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Being an ignorant fellow is not a crime until it comes to the knowledge of God. I was ignorant of God for the first thirty years of my life because I was taught by ignorant men.  Men who are deceived teach their deception and enlightened men teach the truth.  I had a major problem, I didn’t know where to go to find truth, my church had no faith in the Bible.  My mother bought a large gold paged Bible and put it on the coffee table.  Before any of us could touch it or hold it we had to put on clean clothes and wash our hands.  I tried to read from it one time but I think it was written in Latin.  The last time I saw it, it was in a stack of Outdoor Life magazines, and my little sister used color crayons to mark it up.
 
Luke 23:34 Then said Jesus, Father forgive them; for they know not what they do.
 
In my ignorance I prayed to statues and dead people, but Jesus forgave me.  Jesus is far more interested in establishing a relationship with us than chiding us for our ignorance.  I had no idea how stupid I thought until I was saved from myself.  We are surrounded by ignorant people but we can’t judge them because we were one of them.  The folks who know better but continue the wrong path are the ones who are headed for trouble.  Men who are offered the truth but reject it will also answer to God and no excuse they dream up will pardon them.
 
1 Timothy 1:13 The Apostle Paul said, I was a blasphemer, a persecutor and a murderer: but I obtained mercy because I did ignorantly.

 
Seems like to me that God is willing to forgive any sin we make in order to have us in His presence.  He forgave the men who crucified His Son onto the cross.  He forgave them while they were driving the nails into His Son’s hands and feet.  Some folks don’t think they ever need forgiveness because they don’t ever do anything wrong.  They may be the nicest people in the world, well, they may be the nicest people in hell.  No one in hell is ignorant but that’s a hell of a place to acknowledge the truth.
 
If you don’t meet Jesus in this life, you will never meet Him.

 
God wants just one thing from us, He wants us to acknowledge the truth and repent.  Some folks spend their entire life fabricating excuses and in one minute they could repent and not need any of their excuses.  Some folks won’t repent because they can’t figure out why God would want them.  Well you really won’t know until you make the connection, then you will discover that He loves you!  How can God love a sinner?  Because He is willing to forgive all of our sins.  Just let God be God, some folks want to argue with His way of doing things, as if they have a better way.
 
Isaiah 43:25 I am He that blots out your sins for mine own sake, and will not remember your sins.
 
So, not only does the Lord forgive us but He forgets our past.  The devil likes to remind us but there’s nothing to remember, so don’t.  God wants us to forget our past and focus on Him, just let the Lord love you.  Ignorance is a choice, don’t choose it, choose to know the One who loves you.  


before our time began

3/5/2018

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Our Bible tells us that God is the Father of spirits, so every human begins as a spirit.  So when are spirits created by our Father?
 
John 1:3 All things were made by Him (Jesus), and without Him was not anything that was made.
 
The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit created everything in the beginning.  I believe all the spirits that would give life to flesh have all been created.  Furthermore, I believe all these spirits are in heaven with the Father waiting to become a human being in the wombs of the mothers.  Men are not capable of creating spirits, we are not the fathers of spirits.  Men are capable of creating other men but it is God who makes the heart of an unborn baby to beat.  Every spirit God creates has the freedom to choose its destiny.
 
Psalm 82:6 I have said, you are gods; and all of you are children of the most high.
 
A god is a being that has been given the option of choosing its destiny.  We all begin as children of the most high but we can choose the god of this world to be our father.  Happy, blessed and well-off is the person who knows the Father from the days of their youth.  We are not all children of God, we must choose to become His child.  A lot of people have a calling on their life before they are born, Jeremiah was one of them.
 
Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you and I ordained you a prophet unto the nations.
 
God had a plan for Jeremiah before he was ever born, he was predestined to be a prophet.  Jeremiah could have chosen another way, but he remained with the Lord’s vision for his life.  Everyone is created to walk with Jesus but a lot of them choose the alternative.  I believe I was predestined to do what I’m doing today, however, I chose the opposite way in the early years of my life.  As I look back I see I had so many opportunities to fail, but the Lord was protecting me.  I did suffer a few things that I brought upon myself, but it certainly could have been a whole lot worse.
 
Galatians 1:15 It pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace.
 
Paul was born into this world by the will of God, the Lord called Paul a chosen vessel.  Paul was a Jew and he was a top ranking Pharisee.  He loved God and the law, but he hated Jesus and Christians, he was not doing what he was born or predestined to do.  One day he had an encounter with Jesus and Jesus gave him His grace, Paul went on to be an apostle and write two thirds of the New Testament.  A lot of God’s people begin their lives “off course” but God works behind the scenes to get them on track.  You will never be satisfied until you begin to do what you’re born to do.  No man was ever born to serve the devil, so no man will ever be content doing the work of the evil one.  You were born for good things.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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    November 24, 2019


    My trust is in the Lord,
    therefore I live in hope.

    I no longer walk by sight,
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    Nehemiah 8:10
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