Let not mercy and truth forsake you;
Bind them around your neck,
Write them on the tablet of your heart,
and so find favor and high esteem
in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 3:3
To be HONEST I could give a flying squirrel what "man" thinks of me,
however the point of the scripture is show "mercy and truth"…
after all I don't care who you are everyone loves "mercy"
and while it seems a lot of people don't like the TRUTH of the word of GOD,
nobody likes to be knowingly lied to. bear with me here,
I'm going to make a point at some point and time..haha get it? ok sorry…I digress
Do not be wise in your own eyes; FEAR the LORD and depart
from evil. It will be health to your flesh,
and strength to your bones.
Proverbs 3:7
My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,
Nor detest His correction; For whom the LORD
loves He corrects, just as a father the son in
whom he delights.
Proverbs 3:11-12
"The world cannot hate you,
but it hates Me because I testify
of it that its works are evil"
John 7:7
Jesus said this to His disciples, and told them to go to
Judea for the jewish feast of tabernacles for He Himself
would not go, for it wasn't His time.
Now before I continue I want to clarify
something, Jesus Christ told His disciples "The world cannot hate you"
because at that point in time the disciples were just that.. disciples of Christ,
they followed and were learning from Christ. However Christ knew when
He returned to be with the Father God Almighty, that he wold send the
Holy Spirit to be with us and guide us that when we speak of the TRUTH
of the gospel that the world would indeed hate us that is why
he warned the disciples later..
If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
If you were of the world, the world would love its own.
Yet because you are not of the world, but i chose you out of the world,
therefore the world hates you.
John 15:18-19
Not to mention when Christ told the disciples at the time
"The world cannot hate you", Don't you know that Christ knew the disciples heart,
Christ knew that the jews wouldn't harm the disciples at this particular feast,
because He knew the disciples themselves wouldn't proclaim the TRUTH
so hence at that point and time "the world wouldn't hate them".
Just wanted to clarify so whoever reads this wont be confused..
so now I continue ..
So the disciples went by themselves,and in secret Jesus actually went to.
Now the jews were looking for Jesus,and they were arguing amongst themselves
about Jesus, and not one of the disciples spoke openly of Jesus
because they feared the jews.
Jesus however in the middle of the feast got up and went to the temple
to teach…and said..
"My doctrine is not mine but His who sent Me.
if anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning
the doctrine, wether it is from God or wether I speak on My
own authority.
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He
who seek the glory of the One who sent Him is true,
and no unrighteousness in Him.
John 7:16-18
You may be asking yourself now, "ok…and what is the point of all this?"…
Well to those of you who read my blog regularly you already know
that,..well…I've been slacking with the updates. Also if you don't already
know this then let me absolutely clarify this again...
I do not seek to be glorified with the website or this blog, I pray that
what is written is straight from GOD through the Holy Spirit and it is leading
me to post what Is posted. I'm sure that sounds insane to a lot of people,
and frankly I could careless because I am not seeking mans opinion
or approval I am seeking GODS.
Back in September I posted a blog called "Lukewarm Christians"
and needless to say ever since then, I've been running into more and more of this
very thing, and it is disheartening to say the least. This generation,
mine and the generation we are in, has become so fickle…so
unbiblical and unGodly that it is mind blowing. Don't get it twisted mind you,
there are some great young Godly men/women out there but generally
speaking mainstream Christianity is a total joke, and i'm not blind…I realize
this has been happening for a long time, and through the generations it
just gets worse and worse, and we are living in a time where the gospel
has become nothing but perverted and GOD has been turned into
some kind of universal unholy humanistic image.
I look at people like Leonard Ravenhill who has been with the Father since 1994,
who was crying out about how broken "the church" is…how unChrist like
the followers of Christ are and how unbiblical people have become, and almost
20 years later…look at us now…it's almost as if Ravenhill was before his time.
Or how about Jonathan Edwards? yeah I said it…Jonathan Edwards who people
only know as "Hellfire and brimstone preacher" but the fact is he was much
more then that, Edwards was one of the greatest theologians in American
History, but people don't like him because he talked about a nasty place called
Hell and well Hell doesn't exist in "popular/mainstream Christianity" today,
fact is the TRUTH doesn't exist in Christianity today at all.
You know how blessed we are? I mean seriously…you know how much
information is literally at our figure tips? This generation has computers/
cell phones,TV,Music,books,Internet ect ect… and everything is right in front
of us, we can research anything we want…knowledge in seconds!
We can read about GOD, we can read about great men of GOD or watch videos
or listen through ipods or Ipads or Iphones or Laptops, have thousands
of books at our finger tips with Kindle. Yet we are a generation that knows NOTHING,
while we are a generation that is blessed with so much technology
and knowledge, man perverts that. We don't use the technology to glorify
God or get to know Him more, we use it to look at porn or make money
or spend on frivolous things that wont last or talk about how awesome we are
or whatever. (by the way I'm not claiming perfectness I've struggled in these areas to,
I speak to myself just as much as you)
This generation needs to wake up! and those of us who call
ourselves "Christians" "Christ-like" better start freaking living like it!
I can't tell you how many people i've run into (in life or on Facebook)
who sit there and say "I'm a Christian" and then say and do
something totally contrary to it. Or people who claim they're "not Christian"
and then go on to tell people who are living "Christ like",
that they are not living "Christ-like" which obviously makes no sense whatsoever.
This generation above all other generations has not only a "I don't give a crap" attitude
but also an attitude of "All roads lead to GOD, and Jesus forgave us of sin
so we can continue living in it"…
The fact is…sin is justified and TRUTH is perverted, that sums everything up right
there. remember…
Let not mercy and TRUTH forsake you;
Bind them around your neck,
Write them on the tablet of your heart,
and so find favor and high esteem
in the sight of GOD and man.
Proverbs 3:3
"Mercy and truth" you see everyone wants mercy from GOD, deep down
nobody on earth has a problem with Christ dying for sins and GOD loving
them. What people have a problem with is Christ changing them, changing
the heart and everything they are, the holy spirit convicting them of sin
and them repenting and turning away from it. They want Christ's forgiveness
and love but they don't want the change and holiness that comes with it,
and it doesn't work like that. They want to still be of the world and
have GOD to, again doesn't work like that.
Do not be wise in your own eyes; FEAR the LORD and depart
from evil. It will be health to your flesh,
and strength to your bones.
Proverbs 3:7
FEAR the LORD? why? thats what this generation asks…why? it's
"I don't have to FEAR the LORD because he died for me and loves me and
he just loves me and I can do whatever I want" and depart from evil?
thats just crazy talk..Christ died so I can continue on being evil
because that makes sense doesn't it?
My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,
Nor detest His correction; For whom the LORD
loves He corrects, just as a father the son in
whom he delights.
Proverbs 3:11-12
Better believe nobody wants to hear this scripture either…
"Chastening of the LORD?" "Correction?"…no way…GOD is just love..
GOD doesn't care what I do as long as I just believe he exists.
Notice how the verse compares this correction like to the correction
of a Father to his son, spare the rod spoil the child ring any bells?
probably not to a lot of parents anymore because it's not the parents
running the household it's the Children. Kind of like how "The Children of GOD"
like to try and run the show themselves and make GOD into some wimpy
sissified universal humanistic GOD, but trust me when I say this…GOD
will not be MOCKED nor is He going to let the children run
His house hold if you catch my drift.
"The world cannot hate you,
but it hates Me because I testify
of it that its works are evil"
John 7:7
Notice here when you testify the TRUTH of the gospel of the Almighty GOD,
and how this world and it's works are evil YOU WILL BE HATED! When you
are actually living "Christ-like" and following in His steps and Preaching the
TRUTH FROM HIS WORD…YOU WILL BE HATED! are you persecuted?
are you hated? If you are living a life of not standing up for GOD and His TRUTH
that is in the WORD, if you substitute or try to sissify GOD…you wont be persecuted
the world will love you, so the question is…
Are you living for the love of the world? or are you living for GOD?
you can't live for the world and live for GOD, it's one or the other.
and for the record in no way shape or form am I trying to support a "Works based
system" by the grace of GOD we are saved, not by works. I urge you to take
the time to watch the following video, I also urge you to really use the
technology that is at your finger tips, ask GOD to reveal things through the Holy
Spirit and seek to know GOD more and more. We are blessed to have
such technology at our disposal we should use it to glorify GOD.
