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will you open your heart to the new covenant of grace

to allow your body to become the Temple of the Spirit of our Creator?

this is what we find written (and conserved) in Paul’s Letters of the New Testament, with Today’s reading being from 2nd Corinthians

[Chapter 7]

Because we have these promises, dearly loved ones, out of respect for God we should scour the filth from our flesh and spirit and move toward perfect beauty and holiness.

Take us into your hearts; love us as we love you. You have nothing to fear. We have hurt no one, ruined no one, swindled no one. I am not writing these things to condemn you, as I said before. Our hearts embrace you, so we stand beside you whether facing life or death. I am completely confident and incredibly proud of you. Even in all this turbulence I am at peace—I am overflowing with joy.

When we came into Macedonia, we were completely worn out—under attack from every angle—nagging opposition on the outside, our own nagging fears from the inside. But God, who comforts the downcast, brought us comfort when Titus arrived from Corinth. We were relieved, not just to see him, but because he told us how he was encouraged to learn about your longing, your grieving, and your continued enthusiasm for me. So these were all more reasons for me to rejoice!

I knew you would be upset with my last letter, but I do not regret sending it. If there were times I did have second thoughts, it was because I could see that the letter did hurt you, even if only for a while. Now I am glad—not because it caused you grief but because you were moved to make a permanent change that can happen only with the realization that your actions have gone against God—I’m glad to know you suffered no long-term loss because of what we did. Now this type of deep sorrow, godly sorrow, is not so much about regret; but it is about producing a change of mind and behavior that ultimately leads to salvation. But the other type of sorrow, worldly sorrow, often is fleeting and only brings death. Look at what is happening among you! Notice how authentic and diligent you have become because this godly sorrow has been at work in your community. But there’s more: your desire to clear your name, your righteous anger, your respect, your longing, your zeal, and your concern for justice. All these demonstrate how you have been made clean. So when I wrote my last difficult letter, it was not to comfort the victim or confront the perpetrator—it was to stir up your sincere devotion for us under God’s watchful eye. In the midst of all that has happened, though it has been difficult, we are comforted and encouraged. When we saw the relief and joy on Titus’s face, we celebrated even more because his spirit had been totally refreshed by you. Now if I have bragged in the past about you to Titus, I have nothing to be ashamed of. Just as we’ve spoken the whole truth to you, I’m glad to know that our boasts to Titus about you have proven true as well. His love for you overflows even more as he recalls your obedience and how you respectfully and somewhat nervously, with fear and trembling, took him in. I have great joy now because I have great confidence in you.

The Letter of 2nd Corinthians, Chapter 7 (The Voice)

Today’s paired chapter of the Testaments is the 5th chapter of First Kings where Solomon begins the work of building the Temple in Jerusalem

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Hiram king of Tyre sent ambassadors to Solomon when he heard that he had been crowned king in David’s place. Hiram had loved David his whole life. Solomon responded, saying, “You know that David my father was not able to build a temple in honor of God because of the wars he had to fight on all sides, until God finally put them down. But now God has provided peace all around—no one against us, nothing at odds with us.

“Now here is what I want to do: Build a temple in honor of God, my God, following the promise that God gave to David my father, namely, ‘Your son whom I will provide to succeed you as king, he will build a house in my honor.’ And here is how you can help: Give orders for cedars to be cut from the Lebanon forest; my loggers will work alongside yours and I’ll pay your men whatever wage you set. We both know that there is no one like you Sidonians for cutting timber.”

When Hiram got Solomon’s message, he was delighted, exclaiming, “Blessed be God for giving David such a wise son to rule this flourishing people!”

Then he sent this message to Solomon: “I received your request for the cedars and cypresses. It’s as good as done—your wish is my command. My lumberjacks will haul the timbers from the Lebanon forest to the sea, assemble them into log rafts, float them to the place you set, then have them disassembled for you to haul away. All I want from you is that you feed my crew.”

In this way Hiram supplied all the cedar and cypress timber that Solomon wanted. In his turn, Solomon gave Hiram 125,000 bushels of wheat and 115,000 gallons of virgin olive oil. He did this every year. And God, for his part, gave Solomon wisdom, just as he had promised. The healthy peace between Hiram and Solomon was formalized by a treaty.

[The Temple Work Begins]

King Solomon raised a workforce of thirty thousand men from all over Israel. He sent them in shifts of ten thousand each month to the Lebanon forest; they would work a month in Lebanon and then be at home two months. Adoniram was in charge of the work crew. Solomon also had seventy thousand unskilled workers and another eighty thousand stonecutters up in the hills—plus thirty-three hundred foremen managing the project and supervising the work crews. Following the king’s orders, they quarried huge blocks of the best stone—dressed stone for the foundation of The Temple. Solomon and Hiram’s construction workers, assisted by the men of Gebal, cut and prepared the timber and stone for building The Temple.

The Book of 1st Kings, Chapter 5 (The Message)

my personal reading of the Scriptures for Wednesday, november 18 of 2020 with a paired chapter from each Testament of the Bible, along with Today’s Psalms and Proverbs

A post by John Parsons about the significance of repentance:

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9). Not just this or that particular sin, mind you, but the whole constellation of attitudes, assumptions, and wayward thinking that brought us into exile in the first place. The word confession (ὁμολογία) means bringing yourself naked before the Divine Light to agree with the truth about who you are. Indeed, the verb homologeo (ὁμολογέω) means “saying the same thing” - from ὁμός (same) and λόγος (word). In biblical Hebrew teshuvah (תְשׁוּבָה) means turning back to God by turning away from what makes you lost in unreality and painful exile. God's love for us is the question, and our teshuvah – our turning of the heart toward Him – is the answer. Teshuvah is one of the great gifts God gives each of us – the ability to turn back to Him and seek healing for our brokenness. [Hebrew for Christians]

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and another post by John about becoming Real:

Some of us seem far more concerned with how others see than how God sees us... We strive to manage a public image crafted for others but lose the substance of what is real. Trying to control how we are seen by others is exhausting, however, since it implies that we must find our value in their (conditional) approval rather than from a deeper source. The emotional need for approval is a form of cruel bondage: We take ourselves too seriously, we deny who we really are, and we believe we are never good enough. Over time we become anxious and easily offended people... “Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God?” (Gal. 1:10).

For every reaction there is a counter reaction. As the Kotzker Rebbe wisely said, "If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you; but if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you." The Kotzer's saying reminds me of a story I once heard. A man went to a rabbi and said, "I know I am a fool, rabbi, but I don't know what to do about it. Can you help me? The rabbi replied in a complimentary way, "Ah my son, if you know you're a fool, then surely you are no fool!" "Then why does everybody say I am a fool?" complained the man. The rabbi regarded him thoughtfully for a moment and then said, "If you don't understand that you are a fool, but only listen to what other people say, then you are surely a fool!"

As Hillel had said, "If I am not for myself then who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?" (Avot 1:14). Hillel points out here that the language of "I am" (אָנִי) and "me" (לִי) reveals that we have a relationship with ourselves that must be sanctified and ordered before God. As Soren Kierkegaard once cryptically wrote: “The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self” (Kierkegaard: The Sickness unto Death). An authentic self must relate itself to God as the Ground of existence, otherwise irremediable despair will result, that is, a lethal sickness of soul... The remedy for anxious confusion of heart is to turn to God and to find your value in God’s love and blessing. As we come to believe that we are accepted and loved despite our many imperfections, inadequacies, and character defects, we find courage to accept ourselves, to “let go” and relax. As Yeshua said, “whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it" (Luke 18:17).

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with but REALLY loves you, then you become Real. It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.... Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." (Margary Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit). [Hebrew for Christians]

https://hebrew4christians.com

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Today’s message from the Institute for Creation Research

November 18, 2020

Watch in Prayer

“Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds.” (Colossians 4:2-3)

This strong command is composed of two very similar Greek terms—gregoreuo, meaning “vigilant” or “alert,” and agrupneo, meaning “be awake.” A similar emphasis is at the end of the classic passage identifying the armor of God: “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints” (Ephesians 6:18).

Our watching must also be with a conscious attitude of thanksgiving during “every remembrance” of each other (Philippians 1:3), particularly since the intercessory request should be focused on asking our Lord Jesus to provide an open door (Revelation 3:8). The Lord is indeed the One who opens the door, but the process for obtaining His action is recorded in Luke 11:9-11. We must ask for the gift of the open door, seek to find the door that He is opening, and then knock once we are at the door that He is ready to open for us.

However, as Paul notes, when the Lord opens a “door of utterance,” the spoken Word of God conveys the power of God—and that message and its power will bring the attention of the Enemy. “For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries” (1 Corinthians 16:9).

Any fear that might lurk in our minds should be overridden by the necessity to be spokespeople for this wonderful “mystery of Christ.” There is no “salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). HMM III

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papirouge · 4 years

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What is wrong with you??? Do you enjoy upsetting people and stressing everyone out? If what you're saying is true and is supposedly supported biblically, then why haven't you shared verses to prove it? I want to believe that you're just trying to help people, but causing so much distress is not the way to go about it. Please back up your statements with scripture. I will be praying for you.

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Matthew 10:34

I am not here to make people comfortable, or “distressed”, but to exhort and doing my part to put things in place, period. Missy will do just fine. She needs to rest & meditate into God’s presence. You, her “friends”, are not helping her pampering her up in dismissing the seriousness of this spiritual battling, deflecting into the demonization of my person (the flesh), and dismissing the spiritual authority behind those warnings out of a fleshly emotional bias. Calling me all kind of names won’t change anything to the Truth of the message conveyed. A bunch of you should really be watchful of their mouth too, cause you’re literally insulting the Holy spirit & the warnings It’s trying to convey through me (see below).

I wished you would’ve explicitly stated the statements I made that you wish biblical verses back up, but I will do my best to recap them right below - here we go !

Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, The Unforgivable Sin

Matthew 12:22-32

(...) 31 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 32 And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

It’s important to notice the Bible makes a distinction between blasphemy against Jesus (and by extension God), and blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Some people think they’re really making a point when they accuse me of using “God’s name in vain” and/or saying I (too) was blaspheming (God) when [although I acknowledged I indeed was very wrong for cursing, repented and confessed I will be more vigilant on this aspect] the spiritual repercussions of both sins are not the same : unlike ‘regular blasphemy’, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is the only sin God DOES NOT forgive. They are totally deflecting when they equalize both and their seriousness before God. In practice, blaspheming against the Holy Spirit happens when authentic servants of Christ, exhorting in His name, are being rejected, cussed out, if not flat out accused of being crazy or demonically possessed. Pharisees were right there accusing Jesus of doing these miracles out of a demonic power - and yet they revered God.... Loving God and blaspheming against the Holy Spirit are not mutually exclusive. Now: why this distinction? that’s a tricky question. But my interpretation is that blaspheming against the Holy Spirit is a very dangerous slippery slope into incredulity and hardening of heart (dismissing miracles, miraculous healing) which is one big obstacle stopping people to surrendering to God. This is one of the reasons I blocked a few people reacting foolishly my exhortation (saying I was legalistic, extra, manipulative, etc) because they were literally condemning themselves by insulting the Holy Spirit speaking through me, compelling me to exhort. I also know for a fact that some Christian denomination (like Baptists) refuse to acknowledge the “miraculous” gift the Holy Spirit provides, hence their incredulity for accepting this kind of thing being possible to happen (“why would the Holy Spirit compel some lousy “christian” nobody to exhort on tumblr dot com, duh!!”)

Giving in into worldliness out of self-assurance/self-reliance & pride (basically getting cocky because of salvation lol) / Spiritual Adultery

Ezekiel 16:15

But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing.

James 4:4

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

The famous Matthew 18:8 one

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire. 9 And if your eye causes you to fall into sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

Notice Matthew is talking about “throwing away” our lamb or “gouging out” our eyes. He’s very straightforward as of how we should ENTIRELY give up the stuff that might be spiritually threatening to us - not “managing” it (i.e the “I’ll skip a few episodes and it’s gonna be okay” narrative)

Revelation 2:14

14 Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality. 15 Likewise, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. 16 Repent therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

*look up in Samuel to see what Balaam represents prophetically-wise (spiritual bewilderment, double-mindedness, etc)*

Salvation is a PROMISE / God CAN turn against His chosen people / You can lose your salvation (out of disobedience, unrepenting sin, unwillingness of sanctification, etc) - NO it doesn’t nullyfy the Work of the Cross

Titus 3:4

But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared,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;6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior;7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

GOD DOESN’T CHANGE. His Faithfulness is Eternal. BUT being Saved/under God’s Grace doesn’t lift up any spiritual responsibility or accountability, and God will showcase His Wrath if we are unfaithful. Human unfaithfulness -and the necessary Godly justice it deserves- does NOT nullify God almightiness or omnipotence.

Exodus 24:19-22

19 Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the Lord. He is a holy God; he is a jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins. 20 If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and make an end of you, after he has been good to you.”21 But the people said to Joshua, “No! We will serve the Lord.”22 Then Joshua said, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the Lord.”“Yes, we are witnesses,” they replied.

2 Timothy 2:13

if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot disown himself.

Romans 3:3-6

3 What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness? 4 Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written:“So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.” 5 But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) 6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?

+ look up the story of King Saul and Samson downfall. They were God anointed people who eventually gave up into disobedience & sin and lost their anointment. I DARE any Christian endorsing the “once Saved forever Saved” doctrine to say none of them were actually Saved and thus their (literal) falling off Grace is somehow “moot”.

*BONUS* Romans 14:3 “stumbling block” argument debunked (copy-paste from a previous post of mine)

“[people are quoting] Romans 14:3-4 to make a point about how Christians shouldn’t judge each others on their respective stumbling blocks, when Romans 14 is actually about baby Christian Jews still following Moses’ Law struggling to fully embrace Grace THROUGH Faith ALONE (thus the reference about food they didn’t allow themselves to eat). Paul calling more mature/non Jews Christians to be more encompassing and tolerant for their ever growing Faith and their struggle of dropping Tradition altogether. Paul was NOT equalizing those baby Christians’ lifestyle to those endorsing the Good News. Actually Paul warned us -Christians saved by Faith- that pursuing following the Law was a mistake (that’s pretty much what Hebrews is about).” Romans 14 is NOT about surrendering the idea of calling out siblings in Christ endorsing spiritual disobedience, equalizing all kind of lifestyles. It is a FAITH (Grace through Faith alone) vs Tradition (the Law) issue.

I hope it helped!

Thank you for your prayers. Yes, I’m really doing my best to help people.

#answered #Christian #blowing the whistle

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