I am the crazy fringe that believes exercise is one of those "pragmatism" beliefs of the end times. Because it can take weight off then it must be good, but in fact, I believe it is one of the end times deceptions.
I am losing weight right now, very slowly, but without exercise, merely by my diet. Some of the medical community is now saying that we get enough exercise simply from going about our daily lives. It is enough to walk to the mail box and back, or mowing the law or other activities that expend much less energy.
Call me crazy but I have believed for a long time that our over emphasis on exercise is actually shortening lives, God says it is "of little value", and I believe that means "not very much at all." AND, I am convinced in many cases it is actually harming the body. So I am seen as a nut cake, just like scientists were when they proclaimed that the world was actually round. LOL
1 Timothy 4:8 "for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come."
I am also convinced that all this paranoia about food, is over blown. Of course there are some concerns, but I think it is far less important than many believe. Satan has managed to make people believe they have to be ultra sensitive to their food intake, causing arrogance, deviation from the spiritual things and even a detriment to the body itself.
If the devil can get our mind distracted with things that have little impact on our well being, he will keep our minds focused away from Christ.
Exercises that are a part of normal living, along with eating the four food groups in the proper proportions will be enough to keep our bodies healthy, until God decides to give us a "thorn in the flesh" to redirect our eyes toward Him.
When we are in perfect health with beautiful bodies, we tend to develop pride, while making ourselves godlike. Taking care of the temple of the Holy Spirit is good, but worshiping the temple is sinful.
2 Corinthians 12:7-
7 Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!
8 Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me.
9 And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
10 Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong."
God did not say anywhere in the Word that we should work real hard to make our bodies beautiful. He did say that we should pay nearly all our attention on the inner man, that we might grow in holiness. The inner man is developed by knowing and obeying the principles of God.
Ephesians 3:16 "that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,"
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
All We Need Is Christ
Some evangelical churches don't talk like this but act as if the one who doesn't have a seminary degree can't know the bible enough to teach it, as though the Holy Spirit only goes to seminary. Many Bible school grads really do look down on those who did not attend a formal seminary.
God was talking to every believer when He said this;
John 16:13 ""But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come."
God was talking to every believer when He said this;
John 16:13 ""But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come."
Emotions Can Be Enjoyed But Not Always Trusted
Emotions can be enjoyed but not always trusted!
Emotions are a response to stinuli, they have little value. We have them but we sure can't depend on them for accuracy, they are of the flesh.
I don't say they are bad, it's wonderful to feel when the feelings match truth. However we cannot depend on them to decide important matters, we must use our minds for those things.
Emotions are a response to stinuli, they have little value. We have them but we sure can't depend on them for accuracy, they are of the flesh.
I don't say they are bad, it's wonderful to feel when the feelings match truth. However we cannot depend on them to decide important matters, we must use our minds for those things.
Obedience or Just Words?
Those Christians who don't believe that we are in the end times full of debauchery and rebellion, may not be seeing the signs because they are focused continually on their personal pleasure.
When I write a post speaking against divorce and remarriage because half of the couples in the United States are indulging in it in spite of the fact that it is condemned by God and people come to fight, we have a clue as to the rebellion in the hearts of people.
Believers will fight bitterly, using manipulative name calling to demean those who speak against sin, in a battle to defend that which God calls violence.
Malachi 2:16 "For the LORD, the God of Israel, says that he hates putting away: For one covers violence with his garment, says the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that you deal not treacherously."
Many believers who will not divorce and remarry themselves will defend those who do. They become rabid with hate and anger at the suggestion that divorce and remarriage is a sin against God, coming up with every reason possible to endorse, accept and embrace that which God condemns. They will even defend the remarriages as legitimate marriages when Christ called it adultery.
Luke 16:28 ""Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery." (An ongoing state of adultery as long as the person remains with the second spouse.)
How many of you have lost friends because you stood against an adulterous marriage? How many believers live with the reproach of close family members, even church members who find our allegiance to God's word offensive?
I suggest that in these last days all our stands for righteousness will be met with anger and hate. Those who are sold out to obedience to God's Word, not out of legalism, but out of a deep love for our Savior, will be continually barraged with contempt from those who love their sin while loving their friends and family more than God. They would rather lose the fellowship of God to maintain the praise of men.
John 12:40-43
“He has blinded their eyes and He hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and perceive with their heart, and be converted and I heal them.”
41 These things Isaiah said because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him.
42 Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;
43 for they loved the approval of men rather than the [d]approval of God."
Notice verse 42 "the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;"
Those who know in their heart the evil and violence of divorce and remarriage but say and do nothing are walking as the Pharisees did, fear of man rather than fear of God.
John 5:39-47
39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
40 and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. 41 I do not receive glory from men;
42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.
43 I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
44 How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God? 45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.
46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.
47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
Many people will claim to know and follow the Bible, but at close inspection of their attitudes and lives, we see that their claims are only words, dead words that mean nothing.
Matthew 15:8 "'THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME."
Our life, the way we operate on a daily basis, the things we speak boldly about and obey is the evidence of what and who we are, not words.
Anyone who defends sin is one who lies when he says he believes the Bible. If we believe in the bible as the inspired Word of God and the Holy Spirit as our teacher, then our lives will reflect that in how we respond to correction and each of the situations of life. When we regularly embrace sin by tolerating it in our acquaintances, then we have lied when we say we love God's Word.
2 Timothy 3:16 "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:"
John 14:26 ""But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you."
If we do not hear the Holy Spirit, if He has become silent, it is because we walk in rebellion.
1 Thessalonians 5:19-2
19 Quench (silence) not the Spirit. 20 Despise not prophesyings (expounding on the word, not future telling).
21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."
Ephesians 4:30 "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption."
When someone corrects us with the Word of God, our response will expose a lot about us. When someone is defensive and argumentative, chances are good that we have met with a rebellious heart. It doesn't matter how often they attend church, whether they do good works all day long or the things they say, if they continually rebel against the principles of God, then their words lie and their actions of deed doing are fleshly.
No true believer will fight and argue with us when they are confronted with their sin, they will become ashamed. Those who have sinned and are repentant will go to God in prayer to confess and reconcile, not only with God but with us also.
May many believers take this matter of obedience to God's Word to heart. Realizing that Words have little power but God blesses those who love His Word so much so that they are grieved when they have violated it.
When I write a post speaking against divorce and remarriage because half of the couples in the United States are indulging in it in spite of the fact that it is condemned by God and people come to fight, we have a clue as to the rebellion in the hearts of people.
Believers will fight bitterly, using manipulative name calling to demean those who speak against sin, in a battle to defend that which God calls violence.
Malachi 2:16 "For the LORD, the God of Israel, says that he hates putting away: For one covers violence with his garment, says the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that you deal not treacherously."
Many believers who will not divorce and remarry themselves will defend those who do. They become rabid with hate and anger at the suggestion that divorce and remarriage is a sin against God, coming up with every reason possible to endorse, accept and embrace that which God condemns. They will even defend the remarriages as legitimate marriages when Christ called it adultery.
Luke 16:28 ""Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery." (An ongoing state of adultery as long as the person remains with the second spouse.)
How many of you have lost friends because you stood against an adulterous marriage? How many believers live with the reproach of close family members, even church members who find our allegiance to God's word offensive?
I suggest that in these last days all our stands for righteousness will be met with anger and hate. Those who are sold out to obedience to God's Word, not out of legalism, but out of a deep love for our Savior, will be continually barraged with contempt from those who love their sin while loving their friends and family more than God. They would rather lose the fellowship of God to maintain the praise of men.
John 12:40-43
“He has blinded their eyes and He hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and perceive with their heart, and be converted and I heal them.”
41 These things Isaiah said because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him.
42 Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;
43 for they loved the approval of men rather than the [d]approval of God."
Notice verse 42 "the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;"
Those who know in their heart the evil and violence of divorce and remarriage but say and do nothing are walking as the Pharisees did, fear of man rather than fear of God.
John 5:39-47
39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
40 and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. 41 I do not receive glory from men;
42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.
43 I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
44 How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God? 45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.
46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.
47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
Many people will claim to know and follow the Bible, but at close inspection of their attitudes and lives, we see that their claims are only words, dead words that mean nothing.
Matthew 15:8 "'THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME."
Our life, the way we operate on a daily basis, the things we speak boldly about and obey is the evidence of what and who we are, not words.
Anyone who defends sin is one who lies when he says he believes the Bible. If we believe in the bible as the inspired Word of God and the Holy Spirit as our teacher, then our lives will reflect that in how we respond to correction and each of the situations of life. When we regularly embrace sin by tolerating it in our acquaintances, then we have lied when we say we love God's Word.
2 Timothy 3:16 "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:"
John 14:26 ""But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you."
If we do not hear the Holy Spirit, if He has become silent, it is because we walk in rebellion.
1 Thessalonians 5:19-2
19 Quench (silence) not the Spirit. 20 Despise not prophesyings (expounding on the word, not future telling).
21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."
Ephesians 4:30 "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption."
When someone corrects us with the Word of God, our response will expose a lot about us. When someone is defensive and argumentative, chances are good that we have met with a rebellious heart. It doesn't matter how often they attend church, whether they do good works all day long or the things they say, if they continually rebel against the principles of God, then their words lie and their actions of deed doing are fleshly.
No true believer will fight and argue with us when they are confronted with their sin, they will become ashamed. Those who have sinned and are repentant will go to God in prayer to confess and reconcile, not only with God but with us also.
May many believers take this matter of obedience to God's Word to heart. Realizing that Words have little power but God blesses those who love His Word so much so that they are grieved when they have violated it.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Children Relating to Fairy Tales
This is another reason I don't like the "Easter Bunny" or "Santa Clause" or any other ferry story. It makes Jesus Christ look like all the other fairy tale characters.
When we teach children to enjoy these cartoon characters, so much so that we buy gifts supposedly from them, speak of them with fondness and dress up in costumes, we have made those entities very special. Why would a child think anything different about Christ from the Bible, they will think of Him as just another warm fuzzy cartoon character.
Ask a child sometime, who has been raised on all these fairy stores, if he believes in Jesus Christ, any child raised in church will tell you he does. Then ask that same child if they believe in the Easter Bunny or Santa Clause, he will say he believes in them too.
When we teach children to enjoy these cartoon characters, so much so that we buy gifts supposedly from them, speak of them with fondness and dress up in costumes, we have made those entities very special. Why would a child think anything different about Christ from the Bible, they will think of Him as just another warm fuzzy cartoon character.
Ask a child sometime, who has been raised on all these fairy stores, if he believes in Jesus Christ, any child raised in church will tell you he does. Then ask that same child if they believe in the Easter Bunny or Santa Clause, he will say he believes in them too.
Conviction of the Holy Spirit Makes People Angry
Have you ever posted something generic with no names or details, but had principles of God all the way through it and someone became angry claiming "that you wrote about them." LOL
Interesting that some people see themselves in the Word of God but their names are not mentioned at all. Why do they think it is about them?
Conviction of the Holy Spirit leaps to mind!...
Proverbs 24:24-25
24
He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,”
Peoples will curse him, nations will abhor him;
25
But to those who rebuke the wicked will be delight,
And a good blessing will come upon them.
Interesting that some people see themselves in the Word of God but their names are not mentioned at all. Why do they think it is about them?
Conviction of the Holy Spirit leaps to mind!...
Proverbs 24:24-25
24
He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,”
Peoples will curse him, nations will abhor him;
25
But to those who rebuke the wicked will be delight,
And a good blessing will come upon them.
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