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Used to be Sins

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Since I could not, not write it, I might as well publish it.

Jesus didn’t come because we are just messed up.

He didn’t come because we make mistakes.

He did not have to be born into the limitations of time and the human body because we make mistakes – uh oh I bought a red sweater when the memo said to get a blue one. That’s a mistake!

He came because we are sinners, not just messed up people who make mistakes. And when we do turn from our sins TO HIM we are then transformed from sinner to Saint and we spend the rest of our time on this earth learning to live Saintly.

No more excuses oh I’m just a sinner, GOD understands I can’t help it.

That’s a lie from hell!

If we are born again, Holy Spirit lives within us.

HE RAISED JESUS FROM THE DEAD!

Are we going to say He in us can’t stop this continual practice of the same old sin over and over and over again?

Are we going to say He can’t deliver us from this perpetual state described as messed up?

Because if we are we better check and see if we actually KNOW The GOD of The BIBLE.

We better make sure we are not preaching on behalf of and serving the god of this world.

It is no honor to GOD when we continue to confess year after year that we are messed up. No!

Preach that without repentance and conversion people are hell-deserving sinners and everyone that dies without turning from sin to GOD will burn in hell. No exceptions.

BUT UPON CONVERSION, when we are indwelt by Holy Spirit we learn to practice less and less sin.

We become victorious over sin day after day.

Anything less fails to give GOD the glory He deserves.

Here’s the truth, some sins I don’t struggle with – they are not even on my radar anymore. Holy Spirit has delivered me from them. I don’t practice them. Am I saying I am victorious over every sin?

No!!!

But I am making progress in my walk with HIM.

I won’t fully make it here (sinless) but that is no excuse to just give up and give in to temptations.

No. No. No.

Pray.

If you cannot say you are making progress and there are ‘used to be sins’ that you just don’t practice anymore, then I am begging you to check to see if you really have a Damascus Road experience with JESUS. Find out if you are truly indwelt by Holy Spirit. See Acts 9. Isaiah 30:15

Ask GOD to let you know if you really have turned from your sins to HIM and read your Bible and continue to pray until He answers you from the pages of your Bible.

Love and good night, Kathie

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Pick a Seat

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How do you pick your seat at a general admission event? 

Luke 14

I ask because YESHUA had something to say about it. 
Do you want to know what He said?

7 When Yeshua noticed how the guests were choosing for themselves the best seats at the table, he told them this parable: 
8 “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, don’t sit down in the best seat; because if there is someone more important than you who has been invited, 
9 the person who invited both of you might come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then you will be humiliated as you go to take the least important place. 
10 Instead, when you are invited, go and sit in the least important place; so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Go on up to a better seat.’ Then you will be honored in front of everyone sitting with you. 
11 Because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.”  source 

 

How do you read that? 
What do you think He was saying to them?
And is there any reason He would say differently to us?

Humility.7ba74bde296b5f843bf45817b62843a4--be-humble-peter-otoole

It’s an important matter.
And if we refuse to humble ourselves — He knows how to do it!

I looked for the specific verse of Scripture to state it just the way I thought it was written and I discovered it’s the Whole Counsel of GOD that would communicate that to us. One of those verses would be this one.e11e3ed73d495dcbd5ab3edbdbcc153d

6 Adonai sustains the humble
but brings the wicked down to the ground.  Source Psalm 147

 

Does that say what I think it says?

Wicked is the opposite of humble?                

Love, Kathie

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Woodshed

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I have a question for us.
Are we afraid because we think we don’t matter? 
Questioning our value to GOD?

Why the question?

Luke 12

Specifically verses 4-7.

Here I’ll paste them to the page for you.

4 “My friends, I tell you: don’t fear those who kill the body but then have nothing more they can do. 5 I will show you whom to fear: fear him who after killing you has authority to throw you into Gei-Hinnom! Yes, I tell you, this is the one to fear! 6 Aren’t sparrows sold for next to nothing, five for two assarions? And not one of them has been forgotten by God. 7 Why, every hair on your head has been counted! Don’t be afraid, you are worth more than many sparrows.  source 

Do you see? Verse 7. Read it till you believe it. 

And while we are on the subject, let’s look at who we should and should not be afraid.

I mean for real, who are we afraid of? 
(Forgive me just had to leave that preposition at the end.)

I mean when we are threatened by someone, wouldn’t it be the BEST! to be so secure in JESUS that we with firm authority say,
“What’s the worse thing you can do to me?
Kill me?
Then I am with JESUS! Give it your best shot!”

What did JESUS say in this passage?
For Real Christians what is the worse thing another human person can do to us? 
Be the vehicle of exit from this cruel, hostile world? 

(Albeit, even I can admit that beatings, tortures, etc. are not what I want but I understand from the testimonies of  Saints that JESUS gives unspeakable help and comfort during such sufferings.)

So who do people need to be afraid of? 
This is not spoken on the street or preached in the pulpit, but I am saying it.

Any person who has not repented, believed and received in exchange for their sins the RIGHTEOUSNESS of JESUS — oh they need to be afraid. 
Very afraid of none other than GOD, HIMSELF. 

We are taught in this culture that GOD is all love and there is no reason to be afraid of Him. 

Rubbish from hell! 

Read it again. 

 5 I will show you whom to fear: fear him who after killing you has authority to throw you into Gei-Hinnom! Yes, I tell you, this is the one to fear!  

And please please do not miss that word AUTHORITY.  And please do not miss there is only ONE to fear.
HE has the authority, and the right, it is JUST for Him to cast every unbeliever into the hell they have chosen. 

This is Who we should be afraid of! 
And even as His children, bought and cleansed by The BLOOD of His Only Begotten Son, we better still be afraid of disobeying Him! 
He chastens those He loves when they disobey — by the way, so does any godly daddy.

So, we really need to work at staying out of the woodshed. 
Not just because it hurts but because HE IS WORTHY of our obedience and love. 

He chastens those that are His. Hebrews 12:6-11

That’s it for now.pioneer-woodshed-sheri-mcleroy

Love, Kathie 

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Crazy Talk

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Luke 9 

Okay. So here’s the deal. 

At the beginning of this chapter, YESHUA called His disciples together, having been well-trained I believe, He commissioned them and gave them authority, and sent them out. 
He gave them authority to cast out demons and to heal sick people. 
(JESUS here gave authority to His disciples to cast out demons.
JESUS did this!
For JESUS to do this He must know there are demons to be cast out. So I wonder why so many Christian Folk today act like demons have gone on a permanent vacation from inhabiting people.  But that wasn’t my point so I’ll get back to it now :) ) 

And when all this GOOD NEWS began circulating, so did some TALK. 

7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening; and he was greatly perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead, 8 and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the prophets of old had risen. source 

So get this!
Herod and some others found it more palatable to believe that John the Baptizer or Elijah had been raised from the dead than to believe that YESHUA was The Messiah who had come to deliver them. 
So, if in Chapter 9 they believed people could be raised from the dead, why then when YESHUA was raised from the dead on the Third Day after His execution, did they refuse to believe?

Do you know people like that today?
They would rather believe any sort of craziness rather than believe THE ONE TRUE GOD came here to this messed up world so He could deliver us and save us from sin, death, hell, and the grave.

Go figure.

Crazy Talk!

1Let’s make this Friday a productive one.

Love, Kathie