Hello folks! Sunday it is and Sunday is almost over.........I have grocery shopped today and I have looked at the flowers of spring, my in-laws came and they hauled off a lot of our junk out of our back yard that we had laying about........lots of metal that I was sick of and threatening to take to the curb.........someone in the family will get a price for it......Paige has been my little shadow all evening long.......she is so affectionate.........John has to work swing tomorrow and he's currently in bed, took him long enough and the other kids are on the video game.......my sister is calling me anti-semitic.........of course........since I dont sing the praises of her religion but indeed find flaws with it.........oh well........such is life.........we love each other anyway and that is what matters........
Wouldn't it be nice if Oprah was right and all roads led to God? Then heaven could be EXACTLY like it is here on earth and we could start history with war, hatred, discontent and all these sins all over again?! NOT! My sis says Moses had all these witnesses to him receiving the Torah? EXCUSE me? I thought they were extremely busy building a golden calf to worship during the time he was receiving the ten commandments! Pooosh..........sha! If she dont care, I dont care........we each have to find our own path and it appears we each have........I choose to remain right where I am thank you.........in the arms of Christ........rather than the judgement of the law.........where EVERYONE is who doesn't accept Christ to begin with........
You might say I'm feeling a little fiesty tonight.........which is a good thing, maybe I'll get some stuff done around the house........who knows? One thing is for sure, if my Father in heaven doesn't know me, He sure has a peculiar way of answering my prayers to show me He does.......so I must be getting SOMETHING right.......I am not anti-semitic........I love people, even people who have given me reason NOT to love them, I love them anyway.........some people think this makes me a chump, I think it makes me a good person.......an acceptable person.......my sister asks me why I dont hate my mother, why I continue with a relationship with her? Because I love her, and she cant understand why I love her because she witnessed what I went through with our mom......it has to do with my relationship with God and the strength He provides and the insight He provides........if He does not hate her and loves her in spite of her faults, then who am I to judge? I have not suffered as Christ did and even in His agony, He asked for forgiveness for those who had mistreated and killed Him.......He saw them as slaves to sin, which is a very harsh master and has taught me to see people in the same light........essentially, to blame people for their sin sometimes would be like blaming the shoe on the monopoly board for landing on boardwalk before you do and buying it up, so to speak........those who are slaves to sin are not free to love, they are not free to see beyond the human realm. To study the law is to study the sin nature and it's consequences.........I have moved far beyond that into learning the law of love and it's consequences. And buddy, THAT is a mouthful! Mankind was created with love and has been redeemed with love and the redemption lies on the table, already bought and paid for whether the people accept the gift or not! Yes, it is a matter of faith, but it is also a matter of many fulfilled prophecies in the old testiment and folks can nit pick what they wish and ignore the rest all they want too..........the facts will reveal themselves someday when the time is right......in the meantime.........I do have peace........peace that passes all understanding.......
Today, I suppose, was palm Sunday.........Hosanna! Blessed be the rock of our salvation! Come and magnify the Lord, for He is worthy to be praised!
Once there were people lined up on either side of the road as a lamb entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey.........and they waved palm branches in His honor, which was something they only did when a famous leader or conquerer was coming and it was a sign of victory.......and the branches caused a breeze and made the sound of the wind and they were all calling "Hosanna!" And the leaders of the temple totally FREAKED out! They did not want the roman soldiers to see this display and they did not want to be thought guilty of dissent from rome.......they did not like it that Jesus knew more about the Torah and frustrated them in the temple than they did and they did not appreciate the notion that one could have salvation simply by believing in Him rather than catering to the needs of the Rabbi's and the temple, change, never comes easy to people........especially to the people who benefit the least from change. My sister says God remains the same.........I say God is perfectly capable of doing as He so desires as HE IS GOD.........
Numbers 16:30 And Moses said: "By this you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will. If these men die naturally like all men, or if they are visited by the common fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me. But if the Lord creates a new thing, and the earth opens it's mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit, then you will understand that these men have rejected the Lord"
So you see, these men did not believe the law because it was a new thing.....therefore if God does not change, and the law has not existed until the time of Moses, then it, too, was a new thing.........HELLO!
Isaiah 43:18-19 Do not consider the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I WILL do a NEW thing, now it shall spring forth, SHALL YOU KNOW IT? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Did that passage just suggest that God is CAPABLE of doing a NEW thing? Surely not!
Jeremiah 31:31-34 "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a NEW covenant with the house of Isreal and with the house of Judah-not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write in on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord', for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more."
Ezekiel 36:26-27 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put MY spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgements and do them.
Let me pause here and point out that my sister has said that they dont believe Christ could be God in the flesh because God is too big to inhabit the flesh......and yet in this passage God shows that it is His very intention to DO just that with a portion of His spirit. God is amazing enough to have made the smallest unit of matter, the atom work in the same exact way as the largest thing known to man, the solar system. I choose NOT to argue with such a God........Sis, if you are reading this, you can listen to the teachings of men who profit greatly from your dedication, or you can listen to the Word of God......I would not believe as I do if it were not so tried and true in my own life........God has shown His love for me continually and He also showed His love for you.......you have asked that when I debate you to do it out of the old testiment. Well, I think the Word has spoken here whether you choose to read this and listen or not........undoubtedly you are not and will not read it because satan has a stronghold and does not want to release it for you are leading a whole family in the direction he would have you to go..........I hope and pray that God prevails in this case as He does in any case He takes personally........I know that was a very strong statement I just made and I'm sorry but it is the way I feel........and I believe it to be the truth. And no I'm not saying following the law is satanic........but denying the Christ is.
