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Friday, August 1,
2008
Good God
Luke 18:18-19 And a certain ruler asked
him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? (19) And
Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that
is, God. (KJV)
Williams New Testament translation
of Luke 18:18-19
18. Then a certain member of the council
asked Him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to get possession of eternal
life?" 19. Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me perfectly
good? No one is perfectly good but
God Himself.
Why does mankind keep trying to make God
in man’s image and likeness, and not the other way around, you know the way
God said He made it? You know this man Jesus of Nazareth didn’t say he was
God because that would have made him a liar now wouldn’t it? In fact he was
quite explicit and plain in his speech to point out that he wasn’t God, but
that he was here to point people to a realm where God operates, that being
the spiritual one. Today we see so many people put on pedestals, placing
themselves in positions of authority especially in the church or what man
calls a church, pointing people to their works instead of the completed
work God had His Son do on our behalf. Oh you might have got saved at some
organization or building, but keep in mind it was the word of God that
brought forth this new life and not the person that was speaking on His
behalf, because remember, God has spoken to people in diverse manners; one
time through an ass so that someone wouldn’t make himself into one. Go to
the source people, give credit where credit is due, that being to our
Father in heaven and not to any man on this earth who claims special
privileges because they may have spoke His word, or make claims of all the
wonderful works they think they are doing on His behalf.
John 14:28-29 Ye have heard how I said
unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would
rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater
than I. (29) And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it
is come to pass, ye might believe. (KJV)
But the preacher last night said that
Jesus was God, yet when I read what the Bible says it tells me something
different. Get used to it folks, because the deeper you get into the word
of truth the more complicated you see how mankind has made it, and how
backwards the order is also according to man’s carnal reasoning. Jesus was
man, who just like you and I had to rely on the leading of the Holy Spirit
in order for him to inherit eternal life. He was a man that was tempted in
all manner as we are, yet chose obedience over sin, even to the point of
the cross. A man that was conceived by the Holy Spirit, a pure blood line
so that the last man Adam could be restored to fellowship with the Father
just like the first man Adam was before the fall. Keep in mind people, that
this Jesus of Nazareth was a man, a vessel that housed the Holy Spirit and
set the example for us to follow, pointing people to the Father and His
divine nature and not to any man and his fallen one.
Jude 1:16-19 These are murmurers,
complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great
swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
(17) But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the
apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; (18) How that they told you there should
be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
(19) These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
(KJV)
The whole point today is to keep in mind
that when all is said and done, it is your heavenly Father that will have
the last say so concerning your entrance into His eternal kingdom, not some
loud mouth who keeps boasting and pointing people to their own works and
creations. Bottom line, yes there may be people that have spoken words that
brought life to your spirit, but remember it is God’s word that brought it
not man’s. So learn to rightly divide the difference so that you can go
directly to the source of the river of life. These people that are being
spoken of in the book of Jude are not those that deny God, well at least
not in word, but rather those that claim to be of God but in works deny
Him, pointing the people more toward their creations and not the new one
that God began within you. Don’t put people on pedestals because they don’t
belong there, all mankind no matter who or what they claim to be; this is
one bad decision, one temptation away from falling from grace into sin, no
matter how strong or bullet proof they claim they are. Rightly divide the
word of truth, learn to separate soul from spirit; in other words what is
of God and what is of man. Many today that stand in the pulpits claiming to
be working and speaking on His behalf are more self serving than God
serving, pointing people to other people rather than pointing them in the
direction of the Spirit. In fact many today still point and put most of
their emphasis on a man named Jesus, rather than a man named Jesus Christ,
who is seated at the right hand of the Father working as a mediator on our
behalf. Knowing the difference between that which is of the flesh and that
which is Spirit is vital in order for you to come to a clear understanding
of God’s plan of salvation and how it truly operates, or as it is described
in the Bible, a mystery.
Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he
should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said,
and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
(KJV)
You know, once again God reminds us that
He is not a man, nor is He the son of man, yet still so many try to claim
Jesus was God despite what the word of God is clearly saying. The point is
that we are the ones that were made in the image and likeness of God, not
the other way around as so many think or try to dictate to God. The more
you realize and allow God to be your one true source for strength and life,
the less likely you will fall for mankind’s versions of who they think God
is based on their limited carnal thinking and not the unlimited mind of
Christ that is available. So get rid of the pedestals people, because the
higher you put someone on them and the higher they choose to climb them,
the farther and harder the fall will be when reality hits you and them in
the form of truth.
Psalms 146:3-6 Put not your trust in
princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. (4) His breath
goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts
perish. (5) Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope
is in the LORD his God: (6) Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all
that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever: (KJV)
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