Sunday, November 17, 2024

Children Around the World

 

Deuteronomy 27:19
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Psalm 94:1-6
O Lord, God of vengeance,
God of vengeance, shine forth!
2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth, Render recompense to the proud.
3 How long shall the wicked, O Lord, How long shall the wicked exult?
4 They pour forth words, they speak arrogantly; All who do wickedness vaunt themselves.
5 They crush Your people, O Lord, And afflict Your heritage.
They slay the widow and the stranger And murder the orphans.

Jeremiah 7:1-15
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Stand at the gate of the Lord’s house and there proclaim this message:

“ ‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the Lord. 3 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place. 4 DO NOT trust in deceptive words and say, “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!” 5 If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, 6 if you DO NOT oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and DO NOT shed innocent blood in this place, and if you DO NOT follow other gods to your own harm, 7 then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever. 8 But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.

9 “ ‘Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, a burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, 10 and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things? 11 Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord.

12 “ ‘Go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. 13 While you were doing all these things, declares the Lord, I spoke to you again and again, but you did not listen; I called you, but you did not answer. 14 Therefore, what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears my Name, the temple you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors. 15 I will thrust you from my presence, just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim.’

James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Thursday, November 14, 2024

With Simplicity, In a Nutshell

Jesus said:

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Luke 8:11


1 Thessalonians 2:15-16
15 For some of the Jews killed the prophets, and some even killed the Lord Jesus. Now they have persecuted us, too. They fail to please God and work against all humanity 16 as they try to keep us from preaching the Good News of salvation to the Gentiles. By doing this, they continue to pile up their sins. But the anger of God has caught up with them at last.

Saints,
In 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16 shares of the knucklehead Pharisees who didn't want to share the Good News of salvation.  As Luke 16:14 tells us Pharisees then and ever so present today are covetous, lovers of money.  That's why Jesus spoke in parables for the brokenhearted, meek and simple to understand the incredible power of charity, hospitality, generosity works in our favor.  As Ecclesiastes 10:19 tells us, money answers everything.  So when we plant it in the lives of the less fortunate, anyone in need within our reach, our communities (not televangelist charlatans) as an exchange of biblical fundamentals (Genesis 8:22) planting seed-faith and in time the harvest shall surely arrive.   This is the Good News where Jesus tells all - give away to all for the harvest shall surely come in, Praise God forevermore!

Jesus said:
The harvest truly is [indeed] plentiful, but the laborers are few. 38 Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”  Matthew 9:37-38

It's Christmas season!
Go and be a blessing to someone else!

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Theft of An Inheritance!

Ezekiel 47:22-23
It shall be that you will divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves, and for the strangers who dwell among you and who bear children among you. They shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.  23 And it shall be that in whatever tribe the stranger dwells, there you shall give him his inheritance,” says the Lord GOD.

Ephesians 2:12-16
12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.

Saints,
I really love the character of Jacob!  In this analogy he stole his brother Esau's birthright (Genesis 25 - 27), so too today, we have criminals stealing their brother's birthright.
Rebekah (Jacob's mother's womb) is where God said Jacob would lead (Genesis 25:23).  Truly, Jacob who's meek, is thrown into a position where he's demanded of God Himself to walk with God discovering so much the journey of faith.
Along the journey of faith there is NO STEALING (Ephesians 4:28) of someone else's inheritance.  It's just the opposite with planting seed-faith everywhere (Isaiah 32:20).  Helping anyone in need financially, a word of encouragement or whatever!  It's being the Good Samaritan!  James 2:17 tells us ...faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Any disgraceful Pharisee can say they're of the Jewish faith.  But they were DEAD inside (Matthew 23, 1 John 3:18)!  And because today they've separated themselves from Jesus, they've excommunicated themselves from the genuine inheritance of God's great harvest.

In closing,
You want a genuine inheritance from God.  SELL all you have and give to the poor!  ..Jesus

Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a sickening evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth being hoarded by its owner to his detriment.

Saturday, November 2, 2024

The Biblical Account of the Los Angeles Dodgers 5th inner win over the Yankees

Hebrews 1:14
Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation? 

Saints,
We can't add anything new to the Bible.  But, if God wanted to, it would have been the 2004 Redsox win over the Yankees and Wednesday's game where in the 5th inning angels were in the outfield.  See the link below as the Dodgers win over the New York Yankees.
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In Closing,
I don't know much, but I do recognize the historical account of angelic host of angels in the outfield.

Psalm 103:20
Bless the LORD, all His angels mighty in strength who carry out His word, who hearken to the voice of His command.

HEY! God leveled the playing field!

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