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Existence or life

16 Monday Feb 2015

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Perspective often defines how we live. If we are given to pleasing man, we engineer an existence without conflict and full of compromise. If our desire is to please God, we will present His truths to the world regardless of the consequence. This is Jesus, and frankly, every biblical prophet's attitude. Uncompromising truth, that is what God speaks in His word.

Perspective often defines how we live. If we are given to pleasing man, we engineer an existence without conflict and full of compromise. If our desire is to please God, we will present His truths to the world regardless of the consequence. This is Jesus, and frankly, every biblical prophet’s attitude. Uncompromising truth, that is what God speaks in and through His word.

Are you good enough for the church, for service to God, for friendship among spiritual leaders, for Heaven? Do you come from the right background, is your bloodline acceptable, are you in agreement with self-proclaimed societal leadership today? Do you have the skills, are you properly trained, are you open to change as society changes?

Interesting, these are all the types of questions we ask our presidential candidates today if they are conservatives. I find it very interesting that they seldom ask these questions of liberal candidates. One question I find completely without intelligence is to ask a Christian candidate if they can lead America and believe in the Bible. It is empty of knowledge of our history, wanting of understanding in biblical teaching, dishonest and above all discriminatory and hypocritical. Those are strong words but the truth is that it displays a complete lacking of understanding of Christ and the things of Christ as well as our founding documents, fathers and purposes as a nation.

However, candidates who may receive this ridiculous type of inquiry should feel they are in good company. In Matthew 7 and 8 this is exactly what the Jewish leadership asked Jesus. They looked around at the world, ascertained He was not consistent with their personal goals and asked Him how He expected to be taken seriously let alone lead Israel. He was only a carpenter, not taught in the proper places, not from a proper blood line, did not have the right societal ideas, was not in with the right crowds. He simply did not experience life like everyone else on earth therefore He could not be God, the Son of God, or the Messiah. ISN’T THAT THE POINT!

Jesus, being from Heaven, knowing where He originated and knowing His place was completely comfortable being unique. His home, just as is every Christian’s is not here. His home is in Heaven. His concerns are not to go along to get along in society, but to save mankind from sin by dying on the cross for the whole world. He has a wholly different compass that guides his way in life and it is not dependent upon the material existence in the world, but the spiritual existence He anticipates enjoying in Heaven. Yet he was tempted in all ways like man (Heb 14:15).

Christian, can you say the same about yourself? Is all you do here in the world ultimately focused upon pleasing your Father in Heaven?

The right action to dispel the wrong idea

24 Monday Nov 2014

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What you see is not necessarily what everyone else sees. Jesus was very concerned about perceptions. He aggressively attacked those with wrong perceptions and took actions to dispel wrong understandings. He even separated himself from those with wrong perceptions, incorrect doctrine or ungodly motivations. We should too.

What you see is not necessarily what everyone else sees. Jesus was very concerned about perceptions. He aggressively attacked those with wrong perceptions and took actions to dispel wrong understandings. He even separated himself from those with wrong perceptions, incorrect doctrine or ungodly motivations. We should too.

People refrain from using expletives in front of their children for a reason, they control their angry outbursts and change whole behaviors in front of their children. Responsible people do not want their children to communicate using these words or act out of anger. Certain families have regular events and rituals that they enjoy to teach their children how important it is to have order and discipline in their lives. Both of these activities teach children morals and character traits to our children. Parents choose not to drink alcohol or guard against discussing certain topics in front of their children. They want to instill in their children a sense of propriety.  Why is it a bad idea for Christians to be involved in certain things?

Moral people do not want their children to be associated with these negative stereotypes, therefore they avoid individuals, circumstances and activities to preserve their children’s innocence in these areas. A perfectly moral God does the same things but on a more grand scale.

We make decisions like these every day for our children but somehow we do not expect our heavenly Father and His Son to act the same way. For some reason, we think that regardless the circumstance because He is God He can forgo all the negative challenges, God can be associated with things through His children that we would never allow in our lives to affect our children. God being God does not mean He has more liberty, it means He more perfectly removes himself from sinful activity, He more perfectly separates himself from the world’s wickedness.

In John 7:10, we see Jesus doing exactly this. Why doesn’t Jesus just go to Jerusalem with His disciples? He is God. Being God He can influence everyone around Him to get the right idea of His messianic mission. It does not matter what people may think, that He should be made King and lead a revolt against Rome, that He is their savior from this oppressive occupation. God can dispel all these wrong ideas with a thought. However, God wants us to come to this determination, He wants us to make the right choice, and He will do nothing to improperly influence our choices. Because He knows the right actions to take to show us and help us make good decisions, He does so. God the Father wants to instill a sense of spiritual propriety in us through His living example in Christ Jesus. You too should take the right godly and biblical actions to dispel wrong worldly ideas.

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