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What makes the soil so hardened?
Why the soil becomes unfruitful?
Why the soil needs amended?
Jesus explained this “Parable of the Soils”
(4) responses to Gods word (Matthew 13)
Larry Crabb explains why people focus on their needs so incessantly
This explains why people would rather watch talking heads discuss election rather than speak with God (Bible and prayer)
Want to dive in 150 years ago…..
Princeton University
Charles Hodge
Systematic Theology
free online
Here’s a glimpse at chapter 11,
Providence (no God is not bankrupt, even if Hodge comes up blank on some topics)
2 Peter 2:4
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
I recall wondering what kind of “chains” could hold a spirit?
Ghostbusters showed traps…. mechanical contraptions,
And we know Jesus drove these unclean spirits into the swine….
But some people seem to be held in such disillusionment, captives to bad ideas….
Isaiah 55 covers “His ways, His thoughts” versus “your ways, your thoughts”…..
How Gods word is ALL WAYS effectual….! Accomplishing its purpose:
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
Judicial Blindness
Luke 23:34
Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
Peter also certifies their “ignorance”
Acts 3:17
And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
And Paul too,
1 Corinthians 2:8
Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
Which is why they got another chance…..Acts 1-7,
But?
They blew it, so the Kingdom transitioned to a spiritual kingdom (Kingdom of God)
Knowing this will not change anything, but it certainly fosters personal strength to stand strong against tyranny.
What fool buys a “conceal /carry” permit with a 2nd amendment “in hand”?
Matthew 28:18-20
18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
This is referred to as:
The Great Commission
Notice:
Paul did baptize some….
But states uncategorically -
1 Corinthians 1:17
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
The “observing all things” has such a Jewish flavor it aligns perfectly with Matt 24….
Pray your flight is not on Sabbath,
Preaching Gospel of Kingdom,
Not taking any marks on your body,
Give US this day our daily bread,
Lead US not into temptation,
But deliver US…..
This world is about to undergo a cataclysmic change….a polar shift even, when the Church Age closes (grace) and that “man of sin” steps up
Self defense
Military
Abortion
Taxes
Hands Across America (I’m old)
Politics have nothing to do with the Church or the Gospel of Grace
It DOES have everything to do with the Gospel of the Kingdom
The Church of God in the Times of the Gentiles
Charles Lawson | Charles Lawson
web.sermonaudio.comToday, we installed horse fencing for a retired couple (both artists) who did sculptures in bronze….
One is outside M and T Stadium in Baltimore.
Sosthenes (Acts 18:17, 1 Cor. 1:1)
Acts 18:15-17
15 But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
16 And he drave them from the judgment seat.
17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.
“……walk as men”,
How many Christians know that God has something far, far better for them?
Charles Lawson
A few thoughts about “bearing the sword” are mentioned…
Swords are for defending oneself, NOT for evangelizing (hey there, Conquistador),
every dispensation ends in apostasy, so where are we?
Mystery Babylon has inundated America
https://www.youtube.com/live/Y0MdsxrlwLw?si=t8ym8OQTFFXatvDi
Sharing the “personality” of one through blood?
All Christians realize the wholesome reality of this doctrine, even if unexplainable….but Moses penned Deuteronomy 32, (our vine, their vine) with a revelation of the “depths of Satan” Rev 2:9, 13, 24
For 100 years this occult knowledge has been explored, expanded, extracted
Snoopy posted this video last night….
Good one 
Revelation 20:10-11
10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Covenant Theology advocates often confuse this “great white throne” judgment with Judgment Seat of Christ (1 Cor 3) where those in Christs body receive rewards….
Trying to harmonize things that are different is itself a “doctrine of devils”
Deuteronomy 3:24-26
24 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.
God gets angry at Moses, tells him to shut-up….
Certain lines cannot be crossed, and no way no how the law (Moses the figure) is permitted in the promised land. Albeit, after death he appears with Elijah in the Mount of Transfiguration (Matt 17)
John MacArthur was raised a dispensationalist,
And Diane Marshall….
Apostasy is knowing the truth and choosing something else instead (in place of).
Falling away is giving in…
To make everything “spiritual”, saying, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself ? is naive and deceptive….
What if one’s choices invites real suffering….is that not physical, ie flesh and blood?
What if your parents make poor choices? Do children not pay?
Action / reaction….
You have not because you ask not,
But maybe you didn’t know for what to ask?
Solomon asked for wisdom,
Some people ask for nutritional food (lol) or nutritional insight to spin for profit
Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
…..waste howling wilderness….
What a scene Moses describes, for a song? To be sung in THE Great Tribulation, not by Christians who could never be described this way
The only valid “religion” (works done by man to appropriate close proximity to God) in Scripture is Judaism.
Christians emphasize a personal relationship because Christ did all the work….believers are mere recipients,
NO RELIGION
