become" in terms of his maturation in this earth while under the governing tutelage of "Truth and Righteousness".
I pray that you've found this encouraging, yet encouragement can only reach as far as does the things we believe to be True about God.
As is Pain or Comfort found in our lives, "Lies" are also an important part of our transformation, yet only when they've been properly aligned with their deceptive source the WAY God would have them to BE considered.
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
So it is with Christ
History is littered with examples of how to do and how not to do many things, yet who is it that ultimately determines their value? How does that saying go which comments on the repeated events of History?
People use phrases such as "The bigger picture" or "The great scheme of things" in order to suggest a greater authority in charge of the whole life project, yet why not just say what you believe in terms of God's plan for humanity?
Are Christians fearful of offending others or does it have more to do with said Christians defending themselves based on the fear of their potential loss or lack of gain if they otherwise did offend someone with their beliefs?
If we did have biblical examples, who might they be? Do we selectively pick and choose who they will be? Do we also get to pick and chose who are parents or children? No, we only get to "Decide" who are our friends and enemies "Are"?
Is there such a thing as "Godly Jealousy" that also labors for Gods intentions?
Is the teaching of another God the same as preaching about "Another" Jesus that is NOT the likeness of the "Christ" which God sent?
Why is it that the religious spirit loathes the preaching of a Jesus that is NOT representative Of God? And why did God seek to make His chosen people Jealous? What did God find so deserved of such an engagement?
Deut 32:21
They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols.
I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.
NIV
2 Cor 11:2-4
But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.
NIV
What purpose does any example serve in this world?
Even more important as it pertains to a life in Christ, what examples have been specifically supplied by God which then serve His purpose(s) and intention(s)?
Most fathers and sons understand the minimal concept of following an example. As well the mafia, media and the likes of community leaders well understand the power of "Example" especially when conformity among a "Common" people becomes the "Topic" they want "Imported".
More often what is the true context that gets heard when the phrase, "We'll make an example of Him" is mentioned?
Have you ever stopped to think how long it takes in order to groom a personality from womb to tomb for a specific cause in order for it to be used as a "Prime" example?
People love stories and maybe folklore even more, yet at what point does the "Truth" as it concerns the accurate retelling (example) of a persons story become important?
That to mean the establishment of the character example that's also a real "Being"?
Who are the players involved in the grooming process of a human example? Basically, who are the willing participants in this said grooming and who otherwise might be considered cannon fodder?
There used to be a saying that conveyed the importance of civil involvement and commitment in terms of raising a child. Most recognize it as "It takes a village to raise a child"!
How would such a statement find itself "Today" if the defining context were applied, "Raising a child of God requires a village of Godly people"?
Most self acclaimed God fearing people would instantly think to a "Church" environment I would think?
In this blog I want to look at this village of people or the appointment of the "Church" setting the way God intended a little more closely in terms of its day to day dynamics and functionality.
After that I want to copy and paste the thoughts that revolve around "Character assassination" and how it might apply to a body of people or village as well how the surrounding world might realize a gain by way of the assassination of a child that was raised in this village.
So, do we use a simple window pane view, a magnifying glass, a microscope or a telescope in order to see what we need to see taking place within the confines of this village?
Wouldn't our chosen perspective also need to match the perspective the eyes of God also see's? Especially as it pertains to what all men are supposedly in search as if "The Truth"?
Such a "Truth" which can only come from the same creator of All Things who is also found "Willing" in the eyes of men who could then reveal that same "Truth"?
2 Chron 16:9
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.
NKJV
Let's begin there.
So where do earth bound creatures find their "Prime" example that informs them of "What" and "How" God see's them? What is a more exact image or picture of such an individual?
Jude 1
To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ:
NIV
How do earth "Bound" creatures go about finding God's perspective among a multitude of people with a individual oriented mindsets that are constantly being bombarded by surrounding opinions who then try and build a village that is pleasing to God?
Simply put, "You Can't" and that because you are "Bound" by the things and "Cares" that belong to a world that does not recognize itself as though it belongs to God!
What is truth if NOT words that have actions then found in agreement with those same words?
John 4:24
God is spirit , and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth ."
NIV
1 John 3:16-20
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us.
NIV
Shouldn't the first question be, "Who knows how to build a Godly Village"? Is there more to this building process than simply following what's in your OWN heart?
What if what's in your heart does not agree with the heart of God while trying to build a Godly village? In turn what have you built in the end?
1 John 3:20
For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
NIV
Have those who are building the church for God forgotten that God does know "Everything"? What of those who say the early church builders who did have the privilege of Christ physical presence and verbatim counsel are all now dead?
Is that also true in terms of the same "Spirit" within them that also lead them in their building process? Maybe their physical bodies are all now in the grave, but what of the Spirit which compelled them to do and take action?
Have the early Apostles been killed off from within the infrastructure of God's building network (spirit)? Killed off to suggest with a purpose and ulterior motive in their hearts that is NOT in agreement with Gods "Design'?
Exactly who is this "He" mentioned below who "Gave" some to "Be" Teachers, Apostles, Evangelist, Pastors and Prophets and as such for the "Building" of the Church?
By what authority have some come to think that the same God who does NOT vacate His natural order of the way He also does things here in the earth has since done away with what He first established?
Shouldn't we then look at the condition of the very thing God initially intended to build here in the EARTH and that BEFORE we take it upon ourselves to begin tearing down the integral dynamic's which outline what HIS work force initially looked like?
Was it broken at some point and needed fixing?
Why is it that most churches which state they RE-present Christ only recognize the Pastor as their leader?
At what point does the symbol of 12 witnesses which also testified to Christ visitation get thrown out of the circle of importance? Why didn't God only requires "One' witness or "Three" or "Nine"? "Why Twelve?
Truth be revealed according to Christ and in order to set some free, who is more often found to be the predominate Teacher who is also the oversight of the content and depth of what the said 'Teacher's" teach in the classroom?
Why is no one asking, "Where are the God appointed Apostle's and Prophet's who were Christ appointed and "Intended" to watch over the Pastors, Teachers and Evangelist?
Is the answer the also the "Obvious" in that they're realized importance is occupying a grave memorial somewhere as are most mere men?
As such that their physical dead bodies mean more to the church than does the Spirit of God that compelled them to go throughout the whole earth and make "Disciple's"?
Isn't the symbol of the Church seen today more the likeness of a "Commercial" business model instead of the Model of which God is the head who is also The Christ He sent as the example? The first "Born" of the Beloved of God?
If it were accepted that a "Disciple of Christ" would also be like Christ, what would then "Be" the dominate opinion of the day as if THE point of concern of the "Same" Christ Jesus which God sent to save men?
Why is it the said evangelist of today more often only one who spreads the message as it pertains to the Pastor who is the "Head" of the same Church they attend instead of the SAME Christ?
Eph 4:10-13
He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.)
It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
NIV
Where does it all begin? How does such a village become established? Who's in charge of this process?
Who's got the know how required in order to build this thing? Do we do interviews and fill out applications to get some background on these builders? Who then is going to screen those App's? Whose going to filter through such a consideration?
How do we know WHAT we want this village to appear as until we discover more about the "WHO" it is that wants the village (church) we're hoping to build?
Do we simply go hire a "Builder' as we would our homes or have we attempted to build our home(s) without God like experience?
Have we put the carriage before the Horse in our pursuit of a Godly Home?
Meaning wife or husband first and then kids and a farm? Only then do we inquire of God what he now wants this family to look like as such that expands upon itself?
People use phrases such as "The bigger picture" or "The great scheme of things" in order to suggest a greater authority in charge of the whole life project, yet why not just say what you believe in terms of God's plan for humanity?
Are Christians fearful of offending others or does it have more to do with said Christians defending themselves based on the fear of their potential loss or lack of gain if they otherwise did offend someone with their beliefs?
If we did have biblical examples, who might they be? Do we selectively pick and choose who they will be? Do we also get to pick and chose who are parents or children? No, we only get to "Decide" who are our friends and enemies "Are"?
Is there such a thing as "Godly Jealousy" that also labors for Gods intentions?
Is the teaching of another God the same as preaching about "Another" Jesus that is NOT the likeness of the "Christ" which God sent?
Why is it that the religious spirit loathes the preaching of a Jesus that is NOT representative Of God? And why did God seek to make His chosen people Jealous? What did God find so deserved of such an engagement?
Deut 32:21
They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols.
I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.
NIV
2 Cor 11:2-4
But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.
NIV
Even more important as it pertains to a life in Christ, what examples have been specifically supplied by God which then serve His purpose(s) and intention(s)?
Most fathers and sons understand the minimal concept of following an example. As well the mafia, media and the likes of community leaders well understand the power of "Example" especially when conformity among a "Common" people becomes the "Topic" they want "Imported".
More often what is the true context that gets heard when the phrase, "We'll make an example of Him" is mentioned?
Have you ever stopped to think how long it takes in order to groom a personality from womb to tomb for a specific cause in order for it to be used as a "Prime" example?
People love stories and maybe folklore even more, yet at what point does the "Truth" as it concerns the accurate retelling (example) of a persons story become important?
That to mean the establishment of the character example that's also a real "Being"?
Who are the players involved in the grooming process of a human example? Basically, who are the willing participants in this said grooming and who otherwise might be considered cannon fodder?
There used to be a saying that conveyed the importance of civil involvement and commitment in terms of raising a child. Most recognize it as "It takes a village to raise a child"!
How would such a statement find itself "Today" if the defining context were applied, "Raising a child of God requires a village of Godly people"?
Most self acclaimed God fearing people would instantly think to a "Church" environment I would think?
In this blog I want to look at this village of people or the appointment of the "Church" setting the way God intended a little more closely in terms of its day to day dynamics and functionality.
After that I want to copy and paste the thoughts that revolve around "Character assassination" and how it might apply to a body of people or village as well how the surrounding world might realize a gain by way of the assassination of a child that was raised in this village.
So, do we use a simple window pane view, a magnifying glass, a microscope or a telescope in order to see what we need to see taking place within the confines of this village?
Wouldn't our chosen perspective also need to match the perspective the eyes of God also see's? Especially as it pertains to what all men are supposedly in search as if "The Truth"?
Such a "Truth" which can only come from the same creator of All Things who is also found "Willing" in the eyes of men who could then reveal that same "Truth"?
2 Chron 16:9
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.
NKJV
So where do earth bound creatures find their "Prime" example that informs them of "What" and "How" God see's them? What is a more exact image or picture of such an individual?
Jude 1
To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ:
NIV
Simply put, "You Can't" and that because you are "Bound" by the things and "Cares" that belong to a world that does not recognize itself as though it belongs to God!
What is truth if NOT words that have actions then found in agreement with those same words?
John 4:24
God is spirit , and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth ."
NIV
Wasn't murder the second recorded "Sin" discovered in the retelling of the "Christ Like God"?
1 John 3:16-20
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us.
NIV
What if what's in your heart does not agree with the heart of God while trying to build a Godly village? In turn what have you built in the end?
1 John 3:20
For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
NIV
Have those who are building the church for God forgotten that God does know "Everything"? What of those who say the early church builders who did have the privilege of Christ physical presence and verbatim counsel are all now dead?
Is that also true in terms of the same "Spirit" within them that also lead them in their building process? Maybe their physical bodies are all now in the grave, but what of the Spirit which compelled them to do and take action?
Have the early Apostles been killed off from within the infrastructure of God's building network (spirit)? Killed off to suggest with a purpose and ulterior motive in their hearts that is NOT in agreement with Gods "Design'?
Exactly who is this "He" mentioned below who "Gave" some to "Be" Teachers, Apostles, Evangelist, Pastors and Prophets and as such for the "Building" of the Church?
By what authority have some come to think that the same God who does NOT vacate His natural order of the way He also does things here in the earth has since done away with what He first established?
Shouldn't we then look at the condition of the very thing God initially intended to build here in the EARTH and that BEFORE we take it upon ourselves to begin tearing down the integral dynamic's which outline what HIS work force initially looked like?
Was it broken at some point and needed fixing?
Why is it that most churches which state they RE-present Christ only recognize the Pastor as their leader?
At what point does the symbol of 12 witnesses which also testified to Christ visitation get thrown out of the circle of importance? Why didn't God only requires "One' witness or "Three" or "Nine"? "Why Twelve?
Truth be revealed according to Christ and in order to set some free, who is more often found to be the predominate Teacher who is also the oversight of the content and depth of what the said 'Teacher's" teach in the classroom?
Why is no one asking, "Where are the God appointed Apostle's and Prophet's who were Christ appointed and "Intended" to watch over the Pastors, Teachers and Evangelist?
Is the answer the also the "Obvious" in that they're realized importance is occupying a grave memorial somewhere as are most mere men?
As such that their physical dead bodies mean more to the church than does the Spirit of God that compelled them to go throughout the whole earth and make "Disciple's"?
Isn't the symbol of the Church seen today more the likeness of a "Commercial" business model instead of the Model of which God is the head who is also The Christ He sent as the example? The first "Born" of the Beloved of God?
If it were accepted that a "Disciple of Christ" would also be like Christ, what would then "Be" the dominate opinion of the day as if THE point of concern of the "Same" Christ Jesus which God sent to save men?
Why is it the said evangelist of today more often only one who spreads the message as it pertains to the Pastor who is the "Head" of the same Church they attend instead of the SAME Christ?
Eph 4:10-13
He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.)
It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
NIV
If you've never seen a village that also meets the approval of God how can you establish one?
I'll stop here on the advice given by my brotherI hope to be able to continue this segment at some point in the future.
In terms of an "Example" what should ultimately "Define" a village that also desires to be "Known" as a Godly village?
Where does it all begin? How does such a village become established? Who's in charge of this process?
Who's got the know how required in order to build this thing? Do we do interviews and fill out applications to get some background on these builders? Who then is going to screen those App's? Whose going to filter through such a consideration?
How do we know WHAT we want this village to appear as until we discover more about the "WHO" it is that wants the village (church) we're hoping to build?
Do we simply go hire a "Builder' as we would our homes or have we attempted to build our home(s) without God like experience?
Have we put the carriage before the Horse in our pursuit of a Godly Home?
Meaning wife or husband first and then kids and a farm? Only then do we inquire of God what he now wants this family to look like as such that expands upon itself?
Thursday, July 17, 2014
The Grace of God is Your teacher
Is the God you personally observe, always in the lead when you suggest to yourself that you talk to Him?
Wouldn't how you interpret a particular type of response from Him also depend upon "How" you also perceive how God reasons?
At what point do the things which come 'Out" from "All" that is within you then align with and define the things God declares are the results of His goodness?
John 3:21
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
NIV
It's easy to suggest having a third person encounter with God while watching someone other than ourselves go through a particular set of circumstances, yet to borrow from the word "Vicariously", how do we find ourselves in each day when we put on that same set of glasses?
This same mind that has systematically convinced itself that God WANTS not only to be a mystery because He is GOD, but also 'Remain" a mystery in the hearts and minds of men throughout their tenure here.
How does that square with the thought of earnestly seeking God as well the how a Believer in God then perceives when God is also pleased with the earnestness of our seeking Him out?
Men love analogies such as 'Is the glass half full or half empty" or maybe "United we stand and divided we fall", yet when does this same guided reasoning get applied to the likened consideration also found in Mark 12:29?
What happens if men were to begin with the the thought "The Lord Our God is One"? Where then would we individually find ourselves in another day and along the lines of any talking point?
Doesn't the knowing that God is "One" factor into our reasoning at any point along our individual time line?
Unfortunately it does but usually as if pertains to "Self" and the matter of importance of our souls "Opinion" of self. Do we then discount our own conversion at the risk of losing our own soul? No!
How important then does the One Spirit of God acting out as if ONE then become when His people migrate back to Him see themselves a though MANY meaning ALL different? How does that square with the thought of One He (God) desires to be mutually understood among ALL mankind?
In terms of being boxed in, how long before this earth becomes so crowded the inhabitants then find no where else to run to?
In terms of fight or flight and as long as man has and can maintain the ability to take the God given life of another, in his mind he'll always has options.
What is the "Full" measure of Christ? And who is it that gets to determine when this "Full" measure has been obtained?
How does one find themselves welcomed into the consideration which concerns Christ?
How much does the "Knowledge of Christ" that can ONLY be found IN Him also find "Itself" within the spiritual walls of His Kingdom?
Is it always going to a matter of who is willing and the said "THEM"?
How is it possible for the children of God to "Come OUT from among them"?
John 5:28-30
"Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out — those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.
NIV
And who is the "You" the words of God state now holds the secrets to the Kingdom of Heaven?
Matt 13:11
He replied, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
NIV
Mark 12:29
"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'
The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."
NIV
Are we without excuse in that we have no example to follow?
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.
NIV
If you have little faith in your own prayers, this is one that should be etched in Gold and as such that gets posted where many have placed the "Ten" of the many "Commandments" of God.
The thick question in the air is, How do we come to "Know" this God, for what purpose and that without recognizing the One He sent so that we CAN come in order to know Him?
How can we know if we can't hear Him and How can we hear Him if we fail to believe Him?
John 17:1-4
"Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.
Now this is eternal life : that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.
NIV
How often does "Truth" present itself through a seemingly silent process?
Meaning a concise transfer of information which requires very little commentary in order to substantiate your "Personal" findings as a matter of fact?
Many things and in many differing "Ways" somehow find their way into a man, yet what comes out of a man?
What some consider to be good and others not so good has everything to do with Godliness. If we'll truly hear what Our savior has said in that "Only God is good" is it any wonder why many squabble over all that is considered to be "Good"?
Why a divide when trying to establish the boundaries of all that is also considered to be "Good"?
Some try and simplify this process as IF the battle of Good versus evil, yet in this said "Defining" process are we not also attempting to determine all that God is? And that which is or is NOT from within the depths of ourselves?
Some of the most clarifying words in terms of what evil truly is I've heard come from the mouths of those who say they believe and are IN Christ, yet does that define who He is?
What makes such thing seem so evil when we do see these things manifest from a said "Believer"?
Most Christians when pressed for their position on the influence(s) of evil truly believe the demonic "Realm" has NO influence upon them (post confession) once they've purposed they have been "Saved"?
Is it only when the "Source" of such words and actions then get weighed?
As if the source of those things that come out of the confines of a personage as we each consider all that "Good" truly is from one day or generation to the next?
Why does any said "Law" become despised? Is it only when the "Law Makers" don't abide by those same laws? When does prejudice set in whenever WE decide justice should have prevailed?
Isn't it when the "Top" doesn't also conform and abide by those those "Same" Laws they've put in place?
Isa 5:20-21
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light
and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
NIV
And that for the sake what we want others to ALSO believe?
How much of a Christians readiness to give their testimony has to do ONLY with the words they speak?
Mark 7:14-15
Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a man can make him 'unclean' by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him 'unclean.'"
NIV
Why is it that men who seem more than willing to lay hold of and accept the results of their own "Imperfection" in the sight of God will almost immediately turn and ignore that same revelation they are imperfect anytime they do fail Because they've acted outwardly "Without" God?
When will they find they've been fueled by the notion "It can't be done" and that as if without the Grace of God?
I won't expound in depth here on the paramount topic the Mercy and Grace of God, yet in my own perception I can see where many have transposed the two.
How can one "Realize and then find the Grace of God without "First" having discovered His mercy shown?
I often wonder how much has been accomplished in the minds of men "Because" of the potency of the notion which suggest "It can't be done", yet even greater how much of what has been done as if the direct result of that suggestion that is also Justified by way of and through the Grace of the Lord?
The all encompassing words we say we believe tell us that Jesus came to His own, yet they rejected Him.
How well does that conclusion then sit and dine with the thought, they didn't recognize Him ONLY because they didn't "Know" Him? Even further to suggest the broader scope of God's intentions, "My sheep Hear My voice"?
Many try to let themselves of the hook by saying, "Yes, but God hardened their hearts and they're NOT to blame for what they did"?
Is that only to somehow accommodate the thoughts and conclusions on behalf of God you've assessed and made about yourself?
John 8:45-47
Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me?
He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."
NIV
John 18:37
"You are a king, then!" said Pilate.
Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king.
In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."
NIV
I don't know if you've ever considered the circumstances concerning the presentation of "Truth" this way, yet in order for Pilot to "Hear" the truth from Jesus as though "The King" wouldn't Pilot also have had to accept the terms of this Kings "Sovereignty" in order for him to then "See" Jesus at minimum as though One sent from God?
Was Jesus NOT observed for who He truly was because of the "How and Why" His humbled circumstance(s) were interpreted before Pilot?
Pilot was not only played a part of the "Telling" of the coming of Christ, but he was also "In and an active component of the actual telling of the event of Christ' immediate presence here in the earth".
In terms of vicariously living through another person, how would "You" find Christ in that moment IF you were Pilot?
Heb 2:15-18
For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants.
For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. 18
Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
NIV
Are you one that seems to suffer only AFTER being tempted or while in the midst of being tempted? If only after what would that suggest?
Have you concluded it's only your "Known" imperfection being tested Or is it the presence of "Christ In you" that continues being tested by those that are the "Enemies" of God?
Far too many choose to perceive trials and temptation as if they ONLY have to do with the capabilities of all that imperfection is. The same shaped and formed specimen of imperfection who are then are being taught and in turn learn how to "Fall In Love with that whole Idea"?
How much of self have we truly seen by way of such an exercise? At what point does this exercise called life then "Become" about the claim of Christ In You?
Once again the recycled question and in precise concise terms, "Who is the King" and ruler over "What"?
In terms of vicariously living through another, if we only see such letters written to "THEM" how can we see as if the one intended to "Learn" from the things they also suffered?
Are you attempting to purify yourself, or is it in the knowledge that continues to Inform you about the effects of "Christ In You" which then results as the purifying thought that saves you each and every day?
Don't allow "Self" to reign within you as if the justifying "Righteousness" that is also "Found" acceptable to the Lord that also initially created You to be in His likeness.
Prov 12:26
A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
NIV
Titus 2:11-15
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope — the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.
These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority.
Do not let anyone despise you.
NIV
Wouldn't how you interpret a particular type of response from Him also depend upon "How" you also perceive how God reasons?
At what point do the things which come 'Out" from "All" that is within you then align with and define the things God declares are the results of His goodness?
John 3:21
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
NIV
This same mind that has systematically convinced itself that God WANTS not only to be a mystery because He is GOD, but also 'Remain" a mystery in the hearts and minds of men throughout their tenure here.
How does that square with the thought of earnestly seeking God as well the how a Believer in God then perceives when God is also pleased with the earnestness of our seeking Him out?
Men love analogies such as 'Is the glass half full or half empty" or maybe "United we stand and divided we fall", yet when does this same guided reasoning get applied to the likened consideration also found in Mark 12:29?
What happens if men were to begin with the the thought "The Lord Our God is One"? Where then would we individually find ourselves in another day and along the lines of any talking point?
Doesn't the knowing that God is "One" factor into our reasoning at any point along our individual time line?
Unfortunately it does but usually as if pertains to "Self" and the matter of importance of our souls "Opinion" of self. Do we then discount our own conversion at the risk of losing our own soul? No!
How important then does the One Spirit of God acting out as if ONE then become when His people migrate back to Him see themselves a though MANY meaning ALL different? How does that square with the thought of One He (God) desires to be mutually understood among ALL mankind?
In terms of being boxed in, how long before this earth becomes so crowded the inhabitants then find no where else to run to?
In terms of fight or flight and as long as man has and can maintain the ability to take the God given life of another, in his mind he'll always has options.
What is the "Full" measure of Christ? And who is it that gets to determine when this "Full" measure has been obtained?
How does one find themselves welcomed into the consideration which concerns Christ?
How much does the "Knowledge of Christ" that can ONLY be found IN Him also find "Itself" within the spiritual walls of His Kingdom?
Is it always going to a matter of who is willing and the said "THEM"?
How is it possible for the children of God to "Come OUT from among them"?
John 5:28-30
"Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out — those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.
NIV
And who is the "You" the words of God state now holds the secrets to the Kingdom of Heaven?
Matt 13:11
He replied, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
NIV
Mark 12:29
"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'
The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."
NIV
Are we without excuse in that we have no example to follow?
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.
NIV
The thick question in the air is, How do we come to "Know" this God, for what purpose and that without recognizing the One He sent so that we CAN come in order to know Him?
How can we know if we can't hear Him and How can we hear Him if we fail to believe Him?
John 17:1-4
"Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.
Now this is eternal life : that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.
NIV
Meaning a concise transfer of information which requires very little commentary in order to substantiate your "Personal" findings as a matter of fact?
Many things and in many differing "Ways" somehow find their way into a man, yet what comes out of a man?
What some consider to be good and others not so good has everything to do with Godliness. If we'll truly hear what Our savior has said in that "Only God is good" is it any wonder why many squabble over all that is considered to be "Good"?
Why a divide when trying to establish the boundaries of all that is also considered to be "Good"?
Some try and simplify this process as IF the battle of Good versus evil, yet in this said "Defining" process are we not also attempting to determine all that God is? And that which is or is NOT from within the depths of ourselves?
Some of the most clarifying words in terms of what evil truly is I've heard come from the mouths of those who say they believe and are IN Christ, yet does that define who He is?
What makes such thing seem so evil when we do see these things manifest from a said "Believer"?
Most Christians when pressed for their position on the influence(s) of evil truly believe the demonic "Realm" has NO influence upon them (post confession) once they've purposed they have been "Saved"?
Is it only when the "Source" of such words and actions then get weighed?
As if the source of those things that come out of the confines of a personage as we each consider all that "Good" truly is from one day or generation to the next?
Why does any said "Law" become despised? Is it only when the "Law Makers" don't abide by those same laws? When does prejudice set in whenever WE decide justice should have prevailed?
Isn't it when the "Top" doesn't also conform and abide by those those "Same" Laws they've put in place?
Isa 5:20-21
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light
and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
NIV
And that for the sake what we want others to ALSO believe?
How much of a Christians readiness to give their testimony has to do ONLY with the words they speak?
Mark 7:14-15
Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a man can make him 'unclean' by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him 'unclean.'"
NIV
Why is it that men who seem more than willing to lay hold of and accept the results of their own "Imperfection" in the sight of God will almost immediately turn and ignore that same revelation they are imperfect anytime they do fail Because they've acted outwardly "Without" God?
When will they find they've been fueled by the notion "It can't be done" and that as if without the Grace of God?
I won't expound in depth here on the paramount topic the Mercy and Grace of God, yet in my own perception I can see where many have transposed the two.
How can one "Realize and then find the Grace of God without "First" having discovered His mercy shown?
I often wonder how much has been accomplished in the minds of men "Because" of the potency of the notion which suggest "It can't be done", yet even greater how much of what has been done as if the direct result of that suggestion that is also Justified by way of and through the Grace of the Lord?
The all encompassing words we say we believe tell us that Jesus came to His own, yet they rejected Him.
How well does that conclusion then sit and dine with the thought, they didn't recognize Him ONLY because they didn't "Know" Him? Even further to suggest the broader scope of God's intentions, "My sheep Hear My voice"?
Many try to let themselves of the hook by saying, "Yes, but God hardened their hearts and they're NOT to blame for what they did"?
Is that only to somehow accommodate the thoughts and conclusions on behalf of God you've assessed and made about yourself?
John 8:45-47
Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me?
He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."
NIV
John 18:37
"You are a king, then!" said Pilate.
Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king.
In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."
NIV
I don't know if you've ever considered the circumstances concerning the presentation of "Truth" this way, yet in order for Pilot to "Hear" the truth from Jesus as though "The King" wouldn't Pilot also have had to accept the terms of this Kings "Sovereignty" in order for him to then "See" Jesus at minimum as though One sent from God?
Was Jesus NOT observed for who He truly was because of the "How and Why" His humbled circumstance(s) were interpreted before Pilot?
Pilot was not only played a part of the "Telling" of the coming of Christ, but he was also "In and an active component of the actual telling of the event of Christ' immediate presence here in the earth".
In terms of vicariously living through another person, how would "You" find Christ in that moment IF you were Pilot?
Heb 2:15-18
For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants.
For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. 18
Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
NIV
Are you one that seems to suffer only AFTER being tempted or while in the midst of being tempted? If only after what would that suggest?
Have you concluded it's only your "Known" imperfection being tested Or is it the presence of "Christ In you" that continues being tested by those that are the "Enemies" of God?
Far too many choose to perceive trials and temptation as if they ONLY have to do with the capabilities of all that imperfection is. The same shaped and formed specimen of imperfection who are then are being taught and in turn learn how to "Fall In Love with that whole Idea"?
How much of self have we truly seen by way of such an exercise? At what point does this exercise called life then "Become" about the claim of Christ In You?
Once again the recycled question and in precise concise terms, "Who is the King" and ruler over "What"?
In terms of vicariously living through another, if we only see such letters written to "THEM" how can we see as if the one intended to "Learn" from the things they also suffered?
Are you attempting to purify yourself, or is it in the knowledge that continues to Inform you about the effects of "Christ In You" which then results as the purifying thought that saves you each and every day?
Don't allow "Self" to reign within you as if the justifying "Righteousness" that is also "Found" acceptable to the Lord that also initially created You to be in His likeness.
Prov 12:26
A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
NIV
Titus 2:11-15
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope — the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.
These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority.
Do not let anyone despise you.
NIV
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