Edification of the saints(a.k.a.you and me)
It is of such importance that we understand this vital essential truth, thus enabling each other more so for the ministry which is our calling.
Speaking from: Ephesians, chapter 4:1-4, 7, 29-32
[1]: I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
[2]: with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another in love,
[3]: eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
[4]: There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call,
[7]: But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
This part is very important.
[29]: Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear.
[31]: Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, with all malice,
[32]: and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Once again "the calling" is talked about, that purpose of us that we are made and is our reasonable service which at the same time fulfills us. I wrote of this before, that "calling" is loving thy neighbor which is made manifest through showing Christ to that person, testifying of Christ to them by word of mouth and deed which girds up each believer and sets captives free.
What really is quite frequent throughout scripture is this truth and commandment; loving thy neighbor a.k.a. Being selfless, longing just as the apostles did for our salvation and growth in the Truth. Really if you think about it the greatest two commandments are "love the Lord thy God with your entirety", and "love thy neighbor as thy self." All the other commandments are really made to make it easier how to understand and do the first commandment and that is loving God with your entirety. And when you love God you love what He loves and hate what He hates. He hates sin, thus you find yourself not desiring sin, not desiring this world, and God loves everyone, thus you find yourself loving people, desiring that they have what has been given to you, not through shedding tears, not through the flesh but the Spirit. I wish that churches would preach this.
Now back to the text and thus my point: Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear.
People when reading this always miss its second meaning. Its first meaning is clearly addressing not saying cruel things towards one another out of spite or anger. Now the second meaning is talking about when you listen to the enemies lies that he sings over you. Such as dwelling in defeat instead of victory, frolicking in human frailty instead frolicing in the field of victory of Christ who lives in you. That is what the scripture is talking about when it says," -Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear.
What this scripture basically is saying is "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything." Basically say what God says about yourself and others, that's what having faith means, that is what God does. He speaks and brings out of nothingness something. We are to do the same. Speak to the mountain in your life and it will move. The church of God is not a defeated, stupid, helpless wretch, it is a powerful, intelligent, victorious church.
There are so many people who pray out of human frailty, carnality, and defeat. For example: "Oh God without You we're such sinful wretches, just help us to get through this week and take away all the distractions." God is not a manipulator, He moves when we move, He doesn't steal control of our lives and situations without our consent. Only someone who doesn't love us would do that. I really love what Andrew Wommack referenced in the Scriptures, about the authority that Christ enabled and gave to us: Speak to the mountain and it will be removed. Now that mountain could be anything. In Christ all things are possible. We have been seated with Christ in Heavenly places. Christ in us, the hope of glory.
Back to the main point and what the scripture is saying to us. "Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear." Notice how it never says to say anything negative, but whatever may impart GRACE to those who hear. We could even take it to say that when talking with someone about Christ tell them how Christ can set them free from their prison. Extend that gift of God that was given for you, that grace, that imparts GRACE to those who hear.
What it all really comes down to is taking up the "call" of loving thy neighbor which can only come from being made worthy of the call which comes from loving God in the first place which causes you to love people, thus that's what the Christian walk is about. Anything else is false love, religion. I'll never forget the song: "Any other love is misplaced identity." Anyways I am just always brought back to this truth because almost everything centers around this.
Ephesians, chapter 4:25
Therefore, putting away falsehood, let every one speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
The truth is what God says about us, not what we think or feel, or the enemy says over us. There are so many passages that say a better word about us. No longer is the blood of Able over us, which cries out for judgement. The blood of Christ, that blood flowing with grace and truth speaks and pleads mercy and forgiveness over us, AND forever washes our sin and sins away. It does cover them but erases them. Therefore when in the assembly, do not testify of weakness, judgement, neither frailty. God does not say that about us and God is not a liar. Therefore always bring a word of encouragement, testify to the victory of Jesus who has taken up residence in each and every one of us. Always speak of the blood of Christ and what the cross of Christ redeemed us from and what that work of salvation has created in us. It is always that we are to speak of the new creature that we are as a result of salvation. You can't put new wine into old wineskins.
Ephesians, chapter 5:4
Let there be no filthiness, nor silly talk, nor levity, which are not fitting; but instead let there be thanksgiving.
This is another aspect and part of "being made worthy of His call." God's call to every believer is for them to love God with everything that is in them, and to love thy neighbor, extending the grace given to us, testifying that Christ is risen can set them free. A labor of love is loving thy neighbor which is manifested in the edification of each saint by each saint. (Not through the shedding of tears, nor the offering of food or drink.) Not letting corrupted communication come out of our mouths, but only that which edifies one another, thus bringing grace to the hearers.
There are too many people living out of slavery, out of carnal obedience, out of duty(not love, but a set of rules just like Catholics do) to Christ, to God. Duty was never intended to express love or help us to love but only act to keep our attention focussed. In these last days a defiled Gospel is preached. This gospel puts emphasis and stock upon a defeated better looking sinner, which is opposite from what the Bible you are reading and believe in says about you. It makes one dwell upon and put stock in circumstances, wealth, emotions, feelings, duty, and impulses first. Not selflessness, brokeness, humility, God fearing, meekness, loving one another and suffering with one another. It has all become, "God will help them, oh please God help them." We are ignoring the fact that God has put us in the earth to steward it, to reap the white field harvest. We expect God to do our job for us. When in reality, the and in the perfectly historical and proveable Bible that you believe in and reference and read, God moves to human hearts through human hearts. He doesn't suddenly break out like some child with a temper tantrum.
God is order, not impulse. Why do you think that people are dying in the main line churches (and the persecuted church overseas who are seeing the dead raised, walking on water when there is a flood and they need to get to work, money appearing out of thin air) when God has given you the authority to cast out devils and uncleaniness? It is because we refuse to acknowledge that power and authority that God HAS given to us and not in a future time, right now. We believe God to be a liar, and He is not.
Ephisians 5:18-21
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart, always and for everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father. Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Friday, November 14, 2008
The undefiled Gospel
The undefiled Gospel. Preaching Christ plainly:
Also be aware that this truth is what Paul was talking about when he said, "I did not come to you with lofty words but out of humility." What he was saying and pointing out was that he just pached Christ. He didn't try to water the Gospel down to impresd the intellegent or well learned. He didn't try to impress with eleoquent words like ninety percent of main line Church pastors do all the time with their glorified self help garbage. Paul did not preach with man's doctrines about God or man's desperate attempts at understanding God through their own impulse driven vain hearts. Paul was under the authority of the Spirit. He couldn't help preaching un-eloquently. Jesus was a meek humble servant, thus Paul pached out of Christ's character, who and what Christ was.
You see what I mean, Paul is a manifestation of the undefiled Gospel of Christ. Paul preached that very Gospel of Christ. If only our sheltered man appointed dead main line Churches could heed this Gospel. But we would rather make ourselves feel good about doing nothing.
When one is shown an undefiled Gospel of Christ, all fear, frailty, and weakness are gone. They are set for life, forever blood stained, forever ruined. This is why so many eleged Christians find it so hard to serve God. They have been shown a defiled gospel that is circumstancial, feeling, and emotionally based, robbing from and qwelling an even slight possible true move of the Holy Spirit in ones life to break the ones heart and make that one man into a holy temple capable of housing the Living God.
One of the biggest parts that will affect ones witness is whether or not ones life is lived out in the flesh, or the Spirit. Too many times does one preach based off of and upon emotions, feelings, and circumstance. A true life preached out of Christ and His resurrection, a life that is lived out to God is one that is like John the Baptists ministry whose sole message was "Behold the Lamb of God."
Always is our life to point back to Jesus, His power, His resurrection, His grace extended to us, always back to Jesus. How He CAN deliver us once and for all time from sin, and free us of it for all time. That through Him He has granted and given authority to cleanse the sick, (not just make them feel better while they still suffer) cast out devils and all unclean spirits and forms of uncleaniness. This is a very and completely Biblical thing of which I write.
It is not preached nor lived out of human frailty, fear, or weakness. Christ had neither, thus they are not in the Gospel of Christ. The gospel of man is not the Gospel of God. We must put away old things. We are not to take old things with us, things made from the flesh, unholy manifestations into the Holy presence of God, they cannot exist in His holy presence. Bob Gladstone said it best using King Uziah as an example stating that you cannot mix politics with the things of God and if you do you become unclean.
We must understand this, that His Gospel is not of weakness and false humility, it is of salvation, saved from our sins and a new man in us made, the New Man Christ Jesus in us. He did not bring back old things, He came and made new things. Salvation is not a drug that only deals with the symptoms and not the problem. Christ is the remedy. He doesn't make us feel better while we remain sinful, we are made a new creation. Our sin problem is remedied. The old man is killed. We are no longer of the earthly fallen kingdom but of the Heavenly kingdom where God dwells. We dwell with God and God with us, in God and God in us. And God cannot dwell where there is sin and uncleaniness, UNDERSTAND THAT. And we dwell with and in God right now, not some time in the future, NOW. We are His ambassadors who manifest His Kingdom here on earth, right now.
Also be aware that this truth is what Paul was talking about when he said, "I did not come to you with lofty words but out of humility." What he was saying and pointing out was that he just pached Christ. He didn't try to water the Gospel down to impresd the intellegent or well learned. He didn't try to impress with eleoquent words like ninety percent of main line Church pastors do all the time with their glorified self help garbage. Paul did not preach with man's doctrines about God or man's desperate attempts at understanding God through their own impulse driven vain hearts. Paul was under the authority of the Spirit. He couldn't help preaching un-eloquently. Jesus was a meek humble servant, thus Paul pached out of Christ's character, who and what Christ was.
You see what I mean, Paul is a manifestation of the undefiled Gospel of Christ. Paul preached that very Gospel of Christ. If only our sheltered man appointed dead main line Churches could heed this Gospel. But we would rather make ourselves feel good about doing nothing.
When one is shown an undefiled Gospel of Christ, all fear, frailty, and weakness are gone. They are set for life, forever blood stained, forever ruined. This is why so many eleged Christians find it so hard to serve God. They have been shown a defiled gospel that is circumstancial, feeling, and emotionally based, robbing from and qwelling an even slight possible true move of the Holy Spirit in ones life to break the ones heart and make that one man into a holy temple capable of housing the Living God.
One of the biggest parts that will affect ones witness is whether or not ones life is lived out in the flesh, or the Spirit. Too many times does one preach based off of and upon emotions, feelings, and circumstance. A true life preached out of Christ and His resurrection, a life that is lived out to God is one that is like John the Baptists ministry whose sole message was "Behold the Lamb of God."
Always is our life to point back to Jesus, His power, His resurrection, His grace extended to us, always back to Jesus. How He CAN deliver us once and for all time from sin, and free us of it for all time. That through Him He has granted and given authority to cleanse the sick, (not just make them feel better while they still suffer) cast out devils and all unclean spirits and forms of uncleaniness. This is a very and completely Biblical thing of which I write.
It is not preached nor lived out of human frailty, fear, or weakness. Christ had neither, thus they are not in the Gospel of Christ. The gospel of man is not the Gospel of God. We must put away old things. We are not to take old things with us, things made from the flesh, unholy manifestations into the Holy presence of God, they cannot exist in His holy presence. Bob Gladstone said it best using King Uziah as an example stating that you cannot mix politics with the things of God and if you do you become unclean.
We must understand this, that His Gospel is not of weakness and false humility, it is of salvation, saved from our sins and a new man in us made, the New Man Christ Jesus in us. He did not bring back old things, He came and made new things. Salvation is not a drug that only deals with the symptoms and not the problem. Christ is the remedy. He doesn't make us feel better while we remain sinful, we are made a new creation. Our sin problem is remedied. The old man is killed. We are no longer of the earthly fallen kingdom but of the Heavenly kingdom where God dwells. We dwell with God and God with us, in God and God in us. And God cannot dwell where there is sin and uncleaniness, UNDERSTAND THAT. And we dwell with and in God right now, not some time in the future, NOW. We are His ambassadors who manifest His Kingdom here on earth, right now.
Loving thy neighbor
Loving our neighbor and one another in and through Christ:
(3rd John Chapter 1:5-8
Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers, who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen. So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.)
I am writing a truth that so many miss and is key to a true ministry. This key issue is what Paul writes about where he says that few love.
(1 Thessalonians, chapter 1:2-3
We give thanks to God always for you all, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.)
Now, why was it that the apostles gave thanks to God in their prayers for this particular group of people? Why and what did these group of people do that was the reason the apostles gave thanks? And always gave thanks? What was this "labor of love" this "work of faith"? It was the first commandment which was "Love the Lord with everything" which out of that love for God that birthed in them the second commandment, "Love they neighbor." Now what does "Love thy neighbor" mean exactly which is what I will be getting into and explaining and is the reason and point of all of this.
(2 Thessalonians, chapter 1:3-4
We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you are enduring.)
Again this love which is being shown by believers to believers is that which is called "charity," which means sharing Christ and extolling one another in faith and the truth, and that truth being Christ, testifying each others lives lived out of Christ to one another girded up and strengthened the body of Christ. And that is what loving your neighbor means. Nagurak, carnal love that is birthed by flesh giving birth to flesh cannot do this. Only that love which is of the Spirit can. Flesh gives birth to flesh, Spirit gives birth to Spirit. Whg do you think that the Church of God has become so weak? We have forgotten the difference between natural love and Spiritual real Godly love. We believe that coffee and monkey bread will show the world God's love. In the words of Aaron Weis, "A glass can only spill what it contains." The love we show one another is the love we show the world. Remember it is the Church that shapes the world.
(2 Thessalonians, chapter 1:11-12
[11]: To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his call, and may fulfil every good resolve and work of faith by his power,
[12]: so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.)
Now what does it mean "to make you worthy of His call" It means to perfect the Son who is in you. And that comes by beholding God daily, taking on gthe mind of Christ, for one of the greatest bagttlefields in the human is the mind, for as a man thinks he is. Once the mind us surrendered to God, we can move out in the calling, we are finally made worthy of His calling. But fhis does not come by the shedding of tears at an alter, nor does it come by reciting from wrote what someone else did or prayed.
Just like repentance it is through action, the will, not feelings or emotions. It is through thought and deed. That is what is means by "the Word of God is on their foreheads and hands." The forehead is the mind, the hand is the deed or way of acting it out. The greatest way that we show God that we have repented and changed our hearts is by our deeds and by our lives, not our feelings.
Being worthy of His call is living and imitating Christ in all things. And this is a reasonable request. But as long a we listen to man we will not be able to live this reasonable calling.
Society, that is Church society has become to Greekish thus inhibitting the move of the Holy Spirit of God. We take Him with us but never let Him out of us for those who are dying right in front of us. Greekish means too educated to make a difference. We take and take until theres nothing and the our fat weighs us down so that we can't move. Remember, "The Jews seek a sign, the Greeks seek knowledge(not Spiritual knowledge)
So in the end we must seek a revelation of the Cross. We must repent, seek God for His love which upset and forever changed the world. We must understand the true essence of the first and second commandment; Love the Lord your God with all that is in you and is you." and "Love thy neighbor as thyself." When we learn how to love thy neighbor and to first love God, then we are worthy of His call, that call which is reasonable and for every man woman and child who lives and breathes.
This is a labor of love, a work of faith. May Christ be made manifest in all that we do. May we understand this reasonable request. May we live living sacrifices, the reasonable request that is not hard, for His yoke is easy, His burden light. Obeying God is not the uphill battle.
(2 Thessalonians, chapter 1:12
so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.)
(3rd John Chapter 1:5-8
Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers, who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen. So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.)
I am writing a truth that so many miss and is key to a true ministry. This key issue is what Paul writes about where he says that few love.
(1 Thessalonians, chapter 1:2-3
We give thanks to God always for you all, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.)
Now, why was it that the apostles gave thanks to God in their prayers for this particular group of people? Why and what did these group of people do that was the reason the apostles gave thanks? And always gave thanks? What was this "labor of love" this "work of faith"? It was the first commandment which was "Love the Lord with everything" which out of that love for God that birthed in them the second commandment, "Love they neighbor." Now what does "Love thy neighbor" mean exactly which is what I will be getting into and explaining and is the reason and point of all of this.
(2 Thessalonians, chapter 1:3-4
We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you are enduring.)
Again this love which is being shown by believers to believers is that which is called "charity," which means sharing Christ and extolling one another in faith and the truth, and that truth being Christ, testifying each others lives lived out of Christ to one another girded up and strengthened the body of Christ. And that is what loving your neighbor means. Nagurak, carnal love that is birthed by flesh giving birth to flesh cannot do this. Only that love which is of the Spirit can. Flesh gives birth to flesh, Spirit gives birth to Spirit. Whg do you think that the Church of God has become so weak? We have forgotten the difference between natural love and Spiritual real Godly love. We believe that coffee and monkey bread will show the world God's love. In the words of Aaron Weis, "A glass can only spill what it contains." The love we show one another is the love we show the world. Remember it is the Church that shapes the world.
(2 Thessalonians, chapter 1:11-12
[11]: To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his call, and may fulfil every good resolve and work of faith by his power,
[12]: so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.)
Now what does it mean "to make you worthy of His call" It means to perfect the Son who is in you. And that comes by beholding God daily, taking on gthe mind of Christ, for one of the greatest bagttlefields in the human is the mind, for as a man thinks he is. Once the mind us surrendered to God, we can move out in the calling, we are finally made worthy of His calling. But fhis does not come by the shedding of tears at an alter, nor does it come by reciting from wrote what someone else did or prayed.
Just like repentance it is through action, the will, not feelings or emotions. It is through thought and deed. That is what is means by "the Word of God is on their foreheads and hands." The forehead is the mind, the hand is the deed or way of acting it out. The greatest way that we show God that we have repented and changed our hearts is by our deeds and by our lives, not our feelings.
Being worthy of His call is living and imitating Christ in all things. And this is a reasonable request. But as long a we listen to man we will not be able to live this reasonable calling.
Society, that is Church society has become to Greekish thus inhibitting the move of the Holy Spirit of God. We take Him with us but never let Him out of us for those who are dying right in front of us. Greekish means too educated to make a difference. We take and take until theres nothing and the our fat weighs us down so that we can't move. Remember, "The Jews seek a sign, the Greeks seek knowledge(not Spiritual knowledge)
So in the end we must seek a revelation of the Cross. We must repent, seek God for His love which upset and forever changed the world. We must understand the true essence of the first and second commandment; Love the Lord your God with all that is in you and is you." and "Love thy neighbor as thyself." When we learn how to love thy neighbor and to first love God, then we are worthy of His call, that call which is reasonable and for every man woman and child who lives and breathes.
This is a labor of love, a work of faith. May Christ be made manifest in all that we do. May we understand this reasonable request. May we live living sacrifices, the reasonable request that is not hard, for His yoke is easy, His burden light. Obeying God is not the uphill battle.
(2 Thessalonians, chapter 1:12
so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.)
Thursday, October 2, 2008
The prosperity gospel
I have as of late really grown disenchanted with filthy rich main line churches that preach a prosperity gospel rather then the true gospel of God. The thing is that one can preach a gospel of prosperity and not actually be talking about money. Here is how it subtly works and is preached: Someone gets healed and they share their testimony with the congregation. Now they tell of how each person’s family and friends and everybody was there to help them out. Basically their hand was held the entire time and their nose was wiped the entire time. Now everybody on staff there is fat or over weight, everybody who attends that church is wealthy financially fit and prosperous. Nobody really suffers in that church and the so small little hardship that they go through which is always just in their emotions is exacerbated heavily and made out to be something that it is not. No one is hurting really and all have successful careers.
I never really picked up on this subtly preached gospel until I had a friend in need that only needed some things and a main line filthy rich church couldn’t even help out with that. They have loads of money that they can spend on a video projector but on someone who is unfamiliar to their assembly they cannot. And yet allegedly they helped a family in need when that family’s house burned down. I personally do not understand that. But it makes perfect sense. That person was a familiar of theirs. Basically they help based on their feelings and not Christ. It is sad for me to write these perfectly true things but I am venting them out of me. Plus the internet is filled with people who aren’t afraid to be honest. I just really hate it when the church is supposed to be able to help and this church has nothing keeping them back from helping but they don’t help. And yet they spends thousands of dollars for people to go to Ireland for a missions trip. Its like Jesus said about the Pharisees, where they spend and do all of this to reach one person and in turn make that person a bigger child of the devil. I ma just sick and tired of it. This is the sate of main line churches and main line alleged Christians no a days.
Where are the real actually living out Christ Christians who give even when they might not have, who are not successful, who posses humility and brokenness of heart before God. Who have been forsaken by main line churches and have been all alone and have had nothing but God and have prevailed. Who embrace worship first and at the very last filling their bellies. Who can fast and aren’t obese. Who ACTUALLY suffer and it isn’t just that they are in a bad mood that they say that they have it bad. That they actually have it bad. That they are not filthy rich but still help pothers and suffer and see others through Christ’s eyes and choose to suffer with them. WHO CAN ACTUALLY LIVE OUT CHRIST ON A DIALY BASIS AND NOT WHEN THE MOMENT IS PUMPED, OR WHEN THEY ARE EMOTIONAL, knowing that their tears and feelings will not bring a pleasant aroma to God’s nostrils, that brokenness, humility, meekness, that those are what God seeks and can use.
Lord forgive us of this blatant sin and man made gospel which we have created and openly and lovingly embrace.
I never really picked up on this subtly preached gospel until I had a friend in need that only needed some things and a main line filthy rich church couldn’t even help out with that. They have loads of money that they can spend on a video projector but on someone who is unfamiliar to their assembly they cannot. And yet allegedly they helped a family in need when that family’s house burned down. I personally do not understand that. But it makes perfect sense. That person was a familiar of theirs. Basically they help based on their feelings and not Christ. It is sad for me to write these perfectly true things but I am venting them out of me. Plus the internet is filled with people who aren’t afraid to be honest. I just really hate it when the church is supposed to be able to help and this church has nothing keeping them back from helping but they don’t help. And yet they spends thousands of dollars for people to go to Ireland for a missions trip. Its like Jesus said about the Pharisees, where they spend and do all of this to reach one person and in turn make that person a bigger child of the devil. I ma just sick and tired of it. This is the sate of main line churches and main line alleged Christians no a days.
Where are the real actually living out Christ Christians who give even when they might not have, who are not successful, who posses humility and brokenness of heart before God. Who have been forsaken by main line churches and have been all alone and have had nothing but God and have prevailed. Who embrace worship first and at the very last filling their bellies. Who can fast and aren’t obese. Who ACTUALLY suffer and it isn’t just that they are in a bad mood that they say that they have it bad. That they actually have it bad. That they are not filthy rich but still help pothers and suffer and see others through Christ’s eyes and choose to suffer with them. WHO CAN ACTUALLY LIVE OUT CHRIST ON A DIALY BASIS AND NOT WHEN THE MOMENT IS PUMPED, OR WHEN THEY ARE EMOTIONAL, knowing that their tears and feelings will not bring a pleasant aroma to God’s nostrils, that brokenness, humility, meekness, that those are what God seeks and can use.
Lord forgive us of this blatant sin and man made gospel which we have created and openly and lovingly embrace.
Monday, September 29, 2008
How life really is
Rich people get handed everything. Poor people get poorer. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. The rich steal from the poor and prevail. The poor get worse. If one is not rich or comes from a wealthy family, they are the ones surviving day to day on scraps of bread crumbs. They are the ones that no one reaches out to nor understands and hates to understand. No one helps them out no one cares for them, unless they worship the one who possibly helps them out. Recently I had a friend of someone who is close to me who was in need. I called a local filthy rich church and that filthy rich church could not help them out at all. That filthy rich church just stood back while when one of their familiar ones asks for help that filthy rich church runs along side them and helps them immediately. I myself have asked for help from the filthy rich church and they have literally said this: "Oh we will be sure to rally along side you and help you." They said that to someone else sitting close to me and completely ignored me when I brought to them my need. Because that person they liked.
What have they become. The mountain of their wealth is so high that its shadow blinds them to what they have. Its no wonder they cannot reach the lost and can only reach their bellies with monkey bread and doughnuts and coffee. Food and drink will do nothing for God and His kingdom. Why do they embrace stupidity? Why? It is because they just want enough of God and that much of God is so little. They just want enough to talk about it and make something out of nothing. They want to just talk, talk, talk. I am tired of it so much. But I will endure, I will succeed, even if these clowns fail me. All around they are scattered. To each body and assembly, to confuse with lofty words and proud talk, the elect of God. They are stumbling blocks set up strategically by the enemy. False prophets they are all. Proud talk, lofty spoken words with no spirit possessing them or their words. Nothing but stolen doctrines and philosophies they have. No originality. Nothing in them but words without power.
What have they become. The mountain of their wealth is so high that its shadow blinds them to what they have. Its no wonder they cannot reach the lost and can only reach their bellies with monkey bread and doughnuts and coffee. Food and drink will do nothing for God and His kingdom. Why do they embrace stupidity? Why? It is because they just want enough of God and that much of God is so little. They just want enough to talk about it and make something out of nothing. They want to just talk, talk, talk. I am tired of it so much. But I will endure, I will succeed, even if these clowns fail me. All around they are scattered. To each body and assembly, to confuse with lofty words and proud talk, the elect of God. They are stumbling blocks set up strategically by the enemy. False prophets they are all. Proud talk, lofty spoken words with no spirit possessing them or their words. Nothing but stolen doctrines and philosophies they have. No originality. Nothing in them but words without power.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
About modern worship songs(venting: aka the truth)
Most modern supposed worship songs that are written now a days are written out of the fact that we just don’t feel good even though we have nothing wrong with us. Really they are written out of us getting really emotional. Really we just want to whine about frail triviality. They are written out of wrote and not a pure heart to God. Borrowed, and stolen words from others sacrifices composed and neatly arranged so that they don’t sound like they were stolen when in fact they actually were.
The words sound all right but for some reason behind them there is no real sacrifice, no real suffering, just our pathetic frail easily offended hearts and their emotions clouding us forever until we see and put into practice the true mind of Christ. Not some self help crap. Most sermons today spoken in pulpits come from no sacrifice and are glorified self help speeches that carry no conviction, no reverence, entertain the masses instead of convicting the masses. When will it become like the Bible says “I will turn their laughter to sorrow, their joy to mourning” so that they see thee real state of their lives, cold, blind and naked retches that need Jesus and need to repent. But no no no, lets just keep telling them that they are all right while they continue unchecked to disrespect those things which are holy and Godly, be completely irreverent and the like. Lets just keep numbing their minds so that they see no reason to repent and that everyone else is wrong and that they have to repent and change. No wonder the world is going to hell in a hand basket. People refuse to change and obey God.
A true real and thriving revival comes from repentance and purity of heart, not idolatry.
The words sound all right but for some reason behind them there is no real sacrifice, no real suffering, just our pathetic frail easily offended hearts and their emotions clouding us forever until we see and put into practice the true mind of Christ. Not some self help crap. Most sermons today spoken in pulpits come from no sacrifice and are glorified self help speeches that carry no conviction, no reverence, entertain the masses instead of convicting the masses. When will it become like the Bible says “I will turn their laughter to sorrow, their joy to mourning” so that they see thee real state of their lives, cold, blind and naked retches that need Jesus and need to repent. But no no no, lets just keep telling them that they are all right while they continue unchecked to disrespect those things which are holy and Godly, be completely irreverent and the like. Lets just keep numbing their minds so that they see no reason to repent and that everyone else is wrong and that they have to repent and change. No wonder the world is going to hell in a hand basket. People refuse to change and obey God.
A true real and thriving revival comes from repentance and purity of heart, not idolatry.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Interesting Guitar tuning
One very interesting Guitar tuning is to tune the last two strings to the E note, then the two strings above the last two strings to the A note, and then to take off the top two strings. Using a slide method of playing with out a slide but instead using you two fingers to play all types of weird scales on the neck of the Guitar sounds really unique. Basically place one finger on one of the E strings and the other finger on one of the A notes and play them both on top of one another and you get not only a really unique sounding Guitar, but also you get a really unique sounding music.
I discovered this a while back but was using a different two set of notes that four of the strings were tuned to, plus I really wore out some of the strings on my Guitar and by accident came across it.
Well knowing that knowledge everyone who may play Guitar, enjoy!
I discovered this a while back but was using a different two set of notes that four of the strings were tuned to, plus I really wore out some of the strings on my Guitar and by accident came across it.
Well knowing that knowledge everyone who may play Guitar, enjoy!
The house of the dead
The house of the dead, dead things, living inside. Always there, never moving, never speeding, never slowing down. Everything dead. No people, no living things, all dead. No dreams, no past, no future. Everything dead, waiting for the end of all things. Waiting for the end of days, when all shall burn away into nothingness. When one returns to the house of the dead one realizes ones life without meaning, without purpose, without anyone or anything in it. A life of existence, waxing away until the very end.
One when looking and living in the house of the dead either dies inside or hopes for better things, better life, a life of not existing but living. A life of life. To live, and to grow. Anti-existence, living with someone who can share with you, who can suffer with you. Who can live for you and you live for them. Anyone can die for someone, few can live for someone.
The house of the dead is there. It is and will forever in ones life be there, as long as this world exists. But it is not there to consume ones life. It is there to convict ones life, to inspire ones life, for one to look upon and see what they have in front of them and within them. The house of the dead exists forever in our lives to show us that we are alive. The house of the dead convict us and show us what we have, all of our riches. The dead give us the meaning to live.
One when looking and living in the house of the dead either dies inside or hopes for better things, better life, a life of not existing but living. A life of life. To live, and to grow. Anti-existence, living with someone who can share with you, who can suffer with you. Who can live for you and you live for them. Anyone can die for someone, few can live for someone.
The house of the dead is there. It is and will forever in ones life be there, as long as this world exists. But it is not there to consume ones life. It is there to convict ones life, to inspire ones life, for one to look upon and see what they have in front of them and within them. The house of the dead exists forever in our lives to show us that we are alive. The house of the dead convict us and show us what we have, all of our riches. The dead give us the meaning to live.
Why I love grunge music
Heavily distorted electric Guitars, dissonant harmonies. Grunge musicians were noted for their unkempt appearances and rejection of theatrics, complex instrumentation. Incorporates themes such as social alienation, apathy, confinement, and a desire for freedom. Basically disenchanted with the crap that has become society. Also grunge bands were uncomfortable with popularity.
"Grunge concerts were known for being straightforward, high-energy performances. Grunge bands rejected the complex and high budget presentations of many musical genres, including the use of complex light arrays, pyrotechnics, and other visual effects unrelated to playing the music." You see they are there to rock and for music not to draw attention to themselves or their hair or fancy lights. This is what I believe music should be about. When you make the music about itself, it benefits others and gives them an experience that they will remember forever.
One amazing concert or musical gathering can change the world. Take Woodstock for example. Grunge musicians come to play music and they come as they are which is what I believe you should do when playing music. When you go to a rock concert or go to practice an instrument, does the teacher say to you or does your music book say, "Did you brush your teeth, wash your hair, trim your nails? NO it does not.
"Grunge concerts were known for being straightforward, high-energy performances. Grunge bands rejected the complex and high budget presentations of many musical genres, including the use of complex light arrays, pyrotechnics, and other visual effects unrelated to playing the music." You see they are there to rock and for music not to draw attention to themselves or their hair or fancy lights. This is what I believe music should be about. When you make the music about itself, it benefits others and gives them an experience that they will remember forever.
One amazing concert or musical gathering can change the world. Take Woodstock for example. Grunge musicians come to play music and they come as they are which is what I believe you should do when playing music. When you go to a rock concert or go to practice an instrument, does the teacher say to you or does your music book say, "Did you brush your teeth, wash your hair, trim your nails? NO it does not.
What are children?
So what are children really? What were they created for and what are they made from? Children are made from a part of the mother and the husband. Or a man and a woman. But why was it when a child died in the olden days, that their was much lamenting. That reason is that the child symbolized and was the future of both of the parents or the man and the woman. It was a piece of him and a piece of her living on past the original parents and carrying on the family for a new generation so that really the family was never gone to begin with. Now a days in this sick and stupid culture, children are a hindrance and a burden. Not loved but dismissed these children and fatherless and motherless bastards go through life with no proper and right upbringing and no real home while the parents are away screwing and being screwed by whoever they want. It is such a sad tragedy. Just look at Columbine. If their parents really loved or were actually good parents who could see a lacking in these children's lives, then perhaps the way our security in our nation;'s schools are would not be so and others would never had been inspired to take up a gun. Just think about it.
So as we come down to it at the end of the day and everything and every opinion of ours that we made up in the first place to excuse our lacking in good parenting comes to a close what are we left with about what children truly are? Well here goes. Children are what the parent make them. They are a canvas for the parent to paint. Even if there is a bad parent the child will pick up on that. I was one myself you know. So in the long run and when we finally are brought back to our senses, we are left with this one truth: Parent right, love your children, trat them with and as your number one priority. Teach them despite the fact that maybe your parents were shitty to the core, you have a chance to not be like them and to show them up by raising a GOOD child. So go out and do it parents and stop using the fact htat you haev a bunch of children to say that you are a good parent. True parenting is shown through your children and if you have them under control.
So as we come down to it at the end of the day and everything and every opinion of ours that we made up in the first place to excuse our lacking in good parenting comes to a close what are we left with about what children truly are? Well here goes. Children are what the parent make them. They are a canvas for the parent to paint. Even if there is a bad parent the child will pick up on that. I was one myself you know. So in the long run and when we finally are brought back to our senses, we are left with this one truth: Parent right, love your children, trat them with and as your number one priority. Teach them despite the fact that maybe your parents were shitty to the core, you have a chance to not be like them and to show them up by raising a GOOD child. So go out and do it parents and stop using the fact htat you haev a bunch of children to say that you are a good parent. True parenting is shown through your children and if you have them under control.
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