Posted on 01/08/2012 11:06:06 AM PST by jesus4life
To all,
GOD BLESS US ALL!! We are the clay and can never tell the potter ( GOD) what to do. But we can always request through prayer. May we HIS holy name in and through all things. Judge no one to finality but hold believers accountable of the gospel we serve. Some on this earth are born to be examples of HIS power. Be careful of what you assume.
Please pray the LORD's PRAYER and please read:
2 His disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should have been born blind?'
3 'Neither he nor his parents sinned,' Jesus answered, 'he was born blind so that the works of God might be revealed in him.
4 'As long as day lasts we must carry out the work of the one who sent me; the night will soon be here when no one can work.
5 As long as I am in the world I am the light of the world.'
PRAISE JESUS!
Jesus4life
Today, our pastor gave a sermon on the 10 commandments and also 1 Cor 2: 12-13.
He spent quite a bit of time on the commandment about coveting. Occupy Wall Street came immediately to mind.
What they are doing is a huge sin.
GBY! ‘Pod
Amen : )
"As under cover of departing day
Slunk hunger-stricken Ramadan away,
I found myself within the Potter's house
Surrounded by the shapes of clay,Shapes of all sorts and sizes, short and tall,
That stood along the floor and by the wall,
And some loquatious vessels were, and some
Listened, perhaps, but never talked at all."
Could this quote be compared to Romans 13:1? That is to say, was Barack Obama born the way he is and allowed to assume the Presidency so that God might be revealed in him? Should we also take your request to not judge as an admonition to those posters who decry the President? After all, doesn't God work in mysterious ways?
Jeremiah 18:2: Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
Jeremiah 18:3: Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
Jeremiah 18:4: And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Jeremiah 18:5: Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Jeremiah 18:7: At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
If we carefully STUDY Scripture, we clearly see that the house of Israel is the clay and God is the potter - Jeremiah 18:6...Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
15 For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION."
16 So then it {does} not {depend} on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH."
18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.
19 You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?"
20 On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it?
21 Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?
22 What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?
23 And {He did so} to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,
AMEN!
But, now, in the spiritual eye, who is the House of Israel?
Just like who is a Jew, who is a Christian, who is a hebrew, and more...
PRAISE JESUS!
Jesus4life
Fix the title please
Jeremiah 30:7: Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Galatians 6:15: For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Galatians 6:16: And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
Galatians 6:15...peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God...the Israel of God is the Israel of the Old Testament: JEWS! This is NOT the Christian Church today. Anyone who pre-thinks that Israel is the Christian Church today is incorrectly understanding the Bible. Consider this clear teaching on the setting aside of Israel today:
Romans 11:25: For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Romans 11:26: And so all Israel shall [future tense] be saved: as it is written, There shall come [future tense] out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
Romans 11:28: As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
These verses clearly point out that Israel has blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in...If this is true, and it is, then for the fullness of Gentiles be come in, then Gentiles cannot concurrently be called Israel!
Secondly, the future tense shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, this is a very critical future tense statement, the Deliverer is ONLY for Israel, the Deliverer is a title for Messiah to delivery Israel out of the Gentile power, the role of Deliverer is only for Israel. The Deliverer shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob - Jacob is Israel, not Gentile Christian believers!. Today, Christ Jesus is a Redeemer for both Jew and Gentiles, and is not fulfilling Biblical prophecy as a Deliverer to Gentiles, but only as a Redeemer to both Jew and Gentile today.
AMEN! My brother. That’s good.
With a physical eye this is very correct.
Again, I ask you to look with only your spiritual eye. Then, I ask you with the spiritual eye that what is a JEW, a believer, and a gentile once all in faith in GOD?
PRAISE JESUS,
Jesus4life
Sauropd and ALL,
AMEN to your pastor doing a sermon on the commandments! AMEN!!
As far as the Wall Street comment. Its funny. In the spirit, definitely re-think that statement.
Evil only grows from those that support it, have done it, and are not courageous enough to change it within their own lives. It starts with each person’s personal triumph through faith over their own evils.
JESUS says, “ many believe but are afraid!!”.
What do we all think HE means?
Funny that GOD had me erase a very long reply to that comment you made. Told me to make it a post. Later. So, I will wait for the time to do that.
But everyone answer that question to yourselves at home or here. Your choice. No pressure either way.
LOVE TO ALL in the HOLY PRECIOUS NAME OF JESUS,
PRAISE JESUS with eyes on the FATHER always,
Jesus4life
:)
PRAISE JESUS!
Jesus4life
In the house where the POTTER plays.
Shaping clay and molding it in HIS ways.
Giving special care to each creation,
for its specific purpose in each nation.
Weaknesses sometimes overcome it’s purposes.
Triumphs sometimes buffs up it’s pride.
A dent shows it’s fragility.
Then it cries for the POTTER’s guide.
PRAISE JESUS!
Jesus4life
In the Spiritual reckoning thinking - God the Holy Spirit, demonstrates that the spiritual perspective is that Christians are believer-saints, and the House of Israel is Jewish people who have rejected their Messiah; and that Jews as a nation, as a House of Israel, has been suspended until God returns Christ Jesus to wrath upon the House of Israel - Jacob's Trouble - which is a future event yet to happen.
The spiritual eye indicates that for the past 2,000 years the Jews have rejected Messiah and Christ Jesus, and having rejected Messiah/Christ they do not belong to the invisible spiritual Church, the Body of Christ, but remain outside of the grace of God. Spiritual Israel is NOT the Church today. Israel is always Israel, never spiritual Body of Christ. In the future shall come out of Sion the Deliverer for Israel to save them as a nation eventually. But spiritually reckoning, Israel is spiritual Israel is dead in their sins, until the fullness of the Gentiles come in. However, today, salvation is made available to any individual whether Jew or Gentile.
Therefore, in conclusion:
Spiritual reckoning - A Jewish person can be saved individually, but not as within a nation as national Israel.
Spiritual reckoning - A Gentile person, everyone who is not Jewish, can be saved individually, but not as within a nation. A Gentile is not Israel!
Spiritual reckoning - A believer is a saved individual by the faith of Christ and grace of God and is NOT ISRAEL, but a member inside the spiritual invisible Body of Christ, the Church, which Christ as the head over the Church.
Spiritual reckoning - There is NO spiritual Israel today. Period. God is correct, man is wrong who thinks that a spiritual Israel exists today.
AMEN. Perfectly explained. Thank you!
Jeremiah 18:3: Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
Jeremiah 18:4: And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Jeremiah 18:5: Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
STUDY Scripture carefully, we clearly see that the house of Israel is the CLAY and God is the POTTER - Jeremiah 18:6...Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Bibletruth,
AMEN!
Look closely at these last lines you sent.
What do they actually mean to you?:
Jeremiah 18:5: Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Jeremiah 18:6: O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD.
Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
PRAISE JESUS!
Jesus4life
as you like. It is what it is.
PRAISE JESUS!
Jesus4life
AMEN!! LOL!! Whether you are playing or not. GOD has me always look at things in the spirit.
Where one person is weak, another is strong. Which makes us equal in that concept.
So, in comprehension (which is a talent), everyone is different. But, it depends on how they were raised, their environment, how it was taught to them, and their talent in an area.
So, for those people that might take you seriously, GOD has
has me answer in the spirit.
Let’s remember:
Saul became Paul = hater/murderer of Christians became a disciple, some call an apostle, and some call a saint even. WOW!
I can do many more examples of why we should not judge, because we do not know what GOD has in store. But, in the spirit, GOD allows me to see that Saul/Paul is the best example for this.
Who we should judge first is ourselves, as GOD is an individual GOD and we are held accountable for our own sins.
Many judge other people without even changing first themselves.
This is very strange.
If a person is not changing, that means that they are still part of a sinful act or thing that is being done on this earth. THey actually still perpetuate it. Whether they have to touch, taste, watch, or feel to do that act; the act still goes on.
Even when they stop the act, do they have enough courage to find the people that may still be fooled by the sinful act and tell them to stop??
When they tell them to stop do they tell them they we were wrong first to do that act that now that person is repeating? Rare so far in my life time have I seen people have that much love. Extremely rare. Only can say that I have seen 2 people in my life. And I travel for a living.
Usually its people getting out of a situation and then preaching to others like they never did it.
Or people getting out of a situation after a certain amount of years and then expecting people to get out of the next day.
Or it’s people doing something sinful and judging someone who is doing a different sinful act they would never do and telling them they should stop. Having that person looking at that person saying to themselves, “ Who are you? Arent you still doing that other evil thing ( whatever it is).”.
In the spirit, all the pointing of judgment is very strange.
All sin leads to more and more sin. There is no level. We learn this from Adam and Eve. Once we sin, we do not know how far the next person can take that sin. We all just need to do our best to stop.
But many love the judgment seat. It gives people that reason to play GOD. I fully understand it and did it at one point in my life ( many many years ago in my teens).
GOD stopped many years ago doing that, and just uses me now to guide people through the spirit. Uses me to hold my brothers and sisters accountable in the spirit, and just always show the love that CHRIST would want me to show. This will make some changes when all believers do this. This is the WORD of GOD.
We were all raised by the Pharisees ( evil people or people who serve evil ways knowingly or not).
Jesus, prophets, and more of GOD’s followers came to show us how we were raised this way and to get away. But this can only come through repentance, confession ( to GOD and others we hurt), forgiveness, faith, love, prayer, and fasting.
The process is scary for many, that’s why the WORD says that many believe and are afraid:
Read below;
ACTS 8:3
3 Saul then began doing great harm to the church; he went from house to house arresting both men and women and sending them to prison.
ACTS 9:1-26
1 Meanwhile Saul was still breathing threats to slaughter the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest
2 and asked for letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, that would authorise him to arrest and take to Jerusalem any followers of the Way, men or women, that he might find.
3 It happened that while he was travelling to Damascus and approaching the city, suddenly a light from heaven shone all round him.
4 He fell to the ground, and then he heard a voice saying, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
5 ‘Who are you, Lord?’ he asked, and the answer came, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
6 Get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you are to do.’
7 The men travelling with Saul stood there speechless, for though they heard the voice they could see no one.
8 Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing at all, and they had to lead him into Damascus by the hand.
9 For three days he was without his sight and took neither food nor drink.
10 There was a disciple in Damascus called Ananias, and he had a vision in which the Lord said to him, ‘Ananias!’ When he replied, ‘Here I am, Lord,’
11 the Lord said, ‘Get up and go to Straight Street and ask at the house of Judas for someone called Saul, who comes from Tarsus. At this moment he is praying,
12 and has seen a man called Ananias coming in and laying hands on him to give him back his sight.’
13 But in response, Ananias said, ‘Lord, I have heard from many people about this man and all the harm he has been doing to your holy people in Jerusalem.
14 He has come here with a warrant from the chief priests to arrest everybody who invokes your name.’
15 The Lord replied, ‘Go, for this man is my chosen instrument to bring my name before gentiles and kings and before the people of Israel;
16 I myself will show him how much he must suffer for my name.’
17 Then Ananias went. He entered the house, and laid his hands on Saul and said, ‘Brother Saul, I have been sent by the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on your way here, so that you may recover your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.’
18 It was as though scales fell away from his eyes and immediately he was able to see again. So he got up and was baptised,
19 and after taking some food he regained his strength. After he had spent only a few days with the disciples in Damascus,
20 he began preaching in the synagogues, ‘Jesus is the Son of God.’
21 All his hearers were amazed, and said, ‘Surely, this is the man who did such damage in Jerusalem to the people who invoke this name, and who came here for the sole purpose of arresting them to have them tried by the chief priests?’
22 Saul’s power increased steadily, and he was able to throw the Jewish colony at Damascus into complete confusion by the way he demonstrated that Jesus was the Christ.
23 Some time passed, and the Jews worked out a plot to kill him,
24 but news of it reached Saul. They were keeping watch at the gates day and night in order to kill him,
25 but the disciples took him by night and let him down from the wall, lowering him in a basket.
26 When he got to Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him: they could not believe he was really a disciple.
MATTHEW 7:1-5
1 ‘Do not judge, and you will not be judged;
2 because the judgements you give are the judgements you will get, and the standard you use will be the standard used for you.
3 Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never notice the great log in your own?
4 And how dare you say to your brother, “Let me take that splinter out of your eye,” when, look, there is a great log in your own?
5 Hypocrite! Take the log out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take the splinter out of your brother’s eye.
JOHN 12:44-45
44 Jesus declared publicly: Whoever believes in me believes not in me but in the one who sent me,
45 and whoever sees me, sees the one who sent me.
JOHN 12:42-43
42 And yet there were many who did believe in him, even among the leading men, but they did not admit it, because of the Pharisees and for fear of being banned from the synagogue:
43 they put human glory before God’s glory.
If we truly look at how this world is set up. From children, we are given many temptation and told many sins to purposely commit, or we wont survive on this earth.
Once we commit them, there are punishments for them given by man. It all boils down to money, glory, and fame that man wants.
In the Spirit some of us see it.
In the Spirit some of us pray against it.
In the Spirit some of us live HIS WORD and this easily beats it.
CHRIST fought for us.
When we confess HIS holy name and live HIS WORD, HE fights through us.
That’s enough fight right there.
I pray all understand.
PRAISE JESUS with eyes always on the FATHER, and ears constantly pitched to the HOLY SPIRIT,
Jesus4life
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