Christian

A full, complete and truthful form of consent

Christian, Christian Life, General, Guide, Life, Relationship, Thoughts, , , , Leave a comment

This is something that is missing from the world today. I also do not mean to consent in an act within a relationship between two people. I do mean in the ability to choose how your life will be lived.
To approach this topic we have to look at the universe including how nature itself works, especially in the area of life forms. These being complex life forms that is. Those that require two to reproduce and continue on the species. There are now those that say for humans this is now something that has always been fluid. This is a concept that does not carry any weight in how complex life forms reproduce. There is only one way in these life forms. So that means there is only one way it can be interrupted.
This topic in away was addressed by Paul the apostle to the Romans in chapter one of this book within the New Testament. In fact it goes on to state clearly the women left their nature design to seek after encounters with other women. This shows that all higher life forms even in the time of the Roman Empire considered natural order to be only in a male/female relationship which continued the species.
Why is this now in question?
The answer is simple. Humanity is no longer being taught the true science of nature. They are being taught someone’s idea of how they see nature, which leads to confusion. This misunderstanding also comes from a deeper point. How people see their very existence within the universe. We are in a time of chaos not order. Cultures thrive within order. These theorist would have you believe the opposite. As a result culture starts to fail and those that thrive within chaos start to succeed as they themselves start to impose their own form of order.
However their form of order does not help the majority. It instead feeds them, to the point of self-destruction. This has played out time and again throughout history. The Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Nazis, and the Soviets. All have risen and fallen. Usually ending in bloodshed, but no matter always failing.
True order always wins out. For when true order is allowed to occur. Humanity works within it easily and comfortably, for the most part. Even though we all mess up and all make errors we can find some comfort in our life. The source of where order comes from has been removed for the most part. The majority no longer even know where to look for some true form of order. Mainly due to those with the power to bend the ear have nearly everyone not willing to truly look to, nor even attempt to understand the source of order. In fact they go out of their way to make it where you must listen to those with degrees to show that they have proven their worth and value to the world. By dedicating their time and effort to get a piece of paper; instead of actually in-depth studying of what it is they say they know. Having themselves taken the word of others over learning what is needed themselves. Just because someone has a piece of paper that says they graduated from some university doesn’t mean they truly know anything. Most when truly challenged fail to even understand the simplest of precepts within anything worth truly knowing.
This is due to relying on others to give you that which you need to come to an understanding of. The majority do not have informed consent. You can only get informed by coming to know and understand that which you wish to know by actually reading it yourself. This not only goes for the Bible, but for the Constitution of the United States of America. Most actually think an election is won by popular vote. Dictators, those that thrive in chaos desire the popular vote. For they know it is only a matter of time until they will feast upon the flesh of the masses. A prime example: Venezuela.
One of the greatest statements within the Bible is those that are to lead never truly seek after power. It is thrust upon them and when they do have it; they only seek to serve those that they have been made to lead. This happened because they are informed of the truth and the facts.
You can only chose how you can live your life successfully if you know ALL the options. If you know the consequence both good and bad if you chose to do certain things. It is this lack of informed knowledge that has made it where there are those that now say sexuality is fluid. For they do not understand that there is only one way. They seek after their own lusts and desires. It is from these lusts that caused another statement within the Bible. That being if you harm a child that believes in God that you may as well tie a weight to your neck and throw yourself into the sea. For that death will be better than the death that awaits those that harm these children.
Read the Bible. Read the Constitution. Come to know both. No longer let others lead you around by the nose. Make your own informed consent. If you chose to live in sin then di so, but know and accept that you will not be in the eternal life that is to come. A life that is promised to all, but few shall actually find

Confessions of a screwed up middle aged man: a sad comment

Christian, Christian Life, General, Guide, Life, Relationship, Thoughts, , , , , View all 2 comments

So the other day, one of my fellow co-workers walks up to me. He says he was talking to another co-worker who said this about me:
“He is the only person here that says he is a Christian and actually acts like it. All the others that say they are do not.”
This made me speechless. Not out of pride, or shock, but in actual sorrow.
I talk to a few people at work that say they are also “Christian.” One of them seem to be doing the right thing.
About me? I know I sin. I know I am not perfect. I strive to follow the teachings of the Bible as best I can, but I still fall short.
Yet to have someone say, that I am the exception, on the good side. I would rather be the exception on the bad. Due in part to my failings as a human.
There are many that do not state they are “Christian.”
There are many that actually deny God.
But to be deemed the only one, in a place that has hundreds. This is sad.

An “unfair” God

Christian, Christian Life, General, Guide, Life, Relationship, Thoughts, , , , , , One comment

re-post
This is one of those things that just amaze me. The other day I ran a post and I got a reply stating that something in the Bible was “unfair.”
This says two things to me. First and foremost, they have no true understanding of God, and second they wish to humanize God, by saying that He is capable of error. Let’s look at the first and hopefully it will address the second issue, but I doubt it so I will expound on that a little as well.
God is the creator of everything, with Him by His side Christ has always been present. God caused the Big Bang and the universe became real. God created all life throughout His creation. This is stated in Genesis. God is all knowing and all perfect. From Him comes order to the universe, and this order has a truly natural order. Certain elements do certain things. New life from that which was created must do certain things to continue on. With the merest thought He can cause an earthquake, a volcanic eruption and the rain to fall. He causes a cricket to sing with its legs and a bird to fly through the air. From Him ALL is ordained. God is not “unfair.” In fact the mere fact that we breathe, think, and walk is due to Him being fair. God could never be “unfair,” and so anything that comes from God is for His glory and perfection, even the fall of man from grace is fair. Why? Because He doesn’t want puppets on strings but people that freely and willingly accept Him as who He really is even though because humans have free will all that is horrid and horrible takes place. Why, because humans are imperfect and corrupt and only imperfection and corruption can come from them at this time. But still this is what God wants to take place so only those that truly love and honor Him will do so, for He is the Creator of ALL!
There are those that either do not know this or don’t care to know this. They think and believe that men made the Bible. Yes men penned the Bible, but per 2 Timothy 3:16 God inspired their words though the Holy Spirit. Men are the tools of God, not the other way around and so to say something written in the Bible is “unfair” is saying God is unfair. If God were unfair he would not have given humans a way to commune with him through the blood sacrifices given to the Jewish nation. If God were unfair then He would not have allowed His Son to come into this reality through Mary. If God were unfair He would not have let His only child suffer torture, pain and anguish, but He did. Is this something that someone that is unfair would do? By all means NO!
Then if God is not unfair who is? Those that would rather live in sin and parade about as if they are a children of God. That is who is unfair. They are unfair because they care more for themselves then God or their fellow human beings. Those that are truly unfair force their way of life in the face of others not caring what damage they do. That is not only unfair, but it is hatred, for they not only hate other humans but they in reality hate God. Now that is truly unfair.
Colossians 4: 1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

“Live no longer as the gentiles do”

Christian, Christian Life, General, Guide, Life, Relationship, Thoughts, , , , , , One comment

There are those out there that do not say this. But that is what we are instructed to do within the Bible. For the Bible is the Word of God and when you ask Jesus into your life you are binding yourself to these words.
Then why do those in the pulpits and stand upon the dais not say these words? Are they not the representative of God? In actually no they are not. They are a representative of those that appointed these people the leaders. In actuality when you accept Jesus as your Savior you yourself become a representative of God. It is your responsibility to make sure what you are hearing is the truth of the Bible. Yes the Bible does say this:
Ephesians 4:11 – Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. 12 Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. 13 This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.
If those you have chosen to lead you do not bring unity in our faith and true knowledge of God’s Son so that we can stand a pure reflection of Jesus Christ Himself, are they serving God or themselves? The answer is they are serving themselves.
In Ephesians chapter four the title of this article is written by Paul, but here is the complete picture of this part of the Bible, for it is important that people start to learn how to take the word of God in context:
“17 With the Lord’s authority I say this: Live no longer as the Gentiles do, for they are hopelessly confused. 18 Their minds are full of darkness; they wander far from the life God gives because they have closed their minds and hardened their hearts against him. 19 They have no sense of shame. They live for lustful pleasure and eagerly practice every kind of impurity.
20 But that isn’t what you learned about Christ. 21 Since you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from him, 22 throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. 23 Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. 24 Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.”
What I find that many now days try not to acknowledge is the statement that the gentiles “live for lustful pleasure and eagerly practice every kind of impurity.” Now there are those that call themselves “Christian” and do these very things themselves. As was just shown above we are to come into unity and seek after being a true reflection of Jesus Christ. Jesus the one and only perfect being ever to walk this planet. If people live in lustful pleasures and impurity they are nowhere near that reflection.
We are told that we must leave our sins behind. We can no longer live in the sinful lives that so many cherish more than God. For by doing so they are not “Christian,” but a gentile, a sinner, and something that is not welcome in heaven.
Ephesians 4:30 – And do not bring sorrow to God’s Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, he has identified you as his own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption.
31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior. 32 Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.

Who are the adulterers of the book of James?

Christian, Christian Life, General, Guide, Life, Relationship, Thoughts, , , , One comment

This is not referring to just those that commit adultery upon their spouse, even though, technically they are included. It is those that say that they have asked Jesus Christ to be their Savior. It is those that then instead of being a loyal bride to the Holy Bridegroom, which is who Jesus is. They turn their backs upon Him and seek after those things that they can see about them.
He tells us not to seek after things of the world. For they shall rust away and be eaten by moths, or stolen by thieves (Matthew 6:19-20). Yet this is exactly what they do seek after. They seek after wealth, and fame. They seek after the bigger, the better, and the shinier. They turn themselves into adulterers, cheating upon their Savior and rejecting those promised and cherished rewards that will come when we no longer live for up to a hundred years. But when we live for billions, upon billions of years.
This is the one concept most in the world have forgotten, that we are all to be eternal beings. We are all promised to live for billions of years. Most, however, reject this thesis. They claim that all there is, is this poultry one hundred years. And so they seek after that which turns them into adulterers.
The Bible makes it clear. If you seek after riches it can most likely be impossible to enter into the eternal live that is to come (Matthew19:23-24). We are to reject the lusts and desires of pleasing ourselves, but to humble ourselves and worship He who died upon the cross. Allowing us the ability to be seen by His Father, our Creator.
The desires of the self must die. Placing ourselves at the center of our concerns must die. For if we do not do this, we are promised to die a second time. To be dead eternally in the sight of God. Even though physically we will still be alive, but in such anguish and misery that we will have no time to know or think of anything else but that agony we will be experiencing if we do not end being adulterers to He that has called us to be His bride.
Repent of your sin. Turn your backs upon them and never return to them. For if you do not, God Himself will break you form the vine of the Bridegroom and allow you to be cast into the fire (John 15).
James 4:1 – What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you? 2 You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. 3 And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure. 4 You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. 5 Do you think the Scriptures have no meaning? They say that God is passionate that the spirit he has placed within us should be faithful to him. 6 And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say,
“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
7 So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world. 9 Let there be tears for what you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep grief. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor.

A disturbing trend

Christian, Christian Life, General, Guide, Life, Relationship, Thoughts, , , , Leave a comment

re-post
Twenty years ago I encountered for the first time a television show where writers attempted to show angels as evil and demonic. It was a kid’s show. Now those children are adults and now I see the same thing but more prevalent. There have been movies as well as TV shows, but the message is the same. Angels bad, man good.
This has only one purpose and it is not a good one. This is what the Bible says about such things:

Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Most likely the writers are unaware what they are doing, perhaps the producers do not, but the result is the same. The Bible is not being taught in its true light and they are bring about something that will not go well for them per the Bible.
Things like this are just one more sign to me that our time upon this planet is most likely getting shorter. In a way that excites me and in another it saddens me.

Arrogance

Christian, Christian Life, General, Guide, Life, Relationship, Thoughts, , , , , Leave a comment

re-post
I watch as I see the arrogance of humanity rise to the top. Once again thinking that humans have power over all. As a result they allow themselves to become overconfident. They think they know better than others. They feel that all others are their pawns, their puppets. Their toys to play with as they so desire.
As a result people die, people starve and suffer. Do they care? In a superficial way. They blame their errors upon those that think that God is the way to go. They call those that believe in God ignorant and stupid for believing in what they see as a non-existent entity that adds nothing to the equation. They blind themselves to history. They blind themselves to the evidence before them.
All I see is history once again repeating itself. I see the pride and aloofness that in the end was shattered and crushed. Yet they still go on thinking that THEY can make a perfect world. As every action they take follows what science has stated will always happen. There is an opposite and equal reaction. For everything they do that they call good something evil goes in its place. Something they do not realize actually comes from within them.
For without God there is only evil, and evil begets only evil. When something truly good does occur it lasts for decades, but whenever evil erupts all that results is death and bloodshed. Yet it was not humans that caused the problem, for they are “perfect” especially if they are educated, especially if they know what is best for their fellow human beings.
Their striving to make the perfect reality only causing slavery and division; bloodshed and war. They break apart that which honored God and as a results diminishes humanity. For in their arrogance they belittle and abuse. Murder and rape, for it is not a fellow human they are hurting, but a lesser animal for it does not think as they do. It believes in a one true God and that all humanity was created to serve God. But they do not wish to serve, but to rule. For that is their destiny to control and manipulate. Like a master of all that is good to them for it makes them feel they are the savior of humanity. Not realizing the true savior of humanity, those like them killed.
They deny He is real for they do not see Him. Even though on the third day he rose from His grave and walked and talked to them. Yet this is not real, but a fairytale. It can only be a fairytale, because they are the masters of deceptions and lies for they do it all the time, and those that believe them are idiots and worthy of lying too for they are too stupid to see the truth.
Now humanity’s time is finally waning all because of those that think they are perfection and the masters of the world. While those that see the truth warn them and tell them that He they deny is near and is almost ready to start the coming of the end of the gentile rule of His world.
It is sad that so many would rather live here in this temporal life than in the eternal that is soon to start. May God’s glory truly shine on many before it is too late.

Confessions of a screwed up middle aged man: Taking a beating

Christian, Christian Life, General, Guide, Life, Relationship, Thoughts, , , , , Leave a comment

re-post
One thing Jesus Himself talks of is that following Him will lead to persecution. In my personal experience this is all too real. People do not wish to hear the truth. Especially those that feel they are following the teachings of Jesus Christ when in reality they are not. This was a major reason the Pharisees hated Jesus so much. Because what He taught was truly Biblical and sound, while theirs was all show and left many going into damnation instead of salvation.
Matthew 23:13 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either.
This is true today. For many within the pulpits and upon the dais no longer teach the Bible, but man-made ideals and doctrines which are in reality causing many to think they are one with God, but in reality they are nowhere near Him.
But when people like myself say these things we are ridiculed, insulted, belittled or ignored and called crazy. In a way I feel honored, for this was how the prophets of the Old Testament were received in most cases to the dismay of the people of Israel who did not accept the words of the prophets until it was too late and their nation was subjugated multiple times due to their in part ignorance, but for the most part their arrogance.
Their attitude in both those to the prophets and the Pharisees to Christ Himself is how people for the most part have always been. This is why Christ said upon the Sermon on the Mount that it would be a blessing for those persecuted for remaining loyal to Him and the Bible.
Matthew 5:10 – Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
In another way I feel sorrow, for I truly do love my neighbors, and I wish all to see that glorious day of reward as we joyfully and happily stand before the throne of God in pure white garments. I know all too well though that this is the furthest thing from the truth.
I know that when the Rapture occurs it will be far smaller than many actually expect. Many thinking they will be going with God upon the day when the trumpet blows will find themselves still exactly where they are. As they turn to look at someone else and find that person gone. It will be a noticeable event. For many will go, but it will also be able to explained away because if will not be a significant event to cause the world to stop functioning as some say will happen.
1 Thessalonians 4: 14 – For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with him the believers who have died. 15 We tell you this directly from the Lord: We who are still living when the Lord returns will not meet him ahead of those who have died. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the believers who have died will rise from their graves. 17 Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Then we will be with the Lord forever.
But many, as I said above, will still be here. Thinking they should be with God, but instead they find themselves still here. Why? Because they did not read the Bible themselves. They took the words of others as true, but in reality they were the lies of humans, with no eternal value.
And even now as I type these words I know that some will again tune me out, shut me down and lock my words away from them, for they do not wish to hear these words. Why? Because it would mean that the sins they live within and accept over God are more important to them. Because they were not truly taught of Christ’s true love for them, but of a man-made “love” that equals nothing to Jesus.
They do not wish to hear Jesus say to them that their prayers were never heard for they never truly knew Him.
Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. 22 On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’ 23 But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’
I would rather suffer rejection for my fellow humans than to ever reject my Savior.

Confessions of a screwed up middle aged man: FINALLY!!!

Christian, Christian Life, General, Guide, Life, Relationship, Thoughts, , , , , Leave a comment

This last Sunday I finally heard a true preaching of the Bible from a minister. It was shocking and yet satisfying.
To hear a man standing upon the dais actually teaching the Word of God. Saying that to live for sexuality either outside the marriage or with those specifically named sins with the Bible was not living for God, but for themselves. To hear him say, that we are to be a true reflection of Christ. That we are to follow the teachings and commandments within the Bible, but not to a place a ritualism, but by both faith and works combined. Saying that we are not to seek after money to be seek after our rewards which are not of this earth, but in the eternal life that is to come.
To hear my own beliefs be reaffirmed and shown to be the truth of following Jesus Christ as my Savior. It was amazing.

God First part 3

Christian, Christian Life, General, Guide, Life, Relationship, Thoughts, , , , , , Leave a comment

re-post
We are told to seek out the kingdom of heaven and to seek out righteousness. In multiple commentaries it places emphasis that we are to seek out God first. That we should strive to be righteous in all that we do. Will we stumble and fall? Yes, but as long as we pick ourselves up and return to seeking to place God over all we do then we are heading down the right path.
It is a path that will be rough, you will find that not all wish to follow it for they will say that it is too hard and many times you will find that you are shunned, hated and even rejected by those that you once thought were your friends and allies.
They may even ostracize you and call you unworthy, a fanatic and even crazy. These are all things we are warned will happen to us once we go down the narrow road, for most would rather take the wide and easy path, not realizing they are, but they do anyway. It will be painful at times and even lonely, but if you know you are grounded correctly and properly within the teachings of the Bible you have nothing to fear.
One of the hugest misconceptions plaguing the world and even the church is the belief that all there is, is this world we now live within in. This is the furthest thing from the truth. For Christ has promised us an eternal life, yet many still mourn the passing of a loved one more than they should. In all actuality it should be a time for rejoicing for they have been called home unto God if they have tried to live a good and righteous life and avoided sin as best they could through the glory of Christ.
Now I can understand there being sorrow and weeping if they did not, for they may not make it passed the Great White Throne Judgment.
This is why it is so important to strive to place God first in all we do. So when we are called up into heaven we know it will be because we have finished our commission for Christ and we have been a good and righteous servant unto God, His Son and the world and we will have left it at least slightly better than when we first entered into it.
It is then that we will know without a doubt that the life we just left was nothing more than a proving ground. A short test to see if we would stay loyal to the Creator of all and everything by turning from sin.