FIRE IN THE CLUB

FIRE IN THE CLUB 


Are we asking the obvious question...Why?

THE WARNINGS THAT SPEAKS TO THIS WORLD 
Seems we as God's children are all suffering from a form shortness of memory.  Is it not written in
1 Peter 4:12-19 concerning the things that pertain to Godliness and living in light of trials and sufferings, that the child of God will face sufferings? And if judgement begins in the house of God, and the righteous scarcely be saved, then where will the sinner and the ungodly appear? Have we all gone soft are have we all gone silly? is there a blanket of denial that covers our eyes as we think and act like the world? That now our expectations mirror that of this world too?

 BETHEL
When i was a young christian we use to say at certain times in our relationship with God, that we need get back to Bethel. It was during those times we realized that we were slipping into a type of worldliness or losing closeness with God.  It was a time were renewed our commitments to God and strengthened our dedication to walk with God.  It was a time when we got back to the fundamental place our relationship with God and each other.  Like in the case of Jacob and Esau, a restoration of brotherly love.  It speaks of the place of reconciliation.  Forgiveness and returning to sweet fellowship.
(Blessed are the peace makers for they shall be called the sons/children of God.) 

1 John 2:15-29
The spirit of worldliness is rampant and we must get back to Bethel, and get out of the way of Balaam. Just before Christ left he commissioned us to go into all the world and preach the good news, you know the rest. But he also said that we must take up our cross and follow him.  That all that will live Godly in Christ will suffer persecution. That we must die to self.  Romans 6:20-23 The wages of sin is death, there is no in between. So in the fear of the Lord i must do like the apostle Paul. We must press towards the mark. Know who you are and whose you are, and do his will. Mark 16:15-18 I encourage every child of God today to shake off the spirit of this worldly mentality.  That blinds us and binds us to conformity.  That causes us to think, act and desire to be so comforted that we lose our identity in Christ. that we humble ourselves and turn from our wicked ways and seek his face. Then.

THE WARNING THAT SPEAKS TO THE CHRISTIAN ( Follower of Jesus Christ)
Romans 2
After reading and an article and being prompted to write this blog, i noticed i had made a mistake in one of the scriptures i had included.  Romans 2:20-23. So went to see what my mistaken scripture reference said.  Seeing i could not recall the reference nor could i correct it.  But lo and behold it could only be God guiding my fingers as i frantically typed.  I wont try and reinterpret the passage because it speaks for itself.  Only to say to myself as if looking in a mirror...Be careful how you judge, for with what measure you meat, it shall be measured back to you. Matthew 7:1-5

LOOSING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

Religion (The freedom to choose. Truth or Dare?) 

Choose you today who you will serve  

After the death of Moses God had already chosen the next leader to take the children of Israel into the promised land.  God informed Moses about his plans and he told him the reason why he, Moses was not going to be the one to lead them any further. It came to a pivotal point in the life of Moses and he made a few mistakes that God deemed enough.  God was protecting his people and his servant, who was his friend too.  Moses was considered to be a friend of God. But even humble respectable people and close friends can fall out of line.  Sometimes our zeal can get the better of us and our bright ideas can be a disaster in the making. Sometime we as friends or our friends can miss the meaning and purpose by which they seek our good.  Or they or us can fail along the way, to see us in the progressive journey our individual lives are on.  Someone or something has to pull back from the brink.  God always sends a man or woman to either tell us or help us out. So now I am cautious when I seek to give advice, because I am aware that God has a much higher purpose for my friend than I can see. Or may understand at the moment.

The good news is, is that God will never change his will or word.  he wont change his character to suit the world.  It is the world that has to change and by God's help.  With man it is impossible but with God all things are possible. We can count on the Lord Jesus Christ to be faithful.  So in knowing this unchanging God, we then seek to stay humble before him.

Religion in the spiritual sense has a way in telling us that any and everything is allowed, as long as no body gets hurt.  But that is a lie and a great deception.  True religion is actually the practice of charity and maintaining a holy life style before God.  James 1:23-27
In regards to the system of the world and the direction governments are going in, it is clear that bible prophesy is being fulfilled as we speak.  The current religious 'Freedom' we see today that is being eroded, is merely a foretelling of things to come.  Christians may seem surprised but it is no surprise at all.  We all knew from the day we got saved what kind of world we would be living in, still somehow we are not prepared for the kind of situations we will find ourselves in.  It all just seems to be happening a lot sooner than we think, and we know it will get mind blowingly worst.  Alas the day is far spent and the time is drawing nigh.  So let us cast off the works of darkness and lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily besets us. Hebrews 12:1

Hebrews 12  (The Encouragement) 
It will mean that in the future any Christian preaching the gospel in the streets will be arrested. How bad do you think it will get, have we all lost our minds, have we all been bewitched? Did not our Lord said that these will be the signs of the times to come? why are Christians trying to build a utopia on earth? have we forgotten the examples of the past kings who made alliances with ungodly kings only to face God's judgement?  Did he not say to come out from among them? If we love the world, we have become an enemy of God. Do we think that we will win the world after we have joined the world? Do we not realize that every relationship will be tested to reveal what it really is? There will be friends that we will have to part from, as our stand in Christ will be in direct conflict with the nations on a whole.

Salt & Light  
No man can serve 2 masters....it is impossible. Matthew 6:24 God wont allow it. not now not ever. What will be like when the nations implement The Mark of the beast? We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.....We are children of God, and that is who we are.  The world does not know us because it does not know him. But when he comes, it will be revealed who we are, for we shall see him as he is.  Beloved now are the sons of God. and does not yet appear what we shall be.  Everyone who has this hope in him, purifies himself, even as he is pure. 1 John 3:1-3.  Meaning, be ready, get ready. We are not here to stay.  So let us quit trying to fit in.  We aere not called and chosen to fir into the world's system.  We were called to be Light and salt.  Matthew 5:13-16. The voice of many crying out in the Modern world, prepare thy self to meet thy God.  It can be a banquet or a banishment. May we now consider the times and judge ourselves lest we be judged along with the world.
1 Corinthians 11:27-31 Self examination.

THE MODERN WORLD

The Modern World (New age same deception)  

It would seem there is a definite increase in the rise of the modern lifestyle.  Perhaps this is what it was like in Noah's day. There was a time that Jesus told his disciples to shake off the dust from their sandals as a testimony against those cities and towns who refused them and their message.  He said that it will be more tolerable for Sodom in the day of judgement than for those people who 'Like in our modern world' reject the truth of God's perfect way for mankind. Evermore is the urgency to come out from among them and be separate, and touch not the unclean thing.  Or shall I say that we walk worthy of our calling.  To remember we are the called.  To live in like manner.  To be true to whose we are and who we are. To remember that just like the disciples, we too are warned of all these things.  Tempted on every side.  Still I have to confess that I am being kept by God, beyond every failure and attack. God is keeping his children, all of them.  All the father has given to Jesus, will be kept, and none of them will be lost.

Jesus came to do the will of his father.  Why? For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life, John 3:16.  The key thing is that God is Love.  Jesus was the only one who could make atonement for mankind.  He was the only spotless lamb of God.  His sacrifice would have been the ultimate, and the only perfect one. In whom there was no sin at all.  By this he could say that he is the only way to God the father.  The only way by which you and i can have redemption.  There is only one way you can speak the truth, and that is to live the truth.

The values that shaped the future for the family of the human race is under attack from an old ancient enemy.
It is true, we are not alone in the universe and God has not left us without a way.  Nor has he abandoned us to our doom.  Doom hovered over the human race since Adam and Eve's disobedience to God by listening to the Devil. Yet God prepared a way to save man.  A way that's contingent on our acceptance and repentance.  God never forces you.  He invites you lovingly.  He shows you how much he loves you and hold his hand out to us, daily.

The problem with the modern world is that it clearly deceived   Deceived by a very old enemy.  A dark angel, an entity that hides in lies and parades in deception.  He flaunts the pleasure of sin as if it were some kind of alternative  He knows that this Modern world just wants to escape. People just want to sleep, they just want to have fun, no rules we say.  Yet everything is govern by a rule of some sorts.  Denial is rampant in the mindset of the Modern world.  The Modern world is saying more and more that it doesn't need God, or a God.  Technology and science has all the answers for this modern world's mindset.  Away we go, running from the source of life, building higher, moving further, staying in denial. Still there is no escape off this rock, and only one way to peace, love, joy and fulfilment.  Romans 6:23

The Good Shepherd
Jesus said i have come that you might have life, and that might have it more abundantly.  I believe the only reason he said might, is because it's your choice to have what he has for you.  John 10:10

FILM VIOLENCE AND THE VIOLENT WORLD

Film Violence
Tarantino clashes with interviewer Krishnan Guru-Murthy

A series of questions about Film violence as director Tarantino kicks off with channel 4 news host. 

It is said that the eyes are the windows to the soul. Anything you behold with your eyes has the potential to effect you on an internal level. Spiritually, Emotionally and psychologically. External pressures causes us to draw from a pool of stored or learnt images, sounds, concepts, words and so on. All linked to audio visual stimuli. Anyone can be mentally unstable given the right or shall say the wrong pressures. Now which pool of stored data will a person draw from? how will that person dissimulate the appropriate information in order to apply the right response, to the pressure? or in order to lesson the pressure or threat to survival? For some it may be split seconds when dealing with fear, for some it maybe days of pent up anger. And for some, they have already decided what their going to do. I don't think we could blame violence in movies for the decisions people make in reality. But the lines have blurred into each other and it's more so now like looking into a mirror. The world of movie violence and violence in the world.

Matthew 18:6-9
Jesus said, if your eye offends you pluck it out, and he said this in relation to sin. If what your looking at causes you to sin then pluck your eye out. better to go to heaven with one eye than to go to hell with two eyes. It's an extreme statement driving home the point that anything that effects you to point of causing you to sin, then that thing whatever it is should be removed or you from it. There will always be something in this life that has the potential to cause you to sin but you have a choice in the matter, but it wont be an easy process. Making that right choice will cost you something. But in the long run it will be worth it.

Study list
Matthew 18
Matthew 5:21-26