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Don’t Give Your Heart Away – Part 1
Stand firm therefore…having put on the breastplate of righteousness [Ephesians 6:14].
Springtime is in the air. Ah, amore! Venice is nice for the atmosphere it affords springtime lovers, or so I hear tell anyway. Gay Paris is not exactly chopped liver, if you’re looking for a substitute. What is indispensable is the amore part, not the scenery.
Isn’t life in Tinseltown romantic? There are the fairy tales, and there are the fairy tales, and then there are the fairy tales. Who needs reality when fairy tales are so readily available? We modern Americans are real dupes.
No matter how much we want to pretend reality isn’t real, it is still there, waiting to bite us in the rear end at the first opportunity. Money cannot buy us happiness…or fairy tales…or eternal life. Optical illusions and cheap parlor tricks are not reality, so we would do ourselves well not to give away the farm for pie in the sky.
In our last several studies we have been delving into spiritual warfare and “the full armor of God”. This armor is God’s provision for the Christian, in resisting the evil one and overcoming the world. The first piece of armor we descanted upon was “the belt of truth”. Tinseltown is anything but the truth, dear friends. Why are we in America so willing to pretend it is?
We call ourselves being “romantic” when we chase after our lusts, in imitation of the antics of the silver screen. We should be burying our noses in the Word of God to learn of what real life consists. We instead prefer to play Mr. Magoo or Don Quixote and pretend Star Wars is reality.
We fancy ourselves Luke Skywalkers, out to save the lovely Princess Leia from those repulsive alien-looking whatever-they-are. Not to worry. The force will be with us, whatever that is. Oh, I know what it is! It once upon a time wore the epithet “animism” and “ancestor worship”. It was standard fare for the ancient pagans and their heathenism.
But we are so smart today, aren’t we? Just change the label and redo the packaging, display it on the silver screen as “the force be with you”, and presto! we have made Greek mythology modern and returned us to our heathen roots. And this from the intelligentsia wannabes who mock Christianity as a fable and superstition! Who woulda thunk it, huh?
Have you noticed how much mega-millions of dollars these repackaged Greek myths are making? What does that tell us, if not that modern Americans are too “smart” to buy into Ma & Pa’s old-fashioned superstition (read “Christianity”), so we buy into the polytheism of the ancient Greeks and Canaanites and Egyptians?
Not a pleasant note on which to end the song, is it? But we must stop and take our rest for the night. We’ll meet up again tomorrow. Enjoy time with Jesus now.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Categories: Church Age
Springtime is in the air. Ah, amore! Venice is nice for the atmosphere it affords springtime lovers, or so I hear tell anyway. Gay Paris is not exactly chopped liver, if you’re looking for a substitute. What is indispensable is the amore part, not the scenery.
Isn’t life in Tinseltown romantic? There are the fairy tales, and there are the fairy tales, and then there are the fairy tales. Who needs reality when fairy tales are so readily available? We modern Americans are real dupes.
No matter how much we want to pretend reality isn’t real, it is still there, waiting to bite us in the rear end at the first opportunity. Money cannot buy us happiness…or fairy tales…or eternal life. Optical illusions and cheap parlor tricks are not reality, so we would do ourselves well not to give away the farm for pie in the sky.
In our last several studies we have been delving into spiritual warfare and “the full armor of God”. This armor is God’s provision for the Christian, in resisting the evil one and overcoming the world. The first piece of armor we descanted upon was “the belt of truth”. Tinseltown is anything but the truth, dear friends. Why are we in America so willing to pretend it is?
We call ourselves being “romantic” when we chase after our lusts, in imitation of the antics of the silver screen. We should be burying our noses in the Word of God to learn of what real life consists. We instead prefer to play Mr. Magoo or Don Quixote and pretend Star Wars is reality.
We fancy ourselves Luke Skywalkers, out to save the lovely Princess Leia from those repulsive alien-looking whatever-they-are. Not to worry. The force will be with us, whatever that is. Oh, I know what it is! It once upon a time wore the epithet “animism” and “ancestor worship”. It was standard fare for the ancient pagans and their heathenism.
But we are so smart today, aren’t we? Just change the label and redo the packaging, display it on the silver screen as “the force be with you”, and presto! we have made Greek mythology modern and returned us to our heathen roots. And this from the intelligentsia wannabes who mock Christianity as a fable and superstition! Who woulda thunk it, huh?
Have you noticed how much mega-millions of dollars these repackaged Greek myths are making? What does that tell us, if not that modern Americans are too “smart” to buy into Ma & Pa’s old-fashioned superstition (read “Christianity”), so we buy into the polytheism of the ancient Greeks and Canaanites and Egyptians?
Not a pleasant note on which to end the song, is it? But we must stop and take our rest for the night. We’ll meet up again tomorrow. Enjoy time with Jesus now.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Categories: Church Age
Don’t Give Your Heart Away – Part 2
Stand firm therefore…having put on the breastplate of righteousness [Ephesians 6:14].
Contemporary USA mocks the Bible as being old-fashioned and consisting of fairy tales. This same USA brags about how modern it is, all the while being bed fellows with ancient paganism! Have you ever heard the pejorative “sucker”?
Well, we better get used to it, for we have been duped by the evil one yet once again. The facticity and sense of the Bible is replaced in our country by the stuff and nonsense of ancient paganism, and we are proud of it! We are “modern”, fresh, new…or so we believe.
Truth be told, our thinking is as old as dirt, as old as the Garden of Eden, as old as Methuselah. Baal worship has nothing on us. Just visit your local abortion clinic and see firsthand. Want to know what the Asherah pole was? Ask a porno flick connoisseur. He can tell you.
What has all this to do with our Bible verse? I’ll bet you’re wondering that, aren’t you? Oh, yes you are. I saw you wondering it! You can’t hide it from me. Well, let’s consider how the two are related.
The state of our country today reveals our heart condition. Our hearts have been stolen by the wicked one, aka Satan or the devil or Lucifer. Nay, but rather we have given our hearts away, like some love-sick puppy dog who just entered puberty.
When we prefer to watch Star Wars and fantasize about it until it forms our mindset, what have we done if not set our heart on the things of the earth? All along we should bury our head in the Book and allow it to transform us by the renewing of the mind. We don’t follow the Lord. We follow old Lucifer.
I know, no one confesses, “I follow Lucifer!” But a rose is a rose. By any other name… We are on a perpetual safari to find something novel, something extraordinary, something to tickle the fancy. Ma & Pa’s Bible is just some more of the same old same old. Who wants that? So we make fun of it and believe we have discredited it thereby.
Too bad for us, but the Bible won’t go off on its own somewhere and die. The grass withers, the flowers fade; but the Word of our God stands forever. God demands that we reckon with Him. We cannot avoid Him. Our hearts will perforce either harden against Him, in which case we become card-carrying members of the Star Wars Reality Club. Or else our hearts melt at His presence, and we give our hearts to Jesus.
Which will it be for me? Which for you? Let’s sit at the feet of Jesus a while and ponder this issue.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Contemporary USA mocks the Bible as being old-fashioned and consisting of fairy tales. This same USA brags about how modern it is, all the while being bed fellows with ancient paganism! Have you ever heard the pejorative “sucker”?
Well, we better get used to it, for we have been duped by the evil one yet once again. The facticity and sense of the Bible is replaced in our country by the stuff and nonsense of ancient paganism, and we are proud of it! We are “modern”, fresh, new…or so we believe.
Truth be told, our thinking is as old as dirt, as old as the Garden of Eden, as old as Methuselah. Baal worship has nothing on us. Just visit your local abortion clinic and see firsthand. Want to know what the Asherah pole was? Ask a porno flick connoisseur. He can tell you.
What has all this to do with our Bible verse? I’ll bet you’re wondering that, aren’t you? Oh, yes you are. I saw you wondering it! You can’t hide it from me. Well, let’s consider how the two are related.
The state of our country today reveals our heart condition. Our hearts have been stolen by the wicked one, aka Satan or the devil or Lucifer. Nay, but rather we have given our hearts away, like some love-sick puppy dog who just entered puberty.
When we prefer to watch Star Wars and fantasize about it until it forms our mindset, what have we done if not set our heart on the things of the earth? All along we should bury our head in the Book and allow it to transform us by the renewing of the mind. We don’t follow the Lord. We follow old Lucifer.
I know, no one confesses, “I follow Lucifer!” But a rose is a rose. By any other name… We are on a perpetual safari to find something novel, something extraordinary, something to tickle the fancy. Ma & Pa’s Bible is just some more of the same old same old. Who wants that? So we make fun of it and believe we have discredited it thereby.
Too bad for us, but the Bible won’t go off on its own somewhere and die. The grass withers, the flowers fade; but the Word of our God stands forever. God demands that we reckon with Him. We cannot avoid Him. Our hearts will perforce either harden against Him, in which case we become card-carrying members of the Star Wars Reality Club. Or else our hearts melt at His presence, and we give our hearts to Jesus.
Which will it be for me? Which for you? Let’s sit at the feet of Jesus a while and ponder this issue.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Don’t Give Your Heart Away – Part 3
Stand firm therefore…having put on the breastplate of righteousness [Ephesians 6:14].
The Word of God is like the hand of God, as it reaches out to us with His offer of salvation. Will our heart harden to His voice and reject the offer, indignant that He should think we need His handout? Or will our heart melt at the sound of His voice and go out to Him, giving itself away to the God of love?
This is where “the breastplate of righteousness” comes in, dear friends. The breastplate of the Roman legionnaire protected his heart. In Scripture the heart is indicative of our emotions, our love, what we desire and live for. Physically the heart is a vital organ. Life cannot exist without the heart.
Spiritually the heart is a vital organ as well. Spiritual life cannot exist, is not real, except the heart be given to the Lord. Otherwise we are simply being religious. We are only playing church. We are serving self and doing good deeds for our own fame. We are tooting our own horn and singing our own praises.
Anyone in such a condition is fair game for the devil. He savors these delicacies, loving ever finger-licking bite. They are defenseless against the wiles of the devil because man by himself hasn’t the power or the intellect to outdo or outwit Satan.
Only the child of God can have the victory against the evil one, and only when he bedecks himself in “the full armor of God” and betakes himself to spiritual warfare. Part of that armor is “the breastplate of righteousness”.
The Holy Spirit teaches us that the Christian is “the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus”. That, my friend, is “the breastplate of righteousness”. The natural man (i.e., the person who isn’t born again) only has his own righteousness. I am sure your experience confirms what mine does: there isn’t a man alive who is perfectly righteous, who has never done or thought or said anything wrong.
The child of God no longer has to depend on his own righteousness. Now he is the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Once we get this Biblical concept into our heads and move it down into our hearts, it transforms us radically.
The evil one comes up behind us and attempts to disillusion us, “Born again? Oh, really? Didn’t I just witness you losing your temper. Looks like the same old sinner to me!”
The natural man hasn’t any defense to this accusation. He did just lose his temper. He does look like the same old sinner because he is! What can he say except, “Guilty”? Then he slinks off into the shadows to disappear, his face red as a beet.
Hopefully none of us respond in such a fashion. We will pursue this matter some more in our next study. Let us stop now and pitch our tents and take our rest for the night. We still have time to enjoy Jesus before going to sleep.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
The Word of God is like the hand of God, as it reaches out to us with His offer of salvation. Will our heart harden to His voice and reject the offer, indignant that He should think we need His handout? Or will our heart melt at the sound of His voice and go out to Him, giving itself away to the God of love?
This is where “the breastplate of righteousness” comes in, dear friends. The breastplate of the Roman legionnaire protected his heart. In Scripture the heart is indicative of our emotions, our love, what we desire and live for. Physically the heart is a vital organ. Life cannot exist without the heart.
Spiritually the heart is a vital organ as well. Spiritual life cannot exist, is not real, except the heart be given to the Lord. Otherwise we are simply being religious. We are only playing church. We are serving self and doing good deeds for our own fame. We are tooting our own horn and singing our own praises.
Anyone in such a condition is fair game for the devil. He savors these delicacies, loving ever finger-licking bite. They are defenseless against the wiles of the devil because man by himself hasn’t the power or the intellect to outdo or outwit Satan.
Only the child of God can have the victory against the evil one, and only when he bedecks himself in “the full armor of God” and betakes himself to spiritual warfare. Part of that armor is “the breastplate of righteousness”.
The Holy Spirit teaches us that the Christian is “the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus”. That, my friend, is “the breastplate of righteousness”. The natural man (i.e., the person who isn’t born again) only has his own righteousness. I am sure your experience confirms what mine does: there isn’t a man alive who is perfectly righteous, who has never done or thought or said anything wrong.
The child of God no longer has to depend on his own righteousness. Now he is the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Once we get this Biblical concept into our heads and move it down into our hearts, it transforms us radically.
The evil one comes up behind us and attempts to disillusion us, “Born again? Oh, really? Didn’t I just witness you losing your temper. Looks like the same old sinner to me!”
The natural man hasn’t any defense to this accusation. He did just lose his temper. He does look like the same old sinner because he is! What can he say except, “Guilty”? Then he slinks off into the shadows to disappear, his face red as a beet.
Hopefully none of us respond in such a fashion. We will pursue this matter some more in our next study. Let us stop now and pitch our tents and take our rest for the night. We still have time to enjoy Jesus before going to sleep.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Don’t Give Your Heart Away – Part 4
Stand firm therefore…having put on the breastplate of righteousness [Ephesians 6:14].
Sinners sin and every human being is a sinner. So Satan never runs out of ammo to shoot us. He simply points to one or another of our sins and convicts us. The sinner responds by tucking his tail between the legs and crawling off to hide, defeated by Satan yet once again.
The Christian can do the same because he still does lose his temper or commit some other sin. Nothing difficult about doing that. After all, the old sinner still lurks inside, trying to have his way.
However, the new nature of the Holy Spirit also lives inside the Christian. He responds to Satan, “Get thee hence, Satan. For it is written, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus and you shall be saved!’” When that happens, then it is Satan’s turn to slink off into the shadows to disappear, his face red as a beet. Sinners tend to do that, and Satan is the sinner par excellence.
The message for us to garner is this, my friends. We cannot combat the forces of darkness in our own strength, in our own righteousness. Only the righteousness of God can win out in such a campaign. Fortunate for us that we are the righteousness of God, huh? In Christ Jesus, that is.
So let us not be remiss in conducting spiritual warfare against the flesh and the world and the devil. But let us be sure we first don “the whole armor of God”, and that includes protecting our heart. We must needs depend on the Lord Jesus for the victory, not go to war in our own strength and righteousness. We must “put on the breastplate of righteousness”, which is the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. There are no chinks in that armor.
So we prepare for spiritual warfare by “girding our loins with truth”. The Word of God is truth, both the living Word, Jesus, and the written Word, the Bible. We remove the entanglements around our feet, which tend to trip us up and prevent our effective functioning. We pull them out of the way and tuck them into the belt around our waist.
The Word of God removes the obstacles from our feet, allowing us to walk in His ways and not stumble. By this manner we can be effectual soldiers in the army of Christ. He can use us to overcome His adversary, the devil.
We also don “the breastplate of righteousness”. When Satan attempts to force us into losing heart and surrendering, we cling to the Word of God and allow God to go to war against Satan instead of us.
We don’t fight Satan in our own righteousness. We fight him in “the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus”. We protect our heart with “the breastplate of righteousness”. The Lord provided it to us for that very purpose. As obedient soldiers in the army of Christ, we follow the orders given us from the “captain of the host of the Lord” (cf., Joshua 5:14). That would be the Lord Jesus.
So are you ready to march off to war now, Christian soldier? You are? That’s good. Oops! Not so fast! We still have several other pieces of armor to don before heading to Normandy. Normandy can wait, the pieces of armor cannot.
We’ll continue with the next piece of armor in tomorrow’s study. See you then. For now let us respond to Jesus’ invite. He wishes our company. Let’s not keep him waiting.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Sinners sin and every human being is a sinner. So Satan never runs out of ammo to shoot us. He simply points to one or another of our sins and convicts us. The sinner responds by tucking his tail between the legs and crawling off to hide, defeated by Satan yet once again.
The Christian can do the same because he still does lose his temper or commit some other sin. Nothing difficult about doing that. After all, the old sinner still lurks inside, trying to have his way.
However, the new nature of the Holy Spirit also lives inside the Christian. He responds to Satan, “Get thee hence, Satan. For it is written, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus and you shall be saved!’” When that happens, then it is Satan’s turn to slink off into the shadows to disappear, his face red as a beet. Sinners tend to do that, and Satan is the sinner par excellence.
The message for us to garner is this, my friends. We cannot combat the forces of darkness in our own strength, in our own righteousness. Only the righteousness of God can win out in such a campaign. Fortunate for us that we are the righteousness of God, huh? In Christ Jesus, that is.
So let us not be remiss in conducting spiritual warfare against the flesh and the world and the devil. But let us be sure we first don “the whole armor of God”, and that includes protecting our heart. We must needs depend on the Lord Jesus for the victory, not go to war in our own strength and righteousness. We must “put on the breastplate of righteousness”, which is the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. There are no chinks in that armor.
So we prepare for spiritual warfare by “girding our loins with truth”. The Word of God is truth, both the living Word, Jesus, and the written Word, the Bible. We remove the entanglements around our feet, which tend to trip us up and prevent our effective functioning. We pull them out of the way and tuck them into the belt around our waist.
The Word of God removes the obstacles from our feet, allowing us to walk in His ways and not stumble. By this manner we can be effectual soldiers in the army of Christ. He can use us to overcome His adversary, the devil.
We also don “the breastplate of righteousness”. When Satan attempts to force us into losing heart and surrendering, we cling to the Word of God and allow God to go to war against Satan instead of us.
We don’t fight Satan in our own righteousness. We fight him in “the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus”. We protect our heart with “the breastplate of righteousness”. The Lord provided it to us for that very purpose. As obedient soldiers in the army of Christ, we follow the orders given us from the “captain of the host of the Lord” (cf., Joshua 5:14). That would be the Lord Jesus.
So are you ready to march off to war now, Christian soldier? You are? That’s good. Oops! Not so fast! We still have several other pieces of armor to don before heading to Normandy. Normandy can wait, the pieces of armor cannot.
We’ll continue with the next piece of armor in tomorrow’s study. See you then. For now let us respond to Jesus’ invite. He wishes our company. Let’s not keep him waiting.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Don’t Give Your Heart Away – Part 1
Stand firm therefore…having put on the breastplate of righteousness [Ephesians 6:14].
Springtime is in the air. Ah, amore! Venice is nice for the atmosphere it affords springtime lovers, or so I hear tell anyway. Gay Paris is not exactly chopped liver, if you’re looking for a substitute. What is indispensable is the amore part, not the scenery.
Isn’t life in Tinseltown romantic? There are the fairy tales, and there are the fairy tales, and then there are the fairy tales. Who needs reality when fairy tales are so readily available? We modern Americans are real dupes.
No matter how much we want to pretend reality isn’t real, it is still there, waiting to bite us in the rear end at the first opportunity. Money cannot buy us happiness…or fairy tales…or eternal life. Optical illusions and cheap parlor tricks are not reality, so we would do ourselves well not to give away the farm for pie in the sky.
In our last several studies we have been delving into spiritual warfare and “the full armor of God”. This armor is God’s provision for the Christian, in resisting the evil one and overcoming the world. The first piece of armor we descanted upon was “the belt of truth”. Tinseltown is anything but the truth, dear friends. Why are we in America so willing to pretend it is?
We call ourselves being “romantic” when we chase after our lusts, in imitation of the antics of the silver screen. We should be burying our noses in the Word of God to learn of what real life consists. We instead prefer to play Mr. Magoo or Don Quixote and pretend Star Wars is reality.
We fancy ourselves Luke Skywalkers, out to save the lovely Princess Leia from those repulsive alien-looking whatever-they-are. Not to worry. The force will be with us, whatever that is. Oh, I know what it is! It once upon a time wore the epithet “animism” and “ancestor worship”. It was standard fare for the ancient pagans and their heathenism.
But we are so smart today, aren’t we? Just change the label and redo the packaging, display it on the silver screen as “the force be with you”, and presto! we have made Greek mythology modern and returned us to our heathen roots. And this from the intelligentsia wannabes who mock Christianity as a fable and superstition! Who woulda thunk it, huh?
Have you noticed how much mega-millions of dollars these repackaged Greek myths are making? What does that tell us, if not that modern Americans are too “smart” to buy into Ma & Pa’s old-fashioned superstition (read “Christianity”), so we buy into the polytheism of the ancient Greeks and Canaanites and Egyptians?
Not a pleasant note on which to end the song, is it? But we must stop and take our rest for the night. We’ll meet up again tomorrow. Enjoy time with Jesus now.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Categories: Church Age
Springtime is in the air. Ah, amore! Venice is nice for the atmosphere it affords springtime lovers, or so I hear tell anyway. Gay Paris is not exactly chopped liver, if you’re looking for a substitute. What is indispensable is the amore part, not the scenery.
Isn’t life in Tinseltown romantic? There are the fairy tales, and there are the fairy tales, and then there are the fairy tales. Who needs reality when fairy tales are so readily available? We modern Americans are real dupes.
No matter how much we want to pretend reality isn’t real, it is still there, waiting to bite us in the rear end at the first opportunity. Money cannot buy us happiness…or fairy tales…or eternal life. Optical illusions and cheap parlor tricks are not reality, so we would do ourselves well not to give away the farm for pie in the sky.
In our last several studies we have been delving into spiritual warfare and “the full armor of God”. This armor is God’s provision for the Christian, in resisting the evil one and overcoming the world. The first piece of armor we descanted upon was “the belt of truth”. Tinseltown is anything but the truth, dear friends. Why are we in America so willing to pretend it is?
We call ourselves being “romantic” when we chase after our lusts, in imitation of the antics of the silver screen. We should be burying our noses in the Word of God to learn of what real life consists. We instead prefer to play Mr. Magoo or Don Quixote and pretend Star Wars is reality.
We fancy ourselves Luke Skywalkers, out to save the lovely Princess Leia from those repulsive alien-looking whatever-they-are. Not to worry. The force will be with us, whatever that is. Oh, I know what it is! It once upon a time wore the epithet “animism” and “ancestor worship”. It was standard fare for the ancient pagans and their heathenism.
But we are so smart today, aren’t we? Just change the label and redo the packaging, display it on the silver screen as “the force be with you”, and presto! we have made Greek mythology modern and returned us to our heathen roots. And this from the intelligentsia wannabes who mock Christianity as a fable and superstition! Who woulda thunk it, huh?
Have you noticed how much mega-millions of dollars these repackaged Greek myths are making? What does that tell us, if not that modern Americans are too “smart” to buy into Ma & Pa’s old-fashioned superstition (read “Christianity”), so we buy into the polytheism of the ancient Greeks and Canaanites and Egyptians?
Not a pleasant note on which to end the song, is it? But we must stop and take our rest for the night. We’ll meet up again tomorrow. Enjoy time with Jesus now.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Categories: Church Age
Don’t Give Your Heart Away – Part 2
Stand firm therefore…having put on the breastplate of righteousness [Ephesians 6:14].
Contemporary USA mocks the Bible as being old-fashioned and consisting of fairy tales. This same USA brags about how modern it is, all the while being bed fellows with ancient paganism! Have you ever heard the pejorative “sucker”?
Well, we better get used to it, for we have been duped by the evil one yet once again. The facticity and sense of the Bible is replaced in our country by the stuff and nonsense of ancient paganism, and we are proud of it! We are “modern”, fresh, new…or so we believe.
Truth be told, our thinking is as old as dirt, as old as the Garden of Eden, as old as Methuselah. Baal worship has nothing on us. Just visit your local abortion clinic and see firsthand. Want to know what the Asherah pole was? Ask a porno flick connoisseur. He can tell you.
What has all this to do with our Bible verse? I’ll bet you’re wondering that, aren’t you? Oh, yes you are. I saw you wondering it! You can’t hide it from me. Well, let’s consider how the two are related.
The state of our country today reveals our heart condition. Our hearts have been stolen by the wicked one, aka Satan or the devil or Lucifer. Nay, but rather we have given our hearts away, like some love-sick puppy dog who just entered puberty.
When we prefer to watch Star Wars and fantasize about it until it forms our mindset, what have we done if not set our heart on the things of the earth? All along we should bury our head in the Book and allow it to transform us by the renewing of the mind. We don’t follow the Lord. We follow old Lucifer.
I know, no one confesses, “I follow Lucifer!” But a rose is a rose. By any other name… We are on a perpetual safari to find something novel, something extraordinary, something to tickle the fancy. Ma & Pa’s Bible is just some more of the same old same old. Who wants that? So we make fun of it and believe we have discredited it thereby.
Too bad for us, but the Bible won’t go off on its own somewhere and die. The grass withers, the flowers fade; but the Word of our God stands forever. God demands that we reckon with Him. We cannot avoid Him. Our hearts will perforce either harden against Him, in which case we become card-carrying members of the Star Wars Reality Club. Or else our hearts melt at His presence, and we give our hearts to Jesus.
Which will it be for me? Which for you? Let’s sit at the feet of Jesus a while and ponder this issue.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Contemporary USA mocks the Bible as being old-fashioned and consisting of fairy tales. This same USA brags about how modern it is, all the while being bed fellows with ancient paganism! Have you ever heard the pejorative “sucker”?
Well, we better get used to it, for we have been duped by the evil one yet once again. The facticity and sense of the Bible is replaced in our country by the stuff and nonsense of ancient paganism, and we are proud of it! We are “modern”, fresh, new…or so we believe.
Truth be told, our thinking is as old as dirt, as old as the Garden of Eden, as old as Methuselah. Baal worship has nothing on us. Just visit your local abortion clinic and see firsthand. Want to know what the Asherah pole was? Ask a porno flick connoisseur. He can tell you.
What has all this to do with our Bible verse? I’ll bet you’re wondering that, aren’t you? Oh, yes you are. I saw you wondering it! You can’t hide it from me. Well, let’s consider how the two are related.
The state of our country today reveals our heart condition. Our hearts have been stolen by the wicked one, aka Satan or the devil or Lucifer. Nay, but rather we have given our hearts away, like some love-sick puppy dog who just entered puberty.
When we prefer to watch Star Wars and fantasize about it until it forms our mindset, what have we done if not set our heart on the things of the earth? All along we should bury our head in the Book and allow it to transform us by the renewing of the mind. We don’t follow the Lord. We follow old Lucifer.
I know, no one confesses, “I follow Lucifer!” But a rose is a rose. By any other name… We are on a perpetual safari to find something novel, something extraordinary, something to tickle the fancy. Ma & Pa’s Bible is just some more of the same old same old. Who wants that? So we make fun of it and believe we have discredited it thereby.
Too bad for us, but the Bible won’t go off on its own somewhere and die. The grass withers, the flowers fade; but the Word of our God stands forever. God demands that we reckon with Him. We cannot avoid Him. Our hearts will perforce either harden against Him, in which case we become card-carrying members of the Star Wars Reality Club. Or else our hearts melt at His presence, and we give our hearts to Jesus.
Which will it be for me? Which for you? Let’s sit at the feet of Jesus a while and ponder this issue.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Don’t Give Your Heart Away – Part 3
Stand firm therefore…having put on the breastplate of righteousness [Ephesians 6:14].
The Word of God is like the hand of God, as it reaches out to us with His offer of salvation. Will our hearts harden to His voice and reject the offer, indignant that He should think we need His handout? Or will our hearts melt at the sound of His voice and go out to Him, giving itself away to the God of love?
This is where “the breastplate of righteousness” comes in, dear friends. The breastplate of the Roman legionnaire protected his heart. In Scripture the heart is indicative of our emotions, our love, what we desire and live for. Physically the heart is a vital organ. Life cannot exist without the heart.
Spiritually the heart is a vital organ as well. Spiritual life cannot exist, is not real, except the heart be given to the Lord. Otherwise we are simply being religious. We are only playing church. We are serving self and doing good deeds for our own fame. We are tooting our own horn and singing our own praises.
Anyone in such a condition is fair game for the devil. He savors such delicacies, loving ever finger-licking bite. They are defenseless against the wiles of the devil because man by himself hasn’t the power or the intellect to outdo or outwit Satan.
Only the child of God can have the victory against the evil one, and only when he bedecks himself in “the full armor of God” and betakes himself to spiritual warfare. Part of that armor is “the breastplate of righteousness”.
The Holy Spirit teaches us that the Christian is “the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus”. That, my friend, is “the breastplate of righteousness”. The natural man (i.e., the person who isn’t born again) only has his own righteousness. I am sure your experience confirms what mine does: there isn’t a man alive who is perfectly righteous, who has never done or thought or said anything wrong.
The child of God no longer has to depend on his own righteousness. Now he is the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Once we get this Biblical concept into our heads and move it down into our hearts, it transforms us radically.
The evil one comes up behind us and attempts to disillusion us, “Born again? Oh, really? Didn’t I just witness you losing your temper. Looks like the same old sinner to me!”
The natural man hasn’t any defense to this accusation. He did just lose his temper. He does look like the same old sinner because he is! What can he say except, “Guilty”? Then he slinks off into the shadows to disappear, his face red as a beet.
Hopefully none of us respond in such a fashion. We will pursue this matter some more in our next study. Let us stop now and pitch our tents and take our rest for the night. We still have time to enjoy Jesus before going to sleep.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
The Word of God is like the hand of God, as it reaches out to us with His offer of salvation. Will our hearts harden to His voice and reject the offer, indignant that He should think we need His handout? Or will our hearts melt at the sound of His voice and go out to Him, giving itself away to the God of love?
This is where “the breastplate of righteousness” comes in, dear friends. The breastplate of the Roman legionnaire protected his heart. In Scripture the heart is indicative of our emotions, our love, what we desire and live for. Physically the heart is a vital organ. Life cannot exist without the heart.
Spiritually the heart is a vital organ as well. Spiritual life cannot exist, is not real, except the heart be given to the Lord. Otherwise we are simply being religious. We are only playing church. We are serving self and doing good deeds for our own fame. We are tooting our own horn and singing our own praises.
Anyone in such a condition is fair game for the devil. He savors such delicacies, loving ever finger-licking bite. They are defenseless against the wiles of the devil because man by himself hasn’t the power or the intellect to outdo or outwit Satan.
Only the child of God can have the victory against the evil one, and only when he bedecks himself in “the full armor of God” and betakes himself to spiritual warfare. Part of that armor is “the breastplate of righteousness”.
The Holy Spirit teaches us that the Christian is “the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus”. That, my friend, is “the breastplate of righteousness”. The natural man (i.e., the person who isn’t born again) only has his own righteousness. I am sure your experience confirms what mine does: there isn’t a man alive who is perfectly righteous, who has never done or thought or said anything wrong.
The child of God no longer has to depend on his own righteousness. Now he is the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Once we get this Biblical concept into our heads and move it down into our hearts, it transforms us radically.
The evil one comes up behind us and attempts to disillusion us, “Born again? Oh, really? Didn’t I just witness you losing your temper. Looks like the same old sinner to me!”
The natural man hasn’t any defense to this accusation. He did just lose his temper. He does look like the same old sinner because he is! What can he say except, “Guilty”? Then he slinks off into the shadows to disappear, his face red as a beet.
Hopefully none of us respond in such a fashion. We will pursue this matter some more in our next study. Let us stop now and pitch our tents and take our rest for the night. We still have time to enjoy Jesus before going to sleep.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Don’t Give Your Heart Away – Part 4
Stand firm therefore…having put on the breastplate of righteousness [Ephesians 6:14].
Sinners sin and every human being is a sinner. So Satan never runs out of ammo for shooting us. He simply points to one or another of our sins and convicts us. The sinner responds by tucking his tail between the legs and crawling off to hide, defeated by Satan yet once again.
The Christian can do the same because he still does lose his temper or commit some other sin. Nothing difficult about doing that. After all, the old sinner still lurks inside, trying to have his way.
However, the new nature of the Holy Spirit also lives inside the Christian. He responds to Satan, “Get thee hence, Satan. For it is written, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus and you shall be saved!’” When that happens, then it is Satan’s turn to slink off into the shadows to disappear, his face red as a beet. Sinners tend to do that, and Satan is the sinner par excellence.
The message for us to garner is this, my friends. We cannot combat the forces of darkness in our own strength, in our own righteousness. Only the righteousness of God can win out in such a campaign. Fortunate for us that we are the righteousness of God, eh? In Christ Jesus, that is.
So let us not be remiss in conducting spiritual warfare against the flesh and the world and the devil. But let us be sure we first don “the whole armor of God”, and that includes protecting our hearts. We must needs depend on the Lord Jesus for the victory, not go to war in our own strength and righteousness. We must “put on the breastplate of righteousness”, which is the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. There are no chinks in that armor.
So we prepare for spiritual warfare by “girding our loins with truth”. The Word of God is truth—both the living Word, Jesus, and the written Word, the Bible. We remove the entanglements around our feet, which tend to trip us up and prevent our effective functioning. We pull them out of the way and tuck them into the belt around our waist.
The Word of God removes the obstacles from our feet, allowing us to walk in His ways and not stumble. By this manner we can be effectual soldiers in the army of Christ. He can use us to overcome His adversary, the devil.
We also don “the breastplate of righteousness”. When Satan attempts to force us into losing heart and surrendering, we cling to the Word of God and allow God to go to war against Satan instead of us.
We don’t fight Satan in our own righteousness. We fight him in “the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus”. We protect our hearts with “the breastplate of righteousness”. The Lord provided it to us for that very purpose. As obedient soldiers in the army of Christ, we follow the orders given us from the “captain of the host of the Lord” (cf., Joshua 5:14). That would be the Lord Jesus.
So are you ready to march off to war now, Christian soldier? You are? That’s good. Oops! Not so fast! We still have several other pieces of armor to don before heading to Normandy. Normandy can wait, the pieces of armor cannot.
We’ll continue with the next piece of armor in tomorrow’s study. See you then. For now let us respond to Jesus’ invite. He wishes our company. Let’s not keep him waiting.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Sinners sin and every human being is a sinner. So Satan never runs out of ammo for shooting us. He simply points to one or another of our sins and convicts us. The sinner responds by tucking his tail between the legs and crawling off to hide, defeated by Satan yet once again.
The Christian can do the same because he still does lose his temper or commit some other sin. Nothing difficult about doing that. After all, the old sinner still lurks inside, trying to have his way.
However, the new nature of the Holy Spirit also lives inside the Christian. He responds to Satan, “Get thee hence, Satan. For it is written, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus and you shall be saved!’” When that happens, then it is Satan’s turn to slink off into the shadows to disappear, his face red as a beet. Sinners tend to do that, and Satan is the sinner par excellence.
The message for us to garner is this, my friends. We cannot combat the forces of darkness in our own strength, in our own righteousness. Only the righteousness of God can win out in such a campaign. Fortunate for us that we are the righteousness of God, eh? In Christ Jesus, that is.
So let us not be remiss in conducting spiritual warfare against the flesh and the world and the devil. But let us be sure we first don “the whole armor of God”, and that includes protecting our hearts. We must needs depend on the Lord Jesus for the victory, not go to war in our own strength and righteousness. We must “put on the breastplate of righteousness”, which is the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. There are no chinks in that armor.
So we prepare for spiritual warfare by “girding our loins with truth”. The Word of God is truth—both the living Word, Jesus, and the written Word, the Bible. We remove the entanglements around our feet, which tend to trip us up and prevent our effective functioning. We pull them out of the way and tuck them into the belt around our waist.
The Word of God removes the obstacles from our feet, allowing us to walk in His ways and not stumble. By this manner we can be effectual soldiers in the army of Christ. He can use us to overcome His adversary, the devil.
We also don “the breastplate of righteousness”. When Satan attempts to force us into losing heart and surrendering, we cling to the Word of God and allow God to go to war against Satan instead of us.
We don’t fight Satan in our own righteousness. We fight him in “the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus”. We protect our hearts with “the breastplate of righteousness”. The Lord provided it to us for that very purpose. As obedient soldiers in the army of Christ, we follow the orders given us from the “captain of the host of the Lord” (cf., Joshua 5:14). That would be the Lord Jesus.
So are you ready to march off to war now, Christian soldier? You are? That’s good. Oops! Not so fast! We still have several other pieces of armor to don before heading to Normandy. Normandy can wait, the pieces of armor cannot.
We’ll continue with the next piece of armor in tomorrow’s study. See you then. For now let us respond to Jesus’ invite. He wishes our company. Let’s not keep him waiting.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Don’t Give Your Heart Away – Part 2
Stand firm therefore…having put on the breastplate of righteousness [Ephesians 6:14].
Contemporary USA mocks the Bible as being old-fashioned and consisting of fairy tales. This same USA brags about how modern it is, all the while being bed fellows with ancient paganism! Have you ever heard the pejorative “sucker”?
Well, we better get used to it, for we have been duped by the evil one yet once again. The facticity and sense of the Bible is replaced in our country by the stuff and nonsense of ancient paganism, and we are proud of it! We are “modern”, fresh, new…or so we believe.
Truth be told, our thinking is as old as dirt, as old as the Garden of Eden, as old as Methuselah. Baal worship has nothing on us. Just visit your local abortion clinic and see firsthand. Want to know what the Asherah pole was? Ask a porno flick connoisseur. He can tell you.
What has all this to do with our Bible verse? I’ll bet you’re wondering that, aren’t you? Oh, yes you are. I saw you wondering it! You can’t hide it from me. Well, let’s consider how the two are related.
The state of our country today reveals our heart condition. Our hearts have been stolen by the wicked one, aka Satan or the devil or Lucifer. Nay, but rather we have given our hearts away, like some love-sick puppy dog who just entered puberty.
When we prefer to watch Star Wars and fantasize about it until it forms our mindset, what have we done if not set our heart on the things of the earth? All along we should bury our head in the Book and allow it to transform us by the renewing of the mind. We don’t follow the Lord. We follow old Lucifer.
I know, no one confesses, “I follow Lucifer!” But a rose is a rose. By any other name… We are on a perpetual safari to find something novel, something extraordinary, something to tickle the fancy. Ma & Pa’s Bible is just some more of the same old same old. Who wants that? So we make fun of it and believe we have discredited it thereby.
Too bad for us, but the Bible won’t go off on its own somewhere and die. The grass withers, the flowers fade; but the Word of our God stands forever. God demands that we reckon with Him. We cannot avoid Him. Our hearts will perforce either harden against Him, in which case we become card-carrying members of the Star Wars Reality Club. Or else our hearts melt at His presence, and we give our hearts to Jesus.
Which will it be for me? Which for you? Let’s sit at the feet of Jesus a while and ponder this issue.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Contemporary USA mocks the Bible as being old-fashioned and consisting of fairy tales. This same USA brags about how modern it is, all the while being bed fellows with ancient paganism! Have you ever heard the pejorative “sucker”?
Well, we better get used to it, for we have been duped by the evil one yet once again. The facticity and sense of the Bible is replaced in our country by the stuff and nonsense of ancient paganism, and we are proud of it! We are “modern”, fresh, new…or so we believe.
Truth be told, our thinking is as old as dirt, as old as the Garden of Eden, as old as Methuselah. Baal worship has nothing on us. Just visit your local abortion clinic and see firsthand. Want to know what the Asherah pole was? Ask a porno flick connoisseur. He can tell you.
What has all this to do with our Bible verse? I’ll bet you’re wondering that, aren’t you? Oh, yes you are. I saw you wondering it! You can’t hide it from me. Well, let’s consider how the two are related.
The state of our country today reveals our heart condition. Our hearts have been stolen by the wicked one, aka Satan or the devil or Lucifer. Nay, but rather we have given our hearts away, like some love-sick puppy dog who just entered puberty.
When we prefer to watch Star Wars and fantasize about it until it forms our mindset, what have we done if not set our heart on the things of the earth? All along we should bury our head in the Book and allow it to transform us by the renewing of the mind. We don’t follow the Lord. We follow old Lucifer.
I know, no one confesses, “I follow Lucifer!” But a rose is a rose. By any other name… We are on a perpetual safari to find something novel, something extraordinary, something to tickle the fancy. Ma & Pa’s Bible is just some more of the same old same old. Who wants that? So we make fun of it and believe we have discredited it thereby.
Too bad for us, but the Bible won’t go off on its own somewhere and die. The grass withers, the flowers fade; but the Word of our God stands forever. God demands that we reckon with Him. We cannot avoid Him. Our hearts will perforce either harden against Him, in which case we become card-carrying members of the Star Wars Reality Club. Or else our hearts melt at His presence, and we give our hearts to Jesus.
Which will it be for me? Which for you? Let’s sit at the feet of Jesus a while and ponder this issue.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Don’t Give Your Heart Away – Part 3
Stand firm therefore…having put on the breastplate of righteousness [Ephesians 6:14].
The Word of God is like the hand of God, as it reaches out to us with His offer of salvation. Will our hearts harden to His voice and reject the offer, indignant that He should think we need His handout? Or will our hearts melt at the sound of His voice and go out to Him, giving itself away to the God of love?
This is where “the breastplate of righteousness” comes in, dear friends. The breastplate of the Roman legionnaire protected his heart. In Scripture the heart is indicative of our emotions, our love, what we desire and live for. Physically the heart is a vital organ. Life cannot exist without the heart.
Spiritually the heart is a vital organ as well. Spiritual life cannot exist, is not real, except the heart be given to the Lord. Otherwise we are simply being religious. We are only playing church. We are serving self and doing good deeds for our own fame. We are tooting our own horn and singing our own praises.
Anyone in such a condition is fair game for the devil. He savors such delicacies, loving ever finger-licking bite. They are defenseless against the wiles of the devil because man by himself hasn’t the power or the intellect to outdo or outwit Satan.
Only the child of God can have the victory against the evil one, and only when he bedecks himself in “the full armor of God” and betakes himself to spiritual warfare. Part of that armor is “the breastplate of righteousness”.
The Holy Spirit teaches us that the Christian is “the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus”. That, my friend, is “the breastplate of righteousness”. The natural man (i.e., the person who isn’t born again) only has his own righteousness. I am sure your experience confirms what mine does: there isn’t a man alive who is perfectly righteous, who has never done or thought or said anything wrong.
The child of God no longer has to depend on his own righteousness. Now he is the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Once we get this Biblical concept into our heads and move it down into our hearts, it transforms us radically.
The evil one comes up behind us and attempts to disillusion us, “Born again? Oh, really? Didn’t I just witness you losing your temper. Looks like the same old sinner to me!”
The natural man hasn’t any defense to this accusation. He did just lose his temper. He does look like the same old sinner because he is! What can he say except, “Guilty”? Then he slinks off into the shadows to disappear, his face red as a beet.
Hopefully none of us respond in such a fashion. We will pursue this matter some more in our next study. Let us stop now and pitch our tents and take our rest for the night. We still have time to enjoy Jesus before going to sleep.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
The Word of God is like the hand of God, as it reaches out to us with His offer of salvation. Will our hearts harden to His voice and reject the offer, indignant that He should think we need His handout? Or will our hearts melt at the sound of His voice and go out to Him, giving itself away to the God of love?
This is where “the breastplate of righteousness” comes in, dear friends. The breastplate of the Roman legionnaire protected his heart. In Scripture the heart is indicative of our emotions, our love, what we desire and live for. Physically the heart is a vital organ. Life cannot exist without the heart.
Spiritually the heart is a vital organ as well. Spiritual life cannot exist, is not real, except the heart be given to the Lord. Otherwise we are simply being religious. We are only playing church. We are serving self and doing good deeds for our own fame. We are tooting our own horn and singing our own praises.
Anyone in such a condition is fair game for the devil. He savors such delicacies, loving ever finger-licking bite. They are defenseless against the wiles of the devil because man by himself hasn’t the power or the intellect to outdo or outwit Satan.
Only the child of God can have the victory against the evil one, and only when he bedecks himself in “the full armor of God” and betakes himself to spiritual warfare. Part of that armor is “the breastplate of righteousness”.
The Holy Spirit teaches us that the Christian is “the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus”. That, my friend, is “the breastplate of righteousness”. The natural man (i.e., the person who isn’t born again) only has his own righteousness. I am sure your experience confirms what mine does: there isn’t a man alive who is perfectly righteous, who has never done or thought or said anything wrong.
The child of God no longer has to depend on his own righteousness. Now he is the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Once we get this Biblical concept into our heads and move it down into our hearts, it transforms us radically.
The evil one comes up behind us and attempts to disillusion us, “Born again? Oh, really? Didn’t I just witness you losing your temper. Looks like the same old sinner to me!”
The natural man hasn’t any defense to this accusation. He did just lose his temper. He does look like the same old sinner because he is! What can he say except, “Guilty”? Then he slinks off into the shadows to disappear, his face red as a beet.
Hopefully none of us respond in such a fashion. We will pursue this matter some more in our next study. Let us stop now and pitch our tents and take our rest for the night. We still have time to enjoy Jesus before going to sleep.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Joshua: Volume 6 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
