D. Adrien

Amen brother! He solved many of my issues!

Experiencing Christ can solve a great many problems.

Perhaps it has more to do with what John Strickland conveys in his piece concerning Marxist dogma. (JS is a Eastern Orthodox priest that has a doctorate in Russian history.) Keep in mind that the handlers of the current President are not patriots of the U.S. An excerpt: ( I bolded the pertinent paragraph and provided the previous paragraphs for some background.) Marx is known to many historians for advancing socialism from an “idealistic” ideology to a “scientific” one. With him, socialism moved from mere hopes about progress for the working class to one of scientific laws about it. This, certainly, is what the father of Communism claimed himself. Marx pored over empirical data about the economy in London’s British Museum Reading Room. Using his research, he erected a grand theory of economics and history that declared, in a language similar to Darwin’s, that natural laws not only govern human behavior but determine its outcome. Science, he claimed, proves that the future belongs to the industrial working class. At the core of this theory was the Darwinian principle of natural selection. Marx wanted to dedicate his magnum opus, Das Kapital, to the great contemporary biologist. He agreed completely that individual members of a given species are locked in a relentless “struggle for existence” with one another, and that destruction and death pave the way of evolutionary progress. For Marx, though, social evolution depends on individuals of a given class organizing together to struggle against and annihilate their enemy class. As a result of industrialization, the two great class enemies were currently the proletariat and the capitalistic bourgeoise. Progress would come, Marx promised, when the former class overthrew and replaced the latter class in what he called the “proletarian revolution.” To reach this turning point in history, however, very bad things had to continue to befall the working class. Marx introduced a principle of progress he called “immiseration.” According to it, the working class, in order to become sufficiently class-conscious and capable of the violence needed for the proletarian revolution, must, in the simplest terms, become ever more miserable. Conversely, if it experiences improvements through political reforms or economic prosperity, it will fail to play its “scientifically” assigned role in history. Edit: the article can be read here: https://johnstrickland.org/2023/11/30/the-paradox-of-marxist-anthropology-or-more-bad-news-for-mrs-gumdrop/

Psalm 26: 4-5 (ESV) I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites. I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.

Psalm 39 (ESV) I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.” I was mute and silent; I held my peace to no avail, and my distress grew worse. My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue: “O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothinga they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather! “And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you. Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the scorn of the fool! I am mute; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it. Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand. When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah “Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers. Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!”

Be happy you awoke with the Eternal on your mind!

Procrastination is a call to inaction! Rise up now! If it was worth putting off yesterday, it certainly is worth postponing today! The value of procrastination hasn't been devalued in one day. Procrastination isn't as bad as the word sounds. My past led me to predestination for procrastination.

Being lazy is safer than being a jerk. 2Kings 2:23-24 (ESV) (Elisha) He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

Yes, a play off the statement, " You may not be looking for war but war is looking for you." Thus, you may not be seeking affliction but affliction is seeking you. Sometimes it comes through others who are influenced by their perception of Christianity. Spiritual wickedness influences the non-believers and susceptible believers to react negatively to righteousness seen in Christians because it is a testimony against the evil thoughts and behaviors found in all of us. There is something really annoying about a goody two shoes.

Looking forward to after the crucifixion, remembering the command at the last supper, it wouldn't make any sense for a non believer to participate in the taking of the bread and wine which symbolizes the Lord's sacrifice to cleanse us of sin. A memorial to what He suffered for the deadly corruption of sin in humankind, He being our final Passover.

AdHoc, always enjoy reading your posts. :)

All foreigners that were willing to obey the law and the Prophets were also accepted into the nation of Israel. Deut. 31:12-13 (NKJV) Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, 13and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.” Edit: Also Ex. 12: 48-49 If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.”

How I like to think about a new body is acknowledging first and foremost that the old body will die and with it the law of sin and death that did indeed slay my flesh with my cooperation. 1Cor 15:53-57 (ESV) For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Psa. 27:4 (ESV) One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire c in his temple. c 4 Or meditate

As a depressed teenager Ecclesiastes had great appeal! I didn't realize 'til years later that Ecclesiastes was written by someone depressed and sorrowful about how he had lived his life. All that wisdom and still deceived by glittery trinkets of the world.

Exactly. All theology and knowledge of doctrine needs to take a back seat to being a doer of the word. Live the teachings of Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit within.

I can't get into specifics but in my recent past - less than two years - there was an attempt of extortion against my wife and I, blackmail of a family member who has since died, but the Almighty delivered my wife and myself from these people and any of the circumstances dealing with the situation. There was also a retired police investigator involved in encouraging the hostile element. God almighty delivered with strength and authority!

I would also add chapters 6 and 7. Mat. 5:17 shows clearly that Jesus magnifies the law and doesn't do away with it. Expounds upon the ten commandments. Where there is no law, there is no sin.

Thank you guys for your input. I do like to speculate and bounce some thoughts off of others.

Rev. 2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’ Sure seems to me that it is a privilege to be able to eat from the tree of life. Is it just a one time meal for eternity or does it have to be eaten from periodically?

Ever wonder if you'll have to keep partaking of the tree of life to maintain eternal life? Lets say someone decides to rebel like Lucifer did, God just denies the rebel access to the tree of life and the rebel perishes.

Those that are invited to the marriage feast will also become a member of the Bride of Christ and thus becoming a member of the God family which will change the trinitarian image of God. Does this make sense?

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The Hare, I'd like to hear your interpretation of Deuteronomy 28 and does it tie in with your post?

Yes, I believe this is what her short video was referencing. In the video an Oregon farmer explained that with the new regulations only large corporate farms will be able to afford the requirements of the law thus forcing small family farms to fold. A variety of various sized insects are on the menu in our future, along with lab produced "meats".