Michael McLean
2022-12-04 21:06:46 UTC
Even the atheist, the average person, understands that life is a journey.
Here is the thing about a journey: the steps you took yesterday are
irrelevant; it is what happens now that matters. Yesterday is gone.
Every day is a new day; everything about it is new, you haven't been
this way before, and whether you are of the world or of God, it makes no
difference. Think of it like food. I ate a hamburger last week. Where
is it now? What is it now? And who cares, it is what you eat today that
matters.
And so it is with life. You may believe otherwise, but nothing you
thought you knew from yesterday's understanding is today's
understanding. Like that fellow said, you never step into the same river
twice.
What is the point of all this?
This fallen world has a white-knuckle grip, trying to hold on to this
life. Yesterday is gone; there is only today.
And you Bible hoarders who try to hold on to biblical knowledge and/or
to ever-learn it, forget it. That is why the Lord has been saying for
ages in this place: put down the bible, come find me in your daily life,
and do what I say, and I will be a lamp unto your feet and a light unto
your path - your journey.
In effect, I will be your journey.
As it was in days of old, so it is today. You can see the image of this
with the tent in Moses' time, where the Lord tabernacled amidst His people.
It's right there in front of you in your Bible...
Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal
life: and they are they which testify of me.
Joh 5:40 And ye WILL NOT COME TO ME, that ye might have life.
You seek to be in control; you will never be in control, you are not God.
"On the Road to Emmaus"
Luk 24:32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within
us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the
scriptures?
LOOK.
It is right in front of you. The scriptures did make our hearts burn,
it was HIS PRESENCE.
FIND HIM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE!!!
Mike
--
Jesus is the everlasting Father, Jesus is God, Jesus is the Lord.
Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were
YET sinners, Christ died for us.
Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it
is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
"To seek your own will is to seek your own glory."
"If God is not first in everything He is not first in anything."
"What makes the bible the truth? The resonance of God."
"All men were born sinners. Why? Because all men were born not loving
God with all their heart, soul and mind. An abomination. Therefore,
sin is not what you do, it is what you are."
"Compromise will condemn you."
"There are no sinners in Christ Jesus."
"My sons are born of Me. In them is no darkness at all."
"You can't learn righteousness. Haven't you had enough time already to
know that?"
"The way of truth is the testimony of life."
"I merely speak the truth, what is revealed to me, and the cards fall
where God intends."
"Nothing that is produced is produced without first being faith."
"You can only find proof of God through faith because that is how we all
live, by faith."
"It is not what you do that matters, it is how you treat Me."
"Keep going forward. Forget about the past. Lift up your head, look
ahead."
"You cannot be free with guilt in your heart."
"Priority is everything."
"The truth doesn't need evidence, it is evidence."
"There is no greater possession a man has than his own will, to squander
it or to place it where it truly belongs."
"An atheist is a fool who thinks truth is found in living a lie."
"Saying "prove it" [as a foundation] is merely an ignorant straw man, to
an ignorant straw man."
"Wait, rest, be still, and know."
"No man can wash his own hands!!!"
"I find this in the Christianity religions: 'Nobody's perfect' they say,
and they use that as an excuse not to do what is perfect."
The Atheist: "They don't believe and put their faith in a Creator (the
obvious). So no evidence and proof is to be found!!"
"The world is the way it is because God can't compromise who He is."
"Man is not the centre of being."
"Man is incompatible with the natural world because of his sinful nature."
"And then the Lord said, "I see everything."
"Man has no greater idol than his own will."
"Where is God hiding? He isn't."
"If you don't keep all the scriptures, you can't keep any of them."
"You can't prove anything because everything depends on a person's
willingness to believe."
"Atheists are ultimately trying to be pointlessness, meaninglessness,
and purposelessness in their point, meaning, and purpose."
"The last day of creation will be the last day of time. God is always
full of hope."
"The veil of the temple was rent in twain, not to have a book pass
through it so that you could play God."
"A phylactery does not a heart for God make. Not back then, and not today."
"The Bible cannot baptize. No one was ever saved by reading the Bible.
Mechanical or methodical salvation is just more Pharisee bureaucracy.
Men are saved after their conviction, death sentence, and resurrection
in baptism--the baptism of the Holy Spirit." - Nightbulb
"No one in heaven is better than what makes it heaven."
Here is the thing about a journey: the steps you took yesterday are
irrelevant; it is what happens now that matters. Yesterday is gone.
Every day is a new day; everything about it is new, you haven't been
this way before, and whether you are of the world or of God, it makes no
difference. Think of it like food. I ate a hamburger last week. Where
is it now? What is it now? And who cares, it is what you eat today that
matters.
And so it is with life. You may believe otherwise, but nothing you
thought you knew from yesterday's understanding is today's
understanding. Like that fellow said, you never step into the same river
twice.
What is the point of all this?
This fallen world has a white-knuckle grip, trying to hold on to this
life. Yesterday is gone; there is only today.
And you Bible hoarders who try to hold on to biblical knowledge and/or
to ever-learn it, forget it. That is why the Lord has been saying for
ages in this place: put down the bible, come find me in your daily life,
and do what I say, and I will be a lamp unto your feet and a light unto
your path - your journey.
In effect, I will be your journey.
As it was in days of old, so it is today. You can see the image of this
with the tent in Moses' time, where the Lord tabernacled amidst His people.
It's right there in front of you in your Bible...
Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal
life: and they are they which testify of me.
Joh 5:40 And ye WILL NOT COME TO ME, that ye might have life.
You seek to be in control; you will never be in control, you are not God.
"On the Road to Emmaus"
Luk 24:32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within
us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the
scriptures?
LOOK.
It is right in front of you. The scriptures did make our hearts burn,
it was HIS PRESENCE.
FIND HIM IN YOUR DAILY LIFE!!!
Mike
--
Jesus is the everlasting Father, Jesus is God, Jesus is the Lord.
Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were
YET sinners, Christ died for us.
Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it
is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
"To seek your own will is to seek your own glory."
"If God is not first in everything He is not first in anything."
"What makes the bible the truth? The resonance of God."
"All men were born sinners. Why? Because all men were born not loving
God with all their heart, soul and mind. An abomination. Therefore,
sin is not what you do, it is what you are."
"Compromise will condemn you."
"There are no sinners in Christ Jesus."
"My sons are born of Me. In them is no darkness at all."
"You can't learn righteousness. Haven't you had enough time already to
know that?"
"The way of truth is the testimony of life."
"I merely speak the truth, what is revealed to me, and the cards fall
where God intends."
"Nothing that is produced is produced without first being faith."
"You can only find proof of God through faith because that is how we all
live, by faith."
"It is not what you do that matters, it is how you treat Me."
"Keep going forward. Forget about the past. Lift up your head, look
ahead."
"You cannot be free with guilt in your heart."
"Priority is everything."
"The truth doesn't need evidence, it is evidence."
"There is no greater possession a man has than his own will, to squander
it or to place it where it truly belongs."
"An atheist is a fool who thinks truth is found in living a lie."
"Saying "prove it" [as a foundation] is merely an ignorant straw man, to
an ignorant straw man."
"Wait, rest, be still, and know."
"No man can wash his own hands!!!"
"I find this in the Christianity religions: 'Nobody's perfect' they say,
and they use that as an excuse not to do what is perfect."
The Atheist: "They don't believe and put their faith in a Creator (the
obvious). So no evidence and proof is to be found!!"
"The world is the way it is because God can't compromise who He is."
"Man is not the centre of being."
"Man is incompatible with the natural world because of his sinful nature."
"And then the Lord said, "I see everything."
"Man has no greater idol than his own will."
"Where is God hiding? He isn't."
"If you don't keep all the scriptures, you can't keep any of them."
"You can't prove anything because everything depends on a person's
willingness to believe."
"Atheists are ultimately trying to be pointlessness, meaninglessness,
and purposelessness in their point, meaning, and purpose."
"The last day of creation will be the last day of time. God is always
full of hope."
"The veil of the temple was rent in twain, not to have a book pass
through it so that you could play God."
"A phylactery does not a heart for God make. Not back then, and not today."
"The Bible cannot baptize. No one was ever saved by reading the Bible.
Mechanical or methodical salvation is just more Pharisee bureaucracy.
Men are saved after their conviction, death sentence, and resurrection
in baptism--the baptism of the Holy Spirit." - Nightbulb
"No one in heaven is better than what makes it heaven."