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2022, Gospel of Matthew, Philippians, Questions, Repentance, Salvation

Don’t be One of Them

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Matthew 4

So much! Where do I even begin and just think I see only a tiny portion of what is there! 

Over and over in this chapter, I see an enlightening glimpse of the love JESUS has for us. 
Just think of it! The GOD of the Universe, The Creator of it all HUMBLED Himself becoming a MAN to die on an execution stake!  See Philippians 2:8.

Why? 
Because that was the ONLY way to SAVE us from our sins, hell, death, and the grave. 

This gets me!

Verses 3 – 10

The SCUMBAG of the Universe shows up. (And scumbag is way beyond non-descriptive of his evilness.)

 3 The Tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, order these stones to become bread.” source 

The GOD of the Universe lowered Himself, allowed Himself to take on a human body with its limitations, moreover even to hear the voice of and even interact with that vile scumbag, even to be in his loathsome presence and put up with the proud arrogance of this personification of evil. 
WHY?
Why would He do that?
Only one reason!
It had to be done in order to save wretched people like you and me! 

O the love of GOD for us!!!

And as you read the chapter, please take note of verse 17. JESUS proclaimed the same message as did John. 

17 From that time on, Yeshua began proclaiming, “Turn from your sins to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near!”  source 

What does this mean the Kingdom of Heaven is near? 

My simple understanding of it today is when any human hears Holy Spirit speaking; when He confirms to a human – you are undone, you are a sinner in need of the Savior. Turn FROM your sins and TURN TO ME.

When a person knows that they know, and they don’t even know how they know, they just know they know. And what do they know? They know they need to be forgiven and JESUS is the only One who can forgive them, THEN The Kingdom of Heaven has come near them in that moment. 
They do not need to let that Holy Opportunity pass them by! 

Don’t be one of them!

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

 

 

 

2021, Philippians, You Tubes

Finish

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Just here with a hello and a song. 

Finish what You started. 
Now is an excellent time to ask ourselves, has JESUS started something in me? 

Philippians 1:6

And if He hasn’t, do we want Him too? 

2021, Philippians, Thanksgiving 2021

STOP!

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OFF buttons. 
Yes. I am thankful for OFF buttons. 

24/7 media outlets spin and stream BUT the OFF button silences them all when we use it. 

And then I thought how many other things in my life have OFF buttons? 
With Holy Spirit’s help, even our minds have switches we can flip – much akin to an OFF button.
I say that because I think my mind never truly shuts off :) but I can redirect it into a more wholesome direction.
So can you.

So, when an avenue of thought begins to stream and the Holy One alerts us; yes, we can flip the switch. We can say STOP to that train. 
And it’s been my experience (with practice) that train stops and a new rail of thought will open. 
Yes. I am grateful. Very grateful for this holy gift of STOP. 

Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, think about these things. source

But let’s be real, let’s be honest here. Verse 8 is not easy to do just off the cuff without practice. 
However, we are not left without Help and Instruction. Check out HERE verses 4-7.
These verses believed and obeyed will give us real help living verse 8; real help saying STOP to those unruly and not so nice thought trains all too ready to run on our mind rails. 

 

2021, Philippians, Psalm

Your Pillow

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I am still in Psalm 34. I’ve been to some other places in Scripture as well but I keep coming back to Psalm 34. 

Today it is this:

13 Keep your tongue from evil
And your lips from speaking deceit.
14 Turn from evil and do good;
Seek peace and pursue it.

15 The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous,
And His ears are toward their cry for help.
16 The face of the Lord is against evildoers,
To eliminate the memory of them from the earth.

19 The afflictions of the righteous are many,
But the Lord rescues him from them all. source 

I’ll be upfront with you. Verse 16.  I am eager for it! 
But we aren’t there yet. We are closer than we were but we are not there today – perhaps soon! 

So in the meantime, it’s the other verses I must concentrate on. 
Evil x2. Deceit. Peace. 
We are expected to keep our tongues from evil; our lips from deceit; turn from evil on every level and do good instead.
Isn’t it interesting that the next instruction is Seek peace and pursue it?
I submit to you that for us to seek peace, to pursue peace we MUST turn from evil AND do good.
That is not easy in this society BUT it is attainable – otherwise, we would not be instructed here to do so. 

How is it possible?  Philippians 4:13.

And verse 19?
Take that one to your pillow. 
Don’t linger long wondering why did this or that happen to me. 
The Righteous have MANY afflictions. It’s just a fact. 
That’s what HE said. 
BUT HE IS RESCUING US!! 

Good night, Friends.
Have a lovely evening – Peace and Rest.