Sunday, July 14, 2013

I am toying with doing a long series on the book One Perfect life by John Mac.  It is a book on the life of Jesus and the gospels are in one readable format.  It is a long book but I really want to do a group study on this book and stidy Jesus Life for a few years.  Here trailer
http://www.christianbook.com/perfect-life-complete-story-lord-jesus/john-macarthur/9781401676322/pd/676322

I thi nk we all ought to read this book as it is the bible put into a format where Jesus life is done so well.  I am not sure how we will do it but keep reading and we ought to because this is our life as when we took Jesus as our Lord this is now our life as he has given his life for ours in exchange.  Is that not what life is all about to know Jesus.

I want to lump the dirtest part of the chapter in which I am working on in our last few studies.  I want to get out of it so we can move on.  This I think is God talking to his people on old and I think it is a metaphor of us as lost people.  I see in the passage how they are depraved people. 

Here is the way I see it and maybe we can talk this out.  Depraved mean you are going to sin and sin is so bad it makes you unable to go to Jesus for forgiveness.  It takes a act of God to break you to a place where you are going to even seek the Lord.  So the Lord has to seek you and it is my thinking that Jesus does seek the lost.  Now here is the thing,  I go to a Billy Graham crusade and I am given the truth of the Gospel.  Jesus will forgive me if I ask him to and turn from sin.  And Jack hears the same sermon.  Y is it I go forward and Jack rejects it?  Some think Jack on his own free will rejects it AND I go forward and embrace Jesus out of free will. 

I and many think that there is a act of God to plant the want into my heart and not in Jacks.  Jack has not been worked on and is not able to go forward and I am worked on bJesus to the point of the Spirit to ask for Jesus.  I did not come to Jesus then 6 months later dump him like other fads?  SO what kept me and it was not me.  Yes in me human life might have inspired me but the truth that I got out of home where I had to go to church and then I found a church and kept going.  I hated church as a lad.  But deep down I liked it but I think I used it to draw attention and shock.  I know that I had to go when the twins were in the world series and I wanted to watch my twins.  That one I did not care to go to church.  If the Vikings were playing I did hurry the service and tend to not go to late service.  I do not mind now missing kick off but I got dvr.  Anyhow tell pastors 11 45 is the end becaue kick is at noon.  I bet some preacher make u miss kick cause they want you to take Jesus as more important (but the nfl could hold the kick to 12 30 so we can see it?)

I go off but the point is for some Jesus saved and others they do not care?  Why

Here is the text

35‘Now then, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord! 36Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them, 37surely, therefore, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. 38And I will judge you as women who break wedlock or shed blood are judged; I will bring blood upon you in fury and jealousy. 39I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your shrines and break down your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
40“They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords. 41They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will make you cease playing the harlot, and you shall no longer hire lovers. 42So I will lay to rest My fury toward you, and My jealousy shall depart from you. I will be quiet, and be angry no more. 43Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but £agitated Me with all these things, surely I will also recompense your deeds on your own head,” says the Lord GOD. “And you shall not commit lewdness in addition to all your abominations.
44“Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter!’ 45You are your mother’s daughter, loathing husband and children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
46“Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and her daughters. 47You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.
48“As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done. 49Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as £I saw fit.
51“Samaria did not commit half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all the abominations which you have done. 52You who judged your sisters, bear your own shame also, because the sins which you committed were more abominable than theirs; they are more righteous than you. Yes, be disgraced also, and bear your own shame, because you justified your sisters.
53“When I bring back their captives, the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and the captives of Samaria and her daughters, then I will also bring back the captives of your captivity among them, 54that you may bear your own shame and be disgraced by all that you did when you comforted them. 55When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters return to their former state, then you and your daughters will return to your former state. 56For your sister Sodom was not a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride, 57before your wickedness was uncovered. It was like the time of the reproach of the daughters of £Syria and all those around her, and of the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you everywhere. 58You have paid for your lewdness and your abominations,” says the Lord. 59For thus says the Lord GOD: “I will deal with you as you have done, who despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

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