Shadmans thoughts

I am sitting here seeing the Truman show. I wonder if I am being watched on a cable network somewhere. You the reader are watching me on my thoughts on this page. I wonder if they matter. I think you matter so you got to email me and tell you’re out there. I am getting to talk to old friends at length this birthday week and that is always a good thing. I am hoping many of you surprise me and come to Mexican village on Friday night and say hi. I am hoping for a fun night. I am going to the bats game on Monday and doing the check thing on tues and wed. I am going to see a fun missionary this month so I got to save some money out for them.

I got to see firsthand the truth that the church I go to is not really caring about mission as I wish it would. I ought to talk because I am not as into it as I need be. I am talking on email to one in the field and it is fun. In church today Paul Minter spoke on how he is in a land that needs the bible. Friend’s they are under many things in the world. Lets just say they are under things as a family that are hard and still they fight on and spread the word and translate the bible so a new land can know the Lord Jesus. It comes to a point I think I am into and that is that if a man does not hear the name of Jesus he cannot be saved. It is a scary thing to know folks in other lands are depending on the Church to reach them and they have one of the missionaries speak and nobody cares. It is important to care and be a part of the body and make things happen for them. We do not sit and get the story as a church it might mean the church is not really doing the Job that needs to be done. Its like the Minters are our own and the owners of the church do not come get the stories. Missions are the biggest Job we do as a church and is the call we have. Yet the body did not come and hear the things. One reason I go to the church is the missions and if they are not going to do the job then we need to rethink the whole thing. I get many letters on missions and I try hard to pray for them because that is the best thing I am able to do to help them. I need to give more as I make more. I read missions things on Masters Blog site and I want to pray for them better. I think of Brad and Kelly that go to grace and hear they do not have cash. I need to pray for the workers of the harvest
We need to care about the lost. We need to be serious about missions and support churches that care about missions. We need to be in church every time it is open and paying tithes and offerings. We need to preach lesions about sin and preach hard so folks change and stop sinning. We need to stop entertain youth and put them in bible classes that teach them holiness. We need to get hymns in churches and not simple songs that do not have hard things in them. We need to support and reach the lost because the time is late and the Lord is coming soon. We need to stop singing rock music and start learning how to sing and proper music. Lets put a organ back in and sing hymns. Ok I am rambling

Here is tonights text and thoughts I have on it

Gal 3 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?— 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?
If you read me last time I really did not hit on a phase and that is Receive the Spirit. How does one get to the point of receiving the Spirit? We get the Spirit the time that we find and ask the Lord into our lives. It is part of the package. Jesus and the Spirit come at the same time. It is not a second time where you start speaking in touges and talking gibberish. I am not into the gifts and I am not sure that one can get the gifts in this time. Paul is talking in the passage about getting the gift of Jesus. You did not get them earning them. People are living to earn something that is free.

5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” 9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.[1]

Paul looks at the life of Abraham. Did Abraham somehow earn his way to the Lord? He did not. He believed God and it was enough for God to give him righteousness. It is faith that is a gift to get the gift of salvation. Faith knows God is there and living for him. It is not doing a work and earning the salvation or heaven. God in a way gave the Good news to Abe and it has not changed one bit. Abe did what the Lord asked in going to kill his son and God spared the son and gave him a sacrifice, Just like Jesus died for our sins and took our place. God Justified Abe and he Justified is in the blood of Jesus so that we can be right with Jesus and get into heaven.
Note that only the sons of Abe are covered. If you are in Jesus you are a son. If you are trying to earn the trip to heaven your not going to make it so ask Jesus to save you and get right with Jesus.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

I got some food tonight and I got a hair cut. I gave my tape out to the barber hoping it will make him think about things. I told you last time about the series John Macarthur is going to do in the fall about the catholic faith. He has done so many good bible teachings and much of what I write on my blog is about Macarthur and is a part of his teaching. I have tons of his tapes and books and I get a ton of learning with John Macarthur. I have tons of teaching and if you need some just ask and I am willing to send some bible tapes your way.

Here is tonight bible lesion

The people Paul wrote this letter to and many folks tonight reading this have fallen into a faith that depends on the work they do to be able to go to heaven. For the Mormons they have made a system that said they have to do certain things to earn a trip to the kingdom of God. They have to do all they can to measure up to salvation and at the end of life is when they find out if they get into heaven. For the Christian salvation is a act that already has been granted and now the Christian knows the life he lives is going to continue in heaven and the price has been paid on Jesus cross. Jesus died for us and as we learned last time we in Jesus died and have Jesus living in us so we never are again having to pay for heaven.

Catholics see it the a bit diffently. If you want to go to heaven you have to go into their church and have no mortal sin. If you have them then you might go to purgatory and work it out while folks pay and pray you out of this hell. If you are not in their system you are not into the right way. If you do the right things you reduce your time in purgatory and you might be made a saint. In the system Gods grace empowers you to do the right thing to earn you way to heaven. Also they never want you to think you freely get salvation but you earn it. They got so much law in that religion that it is going to take tons to work it out and I want to do that later.
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?— 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?

Tonight’s text is attacking both the views that I am looking at. Paul wants the people to know that any kind of works based salvation is not ever right. He is angry with the people that are teaching false things about heaven and not happy they are going back to Jewish times and making them become Jews and then salvation is theirs. Sounds like the Mormons and the Catholics all over again. You did not get the spirit and Jesus by works then and you wont get them now. It is faith and that is a free gift that you go to heaven. If the Jesus saves you do you keep it in the flesh? I need to make a point here too the Second baptism folks, at the time you are saved you get the spirit and not after it. Filling takes place when you are saved and not after it. I do not take a second dose and start the gift mode I got it the night I got saved. If you are saved you already have all you ever need to walk in power. Filling of the spirit is an ongoing thing as you confess your sins and are growing more in love with Jesus. It is like you discover more of Jesus the longer you grow in him. If you keep faithful you are going to grow as you obey his word and you obey as you walk in him. I have not used the z or q key in my blog so I just did.

Ok here is the bottom line on this. Many old timers of the church died for preaching salvation is grace alone and we need to take it for them. Folks Paul calls it foolish to take it into your own hands and be saved. Jesus did it for you and all you do is take the gift.

I am going to go after the non Christian Catholics and Oh I am going to nail them. I have a new tape John Macarthur did about them and the pope. It is a talk and here are some things he said. He stated that the catholic are not in the faith that we are in. We are Christians because of our stand that we can know we are saved by grace alone and not of works. All the Catholics think you have to earn your ticket to heaven and that is because of the Pope. They make the mother of Jesus a God and she is not close. Mary is the God of them and that makes them a religion that is different from the Christian faith. I found this link that ought to study by every calolic in the land and they ought to share it with all the pastors and priests. Friends the truth is the bible is the final word and they do not read it and if they do then the church they go to do not like it. In the catholic system the bible is taught along with the catechism and the priest go by the Pope that sets the teaching for the whole church. I urge you to read this link and make some comments on it so we are able to talk this out and find a solution to this and not keep fighting. If you want a tape of the sermon tell me in the comments to and we can work it out. I am asking for a small fee to ship them.
http://rds.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=john+macarthur+the+pope/v=2/SID=e/TID=i022_48/l=WS1/R=3/IPC=us/SHE=0/H=0/;_ylt=Ar.Z4EqR16CowtoE3uxwaypXNyoA/SIG=11q5p5bbg/EXP=1122696577/*-http%3A//www.ondoctrine.com/2mac0095.htm

I found out tonight that Marine Sgt. Bryan James Opskar classmate of mine died in the war that we are fighting in Iraq. I remember Brain as a good man that I had many classes with and a hockey player that Jack knew. I was told that the shuttle had blown up in 7th grade class by. He always was laid back and good to hang out with. Also he was in my confirmation class at church. Brains dad was a teacher at the high school I went to and his mom was a sectary in the system. I will remember the time I saw him at a game in the late 90s when he told me he play hockey for the juniors. Marine Sgt. Bryan James Opskar I thank you for paying for me so I could be free in this land.

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17 “But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not! 18 For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God.

I have have been talking a lot on this blog about the fact that you are not able to do anything to be saved except obey the Lord Jesus and accept his paid fine for the debt of mankind. Is Jesus a minister of sin? Was Jesus sinning when he fellowshipped with Gentiles. No Jesus wanted to reach out to the Gentiles and give them the good news of his death and forgiveness. We are dead to the law and we are alive for Jesus.



20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”[1]

I am no longer alive in the flesh but I am alive in the Lord. I am dead and no longer have to work to earn my standing with Jesus but I am already perfect in the Lord. I no longer have to live in the flesh but I am powered in me to live for Jesus and though Jesus. My life is now in Jesus as he has died for me. He lives in me and I am in him so I am able to serve him in the power given by Jesus and the Lords help. SO I am not going to trust in the old laws but I am going to trust in the Lord Jesus who has filled the Laws out so I am able to love and live for him.
Paul and I do not void Grace that Jesus gave but we live in the grace of God and follow in that knowing that is the reason we live. Righteousness is a gift from Jesus as he gave his life and comes in grace and we respond to that grace in living a life that is right but we do not and cannot live a righteous life without Jesus living it in us.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

I am a fan of movies and going to the movies and talking about them. I am not like some Baptists that think the movies are evil or sinful. I think this on the movies I see I want to see movies that Jesus would go to. I am not certain I always go to the best movies. I know you cannot go to a show that promotes a Christian worldview. If that makes me a person that allows people to stumble I am fine because it is not a sin to go to a movie and go out and hang out. I also am a Baptist and I am ok with Christian music with a beat yet I think it ought not be in church and worship. SO I am not a good Baptist and maybe not a good Christian but I am a lover of the Lord Jesus and I seek to know his life and grace all I am able to.

14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews? 15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

I worked a bit on part of this passage last time but it needs more thought and I am going to give it. Last time I did some on the faith plus works thing and I did not think over the first part of this passage. Paul in 14 nails Peter for the fact that he is not teaching the Gospel right. Peter is saying that one has to become a Jew and then a Christian. It is not right to say. But looking at the life and the faith of him it is not too much to say it was like Peter t o fail the Lord. Peter failed the Lord many times in his walk and we do to. It is neat to see the Lord not giving up on him and forgiving his sins. Jesus forgives us when we fail and corrects us to.

Note also that Paul made it a public rebuke of Peter. If people sin and it is needed we also are to set them aside and rebuke them and try to make them repent. If they are out of fellowship then they can know what they did was not right and they repent and they can come and get back into fellowship. In the church we need to make people fear the sin they do and rebuke them so they are on the righteous road and not getting away with it. Sin needs to be dealt with in the church today and it is not.

I want to talk about a term tonight that is vital to this passage and the book and that is Justification. It means to me Just as though I had not sinned. I might of talked about it some in the past but I am going to nail it and work out the definition so we are on the same page. It means the Lords satisfied in the death of Jesus for all my sins. I broke the laws of the God and before God I stand guilty and I am in need of payment of my sins to be able to know God. Based on my sins I belong in hell. Jesus had to come and live a perfect life and then take his soul and die in place of me so I am able to go to heaven. It is terms that if you do not understand this you fail in your biblical knowledge. Jesus came to die as a perfect man to pay your sins off so you could go to heaven and have life. Jesus could pay for all the sins of all the people ever because he was perfect and his life had the value of every sin of all time. Jesus died and paid for all the sin debt owed to God. However it is a person that has to accept this payment on his behalf. One does not get the payment without faith in Jesus and putting his entire heaven into the Lords hands. One is never able to pay the debt of sin because God demands a life that never sinned not even one time. If he did then all the world would go to hell forever and no one would go to heaven. It is the death of Jesus alone that forgives sin and justifies man and nothing else ever including works or deeds determined the Heaven for anyone.
Shadman

I am only going to get 9 hours next week. It is a blessing because I am not going to be able to boast but I am going to have to trust in the provisions of the Lord. I am glad the Lord is going to test me and my faithfulness to his call. I know I am not as faithful but the Lord is going to pull me though and he is going to get all the glory. I got to hang out last night with my pal Peter and we talked on how we need to stop the terror and I think we need to ban the Islamic from being in the land. Ok It is a hard thing to do but if we are going to win the war we are in we got to do this.

I want to take a look at tonight’s lesion.

Gal 2 1111 Now when Peter had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed; 12 for before certain men came from James, he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
Some in the church today are not getting the truth. Many are trying to get to heaven on their our and not by the way the Lord has given them to go. I know of friends that tell me the way to heaven is a way that one must work to go to. They even say that if you want to grow in the Lord you have to be perfect and obey the Law and not follow in the grace of the Lord. Peter in the book of acts was a man that had to be taught that Grace is the new way and folks cannot go to God via works. The Roman Catholic Church has set up a system where man has to earn their way in to heaven. Here in this book Paul is telling us that are not true. The reformers went to this book and told the truth and lost lives because of it. I want you to know one thing on this page I do not teach good works to be saved and being a good person earns you favor with Jesus. Paul went after peter because Peter did not see Paul as a true man of God. Paul was saved by grace and peter said that was not true. Peter still thought you had to do Jewish things and the Gentiles were not going to be saved because they did not go for total grace.
Peter also did not think all the Christians were righteous before the Lord. Friend if your in Jesus you are just as loved as I am in Jesus and you are going to be just as saved as all. There is no run in the body to make any one of Gods Kids less then what he is. If you’re a Christian you are special and Jesus made you one as he did me. If you go to a church I think is not the best you are still a Christian. Let me take a trail here and talk about unity in the body of Jesus. I might not unite in some ways with Christians that teach things that are not in the word. I do not unite in the work of the Roman catholic, a faith that I cannot trust in because they are not teaching the Bible and many other things. I seek them, as they need to be saved. I am not in unity when I go to a church that practices Speaking in the Spirit because I think that is not for this time. I think that stopped in the time of the writing of the bible. I do however thing many are saved in that belief but I am not going to share in things I do not think are bible based. I am not going to PK in St Paul because they do unite folks that are not to be united and they drop things out of good solid teaching that ought be. If the teaching of the AOG is going to change on salvation and they were to drop the touges and some of the lifting of hands and do good bible teaching I am ok but they do not. I think many are teaching false things Like one can fall out of salvation and I am not going to unite with them if they cannot get that right.


14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews? 15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

Look at 16. It might be the big thing I am going to just camp on. We are saved in grace and that is all the work of God and thus no work ever saves. If I give all my cash away and have no faith I go to Hell. If I save 5000 life’s and Jesus I go to hell. I urge you to check your salvation and be sure

Well it is another day to be alive on this wonderful earth the Lord has made. I am not going to take time tonight on my study of Gal. But I am going to take a couple of verses and maybe talk on a topic. I went to a home going service of a person that went to Grace here in Sartell. Pastor talked about how we are sad but we are going to be in a place where we are going to be united with people we love that knew the Lord Jesus. I have been reading on the master’s college web ring about a death of 2 people Bethany and the kid of Mr. Varner. If you will I want to address a question of heaven and that is are we going to know our friends there? I think we are going to know every single person there and fellowship all of forever with them. I am going to get to know Noah and Moses and all the people in the Bible. We are all going to be there and all will be known. I am going to sing with great singers and dance with David. I am going to see Paul, Peter and all the folks that knew the Lord Jesus. I want to meet Cassie who died for loving Jesus in Co. I am going to meet people that came to this land to love Jesus and I am going to see Jesus face to face. It is going to be awesome. I am going to meet Bethany and I am going to know all of you in the Lord. Heaven is the best thing to think on and dwell on. It is going to be awesome to be in a place where I am not going to be able to sin; I am looking forward to that most. I will be able to know the Lord perfectly and worship Jesus is the truest love. I am going to know the bible perfectly and each moment Jesus will reveal one more thing about God that we can savor. Jesus is going to be the greatest thing to know there and we will see our faith become sight. I am going to see folks I miss and I hope Mom is there. Grandpa Jack is there and so is Lee and Curt and Mark aune.
Pray for the team from the area going to share Jesus in the East Asia area. I read the letters they sent tonight and it sounds like they are getting a chance to share there and it is so good. I want to go somewhere like that and share Jesus with the folks that never knew the Lord. It is a great thing to win souls and to see people lives taken over in the Love of Jesus. Later Shadman

Hi everybody. I went to a funeral today and rested the rest of the day. It was a boring time in the Shadman house. Another bomb went off in London today. It is a sickening world is it not. A Muslim said today that they are against London and they are at war with them. Friend this is the reason we need to fight them and get them to come to Jesus. If we do not it is going to happen here and that scares people. In Los angles when I was there not one ounce of law checked you on the trains. I think it is high time we get our job done and win the other people to our faith in Jesus. It is not ok that Muslims even one is using their Koran to say it ik to nail and kill people. I am not backing down and saying they are a good religion first and foremost they so not honor Jesus and second they kill. Muslims are wrong in all ways and they ought to be out of this land because they threaten the lives of people. If one kills they all go that is what needs to happen. I am not in favor of them and their faith also because it is a faith that wants to rule nations and create governments in the name of Islam. Terror is wrong and the folks ought be out of the land. A few ruin it for all. But they threaten this great land I want them out and to go back to their lands where they belong. We as a land must never allow the killers into this place if we want to have freedom. Muslims do not want freedom they want to kill and the truth is the truth. Tonights text.
EX 20 13 “You shall not murder.[1]
Any questions???

Lets look at this Bible passage.

Gal 2 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and also took Titus with me. 2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means I might run, or had run, in vain. 3 Yet not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. 4 And this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealth to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage), 5 to whom we did not yield submission even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
I am not preaching easy bible passages in this time. Paul is still talking about why he is to be trusted as a bible teacher, Paul s trip to Jerusalem was to go to the event in Acts 15 where they outlines the true Gospel and the false one. I did not read that text, but as you know this book is written to tell the people that thought you had to keep the law to be saved were not right. Salvation is a Grace thing and you never can keep the laws and be saved. Paul went to Jerusalem and proved to the rest of the church that the Good news was really Jesus alone and not some other rules. It was a false gospel the people were thinking was right. Paul and titus did not want to fall into a trap the devil was putting and that was a trap not to fully go into their faith with Jesus alone. Many people today are in the trap that you got to earn Salvation and that is not true. Jesus alone gave it. Paul is not going to give into the lies the devil plant to the folks. He is going to live the truth. edPa


6 But from those who seemed to be something—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God shows personal favoritism to no man—for those who seemed to be something added nothing to me. 7 But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter 8 (for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles),
I need to comment and say many take this out of text and use it to make the bible say what it does not. God Love gives no favoritism. He is going to treat all the saved the same. Paul used this phase to say the gospel is the same no matter who taught it. If he did or if Peter did the gospel is the Gospel. I want to put another translation here that makes a little clearer the passage.
(niv) 7On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles,[a] just as Peter had been to the Jews
So peter preached to the Jew and Paul preached to the gentile. I recognize that is a big different but I think the point is still the Gospel is the Gospel. I stand on this translation of this verse from the 5 min of research.



9 and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. 10 They desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.[2]


In closing I am not sure I would of cut chapters where they are cut. I think Paul is trying to show why he is to be trusted.
Shadman
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
[2]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and remained with him fifteen days. 19 But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord’s brother. 20 (Now concerning the things which I write to you, indeed, before God, I do not lie.)
21 Afterward I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. 22 And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea which were in Christ. 23 But they were hearing only, “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith which he once tried to destroy.” 24 And they glorified God in me.
I am not to sure if this is going to be the best thing I write on this text. If you know me I want to apply the word as much as I can. God has put this in the bible so I shall do what I am able to make sense of it. Here I might be taking this a little hard but this is what I think is going on. Paul goes up to meet Peter and get to know him. I am not sure why but it might be to get Peter to know he is the real deal. He also sees James the brother of the Lord. James the apostle might be dead at this time that knows. I think Paul is still working to get this letter so people know what he is going to teach is the truth as he said he is not lying. Paul is going to tear up things this church has been teaching do he wants to tell them that he is right. Have you ever met a non-saved man and then hear that he took Jesus and got saved. I have Dan who was my caseworker. It was a blessing to know that he got into the Lord. I think this is what the church in the bible lands was going though. Paul had hated Jesus and wanted to kill the people of faith. He thought he was doing right and then Jesus saved him. So back in the places where Paul was a jerk they only heard that Jesus indeed saved him. It is a good thing to think that there is no one that Jesus cannot save and no one that Jesus did not want to save. It goes to say one never knows when Jesus is going to save you. Take me for example. Jesus has been working on me all my life and some may wonder if I am in Jesus. I am in Jesus and he saved me. I am not sure when it was but I know Jesus has had a spot in my life since Huls lives her life for him and Jesus took her life and used it to saved me. Or was it when Erin Buescher’s story of leaving the big schools all for Jesus was that the time. I know I am his and I know I am saved. It is fun to tell others I got Jesus and he loved me and saved me.

I feel the need to address the new man that is going to be on the court. John G. Roberts is a man that we need to put on the court for a few reason. I think it is a duty to allow this man to go because the President has selected him and that is enough. Above that John G. Roberts has a resume that makes him a good pick. He has made 40 trips to the court and that is a lot. He won 25 of them. Many think abortion is a point as for abortion is not right and ought to be banned in this land. It makes our land horrid. It is killing the baby and not make folks that have sex responsible. We killed 30 million tax paying people and that would cover of debts over time. I urge my readers to get out there and demand a fast hearing and get this court ready by the time it is needed. John G. Roberts is a man that went to a good school and has done the work the makes him ready to make the laws right in the land.

Well freinds I am doing well at my new Job. People prayed and I got more
hours there. Boss said I am doing a good job. I wanted to take some time
to let you know what is going in to my birthday plans. I have got people
all over the land out reading the blog. I wanted to go to the Boston Red
sox game at the domw for my birthday but ticket are sold out. I also am not
going to take the day off and ghope I do not close. If all goes right I am
inviting all of you to Mexican village in st cloud for a night of mexican
food and fun. If we can get by a tv to see the twins game all the better.
If you come rsvp. I know many might live far away from this area so I am
going to leave my address on the email and send me a card or whatever. John
Mac tapes you and bible things.
The Lord Jesus has been good to me this year. I have done much growing and
it is ALL to him I give the glory. I have been learning tons of things and
I love it. U am so Glad he came to take me to his side and help me find a
good church and a good bible school and friends all over the land. I am in
a study of galations and I am so happy that paul made it cleafr in the book
that we are saved from hell ONLY BY HIS GRACE. I am so sad that many are
trying to earn their way to Jesus and cannot understand Jesus died and rose
for them. God has gioven me so much and I am thankful for people in my life
that help me grow deep in the Lords grace. I am also grateful for the bible
and the blog the Lord is useing it. I am getting more hit and I am
expanding into a new spot on the net. I am putting the blog on xanga and
blogspot so I am able to get more hits and reach morte people. I am not
content if my walk if not expanding and reaching the folks that do not know
gthe truth. I am sad that more people are not in tune with the Lord and
learning his love. It is one reason I am doing the blog and I am asking for
you all to go to it read it and share it. People simply need Jesus and I
want Jesus to reach the mass of unsaved because the Lord is also a God that
is going to send the lost away and that scares me. So pray for the blog and
read it, then have others read it and maybe one will come to Jesus.
Well got to go Keep shareing Jesus all you can.
Shadman

I had good news this week I am getting a few more hours at work. My check is not the biggest this week yet I am not mad or worried about that because I am resting on the Lord that said he would provide for me out of his riches in Jesus. And the Lord God is rich is he not. He owns it all. If Jesus wanted to he could take it all away could he not? Yet he is the provider in our life as the saved and he said he is going to take care of the needs of his own.

Well I am not going to delay any longer let me take you to my text tonight in Gal.

Gal. 1 15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, 16 to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.[1]

I hit a bit of this passage last time but I want to work on it more tonight and see if I cannot learn more out of this passage. I want to hit this idea that we do not pick the Lord but he picked us before the beginning. I touched it last night but I want to camp on this a bit tonight and show you the truth in this matter. I am not a Calvinist. Yet I think in some ways I am. Calvin talks in TULIP about the truth that we are unable to pick the Lord and to a point I think he is right. In Romans we are told that we are unable to choose to be saved and we were helpless in this matter. God had to send the Lord Jesus to die and then the Holy Spirit to enter us and convict us of sin. Yet in the same book we are to call on the name of the Lord. If you read the context of this passage you have to see that Paul has to be stopped in his tracks and was called to work for the Lord. Jesus had to make the effort to reach Paul and I think Jesus makes the effort to reach us. And how did or rather why did Jesus save anyone? It was all in his grace or unmerited favor and Gods pleasure that he was called.

Note also that Paul took time to get to know the Lord Jesus before he went out to work for him. I when I got saved was lucky enough to have a few people teach me the basics of the Lord Jesus and how I need to read the bible and how I needed to pray and go to a church and things like that. I started to write things right after I got saved and I have not stopped because it has helped me learn and get deep into the bible. I think that is what Paul did. He went study the Bible or the old things and got to know Jesus and his word. If you’re a new Christian or one that does not read the bible I would rather you read the bible then this blog and learn there. I say that because I think that is the power. Paul studied and learned the truth and learned how to get into his bible and get into the things of God and Jesus. He was guided I think from the text by the Lord himself. Another thing to look at that we need to be ready to read the word and be open to it. God is going to teach us things in his word and we have to look for them. A good place to start is the book of John and writes things you learn.

So In this passage I talked about Paul being called and us being called to be saved and I talked how we need to read the word and allow Jesus to teach us. Find a good preach or leave a message here and I will work to get you a good bible and a church in your area.
Shadman
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

Welcome to those who r reading the blog for the first time or the 50th time. I am happy your reading my writings and many of you tell me you and keep it up. Well I am not going to beat around the bush Lets jump into the word. In tonight’s passage we see Paul’s time before Jesus saved him.

13 For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. 14 And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
Paul was the Jew of all Jews and he did not hold it back. He in his time before he got saved wanted to harm this new faith that had been spread. Paul was relentless in his killing of Christians. He went ahead to drag folks out of their homes and killed them. Like if you were sitting in a place worshiping and Paul went in and drags them out of the place and kills them He was zealous for his faith He wanted to keep the Jewish faith alive.

15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, 16 to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.[1]

But when is pleased God to save Paul God saved him. I got friends that think Jesus does pick folks that are saved. I think and I see in this passage the Lord was the only thing that could save a hard man like Paul. Paul’s Jewish faith was one that he could or did not break. From the womb Paul said he was selected to know the Lord. This is a obvious God thing and not a Paul thing. Paul did not make a choice he was saved in his walk and that was it. Jesus did not give a chance that Paul was not going to saved. Jesus saved Paul and us purely because he wanted to. God saved you because he wanted to. You do not get to choose in a sense if you come into the family of God. God picks and choose.

What the task sent to Paul? It was to bring the saving faith to Jesus and get others saved. Paul was to go to the gentiles and tell of the Lord Jesus and the free salvation. Paul went into a time where he went off and spent time in the Lord and he got to know the Lord Jesus and he studied just the Lord Jesus. I read the book I am reading and I am not sure why but in this text Paul said he went to Arabia and then he went to Damascus. He was in the time he went Jesus taught him to know him. Paul got trained in Jesus by Jesus.

Here is things I take from thisI am elected to serve the Lord. Paul had a background that made it from my prospective was not savable but Jesus is not one that looks in my eyes Jesus picks the saved and who knows the most unthinkable can be saved.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

It was hot the last few nights here in Saint Cloud. I went for a ride today and it was hot. I got a deal on a video camera and it might be a neat thing to keep my life in check. I am going to use it when I go on trips and I am going to take shots of pals and one-day make a movie out of the thing. I am not happy with Harry Potter. He is not a good thing for people of faith should like. I know of some in the faith that like him and that is fine. If you like him keep him away from me. I want to fight Harry with the Bible. Satan is in the Harry potter trash and it is this mans thought that you ought to not read it and read the Old Testament that is funnier and it is true too.

Here is tonights text in Gal.

Gal 1 11 But I make known to you, brethren that the gospel, which was preached by me, is not according to man. 12 For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
I have a man that I share the news with and we get into the basics and he seems to have Jesus in his life and heart. Yet I go into a thing like gay marriage and he tells me that Jesus never had anything to say about it. Or I bring up other topics in the bible and because Jesus never is recorded it in his words he said I am not right. Paul must know what I am talking about. He in the text does not want to be blamed for his words being his own he wants the reader to know that his words were given to him by God. I want to take some time tonight to address the bible and how come it all is right on.
God gave the bible to us in the form of human writers that were gifted by the Lord to write it. It is a part of the faith that I think is key. God gave the bible in whole. We do not I feel get to choose the parts we read and honor it is all the word of God. It takes time and work to read. Here is the Doctrine statement I go by and the bibles importance I am a man that belived the Macarthur Bible and I agree with his statement in his bible as my own. I am going here because I want to point out that Pauls books are the truth and we need to heed them and follow them. I am long tonight yet I am the teacher and the man learning.
The Holy Scriptures
We teach that the Bible is God’s written revelation to man, and thus the 66 books of the Bible given to us by the Holy Spirit constitute the plenary (inspired equally in all parts) Word of God (1 Cor. 2:7–14; 2 Pet. 1:20,21).
(Gods word comes in 66 books as decided on by the Lord at the meeting of the church fathers, all is the direct word of God and All is inspired by God.)
We teach that the Word of God is an objective, propositional revelation (1 Cor. 2:13; 1 Thess. 2:13), verbally inspired in every word (2 Tim. 3:16), absolutely inerrant in the original documents, infallible, and God-breathed. We teach the literal, grammatical-historical interpretation of Scripture, which affirms the belief that the opening chapters of Genesis present creation in six literal days (Gen. 1:31; Ex. 31:17).
(In other words what is said in the bible happened. God made us in 6 days. Daniel was in the Lions den and Jesus rose from the dead. ALL the events really occurred and God wrote this book with no error what so ever. Historicity is made for us in the bible and ends how the bible states it is going to end.)
We teach that the Bible constitutes the only infallible rule of faith and practice (Matt. 5:18; 24:35; John 10:35; 16:12,13; 17:17; 1 Cor. 2:13; 2 Tim. 3:15–17; Heb. 4:12; 2 Pet. 1:20,21).
Christians are only to follow the bible. Each Christian must read it for them and follow it. It is the whole of faith and nothing outside the covers of the bible is needed for faith and serving the Lord. If anything presented is outside the bible and its stated command it is void and the bible stands. The bible stands alone on what we obey and not a church or systems as the Catholics follow.
We teach that God spoke in His written Word by a process of dual authorship. The Holy Spirit so superintended the human authors that, through their individual personalities and different styles of writing, they composed and recorded God’s Word to man (2 Pet. 1:20,21) without error in the whole or in the part (Matt. 5:18; 2 Tim. 3:16).
It gets kind of tricky here. All the writers of the bible wrote the words that God wanted them to write, if you add to any of the bible your wrong. All the authors were given the task of writing the bible and they write all differently but they all point to the truth that Jesus came to save the world from sin and we must follow only him alone to make it to heaven.
We teach that, whereas there may be several applications of any given passage of Scripture, there is but one true interpretation. The meaning of Scripture is to be found as one diligently applies the literal, grammatical-historical method of interpretation under the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit (John 7:17; 16:12–15; 1 Cor. 2:7–15; 1 John 2:20). It is the responsibility of believers to ascertain carefully the true intent and meaning of Scripture, recognizing that proper application is binding on all generations. Yet the truth of Scripture stands in judgment of men; never do men stand in judgment of it.[1]
God had one meaning for the words of the bible. We might be guided to a app that is for us and the Spirit might give a verse that hits us at one time and help or convicts me but the meaning is not up for debate. We do not make up a meaning we learn it in the Spirit and deep study. What the bible said it means. We are judged in the book and we are to know it and live it.In the end of this he said that it was given though the Lord Jesus. Paul was not in this to make man happy he was in it to make the Lord Jesus happy. If he wanted to man happy he would not of been treated by men the way he was. If the Lords news was just a mans idea then Paul would not have been so abused by the people and the Lord. The Gospel is not just another way it is the only way and Paul had to suffer for it. Freedom is not free and all freedom demands we pay a price. In our land the usa we died to win freedom. I know many might read this in other lands and it is our goal to make you free in Jesus and in life.
[1]John F. MacArthur, Jr., The MacArthur Study Bible, (Dallas: Word Publishing) 1997.

Why do I post on the Masters College blog ring. I love the school and I love the ring so I am setting up a blog there and here and I am hoping to reach more people with my talking about my life and hope more read and learn about me and the walk I am taking with the Lord in the bible. I found a deep walk in Jesus via John Macarthur and the ball player Erin Buescher when she played for the team in MN. I also have been to the truth and life week there. I have met many folks out there and I read all the blogs on the ring. I also hope some of the old CCC fans will be reading this blog and I want to say hi to Tammy from East Asia where some of my dollars and working to bring folks to saving knowledge of Jesus. I am paying a friend to go into a land that does not want Jesus and tell them anyhow. Shelly won’t like that but I am not a man pleaser I am a Jesus pleaser. SO hi to Tammy and Jake who needs to check in with me and hook up.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050712-1741-ca-evangelist-taxfraud.html
I need to take some blog and comment on this story. I am angered at this man that has taken the Lords work and made money but does not pay any kind of tax. He is making money of the work of the Lord. I have a problem with this. I do know that we as the kids of the Lord need to give to the work of the Lord. I also know it is a good thing to use the media to tell folks the news. I think folks we need to not sell tapes but give them to folks and make all the fine people give to the people they want. However Lets check out the people we are handing our hard earn cash to. I do not give to TBN because they teach false teaching like the gifts are still for us today like touges and healings are today. I do not believe that because Jesus has a book and it is the last word. Healings were to prove the book was real at the time it was written and them they stopped.

It is kind of what I am going to talk about in the study I am doing in Galatians. Here in the world today we have folks that are not living the true faith and they have left the faith and teach lies. Like in that time the people thought you had to become a Jew and get circumcises and then get Jesus. Paul’s letter is not going to allow them to do that and he blasted the fakes of the faith. Here is the text that Paul writes:

Gal 1 6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7 which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
Listen if you want to preach a new Gospel of works and grace Paul wants you to be damned to Hell. Jesus called you that are saved to the Good news that salvation is a gift and you are able to do nothing for it. Friend when you call Jesus to forgive you and you repent your saved. If you are told you then have to work to make it to Heaven then you are being lied to. Catholics love to make you work for your free salvation. Listen they are wrong and I am not going to back off till I am proved other wise. If you’re saved YOU LEAVE THEM AND REPENT! Do not stay there because that church is lying to you. I am going to nail them in a later series. The BIBLE said that if a angel preaches another gospel that angel belongs in hell. Jesus saved you forever on the cross you add nothing and give nothing it was done all on the cross. IF anyone preaches a gospel outside of this faith in Jesus plus nothing gives you salvation. In that time people were fooled and in this time people are fooled. Friend in the story I have linked to many are being fed a junk Gospel and on many tv programs they feed you Junk. I think we need to stick the nose in the book and listen to the word of God in a solid bible church and not in the church that wants you to give them more. Also get out of the Charismatic church’s that teach things that are not for this time and season. Get TBN off the air and replace it with a good solid network of bible teaching and not the Name it and Claim it jerks out for a buck.

HERE is a hat in Hollywood ca. I liked it  

I got to talk to Erin shortly after I gave Jesus my life. It is a neat time and this is a good photo. 

I had a good day and found out some co workers are reading this thing I am into called a Blog. I am not going to hold in like I do at work what I am and love in life and that is Jesus alone. By clicking into my site you agree it is ok to love on Jesus and share him with a world that is in need of his truth and Love and needs to find Jesus to have a good life. Or maybe your alone and have drifted into this site on the net. I got news for you Jesus is God and wants to befriend you and Love you and change you but you need to ask him to. Go to the link on the left that said how to be saved and listen to the message there. Please do that if you have not Jesus in your life. Please do not read more here go to the link on the page and learn how to be saved if your not. If you are saved tell a friend how to get saved and spread the truth all over the world. We live in a messed up world with London getting hit and with all the terror in the world. Find out the Lords plan and live for him.

I am starting a series on the book of Galatians, a book in the Bible. I have wanted to do a study in this book for a while and I am going to type on it till I am done. Last night I worked on a piece that talked about why Paul is ok to write this book and what makes him a man that is righteous. I want to start off in the first part of the book. Here is tonights text

Gal 1 Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead), 2 and all the brethren who are with me,
To the churches of Galatia:
I hit some of the first verse last time but there is much truth in the greeting Paul makes to the people. Paul is an apostle. Being this title means you were given a task from Jesus himself. You were appointed to do something in the means of spreading the word to the rest of the world. Paul’s call was on a road where Jesus wanted to make Paul a man that was going to take the news of Jesus too much of the world at that time. The task was never easy and Paul had to go into prison and die there for the crimes of spreading the Lord Jesus news to all. I like how Paul said Jesus and God the father who raise Jesus from the dead called him, not by man but. Is that not the Good news I am here telling you to trust in tonight? Here is the truth that Jesus is God and came to take the sin of the world on to his cross and died a horrid death and this was to make it ok to go to God and have a friendship and never go to hell. It is the greatest thing to know your sins were paid for and your saved. God raised Jesus for many reasons I think it was that Jesus is God in the flesh and he is going to raise the true believers.
All the brethren who are with me, It might have been on a trip Paul wrote this letter and folks were with Paul. I am not to sure who was with Paul but it seems there were folks with him that wanted to greet this church. It can also mean that Paul was a part of the Lord Jesus and he is part of Gods family. We might go back to this later or when I update this paper. Truth is Paul was in the Lord.

3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.[1]

Paul begins many of his books in this matter offering the Grace and Peace of Jesus. Grace is the favor of the Lord. It means he is going to give you something you do not deserve. You deserve a trip to hell because of sins. God in grace gives you Heaven and that is a big thing. Your peace is a gift that is given to you in knowing you are saved. It means your not in a war with God and your set apart. For God. Jesus gave himself for our sins and he delivered us from this age.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

It is the night of the al star game. So to me the game is the best all-star game in all of sports unless Erin Buescher got the mvp at a wnba game. Erin keeps playing and you will be a star to someone. I am going to launch a new series tonight, as I want to do a study of the book of Galatians. I got a set of tapes and I just think it is the next thing I am to do. I want to do this book because there are some points that I need from this book in regards to freedom to do other things I want to do. Galatians is a short book that tells us that it is not the law that saves but it is the pure blood of Jesus. Paul and that is tonight’s thing I want wrote this book to type on. Why should we trust Paul’s writing and his books? Paul talks about himself in the first chapter. I am starting by going to the second part of the book but I can go back. Here is the passage I am going to start my look at this book

Gal 1 11 But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. 12 For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
When did Paul get the Gospel? He got it when Jesus himself came into his life on the road. It was the man that killed the people of Jesus and the new way that Jesus elected to write much of the New Testament. In the text tonight Paul talks on how he was saved and how the Good news was given to him in a direct way from the Lord Jesus. We all were called into our faith though people but the call was from the Lord Jesus and not from any man.

13 For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. 14 And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, 16 to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.[1]

Paul was like I said a killer and wanted to kill the followers of Jesus. He wanted to destroy the Christians and the way he was going to it was to kill folks that loved the Lord. However Jesus did not want that for him. He was zealous for his faith yet he was wrong. He wanted to follow the laws and wanted to be a good Jew

But that was not the Lords plan for Paul. God called him to work for the Gospel not to kill. It was Paul’s job to show the son of God and that was Jesus. Gods Job was to make the good news and our job is to show it to the world the best we know how..

Here is some reasons I think the Letters are to be trusted:
1 Peter and John saw the Lord on the mountain thus they had the knowledge of the Lords Kingdom
2 Paul was converted in a way that shows he had the right to preach the Gospel.
3 James and Hebrews I am not sure about yet.

All the bible is the word of God and not just the Red letters
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

I cannot recommend the Westwood church here is st cloud due to the fact they have made Chris Brown a man that leads bible classes there. Chris has no bible right to lead and thing due to the fact he told me off and refuses to make up. He is not in my mind a solid man of the bible nor does he make a good example of Bible teacher. Chris fails to name the bible verses he has for not hanging out with me and he called it being lead by the Lord to disown my life. Also he fakes caring about me and he lies about that so he can hold his anti Shadman views. Westwood does not hold him to task and promotes him in the body of Jesus when he needs to be thrown out of that place until he repents and has it out with me and explains his reasons for disowning a friend. Till then I cannot tell anyone to go to Westwood and be happy there. Chris need to repent and come before me and honestly explain his hatred, which he has for me.

Here is what our Lord said and how I think it applies.

15 “Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’ 17 And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.
18 “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
19 “Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”[1]

1 you go to the offended man and try to settle the matter
2 you go with 2 or more and you settle the matter.
3 you then tell the church and if he does not repent you displine until the offended man repents. If he does he must have forgiveness and restored into the body.
I have been repenting and Chris needs to forgive. If he does not it goes on him and he goes to the judgment and Jesus deals on this. If by chance Chris you read this get right and come and clean this up. I am going to never take this of the site because you need to hear what I am writing and heed to it and obey the bible and not feelings. You have never presented reasons for your breaking it off with me. Your in sin till you fix this and if you die God bless you and I hope you make it Yet if you do not I will know you did not fix this and you need to.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

I need to defend to some the use of meds in medical treatment. Some point to lack of faith on my part that I take a pill to help me to cope with life. I take 4 of them 2 for blood pressure and 2 for depression. It is wrong for them to try to point to lack of faith and to think it is a sin to take a med. Folks that say meds are not right and are not trusting Jesus offend me. I have friends that have gone off their meds and have killed themselves or hurt themselves and they where saved. Many in the faith community do not know the truth that there is a need for meds in some illness. I choose to take meds and my choice does not show lack of faith in the bible or does it show anything wrong with me. I do not like anyone that points a finger at me and thinks meds are wrong. If you have a problem with my use of meds you need to let me know and I need t o remove you out of my life and never talk to you again. I am that strong on the use of meds. Christians need them at times and God gave us the meds to use to cure stuff.

SO tonight I hit a topic that is not all that bible based. Here are some things about making sure we work hard at what the Lord calls us to do.

Ecc 9 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.[1]
Put all you got into your job every time you do it. Also work hard for the Lord in this life so that we can live well in the next. Jesus wants us to work hard in life for him and his cause. If you need to slack do not do it because it is not good for anyone in the Lord to slack off at work. We have one life and we need to use it to make Jesus famous and to live for others and not our own.
Why do we need to fight the Church of Rome? We need to fight it because they are making the bible not user friendly for the people in their church. We need to fight because they made Mary something that she is not. We need to fight because the Pope has made the key man on doctrine knowing he is a homo. We need to fight this insane non-Bible based system because the people in it are not hearing the Gospel and being saved. This fall I am going to take time to write more about this system and the Catholic false Gospel. I am going to take the bible and show the errors in it and solutions to make folks rethink the teachings of this church and offer hope in the bible for them. I want to love on them by telling the truth. So watch for that series this fall on the Blog.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

What a neat day. I went to a picnic at Grandmas Barbs and got to see old folks that went to my Church. I went with Ben. Oh he might move. I am not sure what to think I need him to keep me on the walk but the Lord is going to lead me into the wisdom that I need to walk. I got to see old pals like Bruce and Carol cater and Amy Gall. It was like a church reunion. Praise the lord for old friends and new friends. God is going to allow people to know each other in heaven I think and it is going to be such a neat time of seeing all that went before us there. Nicman once said it is not going to be that way but I tend to think it will be. Jesus was raised and Jesus was like himself and the 12 knew it was him. I think there is going to be real relations with loved ones and that is one thing I am looking forward to. I am struggling what to wr4ite on tonight. I want to go so many ways but I am going to stick to the commands series.

Here is tonight’s command. We are to destroy all the idols that we worship. It is hard things to know what I think in my life are idols. I got idols that I am not sure that I need to make due with and throw out. I think some might think sports is one thing that I need to give up but I do not see that that in my life comes before the Lord. Some think Erin is a person I am to give up on and go before the lord. I think it is wise not to make her a big think in my life. TV is another thing that is not good for me but I watch it too much. So in my life I got a ways to go in this. And yet I do serve the Lord the best I can. An idol is simply never righteous and ends us in the worst thing. God is always the better thing to worship and honor. Many things in life can like I say become idols. Here is a text to think about

Ex 23 24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.[1]
We are not to bow to any type of God nor serve anything but God. We are to burn anything that comes before the Lord and destroy our walk with the Lord. We are not to make anything come before Jesus. I am not to love anything more than Jesus. SO what are some things I am going to do to make Jesus my only love. Maybe I need to take time out and focus on my walk. I need to go to church and anything the church offers. I need to be there when the door is open and make my life go into church. I sometime have to work but If I do not then I am going to make the cash I need to make it in the life. I need to give my money and make sure that Jesus has my cash and me.

Psalms 24 3 Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord?
Or who may stand in His holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol,
Nor sworn deceitfully.[2]It is clear that if I have a idol in my life I need to make it right and not honor it. God has to be the king of my life and he wants no others or anything to come before him. If there is I need to make
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
[2]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

Last night you told me not to shove Jesus to you. I am asking you to stop offending my man for president. I happen to think Bush is right on the warming thing and I do not want money going to a false problem when it ought to go to our land. Global warming is a fact that we are all going to be off this earth one day and to me face the Lord. It is in the bible and it is the truth you choose not to believe and want us to solve with human efforts. It is not going to ever be solved and it is going to get worse. I choose to think the real issue is not global greenhouse gas it is the end of the world and all the junk you want me to believe is all trash. I say fine if you want to support global warming then sell off your home and give to green peace. I am not going to and I am hoping the USA is not either. I am going to spread the good news that the hope for anyone in found in God. Money, dope, and any kind of thing that we do is not going to solve the worlds end. We are going to have to face the Maker and there is not some big bang, God made the earth and He is going to unmake it. I will spread my faith to that entire here me and tell the others they are wrong and if you do not thing that is right too bad. Jesus is the only way to make it to heaven all other ways end in hell I will die for that and I will never change my mind. Muslims are not right they kill people that do not convert, Catholics deny the Good news of Jesus, Hindus are wrong. Jesus died and rose from the grave and will return. Are you ready?

Know for some encouragement Jesus wants us to take up our cross for him and die to ourselves every day. It is not your problems he wants you to bear it is the cross. Jesus demands are not all that hard knowing he loves us and died for us on the cross. We are not in this faith for gain to us it is for the gain of Jesus and his glory we love him. It is so self-centered to live for our own life. I heard it said that the Christian is a slave to Jesus and his work. It is a thing that we no longer have to live for our own needs and wants, we are to give all our needs to Jesus and let him fill them and when he does give him the glory. I am not to fill my needs or solve my problems I am to give and then my problems go to the sky. Giving is the key to bearing the cross of Jesus. Friend I see it more and more the times I have needs I give somehow and my needs are met. I give and the Lord gives to me. I think Jesus set it up that way; we meet others needs and our needs are met. However do not live in the give to get thing because that never is right. Give to love the Lord and he will meet every need you have. Bear his cross and prepare to suffer for your faith and when you live for Jesus and stand on his word you are going to be a target for the folks that do not Love the Lord Jesus and the Christians that seem to not live all for Jesus. I know that is a struggle to live a high life and when I am not as solid as I need to be I make light of them who are living a life bearing Jesus cross and suffering.
24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. 26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?[1]
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

I need to vent on this thing in London and why we christens have the answer. In London today the Muslims shot off 4 bombs that killed people. I think it is time we as Christians need to start talking loud and long about Jesus. It is like we have the cure and we are not doing it. Pastor C in his Fourth of July message had a good point I think bears repeating the best thing we can do is be in church and in the Lord and we will win the war on jerks that want to hurt our land. It is important we believers are in church as often as we are able. I talked to a gal the other night and she asked me if Church is important. What do you think? Here is what I said and think. First Church is a command. We are to meet together and use our gifts to encourage one another to good works. Second we need to gather and worship Jesus and be filled in the word. If you go to a church that does not have a half hour sermon then you need to find one. I need to hear a few sermons a week and not easy ones I need to be reminded that I am a sinner and I need Jesus to save me and I need to stick closer to Jesus every day. We need to go and be a part of the Lords table. We need to fellowship and eat together and we need to be prayed for and pray for others in the body. Why is the church the best thing to fight this war on terror? We need to ask the true God to help this land and go back to the way things were and allow Jesus to work. If we allow him to rule we will win the war. If we do not then we will lose the war and the bad men will take over. If the church gets together and elects a government that stands for the truth and proclaims Jesus as the only way to live then we have him on our side. We need to spread freedom to the nations all over and our style government. If we gave the people in Africa the freedoms we would be giving them a good thing. We sent over 600 billion there why not send them freedom and Jesus and they will be better off. Give them jobs and feed them. I guess it is the end of the world and many things are going to happen that are not all that good.

Ps 33 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.[1]

I want to clearly say that I am sad by this bombing and I pray for our mother nation. England was the land my grandpa Rolfe lived in. I am sad and I hope the nation over there and ours will keep fighting so it never happens in USA and like I said we need to go to church and allow Jesus to bring the nation under him. Also we need to fight the slugs on their turf and not ours. Praise the Lord for the folks that are fighting for my freedom and the safety of all of the people in this good land. Also Praise him for all his blessings and the preaching of John Macarthur!

[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

I want to jump right into my thinking tonight. It is on the command of the Lord to have courage. We are to have courage and be strong. Courage is the act of standing up in hard times and having faith to withstand them. It is standing up in the face of fear to make something happen. I need courage to keep going to work even in the times it is hard and I am making less cash. I need it to share my faith on the bus or like tonight at the ymca when I had the chance to share Jesus with a fellow believer. I need it to stand up to tell the truth in debating and sharing Jesus with my family in spite their resisting the Lord and his plans. In the word and I am going to look at many passages tonight we have some reasons for courage. Here is the first passage.

Dut. 6 Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.”[1]

We can have courage for the Lord Jesus is with me at all times and he is my protection. Friend it is cool to know the Lord is with them who know him all the time. In the times we feel there is nobody Jesus is there. I might of talked about this but we need to always know the Lord is with us in everything. If you go to a movie Jesus is there and if the movie is not good we need to not go to it. It is not like you can tell the Lord not to come with you somewhere because he is with us and that ought to make us think about things before we do them. Jesus is never going to leave and forsake us. It is a good thing to know Jesus loves us and he is never leaving is it not.

Josh 1 6 Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. 7 Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.[2]

This is a command to Joshua going into the new land that God was going to give to them. He was to have courage to follow the word and the laws that God had given to the people. We are to work to follow the things I am talking about like be happy. God has saved us to follow him and if we love Jesus we are going to do what makes him happy. If you follow the bible then I you will have success. For me I got to learn to give to the Lord better and obey him in my cash. God has made me to work and gave me the power to get money I want to honor him and do as he said so he can trust me with more.

The bottom line is this Where do I go when I am afraid and need help. I ought to go to Jesus and allow him to work on me so I have courage to serve Jesus and love him even more.
Shad
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
[2]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

One of the things that set this land the USA apart is this, our founders wanted to say they relied on a higher being. I do not think like most that we were founded as a Christian nation. I do think that some were solid in faith and they did want this land to founded on the bible and God. We were given rights endowed by our maker. If you take that out of the document then you are lying. We are to honor the maker and to make this nation honor him. Our courts have the commands of God on them and the bible is still the book people can look to know God and all the things God wants us to do. The reason the land we have was founded is the fact that we were going to be a sending nation to tell the world to come to Jesus and renounce and other faith. Many people thing the church is not to be part of the state yet there are no such thoughts in any written form.

I think it is so important to have the faith in the Lord to take back this land. We need to have the guts to stand and tell the leaders to bring the Bible back to the Lord Jesus and begin to send the folks out and spread this good news that Jesus is able to save anyone and bring them to Heaven. We need to tell the folk in the capital if your not saved your done in the next election. We need to get together and vote in one block for Christian leaders and show anything not of the bible is wrong. I want to say that we were not founded a nation yet we all can make the government follow the bible and we do that by voting and campaigning for man that will rule over us with Godly mind and a bible based rule.
I went to a picnic and played some ball for my celebrations at GCBC. It was a fun time and I loved playing ball. My back is kind of sore.

I wonder friend are you a good person? Have you ever told a lie? Have you ever stolen anything? Have you ever looked at lust at anyone? SO if you told a lie then you’re a? Liar? Have you stolen anything? It makes you a thief? So have you ever had any kind of hate toward anyone? It is as killing if you hate anyone in anyway! So if you are guilty of sin and you go to court to see your fate are you going to Heaven or Hell? If you do not have Jesus in your heart and trusting only in him why ought the Lord let you into him into his kingdom. You do not trust in your church going to go to heaven and praying in the Mary or beads. Heaven is only for Christians. If your not admitting to your sins and that you are nothing in the eyes of God and need Jesus to save you because you are not able to add anything to your payment accept begging for Jesus to save you. Being a person that does not sin is impossible and doing well is not going to save you. Muslims go to hell and so is all people in any faith that does not embrace Jesus as Lord and savior. If that is offending you then you ought to take it to Jesus alone. If you’re a man or person that thinks that your ok and heaven is wide open and your not trusting Jesus your making as big of mistake as you can and it will cost you forever in hell. I beg you to read the book of Romans 3 to 8 and repent and take Jesus as your own. If you think earth is made from evolution your claiming a fable and that is wrong. God made the world in seven days and that is truth.

Here is the passage for anyone that thinks they ared going to heaven without Jesus

Romans 3 10 As it is written:
“There is none righteous, no, not one;
11 There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.
No one seeks the truth and no one even cares. God does all the work to find you. God found you if your saved and had not one thing to do with getting in the family of God.
12 They have all turned aside;
They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one.”
Friend you turned aside and if you could damn yourself you would. If God did not keep me from hell I would run to it all on my own. I would if it were mine to give up throw my salvation into the fire and walk from Jesus on the day I got it, I can never do anything to keep Jesus nor would I try.
13 “Their throat is an open tomb;
With their tongues they have practiced deceit”;
“The poison of asps is under their lips”;
14 “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways;
17 And the way of peace they have not known.”
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”[1]
There is absolutely no fear of God in my flesh and I never have had any. It ALL was a gift of grace and salvation is all of God and nothing you will ever think to do can save you accept in grace give your heart to Jesus. No work will get you save no prayer can help you accept pleading for mercy to a holy God. Jesus alone saved you and if you ever think you are ever ok and able to save you please hear me.

[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

Today the supreme court of the USA has been changed. A pro-choice judge has retired and I think it is a good day for the Christian in this land. If bush get it right we are going to have a court that is going to stop the insane laws of banning Jesus from this land. It is not a good thing for a land to forget the Lord and stay a nation. No land has lasted that has forgotten the Lord as the king. Rome fell and so will this land if we forget the Lord. I also think many things are on the line and I hope Bush gets this right and finds a Christian to rule on the court so we wont have our freedoms lost. I voted for Bush for this reason and that is the court so he needs to do this one right.

I am working in a series this summer on things the bible calls us to do. If you’re a Christian and made Jesus your lord the things I am writing about are for you. If you’re not a Christian and are still reading this blog then I am proud of you and I plead with you to find your way to “how to be saved” link and see if this is for you. Here is the passage for tonight

Hebrews 13 5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”[1]

This is a simple thing. We are to be content with what we have. I did a neat thing today I went to a sale and got a new stereo for a song. It is nice and big. I already got 4 of them but I got another one. Maybe I should of prayed harder for this but I might not of followed my own preaching and I was not content with what I have. Yet this is the text tonight so I preach it. Hebrews is a book that we are not sure who wrote it. But most think Paul might of wrote it and he wrote that no matter what he was content. Are we content? Do I going out to get the thing I wanted right. In the text tonight the writer tells me that it is enough for me to know the Lord is not going to leave me or forsake me. I am to be content and love the Lord.

But that is just it with the Lord there are a few things I know that are true. I am not going to lack food and basics because I know he is with me forever. I am content to know that he is going to take care of me even when losing a job as I did. He is good so anything that happens to me is going to be for my good. He is there for the hard time to keep my salvation and me. Jesus is here and that is enough. Jesus is one that helps me control my anger and Jesus is the one that feeds me with his word. Jesus Loves me and that is a awesome thing to know the ruler of the world has come to live in me and my life. Many like to pray things like Lord be with me. If your saved Jesus is with you at all times and all places. If you need Jesus and your saved God is with you even when you forget. Like the times I want to swear or get mad or go somewhere we I ought not be, God is with me and I am to honor him. Jesus is keeping track of you also for the time you meet him so we need to know that he is going to tell us where we are going to be based on how we lived for Jesus.

God is with you and I
We are to rest in that truth
His being with me has lots of good to it

Shadman

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[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.