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Life is??? # 29 Only fools follow fads...
** The soul is the center of the feelings and emotions, appetites and desires, as well as sense perception and consciousness - the soul as being the hidden part of all existing beings or what most people would call the personality. **
Date: 4/2/2017 1:39:24 PM ( 7 y ) ... viewed 688 times Only fools follow fads...
Yesterday a young person (13 years old) in our neighborhood stopped by our drive way discussing our back yard dog and went on talking about the pressure he has in the public school system which is mainly Black. He does not want to follow fads;" but the ' gang culture " is in full force and lashes it at anyone dares to not fall in line with the program... Yet this seems to be the norm in most of the schools systems in the U.S. especially those with a predominate Black or Latino (and now the new boy on the block - Islamic) population.
** When you are forced into doing something it will never really benefit your life's goal or purpose!
- A Kermit-ism
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He had his bike destroyed - has been attacked and bulled by the Fad cult Gang, several times..
Most all because this culture is driven by the " Keep up with the Jones "or a you must do it; most of which is based
upon system of fads and mass appeal to follow many so called mainly sports or borderline Black entertainment types.. i.e. Fad fever...
Mainly these groups operate outside the society norm and do nothing except bring up evil and crime to the mainly youth who fall pry to this system...
Fads corral people to follow some predominate none produce ways and tend to lead to a life of non work, crime and desperation for it members..
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I advised this young man to avoid fads and stay out of Gangs... Recommended that he seek the Truth and find the good moral standards in the Bible (the source of all Truth) a Christian Church...
** If you disagree please reply and I will explain it better to you!
Avoid the world fads - Because only fools follow fads....
If one accepts the Truth of God, then learns how to control their mind (Soul) they can over come any adversity thing in life - through Faith by following the moral standards of Christ as seen in the Bible...
Seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness - then other things will be given to you! Matt 6:33
Matthew 12:35, "A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things."
MATTHEW 12:32-45
31-32 It is one thing for you to speak ill of the Son of Man. People will be forgiven for every sin they commit and blasphemy they utter. But those who call the work of God the work of Satan utterly remove themselves from God, and those who blaspheme God’s Spirit will not be forgiven, neither in this world nor in the world to come.
33 Good trees produce good fruits; bad trees produce bad fruits. You can always tell a tree by its fruits.
34 You children of snakes, you who are evil—how could you possibly say anything good? For the mouth simply shapes the heart’s impulses into words.
35 And so the good man (who is filled with goodness) speaks good words, while the evil man (who is filled with evil) speaks evil words.
36 I tell you this: on the day of judgment, people will be called to account for every careless word they have ever said.
37 The righteous will be acquitted by their own words, and you evildoers will be condemned by your own words.
Scribes and Pharisees:
38 Teacher, we want to see some miraculous sign from You.
Jesus:
39 You wicked and promiscuous generation—you are looking for signs, are you? The only sign you will be given is the sign of the prophet Jonah.
40 Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of a great fish, as the Son of Man will spend three days and three nights in the belly of the earth. 41 One day, the people of Nineveh will rise up in judgment and will condemn your present generation—for the Ninevites turned from sin to God when they heard Jonah preach, and now One far greater than Jonah is here.
42 The Queen of the South will also stand in judgment and condemn this generation—for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom. And today One greater and wiser than Solomon is among you.
43 Let Me tell you what will happen to this wicked generation: When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it rattles around through deserts and other dry places looking for a place to rest—but it does not find anywhere to rest.
44 So the spirit says, “I will return to the house I left.” And it returns to find that house unoccupied, tidy, swept, and sparkling clean.
45 Well, then not only does one spirit set up shop in that sparkling house, but it brings seven even more wicked spirits along. And the poor man—the house—is worse off than he was before. This evil generation will suffer a similar fate.
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Note on Matthew 12:43
Luke also recorded Jesus saying this same thing (Luke 11:24-26), but he listed this as happening before Jesus’ statements about the evil generation seeking after a sign (Luke 11:29-33). Luke is the only Gospel writer who claimed to present his account in order (see my note at Luke 1:3), so there is no contradiction.
Note on Matthew 12:44
At first glance, Jesus’ comments in Matthew 12:43-44 about the unclean spirits seem to have nothing to do with what He was speaking concerning the people of Nineveh and the queen of Sheba condemning the people of Jesus’ generation. But I believe Jesus was making a connection between the two. Just as a person who has been delivered has a greater accountability and therefore potentially greater risks, so the people of Jesus’ day had a greater accountability because of the greatness of His witness, and therefore, they would suffer greater damnation. See my notes at Matthew 12:41-42.
Life For Today Study Bible Notes:
Note 4 at Matthew 12:44: These verses have a double meaning. Most often, Matthew 12:43-45 is used to teach about demon possession and deliverance from evil spirits. Jesus made it clear that getting rid of an unclean spirit is only a part of deliverance. One must also fill that now-empty place with the presence and power of God as protection.
If a person is cleansed from an evil spirit but left “empty,” the spirit will return with even more spirits, and the individual will be much worse off. Simply being empty of the devil but not full of God is a very dangerous and short-lived condition. True deliverance is not only getting freed but also staying free.
However, in context, these verses refer to Jesus’ rebuke to the scribes and Pharisees and His statement about the people of Nineveh and the queen of the south condemning them at the Judgment. One of the laws of God concerning accountability was being dealt with here.
As stated in Luke 12:48, “For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.” The people of Jesus’ day who rejected His message will be held more accountable at the Judgment than the people of Nineveh or the Queen of Sheba because Jesus’ witness and Person was so much greater than either Jonah or Solomon. Just as a person who receives miraculous deliverance from an evil spirit becomes more accountable and will end up in even worse condition when not walking in that accountability, even so the people of Jesus’ generation were accountable for more than any other generation had ever been.
A person would be better off to keep just one evil spirit than to be set free but not filled with God and wind up with eight demonic spirits, seven of which are more wicked than the first. The scribes and Pharisees would have been better off to have never had Jesus bring the kingdom of God unto them than to reject such an offer (Mark 14:21).
Note on Matthew 12:45
These verses reveal that getting the demons out of people is not the only consideration. If the people who had the demons aren’t protected, they will wind up worse off than before. Therefore, we not only need to cast demons out but also teach the people who had them how to stay free through the truths of God’s Word (John 8:31-32).
From:
Andrew Wommack's Living Commentary.
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Our spirit is definitely a part of our heart,
but as seen in (1 Peter 3:4), it is only a part. Sin, iniquity, unbelief, etc., come from the heart but not the born-again spirit.
(Hebrews 4:12) suggests that spirit and soul are both part of the heart; hence,
the scriptures admonish us to believe with all our heart (Acts 8:37),
have singleness of heart (Col. 3:22),
and tell us our hearts can have two minds or ways of thinking (Jas. 4:8).
Even Christians still struggle with things like pride and foolishness which Jesus said came out of our heart. It's certain that our born again spirit is not the source of these sins.
The heart encompasses more than our spirit.
The English word "soul" comes from the Greek word "psuche," translated "heart, life, mind, and soul."
The mind is the principle and leading part of the soul, followed by the will and emotions.
We could also describe the soul as being the hidden part of all existing beings or what most people would call the personality.
The soul is the center of the feelings and emotions, appetites and desires, as well as sense perception and consciousness.
The soul may also speak of the totality of a person - his total being or self, a person, and the hidden man or inward man. The soul and the body do not get born again.
It is the spirit of man that becomes totally new at salvation.
Therefore, although every believer receives the same miraculous spiritual rebirth, the visible results of that inward change will vary from person to person according to how much he renews his mind.
The term "heart" can include all of the inner man - spirit, soul, or any portion thereof.
The peace of God will keep your heart at rest in Christ Jesus.
Let Him guide your heart. It is your choice ....
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