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What you don't know won't hurt you. This saying is often bandied about. Yes it is true, but does that give another person the right to take advantage of your blissful ignorance? Why should we trust any other human? What if suspicion arises, whether justified or not? Is this not a cancer? So, is...
Looking to find or get right with yourself? One cannot be right with anything if one is focused on self and self interest. The secret is to focus on the well being of all. Focus on others and self will heal itself.
The original sin was 'self' when Eve, then Adam, chose their will over the will...
Jesus possessed a body. The body has a will to survive. Jesus took care of that body accordingly. He followed its will in doing so. He however, did not use His spirit or body to seek gain at others expense. He did not take for His body more than it needed. He set the example for self-serving...
Your plane lands at the Kingdom. In clearing customs, you must first fill out a declaration:
* Did you spread My only gospel, the Gospel of the Kingdom as directed?
* Did you follow My two commandments as directed, putting the will of the Father before your own thus loving all as self?
* Did...
Everything in the world has its opposite and cannot exist properly unless being one with its opposite and in balance. So it is with man and woman, even though humans as a whole are the only thing in this universe out of balance with the rest. God told us not to eat of a certain tree for good...
The two greatest commandments are not part of the ten, they are the ten. Once upon a time in a garden far far away, there lived a man named Adam with his wife Eve who broke the first commandment, putting their will first and plunged the world into death rather than life. It was by choice.
It...
Have you ever had one of those 'over-sized' burgers at a few of the fast food franchises, where more of it drips on the wrapper/lap/carseat than often makes it to the mouth? They look and can be delicious, but they are simply an overload on the basics. So it is with salvation.
In the beginning...
The world has always acted in the ways of today. The difference today is that it is no longer dictators, emperors, churches, warlords or military trying to rule the world, but a business conglomerate called Corporatism that has been building slowly for a century and a half so as to appear...
Many early Christians thought that the Kingdom of God might actually be realized in their time, in the here and now, in a sense looking for the same worldly king/saviour that the Jews had expected. Paul was the best example of who was sure it would be any day, which led many to believe he was a...
Isn't it interesting that today the golden rule, based on Jesus' second commandment and half the gospel He said we were to spread (the other half being put God's will first), is either outright denied or limited to one's own splintered divisive tribe, self-defining who gets to be their...
The heart, first and foremost, is directly linked to the instincts of the body, regardless of species. This heart looks out for number one as a means of survival, common to all species. The human heart however, is a hybrid using the body as a vehicle for the spirit of God. This is where the...
Although we at some point come to understand the wisdom of God is greater than our own and we align ourselves with Him, being half tamed/half feral, we still seek our own wisdom at times. It is human nature and our life is a struggle to overcome the self serving instincts of our bodily vehicle...
We were told to act in servitude to God and each other, not live our lives looking out for number one and what can be gained at the expense of others. That applies not only in home life but all the way up to global rule. One need only turn on their tv or smart phone to see the world does not...
We are born with both good and evil, two necessary components as all is made up of opposing forces. We went out of balance when we acquired the knowledge of said good and evil, at which time we also chose to self determine what actions we would label with each in order to self justify our deeds...
What Jesus started was a movement, not a religion, and movements kind of lead themselves once they get going. Human institutions such as religions require leaders but this movement was not human, but the good news of the Kingdom of God which was itself a counter-culture to the ways of humans...
God has said ever since the Garden, not to put our will ahead of His. We are too selfish to control using our own will. Jesus did what was required of Him, but He also said He came to share the good news of the Kingdom (as are we commanded) and to do His part in bringing it about. That good news...
If church means a gathering or assembly, then it need not mean a government or institution which is the traditional way of man, and a form the religion has taken until today. It was meant originally to represent the Kingdom, and Jesus said it would be built only on truth from the Father, not...
Jesus' ONLY gospel was the Gospel of the Kingdom, which essentially boils down to nothing more than putting the will of the Father before our own (as He did). Our will is corrupt as it is based on selfishness, as the original sin of Eve then Adam showed. All evils in this world come as a result...
I heard a pastor a while back while accompanying a friend I was visiting, who rambled on incessantly about forgiveness, skimming the surface as clergy do and talking about should (n't), never once touching on the deeper meaning of why; in this case that we are all one in our sin of self interest...