For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Romans 3: 23-24.
All that have accepted Christ as their personel Saviour are familiar with the scripture above.
In Revelation 12:10 we see satan called the great accuser:
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
It is true that once we are sealed with the blood of Christ and the Holy Spirit, nothing can seperate us from God. This also means, nothing or no one can steal us away. From the moment we accept Christ we are His, bought and paid for through His Sacrifice. The great accuser , satan, from this point will do anything to cause problems in our lives. God does not tempt us and it is satan that brings the firey darts that attacks us almost constantly, especially in these last days now. Satan knows his time is short.
Just always remember this: You belong to God, and only God knows the future. God is the past, present , and the future. As a matter of fact God spoke the heavens and the earth into being. Satan on the other hand does not know the future. So for the Christian believer satan will try every time to accuse us of our past sins that we have been forgiven for . And even any sin that is committed from that point on.
It is true , we must live godly lives and set the example of Christ as a light of the world to see. And all too often have we seen the evidence of a Godly individual taken down when the great accuser uses the world to type cast them.
We have all heard or witnessed circumstances where there is a very Godly individual living in a community and for years served Christ unconditionally in the love of others. They are regarded as community leaders and setting that perfect example. Then one day the individual stumbles and falls short, it is made public...and all that the individual had done for years to his credit goes down the drain with the whole community.
So many try to live a perfect life, constantly incased in a sometype of spiritual straight jacket. All eyes are on them and all eyes judge them also. That is true in every aspect of our lives. But, the truth of the matter is while we are ruled by Christ in our hearts, we can never be sinless. We can try, but to our dissappointment we will always fall short. The world does not understand this and many within our own chiristian circles do not understand it either yet.
So, how do we live ? Can we have a good time and still be a Christian? Salvation is serious business forsure and loving one another is perhaps the most precious and important of Christ commands for us. What is it that changes inside of our hearts when we accept Christ that makes us different ? We are in the world , but not of the world what does this mean ?
Here is the answer... If we do the best we can do and always do the right thing , understanding that no one is perfect..but keeping a mature understanding of the mind of Christ and the commands and instructions Christ left for us to obey. For instance,
the Two most important commandments.. Love God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.
Regardless of what one does whither it be dancing, cooking, sports, fine arts, and the list goes on eternally..do it all for the glory of God.
If there is one thing God has shown me in my relationship with Christ in these 35 years, it is that we understand that God is a predestined all knowing God. It is God that sets the order that has been ordained from the very beginning. Yes, we are going to fail and fail many times. And Christ is always there ready to hear us and pick us back up. And praise God for a patient and loving God...
Don't let the great accuser try to hold you back, cause in reality he can't..the battle is already over, and the war is won...
All that we ever have in this world is God's anyway....and don't be surprised that our Loving Father does not disipline us at times.
Any shortcoming is always forgiven this does not mean that we fall short just to know God's grace on purpose either. And in the example
of a prisoner that has sinned serving a sentence, he can accept Christ too and be forgiven, but that does not mean he is not going to pay the price in this world for what he has done. The world is of satan, and it does not forgive.
Just let the Holy Spirit convict and lead....one can never go wrong...
Whatever it is that one does.... Do it for the glory of God..
All that have accepted Christ as their personel Saviour are familiar with the scripture above.
In Revelation 12:10 we see satan called the great accuser:
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
It is true that once we are sealed with the blood of Christ and the Holy Spirit, nothing can seperate us from God. This also means, nothing or no one can steal us away. From the moment we accept Christ we are His, bought and paid for through His Sacrifice. The great accuser , satan, from this point will do anything to cause problems in our lives. God does not tempt us and it is satan that brings the firey darts that attacks us almost constantly, especially in these last days now. Satan knows his time is short.
Just always remember this: You belong to God, and only God knows the future. God is the past, present , and the future. As a matter of fact God spoke the heavens and the earth into being. Satan on the other hand does not know the future. So for the Christian believer satan will try every time to accuse us of our past sins that we have been forgiven for . And even any sin that is committed from that point on.
It is true , we must live godly lives and set the example of Christ as a light of the world to see. And all too often have we seen the evidence of a Godly individual taken down when the great accuser uses the world to type cast them.
We have all heard or witnessed circumstances where there is a very Godly individual living in a community and for years served Christ unconditionally in the love of others. They are regarded as community leaders and setting that perfect example. Then one day the individual stumbles and falls short, it is made public...and all that the individual had done for years to his credit goes down the drain with the whole community.
So many try to live a perfect life, constantly incased in a sometype of spiritual straight jacket. All eyes are on them and all eyes judge them also. That is true in every aspect of our lives. But, the truth of the matter is while we are ruled by Christ in our hearts, we can never be sinless. We can try, but to our dissappointment we will always fall short. The world does not understand this and many within our own chiristian circles do not understand it either yet.
So, how do we live ? Can we have a good time and still be a Christian? Salvation is serious business forsure and loving one another is perhaps the most precious and important of Christ commands for us. What is it that changes inside of our hearts when we accept Christ that makes us different ? We are in the world , but not of the world what does this mean ?
Here is the answer... If we do the best we can do and always do the right thing , understanding that no one is perfect..but keeping a mature understanding of the mind of Christ and the commands and instructions Christ left for us to obey. For instance,
the Two most important commandments.. Love God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.
Regardless of what one does whither it be dancing, cooking, sports, fine arts, and the list goes on eternally..do it all for the glory of God.
If there is one thing God has shown me in my relationship with Christ in these 35 years, it is that we understand that God is a predestined all knowing God. It is God that sets the order that has been ordained from the very beginning. Yes, we are going to fail and fail many times. And Christ is always there ready to hear us and pick us back up. And praise God for a patient and loving God...
Don't let the great accuser try to hold you back, cause in reality he can't..the battle is already over, and the war is won...
All that we ever have in this world is God's anyway....and don't be surprised that our Loving Father does not disipline us at times.
Any shortcoming is always forgiven this does not mean that we fall short just to know God's grace on purpose either. And in the example
of a prisoner that has sinned serving a sentence, he can accept Christ too and be forgiven, but that does not mean he is not going to pay the price in this world for what he has done. The world is of satan, and it does not forgive.
Just let the Holy Spirit convict and lead....one can never go wrong...
Whatever it is that one does.... Do it for the glory of God..
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Re: *Godly Living and Our example to others*
Sat, November 3, 2007 - 7:54 AMThe Bee factor
In study and research now as one ever learning about this marvelous creature the honeybee, this one that gives a delightfully healing medicine from God. The disappearence of the honeybee is a very mysterious thing, mankind and all his knowledge can not solve it. Many different reasons exist as to why and what caused it. But, actually not one thing can be signaled out as a cause.
Other factors exist also here. The change in earth activities effect us all. Earthquakes, watershortages, turmoil in the tossing of the sea, climate, and the list continues with the earth's stressed recovery back to it's healthy homoestasis. Earth has recovered well in the past before the Industrial Era. With modern times and God allowing man's achievements to increase, man has shown himself to be not a good stewerd of the earth due to how he accumilates waste and toxins from manmade sources. Not naturally produced as the period in history before the Industrial Era begin. Before the manmade machines took the stage. The main changes occured in dieases to man, and learning how to control them or prevent them. When one explores and researches the true birth of modern medicine they will find that the birth of the medical surgeon did not have humble beginnings as many feel. Through history since the Garden of Eden man has had accidents and suffered puncture wound injury, bone breaks, conflict injury, and lets not forget the medical abilities learned in childbirth. Many remedies and preventable cures discovered came in some cases such as the simple handwashing discovery and the benefits in doing so between patients. One of God's commands given to Mose's was the instruction and the importance of handwashing.
God's word teaches us the history of mankind and apparently during the days of Noah before the flood, the children of God were the generations from Adam til the finale generation of Noah which carried the seed of Adam and Seth...and down the generations listed until that time of the flood. We can see the seed of Christ from Christ geneology of His birth. These generations of Noah's Day were a picture of health. Anyone that lives nearly a thousand years has to look pretty healthy. Apparently before the flood , the earth was still in it's infant state, those first generations of life were still full of the remnant glory of the Garden of Eden where the Tree of Life was located.
Certainly there was a pathway that was known for many generations to the entrance to the Garden of Eden where God placed an angel preventing Adam and Eve to enter. As time and generations passed this entrance became less and less known as God carried the Garden of Eden away back to Eternal heaven.
God has revailed His mystery to us and yet still with much hunger and thirst for more we learn in an awesome incredible way. Even through the simple but, not well understood honeybee. For it is understood that God created according to His word mankind last among His creation . The Honeybee was created before mankind, preparing the way of the Lord in the Garden of Eden. The honeybee was one of the first to taste the tree of life.
How relative is the job given to the honeybee since the fall of mankind, continuing it's process and valuable given benefits which without a doubt is God's gift eternal.
In conclussion, the question remains can the end of times prophecy be seen in the downturn of the earth's pollinators? Yes, very much so. The symbolic use of the literal meanings used of the Milk and the Honey are spiritually self explainatory to the believer in Christ. The coming of the Two Witnesses are at hand now. And the close of the ages is now at the door. We are that generation that Jesus was talking about:
And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days. Mark 13 :20
The present generation now of mankind has for some years now had the ability through manmade invention to destroy the earth . It is forseen as a foreshadow of things to come at man's inner nature of pride and survival that with so much technology available and it's applications of governing the majorities of the world now these technologies will be the end of man. As desperateness grows for resources . The survival of man will ultimately mean war. One of these main resources is clean drinking water and food. Ultimately controled by governing bodies through high tech applications of Bio technology. Man has learned to use every resource available as a weapon of war at one time or another. How much more stress of natural birthpains of the earth add to this also. Famines, dieases, all follow suit in order of the break down of worldly societies. A society loses touch with real life reality to the convenience of it's invented technologies. These technologies are God given , but the inner self of man gives himself credit of his on achievements in a pride like no other.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Romans 1:20
What are these invisible things that from the creation of the world are clearly seen?
The mechanics of creation are very interesting. One of these are the make up of man as we understand it through medical studies and research. The heart and all the functions are set on a wonderous automaticty that runs completely on it's own , but yet is a shell housing the very spirit of God that is placed within all life. The wonderous beauty of life surrounding us. The movement of the wind, the seasons of the earth, the new life in spring. And one of the most important of these invisible gifts is God's Love. Love is the reason. God is love. Giving to us Jesus Christ as our godhead.
That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; Col 2:2
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. Rev 10:7
And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all [these] things are done in parables: Mark 4:11
And to make all [men] see what [is] the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: Eph 3:9
Yes, God appoints each of His childern to a specific gift that is intended to be used for His glory in this world and the Eternal Kingdom to come. Even the little honeybee. Might we be reminded that God's word will be fulfilled word for word just as it is written. We must believe this in all faith in a wonderful loving God. A God that sacrificed His only begotten Son. A God that Loved mankind so much that in this sacrifice of Love that the assurance of forgiveness and grace would abound eternally. Bringing man to complete maturity in the mystery of coming to the earth in the flesh. God becoming flesh the incarnation of God through Jesus Christ our Godhead.
