Can you Imagine?

Can you imagine being convinced to be a slave to your inner child,  if that's not destructive enough some have made it there religious service. Generationaly ingrained servitude to this depraved character creates a hopeless black view of the future that lacks the energy and courage to pursue life.  Christ died to set you free having life abundantly.

Thoughts on Religion

God offers us peace joy and love

and we turn it down for

arrogance pride and lust

God treasures maturity righteousness and mercy

We trade that for pretense, self righteousness and bitterness

God offers us forgiveness

and we want self justification with a religious veneer

The best things our culture knows about love is the twisted ramblings of madmen and the dogmatic rants of idiots.

We are called to be salt, light, a living sacrifice. Our weapons are mighty and we want our comfortable tradition, peaceful posturing and laudable legitimacy.

We have become

We have become a Nation whom does not prefer the flavor of Truth. While we clamor for self-justification and our own sense of satisfaction we are strangers to that delicious morsel that would separate us from darkness. You may say no it’s not so while hemming yourself in with tradition or being enchanted by that serpent pride, you spitefully decry your own goodness. Polls and statistics being mechanisms of control will not help you. Entrenched masses cannot protect you. Our legitimate standard-bearers have only fanned the flames of ignorance. A tidal wave of information has drowned us and secured our demise. Our convictions are sure but they are lies.  If the heart of your existence is pleasing self, you are a slave to everything.

 Judges 21:25

The Tongue

Sometimes I’m silly and full of madness

sometimes of sickness deceit and sadness

 I facilitate fellowship and chatter of all kinds.

 I protect you from evil and tell what is fine.

 I build up and strengthen many a names,

but I can destroy if I am not tame.

When I am young I’m entertainingly garbled

when old dry and slow, making hard to swallow.

Sometimes I am rude and very offending

Others I’m sweet and my knee bending.

I’m in the presence of danger at every turn

but my work is productive and easy to learn.

The power I wield I cannot measure

When used uprightly I am a treasure.

I can be the traitor among you, within your midst

But I am present at every kiss.

Who am I?

Emote This!

     The measurement of Christianity for most is love; God is love so that is the standard. The reality however is the Gospel is the true standard. It is the measurement of love which shows that love serves is not self-serving and in fact sacrificed self for others. That's a far cry from the emotional guilt manipulation foisted by the immature who are themselves emotional slaves. The correct motivation for decisions and life is truth, Christ is the truth! God calls us to reason together. Use your mind and consider the Gospel implications, Christ wears a crown. To deny that is to deny Him and His sacrifices. Would you look into the eyes of this king saying I'm not moved or motivated by you? This is why he will return with a sword and he will not ask how you feel.

Have you ever been accused of being insensitive? That’s not loving, that’s not Christian. You may hurt someone’s feelings.

            Will the wages of sin hurt their feelings?   How about hell?  àLook at Ezekiel 9

If we shudder and are confused by this it is because our hearts do not perceive Gods passion for Justice

Our culture is drunk on emotional worship, it’s what we eat and breathe. –That is Idolatry.

            Exodus 20:3 “you shall have no other gods before me”

Our God is Love; 1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

            Micah 7:18 Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.

Whoever is without sin can throw the first stone-John 8:7

 Go and sin no more John 8:11

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.   Psalm 51:17

Your self-righteousness is great rebellion --Our brokenness is loving God and submitting to His Mercy

Psalm 51 – Create in me a clean heart – That is our heart before this great king. Our brokenness for sin is Love for God

Secular

Secular humanism--That invisible enemy of reality Lurking about the corridors of our lives screaming down all opposition while blurring the distinctions of right wrong good and bad. It is the enemy of objective truth real science accurate history and the absolute necessity of self control accountability and responsibility. It's claws sink deep into its slavish servants so as to require unending servitude. Struggling against its grasp seems to be the pursuit of oblivion yet it's that road that Leeds to true freedom that is Liberty found in the creator we call God. Secular humanism--The religion of half truths and fat lies. It's content with apathy and ignorance so long as you reject the sovereign crown rights of Jesus Christ. That's who the bible says he is. You must also tear up our founding documents as they are resting on the foundation of that great book. All men are created with certain unalienable rights that come from their God described in that bible where we find the laws of nature's God. In the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 2017! Amen.

Prayer

You are guaranteed failure in some areas of life without prayer and fasting because what is bound on earth is bound in heaven. There is a real connectedness between the two. So when Paul says our weapons are not carnal it is great assurance that not only are we not alone in the fight but we also play an important role. One day we will judge angels.