GRACE: From Root To Fruit!

Every Body Wants To Be A Strong Tree
Growing In Luscious Array
Showing To All The World
Roundly
That They Are Blessed
AND
By The Holy God Paid!

Strangely, Though ...

Some Body Seems To Have Forgotten
That Strong Trees
Need To Have Good Root Stock
AND
A Tree
Planted In Shallow Ground
Will Surely
- When Afflicted -
Energetically Fall To The Ground!

Dear Christian Brother And Sister
Let's Look Seriously Unto Ourselves
And Ask:

From Whence Comes Our Rootstock?

And 

What Kind Of Fruit Sits Upon Our Heart's Store Shelf?

The Bible Tells Of The Fruit Of The Spirit!
The Bible Calls Jesus Christ The Root Of David
And The Branch

And ...

If We Are Thinking Clearly
We Will See
That To Get To Fruit Bearing Potential
We Must Have Jesus Christ In Our Hearts!

Without Jesus Christ
There Is No Root!
Without The Root
There Is No Holy Spirit!
Without The Holy Spirit
There Is No Fruit
AND
When This Is The Case
Jesus Christ, Himself
Calls For The Cutting Blade
AND
That Is The Gospel Truth!

To Get The Fruit Of The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit Must Be In Our Insides!
To Get The Holy Spirit In Our Insides
We Must Ask Jesus Christ In Us To Abide!

So ...

With This Being The Case
Let Us Not Drop Out Of The Race!
Let Us Confess All Known Sin
Repent Of Past Actions
Invite The Savior Jesus
To Enter In And Not Our Feeble Hearts Abandon
AND
We Must Daily Ask For The Indwelling
Of The Holy Spirit Of Grace
Pleading For The Daily Portion Of Overcoming Grace
Whereby We Can The Problems Of The Wicked World Face
AND
Do Not Let Us Let Up
On Our Pleading With The Lord
For In The Doing
We Will Receive The Great Award!

BUT ...

Let Us Not Forget
That NOW! Is The Acceptable Time
For 
Tomorrow Is Not Promised
AND
Temporal Time
Is In A Dire Decline!

Soon ...

Time Will Be Finished
AND
The Records Will Be Read
AND
All Who Are Righteous
Will Be Righteous Still
AND
Whosoever Is Filthy
Will Be Filthy Still
AND
All Fruit-less Fruit Trees
Will Be Firewood
As The Holy God Wills!

Request And Receive

The Lord Jesus Christ!

Request And Receive The Holy Spirit!

Request And Receive

The Fruit Of The Holy Spirit

AND

In The Fulness Of Time

Attend The Heavenly Banquet

For You Will Have Been 

By The Eternal God Filled!

The Lesson In The Duck!

If We Will Let The Lord Teach Us 

We Will Find Lessons Everwhere!

If We Will Let The Lord Feed Us

We Will Have Good Food

And Some

For Others To Share:

Fear To The Christian
Should Be As Water On A  Duck's Back!
Fear Should Become Prayer
When A Christian Is Under Attack!

Hope For Heaven
Should Render A Christian Beautiful
Like A Duck On A Migratory Wing!
Peace Should Be To A Christian
What Water Is To A Duck Floating!

Love To A Christian
Should Be As Webbed Feet To A Duck
For Love
- Just Like Webbed Feet Even In Dark Water -
Moves The Christian Along Singing 
A Happy-In-Jesus Song!

Living For The Lord Jesus
To A Christian
Should Be As A Duck Catching An Updraft!
For
The Updraft Gives One Altitude
Raising One Up To The Perfect Flying Path!

Daily Bible ReadingTo A Christian
Should Be As Down And Feathers On A Duck Whole
For Insulation
For Clothing
For Transport From Climes Cold!

The Goodness Of God
In The Voice Of A Christian
Should Be Heard On The Ground
Even As The Voice Of A Duck Is Heard
When He Is Flying High Above The Earthbound!

Every Christian
Though In Transport
In Transport Of Christ's Delight
Should Send A Word
A Blissful Word
To Those Shuttered In By Night!

We Were Once As They Now Are
Hemmed In On Every Side
AND
Someone Sent By The Pitying Jesus
Brought To Our Hearts
A Fair And Comforting Word Of Life!

We Were Then Able To
- By Faith -
Separate Ourselves From The Strife
AND
In Trusting Jesus
Walk Toward His Offered New Life
Propelled By Love Of Him
Who For Us Gave His Own Life
AND
Really Believing
In The Call Of:

New Lives For Old!

New Lives For Old!

Jesus Christ Gave Up His Life

For Your Life To Be Made Anew!

Available Now!

Today! Today!

Get A New Life For Your Life That's Old!

The Head Of The Christ-Centered Christian
Should Be As The Head Of The Duck!
Even Though Its Head Is Oft' Underwater
Its Security Is Profound!
Its Eyes Are Still Beholding
AND
Its Destination It Can See!
Elements May Drown Christian Heads In Sudden Deep Water
BUT
Our Hearts Are Resting In Almighty God
So No Dread Action Of The Lion De Liar
Should Be Able To Cause Us 
To Deny Our One True And Saving Lord!

Duck Are All Great Waders!
They Wade Even In Water Cold Deep!
They Know The Vibrations In The Water
AND
Understand When To Remain Calm
AND
When To Flee
For Changes In The Rhythm Of
The Troubling In The Water
By Elements Unknown
Can To The Duck
- As Well As To The Christian -
Prove To Be Deadly!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: Fans and Followers!!

The Request Was Sent Out!

The People Needed To Form Up Behind
The Master
The Leader
The Glorious Way Into The Eternal Kingdom
While Singing:

"Oh, Happy Day!"

Groups Started Forming, And 
It Is Plain To See That
Some Were Fans - Fanatically, Frenetically, Following Popular Somebody
AND
Some Were Followers - Faithfully, Feelingly, Following Him Who Was Holy!

Fanatical Fans!
Faithful Followers!
Following The Same Person
BUT 
For Differing Reasons!

The Fanatics Followed The Master
Because It Was The Thing - In!
They Rallied To The Cause
For There Were Prizes Sharing!

The Followers Followed The Master
Because In Him They Truly Believed!
He Is Holy
AND 
His Word Is Holy
AND 
The Followers Believed The Holy Word
AND 
Were Out Of Love
Seeking His Promised and Gracious Rewards!

The Fanatics Were Not Humble!
They Saw No Reason To Bend
To The Will Of The Master
They Were So Frenetically Following!

The Followers - Those Lowly
Humble 
AND 
To The World ... Kind
Sought After The Will Of Their Lord and Master
AND 
They Left The Life Of Sin Behind!

Two Classes - One Lord!
Two Classes - One True Reward
AND
One Faith
AND 
One Baptism Into
One Living Holy Eternal God!

FINALLY ...

The Day Of The Final Examination
Dawned 
Dark and Quite Bright!
The Fanatics and The Followers
Were All Dressed To Please
The Lord's Holy Sight

BUT ...

The News Came Announcing That
Only Those Wearing "Christ's Righteousness"
Will Enter In Through The Gate
AND
Everybody Else Is To Be Delivered To
The Outside Fire Lake
Where They Will All Sadly Learn From Their Just Fate 
That Faithful Followers - By The True Master -
Attain The Gift Of Eternal Life
AND 
Myriad Unimaginable Rewards
BUT
That Fanatics
Have Already By The Devil Been Spuriously Paid
And Will - By The True Master -
For Their Play 
Be Unceremoniously Slayed!

Fan?

Follower?

Follower Of Truth?

Fighter Against Truth?

Which Ever Way

That We Choose To Play

REMEMBER:

At The End Of It All

On Our Knees

We Shall Fall

AND

Pay Homage

To Him Who 

Created The Universe

AND

Us All!

Almighty God - Magician Extraordinaire!?! + Prayer

I met a young lady today

She said she is a Christian - I looked up
Then she said something in answer to a question
That made me bristle and query what's up?

Okay, long story short
This is her testimony:
She is studying and working and all else
She said her college exam was murder
For she had nothing in her head!

She knew only two answers she said of the questions
So she went home and prayed and cried unto The Lord
For she believed that God would get her a passing grade
If she asked in faith, He would reward!

She said that when Exam Results were returned
She had received much more than a passing grade
And she knew that Her God was amazing
For The Passing Grade was from Him, and it was her Reward!

Stunned and shocked, appalled, repulsed, aggravated
Ashamed, frightened, dismayed
Are the emotions that ran through my being
For this "testimony" is what pleases The Fraud!

The God of Heaven is not a magician
To Him these beings are of abominable fame
And to hear a Christian confessing testifying
That God is doing magic tricks
Makes me hang my head is great shame!

I tried to explain to her that she was in error
That praying for a passing grade after the exam is not the way
You did not do The Requisite Study and that is like
Killing a man and praying God to make the decaying corpse live again!

"You obviously knew more than you believed you did!" I exclaimed.

"No! 
God did that! 
I will not put My God in a box! 
My God can do anything!" she grandly, boastingly replied.

I reeled in utter shock!

Here are The Facts:

1. She had maybe somewhat studied ... something

2. She looked at The Exam paper and, save for two answers, knew ... nothing

3. She knew She had failed The Exam

4. She went home and prayed and cried to Almighty God to Pass her Failed Exam Paper because She believed in Him, and knew that He would do anything She required of Him even when She knew She was undeserving and had not done The Necessary Preparation OR, at the very least, had done inadequate preparation

5. Almighty God - Magician Extraordinaire - is The Eraser of Wrong Answers, Passer of Failed Exams, Rewarder of The Undeserving, and The Wrong-doer

I DO NOT KNOW

NOR DO I OWN

NOR DO I WISH TO KNOW OR OWN

THIS IMPOSTOR GOD!!

This RUBBISH is what is being propagated as a result of "feeding" from The 'Another' Gospel!"  a/k/a 

The Gospel of The God Of All Wishes 

Who Also Does 

People's Dirty Dishes!

What this "Gospel" is really saying is that you can read your self-printed Bible and pray your disrespectful prayers, and Almighty God, The Formerly Jealous God, The Former God Who Does Not Change, will permit you to worship false gods, curse His Name, commit murder, commit adultery, lie, cheat, steal, up until the day He comes, and He will save you, unrepentant, into His Eternal Kingdom Of What Used To Be Light because you love Him, and believe that He can do anything you require Him to do because He loves you no matter if you dishonor Him by your active, malicious, presumptuous sin, and He will deliver you Saved ... into His Kingdom,  because, well, He is lonely, and will accept the dregs that you give Him, because He is "The Magician On Demand," who wishes your patronage, and if He doesn't give you what you want, you will not like Him and He will be all alone, and He doesn't want that, so, here, ask Him anything, for He will deliver for you for He loves you and He will do whatever you ask of Him ... just because! 

What a crock of horse manure!

The Holy Bible, The Gospel (Truth) (Good News) of Jesus Christ is a transcript of The Holy God's Character!

God FORGIVES Sin! 

God does not absolve us from The Punishment that is our just desert for wrong doing, nor from our "reward" for lack of preparation and judicious action!

God is with His People THROUGH their trials! 

God's Grace provides Mercy so that we may have help ... in time of need - not after the need has passed!

That Young Lady should have asked God to bring to her remembrance what she had studied and not relegated God to the position of a wicked magician!

This attitude is appalling, but not uncommon, and exposes a destructive lack of knowledge of who is really Almighty God.

The Final Word

2 Corinthians 11:2-4 King James Version (KJV)


2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.


3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.


4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

There is NO OTHER JESUS! 

There is NO OTHER GOSPEL!

Do not Abominate God's Holy Word!

Do not make God's Holy Word a Profanity!

Do not let Satan use us to Lead People Astray with falsehoods and embellished fictions!


God will work for His People when and as we do what is right and good!


And, please,

Do not let us credit Almighty God with nonsense, and call ourselves blessed and highly favored, because we got over!

The day of reckoning is coming, and whichever piper we have paid will play The Tune of Our Selection, for Good or Evil.

The Choice, as always, is personally ours to make.

Father, guide us into Your Truth

By Your Light -

The Light of Life

The Light of The World. 

Amen

VESPERS: At The End Of The Sabbath - God's Grace Brings Peace and Healing!

Hope and Blessing are sisters!
Truth and Beauty are fast friends!
Friend Friendly and Faith Faithful are brothers
On whom the sisters and friends can surely depend!

Mustard-Seed Hope and Longing-For-Glory are inseparable
‘Tis Grace and Gladness-of-Heart likewise
For without these bonded companions
Neutral and Impossible bring with them Demise!

Hope-For-Glory brings with her Gladness
Faith and Truth hold fast to them Mighty Grace
And Beauty-of-Spirit brings with her, her buddy Blessings
From The Father whom them all did create!

Faithful and Friendly find Favor
For those two Feeling Frazzled and Frayed
Their duty each day holds Neutral and Impossible at bay
So Sin can’t come out playing with Holding-Sway!

Neutral claims Fame by holding No-Position
Impossible has Lime-light by elevating Weak
Who everyone know is twin Siamese
With Cowardice, and brother to Bothersome
Bewildered, Awful, Awesome and Life-Is-Bleak!

At times, one can meet Travail-of-The-Spirit
At times, one will meet Keep-You-Eye-On-The-Goal
But whether you meet, Goodness or Defeat
Constant Companion keeps you - along with Faithful - on steady feet!

So, when Life is plucking your nose-hairs
And The-Enemy-Of-Your-Soul steps with nails on your corns
And Devilish-Delight is flaring fire on your hemorrhoids
Know that Peace-In-The-Valley and Balm-of-Gilead
Are carrying Healing and Prayer in Godly-Hands!

Don’t give Losing-Hope and definitely not that Vain-Glory
Pity-Party nor Deadly-Pain to Strangle-Hold
For the Minions-Of-Hell
Will summon that dreadful Death-Knell
So Get-A-Grip, and
Say-A-Prayer and choose
Deny-The-Liar, then
Spit God’s-Gospel-Is-Heavenly-Fire
And step out with Faith
I’m-Holding-To-Hope and
To-Heaven-I-Aspire!