I AM CARNAL

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. Rom. 7:14






CARNAL = the sensuous nature of man. I am carnal. I was born carnal; I was raised carnal. I was exposed to all kinds of carnal things growing up, mostly by media (entertainment) and advertising, to the point that I am attracted to and my lusts are gratified by all things worldly and all things of the flesh… albeit, momentarily. So are you.

I say momentarily because that is all anyone who seeks “satisfaction” in the flesh can really expect. We live in “a” moment. There is nothing in the temporal, carnal existence that is eternally satiating or fulfilling. Having our senses glutted satisfies for the moment, but then we want the experience again. Our emotions are excited, our senses are heightened, our intellect is stimulated from moment to moment. Because that is what time does… tick-tocks to the next moment. What has “happened” is of no further consequence or consideration, unless it is happening now.

GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD

1 Chronicles 16:8: Oh give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; make known His deeds among the peoples.

1 Chronicles 16:34: Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

TEACH US TO PRAY

And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. Luke 11:1

Are we having conversations with our Father, or is it more like a monologue? Or… are we barely speaking. Do we fully realize the reality of God, or do we just accept the “tradition” of a supernatural, spectral Divine Being?

DECEIT, COMPROMISE AND COMPLACENCY

Have you died in Christ? But you live. Yet not you but Christ lives in you? Can Christ live in you and not go about doing good? Have you (Christ in you) healed anyone today? Can Christ go about not healing?

God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good , and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. Acts 10:38

THE CHRIST

Then He (Jesus) said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.”  And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day.  Luke 24:44-46

AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH

The Coming Again of Jesus The Christ

As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?" Matt. 24:3

Jesus had just got done telling the disciples that the temple and the city would be destroyed. So naturally, the disciples wanted to know “when” would this happen. But they tagged along two other questions… When will the temple and city be destroyed, What will be the sign of your coming, and What will be the sign of the end of the age? Of course, the temple and the city, as well as around 600,000 Jews and other peoples in the city, were destroyed in 70 AD. Any of the Jews who escaped or were taken prisoner were scattered throughout the lands. Today, the Jews have no means of sacrifice and, therefore, no “sacrificial” means of salvation.

DANIEL 10

The reason for this post is… I was at a Bible teaching on Daniel 10 one day (actually it was a part of a series on the entire book of Daniel) and I believe the “speaker” got it totally wrong.

My scripture text begins at verse 4…

4 Now on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, that is, the Tigris,

5 I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in linen, whose waist was girded with gold of Uphaz!

6 His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and feet like burnished bronze in color, and the sound of his words like the voice of a multitude.

THE RELIGION of the WORLD

The religions of the world have NOTHING to do with Jesus the Christ any more than the Pharisees and the Sadducees did. I submit…….

UNITED METHODIST AND EPISCOPALIAN CHURCH CLERGY LEAD PRAYER RALLY TO "BLESS" ABORTION CLINIC [Excerpts]

In Ohio, United Methodist Church pastor, Reverend Laura Young, says she believes pro-life protesters in front of Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities have "misguided faith."

[The problem is manifestly evident immediately. There you have a WOMAN who calls herself a “pastor” and her title is “reverend.” She is about as “reverend” as the irreverend Al Charleton. AND… she’s a homosexual lesbian. All three of those “observations” are against the Word of God… which she apparently rejects. Ergo, she is a shipwrecked reprobate. In the meantime, millions of babies are being BUTCHERED!] ~fb

In fact, she thinks these clinics should be blessed, which is why she went out to an abortion facility called Preterm on October 8th in Cleveland. In 2014, Preterm was involved in the abortion-related death of Lakisha Wilson.

IF WE SUFFER WITH HIM

…if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ,  if  indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him. Romans  8:17