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What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
We try to present ourselves as clean to others. Even though we are unclean on the inside. We work at appearing clean to others while being unclean on the inside. Here's what Jesus says, Matthew. Twenty-three versus twenty-seven to twenty eight.Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you, are you like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
This second feeble attempt at fixing their own problems really close to the first one that we just looked at, but with a subtle difference in the first attempt describing the Ferris's, they actually attempted some cleansing. They were at least trying to fix the problem. But it is didn't identify the source of the problem. They were trying to clean themselves, but they were just cleaning the outside and not the inside in the second attempt. There's no attempt to clean anything.
There's no attempt to try to fix anything. The focus is on the presentation, not dealing with the solution, the second feeble attempt to fix our problems. It's all about appearances. Says, Since I can't fix the inside, I'll appear clean on the outside to people while being spiritually unclean and dead on the inside. I'm not going to let anyone see this inside stuff. So here's what you can see. I'm going to put on a facade, a mask, an alternate reality that everyone I'll let everyone see that.
And if they see that, they're going to think that everything is good in here. That's what Jesus is using with an illustration of a whitewashed tomb that inside the whitewashed, dead men's bones and like the mat and the camel from a previous wall fountain versus 23 and 24 mats and camels, spiritually unclean things for the people of God to eat in the Old Testament. That body spiritually unclean. To touch this, there's this theme of a spiritual uncleanliness here.
And so Jesus died inside the tomb, a spiritual death, spiritual uncleanliness. But on the outside, what do you see? It's not a translucence coffin or tomb. So fake and his white, white, fresh white paint keep those tombs looking really nice and clean. Don't look up on the inside of them, though, but just look how nice they are on the outside. Just stay focused on what the outside looks like. And Jesus told the religious leaders that what that's what they were doing.
They were doing the same thing. They're just there is appearing clean to everyone that came in contact with them. Look how clean we are. Look washed we are. Look white. We are. But again, don't we do the same thing in our day and age today, in our culture today, we don't look far for examples. All of social media. Is this all of it? Our personal social media, Instagram, Facebook, people snap and now and tick tock and the whole thing.
I've done my own personal kind of unofficial, and I and I check off and I go on social media probably too much. But you know what I never see? I never see people posting for the world to see their marriages falling apart or them having breakdowns mentally because their kids are out of control or they're not sharing their failures at work or their despair or their regrets. Do you know what they're sharing just three times? Just the family portraits where everyone's smiling and you can see the little light of the teeth, you know, the Christmas postcard around the tree, everyone hugging in their sweaters and everyone having a good time or days at the beach or the highlights or the good stuff
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
One shot problem, though, is that when you pour your protein smoothie in a glass cup and you don't rinse it right away. You know what happens if you better add protein shakes? You know what happens in a matter of time. The protein residue it takes onto the side of the of the cup on the inside and it begins to reek is just as disgusting.And we've had that happen from time to time in our house, not to name any names or who the culprit is in our house that does that. But I'll let you detectives up there and figure out who it was. It wasn't me. So but here's how this word that Jesus is speaking to the religious leaders. How I understand them firsthand is that if I took one of those cuts kicked on the inside with the dry rot and protein shake, how long would it take for me to clean it if I only clean the outside of the car?
How how much scrubbing would I have to do to, you know, with with bleach or S.O.S pads or the or the finest quality products that you could buy at the supermarket? And I'm just scrubbing and cleaning all the way around. All the way around on the inside and outside. All the way around and clean for hours. Days. What would happen when I present to you. It would still be filthy. It would still be filthy and he'd be able to look at it and because it's a glass cup, he'd be able to see through it and on the inside how disgusting it is.
It'd be an exercise in futility if in such a vain attempt to clean. But the solution is really quite simple, right? I take the cleaning agent and even just basic no name brand stuff works and I begin to clean the inside of the cup and as I scrub the inside of the carpet, it takes a couple of seconds and rinse under the top and dump it out. Then you look at it and then what do you see? Clean. It's clean, totally clean.
Here's the application for us. When you look at your life and you look at the problems on the outside, do you understand what the problems are on where they really are? The flow in from our heart on the inside is that you can try as hard as you want to live a moral life or to live a better life. You can work hard at stopping swearing. You could be more generous with your finances. You can try harder to change your outward circumstances, change your job, change, change your friends, change your hobbies, change.
Clean everything up on the outside. But those changes will not fix the source of your problems because those things do absolutely nothing to address the problem that's on the inside, the invisible spiritual stuff that's on the inside in your heart, all those things are the outside of the. Imagine for a moment that all your outside issues actually were resolved. You got the better job that paid better. All your kids, your kids begin to behave perfectly like little princes and princesses all the time.
That's amazing. Your medical report comes back all clear. You're healthy, all your relationships, you're reaching success and all your hobbies like it's just a utopia of their. Imagine that you can get that for a second. In this life, government was beginning to be this. Everything was good. That still wouldn't be enough to fix it. We think that if we just fix that all, I'd be OK. But you would still find a way to mess things up, even if all those your wildest dreams were made true, why?
Because the problem is not out there. The problem is in here inside of us, our hearts clean up. The outside of our life doesn't do the trick. We need the inside cleaned. That's what the scribes in the Pharisees attempted to do. They were just trying to clean the outside of their lives. The funny thing is we attempt the same things today, 2000 years later. So that's feeble attempt No. One year, feeble attempt number two.
RE: Israel is being attacked at this time
I checked out the drone from the description in rob's comment.It carries a 110 lb. bomb & splits the atmosphere at a scorching 115 mph.
That's 'bout the top speed of a fighter plane ... in WW ONE.
So israel is essentially dealing with Sopwith Camels carrying a bomb & guidance system.
It's classified as ... get this! ... a LOITERING WEAPON ... Yes! REALLY!!
Maybe Israel can arrest them for Vagrancy.
RE: Israel is being attacked at this time
Your blogs are simple yet thought provoking at the same time.I don’t attempt political blogs anymore. I can’t debate as good as the men folk but some have said at least you’re trying and we appreciate that.
I don’t know…perhaps I’ll try again one day.
Useless trivia
A small boat full of decomposing corpses was spotted by fishermen off Brazil's northeastern coast today, according to local news reports.Brazil's Attorney General's office said in a statement that it has dispatched a forensics team to the area to determine where the bodies and the boat came from.
"Some reports say there could be up to 20 corpses" in the boat, the Attorney General's office said in a statement. The office announced it is opening a criminal and a civil investigation into the incident.
RE: Israel is being attacked at this time
If the eats are egg salad & delivered to Israel ... by the time they get there, they'll wipe out the country with food poisoning
RE: Israel is being attacked at this time
"I searched news ... this was "breaking" FOURTEEN HOURS Ago & Israel expects the "hundreds" of drones to.take "several,hours" to arrive.What the hell are they using for Drones ... Hot Air Balloons???"
Mic maybe they are delivering uber eats on the way ???
RE: Israel is being attacked at this time
The Iranian response appeared to begin at midday on Saturday when IRGC commandos seized an Israeli-linked container ship in the Strait of Hormuz.13 April 2024
22:58 GMT
More than 100 Iranian drones have been downed outside of Israel by the US and UK, an unnamed Israeli defense official told the country’s Army Radio.
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Israel getting punished with ‘Operation Truthful Promise’
Israeli reports say Iran has already fired three waves of drones at Israeli positions, as well as a number of cruise missiles. Footage captured by citizens in Iraq, suggests Iran's famous Shahed-136 drones are among the UAVs launched at the occupied territories.
ABC News has quoted American officials claiming that 400 to 500 drones are currently making their way towards Israel after being launched from Iran's territory.
Before the direct Iranian attack on Israeli targets, Hezbollah initiated a significant rocket barrage targeting the northern areas of occupied Palestine and the Golan Heights.
A cyber attack also plunged vast areas of the occupied territories, including Tel Aviv, into darkness.
Further Information indicates that both the Lebanese group and the Ansarullah movement in Yemen have initiated drone attacks on the occupied territories concurrently with Iranian strikes.
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TEHRAN- The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) has issued a statement announcing the firing of dozens of drones and missiles against targets inside Israel in response to its "numerous crimes" including its air raids on the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, on April 1 in which seven Iranian military officers were martyred.
"In response to the numerous crimes of the Zionist regime, including the attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus and the martyrdom of a group of our military commanders and advisors in Syria, the aerospace force of the IRGC targeted specific positions inside the occupied territories by firing dozens of missiles and drones," the statement reads.
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“Definitely these insane operations will be the last struggles of the Zionist regime,” Major General Qassem Soleimani said, according to a Twitter account attributed to him.
It came days after Israel said it had launched air raids against Iranian targets near the Syrian capital city of Damascus. The Israeli military claimed its raids had prevented an attack on the Israeli-occupied territories “using killer drones.”
In a statement issued after the Israeli army announced its attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the Israeli military for its “major operational effort.”
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Iran launches drone attack on Israel, missiles reportedly firedAnd now the escalation begins
RE: Israel is being attacked at this time
Nevermind the spelloe, Israel has 75 of 'em from what I can gather.Iron dome maybe come in handy too and all that.
I suppose this will do about as much damage as those drones that hit Kremlin.
RE: Israel is being attacked at this time
Could be good target practis for Israles 75 F35s.
RE: Israel is being attacked at this time
I searched news ... this was "breaking" FOURTEEN HOURS Ago & Israel expects the "hundreds" of drones to.take "several,hours" to arrive.What the hell are they using for Drones ... Hot Air Balloons???
Seriously, y'all ... That ChiCom Spy Balloon that took Days to overfly the US was going faster.
RE: Heading back to the USA for Halloween 2025.
You said you bought clothing at the airport though. I wouldn’t recommend that. It’s your money though.RE: O.J Simpson dead at 76
I remember my mom and I watching his trial on TV. That’s the day we were going on a family camping trip. My dad was telling us to get in the car and we were glued to the TV. Lol. I was only 12 at the time but I was asking my mom do you think he killed her? She said yes he did because her lover is also dead. Had to be a jealous ex. True. Plus you can’t kill another big man unless you’re a big guy yourself. It had to be him. Because that man will fight for his life with everything he’s got. Again. True.RE: UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
Yea, so I guess Russia wil take the whole of Donbas,but stop once that is accomplished.
making all 4 regions minus whats on the other side of the river Russian permanently.
Nato will not stop this now- and if they try you and me might die and the wole world as we know it will be no more.
RE: Israel is being attacked at this time
I think we may need to pray for the Iranian people...
Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
The word LATEX was stated in the first minute of this video.(Latex is rubber)
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
Unless that retired police office is Mark.Furman ... How would he Actually Know anything about it?He gave his Opinion ... He was No better qualified than anyone else to state the Facts of the matter.
Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
I spoke to a retired police officer today who said the gloves were planted on the scene.In court, Simpson was wearing cotton liners and NOT rubber gloves.
Someone have information about this?
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Six people have been killed in a Sydney stabbing inside a shopping centre at Bondi Junction soon after 3pm on Saturday* A senior police officer was on the scene and shot the attacker, a 40-year-old man, after he refused to drop his weapon
* The inspector’s immediate actions were believed to have saved many lives
* Eight patients were taken to hospital and several people were in a serious condition including a baby
UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
GrandsiozeUkraine army chief says that eastern Ukraine is under extreme pressure from Russian forces. The warmer weather makes it easier for advancing tanks etc. A British military chief thinks that this year could see an end to the war due to Russia's superior strength.
So, this really is when decisions as to whether greater support is given to Ukraine, or not.
Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
Simpson made visitors and family sign NDA's in his final days:Signing non-disclosure agreements to visit him?
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What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
What feels good in the moment isn't always the thing that's the good thing and the right thing in the short term or the long term. But we live in a culture where it's where it's promoted and celebrated. We just follow your heart, follow your heart. And what I'm trying to do for us right now is to identify the source of humanity's problems. And it all begins here. And so. That's point one, here's point to. The highlight, humanity's feeble attempts to fix our problems on our own, we have a heart problem inside of us, something broken, something spiritually unclean, producing these things from the inside of us.That's what Jesus says. So how do we go about fixing it once we know that the problem has been made plain to us? Well, this is what we're going to come to our text, Matthew. Chapter 23, verses 25 to 28. Here's a little bit of context. This is in this scene. Jesus is at the tail end of his three to three and a half year public ministry. He's been going around from town to town all throughout Israel, teaching and preaching and displaying the power of the kingdom of heaven through signs and wonders and and miracles of all sorts.
And he's been doing that for about three and a half years. But now his public ministry is coming to an end. It's Wednesday now, two days before his crucifixion. He's in Jerusalem is at Passover. It's packed in chapter. Twenty three of Matthew's Gospel is is documenting a back and forth that Jesus has been having with the religious leaders of his day as they're trying to entrap them, as they're trying to discredit him, as they're trying to prove him as a fraud, as a phony, and ultimately they want to have him destroyed.
That's the tension. And that's the scene that we're that we're in right now with Jesus and Jesus. And Matthew, 23, is pronounced in a series of woes upon the religious leaders, judgment upon them for their refusal to believe in him. God has come in. The person of Jesus wrapped themselves up in flesh and come to people and they reject God. And now he is produce, pronouncing judgment upon them. To those in our voices here tonight and in both of them and both of these walls in these verses, Jesus highlights the religious leaders, feeble attempts at fixing their own problems.
And we need to pay close attention, special attention, because we're going to realize that we can do the exact same things that they were doing 2000 years later, halfway around the world, different culture, different time, different space. It's the same humanities problem is the same. Our problem is the same. So here's there's two feeble attempts here, a feeble attempt. No one at the religious leaders trying to fix their own problem. They try to clean up the outside part of their life without addressing the inside part of their life.
They worked really hard at trying to fix the outside without paying attention to the inside. Listen to what Jesus says in versus 25-26. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you, clean the outside of the cup and plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee first clean the inside of the cup and the plate that the outside also may be clean. I get this image of Jesus as you as I see it, I see the truth of it in my kitchen all the time, both myself and my daughter, Sydney, we both have protein shakes every once in a while that the using the blender put in the frozen fruit and the yogurt and the protein powder and all that kind of stuff.
It's great. You you blend it up and pour it into a glass cup and then you drink, you drink it and you're getting all the nutrients, all your muscle building power in. One shot problem, though, is that when you pour your protein smoothie in a glass cup and you don't rinse it right away. You know what happens if you better add protein shakes? You know what happens in a matter of time.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
This defines a person. Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth starting to go down 17, do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth, passes into the stomach and is expelled? But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person for out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, s*xual immorality, theft, false witness slander. These are what the file a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone to hear what Jesus is saying, evil thoughts, murder, adultery, s*xual morality, theft, false witness, slander.These things are the major problems in our world today. These are the problems. And Jesus are saying they don't originate outside of us. They originate on the inside of us. Our heart is the problem. It produces our problems from the inside. You won't be hearing this, many might be asking the question, yeah, OK, but what if I'm just minding my own business and someone actually outside of me, outside of my heart actually does something immoral or wicked or evil towards me?
Isn't that a problem that's outside of me and my heart? Yes and no. Let me try to address that. If someone does something wicked to you, what's the source of that problem? Their heart. Their heart is producing that wickedness that's been levied against you still, that has nothing to do with you yet, but here's where the more here's one of the stuff that happens against us and to us, where it becomes compounded and it becomes a real issue because we have we have unfortunate things happen to us all the time.
We have wicked things and unjust, unjust things happen to us all the time. Everyone does. But here's where it gets really messy, really bad, really fast. Not necessarily stop being that us. But what how do you respond to those things? How do you respond to those things when they happen against you, when someone does you wrong, big or small? Does your heart produce anger, vengeance, despair, violence, abuse, denial? Stuff happens to us, but our heart produces the response that we don't respond the way that we ought to to those things, and that compounds it and makes that experience far greater against you and for you than it would be if we had hearts that knew how to respond properly to things.
If left unchecked and undealt with our heart is what produces the things that keep us separated from God if we haven't come into a relationship with them yet, if this if this thing is not addressed, this this producer of this of the wicked and the evil and and the problems, if it's not left, if it's not addressed, we're we're in big trouble. So whatever you do, friends, brothers and sisters, whatever you do, whatever you do, don't follow your heart.
Don't follow your heart. If I had a quarter for every time I've heard people in person or on social media or whatever, say a kind of phrase similar to this man, I just got to follow my heart. I just got to do what feels right. And I and the amount of times I've type things and erased them or had to bite my tongue because if I had a quarter for every time, I'd be a rich, rich man. Our world lives this way.
It is it's this propaganda. It's it's promoted. Follow your heart. Do what makes you feel right. Do what you what you think is right. And what we've learned so far is we we cannot should not follow our heart because our hearts are the source of the problem. The Bible says that the heart is deceitful above all things. Who can know it? Our hearts trick us. They deceive us. They don't lead us down the right path.
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orzzz is awright ... gotta admire her fashion sense .... always so subdued & understated.
RE: UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
True he can not. Russia is like a weak guy with a gun inside a bodybuilders union... they have to let him out or they mught get a bullit. That's been the understanding since day one that Nato can't really touch him here. He'll nuke us (you incuded) so if I was you I'd forget all hard stances here cos I can tell you Putin WILL NUKE US, if we send in our forces. Why? Cos there is millions of Russians in this part of Ukraine. He just spread out his umbrella over them.After what happened in Jugoslavia you can still only see the western version here:
he attaced a severeign country and we can not just sit by? Really?
He is taking these 4 regions now as he took Krim last time. He ain't backing down.
The majority there are Russians or Russian decendants if you will.
Can't leave now, ever.
This is the Russian view of today.
Long term though you might get your will...
When todays strong leader is gone.
Heading back to the USA for Halloween 2025.
I went to the White House Gift Shop when I was in Washington DC, and I bought some souvenirs for the family there.When I go again, I will not buy more souvenirs, because I bought some the last time I was there
UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
MerlotThanks for comment.
Everything appears to be loaded against Ukraine. I don't believe they can succeed without continual support from other countries, especially USA. The question is, should they be left to fail, or should Western Europe plus USA make the big decision to supply everything needed to turn the tables on Russia, including long range missiles and aircraft, and possibly, nuclear war heads. Drastic measures I know, but I don't see why Russia should be allowed to hit Ukraine without expecting the same destruction in its own territory. The one alternative is for NATO to step in and issue an ultimatum, get out of Ukraine or we enter the war. A risky stance, but this would, make Putin think hard as to whether the war is really worth the consequences. He knows he couldn't defeat NATO.
RE: UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
That's likely to happen either way.Let the Ukrainian people decide.
Russia can match everything thrown at it. They will take Kiev too.
China is playing a huge part in Russia's war on Ukraine.
"The officials spoke to Reuters news agency and said China has massively increased its sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology to Moscow.
These items are important because Russia is using them to make tanks, aircraft, missiles and other weapons for the war.
They also said:
About 90% of Russia's microelectronics came from China
Nearly 70% of Russia's approximately $900m in machine tool imports in the last quarter of last year came from China
Chinese and Russian entities have been working together to make drones in Russia
China is helping Russia improve its satellite and other space-based capabilities for use in the war. This could increase the threat Russia poses across Europe.
US President Joe Biden has previously raised concerns with Chinese President Xi Jinping about Beijing's indirect involvement in the war.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen returned this week from a visit to Beijing and said she had warned China that the Biden administration was prepared to sanction Chinese banks, companies and Beijing's leadership if they helped Russia's military in the war.
She has already been given the go-ahead from Mr Biden to sanction financial institutions that help Russia's military-industrial complex.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to travel to China for talks next month."
From Sky news.
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