Monday, June 13, 2016
God Took Them Away
God removed them because they weren't teaching anyone anymore. The rebellion is so great in our country that most are no longer convicted by the commandments, which was their original purpose. They were to show us our sinful heart that we would turn to Christ. Instead we posted them like a trophy that has no power while proud of ourselves for having the plaque. We have a form of religion but negate God. Our religion is based on self will, self exaltation and the pursuit of material wealth. Not at all God's standard for the believer.
A Better Economy Won't Save America
We, my husband and I, just finished listening to the latest speech by Trump after the Orlando shootings. It sounds good as far as protecting the country but there were some things that stood out for me particularly.
Trump sounds very good, if he will actually do these things. However one thing that struck me was that his "good ideas" for saving America didn't include repenting from the sins of homosexuality or abortion.
His solution for saving America had more to do with safety from terror and economic stability. If he is elected It may be a very temporary stay of execution from terrorism, but it will not cure the real ills of America, which is rejection of Christ and abounding sin.
When repentance toward God is not a part of the equation, there doesn't seem to be any chance of God relenting in His judgment. When our focus is on freedom, economics and safety, the things the Lord cares the least about, we are still left with all the things God hates, above all, rejection of Him.
Go ahead and vote, but don't expect God to stave off judgment just because the economy gets better or the terrorists are run out of town. We are still left with the same old immorality that mocks God.
Trump sounds very good, if he will actually do these things. However one thing that struck me was that his "good ideas" for saving America didn't include repenting from the sins of homosexuality or abortion.
His solution for saving America had more to do with safety from terror and economic stability. If he is elected It may be a very temporary stay of execution from terrorism, but it will not cure the real ills of America, which is rejection of Christ and abounding sin.
When repentance toward God is not a part of the equation, there doesn't seem to be any chance of God relenting in His judgment. When our focus is on freedom, economics and safety, the things the Lord cares the least about, we are still left with all the things God hates, above all, rejection of Him.
Go ahead and vote, but don't expect God to stave off judgment just because the economy gets better or the terrorists are run out of town. We are still left with the same old immorality that mocks God.
Satan is Working Everywhere
What Satan is doing with nations, he is also doing with relationships in families and communities, that is to focus on the right of ungodly people to do and say what they please while beating up on the righteous for calling them out.
John 8:44 "…43 Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message. 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!…"
Many people will focus on the chaos that is created by calling someone out for their sin, rather than the sin of the perpetrator.
How many times have we heard in the news media, a scathing report against Israel for attacking someone, when the real attacker were those who bombed Israel, while all Israel was doing was defending themselves.
How many times have we spoken truth only to be mocked and demeaned for it, while the evil doer is comforted because they were "attacked", through a challenge for their sinful behavior.
Amos 5:10
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Galatians 4:16 "So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?"
The devil is the father of lies, he will attempt to ruin anyone who speaks truth, often by accusing them of the very thing he is doing and his victims are not.
1 Peter 5:8 "8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9 Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.…"
Do you think we have escaped this in America? Think again, the same mentality that becomes angry at hearing truth in family and community of this country is the same mentality in Islam that stones to death a woman because she was raped.
The mentality that, if we said something that made others angry, we must have provoked them, justifying any contempt for us, is just as alive and well in America as it is in Islamic countries, it merely takes a more subtle and devious form.
It is easy to see and expose the acts of a particular religion burning and beheading people. It is far more insidious in a country where there is an appearance of reasonableness, however covertly executing petty bad tempered attitudes and actions.
"Plausible Deniability" has become the means by which many people operate. They make their covert actions so far under the radar that others do not notice it or others choose to give the perpetrator the benefit of the doubt because they are not sure of what they are seeing.
We all see people, including ourselves, acting badly on a bad hair day. However, when someone makes a practice of using covertly mean tactics regularly under the radar with only those for which they have contempt, but loving up to those they wish to impress, we know we are encountering a deceitful person, one who only loves those who measure up to their god like status.
Godly people act the same with everyone, even those who think a little differently or do not accept all we believe. It is one thing to disagree, it is quite another to mock and demean in ways that others can't see, in an attempt to control the emotions of another person.
Love tells the truth, but love never seeks to crush another person through manipulative intimidation. The love of Christ wants to convince someone, it has no desire to dominate and crush anyone. The purpose of covert meanness is to crush and destroy the spirit of another human being.
Proverbs 18:14
"The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, But as for a broken spirit who can bear it?"
Psalm 34:18 "18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted
and saves the crushed in spirit."
Isaiah 57:15 "15 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up,
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite."
It is pride that motivates an unkind person to covertly demean and mock to control them. These people never think of the heart and spirit of the one they seek to destroy, their only concern is to dominate and harm.
John 16:33 "33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
It is clear that the more depraved the world becomes the more we will experience the tactics of ungodly people. We should not allow it to control us. It is Christ in us that we should seek to control us.
Romans 8:9 "8 Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God. 9 You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet the Spirit gives you life because of righteousness.…"
John 8:44 "…43 Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message. 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!…"
Many people will focus on the chaos that is created by calling someone out for their sin, rather than the sin of the perpetrator.
How many times have we heard in the news media, a scathing report against Israel for attacking someone, when the real attacker were those who bombed Israel, while all Israel was doing was defending themselves.
How many times have we spoken truth only to be mocked and demeaned for it, while the evil doer is comforted because they were "attacked", through a challenge for their sinful behavior.
Amos 5:10
They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Galatians 4:16 "So have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?"
The devil is the father of lies, he will attempt to ruin anyone who speaks truth, often by accusing them of the very thing he is doing and his victims are not.
1 Peter 5:8 "8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9 Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.…"
Do you think we have escaped this in America? Think again, the same mentality that becomes angry at hearing truth in family and community of this country is the same mentality in Islam that stones to death a woman because she was raped.
The mentality that, if we said something that made others angry, we must have provoked them, justifying any contempt for us, is just as alive and well in America as it is in Islamic countries, it merely takes a more subtle and devious form.
It is easy to see and expose the acts of a particular religion burning and beheading people. It is far more insidious in a country where there is an appearance of reasonableness, however covertly executing petty bad tempered attitudes and actions.
"Plausible Deniability" has become the means by which many people operate. They make their covert actions so far under the radar that others do not notice it or others choose to give the perpetrator the benefit of the doubt because they are not sure of what they are seeing.
We all see people, including ourselves, acting badly on a bad hair day. However, when someone makes a practice of using covertly mean tactics regularly under the radar with only those for which they have contempt, but loving up to those they wish to impress, we know we are encountering a deceitful person, one who only loves those who measure up to their god like status.
Godly people act the same with everyone, even those who think a little differently or do not accept all we believe. It is one thing to disagree, it is quite another to mock and demean in ways that others can't see, in an attempt to control the emotions of another person.
Love tells the truth, but love never seeks to crush another person through manipulative intimidation. The love of Christ wants to convince someone, it has no desire to dominate and crush anyone. The purpose of covert meanness is to crush and destroy the spirit of another human being.
Proverbs 18:14
"The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, But as for a broken spirit who can bear it?"
Psalm 34:18 "18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted
and saves the crushed in spirit."
Isaiah 57:15 "15 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up,
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite."
It is pride that motivates an unkind person to covertly demean and mock to control them. These people never think of the heart and spirit of the one they seek to destroy, their only concern is to dominate and harm.
John 16:33 "33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
It is clear that the more depraved the world becomes the more we will experience the tactics of ungodly people. We should not allow it to control us. It is Christ in us that we should seek to control us.
Romans 8:9 "8 Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God. 9 You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet the Spirit gives you life because of righteousness.…"
No One Left To Impress
How to be loved by everyone all the time.
First things to do is never disagree with anyone, smile big smiles while nodding your head up and down a lot when someone speaks. When we do this we are validating everything they say no matter what it is, making them feel wonderful about themselves. The goal of the robot is to continually do everything in accordance with the culture, the family and the community so that many people will adore you.
When anything is said that is against Scripture, never challenge it, never express it in any way while keeping the head moving up and down as the smile is prominently placed on the face in stoic fashion.
If you want to be loved by all people all the time, say nothing, do nothing and be nothings. Be very careful that no one knows how you feel about anything, that way no judgments can be made, no wrong interpretations can occur and no conflict will arise.
When others are picked on by the superior bully, never ever defend the righteous one. In doing so we will receive the wrath of the bully, while losing all their flying monkeys as our friends. (flying monkeys are those who do the bidding of the superior personality without question) Those who have elevated the superior one, to god like status, believing they can do no wrong, the flying monkeys will attack with certainty anyone who does not fawn over the elevated one.
When we live this kind of life, many people will love us, they will express glowing words about us at our funeral, they will seek to be your friend, you are the one whom anyone can go to with a problem.
No solutions will ever be offered because it might make the one who is sharing feel imperfect, they may get hurt feelings and lose their elevated view of us. Solutions are not the goal for many people today, they only muck up the sense of self perfection.
When seeking full approval of others sharing solutions, especially if that solution is not something that will elevate their personal status, only damages the relationship. Solutions are never the goal, the goal is always to make the person with a situation feel special about themselves.
I wonder how many reading this have lived a life of big smiles and nodding heads? Is it possible that we live in a culture that expects this continually?
We are of no use to anyone if our goal and purpose is to make people feel good about themselves. God’s word is full of solutions, the best ones, these are what we should be sharing with our brothers and sisters.
The goal of every believer should be to help with God’s principles and solutions. The only way to do this is to walk with Him, knowing His Word…..knowing His heart.
Of course we cannot always know the perfect solution because we don’t know perfectly of all sides of a problem. We cannot always offer specifics, but we can offer principles from God’s Word, while leaving room for those in distress to seek God for the specifics.
The most frustrating relationship is one based on smiles and nods when there is need for discussion. Discussion brings out solutions. Discussion for the believer must be based on the principles of God as outlined in His Word. Without God’s principles and prayer, understanding God’s way is not possible. Our human mind regularly defers to fleshly answers to problems.
Sadly many people would rather choose to believe there is no problem, to avoid the sense that they must help in some way. When our goal is temporary happiness for ourselves, we will never be helpful to anyone. There are those who are looking for answers that work, they need for us to remind them, we need for them to remind us when we are seeking God’s answers.
The goal of the culture of today has been to make people feel good about themselves, rather than finding meaningful and lasting solutions to the problems of life. All this has produced is a lot of people walking around pretending to be something they are not, happy as little clams feeling special, until one of those Bible thumpers comes along to actually make godly sense of a situation.
So many people keep on keeping on with big smiles and nodding heads while there is a holocaust raging in their souls. They must continually get their “happy” fix that lasts as long as they are pretending, but when reality hits, they hit bottom. Believing the only way to pick themselves back up is to find those superficial head bobbing smile machines who will make them feel better, but only while they are with them, when they go home, their old self emerges, leaving them right back where they were before.
God’s solutions through prayer and Bible reading are those that last. They produce permanent changes in the way we view life. They produce more faith that changes us, we no longer need the plastic smiles and nodding heads, we can tell the truth, find a solution while our joy is full, notice I said “joy” not happiness.
When we find a person who has been in an auto accident, a gaping wound on their arm is showing, do we rush to get them an ice cream cone and put a band aide on it, or do we rush them to the hospital for the uncomfortable fix of stitches and antiseptics?
Our country has been destroyed for lack of instruction and even worse lack of desire for truth. Instruction and correction is rejected by nearly everyone because of the stubbornness of the heart. We are going to be destroyed, going down, I wonder if the smiles and head nodding will cease when there is nothing left to save and no one left to impress? Israel of the past found out what happens when a country gets to where we are right now!
Isaiah 1:2-6 “Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth;
For the LORD speaks,
“Sons I have reared and brought up,
But they have revolted against Me.
3 “An ox knows its owner,
And a donkey its master’s manger,
But Israel does not know,
My people do not understand.”
4 Alas, sinful nation,
People weighed down with iniquity,
Offspring of evildoers,
Sons who act corruptly!
They have abandoned the LORD,
They have despised the Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away [c]from Him.
5 Where will you be stricken again,
As you continue in your rebellion?
The whole head is sick
And the whole heart is faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even to the head
There is nothing sound in it,
Only bruises, welts and raw wounds,
Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil.”
Psalm 147:3 “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”
2 Timothy 3:16-17 “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.”
Psalm 119:105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
Joshua 1:8 “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
Matthew 4:4 “But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Romans 15:4 “For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”
Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”
First things to do is never disagree with anyone, smile big smiles while nodding your head up and down a lot when someone speaks. When we do this we are validating everything they say no matter what it is, making them feel wonderful about themselves. The goal of the robot is to continually do everything in accordance with the culture, the family and the community so that many people will adore you.
When anything is said that is against Scripture, never challenge it, never express it in any way while keeping the head moving up and down as the smile is prominently placed on the face in stoic fashion.
If you want to be loved by all people all the time, say nothing, do nothing and be nothings. Be very careful that no one knows how you feel about anything, that way no judgments can be made, no wrong interpretations can occur and no conflict will arise.
When others are picked on by the superior bully, never ever defend the righteous one. In doing so we will receive the wrath of the bully, while losing all their flying monkeys as our friends. (flying monkeys are those who do the bidding of the superior personality without question) Those who have elevated the superior one, to god like status, believing they can do no wrong, the flying monkeys will attack with certainty anyone who does not fawn over the elevated one.
When we live this kind of life, many people will love us, they will express glowing words about us at our funeral, they will seek to be your friend, you are the one whom anyone can go to with a problem.
No solutions will ever be offered because it might make the one who is sharing feel imperfect, they may get hurt feelings and lose their elevated view of us. Solutions are not the goal for many people today, they only muck up the sense of self perfection.
When seeking full approval of others sharing solutions, especially if that solution is not something that will elevate their personal status, only damages the relationship. Solutions are never the goal, the goal is always to make the person with a situation feel special about themselves.
I wonder how many reading this have lived a life of big smiles and nodding heads? Is it possible that we live in a culture that expects this continually?
We are of no use to anyone if our goal and purpose is to make people feel good about themselves. God’s word is full of solutions, the best ones, these are what we should be sharing with our brothers and sisters.
The goal of every believer should be to help with God’s principles and solutions. The only way to do this is to walk with Him, knowing His Word…..knowing His heart.
Of course we cannot always know the perfect solution because we don’t know perfectly of all sides of a problem. We cannot always offer specifics, but we can offer principles from God’s Word, while leaving room for those in distress to seek God for the specifics.
The most frustrating relationship is one based on smiles and nods when there is need for discussion. Discussion brings out solutions. Discussion for the believer must be based on the principles of God as outlined in His Word. Without God’s principles and prayer, understanding God’s way is not possible. Our human mind regularly defers to fleshly answers to problems.
Sadly many people would rather choose to believe there is no problem, to avoid the sense that they must help in some way. When our goal is temporary happiness for ourselves, we will never be helpful to anyone. There are those who are looking for answers that work, they need for us to remind them, we need for them to remind us when we are seeking God’s answers.
The goal of the culture of today has been to make people feel good about themselves, rather than finding meaningful and lasting solutions to the problems of life. All this has produced is a lot of people walking around pretending to be something they are not, happy as little clams feeling special, until one of those Bible thumpers comes along to actually make godly sense of a situation.
So many people keep on keeping on with big smiles and nodding heads while there is a holocaust raging in their souls. They must continually get their “happy” fix that lasts as long as they are pretending, but when reality hits, they hit bottom. Believing the only way to pick themselves back up is to find those superficial head bobbing smile machines who will make them feel better, but only while they are with them, when they go home, their old self emerges, leaving them right back where they were before.
God’s solutions through prayer and Bible reading are those that last. They produce permanent changes in the way we view life. They produce more faith that changes us, we no longer need the plastic smiles and nodding heads, we can tell the truth, find a solution while our joy is full, notice I said “joy” not happiness.
When we find a person who has been in an auto accident, a gaping wound on their arm is showing, do we rush to get them an ice cream cone and put a band aide on it, or do we rush them to the hospital for the uncomfortable fix of stitches and antiseptics?
Our country has been destroyed for lack of instruction and even worse lack of desire for truth. Instruction and correction is rejected by nearly everyone because of the stubbornness of the heart. We are going to be destroyed, going down, I wonder if the smiles and head nodding will cease when there is nothing left to save and no one left to impress? Israel of the past found out what happens when a country gets to where we are right now!
Isaiah 1:2-6 “Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth;
For the LORD speaks,
“Sons I have reared and brought up,
But they have revolted against Me.
3 “An ox knows its owner,
And a donkey its master’s manger,
But Israel does not know,
My people do not understand.”
4 Alas, sinful nation,
People weighed down with iniquity,
Offspring of evildoers,
Sons who act corruptly!
They have abandoned the LORD,
They have despised the Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away [c]from Him.
5 Where will you be stricken again,
As you continue in your rebellion?
The whole head is sick
And the whole heart is faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even to the head
There is nothing sound in it,
Only bruises, welts and raw wounds,
Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil.”
Psalm 147:3 “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”
2 Timothy 3:16-17 “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.”
Psalm 119:105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
Joshua 1:8 “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
Matthew 4:4 “But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Romans 15:4 “For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”
Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”
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