Soylent Green

Is it 2022?

Many of those who read this blog may not have heard of Soylent Green. Although a movie, and thinking I remember it did well at the box office on the sale of tickets in 1973. This movie starred Charlton Heston and it was a future plot for mankind.  I did not see it but heard about from others who went to see it! This movie also had starring in it: Edward G. Robinson, Brock Peters and Chuck Connors. As it was released in 1973, my sister and brother-in-law had gone to see it and had recommended it to us. But the things she told me without giving up the details at the end had me wondering how man would be living when the earth is so fully populated with man and no place to farm the land!

This week I had received an urgent call from a lady I know and she wanted to come over to give me some details of this event she had attended over the weekend. My earliest time free was of course yesterday, the middle of the week and I waited for her all morning. Was thinking she probably got on a firmer footing in God's word and did not need any encouragement and so she had skipped our meeting if they called her in to work! It was later in the day as I studied over the word for a teaching that I also prayed, not only for us, those we know, but also for those who receive this blog and the teachings we send out for God's glory that God our Father would have His way in them by His Spirit. In praying, I was also seeking that His glory would come on earth, that His will would be done in those who are called His and that they would come to that place of safety and comfort to stay out of harm's way of those seeking or jockeying for positions especially with the microphone. 

I meditated on some scripture and came back to the thought of so many feasting on the false narrative today, and so many not knowing truly God's will and how He operates through men and women who devote their lives to serving Him, could most likely miss Him, being lost in the false, the fraudulent and empty talk of others. 
 Again I was taken back again in my thinking of the year 1973 and this movie. It would be some twenty years later when I could talk myself into watching Soylent Green. I had remembered some descriptive words that my sister spoke that alerted me to some things that might prove to be unnerving for the twentieth century. Well, we have come into the twenty-first century and I am amazed still what people consider safe to eat, and safe to participate in like "recreational marijuana". REALLY? 
If you have not seen this move called Soylent Green, then please stop here at once, and see it before reading on. For if you want details of a future land where people have no food and only darkness rules the land with funky ideas of how they might create food to eat then this drama is for you. It is the year 2022 and people are still requiring food to eat!

This Heston fellow is investigating a death of the head person at this corporation and as he searches for clues into this man's death, he finds out some alarming things about this place that is producing a new foodstuff! And it is interesting how it is processed, but Soylent Green turns out to be people who have died and are now being made into a food commodity for other people to use in their diet. 

The most interesting thing is the elderly, growing close to their exit time, go to this center to sign up for a specific viewing of about an hour to revisit the world they knew as a youth. And as the child who with a zest for life ran through those beautiful fields, they have a time even though short to revisit a day in the sun. They have this opportunity to remember things as they view the different scenery's as wildlife standing in that field, waterfalls cascading into rapidly moving rivers that end serenely in the lowest parts of the canyons. In this scene, the small birds and animals appear for a drink from the inviting coolness and pleasant gurgling sounds of the river that has slowed to allow safety and comfort for drinking. The scene continues where  pastures are displayed and they are filled with many varied wildflowers, all blooming. As the man or woman is close to their final breath, they see the end of their day, the sunset of beauty announces that the last remnants of light are rolling away. As the ever so gentle light fades on the waves of the sea, still a unity of color and music take hand to move on the notes of climax that is heard overhead.
The movement is slowly displayed toward the shore of sand, and the sun sinks, and the dusk of an evening is presented.....the music hits a crescendo of orchestral unity, video ends, curtains close, and lights come on and assistants show up to roll away the deceased into the food processing facility. Yikes!

Some decade ago, I had come across some dog foods that were being processed from dogs and cats which had died and were being used as the meat portion used to make this dog food. Some of them had become very ill and some had died with cancer. And the processor for these dog foods sold them to people who fed bad food to healthy pets. What happened? Why would someone do that?
So have you wondered of what they might be putting in the food you purchase at that specialty store of yours? You might consider first of taking it to prayer to God the Holy Spirit and say, "show me where I have been lied to and show me what is healthy food for me and mine and including my pet!"

Peter taught us to desire the milk of the word, but there is a time for meat! God’s word is for order in our lives! 1 Peter 2:1-3 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy & malice, all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. 

Microwave mentality is not the best pathway when desiring to make decisions for health and safety for you and your family. No, the quickest is not always the best!

Jesus spoke in John 8:52 “if anyone keeps My word he shall never taste death.” Tasting the word is tasting and experiencing life God intended for us through His Son Jesus. It is knowing the Father of lights of whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. It is every good gift & every perfect gift from Him who keeps His promises.

We are also told in Hebrews 5:12-14 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; & you have come to need milk & not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

These words were given to a group of people who had become slothful in attitude of hearing & it resulted in a lack of spiritual growth! Advanced teachings we are told of in this passage was for the mature believers who had the ability to discriminate between sound doctrine & the unsound, and to discriminate between wholesome conduct and unwholesome conduct!

Not all people living today operate out of a wholesome conduct. They only have room for the greenback, that which some think of as the almighty dollar, but truly wholesome conduct is that which is found in the kingdom of God, where the Lord rules our hearts in making decisions for life and health. We are to grow up in His kingdom, to mature in the knowledge of Him and by the practice of the Scriptures in what is living by faith in Christ Who died to bring to us life and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit.

The continual teaching and hearing gives way to growth in us. Our being equipped in them is preparing us to be stable in chaotic times, to stand firm speaking what God gave us through His Son Jesus Christ and teach others.

God purposed us to be grown-up to see potential revealed in us and through us and not to remain as infants or in that state of infancy!

Man's way always crumbles beneath his feet. Unless we heed the Lord's guidance and teaching we fall headlong into disaster much like Judas Iscariot did! With so much about to occur on earth and in the heavens, should we not be alert to that which is warning from God, to know Jesus is returning soon for those who are His? 

Back to Hebrews 5, the writer Paul, tells us that these congregations were not equipped to feed themselves. They were not equipped to discern the sacred or spiritual from the profane or carnal. These in that independent state really need to seek, and to be about learning God's truth, learning of the kingdom of God to ultimately be weaned from that "bottle" fed mentality! And it appears that some of us over the years have seemingly lost our appetite for that solid, spiritual food and need to be fed intravenously.

If you have ever had to be fed intravenously or been given blood you might wonder what is in that blood and whose was it before it was put in that bag and hooked up with a hose and needle to be transferred into another human being! Prayer is certainly important, and a prayer team is a benefit when you are facing such things. You want healthy blood put into your blood system and the same works for good doctrine and that which is for "meat" eaters! We cannot remain as the little bird, with a syndrome of "feed me" when there is so much out there available in the way of bringing light into our existence on earth. We are to be fed with our Father's ever-strengthening truth and see that supernatural Light fill every area of our being.

All of us need to become less dependent on spiritual milk and instead become more capable of profiting from solid food. We should enjoy solid food, and there is a way to revitalize our spiritual appetite for the weightier matters. We certainly live in a place where gravity matters. And that gravity has the affect on us to keep us on the earth to live and work there. Still that same gravity has the pulling down effect to the person. So even though as a babe craves milk, we should crave the weightier things of God. We also must throw down dark thoughts to spiritually exercise understanding that we are not alone in this!

Exertion is found being done for the "good spiritual food".  Again from :1 Peter 2:1-2  NKJV  Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,

Following 1 Peter 2:1, in which he admonishes us to rid ourselves of the fruits of spiritual junk food, Peter lists evidence of a mind afflicted with a poor spiritual diet! This specific diet included Malice which is ill will, the desire to inflict pain. It included Deceit and is listed as lying or crafty, seductive, and slanderous activity of a person. Another is Hypocrisy that pretending to be what one is not. Envy is the strong desire to possess what belongs to another and Evil speaking is using the tongue to gossip, deceiving others, or destroying reputations. All of these things lead to an unhealthy life and unhealthy situations that are seriously problematic!

And Peter proceeds to encourage us to crave God's Word just as a baby craves milk. He is not encouraging us to desire elementary spiritual food but emphasizing the energy we should exert to get good spiritual food. Babies demand milk as if their very life hangs in the balance at each feeding. And then after they get to it, watch their behavior as they have gotten that food in their mouth. Just a weekly feeding is never enough and we certainly should be about getting that which is purposed for us to grow and become what God our Father desires for His children.

It is the the apostle that calls God's Word pure, meaning uncontaminated, unpolluted by fraud or deceit. God's Word is truth: John 17:17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

It is in Psalm 12:6 that David says God's Word is refined seven times: The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Words of the Lord are morally pure!  So here, we see that truly, Peter is teaching us that God's word promotes spiritual growth and that good health just a good food can do for us physically!

Milk is tasty especially if you have no allergic reactions to it! But when we consider Paul's teaching from Hebrews 5, we really should see it is not about the desire but more about the depth. If we rely on others, heed their lies and do not seek out real truth, then where else is it possible that we are being fed something like soylent green that is not good for you? Seriously speaking in this day and time when so many are drug users, pot smokers and possible alcohol abusers, all that could put a profound effect on one's body for ill health, to appear weak, the gaunt if someone decided to start using those types of body of a "green thing" to be fed to you!

May we not slip into that baby bird mentality of feed me when so much vast wealth of God our Father has been presented and available at our fingertips. Truly God is for us, but we must be found with Him and not against Him!

WE must know truth to recognize when truth is not given to us.....it starts in the kingdom of God that has come! Amen.

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Is That Door Locked?

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Saw this movie the other night. One scene was three people trying to get a door to open, but the door was almost frozen shut. It took two of the three people to open the frozen door. One of the younger men mentioned putting the oil to it.
Now this specific story-line is from the early 1950's and was located within a church with a priest. Yes, I must admit it is one of mystery and intrigue and that night it had a very squeaky door without oil to make it turn on its hinges easily. Of course, the door could make some scary noises in the mid-night hour, but the funny thing from this story timeline, they mentioned the oil can and to get it to oil those hinges!
 Now many probably turning fifty today would not know what an oil can is for, well, except for our son-in-law......he probably would know.
And anyone watching the Wizard of Oz, from the 1930's would know by relating to the character of the tin man. But anyone else might not have an idea of the need for an oil can. Of course, today, we like WD-40. I mean, it will remove grease from laminated floors with one quick spray!.
But then hydrogen peroxide will remove grease from new carpeting as well. ( and I mean a real chunk of black greasy, grease on soft pastel orange carpet)

There are many doors. They open up areas to be visited, like in a movie theater or to a church! Doors can be old, new, fairly new, molded out of wood products, made from plastic, can be metal, glass or just plain wood. You could paint some, remove some, and even replace the really used doors, but what about a door that is " not used"?

I saw this movie the other night, and it was made in the early 1950's and one door was boarded up     (on the inside of the upstairs room), not to be used at all, yet the covering was just a few boards, and the covering was made with hinges to swing open. Odd I thought, when the thought was to board it up and not be used at all. Yet some clever one made it real work to create a door that could swing open using actual hinges and those pieces of plain wood just nailed together was to cover another actual door!

Proverbs 26:14 Amplified Bible
14 As the door turns on its hinges, so does the lazy man [ move not from his place] upon his bed.
Now in the Middle East, a door made thousands of years ago was not made with hinges but rather with pivots. Of course, too, the doors were made of stone (slabs of stone) which made for a very weighty ( and very serious) door to handle.



I wonder sometimes about folks who never leave the place they were born to visit another place: like another state, or another country. You know those are doorways too!
I wonder sometimes why so many stay pretty close to their childhood start. I also wonder why many will not try doors they might otherwise overlook while passing by on a walk or driving by while looking for a gas station. I remember us going to an art museum and a rather small science museum, and also a wild west museum. All were so different, with so many different names who either painted, collected the artifacts of bones, pottery and glass sifted out for all to see or made history while the west was being populated by vast numbers of many different people who all had one purpose. That purpose was to know God who created heaven and earth and create something out of nothing in the 'ole west!

Many doors were open to those who painted great works of art. Many doors were opened to those who searched by sifting through sand and dust that covered great works of the pyramids and the pharaohs, yes those buried deep beneath the surface of the ground.......forever covered in mysteries, darkness and dirt!
I think of those places we have visited and although all were fun and done in different periods of my life, yet the only door that remains is the one I think people, yes many people overlook. I believe many miss the DOOR! They will miss the DOOR that counts.
I see people standing in line to get to be 1st at a new casino. I see them standing to buy that lottery ticket. I see them standing in line to get................!(something, anything)

Jesus said this and was recorded for our benefit. Found in John 10:9 I am the Door; anyone who enters in through Me will be saved (will live). He will come in and he will go out [freely] and will find pasture.

Entering through Jesus we have a fresh life! In Him we gain to move freely by His wisdom, power and love. Without Him we can do nothing.
If we enter by Him, we are saved. we find pasture to lie down in, be refreshed by residing by still waters to walk in paths of righteousness for His name sake.

In that DOOR, we find the Bread of Life! John 6:35 and Jesus said to them, " I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. ( see also John 6:48)
When we enter that DOOR, we find the Chief Shepherd. 1 Peter 5:4 and when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.
Entering that DOOR, we come face to face with the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)
We encounter the Lord of All (Acts 10:36-39) 36 the word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ---He is Lord of All---37 that word you know, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee after the baptism which John preached; 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
We encounter the Lord of Glory ( 1 Corinthians 2:7-9) 7 but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor hear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.

Yes, some folks thousands of years ago encountered doors made of slabs of stone. Whatever their thought of or way of life, they encountered doors of stone only to be put behind one when they died. To return back to the dust, gather their bones up  about a year later by loved ones who remained and carry said bones to a family burial plot.

Is that Door locked? Have you tried to enter?

Have you pushed hard to open....? Have you mentioned the Door Keeper.........Jesus? For it is in Him we find the Bread of Life, the Chief Shepherd, the Lord of All, the Lord of Glory. Oh we find so much more when we open that door and take steps forward in him.

Proverbs 10:29 Amplified Bible teaches us that the way of the Lord is strength and a stronghold to the upright, but it is destruction to the workers of iniquity.

And Proverbs 10:20 mentions this: 20 that the tongues of those who are upright and in right standing with God are as choice silver; the minds of those who are wicked and out of harmony with God are of little value.

YIKES!

Opening up to Jesus, and make our way with Him we have strength. He becomes our Stronghold in time of trouble. But the main thing, He is our salvation.

Will we see Him, see His ways and act to move through or be satisfied where we began? That bed is no place to stay. Some rest at night to be refreshed is good, but to lay down and remain is not healthy for anyone! Remaining to stay within the confines that is only for comfort is sad indeed when we can touch other people's lives and maybe visit some odd type museums. We must go through some doors to experience life. There are doors opened to attend school and be educated to write and read. Doors are open to attend high schools and colleges and yes even jobs. Doors are open to marriage, children and grand-children. Doors are open, but the one that really matters will count in the long-haul.
There is a Door talked about in Revelation 3:8 and this one is mentioned in the letter to the church in Sardis. 8 I know your [record of] works and what you are doing. See! I have set before you a door wide open which no one is able to shut; I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept My Word and guarded My Message and have not renounced or denied My name. 11 I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, so that no one may rob you and deprive you of your crown.

Yes Jesus is returning! He returns for His believers, who trust in Him, have sought His face and to hear Him speak. Those who have entered will have a safe place,  a victorious place....He is the faithful and true Witness...He is the origin and Beginning and Author of all of God's creation.

Unlock that door.......and speak His name..........He will be found!

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Is the World Dressing our Children?

Saw this most thoughtfully given encouragement on Tuesday the 13th of October. I usually am writing in the afternoon after my workout time. I had tuned to hear some praise and worship and missed the channel entirely. I had somehow picked the channel up one from the channel I frequent for worship. I tuned it on....raised the volume to hear.......and then went to the kitchen and ....got my ice water!  I was captured what this woman was speaking about the world dressing our children.
Of course, she was speaking of this coming Halloween Eve. She spoke of the importance of showing our children and grand-children that they are more than what movies can depict for them to be or become. This woman, probably a grand-mother today spoke on that which has been directed at our children and grand-children. Although she did not mention the title, you knew of what she spoke about.  She, a Jewish woman with the Hebraic heritage spoke how children, particularly girls need to know about the real Queen in the Bible. She immediately spoke of Queen Esther and how her normal life was forever changed when God showed up. The name of this Christian show was Rabbi Lapin on CTN.

I had tuned in today, but they were talking about those who cut themselves. It was very informative as well. But I was drawn back to yesterday's teaching on how we allow others to dress our "kids".
I also thought of Esther who was that young woman of courage. Although she was a stranger in that area, and had no living parents, she ultimately became Queen to an alcoholic, pagan king and saved a nation. Esther had Mordecai who raised her up after her parents death. She was one who faced a real enemy, never hurrying into anything, but taking time for fasting and prayer. She became the woman who acted on God's plan, even if it meant that she was going to perish. She certainly had the wisdom of God.

No, she did not turn anyone into an ice sculpture. She herself, encouraged those who were with her in facing an enemy who was not going to stop till he had seen the Jewish people annihilated. Serious things were going on in the land at the time of her life.

Where do we draw the line? Or should one be drawn.......to help our "kids" know they are more than that 45 dollar costume. How can we show them how we value them.........and teach them truth?

Now we certainly know  wardrobe styles change ..........for you certainly can tell that by looking in my closet and notice that right away. But I certainly do not dress as the world dictates.
I mean, if you look to Hollywood, most will not have much as covering anything that should be covered.
Now these are just my thoughts, but I am drawn back to some scriptures:

Proverbs 22:6
6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.    NKJV

That "train up" means "chanak" narrow....discipline.......to dedicate. ( I think of the short amount of time one has in raising a child..........then they leave home.)

That "in the way" means a road......."a course of life".

Ephesians 6:4

4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.          NKJV

Of course this means to bring no wrath that you and your child participate in together, but bring that child up in training and admonition of the Lord. Teaching them that He is God in our lives, in our homes, circumstances, and those things we do throughout the year! It also means that the child will have reverence for God!
Admonish: to warn, to warn of wrong practices, to warn against danger

Music and certainly movies can play a role in what a child will think or do. If they are not brought up in the things of the Lord, they may look on the world as a harmless place to experience life. YIKES!

In the last thirty years, we can see darkness has taken the lead especially in October to lead people of all ages to dress up and present to others...... something they are not.
It is like at the recent "zombie" thing in Florida, and shot rang out...........one dead and several injured.
We can see some participate in things which bring no life. I am not sure why some think it is important to participate in such things. I know it bothered me when our daughter was young. And I was surely happy when it snowed on those days, because when it snowed, it was usually a blizzard. And you did not go out..........at all for anything!

What are we teaching our children when allowing them these things?

Well, Shelley, Jesus would not care about such. Did you ask Him about such things? What does the Bible teach us about dressing in things that are not bringing life to us? Well, Shelley, one can certainly dream. Yes, but what will our "kids" dream?

Jesus did not come to accommodate a culture, but He came to set up His kingdom. 

What if people got dressed up in those Dr. uniforms and went and fed the homeless?

What if teenagers got together...........made some sandwiches and went and fed the homeless?

What if we taught our "kids" to reach out to those "kids" who may not have that worldly costume to buy? What if we got together, made some stew, cornbread and fed like a neighborhood of people that night............instead?

Just thoughts here, remember.  I am just thinking what we could do differently to show people the "love" of Jesus.............in feeding them, bringing them a warm blanket or maybe some warm gloves. And talk about eternity with HIM!

What if we took that night and let others know about Jesus instead of worshiping the other?

What if we took our children or grand-children to visit the elderly in an old folk's home on that day? Well, Shelley that would scare my kids?    (and  queens with magic in their hands, ghosts, goblins, and witches don't) (the devil does not need a big "door" to enter your life and that of your children----all he needs is to get a foot hold into your home and family through one open area not guarded by God's word. He has had thousands of years to study mankind.)

Psalm 103:15-18

15 As for man, his days are like grass;

As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 

16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone,

And its place remembers it no more. 

17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting 

On those who fear Him,

And His righteousness to children's children, 

18 To such as keep His covenant,

And to those who remember His commandments to do them.   NKJV

What we allow our kids and grand-kids to do comes back to us. What seeds we sow, will produce a harvest!   When we are those who truly fear Him, then our children and their children are secure. Those who keep His commandments and do them. What did Jesus say?

John 13:34-35

34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."    NKJV

      From the blog:  LEADING OUR CHILDREN BY GIVING THEM TRUTH  .......So when the

world sees us, do they see us as in the image of God our Father or of the world?

Hebrews 12:1-2....1  therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.   NKJV

That weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, can tangle one up in such a mess and delay God's plan for our lives.

"Well, everybody is doing it!" "Well. the pastor or the youth leader said the R-rated movie was okay to go see!"  "They think it has something to do with the Bible."  "Well, everyone else is going." 

No, they are not!

What if God is calling you to go on a missions trip around the world? You will take what you gathered in your heart from the R-rated movie and take it overseas to minister with  you too! And what about the anointing, is it possible to not operate in that which God called you to do when we spend time in and with those R-rated movies? (Just think about Samson and the anointing he had)

"Well God wants us to have fun!"  Yes, but will the fun be at the expense of our souls and those we try to minister life to? We are not to copy the behavior and customs of the world. WE ARE NOT TO FOLLOW THE TRADITIONS OF MAN. WE ARE NOT TO BE RULED BY A CULTURE.  JESUS DID NOT COME TO ACCOMMODATE OUR CULTURE, HE CAME TO SET UP HIS KINGDOM. Our transformation is to be in the new person, the 'new man' God intended.

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Are we showing our children that it is okay to dress up as the superhero? I know I have seen a few here in the neighborhood. But do the children know that "it is not real" that it is just a form of someone else's imagination? Well, Shelley, it is okay to dress-up! Is dressing up for our tomorrow's, the equipped in God with His Word and declaring truth or are we dressing up as one: a man in women's clothing, or a woman in man's clothing, or................???

Yes, seems like a fine line indeed! What will we do with it?

In closing: I leave you with this thought from scripture!
Matthew 27:15-26
15 Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to releasing to the multitude one prisoner whom they wished. 16 And at that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. 17 Therefore, when they had gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?" 18 For he knew that they had handed Him over because of envy. 19 While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that just Man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of Him." 20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. 21 The governor answered and said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!" 22 Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let Him be crucified!" 23 Then the governor said, "Why, what evil has He done?" But they cried out all the more, saying, "Let Him be crucified!" 24 When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just Person. You see to it." 25 And all the people answered and said, "His blood be on us and on our children." 26 Then he released Barabbas to them; and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified.    NKJV

Having nothing to do with innocent blood, the people chose the murderer Barabbas. In reading about Barabbas, we find that he was guilty of that which both the Romans and the Jews considered a serious liability, but because of the Jews hatred toward Jesus, they chose the perverse to let the Prince of peace die! Each day we choose either life or death. I heard recently that anyone who takes an offense against the Lord and His divinity are the carnal minded. They are those who have the carnal hatred against anything the Lord is speaking or doing. We saw it in the above passage. Those priests, scribes and Pharisees hated Jesus and they wanted Him gone, so they could continue their living what they thought was holy to God. They were so wrong!
In mid 2004, I was going up my staircase at home.........at been praying and seeking a title for a message for Jail Ministry........ALL I HEARD WAS "GIVE ME BARABBAS!" And the Lord led me through how the world always chooses that which is something they can live with. If they are the carnal, they will choose that which is also carnal.
Are rallying with the world? Are we the "conduit" for which the world can flow through us to our children, or are we the "conduit" for which God flows from our heart to those around us?
What these people chose, came on them and on their children as well.

Father, thank You for Jesus, the Son of Your love. You gave us life through Your Son who took on the Cross with joy in His heart. In all  that was going on, He saw us and saw this day. Show us what to do in these situations. Is it right to dress our children and their children in that which appears as a lie and something of someone else's imagination? You certainly desire us to dream dreams, and see them come to pass. But we also know they are those You planted in us from the foundation of the world. Help us to see where we might be missing something that is totally wrong for our "kids" to participate in this month. Help us to speak wisdom and receive light in anything that is dark with the Halloween Eve event. Truly our children are an heritage from the Lord and we know that YOU have a plan for their lives. They are our future. Help us to keep them safe when we should be guarding their eyes, their ears, and their hearts from anything that might be presented as the good but is really evil to our children.
Father, I think of the book of Amos and what he presented to the people. As the prophet, he was NOT there to infuse them with faith, with confidence or even in zeal... But ........ he was there to fill them with doubt about their lives. He had to show them by YOUR hand and Spirit that what they were doing was wrong and they needed to recognize it. Amos sowed seeds that brought doubt to them that  their future was not as bright as they had thought it was. And it certainly was not a secure future if they continued to walk the pathway they were going.

Are we too, becoming so lax, they we are those, who are not following You correctly? Are we in Your eyes, the "wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked".........as we see in the Laodicean church in Revelation?

Father, we surely want our "kids" to have a wonderful childhood but not at the expense of their souls. As the believer's, and those who seek Your plan, is our future looking bleak ........is it one where there is no hope ........but ONLYa testing?

For Amos surely announced that God was NOT WALKING WITH THEM!
Father, we surrender our lives and those of our children and their children to You. Have Your way in them, and may they have life everlasting.  Today we take heed to ourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has made us overseers to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. (Acts 20:28) May we bring praise and glory to Your name forever. Amen.

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