VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: Profitable, Profitable, Unprofitable!

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My Master was a harsh man
I know he did not like me at all - I was afraid of him
He was going on a long journey
And he called us managers together and
Gave out Investment Packages
As each had "ability" to "chew":

He gave his Favorite One 5
He multiplied 5 by 2

He gave his Stoolie One 2
He multiplied 2 by 2

He gave me One! ONE!
I steupse ... and
I buried it and stepped on the spot with my shoe!

But ... I Am Getting Ahead of The Tale!

Well, de Master dun gone 'long 'bout 'e business!

Party Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime!

After All ...

What could I do with a useless portfolio
Everybody knew that in that environment you had to have assets to survive
And Bossman giving me nay-nay investment
Ensured to him I would not thrive!

... Sooo, I "Helped" It Along!

I did didley squat!

And Here's Why:

Bossman was one of those you hear talked of all the time!
The ones who get gain ... but not by putting anything in
And they does pick up all kinds of profits
From where they had not been even investing in!

Why should I waste my valuable time
My beautiful, bountiful, gray matter
Working on what I couldn't foresee profit from?

Why should I even go to the profiteer bankers
And just get back a penny on a big-able pound?!

A Loooooooong Time Passed ...

When I Tell You Long, I's Mean Real Long!

No one was watching me, so
I did what I felt like!
I ran with The Howlies
And I played well into The Night
And on my last night returning what I did behold
Told me a story
Of life in The Hot Coals!

Well, I am now quite ashamed to tell you
Them others did real good for themselves
But that I had seen no point to expending my best effort
On something I knew could would not pay!

I Was Wrong!
Dead Wrong!
ETERNALLY WRONG!!

Well, when His High and Mightiness 
The Master  a/k/a Bossman 
Returned from his Journey
He started settling accounts
From highest to lowest, and
He saw wonderful investment growth!
Amazing Investment Growth ... from He Favorites!

I call them his Favorites because he had given them multiples of the best investments possible!
They were sure to succeed!

Riiigghht?!?

But Me ... Well!!

Of all people, HE called Me, ME, Lazy!
I worked hard at all kinds of programs
And projects and initiatives for him
Not that they were productive ... but I worked!

How 'bout some kinda credit, huh?!

Really!??!

Well, it was like ...
Aaahhhmmm ...
Alright, I kinda, sorta, maybe, probably, thought of and almost tried, and pretended to work ...

Well ...

He called Me Lazy!
He called Me Unfaithful!
And, to top it all off
He called his guards - them big scary ones from WingCo Corps
Who picked ME Up
By the scruff of my neck
And threw me out of the house, and off the premises - it was dark out there!

And Now ...?

And now I have to spend Big Time with
Wicked McGruff
Who tell me in the first place that The Bossman
Ain't had no Snuff!!

AND NOW, I CAN NEVER GO BACK
To T'Absolute Best Master 
I ever hadddd!!

... I can never darken His Door ever, ever, ever again ...

All those years ...
Gone ...
For nuffin' ...
Forever ...
sni .. sni ... sssSnnniiifff ...
Boo hoo hoo!
If onlyyyyyy!
I should haaaave!
I could haaaave!
But, but, butIdidn't!!!
Lordhavemerrrrrrrrrrcyyyyy!
Gimmeachance, gimmeachance!
aaaaaiiiiii, aaaaaiiiiii, aaaaaiiiiiiiiii!!


Dear Ones,

We cannot fool God!

He is All-seeing!

He is All-knowing, and

He IS Ever Present!

He has no accountant, and He keeps perfect records!

What The Lord has given unto you is yours to do with as you see fit!

Your gifts are a Trust! 

Do what you will but, remember, there is a time of accounting!

Saying that God plays favorites and gives other people better gifts that what has been given unto you will not hold water, or carry weight!

Each of us has gifts, and if those gifts are exploited for the Glory and Elevation of The True and Living God, when He settles His Accounts with us, His Stewards, we will all be rewarded based upon what we have done to bless God and others!

Do not blame God for neither your mercenary nor impecunious use of His Blessings.

He gave you the best "deal," and He is fully expecting R.O.I!

Since we cannot not pay Caesar i.e., Death and The Tax Man, take time to pay God who gives to All liberally! 

We are not our own property, and God does not require usury from us!

Remember: 

Cheap Service 
Prejudiced Service
Pretentious Service

and

Service Lacking in Service 

all equal 

No Service!

Please Pray ... and Pass The Word Along!

MARANATHA!

Creditor Extraordinaire!

God's Grace Will Gain Me Glory
God's Love Leads Me to The Lamb
God's Mercy will Gain Me Residence
In His Eternal Home in The Heavenly Land!

I Cannot Repay The Jesus-Peace Benefit
And Looking at My Life I'm in Terrible-Past Arrears
Satan is The Memory-Debt Collector
And he is Preying On My Irrational Fears!

I Received A Faith Card of Credit
To Use As When Always Whenever I Need
I Often Reach My Personal Limit of Endurance
And Must Call:

"Jesus Have Mercy! 

I Need Your Blessing! 

I'm Going To Fall!"

I Have Made The Life-Call to King Jesus
Creditor Extraordinaire
I have Laid My Case on His Mercy
And He has Promised in Blood to Always Be There!

I have Nothing to Lose by My Commitment
I have All to Gain if I Should Stand
Firm, Upon The Word - It Is Gospel
Written by The Holy Hand of The Blessed Son of Man!

Lord, Lead Me On To Victory

Lead Me to The Promised Land

Hold My Hand - My Heart I Give You

On You, Solid Rock, I Firmly and Eternally Stand!

HAPPY SABBATH + Gifts From God!

God gave Her a gift
She treasured it well
She dusted and polished it
And put it high on The Shelf.

God gave Him a gift
He treasured it well
He abused it
Misused it
It tripped him up ... and he fell.

God gave Me a gift
I treasured it well
I used it, and returned it
Polished brightly where it was worn
Out from my Mission
And accompanied with Gain
Attached with The Message:

"Dear Father, I thank You!

I accepted The Gift and

I was bold!

It gave me pleasure for sure

But I was generous!

I took my Gift out of doors and

I entertained and educated!

I comforted The Dear Ones, and I sang Praise!

I lifted up Your Name, Father

On the streets and in the glades, and

I told The Old Story even unto

Singing of New Birth and

I fed Little Children

Even though I oft' got cursed!

I thank You!

I bless You!

I treasured The Gift

And I just want to Praise You for

My work was Heaven Kissed!

I spoke to The Wanderer!

I comforted those in Despair!

I Blessed as I was Blessed, and now

Others hold Your Name Dear!

I have One Favor, Father

To ask You today

If I have been found Worthy

Please Multiply my Gift - I Promise I will Take Care."

Your Talent 

is 

Your Gift FROM God!

*****

Using Your Talent for His Service 

is 

Your Gift TO God.

*****

Please Do Not Squander Your Talent!

*****

You Will Be Required 

to give 

Your Statement of Account 

to 

ALMIGHTY GOD

about 

Your Stewardship

on

That Great Day!

God's Love IS ... No Lie!

"Looking for Love!

Will Work for Love!"

Her sign held high

At the corner she stood.

"Don't look for Love!

Love makes you Cry!

Sometimes Love even makes you Die!

Love IS a Lie!"

"Oh, poor is Me!

What is it that I See?

Love dressed in Hate

Going out on a Devil Date?

Oh, Lord, help Me!"

And THEN ...

A Voice was Heard
No arrogant talker he
Gentle, compassionate
Beseeching, fervent
Yet calling ... gently:

Meet Jesus Christ!
The Lord of Love!
The Savior Redeemer sent from Heaven Above
His Love is Pure
His Love is Free
His Love has No Limits that Human Eye can See!

He Is Love Personified!
He came to Earth!
He was Baptized!
The Spirit as Dove upon Him did descend
His Father spoke of His Beloved
His Voice came from Heaven in Love for His Love!

Pure Love as Jesus ... went out to The Desert
Pure Love as Jesus ... was Sore Tempted by The Knave
But Pure Love put down 
The Hungry Temptations in 40 Days
Proving, plainly proving, that He was no Flesh Slave!

Jesus ... In Love ... Taught and Preached
And Loved, and Healed, His People!

And Jesus ... In Love
Went to The Cross That Cruel Day!

Jesus ... By Love ... was Nailed on The Tree!

Jesus ... For Love ... let Sin securely nail Him there
So that You and Me
Wouldn't Eternal Death
Have to share!

Heaven Cried ...
Satan Rejoiced ... Exultantly!

Jesus could have Stepped Down
Jesus could have Stepped Away
 ... Not been Crucified
But Jesus had come
Our Sin for to Pay!

Nails did not keep Jesus on The Cross!
Nails could not have kept Jesus on The Cross!

So ... Let Us Know and Understand and Accept this:

Love for His Lost Loved Ones

Fixed Jesus to The Cross that Day!

The Love of God
The Life of Jesus and
The Spirit's Truth 
Exploded in Three Days
And The Stone on The Tomb by The Angels
Rolled Away! 
Rolled Away!

Loving Jesus
Gentle Jesus
Lamb of The Sacrifice
In Light and Life Gloriously Re-Appeared!

And when Jesus was finally Returning to His Father
Two Angels to the Assembled Believers declared:

This Same Jesus 

That You See Ascending

Will Descend in Like Manner Again 

One Coming Day!

Love IS Alive!

Love is TRULY Alive!

Love is JESUS

And Jesus IS ALIVE!

Love Jesus 

and 

You Dear People 

Will Be Truly Alive!!

GOD'S LOVE IS NO LIE!

Prayer: Thank You For The Joy!

Father,

Thank You for Your Peace 

That Passes All My Understanding!

Thank You for Your Love 

That Me for Heaven Prepares!

Thank You For Your Help

That Makes My Path The Brighter!

Thank You for Your Rest

That is Calling Me to Sabbath in Heaven

And Thank You for The Joy that Comes from 

Meeting You in Daily Prayer!

I Love You, Lord.

AMEN.

Prayer: Thank You For The Crucible

Father, 

Your Word has been My Comfort

Your Mercy has been My Stay

I Treasure My Moments with You, Lord

More and more with Each Passing Day!

I am Thankful You are my Master

I am Grateful You are My Lord and My God

For Without You, Father

I know for Certain

I would be Out There

Playing Footsie with The Fraud!

I Thank You, Lord, for My Blessings

I Thank You for Marking My Way

I Thank You for The Crucible

That Shines My Character More and More with 

Each Passing of The  Day!

I Love You, Lord.

AMEN.

Indepth Look at Sheep Shepherds with Goat Parts (By Special Request)

Sheep having Shepherds with Goat Parts

Is like Taking a Knife to The Lord's Heart

For Our Good Shepherd is Jesus Christ Himself

Who was Nailed to The Cross to Save Us not His Self!

BACKGROUND:

NOTEWORTHY BIBLE SHEPHERDS

Pointing Toward The Good Shepherd:

Abraham "begat" Jacob

Jacob begat Levi and Judah

from whom we 

Ultimately Received

The Priesthood

and

The Messiah

 Jesus Christ, Immanuel - Our Shepherd

who is also

Our High Priest  - after The Order of Melchisedec Forever

(having no Beginning nor Ending)

Hebrews 7:1-28

and 

Our Conquering King - Mighty To Save!

Jacob, and Moses, and King David these Shepherds Three

Were Symbols of Jesus Christ Our Savior Redeemer To Be

These men were all tested with Real Sheep before hand

Before God deemed them worthy to have Committed to their care

The Lives of His People, the Very Frail Humans.

Their Training and Tutelage

Involved Deprivation and Denial

Of Self and Personal Satisfaction

With Real Threats to Their Very Health!

They took Hold of The Mission

Denying Personal Gain and Vanity

And when Charged with the Keeping

Of Teeming Humanity

Stood before God Valiantly and Boldly

Willing to Suffer even unto Death at Almighty God's Strong Hand.

JACOB:

Jacob, He - Israel - The Patriarch

Is significant for The Care

And Attention to The Breeding

Of The Flock in his Care in Every Way!

Jacob Israel's task was to Raise up a Flock

Hearty and Healthy

Committed and Knowledgeable

Faithful, Unbesmirched.

Jacob Israel's Flock had

No Blemish, No Disease

Were Virile and Fertile

And Hearty and Hale

Well-pleasing to The Sight and were

Gently carried over The Tumult

When The Shepherd Faced The Personal Fight!

Jacob's Job was to Go Carry His (God's) People Home to The Land of His Father, Isaac*

Then go with them to the Land of Their Bodily Salvation when there was a 

Famine of Bread (symbolic for The Word) all the while 

Knowing Full Well That Therein, They Would Face The Crucible (Ill-treatment and Death by The Egyptians (The World)), and then

Ultimately, after their Test of Obedience, Survive The Passage of 

The Angel of Death, and then Head Home to The  Promised Land, the Home of 

The Promise To The Patriarchs (to us today,The Heavenly Canaan).

*Isaac's birth is one of the Three Impossible-To-Happen Births in The Bible: 

1. Sarah (Barren and Old) - Isaac

2. Elizabeth (Barren and Old) - John The Baptist

3. Mary (Unmarried and a Virgin) - Jesus Christ

MOSES:

Moses The Deliverer and Law-Giver

Is also of Jesus Christ a Type

Communing Directly with The Father

Even Beholding His Glory in his Human Eyesight!

Moses' Life spoke of Self-Denial

Denial of The Pleasures of Sin

Choosing to Suffer Affliction

With The People of God

Rather than to in Sin Live and Give In!

Moses Received from God's Own Hand

The Very Law of The Living God

And Instruction for the Building of The Earthly Temple

A Replica of The One in Heaven not Made with Hands.

Moses' Life also spoke to Baptism -

Emergence from The Watery Grave 

And Deliverance through Life's Desert

Departing from The Life of The Sin Slave!

Moses' Life and Death spoke also to Reward (from Earthy Death to Eternal Life)

For He - who was Denied Entry into Earthly Canaan

Is even now Alive and at Home in Heavenly Canaan

Communing with Our Lord and Our God!

Moses' Job Was to Deliver The People of God from The Dead Life of Idolatry and Forgetfulness to The Land of Life flowing with Milk and Honey

i.e., Sustenance and Growth through True Worship and Willing Obedience.

KING DAVID - 

The Singing, Worshiping, Shepherd, Warrior Turned King

David - The Shepherd turned King

Was called by The Heavenly Father

To Be His Chosen King

Guiding those Straying People

Who wanted to have Things

Like the World Always Asking.

David was Wiry

A Boy, but Adept

At Sling and at Harp

To God Ever Always Praying!

David was Valiant

Not wishing that any Sheep may to Bear and Lion Fall (Sin)

He spared not those Devils

Before him, they all caterwalled and did Fall!

David was The Shepherd

After the Very Lord's Heart

He Sinned but was Truly Repentant

Going to God in the Day Light and in The Night Dark.

David - The Psalmist

Valiant in The World

Anointed Teacher in The Word

Champion for The Truth

Sinner Most Repentant

Loved Almighty God from his Youth!

David Prepared Ambitiously

For The Temple Home for His God - it was Quite Grand

But his son - The Preacher - had to build it for

David had Blood on his hands!

David's Job was to Prepare a Rest from The External Forces for God's People

To Teach God's People His Truth's

To Teach God's People to Pray and to Praise Almighty God in Spirit and In Truth

And to Prepare The Way for The Temple of Love (Temporal and Spiritual)

These Shepherds Three

Are The Key

To All Who Would

God's Called Shepherds Be!

The Task is Quite Simple

Keep The Sheep on The Path

All - not Some, not Half

Take them Home to The Sheepfold

By Staying On and Following 

God's Chosen, and Stated, Path!

Keep The Sheep Healthy and Sturdy

Know God for Yourself

Have a Personal Relationship with Him

Look to God for The Blessing

Bless The Sheep, and God ...?

God Will Bless You Of Him Self!

Jacob-Israel, Moses and King David 

FINISHED 

The Work On Them Bestowed!

Pointing To Jesus Christ

These Three True Shepherds 

Often Took Losses unto Themselves Thereby

Sparing The Oft' Wandering Sheep.

MODERN SHEEP SHEPHERDS WITH THE GOAT PARTS:

Goats in The Bible were

An Offering for Sin

Hands Laid upon The Victim

All Sin was Laid on Him!

Goats are also mentioned as

Those Opposed To Almighty God

Those Like Satan Elevating Self 

Above and In Place of God!

Good Shepherds of The Sheep Themselves

Are Good Sheep Following The Lord

But Many of The Shepherds Today have

Goat Parts including

Hearts Hardened - Fighting Hard Against Almighty God!

Many Modern Sheep Shepherds

Have Hired Themselves Out for Fees

They Have No Love For The Lord's Work

Just The Public Perks - no Holy God Worship, no Bible Believing, if you please!

These Payroll Shepherds have Sold Out 

To Satan The One Big Goat 

He who Operates in The Traitor's Coat

Problem is These Poor Hirelings

Are Sailing in The Sinking Boat!

Many of These Goat-Parted Shepherds

Are True Believers - just not in The Living God

They Preach The Other Gospel

As put out by The Raging Lion - That Unrepentant Fraud!

Many if not Most Don't Read or Study The Living Words of The Master

Or they Read the Words not pertaining to Sin or Self Denying

They preach Smooth Things to The People

Of Substance they Preach not one Holy Thing!

Many of these "Shepherds" Preach According to Collections

Sermons are Based off Last Week's Offering Plate

And they know that Messages of Sin, Hell-fire and Repentance

Will give them no Quiet Bill Notes but The Noisy Change they so Hate!

Many of these "Shepherds" live off of Personal Popularity

Friends, Fame, Access and Preying on People with Needs

They Forget or Ignore That God Himself is Seeing

What Unclean Thing they give to the People

Seeking After Jesus Christ as they Worship and 

Pray and Plant unbiblical seeds!

Instead of Raising up The People To God's Altar

They Lower God's Altar to The Floor

And they put Strange Fire in The Censer

Forgetting what Happened to The Disobedient Ones like

Nadab and Abihu, and even Core!

Many of Today's Shepherds live on

Licentiousness and Covetousness

Outright Lies, Half-truths and Old-fashioned Greed

They look at The World With Rose-colored Glasses

And Don't Deny their Perverse Natures 

Their Carnal, Idolotrous, Needs!

To All who are Seeking After Christ's Righteousness

I Commit unto you Proverbs Chapter 8

Please Listen to The Holy Spirit

Speaking therein As Wisdom

Do it Now Before The Day is Too Late!

Trust No Man with Your Soul's Salvation

Not Prime Minister

Not The President

Not The Queen or The King

Not The Pope

No Preacher

No Prophet

No Apostle, and 

Not The Lying Sheep Shepherd Smelling of Satan The Big Goat!

None can Save Themselves from God's Day of Reckoning

So ... Study God's Word for Yourself

Get King James off the Dusty Shelf

And see to Your Own Soul's Eternal Health!

If Your Preacher 

Is Not Preaching 

To The Saving of Souls

Then He Is Digging Holes

Of Destruction For The Fold!

Satan Is The Sacrificial Goat for Mankind

And 

Preachers Preaching That "Other" Gospel

Will Suffer 

Satan's Same Fate!

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If Every Word Out Of Your Mouth is

"My Pastor Said ..."

"The Apostle Said ..."

"The Priest Said ..."

You Need To Get Back To 

"And The Word Of The Lord said ..."

In A Hurry!

WORSHIP GOD!!