Monday May 25, 2020
Does God exist?
Is
God a Father?
Is
He the Father of His divine Son Jesus called the Christ?
Is
God MY Father?
Is Jesus the Savior and the only way to God our Father?
Is Jesus the Savior and the only way to God our Father?
Am
I a sinner?
What is sin?
Is sin offensive? Is it an offense?
What is an offense?
What is sin?
Is sin offensive? Is it an offense?
What is an offense?
Is
sin a problem? My problem? Why?
Is my sin a problem? My Problem? Why?
Is my sin a problem for God?
What does sin cause?
How does God deal with sin?
Was Jesus crucified so that we, so that I can be forgiven?
Must I forgive others who offend me? Why?
For Give Ness
"returning to the quality and state of giving in a relationship as was done before an offence"
It is a sorrowful thing to grow up and particularly grow old and not learn that Love is superior to power and that mercy is superior to judgment. Laws, judgments, sentences of punishment, prisons and even scaffolds are necessary to deter the harm, the injury that lawless persons can do. But forgiveness is essential in receiving and God's saving grace and preserving the sanity and cleanness of our God created beings for God's sake. AND forgiving others is essential in receiving forgiveness from Father God.
Is my sin a problem? My Problem? Why?
Is my sin a problem for God?
What does sin cause?
How does God deal with sin?
Was Jesus crucified so that we, so that I can be forgiven?
Must I forgive others who offend me? Why?
For Give Ness
"returning to the quality and state of giving in a relationship as was done before an offence"
It is a sorrowful thing to grow up and particularly grow old and not learn that Love is superior to power and that mercy is superior to judgment. Laws, judgments, sentences of punishment, prisons and even scaffolds are necessary to deter the harm, the injury that lawless persons can do. But forgiveness is essential in receiving and God's saving grace and preserving the sanity and cleanness of our God created beings for God's sake. AND forgiving others is essential in receiving forgiveness from Father God.
O
Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free? But there is
forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.
(Psalm
130:3-4)
There
is forgiveness with God that He may be LOVED !!!!
James1:19-20
Know this, my dear brothers and
sisters: let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow
to anger - for human anger doesn’t produce the righteousness of
God.
Is it that our anger is tied to our having been offended? And does our failure to forgive the offender amplify our anger? Can righteous anger remain righteous if we embrace, if we treasure the offense and seek to pour the judgment in our heart on the offender? Should we not rather treasure the offender as one needing God's love and forgiveness just as we need it concerning the sins we have done? If God had decided to be angry with all mankind and not forgive anyone how would we be able to live? Isn't forgiveness is the foremost evidence of love. It is almost the exact same thing as mercy. Note the primary definition of Mercy from Webster:
Is it that our anger is tied to our having been offended? And does our failure to forgive the offender amplify our anger? Can righteous anger remain righteous if we embrace, if we treasure the offense and seek to pour the judgment in our heart on the offender? Should we not rather treasure the offender as one needing God's love and forgiveness just as we need it concerning the sins we have done? If God had decided to be angry with all mankind and not forgive anyone how would we be able to live? Isn't forgiveness is the foremost evidence of love. It is almost the exact same thing as mercy. Note the primary definition of Mercy from Webster:
Mercy
MER'CY,
n. [L. misericordia.]
1. That
benevolence, mildness or tenderness of heart which disposes a person
to overlook injuries, or to treat an offender better
than he deserves; the disposition that tempers justice,
and induces an injured person to forgive trespasses and
injuries, and to forbear punishment, or inflict
less than law or justice will warrant. In this sense, there
is perhaps no word in our language precisely synonymous with mercy.
That which comes nearest to it is grace. It implies
benevolence, tenderness, mildness, pity or compassion, and clemency,
but exercised only towards offenders. Mercy is a distinguishing
attribute of the Supreme Being.
The
Lord is long-suffering and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and
transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty. Numbers
14.But does not forgiveness go
even further? For give ness returns the
offender and the offended to the freedom of their prior relationship.
We are are able to give in
the relationship and we did be for
e. To
repent is to turn, to turn away from sin and self and turn toward
God. His forgiveness allows us to return to
Him. When we forgive we are being like God. But we are not God. Do
not those who do not forgive think they are God? Don't they think
themselves empowered and entitled to judge and condemn sinners, and
all the while they are themselves sinners?
And
Jesus said to us and to them: But
if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father
forgive your trespasses.
Matthew
6:15
Webster: NESS, a termination of appellatives, denotes state or quality, as in goodness, greatness.Forgiveness is the state and quality of a relationship returned to the giving of grace (grace being itself a gift) in which it existed (and enjoyed) before the offense occurred. We, by the forgiveness of God, are returned to the state of grace Adam and Eve enjoyed before they sinned. That state is one of peace (shalom).
Webster: NESS, a termination of appellatives, denotes state or quality, as in goodness, greatness.Forgiveness is the state and quality of a relationship returned to the giving of grace (grace being itself a gift) in which it existed (and enjoyed) before the offense occurred. We, by the forgiveness of God, are returned to the state of grace Adam and Eve enjoyed before they sinned. That state is one of peace (shalom).
John
14:27 Peace
I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth,
give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be
fearful.
not
as the world giveth
-
The world's
peace is enforced by others as pleases them. It is variable. God's
peace doesn't change. “...there is no change or any shade made by
turning.” James 1:17
Who
is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life
his works in meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter jealousy and
faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. This
wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly,
sensual, devilish.
(James
3:13-15)
Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning. (James 1:17)
Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning. (James 1:17)
my
peace I give unto you
-
Christ's peace, His shalom has been defined as a state of being in
which nothing is broken and nothing is missing. All God's church is
complete, full and on earth mature in Christ. This peace is not
enforced, it is given and received. We receive Christ, we trust
Christ and are forgiven and received by Father !!! As created beings
we have only what we are given. We may think our selves creative
creators. At best we recreate something out of what has been created.
Do we try to recreate our selves? That is popular in politics today.
Better that we bow to God and ask Him to create us anew in the
Messiah Jesus.
Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation. We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God. Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him. (2Corinthians 5:17-21)
And
so! Will not the righteousness of God lead us to:
Do
nothing out of selfishness or conceit, but with humility consider
others as more important than yourselves, looking out not only for
your own interests but also for the interests of others.
Philippians
2:3-4
We forgive those we love so that we are able to love them, so that we can look out not only for your own interests but also for the interests of others. How can I love you if I seek your judgment? How can I consider others [you] as more important than yourselves [myself]. If I will not do for the one who offends me what God has so mercifully, so undeservedly, so kindly and powerfully done for me, how shall I be surprised if I find that I have now again offended God? To not forgive, is that not to sin?Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? until seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times; but, Until seventy times seven. Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, who would make a reckoning with his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, that owed him ten thousand talents. But forasmuch as he had not wherewith to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And the lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him a hundred shillings: and he laid hold on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay what thou owest. So his fellow-servant fell down and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee. And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay that which was due. So when his fellow-servants saw what was done, they were exceeding sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done. Then his lord called him unto him, and saith to him, Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou besoughtest me: shouldest not thou also have had mercy on thy fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on thee? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due. So shall also my heavenly Father do unto you, if ye forgive not every one his brother from your hearts. (Matthew 18:21-35)
What if I could speak all languages of humans and of angels? If I did not love others, I would be nothing more than a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. What if I could prophesy and understand all secrets and all knowledge? And what if I had faith that moved mountains? I would be nothing, unless I loved others. What if I gave away all that I owned and let myself be burned alive? I would gain nothing, unless I loved others. Love is kind and patient, never jealous, boastful, proud, or rude. Love isn't selfish or quick tempered.
It [Love] doesn't keep a record of wrongs that others do.
It [Love] doesn't keep a record of wrongs that others do.
(It [He!] doesn't because Love forgives!!!)
Love rejoices in the truth, but not in evil. Love is always supportive, loyal, hopeful, and trusting. Love never fails! Everyone who prophesies will stop, and unknown languages will no longer be spoken. All that we know will be forgotten. We don't know everything, and our prophecies are not complete. But what is perfect will someday appear, and what isn't perfect will then disappear. When we were children, we thought and reasoned as children do. But when we grew up, we quit our childish ways. Now all we can see of God is like a cloudy picture in a mirror. Later we will see him face to face. We don't know everything, but then we will, just as God completely understands us. For now there are faith, hope, and love. But of these three, the greatest is love. (1Corinthians13:1-13)
Love rejoices in the truth, but not in evil. Love is always supportive, loyal, hopeful, and trusting. Love never fails! Everyone who prophesies will stop, and unknown languages will no longer be spoken. All that we know will be forgotten. We don't know everything, and our prophecies are not complete. But what is perfect will someday appear, and what isn't perfect will then disappear. When we were children, we thought and reasoned as children do. But when we grew up, we quit our childish ways. Now all we can see of God is like a cloudy picture in a mirror. Later we will see him face to face. We don't know everything, but then we will, just as God completely understands us. For now there are faith, hope, and love. But of these three, the greatest is love. (1Corinthians13:1-13)
