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Scariest People on Earth

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Yesterday we looked at Mark 1. 
Today it is Matthew 3.

Yes. Another view of the coming of JESUS to John to be baptized.
I won’t call it a Second Opinion.
It’s not even a First Opinion.
It’s an accounting – perhaps we could say like one written with a gel pen and one with a ballpoint – giving us a different slant, but the same story.
GOD’s Story. 

Today in Matthew 3 we again see John preaching. 
His message is bold and necessary; that message is we must turn FROM sin TO GOD.
It’s is the only way to be saved from sin, death, hell, and the grave. 

I am wondering if you have noticed what I have noticed in our society. 
That’s an expectation (or shall we say demand?) that we all, particularly Christians, must be NICE.
We must be soft-spoken, tactful, obliging, and by all means necessary we must NOT offend anyone either by word or action. 
Have y’all noticed that? 

Would you be willing to look with me at verse 7?

7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to watch him baptize, he denounced them.
“You brood of snakes!” he exclaimed. “Who warned you to flee the coming wrath? source 

Would you be willing to read a little more with me?

8 Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God. 
9 Don’t just say to each other, ‘We’re safe, for we are descendants of Abraham.’ That means nothing, for I tell you, God can create children of Abraham from these very stones. 
10 Even now the ax of God’s judgment is poised, ready to sever the roots of the trees. Yes, every tree that does not produce good fruit will be chopped down and thrown into the fire.  source 

Is there anyone willing to find fault with John?
Anyone willing to say he was WRONG to preach as he preached? 

NOT ME. 

No Sir. I shall not accuse John of wrong preaching.
I would rather pray O LORD move on me that I will with no intimidation and no fear, teach and share daily in every place that YOU, LORD YESHUA, was crucified because we are sinners and YOUR BLOOD is enough to clean the vilest of us and YOUR RESURRECTION is proof that THE FATHER has received Your sacrificial death as payment for the sins of every person who will turn from their sins TO YOU and TRUST YOU for forgiveness and Life Eternal. 

I appreciate and admire the man named John. 
The man who wore camel’s hair clothing, tied with a leather belt; whose food was locust and honey. 
I neither want to dress like or eat like him but I desire his holy boldness, especially in the face of the scariest people on earth! 

Perhaps the Scariest People on Earth would vary from person to person — you, think?

For a little commentary on Brood of Snakes, click HERE.
I found it interesting and enlightening. I highly recommend you check it out. 

We have the GOD-given Right to LIVE RIGHT in this WRONG world. 

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Body Language

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 Today, I heard Paul Washer preach these words: “I don’t have to know your heart. I just need to see what you do with your body and what you do with your body will tell me exactly what’s going on in your heart.”

Matthew 7:20 “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” source 

Our actions matter. Our body does indeed speak. 

Matthew 7: 20 in context – click HERE.

 

This is the sermon from which came the aforementioned quote.
This is a lengthy sermon by the standards of men but for the Love of GOD worth every second to me. 

2021, Gospel of Matthew, Lamentations

The Last of 2021

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Two Thousand Twenty-One. 
How did it go so quickly I might ask. Another might say I thought it would never be over. 

Yes, we are just hours away from the chiming in of 2022. Would you be offended if I wonder why we make such a big deal of it?
Today is December 31, 2021. 
At midnight it will be January 1, 2022. 
Is it really more than that? 

I remember the turning from December 31, 1999, to January 1, 2000 — we wondered if our banking, utilities, etc. would cease to compute and we would be in mass chaos at the stroke of midnight for the foreseeable future. 
But the dawn came, the sun soon beamed and the birds sang. 
I expect it will be just so come the morning.

Is the turning of a year any more than that – just another day? 
Is it really more than that? 
If we make it so — it is. 

If we embrace the New Day of the New Year as a New Beginning, renewal is more than possible, it’s likely.
I am reminded of Scripture. That all things are possible with GOD; that His mercies are new every morning. That applies to in the morning for all who awaken to the morning’s light. 
We get to choose GOD or not. 

Let us choose wisely.
The unfolding of our year, our families and our emotional well-being in large portion depends on our choices. 

I borrowed this picture from a Friend’s Facebook Page and offer it here with minor edits.
It’s not profound but I liked the play-on-of-words as we take off into this new year. :) 

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Guaranteed

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Matthew 5: 6 “How blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness!
    for they will be filled. source 

We can hunger and thirst for many things; but, only one thing can we can hunger and thirst for we are guaranteed we will be filled with.
RIGHTEOUSNESS.

GOD’s Righteousness. 
If we hunger and thirst for Him He will surely supply His Righteousness to us. 

He says so right here, Verse 6, Matthew, chapter 5.
Sermon on the Mount.
The only Perfect Sermon ever recorded.