Dependant, Blameless and Repentant
Now is not a time to prepare for the future. To equip our youth with biblical principles of leadership and strategies to evangelize the nations. Now is the time to call our youth to a humble, dependant, day to day, walk with God. Where Proverbs 3:5-6 is the operative state and the goal is to be blameless and live repentantly. (Power & Strength is needed)
Tarry until and Occupy (A.B. Simpson)
WHAT DOES IT TAKE?
Not great skill or knowledge or learning. Not position or riches...
The Beatitudes!
Adam & Eve walked with God.
Enoch walked with God and God took him.
Elijah walked with God.
Proverbs 6:16-19 (NKJV) 16.These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: 17 A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, 19 A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren.
Question: "What does the Bible say about repentance? What does it mean to repent?"
Answer: The word repentance in the Bible literally means “the act of changing one’s mind.” True biblical repentance goes beyond remorse, regret, or feeling bad about one’s sin. It involves more than merely turning away from sin. Eerdmans Bible Dictionary includes this definition of repentance: “In its fullest sense it is a term for a complete change of orientation involving a judgment upon the past and a deliberate redirection for the future.” https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-repentance.html
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Sunday, February 16, 2014
Incongruity?
Have you ever watch a commercial by a pharmaceutical company? Incongruity? Somehow they convince you to buy while telling why you shouldn't. This is the best illustration of the society we live in. Truth is not the prime factor. They sell hope without the need to change (repent). They make you think that the consequence of your decisions can be avoided.
But we all reap what we sow.
But we all reap what we sow.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Notes on "Time"
Time: A succession of moments demarcating change in the physical realm of our existence*
(*1. The fact or state of existing; being.
2. The fact or state of continued being.
Synonyms: actuality, being)
Only the now exists. Ongoing existence is continually being created and held together by God. Creation was not a single act of God but is an on ongoing activity.
(*1. The fact or state of existing; being.
2. The fact or state of continued being.
Synonyms: actuality, being)
Only the now exists. Ongoing existence is continually being created and held together by God. Creation was not a single act of God but is an on ongoing activity.
Colossians 1:17 "He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together."
The past is forever gone. The present now is where we exist and have our being. The future has not yet been created by our choices and God's deference to those choices.
The past is forever gone. The present now is where we exist and have our being. The future has not yet been created by our choices and God's deference to those choices.
God has yet to exert his will completely, in hope that all will repent. Some of the future is determined and God knows it as a certainty, although it does not yet exist. Some of the future is open and God knows it as a contingency and it does not yet exist. Existence is the present now.
Now is the succession of moments demarcating Creation. Creation is continually held together by God and the concept of time is the result of the cause and effect progression of change in creation/existence. Creation is the ongoing task of God. He has chosen to share some of that task.
To some extent, we "create" our own existence by the choices we make. Our existence in the now is partly determined by the choices we have made in the past. Our future existence in creation is partly determined by choices we make in the now with the before ordained plan of God, manifested in Jesus Christ.
The plan of God finds its fulfillment in Jesus Christ even before the foundations of creation/existence were laid.
Our present now is relative. Reality is comprised of a multitude of relative nows. The physicality of existence requires relativity in individual nows. My now is unique. No one else can experience my now except God.
Creation is created moment by moment. God is in the moment by moment, creating our existence. The future has yet to be created. Therein rests the Hope that motivates the Lover of our Soul.
You and I view existence from a particular perspective limited by our locale. This limited perspective inhibits our comprehension of reality as a whole.
Because God is outside the physicality of our existence, does that mean He is outside of time? To say God is outside of time makes no sense. Time is inside God. God creates and holds existence together as an ongoing activity. Existence is created by God moment by moment and is demarcated by change which results in the observance of time. To say it another way, time is the observance of change in existence as God creates it moment by moment. God is the creator of time.
It exists because of God’s ongoing activity of creation.
TIME exists because change is observed. Change occurs because things move. Things move because of the “Prime Mover” God.
The Past - Is Fact
The Future - Is Potential
The present - God's ongoing act of creation enabling Existence.
Now is the succession of moments demarcating Creation. Creation is continually held together by God and the concept of time is the result of the cause and effect progression of change in creation/existence. Creation is the ongoing task of God. He has chosen to share some of that task.
To some extent, we "create" our own existence by the choices we make. Our existence in the now is partly determined by the choices we have made in the past. Our future existence in creation is partly determined by choices we make in the now with the before ordained plan of God, manifested in Jesus Christ.
The plan of God finds its fulfillment in Jesus Christ even before the foundations of creation/existence were laid.
Our present now is relative. Reality is comprised of a multitude of relative nows. The physicality of existence requires relativity in individual nows. My now is unique. No one else can experience my now except God.
Creation is created moment by moment. God is in the moment by moment, creating our existence. The future has yet to be created. Therein rests the Hope that motivates the Lover of our Soul.
You and I view existence from a particular perspective limited by our locale. This limited perspective inhibits our comprehension of reality as a whole.
Because God is outside the physicality of our existence, does that mean He is outside of time? To say God is outside of time makes no sense. Time is inside God. God creates and holds existence together as an ongoing activity. Existence is created by God moment by moment and is demarcated by change which results in the observance of time. To say it another way, time is the observance of change in existence as God creates it moment by moment. God is the creator of time.
It exists because of God’s ongoing activity of creation.
TIME exists because change is observed. Change occurs because things move. Things move because of the “Prime Mover” God.
The Past - Is Fact
The Future - Is Potential
The present - God's ongoing act of creation enabling Existence.
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