Matt 7:9
'Is there a man among you who will offer his son a stone when he asks for bread, or a snake when he asks for fish? If you, then, bad as you are, know how to give your children what is good for them, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him!
'Always treat others as you would like them to treat you: that is the Law and the prophets.'
Well, we complain of this world being a dark place but where is our light. The light that should shine from our faces and follow our actions. The prophecies have been fulfilled and the Word has come down. Where is the light of happiness among us?
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Sermon of the Mount (28)
Matt 7:7
'Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks receives, he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.'
This is the key to God's justice. For how could He hold us to account if we did not have a way of finding Him, of finding the secrets of the spiritual worlds, and of being confirmed in the necessity of a righteous life. We must ask Him and then we must look with focused attention and intellect. If we truly take this process seriously then the answer will be quick and without the possibility of denial.
What is this world that holds us in its grasp? What is its purpose and what is our purpose? We each have a destiny in this mystery called life. How tragic if we waste it in chasing material pleasures?
'Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks receives, he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.'
This is the key to God's justice. For how could He hold us to account if we did not have a way of finding Him, of finding the secrets of the spiritual worlds, and of being confirmed in the necessity of a righteous life. We must ask Him and then we must look with focused attention and intellect. If we truly take this process seriously then the answer will be quick and without the possibility of denial.
What is this world that holds us in its grasp? What is its purpose and what is our purpose? We each have a destiny in this mystery called life. How tragic if we waste it in chasing material pleasures?
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Sermon of the Mount (27)
Matt 7:6 'Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls to the pigs: they will only trample on them, and turn and tear you to pieces.'
My feeling on this has to do with the wonderful understanding that the early disciples had of Jesus. Of His spiritual majesty and His all conquering nature. There is much that can be said of God and the disciples understood God, through their understanding of Christ. This they reflected in their faces and their actions. But to their enemies, those that would look for any excuse to persecute them, they must be wise and act modest and calm.
My feeling on this has to do with the wonderful understanding that the early disciples had of Jesus. Of His spiritual majesty and His all conquering nature. There is much that can be said of God and the disciples understood God, through their understanding of Christ. This they reflected in their faces and their actions. But to their enemies, those that would look for any excuse to persecute them, they must be wise and act modest and calm.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Sermon on the Mount (26)
Matthew 7
1 'Pass no judgement, and you will not be judged. For as you judge others, so you will yourselves be judged, and whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye, with never a thought for the great plank in your own? Or how can you say to your brother, "Let me take the speck out of your eye", when all the time there is that plank in your own? You hypocrite! First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's.'
This is an instruction to the Jews, the Christians and to the future Muslims because Muhammad had declared Christ a Messenger like Himself. It would seem that after two thousand years of practice, we should not see any criticizing of another. But what do we see?
The practice must have been half-hearted or forgotten and now we suffer the results. In our hearts we need to have control over our thoughts. This, in some camps, is called meditation and personal responsibility.
1 'Pass no judgement, and you will not be judged. For as you judge others, so you will yourselves be judged, and whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye, with never a thought for the great plank in your own? Or how can you say to your brother, "Let me take the speck out of your eye", when all the time there is that plank in your own? You hypocrite! First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's.'
This is an instruction to the Jews, the Christians and to the future Muslims because Muhammad had declared Christ a Messenger like Himself. It would seem that after two thousand years of practice, we should not see any criticizing of another. But what do we see?
The practice must have been half-hearted or forgotten and now we suffer the results. In our hearts we need to have control over our thoughts. This, in some camps, is called meditation and personal responsibility.
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