Like Judas: a mistake, an accident or reckless!
How many
times do you remember someone saying it was a mistake? Or how many times
someone speaking it was an accident, but did they say it was just reckless? In
truth all these point to one being in sin!!!
In
meditating scriptures, we seek to hear the Lord speak to our hearts. We expect
His love to encapsulate us in Him far from a maddening world. If you were never
wanted, God wanted you and has a plan for you in His love, His peace and
strength!
Ecclesiastes
12:6-7;11--14 Amplified Bible 6[Remember
your Creator earnestly now] before the silver cord [of life] is snapped apart,
or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the
wheel broken at the cistern [ and the whole circulatory system of blood ceases
to function]. 7 Then shall the dust [out of which God made man’s body] return
to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God Who gave it.
11 The words of the wise are like prodding goads, and firmly
fixed [in the mind] like nails are the collected sayings which are given [as
proceeding] from one Shepherd. 12 But about going further [than the words given
by one Shepherd], my son be warned. Of making many books there is no end [so do
not believe everything you read]. And much study is a weariness of the flesh.
13 All has been heard; the end of the matter is: Fear God[ revere and worship Him, knowing that he is] and keep His
commandments, for this is the whole of man[ the full, original purpose of his
creation, the object of God’s providence, the root of character, the foundation
of all happiness, the adjustment to all inharmonious circumstances and
conditions under the sun] and the whole duty for every man. 14 For God
shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it is
good or evil.
Those words of the silver is snapped apart and our life
ends. The pitcher is broken at the fountain or the wheel broken at the cistern,
that whole of the circulatory system of blood that ceases to function that keeps one living life! Everything stops: CEASES
to Function in your body that brings death!
In Ecclesiastes 8: 8 we are told that wickedness will not
deliver. NKJV No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, and no one
has power in the day of death. There is no release from that war, and
wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it. In pursuing holiness we
are to run from sin and from evil. Our inability to break free from bondage to
sin is likened to our inability to overcome physical death. In Jesus Christ,
both in and death have been defeated seen in Romans 6:11-23!
Romans 6:
11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to
God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal
body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members
as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as
being alive from the dead, your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but
under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under
grace? Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are
that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of
obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But God be thanked that though you were
slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart, that form of doctrine to which
you were delivered.
That being
instructed in the right way to Go in God is paramount for living today! We are
told in scripture like Proverbs 12:11 that He who tills his land ( he that cultivates his land) will be
satisfied with bread. But he who follows frivolity is devoid of understanding.
To
cultivate takes some work! I like what Joyce Meyer speaks on that work
thing. She said in a teaching today that
you can go to your closet to where your clothes hang but you have to do
something to get them from your closet to hanging on your body instead. That is
work to figure what you might require for clothing on a specific day like when
the weather is beginning to change for the cooler temperatures. Can you imagine choosing a bathing suit to wear when there is five feet on snow on your front porch in the early
morning hours of the day?
Ephesians
5:6-14 NKJV 6 Let no one deceive you
with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon
the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be partakers with them. 8 For you
were once darkness, but now you are the light in the Lord. Walk as children of
light 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness and
truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in
secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for
whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says: “Awake you who sleep,
arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”
That empty
words: let no one deceive you with them for the wrath of God comes upon the
sons of disobedience!
Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
expose them. See 2 Corinthians 6:14-18
NKJV 14 Do not be unequally yoked
together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with
lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 15 And what accord
has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16
And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of
the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them.
I will be their God, & they shall be My people.” 17 Therefore “Come out
from among them & be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, & I will receive
you.” 18 I will be a Father to you, & you shall be my sons & daughters,
says the LORD Almighty.
Unclean in
Scripture means "to be defiled, polluted, unhealthy, or unfit," and refers
to foods that are unfit, but also refers to that defilement of religious character, and moral or
spiritual impurity. The word "defilement" describes a sinful and
unfit condition (Isaiah 6:5). The Old Testament distinguishes between what is
clean and helpful and what is unclean and unacceptable (Leviticus 10:10). The
New Testament deals more with the spiritual application and lists uncleanness
or moral defilement along with fornication and other sins as "works of the
flesh" (Galatians 5:19-21).
In the
gospels, "unclean" describes those who are possessed by demonic
spirits through constant submission
to evil. Uncleanness represents sin, and sin separates man from God.
Because of sin, "we are all like an unclean thing" (Isaiah 64:6).
Believers are not called to uncleanness but to live in holiness (I
Thessalonians 4:7). We are not to yield our members to uncleanness but to
righteousness and holiness (Romans 6:19).
So what
about the man or woman who claims a mistake, or claims an accident ? Can we
then conclude they were not living by the word of God? Would a mistake or
accident conclude the visual seeing of a reckless person?
As the
Believer, we are to experience: renewal in our minds that is ethically
appropriate, that our minds are to stay on the Lord: Isaiah 26: 2-3 Open the gates, that the
righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in. 3 You will keep him in
perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, and keep in step that He likes to
fellowship with us!
Ephesians
4:17-27 NKJV 17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should
no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God,
because of the ignorance that
is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; 19 who, being past feeling
have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with
greediness.
From verse
17, we should no longer walk or act like Gentiles who are darkened in heart, and who have no life after God.
From verse
19: lewdness: they have a spiritual apathy ( a lack of concern): they are hard-hearted, they are reckless and have abandoned themselves to[a prey] that appears as unbridled sensuality( is not
just sexual but fleshly and they find ways to stroke their fur…stroke their
desires to be seen and heard), eager/ greedy to indulge in every form of
impurity……….They no longer are seeing spiritually and they suffer from blindness. Their
ignorance (v. 18) is that they are without quality, without a measure of
excellence! Excellence is that which is of God, is of His great love: so we see
and experience a warmth, healing and joy even in the midst of correction.
Sometimes we need an answer to a question we might have or need an answer to an
ongoing situation that has not resolved. Excellence is full of God: His grace,
His blessings appear as we reject ungodliness, pointing to the Lord’s return
and pointing others to the realization of the blessed hope in their Lives:
Jesus Christ.
Lewdness is
filth…physically and morally practiced mercenary methods for gain by greed …a
person who will by mercenary means extract money by greed for unethically and
corrupt tactics who lack honor using dirty tricks or exploits to defeat an
opponent & will often switch their alliance in the midst of any battle!
Ephesians
4: 20 ….20 But you have not so learned Christ, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him as the truth is in Jesus; 22 that you put off,
concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to
the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true
righteousness and holiness. 25 therefore putting away lying, “Let each one of
you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another. 26 “Be
angry, and do not sin,” do not let the sun go down on your wrath, 27 “nor give
place to the devil. Let each of us are
to speak truth with his neighbor: Our neighbor is anyone we come in contact
with. Whether we work in this area or travel for business and meet up with a
person or people….those you come in contact with are your neighbors! And the
Language we speak should be that of faith!
Here in
Ephesians 4:20- 27, we are to speak truth. We are the learned and we speak what
is truth and no lies. We are not the “reckless”! (like wearing swimming suits
in the winter time) We should not be using the easy way out when the Lord is leading us through situations either we caused or some other man or woman caused to happen.
That
“mistake” and “accident” makes me think of Will Smith in the movie Men in
Black. He touches an object he is told to not touch and then when it is
released it crashes through these rooms hitting all kinds of other objects
nearly hitting people in the head and as it flies quickly through this area of
rooms, the man in the know puts out a glove to catch it. Then Will Smith as
Agent J speaks: ‘ it was an accident y’all’!
We should
never be anxious, be in a hurry, be angry, but find our place in the Lord where
safety is found, peace is experienced and love is established in our hearts! It
is the place of the knowledge of the Lord, to keep in harmony with Him and to
find a place of peace there. It is place that patience delivers you to in the Lord.
WE are told
To keep that soft answer that turns away wrath ( Proverbs 15:1) that we would
be slow to wrath having the
understanding God intends for us to live by so that we will not be impulsive to
exalt folly seen in Proverbs 14:27. Colossians 3:5-6 tells us to put to death
what is earthly in us: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and
covetousness which is idolatry.
For that
making I-5 your roadway for a qualifying speed for the Indy 500 might get you
into some serious thing you cannot escape or live past that involves others too!
And coveting is bad indeed if it is about worldly things indeed. Just like on the roadway, two different
vehicles traveling, each heading for a destination, but not reading the
warnings and going onto a freeway that is northbound only you will find someone
on the same path expecting to go northbound indeed, but you will also find
someone coming toward you from the opposite direction thinking he is following
the right way. Following right directions
will bring life but avoiding it will bring only death. We must never presume
God’s grace or take it for granted. We must always be the fervent people to
seek and to submit to the will of God to stay in order!
Matthew
19:16-18 Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing
shall I do that I may have eternal life?” 17 So He said to him, “Why do you
call Me good? No one is good but One, that is God. But if you want to
enter into life, keep the commandments.”
18 He said to Him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall
not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,”
If you want
to enter into life, keep the commandments. Which ones? You shall not murder,
You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal and You shall not bear false
witness!
Yes, there
it is in the written word of God: you shall not bear false witness! And did we
not know that is written as the ninth commandment of God found in Exodus 20:16:
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. Matthew 5:37 But let
your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes” and your ‘No’, ‘No’. For whatever is more than these is
from the evil one.
So in
believing truth and holding onto truth, celebration of Christ should be
sometime during mid September to mid October and not in December. For outside
of God is considered pagan. And paganism is of the evil one: is a total lie of
the devil and is from the father of that lie: John 8:44 You are of your father
the devil and the desires of your father you want to do, He was a murderer from
the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in
him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar
and the father of it.
Mistakes!
Accidents ! Reckless! Any of these
define you, then you are in a serious place of an expectant catastrophe. For if we sin willfully after we have
received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for
sins. But a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation
which will devour the adversaries. ( Hebrews 10:26-27)
May only
those words of God’s peace, love, joy, peace, and strength keep you. May you
now reside in the harbor, the safe place of a tranquil state of the Lord’s presence always.
May you not make mistakes following the status “gods”, to accepting everything
the world speaks to you, and being reckless to create statues to those gods. Do not stop living for the Lord!
The unity
of the human race, by acknowledging that God, made from one blood every nation
of men makes us the offspring of God! But not all men will acknowledge Him as
the one true God. In that man is making a mistake, accidentally prone to
failure and disaster where his reckless nature is seen.
Let us
cultivate a rich life in Him. Lets abide in His words and obey that truth to walk
in the light of the living and to tell others to do the same. The world tried
to remove you from this life, but the Father has a plan for a good in you!
Embrace it today!
New teaching at: Voice of Prayer
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