When I was A Child, I thought as a child, I acted as a Child, and when I became a man, I put away childish things, an acted as a man.
When I told my mother that I loved her she responded in kind, but as I told my dad the same thing, there was no answer. My dad had a problem with showing his true emotions, but I knew in my heart, he loved me too.
“My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.” The ways of the heart are sometimes unknown to most men. They say; “I love you.” but have no idea what true love is. The word love has been lost in lust, and greed.
My dad, had a special love, that was, unique, and separate, from others. His love for his children came in the form of his work ethics, and supplying his children with the best he could provide. I remember many a time when we had brown beans for dinner, but even with this, my dads love, shown threw. My dad bought us a new pair of shoes each year to wear to school, he bought us two new pair of pants, and two new shirts. We had all that we needed. We never asked for more than was necessary, never asked for more than he could provide, and never wondered why someone else had more, we were content.
This is true love, love for mother, father, sister, brother, and neighbors. We would give our lives for one another, we would give any pleasures for one another, we were family, with the love of a family. This is the way with God, for “The love of God is the first duty of man.”
Love; “In other words, the Christian loves God with the love of complacency(pleasure or joy.)in his attributes (That which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in; as, power and wisdom are attributes of the Supreme Being; honor), the love of benevolence(An act of kindness; good done; charity given.) towards the interest of his kingdom, and the love of gratitude for favors received.
We must love God without the self interest of expecting things from Him. We do not love God, or anyone else with our fleshly heart, but rather with our spirit. The spirit of a man is where his heart lies. For we know that we are all made from the spirit, first and then the flesh follows. This is why many have a heard time in knowing when life begins. Life, and love, begin with conception. For without the spirit the body is dead.
“The love of God is the first duty of man, and this springs from just views of his attributes or excellencies of character, which afford the highest delight to the sanctified heart.” The sanctified heart means; “To separate, set apart or appoint to a holy, sacred or religious use.”
Our hearts love God because we have been set apart for His use, glory, and for His good pleasure. We love God with all our hearts, soul, mind, spirit, and we offer our own bodies for a living sacrifice, which is our reasonable service to God. With out dedication, we cannot love God as we should.
Without believing in Him, and His attributes, we are worshipers with no substance. Without believing in His Son, we are worshipers with no love for God, nor for His word. We are a separated people, and must keep our love for God, as He would be acceptable with. We cannot love God with our body, for it is contaminated with sin, and unrighteousness, but we can keep our bodies in acceptance with His laws, and statutes. We cannot love God with doubt, or anger, in our Hearts.
“And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” To love God is too trust Him, to believe in Him and to relie on Him. Our spirits will show the true intentions of our heart. The evil of this world has a way of trying to enter into the heart of a believer. It gives excuses as to why, you haven't received from God, as to why your life is not going well, and to why you should turn away, from the true love of God, for another.
“My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.” Giving over our heart to the Lord, is to accept His gifts, and rebuke. For a love for a child is sometimes hard to show, as it was with my dad. Sometimes we must punish our children, not to show our authority or power, but rather to show our concern for their well being, and love. Gods love is shown at times by not answering your prayers, because many times we forget to trust in Him, forget that He knows our daily needs, or the thing that you are asking for is not the will of God. Many times we get into a ministry that was not ordained by the Lord, as so, He is in no obligation to aid you in the project, that you have applied, to the ministry, that was ordained by God.
And he answering said, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.” We can see here that, the heart of a man is separate from, the soul of a man. The Heart is the spirit of love within us and the soul is that part of man which enables him to think and reason, and which renders him a subject of moral laws. In other words, we are able to reason, and think upon, what is right, and what is wrong.
The soul, strength, and mind, are the parts of the spirit that choose weather to believe, and love the Lord. Just a thought. Ars.
Pro 23:26 Mar 12:33 Luk 10:27, Webster,TSK.
What is the wickedness of the world? Wickedness is anything that is not of faith in the Lord. Men go after strange flesh, strange doctrines, and lust after money.
“A man shall not be established by wickedness;”
Established; To enact or decree by authority of their own doings and for permanence; to ordain; to appoint; as, to establish laws, regulations, rules, and ordinances.
There is no scripture that states that a man is established in the Lord, by what a man owns, possess, or what manner of money he has. Many believe that gambling is of the Lord. Many say, I wager a dollar and receive 50, so that must be a blessing from God. This is a deception and a lie.
Gambling is a ploy by Satan to get the unwary, or the unlearned, into forgetting the words of the Lord, to cast away their faith in Gods provisions, and to turn away from their hope. We cannot throw away a blessing from the Lord, for even if a man gambles away a dollar and wins 50, he has forsaken the Lord. A man who takes that same dollar, and buys a loaf of bread for his family is justified of the Lord, for his willingness to trust in God for all things.
You say,”I don't think there is anything wrong with wagering money, that I have worked for.” This is also a deception, for without God you would not have the strength to work, the provisions on your table, or even have life. By gambling away the funds that the Lord has provided to you, you have turned away from His word, His promises, and His Son.
Let us read and understand; “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
Therefore, what sins do you commit when you wager the money, that the Lord has provided?
Covetousness, hurtful lust, greed, and lack of faith.
“And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.”
Do you not believe that God will provide for you? Do you not think that the Lord is unwilling for you to prosper? Do you think that every time you make up an excuse for your actions, that the Lord is pleased with you?
This world has many devices to rob men of their abundance, gambling is one of them. It is deceptive, harmful, a disease, a cancer, and a liability, that neither you, nor the Lord needs, or wants, in the life of His Children.
Let us read again;
“Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.”
You say; “ I haven't done any of these things by wagering money.” But yes you have, by trying to establish yourself by wickedness, by despising the word of the Holy One of Israel, by not being content with a dollar, by not being content with the life that the Lord has established for you.
Lets read again from the words of God. “Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. “
Gain of money, not worked for, is not Godliness, nor acceptable with the Lord. His truth is everlasting, and will never be removed. His word is from everlasting to everlasting.
“ Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.”
Remember what we have read? “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
“They have erred from the faith;” Erred; To wander from the right way; to deviate from the true course or purpose. To miss the right way, in morals or religion; to deviate from the path or line of duty; to stray by design or mistake. To mistake; to commit error; to do wrong from ignorance or inattention. Men err in judgment from ignorance, from want of attention to facts, or from previous bias of mind.
We all know the words of God, we know His wisdom on these matters, we know the truth but many still err from it. Many make up their own truth, their own deceptions, their own doctrine and their own laws of conduct, not once remembering what the Lord has commanded.
I will leave you with these last passages from the Lord; “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Ars.
Rom 12:2 Pro 12:3. 1Ti 6:7-10. Luk 12:15 Isa 5:24 1Ti 6:5-8. Isa 56:11 12 1Jn 2:16 1Co 11:32 Webster, TSK.
Does not our freedom come from the Lord? Has He not promised to rebuke the Devourer for our sakes? Shall I hate my brother, who has much goods? So then,What is it, If I Lose it all?
“But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,”. (Php 3:7-8.)
Those that have not put their total faith in God, weather they be Christian or an unbeliever, have this worlds goods in mind. They have money, power, status, goods of various kinds, but the thing they do not have, which is more valuable, is freedom from sin, and Satan.
If I lose my home, I still have freedom, if I lose my finances, I still have freedom, If I am on the street, I still have freedom, If I lose all my family, and loved ones, I still have freedom. I rejoice, when I have no food, for I know that the freedom, that I possess will see me threw. If I have no friends on this earth, I still have freedom, and the greatest friend of all. For I believe, as it is written; “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:.”
So what is it, if I lose all that I possess, I have been declared, by The Spirit of God, that I am, A Child of God, I am a King, and a Prince, not of this world, but of the next. Have I suffered loss, have I been persecuted, have I been hated, have I been in need? Yes, but I have endured all things by the mercy of the Lord. When I have been naked, He has clothed me, when I have been hungry, He has fed me, when I have suffered loss, He has comforted me. He is all in all, and is the Great rewarder to all who seek Him.
Am I not more than food and clothing? Am I not more than earthly possessions? Am I more than I am, or ever will be? I am, who I am, by the Grace of God.
“And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.” (Rom 8:16-19.)
“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” There are multitudes in need, who are in suffering, who are engulfed in wars, and conflicts. There are many that say, we, as Christians are to be wealthy in this life, as well as the next. These people that preach these things have overlooked one major commandment by the Lord.
“Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? Or, What shall we drink? Or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles (Unbelievers) seek
for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” (Mat 6:31-34.)
Who shall say that, a man who is wealthy, is better than the man who is poor? Who shall say that, a Christian who is wealthy, is better than the Christian who is poor? Who then has made us judges of right and wrong, rich or poor? “There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.” (Pro 13:7.)
Have you forgotten that your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things? This teaching, of earthly Christian wealth, and lack of faith, has brought about a great rift between the rich, and the poor. The false teaching of mans imagination, has set many mens minds to believe, if they bring tithes, and offerings, into the House of God, then they shall become rich. It is stated in prophecy, and in the testament of Christ, that the rich shall bring the poor before judges. The physicians, hospitals, and the rich, persecute the poor, for often the debts from them, are oppressive to those without, making them, as many say, second class citizens.
“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:. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.” (Rev 3:17, Rev 3:19.) Read and understand; “I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?”
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.”
“And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.” (Luke 18:8-14.)
I leave you with this thought;
“Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.” (Act 20:26-27.) ars.
The foundation that all Christians build upon is standing firm. What I worry about is the works that many try to build upon it. “For we are labourers together with God: ye are Gods husbandry, ye are Gods building.”As workers in the vineyard, we have the responsibility to reach out to others and ourselves. We exercise many levels of faith, and must build upon it.
A Christian knows, even those of low faith, that there are rules of conduct ,we must all abide by. We cannot change nor take away from the Commandments of God, nor His Christ. For as it is written; “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. For as it is written; “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
Idolatry, covetousness, and apostasy are spoken of as adultery spiritually An apostate church is an adulteress and the Jews are styled “an adulterous generation”
Fornication
In every form of it was sternly condemned by the Mosaic law But this word is more frequently used in a symbolical than in its ordinary sense. It frequently means a forsaking of God or a following after idols .
Those that say; “We are followers of Christ”, cannot commit adultery. We cannot live with a man, or a woman, that are not our spouses. The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female; also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman. We cannot follow after false doctrine for we there-fore commit adultery against God. This is adultery, and will be punished as such.
Adultery;
A married woman cohabiting with a man not her husband. The prevalent polygamy in patriarchal times rendered it impossible to stigmatize as adultery the cohabitation of a married man with another besides his wife. But as Jesus saith, "from the beginning it was not so," for "He which made male and female said, “They twain shall be one flesh.”
"So the Samaritan Pentateuch reads Gen. 2:24, as it is quoted in. A fallen world undergoing a gradual course of remedial measures needs anomalies to be pretermitted for a time, until it becomes fit for a higher stage, in its progress toward its finally perfect state. God sanctions nothing but perfection; but optimism is out of place in governing a fallen world not yet ripe for it. The junction of the two into one flesh when sexual intercourse takes place with a third is dissolved in its original idea.
There are those that are committing sins, that will never be allowed into the Kingdom of Heaven. Why? Lack of understanding of the scriptures, and teachers teaching false doctrine to maintain a large congregation. This is stated in Scripture, as a fault of the end day Church.
Adultery of the flesh and of the Spirit.
Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? Do you commit adultery and say, your a child of God? Do you seek out, or add, other doctrines, that are against the teachings of Christ, and say the Bible is the truth? Do you call sin, good, and righteousness, evil?
As it is written for our rebuke;
“Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?” “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
Do you not remember the teachings, of the only, sound doctrine?
When you marry a wife, you have found a good thing, but whores, and whoremongers, God will Judge. You have a writ of marriage and a writ of divorce, this is scripture, but there are those that teach and those that believe, a marriage certificate is just a piece of paper. They have not studied, nor understood, that a marriage between, man and wife, between, God an you, are binding.
When you commit adultery in the flesh, you have also committed adultery in the Spirit. Can this be forgiven? Yes, but as you ask for forgiveness, you must stop the action that you have committed. God will not allow any sin to enter into the Kingdom. God sanctions nothing but perfection; The sins of the flesh will never be sanctioned by God, no matter what doctrine you abide by, no matter who you say you love, no matter weather a man, or woman.
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Effeminate; To make womanish; to unman; Gays, Lesbianism.
There is a man suing a Bible publisher saying that the Bible has caused him to become depressed because it states that a gay man cannot go to heaven. I would rather offend that kind of thinking, and save his soul, then to turn away, and let him believe, that is it alright.
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
We shall be judged upon our works, weather they be good or evil. As it is written; “Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
Just a thought.
(1Co 3:9-20.)(Gal 5:19-21.)(Rom 2:22.) (Jer_3:6, Jer_3:8, Jer_3:9; Eze_16:32; Hos_1:1, Hos_2:1, Hos_3:1 Rev_2:22).(Isa_1:21; Eze_23:4, Eze_23:7, Eze_23:37),(Mat_12:39). (Compare Rev. 12.)(Lev_21:9; Lev_19:29; Deu_22:20, Deu_22:21, Deu_22:23-29; Deu_23:18; Exo_22:16). (See ADULTERY.)(Isa_1:2; Jer_2:20; Ezek. 16; Hos_1:2; Hos_2:1-5; Jer_3:8, Jer_3:9) (2Ti 4:3-4.) (Mat_19:5)(Mar 8:1
(Easton, Fausett,Webster,TSK.)(Rom_3:25, Act_17:30) (1Co 6:9-10.)
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