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Current mood:  contemplative Category: Religion and Philosophy
Love covers over a multitude of sin! Written on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 - 9:38 PM
I am posting the following as a blog on all my sites in response to current events coming out of Oklahoma at Oral Roberts University, Washington DC and all around this Earth.
People of faith need to put a word on everything in this hour. With everything else crumbling around us, our only sure foundation is God's Word...So what does it say????
Those who have a spiritual eye to see...Let him see! Those have have a spiritual ear to hear...Let him hear!
1 Peter 4:7-9
7 The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self- controlled so that you can pray. 8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.
We need to understand this hour we are living in and be still and know He Is God! Even the rocks are crying out for a savior. Judgement Day is hard on everyone...especially the guilty ones. Remember...The Lord is the only one to judge matters such as these. (BTW..this pertains to the latest allegations against G.W. Bush, that he stated he believes that Muslims pray to the same God as we pray to).
God judges the heart of man and the only one privileged to that info is the individual and God himself. People of Faith must not judge the same way as the World judges or they will be judged according to the way they are judging by God.
Matthew 7 1-3
Judging Others
1"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
Those who have ears to hear and eyes to see...Let him hear the words of the Lord in
1 Peter 4: 16-19....
16 However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name. 17 For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18 And, "If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?" 19 So then, those who suffer according to God's will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.
Noah's son Ham exposed him as he lay naked and drunk...that's right...even Noah who God considered to be righteous had some weaknesses of the flesh too. We need to be part of the solution when someone falls in weakness. Should we throw each other out of the tent drunk and naked??? Ham paid a price for being part of the problem and so will we.
Genesis 9: 20-29
20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness. 24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers." 26 He also said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem. 27 May God extend the territory of Japheth ; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave." 28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29 Altogether, Noah lived 950 years, and then he died.
The adversary of our faith aka The Devil, Lucifer, Satan etc. etc. etc...is having a field day at our expense right now and we need to really open our eyes in this hour. We should not be part of a witch hunt, or history may repeat itself as in the times of the Witch Hunts when brother turned against brother. They came here to break away from the religious binds that tied them only to turn against each other...Puritans against Puritan, Quaker against Quakers and Puritan against Quaker.
We need to pray for ORU. God is dealing with all parties involved with the allegations. The accusers, who profess to be Christians are following the laws of this Earth rather than God's word and do a disservice to People of Faith and the lost.
1 Corinthians 6: 1-11
Lawsuits Among Believers
1 If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints? 2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! 4 Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, appoint as judges even men of little account in the church! 5 I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? 6 But instead, one brother goes to law against another?and this in front of unbelievers!
***** 7 The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8 Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers.****************
9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Let's not forget there is more good than bad that has come out of ORU over the years. I personally know of three young people who went on to greater works through missions, who were raised up in that University. I leave you with this final thought from God's word....
Matthew 12:25 25 Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.
Godspeed, Michelle
Be still and know He is God!
There is a season for everything under the Sun.
Unfortunately we are in a season of war. Let's not be victims or perpetrators of friendly fire.
Ecclesiastes 3:8
8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
7:49 AM
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