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At least 17 people were killed when their passenger van collided with a cargo truck then burst into flames on Monday in the southern Philippines, police said.Three other people were injured by the midday collision in an accident-prone road in Antipas town in Cotabato province, Antipas police chief Capt Godofredo Tupas II said.
The 10-wheel cargo truck, which was loaded with sand and gravel, was negotiating a downhill road when its brakes apparently malfunctioned and caused it to slam into the passenger van.
All but one of the 18 people onboard the van, including the driver, were killed by the impact and the flames,
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
You're acting like God doesn't exist.You're acting as though you don't have a heavenly father who takes care of you.
For your heavenly father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. I love that Jesus says, "Instead of worrying about all those things. Seek God. Live for God. And He'll take care of all those things for you." What's the solution for coveting? It's gratitude. It's contentment. It's trust in the character of the father and his generosity. Why generosity?
Because, hey, when we give, we're being like God, we're being more like that, which we were created to be. And when we're generous, we're responding to what Jesus said, which is it's more blessed to give than to receive. And the blessing of generosity is that generosity comes from the belief that I don't have to hoard because I have a father who will provide for my needs. I don't have to have the best of everything because my value comes from God and not from my stuff.
That's why one of the solutions to covering is generosity. It's giving it away, saying, hey, I'm not defined by what I have. So if God wants me to give it away, that's no problem. I don't have to hoard. I've got a father who provides for me and my identity is found in him, not in my stuff. Here in the Final Commandment, I'm going to wrap up with this. We're prompted to ask the logical question.
But how do I deal with my internal sinful desires? How do I control them? The answer, I can't. I need new desires. And those are only available through God who gives me a new spirit, his spirit that brings with it new godly life giving desires.
My old spirit, my old nature cannot be rehabilitated. It is hopeless. It is irreparable. It is death. That's why the language that Jesus used is that we need to be born again. We don't need to be rehabilitated. We need to be born again. And thank God through Jesus. We can be. I've shared this before, but I think it bears repeating the concept of bankruptcy is that a person lays out their financial situation to the court with total transparency and acknowledges the reality that they are in a situation they cannot repair themselves.
They have incurred debts that they cannot repay. Bankruptcy is a remedy for a hopeless situation. But in order to receive the remedy, you have to acknowledge the hopelessness of your situation. You and I have incurred a moral debt, a sin debt to God that we cannot repay. Our situation is hopeless. But praise God, there's a remedy available. And his name is Jesus. He stepped up and took our place. He took on all of our debt and received the punishment for it.
That should have gone to us. And in so doing, he canceled our debt, freeing us from it completely. But in order to receive that forgiveness, we have to acknowledge the debt. We have to acknowledge our hopeless situation. And that is why the Ten Commandments were given to mankind. They reveal God's perfect standard of holiness, his perfect standard of moral goodness and the law.
The Ten Commandments serve as a mirror to show us our own sinfulness, to show us the truth that we've all fallen hopelessly short of God's standards.
We've all incurred a sin debt we cannot repay. The apostle Paul said it like this. The law was our tutor to bring us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. This is why we love Jesus so much. He saved us. He forgave us. He canceled our debt when as he died on the cross. He cried out in Greek to tell us stye meaning. Paid in full. Paid in full. Your debt and mine was paid by Jesus.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
And those who have lived their life under the control of covetousness will cry out. I have wasted my life. I've wasted my life. Would you write this down? The greatest remedy for coveting is learning the character of our heavenly father. The greatest remedy for coveting is learning the character of our Heavenly Father. The more you know, when the moral trust him and the more you trust him, the more accessible contentment becomes.I've said before that as we grow in maturity in the Lord, two things become more and more glaringly apparent. The first is the depths of my depravity. And the second is the grand of God's grace. The longer you live as a Christian, the deeper you grow in your relationship with the Lord, it becomes shockingly obvious the depths of your own depravity, but also, oh, the grand here and the greatness of God's grace. You know, our church exists in a very unusual situation.
We reach thousands of people every month who watch our videos and listen to the messages online.
And we have a few dozen adults in our live local church. And for the first few years, I thought, God, why? Why? And then one day it really hit me. It really hit me. The penny dropped that my heavenly father knows me better than I know myself. And he knows what's best for me. You see, here's the hard truth. I don't know what would happen if this church just exploded overnight locally or if it had exploded overnight five years ago.
Maybe I'd get a massive ego and I just turn into a giant jerk and then fall in love with the money. I mean, I don't think I would. I hope I wouldn't. But again, I also know that I'm a sinner. I'm a sinner, and I would never, never put it past me to sin. And here's what I do know. God is always doing good in my life. He's always doing what is best for me.
And here's where the understanding really changes for us. That means there's a reason for what is happening in my life right now. There's also a reason for what is not happening in my life right now. And as I've gotten to know my heavenly father in a greater and deeper way, I found it easier and easier to trust him because he is wonderful. He is good. And I know I know that he loves me. I know he's doing what's best for me.
And he loves you, too. And you can trust him to. There is a reason for what is happening in your life. And there's a reason for what is not happening in your life. And I think sometimes we really wouldn't want to know what the reason is for some of the things that aren't happening in our life yet. It might be hard to hear, hey, hey, maybe you're actually still single because you're not ready. And maybe if you got married right now, you'd be divorced within three years.
None of us wants to think that. But what if that's true? And the best thing God can do for you is say, "We're going to grow those parts of you that would destroy a relationship so that when you get into it, it's going to be a blessing. You're going to prosper because I'm going to do what's best for you." Maybe God is saying, "There's some things you've got to learn before I can answer this prayer because I'm going to do what's best for you."
Coveting is the result of God saying, "This is what I want for you. This is what is best for you." and me saying, "Well, that's not what I want for me." It's rejecting the idea that God knows what's best for me. It's me telling God to get off the throne in my life because I know what's best for me. Coveting is what drove the sin of Lucifer and heaven. He coveted God's throne and the position of God Almighty. Coveting is what drove Eve to eat the apple and eat. And she coveted being her own God, becoming her own God.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
You will discover, not fulfillment. But even deeper, emptiness and meaninglessness as the worthlessness of your life's pursuits are laid bare.And like Solomon, you too will cry out vanity of vanities. All is vanity. Mark Twain answered the question, what is civilization? By saying this, a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities, a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. That's what our civilization is. Your heavenly father loves you. And he's good. And so he desires to spare us from that pain and vanity. So he invites us to give our entire heart and soul and mind and life to loving and pursuing the only thing that truly satisfies and never disappoints himself.
He's a good God, and he doesn't want you and I to waste our lives on the meaningless. Would you write this down if I allow God's word to define success? I will be satisfied if I allow the world to define success. I will covet and never be satisfied. Now, I want to pause here and put Jesus in his rightful place in our minds as we read this next test. This is not a really, really smart man offering commentary on the meaning of life.
This is not a philosopher pondering the purpose of true wealth. This is not a life coach offering tips on how to manage your finances.
This is God in the flesh, the one who stepped into space and time but has existed for eternity outside of it.
This is the son of God who has conversed with his Heavenly Father about how the world will end one day, about what will take place when every person is judged before the throne of God.
This is the only one who has ever set foot on the earth who actually knows how this thing called Earth and the human race and Eternity are going to play out.
The only one and that one that Jesus is telling us, his disciples, this is what really matters in life and what will matter for eternity. And I hope that, as I've shared, that we're we're lifting Jesus up to the highest place of honor in our minds and our hearts and that we've gotten our hearts and souls into a pasture before the word of God, where we're saying, oh, I'm listening, Lord, I'm going to hang on every word that you say next because you're about to tell me what matters most in life and in eternity.
And so, with that posture taken, what Jesus is saying, the first thing he wants us to know is this. Jesus says, take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses. Then he spoke a parable to them, saying the ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do since I have no room to store my crops? So, we said, I will do this.
I will pull down my barns and build greater. And there I will store all my crops and my goods.
And I will say to my soul, soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink and be merry. But God said to them, for this night, your soul will be required of you. Then whose will those things be which you have provided? So is he who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God. This man who says, I got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it.
I know I'll tear down my current house and storage sheds and build a bigger house and a bigger garage and a bigger storage shed for all my stuff.
But none of his wealth could give him control over the fact that he was going to die that night. Find himself standing before God, where all his wealth was worthless. He couldn't take it with him. And let me tell you, it sure doesn't impress God. The folly of covering the foolishness of living a life driven by covetousness will be obvious to all of us. One second after our earthly life ends in the blink of an eye. All that stuff will be worthless.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Do you realize that the value of anything? Is determined by what someone is willing to pay for it. And what did Jesus pay for you? What did you cost him? That is your value. That is your value. One's life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.When I covered something for whatever reason. What I'm really expressing is the belief that Jesus is not enough. Would you write that down? I'm expressing the belief that Jesus is not enough. Lord, I know your words says that you supply all of my needs, that you know my needs before I even ask for them and that you know me better than I know myself. So you know how to give me what's excellent for me. But despite all that, I think you're wrong.
I think this is what I need. This is what I deserve right now. Your judgment, God, of what I need is wrong, or it's I know that your word promises joy and peace and fulfillment that comes from your Holy Spirit and has nothing to do with what I do or don't have. But that's not enough for me. However, if I had this thing, it would be enough. Then I'd be happy. However I phrase it, however I frame it.
The bottom line is that covetousness is me saying to God, you're not enough for me. I also need this thing. You see, that's how Satan works in the life of believers. He gets us to take the first step toward coveting by deceiving us into believing the lie that what we need to be satisfied in life is Jesus and fill in the blank.
Jesus. And if you believe that, you'll be happy when you have Jesus. And something else. Let me tell you the truth. You are coveting whatever gets filled in that blank space. Whatever comes after the word and you're covering it. Jesus was asked Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law. Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord, your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
You ever realize that that is one heck of a command from the Lord to love him with everything we have and above everything, and God only asks us to do that for one reason? Because he is enough. Because if we love him with all our heart, all our soul and all our mind, we will have everything we need and we will be more blessed than we would be loving anything else. That's why God calls us to do that. The liar says God's not enough.
The liar says, what you really need to be happy is Jesus. And but the Lord says, no, love me with everything you have, because I'm everything that you need to be happy, to be content, to be fulfilled. And if you love me with everything you have, you will be more satisfied than you will be loving anything else. God didn't give us the Ninth Commandment for his good. He gave it for our good as a loving father.
He doesn't want us to waste our lives pursuing things he knows are empty and will not satisfy us. He doesn't want to see that happen to us. Just ask the wealthiest man who ever lived, King Solomon, who summed up his lifelong pursuit of pleasure and riches and fame by saying this when he had exhausted everything the world had to offer.
This was his summary statement of his findings. Vanity of Vanities. All is vanity. Or as the new living translation puts it, everything is meaningless. Completely meaningless. If you don't believe him, John Rockefeller said the same thing in his own way when he was one of the richest men on the planet. He was asked how much money is enough for a man? With a wry smile, he replied. Just a little more, just a little more.
Converting creates an appetite that will never be satisfied, because if you believe what the world tells you, there will always be something greater to shoot for. There will always be someone who has more. There will always be someone undeserving who has what you believe you should have. And perhaps most cruel of all, even if you reach the pinnacle, and you get it all, you have it all.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. Paul says the secret to contentment is allowing Jesus to meet all of your needs and trusting that the way he meets those needs is what is best for you. Sometimes that means poverty. Sometimes that means prosperity. In either case, trust the Lord and find your peace in him. When we don't learn that lesson, when we don't teach it to our children, we reach adulthood and suddenly the issue is not a toy car anymore.It's a real car. Or a real woman or a real man. You see, our coveting just grows up with us. But make no mistake about it, we simply go on being driven by the same childish impulses that drove us all those years ago.
The stakes just get higher. The toys become more expensive. Make a note of this. I need to recognize my susceptibility to coveting and replace it with contentment that comes from trusting the Lord to determine what's best for me. The solution is contentment, trusting the Lord to determine what's best for me. As always, Jesus has some priceless insights for us on the topic at hand in Luke 12, beginning in verse 13. We read this then one from the crowd said to him, Teacher.
Tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me. So just to bring you up to speed, at this point in his ministry, Jesus has been preaching and teaching about the kingdom of God with power and authority and insight like nobody's ever heard before. He's claimed to come directly from heaven and that Father in heaven is his literal father and to back up all of these incredible claims. Jesus is performing miracles of a magnitude and volume that nobody has ever seen or even ever heard of before.
And now you have his attention, you're face to face with Jesus.
Obviously, you're going to ask or raise the issue that you think is the most important thing you could talk about with Jesus.
And for this guy, that issue is Jesus. My father has just died and left everything to my older brother. Brother, tell him that the right thing to do is to divide it with me. Not a question about eternal life. Not a question about ultimate reality or truth, not a question about who Jesus really is. Rather, he tells Jesus what to do. Fix my problem. Jesus, get me my money. You see, that's what coveting does to us.
It causes us to miss what's going on in our lives right in front of our faces. It causes us to miss the blessings that God has already given us, because all we can focus on is the thing we don't have that we think we should have. The tragedy, of course, is that everything this man was looking for, was right in front of him, literally. Jesus, the way, the truth and the life. Was right in front of him.
And he missed it. He missed it because he was consumed with covering.
No wonder Jesus response was basically, are you kidding me right now? This is what Jesus said. But he said to him, Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you. And then Jesus turns to his disciples and he reveals the problem at the root of this man's blindness. And he said to them, take heed and beware of covetousness. Please. Please, church, hear these words of Jesus. For one's life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.
Jesus, the one who created you, who knows you better than you know yourself. Is not giving you an opinion. He's telling you the truth when he says the meaning of life is not how much stuff you can accumulate. Our culture says the exact opposite. Consumerism says you are what you wear. You are what you drive. You are the kind of phone that you have.
What determines how much you matter and what your value is, is the stuff you have.
But Jesus says I determine your value. Your worth comes from how much I love you. And I have loved you with my body and with my blood. I have loved you with my very life. Do you realize that the value of anything? Is determined by what someone is willing to pay for it.
RE: What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
I think this is an awesome idea!!
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
with all of the appeals; we have to hope there are now some actual judges. none of anything they pushed should have gone to court. that's why the corrupt james and company went to civil court.nothing criminal to push but civil suits don't care. totally dependent on honest and fair legal system. we all know Ny lacks any of that along with d.c.
there are many others across the country. most people through those aren't political opponents so they won't be wrongfully prosecuted any where near as hard.
if the u.s were truly blessed, things like o'biden and cronies would have any type of power. the corruption that accompanies the current prosecutors and judges wouldn't exist.
RE: How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
Drea...I never heard of people name calling the Republicans...just the Donald...
How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
Yes, that is accurate, there is no credible evidence that Joe Biden has done anything criminal.
God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
Yes, Potus 47 is sharing the love with everyone on all media for the good day he had today.RE: The 'worm moon' lunar eclipse...
I am sure that eluded him...RE: How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
oh no. i've never heard or read that before.
they earned it. they aren't democrats. every thing they push is wrong, evil, damaging, destructive, and chaotic.
they do the crimes then project on others and try making them do the time.
doesn't take any thing special to see that. just look around. even some of those self professed "rethuglicans" aren't what they claim and every bit as threatening when they support demonrat spending, bills, plans, and regulations.
we'll be lucky if we can get a decent election with all the illegal immigrants they're allowing in. another rigging for congressional seats.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
The bond was lowered. The $464 million judgment – plus interest – still stands.God bless the USA!
RE: The 'worm moon' lunar eclipse...
The verb “elude”, which dates back to the mid-1500s and is spelt E-L-U-D-E, means to escape or avoid by trickery, cleverness, or speed. This verb comes from the Latin verb “eludere” (to evade or deceive).The verb “delude”, which dates back to the early 1400s and is spelt D-E-L-U-D-E, means to mislead the judgment or mind of. This verb comes from the Latin verb “deludere” (to play false), from “de-” (down) and “ludere” (to play).
I believe I used the correct verb in the context I wrote.
But I'm sure your knowledge of English is better than mine
RE: How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
You should ask riz... it's his blog about Trump.RE: New horror movie to my collection and a desire to go on a blind date at some point
Have a good time and don't pack an overnight bag... You have a good idea who you could get along with and you seem realistic too!
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
If they admitted that the Bond was too high then by default the fine was too high, they go hand in hand. The 8th is in the Bill of Rights, and an amendment to the Constitution. It provides protection from the Courts to the Citizens of the USA. The Constitution was well thought out and well written, it should be abided by, for everyone.RE: oregon farming laws
The video man said irrigation is excluded yet watering the lawn is irrigation which he said is included.But the funny part is that water used in irrigation goes straight back into the ground. Maybe the plants use some and some evaporates but most goes back. You should get a credit off your meter for that.
RE: How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
If you wanna go down that route: Joseph Biden, is he clean would you say,Is that accurate?
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
I wonder what these extra taxes are gonna be used for.I suppose it geos to the state of NY and
idk... new asphalt and asylum shelters perhaps.
RE: Speed dating
You've nothing to lose Susie as long as you are careful. I didn't go on my own and it was more of a singles night than speed dating.I too was in my 60's and able to sort the wheat from the chaff thankfully, and to be honest not desperate just curious.
RE: Crocus
I can see this being a positive for Putin...distracting the population from other events to focus in on terrorism...I wonder if this was allowed to happen?...at any rate this will make things easier for Putin to remain as leader...although poisoning and throwing a dissenter out of a window in a tall building is adequate enough for most to not oppose him...Interestingly enough the US told Putin of this upcoming attack in a possible concert/arena...but brushed it off...not surprised though...
One of the alleged attacker was wheeled in to the court room unconscious...the others were badly beaten...
This I am sure is for the public to view as Putin needs a positive spin as a leader who is tough on terrorism...but it also shows that there are no rules...
Speed dating
But I don't want to meet teenage mormons?
(thank you urban dictionary
teen mormons say if you put your middle foot in but don't move, it isn't sex, just soaking - the jump man, (or humper?) is the one wanting the soaking)(just to save anyone else looking it up)
Speed dating
That sounds quite fun! So you're saying give it a go ...Speed dating
Nope, not through a website, through a local group on Facebook which I wouldn't have heard about as it isn't my local area, but word is spreading.I was talking to a bloke online who said he'd been to both, I slightly got the impression he'd ticked 'like' on every woman there haha. Two women 'liked' him back at the first, three at the second, and the deal was the organizer then gave them each other's email addresses to go on from there. He did say all four leads (one woman had been at both, they 'liked' each other both times) fizzled out but as he's one of those who pushes too far too fast, maybe that's why they fizzled out? Even a 5 minute date won't filter those out. But I'm tempted. So many expats in Spain wondering how the hell to meet people as places like POF are, of course, predominantly Spanish. You can put I AM ENGLISH as your profile name and will still get swamped in Spanish messages, lol. This is a little more - focused.
RE: Joe biden’s puppeteer wants to turn America to Marxism. No one here wants to be marxist
He's trying to mansplain it to you... Without a social safety net most people would be in dire straights...it is the people like Trump and his minions who fail to see what is out there for the common good...unfortunately some of his followers do not know that when relying on food stamps or Medicaid or other government programs...they are using the social programs that Trump wanted to get rid of...using such terminology/propaganda to dupe people...
That tells me that most of the Trump followers are easily lead and ignorant...
Speed dating
Does sound like a meetup, and I'm told the Irish contingent of CS had a few of those - I heard good things about them but yup, doesn't really rock my boat! Although I think better organised, profile nametags and allSpeed dating
Still plucking up the courage but if I go, I'll report back!
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
How much of the $464M is a fine?I haven't seen anything to suggest it's not a disgorgement order (plus interest) in it's entirety.