Discussion
of the need for sin to be personal is continued, today. In an earlier
blog (04/29/2016), my first thoughts were to say that sin must be personal, just as pleasure
is personal, private, and an expression of ones own unique character,
makeup, and substance. However, reflecting upon what I posted, I
realized again that sin must be known by discernment (i.e.,
operations of divine essence), not just by likes and dislikes, temporal
phenomena, and the ever changing aspects of the flesh. The revelation
of GOD heightens and instills ones consciousness and sense of need for
relationship with Deity. To know sin only in “earthly” terms is not to
know sin at all. A person must be permanently changed, acquire an
appetite for the things that nourish eternal life, and continually apply
the peculiar gifts provided by Christ that include divine law, eternal
purpose, and sacred practice. So to speak, You don’t miss the water,
until the well has run dry; and you have not truly craved it, until
you’re dying from thirst. There must be an overwhelming, unmet need for
godly love, peace, and reconciliation. Those who respond to Jesus
Christ dying upon the cross become touched by both the blood and the
water that gushed from his side. Their thirst for righteousness that
will permit them to appear before the Father in genuine repentance
begins to be answered as they accept and acknowledge—even without their
actually having committed such specific sins as adultery, blasphemy,
murder, perjury, rape, slander, or torture—that the inescapable guilt,
imperfection, infirmity, and shame from sin is their own. Sinners have
no basis or merit whereby their error and sin is justified; and their
condition only may corrected and healed through the operations of GOD.
Sinners must know and feel with power that, unless they take deliberate
action to respond to the Savior, their lives will totally slip away from
dryness while standing on the shores of an ocean. Readers are asked to consider the presentation below:
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in
purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a
certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of
sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich
man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came
to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into
Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell
he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and
Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy
on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in
water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But
Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy
good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted,
and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there
is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you
cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from
thence. Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest
send him to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may
testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear
them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from
the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not
Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose
from the dead. (Luke 16: 19-31, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Filled With The Cross? (04/17/2016); Sin Also Made
Incarnate? (04/25/2016); Accountability and Challenge, Not Blame
(09/03/2015); ); My Soul Shall Be Satisfied (10/08/2014); Responsible
for Sin? (05/30/2014); Choosing a Church? (05/31/2014)
THE BATTLE AXE: Sin Must Be Personal (04/29/2016)—Where we think of zeal,
we often think only of the energy and excitement believers display
through their commitment, devotion, investment of themselves, and
completeness of surrender to divinity. However, zeal also
should be understood as the level of pursuit that every sinner must
bring to their opportunities as followers of Christ. Saying this
another way, “how much do they want it?” The sinner must hunger for
godly change, redemption, release, and salvation. It is better to avoid
saying “appetite”, “desire”, or “passion” because, those terms suggest
that some process tied to having fixed form and bodies of flesh (e.g.,
circulation, cogitation, digestion, metabolism, pain, suffering) is the
source of the necessary response that must be made by every created
being and living creature to the revelation of Deity. Rather than ones
mind, bodily organs and tissues, ones endowment of spirit content
imparted from GOD impels motion toward divinity, and response to the
call of GOD. The fundamental attraction as “a part” returning to “the
whole it is missing from” must be in place as an imperative of continued
existence. With all their mind, heart, and being the beloved will
embrace all the gifts, hopes, longings, promises, and visions provided
from the GODhead. Consider again how this is stated using language from
the Bible where “water” is repeatedly spirit substance from GOD:
(1.)
Hebrews 10: 28-30, King James Version (KJV): 28 He that despised
Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29 Of how
much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath
trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the
covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done
despite unto the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him that hath said,
Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
(2.)
John 4: 14, KJV: 14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall
give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall
be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
(3.)
Romans 8: 5-9, KJV: 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the
things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of
the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is
enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither
indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the
Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of
Christ, he is none of his.
(4.) Ezekiel 37: 1-6, KJV: 1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, 2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5 Thus saith the Lord GOD
unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye
shall live: 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh
upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall
live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
(5.)
Ezekiel 37: 11-14, KJV: 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these
bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are
dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. 12
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up
out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And ye
shall know that I am the LORD,
when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of
your graves, 14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I
shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
(6.) Psalms 63: 1-5, KJV: 1 O God, thou art
my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh
longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; 2 To see
thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. 3 Because thy lovingkindness is
better than life, my lips shall praise thee. 4 Thus will I bless thee
while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. 5 My soul shall be
satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
(7.)
Revelation 21: 1-5, KJV: 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth:
for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was
no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming
down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be
their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and
there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall
there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
There
is far more to be said, understood, and spiritually taken in. (For
example, (8.) Revelation 22: 1-6, KJV: 1 And he shewed me a pure
river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne
of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on
either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the nations. 3 And there shall be no more curse:
but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants
shall serve him: 4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be
in their foreheads. 5 And there shall be no night there; and they need
no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them
light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. 6 And he said unto me,
These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy
prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must
shortly be done.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it
unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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