GOD WITH Us, The LIVING TRUTH.
A FAITHFUL FRIEND We Have In YOU. JESUS is what we call YOU, manger born but on a tree YOU died to SAVE humanity-Isaiah 59:02, John 3:16 and Romans 10:09.
GOD'S COMPLEXITY(Groups of Related elements) IS AS VAST as many oceans, yet equally as NEAR as the Heart of One Who Believes HIS STORY(THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST)-Matthew 3:01-03.
In those days John the Baptist came Preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, "Repent(change attitudes), for THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND!" For this is He Who was Spoken of by The Prophet Isaiah, saying: "The Voice of one Crying in the wilderness. Prepare The Way of THE LORD, Make HIS PATHS STRAIGHT."
But when He(John) saw many of the Pharisees(religious extremists that Acknowledge both the Written and the Spoken WORD OF THE LORD) and Sadducees(only Accepting the Written, rejecting the Oral) coming to His Baptism, He said to them,
"Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee From THE WRATH To Come?
Therefore Bear Fruits Worthy of Repentance, and Do Not think to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.'
For I(John the Baptist) say to you That GOD IS ABLE TO RAISE UP Children To Abraham From these stones.
And even now THE AX IS LAID TO THE ROOT of the trees.
Therefore every tree Which DOES NOT BEAR GOOD FRUIT IS CUT DOWN and THROWN INTO THE FIRE.
I indeed Baptist you with water unto Repentance,
BUT HE WHO IS COMING AFTER Me is MIGHTIER THAN I,
WHOSE sandals I Am Not Worthy to carry.
HE WILL BAPTIZE You WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE.
HIS WINNOWING(Eliminate the bad) FAN IS IN HIS HAND, and HE WILL THOROUGHLY CLEAN OUT HIS THRESHING(beat to Separate Grain From husk) FLOOR, and GATHER HIS WHEAT INTO the BARN; BUT HE WILL BURN UP the chaff(the waste From Threshing, anything worthless) WITH UNquenchable FIRE-Matthew 3:07-12."
There are so many Lessons Revealed Here but The Main Message NOW:
THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS ALREADY COME, and we rejected not just the Order of IT but GOD HIMSELF as a man to experience the battles and warfare of evil and demonic spirits-Matthew 04:01-11. He was tempted, ridiculed and scorned yet,
He Spoke GOD'S WORD as HIS CONFIDENCE and Delivered IT IN Faith.
I just finished watching MSNBC tv's program, "From hell and back" chronicling the life of television personality Carlton Pearson repeat of a 2007 airing.
At this point I'm led to Jesus' Parable about Seeds and how they Harvest:
"Behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside: and the birds came and devoured them.
Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much Earth, and they immediately sprang up because they had no Depth of earth.
But when the Sun was Up they were scorched, and because they had no Root they withered AWAY.
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang Up and choked them.
But Others Fell on Good Ground And Yielded a Crop some a Hundredfold, some Sixty, some Thirty. He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear!"-Matthew 13:03-09
This will not be an assault on the character or belief of this individual but an observation of heresy gone bad and GOD'S WORD to Clarify and Set The Record STRAIGHT.
Jesus didn't preach for hire, or to impress the majority(otherwise he could have been a Pharisee, scribe or Sadducee in the temple courts).
He Lived and Obeyed THE WORD OF GOD without rejecting any part of IT but MAKING KNOWN IT'S SIMPLICITY By Expressing Compassion and Love.
His Advice For Those Seeking to Mirror Him:
"If Anyone Desires to Come After Me(Follow), Let him deny himself(shed the reactions of flesh and Put on the Response of Spirit), and Take Up His cross(Endure life's expectancies) and Follow Me(CHRIST).
For Whosoever Desires To Save his life WILL LOSE IT(can't manipulate GOD), But Whoever loses His Life For MY SAKE WILL FIND IT(Inherit Eternal Life).
For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses His Own Soul? Or what will a man Give in Exchange for His Soul?
For THE SON of Man WILL COME IN THE GLORY OF HIS FATHER WITH HIS ANGELS, and Then
HE WILL REWARD EACH ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS(*Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14)"
Matthew 16:24-27.
He foretells of the intents and doings of professors not Confessors: Matthew 23:01-22
"For they bind heavy burdens, hard to Bear, and lay them on men's shoulders;
but they(pharisees/sadducees) themselves will NOT Move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do to be Seen by Men.
They make their phylacteries(small leather Scripture passages: 1 is worn on the forhead and 1 on the left arm by Orthodox or Conservative Jewish men during morning prayer) broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.
They love the best places at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, 'Rabbi, Rabbi(teacher, teacher).'
But You, Do not be called 'Rabbi'; For One IS Your TEACHER, The CHRIST, and You Are All Brethren. Do not call anyone on earth Your Father; For ONE IS Your FATHER, HE WHO IS IN HEAVEN.
But He who is Greatest among you shall be your Servant. And whoever exalts himself will BE HUMBLED, and he Who Humbles Himself WILL BE EXALTED.
But Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut Up the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN against men; for you Neither Go in yourselves, not do you allow
Those Who Are Entering To Go In.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you WILL RECEIVE GREATER CONDEMNATION.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when He is won; you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves."
Now this is the "church" Jesus is speaking to, not the sinners that Followed Him from city to city as He went about Doing GOD'S WORK(Exhibiting UNconditional LOVE).
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have Neglected the Weightier Matters of The Law: Justice and Mercy and Faith.
These you Ought to Have Done, without leaving the others unDone. Blind guides, who strain Out a gnat and swallow a camel!
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but Inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.
Blind Pharisee, First Cleanse the Inside of the Cup and Dish, That the outside of them May Be Clean Also.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear Beautiful outwardly, But Inside are Full of dead men's bones and all unCleanness.
Even so you Also outwardly appear Righeous to men, But Inside your Are Full of hypocrisy and Lawlessness-Matthew 23:23-28.
Wow, GOD IS DOING SUCH A MAGNIFICANT JOB on HIS OWN,
I'm not going to say anything but oooooh LORD HAVE MERCY and DELIVER, in JESUS NAME!.
"Therefore your are Witnesses against yourselves that you Are sons of those who murdered The Prophets. Fill up then, the measure of your father's guilt(ancestors). Serpents, brood of vipers! How Can you Escape THE CONDEMNATION OF hell?
Therefore I(JESUS) Send you Prophets, Wise Men/Women, and Scribes(history writers):
some of Them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, that on you may come all the Righteous blood shed on earth, From the blood of Righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah,
whom you murdered between the Temple and The Altar(2 Chronicles 24:15-22 and
Acts 7:51-53).
Assuredly, I say to you, all These things WILL COME UPON this generation.
Matthew 23:31-36."
I'm excited sitting Here Listening to JESUS' WORDS Then being Pertinent to right this moment in this generation.
I must complete this with as I began Apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 3:01-09;
"But Know this, that in the Last Days perilous(dangerous) times WILL COME.
For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, unHoly, unLoving, unForgiving, slanderers, without self-Control, brutal, despisers of Good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure Rather than Lovers of GOD,
having a Form of GODLINESS but denying ITS POWER.
And From such people Turn Away! For of this sort Are those who creep into the Households and make captives of the gullible women loaded down with sins,
led Away by various lusts, Always Learning and Never Able to Come to The Knowledge of The Truth."
Must go over to 2 Timothy 04:01-06;
Therefore Before GOD and THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO WILL JUDGE the Living and the deat At HIS APPEARING and HIS KINGDOM:
Preach The Word! Be Ready In Season and out of season.
Convince, Rebuke, Exhort(Advise Strongly), With All Longsuffering and Teaching.
For the time Will come when they will Not Endure Sound Doctrine
(*1 Timothy 01:08-11), but accoring to their own desires, because they Have itching ears(avoiding Truth), they will heap up for themselves tachers;
and they will Turn their ears Away From The TRUTH, and be turned aside to fables.
But You Be Watchful In All things, Endure afflictions, Do The Work of An Evangelist(Spread The Gospel, Tell GOD'S STORY), Fulfill Your Ministry(Your Calling=Whatever Passion GOD PLANTS IN You To Do HIS WILL).
Fight The Good Fight(Honor GOD and deny the flesh's temper tantrums),
Finish The Race(not Given to the swift or the strong for wise or understanding, because time and chance Happen to them all).
For man Does Not know his time. like fish taken in a cruel net, like birds caught in a snare, So the Sons of men are snared in an evil time, When it(time and chance) falls Upon them.-Ecclesiastes 09:11-12
Let Us Hear the CONCLUSION of the Whole Matter: Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
"Fear(Honor, Reverence) GOD and Keep HIS COMMANDMENTS, For This IS Man's All.
For GOD WILL BRING Every Work(performance evaluation during lifetime) Into JUDGMENT, including Every secret thing, Whether Good or evil."
Don't go chasing winds of doctrines and organizations that offer GOD but serve evil.
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