Thursday, May 28, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
The Good person test
Would you consider yourself too be a good person?
Proverbs 20:6
Most men will proclaim each his own goodness, But who can find a faithful man?
How many lies have you told, stole anything, committed adultery, taken God's name in vain? Have you ever murdered anyone? Ever hated anyone got angry at them without cause. (Matthew5:21) Jesus said if you do that you're in danger of judgment. So if you died today innocent or guilty? Heaven or hell? You may say but, Lord, I done plenty of things to help wash away those crimes please forgive me. Well the Lord may say that's good you done those things but you still broke the Law. What you going too do, bribe the judge?
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe.
He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. (Deut 10:17-18)
"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. |
Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' |
And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'
(Matthew 7:21-23) |
So how can you escape hell, and go to heaven. You can't you have too pay for your crimes. It's like this, if I step on a bug and it dies what will happen too me? Nothing unless some PETA member see's me. Or if I kill a homeless man, I may get 20 or 30 years or life. Or If I fly too Washington DC and kill the president then what will happen too me? Probably death sentence, what changed same crime three different times, but the only thing is that the one whom I committed the crimes against. See every lie you ever told, everything you ever stolen, every lustful look at a woman (married or not) was seen as adultery in God's eyes and if you break just one law one time your guilty of it all. Like if you rob a bank one time, your guilty your don't also have too steal and rape too be convicted of robbery. The only way you can escape justice is if someone pay's your fine and that's what happened over 2,000 years ago God became man in the person of Jesus Christ and died a horrible death on a cross for crimes He didn't commit. You didn't ask for it and wouldn't have, but He did it too show you what Love really is. So think about what I wrote too you here and if you agree with God and deserve hell there's hope as long as your still breathing. You must as He (God) Jesus said repent (turn from your crimes (sins) and trust alone in Christ who is the legal transaction for your crimes against Him.
Peace be too you,
Monday, May 11, 2009
Pride promotes strife:
Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?
You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”
James 4:1-6
4:1 quarrels and conflicts among you. These are between people in the church, not internal conflict in individual people. “Quarrels” speaks of the conflict in general; “conflicts” of its specific manifestations. Discord in the church is not by God’s design (Jn 13:34, 35; 17:21; 2Co 12:20; Php 1:27), but results from the mix of tares (false believers) and wheat (truly redeemed people) that make up the church. pleasures. The Gr. word (from which the Eng. word “hedonism” derives) always has a negative connotation in the NT. The passionate desires for worldly pleasures that mark unbelievers (1:14; Eph 2:3; 2Ti 3:4; Jude 18) are the internal source of the external conflict in the church. Cf. 1:14, 15. your members. Not church members, but bodily members (see note on Ro 6:13). James, like Paul, uses “members” to speak of sinful, fallen human nature (cf. Ro 6:19; 7:5, 23). Unbelievers (who are in view here) fight (unsuccessfully) against the evil desires they cannot control.
4:2 murder. The ultimate result of thwarted desires. James had in mind actual murder, and the gamut of sins (hate, anger, bitterness) leading up to it. The picture is of unbelievers so driven by their uncontrollable evil desires that they will fight to the death to fulfill them. you do not ask. True joy, peace, happiness, meaning, hope, and fulfillment in life come only from God. Unbelievers, however, are unwilling to ask for them on His terms—they refuse to submit to God or acknowledge their dependence on Him.
4:3 wrong motives. This refers to acting in an evil manner, motivated by personal gratification and selfish desire. Unbelievers seek things for their own pleasures, not the honor and glory of God.
4:4 adulteresses. A metaphorical description of spiritual unfaithfulness (cf. Mt 12:39; 16:4; Mk 8:38). It would have been especially familiar to James’ Jewish readers, since the OT often describes unfaithful Israel as a spiritual harlot (cf. 2Ch 21:11, 13; Jer 2:20; 3:1, 6, 8, 9; Eze 16:26–29; Hos 1:2; 4:15; 9:1). James has in view professing Christians, outwardly associated with the church, but holding a deep affection for the evil world system. friendship. Appearing only here in the NT, the Gr. word describes love in the sense of a strong emotional attachment. Those with a deep and intimate longing for the things of the world give evidence that they are not redeemed (1Jn 2:15–17). world. See note on 1:27. hostility toward God. The necessary corollary to friendship with the world. The sobering truth that unbelievers are God’s enemies is taught throughout Scripture (cf. Dt 32:41–43; Pss 21:8; 68:21; 72:9; 110:1, 2; Is 42:13; Na 1:2, 8; Lk 19:27; Ro 5:10; 8:5–7; 1Co 15:25).
4:5 Scripture speaks. The quote that follows is not found as such in the OT; it is a composite of general OT teaching. jealously desires the Spirit. This difficult phrase is best understood by seeing the “Spirit” as a reference not to the Holy Spirit, but to the human spirit, and translating the phrase “jealously desires” in the negative sense of “lusts to envy.” James’ point is that an unbelieving person’s spirit (inner person) is bent on evil (cf. Ge 6:5; 8:21; Pr 21:10; Ecc 9:3; Jer 17:9; Mk 7:21–23). Those who think otherwise defy the biblical diagnosis of fallen human nature; and those who live in worldly lusts give evidence that their faith is not genuine (cf. Ro 8:5–11; 1Co 2:14).
4:6 greater grace. The only ray of hope in man’s spiritual darkness is the sovereign grace of God, which alone can rescue man from his propensity to lust for evil things. That God gives “greater grace” shows that His grace is greater than the power of sin, the flesh, the world, and Satan (cf. Ro 5:20). The OT quote (from Pr 3:34; cf. 1Pe 5:5) reveals who obtains God’s grace—the humble, not the proud enemies of God. The word “humble” does not define a special class of Christians, but encompasses all believers (cf. Is 57:15; 66:2; Mt 18:3, 4).
MacArthur, John: The MacArthur Study Bible : New American Standard Bible. Nashville : Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2006, S. Jas 4:1-6
You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”
James 4:1-6
4:1 quarrels and conflicts among you. These are between people in the church, not internal conflict in individual people. “Quarrels” speaks of the conflict in general; “conflicts” of its specific manifestations. Discord in the church is not by God’s design (Jn 13:34, 35; 17:21; 2Co 12:20; Php 1:27), but results from the mix of tares (false believers) and wheat (truly redeemed people) that make up the church. pleasures. The Gr. word (from which the Eng. word “hedonism” derives) always has a negative connotation in the NT. The passionate desires for worldly pleasures that mark unbelievers (1:14; Eph 2:3; 2Ti 3:4; Jude 18) are the internal source of the external conflict in the church. Cf. 1:14, 15. your members. Not church members, but bodily members (see note on Ro 6:13). James, like Paul, uses “members” to speak of sinful, fallen human nature (cf. Ro 6:19; 7:5, 23). Unbelievers (who are in view here) fight (unsuccessfully) against the evil desires they cannot control.
4:2 murder. The ultimate result of thwarted desires. James had in mind actual murder, and the gamut of sins (hate, anger, bitterness) leading up to it. The picture is of unbelievers so driven by their uncontrollable evil desires that they will fight to the death to fulfill them. you do not ask. True joy, peace, happiness, meaning, hope, and fulfillment in life come only from God. Unbelievers, however, are unwilling to ask for them on His terms—they refuse to submit to God or acknowledge their dependence on Him.
4:3 wrong motives. This refers to acting in an evil manner, motivated by personal gratification and selfish desire. Unbelievers seek things for their own pleasures, not the honor and glory of God.
4:4 adulteresses. A metaphorical description of spiritual unfaithfulness (cf. Mt 12:39; 16:4; Mk 8:38). It would have been especially familiar to James’ Jewish readers, since the OT often describes unfaithful Israel as a spiritual harlot (cf. 2Ch 21:11, 13; Jer 2:20; 3:1, 6, 8, 9; Eze 16:26–29; Hos 1:2; 4:15; 9:1). James has in view professing Christians, outwardly associated with the church, but holding a deep affection for the evil world system. friendship. Appearing only here in the NT, the Gr. word describes love in the sense of a strong emotional attachment. Those with a deep and intimate longing for the things of the world give evidence that they are not redeemed (1Jn 2:15–17). world. See note on 1:27. hostility toward God. The necessary corollary to friendship with the world. The sobering truth that unbelievers are God’s enemies is taught throughout Scripture (cf. Dt 32:41–43; Pss 21:8; 68:21; 72:9; 110:1, 2; Is 42:13; Na 1:2, 8; Lk 19:27; Ro 5:10; 8:5–7; 1Co 15:25).
4:5 Scripture speaks. The quote that follows is not found as such in the OT; it is a composite of general OT teaching. jealously desires the Spirit. This difficult phrase is best understood by seeing the “Spirit” as a reference not to the Holy Spirit, but to the human spirit, and translating the phrase “jealously desires” in the negative sense of “lusts to envy.” James’ point is that an unbelieving person’s spirit (inner person) is bent on evil (cf. Ge 6:5; 8:21; Pr 21:10; Ecc 9:3; Jer 17:9; Mk 7:21–23). Those who think otherwise defy the biblical diagnosis of fallen human nature; and those who live in worldly lusts give evidence that their faith is not genuine (cf. Ro 8:5–11; 1Co 2:14).
4:6 greater grace. The only ray of hope in man’s spiritual darkness is the sovereign grace of God, which alone can rescue man from his propensity to lust for evil things. That God gives “greater grace” shows that His grace is greater than the power of sin, the flesh, the world, and Satan (cf. Ro 5:20). The OT quote (from Pr 3:34; cf. 1Pe 5:5) reveals who obtains God’s grace—the humble, not the proud enemies of God. The word “humble” does not define a special class of Christians, but encompasses all believers (cf. Is 57:15; 66:2; Mt 18:3, 4).
MacArthur, John: The MacArthur Study Bible : New American Standard Bible. Nashville : Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2006, S. Jas 4:1-6
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