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RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
I am sure they will be wanting to test that theory...it will be interesting to see the results...if they will conduct the test that is...RE: O.J Simpson dead at 76
Gone...Race had something to do with it...at least I think so but not in the way the previous poster stated...
OJ was famous...he was known to abuse Nicole but at the time I think he got a pass with his behaviour...not unlike many pro sports players...but keep in mind of Rodney King debacle and the LA riots...all points in the direction of police brutality towards people of colour...or the uprising of people of colour fed up with the system that does little to protect/respect them...
Add in a racist cop...lets face it...he should have been honest...and the gloves were just a distraction...smoke and mirrors...
The unfortunate cost of this problem with 'the system'...was Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman...
That is why some people (IMO) cheered for OJ...not out of disrespect for Nicole or Ron...
To answer the other poster...
I am sure that is how many people feel...but now that OJ is gone...let's hope the children (OJ and Nicole) can be left alone...
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
Note that the condition can only be Positively diagnosed after death.
Perhaps we'll know more in a few weeks or so.
RE: Welcoming actress Courtney Tailor...
I think Courtney has other worries and becoming a CS member is not a priority...Taken from on line news outlet...regarding the death of her lie in boyfriend...
An arrest report said that Clenney acknowledged killing Obumseli but said she was acting in self-defense. She said Obumseli had pushed her and thrown her to the floor, which prompted her to grab a knife and throw it at Obumseli from about 10 feet away. The medical examiner said Obumseli's wound could not have been caused by a knife thrown from that distance.
Not a great way to get dates here...perhaps the rat has a sense of humour...
RE: Welcoming actress Courtney Tailor...
That's too funny...Perhaps alarming...
Be careful who you message here...
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
Considering Hernandez (NFL) player who suffered from that disease and had led violent life...it could be considered a contributing factor...although OJ had problems with domestic violence for a good portion of his life...some women were silenced due to a NDA..regarding his abuse...I think it was about a combination about race (before that was the cops brutal beating of Rodney King and others) and OJ's fame...and of course now we know what concussions can lead to...including domestic violence as a past history...not to mention the LA riots that was an indication of just how people of colour were feeling at the time...some were horrified at the verdict while others celebrated...
I feel sad for the people who died...Goldman and Nicole Brown...
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
Perhaps the most Charitable take on OJ was that he played running back long before NFL concussion protocols were adopted, he'd likely suffered multiple undiagnosed concussions, and was mentally impaired
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
During the California murder case of People v. O.J. Simpson, DNA results indicated that blood found on a rear gate at the crime scene belonged to O.J. Simpson and that blood found on socks at Simpson's residence belonged to murder victim Nicole Brown Simpson.Some people just seem to be able to get away with murder as D.N.A has been around since 1986
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
So now you're sitting where you are watching this. Now, just imagine in front of you all the potential sources of the problems in your life. Think of them all, all in front of you. In this exercise, you have your spouse or your potentially or your boyfriend or your girlfriend or your singleness sometimes is a source of people's problems, they think, or your kids or your lack of kids. Maybe it's your boss or fellow employees.Maybe it's your. Yeah, your co-workers, maybe your friends or the source of the problem right now. Maybe it's your enemies. Maybe it's in your finances over here or the economy. Maybe it's the the the government or the police out there. Maybe they're they're the problem. Maybe it's maybe it's your vices, you know, drugs or alcohol or sex or gambling or whatever, that maybe that's the source of your problem. Maybe it's your health, maybe it's covid, maybe it's the weather.
And I said a bunch of things, but fill in the gap of a substitute in there for yourself, whatever problems you might think exist. And they're all out there somewhere, OK? They're all out there. Now, let's use our problem detector for a second. They're all out here and we've got a problem detector with the pack here and the long stick to the plate. Right. And let's see if we can detect any problems. They're all I listed them all.
They're all in front. If this is going to. It's not it's not picking up anything. The problem, the sector is not recognizing problems when we're putting it to all these things that potentially we think would be the source of our problems. Doesn't pick up any kind of response, which is odd because we just put a whole bunch of things that are major problems in our lives. And so when we do that, maybe this problem detector is defective, but something happens, you're leaving it on OK, and then is on is powered on.
And you and you just you're going to put it down. But as you put it down, you're turning it. You're turning it. And the stick with the plate is coming. It's moving closer towards you. You're putting it down in an awkward way, but you're putting it down so that it's facing you. And as soon as the plate comes around from checking out all these things, it's coming close to you. What do you think happens when it comes right to I'll tell you what happens.
It goes like this. It goes beep, beep. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep and start. Smoking makes barking and then it explodes. As the plate is put directly over your hearts and as I put it, directly over my heart. The beats increased with frequency as we get closer to our hearts because.
Our hearts. Ah, the problem, our heart is the problem, not our physical heart, not not the organ in our chest cavity that that pumps blood all through our body. I'm not talking about the organ talking about this, our spiritual heart, the seats of your and mine, the seat of our emotion and our will, the our our invisible person who we are on the inside, the invisible part of you that drives your life. The visible part of me that drives my life.
Jesus made this really clear that this is the source of our problem. It's not what's on the outside of you that's the problem, Jesus says, but it's what is on the inside of you, that is, listen to what Jesus says in Matthew Chapter 15, verses 10 to 11, and also in verses 17 to 20. Let me read this for us. And he called the people to him and said to them, hear and understand it is not what goes into the mouth that defines a person, but what comes out of the mouth.
One Belt and Road Initiative growing stronger
American ships and troops in the Middle East prepared for a likely Iranian attack on Israel on Friday, Biden “We are devoted to the defense of Israel. We will support Israel. We will help to defend Israel.________________________________________
The price of gold reached an all-time high on Friday, soaring above $2,400 per ounce as a global safe-haven rush continues.
Spot gold prices rose 2.4% to a record high of $2,431.52 per ounce before pairing some gains.
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Beijing slams US and allies for ‘attacking China’
The US, Japan, and the Philippines released a statement rejecting China’s maritime claims
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French Navy preparing for war – admiral
The Marine Nationale is training to face an adversary “who wants to destroy us,” a senior officer has said
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‘Time to prepare for war’ North Korean leader
Pyongyang must be ready to fight and win against all enemies, Kim Jong-un has said
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Russia advises citizens against travel to Middle East as Iranian threat stokes tensions
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Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were invited to become members with effect from 1 January 2024.1 Feb 2024
Useless trivia
A Texas semitrailer driver rammed a stolen 18-wheeler through the front of a public safety building where his renewal for a commercial driver’s licence had been rejected, killing one person and injuring 13 others.
Useless trivia
The world's oldest conjoined twins, Lori and George Schappell, have died, aged 62, according to the Guinness World Records (GWR).The pair were 62 years and 202 days old, nine years older than the second oldest female conjoined twins ever recorded.
Lori and George also held the world record for the first same-sex conjoined twins to identify as different genders after George revealed himself to be transgender.
The twins were born in Pennsylvania, US, on September 18 1961. They had partially fused skulls, sharing blood vessels and 30% of their brains — the frontal and parietal lobes.
Lori was able-bodied but George, who had spina bifida, used a "wheelchair-type stool," GWR said
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
But my prayer is that you would be so impacted by what you hear that it will not only change your life that you'll understand it and then God will be able to use you to teach what you learn to actually have an impact to other people's lives as well. That's my hope. Our series that we're in, Matthew the Gospel of Matthew or in Chapter 23 are texts for our main text is going to be found in verses 25 to 28. So Matthew, 23-25-28And I want to give you guys the it's a four point sermon tonight. I want to give you the four points up front and then we'll hit them one at a time. So to give you an overview of where we're going. Point number one, we're going to identify the source of humanity's problems. Small task. I know what we're going to do that to, in point one, identify the source of humanity's problems. Secondly, what we're going to do is we're going to highlight humanity's feeble attempts to fix our own problems.
We're going to highlight humanity's feeble attempts to fix our own problems. And is at this second point where we're going to spend most of our time looking at our text. We're going to connect our text in Matthew. 23 verses 25-28 right into the second point. And you're going to see that more clearly when we get there. The third point in this message, I'm going to give you the solution to humanity's problems. We're covering a lot of ground here tonight, as you can see.
And then our fourth point, we're going to troubleshoot what to do when the problem is still there in our life after we've received the solution to it being a troubleshooter, we recognize the problem, received the solution, but then realize that there's still some problems left. We're going to do some troubleshooting point for. So that's where we're going in this message. So let's let's dive in and identify the source of humanity's problems, the source of humanity's problems. If you're a Christian, if you're a brother or sister in Christ, watching this message right now, I want to take you back as we identify the source of our problems prior to you coming to know Jesus.
So this is pre Jesus, pre salvation for you. If you're if you're a friend and a guest watching the service with us and you, and you're not a Christian, you don't know Jesus. This is going to explain to you the source again, identify the source of your problems in your life. So for the Christian, this is Jesus. And if you're not a Christian, we're going to identify we're going to find out what's going on and what's wrong.
So we're going to do a little bit of an exercise to do this. You guys picture in your mind a metal detector, a metal detector. You see people who have the get rich mentality, right? They buy the trusty metal detector. They go to the beach and they put the little plate at the end of the stick near the ground. And they're trying to find hidden treasure. And they'll have a normal tone the metal detector and go eat.
And if there is no metal, but as soon as it starts to come to some metal, what does it do? Wraps up, right? Eat, eat, eat, eat, PBB. And then, you know, you found what you're looking for. That's a metal detector. Well, we're going to use here to identify the source of humanity's problems. We're going to use a problem detector. OK, a problem detector. Now to help us find the source of our problems.
RE: It the culture dummy.
Harriet Tubman -Small, illiterate, black woman born into slavery.
Prior to Civil War- conductor on Underground Railroad.
During Civil War -
Cook, Nurse, Spy, Organized steamboat raid into the South that freed 700 slaves ...
Credited as 1st US Woman to lead a military operation.
It was thought that putting her on the $20 bill would piss off old white guys.
Turns out they're Remarkably OK with a gun toting, 2nd Amendment supporting, slave freeing, Democrat shooting, Republican Black Woman.
Probably explains Why neither Obama nor Ol' Joe have Actually Gotten her on the $20 bill.
RE: It the culture dummy.
Harriet Tubman -Small, illiterate, black woman born into slavery.
Prior to Civil War- conductor on Underground Railroad.
During Civil War -
Cook, Nurse, Spy, Organized steamboat raid into the South that freed 700 slaves ...
Credited as 1st US Woman to lead a military operation.
It was thought that putting her on the $20 bill would piss off old white guys.
Turns out they're Remarkably OK with a gun toting, 2nd Amendment supporting, slave freeing, Democrat shooting, Republican Black Woman.
Probably explains Why neither Obama nor Ol' Joe have Actually Gotten her on the $20 bill.
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
The main point I see with the gloves is they were leather. I know that if leather gets wet, it shrinks. Been there, done that. Just try to get the gloves on without having to re-tan darn near with neatsfoot oil and working them.I wonder about him..how he showed attitude by going and trying to steal his past property. Like he got away with murder so was above the law. His is one famous death that should just be quietly laid to rest. No big media bull about how great he was. Bad canceled good so ignore him.
RE: Embroiled...
Shares are now hovering just above $32 — below half of what they were worth a mere two weeks ago, in the immediate aftermath of the merger when they experienced a brief spike.Soon Trump won't be able to pay his numerous lawyers, maybe the courts will provide him with one?
Already his bill this year is 1million dollars.
RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
DNA was fairly new then..It was brought up by experts in the field...but, they made it too complicated...went on and on...and, quite frankly, I think the jury must have been bored to death.At the onset of the trial, I thought he was innocent...For me, it was the DNA evidence, that made realize he was guilty...He had a very rare DNA...I can’t remember the exact number..but his DNA was one in so many billions...and it was found on Ron Goldman...
No explaining blood of his to get on OJ...as could be explained away with Nicole’s...
But, even the DNA was put in question..when preservative was found in the DNA in OJ’s socks at Rockingham...made it sound as if it was planted...
It was the early stages of DNA..and, collecting evidence of DNA...
My thoughts about it, the jury wanted a way to acquit him...and his attorney’s gave them reasonable doubt...
I always felt so bad for the Goldman’s...Ron would have been alive, if Nicole’s mother had not left her glasses at the restaurant...and he was such a good person...he personally returned them to Nicole...
OJ thought he would be welcomed back in society with open arms..when he was acquitted..
He was not..
Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
So... 30 years later we are all experts at investigative research.Why wasn't the DNA brought up in the trial
Why didn't someone ask about the thickness and resistance of the rubber gloves.
I don't remember... was he jailed after the arrest pending trial or out on bail?
Most likely if he were on prescription medication for arthritis, someone would have known he would have issues with swelling. Especially when getting off the medicines, as sometimes there's a worse reaction when you quit taking them.
Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
Agreed. I've seen his facial expressions while trying on the gloves.RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
As for the glove, it was soaked in blood..and, leather shrinks when it gets wet and dries...OJ stopped taking his arthritis meds...which caused his hands to swell..the rubber gloves also made it less likely for the gloves to fit...Have you ever tried to put shoes on a toddler, who does not want to put those shoes on???
It was the best acting job of his career.
RE: O.J Simpson dead at 76
I can only speak for myself...It was the notoriety of OJ...college football star, Heisman Trophy winner, NFL star, Hertz commercials, and he did a few movies...
He was famous...It had nothing to do with his race..or that he was married to a different race...
The Bronco chase also captivated the country...
Race was brought into the case..because of one racist detective...
And, his attorneys..the best that his money could buy..ran with it...
You also have to remember..it was right after the Ridney King riots...
BTW..most celebrities are not convicted...juries have a hard time convicting people that are famous.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Problem Solving......Date:7/26/20Series: Matthew
Passage: Matthew 23:25-28
Speaker: BJ Chursinoff
Pastor BJ breaks down two of Jesus' "woes", levelled at the hypocritical religious leaders of His day and their feeble attempts to fix themselves through behavioral modification.
Some of the things that we learn in our schooling, you know, through from kindergarten all the way through grade 12, some of the stuff that we learn in that period of our lives proves to be really helpful in the later parts of our life and in our in adulthood. Really helpful stuff like reading. We learn to do that in school, basic writing skills, basic math beyond the educational stuff in the classroom. We even learn a lot of stuff in elementary school and high school, personal interpersonal dynamics, like learning how just to function in society and function in culture.
You learn that. You learn that in high school and school. And so we carry that stuff into our adult lives. And we continue to need to read, need to write that need to use basic things and in math, helpful stuff that we learn. There are some things, some not some helpful things that we learn.
They don't seem to have any bearing on our lives immediately after we learn, for example, parallelograms, parallelograms, there's a great meme out that shows us the connection between learning parallelograms in geometry and math and having no bearing on our lives today.
If you're not sure what it means to be the first to welcome you to the year 2020. Great to have you with us. A meme, a meme, by definition, is a humorous image. It's a video or a piece of text that is copied off with, often with slight variations, and spread rapidly by Internet users means. I fancy myself as a meme connoisseur. But beside the point, here's this meme. I'll just explain it to you what it says.
It says this. I'm glad I learned about Parallelograms instead of how to do taxes. It's really come in handy this parallelogram season. And it's hilarious because we do taxes every year as adults and we don't learn about taxes in school, we learn about parallelograms in school and we learn them, they have almost pretty much zero impact in our lives what so ever. What's the point of me telling you this? Well, sometimes we learn less important things in our life that don't really impact our lives and sometimes we don't learn some of the most important things that will actually impact our lives.
We don't get exposed to learning those things in this message today. We're going to learn something that I wish every single person was taught in childhood, in their adolescent years, in their adult years. This is stuff that I wish that were taught not just on a one time experience, but refreshed and relearned and remember on and on and on again, because it's so vital, it's connection to how we live and understand our lives. Vital, vital. So here's the hope for this message.
The stuff that we're going to be looking at that I'm going to be showing you tonight. Can impact your life forever. You know, sometimes preachers can exaggerate. This is no exaggeration. The stuff that we're going to learn can impact your life now and forever. And here's the second part of my hope for this message, that it would not only just change your life, I believe that God will use this and can use what we're going to learn tonight to change your lives.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
And Lord, we do love you. We love you, Lord.And so we ask right now that by your spirit, you would just shine a light on any area of our lives where we're not walking and living under your authority because we want to. Lord, we invite you, Jesus. And we ask you to speak.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
And if we try and add anything. Oh, this is a nice salvation, let me just spruce it up with some of my good works. Gas is you just profaning the work of Jesus? Everything that's from the Lord is perfect as it is. Make a note of this, God's ways and God's word are perfect and cannot be improved. They're perfect and cannot be improved. I'm going to end with a verse spoken by the prophet Samuel in correction to Israel's first King Saul.It's a verse every Christian should memorize. It is a verse 8 we should teach our children because it is crucial to the Christian life, it is crucial to understand the authority of God in our lives. Speaking rhetorically, Samuel asked Saul. Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed then the fat of Ram's. Samuel said, Saul, listen, even if you have good intentions.
Even if you have good intentions, the Lord delights in obedience. Because obedience says, Lord, I recognize who you are. I recognize your character and I recognize your power and I recognize that, well, my role is. Is to gratefully. Gladly and lovingly obey. Not to offer a revised plan for your consideration. The Bible says. Who has been the Lords councillor, the answer, all of us. But we're not we are not as counselor, we are not his advisers, we are children of a perfect father who is wise beyond our comprehension and good beyond our wildest imagination.
We love them, we surrender to him, we offer our whole lives to him gladly because he has loved us completely and it's our desire to live our lives in the footsteps of Jesus by saying, Father.
Not my will, but yours be done, yours be done. Every day, every moment, that's the goal, that's the goal for those who love the Lord, would you buy your head and close your eyes? Father, thank you for our time together in your word.
And Lord, we are overwhelmed, we are overwhelmed by your spirit and by your word with how good you are and as your word lays it out. With just the reality that you don't need our counsel or our opinion, Lord. You are a faithful friend that sticks closer than a brother, you hear every word, we pray, every word, we cry, every word. We speak to you, Lord, and you do speak with us through your spirit and through your word.
But, Lord, where you have spoken clearly. It cannot be improved upon. And so, Father, we asked that you would put in all of us a heart that has rightfully submitted to you as God in the truest sense of our lives.
Lord, now your authority reign over our lives, Lord, not because we've come to Mt. Sinai, and we're terrified, but because we've come to Mount Zion. We've been given access to the throne of God. We've already been forgiven. We've already been received. We've already been accepted. We've already been welcomed, Lord. And so our obedience does not come from a place of fearing your wrath, Lord, but it comes from a place of being overwhelmed by your kindness and your love.
And Lord, we do love you. We love you, Lord.
Useless trivia
One person was killed and seven injured overnight when a cable car in southern Turkey hit a pole and burst open, sending the passengers plummeting to the mountainside below, local media reported.What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
God says, listen, all you're going to do, all you're going to do is profane it. Why in this case, because God wants them to understand he's looking at the heart, he's not looking at how tricked out their altar is, he's not looking at how great their works are.He's looking at their hearts.
And if they got into building alters how they thought altars should be built, it would not take very long before they convinced themselves, as we would, that the key to pleasing God is building really great altars and temples.
I mean, could you imagine if you believe that you would just spend countless amounts of money on building the most elaborate structures you could all over Europe and play, I can't imagine what would happen if you believe that.
So I want to suggest to you that in our context, in our day, we face a similar battle of wills because we're all faced with the temptation to say, well, you know what, I here's our cop out.
You ready for this? This is going to hurt. Brace yourself. You know, I just believe that my relationship with God is it's just it's just so personal, you know?
And I don't mean just personal in the sense that that it's between me and Jesus, but I mean in the sense that, you know, what worshiping God looks like for me is personal between me and God. What living for God looks like. It's its personal for me.
It's personal for me. You know what? Scriptures need to be obeyed and which ones don't. That's that's really something personal. It's very special to me. I'm not comfortable talking about it.
And God says that's profane. That's profane. Because the truth is that if God has spoken in his word, if he's given clear revelation and instruction on how he wants us to do something, on how he wants to be worshipped and how he wants us to relate to each other and love each other and be the church, if God has spoken on a subject in his word, then the conversations over.
There's a period at the end. Not an ellipsis, not those three dots, because he's waiting for our input and any attempts to amend or revise what God has said, they're just profanity.
It's profanity, because when we do that, what we're really saying is there's a higher authority now, Lord, there's a greater wisdom that can be added to the conversation.
Mine, mine.
And when we do that, we're not really worshipping the Lord, are we? We're worshipping ourselves because we've elevated our desires and our opinions. Above the Lord's. So would you write this down when we worship God according to our opinions and desires instead of his word?
Our worship becomes profane. When we worship God according to our opinions and desires, instead of his word, our worship becomes profane. If we love, the Lord will express that love by doing our best to worship him, live for him, honor him as he desires to be worshiped, lived for and honored. If we love the Lord, will want to worship him in a way that blesses him and the way that we learn how to do that. Is by reading what he has said and revealed in his word.
By being a part of his church, by being around our brothers and sisters and saying, can you help me do that? Whoever we are, whatever your position is in the church with you being a Christian a short time or a long time, say I want to live in a way that blesses Jesus. Even if we have good intentions.
The point is that we cannot improve upon God's work, we cannot improve upon God's ways when it comes to our salvation, the work of Jesus on our behalf, his life, death and resurrection.
It's perfect. It's perfect. It cannot be improved in God's plan of salvation. It's his work and it's our faith. But what is Hebrews 12 to tell us about?
Our faith says Jesus is the originator and the perfecta of our faith. Why is our faith even acceptable, because it was crafted by Jesus. It was crafted by Jesus, not by us. Jesus did all the work and Jesus gave us the faith to believe in that finished work.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
So just keep everything on the ground floor. Nobody needs to climb any steps. Let's just keep it all copacetic. But the main point of this text is that God gives specific instructions as to how he wants to be worshiped.Later on in Exodus, God is going to give incredibly detailed instructions on the building of the Tabernacle, the special tent that would become a portable temple for the people of Israel. He'll give instructions about sacrifices and feasts and all kinds of things related to how he wanted his people to worship him. And it's so easy for us to say, well, you know, all those laws and regulations were done away with Jeff when Jesus fulfilled the law perfectly as a man.
And now there's just there's just freedom. Just freedom. And it's true that our performance, our works, has nothing to do with our salvation. But remember. God is still a consuming fire, he's still holy, he's still worthy. And we do not speak truthfully when we claim or act as though the New Testament is not loaded with practical instruction on how we are to live as the people of God, as the church. We mislead ourselves and one another when we act as though the New Testament is not full of counsel on how to live in a way that is pleasing to God and blesses God, the message of the New Testament is not do whatever you want.
It's not that, it's that God loves you, he's saved you. And if you understand that, then you belong to him now go and live as though you belong to Jesus. I'm just going to find my place with a dramatic pause for a minute right here, so just indulge me as I do that. Our whole lives are intended to be acts of worship. There's a way of living today that is pleasing to God and there's a way of living that is not there's a way of living that is worship to God and there's a way of living that is not as we talked about.
And we're speaking about Grace just a few minutes ago, if we've really encountered the grace of God, it will produce a deep love and affection for the Lord, which will naturally make us say, I want to live in a way that blesses him. And in this passage in Exodus, God says that any stones used to build an altar for him must be used as is.
Don't cut them, don't shape them, don't chisel them in any way. Now, why is that? Because God says if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it. And I really want to understand us the big lesson that God is trying to teach the Israelites. It's not that God says, listen, I'm part of a union that's fully committed to using only natural products.
That's not what's going on here.
There's something big he's trying to teach them when it comes to what is right, when it comes to what is good, when it comes to what leads to life, when it comes to how we are to worship God, we are not invited into the discussion to offer our opinion.
It is not God and us sitting across the table offering 50 50 input, having a negotiation. Well, you know, Jeff, what do you think it means to live for me? Oh, I'm glad you asked. God, I've got some notes about what I think it should mean. That's not what happens in the Christian life. God says there's some things that I decide unilaterally.
Because here's my trump card card, I'm God, I'm God, I got to know I'm God, that's why I can do this. And God says when you try and add your opinion. All you do is profane, whatever we're talking about. That's all that happens if Israel said, you know what, though, Lord, I think some nicely decorated stones, maybe just in the corners would really beautify this altar. We can get, you know, this sort of wilderness chic thing going on.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
And our performance is not part of the equation. Throw the equation for salvation on the board. You're not going to find our works anywhere on there. Secondly, we've been given the Holy Spirit, which actually gives us the power to obey God, it gives us the ability to hear from God and be led by him should we so choose moment to moment.You and I experienced the character and the power of God at the cross. His outstretched arms, the nails in his hands and feet, the wound in his side, the stripes on his back, tell me everything I need to know about the character of my God, tells me everything I need to know about how he feels about me.
And when you combine that revelation of God's love for you. With the freedom of understanding that nothing is based on your performance. And the power of the Holy Spirit in your life. That's Grace, that's Grace, because it makes you want to live in such a way that Jesus is blessed because you love him. You love them. What real Grace does is produce a love for Jesus, the one who saves you. That's what Grace does, it doesn't make you say, oh, how can I hurt him some more?
How can I take advantage of this? It makes you say, Lord, Lord, thank you. And if the grace of God does not make you want to live for God. And please hear me on this, I'm not saying live from perfectly, I'm saying if the grace of God does not make you want to live for God, then let me be real honest. I don't think you've encountered the grace of God. I don't think you've come face to face with the Lord's love for you, because when you do.
You can't help but love them, you can't help it. Real grace is not a license to sin, it's the means by which were actually able to serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
Let's jump back in to Exodus 28, verse 22, it says, then the Lord said to Moses, thus you shall say to the children of Israel, you have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. You shall not make anything to be with me. Gods of silver or gods of gold. You shall not make for yourselves an altar of earth. You shall make for me and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings in your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen.
In every place where I record my name or just wherever I cause my name to be remembered, I will come to you and I will bless you.
And if you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone. For if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.
Nor shall you go up by steps to my altar that your nakedness may not be exposed on it. So let me explain that last verse, because I don't want to end the message with it. And then we'll go back and talk about the rest of that section of scripture.
You see, God didn't want he didn't want any altars that were elevated, that had steps leading up to it. And I suspect there are two main reasons for this. The first reason is mentioned in verse 26
Twenty six, people didn't really wear underwear at this time. Men wore robes, put two and two together. Ain't nobody want to see that.
You see, when you show up to worship God, you shouldn't have to learn that much about your pastor. Right.
All right.
Secondly, if you study ancient Near Eastern cultures, or you just read the Old Testament, you're going to figure out really quick that all the other pagan religions in the area, this is a challenge to talk about with kids in the room, all the other pagan religions in the area at that time, Inc, let's just say physical rituals into their culture, worship, or more likely, it's just wicked people who want to do wicked things.
And they're like, yeah, I just had a revelation from Ball that when we have religious ceremonies, we should be doing this.
Everyone's like, cool, that sounds great. And so what God is saying, he's saying, I just want you guys to stay as far away from that as possible in your worship of me.
Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
The prosecution didn't.RE: Because the glove didn't fit, they had to acquit...
Am I missing something here.
If he HAD worn the gloves wouldn't his D.N.A. be inside them?
RE: UK & USA ELECTIONS THIS YEAR. UKRAINE?
Now is the time to give the Ukraine what they need to succeed...not give up...this will not be the end of his attack...Putin has Finland on his list too...This is not going to be a simple solution...history suggests otherwise...
How foolish the American political parties are...not coming together and discussing what should be done rather than get mired down in nonsensical issues...the time for unity is now...