Michael McLean
2023-02-16 00:36:39 UTC
This chapter is about walking with God, about a failure of relationship,
and more deeply, about how failure of relationship results in death.
Open debauchery began to really hit its straps. There were lots of wild
sex parties, by the sounds of it. The sons of God saw that the daughters
were fair, so they took everything they wanted.
They just "took." They just looked and tooked!
And God thought, "I am not going to put up with this bullshit forever,"
so He reduced the lifespan of man.
It must have been pretty bad: mighty men and mighty wickedness,
continually. God sorely regretted creating man, and it grieved Him.
Children with minds of their own that know it all, eh! They are expensive!
God couldn't just stand by and watch as "Men's Lives Matter" mobs
pillaged, raped, and burned through the streets of the whole earth.
In other words, we all got cancer because we chose to do the wrong
thing. Consequence is a product of free will; you can't have one without
the other. What Adam and Eve did had far-reaching consequences for all
creation.
However, there was one seed of hope...Noah.
Gen 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Noah walked with God. Remind you of someone else? Enoch?
Do you see how important fellowship is with God?
Gen 6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and
perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Gen 6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
God blesses Noah and his wife with children.
He wants to bless, He desires to bless; He is a giving God. Look at all
you enjoy. What? It all came from a monkey? On your bike, Fella!
Noah "got" from the Lord.
Gen 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain,
and said, I have GOTTEN a man from the LORD.
That is where children come from – from God.
Now, the world is corrupt and "filled" with violence.
Then God committed to doing what He was going to do. Now, I want you to
imagine something. You see a man operating in his free will grabbing a
baby by her feet and smashing her head on the ground. The baby is still
alive, but has no hope of survival.
The guy is not going to stop, as after he's finished with that baby,
he'll go on to the next. Now imagine that same spirit "filling" the
whole earth. That is what it was like.
What would you do? End it. And that is why God flooded the earth.
That baby and many others (men, women, and children) were spared the
agony, pain, and ongoing suffering (merciful) of the evil filling the
earth. Even so, everything God creates returns to Him.
Rom_11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to
whom be glory for ever. Amen.
However, God set about saving a remnant to reproduce again. And so the
Ark was built. Don't waste your time arguing about how different
animals get into a large bathtub; God created everything – something
much grander than a floating zoo. Besides, if you are paying attention,
He just reduced the length of all men's lives in one go in a blink.
You don't know the billions of miracles that are occurring every minute
of every day, like you, for instance, being made of meat and bones and
walking around thinking.
But you get to see something here...
Gen 6:18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt
come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives
with thee.
Look at my Father's heart: He still desires to establish a covenant with
men, even in light of the curriculum vitae and the inevitability of even
more grief and pain.
Do you have any idea what He's like yet?
And for what purpose?
What does He desire?
To...
...WALK with His children, to be with His children.
He desires to fellowship with you, to commune with you, and to enjoy a
relationship with you. Is that so surprising, being that you are made in
His image and that His nature is built into you? Do you not desire
healthy "being" relationships? Do you not prize that most of all?
What do you think the newsgroups are all about? A natural craving to
commune, that's what.
And Noah did everything according to what God asked of him.
Why?
Because GOD IS WHO HE IS! That is the only reason a man will walk with
God and can only walk with God! If for any other reason, it is a lie.
There is more, much more; there always is, but I have to move on. Is
there any wonder that, over time, the Bible has been and is the most
cherished book by billions of people around the globe? However, you
can't walk with a book! It is no substitute for a Person. God desires
to WALK with His children. Where? In their daily lives, which is what
God did and has done from the very beginning.
A failed relationship is death; death literally, and death as in a
divorce is the death of a marriage.
Can you see how the single cause of the world's state is a failed
relationship? But a restored relationship can be its salvation.
Jesus.
Michael
--
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 (or higher) than what makes it heaven. Such
is the love of God."
"The definition of an atheist: A man full of bluster and bullshit
pretending he is the meaning of life."
"Free will is not power; it is the choice that I allow; that choice is
still according to my power," says the Lord.
and more deeply, about how failure of relationship results in death.
Open debauchery began to really hit its straps. There were lots of wild
sex parties, by the sounds of it. The sons of God saw that the daughters
were fair, so they took everything they wanted.
They just "took." They just looked and tooked!
And God thought, "I am not going to put up with this bullshit forever,"
so He reduced the lifespan of man.
It must have been pretty bad: mighty men and mighty wickedness,
continually. God sorely regretted creating man, and it grieved Him.
Children with minds of their own that know it all, eh! They are expensive!
God couldn't just stand by and watch as "Men's Lives Matter" mobs
pillaged, raped, and burned through the streets of the whole earth.
In other words, we all got cancer because we chose to do the wrong
thing. Consequence is a product of free will; you can't have one without
the other. What Adam and Eve did had far-reaching consequences for all
creation.
However, there was one seed of hope...Noah.
Gen 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Noah walked with God. Remind you of someone else? Enoch?
Do you see how important fellowship is with God?
Gen 6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and
perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Gen 6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
God blesses Noah and his wife with children.
He wants to bless, He desires to bless; He is a giving God. Look at all
you enjoy. What? It all came from a monkey? On your bike, Fella!
Noah "got" from the Lord.
Gen 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain,
and said, I have GOTTEN a man from the LORD.
That is where children come from – from God.
Now, the world is corrupt and "filled" with violence.
Then God committed to doing what He was going to do. Now, I want you to
imagine something. You see a man operating in his free will grabbing a
baby by her feet and smashing her head on the ground. The baby is still
alive, but has no hope of survival.
The guy is not going to stop, as after he's finished with that baby,
he'll go on to the next. Now imagine that same spirit "filling" the
whole earth. That is what it was like.
What would you do? End it. And that is why God flooded the earth.
That baby and many others (men, women, and children) were spared the
agony, pain, and ongoing suffering (merciful) of the evil filling the
earth. Even so, everything God creates returns to Him.
Rom_11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to
whom be glory for ever. Amen.
However, God set about saving a remnant to reproduce again. And so the
Ark was built. Don't waste your time arguing about how different
animals get into a large bathtub; God created everything – something
much grander than a floating zoo. Besides, if you are paying attention,
He just reduced the length of all men's lives in one go in a blink.
You don't know the billions of miracles that are occurring every minute
of every day, like you, for instance, being made of meat and bones and
walking around thinking.
But you get to see something here...
Gen 6:18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt
come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives
with thee.
Look at my Father's heart: He still desires to establish a covenant with
men, even in light of the curriculum vitae and the inevitability of even
more grief and pain.
Do you have any idea what He's like yet?
And for what purpose?
What does He desire?
To...
...WALK with His children, to be with His children.
He desires to fellowship with you, to commune with you, and to enjoy a
relationship with you. Is that so surprising, being that you are made in
His image and that His nature is built into you? Do you not desire
healthy "being" relationships? Do you not prize that most of all?
What do you think the newsgroups are all about? A natural craving to
commune, that's what.
And Noah did everything according to what God asked of him.
Why?
Because GOD IS WHO HE IS! That is the only reason a man will walk with
God and can only walk with God! If for any other reason, it is a lie.
There is more, much more; there always is, but I have to move on. Is
there any wonder that, over time, the Bible has been and is the most
cherished book by billions of people around the globe? However, you
can't walk with a book! It is no substitute for a Person. God desires
to WALK with His children. Where? In their daily lives, which is what
God did and has done from the very beginning.
A failed relationship is death; death literally, and death as in a
divorce is the death of a marriage.
Can you see how the single cause of the world's state is a failed
relationship? But a restored relationship can be its salvation.
Jesus.
Michael
--
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 (or higher) than what makes it heaven. Such
is the love of God."
"The definition of an atheist: A man full of bluster and bullshit
pretending he is the meaning of life."
"Free will is not power; it is the choice that I allow; that choice is
still according to my power," says the Lord.