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Faith – Hope - Charity

Hitting the Target

 

Dear Member of the Body of Christ:

 

I think a need for this book is a necessity.  This is simply how I wish it were in the Christian world of believers, which actually might conceive more of God’s power at their finger tips if, only, they would enter into the perimeters of this One Body, One Spirit, One Faith, One Baptism, with One Purpose of Heart and Mind that Jesus spoke of and gave to us as his instructions to gain God’s favor.

 

It’s very simple to accomplish this if you were to believe that you are in element with Him. That is, if you could accept the fact that you were created in a pre-mortal life with God, then if you could believe you were part of His plans to send you and come to Earth for the Purpose of Eternal means, then it’s simple to be of One Purpose of Heart and Mind.

  

I have committed errors in my life. The kind of errors that would tell others, I couldn’t possibly know anything about the way God would have us do or be. Though I’ve paid the price of very damaging consequences from this, it may be that what you read in this will not take effect until I’ve passed on to the other stage of creation, thus, it is a free gift to you.  And the things I write are not a one sided view or point of deliberation.  They are really a beginning stage of what it could be and, really, will be when those who might see the vision I am trying to convey can also add to its' fruits...

 

...From Acts 2:  41Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

42And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

43And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.

44And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

45And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.


 

 

 

Synopsis:

 

In Jesus Christ I am able to put down on paper the printed pages Faith, Hope and Charity. This is a book I’ve been contemplating ever since it was impressed upon my spirit to do so when reading

the 21st chapter and verse 25 of The Gospel According To St. John and 1 Corinthians Chapter 13 the first time I read them in 1979. 

 

I am not a Bible scholar.  There are certain books of the Bible I have read and some of them I've studied word for word, such as Revelation.  But, I have not, as of yet, read through the entire Bible.  Therefore, I don't claim any scholarly expertise.  I will say, since the first time I read the above mentioned, I have meditated, prayed, and I have searched for what ever I could gain in order to address this purpose and matter.  If I have any expertise, then the subject of this matter would be it. 

 

Faith, Hope, and Charity
- The Workshop For The Saint –
Hitting the Target

 

 

When I hear a tongue confessing "I may have to love you, but I don’t have to like you" my heart becomes saddened. It’s telling me that Jesus’ dying on the cross was in vain. That they don’t

understand the meaning of faith, hope, and charity. That them, like the Pharisee, only renders a service of the tongue while the heart is far from God.

 

Are you guilty of saying something like that to a fellow saint, and/or someone of acquaintance?  If so; what separates your theology and belief from the way of the worlds understanding (world meaning; an unbeliever in Jesus Christ)?  If the world witnesses your tongue confessing this; what gives them the inspiration, and or the necessity for a need of salvation in Christ Jesus?

 

One thing Jesus could do that I’ve not witnessed in the Body of Christ, nowhere, as of yet, is to be able to refrain from ever saying anything that, even, sounded contrary to His Gospel.   

 

There are many Charitable Brothers and Sisters that exemplify His Truth in ways that are good and acceptable to God, but it is Jesus who said we must be perfect as Our Father in Heaven is .

 

Can you see Jesus pulling His Disciples aside and telling them that he doesn’t like Zaccheaeus, but hey, I’m gonna die for him, so I might as well pretend I do so I can stay and have something to eat at his house tonight? (Question referred to The Gospel of St. Luke 19: 5)… 

 

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying I am perfect, (yet); but when can we truly tell others that we honestly love them, if we can't even find it in our hearts to like them?  What are the reasons for

you not liking someone?  Is this reason enough for us to jeopardize our chances of true perfection? (In this life as well as the next?)  I believe our future generations deserve it.

 

We are running a course, in our work areas, in politics, in the schools, even walking in the public areas where at one time you could smoke a cigarette - but no longer can; where we are beginning to demand perfection. 

 

We want perfection in the work we contribute to and in, we want perfection in our elected officials, we want perfection in our teachers and instructors in schools.  The trashhy character is becoming obsolete, and we need help.  But, again, I believe the next generation deserves it from us, and we have an obligation to try and give it to them. 

 

Years ago I played Romeo & Juliet with a very young girl that lived next door to a house I lived in. Rumors filtered the air about me as a child molester.  (I will disclose to you, this girl had had her older brother die from a hunting accident, just, prior to this summer.  Her father was approximately 20 years older than her mother.  So, in an act of kindness I was reaching out to a hand that reached out as well for something that could enlighten her distress.  It was very innocent on my part, and in my hopes, very therapeutic for her.  As I know what it's like to lose a loved one and have such discomfort through it).  They didn't think to consider the cause and effect of the scenario, they just assumed and then judged. I'm not totally sure with proof, but I think I lost a job because of it once. I'll never know, because I feel if someone wants to know the honest to goodness truth, they'll ask the source of the bedeviled rumor. However, because of this rumor many people, just, don't like me.  
          
I one time was approached by a couple who practiced the lifestyle of partner swapping. When approached by the husband, first, asking me to sleep with his wife, I chuckled and said sure, I'll do that. I thought he was trying to be funny with me. I didn't realize he was even married until he brought me his wife for me to check her out and then confirm my yes. When that happened I was shocked to say the least. I then said absolutely not. But it turned a lot of people against me. There was so much aggravations from this episode, that I'm almost certain I was fired from a job because of it.

I had a girlfriend who died of ovarian cancer at an early age. Because I was so religiously influenced her older brother told me I wasn't allowed to attend her funeral. He wasn't a professed Christian, I hold no ill feelings for this person, but, not being able to attend a funeral because I wasn't liked was very heart wrenching.

My own sibling don't like me, but he loves me - because he's bound by the affirmation of being a practicing Christian. Umm um. It saddens my heart to think that you can call Christ Jesus your Lord, and then turn around and bad mouth the people around you, whether they’re in your reach or doing so behind yours or theirs back.

 

This is a workshop for faith, hope, and charity. If you truly love God, Jesus Christ, and The Holy Ghost, then just what is said above should convict your hearts of the unrighteousness I have

written about. That is, you cannot in a Holy Righteousness, say you love somebody, then turn around and say you don't like them.  That's a contradiction, an oxy-moron, if you will.  If it doesn't convict you, then, ask God in the name of Christ Jesus, by the power of The Holy Ghost if this is so, or not.  Because true love will give such an astonishing testimony of The Gospel Of Jesus Christ, that even those whom you'd least expect it will be able to open up their hearts to repentance, if needed, or a witnessing account, that your peculiarity will duely be noted from "someone".  

 

Then, you will have been a good steward of The Gospel of Jesus Christ to others.

 

 

 

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"It's a simple way to go along with the crowd.  Especially, when they stir up the emotions about certain things "we" find in common.  But, that straight and narrow?  It asks of us to go out of the ordinary and love those who would even curse at us.  This is what is not so easy to accomplish, since, in our flesh we normally seek to be appreciated by others, and we normally admire the same qualities of others who find it in themselves to also admire our qualities.  But this is the self love the apostle Paul wrote about when he said;  "they will be lovers of themselves".  This means; they only congregate in union of  those who like what "they" like, and love one another for what "they" see themselves in, or about...But, they're not loving the enemy into Jesus' Salvation.  In fact, they're just making a whole new realm of enemies from them.  Yes, it's easy to love one another, but try loving the enemy...then you will experience a whole new dimension of what it means to have a spiritual battle.   Wherewith Ephesians speaks about a spiritual battle that we are ingaged in."
 
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     A life in Christ Jesus is not about yourself any longer.  We are the recipient of eternal salvation.  What are we in need of, except to grow more like our Saviour?  Our subjective thinking is; what can we do for the soul that has yet to gain eternal salvation?  Cain asked God:  “Am I my brother’s keeper?”  In silence, the story continues.  Definitely!  We are our brothers keeper, because we have received eternal salvation without any merit on our part.  We labor to nourish our gain, also, carrying the responsibility to pave a walkway that will enable another to gain it also.

     In the fourth stanza of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” the words “let us die to make men free”, I like to render it as “let us live to make men free” because, as our brother’s keeper, we attend to our covenants with God and become stewards to how He would have us conduct ourselves.  We, also, have a direct order, if you will, from the Apostle Paul.  See The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians Chapter 6, verses 1 & 2: 

 

1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

 

2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.



     When doing unto others as we would have done unto us; do we take into consideration their ways, their lifestyle, their means, as well as we want them to take into consideration our conduct?  We all want one another to give us their love and respect for the image we portray of our self.    But, do we give one another that same measure wherewith we want to be met?

     As you are in Christ Jesus, dead and reborn to a new life that is in the Spirit and is eternal, now living to make men free; can others perceive, by the way you conduct yourself, that you are a peculiar soul in Christ Jesus?

     Common ground allows us to not only see each other as equal, but that we perceive one another’s own perceptions of our own fears and misconceptions, of which all, we would rather overcome, where there is no hate or violence, or need of want, of which all injustices are fueled by.

 

 

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     There is nothing mysterious in being (God)-like, since, God has said: "Behold, the man is become as one of us , to know good and evil.  Genesis 3: 22a  Now, we just need to Philippians 2: 5, 6 & 8 >>>

 

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     If God meant for us to be so self sufficient He’d had never said; “it is not good for man to be alone, I will make him a help-meet”.  One man, therefore, is a sinking island, while a whole nation CAN transform the world.

     I guess that might seem a bit odd since I am single and have never bore children with a help-meet, however, God is not finished with me.  He is still chiseling away at the workmanship He would like to see in me, and I believe in the here-after, giving me hope that in my next life, if not yet here, I will still meet my help-meet.

     I’ve never earned the kind of money that the self sufficient people have.  Yet, I am as occupied as the next person can be.  This, what the Apostle Paul admonished; “be ye occupied”, didn’t come with the promise that I would be paid in full for what I occupy myself with.

     However, if I ever do earn anything as much as that which has been achieved, I will still share it with those who are in need…because that is the doctrine of Christ.

 

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     I have discovered a new word to add to the dictionaries.


     WISENSUALS = the ability to choose wisely those elements of life that will enhance longevity in our well being; i.e., sight hearing, smelling, taste, feeling. To choose correctly those choices in life that will enhance your spirit.

Instead of people having a 6th sense they should really have 10. The 5 of the senses our flesh hold, and the spirits 5 senses as well.

 

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     I believe in the power of God.  No doubt about it, because I have been set free of so many oppressive means by which the devil would have liked to have defeated me by.  I'm not sure how many people I've actually told this to, but, back in the early 80's of the 20th century I had had a vision of myself inside this box, of which, I could not get out of.  There then appeared to me a very large hand that reached down into the box and as I stepped onto the hand it raised me out of it.  I felt at this time that due to this Hand's lifting me out of the box, it was the power of God demonstrating His awesomeness to me, no matter what I would get bound by. 

 

     As years would past it would also teach me of how awesome His love is for us.  There were sometimes I'd put myself in situations by which I would have no idea why, but to believe it would only bring glory and honor and power unto the Lord God. 

 

     I am a simpleton at heart.  My experiences brought me to Jesus Christ closer and closer every time, especially in times wherewith there was suffering from it, either from the consequences of my actions, or for His good pleasure, because He had suffered first for our sins.

 

     I wrote something once and put it inside a banks safety deposit box.  The so said papers of what I wrote was titled with the words of Theophilus.  So, on a personal level of joking with myself I developed  The Theophilus Syndicate.   The papers are gone now, I believe.  But, with studies of word interpretation, I looked up Theophilus in a concordance once and learned that it meant "Friend of God".

 

     We are all friends of God who lend their hand to those who are "without".  My hope is that I can plant a seed of faith into the soil of someone who might be lost, and this seed may grow into an abundant life in Jesus Christ for all eternity, and if not 1 seed, many, many seeds of faith unto Jesus Christ Our Lord, and Friend.