Saturday, February 25, 2017
Goats and Sheep
A goat can only pretend to live like a sheep for a time, then when they get tired of the work of pretending, the real self will emerge to expose them.
Don't Boast of Your Good Deeds
I am no longer going to watch videos of people being generous or helping others. I cannot be party to taking away their reward in heaven by advertising their good deeds.
John 12:43 "43 For they loved praise from men more than praise from God."
Proverbs 29:5 " 5 A man who flatters his neighbor Is spreading a net for his steps."
It's one thing to speak about ministry where someone becomes born again, then we can all rejoice, but these canned and planned efforts to feed the poor or give to others while making sure everyone else sees what they are doing, is becoming rampant and sickening really.
Wonderful, do good deeds, but do not tell anyone and do not display it on facebook, bragging is a sin and that's all these videos do. Also, do not video others doing good deeds, let them alone to serve God without the fanfare.
Matthew 6:2-4 "…2 So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be praised by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their reward.
3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.…"
Let God be the one to bless someone for their good deeds.
John 12:43 "43 For they loved praise from men more than praise from God."
Proverbs 29:5 " 5 A man who flatters his neighbor Is spreading a net for his steps."
It's one thing to speak about ministry where someone becomes born again, then we can all rejoice, but these canned and planned efforts to feed the poor or give to others while making sure everyone else sees what they are doing, is becoming rampant and sickening really.
Wonderful, do good deeds, but do not tell anyone and do not display it on facebook, bragging is a sin and that's all these videos do. Also, do not video others doing good deeds, let them alone to serve God without the fanfare.
Matthew 6:2-4 "…2 So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be praised by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their reward.
3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.…"
Let God be the one to bless someone for their good deeds.
God Made Them For Us
When a couple live together outside marriage they are basically saying they don't love the person enough to commit their entire life with them. They are not willing to go through all phases of life with someone, only as long as the good stuff keeps coming.
Their aim is to use the person until things get a little rough then they will bail out leaving a ravaged heap of emotional trash, while moving on to do the same thing to someone else.
I have seen the devastation because of the cavalier attitude about something that should be sacred and serious. The children are the ones who are the most damaged from these shack up relationships.
Come on folks, when is this next generation going to grow up and realize God made His principles for a reason, to protect everyone involved.
Their aim is to use the person until things get a little rough then they will bail out leaving a ravaged heap of emotional trash, while moving on to do the same thing to someone else.
I have seen the devastation because of the cavalier attitude about something that should be sacred and serious. The children are the ones who are the most damaged from these shack up relationships.
Come on folks, when is this next generation going to grow up and realize God made His principles for a reason, to protect everyone involved.
Our Idols are Ourselves
Yes, this is so true! An elevated view of our own importance makes us a god to ourselves, it is idolatry.
“Humility pleases God wherever it is found, and the humble person will have God for his or her friend and helper always. Only the humble are completely sane, for they are the only ones who see clearly their own size and limitations. Egotists see things out of focus. To themselves they are large and God is correspondingly small, and that is a kind of moral insanity.”
– A. W. Tozer
Something Wrong with Our Christianity
“There is something wrong with our Christianity and spirituality if we carelessly presume that if we do not like a Biblical doctrine there is no harm done. Commandments which we have received from our Lord cannot be overlooked or ignored. God has never instructed us that we should weigh His desires for us in the balance of our own judgment, and then decide what we want to do about them.”
– A. W. Tozer
– A. W. Tozer
Seek Christ Not Man
When God makes a couple, a man and a woman, one, no man can separate that bond. The connotation in the Scripture, of the bond, is a gluing together, even divorce by a piece of paper according to the law of man cannot dissolve the glue that holds a couple together.
That's why there is such violence in the soul that happens when a couple divorces.
Malachi 2:15-16 "…15"But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.
16"For I hate divorce," says the LORD, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with wrong," says the LORD of hosts. "So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously."
Our culture does not understand how serious divorce is in His eyes. It is a violent ripping away that tears at the soul to such an extent that the couple never recover unless there is forgiveness and reconciliation.
1 Corinthians 7:10-11 "…10 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. 11 But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife."
Our culture treats with flippancy the marriage bond, just as flippanly as it treats child rearing while parents neglect the important teachings of the Word of God to their children.
As a Christian culture we have minimized the Words of God through the twisting of Scripture when it suits us, even denying principles of God to be able to live as we please.
Is it any wonder that most adult children today lack spiritual maturity and discernment?
The Bible has been treated as "the Good Book", but one that our culture does not read nor does it heed when it is read.
I knew of a Catholic woman who did not allow her children to touch the family Bible, it was an icon to be looked at and dusted but never to be opened or discussed in the home.
Since Catholics were taught, as I was that the Bible was not for the common man to read, only the priest should do that, then when the papacy decided the meaning of the Words in the Bible, those words could be interpreted any way they wanted to and the parishioners would believe whatever the priests told them.
This is why values changed over the years, they were interpreted in terms of what the culture was doing rather than what God meant by them. Sadly many "Christians" in the Protestant church are doing the very same thing in various matters.
Mark 7:13 "13 Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so” in many such matters."
If you are a born again believer it is time to get in a quiet place, reflect on what you were taught by man while reading the Word with prayerful heart to understand God's meaning.
Man has always figured out ways to make the masses happy when determining righteousness and it has lead to apostasy. Those who want truth and only truth are most often mocked and demeaned today, as they walk through life lonely and rejected, they experience even what our Lord and the apostles did 2000 years ago.
Shame on those who proclaim falsehood loudly to "appear" righteous, while demonstrating the exact opposite.
Matthew 15:7-9 "…7 You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8 ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”…
Stop all the hypocrisy, seek the Lord in His Word the Bible, and pray for the understanding.
James 1:4-6 "…4 Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 6 But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.…"
That's why there is such violence in the soul that happens when a couple divorces.
Malachi 2:15-16 "…15"But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.
16"For I hate divorce," says the LORD, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with wrong," says the LORD of hosts. "So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously."
Our culture does not understand how serious divorce is in His eyes. It is a violent ripping away that tears at the soul to such an extent that the couple never recover unless there is forgiveness and reconciliation.
1 Corinthians 7:10-11 "…10 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. 11 But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife."
Our culture treats with flippancy the marriage bond, just as flippanly as it treats child rearing while parents neglect the important teachings of the Word of God to their children.
As a Christian culture we have minimized the Words of God through the twisting of Scripture when it suits us, even denying principles of God to be able to live as we please.
Is it any wonder that most adult children today lack spiritual maturity and discernment?
The Bible has been treated as "the Good Book", but one that our culture does not read nor does it heed when it is read.
I knew of a Catholic woman who did not allow her children to touch the family Bible, it was an icon to be looked at and dusted but never to be opened or discussed in the home.
Since Catholics were taught, as I was that the Bible was not for the common man to read, only the priest should do that, then when the papacy decided the meaning of the Words in the Bible, those words could be interpreted any way they wanted to and the parishioners would believe whatever the priests told them.
This is why values changed over the years, they were interpreted in terms of what the culture was doing rather than what God meant by them. Sadly many "Christians" in the Protestant church are doing the very same thing in various matters.
Mark 7:13 "13 Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so” in many such matters."
If you are a born again believer it is time to get in a quiet place, reflect on what you were taught by man while reading the Word with prayerful heart to understand God's meaning.
Man has always figured out ways to make the masses happy when determining righteousness and it has lead to apostasy. Those who want truth and only truth are most often mocked and demeaned today, as they walk through life lonely and rejected, they experience even what our Lord and the apostles did 2000 years ago.
Shame on those who proclaim falsehood loudly to "appear" righteous, while demonstrating the exact opposite.
Matthew 15:7-9 "…7 You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8 ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”…
Stop all the hypocrisy, seek the Lord in His Word the Bible, and pray for the understanding.
James 1:4-6 "…4 Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 6 But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.…"
Halleluljah! Christ Guides Me
Amen !! "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."- Jeremiah 29:11 KJV
Man's Tradition or Christ, You Choose
Far too many believers are following men rather than Christ. They are placing their trust in those who have "formal education" instead of seeking Christ Who lives in them.
It is one thing to share truth with one another to be iron sharpening iron, it is quite another to manipulate and intimidate others into obeying man made traditions that God never mandated.
Acts 5:29 " 29 But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men."
It is one thing to share truth with one another to be iron sharpening iron, it is quite another to manipulate and intimidate others into obeying man made traditions that God never mandated.
Acts 5:29 " 29 But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men."
Political Liberals are the Epitome of Narcissism
Narcissists do the very things they accuse others of doing, the others are not but the Narcissists are.
They are liars hell bent on frustrating anyone who will not agree with them.
Hell-bent because it is the devil that motivates them.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
"3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."
They are liars hell bent on frustrating anyone who will not agree with them.
Hell-bent because it is the devil that motivates them.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
"3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."
The One Who Loves
1 John 2:9-11
"9 The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now. 10 The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. 11 But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes."
"9 The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now. 10 The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. 11 But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes."
Who is More Important than Christ?
The more we stand for truth, the less we care about the responses of others to it. Why? Because we are walking so closely with Christ that what He thinks is all that matters to us.
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