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Devotional – A Look at the Book #140
A Thought for today by Papa “J”
Not all; but many professional and educated
men and women make crime a way of life. They condemn the unborn to death and enact
laws that prevent the elderly their final years of life. These same people will
throw you in jail if you beat your dog. Is this a problem? Ecclesiastes 10:1-2
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Once the local ambulance was called to the
scene of a party where two young girls had wandered into the street and one was
sitting in the street while the other was laying down with her face resting on
the pavement. Both were acting as though they were under the influence of some
substance; but as an EMT you cannot be sure unless they tell you or someone
else affirms it. I asked the one girl who was lying on the pavement to sit up
and she told me that she did not want too because the pavement on her cheek was
nice and warm and that she was cold. We got blankets for her and she was happy
to have them and sat up. I asked her if she had been drinking and she told me
that she had, that her and her friend were invited to a party and that both
were being given drinks by the host. The girls were under age, well below
eighteen years of age. Legally we could not take them to the hospital unless we
had parental consent. So you guessed it, we obtained their parents telephone
numbers with the help of the State Police who also arrested the host of the
party who was a middle-aged man. Why do I tell you this since you may already
be cognizant of this downward spiral of the American way of life? I tell you
because it is not a condition of disease, or some other epidemic of life. It is a spiritual condition of a nation that falls from faith in God. It is the
socialistic system of a nation whose god is their belly (emotional idols) that
infuse evil over good. Yet this system would be the first to say that it
has religion and I would say, yes I do not deny this but this religion is
described in. Psalm 115:1-8
Mark 4:1-41
Sometime it would be nice to study the
parables that Jesus used to explain the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of
Heaven to the saints of God. Mark 4:11-12 – And He said to them, “To you it has
been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are
outside, all things come in parables, so that; Seeing they may see and not
perceive. And hearing they may hear and not understand. Lest they should turn
and their sins be forgiven them.”
The apostle John makes a parallel to Marks
comment in John 12:37-41 as do the other gospel writers and all are agreeing
with the Old Testament Prophet Isaiah who originally records these words in
Isaiah 6:1-13. For me this opens the door to the confirming TRUTH of the Holy
Bible and the parables. “No one buys a lamp and sticks in under a bushel, how
backward is that? Yet there are people who do not pay attention to what they
hear and do not share what they have, thus what they hear and what they have
will be taken away.
This is only one example of “responsibility”
that saints have when it comes to the kingdom of Heaven which is at hand, and
the kingdom of God which is future, but all of the parables teach this; “reward
and responsibility” for all of the living saints. Now there is a difference in
the two kingdoms; yet the kingdoms are expected to respond to God’s will all
the time. “Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your Name. Your kingdom
come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven”. Here as the
LORD trains His disciples to pray, both kingdoms are established as doing the
Will of the Father all of the time.
More tomorrow.
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