GOD IS GOD

   God is God.
   God has always been God.
   God had no beginning, and God has no end.

   God is living, He has always been living, and it is impossible for God to die.

   God is love.  God has always been love, and it is impossible for God not to love because love is God's nature.

   If more people accepted the love of God, we would have more family reunions.

  The Bible has been telling us the stories of people for more than two thousand years---the good, the bad, and also the ugly.  We, on the other hand, prefer to talk about the good we have done---while omitting the bad and the ugly.

  The earth is the battleground of human wars.  Ever since Cain killed Abel east of the garden of Eden. humans have been in constant warfare with humans for approximately six thousand years; and if we could see all of the blood that is in the earth from human wars, it would be over our heads.

  The Bible is not a book about choosing a denomination, nor is it a book about choosing water baptism.  The Bible is about choosing Christ---and everything else is circumstantial evidence, which is not admissible at the judgment seat of God.

  If people will separate God from religion and religion from God, they will come to understand God.  But as long as people try to mix God with religion and religion with God, all they will get is a strange mixture for mass confusion.

   The Bible is not a smorgasbord where we can pick at what we like and spit out the rest.  But if we will swallow the Bible as it is, we will send a note to the kitchen:  "Compliments to the Chef!"

   The cross of Christ seals two testaments together.  The Old Testament is about the coming of Christ, and the New Testament IS  Christ.

  "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us."

         (John 1: 14)

 
   God is God, God is living, and God is love.

"Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: 

is there any thing too hard for me?"

(Jeremiah 32: 27)

TO BE LIKE US

   What would humans do if we didn't have humans to fight?
   We argue, we debate, we agitate, stir up mischief, seek to dominate and control, and spread rumors, gossip, and lies as if they are truth while doing it all with such natural ease that we are actually proud of our behaviors while deceiving children to follow our examples to be like us in this vicious war of humans fighting humans across the face of the earth, from generation to generation, as we purposely strive to be like us and to be proud of our path of destruction while teaching children to do likewise.

   "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
     He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth:  he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
     He was taken from prison and from judgment:  and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living:  for the transgression of my people was he striken.
     And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
     Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief:  when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper his hand.  
    He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied:  by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities."   (Isaiah 53: 6-11)

   "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be:  but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."  (1st John 3: 2)

   To be like us will cease to be when the children of God choose to be like Christ.

   

OUR HEAVENLY FATHER

   Just as God is the heavenly Father of His children, Adam and Eve, so are we.
   For this reason, Jesus said,
 

      "And call no man your father upon the earth: 

for one is your Father, which is in heaven."  

(Matthew 23: 9)

   In teaching people how to pray, Jesus begins by saying,

   "Our Father

which art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come. 

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.:

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.  Amen."

(Matthew 6: 9-13)

   Therefore, since we are children of our heavenly Father in heaven, and since Jesus is the Son of our heavenly Father in heaven, does this mean that Jesus is our brother, and that we are brothers and sisters of Christ our Lord?

   Maybe it is time for the family of God on earth to come together.

 

THE MIND OF CHRIST

   The way we know that religions are dictatorships is because the people of religions have no voice or vote in policies, programs, and procedures because their minds are governed by religious laws, rules, and regulations; at which time, too, they are expected to yield in total obedience to their ministers and priests in religious costumes as if they are gods because they have been trained to believe that these people of the earth have the power to forgive sin as if they are equal to God in heaven.
   A religious mind is therefore a mind without Christ because the Bible tells us something that is entirely different:

      "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:  who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:  but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:  and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
      "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name that is above all names:  that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."  (Philippines 2: 5-11)
       

FIRST DAY IN HEAVEN

   "Let not your heart be troubled:

       ye believe in God, believe also in me.

     In my Father's house are many mansions: 

if it were not so, I would have told you.

     I go to prepare a place for you. 

And if I go to prepare a place for you,

I will come again,

and receive you unto myself;

that where I am,

there ye may be also."  

(John 14: 1-3)

ALL ALONE

   All alone
      the Savior died there all alone;
      for all the world,
      for all eternity.

   All alone
      the Savior bled there all alone;
      for all the world,
      for all eternity.

   Now out on the narrow way
      Christ died and paid the way
      for the sinner's plea,
      for all who will believe in He.

   Jesus, all alone:
      the Savior died there all alone;
      for all the world,
      for all eternity.

   for all the world,
      for all eternity.


   I wrote All Alone  approximately twenty years ago and I recently discovered while thumbing through a binder of writings that I have collected across the years.

   "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.  (2nd Corinthians 4: 8-10)

WHAT IF?

   "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."        (2nd Peter 3: 8)

   According to the Bible book of Genesis, what if the six days of creation was one thousand years each, plus an  additional thousand years for the Sabbath Day, making a grand total of seven thousand years?

   What if these seven thousand years could be a prophetic model for seven thousand years for man's existence on the face of the earth, so that from the creation of Adam and Eve until the end of time will be exactly seven thousand years?

      "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."  (Isaiah 55: 8-9)