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"...and, behold, it was very good"

2/28/2019

I had been going through some of my old posts and decided to re-post this one from August 2015. Thank-you for your patronage.

Gen 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

The world God created is such a strange, wonderful, frightening, dangerous and beautiful place. It is filled with so many dichotomies; left - right, up - down, right - wrong, ad infinitum. Yet God, after creating it stood back, like a artist finishing a sculpture, and said "behold, it was very good".

I asked myself, "why did God create so much polarity, when He is good, and then called it very good?"

Then an answer came to me, I didn't much like it, but it does make sense out of so much that we can not explain. Good 'ol' earth is a training ground for the soul, an obstacle course, which way will he go, what will he choose next.

God gave us free will as an act of His love. We can choose hate instead of love, we can choose danger over safety, good over evil. It would seem that these would be easy distinctions to make except for one little problem - emotions.

My emotions tell me to proposition that cute girl, even though I am married. Wisdom says don't. Which will I choose? I see a man in danger, wisdom says help him, fear says don't, again which will I choose?

Mankind after the fall of Adam made so many bad choices that God decided to destroy nearly all of life on this planet then begin again. But, emotions still ruled the day, we still could not walk away from our animal selves and choose to live in the higher spiritual self and to make the choices that would ultimately bring us back into the will of God which would result in paradise.

God in His wisdom, codified good human behavior in what we now term the Ten Commandments. I am finding that these basic principals can be used anytime I am faced with a difficult choice.

In the first three Commandments, I find this basic principle for decision making; Is God going to be honored?

Then through the rest of the commandments I find the following principals; would my parents be proud or honored? Will this decision harm another human being? Is it sexually moral? Will it take something of value from another person without compensation? Is it honest? and lastly is it Selfish?

The Bible is very practical, I am so grateful I made the one decision I didn't have to; that is to follow God's Christ.

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Who's Da Judge?

2/1/2019

Mat 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Mat 7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Dear Lord, I am so tired of those who are doing wrong using these verse's to belittle us for calling attention to their wrong behavior, Amen.

It would be hilarious if it weren't so sad that those that criticize the Christian world for judging them for their wrong behavior are their own worst judges.

What do I mean?

Well first, theses people have no understanding of the word “Judge” and even worse those of us who are intimidated by this slanderous talk also do not know the meaning of this word.

Secondly, it is known human nature that if I accuse you of judging my behavior then I know deep down that what I am doing IS worthy of judgment.

It is true that Jesus told us not to judge and went on further to state that it is the very standard that we use to judge another that we will be judged, again understanding of the word Judged will clear up a lot of this nonsense. So lets take a look at the word 'Judge'.

The word interpreted as 'Judge' in Greek is:
krinō
kree'-no
Properly to distinguish, that is, decide (mentally or judicially); by implication to try, condemn, punish: - avenge, conclude, condemn, damn, decree, determine, esteem, judge, go to (sue at the) law, ordain, call in question, sentence to, think.
Total KJV occurrences: 114 (Strongs Hebrew and Greek Dictionary)

The English equivalent is:
JUDGE, v.t. To hear and determine a case; to examine and decide.
Chaos shall judge the strife.
1. To try; to examine and pass sentence on.
Take ye him and judge him according to your law.
John 18.
God shall judge the righteous and the wicked. Eccl 3.
2. Rightly to understand and discern.
He that is spiritual, judgeth all things. 1 Cor 2.
3. To censure rashly; to pass severe sentence.
Judge not, that ye be not judged. Mat 7.
4. To esteem; to think; to reckon.
If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord--
Acts 16.
5. To rule or govern.
The Lord shall judge his people. Heb 10.
6. To doom to punishment; to punish.
I will judge thee according to thy ways. Ezek 7.

The LGBT crowd is the one who screams and misquotes this scripture the most. First who is judging them, me or God? As far as I am concerned as long as they are not trying to recruit me and as long as they keep their behavior confined to behind doors, I could care less what they do to themselves.

Their behavior becomes a problem when they demand that I accept and normalize their abnormality as normal human sexuality. Gay parades, Gay or Lesbian characters on public TV, teaching “Tommy Has Two Dad's” to our children as normal, is unacceptable.

Gays often say their behavior is natural and normal, they point to wild animals that sometimes behave as they do, Sadly they fail to see the truth that in the wild those individuals that act homo sexually in their packs or other social groups regularly are shunned at best and killed at worst. Same sex, sexual relations are not normal nor are they natural. Even the deed it's self is witnesses to the fact it is abnormal. Women need strap on dildos or other objects that are not flesh, men use that orifice designed for bodily waste. What is natural about that! Nature judges and declares this is wrong! I am just reporting the obvious, not judging.

But, God declared this behavior wrong in the Law (Leviticus 18:22-25). Also, the Apostle Paul affirms this in the New Testament (Romans 1:24).

So to get back to the word Judge and it's abuse by LGBT's. I have made a judgment for me and that is that I will follow God and His dictates to the best of my ability, that also means that I agree with God in His judgment in what is right and what is wrong. He has declared LGBT behavior as wrong and therefore I agree. No amount of argument or emotional abuse will change my mind. Sixty five miles per hour in an school zone is wrong, am I wrong for reporting someone I see violating that law or asking the offender to stop offending, No I Don't Think So! And, I sure didn't judge 'em.

One of the other scriptures used to shame and emotionally abuse Christians by the LGBT community is'” Joh 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” It is pure foolishness for the world to use this verse to abuse us, because it does not apply to them. What I mean is the commandment is for the church and about the church, as believers we are to love each other as evidence of loving our Christ, Jesus.( see verse 35)

So, the LGBT community is accusing us of passing a judgment on them. Have we?

Perhaps some have, those who have killed or abused them, yes I would have to say that is most likely actions of those who see themselves as a judge and had condemned the accused.
But what about the rest of us who are offended by open homosexual behavior and the political agenda of those who are trying to justify their abnormal behavior?

I can't speak for all of us but for me and those I have talked to, If your a member of the LGBT community, I love you and feel for you, if you do not repent you will be judged by God but not by me. I am sad for you because it is promised you will have health issues (Romans 1:26 - 32) for your judging God as wrong and standing on your pride. I understand you loving your same sex friends, I do mine too, but I do not have to sleep with them and pretend I am married to them.

Here is the bottom line, because I Love You and do not want to see you judged by God, please repent of your behavior before the Law catches you, because when it does, rebellion has it's own reward, absolute Hell!

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What is Faith?

12/6/2018

Joh_14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

Have you ever visited a church where you felt like you had gone to a Circus instead of a Christian Fellowship?

The preacher was stomping and snorting like a Brahma bull, folks were jumping up and shouting, running around the sanctuary, etc, etc. Ya, I felt a bit empty and embarrassed. I suppose there is a place and time for folks to share their excitement for God and what he has done in such a manner, but Sunday morning public worship service, aint it. Even Paul had a few things to say about that kind of public display, "1 Cor_14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order."   I would be willing to say that Jesus is most likely embarrassed by how some believers act in the name of worshiping Him, especially when they go home and yell at the kids, kick the dog and gossip about their neighbor. Granted none of us are perfect and we all wear the title of hypocrite, but when things aren't done decently and in order, .... then Houston we have a problem.

Okay, but this is not what I  want to chat about with you this evening.

What is on my heart is faith.

Faith is always on my heart because I always feel somewhat inadequate here. Jesus told us that if we had the faith of a mustard seed we could move a mountain and nothing would be impossible to us ( Mat 17:20). Perhaps it's my definition of "mountain" that's the problem. I have believed that my mountains are the problems of life, like bills, relationship issues, you know basically issues of life that seem insurmountable at times.

I believe that Jesus can do anything, but will He do it for me, and that's the real rub.

Andrew Wommack often says, " you believe that God will raise the dead for me, but if I ask you to pray for the dead man then it is all of a sudden different." His point is simple we have the belief that God will work through others, but that's where it ends and we believe he will not work through us.

We are afraid that we do not meet God's standard, whatever that is, and most of us have no clue what God's standard is!

We fear that the bad thought, the gossip, that moment of lust and the out burst of anger at a driver on the road, etc, etc disqualify s us from seeing demonstrations of God's Love for people that we pray for and ourselves.

Maybe that sin or character defect  does create a hindrance, but I don't think so! What it does do is give Lucifer an opportunity to undermine your belief in Jesus. You see by you believing in your disqualification you are not believing in Jesus's qualification. You believe in the limit rather than the limitless. You do not believe that; "Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Rom 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

So, now we come to the passage that I began this post with, John 14:12.

Jesus said "He that believes on Him, SHALL"..., not maybe , not if your good enough, but SHALL, "do the works I have done"..., and those are what???; heal the sick, give sight to the blind, cause the lame to walk, casting out demons, raising the dead, no one disagrees that these are the works that Jesus did, right! Jesus even took it a step further and said, "and greater works than these shall he do", meaning you, assuming you met the one criteria he gave, and that is you, " believe on Him."

No where does it say that we have to be good enough to warrant Jesus's attention to our prayers and requests.

Fact is the scriptures say we could never be good enough ( Romans 3:23) and that's why salvation is through belief on the Christ, on Jesus.

So, quit disqualifying yourself, your not good enough now or ever but that does not disqualify you from God's Love or demonstrations of it.

Does that mean we should continue in our old ways? Absolutely not!

What it does mean is that now by Christ power, released after Jesus accession, we can begin to overcome the mountains that have prevented us from experiencing His Love. Those Mountains are pride, fear, selfishness, lust, anger, sloth, gluttony and any other thought or behavior that is not of God.

I wrote the two Ten Commandments books with the above concepts in mind, none of us are good enough to be justified by the law which is why Christ came and justified us through his death, burial and resurrection. He then released the power of God into our lives that we might be able to overcome our mountains that have stood between His Love and us. All we have to do is believe on Jesus, then confess and repent of our mountains which the law will point out.

Our mountains are not barriers to His Love for us, they are the barriers that keep us from accepting His Love.

You Might be asking why I used a picture on this post of Elisha raising the ax head (2 Kings 6: 1 through 7). Elisha was amazing! He, through the power of God, did so much that had to be considered miracles; he helped a widow pay her debts and provide for her future with a single flask of olive oil, (2 Kings 4:1-7). He prophesied the birth of a child to a barren woman, then later resurrected from the dead that same child. He was able to prevent Israels army from being ambushed and prophesied the end of an enemies siege, the death of a scoffer, he healed a leper and more, even his bones after death caused a resurrection of some one else (2 Kings 13: 20 and 21).

Now what is really amazing about Elisha is he did all of this during the Old Covenant, before the Christ released His power ( the Holy Ghost ) upon all who Believe.

Elisha, Knew and Believed his covenant. He did not Doubt the provision of His God. As a result he was able to perform works as great as the Christ and even greater works. so please no more excuses. (and I am talking to me too.)

Yes you can! You can believe! You can overcome! I believe in You and I believe in the Christ in You. Your mountains are but grains of sand to His power and Love and His belief in you, but you must believe on Him, this is the requirement of our Covenant ( Hebrews 8:8 through 13 ) with the King of the Universe!

Again Thank-you to those who have purchased my books. My books are not meant to be a supplement to your study of scripture, but rather an enhancement, a means of sharing what I have learned in the hopes it will benefit your walk with Christ. You may get your copy or copies of my books here: Les's Books. Thank-you and May God Bless you and yours in all you do and say. Amen

Giving Thanks

11/20/2018

"In a few days, here in the United States, we will be celebrating a holiday that is uniquely American, Thanksgiving!

Not only is it uniquely American, it is very Christian. Hear me! NOT UNIQUELY Christen but Very Christian.

If we are to believe tradition, the Pilgrims who had landed in New England in December of 1620 celebrated the first Thanksgiving. They had had a great first harvest, and celebrated that harvest in 1621 with a 3 day harvest feast. These people were refugees from political and religious persecution in England. They were members of the English Separatist Church, a sect of the Puritans, they were seeking a place were they could worship according to their understanding of scripture without the threat of death from the authorities looming over their heads.

As children we are taught that this Harvest Festival was the beginning of our US Holiday. Truth is the holiday wasn't established until 1863 by President Lincoln 263 years later. You can read more about this from Wilstar.com.

I am actual wrong in calling Thanksgiving unique to the US, and I repent. Fact is God ordered the Nation of Israel to have a 'Harvest Celebration' every year, it is called Sukkot and they still celebrate it to this day.( Learn more about it here: www.myjewishlearning.com/article/sukkot-101/) It was celebrated this year beginning October 13th and ended October 20th, could you imagine having Thanksgiving everyday for 7 days in a row! The nation would have to have a 14 day fast to undo the damage!

In the Old Covenant, Sukkot was called the Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of Booths. You can find the commandment for the feast at Leviticus 23:33 through 44.   Many Nations and cultures have over the years harvest celebrations, Thanksgiving to their God or Gods, You may learn about some of the here: www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/top-10/harvest-festivals/ .

I believe the Holiday of Thanksgiving here in the US is VERY Christian for many reasons but one of the first is the first sentence of President Lincoln's proclamation of the Holiday:

"The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God."

Later on in his proclamation President Lincoln proclaimed:

"I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens" (From: www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/thanks.htm)

While Lincoln did not specifically mention Yeshua Ha Maschia, (Jesus the Christ in Hebrew), the language in his proclamation was clearly understood in his time to mean the father of the Messiah and is a Christian and Jewish term.

Okay, lets move on to the point of this article which is giving thanks.

I choose the meme I did for this blog because I/we need to develop a sense of Thanksgiving for every day living. It is truly wonderful that our Nation has established one day a year to bless God with honor for our many blessings. And, those who express worship and thanksgiving every Sunday at church are very commendable, but learning to live life in a state of gratitude to our God for our blessings is the beginning of becoming Christ like, and after all, isn't it our goal to become like Jesus?

Humility begins with understanding the great price of the gift that Jesus gave us through His death, burial and resurrection, that gift being admission into His Kingdom the day we believed He is the risen Christ. The expression of that humility is gratitude.

Honesty begins with admission of our sins and the acceptance of His forgiveness. No longer are we considered celestial criminals, doomed to a eternal punishment for our crimes against God and Man. The expression of that realization is Gratitude.

And, the blessings of living for Christ --- that unbelievable sense of Peace, no matter how messed up life might be by our standards. That inexplicable Joy that only comes from living free of guilt and fear when we rely on Jesus's gift to us.

I sometimes wish I could force my fellows to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior, it is such a wonderful way to live and for that I am eternally Grateful, but force is not Jesus's way, we may use force when confronted with no other choice in protecting life and liberty, but it is not appropriate for conversion.

Gratitude can help to overcome our pride and fear by praising and thanking God in advance for His removing these character defects from us.

Gratitude can quickly pull us out of a bad mood.

Gratitude is one of the greatest tools that the Creator of the Universe, Abba our Father and His Christ, Jesus, through the power of his Holy Spirit has given us to lead a happy and fruitful life.

May God continue His Blessings upon you and yours. May you never forget to give Him Thanksgiving, not just on this holiday, or just Sunday but everyday. Amen

I am thank-full to those who have bought my books this year and while I appreciate the money, it is my prayer that you have benefited from the book you bought. It is my heart that my words will help you to find greater fulfillment in you walk with our Savior. If you have not bought one of my books yet you can get them here : Books By Leslie R Auger

Why did they hate a man who Blessed them?

8/5/2018

Num_24:10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.
Num 24:12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,
Num 24:13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?

Have you ever run across passages that made no sense to you in the scripture? The story of Balaam has been one of those for me. You see, there are three references to Balaam in the New Testament and all are very derogatory, take for example this one from 2nd Peter 2:15; Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;.

In the Story in Numbers we find a soothsayer by yhe name of Balaam, who after his king had tried to hire him to curse the people of God he refused to do so. Not once, but twice from his home and four times in the field, and actually blessing the people of God whom his King wanted cursed because his King wanted to war with Israel and knew he could not win with out a supernatural advantage.

In the story I found one very confusing part and that is when, after God had told Balaam he could go, God sends an angel to stand in the trail and attempt to stop Balaam. Why that almost makes it seem as if God is a bit schizoid. Go and a few hours later don't go, make up your mind will ya God!

Then I discovered something I hadn't seen before - God was trying to get Balaam to see and confess to his motives for wanting to go and do the Kings bidding. Balaam said all the right things, Balaam did what God told him to do but in Balaams heart he was still coveting all that gold that Balak had promised him.

I honestly believe that part of the reason Balaam had gotten so mad at his donkey when his donkey was trying to avoid the angel was that Balaam was deep in thought trying to figure out how he could obey both God and his King Balak so he could receive the bounty but not incur the wrath of God. If we are honest with ourselves how many times have we found our self in the same boat, trying to please both God and man.

It Doesn't work, you can not please both God and man. Seriously folks is it going to take a talking ass for you to see that pleasing God must come first or are you going to be as stubborn as Balaam. You see the story does not end well for Balaam;

Jos 13:22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.

You see Moses had gone to war with Sihon and the Princess of Midean and utterly destroyed those kingdoms which included Balak's kingdom.

But before I leave this topic Balaam had indeed figured out a way to please both God and man (at least he thought so) he devised a plan that he most likely sold to Balak to get God to curse Israel and to a point it worked.
See it was Balaam's idea to have the young women of Midean t0 morally corrupt the young men of Isreal:

Num 31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

In Numbers 25: 1-18 we learn that Balaams plan cost Isreal 24000 people. FB Meyers commentary says ,"Unable to curse Israel directly, Balaam suggested to Balak the device of destroying the union between Israel and their divine Protector by enticing them into sin. Once bring license and passion into play, and let the seductions of evil prevail, and surely the holiness of God would compel Him to withdraw His protection! This was a diabolical suggestion to gain his wage."

In the end Balaam failed, Phinehas stopped the plague by spearing and killing an Israelite man having sex with a Midianite woman which brought an end to Balaam's plan.

Now I can plainly see why the Jews hated this man. He talked out of both sides of his mouth. He obeyed God in the matter concerning cursing Israel directly but he devised a plan for Balak that would cause God to cause plague among Gods people and had it been allowed to continue would have caused God to turn His back on the Israelis all because Balaam "...loved the wages of unrighteousness"

The question of the day then is do I love the wages of sin or do I Love my God?

Self examination is an ongoing principle that helps us to identify areas of our life were we may be throwing up roadblocks to relationship with God. This as well as my own profit motive is why I wrote "The Ten Commandments a Guide To Holiness". Please consider purchasing a copy I know it will help you in your walk with the Lord to grow closer to Him. You may purchase it here; Les's Books on Amazon

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The little monster.... Pride.

3/14/2018

1 John 1:8 – “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”

The above passage is so true about so many things. Of course all of those things qualify as sin, take pride for example.

Pride is such a henious sin. It takes so many forms. Few people realy try to search it out and eliminate it from their life. Pride says, "I am the best or the worst at ...........". Pride doesnt care about others and their feelings, pride is always right. Pride is the worst sin in the humman condition and cauaes more war both in a personal and in an international sense, as well as any other sense in between.

There is a healthy kind of pride. Its that good feeling one gets when another praises you for a job well done. Or the awesome feelings you experience when your group is awarded for their exceptional work. I realy think we need another word for this kind of pride since it is so easily confused with the sin of pride

CS Lewis reminds us that the real difference is when a person finds it in himself to compete not because he can but because he must, he must be the richest on the block and if anyone else becomes even one cent richer he will die to become a thousand times richer, not because he needs the wealth but because he needs the title.

While that kind of pride is easy to spot, false humility is not as easy. Pride as expesed in false humility says I am the worst, most dispicable, humman on the planet. It may even be a true statement, but it is not humble.

I have heard humility as being "right sized". A truly humble person knows his or her talents and limitations and is not concerned with being right, or the best, or the worst, but just being "the best me I can be, and thats all right".

As CS Lewis says you would not neccisairly recognize a truly humble person until after the encounter. They are the people who are truly enjoying life, they do not judge you for not thinking like them, they are peacful, not much riels them. You will enjoy their company and not even know why.

I hope someday I may be like this, it is what I desire but never seem to be able to reach.

I apoligize to anyone who may be waiting for the release of my next book. I have not made it available yet as I am still editing it. I am shooting for the end of this month.

Thank you and may the God of Abraham, Jacob, Isreal and me bless and keep you in and through His Christ, Jesus of Nazareth. Amen

Gone to Press!!

2/8/2018

Hi All, finally after nearly two years in the writing, "Saint Thomas's Guide To Faith" , has gone to press! The book manuscript has been reviewed and meets my printers technical requirements. Next stage is to review the proof and if it's all alright I will approve it and it will be available for sale. Looks like that Date has been pushed out to the first week of March.

In celebration of this major step being achieved here is another snippit from the book.

"Abraham is called the father of faith, why do you think that is?Could it be that when God told him, “Pack your bags – your moving and I'll tell you where, when we get there”, Abram packed and moved 1?

Abram was 75 years old and even though Jehovah was know, he was not the God of Abrams family or town, the moon god was.2

God had given a promise to Abram 3 when He gave the command and to his credit Abram believed God, even though at 75 years old the fulfillment of that promise was unlikely.

Abram leaned on that promise even though God had not made it clear how Abram, at his age would have a child to inherit the land God was taking him to. Abrams human impatience led him into acting on that belief before it's time had been fulfilled and resulted in two instances some would say was a lapse of faith, but I do not see it that way because he was acting on what he believed.4

Abrams faith at 99 years old earned him a name change to Abraham which means “the father of many nations”. Now just how could this old man and his wife be the parents of many nations? None-the-less, Abraham believed and after his circumcision (a requirement of his Covenant with God) he and Sarah conceived the child Issac5 Abraham acted on what he believed, that is faith!

During the next week I want you to read and meditate on Hebrews 10, verse 19 through the end of the Book. This will be your assignment through the rest of this class, Not only do I want you to meditate on it but I want you pray the following prayer or something like it:

Dear Heavenly Father, I come before you in your royal court knowing that as a believer in your precious son and the finished work of the cross I can come before you not just as a plaintiff in a court case but as your child. And, as your child I know that you will grant in love any request of mine that will not hurt myself or others. My request is that I see and repent of any unbelief that I may have that is blocking me from receiving your grace and your wisdom in all I do and say. Grant me the wisdom required to understand and apply your words concerning the faith you have granted me."

1Genesis 12: 1-4
2T”he moon god was the tutelary deity of the city of Ur”
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdeities/nannasuen/
3 Genesis 12:2
4Genesis 15:2 -6 and 16:1 through 4
5Genesis 17:1 through 18:21

What is Sin

2/3/2018

Hi all I decided to repost this blog as I was going through some of my old post and just felt that someone may benifit from this post dated in 2013. Thank-you for reading and please check out my books at : LES'S BOOKS

The photograph in today's blog was taken just this past weekend by a family member in San Francisco, Ca. Also, I had a very unfortunate conversation with several friends regarding homosexuality. I say unfortunate because one of those friends was a fellow believer who was in fact sinning as much as those who practice homosexuality. These experiences have gotten me thinking about the ministry of Jesus and how we should in fact strive to follow Him and His example. It also brought me back to a very basic question; just what is Sin?

"In the begging...", we find sin was nothing more than mans disobeying his creator, his Father. As time progressed that one sin led to more "types" of disobedience, murder, sexual sins, stealing, contempt for parents, lying, and desiring with passion the possessions of others. This "sin" hurt the Father so much it was decided to bring an end to all of creation here on earth with the exception of one family. That family was the family of Noah

After the flood God realized that the family he had saved still possessed the root of sin in their hearts. Soon the Father and His Love was once again forgotten and disobedience was the rule of the day. Then came Moses.

Moses was God's hope for restoring all of mankind to the kind of paradise He had originally designed us for. Some call that paradise Nirvana, some call it heaven, others call it the Kingdom of God. The price of admission; obedience to His Laws.

God in His great Love saw that man of his own free will could never meet the price of admission to his Kingdom. He then decided to change the price of admission. No longer would God hold the leaders of the people responsible for the people's disobedience, individual responsibility would become the rule. No longer would He create a single political nation as a shinning example for all of mankind to follow. He HIMSELF would bear the punishment for His creations failures, their sin.

So He made Himself go through the process of becoming a man, living as a man, and dying as a criminal even though He never had a single thought or desire to commit a crime against God or man. He, God paid our price of admission into His Kingdom.

Sin is simply disobedience to the rules of God's Kingdom.

All kingdoms must have rules; laws. God's Kingdom is no exception. Those rules were spelled out in the form of the Ten Commandments.

Laws spell out what is acceptable behavior for the individual so that the Kingdom as a whole can function and provide safety and security for those individuals. God's laws with the 10th commandment went a step further and described an attitude; "you shall not covet". In other words, I don't want you to act this way nor do I want you to think or feel this way.

Paul, in his letter to the Roman church, said he as a Jew had no problem with the first 9 Commandments of the Law but the tenth, that was a whole different ball game. What he meant was under the old covenant, even as pious as Paul was, He could not qualify to enter God's Kingdom.

Jesus's life, death and resurrection changed all of that.

Now we have new laws; believe in Jesus as God's Messiah, repent from your former rebelion, be baptized in Jesus and recive the Holly Spirit. Then Love God with all your heart and soul, and your neighbor as yourself, wich is the essence of the Ten commandments. If you follow these rules then you will enter into God's Kingdom not just in death but in the here and now.

God's new covenant with man was promised in Jeremiah 31, fulfiled through Jesus and restated twice in the letter to the Hebrews.

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