Monthly Archives: December 2013

Truth or lie

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A Muslim made the comment that his book of religion is about 4/5 the length of the New Testament.   He boasts that his book is memorized by many in Islam.  Yet, he says, never in history has anyone memorized the New Testament.   His point being that his book is more loved and honored than the holy words of Christian faith.  To answer,  I see this truth:

If I tell on a lie I am likely to forget the details when I tell it again.  For this reason they are taught to memorize the words.  If I tell a truth I have no problem remembering the details.  Lies are like dead carcasses.  They must be moved for the cannot move themselves.  All truth lives forever and is sufficient to itself.

And what shall be said concerning this when we consider that Christians have the Spirit of God living within us?  He confirms the Narrow Way of God.  He leads us to freedom from lies.  And seals our hearts with Grace.  And He cautions us not to plot how we will answer His enemy, for He gives us the words of Jesus at the appropriate moment.

This Muslim has done us a favor by his chiding and boastful complaint against us.  May the Lord forever be praised for His wisdom among creation.

By His Grace.

Out of the box and hard to find

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Over the centuries the church has gotten pretty good at telling us what the Lord will do.  And they’ve gotten fairly good at telling us what we should do.  In a way they have put the Lord Jesus in a very large box.  And they have said in many ways  “Thus far he shall go and no more.”

By placing the Lord in a box, they have strived to do the same thing with all people.  But I have witnessed a most wonderful thing.  I am finding strong believers in the Lord Jesus outside of the Established Church.

I have no idea what the church is supposed to do about this.  The Lord and His people have escaped their box!   Its not like they can tell everybody they were wrong.  So they keep writing answers to a problem they can’t define.

I do see one beautiful aspect of this that may be missed by many.  When a persecution  breaks out against the Lord’s people,  there will be a whole lot of Christians unaccounted for.  The enemy will go for the Established Church,  only to find it relatively empty.  The enemy may conclude that Christians are few in number.

I am sure the greater Minds then mine are capable of drawing better inferences.  But this satisfies my curiosity as to why the Lord has broken out of the Established Church’s box.

The real Saint Nicholas? Really?

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Did you ever notice there is no movie about the beginning of Santa Claus.  Well maybe there’s a Christian documentary someplace. 

In order to show the beginnings of Santa Claus they have to go back to St Nicholas.  If he really did exist, then we were talking about a man who worshiped the Lord Jesus. 

Such a movie would take away from the power and mystery of the fictional character Santa Claus.  Such a movie would render a lie down to a humble servant of the Most High God.   This humble servant would have gotten old and died just like every other man.

So in the interest of lying to our children,  maintaining the status quo,  filling the cash register, and making a mockery of the Christ and His people,  Santa Claus sticks like super glue.  And you won’t see Hollywood make a truthful movie of Saint Nicholas.

Don’t Quit Asking

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To those who doubt God’s willingness to be patient with them.  Consider your salvation from his perspective, for just a moment.

How long do you expect to live on this earth?  Perhaps 10 to 50 years?  So all you’re asking God to do is be patient with a fool for 10 to 50 years more.  Is that right?

So if he is patient for 50 years more and you do not succeed in obeying  his will you ask only 50 years of God’s patience.  This is no great loss at all for “He who never dies”.  But if by His patience you learn to obey Him, who loses? 

Isn’t this why the Lord Jesus taught us to pray and never give up.  What hope is there for he who gives up?  Yet the potential of winning everything is there to the very last second!

Reinventing God

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“Pay it forward.”  It’s a great idea isn’t it.  The Lord thinks selfless giving is a great thing too.  Let’s get sneaky, wise and stealthy.   It does only a temporary good to announce our good deeds.  But deeds done in secret last forever.

If you’re worried that others won’t pick up the lesson of “pay it forward”, teach them privately and without the use of personal examples.  Every good deed you do that has an announcement after it becomes owned by you.  Every good deed you do without being detected is owned by The Father in Heaven who is undetectable.

“Loose lips sink ships.”

2  “So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. 3  “But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4  so that your giving will be in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.”  (Matthew 6)

I take note that “Pay it forward” is used by secularists now.   It seems to have become popular lately as people try to “reinvent the wheel” of righteousness.  Trying to escape Christianity, people are busy building a man based “religion” without Jesus.  The problem is, all the really good ideas belong to Jesus.  They have to get a bit crafty when they present their own rendition.

This “Pay it Forward” seems to have come from a play in Athens Greece around 317 BC.  Here’s the script that has been passed to us as having come from that play.

“I do not pretend to give such a deed; I only lend it to you. When you […] meet with another honest Man in similar Distress, you must pay me by lending this Sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the Debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with another opportunity. I hope it may thus go thro’ many hands, before it meets with a Knave that will stop its Progress. This is a trick of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money.”

Jesus said it better by doing it with His body.  And look how many have been granted access to heaven.  It is this granting that spawns all Christian giving.

Think about it.

Great news!!!

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Hey there studly guy!  Howdy gorgeous woman!  Have you heard the news lately?  Scientists are saying with a slight tweak to the genetic material they can cause us to live for 500 years!  Whooo hoooo!!!!!!

You might think that’s good news, but its not.  Even if they invent that tweak  tomorrow morning and you happen to have enough money to purchase a dose of whatever they make, you’re still gonna die.

Yep.  You’re going to get old and wrinkly.   Your bones are going to give out on yah.  Your eyes won’t work too well.  And you’re going to turn up your TV really loud.

Then the day will come. The Sun will shine.  The birds are going to chuirp.  People will laugh, cry, eat, and dance.  But you won’t be here.  Nope you just won’t be here.

I’m not going to bother to tell you where you will find yourself on that day.  You wouldn’t listen to me if I told you.  And you wouldn’t change your life if you let me talk to you.

I just wrote this little piece for you,  in case the Lord happens to be merciful and cause you to drop by here.

There’s no need to tell you to have a good day.  That’s the entire focus of your life isn’t  it.

By the way, my hope’s name is Jesus.