Creature or Creator?

Rom 1:18  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness

The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against- ALL ungodliness.

The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against- ALL unrighteousness (wrongs) of men.

The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against- ALL who hold (keep back) the truth in unrighteousness (wrongly)

Rom 1:19  Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

If we keep back the truth we are shown by God we are accountable for that!  All who are given truth are accountable to the truth.  When we reject truth, when we hide truth we do so in unrighteousness.

Rom 1:20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

We can understand so much of the invisible by the visible. From the very beginning of our world the invisible and visible were revealed. God spoke(invisible) and things existed(visible).  Truly we can comprehend the eternal power of the Godhead- of God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit and we have NO excuse for not comprehending God's existence, none.

Rom 1:21  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Rom 1:22  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Rom 1:23  And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Yet even in this comprehension mankind could CHOOSE not to glorify God, because God did not force the comprehension. Mankind knowing God could choose not to be thankful to God. Mankind could choose to believe in their OWN imaginings rather than God's truth. Mankind could choose to believe they were the wise ones in their beliefs, in their imaginings, only be truly fools. Mankind could choose to believe that our UNCORRUPTIBLE God's glory could be on the same level as CORRUPTIBLE mankind. Mankind could choose to make birds, beasts, and creeping things their god. FOOLS!

Rom 1:24  Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves

God will not FORCE those who choose to be fools who follow their OWN heart lusts, to believe in Him as their God.

God will not FORCE those who choose to dishonor themselves with each other, to believe in Him as their God.

Rom 1:25  Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

God will NOT force love, God will NOT force worship, God will NOT force obedience, God will NOT force belief from all those who CHANGE the truth of God into a LIE- and choose rather to believe themselves more than their blessed forever Creator!

If a person wants to be forced to believe they lose the entire comprehension of believing in faith. It is EASY for mankind to put themselves on the pedestal of creation, believing that they evolved of their own accord into what they are with no outside help. It's easier to simply believe they are the highest and there is NO other over them, than to believe they have a CREATOR.  When mankind chooses to believe there is NO Creator then they are freed from obedience to a Creator and are allowed to do as they please, make up their own rules, their own ways.  When mankind chooses to give up on God, He will LET THEM, and HE will allow them to rule themselves and as a result there is NO limit to what they will do, there are NO boundaries any longer, none whatsoever and therefore they are FREE to call whatever they desire- good, even the worst of all evils should they choose to deem it such. They have NO standards, NO rules, NO boundaries, NO right and NO wrong and this is how they choose to live WITHOUT GOD, they rule themselves and there are consequences to all actions.

Rom 1:26  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Rom 1:27  And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Mankind wishes to believe THEIR desires, THEIR lusts are their rights and just because they have them they are good. Mankind believing in Mankind. Mankind LOVING the CREATURE more than the CREATOR. A choice that is made when self is indulged and it doesn't matter the LUST they are ALL LUSTS, ALL self-serving over God-serving, believing SELF is greater than GOD.  A choice- SELF or GOD, we truly cannot have both!  We can serve self and tell ourselves we can have both, we can make ourselves believe this, God will LET us believe whatever we CHOOSE to believe. 

Rom 1:28  And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Rom 1:29  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Rom 1:30  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Rom 1:31  Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Rom 1:32  Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

SELF-seekers will allow all sorts of sin in their lives. Self-seekers can allow a single sin or a multitude, but as long as they cling to that sin- calling it good and allow themselves to serve self over truth for WHATEVER reason they choose to believe to pacify their choice, they are deserving of eternal death.

God FIRST, not self first.  God first in ALL things!

May we retain God in our KNOWLEDGE by HIS GRACE and MERCY!  May we choose GOD over SELF, no matter the sacrifice we are called to make.  PLEASE, may we CHOOSE GOD!

Please.

In the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, now and forever and ever!

Amen!

Love works no ill towards others

Rom 13:8  Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Rom 13:9  For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Rom 13:10  Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Rom 13:11  And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Rom 13:12  The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Rom 13:13  Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Rom 13:14  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

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If we LOVE one another we do NOT live in sin, but in the law of LOVE!

LOVE-  it's a CHOICE.

LOVE is NOT a feeling, it's an ACTIVE CHOOSING to engage in behavior that YOU want to be GIVEN!

Not a warped desire, not a warped lust, not a self-consuming, self-pleasing, self-obsessed love that so many have claimed is love.

LOVE is meeting the NEEDS of others, the LIFE sustaining needs and the ETERNAL needs of others. 

LOVE isn't giving another person all their selfish desires.

Love works NO ill to others.

And it doesn't matter what that ILL is! Love is choosing NOT to work ill towards anyone for any reason.

We truly need to cast off our works of darkness- all the works not of love!

We truly need the armor of LIGHT.

We need to PUT on the LORD JESUS CHRIST.

We MUST not make PROVISION for our FLESHY LUSTS!

We do that, we make provisions for our lusts, and by the grace of God we have to keep from doing this.

We need to keep from all our SELFISH, SELF-SERVING deeds which are UNLOVING!

LORD, HELP US!

We hate being bound to our flesh, we hate SERVING the flesh!

We desire to serve GOD, through GOD!

PLEASE LORD, help us! HELP ME!

In the name of Jesus Christ, my Savior, now and forever!  Amen.

You are a living sacrifice

A LIVING SACRIFICE!

We aren't to kill an animal in sacrifice, we are to BE a LIVING SACRIFICE.

The offering animal sacrifice was to show that there is a PRICE to be paid for sin, and an INNOCENT animal had to pay that price for a person.  But no more, not since our SAVIOR paid the price for us ALL.

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Rom 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Rom 12:3  For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

BY THE MERCIES OF GOD!

A LIVING SACRIFICE.

Psa_51:17  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

God would have us- as living sacrifices- SACRIFICE SELF and SELFISHNESS and all that turns our minds inward and not outward towards others.  A broken spirit- we are not to be proud of ourselves, though this world the way it is would have us believe we have to be proud of ourselves.  A broken and contrite heart- we are taught NOT to desire broken and contrite hearts- we are told to want to feel good at all costs. We are taught to feel broken is wrong, yet we have to comprehend our worthlessness in righteousness, not worthlessness in God's eyes, how could we be worthless for Him to pay the ultimate price for us?  He LOVES us, but we must comprehend it is HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS not OURS in any way that saves us. Our broken hearts, our contrite hearts comprehend that it is GOD who is our everything, and ONLY GOD.

Mar 12:33  And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

LOVE Him with all the heart.

LOVE Him with all the understanding.

LOVE Him with all the soul.

LOVE Him with all the strength.

LOVE our neighbors as WE would be loved!

LOVE.

Heb 13:16  But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

DO GOOD.

COMMUNICATE.

God would have us be HIS and our lives reflect this in all we do.

1Pe 2:5  Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

1Pe 2:6  Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

1Pe 2:7  Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,

1Pe 2:8  And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

1Pe 2:9  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

1Pe 2:10  Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

1Pe 2:11  Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

1Pe 2:12  Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

ABSTAIN from FLESHLY LUST- which war against the soul.

Any flesh pursuit that would destroy our spirit needs to be abstained from!  We know what these things are, we know! We aren't stupid. We could be blind if we choose blindness and MANY, MANY DO. We can't believe we are beyond choosing blindness. We can't get cocky with our lives! We have to constantly seek truth in God.  We have to examine ourselves…

2Co_13:5  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves…

We can't coast through, never examining ourselves, never presenting ourselves as living sacrifices by the MERCIES of GOD.

Please FATHER, help us to present ourselves as living sacrifices by YOUR MERCY through the SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD! May the HOLY SPIRIT guide ALL WE DO! PLEASE FATHER! PLEASE!

Amen.

Of Flesh, Of Spirit

Gal 4:22  For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

Gal 4:23  But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

The flesh and the spirit.  The flesh and the promise.

The Holy Spirit enabled Sarah and Abraham to conceive Isaac.

Gen 17:15  And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

Gen 17:16  And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.

Gen 17:17  Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

Gen 17:18  And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

Gen 17:19  And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

Gen 18:9  And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

Gen 18:10  And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

Gen 18:11  Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Gen 18:12  Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

Gen 18:13  And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

Gen 18:14  Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

Gen 18:15  Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.

Flesh and Spirit.

We try so hard to do things our way. We believe so much just in our own ideas of how things are supposed to be. We laugh when we hear of the impossible to our minds. We doubt God's true power.

Abraham was given the ability to give children after losing it. Sarah was given the ability to bear the child Abraham was able to give her. God VISITED them, God ENABLED them to do this impossible- by human standards- miracle.  Elisabeth- Mary's cousin was given this same ability to bear a child when she was past the age of bearing. God's hand was at work. Mary, not even knowing a man was given a child by God. 

Flesh and Spirit.

Flesh and Spirit are at war one with the other.  Flesh and Spirit united in Jesus, just as it must unite in us THROUGH Jesus- the only successful Flesh and Spirit being- sinless. 

Flesh and Spirit.

When we QUENCH the Spirit, we are denying ourselves the only way to be One with our Savior- through the Holy Spirit, the same Holy Spirit that gave Him His flesh life.

We NEED the Holy Spirit in us!

Please LORD teach us NOT to quench the Holy Spirit, we NEED the Holy Spirit! We NEED YOU, we NEED the Father God!  We need to be SAVED!

Please.

In the name of our Savior Jesus Christ our LORD now and forever!

Amen.

Let ALL bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and evil speaking be put away from you

Do you grieve God, the Holy Spirit?

Grieve- From G3077; to distress; reflexively or passively to be sad: - cause grief, grieve, be in heaviness, (be) sorrow (-ful), be (make) sorry.

READ ALL of the following! If you want to know HOW you can grieve the Holy Spirit (in part) read and pray for understanding, as I am definitely doing.

Eph 4:1  I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

Eph 4:2  With all LOWLINESS and MEEKNESS, with LONGSUFFERING, FORBEARING ONE ANOTHER IN LOVE

Eph 4:3  Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Eph 4:4  There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

Eph 4:5  One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Eph 4:6  One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Eph 4:7  But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Eph 4:8  Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

Eph 4:9  (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

Eph 4:10  He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)

Eph 4:11  And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

Eph 4:12  For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

Eph 4:13  Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Eph 4:14  That we henceforth BE NO MORE CHILDREN TOSSED TO AND FROM AND CARRIED ABOUT WITH EVERY WIND OF DOCTRINE, BY THE SLEIGHT OF MEN AND CUNNING CRAFTINESS, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

Eph 4:15  But SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

Eph 4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Eph 4:17  This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth WALK NOT AS OTHER GENTILES WALK IN THE VANITY OF THEIR MIND

Eph 4:18  Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Eph 4:19  Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto LASCIVIOUSNESS, to work all UNCLEANNESS WITH GREEDINESS.

Eph 4:20  But ye have not so learned Christ;

Eph 4:21  If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the TRUTH is in Jesus:

Eph 4:22  That ye PUT OFF CONCERNING THE FORMER CONVERSATION THE OLD MAN, WHICH IS CORRUPT ACCORDING TO THE DECEITFULNESS LUSTS

Eph 4:23  And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

Eph 4:24  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Eph 4:25  Wherefore PUTTING AWAY LYING, SPEAK EVERY MAN TRUTH WITH HIS NEIGHBOR: for we are members one of another.

Eph 4:26  Be ye angry, and SIN NOT: LET NOT THE SUN GO DOWN UPON YOUR WRATH:

Eph 4:27  NEITHER GIVE PLACE TO THE DEVIL.

Eph 4:28  Let him that stole STEAL NO MORE: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Eph 4:29  Let NO CORRUPT COMMUNICATION PROCEED OUT OF YOUR MOUTH, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Eph 4:30  And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Eph 4:31  Let ALL BITTERNESS, AND WRATH AND ANGER AND CLAMOUR AND EVIL SPEAKING BE PUT AWAY FROM YOU WITH ALL MALICE:

Eph 4:32  And BE YE KIND ONE TO ANOTHER, TENDERHEARTED, FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Do you, do WE understand?! Do we want to understand! Are we being enlightened with TRUTH? Do we want the truth? Truth meaning realizing just how far we are from being able to say we DO NOT grieve the Holy Spirit.

ALL evil in all its many forms from the greatest evil to the least- grieves the Holy Spirit.

Some want to believe that they can do anything -all the evil they desire without consequence- this isn't true.  Every minute of every day we need to be consecrated to God. We need to comprehend our Savior as a reality. We need to look at the word of truth to comprehend reality. If we look just to ourselves there is little truth. We need to trust that everything we are going through in our life, all the tests we face, all the evil temptations we are exposed to all of these will somehow work towards our GOOD because we LOVE GOD and truth in HIM.

We cannot embrace ANY evil we find in ourselves, not a single bit. To embrace the evil we are prone to and strive towards accepting the evil puts us on a slippery slope towards calling that evil good.  Please LORD help us to forever see how we grieve the Holy Spirit so we may SEEK forgiveness from YOU and strive not to keep grieving the Holy Spirit, we would NOT grieve you God-the Holy Spirit who is our comforter, our sealer, our teacher, our all in all in our Savior Jesus Christ our LORD.

Please!

All in YOU! Now and forever! 

Quench NOT the Holy Spirit

Quench not the Spirit.

1Th 5:19  Quench not the Spirit.

Eph 4:30  And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Psa 51:11  Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Isa 63:10  But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

Act 7:51  Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

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The Holy Spirit is NOT forced upon us.

We are sealed by the Holy Spirit.

We can get rid of the Holy Spirit, we can grieve the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit can be taken from us. These are FACTS, these are TRUTHS.

We NEED the Holy Spirit! And we need to keep the Holy Spirit!

We need to comprehend HOW we can quench the Spirit and seek NOT to do so.  We have to learn how to NOT resist the Holy Spirit. We need to understand how we can stay in God's presence.  By the grace of God we need this!

The Holy Spirit is a GOD. 

Just as the FATHER is a GOD, the HOLY SPIRIT is a GOD, as JESUS CHRIST is a GOD. They all AGREE as one. Their purpose is the SAME. They are all LOVE.

The Holy Spirit is LOVE.

Some believe the Holy Spirit is a LESSER GOD, but this isn't true at all.

God, the Holy Spirit will seal us, will comfort us, will teach us, will help us, will bring all things to our remembrance, gift us with His gifts, and the Holy Spirit will leave us if we do NOT seek Him, if we do not truly want Him, if we resist Him, if we QUENCH Him.

Please God, help us learn MORE of the HOLY SPIRIT, please God the Spirit teach us!

All through the grace and mercy of YOUR Son, Jesus Christ, our LORD, our SAVIOR.

Amen.

The LORD will direct our patient waiting for Christ!

2Th 3:3  But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

2Th 3:4  And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

2Th 3:5  And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

The LORD IS FAITHFUL.

The LORD will KEEP us from EVIL.

The LORD will DIRECT our hearts INTO the LOVE of GOD.

The LORD will direct our PATIENT waiting for Christ.

The LORD is faithful! It is the LORD'S faithfulness that matters, believing in the LORD'S faithfulness towards us. We need to believe.

Mar 9:23  Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

Mar 9:24  And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

If we can believe, if we can have faith in the faithfulness of our Lord, trust in HIM- it's not about TRUSTING and having FAITH in ourselves!  Satan wants us to believe we have to do this, that it is our FAITH that saves us but in truth it is CHRIST'S FAITH. It can't be ours because then we would be saving ourselves.

Christ will SAVE us from ourselves!

Christ will HELP our unbelief with HIS belief, His power, His truth!

Christ has the faith to save me, I have nothing that will save me.  I believe I cannot save myself and am in need of being saved.

This is truth, this is FACT, this is undisputable.

When we deny truth and would rather believe a lie, we deny our Savior and cannot be saved.

The LORD is FAITHFUL!

The LORD will DIRECT US, OUR HEARTS into the LOVE OF GOD.

The LORD will direct our PATIENT WAITING for CHRIST.

We must have patience- knowing we have to wait for CHRIST, wait for ETERNAL LIFE in CHRIST. 

We live in a world filled with opposition - blatant, hidden, opposition that will fight against the truth so much so that this will happen--

Mat 24:22  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

If the days of mankind's existence upon this earth in the sinful state it is in, is not cut short NO ONE WOULD BE SAVED! 

So while some strive for world peace, the truth is told to us, any worldwide peace that should appear would only be made on lies. This isn't to say we are to oppose peace, it's to comprehend that without Christ, without sin being wiped out by our Savior there can be NO TRUE peace. Mankind cannot manufacture peace, true peace that is found only IN CHRIST. 

May we be found in TRUTH, may the LORD direct us in all our ways towards HIM and HIS LOVE always!

Amen!

Soldiers

Conscious choice daily from the heart- choosing to BELIEVE.  Choosing to believe in a living GOD, to believe in a SAVIOR-Jesus Christ, to believe in the HOLY SPIRIT, to believe that we belong to all three of them.  Choosing to believe the Holy Spirit will live in us opening our hearts and understanding to the love of our Savior Jesus Christ.  The SPIRIT with our spirit.  With our minds - our spirit

Rom_7:23  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Law of flesh- the carnal nature.  Law of our minds- the conscious choice, the believe, the hope, the faith needed.

The law of the flesh will WAR against the law of our minds.

The law of the flesh will try desperately to bring our MINDS captive to our sins, so we have NO hope, NO faith, NO belief.  We talked about MORTIFYING the deeds of our flesh, doing ALL within our limited ability to rid ourselves of sin, and allowing our minds to comprehend that Christ alone can fully and wholly rid of us sin. Christ alone is righteousness, and He will clothe us with HIS righteousness, not with righteousness of our own.  We must desire to serve the LORD with all we are, thanking GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST that He will do all we cannot do.

Rom_7:25  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Rom_8:5  For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

CHOOSING the SPIRIT.

Rom_8:7  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

If we choose to live embracing our carnal natures, nurturing our carnal minds we are choosing to forsake God. If we tell ourselves that we are weak and will always be weak, that we sin and will always sin, that we are LOST to our flesh nature, our carnal nature then we are choosing to serve self over God. YES, we are WEAK- our strength is CHRIST. YES, we are sinners- our SINLESS SAVIOR saves us from sin! YES, we have a flesh nature that will WAR with our spirit, and we must choose the spirit over flesh!

1Pe_1:13  Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ

We MUST GIRD UP our minds!

We MUST HOPE to the end!

We MUST HOPE for GRACE, the GRACE of our SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!

WAR!

FIGHT!

Don't give in to sin, ANY SIN!  Don't ACCEPT any sin you are prone to as being okay! Do NOT call sin, good! Do NOT excuse away any sin, not a single one!  If you are being pricked in your conscience that something you are doing, thinking, is sin then seek forgiveness! Go to WAR against the sin that so easily besets you! We ALL have to do this, there isn't a single human being who doesn't have to WAR if they would be Jesus Christ's!

To be Christ's means you have become a SOLDIER in the battle between good and evil! What kind of soldier you'll be is truly up to you and the choices you make- choosing to BELIEVE in the GIFT of SALVATION, choosing to BELIEVE in our HOPE JESUS CHRIST always! Choosing to WAR against the carnal nature, against sin in ourselves! Choosing to REVEAL CHRIST to all you are called to reveal Him to.

Soldiers of Faith in Jesus Christ!

All by HIS GRACE and MERCY forever and ever!

AMEN!

Are we ashamed of anything, any longer?

Rom 8:13  For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

What deeds of our body are we to mortify?

Rom 6:21  What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

In this day and age we've become immune to feeling shame.  We've called so much evil - good, that to find shame in that evil seems almost impossible any longer.

Gal 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Gal 5:20  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Gal 5:21  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

What shame is there any longer in those who are adulterers, fornicators?  We glorify both of these. Uncleanness, lasciviousness, again, we glorify these works of the flesh. Idolatry, witchcraft do we even believe in these things any longer, does anyone? We should. Hatred- we pick CAUSES so we can utilize our hate. Emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings-   maybe, just maybe we still turn our nose up at murder, but not always.  We don't believe in our flesh being in need of mortifying do we?

Through the Spirit we MUST mortify the DEEDS of the body.

Through the Spirit.

Please Holy Spirit, please teach us, help us to mortify the deeds of our body- we want to live for our Savior, we do NOT want to die eternally having lived to our flesh.  Our flesh will destroy us, please be greater in us than the evil that would destroy us, greater than our overwhelming flesh nature that we would allow to destroy ourselves. Please save us from ourselves! Please, we are HELPLESS without You, completely helpless.

Please.

In the name of Jesus Christ our Savior, save us from ourselves!

All in YOUR love, help us to mortify the deeds that would separate us from You. Help us to feel ashamed of anything that would keep us from You and in that shame help us mortify those deeds THROUGH the Holy Spirit and only through the Holy Spirit!

All in YOU, all by YOU now and forever, AMEN!

Please...

A spirit of bondage- brings fear.

A Spirit of adoption- brings love.

Rom 8:15  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Rom 8:16  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God

The Spirit bears witness with our Spirit.

1Co 12:13  For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

One Spirit.

Eph 1:13  In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

Eph 1:14  Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Sealed with that HOLY SPIRIT of PROMISE.

Joh 3:5  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Joh 3:6  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Joh 3:7  Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

Joh 3:8  The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Joh 3:18  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Joh 3:19  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Joh 3:20  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Joh 3:21  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Eze 36:25  Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

Eze 36:26  A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Eze 36:27  And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

Act 2:38  Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

1Pe 3:21  The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ

                                    

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He never complained as He was led to be slaughtered

Luk_24:27  And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

Luk_24:32  And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

Luk_24:45  Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures

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Gen 3:15  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

In the beginning there was the PROMISE of salvation!

There would be salvation from satan's rule.

Gen 49:10  The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

TRUTH.

Isa 9:6  For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Isa 9:7  Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

TRUTH.

Isa 53:1  Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

Isa 53:2  For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Isa 53:3  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Isa 53:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isa 53:7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

Isa 53:8  He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Isa 53:9  And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Isa 53:10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

Isa 53:11  He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Isa 53:12  Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors

Our Savior opened the eyes of those who sought truth. Our Savior opened their understanding so they would see the truth in His life, death, and resurrection.

We need OUR understanding opened.

Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isa 53:7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

OUR transgressions!

HIS stripes!

WE'VE gone astray!

OUR iniquity was laid upon HIM.

He never complained as He was led to be slaughtered.

This is what He told those who listened after His resurrection- He wanted them to KNOW His life was predicted! He wanted them to know that He was the Messiah, THEIR SAVIOR. He WAS and IS TRUTH!

Truth from old prophecies written LONG before He was born, LONG before He took on flesh.  Our Savior did NOT do away with the Old Testament, He REVEALED the truth within!  We cannot trash the Old Testament believing all we need is the New.  We have to comprehend the truth from the very BEGINNING to the very END.

All by the grace and mercy, the LOVE of our SAVIOR, Jesus Christ! Now and forever, amen!

Did they know the prophecy?

Mat 26:54  But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

Mat 26:55  In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.

Mat 26:56  But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled

Psa 22:1  To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

Psa 22:2  O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

Psa 22:3  But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

Psa 22:4  Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

Psa 22:5  They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

Psa 22:6  But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

Psa 22:7  All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

Psa 22:8  He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

Psa 22:9  But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

Psa 22:10  I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

Psa 22:11  Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

Psa 22:12  Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

Psa 22:13  They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

Psa 22:14  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

Psa 22:15  My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Psa 22:16  For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Psa 22:17  I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

Psa 22:18  They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

Psa 22:19  But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

Psa 22:20  Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

Psa 22:21  Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

Psa 22:22  I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

Psa 22:23  Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

Psa 22:24  For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

Psa 22:25  My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

Psa 22:26  The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

Psa 22:27  All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

Psa 22:28  For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations.

Psa 22:29  All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

Psa 22:30  A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

Psa 22:31  They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

Ask yourself this question- When the Roman soldiers parted Jesus' garment and cast lots upon them- did they KNOW the prophecy? 

No.

They were ROMANS, not JEWS. They were soldiers following orders to crucify a man who fancied himself to be the king of the Jews. They had no clue they were fulfilling a prophecy. Their actions were being recorded. Those that witnessed the crucifixion recorded what transpired.

Joh 19:23  Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

Joh 19:24  They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.

There is NO way the Roman soldiers would have fulfilled the prophecy knowingly. The Romans wanted this whole Jesus debacle done and over with and they thought killing Him would do the trick. They did NOT want to deepen the proof of His Lordship, of His Holiness. 

Prophecy.   Future history predicted long before it takes place. 

The Bible is FILLED with prophecy.  PROOF beyond doubt of a loving God who would not have us ignorant of His designs.  We are alone to blame if we do NOT know HIM and He know us! He's given us His truth, His Way… Life now and everlasting.

All by the grace of our Savior may we KNOW truth! May we comprehend the LIGHT given to us!

Please, Father!

In the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen!