Shadmans thoughts

I want to go back to the topic of heaven. I want to look at the one that made heaven and that is God. One thing about God is he is holy and his holiness is such that he cannot allow any sin into where he is.
Is 57 15 For thus says the High and Lofty One
Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
“I dwell in the high and holy place,
With him who has a contrite and humble spirit,
To revive the spirit of the humble,
And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
16 For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For the spirit would fail before Me,
And the souls which I have made.1
To be holy is to be separate. God is so holy he asked moses to take of his shoes when he walked on holy ground. Holy God also said if you see him in your sin you die. Jesus is the one that makes it even possible to see God in another body. Jesus being God is holy to as Peter said to go away for Peter was a sinful man. God said here he dwells on the humble people. In order to go to heaven you have to become nothing and place every ounce of trust in Jesus to take you to heaven.
Ps 20 6 Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed;
He will answer him from His holy heaven
With the saving strength of His right hand.2
God is in Holy Heaven
Mattew 11 25 At that time Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes.
I see Jesus talking to the Lord of heaven or the king of heaven. Heaven is a holy place and all that enter must have perfect holiness. Jesus was the one that lived a life and paid for you to be holy. No purgatory is needed Jesus paid your total cost on the cross for every sin you will ever commit. No payment is required Jesus went to the cross and paid you full price and Praise God it was the full price to enter.
God is the one that fills heaven.
2 kings 8 30 And may You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear in heaven Your dwelling place; and when You hear, forgive.
Solomon said this in the time of the temple. God was making a place for dwelling in heaven. Nothing or place can contain the Lord God. He is everywhere but he is mainly in heaven. Heaven is all about God and not about us. It is a holy place and a place where sin never can be. It is a serious place to worship God who is holy. God is most Holy and all he does is holy. His Glory is his passion and if something bad happens in order to make God look good and famous so be it.
God is Heaven and I am hoping to be there soon
shadman
1The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
2The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

Here are my rules of debeate on my site. I right now run a open post dwebate on all my blogs meaning your free to comment on anything within reason. I do not take anything off unless your rude or you have been banned from posting. No one is banned on here as of tonight. Here is how to get banned from my blog. If you use foul talk your gone, If your post is such to make me look bad or my friends look bad. If you abuse things your out of here. If your not a Christian and I am you both know it and you begin to abuse and knock the faith or try to mock Jesus and God your gone. If your not saved and comment on a bible study your off because your not saved. As long as we are add it I take no money for the time but I ask you to give money to any hunger place if you read me. It is not a requirement but if you can drop a 5 into a hunger place. If you do God bless and if you do not shame on you and you need to repent and get saved. Kidding. I never want to charge cash for the Gospel and my comments.
Last time I talked about the kingdom of heaven. I want to do a short series and think about heaven and the Lord granting people the right to enter Heaven. Lets go into some more facts
Heaven if a place that is forever. Heaven was never made and it will never end. God is the king of this place and God has never not been.
Ps 89 29 28 My mercy I will keep for him forever,
And My covenant shall stand firm with him.
29 His seed also I will make to endure forever,
And his throne as the days of heaven.1
The mercy of God or the withholding of the punshment from us is going to last forever. Forever is not ending heaven is not going to end ever. We that know Jesus are going to be forever and everything about Jesus is forever. It is like taking a grain of sand of a beach in Cali and moving it to china by hand and walking. It would take a ton of time. When the whole usa is moved by one grain of sand to the land of China that is like one second in forever. BTW if your not into Jesus your going to spend just a much time in hell burning and suffering. So heaven is going to last forever,.
2 Cor 5 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Heaven is forever and ever. No time is going to be there and nothing is going to make us sad ever. No sins are going to be allowed and no sinner is going to be there. Jesus our highest love is going to be there and I think our friends and church members are going to be there. We are going to live in a place with God and he is going to love us forever and share his wealth with us.
Heaven is big.
Jer 31 37 Thus says the Lord:
“If heaven above can be measured,
And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath,
I will also cast off all the seed of Israel
For all that they have done, says the Lord
It is so big there we are going to have to spend forever seeing it all. Yet the home city is going to be 1500 miles cubed. Like that is just the city where God is going to be. We are going to dwell mainly there worshiping God forever. If that is all we do it is not going to be enough but I think we do many things. Exploreing the Lord and know Jesus is going to be the best thing in heaven.
1The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

see that the John Macarthur bible is getting a update. If anyone knows why make a comment to me so I can decide whether or not to take my cash and get the new one. I am not sure I need one but I hope he makes some points clear. I think the Macarthur bible is the best one on the market and if you like me or hate me you might like Macarthur.
I went to my class reunion and I have given some of you this sight. I had so much fun there and I hope you did to. I did not get a lot of things out of the last 2 of them but this time I am hoping to build a few relationships out like Julie and Joel and also Sharon. Both are Gods kids and I hope to rekindle a few more friends and also share this site with them. So keep reading and praying and then tell 20 people to read this. We are going to share the word.
Bible time
Hebrews 11 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. 15 And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
I am in a series of the book of Hebrews and I am not sure when I am going to end this series but I want to work on this passage and take a trip with it. What is the promise they were waiting for? Well It was the new land that ended up with the crossing into the promise land. All of the people in the Abe time longed for the promise of God and that was a homeland. If your a child of God meaning you know Jesus is your king and you made him you own your also in a place you are longing and that is heaven. Heaven is our homeland and a place we long to be. Jesus is there, our friends are there and our hope is there. Jesus being our all and all is there and we long to see him. Nothing on this earth is worth compareing to the truth of Knowing Jesus and being in heaven. SO one of the things here is we need to think about heaven. Here is the rabbit trail I want to take and have wanted to and that is lets take some time to look at heaven. Lets look at some facts about it and who is going to be there, who is not going to be there and how to know and then lets go there and find out about it.
Lets tonight look at some facts:
Heaven was created by God.
Rev 10 5 The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised up his hand to heaven 6 and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there should be delay no longer, 1
Gen 1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
God made all things good and Salvation and Heaven must be the best things Jesus ever did. I think it is going to be the best thing and Jesus is making a place for us. If Jesus loves you so much he is going to come take you there and be there for you forever.
Jesus I love you
shadman
1The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

No I am not judgeing people if the bible is clear as a bell on something. If one is a homo one goes to hell that is the bible and not me talking. Yes people without the Lord are not going to see this but that is not good if your hell bound. I am not going to focus on that I have done that before and time is not going to used on a old thing. I want to reach you for Jesus and his love before I am going to condemn you to hell. I want you to love Jesus because of his love and not because you have to. I am not one to be anti I want to
11By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. 12Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.
13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. 15And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
So Sarah is the topic tonight. In the story of Abe Sarah is going tio have a baby when she was old. Well she lacked faith in the Lord and doubted him and what God said he is going to do. Sarah did not have the faith needed to do the will of God. Abe had her sleep with another thinking that was the way God was going to take him and do the promise. But God said that kid was not the one. God had a plan and a human is not going to spoil the work of God. So God did bless Abe with a son Issac and that was the one that God was going to bless Abe with. God honored Abes faith. Did Sarah have faith? Not until after Hagar was here. In the time when we honor people Sarah had a baby. But the next event is the true test. Abe took Issac to a place to give him to the Lord and kill his son and Abe did as he was asked and God rewarded his faith. SO where is the promise? Jews all came from Issac and Jesus came from this line.
God had to grant the faith of Sarah. His plan was going to be done his way and not sarahs way. Sometimes I want to run my life one way and God takes it another. God might ask me to do something one way and I do it another. Some might say I lost the goal. I say God is sovern and is going to work his goals anyhow. I had to let go of people and kind of went to that altar and tried to take the person of and I went and put James back on the altar. God is pleased and sometimes his plans come and take longer because I do not obey the Lord the first time. Faith does it Gods way the first time. We might miss the blessing the Lord is going to give you because you do life your way
Do life Gods way the first time
shad

I am not going to vote for anyone that thinks it is ok to kill kids. I do not think it is right to kill anyone unborn so if you think I am wrong comment and let the campaining begin. In 75 days we go to the polls and I want to know who you are voteing for and why. I want you to think about making the Democraps the losers all over this land. We need a congress that is going to make the war happen and that is going to have the guts to finsh what they started and that is giving freedom to a nation that needs it. I think it is worth it to send people to die for freedom no matter where they go. Freedom is a right all people need. We can say anything about our government that we need to. We need the freedom to speak out on the issues and the freedom to print anything we want. In this land we need to have freedom to preach the bible anywhere ir any other faith and we need to have the freedom to allow the kids to have bibles in school at all time and allow kids to not have to listen to the false talk of evolution.
We need a way to make all people in this nation to pay tax no matter how they got here. And we need to ask our new people to get a job or go home to their land. I am not for giving free cash to people that do not work. No more welfare and if you fail to work to bad. Work has to be the law in this land. We also need to have a wage that is 7 per hour after the first year of work and a way for low income to get insurance by making part of the ss they take out to go for a good health care plan. I am for allowing people to pay their cash into a account for ss that they control. Government does not owe you a retirement it is up to you to place a few dollars away in a account to invest into a good fund. Take my ss cash and invest it into bonds where it can grow. And have all workers ss go into insurance they control.
I got help with this thought, we need to make the nations we give money to buy from us. If we give china 50 million for food they buy it from us and not from another nation. It does a couple of things it gets the economy working for us and it keep worker here employed. If we give nations cash and they buy from another place we lose our jobs and money. We give you money spend it here. We also ought to be into making oil here. We need 20 new places to refine oil in 20 years. Make cars we can gas up in our land.
Ok I want to think about the bible tonight and I want to talk on predestination
Here is a list of bible passages on the topic because I could not find them on this site so here they are. So look them up and learn this topic because I want to go into another topic tonight
General scriptures concerning Genesis 21:12,13; Exodus 9:16; 33:19; Deuteronomy 4:37; 7:7,8; 10:15; 32:8; Joshua 11:20; 1 Samuel 12:22; 1 Kings 12:15; 20:42; 2 Kings 19:25; 2 Chronicles 6:6; Job 23:13,14; Psalms 33:12; 65:4; 78:67,68,70-72; 105:17-22; 135:4; Proverbs 16:4; Isaiah 44:1,2,7; Jeremiah 1:4,5; Malachi 1:2,3; Matthew 11:25,26; 20:16,23; 22:14; 24:22,40,41; 25:34; 26:24; Mark 13:20,22; 14:21; Luke 4:25-27; 8:10; 10:20; 17:34-36; 18:7; 22:22; John 6:37,39,44,45; 15:16,19; 17:2,6,9; 21:23; Acts 1:7; 2:23,39,47; 3:18; 4:28; 13:48; 17:26; 22:14; Romans 1:6; 8:28-30,33; 9:7-33; 11:5,7,8; 1 Corinthians 1:26-29; 2:7; Galatians 1:15; Ephesians 1:4,5,9-11; 2:10; 3:11; Colossians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:4; 2:12; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 1:1,2; James 1:18; 1 Peter 1:2,20; 2 Peter 1:10; Jude 1:4; Revelation 13:8
I need to make one comment on the topic and then we are going to Hebrews. Last night I talked to a pal and he asked if the devil was made to sin. I do not think that the devil and us are the same and for that matter angels and man are the same. Salvation is not for the evil one or the angels. It is only for man. God does not save the being so thus predestination does not apply to them.
HEB 11 8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; 10 for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11 By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.
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I confess this is not where I want to talk from tonight. I guess there is a lot to say and my heart is not really where the Lord wants it in this study. I want to think about how I am to be a slave to Jesus but I am going to go with Abe because I feel this is where I am to go. Abe was a man of faith. I said before that faith is the belief in God and knowing him. Also faith is obeying God when it does not make any possible sense. Boy Abe had tons of faith. God told him to go to a place and Abe did not even know where he was going. In our lifes when we come to know Jesus we are going to leave the things of the world behind us and follow. We are to leave the past sins and the past all together and go forward into a life that is in Jesus. Some have to leave homes or towns to get to a place where God can bless them and make them new. If you come to Jesus and life is not changed did you come to Jesus. It might be your a drunk and Jesus finds you and saved you. Jesus is going to ask you to give up your drinking and follow him. For me I have to give up gals I want to date to be in the will of God. I cannot have the one I want. It might be your a fan of porn. If you get saved you have to give it up and go to Jesus for all your needs and if you do not you might not be in Jesus. Maybe a dream or a school. Maybe a habit but if God said to give it up or tells you in the bible it is wrong you need to obey him. Yes Abe was saved by his faith but his life showed he had this faith. Does your life show it? Abe did not know where he was going but he followed the Lord and it was God became his goal. Seeking the Lord ought to be my goal. If one follows the Lord then you are happy just in him. Other things are not going to matter really. If your on a trip to Glory we are not going to stay here so we need to move on and get our lives out of the things of the world and into Jesus. Jesus is our goal not our money or fame here. It is not for here we are living. We are going to heaven and this world is not our home. We seek not the things like sex or government, we seek to follow a king the world is not part of. It is not our bank account it our heavenly place we need to place our hope in.
SO if your His live a life the honor him and obey him. Life is good if you know Jesus and forget the cares of this world. Work and make sense in money matters. Save for retirement and trips but if the Lord said to you give some away trust him and do as he asked you. Jesus is going to care for us. Cast all cares on Jesus and let him control your life do not handle it alone. I guess my goal is to give Jesus all I have and in doing that I am going to trust him for everything.
Shadman
1The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

Christians are not saying what you think theyh are. Jesus was one that worked with woman and he loved them. Islam said to hate and kill people. As you think that the religion is all the same your wrong. The role of ladies in the church is they are needed. They are needed to teach the kids and they sing in the choir and they work in the church to do many tasked. The bible asked that males lead the church and this is because that is the truth of the bible. As a humanist you are making so many reasons to not find Jesus and I in a way want to share that every time you study anything of the Christian faith your going to get it wrong and that is because God is not going to give you truth. You say I am a open hater of people and that is not the truth. I follow the bible in all I do and think and my bible said woman have roles and so so male. When you start giving the roles for men to woman you open tons of things that are evil like its ok to be gay and not the truth about sex. Woman can do any job and that is not right.
We so not allow gays to be ok because the bible is clear on this topic. If your allowing gay marriage it means God is no longer blessing the land. Jason and Shelly the bible is my truth and it plainly said gay people are not ok with God nether are killers, sex outside of marrige, abortion and the folling list. IF ANYTHING ON THIS LIST IS TRUE YOU WILL NEVER GO TO HEAVEN. God forgives the sin of homosexual life but if you want heaven you will forsake it and not be gay. I do not hate gays. I love them yet I warn them of the bible and how if they want Jesus they have to forsake all sins and follow Jesus. Here is the bible a
Gal 5 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
On gay people I have to follow God and not man on this issue
Forbidden by God.
Lev 18:22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.
Lev 20:13 If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.
Rom 1:26–27 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
1 Cor 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,
1 Tim 1:9–10 knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,
Cf. Deut 22:5; Gal 5:19–21; Eph 5:3–5; Jude 1:7
MacArthur, J. 1999. The MacArthur topical Bible : New King James Version . Word Pub.: Nashville, Tenn.
So put me where you need to I am a Christian and I am following the bible and I am not going to listen to this world and the culture because this world one day is going to go and Jesus is going to last forever and I know I am going to live with him in heaven forever and the things of the world are such that I find them sinful and this believe in myself is junk and I reject it.
I love you
1The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

I want to finsh what I started and that is the series on reasons to be joyful in the Lord. We are commanded to always be full of the joy of the lord and not to find our hope in the world things. I was watching a soccer game and the thought is it is going to end. In Jesus our joy is never going to end If you make friends here based on the Lord that friend might never end because heaven is going to be a place where we enjoy Jesus and each other forever. Here is the list for you that have a bible notebook or want to write inside of the bible.
Reasons to find Joy in my God
1 We ought to rejoice in the Lord because of who God is.
2 We ought to rejoice in the Lord because out of the work of salvation
3 We ought to rejoice in the Lord because for the work of the Holy Spirit in our life
4 We ought to rejoice in the Lord because of the blessings we have in our walk with Jesus Christ
5 We ought to rejoice in the Lord because Of the total provision of God and the way he meets all of our needs
6 We ought to rejoice in the Lord because of the truth that we are going to live forever in heaven
7 We ought to rejoice in the Lord because God hears and answears all of our prayer
8 We ought to rejoice in the Lord because of the gift of the bible and for him giving us access to it
9 We ought to rejoice in the Lord because for the fellowship that we enjoy with our Family in Jesus
10 We ought to rejoice in the Lord because the good news of Jesus is going out to the world.
Here is a good place to make a copy and post on the board or in the place where you spend your time in Jesus. I want to work on the last 2.
We ought to rejoice in God because of the fellowship of our family in Jesus. The family of God is every saved Christian in the world. I do know you reading might not know how to be saved. If you do not know please contact me and I am will show you from Gods word how to know your saved and going to spend forever in heaven. Without that you have nothing to rejoice about. Jesus has nothing for you but hell. Please get saved and find out the truth tonight.
1 thes 3 6 But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always have good remembrance of us, greatly desiring to see us, as we also to see you— 7 therefore, brethren, in all our affliction and distress we were comforted concerning you by your faith. 8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
9 For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sake before our God, 10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and perfect what is lacking in your faith?1
Paul longed to be with the people he loved. Paul wanted to spend time with his family he helped find and in heaven he is going to. In heaven I am going to see people I dearly miss like Greg and Paul, I am going to be with the Huls gang and the Bueschers, I am going to hang with Brad and Kelly and Dan and all the people that I loved on earth. And there no end to the fellowship and joy we are going to share. I am not going to be alone in heaven.
I am getting to fellowship in church with my church family. I went out and ate with Ken and Barb and a few in the body were with us. It is joyful to hang with people in the church and get to know them and love on them. I got to see Miss Hansen and talked about the Lord. It is a joy to have a church where the family meets. We are told to meet together even more as the time of the Lord comes. Paul longed to see his family and I do to.
Phil 1 4 I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers, 5 hearing of your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints, 6 that the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. 7 For we have great joy and consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.
We are joyous for the love that others have for us. Also for the work of sharing the news with others. We are refreshed when we spend time in the Lord and with others in the Lord getting to know eachother and loving on and meeting others need for the love. Jesus is the one that meets your needs and the way he does it is the time he grants with others.
2 jn 12 Having many things to write to you, I did not wish to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, that our joy may be full
I like to read your blogs and letters when I get them but I want to see you face to face and see your smile and hear you sing and fellowship. Many times I think of the time in heaven. I plan to spend 10 million years with each one that is in heaven. It is going to be possible.
We rejoice in God because the Good news is being spread.
I love the Gospel and how it is going all over the earth. Many are on trips and many more are out going to the people and you move with the people. It is the highest call to share the Gospel and when I think of the people in my life who suffered because I did a lot of mocking before Jesus saved me. I know they are out sharing the truth. Missions are a joy when one person get saved. Jesus said there is a party every time someone is saved.
Luke 15 8 “Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? 9 And when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I lost!’ 10 Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
1The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

We Rejoice in God for the bible. The Bible is the most important book in print ever. In this time and place the bible is all over the place. In any home in this land there is a bible. In the usa the bible is in most bookstores and on the net. This was not the case in the past and in some nations the bible is not allowed to be had or read.
In 1300s the pope told the people to burn the bones of people who wrote the bible for the English party. John Wyclif went and gave us the bible and the pope said that the common man was not able to read the bible. If they did the Pope would be out of a job and his church could not have a hold on that time and be the cult that it still is. John Hus took over where JW left off and kept the bible working for the people. He was burned at the stake and his last words were that there needs to be a reformation so the common man can find the Lord and the bible. Then the printing press was used to make lots of bible that led to the reformers getting their hand on the bible and shutting the pope out of his cash and beginning a movement from the cult.
In 1496, John Colet, another Oxford professor and the son of the Mayor of London, started reading the New Testament in Greek and translating it into English for his students at Oxford, and later for the public at Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London. The people were so hungry to hear the Word of God in a language they could understand, that within six months there were 20,000 people packed in the church and at least that many outside trying to get in! (Sadly, while the enormous and beautiful Saint Paul’s Cathedral remains the main church in London today, as of 2003, typical Sunday morning worship attendance is only around 200 people… and most of them are tourist). Fortunately for Colet, he was a powerful man with friends in high places, so he amazingly managed to avoid execution.
Many men were killed by the Pope in the history of the bible. I am thankful for the bible and I am honored that I get to read the words of the High God and the only God. Jesus is the one the bible gave us. I gave a historyt because I think it is wonderful the book God gave to me so I can read his love for me,
Here are some things to think about when you think about the Joy of having Gods Word
Psalms 19 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul;
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;
8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;
9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold,
Yea, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them Your servant is warned,
And in keeping them there is great reward.1
Psalms 119 97 Oh, how I love Your law!
It is my meditation all the day.
98 You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies;
For they are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers,
For Your testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients,
Because I keep Your precepts.
101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way,
That I may keep Your word.
102 I have not departed from Your judgments,
For You Yourself have taught me.
103 How sweet are Your words to my taste,
Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way.2
Really that is a great chapter on the bible.
Rejoice in the bible and read it all the time.
Shadman
1The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
2The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

Just a thought, I am not free to say what I want sometimes on my site. I want to go into a ton of things that if I got them on my site people would be so abusive and nail me. I wish I could go into a lot but I cannot. I give up on some things and I give up on people who try to tell me to not talk what I want to on this page. If you want me to stop this blog it is for sale at 100 bucks for every entry. It is going to cost tons of money to shut me up.
Joy in Jesus
We ought to rejoice in God because he hears us and gives us a answer whenever we pray. Prayer is a funny thing because we are asking for the will of God to be done and that is what is going to be done anyhow. God always does his sovern will. God saves only the people he wants saved and nobody else is going to get saved. God has a plan for the war in the world today and he has the people alive right now that he wants alive. If one died in a war by any means it was time to go because God decided it was time to go. Yet we pray for things we want to happen and God always thinks and gives the thing he wants. He wants me to leave relations he is going to make that happen and if I fight it he is going to keep it his way.
Ps 66 20 20 Blessed be God,
Who has not turned away my prayer,
Nor His mercy from me!1
God did not turn the prayer away. When you pray I think it is a good thing to make sure you are repenting and sorry for your sin and you make it right to the best of your side with others. Then God is going to listen to you. If your not going to make it right your prayer is not going to be heard.
Psalms 116 1 I love the Lord, because He has heard My voice and my supplications.
2 Because He has inclined His ear to me,
Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.2
Love the Lord and find joy in him because he has heard you and loves you and hears you. Call on him because he is the one that is going to help you and make you serve him.
Ps 116 17 7 I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
And will call upon the name of the Lord.3
It is not to a sacifice if it does not cost me something. Lord help me to be more giving to you knowing it is always a gift to be in you.
Ps 118 21 I will praise You,
For You have answered me,
And have become my salvation.4
I am going to Love the Lord because he is my Joy and is my salvation. He is all I am ever going to need in this life and he is going to take me where he wants me to go. Jesus is the best thing for me because he has me on his mind and is always going to care for me.
John 16. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. 24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.5\Jesus makes pray a source of Joy in him. If you ask God for anything and he grants it then your Joy is full and it makes God famous. Ask him for all things and then all your Joy is going to be focused on him and not on you or the earthly things but on the one that made the earth,.
1The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
2The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
3The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
4The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
5The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

I want to keep going On reasons to rejoice in Jesus. It has been a blessing to do this study.
We ought to have Joy in God because God works out all things for our Good.
Romans 8 28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
All things means the good and the bad. If we sin God can work it out for our good. All sin God is going to work on and help me to grow and make me find that sin is not the place to go to. God has a plan and when I am working to find that plan and work to fill it things are great. But even in my times when I blow it God is working to find me and have me repent and find my Joy in him.
James 1 2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
Like I say sins can bring good. But hard times are a blessing from the Lord. I know that it is not fun to say it but in hard times we ought to be full of Joy because they are going to bring us growth in the Lord and to me any growth is a good thing. It is going to bring us fruit and blessings and God is going to bring his glory into us and people might see the hope and ask. And if one finds Jesus because he is working in me all praise to him.
We ought to rejoice in God because of the promise we have in Heaven. I love this one. We ought to know we are going to heaven because of our faith in the blood of Jesus shed on the cross. And I add we find Joy in the truth that we will never lose our salvation
Psalms 16 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices;
My flesh also will rest in hope.
10 For You will not leave my soul in Sheol,
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
11 You will show me the path of life;
In Your presence is fullness of joy;
At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.1
I had a school teacher that really began my faith in Jesus and she had the verse above on her office wall. It is one of the best. God is not going to leave me in hell when I die he is going to take me to the place my Loving king is and that is heaven. God is going to give me life forever and that life is going to be close to him. NOTE I got to make this comment on this passage. The Romans might try to put 10 into your mind and say that this is purgatory. Not true. It is speaking of Jesus and God not going to leave him dead. If Jesus is dead I am wasting my time. He is alive and is the one who lives in me and one day Jesus is going to take me around heaven.
1The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

Lets get back to the study I am working on on Reasons to rejoice in Jesus all thing time. I was talking about the Joy we need to have due to the work of Jesus on the cross.
Rom 5 5 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.1
At one time every man was at war with a holy God because we broke his law. God demands that we follow his laws perfectly and if we do not our life is in rebellion and God declared that we are at war with him. In Jesus and his work Jesus took on the sin that caused us to be at war with God and we paid and took the heat for it. When we trust in Jesus alone we can go to Him and be saved. Our war is over and we get the peace treaty. We can be rejoicing on this Jesus took the pain and paid our way into heaven.
1 peter 1 Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.2
We have the salvation of our souls and our sins are paid for in the death of Jesus so how can we not be joyful. Jesus has give us life forever that is his gift so we ought to be full of Joy. Our sins are gone and Jesus is the hope of our souls and this is all we are to look at. We have heaven forever so why ought we not find Joy in that, we do not love this world. Matter of fact we are not going to find Joy in the things that end. If you trust in the things here your joy is going to end. Jesus said to rejoice in the fact we are in heavens books not in the things of this world.
We ought to rejoice in thework of the Holy spirit on our behalf.
Rom 8 26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.3
In the God head we have the Spirit pleading on our behalf every day. All the time the spirit is before the Father praying for us and asking for Jesus to work in our life. Also the Holy spirit makes intercession knowing the will of God and what is best for me in my life and walk with Jesus.
We ought to rejoice in God because of the blessings we have in our life.
Eph 1 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,4
God has given us all blessings in the bag the day that we got saved. I think part of the reason that we need to keep seeking Jesus is that we need to discover them and praise God for them. Gods blessings are so vast and so many. One of the blessings is God choose us to be in Jesus. He did not choose everyone to be his. And he choose us before the creation so we have been thought of by God forever. God had it planed that we were to be made holy in the Blood of Jesus and we were going to blameless.
Phil 4 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
God has given me the power to work and serve Jesus in all ways when I came to him. We have all the blessings so we ought to serve him and take our lives and reach others with the news of Gods love and grace. We thank him by serving him in what he asked us to do. We rejoice that all the power in God is in us and that ought to make us not ashamed to stand up for Jesus and bring joy to him and to others.
Col 2 8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
God does not want us to look to the things in the world to fill our needs and make us rejoice, he wants to fill them in him. All the things in the world are going to end. All the things in God last forever. And the world does not rejoice in Jesus and his power the world looks to things. In this passage we that are in Christ are complete and do not have to go outside of our faith to fill our needs. As in the above passage we have everything in Jesus and we need to rest in him and not leave his side to find our joy. Rejoice because your in Jesus and he made you to go to him alone for all your needs
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2 Peter 1 2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Just another passage to nail this concept of we have all we need in Jesus. Our hope rested in Jesus alone and if we go for anything else as God's kids we are going to lose. We are going to lose time we can serve Jesus and make him famous and that is time I for one am not glad to lose
1The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
2The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
3The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
4The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

I always want to go into Hebrews and the Lord somehow gets me on something else. I want to and I think the Lord wants me to do this on rejoicing so I am going to go on this. I want to take some time and bring a message on reasons to be Joyful in the Lord. Joy is something we need to have and will have in life if we are in Jesus and living for him. So grab your bibles because some do not like my version and let Jesus work in this.
I want to launch out on the passage that is short.
1 Thes 5 16 Rejoice always,1
It is a short loaded command. It is one thing I need to do as a child of God and it is important. It is something we can do to defeat depression and anger. God gives us reasons to rejoice and thank the Lord.
We can rejoice in God because of the chacter of God. God is good. He is never bad. All he does is good for those who love him and obey him. Lets go to the word and find some good reasons to find Joy in who the Lord is.
Ps 28 7 The Lord is my strength and my shield;
My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped;
Therefore my heart greatly rejoices,
And with my song I will praise Him.2
Neh 8 10 Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”3
Note the Joy of the Lord is your power and your strength. It is the power that makes me go and the thing I long for and the fuel of life. His power is the thing that makes me get out of bed and live my life in a way that makes him mine. Jesus was raised in the strenght of the Lord God and that is the power we have to live the life for Jesus and the hope we have.
We can rejoice in God because he has redeemed us. This shows us Grace, love, mercy and compassion for the sinner. Grace is the stuff we get in Jesus. Mercy is the debt Jesus paid for us when we ought to have been born and seconds later sent to Hell forever. If we got what we earned we would be sent to hell forever on the first sin. God gives you this day to get to know him and to be saved.
Luke 10 20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”4
Jesus said to be happy that your his. It is grace that your his and that is good to have so much in Jesus.
Rom 5 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.5
1The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
2The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
3The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
4The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
5The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

Cloud you never cease to make me laugh. He wrote some things about studying the bible and he gets it wrong, He never gets things right He did nopt recommend John Macarthur and that alone makes this a stupid thing. Then he said most of the good commentaries are all New Evangelical. I am one of them. He said if your not based on the King James they are wrong. Hey the New King James is my bible. I wish it was your bible to and then the world could say they agree with me.
SO my Bible school better let me get some good software. It costs to much to buy it but I have to I have to. I have most of the commentarys that Cloud does not like off the computer but I want them on my computer so I am able to place thing I want you the reader to look at. I mean does it matter if they are not on sure but I use them tons and tons here to get the meaning out of the bible so you can read me and I am able to study the bible hard and get more results. I just ordered Mac commentary's for a song. Go to www.freebiblesoftware.com and get one yourself.
Here is something to know and read over and over again in light of the war we are fighting
A Contrast Between
Mohammed and Christ
Mohammed was the prophet of war; Christ is the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6-7).
Mohammed’s disciples killed for the faith; Christ’s disciples were killed for their faith (Acts 12:2; 2 Tim. 4:7).
Mohammed promoted persecution against the “infidels”; Christ forgave and converted the chief persecutor (1 Tim. 1:13-15).
Mohammed was the taker of life; Christ was the giver of life (John 10:27-28).
Mohammed and his fellow warriors murdered thousands; Christ murdered none but saved many (compare John 12:48).
Mohammed’s method was COMPULSION; Christ’s aim was voluntary CONVERSION (Acts 3:19).
Mohammed practiced FORCE; Christ preached FAITH (John 6:29,35).
Mohammed was a WARRIOR; Christ is a DELIVERER (Col. 1:13; 1 Thess.1:10).
Mohammed conquered his enemies with the sword; Christ conquered his enemies with another kind of sword, the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God (Heb. 4:12; Acts 2:37).
Mohammed said to the masses, “Convert or die!”; Christ said, “Believe and live!” (John 6:47; 11:25-26).
Mohammed was swift to shed blood (Rom. 3:15-17); Christ shed His own blood for the salvation of many (Eph. 1:7).
Mohammed preached “Death to the infidels!”; Christ prayed “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34).
Mohammed declared a holy war (Jihad) against infidels; Christ achieved a holy victory on Calvary’s cross (Col. 2:14-15) and His followers share in that victory (John 16:33).
Mohammed constrained people by conquest; Christ constrained people by love (2 Cor. 5:14).
Modern terrorists derive their inspiration from Mohammed and carry out their despicable atrocities in the name of his god Allah; Christians derive their inspiration from the One who said, “Blessed are the peacemakers” (Matthew 5:9).
Some modern day disciples of Mohammed responded to the terrorist attacks by cheering in the streets; modern day disciples of Christ are deeply grieved at past atrocities carried out by those who were “Christians” in name only (the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, etc.).
Many Muslims are peaceful and peace-loving because they do not strictly follow the teachings of their founder; many Christians are peaceful and peace-loving because they do strictly follow the teachings of their Founder (Rom. 12:17-21).
Mohammed called upon his servants to fight; Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world; if My kingdom were of this world, then would My servants fight . . .but now is My kingdom not from here” (John 18:36)
Mohammed ordered death to the Jews (see A.Guillaume, The Life of Muhammad, Oxford University Press [1975], p. 369); Christ ordered that the gospel be preached “to the Jew first” (Rom. 1:16).
The Koran says, “Fight in the cause of Allah” (Qu’ran 2.244); the Bible says, “we wrestle not against flesh and blood” and “the weapons of our warfare are not carnal” (Eph. 6:12; 2 Cor. 10:4).
The Koran says, “Fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them” (Qu’ran 9.5); Christ said, “Preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).
The Koran says, “I will inspire terror into the hearts of unbelievers” (Qu’ran 8.12); God inspires His terror (fear, reverential awe) into the hearts of believers (Isaiah 8:13).
The Koran (Qu’ran) is a terrorist manual which condones fighting, conflict, terror, slaughter, and genocide against those who do not accept Islam; the Bible is a missionary manual to spread the gospel of peace to all the world (Rom. 10:15).
Mohammed’s Mission was to conquer the world for Allah; Christ’s mission was to conquer sin’s penalty and power by substitutionary atonement (2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Pet. 3:18).
Mohammed considered Christ a good prophet; Christ pronounced Mohammed to be a false prophet (John 10:10; Matt. 24:11).
Mohammed claimed that there was but one God, Allah; Christ claimed that He Himself was God (John 10:30-31; John 8:58-59; John 5:18; John 14:9).
Mohammed’s Tomb: OCCUPIED!
Christ’s tomb: EMPTY!

I need to press on and work to get my books wrote for you. First of all Bush got it right right when he said we are at war with the people of the Muslim faith. Yes the usa is going to beat up a faith many people have. I am not going to be good to people that kill others and made a case to kill others. Muslims want to kill people who do not convert to them. Jesus never would be close because Jesus said to love others and convert the ones who do not agree in love. This is a major thing in the Muslim faith and it is enough that the USA needs to nail people that think this way. It is not allowable to me to have people that are going to kill. In england they stopped a big plan using phone tapping, I am so glad we have the taps because it saved lives and that is the key. People that want me to become more tolerant I will when others do not kill for the faith.
Hebrews 11 7 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.1
Noah was a man of faith. Before there was rain on earth God asked him to build a boat. The world was going to flooded because of the sins of man. God was sad that he made Man and he wanted to start over. Noah was the one that God loved because he was a man that feared God and knew him. I happen to think man of today are like the time of Noah It is a time of sin and of open sex with anyone in the world. Homos are out in force demanding the right to marry. It is like it was in the time of Noah. God does not like a sinner who does not repent and he is preparing to make sinners in hell. But Noah built a boat in a place the bible said it had never rained. People today are thinking the rapture is not going to happen and think it is a joke. It is like it was in the then.
So it started to rain, and people re thought this and they did not get a second chance to get into the ark. Noah went in and God shut the door and it started to rain. Many people in the evolution false faith say the water made the earth. I read a thing that said southern MN was under a sea and it was true because before the flood land was a lot more. I think the oceans were not there and that is a judgment. So they say the grand cannon was formed by water and it was formed by a flood. All the world was killed and Noah and his sons and kids were saved. God is not going to allow you to live in sin and get away with it. All the earth died and all the life died. It was like the thing in India times millions and millions. It was bad. Noah was real and all the Lords word is real.
Please consider your place in the kingdom and if your saved go and share Jesus with a friend. Take them them to lunch or buy them a coke. Jesus wants to love them and get your friends.
Shadman
1The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

I think you making us think we are taking away from the bible by using the better translation is wrong because you are asserting I am not saved because of the bible I read. This is wrong. I read many versions and I know mine are right. Really it is a major reason I cannot be a baptist. I have had many good solid men of God tell me the king james is not the best and I truly think they are right. Baptists for some reason want to preach about a bible John Macarthur teaches the bible. I am certain that if you got to know the issue from a fair perspective you might see that many more do not think the king James is the best bible. I know you might not allow my comments but I have done more on this topic then many and the people never can beat me at a balance fight on this. I made one church go to the new king James and I am proud that I did. New King James is the best bible. I trust it and think anyone that doubts me is a tad into the Law and the dotting of eyes and crossing of ts. I am not going to allow anyone to make this boy think differently. I am sure of where I stand and I am sure I am going to read the bible and the trust in it no matter what the wackos say. Jesus did not like it when they followed to a t and I am not sure I do either.
Here is something to think about. Someone asked who is the greatest preacher in the world and the person said we do not know him because he is preaching to the people in a jungle somewhere. Friend your pastor is the best preacher and I know mine is. Keep going to your church and also listen to John Macarthur. He is a good one for your weekday listening, We ought to make a goal to make our local church rich and glory filled. That is the best way to share Jesus is to bring them to him at your local church. Gods plan is the local church. It was Paul's plan to make the local church the way. He preached and planted churches all over the world of his day. They went out and did the work of saving people and helping them to know the bible.
Jesus Loves you

If I do not know who you are I am not able to thank you for the wish. I did have a happy birthday. If anyone has some old John Macarthur preaching tapes I want them so I am able to get a big tape set going. I love good preaching so if you know of a preacher to check out email me or comment and I am going to look at them. I think each of you ought to get some preaching tapes and learn the bible better so you can compete with me on trivia. At least start a site to get your bible out or anything out there to tell people. I have done lots of work on this site so I hope you tell others. I am here until all people are saved added to a church and speading ther News of Jesus and his grace to all mankind.

Last time I went into the topic that many folks do not like and that is predestnation. I got into it with churchs over this. One time a person got me in a car and proceeded to yell at me how I am wrong over this and how I am not to talk about it in the church I was going to at the time. People have told me that I am not a person that is calvinist. I even think the people at a church wanted me out over this. Well I offered to sit down and study it out and they refused to. I have seen the sham Hunt has done to make this wrong. I think Hunt is a bad teacher and so to is a lot of churchs that fight this.

Here is a list of verses and I am going to work on them later

PREDESTINATION
-General scriptures concerning Genesis 21:12, 13; Exodus 9:16; 33:19; Deuteronomy 4:37; 7:7, 8; 10:15; 32:8; Joshua 11:20; 1Samuel 12:22; 1Kings 12:15; 20:42; 2Kings 19:25; 2Chronicles 6:6; Job 23:13, 14; Psalms 33:12; 78:67, 65:4; 68, 70-72; 105:17-22; 135:4;
Isaiah 44:1, Proverbs 16:4; 2, 7; Jeremiah 1:4, 5; Malachi 1:2, 3; Matthew 11:25, 26; 20:16, 23; 24:22, 22:14; 40, 41; 25:34; 26:24; Mark 13:20, 22; 14:21; Luke 4:25-27; 8:10; 10:20; 17:34-36; 18:7; John 6:37, 39, 22:22; 44, 45; 17:2, 15:16, 19; 6, 9; 21:23; Acts 1:7; 2:23, 39, 47; 3:18; 4:28; 13:48; 17:26; 22:14; Romans 1:6; 8:28-30, 33; 11:5, 9:7-33; 7, 8; 1Corinthians 1:26-29; 2:7; Galatians 1:15; Ephesians 1:4, 5, 9-11; 2:10; 3:11; Colossians 3:12; 1Thessalonians 1:4; 2:12; 2Thessalonians 2:13; 2Timothy 1:9; Titus 1:1, 2; James 1:18; 1Peter 1:2, 20; 2Peter 1:10; Jude 1:4; Revelation 13:8
-EXEMPLIFIED .In the destruction of .Eli's sons 1Samuel 2:25 .The Hivites Joshua 11:20 .The Philistines Judges 14:4 .Ahaziah 2Chronicles 22:7 .Amaziah and the idolatrous Jews 2Chronicles 25:20 .In the covenant with Abraham to have posterity Genesis 21:12; Nehemiah 9:7, 8 .Zerubbabel Haggai 2:23 .The apostles John 13:18; 15:19 .Jacob Romans 9:12, 13 .Rufus Romans 16:13 .Paul Galatians 1:15.See CONTINGENCIES

I am in rochester so no calls please. I got here last night. It is my birthday so cards are still ok. I still like to know I am loved out there in blogger land. I know I am because all you come. I got footprints so I am glad people are enjoying this thing I do so I am going to do it until everyone on this earth thinks like I do and it is going to be a long time. I find myself sometimes a little down and I have been drawn many times to a bible passage I want to work on today and that is Eph 1.
Eph 1 3How we praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we belong to Christ.
Note first that in Jesus we have every blessing. Some are going to tell you that you have to grow into the blessing or somehow earn them. This passage said we have been blessed already with aall blessings. When you come to Jesus you have all of Jesus and not just some of him. Every thing in the bible is yours and not one thing is lefgt out. Forgiveness, life forever in heaven, faith, power to live for Jesus and everything is all yours the time you made Jesus king. And we belong to Jesus forever and nothing is lost when you got saved. Not one person has lost salvation or blessing so you that want to think your lost after your saved are wrong. God saved you...

4 Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. 5His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave him great pleasure.
Now I could go the way many want me here but I am going to go the way I need to. God choose us before the beginning of time. It said that. It does not say here we had the choice and this is not popular in some fronts of the faith. I am going to side here on the place where I know many in my realm are not. God choose people to go to his side and they are the ones that go. No people are not going to side on Gods side or even choose to go to Jesus God does it. God choice is that he is going to save some and lose others. It means that some are saved and others are lost by Him and not on the your side. If you get into Jesus it is becasue God chose you and not because you chose him. That takes all the glory and gives it to Jesus and not you. It means you had nothing to do with it and God did it.
6So we praise God for the wonderful kindness he has poured out on us because we belong to his dearly loved Son. 7He is so rich in kindness that he purchased our freedom through the blood of his Son, and our sins are forgiven. 8He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.
God gives you all so he gets all the praise. It is the kindness God gave to us not because we do anything at all to deserve it. Yes you accepted the gift but you do nothing to get it. It is not of you at all that you got saved it is God alone that gave you the love for him and the truth and the love you have for him. Note how you are given life. It is the blood of Jesus alone that gives you freedom and forgiveness. He died on the cross so you can be saved. All forgiveness is of ther cross and offered via the blood of Jesus. Without Jesus no forgiveness can be given and thus no heaven is granted. If you do not have Jesus you will never be forgiven and your sins will place you away from Jesus and God forever in a place called hell with nothing for you. It looks mean in a way for Him to no pick you but the bible also said it is your sins that place you in hell and they are your fault. If your not saved that is on you and if you are that is all of God. Gods kindness is for them he wants to give it to. Gods wrath is for those who do not want the gift of salvation and the ones who God does not choose. Why does God save only some? Here is the wrong thing to ask. It ought to be why does God save anybody. Why does God allow anybody into heaven.
9God's secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to his good pleasure. 10And this is his plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ--everything in heaven and on earth. 11Furthermore, because of Christ, we have received an inheritance from God,[b] for he chose us from the beginning, and all things happen just as he decided long ago.
The plan is centered on Jesus and not with you. It is a plan to give Jesus all the pleasure and not for you. It is not for your plesasure to go to heaven it is Gods. Your a gift to the Lord from God. It is a gift to Jesus that you got saved. It is all God and not a part of you. Your gift of heaven is a gift from God to Jesus.
2God's purpose was that we who were the first to trust in Christ should praise our glorious God. 13And now you also have heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. 14The Spirit is God's guarantee that he will give us everything he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. This is just one more reason for us to praise our glorious God.
When you trusted in Jesus your got the deposit of the Holy Spirit to promise you your trust is not in vain. This is a statement of pure secure trust. God is going to bring you to heaven if your in Jesus and are saved. Nobody lost salvation ever or they do not give it away or they did not jump from Jesus. If God choose you your going to be in heaven with Jesus forever. Its not a hope it is a fact. God does not just save you for a short time he saves you forever and heaven is part of the plan.

What I vsaid this morning is for people who are saved. If your not saved nothing above has been gicen to you. I do not want to neglect the fact the Lord might be chooseing you. All Gods people are chosen yet if you are not in Jesus you must choose him. God is asking you to make a choice to ask Jesus to save you. If your not in Jesus please ask him to show you the way to be saved..
Admit your in need of Jesus Believe in him alone to save you and then confess it to Jesus. God bless you

Here is a verse that people who do not think God is real ought to know and memorize and one I might rin every night
Ps 1241 The fool has said in his heart,“There is no God.”
They are corrupt,
They have done abominable works,
There is none who does good.1
If you think there is no God your a fool. I am not hating I am just doing my part to get people to rethink this. People want me to prove there is a God. No I am not going to because it is on God to prove himself. I have seen the evolution party go around and claim they are to be followed and I think it is on them to prove that they are right. They got Mauer and Clinton to try to run this world. I say we wake up and get a solid Bible based party and get the demos out and the bible in. We allowed the people to make the bible wrong to the kids and the schools went to a bad place. I think we take evolution and anti God crap out and put the bible and Jesus in the schools and then we got the chance to win this war. One more thing cut the King James only crap of some of your blogs. I am going to read the things you say to try to get me to read the King James. I am a New King James only man and that is that. Jesus is in all bible versions.
Hebrews 11 4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.
Faith that pleased God and that still does is faith in the word and obeying it. If you do not obey your in vain and God can never be happy with you. Point to Cain. Did he obey God or did Cain not. Cain gave God his crop and that is not what God wanted. God wanted a living thing. Abel gave God what was asked of him. Do you bring what you want to bring to God or just what you want. God asked us to give him our first fruits and I struggle with that. But the fact is God asked us to set aside something for him. God asked us to come to him in the Name of Jesus and sometimes people thing they can go to God how they want. God is not going to honor that. God did not give the book just for fun God has commands and if we do not obey them He might not help us. So make your God happy and obey his word.
Shadman
5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
7 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.2
1The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
2The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.

Today is Trade Deadline day in the Major Leagues. My team, the Bluejays, are expected to be "buyers" this year, indicating a desire to compete with the Red Sox and Yankees to win their division. With less than two hours to go, they have not made a move. As I hunted around, looking for clues as to their inactivity, I began to wonder what the church would look like if it ran on a market similar to major league sports. I wonder if it would go a little something like this:
Sun Valley, CA Hot off the wires, the Associated Press reports a blockbuster trade. With the annual ecclesiastical trade deadline only hours away, Bethlehem Baptist Church and Grace Community Church have agreed to a four pastor deal. While early rumors indicated this might be a three-church trade involving Capitol Hill Baptist Church, the final deal is as follows:
Grace will send Pastor-Teacher John MacArthur, Minister of Music Clayton Erb and Associate Pastor, High School Ministry Eric Bancroft to Bethlehem in return for Pastor for Preaching and Vision John Piper, Lead Pastor for Operations Jon Grano and future considerations. MacArthur, widely regarded as the nation's leading expositor, agreed to waive his no-trade clause in return for an expanded book allowance. Piper, world-class author and highly-regarded preacher, will assume MacArthur's pulpit and radio duties. We are unable to confirm whether Piper will be expected to transition from the ESV translation of the Bible to the NASB.
While Piper was unavailable for comment, his agent read the following prepared statement: "While he was initially disappointed to hear of this trade, Pastor Piper is looking forward to serving the men and women of Sun Valley, California." Author of more than 20 books, Piper has been serving Bethlehem since 1980. He is expected to join the staff of Grace Community Church this week. It is believed that Piper's new contract stipulates that he will not be allowed to raise his hands in worship and will be limited to eight hyphenated words per sermon.
This trade, which had been the subject of rumors for several weeks, addresses pressing concerns in both churches. Sources who wished to remain anonymous indicated earlier this week that, while a deal was close, Bethlehem was unwilling to complete a trade without involving Phil Johnson, Executive Director of Grace To You. It appears now that Johnson, who has edited most of MacArthur's major books, will remain with Grace To You and will edit forthcoming books by John Piper. "I am excited about supporting the God-exulting, Christ-centered ministry of John Piper," said Johnson. Dr. Piper's next book is expected to hit bookstore shelves later this year.
Grace spokesman Dan Dumas said, "While we are sorry to have to say goodbye to Dr. MacArthur, we know that he will be warmly received by his new church family. We look forward to many years of fruitful ministry with John Piper." MacArthur has authored over 70 books and has been serving at Grace Church since 1969. Grano is expected to fill a newly-created position in Grace Church.
Meanwhile, in receiving Clayton Erb, Bethlehem addresses their pressing and much-publicized need for a minister of music. "We have three Associate Pastors and a Ministry Assistant, but no Minister of Music," said spokesman Sam Crabtree. "Clayton will solidify and organize this talented staff." The addition of a Minster of Music prepares Bethlehem for a busy Autumn and the always difficult Christmas season.
Shortly after the deal was announced, MacArthur was seen smiling as he said farewell to his former staff. He and Erb are expected to be available for duty in Bethlehem as soon as this Sunday. Bancroft, a talented and highly-rated rookie who ranks 11th in the Rookie Report's 2006 rankings, will be groomed as a possible long-term successor to MacArthur.
Asked what would become of Piper's decade-long series on Romans, Dumas said, "It is over. We expect Pastor Piper to begin a three-year series on Philemon beginning later this Fall."
While this trade puts Grace near the salary cap, Bethlehem has apparently agreed to cover a portion of Piper's salary through the 2006 season.

Hate mail time. I for one want to see the death of Castro of Cuba. I know it sounds like I hate him and I do. He is a commie that has killed many people and enslaved people for the faith he denied to Christians. I also think the people in the land are brainwashed to worship the leader in Cuba and that is terrible. He is not for freedom of faith and makes his people do as he said and this means he is a bad man and not going to go to the Heaven. If he died and he I hope is on the way out he is going to spend forever away from anyone. Castro is a bad man and he needs to go to the part of hell where he never talks to anyone.
From that I want to talk about faith and I am going to wrap my thinking in this on Hebrews 11. In my life I am learning the value of the faith the Lord has given to me. In thinking about the faith I have I see it as a gift the Lord has given to me. It is a faith that is given to me by grace and not something that I can get rid off. It is a gift the Lord gives to them he chooses. I think it is such that if your saved your faith is total gift that has to do with all of Gods work in you and none of your own work. It is called calvinism and I think I like the truth of it.
Now as I am working on the report tonight I have shut off the wnba because I am wanting to be out of the trap I have been in.
Heb 11 Now faith is the 1substance of things hoped for, the 2evidence aof things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.
3 By faith we understand that bthe 3worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
Faith as I heard it one time is sometimes we step out on a place that is not there. Abe had some real faith when he took his son uip and offered to kill him. Noah had faith to build a ship when it had never rained and the 12 had to have faith when Jesus said feed 15 thousand people. But tonight I wonder how is my faith? So I step out and live for Jesus and do it all trusting? Jesus is pleased when I place myself in his will and trust him for all my life. And He is the rewarder of the people who have faith. If you give your cash your going to get more. If I give up the people that harm me then Jesus is going to give me a chance to serve him and he is going to reward me and my faith. I live in a way that shows I trust and trust because the Lord is a good God He is going to reward me.
I want to touch on the fact the Jesus is one that is going to reward me because I seek him and want to live my life for him. The bible said seek God while he can be found and now he can be found. If you want to know the truth I ask you to seek him and he is going to show off what he is able to do for you. I think the Lord is teaching me right now to trust in him and wait for his timing in me. Jesus is there and I am sure of it. I am sure that heaven is there as I am sure there is a Rochester or a St Paul. I know Jesus is there and like I said my faith is not something that I got by working for it. God has got me in his kingdom and that is solid fact.
I got to take a stab at another issue and that is you who think God did not make the world. If I go to your home and say that it was formed over billions of years your going to think I am a nut. So I think that anyone that thinks we are some kind of a thing that was just formed out of billions of years has more faith in something. It takes a mind of a 5 year old to know we are formed by somebody or something. Evolution is about as stupid as me telling you that my house just was there. Only a fool said in his heart there is no God and if you want to take that up with someone you take it up with Jesus because he said it.
Here are some passages for me to look at conderning the rewards of seeking Jesus
Gen 15 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram ain a vision, saying, b“Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your cshield, 1your exceedingly dgreat reward.”
God is the one that is going to reward us. And the reward is going to be great!
Deu 4 29 nBut from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in 9distress, and all these things come upon you in the olatter days, when you pturn to the Lord your God and obey His voice 31 (for the Lord your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor qdestroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
God is the one that rewards toy if you seek him with all you have. When I am in distress I am able to turn to the Lord and he is going to be there for me. I know that is the truth. If I am going in hard times and I turn them to Jesus he is going to take them and help me. God is not going to forsake me and that is a good thing to because all others are going to forsake me but Jesus said here that if I go to him with all my heart I am not going to be without a helper in my life.

Hi all you out there
Lets look at the word of God in the book of Hebrews.
Hebrew 10 32 But grecall the former days in which, after you were 8illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: 33 partly while you were made ha spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while iyou became companions of those who were so treated; 34 for you had compassion on 9me jin my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your 1goods, knowing that lyou have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves 2in heaven. 35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, mwhich has great reward.
I have maintained that Paul was the one that wrote the book. In this passage I think Paul is shown as one that is in Jail for preaching the truth. I think of the people of this day who are in Jail for serving the Lord. If you want to sit and deny it fine but the faith in Jesus alone is one where people have died for more than anything. More are jailed in china for preaching the bible. Many fools that do not trust in Jesus are being led to think this is not the truth. It is the truth and like it or not it can and will come to this land in the form of making it a hate crime to preach that Gays need to go straight. Muslims also are a serious threat to the faith in Jesus as they are taught to kill the ones who do not think like them. Governments are making it a crime to pray in school and this is true. People want to teach the evolution as fact and then tell kids the God is dead and they cannot meet to study the bible is school. But in this passage we see Paul went though this and sat in Jail for Jesus.
Jesus did not stop his message and nor should the people now. If your a kid in the school carry your bible and pray in groups in school. If you preach do not stop saying the truth of homos that are going to hell and preach harder in places that are making it a crime to preach the bible. It might mean your going to jail or get fired. Jesus died for us so we got to go to the limit for him. I am not going to preach and get fired and nor should you but do whatever is right and realize some are going to jail for Jesus. Be loving and caring for people and share Jesus with actions. Heaven is worth it and what we are living for so keep the eternal in mind and live for heaven and not earth. If your being mocked or slammed for being a Christian take it and know all of the stuff the world does is going to be judged by Jesus. Live alone for Jesus and be wise as you can.
36 nFor you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, oyou may receive the promise:
37 “For pyet a little while,
And qHe 3who is coming will come and will not 4tarry.
38 Now rthe 5just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.”
39 But we are not of those swho draw back to 6perdition, but of those who tbelieve to the saving of the soul.