PIC: from Rick Becker. Famine In the Land – FITL. WhatDoesTheGospelPromiseUs
What it is
According to Genesis, God created all that is. And He did it well.
Genesis 1:12, 31…God saw everything that He had made, and
behold, it was very good and He validated it completely.
Since God is Creator, He owns the rights to “Truth”. Makes sense – yah? Owner rights?
Want to know what it is, this Truth? We all want to think we have a handle on truth, but… do you really? It stands to reason we must seek after God — in order to know His Truth.
My Journey
Over the years I have been developing “my thinking” on all the issues of my journey. It’s what they call my “worldview“. You’ve got one too.
My goal is to align my worldview with Jesus. My failure here has been: not aligning all that “view” with all my actions. It’s been a struggle… still ongoing.
My worldview is a mixture of thought: my thinking and God’s thinking. The goal has been to conform mine with His. Have less of me – more of Him Romans 12:2.
God’s Think
I really don’t want “any natural born human’s” thought See: God’s Think to mix-in with what the Bible says is God’s thought. That is syncretism Google it. That’s a problem. I tend to think I think well! But, the fact is, Scripture warns about this danger, merging His Truth with our truths (as if our natural born human thought is just as good as God’s written Word).
Romans 12:1-2. *Yes, go read the embedded notes (a, b, c) here.
[a]Therefore I urge you, [b]brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies [dedicating all of yourselves, set apart] as a living sacrifice, holy and well-pleasing to God, which is your rational (logical, intelligent) act of worship.
2 And do not be conformed to this world [any longer with its superficial values and customs], but be [c]transformed and progressively changed [as you mature spiritually] by the renewing of your mind [focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes],
so that you may prove [for yourselves] what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His plan and purpose for you].
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I want God’s Will…His will is good, acceptable, perfect
I need to constantly be setting myself apart to God. As the passage says: “Set apart” from “this world“. The enemies of my soul pressure me to conform to their will. What to do about that!?
It is a full-time spiritual job I have, so to speak, to “be [c]transformed and progressively changed [as you mature spiritually] by the renewing of your mind“. It’s not been easy. We all have this job. How’s that going for you?
My will is not perfect, but God’s will is. God’s is good. God’s is acceptable. God’s is perfect. Mine? Not so much. So I’m going for His!
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God wrote The Book…over the course of many centuries. And now? Now we can read it. So now we can compare our thinking with God’s. That is a most important habit Christians can develop:
Conforming our thinking with the Bible and what Jesus taught. 1
Churches help or hinder
In this “renewing of your mind” – churches can either help or hinder. Know which one they do (help – or – hinder). Don’t get caught-up with heretical thought. Be Berean. 2
Your Worldview
With the thinking you have been developing over the years, “your worldview”:
* Are you right by God?
* Right by Jesus?
* Or, wrong as Hell?
* Are you right by the world?
The Christian, saved by faith, born again to new life in Christ… begins a new journey with Jesus as Lord and Savior. I like the saying: Now I belong to Jesus. I live for Jesus. He is “my reason to live” Philippians 1:21. How about you?
Loving Jesus a lot
Loving…does not save you. From this news item we learn that this famous man loves Jesus: Ben & Jerry’s co-founder tells Tucker Carlson ‘I love Jesus Christ’. Apparently the ice cream man loves Jesus a lot. But that does not save anyone. The question for all: Are you all “in” for Jesus? Be careful: just loving Jesus does not save you.
Since being saved – “from now on”…I “live to God”.
Philippians 1:21
For to me, to live is Christ [He is my source of joy, my reason to live] and to die is gain [for I will be with Him in eternity].
Galatians 2:19-20
19 For through the Law I died to the Law and its demands on me [because salvation is provided through the death and resurrection of Christ], so that I might [from now on] live to God.
20 I have been crucified with Christ [that is, in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body I live by faith [by adhering to, relying on, and completely trusting] in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
The “godly truth entrusted” to us
I assume we all agree: I am not in this earth journey permanently. It is my temp job, so to speak.
“to die is gain
[for I will be with Him
in eternity]” Philippians 1:21
Scripture encourages us to periodically renew our thinking about how this journey has been going for us. One of our top priorities is: to conform to Jesus in all my ways Romans 12:1-2.
We have been commissioned by God to keep His Word daily. Paul put it this way: “guard and keep safe the deposit [of godly truth] entrusted to you“.
Excerpt from Think about it. Have you strayed from God’s truth?
The “godly truth”. You got it? The truth that is godly?
It takes a lot of careful thinking to keep safe the “godly truth entrusted to” us who follow Jesus 1 Timothy 6:20-21 . The Apostle Paul tells us we must constantly be discerning, like a judge with a gavel, passing judgement right and left — upon what is said around us. Or else.
We must develop a biblical mentality – and think like God Almighty! Truly! It is that bad out there nowadays.
Being Wrong …with Jesus
If you just don’t get it, and your thinking is “wrong”, then what will Jesus say when He returns to earth for the great meet-up down the road? Our thinking affects what we do and say.
There is a lot of conforming to the world’s thinking going around. And some, I fear, have shipwrecked their faith.
“…fight the good fight… 19 keeping your faith [leaning completely on God with absolute trust and confidence in His guidance] and having a good conscience; for some [people] have rejected [their moral compass] and have made a shipwreck of their faith.” – 1 Timothy 1:18-19
My horrors
I am terribly, terribly horrified, literally, by the coming most abysmic horror that supposed-life-long “Christians” will experience when they meet Jesus.
They are expecting
“well done” Matthew 25:21
but will hear
“…depart from Me
I never knew you” Matthew 7:23.
That Meetup down the road will soon be physically dividing eternity for us all. And that will be it, folks. Done for eternity. And then we start another existence – wherever God places us: The side in Hell, or the better side, in Heaven.
Choose to change eternity
You can do it now (but not later): Divide your eternity so you are on the right side. By our choice we divide eternity once – for all time. Scripture leaves the door wide open when it says: “Whosoever will may come“.
The essence of godly, biblical living is understanding Jesus and getting down to God’s meaning for life. It’s not Monty Python’s – misUnderstanding of life we need! We need the true Jesus.
If we are “wrong” according to Jesus, then we are misunderstanding God or outright rejecting God. Are you betting your eternity like that, on your own thinking?
Halfway to Heaven
Are you living between two opinions – halfway to Heaven, halfway to Hell, with your thinking and God’s think mixed up? Think again. That way is neither here nor there!
You are outstanding in the wrong way: you are out standing on the fence Google it: out on the fence. Take a stand for Jesus!
Excerpt from The Apostle Paul’s Criticisms
“Examine everything carefully”
The world wants everyone to be intellectually willy-nilly and have a worldview characterized by, “It’s all good.” The big scheme of the Evil One is: be accepting of all beliefs (the new “tolerant”). Their intolerant one exception: don’t accept Christian thought.
Christians, standing out from the crowded world, are to be discerning and put things to the test of God’s ways.
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PIC: bird-on-a-fence. ByDarcy. How many birds are in the photo? Do you see the bird on the white fence?
What you think and practice as compared with what Jesus thinks
Do you know yourself well …enough?
You don’t have to be weird to be an apostate
It is what it is…He wrote The Book. The Bible Is God’s Word To Us…God’s Word to mankind
Compare our thinking with God’s
Is your life fruit – Agape Love?…compare our thinking with God’s
Issues in the public square affect our life and our faith…compare our thinking with God’s
Is Jesus’ Worldview your worldview?…compare our thinking with God’s
Is your light actually darkness?…compare our thinking with God’s
Comform or resist the pressure…compare our thinking with God’s
You are responsible…God holds you responsible
God holds you responsible, and you remain under His condemnation.
A God Damn…As some would put it: You damned.”
Being God Damned…Not by me, but by God. Not what I ever want to be.
What if? God looks inside your soul and says “I am not your Lord”
The Way of Salvation always requires obedience to Jesus
Taking hate to Holy Heaven? Your ways, your views?
Streaming from my soul…my actual actions…Habits. Excerpt: that “sense of right and wrong”, that helps us make “moral choices“. God made us that way from birth.
Habits of love…Habits
Being unselfish, more thoughtful and gracious to others…Habits
Is your life fruit – Agape Love?…Habits
Being pleasing…Habits
Fight the good fight…Habits
Imagine what “being saved” has meant to you
This is natural for us so put it on
What Scripture supports and defends and we should also
Keeping Sin…Habits
Fickle piccadillies…Habits
Distracting meaningless things…Habits. Extract:
Questions based on 1 Corinthians 13:11, Hebrews 12:1, Psalm 119:37. See in KJV: Hebrews 12:1.
* Still into childish things? “ 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.” – 1 Corinthians 13:verse 11
* What vanities do you cherish? Vanities: being worthless or futile; uselessness, pointlessness, worthlessness, fruitlessness – Source: The Google
* What meaningless things do you allow to distract you from God’s priorities?
* What do you need to strip off – because it is unnecessary weight on your spiritual life?
* What is it that comes again and again into your life, cleverly entangling you into sin?
* Are you running a spiritual lifestyle of maturity in Christ?
* Are you running your life with “active persistence“ so that, through your life – you are testifying to those who know you that your faith is in God and His absolute faithfulness?
* Even long-time born again believers struggle with sin and doing sinful deeds. Right? (See: James 3:2) (Write me if you are not. I’d like to hear about it.)
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Turn my eyes away from vanity
[all those worldly,
meaningless things
that distract
—let Your priorities be mine],
And restore me
[with renewed energy]
in Your ways.
– Psalm 119:37
Thinking is good
“…Don’t fool yourself
by your limited thinking.”
– Swift’s Amped-up Paraphrase of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Your thinking or God’s Word…my thinking and God’s thinking
Betting your eternity on your thinking
Being a Temp in our temporary tent…my temp job, so to speak.
Think about it. Have you strayed from God’s truth? Excerpt: The “godly truth”. You got it? The truth that is godly?
It takes a lot of careful thinking to keep safe the “godly truth entrusted to” us who follow Jesus. 1 Timothy 6:20-21 The Apostle Paul tells us we must constantly be discerning, like a judge with a gavel, passing judgement right and left — upon what is said around us. Or else. We must develop a biblical mentality – and think like God Almighty! Truly! It is that bad out there nowadays.
The reality for us nowExcerpt:Without Christ we are legally damned, but He can legally forgive. Don’t be mislead by religion and philosophies of mere puny humans. What do they know, really?
The Secret Truth decreed by God 1 Corinthians 15:50-53
Jesus will rescue us soon from the Wrath to come
The Bible is the standard for Christian thought and practice. Not me. Not you.
Accepting all that Jesus Christ is and does
The world of illusion of some churchgoers
News: Ben & Jerry’s co-founder tells Tucker Carlson ‘I love Jesus Christ’ | By Ryan Foley | Christian Post Reporter
Creating a space for communication
Feeling insignificant No matter who you are. Excerpt:No human need stay in the funk of insignificance. No matter who you are, how ordinary, how far you’ve fallen, how vile to Jesus, how lost, how deep your sorrows — as a human each of us can be blessed beyond measure by Jesus the Messiah. Jesus wants us. Jesus gives eternal significance.
The Meetup down the road…will divide eternity for you once for all time.
Meeting up with Jesus…the unavoidable meet-up down the road will soon be dividing eternity for us all.
Choose to change eternity…you can do it now (but not later)
Divide your eternity
so you are
on the right side.
Do it once – for all time.
Are you right? Right by Jesus? Or, wrong as Hell?
Being Wrong…wrong as Hell – with Jesus
Understanding “wrong”…If you just don’t get it
When you are wrong and you just don’t get it…your thinking is “wrong”
Ever grasped that feeling of being wrong with Jesus?
What happens when you do not know what the Bible says on a matter?…We all want to think we have a handle on truth, but… do you really?
Consequences of supporting evil
Irrational Beliefs Excerpts:Is yours an irrational faith not at all supported by evidences? Or do you have a firm, rational faith in Jesus the Godman, supplied with proofs and amazing evidences?
Delusion is absolutely irrational, stupid and foolish
Loving the world…Are you right by the world?
Can you really see what is going on in the world?
Being wise in a very unwise world during these End Times
Irrational Beliefs Excerpts: Is yours an irrational faith not at all supported by evidences? Or do you have a firm, rational faith in Jesus the Godman, supplied with proofs and amazing evidences?
Salvation. True version – False version
Now is the acceptable time…do it now
Tomorrow Excerpt:
Tomorrow is the fool’s day
Tomorrow may never come
I may not get older
This may be it…
“renewing of your mind“…Know which one they do: Help or Hinder
Help:Why do church | Why the Bible | Warnings by Paul to Timothy about falling away
– or –
Hinder: Post New Apostolic Reformation Reflections | The Gurus in Christian Churches
Warning to us against becoming apostate
Following the Jesus who was not God
About Being Apostate… following “another gospel”
A world-wide trap is being sprung soon
Jesus Returns to Earth Twice in the End Times…Next?…when He returns to earth for the great meet-up down the road
…then what will Jesus say to you?
See:Matthew 7:21-23
…23 And then
I will declare to them publicly,
‘I never knew you;
depart from Me
[you are banished from My presence],
you who act wickedly
[disregarding My commands].’
or
Matthew 25:21
His master said to him,
‘Well done,
good and faithful servant.
You have been faithful
and trustworthy over a little,
I will put you in charge of many things;
share in the joy of your master.’
Jesus will rescue us soon from the Wrath to come
The Proof about Jesus is all there. Easy to see. We just reject it outright, or believe…The Proof. Furnished Proof
Ever grasped that feeling of being wrong with Jesus?…Understanding Jesus
Betting your eternity on your own thinking
If we do not think like God Almighty thinks
Know what the Bible really says
Why the Bible...He wrote The Book…over the course of many centuries. And now we can read it.
What happens when you do not know what the Bible says on a matter?…What happens
Betting your eternity on your thinking
Can Jesus Forgive You?…Yes He can
God forgives all wrongdoings of all repentant sinners, no exception
Prepare Your Eternity with great fear and trepidation…You can come to Him
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Is your life fruit – agape love?
Love and Agape Love in the Greek and in the New Testament
God’s wonderful blend of dynamic power, immense love, divine forces, and human transcendence
Being unselfish, more thoughtful and gracious to others
Acting with your heart, soul, strength, and with your mind
Hating is life changing – eternal life changing. Scary thought.
Is Jesus’ worldview your worldview?
Flesh and blood absolutely cannot inherit the Kingdom of God
Hating is life changing – eternal life changing. Scary thought…surrendering all of who you are — to Jesus, giving 100% of your heart to Him in repentance and confession – and actually following Him. Nothing less will do.
Hate is “eternal-life-changing”. Scary thought.
See: 1 John 4:20, Luke 6:27, 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:11
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My wild and crazy stallion heart
Balancing-out my faith with my practice
Keeping sin AND getting God’s Holiness also
About past sins and being forgiven now
Replace simplistic rhetoric with compassion
Footnotes
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This website is dedicated to this type of conforming and aligning with God: OMGjesus is all about the Bible and what Jesus taught.
- Berean thinking.
Contrary to the Thessalonian example (Acts 17:11) – Berean type peoples want to carefully examine beliefs and statements and sermons all the time. They maintain a mind that is open to examination of what they are told. They don’t just accept the authority of the person or of the religion, but – they put it to the test of Scripture.They ask: What does Scripture teach about this? Is what they are saying – true to Scripture, or not?
For the time will come
when they will not endure
sound doctrine;
but wanting to
have their ears tickled,
they will accumulate
for themselves
teachers in accordance to
their own desires
– 2 Timothy 4:3We Berean types expect: reasoning, explaining, and evidence given. We want to compare Scriptures with what is said – “to see whether these things [are] so.” Who wants to follow what is NOT so!? Apparently many did then, and many do today. I guess as humans – some just accept what they are told, and others want to ask, “Why?”.
2 And according to Paul’s custom, he went to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3 [a]explaining and [b]giving evidence that the [c]Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying…” – Acts 17:verses 2-3.
– Source: The Apostle Paul’s Criticisms.
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