This has to be the longest period of time that this blog has been without a post since it was created 3 years ago.
The verses will be back up and running soon. :)
Of course, y’all know you have the LORD’s Word in your heart and heads, and His holy Spirit within you. It’s not like you need these verses. You already have them with you, always :) That was a promise from God, and He always keeps His promises.
LORD, I ask that You bless every one reading this, and every one who isn’t reading this :)
I was talking in the comments about not knowing much about what is taught in the churches today.
That got me thinking. What did the church I go to teach as a child?
The fear of God, which ultimately leads to our Saviour.
You know I was taught the whole Bible.
It wasn’t the pretty verses only. What is seen as motivational inspiring verses today.
I was taught straight from God’s Word the Almighty God that He is. His straight forward approach. He said do it and it was done.
There was no Mediator. Not in the sense of the last sacrifice. Before the Sacrificial Lamb.
Before the Lamb what we had was God. We had lessons, punishment, and sacrifices.
God didn’t play.
The stories I would be told with no fear. Of how the grumbling would happen. We were never satisfied. Or good children. We didn’t follow the rules. We would get to a point that we didn’t think God even saw what we did.
The ungratefulness of it all and if it didn’t stop, there would be no telling what could happen. We could be swallowed up in the ground. God would do it. Fiery serpents, plagues galore, floods.
As a child, of course, the questions were, is God really going to swallow them up in the ground?
Yes
And He did.
Of course, followed by childlike questions of, will God do that to us now?
He could but we have a Mediator. And so the gospel once again gets brought full circle.
I really, really appreciate my Saviour Jesus Christ.
I would have been one of the first ones to have been taken out by one of the well deserved punishments if not for Jesus. I’d have probably been at the front of the line, “what? we have to walk this desert 40 years?”. Yes, and you will want for nothing. You will grumble, and complain. God will do what He said. There will be wonders and miracles.
God will be waiting for us to do what He asked us to do.
We know how that turned out.
It turned out like when Jesus said. They are coming to crucify me after dinner. I’m going to pray. You stay here and pray too. Only to return to us sleeping. Not once but twice.
Or when Peter was telling Him to stop it with the crucifiction talk. No one loved the Lord better than Peter but Peter not only ran off and forsook Jesus, like every one else. He did just what Jesus told Peter what he would do. Peter denied Jesus not once, not twice, but thrice. Then ran off.
No judgment. I see a lesson. One that shows us what they went through, and what they did. What we will go through, and what we will do.
These are the things that I was taught.
I was taught before all else, I am a righteous child of the Almighty God. And I need to act like it. I will never be Jesus but that doesn’t mean I can do whatever.
Jesus is the only way I am ever getting an eternal life in heaven.
God gave that Gift to us through Jesus. Jesus also willingly gave His life knowing it would save the lot of us. He gave it, no one could take it. I don’t feel He necessarily wanted to since while we were sleeping and He was praying. He said take this from Me. But not His will but God’s will. Jesus had the faith that God would do what He said. Another lesson.
Jesus is the best Teacher.
These are the things that I was taught in church. It wasn’t always rainbows and mountaintops. It also convicted me in a way that felt good. I feared the LORD as He should be, and I loved Jesus as He should be :) I don’t know any other way to put it about Jesus. I love Him.
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. — 2 Corinthians 4:6
And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. — Daniel 2:44
Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of the devils. — 1 Corinthians 10:21
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. — 1 Corinthians 31
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him. — 1 Corinthians 8:6
Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. — 1 Corinthians 7:23
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me but I will not be brought under the power of any. — 1 Corinthians 6:12
And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by His own power. — 1 Corinthians 6:14
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — 1 Corinthians 6:19
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. — 1 Corinthians 6:20
And I will sanctify My great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. — Ezekiel 36:23
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse thee. — Ezekiel 36:25
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. — Ezekiel 35:26
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee. — Ezekiel 35:6
Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against Me, and have multiplied your words agaisnt Me: I have heard them: — Ezekiel 35:13
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole world rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. — Ezekiel 35:14
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