Shadmans thoughts

Lets get a few things straight, the thing that happened in our land is no ones fault. It is the forces of a sovern God that made this happen. It is not global warming or a policy of Bush or anything. In the times we are in this is a cause that we really do not know. I blame this kind of on God and that is not a bad thing because God know all that happens and he could of stopped it. It is not that people in this land have died it is that in grace people have lived. We need to be a helping people and so Iam asking you to mail at least 5 bucks to the Red Cross. We do not ask y we ask the Lord to work hard to help the fellow people we need to make people we need to help.

I am speechless… Lets go to the fruit tonight of longsuffering. It is patience and that is what we need as a land this day. It is suffering and having the time to put into suffering. It is enduring life when it is hard. Friends in the south we all feel for you and we all might have to suffer and go without so that we can help you. We might have to eat lightly and give to you our extra cash and help you eat. We need to endure as a land and help you out. Patience is waiting for things. I heard it said get me patience and give it to me now. It is also enduring hard things. It is going in the storm and waiting it out. I want to get better at waiting for things.
The next fruit is kindness. We are never going to bring folks to Jesus if we are mean to them. It is the kindness of Jesus that is going to bring folks to the Lord. It is loving and being kind to others and that is going to win them to Jesus.

I want to do something to help the people in the south. I am asking each reader of my blog and web site to give 5 bucks to anyplace that is helping the people in the south get back on their feet. I never want to see it nor do I need to know about it. This is on your honor. I am heart broken over the storm and the many people that are homeless or need food.

It is the start of a new year for school. I am going to a small bible school here in St Cloud Mn. I have never told you out there where I live. I am in the great Midwest and I am a fan of the Masters College. If your there your going to meet me later. I am a dishwasher at Panera Bread. We serve good food and you ought to go eat there after you give 5 to the people that need it. I know people are hurting tons and that is not good. I am happy to help people and I just have a hurt for them and for us to take care of our own. SO let me know if your going to give and God will bless you for it.

Gal 5 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.[1]

I am going in the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Peace, what is it and what do I need to do to get it. First of all it is rest. Here is a def out of the Greek for this word. The tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and content with its earthly lot, of whatsoever sort that is. SO it is resting in knowing we are saved. It is assured that when we die knowing Jesus we are going to make it to heaven. That alone is the great things to dwell on and to understand that we lost sinners have the chance to live in a place where our great Lord is going to be the focus. Peace is also knowing that whatever happens to us we are going to ok because Jesus is Lord and we have his in life. Might I challenge you however on peace. We need to make peace with the Lord by confessing our sins and being right with Jesus. If your not in Jesus then your not going to have peace of any kind.

Peace is having the Lord in the hard times and being at ease when hard times hit. It is having Joy when we are in hard times. We are not to run from hard times in our lifes because we need to be joyful and not be ruled by them. We are going to work for peace in our lifes and in the world. We want to seek it in or friends. If you are going to live for the Lord we are going to be right with our friends and our family. We need to clear the air in some friends and make sure we are right.

We need to obey the Lord in our life and we are going to have peace. Jesus is the one that died for our peace with God. If we know that we will have great peace
Shadman
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

Father I am sad that the storm is going to hit New Orleans. Lord I ask you to havke mercy on us and Lord I ask you to not hurt anyone. I pray Jesus you will bring us the help we need to help the people there and help us give a ton to help the people there. I ask you to help Brads fam and protect them in Jesus. Help us to love in this storm and help us trust you in Jesus name amen

God did a good thing and I am getting more hours this next week. I am thankful to the lord for hearing me and helping me. I always need to know the Lord hears my praying and that it makes a change. I hope to pray more on the blog and to see more of the hand of the Lord on life and in the life of people I pray for. If you need me to pray for you add a comment or email me and I will pray for you. I want to pray better and more. Prayer is a weakness if you do not pray because I ought to bring it all before the Lord and let him be more into it because it is a faith building thing. If one does not Pray he is utterly out of the will of God and we ought to pray about everything and everyone. We also ought to read the bible everyday and pray about all our needs. I am not sure I have talked a ton about prayer. What do I want to do when I pray. I want to Praise the Lord for who he is and what he has done for me. I want to repent for all my sins and get clean before Jesus because that shows we need Jesus and all he gives to me like forgiveness. I then want to ask the Lord for the things I need like hours for work or the needs of my friends and people I want to bless. I then yield and seek the Lord and see what he wants to do for me. God does think of you and if your saved you got the ears of Jesus at all time. If your not saved the only thing the Lord is going to hear is a prayer to ask Jesus to forgive you and take his offer of life forever.

I want to talk about the word tonight
Gal 5 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.[1]

As you know if you read me all that much I going in the book of Galatians and I am in Chapter 5 and the fruits of the Spirit. I have said that the fruit is a result of the work of the Lord and our yield of the life’s to Gods control. If your saved your life is going to prove it and you will find this fruit in your life and if your not then you need to be. I want to think for a bit about Joy. Friend if your saved I think your going to find a life full of Joy. Jesus has set you apart from hell. You’re a child of God and your life is his. In the end you cannot lose if you love Jesus and that ought to make you happy. I think a Christian ought to have more joy then anyone else. God has love for you that lasts forever and all kind of blessings are yours for serving and loving Jesus. We ought to be the happy people and have the deep joy of knowing the Lord is on our side. The Joy of the lord is our strength. Think about this, God in his person has given us much to have joy about. We have Joy on knowing the Lord is mercy and has mercy for us. He does not deal with us, as he ought to. He withholds the punishment that is ours and he gave it to Jesus.

Joy in the Lord ought to come from the creation that he has given to us. God made the world and he wants us to enjoy it. I have talked about this before. Jesus came to give us life to enjoy. I enjoy going on a bike ride and seeing what the Lord made. I am also a fan of camping and going out to see the things the Lord has made. I have joy because he gave me his word and I love to know what he thinks. It is a blessing to have the bible. It is a blessing to have someone that loves you so much that all I am is in his heart.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

Hi to you all. I am not in the doghouse with Erin. Jim said she is not allowed to sign at halftime and she said she cannot break the rules. SO I am feeling good about that, Jesus is to be my focus still and nothing else, but the office staff at the Timberwolfs and the friends at my work place that read this. I know many of my photos hang in the offices of the booths of the wolves. Love it and I am going to send them on the blog for you and everyone to look at that. I am going to get all my photos on the blog. If you want more email me.

I want to look a little on the fruit of the Spirit and maybe hit a couple of them. I do not want to get boged down in a long series on the topic but I want to hit them somewhat because they are important that we look for them in our life’s. I do not know what the Lord is going to inspire me to do. It is a good test to see the fruit and if we are walking tight in Jesus because if we are not tight in Jesus we are not going to be able to have the fruits of walking with him. Without them we really are not right in Jesus and we need to be close.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
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Lets look at the fruit of Love. Love is brotherly love. It is like loving your brother and sister in Jesus and how it makes you help people. Do I love people? What is the meaning of Love. It is to put others needs before your needs. If you love somebody your willing to do anything to meet there needs. Why do we Love people? Jesus loved us before we ever knew who he was and placed our trust in him. Greater love is this that one lays their life down. Jesus laid his life down and proved his love for us. Jesus love is so awesome to think about. God so loved us that he gave his son. God had one son and it was his best thing he had to die for me. God’s love is forever and he cannot love any less and any more. If God loves you and sent his son to die for you then why won’t you repent and get right with Jesus. Loving the Lord Jesus with all your life is the biggest thing we are to serve the Lord. If you fail to Love him you fail in the worst way because it is the greatest sin.

Lord thank you for your love to me and help me to love more people and put their needs before mine
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

` I went to the game and it was not all that fun to be honest. I guess I still have issues with Erin. I ruined my talk with her. It just is not a good thing to want to befriend her in my life and it never will be. It is not that I am a bad person it is that I was not made to be her friend. God made people in life to do things for people. I am a friend of Dan because he is a nice guy and I am to. God made him and I friends. I guess the main thing is the guy gal thing and I really like her more than she likes me. I guess I threw in the God thing and really made her not want to be close. God has placed me where I am for his purpose and the people he has for me are in the here and now. God wants me to focus on life in the here and now and not in the where I want to be or where I wish I would be or could be. Jesus is not the focus when I make a idol out of a person. I guess the Lord needs me to live for him and not for others. It has to be Gods way and his way is the only way. I think that when I fail to live for him alone I am failing in my growth. It is hard to say but a man ought to help a man in the fait2h because God wants me to worship him and not a person.
Why do I even worry about this? I mean it is going to be temporal and we are going to be in heaven where needs are going to be met and friends can be friends forever. I guess that is where this friendship will be what it is going to be perfect. I love the fact that life will be without struggle and emotions will be made to be filled by Jesus. Heaven will be where the forgiveness I want will be and all will be right. But now it is not that IU am not a friend of her but the struggle makes it so that I just need to find ways that are healthy to meet my needs and my lord Jesus is the one that knows the heart and feels the pain. If he does not think this is righteous seeking then I think it ought not be soak. God wants me to live for him and grow out of this and please him in this area. He is there for me and welcomes my pain and I want to take it right to him and let him do the work that I need done to feel better and serve him in this area. It is a fact Erin wants the best for me and if that means she does not take times in a friendship it is a good thing because Jesus wants to fill that need and be there for me and that is how it ought to be. Jesus is the one I need to focus on and spend my time thinking about and not a person that is far and unhealthy for me.
Lord I hurt some because I want something that cannot make me like you. Jesus I ask you to fill my needs and help me to look for you and your love in this. Love is what I am craving and Jesus you love me and proved it by putting me before you. Lord help me to be a man that is going to grow and look more at you and not for a place where I am leaning on people you made. Lord help me to fill my needs and Lord fill my needs in Jesus and help me put him where he is able to forgive and meet me. Draw me close in this Lord and help me to be a stronger man for you and live close to Jesus because that is the goal of life. Lord I look for you to grow me inv Jesus I love you amen

I am going to Lynx game on Saturday night unless the Lord said no that he has not yet said. I am going to the fair in Friday and meeting up with my uncle. I am going to spend 150 but I hope I am able to spend less. I want to see ERIN play but not to say hi might be a good thing. I am happy she is saved and stuff yet Jesus did all the work on my life and used many people to get me off to my walk in Jesus. I am glad to know many people here in town that help me and love me in the Lord. It takes people to help one get into the Lord but it takes the Lord to save and encourage people in


SO Let us hit the word for a bit
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.[1]

We talked last time about the walk we have in the Spirit and tonight I want to talk about the flesh and the Works of the flesh. So lets talk about each of them a bit. Adultery is a sin. It is the sin of sex of any kind out side of marriage. It is lusting over gals and looking at them for the purpose of sexual fantyes. It is the act of homosexual people, incest, any type of sexual abuse and the bible call you not to do this and if you do your not fit for heaven. All you Priests you’re not in the kingdom. Being morally dirty like cussing and thinking about dirty things. Having an idol. It is a serious thing to have anything or anyone before the Lord Jesus in your life. Sorcery is using any kind of mood altering drugs. Some love to thing this means drugs that are used for mental health and to me that is not the thing. If you’re on a pill take it unless your Doc takes you off. I do not think however you need to take pot or any drug that is not given to you by the doc. Being Jealous is a work that can keep me out of heaven and so is losing the temper. Being selfish is something that is not good to do. I want to hit getting drunk and the whole thing about drinking. I am under conviction that one that is saved ought not drink,. It is not right to drink to me. I wish to claim this is a sin the Spirit is telling me. I am not going to let one pull me from this because this is the Lord telling me not to do it. If you drink I am not one to tell you you’re a sinner but I am going to say there is just too much of the world in the drinking that ought not be for a Christian. I might get mail on this but before you write know this is a conviction I have for the Lords work in my life.
If you keep this list in your life and keep it up and do not struggle in this list I think means your not in the Lords Spirit. It is not good to do the list and we need to repent of and get right in Christ. We are going to mess up and slip but our life ought to reflect the grace of God.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

I got to nail Pat Robertson and his comments. Pat said we ought to kill a man that does not agree with the USA. What a stupid thing to say on a show that is trying to bring Jesus to the world. I thing he ought to stop talking and get off the air. It is never right to kill anyone in cold blood unless they are a killer and or sex offender. It is not our job to kill this man and to stop a war. It is our job to go in and try to get this peacefully solved and not to kill. This man can hit us with a oil block and drive gas to a ton of money. Pat needs to be off the air and his show needs to get out the news business. It is a sad day because I like his show and find the news informative. I at one time paid them and helped them out. I got out of the club after seeing they do not have the same beliefs as I do on the gifts of the Spirit. I do not help a place that thinks one can be healed from a word of knowledge or they thing the gifts of touges are for today. God does not use that method in my own belief and I am not going to help people that do with my little funding I get. I do give to John Macarthur because he is telling the truth about thing as well as having the right doctrine on the bible.

I am going to work on a key thing in this book and the bible tonight. I am going to talk about walking in the Spirit and it might take a few times to get this concept. Lets just work and see where I am going tonight.

16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Walk in the Spirit
It is known that the Holy Spirit is a person of God. A ton I could go into here. He is the one that indwells us when we are saved and he is the one that gives us our power to walk in the life we are called to. We have a choice each time we get up to live for Jesus or live for ourselves. I have already said you are not going to keep the law and get saved and for that matter I do not think you are able to walk in the Spirit if you’re not full of him. We then need to see that we need to be filled with the Spirit. I think that happens the day your saved because that is the time your indwelled in Jesus. But each day we need to be filled or renewed in the Spirit. It consists of getting the word into our hearts and confessing our sins so that we are free from them and then it consists of submitting to the Spirit and having his power go into us and though us.
Walking in the Spirit is also not giving into the flesh and living in the world. It is a command to be in the world and not of the world. Our thoughts ought to be filtered though the Lords word. It is the animals in us that is the flesh. Like our cravings for food and fun are the flesh and so our sexual cravings. That is what we are not to live for. We are to yield and live for the Spirit. SO we are in all in a war between the Lords way and Our own way. Here is a thing that you unsaved people do not have. If your not a Christian your not going to have this. A Christian is one that has placed their trust in Jesus and not themselves. Read the link on this page called how to be saved. If you do something and you fell bad or naughty and do not know the Lord your guilt is never going away. If your saved you have this feeling hopefully and you need to confess your sins and get right in the Lord. I think if you do you are learning to walk. If you’re a Christian and go to a movie and walk out feeling like you ought of not gone your being convicted and you need to get it right and not go to certain movies. If you’re in a place the Lord makes you fell a bit bad its time to never go there and find new places to go. Or if you feel a tug to go and share Jesus with a friend obey it because the spirit is leading you.
Some think that music is a think in the battle over the flesh. I am not of that side. I know I am not going to join the rock music is bad crowd. But I am going to say that if you listen to a type of music that is not clean and is just on the line your Spirit is going to convict you. If that Christian song does not line up with solid bible your need to get it out of you is a must. If your being led by the Spirit and following the bible and doing what he wants you to do this is not following the law. Our walk in Jesus is not a set of law it is being led by the Spirit and giving more of your life to the Lord as you go. If your walking your going to begin to feel more convicted when you sin because your walking closer to God and he is holy and he wants you to be holy and like him.
I went long tonight but I needed to and might go more later on this topic
Shadman

Right to the things that matter.. Football. I think the Vikings were not all that great on Fri. night. If we cannot clean up the stupid calls we are not going to go anywhere in the playoffs. False starts are the dumb plays that are not going to get us anything. How bout the twins. They are a couple games out of the playoffs and they are getting a bit better as the play. It might be the sleeper this year and if they play hard we still might win the division.

I thing the people that are on strike ought to go to work and try to win the contract. I am talking about the NWA strike that is going on. I do think it is not right to go off a job and not work. I am making dirt and I go to work every time I am asked. I think it is not right to dishonor the people you work for. I want to people to go to work and honor the contract they have. It might be they need to put in the people that know the planes so they get the planes fixed right and the people are safe. I hope Bush calls them to the table so they get to work. I might get some stock in NWA and take the money to the bank.

I want to hit this passage in Gal again because I did not hit the points that I think I need to.

Gal 5 13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another![1]
We are not to take the fact that we are saved as a time to sin and just do what we want. I did a thing on this last week. I want to hit the fact that you fill the law when you love your neighbor as you love yourself. Love is putting the needs of others before yours. I think this is a major thing in our faith and it is a reason we lack. So what are some ways we love? We can give cash to the food shelves for the folks that need food. We can call our friends and offer rides to church or to the store or maybe to a place to eat out and go to a fun place. We can offer to cook for people and have them over. Many things we can do to make Love known. In the war we ought to write anyone we know that is in the war and try to help him or her. Friends I want to make this call to us, lets go out and help to make a difference in another’s life. Go out and but a pop or a meal for someone. Make this a daily thing and love people like Jesus.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

I want to give as Hi to Brain my co work who tries to be a packer fan and I want to say hi to all me great co-workers. I really work with some good people and they read this and I love them for it. While I am at Hi Bobby a and all you masters kids and Hi Margie and Jimbo. Go Lynx. And hey to the best sales team in the nba and for that matter the best in all of pro sports anywhere. I love you all and want you to know I am glad you’re here and reading the most important page in the world. I want to type out a email and a blog on the topic of free will and do we have it.

Rod
Here is the thing your asking Do WE SOMEHOW HAVE FREE WILL. Here are some thoughts on it. I do not know of the bible really saying we do. However I am not sure your matches thing is right either. But it is close. In the creation of man I do not think God allowed I have talked to you about this in the past. I do think God set a rules knowing it would be broken but he was already ready to deal with it. Adam did sin and that put his plan into action. But to make a good thing to think about it is not that God saves some it is amazing God saved anyone. I think man had a choice and that was to follow or not to follow God. I also think God made Adam perfect and the sin he did was intendcetional. Adam went out of his way to sin and God then went out of his way to save.

Gods Glory is forever going to be had by everyone. He A gets the fame if one goes to heaven and if one goes to hell. If a man isd saved God did it all in choosing him to pour out his love to. Like you say Pharaoh was one where God led him to hell by Hardin his heart. Yet pharaoh did not do the right things from the early time in his life. Life is always for man a choice and it might be some had many chances to hear the word and never get saved or many chances and got saved on his deathbed. And there might be some that God gave the truth to one time and because they rejected the one time God harded the heart of the sinner and they go to hell forever. Hell is not the lord’s fault because God does not make man choose hell. Man always chooses hell if he ends there. Yet God somehow chooses heaven for any one that goes there because we are not able to make a choice to go to heaven and we cannot keep our salvation when it is handed to us.

As for fair Gods word never calls God fair. He is holy and whatever he does is holy because that is right. Salvation in my mind is not fair because I am not holy thus God in grace saved me. Out of pure Holiness God has pity and saved us. It was not because of anything we did but believed and even that is a gift. If you wanted a fair God it would be instant hell for all forever. In war God has used it to kill people that rejected him and he used it to make his people get things he gave to them. In this time we have a war that we are fighting that is just because we are enforcing righteous. In my thought Governments are the tool God uses to punish sin. Our government told me to pay my taxes and if I do not then I go to Jail. It tells me I am not to kill anyone and if I do Jail. In a round about way God used the USA to tell Hussein that he is not to have a weapon and he did so we go fight him. I think our government is a tool used by God to enforce his law and his will.

Shadman
Long but made a point

I want to confess I like reading your blogs that I get to. I like to see others in Jesus and I want to read your lives and I like seeing what you talk about. I love reading the Master College folks. I went to a bible week there in 2002 and I fell in love with your place and John Macarthur. I met Erin and got saved and went their learning more bouts Erin and wanting to know more of the Christian faith. I gave my life to it and I am hoping I am faithful to that commitment I made. I have read my bible and for almost a year I have hammered a little about where I am on this site. My goal is to work on the word each time and grow and keep you up to date on my life.

I am going to run a oldie and a goodie.

Hey I went verses Last night and the first thing to say is wow and glory to the Love and Joy in Jesus. I was encouraged that the topic is in all kinds of the bible books... Psalms Proverbs, Letters, Pentuch and letters from Paul and Peter. I got no excuse to go on without the FULL knowledge of the topic.

So I am going to put the text then the comments I thin it means This I know I am not going to get though tonight but it is going to be awesome

Psalms 37 38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together;
(the transgressor is the unsaved. The unsaved got no hope and they go to hell. They go are cut off from the Lord. If you are saved your sins are forgiven and Jesus sees you as a righteous man)
The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

39 But the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord;
He is their strength in the time of trouble.
(the salvation is from the Lord. I am chosen to get it. I do not get it on my own. Jesus gave it for me. God elected me. This is in the book of Ephesians. I did not chose Jesus He choose me. Everyone said that)
40 And the Lord shall help them and deliver them;
He shall deliver them from the wicked,
And save them,
Because they trust in Him.
(I am delivered and saved because I trusted Jesus and asked him to save me and come into my Heart. Jesus said he is not going to leave and forsake me.)

Ps 91 14 “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him on high, because he has known My name.
(I am Loved by the Lord not I loved him. The new living bible starts this differently. It is clear here to the Lord is doing the Love first. I know Jesus because Jesus wanted me to.)
15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him and honor him.
(If I call on Jesus I will be heard and He will consider me. Jesus is with me in the time of trouble and He is a deliver and he will answer me. I like the fact that Jesus is going thur the trouble with me. It said Jesus is able to hear and cares. No one can say that.)

16 With long life I will satisfy him,
And show him my salvation.”
(show me salvation. meaning deliver me from Hell. Well just the words are are so powerful. The bible is NEVER WORNG AND IN THIS TO.)

Micha 7 18-29
Who is a God like You,
Pardoning iniquity
And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage?
He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in mercy.
(This is a verse I never known or heard so it is awesome. I like this that it is in a part of the Bible I got no knowledge of. It is also in a part of the bible that is not where I thought it would be. Minor Profits I think it is. I see this that God is a God that does not remain angry at me but delights in his mercy toward me. HE LONGS TO FORGIVE NOT SEND TO hell. HE PARDONS THUR JESUS ON THE CROSS-. If he did not no hope. )
19 He will again have compassion on us,
And will subdue our iniquities.

You will cast all our sins
Into the depths of the sea.
He casts my sin to the sea. This is awesome. It’s gone when I confess it. Jesus takes it far away. That is far away. He has love for us. It is like a sin cannot be held on me when I die. Wow. I guess my response to this is to adore and praise Jesus and God for his total love and for saving me. It draws this to give my royal all to Jesus the Lover of my soul and do it out of thanks
20 You will give truth to Jacob
And mercy to Abraham,
Which you have sworn to our fathers
From days of old.
This should make you sing a song to Jesus for his love of praise and adore him
Hope is in Jesus
Shad

I did a little work on the Shadman computer net and soon I am going to post some older bible thoughts on the old computer. I got that to go on the net and I just connect the files and email them to this computer. Also on that computer I got a drive for floppy disks and I am able to work with them and email them here to. Cool for all you nerds out there in the computer land. I also got a note on my blog talking about the KJV of the bible saying it is the right bible. I am not into it I guess and read many bibles in my time to study and I am not sure I think the king james is the bible for me. I happen to like the new king james and use it here on my blog and I compare many of the translations for study. I like to get the meat out of the bible and I use many things and want to use many more. I am a bible man and I hope to keep in the bible till I fall over dead. Bible is the key to life forever and I love my time in the bible and Blogging on it to you.

Gal 5 7 You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8 This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. 9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 10 I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.
So here Paul is talking to the people and he said you started well but you left the truth of grace. Even in falling into sin however Jesus did not hurt or harm the sinner. Look at the person Jesus met at the well and how Jesus loved her into repenting from her sin into trusting in Jesus. Yet Paul is asking who led them astray and has the path of truth. Friends many are out there ready to take you off the truth and onto their own way. They want you to go into a “new way” and off the truth of the bible. In our day we need to stick close to people that know Jesus and that can encourage us and keep our walk honest and get out of the life’s of people that want to take us out of the race. Jesus is the truth and he is the one that wrote the bible. One thing I think is we need to get out of the movements that are telling us there is more than the Bible. If a teacher has a vision on new things that are not in the word run out of that place. If they are getting new revelations run out and do it now. God wrote it all in the bible and shut it. No more books are going to tell you the truth. Get rid of all the books like the Koran and Book of Mormon and the watchtower or any religions books outside of the bible. God’s word has 66 books and that is it. It was all given by God to men and any other claims to this are false and if you’re saved they will hurt your walk. If a little bit of teaching is false then it is all bad and get out. I do not think you ought be in a faith that is not purely based on the bible. God has made himself known and you need to be in his word and not in other things. Jesus said to build your life on the rock and that is the bible. I do not look and type on other books because they are not going to give me hope and truth like the bible.

11 And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased. 12 I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off





13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another![1]
Here is a point I want to make and that is that do not use your freedom in Jesus to go and just do anything that you want to do. Jesus did not save us so we could go out and do whatever but he saved us so we could be pure and without sin. It is not for sinning but serving the Lord that your saved.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

Ok some personal news. I am well and working hard at my job. I got the 6th season of the simpons and they are ok to watch. I am spending lots of cash of late and I need to learn to save it so I can go to Masters Bible week this year. I am looking forward to that. I am adding some photos that I am scanning to one of the sites and recommending books on the other. SO what ever one your reading I am happy your one that is reading the sight and learning things. A friend that told me that she has a husband that has read his bible every day for the last 30 years humbles me. It is something I want to do and that is to read the bible every day and feed on the real meaning of life. I might go to the cities this week yet but who knows if I will or not.

Here is tonights Bible thoughts

Gal 5 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. 2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. 4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.[1]

What has Jesus made you free from? It is for me Jesus has helped my depression and my doubts that I am saved. Also Jesus is helping my not to cus and not to be obsessed with people and helping my focus to be more on him. He is also teaching me to be depending on his hand to provide for my needs. For that I am grateful. More I am saved from hell and that is the greatest thing I am freed from. In the text Paul said that Jesus has made us free so we ought to not be entangled in bondage again. Paul is talking in context to the Christians in land he wrote to that had brought Jewish stuff into the faith of the Christians.
In this passage Paul goes into the two sides of Grace and law. It has to do with circumcision and if one is. If you are then you trust in the law to save you. Problem is that the law had to be kept all the time is everyway and one slip means your done. If you did not get cut then you go onto the side where you count on the Lord Jesus for your forgiveness and your not in the law. If you go back then the Lord cannot save you because you are not in grace. SO do you want to have the law kept in you and for you or do you want to have to keep the law for your self. Faith is where we all ought to want to go because then you keep the law and are saved.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

Herer is a photo of me and Katyie. I went to her wedding in ca in may. I am just learning how to do photos so that is why it is so late. I am happy to know here as she was met in 2002 when I went to the Masters college. What a trip and learning about the lord. 

It is fair time so here is me at the state fair petting a pig. Ronny henkel is the one that likes to do this kind of thing so here is me and a piggy  

Tonights thought on this bible passage might not be right on but I ask the Lord to help me in thinking and preaching though the word. I am not a pro and always feel free to talk back at me in my bible thinking so I am able to improve and expand my knowledge to walk tighter with Jesus. I want to know the word and this is one way to know it and that is to bible journal. I love doing it and many I hope keep reading it.

Gal 4 21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, 24 which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar— 25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— 26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. [1]
In this John thinks Paul is using an allegory. We are looking at 2 people that Abraham had. One is by Hagar, which was not from God. She was a bondwoman and the people were the people of the law. They had to follow the law and they now live in the Muslim world. Sarah was the one that the Lord came from. Out of her seed Jesus came to set us all free. SO there are 2 convents one from Moses and one from Isaac. Law is the bondage we are in if we do not know the lord because it is going to lead us to keeping it when we can’t. We that know the Lord are going to heaven.
Jerusalem is home of the people of God and in realty our home in this earth. It is the home of God and a city that now is not ours but it will be the capital of earth when Jesus rules the world.

28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.” 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.
We are the children of the promises of heaven. We inherit all that the Lord is and will be. I am thinking the Jews are the ones that killed Jesus when Jesus was telling them that they can come to Jesus and be set free. In the casting of the bondwoman Paul is asking that we go to the freed woman and that is Sarah whose seed is the Lord Jesus and in that we have the promise of God and not the bondage of the law.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

I want to tell the person that wants to meet Bush something. Friend we are all deeply moved and sad because your son had to die. I am sad but we need to be in the war that we are in. Why first a terrorist that killed 3000 people hit us as a nation and alone we do not have to take it. We are a free land and that means we need to defend this nation from any threat to freedom. I for one am not going to let any nation nail our nation for any reason without a fight. We needed to nail the nation of Iraq and we are going to stay there till they are free and not a threat. Friend your son did not die in a vain war he died ad hero and we are thankful and grateful for him. I am thankful the US army is there to fight a land that had Hussein who killed so many of his own people and at will went into another nation and took it over because of greed. Hussein killed many people that were innocent and not free to do as they wanted. Fact is if we did not invade the Iraq funding of terror would have been up and people would of took the USA and made it a sad place. Muslims are a people that want to kill us and Iraq would of funded it.

War is never a good thing but it is a part of history and God used it to punish evil in the world. In the bible God told Joshua to kill all the people in the land that God wants to give his people. Why did the Lord kill them because of sin? All over the bible God declared war on his people to clean up sinners and make them come to him and repent. God does his work in war and people die. It is a sad thing and war is hell but without war our land would not be free and things would not be right. It is a sobering thing to think Jesus is going to use war at the end of time to bring the sinners out.

One more thing this land is not looking at and that is the withdraw of the Jews from the west bank. I am not happy one bit with the Bush plan that has the people of God losing the land that he gave them. God gave that land to the people from the time is Abraham and the people of God are going to keep that land forever and I think heaven is going to be a part of the land. God is the Lord of the land and he has a say on who gets it.

Shadman

It was mission Sunday at church today. I am happy I got to meet the Scott’s and I am hoping to love them in my prayers for them so they can go and tell the people they need Jesus and his Love. It is a good thing to go out and eat and to work. But one thing that hit me is the people in some lands do not have the Lord. One out of a two hundred people in East Asia has not one idea about Jesus and his salvation. If that is not scary Brads cousin did not know anything in the bible including Moses and Jonah. She lives in our land. Sad to think about but we have to get on the Lords army and spread the Love of Jesus in our land and all over the world. Scott’s are going to a land that really is untouched for Jesus and his grace. I know people are out there spreading the bible to the people and I pray for them because I love Jesus and people need Jesus and we are to go and tell the unsaved of the world the glorious news the God that made them wants them to know him. It is simple we broke the rules and God has to turn his face from us because the rules must be kept perfectly. If we break one law of Gods we must enter hell forever and it is going to happen to everyone. Like in court if you break a law you go to jail. If you break the laws of God your fine is hell BUT Jesus paid in full your debt and if you turn your life to his c are and turn from sins you can be forgiven and get out of jail for free. I have been in the study talking on how that works. So trust Jesus and ask him to come into your heart today. If you know Jesus please live for him and serve him. Pray for me that I will not be a man that wants to be a Christian but ask the Lord to help me be the man that looks like his and acts like the Lords. I got convicted on this on a blog today and I just do not want to be in the world and like the world but I am asking the Lord to take me and make me a good man for him here so people are asking me why I love Jesus and how can I know his grace. I do not want to be a Christian that stuggles I want to walk in Jesus and reach his people and inspire and Love the folks that need him so badly. Pray for me and I will for you. Shadman

Here is tonight’s entry into my official diary. First of all one preseason game has been played and the Vikings look good. I am looking forward to the season and maybe super bowl. I am hoping but they always have hope in the pre season heck even the Texans have hope this time of year. I think we are going to be good but I have to wait till November to know for sure. I am going to keep typing on my teams all the time. Erin is back on the IR and that is not the best thing. She needs to play hard so that she can spend the whole year on the squad. Ok I am going to try again at the passage tonight

12 Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you. You have not injured me at all. 13 You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first. 14 And my trial, which was in my flesh, you did not despise or reject, but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 15 What then was the blessing you enjoyed? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me. 16 Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?
How were they to become like Paul. They were to accept the truth and that is that you go to heaven because of your pure faith and not by works. Paul became a Jew to reach the Jews and follows the law so he has to get the respect to reach the folks that he is trying to reach. He became what he needed to be in order to get respect. Some how they helped Paul in a time he needed help so he preached there and got some converts the first time he went though there. Sometimes when we are getting our needs filled the people help us out and we in turn get to tell them the good news. Yet the people who helped out Paul became enemies. They did not want the truth of Jesus and they wanted to hang on to the Jewish faith. In this time we live in people are fin with the things they live and believe in but when you start telling them things they do not want to hear they get mad and turn on you. You are ok to befriend the non-Christian but if you bring up the truth they do not want it. Jesus is not going to accept your faith until you give up the sins your in. If you’re a drunk and want to be saved you give up the booze and then come to Jesus. If you’re a sinner you give up your sin because it is not easy to sin in Gods family. If your saved you long to please Jesus and not others. That is hard but that is the truth.


17 They zealously court you, but for no good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them. 18 But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you. 19 My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you, 20 I would like to be present with you now and to change my tone; for I have doubts about you.[1]

Now Paul is going to nail the Jewish folks that want the people to go to them not out of Love but just to get them into their faith. I look at cults that pressure you in but they are fakes and do it just to get you in. People you got to be careful not to go where it looks nice. Granite City is good at sucking you in to the false faith. Dennis will be friendly to you and love you until you are no longer theirs and find the truth. Of yes they greet you and talk a good talk to get you in the door. JWs get nice and so to do Mormons that take the bible and trash it but both want you in their camps. All the Cults work under the devil and he wants you in Hell. Folks I am not being mean in saying that I am concerned they lie to you and they are wrong. Paul wants to change his tone but he will not because the truth is not getting though to the people at this time. It is hard when a person leaves the faith. Hard on people that got them into the faith and who taught the faith to them. Pray for your faith so you wont be lost and wonder from it.

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

I want to address the people that think I am not going to the Monarch game because Erin is playing. It is not going to be a problem. I am going to go to the game and I can behave and walk in the power of Jesus and behave myself. As always you can comment and debate the thing that happened 5 years ago and it is a done deal. So go ahead and do what you need to. I am going to the game if I am able to according to my work. Work is first because I am not going to short change them and have a good record there. I want to make the money to honor the lord and honor the company.

8 But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those, which by nature are not gods. 9 But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years. 11 I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.[1]

Tonight we are going to look at the next few verses of the book I am working on. We last night talked about the truth that we are sons of God and he is our dad and in the we inherit tons of blessings and we get many things due to the truth that God owns it all and we are his. So as you know by now this church wanted to bring the gospel to the Jews and add to the Jews laws to the Gospel. It is not truth that we have to keep the law to be saved but we are saved by the cross. That is a little review of this book. Tonight lets look at verse 9 But now after you have known God, rather known by God. God knew you before the start of the earth and he knew you and I before we were saved. (PS 139) So Paul is asking why the people are turning to things that they are turning to. Why when one is saved does he want to go back to the old ways? Like go back to the lies of the churchs that teach you do so and so to be saved. People I know have walked from the truth back into lies. If you know the truth and served the Lord knowing you’re a free man and went back to the lies. Yes Brain you went back to a lie. You at one time had the grace of God and then you went back to the system of your youth and decided it was what you needed and truth is you walked from the free gift and now your trying to earn If your in the system that thinks you have to earn your freedom in Jesus then get out and come to the truth and leave the system behind.
Note pauls last statement. He labored in vain. Friend you spent much time learning to live in grace and when you left for the lie of a false system you trashed all the workers that went to bat and took time to raise you in Jesus. As for your supporters that helped you trashed them and broke hearts. It is not a good thing and a sad thing. Many took it like it is ok and I do not because I morn the lost of a brother in faith and a lost to the army of workers going out and winning the lost to true faith in Jesus. It goes to all the folks that turn from the truth and go to lies. It is not that you were a part of the free gift but people left the faith and it hurts the cause.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

I had a good day at work and I got 15 hours a week and that is going to be ok for a check. I am doing ok with my cash and I have the lord’s faithfulness to thank for that. I am not worthy of all the blessings that I am receiving but the Lord is Awesome and he does so much more than I ever can dream and expect. I had a good birthday and thank you all for coming. You all mean so much to me and I love you forever. So I am happy I got what I wanted and now it is time to buckle down and get ready for the fall.

Here is tonight’s bible passage.

Gal 46 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.[1]
God does not want to have a follow the rules relationship with you. God when he made you his own kid wanted to make you a part of his family. If your saved Jesus you are Gods kid and that makes him a ton of things to me. First God becomes my provider. He gives the believer all kinds of good gifts. Then God is the one that holds me inline and keeps me for his glory. It is a good thing to have a father that is going to keep me and never let me out of the heaven thing he gave me. I never have to worry about really anything because God is my every thing. If that is true then why worry? In the text Paul said that we have the spirit that comes into us and cries for God inside of us. Also we are not some kind of a slave but God is my father and I am a son. This is so not true in other faiths in the world because most Gods demand you give them praise but they wont give to you. God is the father and becomes all we need.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

I am a NFL fan so from now till the super bowl you are going to get NFL thoughts on this blog. I am a Vikings man. I love them. So I am not sure that Marino ought be in the hall without the ring. I am sure glad he made it and I had his rookie card at one time. Dan was a great Qb and I am glad he is in and I wish he would of won the bowl. Steve Young is a good one that was really the star followed by Joe. He won a couple of super bowls and he did do well as a running man. I hope the Viking are a good team this year and they might be. I am not a big fan of the QB we have. I just do not like his not holding onto the ball and the picks. I am not going to pick him in the draft if I play fantasy. I think I am going to pick Manning or Brady over the Vikings teams. I am not sure I am going to pick a Viking because I am not sure they are going to be the best offence. I am not going to play to lose this year. I mean they better do ok so I am able to watch them and see a season that I am able to be proud of.

Here is a word for this day

Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all, 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father. 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. 4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.[1]

I am not sure I am going to get this part right, I think Paul is taking about a young person in Jesus and how he is a slave but that did not make any sense. The heir is not a person out of the faith so that makes no sense. So I am stuck as a personal thought He is talking to Jewish men and in that it could mean the Jew was under the laws until they got to a point of Jesus and they went to grace. They were in bondage to the law until the Lord made them free from the law. In the right time Jesus came and set the Jews free. He came to make them free from the law and made Grace the law so to speak.

Mac thinks it is the coming of age compared to salvation. It is the child until he is saved and then he becomes of age and gets the truth. I am not sure about this if he is a child of God or if this is a metaphor. I do not agree because in 2 the inheritance is ours until we come to age and then we get it. Salvation is the inheritance and heaven is granted. Yet you have to wait until your ready to get the gift.
Shadman
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

Happy Sunday. Went to church today and it was good. I talked to a man at church that does a blog that is politics. I read it from time to time and it is ok. I am a diehard conservative and so is he. He did not like John Macarthur and that is sad. I love Mac and I think he is the best teacher alive and I use his teaching on my blog so if you do not like him your not going to like my blog. But you’re here so lets look at tonight’s lesion.

23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith, which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.[1]

Last time I talked on the truth that the law was given to us by the Lord to prove to us that we are sinners and we never could obey the law. I am thinking that the law was given and kept by the Lord Jesus. So tonight’s text faith came before the law. It was the law that became the tool that made us see that we are not able to go to God on our own but the law makes us need to go to Jesus and He brings me to God. The fact is I did not know I am a sinner and offended God until I saw the law and knew I broke it. Jesus Justified us so now we are ok and the Law is going to be gone in our life’s because we then are to live in the grace of God. It is not grace that allows me to do whatever I am wanting to do but grace that allows me to live my life is a way the Lord is honored. Now that the Lord saved me I am a slave to Jesus and serve him alone. I am to obey him and not the law.

26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
So when we come to Jesus we become the sons and daughters of God in Jesus. That is just like when Bob Rolfe signed the papers I became his son just like if I was born a Rolfe. I am the adopted son of the Maker of the world so if that is truth it means I inherit all the other Christians as my family and I am a Heir in the Lord. We are the children of God. We are placed into the body in Jesus and they are one. We are not a Jew or a Greek or an American but we are a part of heaven and the people and sons of the God of the world. We go to heaven and live there forever. We are not in a favored status in Jesus because God sees us in Christ the same. Jesus treats us as sons and the same. All Christians are treated the same by the Lord and are loved the same as the others. God has not favorites. We have the right to go to God and ask him for things and he will take care of us as if we were his own. What a blessing!
Shadman
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

19 What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. 22 But the Scripture has confined all under sin that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith, which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.[1]


I really want to sit and rest but I will start my talk on why God gave us the Law. He did it so that we would see that we are sinners and needed to be saved. If God did not lie out the case he would not have been good to us. God laid the law out to make us know the horrid things we did as sin to him. Also with out the law we do not need the death of Jesus and all the laws ought to do for a child of God is point them to the Lord Jesus for salvation. I urge you not to share Jesus until a sinner knows he is a sinner. If he is saved without the knowledge of his sin he is going to wind up not holding onto Jesus.

The seed is Jesus I hit that last time. I think 22 is a thing that talks about how anyone that will is able to come to the Lord Jesus and that the Seed is for all who come to the Lord for salvation. Jesus is the one the law point to on both sides of his death. On the before all the laws and things pointed to the one time for all sacrifice and that is the photo of the laws and sacrifices and the other side we look and see Jesus is the one that saves us from the hell fire of God that will take all that trust in their own works.

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

It is my 33rd birthday and I hope you all enjoy it in Jesus and learn to walk tight in the Lords arms. I had a get together at a place here in town and here is who came. Dana and Chad, Jessie and Luke Davie and Jake and Sam. Also Jeff Kellerman and Hannah and Hattie. It was fun to have Ben and Brad there to. It was a good day. I went to see the Dukes and I think the movie was not all that good to be honest with you all. I think they did not play the roles all that well and the show was not like the old show was. I am getting season one soon and then the other ones. I hope to get more money but if not that is ok to. I am content to live for Jesus and Live as if he is the one I am to please. I am able to serve him on the net here and try to live the life for him. If you readers want to email me I can send my address out to you or just comment on the blog.

Ok Last time I talked and said that Jesus was cursed by the devil for us yet I made a mistake and I am going to work this out. It is like this the devil is not owed anything for our sin payment God is. It is not that Jesus died for the devil but Jesus died for God. God is the one we owe our sin payment to because he alone is the one we offend when we sinned. I was not clear in that last time and I am making it clearer. I am not into a ransom payment to the devil because the evil of the devil sends him to hell. God is the one we fear and make peace with. We are to enter his heaven and that is who all sin is against and alone we must face. Jesus paid that fine and if Jesus paid that we have no fear if we are in Jesus. .

15 Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it. 16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ. 17 And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect. 18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise
Here is a thought on this passage. We are looking really at two periods of Gods plan here one is before the law and one is after the law. In the time before the law Abraham was made faultless by trusting in the word of God. Moses came and gave the law and then God wanted man to do in that time. Not that God plan had failed but God had to bring the plan to make the people aware of sin and how then he could point to Jesus and his plan. We are going to work on the law thing next couple of times I work on this. The Seed is Jesus and that is the one that came out of the family of Abraham. Jesus is the seed of the promise. It was given before the law and the seed saved some of the folks before the law.
I like the NIV in this passage
15Brothers, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case. 16The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say "and to seeds," meaning many people, but "and to your seed,"[g] meaning one person, who is Christ. 17What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. 18For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.
I think it is much more readable here and I get the point. Laws are given to point out sins. You cannot get into hope in the Laws but in the seed of faith. I will work more on this later

10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.” 11 But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.” 12 Yet the law is not of faith, but “the man who does them shall live by them.”
Hi there and lets just get into the word tonight. I am in Gal 3 and Paul is taking about the truth that we are saved by the Loving grace of God. Grace is never earned but is given to us as a free gift. The Jews at this time wanted to make all the new Christians Jews and make them follow the laws of the Jews but Paul is making a case that is not a good and it is a insult to the grace of God. So in the chapter of the book Paul has rebuked them for the fact that the law is not how they came to the saving faith and gained the Holy Spirit but it was from Grace and that is the free gift of God.
Paul in this section is talking about the works of the law and how they relate to our salvation. In a phase they have nothing to do with our salvation in any way. Jesus on the cross is the reason alone one is saved. In order of being saved in the law one has to never break the laws of God. So if you lust one time or you cuss one time you break the whole law of God. If you tell one lie or fail to love Jesus in the right way or steal one penny you are not saved and you broke the whole law of God and paying with your works will cost you forever out of the Lords heaven or better put Hell forever. Your in other word in debt to God all you are forever out if his sight. Jesus came to pay the fine and make you Just as you never sinned one time or Justified. SO in this you do not live in the Laws of God to keep salvation but you live for God because of your thankful heart to Jesus. You are to live in faith and not by works. Faith is the thing that God wants from you now not obeying the laws and not a strict kind of obeying. God wants a relationship like a father to you. You are made right so live in faith to the son of God enjoying your walk with Jesus and loving him more each day by doing what he asked knowing in this you show you love Jesus. In this you are working your part of obeying the Gospel.

13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.[1]
So how did Jesus redeem us? He did it is the worst way and that is being hanged out as one that had been rejected. Jesus became your sin and a curse to the God of heaven. Jesus became a curse to the devil the day he died because he payed for anyone that will come to Jesus and know they are hopelessly lost and have no possible way to be in the right side of God. Sinners must know there is no way out other then the one provided by in Jesus dieing and taking their sin and paying for it. We in getting to the point have the promise of Abraham and are poised to inherit all God is and ever will be in heaven and on the earth. We as the saved are given the absolute whole promise of God that is given to all his people. And we cannot earn it. We are not Jews but we have the rights as Jews in Jesus and all he is and evermore will be. We are given the Holy Spirit to dwell in us forever and produce our fruit in us to give to God. Our faith might not even be a lot but if we have any true faith all of God is in us and we have the Living God dwelling inside of us. Friend we have the total blessing of God in every possible way Just for having a little bit of faith.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

Hey friends been a day that I took off to go to another ball game. I went with my Job and it was a fun night. We almost got a ball and I got a little bat. I won a dinner to a place here in town to. I got some bagels and I gave them to my pastor so he can give them to the music leader Sue so that is going to be good. I talked to Mark today and I might not go to the truth and life thing this year but who knows really how the Lord is going to work. I am at 1700 and that is a heck of a nest egg to rely on. I am not going to stop saving ever because it is important to have cash saved up as you are older. I am hoping to have enough at the end to make tons of Bible camp. I am giving my estate to Camp so kids can go and learn how to walk in Jesus and not have to pay for it. Unless I have kids and if I do the Lord is too good to me and I am married and that would be more than I could ask. But the Lord is good and worthy to be blessed for his amazing love he gives to me every day I am alive here on earth.