Sing To The Father

Sing praises to God and to his name! Sing loud praises to him who rides the clouds. His name is the Lord— rejoice in his presence! Father to the fatherless, defender of widows— this is God, whose dwelling is holy.

Psalm 68:4-5 NLT

Sing to God, sing praises to his name; prepare a way for him who rides on the clouds. His name is the Lord—be glad in his presence! God, who lives in his sacred Temple, cares for orphans and protects widows.

Psalm 68:4-5 GNT

[ A David Psalm ] Up with God! Down with his enemies! Adversaries, run for the hills! Gone like a puff of smoke, like a blob of wax in the fire— one look at God and the wicked vanish. When the righteous see God in action they’ll laugh, they’ll sing, they’ll laugh and sing for joy. Sing hymns to God; all heaven, sing out; clear the way for the coming of Cloud-Rider. Enjoy God, cheer when you see him! Father of orphans, champion of widows, is God in his holy house. God makes homes for the homeless, leads prisoners to freedom, but leaves rebels to rot in hell.

Psalm 68:4-5 MSG

Be glad and sing songs of joy when you come soon God. The wicked disappear at his coming. When the godly see him in action they rejoice in joy and sing praise to him loud and clear for all to hear. He is the father to orphans and the fatherless, protects the widows, provides homes for the homeless and freedom to the prisoners.But leaves the rioters in the dark of hell. He does not atone the violence and ungodly though he shows favor to orphans and the god fearing. Be glad in his presence.

The Lord Is Father To His Children

The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him.

Psalm

As a father is kind to his children, so the Lord is kind to those who honor him.

Psalm 103:13 GNT

God makes everything come out right; he puts victims back on their feet. He showed Moses how he went about his work, opened up his plans to all Israel. God is sheer mercy and grace; not easily angered, he’s rich in love. He doesn’t endlessly nag and scold, nor hold grudges forever. He doesn’t treat us as our sins deserve, nor pay us back in full for our wrongs. As high as heaven is over the earth, so strong is his love to those who fear him. And as far as sunrise is from sunset, he has separated us from our sins. As parents feel for their children, God feels for those who fear him. He knows us inside and out, keeps in mind that we’re made of mud. Men and women don’t live very long; like wildflowers they spring up and blossom, But a storm snuffs them out just as quickly, leaving nothing to show they were here. God’s love, though, is ever and always, eternally present to all who fear him, Making everything right for them and their children as they follow his Covenant ways and remember to do whatever he said.

Psalm 103:13 MSG

God loves all of us as his very own children, as a father to a child it bears Joy unto him and honor to those who live in godly ways and are god fearing. For he created each of us.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.”

Job 10:9-12 The Message (MSG)

8-12 

“You made me like a handcrafted piece of pottery—

    and now are you going to smash me to pieces?

Don’t you remember how beautifully you worked my clay?

    Will you reduce me now to a mud pie?

Oh, that marvel of conception as you stirred together

    semen and ovum—

What a miracle of skin and bone,

    muscle and brain!

You gave me life itself, and incredible love.

    You watched and guarded every breath I took.

Genesis 3:19 The Message (MSG)

17-19 He told the Man:

“Because you listened to your wife

    and ate from the tree

That I commanded you not to eat from,

    ‘Don’t eat from this tree,’

The very ground is cursed because of you;

    getting food from the ground

Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife;

    you’ll be working in pain all your life long.

The ground will sprout thorns and weeds,

    you’ll get your food the hard way,

Planting and tilling and harvesting,

    sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk,

Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried;

you started out as dirt, you’ll end up dirt.”

He doesn’t hold us in ransom for our debts and wrongs of sin we all falter with instead he loves us and gives us lessons to learn and pushes us hard to be better the best we can be. He puts it out very bluntly, honestly, with love and all very loud and clear. God is pure grace and compassion. He does not show anger often for he is peaceful in his mannerisms and still in his guiding spirit. He puts those of torture and tragedies on a pedestal in front of him bringing them out of the darkness they hide in. He has separated us from one thing for the good of ourselves, that is sin. God puts everything where it belongs that he sees fit and makes all right. Since we were still in our mother’s womb he already knew who we were, the plans he had for us he’d hope we’d follow. He knew all about us knowing us inside and out. In an image of him he created us as a father would see his child. He doesn’t treat us as our sins deserve, nor pay us back in full for our wrongs. As high as heaven is over the earth, so strong is his love to those who fear him. God’s love, though, is ever and always, eternally present to all who fear him, Making everything right for them and their children as they follow his Covenant ways and remember to do whatever he said.

“The appeals made to him were blessed by the Spirit of God. His life was spared, and proved the reality of his conversion.”

“As a father pitieth his children. The father pitieth his children that are weak in knowledge, and instructs them; pities them when they are froward, and bears with them; pities them when they are sick, and comforts them; when they are fallen, and helps them up again; when they have offended, and upon their submission, forgives them; when they are wronged, and rights them. Thus “the Lord pitieth them that fear him”

A good parent does not turn his child away or turn his back on then for his wrongs as The father also does not turn you away or shun you for your sins. He stays true to you throughout it all and stand there by your side teaching you and holding you close in love.

As a father is kind to his children, so the Lord is kind to those who honor him.

Psalm 103:13 GNT

Living In The Eyes Of A NonJudgmental God

John 3:16-18 Good News Translation (GNT)

16 For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its savior.18 Those who believe in the Son are not judged; but those who do not believe have already been judged, because they have not believed in God’s only Son.

18 Those who believe in the Son are not judged; but those who do not believe have already been judged, because they have not believed in God’s only Son.

God loved us so much he gave forth his only son by death on the cross for his son to become our savior,the world’s savior. God did not send his son to criticize or judge any of us however those who are skeptical or lost and do not believe have already been judged because they do not believe. God only wants love for us and from us for he is an all loving God. He does not hide his love in public. He will not abandon us, he will not be judgmental or practice judging anyone in anyway. Many of us in the world make conclusions about others even after knowing them. They judge them on several different subjects and issues. Sometimes on ethnicity or humanity. I God’s eyes judging is not acceptable, he will not judge or be hateful towards others. He only wants acceptance and love from us. Leave the justices of wrongful acts and sins come to be in the end before Christ that he decides and declares our fates. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that all who believe in him shall not die but live. Living with him in eternal life.

Being A Parent Of Love

The father of godly children has cause for joy. What a pleasure to have children who are wise.

Proverbs 23:24 NLT

[ Buy Wisdom, Education, Insight ] [ 16 ] Listen with respect to the father who raised you, and when your mother grows old, don’t neglect her. Buy truth—don’t sell it for love or money; buy wisdom, buy education, buy insight. Parents rejoice when their children turn out well; wise children become proud parents. So make your father happy! Make your mother proud!

Proverbs 23:24 MSG

If any of you are parents and have children you know how important it feels to be sure they are raised right and make good impression. You do all you can to raise them smart wise and right. However you also know how hard and frustrating it can also be. You look at your children and pray that they make good choices and listen wisely and come out good kids in the final adjustment. You pray and ask for love, respect and honor. God is the same way, he is our Heavenly Father he takes great pride and joy in is as his children but also gives us space to be raised with our own decisions and choices and live as we feel comfortable. He also is in hope that we will make the right choices big has acceptance for us even if we have done wrong. Being the Heavenly Father he is he becomes proud of his children. However when his children live a godly and prosperous life he has strong feelings and cause for celebration and joy. He finds splendor in his children living godly lives and being wise. Like any parent he also gets disappointed as well. Having a wise child he knows the joy of raising and teaching them right and he wants to show that child off in pleasures. He wants to honor and find pride in his accomplishment. Respect your parents, they may seem like the bully but they are only trying to help you learn from the lessons they have already endured. The are try to also help you learn and teach you as well. They aren’t trying to be a bully. They do it because they love you and want to help you learn. They only want what’s best for you. God is the same way, he wants to see you prosper and succeed and wants you to learn the best from the best and have the best for you.

We ALL Are Citizens Of Heaven

But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior.

Philippians 3:20 NLT

But there’s far more to life for us. We’re citizens of high heaven! We’re waiting the arrival of the Savior, the Master, Jesus Christ, who will transform our earthy bodies into glorious bodies like his own. He’ll make us beautiful and whole with the same powerful skill by which he is putting everything as it should be, under and around him.

Philippians 3:20 MSG

What is a citizen?

cit·i·zen

/ˈsidizən,ˈsidisən/

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noun

1. a legally recognized subject or national of a state or commonwealth, either native or naturalized.”a Polish citizen”

2 synonyms:

3 subject, national, passport holder, native; More

4

• ◦ an inhabitant of a particular town or city.”the citizens of Los Angeles”

◦ synonyms:

◦ inhabitant, resident, native, townsman, townswoman, householder, local; More

We live at the title Citizen in many aspects the most important of these and most honorable one is that we are citizens of heaven.

What is Heaven?

Heaven is often described as a “higher place”, the holiest place, a Paradise, in contrast to hell or the Underworld or the “low places”, and universally or conditionally accessible by earthly beings according to various standards of divinity, goodness, piety, faith, or other virtues or right beliefs or simply the will …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_in_Christianity

Where we reside(live) we are citizens

Jesus resides in heaven our most honorable title of being a residing citizen is in our place in heaven with Jesus in his kingdom. This is what he promised us when he gave his life for all.

So much evil works and bad knowledge is going on in our work right now and making some loose their thoughts, focus and paths; while it is redirecting the focus to Christ in much stronger ways, bringing those people from the lost into the truth.

Many of us have fallen away from the focus of God in being a citizen of heaven and have held steadily to being a citizen of the town,state,country, group whatever it is that we have become a citizen of and pronouncing it as a big importance to who you are. Many of us sometimes even believers and followers of Christ have also forgotten what true citizenship is being a citizen of heaven. You wouldn’t be had God not thought of you, but he did and he gave you a forever place in heaven for you to call your home, thus making you a citizen of heaven.

A lot of what’s going on in the world currently where we of all mankind live was written that these things must happen in the Bible by God long before they ever cam about.

However when it was taught to us a promise was made that Christ would come back once these things took us lace and that he would give us all a place set just for us in heaven this we were promised new life with him and an everlasting eternal life giving us citizenship into heaven. This being the greatest of all.

Many of us who have journeyed to knew heights and realms in new focus from our travel with Christ have refocused on the senses that the way things are these things must play out however evil and hard they are to be a part of by the world and have come to be closer with God in hope of finding that peace he gave us. Seeing the works of the end times when Christ promised his return.

This is where he has given us citizenship to heaven and we eagerly and earnestly await his return to earth and taking us home as our savior. That is when our role of being a citizen will go into full affect. You can only be a citizen of heaven through Jesus.

Our current happenings we see going on around us are bringing some to Jesus while working support stronger into believers of the lost making us eager about awaiting Christ’s return.

Though this is NOT the rapture, what fear and discomfort we feel now and things we have trouble taking in that are upsetting and hard to see will only be so much more times worse when rapture hits so widen your knowledge in his word and his glory and be ready it won’t be mentally settling more than what we are going through now. However it will put into affect our honor of being that citizen of heaven.

What is a savior?

sav·ior

/ˈsāvyər/

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noun

1. a person who saves someone or something (especially a country or cause) from danger, and who is regarded with the veneration of a religious figure.”politicians of the era usually portray themselves as the nation’s saviors”

2 synonyms:

3 rescuer, liberator, deliverer, emancipator; More

4

• ◦ (in Christianity) God or Jesus Christ as the redeemer of sin and saver of souls.noun: Saviour; noun: Savior

◦ synonyms:

◦ Christ, Jesus, Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, the Messiah, Our Lord, the Lamb of God, the Son of God, the Son of Man, the Prince of Peace, the King of Kings, Emmanuel “in the center of the mosaic, the Savior is depicted, attended by two archangels”

“Jesus is our Redeemer. To redeem something is to pay a price to win it back. Slaves were redeemed (or ransomed) when someone paid for them to be set free. Because of the original sin of our first parents, we were slaves. We had lost the right to be children of God and heirs of heaven. Sin and death held us in bondage. Jesus set us free by paying the price of his own blood shed on the cross. Through his obedience and suffering he brought us back to God, to God’s grace and life. We say he made atonement for our sins. In other words, he made us to be “at one” with God again. He repaired our friendship with God. Now we can overcome sin and share divine life eternally with God in heaven. This is the hope of all who call Jesus Savior.

Jesus was able to be Savior because he was fully divine and fully human. As God, he was the only one powerful enough to make up for the offense of the human race. As a human being, he was able to represent us. So Jesus freely took on himself the sins of the world and ransomed us by his sacrifice.

Through faith and baptism we are united with the death and resurrection of Jesus. At each Eucharist we celebrate that Jesus has set us free. During Mass he makes his saving actions present again, and we are able to enter into them. Each year during the seasons of Lent and Easter, we recall and celebrate God’s saving acts.

The cross, once the instrument of torture and death, has become a symbol of God’s love for us. We set it on buildings, display it on walls, and wear it around our necks. We bless ourselves with the sign of the cross.

Someone expressed what Jesus means to us this way: “In Jesus all broken lines unite; in him all scattered sounds are gathered into harmony.”

Who is Jesus Our Saviour?

No question about it. He is Savior. Then in Romans 10:9, Scripture declares that our salvation is secured by our confession that Jesus is Lord: “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”

http://www.johnstoniannews.com/stories/jesus-is-our-savior-but-do-we-treat-him-as-our-lord,193158

JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOR

Taken from Author: Ron Graham

Jesus Our Saviour

—Justification, sanctification, redemption

2 Jesus our Saviour Makes us Right with God

We call Jesus our Saviour because he justifies us. Our “justification” or “righteousness” means being counted by God as righteous, even though we have sinned. This is made possible by virtue of the vicarious suffering which Jesus Christ endured on the cross. The term “vicarious” means “taking the place of another to be a substitute”. God accepts Christ’s punishment instead of ours, and this sets us right with God again.We are “justified” or “made righteous”.

3 Jesus our Saviour Cleanses All Our Darkness

We call Jesus our Saviour because he sanctifies us. Our “sanctification” or “holiness” means being made holy and clean when we were unholy and unclean in God’s sight. But there is only one thing that can cleanse us: “The blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1John 1:7). This statement is made in this context: “God is light and in him there is no darkness at all” (1John 1:5). If there is any darkness in us, we cannot have fellowship with God. Jesus “sanctifies” us and purges all our darkness away so that we are only light. We are “sanctified” or “made holy”.

4 Jesus our Saviour Paid the Price for Our Freedom

We call Jesus our Saviour because he redeems us. Our “redemption” is understood when we look back at our ruined lives all marred by sin. We can see that we no longer belonged to God, but to Satan. We must say with Paul, “I am carnal, sold under sin” (Romans 7:14). The term “carnal” means “of the flesh”. Of course, God did not sell us, we sold ourselves like the people of old who “sold themselves to do evil” (1Kings 21:20, 2Kings 17:17).

If we were not properly regarded as belonging to Satan, why should God have determined to send us into the eternal punishment “prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matthew 25:41)? Why should we share Satan’s destiny if Satan did not own us? And why should God’s Son die on the cross for us? Indeed, we became Satan’s possession when we sinned. God recognises that, and so should we.

If we belonged to Satan, we would be punished with him, unless God provided for our rescue and escape, and unless we accepted that way and reached out to God for it. But God would not steal us from Satan, and if God was to take us back, a price had to be paid.

This was not to satisfy Satan, but to satisfy God. God would not pay evil for evil. God would not pay evil for good. But he would pay good for evil, that evil might be overcome. This payment for our rescue is called “redemption” or “purchase”.

5 He is Our Only Saviour

We conclude our lesson by stating that Jesus our Saviour is our only possible saviour, justifier, sanctifier, and redeemer.

Only Jesus our Saviour was able to rescue us from slavery to sin and from the wrath to come. God saw no other thing but the blood of his only begotten Son, as sufficient price and sacrifice to justify our salvation from sin. Yet God in his goodness so loved us, that he gave us his one and only Son (John 3:16). Therefore the gospel says, “You have been bought with a price” (1Corinthians 6:20, 7:23), and “God purchased the church with his own blood” (Acts 20:28).

The heavenly song praises Jesus, “You purchased for God with your blood men from every nation” (Revelation 5:9). As Jesus our Saviour faced his own death, he spoke of his “blood… shed for many for the remission of sins” (Matthew 26:28). Nobody else could have done that.

The Bible says, “Behold the kindness and the severity of God” (Romans 11:22). God’s severity demands that a price be paid. But God’s kindness pays the price that we could not find. And such a price! The blood of his only Son. Our freedom from slavery has been purchased. We have been “redeemed” by the precious blood of Jesus our Saviour (1Peter 1:18-19).

Jesus the Savior | Reformed Bible Studies & Devotionals at Ligonier.org

Let Jesus gift of our savior come to you also you not exempt from that gift he still wants to

give it to you as your right for becoming and using our citizenship in heaven.

God loves each and everyone and wants to share that relationship with you so let him.In his love there is no separation, segregation or differences he accepts all you just have to ask.

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Holy Gifts For Our Needs

So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him.”

Luke 11:13 NLT

“Don’t bargain with God. Be direct. Ask for what you need. This is not a cat-and-mouse, hide-and-seek game we’re in. If your little boy asks for a serving of fish, do you scare him with a live snake on his plate? If your little girl asks for an egg, do you trick her with a spider? As bad as you are, you wouldn’t think of such a thing—you’re at least decent to your own children. And don’t you think the Father who conceived you in love will give the Holy Spirit when you ask him?”

Luke 11:13 MSG

I know when I was little and I was with my grandfather Jimpa or Mom Mom I knew it was my time to get something for they always spoiled me and loved doing it. Each time I was with them I’d ask can we walk around the corner to the store to get something. There answer was always yes they couldn’t say no and when they did they felt guilty with being heartbroken and always ended up saying yes. So I in turn always got what I asked for with no expectations of me repaying them for that which they were purchasing. God’s love is like that also, he loves you unconditionally and responds to your needs based on how you feel and what it is you ask of him he will always give you. If you can be like my grandparents giving love and the awesome gifts I had thought at the time I was getting or give to your children think how there face glows with thinking that which you gave them was the most amazing thing in this world that they always want to receive and ask for more, if you can do that with a child think than how much more the spirit of Jesus, the Holy Spirit can give that we could receive like those little children who thought it was the most special, spectacular, amazing thing in the world to receive what gifts were asked for. When we ask in abundance for that which we need the father works through the Holy Spirit to be sure we receive better and honors us first. This finds us brining ourselves coming back and back and back like that child for we see that we receive what we’ve asked for. God will always provide to our needs so remember to ask him. His holy gifts mean so much more and show honor in you. He’s willing to provide you just need to be the initiator and ask for all your needs he then will hear you and provide for each and every need.

Being Of One Mind In Christ

1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV

I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

Paul wrote:

I plead with you, brothers and sisters by the name and honor of the king of heaven and Lord Jesus Christ, that you all of you see eye to eye, and that there be no divisions between you, but that be in unity with one another in the same mind of thought and the same judgments.

The way he was taught by Jesus as we also were also taught to speak and live in unity which our brothers and sisters in Christ showing love to everyone. Not choosing one over the other or separating by color, race, religion, community or culture that we will have no separation of differences in any kind as God doesn’t separate and teaches us to love one another in his name. Our community should be around living for God through Christ and in him showing acceptance. Our current culture lives in feeling not of Christ in no separation and unity.

Ephesians 4:4-6 The Message (MSG)

4-6 You were all called to travel on the same road and in the same direction, so stay together, both outwardly and inwardly. You have one Master, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who rules over all, works through all, and is present in all. Everything you are and think and do is permeated with Oneness.

As Paul says the same in 1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 1:10 The Message (MSG)

The Cross: The Irony of God’s Wisdom

10 I have a serious concern to bring up with you, my friends, using the authority of Jesus, our Master. I’ll put it as urgently as I can: You must get along with each other. You must learn to be considerate of one another, cultivating a life in common.

Declaration Of Glory

Psalm 19

For the choir director: A psalm of David.

The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship. Day after day they continue to speak; night after night they make him known.

Psalm 19:1-2 NLT

David wrote this to the people in Psalm 19

The heavenly realms acknowledge the pure glory of God; the kingdoms declare his creations of his hands of workmanship. Day after day giving them free speech; night after night affirming the truths. God Knows all before it is finished or started he knows all before the words are spoken. He accepts all as we are. He teaches us to love and accept one another as he has us. He lets us be free in him in who we want to be confessing our free speech and our views of things also teaching us along the way. He gave his live so that we can give back ours in faith and knowledge of what he died for and what he did. That from him we may learn and teach his lessons. Lessons of faith, love, trust, hope, and glory’s. Only he can teach the true reflection of who he is and was teaching us the fullness of these lessons that we may share them in honor with others.

God Of Peace Not Politics

God Of Peace Not Politics

“Be still, and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world.”

Psalm 46:10 NLT

“Stop fighting,” he says, “and know that I am God, supreme among the nations, supreme over the world.”

Psalm 46:10 GNT

Attention, all! See the marvels of God! He plants flowers and trees all over the earth, Bans war from pole to pole, breaks all the weapons across his knee. “Step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me, your High God, above politics, above everything.”

Psalm 46:10 MSG

Psalm 46:10 New King James Version (NKJV)

10 

Be still, and know that I am God;

I will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted in the earth!

Jesus looks to all and says

“Be still, and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world.” “Stop fighting,” he says, “and know that I am God, supreme among the nations, supreme over the world. “Be still, and know that I am God;

I will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted in the earth!

“Step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me, your High God, above politics, above everything.”

Christ is against violence and does not like gambling and politics for that is against his father and him above. He does not like drunkenness or even the laying of cards. For all this puts the morals and fame towards the entertainment and not honoring toward him. He tells us that he is the only true god that there is no other God you should serve and idol. That includes entertainment lifestyles. He wants us to live a loving godly lifestyle in him sharing him with nations and the world not living by the laws given by man but by that of the laws he alone has given putting him first and full focus above all else. He tells us to stop war and stop fighting and love one another as he does with us. That the honor shall be given to him and all live according to his laws exalted over all else of the earth. His love over war and violence, over money and gambling’s, over politics and debates and to serve in love and only love. “The Lord bless you and keep you …and give you peace,” has been simplified to affirm America the innocent and that God will give us victory in war.”

“Still, there can be religious wars.”

“A religious war is 1. led by clergy. 2. fought by groups defined by religion against other groups also defined by religion.   3. the clergy justifies the war, vilifies the opponent, and absolves guilt for killing.   4. the goals are religious – strengthening or purifying the religious group and driving out or subordinating the other group.   5. martyrdoms. Even using this stringent definition, a religious war could also be an ethnic or a nationalistic war and apply to one side but not the other.”

“With the end of the Cold War, scholars discovered religions emergence as a powerful political force in the contemporary world but it may have been there all along.     Just as there is not easy way to define religion, so there is no regression analysis possible to say when religion is a major cause alone, when it is an important though secondary cause, and when it is a pretext used to facilitate war. History is, after all, not a science. But religion, when utilized by a state, makes war seem moral by legitimating it as just in cause, asserting that killing is ethically justified, and providing consolation to the bereaved.   After all, killing outside of a state or religiously sanctioned war is just murder.”

“The petition in the Lord’s Prayer for “thy kingdom come” is for the reign of God after the final conflagration. At the end of Revelation, a figure dipped in blood – a clear reference to Jesus – will come to “judge and make war.”

“such a war does not negate our responsibility for pacifism – since it is initiated and fought by God and angels against the forces of the antichrist. Many Fundamentalists do not worry about the pestilence, famine, and war accompanying the final battle (even if it is initiated by a nuclear war allegedly prophesied in First Peter), because they will be taken up to heaven in the rapture.   However, modernist or liberal Christians seeking to reconcile the warrior, judge Jesus with their image of a non-violent peaceful Savior have to do a selective exegesis.”

“Jesus did not fight, died a non-resistant, forgave his crucifiers, and advised love of enemy and martyrdom.   He held no political office, rejected worldly power, and offered no explicit political advice beyond paying taxes and the ambiguous “Give unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar and unto God what belongs to God” – though not saying what belongs to each.”

“So far as we can tell, the disciples and early church members did not join the army, either because they were exempt as a sect of Judaism, or as believers in the imminent end of the world, or because they took seriously love of enemy teaching.”

“according to St. Augustine – a man should not pick up the sword for oneself but could to protect a neighbor. Until he obtained true peace in heaven, a Christian soldier had an obligation to support the fragmentary peace of a well-ordered society.   War was analogous to a magistrate’s enforcing civil order by using law to punish a fault.   Expanded and revised, Augustine’s synthesis would become Christian just war theory officially espoused by the Roman Catholic and most Protestant churches until the present.“

“True peace will come only after submission to God and this is accomplished through personal struggle”

“submit to the rule of God, which is the natural law”

“The spread of the faith can be done peacefully or by the sword.   The use of military force is not to convert a person (this submission must be voluntary)”

“Those within the realm of faith are in perpetual conflict with those outside”

We are to live in Godly lifestyle and out of conflict,war, and violence to live in Godly sensible ways and peaceful protest

“do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. …”

For he is a God of peace not politics.

Isaiah 41:10 fear not, for I am with you;
be not dismayed, for I am your God;
I will strengthen you, I will help you,
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

John 18:36 ESV

Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”

John 19:11 ESV

Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”

Isaiah 2:22 ESV

Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?

1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV

I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

Isaiah 1:26 ESV

And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”

Isaiah 30:21 ESV

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

Proverbs 24:11-25 ESV

Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?

Psalm 106:3-4 ESV

Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times! Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people; help me when you save them,

Psalm 31:14-15 ESV

But I trust in you, O Lord; I say, “You are my God.” My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!

Esther 1:13 ESV

Then the king said to the wise men who knew the times (for this was the king’s procedure toward all who were versed in law and judgment,

1 Chronicles 22:18 ESV

“Is not the Lord your God with you? And has he not given you peace on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land is subdued before the Lord and his people.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

2 Samuel 22:3-4 ESV

My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence. I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.

Exodus 21:24-25 ESV

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Acceptance In Christ (The Root Of All Hatred And Indifferences Of Racism)

Remember George Floyd for who he was in Christ then and only than you can learn to love and be in Christ also
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11 In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile,circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized,slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us. Colossians 3:11

Colossians 3:11 The Message (MSG)

9-11 Don’t lie to one another. You’re done with that old life. It’s like a filthy set of ill-fitting clothes you’ve stripped off and put in the fire. Now you’re dressed in a new wardrobe. Every item of your new way of life is custom-made by the Creator, with his label on it. All the old fashions are now obsolete. Words like Jewish and non-Jewish, religious and irreligious, insider and outsider, uncivilized and uncouth, slave and free, mean nothing. From now on everyone is defined by Christ, everyone is included in Christ.

Colossians 3:11 Good News Translation (GNT)

11 As a result, there is no longer any distinction between Gentiles and Jews, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarians, savages, slaves, and free, but Christ is all, Christ is in all.

13.Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.

Colossians 3:13 NLT

So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It’s your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it.

Colossians 3:13 MSG

Ephesians 2:14 New Living Translation (

NLT)

14 For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us.

Ephesians 2:14 Good News Translation (GNT)

14 For Christ himself has brought us peace by making Jews and Gentiles one people. With his own body he broke down the wall that separated them and kept them enemies.

Ephesians 2:14-15 The Message (MSG)

14-15 The Messiah has made things up between us so that we’re now together on this, both non-Jewish outsiders and Jewish insiders. He tore down the wall we used to keep each other at a distance. He repealed the law code that had become so clogged with fine print and footnotes that it hindered more than it helped. Then he started over. Instead of continuing with two groups of people separated by centuries of animosity and suspicion, he created a new kind of human being, a fresh start for everybody.

Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us. (Colossians 3)

Words like Jewish and non-Jewish, religious and irreligious, insider and outsider, uncivilized and uncouth, slave and free, mean nothing. From now on everyone is defined by Christ, everyone is included in Christ. As a result, there is no longer any distinction between Gentiles and Jews, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarians, savages, slaves, and free, but Christ is all, Christ is in all. Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us. With his own body he broke down the wall that separated them and kept them enemies. He tore down the wall we used to keep each other at a distance. He repealed the law code that had become so clogged with fine print and footnotes that it hindered more than it helped. Then he started over. Instead of continuing with two groups of people separated by centuries of animosity and suspicion, he created a new kind of human being, a fresh start for everybody.

So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It’s your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it. God doesn’t define you or anyone by race, color, religion, thoughts, beliefs…etc. if he had he would have never turned over his life for all humanity by death on the cross. He is an all loving God, he has given each one of us the very same life. The only differences lie in the choices we make and the way we walk in our journey of life for we all do not live the same lifestyles, but we were all given the same life. All lives matter to God for he thought of us before himself freeing us from all evil of sin the day he gave his life and actually even before as he accepted Respect and honor to his father and he thought of YOU before telling his father NO and refusing to save any of us. The day of the crucifixion was not only all about him, it was about YOU…US he died to save you and give acceptance to all people as his. To him ALL LIVES MATTER!Acceptance In Christ- The Root Of Hatred And Indifferences of Racism. There is no variety of differences. The differences are I the actions we take in life, the way we act, and the choices we decide to travel. Otherwise we are all one body in Christ, and One Race in Christ. We all have hair, eyes, one soul, one body she’ll we currently live in, and skin though our skin is different shades of color we all bleed and breath the same and were all given salvation in HIS Name. Just as color doesn’t matter to an artist who is using a variety of colors off the color wheels to them it is just all beautiful different tones, same is true for God he sees no colors he sees beauty in his creation of art and masterpiece. So all the discrimination and racism should not be a part of you and your life choices either. Those who see it as differences and fill with hatred have been thought wrong in life and remain in the darkness of a deep wound they suffered from birth. Though you can change that if you come to Christ accepting him as he has already loved and accepted you. Fill yourself with love and acceptance not hate and indifferences. We are all a human color wheel not different in any other way. We all are a part of Jesus walk in his life as he gives us the opportunity to be part in EVERYONE else life. When you look at other in race, color, and indifferences you are not living in a Godly way, you are not seeing through Gods eyes as he wants us too. You need to open your deep dig life into being open minded to accept and learn the truth, the way and the life in God. Fill your soul and hearts with Christ and love and you’ll find yourself living more than an abundance in life and learning how to love and accept for all people. For with Christ ALL LIVES MATTER.

For in life … God so loved THE WORLD… (all in it) He gave his only son. Accept the love like God’s and accept all lives in God. All LIVES MATTER!! Not just yours.

It begins with you, you are and you create the voice of all who need to become accepted and taught in a Godly life. It’s a lesson you learn from when you were a baby and in the ways you are or were taught. ONLY YOU can make a change to change yourself thoughts and lifestyles and actions of choice moving from the darkness of the ungodly to the light and knowledge of Christ and life of the godly. Though by beginning with you you must first begin in acceptance and love for yourself to formally learn to love one another as Christ tells us to do. Christ accepts you. Live and learn through him and step out of your shell of darkness and despair, of evil, hatred and destruction which only tears others down and hurts them. For we are given acceptance in Christ so you can also accept ALL others.

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