A sheep in wolf's clothing.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
( James 5:3 ) KJV
Why was the Greek word for “rusting over” used for the + charged ion? The Holy Spirit left us an Easter Egg. As we continue the Sophia Proton thought experiment it’s significance will become apparent.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
(James 5:3) KJV
Why was the Greek word for “rusting over” used for the + charged ion? The Holy Spirit left us an Easter Egg. The Sophia Proton thought experiment will reveal its significance.
Continue reading “To rust over: κατίωται – katioó”
Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
( James 4:13-17 ) KJV
What shall be on the morrow.
The Parable of the Rich Fool
( Luke 12:13-21 ) KJV
Life is like a vapor.
Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah
( Psalms 39:5 ) KJV
It vanishes away.
The voice said, “Cry out!”
( Isaiah 40:6-8 ) KJV
And he said, “What shall I cry?”
“All flesh is grass,
And all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.
The grass withers, the flower fades,
Because the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
Surely the people are grass.
The grass withers, the flower fades,
But the word of our God stands forever.”
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
( James 4:11-12 ) KJV
This brings us to the sermon on the mount.
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
( Matthew 7:1-5 ) KJV
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
( James 4:7-10 ) KJV
I live in fear of my doublemindedness.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
( James 1:5-8 ) KJV
But I long to draw nigh to God
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
( Psalms 4:4 ) KJV
If we draw nigh to God he will draw nigh to us:
Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
( Psalms 65:4 ) KJV
Danby House
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
( James 4:1-6 ) KJV
Open Door Baptist Church
Just read.
The threat of imminent death was very real. This is why the Angel of the Lord let them out of prison.
Gamaliel was well regarded as a scholar of the law.
Acts 22:1-5
Paul studied under Gamaliel. He uses the name to give himself authenticity when confronting the Jews in Jerusalem.
Gamaliel was clearly tender towards the Holy Spirit. He had not hardened his heart against the new Christianity and he was prepared to wait and see what would happen.
Gamaliel’s wisdom had apparently been instilled into Paul, and when he looked at the situation objectively he realized that …
And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
( Acts 9:5 )
Gamaliel clearly has a Godly perspective on what Peter has been saying.
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
( Proverbs 1:23-25 )
Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
( James 4:13-17 )
Proverbs 1:1-7
Fight against God?
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. ( Psalm 90:12, 17 )
Do you understand the world and your place in it? What is the point of life?
Is the point of life to be successful at life? What is success? Who decides if we are successful or not? Do we decide? or is it decided by other people or organizations?
Maybe that’s too vague.
Success is used as the measure of success. But what is it? Is it meeting the needs of our family? Is it doing well at work? Is it having the acclaim of a community? If we let the world tell us what success is, then we only have the world to measure ourselves against to tell if we have been successful. We all know what that leads to: keeping up with the Jones’. What happens when the Jones’ are more successful than we are? Does that mean that we’re not successful any more? We were successful but now we’re not? What if we thought our success was due to our standing in an organization, but now we are no longer with that organization? Are we not successful now?
I have been contemplating the last line of the passage that I chose for today: “establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.” What if we were to measure success by how we carry out the task that God has given us? Do we even know what the task that God has given us is? How do we find out?
It is possible to deduce, by means of a living experiment, what God has established for us to do. We can use a process of elimination: learning from our mistakes, but we have to have a context of the work ethic described for Christians in the New Testament.
Let’s lay out the experimental procedure for deducing what God has established for our hands to do:
The first step is commitment. We have to make the choice to be committed to do whatever it is that God has established for us, even if we don’t know what it is yet. This is what you might call a leap of faith.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. ( Romans 12:1 )
We have to be willing to work at whatever it is that God has established for us, not shirking our responsibilities or being lazy.
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. ( 2 Thessalonians 3:10 )
We have to do everything we do to glorify God, and this may be as simple as mentioning to someone who you care enough to go the extra mile because you want to honor the Lord Jesus Christ.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. ( 1 Corinthians 10:31 )
We should be diligent students of the Bible. This means read it. Don’t read what other people say about the Bible. The best kind of Bible are the ones that are plain text, like the ones that the Gideons put in Hotel rooms. They don’t have any footnotes or study guides. These are merely a distraction and they are as often wrong and unhelpful as they are insightful and helpful.
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. ( 2 Timothy 2:15 )
We should be faithful members of a local church which operates according the New Testament guidelines. These kind of churches are becoming harder to find, there are so many cool and progressive churches now that you may have to really search.
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. ( Hebrews 10:25 )
We should be caring for the vulnerable in our community. To fathers: you can’t be making fatherless. Which is to say, if you have children you should be providing for them at the very least, but you should be participating in their lives. I don’t see how a man who has children who he doesn’t see or provide for can have any kind of testimony as a Christian. Caring for someone else’s children is not an excuse for abandoning the ones you made.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. ( James 1:27 )
Whatever we earn we should be returning a portion to God as an offering to the church where we are faithfully serving.
Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. ( 1 Corinthians 16:1-2 )
Does that seem like a lot?
Is that onerous?
Consider what the world does when it is trying to prove a point: science is so determined to shore up its rationale of godless existence that it will spend billions of dollars building Superconducting SuperColliders, or sending billion dollar telescopes into space. Think about how many people it takes to run NASA, or the science laboratories at CERN. There are hundreds of thousands of people who have devoted their lives to advancing a cause that wants them to believe that they will cease to exist when they die.
If we already know that we are going to go to heaven when we die, because we have faith in Jesus Christ, then we should have peace in our heart and not worry about worldly success. We should be measuring our success on whether or not we are meeting God’s minimum expectations for our lives.
Here is the conclusion of the matter:
If we commit to fulfill God’s minimum expectations, and He promised to meet our needs, then whatever work meets our needs and allows us to fulfill his expectations is the work he established for our hands.
It’s very simple really.
Matty (Headwind) 