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19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Sighhh ....
It Never Seems To End!
We Backslide From Following The Saving Truth
And
Soon We Find Ourselves To Be The Official Recipients Of Chastisement!
Oh, The Pain!
With Truly Sorrowing Hearts
We Willingly Confess Our Folly
Our Sins
Our Transgressions
Our Iniquities
And
Our God, The True And Living Holy God
With The Heart Of Love
Having Compassion
Hears Our Heartfelt Prayers And Plaintive Cries
And
Works For Us Our Only Means Of Deliverance!
But ... Do We Learn Anything From Our Recent
Known Unpleasant Experience!?!
Oh, No!
That Would Be Too, Too, Tooooo Easy!
So What Do We Do Instead!?!
We Rinse ... And Repeat!
We Act Like Like Those Who
- By Their Own Wisdom, In Their Own Strength -
Would Save Themselves, Would Save The Earth:
We Recycle!
Oh, Lord, Have Mercy On Us Your Wayward Children!
Brethren Beloved,
If We Keep Doing The Same Things
Whilst Expecting A Different Response
It Is Called Madness:
There Will Not Be Any Mad
Aka Boiled-Brain Persons
In The Living Kingdom Of God!
Dear Ones,
Let Us Be Wise For Our Own Selves
- Having Asked The Lord To Give Us Of His Wisdom -
Great Is Your Faithfulness! Almighty God ... You Are My Father! I Believe With-My Known Deceitful Man's Heart That There Is No Shadow Of Turning With Thee! Things I Didn't Know That I Needed Your Holy Hand Has Generously Provided! Great Is Your Faithfulness, Lord Every Day ... Unto Me! Spring Time Is Now Passed AND Summer Time Is Approaching! The Heat Of The Day Makes Me Desire To Walk Under Your Cloud Where There Is Shade From The Weather AND From The Wicked And Evil Elements That Are Soul Destroyers AND I Am Truly Grateful For Daily Faith AND Available Grace From Heaven Above! My Life Is Not My Own! Lord, Help Me To Follow Where You Safely Lead! Help Me Not To Look Back At The Gay And Noisy Crowd AND Give Me Strength For My Day For I Have A Living Hope Of A Blessed Tomorrow! I Am Grateful That Your Blessings Are Personally Mine So Help Me, In Your Holy Spirit Ever To Confide! A Life Of Sin Is Not Helpful! Disobedience Does Not Profit! Waywardness Leads One Astray AND For Own Sin One Will Have To Pay! Please, I Beseech You Correct Me Of My Backslidings AND Bless Me To Do Your Will So That Heaven-At-The-Last Trump Shall Surely Be Mine!
Well, From I Stand All The Men Of The Earth Are Bold Liars AND I Strenuously Maintain That The Word Of The God Is Still AND Ever Always True!
Come On! How Can A Whole Planet Contain Only Liars?!
It Can BECAUSE The Holy Buble The Preserved Word Of The King James Bible Says So!
Ooooh! Now I Understand! You Are One Of Those!
One Of Those What?!
A Fundie!
Huh?!
A Fundamentalist Accent On Mental And Decidedly Off Of Fun!
You Know Bible Alone Christ Alone Straight Truth No Shades Of Gray Christ The Only Hope Faith And Works Striving For Mastery Self-denial ...!
Ooh, Shiver! You Said A Curse ... Self-Denial! I H A T E That!
... Always Having To Think About Lofty Things Lifting Up Others Always Being A Goody-Goody Always Having To Think About Doing Right! BO RING!
You People Suck The Air Out Of A Room! Do You Have Any Joy In Your Life?!
Yes, I Do! I'm Living By Faith AND I Find Joy In Jesus! Do YOU?!
Wow! Did You Hear Those Cliches?!
Yes, I Did And I Also Know That These Two Are Serious About What They Are Saying! Why Is That?!
Now YOU Can't Be Serious! They're Just A Bunch Of Holy Rollers And Gloomy Gusses!
Yesterday It Was Test The Spirits! Today It Is Men Are Liars! What Will Tomorrow Bring?! Is It Holiness Unto The Lord?!
Now That You Mention It Let's Go Back To Testing The Spirits!
Do You Believe Everything That The Preachers And Teachers Say To You?!
Of Course! They're Men And Women Of God! They Are The Visionaries! The Dreamers!
Do You Fact Check Them Against The Law The Prophets AND The Gospels?
What For?! They Are Called! They Are Ordained! They Always Speak For The Lord!
Always?! Nothing Extra-Biblical Mentioned Every Once In A While Because They Had A Vivid Dream AND OR Received An Absorbing Too Real Not To Be A God-Sent Vision?!
No! Yes! Wait A ... Minute!!
There Was ... Last Summer ... Three ...
Problem?!
Problem! I Just Remembered That The Word Says That If They Speak Not According To The Word There Is No Light In Them!
Man, Are We In Trouble!
Let's Sit Back Down!
Why? What's The Trouble?!
I Just - In A Seeming Flash - Remembered All The Times That Our Pastor Went Off Scripture And How Afterwards - When Challenged - It Was Always That We Misheard! We Misunderstood! He Had A Slip Of The Tongue!
Did He Ever Subsequently Revisit The Errors To Set The Congregation Straight?
No! Not Even Once!
Really?! Why Do You Think That Is?!
Popularity! Prestige! Promotion! Pittance!
The Fatal Four?
The Fatal Four!
Lord, Please Help Your People This Day!
What Does This Fatal Four Have To Do With Anything?!
Every Single Thing! When Earthly Desire AND Selfish Ambition Enter The Ministry Of The Gospel Of Truth There Is Always Always - Did I Say Always - Corruption In The Midst!
Those Four Horsemen Ride!!
Come On! Nobody Can Corrupt God's Truth!
No, They Can't BUT They Can Corrupt The Telling The Interpretation AND The Response!
You Just Lost Me! Would You Explain That Further, Please?!
What's The Difference Between God Is! AND Is God ...?!
God Says! AND As I See It, God Says?!
God Will Bless When ...!
AND God Blesses If ...?!
God Knows You Are Weak!
AND God Says Be Strong!?
I Was Once As You Were Until The Day I Heard The Pastor Say It Is Okay To Disobey God To Make Known Willful Sinners
Feel Good About Themselves AND To Feel Comfortable AND Accepted Amongst The Faithful!
I Heard Our Pastor Say That God's Law Changes To Fit The Peoples Of Our Times!
Our Pastor Says - All The Time - That All The People On Earth Will Be Saved!
Our Pastor Also Says That God Has To Save All Sinners Because He Made Them That Way!
Brethren, What Does The Living Word Say About The Holy God His Law His Ways His Character?!
I AM The Lord: I Change Not! The LORD: The Same Yesterday, Today And Forever!
The Law Is A Transcript Of God's Character!
Thy Way Oh, Lord, Is In The Sanctuary!
God Is Faithful And Just!
God Is Way God Is Truth God Is Life ... And Light!
So ...
What Does That Mean To For You?!
God Won't God Can't Change So We Must!
Can You Change God?!
Of Course Not!
Can You Change You?!
Ye ... No!
You Got That Right!
We Need To Take God At His Word That He Can Save Us Through Our Belief In His Word
I Deposited My Paycheck Marked Trust In The Bank Of The Holy Jesus
AND I Make No Withdrawals No Matter How I Am Provoked For I To My Jesus Am Fully Yoked!
I Truly Expect The Dividend - Already Declared - To Be Paid In Full - With Extras - On The Day Called Of Our Faith Great AND It Shall Not Be Paid Early For It Can't Be Paid Late!
By Prayer
I Purchased Shares Of The Faith Of Him Who Is Wise He Who Is Holy Him Who For Man Died AND I Am Determined Hell Coming Highwater Following That The Eternal God Is My Guide AND
From Him I Will Not Turn My Eyes!
Some Days Are Gloomy Some Days Are Dark, Too BUT My God Is Holy Eternal AND
True, Too AND I Have His Word That For Me He Will Ever Care Even Though At Times I Forget Him AND Run Around In Ungodly Fear!
No More Backsliding! No More Walking In My Own Way! No More Humorless Laughter Because "That" Fear Is Sitting In My Comfy Chair!
I Am Determined To Live For AND With My Jesus In The Glorious Land AND Because God With Me Makes A Majority I Shall Keep Depositing My Trust In The Bank Of The Holy Jesus Kitty!
There Is A Contentious Matter In Christendom Regarding Conversion Reconversion AND Real Christian Christianity Which Causes Christians To Behave Un-Christian AND Causes Non-Christians To Curse Called-Christians' Un-Christlike Christianity!
Wow! That's A Mouthful!
And ... True!
Look At Sin! Sin Transgresses God's Law! All Men Sin Ergo All Men Are Sinners!
Sinners Need Forgiveness! Forgiveness Comes From God AND
You Need Christ To Get To God! Christ IS The Bridge The Stairway To Reach God!
How Do You Get To Jesus!?
Hear The Word!
Faith Comes By Hearing The Word Of The Lord!
The Word Says We Need A Savior AND The Holy Spirit Calls Us!
Our Savior Is Jesus Christ!
We Must Believe That He Is Who He Says That He Is! We Must Believe He Can Do What He Says He Will Do!
You Gotta Acknowledge Your Sin
And Repent And Confess!
What Has That Got To Do With Conversion And Reconversion?!
How Does One Get From Being Converted To Being In Need Of Reconversion?!
We Have A Couple Of Things Going On Here:
A Convert Who Was Never Truly Heart Converted AND A True Convert Who Became Complacent AND "Lapsed" Into Sin! Planned Sin aka Iniquity Which Is A Real Problem Because One Can Turn Away From The Obvious!
Let's Start With Be Careful Ye That Think Ye Stand ... Lest Ye Fall
AND
Work Out Your Own Salvation With Fear And Trembling!
Question: Who Was A Shepherd Warrior Psalmist King Sweet Singer Prophet Man After God's Own Heart?
David, Son Of Jesse!
Question:
Who BecameA Lying Fornicating Adulterer Murderer Who Indulged The Poisoned Pen To Kill A Mighty Man Who Had Been His Faithful Friend?!
King David, Son Of Jesse!
Did David Love God? Was David - From His Youth - A Valiant Warrior Zealous For God's Name?
Yes!
King David Poured Out His Whole Heart In Praise And Adoration Of His God And He Had Even Put His Life On The Line With That Giant - Goliath Of Gath - As His Proof Of Love His Lord!
So You Would Say That David Believed In
Submitted Himself To
AND Loved Trusted Obeyed Worshipped Praised Glorified Preached AND Taught Of God So That Made Him A "Converted Christian!?"
Yes, I Would!
So, Pray Tell ... How You Would Explain Shepherd David Going From The Joyful Confidence Of Psalm 23 To The Sorrow Of Repentance Of King David In Psalm 51 To The Jubilation Of Restoration Found In Psalm 32?! He ...! Well ...! I Don't Know!
Let Me Help You: Shepherd David Met God In Nature In The Hills Of Judah! He Humbly Sought After His God!
King David Met Satan
On The Rooftop Of A Palace In Jerusalem! He Revelled In His Fleshy Powers And Prowess!
King David Reacquainted Himself With His God In The Agony Of Repentance
On His Face Before God
- After The Death Of Two Innocents - As A Consequence Of His Blighted Actions!
Bottom Line ... King David Truly Loved God BUT ... The Wandering Lust In His Eye Motivated By The Puffed-Up Pride In His Life Lubricated By The Biting Lust Of His Flesh Blinded Him To The Light Of Life AND He Blinked AND Lost His Link To Redeeming Love!
Thankfully, Though ...
Upon Being Severely Chastised AND Being Made Aware Of His Sure Punishment King David's Godly Sorrow For Sin ANDConfession Of Error AND Repentance For Wrongdoing - With Real Tears Of Contrition - Caused The Cleansing His Eyes AND The Restoration Of His Sight So That - Again - He Could See The Light Of Life! AND He Held On - Never Again To Let Go - To His Soul's Savior The Very Savior That Christians Today Are Interpreting Reinterpreting Reinventing Remolding Recasting AND Casting Out Of Christ's Christianity!
There Is One Living God! One Redeeming Christ! One Chiding, Comforting Holy Spirit! One Way To The Everlasting Father AND One Constant Call To Sure Salvation While Mercy's Door Is Still Open For Business!
Since We Need Mercy That Obviously Means That There Is Justice! Since There Is Justice That Obviously Means There Is Sin (Crime)! Sin Transgresses God's Law BUT The God Of Love IS Also The God Of Mercy AND Sorrowful Repentance - Not Excuses - Not Small Man-Made Plasters On Festering Wounds Will Bring Us Reconciliation To The Almighty All-Knowing Always Present Can't-Be-Surprised King Of Glory!
The Problem, Though ...
Modern Christianity Does Not Hold With Acknowledging Sin Unto Confession Unto Repentance Unto Reconciliation Unto Promised AND Sure Salvation By Righteousness Aka Right Living AND Walking With God By Faith AND That Is Why Conversion Reconversion Is An Issue For Today AND Why So Many Christians Contentedly Say:
Many Men!
Many Minds!
Let's Be Kind
And
Lift Up The Common Good
Because
Our God Who Made Us
Has Always
Our Mere Men Ways
Understood!
It's All Good!
May The Only True God Save Us From Our Sinful Selves! Every Individual Needs A Committed AND Personal Relationship With The Only Living Holy Saving Redeeming God Who Can Remake Us In His Own Holy Image Despite What The Doctors Of The Church Adhering To The Traditions Of Men Now Say!!
You are Important, Famous, Wealthy, Appealing, Knowledgeable, Knowing, and Mighty Enough To Save Me!
I have Money of my own - I can buy my own Food!
Yes, I have money all my own - I can Purchase my own Clothes!
All that I Desire of You, is Your Name! No more, no less. Just let me Bear Your Name so that The Goode People can't Call me The Whole Whore any more! Please Take The Shame Out of my Face!"
So said Sephorada to Shiloh.
What had brought on this Outrageously Emotional - and Publicly Demeaning - Display?
Why is Sephorada begging Shiloh to Marry her when Everybody Knows that they are in a Committed Relationship?
Hmmm ...
Previously ...
Sephorada and Shiloh were in Love with each other.
They were Made for each other, and Everybody spoke of how well The Relationship was going and how good they Looked together, and how sure they were that their future Marriage would be Prosperous, and Fruitful in the Multiplying!
Everybody Believed that in The Fullness of Time, Sephorada and Shiloh would Declare their intentions, and that The Decree of Commitment would go forth to all The People publicly declaring that they were Joined for Eternity.
Strange, how you think you know people and The Truth Is A Disappointment.
Shiloh is The Absolute Kindest, Friendliest, Most Honest, Nicest, Blessingest Person you will ever meet this side of Eternity. He Walks and Talks like he Knows The Living God ... up Close and Personally! Shiloh is Polite, soft-spoken, helpful, caring, motivated - The Perennial Provider, and He Loves Sephorada - as he, Himself, says - Eternally! Sephorada, on the other hand, is Everything you would expect from a Volatile, Wild Child, and Loving Lady with Champagne Tastes and Surviving - Allegedly - on a Mauby Budget, after having been Born and Raised, and is Living on The Other Side of the Goode Tract! If Truth is told, Everybody with a Working Conscience will Honestly tell you that Sephorada is a Light Skirt! At least she was until Shiloh picked her Literally off the Street and publicly Claimed her for His Very Own! He Placed His Love on Public Display! All he asked of Sephorada was Fidelity, and Life was Great ... for a while. Well, as Ladine Fate would tell it, Sephorada was Batting Left and Bowling Right! Sometimes, it is said that she is an All-rounder! And Shiloh - who seemed to be everywhere at given anytime - Knew about it, and did not seem to let her "Past" stop him from Loving her Endlessly! Shiloh kept on Showing Sephorada what True Love Looks Like! As He, himself, said: "True Love Is Not Blind!" Sephorada was also hanging out in Idol Groves, a place Noted for its Promulgation of Choice Gods, and Gay Abandon! Shiloh had asked Sephorada to put her Past in The Past, and to Turn Away from That Life, and to Commit To Him and His Ways for he could Make Her Whole - she had said "Yes!"
Shiloh has High Ideals and Maintains High Standards of Excellence, and I guess that you know that Shiloh is not going to Play Pretty Push-over just to have Sephorada! I also guess that you Know that There Is Trouble in The Land, and The Goode People were talking about Sephorada and calling her "That Harlot!" and "Ungodly," and saying that she really needed The Shepherd, and that if she did not Turn Away from her Love of The Mall at Fleeting Things she was going to get herself Officially Branded as one of The Apostate and Lost Souls!
For Your Information ... Sephorada was a Seriously Bad Influence for many of The Unmarrieds and, Suprisingly, quite a few of The Members of The Faithful Few were Dancing and Cavorting and Worshiping with their Supposed Opposites at Loose Lips and Heart Slips! It soon became Apparent that Sephorada was on The Payroll of That Notorious Break-Down Merchant, Natas Nam, himself! After that Episode of Begging, Pleading, and Beseeching, and Shiloh's Summary Rejection of her Insulting Offer to Bear His Name to Hide Her Shame, Sephorada's Life got Ugly, Really, Really Ugly, Really, Really Fast! Anyway, I will not Bore you with The Terrible Details of what Finally Caused Sephorada to "Come To!" I will ask you to Remember these Statements, though:
You Carry Your Own Pigs To Fine Market
Hide and Buy Land Can't Hide and Reap Land
What Goes Around Comes Around
Planters of Indian Corn Don't Reap Guinea Corn
Who Help You Buy a Big Belly Horse Won't Help You To Feed It
Today For Me - Tomorrow For You
Know What You Grow, and
Out of Darkness Into Light
What I will also Tell you is that Throughout Sephorada's Constant Backsliding and Re-connection and Re-commitment, Shiloh Stood Up and Pleaded ... and Pleaded ... and Pleaded ... His Eternal Love for His Beloved. He Watched Over her, all the while Permitting her Space to make her Own Decision to walk wholly with him, and in Faith! Shiloh never once Tried to Force Sephorada to Come Over to His Way of Thinking. Shiloh Never Gave Up on Sephorada, and he Remained Ever Faithful. As for Sephorada, until she Acknowledged that Life Without Shiloh was Life in The Pits, she Bought, and Paid For, and Ate The Very Bread That The Devil Kneaded, and she Wears those Scars to This Day! Nevertheless, when she Finally Confessed, and Truly Repented to Shiloh for her Profligate Lifestyle, and Turned Away from The Past, he Willingly Embraced her, and he Gave her an Eternal Supply of Beauty For Ashes Parfum. It was a Beautiful Reunion! However, those who Saw The Evidence of The Real Change in Sephorada, and Chose to Ignore it, and Continued Down The Broad Way, The Judgment Seat of The Ancient of Days Awaits.
