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Showing posts with label separation. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

St Matthew, Chapter 19, verse: 12b, Who can accept His teachings?

Our paragraph topic is:  (Continence preferred to marriage) Part 4.

Who can accept this teaching of marriage without divorce?  Christ told his disciples that not all can accept it.  But for those who would try he set the ground rules that they should follow.  Man and woman should stay together.  There should be no separation except in the case of immorality.  And marriage to one who has been put away by written notice, is considered adultery.  These were the ground rules that Christ gave his disciples that they would know the will of the Father as he created them from the beginning.

God our Father had a purpose when he created them male and female.  He had a plan that would allow man to participate in the creation of physical life and spiritual life.  But there was evil that also had a plan.  Evil wanted to change man.  Evil wanted to make man for itself.  Evil wanted to have man participate in the creation for the worship of evil.  So the examples were set.  The participants were allowed.  And the beginning of the change took place and has remained throughout time.  For who can accept this teaching.  Christ told his disciples:  "And there are eunuchs who were made so by men." 

Eunuch made so by men, these are they who can accept this teaching.  These are they who have been changed by man.  These are they who have no say in the creation of the physical and the spiritual.  But for the rest of mankind, what do they say?  Can they accept this teaching?  Can they believe in God's plan?  Can they come together, stay together, and become one flesh, become one spirit?  Is this the will of God that we abide by?  Can we agree to this teaching in a world that isolates us if we accept this teaching?

Eunuch can abide by this teaching.  Why can we not abide by it?  Acceptance is the key.  Obedience is the rule.  Knowledge is the foundation.  Love is the food that keeps us together and allows us to grow beyond the physical into the spiritual.  Physical love is love of death.  Physical love is love of passion.  Physical love is love of that which is decaying.  Yet we are given the physical each and every day.  Even though we live and abide in the physical we are spiritual in nature and it is the love of the spirit that will elevate us to a new where we can accept the teachings of Christ.  Are you ready, both male and female, to accept?

He came that we would have life.  He came that we would not die.  He came that we would have knowledge of the Father and have insight into the Father's will.  And it is through the will of the Father that we live, breathe, and exist.  He made them male and female and it is the choice of both male and female to know the will of the Father.  With this knowledge we can live.  With this knowledge we can survive.  With this knowledge we can succeed and accept the teachings that Christ has given us.  But it takes both male and female.  Both must know.  Both must believe.  Both must see the truth of who they are in Christ.  Both must open their hearts to the consolation of the Holy Spirit that they may have the knowledge of who they are in him.  For in Him and through Him and by Him we become one with the Father

Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ. The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in. 

Thursday, April 10, 2014

St Matthew, Chapter 19, verse: 3, Divorce for any cause.

Our paragraph topic is:  (The question of divorce) Part 1.

The son of our Father, God of all creation, came to earth, to the physical realm, to live among us.  He came with a purpose.  He came with a mission, sent by the Father.  Preach the coming of the kingdom of heaven, was his mission.  Be with the people.  Show the compassion of the Father.  Bring hope, encourage faith, help them to believe.  Demonstrate the mercy and bring praise and glory to God Almighty.  And he traveled to Judea, where great crowds followed, and he cured all there.

Even in the majesty of the Father, there were those who conspired in the darkness.  Fearful of the coming of the kingdom, seeking a way to forestall, a way to cancel, they sought to lay tricks and traps for Christ.  So they came to him with all manner of questions.  And there came to him some Pharisees testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for any cause?"

Can we do as we please and divorce and remarry whenever we want?  Can we divorce for any cause?  We live in a society that tells us so.  We live in a society where this is allowed.  We live in a world where we see those joined by holy matrimony, breakup, separate, and divorce.  It is so common in our world that it is even the latest talk, the latest scandal, the latest news to follow.  Is it lawful?  Is it legal?  The Pharisees wanted to know or did they?

They came to Christ with this question, seeking an answer.  We live in a world where the answer is given to us daily.  Can we believe?  Can we do the same?  Is it legal?  Is it right?  Is it according to God's law, the law that created the universe with a purpose?  Do we really want to know?  Will this make a difference in our world, in our minds, in our hearts?

Christ came that we may have life.  He came that what was lost would be restored.  He came to be the payment for the penalty that was placed upon mankind.  And he paid the price.  Do we believe in his sacrifice?  Do we believe in his purpose?  Do we know the truth of who we are in him?  Knowledge means an awakening.  Knowledge means a separation.  Knowledge means a change from darkness to light.  Come!  Know the truth and open the eye of the heart that you will see the truth of who you are in him.

Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ. The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.