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Confessions of a screwed up middle-aged man: God’s time

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This is a snapshot into my life.
We are told in the Bible that the man is to leave his father and mother and cleave unto the woman that becomes his wife making one entity.
Well at the age of 20 I did that and for nearly 13 years through growing up and finding God the man I had become was not acceptable to the woman that I had married. So she cast me aside even though I knew she was the one woman that was I meant to be with me forever.
For ten years I waited for her to return. Even after she remarried, I waited. Striving to follow the teaching of God.
Then toward the end of this decade I did what I was not supposed to do. First my faith waivered, second I placed too much emphasis on me doing God’s work and less on letting God do God’s work.
As a result I met another woman and married. It was not till near the end of the 9th year of marriage to this one that I came to find that I had been lied too, deceived. The woman I thought I had married did not exist. Instead the woman I was married to brought into my life destruction and chaos and destitution. Soon after I entered into my year of Job and kept the promises I had made to her and myself if she did not correct her ways. As a result I was divorced for the second time.
I had returned to my correct place with where I should be with God, yet different. I was in a different city. I was a different man. So God knowing this set me upon a new path. A path that would allow me to serve Him and allow me to reach out to more people then I have ever envisioned myself reaching. Do they listen or ignore me I do not know, but many have read my words and still a seed is planted that may or may not grow.
As I followed God, I let Him lead me. Well, He led me to another woman. A woman I did not know could ever exist.
We share so much in common, yet there are still differences that make it interesting and exciting to be with her. I can say she is truly “God sent.”
Due to my believe and love for God I knew that my human desires would interfere with my walk with God, and God has made a provision just for this. He states that if you divorce and you cannot stay single He would rather us remarry then to live in sin. But I also must add that when you serve God He will reward you if you are truly serving me.
As a result yesterday I married for the third and last time. For she is truly the woman I am meant to live with for all eternity. I know that it stated until death, but when you truly understand God there is no death except that caused by sin. If you live for God and you serve God you will do so for all eternity and so you will do that with a companion because we are told we are not meant to be alone. My companion is my new wife and it is she that has now truly replaced my first wife and for that I will love her forever with only God being more important. For the person I was at twenty is not the man I am today. We are two different people, even though I have always been this person that now types these words. The person then was a child of sin and the man I am now is a child of God.

Separate ourselves from the “world”

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Many times we are told to separate ourselves from the “world,” but what is the world. In 1 Peter 4:2 it is stated simply: “That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.”
But what are the lust of man.
Matthew 15: 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
1 Peter 4: 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: 4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
If this is how you live your live, in the flesh of the world then per the Bible you are not truly “Christian.” Yet many go about stating and saying they are “Christian” even though they live in the sins and many more listed above.
Jesus made it clear that what comes from the heart is human. When you turn to Christ and accept Him as your Savior your life should change. You become separate from the “world.” So the things of the world should become unimportant. Distractions of the world like sporting events, television, and fashion are not your main concerns. What does become important is the teaching of the Bible and living a life that is separate of the “world” though still to be able to talk to this world to allow those that do not live their life’s toward God will be able to see how life should be lived when following God. That you be a living witness through your actions if not by your words.
1 Peter 4: 5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. 6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
Live your life as Jesus has instructed. Not how man has instructed. For we cannot serve two masters.
Matthew 6: 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. (also Luke 16:13)
Yet many that call themselves “Christian” live there life in both worlds, which is not only a lie unto God but themselves.
1 Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Another refresher about following the laws of the land

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Time and again I have posted about following the laws of the land. Why? Because most do not.
“WHAT?” you shout back at me. I answer with this simple statement. How fast did you drive down the expressway or the average street today? You become speechless because you know it was not the posted speed limit for which ever road you were on, because you need to get someplace in a hurry. I have mentioned time and again Titus 3:1. Well today I am adding some more verses:
1 Peter 2: 13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. 15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: 16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. 17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
To me when something in the Bible is repeated more than once it is meant to be a tool for judgment upon the day of the White Throne Judgment. Why? Because it states in the Bible that there must be two witnesses against you. Since we are dealing with spiritual matters then we must work off of that which is meant to teach our spirit to love and honor God through His Son the Lord Jesus Christ. What is that? The Bible. So this very book serves as your two witnesses and can be used against you when you find yourself not in the audience on that great and wondrous event, but as the one on trial with God as your judge.

An evil has risen against you

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In times past I have written in harsh tones. Tones I have recently commented upon, but why are they harsh? Were not the words spoken by John the Baptist harsh towards the nation of Israel just before Jesus began to teach His message? Yes they were.
It is in times of adversity, especially when those that should know better and allow it, that a harsh voice cries from the wilderness. Well once again we are in a time of immense hardship and the one nation that has the ability to stand against these horror facing this world sits quietly and self-absorbed.

Isaiah 54: 17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

Yet at this time they do prosper, but how can they? For this nation has turned its back upon God. Mouthing the words of Christendom yet having no idea of their meaning. The word “hypocrite” means to act like they are something they are not. I have used the word hypocrite more freely lately because I see more acting the part of Christians then living the part.
People turn from these words in hate and disgust. Why? Because deep down inside many of themselves they see a spark of truth in the words I type. I type them because a great evil has risen not only outside this nation, but within. God has been systematically removed this nation to the point that as one person recently told my church I attend as he talked to college aged students. He tried to relate the story of David and Goliath to them and they had no idea what he was talking about.
That says that this is no longer a nation of God, but a nation without God and we that should be leading our children to God have failed and so we have a man in the White House that goes and laughs and plays golf moments after giving lip service to the media over the beheading of Mr. Foley.
This is why I am harsh with my words. This is why more need to step up and serve and honor God once again.
Only one political party at this time still officially honors God. The other one has kicked God out.
Support those that support God and let those that do not know that there is a God.

Confessions of a screwed up middle-aged man: Today someone new added their words to the world of blogging.

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Well when I awoke today I was greeted by a message on my cell phone that a post was waiting for me in one of the groups I post to in Facebook. They are the same posts I place here, I just share them there.
Well I read the post and was pleased by what I read. It is a way I sometime, but rarely post. Trust me I have tried, but they don’t work out that way. I was gladdened that this young lady has added her words to those others like mine that can be found upon the internet in the form of blogs. I pray she is able to reach across the world as my own post of done. I pray that they inspire and cause people to think and ponder their own faith and believes in God and come to know God and His plan for them better.
I know I can be harsh in my post, but I can tell you this it is not intentional. I start to write and I just allow the words to flow from me into typed words upon a screen or hastily written words in notebooks. I do not plan what I am going to write, which is different from many write and blog. Thus the subtitle “thoughts out of the blue” for my blog.
One thing I do know is that I try to place upon these word what I feel is pleasing to God. This is what I wish all to write in their own blogs as the reach out unto the world that is in so much need of God and His Son. Too many are unaware of God or even the stories within the Bible.
A Christian comedian was at our church the other day and he mentions that people going to college has no idea about the story of David and his battle with Goliath. It is a sad commentary of our time that in a world with some much knowledge available to all too too few actually go out and seek it. It also explains how so many can act with rudeness and hatred since they no concepts of the teachings of peace and love have given in the Bible.
It is wonderful when another voice is added to those trying to teach of the wonders of God and His Son for their branch will seek to bear fruit where my branch cannot reach and t is pleasing and wonderful to witness this new growth beginning.

My two cents on the “Crusades” comment by Mr. Obama

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If you have looked through my blog you will see that I have compared the actions of the Crusades to be like the events being done by ISIS (ISIL) and the other groups that behave in a like manner to them.
Here is where Mr. Obama messed up though. The Crusades took place out of ignorance of the common people. A lack of knowledge of the true meaning and understanding of the teaching found within the Bible. Why? Because only the rich could even afford a copy of a Bible and members of the church. It must also be stated that in many cases the rich and the church were one and the same at that time also due to no mass knowledge of the Bible.
This is something that Mr. Obama should have stated when making his remarks. I can only speculate why he did not.
Now he also mentioned slavery. Now this one thing many do not like to comment about. Mainly due again to ignorance on the topic. Most have a fantasy image of slavery. They believe it only occurred within the United States. Yet it is shown within the Bible. It is also shown that many that came to colonize this nation no matter their color came over here as slaves. At first they were what is called indentured slaves. They would pay off their debt, the cost of the trip here, and then they would be free to colonize.
This soon become unprofitable and so then the import of slaves began. Note the wording here the “import of” this means they were already slaves. In fact most slave owner outside of this nation were of the same race as those that were their “property.” Now in no means am I making excuses for slavery. It is wrong and something that should never be, but are you aware there is slavery going on at this very moment in Africa in the Pacific Rim nations? Most if it is sex slaves, but there is still other types being done.
It has become the mainstay of those on the left to follow this false narrative of theirs that the “white” oppressors wish to continue to keep the “blacks” down. When in reality most that say this are extremely rich and well off. Their intent is to keep the poor, poor and thus make themselves rich and take or maintain control of the poor by making them believe these lies. This goes across party lines, but if you really do your research you will find that there are more rich Democrats than there are Republicans.
It is speeches like the one made by Mr. Obama that wish to divide this nation help to bring about a government that will allow the rich and elite to dictate to those that are poor and uneducated.
It is through government make policies like Obamacare and Common Core which is part of the plan to dumb down the average citizen of the United States and keep them dependent upon the rich, I mean government.
It is a plan that is working. Each year this nation becomes more and more ignorant, while the few especially those on the left just sit back and watch it happen as they rake in money given to them by corrupt and self-serving career politicians. The thing is there are many who are fighting this, but it is not enough. Most set about watching sports the new modern version of the gladiators (football, baseball, basketball, and hockey) of the Roman Empire, a tool used heavily by the dictators of Roman to make their populous ignorant and subdued through the use of entertaining distraction, which worked for hundreds of years.
Then came Christianity, through the teaching of Jesus Christ the Son of God. This changed things, but not enough. Because in time those in power and those in control of the knowledge perverted it for their own purpose and greed. It is this which resulted in the Crusades. It seems to follow a cycle that occurs nearly every thousand years.
Well in today’s society we are experiencing the same type of ignorance and it is due to few reading and understanding the Bible or the Qur’an. Both religions which came from Abraham teach peace, both have their difference and would take too long to explain. I will say this, maybe out of personal prejudice I don’t know, I would rather all turn to God through the word of the Bible and the lessons taught us by Jesus Christ.
But if not, I would rather all read FULLY their holy books and see that actions committed either one thousand years ago or even one hundred and fifty years ago is not something to compare to the actions and behavior of ISIS (ISIL) now. The sins of the past are the sin that those that lived that past must face. This sins of today are ours to face now, and what is worse in this situation we have enough information at our disposal to not be ignorant, yet we most are and by their own choice. We must face up to sins committed now, today. Our own personal sins or those committed by people that do horrific acts like what was done to the Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kassasbeh. It is our responsibility not only to learn the Bible to up hold all that is good and glorious within to the point of removing those terrorist that wish to destroy the world and impose their jaded values upon not only us but our children and grandchildren.
Do we wish to repeat the acts that cause millions to die in World War II? Well at this time we are. There are many in power at this time that echo history through not only their actions, but their words. Their desire to maintain peace at nearly any cost resulted in horrific deaths that could have been avoided. Instead six million Jews and an additional seven million of different nationalities and religious believes Like Christianity and Muslim died in concentration camps through Eastern Europe. Stop it now, not when it is too late and instead of millions is it billions that die. If you do not learn from history you are destine to repeat it and at this time we are.

Any who teach “self-worth” teach hypocrisy

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“Self-worth” is a teaching that states “you” can achieve entrance into heaven by your own actions and deeds. It is teachings like this that are blinding those that call themselves “Christians” when in reality they may not be. By the way it is not in the Bible. Those that teach things not in the Bible and state it is “Christian” are teaching the world.
Titus 3:5 – Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
The only way to achieve entrance into heaven is by acknowledging that “you” can do nothing to get there. You must humble yourself. You must not try to do things on your own. For they will lead into the world and the world is corrupt.
1 John 2:15 – Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
When you seek out the world. You seek out the temporal and fleeting rewards of this life we now live.
Revelation 3:17 – Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Try to understand. This life is only a test. When compared to our true life that is to come. It is but a blink of the eye. Can you cherish a blink? No you cannot. It is there but a moment and then it is gone and repeated once again.
Our eternal live is not a blink, but an actual live. A live that will last for all eternity. Not 100 years, not 1000 years, but more than 1,000,000,000,000 year.
When you humble yourself before God, and learn to place all others before yourself you quickly learn that by doing so you realize that all are equal to you. So if they are your equal why do you seek to esteem to be better than them? Especially when we are taught within the Bible to place all others before ourselves.
Seeking out “self-worth” is seeking to hold onto a blink. When you do this your eyes are closed and you are blind to all that is real and perfect in the sight of God and His Son our Lord Jesus Christ.

For every man shall bear his own burden. (Galatians 6:5)

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Each person is responsible for their own actions and in-actions. We are not responsible for sin committed by our parent, grandparents so forth and so on.

Galatians 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

If you do things solely for the world, for and by this body, we now live this life in then we are only seeking after something that is and will rot. Part of this is blaming others for your miseries. Did this mythical “other person” cause you to set in front of a television all day instead of getting up and looking for a job? Did this mythical person that hurt your family one hundred and fifties year ago cause you to not study in school today or yesterday so you can prove you are worth for employment?
These are your actions. You are accountable for you. People who do not take responsibility for their actions, for their mistakes are someone that God weeps in sorrow for.
He does not weep because of their dilemma. He weeps for the people themselves for they are heading down a road that is of the world and the flesh and is corrupt and not worthy of become welcomed before His throne. So God weeps because they have taken a reward that is fleeting and temporal.
God wants all to seek after the eternal rewards. Reward that will not only allow them the stand welcomed before His throne, but to allow them to go throughout all of God creations in His service.
So it is time not blame those that are no longer here to defend themselves, or the descendants. For not only do they not have firsthand knowledge, neither do you. Per God, there must be two witnesses to a crime. This means they must actually see it take place, and none are now alive to be these witnesses. So all are innocent. If you blame them and wish to do them harm either physically or financially then you are the one committing the crime and will reap what you sow.

When you teach the opposite of love you teach hate and thus create chaos

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Time and again the news in recent years is filled with actions and words of hate. You have a man that calls himself a “reverend” and even holds a Bible saying that all cops hate all blacks. Yet does not police forces throughout this nation have black people within them and even leading them. The very sentence this person states negates itself showing that it is a lie. Yet thousands listen to him as if he is the new messiah and will bring paradise unto them that listen. He has been preaching these same words since the 1970s, should not the paradise have been reached by now? Yet it is worse than ever for those that listen to this man that lives a luxurious life style as he hob knobs with the rich and powerful as he avoids paying his own taxes that will in turn help to improve things for those that he claims he wishes to help.
Then we have a group of men that have taken words out of context in the Qur’an. They say live their way or die a horrible death. Hundreds if not thousands have been behead, several of them recorded and shown throughout the world to promote their way of view and to bring others to their “cause.” They have declared war upon the world and most of the world sits back and does nothing or even runs the other way. Jesus says blessed is the peacemaker, yet at this time no one is trying to make peace they are encouraging, promoting and allowing war because they do not wish to infringe upon the rights of those that are committing these horrors and statements of hate. Their excuse in the United States: “because we have wronged them by trying to impose our values upon them.”
These values they are referring to are those values taught within the Bible and Qur’an. Abraham is the “father” of the nation of Israel and the nations that follow the Muslim faiths. Abraham is the “grandfather” of Christianity since that faith came from the Jewish religion and the teachings of the Son of God the Lord Jesus Christ.
These three religions have a common beginning and so they all three worship the same God, yet due to those like the man first described above pervert the Bible and the Qur’an for their own goals and glorification. They show themselves to be selfish self-serving, self-glorifying humans. The very thing that we are taught to turn away from. Yet they twist the words of these two books to cause those that listen to think it is the truth.
But why do they listen? Why do they not see that they are being taught lies? Because they themselves refuse to read these two books and come to understand their message. Now I can only talk of the Bible for I do not know enough of what is within the Qur’an, but the message of Jesus Christ is very clear. We are to love God first and then we are to love our fellow human beings as we love ourselves. Also in Titus chapter 3, it states that we are to follow and respect the laws of the land and those that are given the job to uphold them.
It is important that each and every person FULLY read their respective religious book. It is extremely important every person truly study and come to understand what is written within these books. If we do not we will fall prey to the wolves walking amongst the sheep and the pack of wolves howling from the darkness just beyond the light of the fire of understanding and knowledge.
Blessed is the peacemaker. The word “peacemaker” means to bring peace, which means there is war and chaos and mayhem. How can you make this peace? It is never made with words it is made with actions. These actions mean to arrest and placed in jail or even unto war. So those that are peacemakers are the police and soldiers as well as those that through action and effort cause the defeat of hate, chaos and bloodshed.
It is good to love all including your enemy, but if your enemy comes at you to kill you have the right defend yourself. If this was not so there would not be nearly one hundred battles listed in the Bible supporting this.

Matthew 15:17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

“Whoever recommends and helps a good cause becomes a partner therein, and whoever recommends and helps an evil cause shares in its burden.” Chapter 4, Verse 85

Once again

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Today the news was filled with foiled terrorist attacks and anarchist trying to disrupt the normal lives of the common person. As I have stated before both of these elements within the world’s society have only one goal in mind. Chaos which will allow their way of thinking to win. Also as I stated before they serve the same purpose, destruction of the way you live your life.
Yet most go about living this life like it will not affect them. It is sad that it takes events like that of 9/11 to cause the average person to actually turn their head and make them think for a moment. Then they just go back and live their life like they have before. Some may do so a little more carefully though.
The thing is there truly is a cure to all this disharmony. It is the teaching of Jesus Christ. If people would read them, understand them and then practice them they would soon have a better world to live within. It is a world that we had for a short time in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s in the United States.
True it was not perfect. But when dealing with humans nothing can ever be perfect. In this time frame God was known. God was celebrated. God was honored. God rewarded us with some peace.
Then those that do not honor God started to rear their heads. Slowly God has been taken from this country, and in return this nation as fallen upon hard times. Why? Because people do not honor or respect each other as they are taught to do in the Bible. Who is to blame? Those that have been removing God. Those that have been dishonoring God.
This nation was founded as a nation to worship God. Was it perfect? No. For nothing made of man can ever be perfect. But as long as this nation honored and respected God it was rewarded with some type of peace and prosperity. Now we are in hard times and it is all due to not honoring or respecting God.
It is time to return to the Bible. It is time to return God to His place within this nation. It is time to place God first and to love our neighbors as ourselves and then and only then will God reward us once again.