Shabbat shalom to all! As I age and the Father continues to open my ears to Truth, Im amazed at the total rebellion going on in this christian world! If theso-called teachers only knew the idolatry they teach and lived and truly knew of their ultimate demise, maybe they would look for the answers. These answers have been staring us in the face as long as we have been reading the Words of Life. But in the ignorance of rebellion, most continue down the wide road of destruction! If we could understand that the answer is not found in the many man - made religions, things could be understood more easily. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism or any other teaches their own forms of idolatry! I have Jewish friends who think that that is the all in all, but they are deceived as well. Some of these Jews while believing in the True Messiah are till so arrogant that they discount amazing teachings by folks who have a better understanding of Hebrew and Greek than most Rabbis or messy antic / christian teachers I know! My prayer is for people of faith to turn towards the Father and live in His Instructions for Life. Please read these words from Skip Moen! Get a Grip by Skip Moen, D. Phil. For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” Romans 8:14-15 NASB Received – Do you want what God has to offer you? Are you willing to do whatever is required to experience His presence in your life? Then you need lambano, the Greek verb translated “receive.” But in order to receive this gift, you must also employ the other meaning of lambano, that is, “to take.” God’s gift is not a passive acceptance. It is an active taking. To receive is to seize what is freely offered. It is to grasp God, to hang on for dear life (because there is no other life). Anyone who holds the gift of God loosely in hand is more than likely to find it slipping away. When we become aware that our power to grab ahold is fading, we must squeeze all the harder. We must become Jacob at the brook, unwilling to let go even in defeat. “I will not let go. I will not let go. To my last ounce of strength, I will grip You as hard as I can.” The problem, and it is the only problem, is that the yetzer ha’ra, that powerful (!) energy toward self-determination outside of the sovereignty of God, will cunningly seduce us. We will think that because God desires so much to give us this gift of a life led by the Spirit that He will override our well-trained disobedience and cause us to take His offer. This is the underlying view of the hard line Calvinist. God chooses. We have nothing to say in the matter. But this is not what I find in the Bible. What I find is a God who woos us, who loves us beyond measure, who gracefully exhorts us to return to Him, and promises to lift us from the bondage of slavery inflicted upon us by our own cravings. What I find is a God who patiently waits, turning the tide so that we are confronted again and again with His favor but who will not violate the sovereignty of our choices. That is the purpose of creating agents like Him. To choose. Not once, but again and again. To choose to never let go. To come back. To return, even from deliberate disregard. This is a God who agonizes over every one of us who has been seduced by our own fantasy. As long as you don’t give up, neither will He. In fact, He will never give up even if you think you have. We must turn the handle of the vise, turning lambanokatalambano, the emphatic extension of “to take” into “to seize.” To be led by the Spirit. There is no other life than this. All the rest is flight of impulse. Remember that existence without the Spirit is death, the unconscious escape from the presence of the Father, the loss of any sense of worthiness, the psychological void of destructive madness. In the end, it isn’t sin that will destroy me. It is emptiness. It is the hell of being alone in a world without resurrection. Get a grip. Be injured if that’s what it takes. But do not let go. Cry out, “Abba, Father” until He pulls you to Him. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note Tablet
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:24:27 +0000
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