One of my favorite movies and I always cry at the end. Thinking about it, Nash had schizophrenia and had delusions when stressed. He overcame reacting to the repetitive visions when he realized that one of his delusions, a little girl, never got old. He had been believing a lie that his mind had created.
We all believe lies. We all believe our own fallacies. A great portion of mental illness stems from false beliefs. Sin comes from following lies. We want to believe that something that we are not to do is good or that there will be no consequences. Sometimes we get away with no consequence. But our happiness is temporal.
Sometimes doing what is right is painful and hurtful, and the rewards are temporal, or not received. Most often we don't get to see the good in trauma or loss.
The temporal things of life teach us about the eternal. We have a duty to teach others what God has said not to do and what to do because those things never change. They are based on who God is and He is Truth. So always search for the truth and you will be searching for God and getting to know Him.
Friday, August 5, 2016
Monday, August 1, 2016
God rules the nations, but individuals have free will?
Is there a difference in the way that God rules the nations? There is a red line that cannot be crossed without dire consequence for nations and that red line is legalizing child sacrifice. God said He would not forgive the nation of Judah for filling the streets of Jerusalem with the blood of the innocent.
“Surely at the command (mouth) of the LORD it came
upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh,
according to all that he had done, and also for the innocent blood which he
shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; AND THE LORD WOULD NOT
FORGIVE.” (All caps mine) 2 Kings 24:3
& 4
With repentance came a revival, but then one generation later the practice was started again and then came the invasion and destruction. Ah, for the individual there is also a red line, blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. But that was taught by Jesus so was it also in the Old Testament? Must have been but where?
Searching for the question is giving some answers, but this one is particularly interesting in light of the current war against Christians and Jews...Listen.
"Consequently, when we come to the text of the Synoptic Gospels there is a history of interpretation and applications that prohibit anyone ( Lev 24:15-16 ; includes the sojourner ) from denouncing the God of Israel, repudiating his claims, and insulting his honor. What Jesus claims is that a similar type of sin is being committed whenever one speaks against the Holy Spirit as revealed powerfully in his ministry. What caused stoning in the Old Testament, now incurs eternal condemnation; such a sin is unforgivable."
http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/bakers-evangelical-dictionary/blasphemy-against-the-holy-spirit.html
So, those who say the One True God of Israel is not God are not forgiven. We know who they are. They are at war against Christians and Jews. They are also the ones I believe who are allowed to exact judgment on the nations for committing the unforgivable act of child sacrifice.
Will study more in the morning and edit at that time. 2016-08-02
Monday, July 25, 2016
Who will not have to take up their cross during the Great Tribulation?
Is it the church of Philadelphia? There are 7 Spirits of God (all one, but sevenfold, thus 7 churches. I wonder if the temperament of the churches are like human temperaments? I'll have to pray about this and search for more info.
Saturday, July 9, 2016
I was weeding
Today I weeded a flower garden. I had to be careful not to pull out the flowers along with the grass that was growing. My friend hadn't weeded since we planted it in May. The grass had shoots that grew along the ground to start a new root.
I wondered about why there were weeds and remembered that it was to make work harder after the fall, but as I pulled the weeds and thought about the tares among the wheat parable, and how Jesus taught with examples of nature I realized that there is probably a parable in all the things we have to work against. God revealing Himself to us about all things. The sheep, the goats, the wheat, the weeds.
This life is good not perfect. All the things we call trials, and the hardest of losses, death of a loved one, all prepare us for the next life.
I wondered about why there were weeds and remembered that it was to make work harder after the fall, but as I pulled the weeds and thought about the tares among the wheat parable, and how Jesus taught with examples of nature I realized that there is probably a parable in all the things we have to work against. God revealing Himself to us about all things. The sheep, the goats, the wheat, the weeds.
This life is good not perfect. All the things we call trials, and the hardest of losses, death of a loved one, all prepare us for the next life.
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
The 2 drachma tax of Matthew 17:24-27
Someone once told me that they believe Christians stand before the judgment seat the same as non-Christians. I use the word Christians to include anyone who is considered a sheep after the people are divided into two groups of followers and non-followers of the One True God.
In verse 25 Jesus asked Simon [Peter] from whom do kings collect taxes, from their sons or strangers? Simon said strangers.
So from whom will the King of kings and Lord of lords exact justice? From strangers who do not know Him, not from those who He called His family, or His followers who know His voice, His sheep.
Old Testament law also prevented charging interest on loans to fellow Jews. In Deuteronomy 23: 19 & 20 it says, "You shall not charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned at interest. 20 You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to possess."
That is the law that Simon [Peter] knew. The poor were also exempt. Blessed are the poor in spirit. Blessed are those who know how wretched they are compared to Jesus, and He will not charge interest on judgment day, but like the 7 year Jubilee, all debts are forgiven. I am sure this will be re-instituted during Jesus' thousand year reign.
Deuteronomy 15:1-3 15 “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a remission of debts. 2 This is the manner of remission: every creditor shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother, because the Lord’s remission has been proclaimed. 3 From a foreigner you may exact it, but your hand shall release whatever of yours is with your brother. "
I love the Law!
Monday, July 4, 2016
Who are the Sadducees and Pharisees of today?
Reading Matt. 16 and wondered who would be the false teachers today? They would be church leaders. Anyone adding to scripture or anyone TAKING AWAY OR IGNORING SCRIPTURE.
Have to write "The Justified Wrath of the LORD God of hosts"
Have to write "The Justified Wrath of the LORD God of hosts"
Friday, June 24, 2016
Jesus spoke in symbolic short story format
Most of us who go to church are familiar with the parables (symbolic stories) and why Jesus spoke using them instead of just revealing God's ways outright. He followed Isaiah the prophet when He taught the thousands of people being entertained by His teaching. Those who wanted to know God and find Him would try to figure it out and would meditate on it thinking of what they already knew of God in their own lives and applying that to what they just heard.
Let's apply that to the parable of the seed because the seed is the parable! LOL Matthew 13 and Isaiah 6 (use BibleGateway and choose New American Standard Version)
So those whose hearts and minds were distracted during the teaching were not even interested in hearing but maybe wanted to get out of the house or be with their friends. The parable was eaten by the birds as soon as it was told. The parable had no way to get into their hearts and minds because their minds were focused not on the teaching but on themselves and their friends.
Those who actually listened and whose hearts and minds are compared to the soil around rocks (how many plants grow in the dry stream beds of MO? River rocks, all round and the size of big potatoes that fill your hand.)...where was I, the little soil. Two examples, when the spring seeds grow in the cracks of the driveway but by summer's end are dead, or the little pine that my mother took home that was found growing on a patch of dirt on a single story high boulder in my back yard. If it had been left there it would have died in a couple more years.
These people listened and loved talking about the teachings on their way home have a little soil in their hearts. They smile at their neighbors who were home that day. However, that evening their friends stop by to talk about their day. They tell them they heard the word. During Jesus' day, or in Israel today, or in any Muslim nation their friends may have warned them not to listen to false prophets but to listen to the priests and teachers. If they followed Him any more they might get kicked out or not be able to offer the sacrifices and holy day gifts of thanksgiving. Today their friends laugh and scoff, "Yeah, I heard about that guy, He's a liar and just wants your money. I've known plenty of teachers who are the same way. Donate here! Bbbwwahahaha! Televangelists! Religious authors making you pay big bucks for their theology books." So these people want to keep their friends and not change their lives and so reject the teaching they heard with joy.
There are others who are not worried about what their friends say or leaving the establishment. They hear the word of truth and go for years living the good life. Then tragedy strikes. Their child gets sick or their house is lost in a hurricane or twister, or flood. They say, God doesn't love me or He can't heal my child. The others are those who are worried about their money. They don't have to give it away or ever ask forgiveness, they just want to make more money! What will they eat? What will they wear? They need the newest styles or sneakers. They no longer think about the good life. They no longer share the joy that they first had because it is now replaced with STRESS.
So what are the people with good soil for their seed like? My mother took the little pine from the boulder and planted it in soil in a county that had been farmed since the revolution (but is now all housing developments) and it is about 25 feet tall. It's a little crooked from the shade of the next tree (goofy mulberry) but it's doing well. Those seeded people who are doing well are not necessarily the missionaries who bring the word of God to hundreds, but are also those who shine the light into the darkness of their neighbors. Their joy is ongoing and a witness. They make others wonder about the source of their peace and joy. I also believe they share the Way, the Truth, and the Life with love and joy and peace, and sometimes in rebuke and warning.
If someone is heading around a curve on a trail that ends with a cliff, how do you tell them?
I started with Matt 13 but then went to Isaiah. Isaiah asked how long it would be until people's eyes were opened and they heard the truth and repented and were healed...the answer?
"Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,
Houses are without people,
And the land is utterly desolate,
...
The holy seed is its stump."
This election, people are more worried about what they will eat and wear and where they will live than the lives of the innocent unborn. They don't realize that God blessed this land because people didn't worry about those things because when you live as a seed on fertile soil, God takes care to bring the elements together to provide for life.
The Biblical consequence for child sacrifice is invasion and conquest. No wall is going to stop the invasion. Only overturning Roe, outlawing pre-born genocide from conception, and bulldozing clinics (making hospital abortion surgical rooms into nurseries) will be acceptable. And of course trying to keep the grandkids from ever doing it again.
Let's apply that to the parable of the seed because the seed is the parable! LOL Matthew 13 and Isaiah 6 (use BibleGateway and choose New American Standard Version)
So those whose hearts and minds were distracted during the teaching were not even interested in hearing but maybe wanted to get out of the house or be with their friends. The parable was eaten by the birds as soon as it was told. The parable had no way to get into their hearts and minds because their minds were focused not on the teaching but on themselves and their friends.
Those who actually listened and whose hearts and minds are compared to the soil around rocks (how many plants grow in the dry stream beds of MO? River rocks, all round and the size of big potatoes that fill your hand.)...where was I, the little soil. Two examples, when the spring seeds grow in the cracks of the driveway but by summer's end are dead, or the little pine that my mother took home that was found growing on a patch of dirt on a single story high boulder in my back yard. If it had been left there it would have died in a couple more years.
These people listened and loved talking about the teachings on their way home have a little soil in their hearts. They smile at their neighbors who were home that day. However, that evening their friends stop by to talk about their day. They tell them they heard the word. During Jesus' day, or in Israel today, or in any Muslim nation their friends may have warned them not to listen to false prophets but to listen to the priests and teachers. If they followed Him any more they might get kicked out or not be able to offer the sacrifices and holy day gifts of thanksgiving. Today their friends laugh and scoff, "Yeah, I heard about that guy, He's a liar and just wants your money. I've known plenty of teachers who are the same way. Donate here! Bbbwwahahaha! Televangelists! Religious authors making you pay big bucks for their theology books." So these people want to keep their friends and not change their lives and so reject the teaching they heard with joy.
There are others who are not worried about what their friends say or leaving the establishment. They hear the word of truth and go for years living the good life. Then tragedy strikes. Their child gets sick or their house is lost in a hurricane or twister, or flood. They say, God doesn't love me or He can't heal my child. The others are those who are worried about their money. They don't have to give it away or ever ask forgiveness, they just want to make more money! What will they eat? What will they wear? They need the newest styles or sneakers. They no longer think about the good life. They no longer share the joy that they first had because it is now replaced with STRESS.
So what are the people with good soil for their seed like? My mother took the little pine from the boulder and planted it in soil in a county that had been farmed since the revolution (but is now all housing developments) and it is about 25 feet tall. It's a little crooked from the shade of the next tree (goofy mulberry) but it's doing well. Those seeded people who are doing well are not necessarily the missionaries who bring the word of God to hundreds, but are also those who shine the light into the darkness of their neighbors. Their joy is ongoing and a witness. They make others wonder about the source of their peace and joy. I also believe they share the Way, the Truth, and the Life with love and joy and peace, and sometimes in rebuke and warning.
If someone is heading around a curve on a trail that ends with a cliff, how do you tell them?
I started with Matt 13 but then went to Isaiah. Isaiah asked how long it would be until people's eyes were opened and they heard the truth and repented and were healed...the answer?
"Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,
Houses are without people,
And the land is utterly desolate,
...
The holy seed is its stump."
This election, people are more worried about what they will eat and wear and where they will live than the lives of the innocent unborn. They don't realize that God blessed this land because people didn't worry about those things because when you live as a seed on fertile soil, God takes care to bring the elements together to provide for life.
The Biblical consequence for child sacrifice is invasion and conquest. No wall is going to stop the invasion. Only overturning Roe, outlawing pre-born genocide from conception, and bulldozing clinics (making hospital abortion surgical rooms into nurseries) will be acceptable. And of course trying to keep the grandkids from ever doing it again.
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