Tuesday, September 22, 2015

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!

*******

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!!


 




Monday, September 21, 2015

Sheep Shepherds With Goat Parts! + Prayer



Do we Know What happens
When The Shepherds are The Sheep, and
The Sheep act like Goats?!

Do we Want to Know What happens
When Goats are Shepherds
Pompasetting and
Wearing Pretty Judas Coats?

Do we Want to Know What happens
When Goats Lead Sheep, and
Shepherds Bleat and
Even Eat Meat?

Did you Know that When a Sheep Eats Meat
He has Got Fangs and
Hangs Around with
That Wicked Satan?

Weeellllll ...

I Met a Shepherd
A Shepherd of The Sheep
Who was Not The Owner
And who Willingly Cut Truth's Corners!

He hung out with Fiends - those Creatures so Mean
And Spoke often ... it seems
Of Meat Succulent and Lean
Having been Fed on The Green
Where Cooling Waters Stream.

I Listened with Interest, and Wondered
Then I Grew Flabbergasted
As with Malice True Sheep were Pounded
And The Death-Sirens Sounded
And Lambs were Grounded
Down with The Spurious
Truth that was Curious to Boot
Giving The Shepherd The Loot
To Buy Expensive Suits
To Appear on The Air
Pretending to Give a Care
About Where
The Souls of The Poor
The Innocent
The Seeking
Would Spend Eternity
While Caviar he is Eating
And Unrighteous Riches he is Reaping!

That Shepherd Looked at My Face
Walked Around
And Stood a Pace
From My Body
And - too Jovially - Explained:

"Boy's Howdy!
Lord, Love a Duck!
Details, Details!
A Story I Tell
To the People - No Hell!
Get to the Beach
Pick up a Shell
And Listen to them Chiming Bells!"

"Details! Details!
Men Falter and Fail
I "Comfort" them and I Sail
And they go to Sinners' Jail
And Cry and Rail
At Jesus - not Me!"

"I Work for a Fee!
I Entertain for an Allowance!
My Fabled Secretary is called Florence
And we Met in Torrance
Introduced by Lawrence
The Handsome
The Dark
Who Encouraged our Romance -
I Never Stood a Chance
And now we Dance ... with The Devil!"

"There is No Turning Back
For that Would Mean Lack and
I Tell you The Fact
Lack is Something I Don't Choose to Pack!"





I Listened!
In Fact
I Wished He'd Take it Back
That He was just Giving me Flack
But, Alas, and Alack
This Steward 
Was a Coward
Who Preached Faith
But didn't Know The Lord
And his Sworn Task 
Was to Pull The Gold Cord
Of The Seeking Soul
Looking for The Word of The Lord!

His Mission was to Feed Self
To Lay Aside Treasure on The Shelf
To Live Large 
In Good Health
While Accumulating Worldly Wealth!

He Didn't Seem To Care or Try to Understand
That God Almighty
Is NOT a Man
That All That He Has Said
He Will Do
He Will Do!
... HE WILL DO! 

"Don't YOU Read your Bible?
Don't YOU Know Right from Wrong?
Don't YOU Know Jesus Christ is Coming Down?
Don't YOU Understand that The Trumpet Will Indeed Sound?
Don't YOU Believe that we ALL have a Judgment Round
And Every Human Must Give An Account However Wherever he is Found?!"

"Don't YOU Believe in God?
Don't YOU Fear God!"


He Stiffened ...

I Raised My Eyebrow.

      He Turned ...

I Tilted My Head.

            He Opened his Mouth as if to ...

I Held My Breath.

                  He Walked ... away ... breathing audibly ...

I Bowed My Head and Prayed.


Oh, Lord, Most Holy
Have Mercy upon Your People Today!
Protect us, Lord, Help us
We beseech You as we Pray!
Lord, please take us into You Care for
The Shepherds are Hirelings and
The Sheep are as Prey!
Without You, Dear Father
Your People will not well fare!
Raise Up, Lord, an Honest Steward
A Diligent Shepherd for Your Sheep
And while You are Blessing, Lord, 
Bless The Humble
The Poor, and Your Children All, The Meek.
AMEN.




Sunday, September 20, 2015

Hearer to Gainer + Prayer



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I have a Heart!
But Not a "Foolish Heart" Condition!

I am Free!
But Not Free to always Sinful be!

I have Eye Problems
But I'm Not suffering from Lying Vision!

I have Feet!
But Not for Gadding About and Walking to Hell on a Roiling Sea!

I have Ears!
But Not to be Tickled, nor for Listening to Lying Divinations!

I've Got King Jesus!
You MUST Believe That You've Got King Jesus!
We can Trust IN and ON King Jesus!
Please ... Hold on to your Faith in Jesus Christ!
He has got Good Legs!
He's got The Blood that Bought Your Pardon!
He's got The Hands wherein you find Shelter!
He's got The Voice that Rebukes your Storms!
And He's got The Living Love that we Need
And He Daily, Daily, Feeds
So, Give Him a Chance, and
He will Fix You ... and Your Need!
Remember ... You ARE The Apple In His Eyes!
Reach Out to Jesus ... TODAY!

AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!!


Later that day ...

I really gained something from that Sermon!
What about you?

Gain!? What gain?!
He preached!
I heard!
He preached well.
That's it!

Oh, dear ...

Did I miss something?!!

What did you hope to Achieve today?

Achieve?!

Yes! Achieve!
How have you benefited from being here today?

Hmm ...
Let's see ...
Church day - No work
Talk to the Brethren - Mission Trip coming up
Enjoy the music - I would pay good money to hear those singers again!!
Be Emotionally aroused - I got Goosies!!
Eat good food - lunch was off the chain!
Fellowship with my friends - did you hear about Sis. Aimey?!
Yup!
That's about it!

Oh, dear ...

Whaaat?!

What about the "Good" stuff?" You know ...

Communion with Christ
Fellowship with the Father
Comfort of the Holy Spirit
Healing!
Help!
Reunion!
Peace!
Rest!
Restoration!
Edification!
Elevation!
You know?  
All the superlative benefits of "Having Faith in Jesus Christ!"

Oh, thaaat!
I am not a Holy Roller like you!
My Faith is not like yours! You're strong!

Strong?!!
What does strong have to do with Faith!
You either have Faith, or you don't!

Don't  you Read your Bible?
Or perhaps you missed the part about Faith as BIGGGGG as a Mustard Seed?!

Child, a Mustard Seed Faith is more Beneficial to you than a strong arm!
When I come to Church Service, I come Expecting to be Blessed!

I expect to Gain, you know, Profit from being here because I believe what the Bible says "...where two or three are gathered in my Name," there is The Lord.

If you have Faith,  then the Word of God has The Life, but
A lack of Faith deprives The Word of Its Life, and you become just a Hearer Loser. 

I am a Hearer Gainer. I Trust God - through Jesus Christ - to give me something, and He does! Every day!

Come on, Sis.!
Try Trust!
Till The Word!
Reap a Blessing!

If your Ground is Fallow
Your Faith will be Shallow!

If God is All
You won't play with Satan's Ball!

If Sin is your Date
You'll suffer Satan's Fate!

Give Trust and Faith in God a Try
And you'll be at Home With Jesus, by and by!

I am Living In Hope, and I'm using my Faith to grease The Way!







Father, You say that You are Our Friend
You say that You will be with Us to The End
We come before You - we have a Need
Bless us with a Measure of Faith, Lord
Even that of The Mustard Seed.
Amen.




Saturday, September 19, 2015

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: Reacting To Life! + Prayer











"How do you stand it!?!"

"Why are you so calm!?!"


"I've paid a heavy price for My Faith but
You know what? Jesus is now running My Show!
You see, I made up My Mind
For He said that He Is Divine, so
I Decided to Trust Him, and
Now My Worry is in Decline!
What about y'all?'


"Knee! - I Pray"

"Jerk! - I React!"


"Knee-Jerk! I Pray AND React!"



"Wow! I know whatcha mean!
Been There!
Done That!
Misery was My Companion and
I was ready for the Tin-foil Hat!"



Sitting out there upon "The Shelf" Is 
The Problem with Christian-By-Self:


#CallingOnJesus!
Depending on Self!
Reacting to The World!
Destroying Soul Health!


Trust Jesus! - Jesus is The Shepherd!
Lean On The Spirit! - The Spirit is for Help in Prayer!
Read The Holy Bible! - It's The Captain's Word!
Depend on Him! - Our God Truly Provides Care!


********
Father, I know what I was without You
A sinner without You who anything would do
But, You met Me in The Way
You said: "Child, There you cannot stay!"
And I from that world walked away!
I do not brag but
I thank You, Lord, for casting that Bag Full of My Sin
Into Your Forgetfulness Sea -
You promised it shall not to Your Memory return and
You promised You will not me spurn
So, please, keep Teaching this Child, Lord
For I need Your Lessons for Gaining Eternal Life to daily learn.
AMEN








BENEDICTION:

May Your Rest Be Sweet
May Your Peace Be Complete
May Your Spirit Soar
As Jesus Knocks at Your Trembling Heart's Door
May Your Night Be As Bright As The Noon-day Light
And May You Awaken To The Son's Sweet Light For 
Our God IS Nigh.
AMEN.



Do You Know Who ...?





Who is Shepherding the Shepherds of The Sheep?
Who will Cull The False Sheep that Bleat?
Who is Preparing The Reward for The Meek?
Jesus Christ - The Savior that The Faithful Soul Seeks!

Who is Marking The Way that Will Eternally Pay?
Who is Bringing Home The Children who from Him had Strayed?
Who is Faithful and Just to Forgive those who Obey?
Jesus Christ - The Savior, The Lamb in whose Name to Almighty God we Pray!

Who is Holding us, Helping us To Stand
Faithful, Walking Holy toward The Great I AM?
Who Humbled Himself that we may have a Home in The Glorious Land?
Jesus Christ - The Savior, The King, The True Shepherd whose Sheep I, Thankfully, am
And whose Returning is Close at Hand!







Friday, September 18, 2015

HAPPY SABBATH + Getting To Wear The Real King's Clothes + Prayer







The Word of God is Sharper
Than any Two-edged Sword
Dividing The Soul and The Spirit
Exposing The Marrow in The Bone!

With such a Weapon at our Disposal
What do we have to Fear?
Preach The Word In and Out of Season
For God's Trees Will Produce and Good Fruit bear!

Satan is The Liar!
His Arsenal includes Doubt, Disbelief and Fear
And if you Give him even Scant Soul Entry
He will set up his Lion's Den there!

The Word of The Lord is Quick and Powerful!
Don't Forget it, and don't from Truth Walk Away!
Let The Master Measure you for a Righteous Garment
As you Believe, Trust and Work while Awaiting 
The Kingdom's New Residents' Dressing-Up Day!


Lord, I Want to Wear Your Garment
That Garment Called Christ's Righteousness
Bless Me, Help Me to Walk As One Holy
Not Craven and Given to High-mindedness!

Help Me to Humble Myself Daily!
Help Me to Honor You and Obey!
Help Me to Deny Self and Presumption!
Give Me Fresh Courage to Walk In Faith and
To be Instant and Constant in Pray!
I Love You, Lord.
AMEN.




God ...! + Prayer: Thank You, Lord



God ... Provides! 
I didn't have to Make a Request!


God ... Gives!
I didn't know that I had "The Need!"

God ... Saves! 
I knew that I was Sinking!

God ... Lives! 
I Breathe! I Breathe!



Thank You, Lord, for The Blessing today!
Thank You, Lord, for Hearing as I Pray!
Thank You, Lord, for Making The Way!
Thank You, Lord ... For Your Mercy!
Amen.