No One Hated Their Own Flesh

No one hated his own flesh according to God.

Ephesians 5:29 "29 Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church."

Psychology says that people who do harm to themselves hate themselves. The reality is that people who do harm to themselves are motivated by anger at God Who created them.

I have good examples of this, the adopted children who were accepted into a family at an older age but did not feel grateful. These people were angry that the adoptive parents were a part of the system that took them away from their natural parents.

Instead of accepting the new parents and desiring to learn good things from them, they fought against every teaching and every good example they saw in a stance of revenge.

Because of this unfounded revenge the older adopted children chose to do things deliberately hurtful to themselves knowing the adoptive parents would be grieved by it.

I have seen adoptive children destroy their own lives in revenge on the adoptive parents. This is what people who seek to harm themselves when they are deeply angry, they want to hear the heart of God Who created them.

Irrational anger based on false thinking never thinks clearly about the truth but rather it devises false reasons to be angry to torment those who helped them.

We saw this when Christ went to the cross. He died to pay the penalty for our sinful nature, even healing people and saving their souls from hell but their response was to murder Him. Christ did only good every moment of His life here on earth and yet the response of most people was to reject Him, mock Him, and even kill Him.

There are many people I have met who are rebellious so much so that when they are given the truth that might help them, they rage and dig in their heels to go the opposite way.

So many people in the churches are choosing to go their own way while claiming they believe in Christ. However, they don't realize that authentic belief is to do what God wants, never to ingore His word or change it to fit our own desires. Just saying something means nothing, "faith and works go together", we cannot claim to have faith in Christ while ignoring or changing His Word.

John 14:15. "This passage means that following Christ's commandments is both a sign and a test of love for him. The "commands" include all of Jesus' words and teachings, which are God the Father's words." Got Questions

John 14:15-16 "15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—…"

Those who rage against the truth while attending church gatherings are not born again, they are pretenders.

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The Heart of Manipulation is Covert Aggression

Believing Words Will Cause Distruction

Even though the proof of God's greatness and His love was all around her, Eve still believed the words of the devil over the proof of God's love.

In these last days people are becoming more and more like this, choosing to believe words without any evidence.

I have seen parents say; "love ya" as a child is rushing out the door to spend time with their wicked friends. Without any challenge or instruction from the parents, the child is left to himself without help or guidance. The child knows this parent doesn't love them even though they say the words, because the parent foolishly cares more about the child liking them than they do about what might happen to them when they choose the wrong friends.

I remember years ago my husband attended a Boy Scout meeting for parents about what was going on in that club. He sat next to a man who was complaining about his son doing things he shouldn't do. My husband finally said to him, "why don't you say no to him?" The response of the father was astounding, he said; "you mean I can do that?" as though he had never heard of that before.

Our entire culture as a whole is frightened to make rules for their children concerned about losing the love of their children. They don't realize that children feel unloved and unprotected when the parent is taking their orders from the children.

Children don't feel loved or protected when there are no rules and sadly they turn into adults who are afraid to instruct or make boundaries for their own children. There is nothing more disgusting than a man who bows to the commands of a child.

Then there is the problem with remarriage in which the step-parent has no say over the children, while the new spouse almost always gets on the side of the child against the step-parent. I can not count the number of times I have heard a father say; "I have no influence with my step-children because they refuse to consider that I am their parent." And, the new spouse does not support the step-father, they fight with him in defense of their child.

The families of America are a train wreck but because they love their sin they refuse to admit how terrible it really is for children and the culture in general. Rather than repent and pray for strength to correct what is wrong they defend their sin and continue down the track to derailment.

Children are bossing their parents in our culture and the parents are alright with it because the parents are lazy. They would rather have a few minutes of peace than battle a rebellious child to make real peace in their homes. So these parents live in continual arguing and disrespect.

Peace is not made by ignoring problems, peace is accomplished by doing what is necessary to bring the family back to compliance with God's Word.

Isaiah 3:4-5 "And I will make mere boys their leaders,

And mischievous children will rule over them,

5 And the people will be oppressed,

Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor;

The youth will assault the elder,

And the contemptible person will assault the one honored.'"

When we see the family dynamics at play in our country we have to realize the country is going to fall because the family is so unstable.

Because the family is unstable so goes every other thing within the culture.

Another aspect of this dying nation is the lack of respect adult children are demonstrating toward their parents. They have no honor and no respect but think they do because they are not physically assaulting them, however they are verbally, emotionally and spiritually assaulting them frequently as they elevate themselves to superior status while thinking they have a good excuse to abuse their parents.

I don't know the author of the following passage but it is applicable to this article.

"In ancient cultures and the Old Testament, dishonoring one's parents was considered a serious offense that could have consequences for the entire family. It was seen as an offense against God, the parents' reputation, and society's culture. In some cases, dishonoring parents could even result in the death penalty.

In the Bible, God repeatedly tells children to honor their parents with obedience and loving hearts. Some ways children dishonor their parents include: Failing to obey them, Cursing them out, Speaking evil of them, and Demeaning or belittling their leadership and decision making."

Children who do not honor their parents or the parents of their spouses will not honor anyone else either, they have a spirit and heart mentality of dishonor about everything and everyone.

Jesus Christ Has Priority Over Everything

We are approaching a time when we will be switching out the leaders of this country and many people are excited about that no matter which side of the aisle they land.

The problem with placing our trust in a man who will get us some things we want is that the more comfortable this nation becomes the less they are going to turn to Christ.

Our nation has proven this time and time again as the people seek their freedom and prosperity they forget God and glory in pride for their achievements. They throw God a bone once in awhile by using His name in a prayer while they are living a prideful self-righteous existence completely dedicated to their own exaltation.

When we are born again we want people to become saved from their sin and hell, to be changed into a new creation by Christ while loving His principles and commands.

There is a more superficial, self-righteous form of Christianity in play now than there are authentic believers who search the Word of God for His heart with the intention of obeying what He says.

My question is this; how can someone say they follow Christ when they ignore more of His Word than they obey? They believe false preachers who lead them into a lulled state of complacency rather than preaching hard things that bring the congregations to tears over their sin.

Matthew 7:21-23 is the mentality now, many people claim to be Christian while never speaking the name of Jesus Christ openly but will readily promote a particular political leader.

Matthew 7:21-23 "21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"

God told us not to place our trust in politics!

Psalm 146:2-4 "…2I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 3 Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save. 4 When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.…"

Perhaps the best thing for this country is to see hardship and pain in order for the people to see their need for Christ.

There is a pseudo-Christianity occurring all over this country espousing "conservative" principles while ignoring Christ except when it is convenient or when they are in trouble.

Psalm 118:9

"It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes."

There have been times when I was tempted to jump on a political bandwagon. Still, God prevented me by showing me all the verbiage we hear is manipulation to deter us from God's Word rather than encourage us to repent from our self-exalted stance in repentance.

Jeremiah 17:5

This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD."

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

"And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one."

When we depend on a government or any government official we are not depending on the Holy Spirit.

Philippians 3:20

"But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,"

My hope is in nothing on this earth, nor is it in any man, it is in Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. No one will take priority over Him.

Defenitions of Envy and Jealousy

Definitions: 

Envy is when we want what someone else has. 

Jealousy is when we don't want someone else to have it.

Be Confident in the Lord Jesus Christ

Envy and Jealousy

Definitions: Envy is when we want what someone else has. and jealousy is when we don't want someone else to have it.