In thinking about how I got there, it's a easy trap to fall into. I have pretty much felt, that no matter what I had to say, regardless of topic. Regardless of how right I was, because it came from me, it didn't mean that much because it didn't come from someone smarter. So yeah, when people started chasing me down, or calling me on the phone with a bible related question, it made me feel good. I was finally starting to be heard. And I suppose that it went to my head.
With this recent set back, I've come to see God in a different way.
This italic section is the next day, and I have went back and started to reread this as the unpublished draft that it was. The Spirit is pushing me to include something, that I really wanted to leave out. It's not some new Revelation, I just didn't wish to include it. I suppose because it's not just me who does this. For all of our Bible knowledge, and understanding of the word, and the desire to help other's do we understand it to the point of understanding what is being commuicated? Do we understand that that same knowledge that we desire for other's to have, applies to our self as well? After I stopped writing Last night, I picked up my Bible and started reading about King Solomon in 1 Kings 10. It starts before that, that's just where I started.
And when the queen of Sheba
heard of the fame of Solomon
concerning the LORD, she came to
prove him with hard questions
1 kings 10:1
As you can see in the above verse, I underlined a word. Why did she go see Solomon? She heard of his fame. Fame of what? It wasn't the fame of the massive wealth he had accumulated. No. The fame she went to see was the "fame concerning the LORD"
When you think of pride as the bible talks about it, do you have a verse that automatically comes to mind? The verse that comes up first is:
Pride goeth before destruction, and
a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:18
What type of people do you think of from the Bible? For me, I think of the Pharisees. They were prideful, even to the point of saying,
This felloew does Cast out devils by
Beelzebub the Prince of devils when
he healed aman possessed with
the devil, blind and dumb.
Matthew 12:22-24
The verses that was referenced is a summary of how verses 22-24 is written, not how they are written. Refer to your Bible for exact writing.
This level of pride is what is known as Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit as seen in
Matthew 12: 31.
I would suggest that if you read it from your Bible, to read all of the in between verse as well. It is in those verses where Jesus speaks of a kingdom divided.
I not going to go to much futher with this, but one verse has been on my heart I will include it along with the verse above it, just gives it a little more clarity.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying
in heaven, Now is come salvation,
and strength, and the
Kingdom of Our God,
and the power of HIS Christ:
for the accuser of our brethren
is cast down;
which accused them before
our God day and night.
11 And the overcame him by the
blood of the Lamb; and by the
word of their testimony;
and they loved not their lives
unto death.
Revelation 12:10-11
I underlined what stayed in my head and on my heart, but now I'm seeing more in verse 10. What has come?
Four thing that I can see.
1. Salvation
2. Strength
3. the kingdom of our God
4. The power of His Christ
Why do we need Salvation? To not be weighed down by the burden of sin, and the lies that we are fed. Many of us know that something isn't right we just don't know what it is, and we are not to blame, because this is what we was born into. That's all we know. That is until our spiritual eye's are opened, and we see that we have been lied to, and that there is a better way.
You see, we can be born twice. The first birth, we have no control over. We have no say as to how we are born. We don't get a choice of which family we are born into. That's all God. But, unlike the first birth, we are the one's who make the choice to be "born again. The second (spiritual) birth. We are the one who makes the choice of rather we want to take part of it or not. Jesus describes it like this:
5 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except
a man be born of
water AND OF THE SPIRIT, he
cannot enter into
the Kingdom of God.
6. That which is born of flesh is flesh;
and the which is born of
the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:5-6
Again, we see this pesky word, "and" which signifies, at least 2 things must be present in order to be true.
We have the water (fleshly) birth, that we have no say in. Then we have the Spirital birth, which we are the only one that gets to make that decision. God does draw us, but we are the one's that either except or reject the offer.
Another way of putting it is, as long as you only have the birth of the flesh as your guide, don't expect spiritual things to happen. Those thing are for those who have accepted to be born AGAIN (spiritual).
Since I'm editing, I'll add that God accepts us just as we are. So we don't have to "clean up are act" to come to God. Having said that, he doesn't want you to stay the way you are, and you don't have to do it yourself. Give Jesus the wheel, step back, and let Him make you into the person you were meant to be.
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