Archive for December, 2013

Collateral Damage and the Heart of God (Preparing for a Jump)

Monday, December 23rd, 2013

There is nothing in the Bible that says that, the Father God has to proceed immediately to relieve the suffering caused by those who maliciously violate His Law.  The offenders might receive a form of delay of recompense, such as the one that was done for those who are mentioned in the following Scripture.

And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

(Mark 9:42)

In that recompense, the reputation was damaged, and there was associated disdain for that person; much like the disdain that is heaped on a child abuser.  Though; even if this was the final earthly state of their being, it need not be an eternal one.  Let us think about the place of the after-life, and the behavior of the mind of man in it.  We need to accept that; the mind of an individual, in some form, persists after the end of the earthly life.  This is a necessary attribute of man, if this Scripture is to have any meaning.

– Explore Collateral Damage and the Heart of God: Part Four –

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How Do You Know? Part Seven (For Life, Extended)

Thursday, December 12th, 2013

Please consider the matter of lifestyle sacrifice, as you read the following Scripture:

But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:  That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.  Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

(Philippians 3:7-15)

Maybe, it would be helpful if you fixed the mark in your mind, in this exercise, too; however, as pertains to marital unions of male and female, the mark is more on the natural level.  We say that, because; we think that, after rounding the bases of pursuit of one another . . .

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Collateral Damage and the Heart of God (Reasoned Avoidance)

Monday, December 2nd, 2013

Our study of the allowances that have been established as shields, for our protection from our ignorance of the potential damage that is in our actions, takes us directly to this consideration:  What happens to the one who clearly causes the premature death of another soul?  The answer to that depends on their heart as toward their part in the thing that caused the death.  Here, we present this consideration . . .

And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?  Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.  Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.  But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 

   And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

   But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

(Luke 12:42-48)

In the application of stripes; the LORD provided a means for preservation of the life of the one who caused death, while also sending a message to all who observed the recompense that was laid upon that one.  This is an ancient principle of; tailored service to the LORD.  At the Beginning, this event set up a requirement for such tailoring.

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