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Powerless Sleep-walking potus45

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When sitting with Vladimir Putin potus45 turns into a starter gun: loud noise and nothing more.  When the National Rifle Association sits him down he reverts to the spineless uninformed and heartless version of his best self. When his nation needs a pilot he courts oligarchs, despots and authoritarian leaders and uses their terms define current as affairs: shipwreck.  He is incapable of speaking a single coherent sentence, even when his nation is in another bloody crisis. Can anyone wake the sleep-walking buffoon?

Truthful rhetoric has the following shape

I am not a racist because (or “I am sorry for my racist behavior…”

  • My dad…
  • My mother…
  • My school…
  • My business experience…
  • My political convictions…
  • My religious experience

Potus45 failed again on August 7, 2019, just as he did in business (his only claim to fame). The GOP is also stuck in a power sleep-walking round. Its only concern is that the end of rape, the end of religious bigotry,  the end of the exploitation of the voters,  Brown people women and children are on the horizon. May God rouse the bigot or at least shake his wife as a witness to the nobility of the American spirit.

Turtle Island was in better hands when the bison roamed free

Commander of the Churls

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The likes of Pence, Santorum, Conway, and McConnell will see no opportunity for repentance in the familiar bloodshed of innocence. To apologize for decades of criminal and evil seems out of reach and not even desirable. 

To expect an unprincipled buffoon to understand the evils of bigotry or take action to eradicate its grip, to lead the nation in mourning, to lead the nation in healing from its gaping wound of innocent blood is a pipedream.

Potus45 cannot do it

The hordes of fine Christian people will see no injustice in the wall policy and nationalist filth that pours out of the White House and many houses of worship, and will not urge the bigot-in-chief to apologize.

All one way

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This is Yeshua’s message: not the great love of the Father, but the persistent holiness of God’s photonic being; what he is and what’s inside.

God is light and there is no darkness at all in him (a double negative, no darkness + not at all).

False claims

  • If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness,
  • we lie, and do not the truth:

The real McCoy

  • But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light,
  • we have fellowship one with another,
  • and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

The self-righteous vipers

  • If we say that we have no sin
  • we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

The just people’s experience

  • If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

The lost experience

  • If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

The Loveless Lost

Lost people will keep saying these lies. They despise unchurched people, lawbreakers, and, just like the Jews, will not fellowship with outsiders. Their love is a failure.

God is faithful; faithful before we confess and faithful after we confess. Darkness has a posterboy: hatred or discrimination in all its forms. Yeshua’s message has the teeth we cannot deny. His light is his love, his unfailing love for people, and it is this love that God has poured into our hearts.

Our sin counting exposes the lie in human DNA. Give it up! :Yeshua never asked us tally up anyone’s sins. Christ will always be separate from sinners. We stress about the thing we are saved from because we are stuck in denial about who Yeshua is, the finality of his sayings, and the fullness of the grace he gives to those who believe.

Our mixed composition

The wretchedness or our dilemma cannot be erased or eased by argument. We are not all one way. We have trial and error, acceleration and slowing down, ignorance and certainty, and we experience success and futility. Christ is all light and that is why we needed a Saviour and need the Holy Spirit and the Holy Scriptures.

Close and Flipping Confidence

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A strange phenomenon greets us as we follow Yeshua and his disciples on their final tour of the Holy Land. To say the apostles were castles of knowledge and experts in anything is to admit that we are reading some other source. Their situation, as the end approached, resembled more and more the shattering of our Sunday or Sabbath school comprehension as the truth about Yeshua comes to centrestage.

Mark 9:32 provides information that shows that not only Peter, identified by his convictions that the Nazareth was the Christ and that the Christ could not possibly be the victim of abuse or murder, but the entire crew preferred to be silent rather than ask “What are you talking about?” Once our Lord began repeating his predictions the passion the best of heaven’s plan was unacceptable.

They didn’t understand what he meant and were too afraid to ask him about it.

Neither seeing all those miracles nor hearing all those teachings prepared them for the passion. I suppose we are not very much examples of being hip. We all have the Holy Spirit living in us and we are still not paying attention to Yeshua. We have our backs to him as we face the avalanche of Jewish tradition, the propaganda of secular authorities, and our own incompetence and fear of the Father’s love.

Our adulterous streak has puffed up our pride to the place where the last thing we want to be corrected. What are you talking about when you tell about your closer walk with the Saviour of the world? What does your breakthrough moment hold? More confidence flipping?

Do we look like you are ready to tell Christ what his fate is while we are afraid to look into Scripture and get our convictions shattered? If we are convinced that the answers are not worth it, then we should drop the Bible and the pretence of Bible study and just say and believe whatever comes to mind.

The Redeemer and the Redeemed

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The contributions the redeemed can be said to contribute to the price paid or to the transaction have to be imaginary. Humans are not part of the price. Christ paid all by himself.

Redeemed by Christ’s gift of himself.

Titus 2:11-15
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us,

Purified by the one who gave himself

that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

The purity of life the believer experiences is not the result of his performance. Our purity, after being redeemed from all iniquity, is the devotion to and enjoyment of the unadulterated values found only in Christ’s person.

The good or beautiful works we find ourselves engaging in are not the result of our choice, as if God has not already approved the thoughts, wishes and feelings he wants to be glorified in.

Insufficient Firewood

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The end of ritual burning was forecast in sayings such as “I did not want sacrifice but mercy” and “You are a forever priest”. It is reiterated in the later prophets.

Here is one from Jeremiah (14:12)

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Here is another from Isaiah 40:16, stating the insufficiency of all the wood or animals in Lebanon.

And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

Grace and Salvation

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For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, (Titus 2:11)

A simpler and concise translation

is

God’s saving (soterios, σωτήριος ) grace appeared to everyone.

No one need ask when this occurred, but some people seem to be pretending not to understand who exactly is the savior. Well, here are some clues.

God is the Saviour. Titus 1:3
But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
Yeshua the Anointed is the Saviour. Titus 1:4
To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Yeshua the Anointed is the Saviour. Titus 3:6
Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

The two pillars of the Christ Event are on display here: bringing salvation and teaching us; Lamb and Paraclete.
Both are grace’s work. The salvation is entirely God’s work, and no partners were needed. The teaching is thought to include human contributions. However, if one follows the thread back to grace, one finds that neither human will power nor human contributions can produce

  • A denial of godlessness and worldly desires
  • A sensible, righteous, and godly lifestyle

On two pillars

Human theories and many so-called discoveries may load us up with hundreds of regulations and bits of information we supposedly”need to know”. Not so from or in Christ. From Christ we have two pillars: one, we died with him, two, we live in the Holy Spirit.

We died with Christ. We live/walk in the Holy Spirit

Remember James “Thunderson” Today

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Another Galilean worthy of notice

Zebedee’s sons were acquainted with the voice of God’s Son, and with the voice of God the Father. James heard the voice in the mount “This is my son”.

Where people have heard thunder others have heard a message. As our Lord prepared to die there came a voice, a deliberate leak (John 12:30).

Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. John 12:28-29

How much thunder have you heard?