Neighbor Posted May 2 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 962 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,734 Content Per Day: 5.04 Reputation: 9,121 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted May 2 Hi all , Needing a little comic relief from the pomposity of views on this subject and that including my own, I gained relief this morning in the form of the parody song by Willie Nelson. Secular though it may be, I find it profoundly funny in that it points out who the enemy is; or as Pogo said in the Sunday comics of old "I have found the enemy and it is me". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RdJ Posted May 2 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,227 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 704 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/11/2015 Status: Offline Birthday: 05/25/1970 Share Posted May 2 Love this song. We have a Dutch version and only a few years ago I saw that he just stole it. The original is even better. My mom often sang it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farouk Posted May 2 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 6,670 Content Per Day: 12.17 Reputation: 3,401 Days Won: 31 Joined: 11/18/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted May 2 2 hours ago, RdJ said: Love this song. We have a Dutch version and only a few years ago I saw that he just stole it. The original is even better. My mom often sang it. I always think that the passage about the Lord Jesus humbling Himself and becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross (Philippians 2) puts the subject into excellent perspective. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdHoc Posted May 2 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 4 Topic Count: 10 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3,072 Content Per Day: 3.29 Reputation: 1,468 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/29/2021 Status: Offline Share Posted May 2 7 hours ago, Neighbor said: Hi all , Needing a little comic relief from the pomposity of views on this subject and that including my own I once asked a dog why he barks. He barked at me. I wondered why he couldn't just be human for once. And so it is with the unregenerate man. He has a nature that can be disciplined for a short while, but he reverts to the Adamic nature in a few seconds. We can't change, just as the dog cannot. But God can. The trouble with God's chosen People Israel, was that God knew their condition but they didn't. So they had to find out. Thus we read in Deuteronomy 8:- 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live I like Willy Nelson, but the human needs quite some cooperation from God to beat Pride. By himself .... well ... that dog is still a dog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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