MaryFreeman

Jer 1:10 KJV
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See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
I am well aware of the fact that this SHOOT'N is going to step on some toes.... It is my hope that some of you are like me.... And will welcome the steppin'.... Because I feel this message deep in my bones.... I was reading Jeremiah this morning.... And I knew last night or before that I was to write another SHOOT'N.... I just didn't know til this morning what it was.... Now I do.... So what is the message?
IT'S TIME TO THROW DOWN!
It's time to tear down strongholds.... It's time to rip apart the fabric of oppression.... It's time to break the chains of bondage.... It's time to throw off every single vestige of the powers of darkness that have laid hold where they do not belong.... And it is time to boldly preach the word....
For so long folks have wandered around in a wilderness of doctrines.... Subjected to wave after wave of theoretical differences.... Fed a watered down gospel with the power to do absolutely nothing in their lives.... And it is time to change that....
It's time to recognize what has gone wrong and alter it according to God's true will....
WHAT DOES THE WORD SAY?:
Jer 2:11 AMP
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Has a nation [ever] changed its gods, even though they are not gods? But My people have changed their Glory [God] for that which does not profit.
SHOOT'N FROM THE HIP:
Yes this does specifically talk about switching to idols from the One True God.... But I submit that the doctrines of men can and do become idols which stand in the way of the One True God.... They keep Him from doing mighty works in our lives.... And God really does want us to see this....
Because we find it carried over into the writings of Paul....
WHAT DOES THE WORD SAY?:
Rom 1:20-25 LITV
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For the unseen things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both His eternal power and Godhead, for them to be without excuse.
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Because knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful. But they became vain in their reasonings, and their undiscerning heart was darkened.
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Professing to be wise, they became foolish
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and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into a likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
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Because of this, God gave them up to impurity in the lusts of their hearts, their bodies to be dishonored among themselves,
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who changed the truth of God into the lie, and worshiped and served the created thing more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
SHOOT'N FROM THE HIP:
I'm going to stop just short of the passages that clearly deal with something we aren't talking about here.... I am going to talk here of changing the truth of God into the lie.... I have seen many people saying things that just are not true of God.... And of His truth.... I am going to list a few here.... And hopefully I can clear up a few with my humble attempts....
I am absolutely positive that we can and often times do worship doctrines instead of the One True God.... One such doctrine is "It's God's will".... Here is my question....
IS IT REALLY?
For some odd reason folks want to believe that if they are financially strapped.... Or if they are suffering from depression.... Or if a disease has attacked their body.... Or if they lose a loved one before the due time.... It "must have been God's will".... And this one (oh how I love this one ).... "God must be teaching me something"....
Well here is one question I have....
Why are you fighting it then?
I know some folks's medicine cabinets must be chock full of medications.... Why are you taking them (don't stop taking your pills! That's not good)? If it is God's will.... Aren't you fighting a losing battle?
I have stated in a previous SHOOT'N that just because Job said it.... Doesn't make Job right.... Job was suffering under a misaprehension.... One that makes for a lovely funeral sentement.... But doesn't truly fit the charicter of our Lord Father....
WHAT DOES THE WORD SAY?:
Job 1:21-22 LITV
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And he said, I came naked out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. Jehovah gave, and Jehovah has taken away. Blessed be the name of Jehovah.
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In all this Job did not sin, nor charge wrong to God.
SHOOT'N FROM THE HIP:
I want you to notice two things.... Job says "Jehovah has taken away".... Which doesn't really make sense.... Because if you look up a few short verses.... It says this :
Job 1:12 LITV
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And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that is his is in your hand! Only, do not lay your hand on him. And Satan went out from the face of Jehovah.
Jehovah did not take anything away from Job.... Notice also that it says Job did not sin.... "Nor charge wrong to God".... This means Job did not blame God for his suffering.... And did not sin as a result of his suffering.... He merely suffered a misaprehension of God....
Which is something you do not have to go through.... Nor did he.... Come to think on it.... Because God's true attributes are clearly seen.... Both in nature and in His word.... I submit that when we suffer misaprehensions of God's charicter it allows satan a foothold in our lives.... Just as it did Job's.... And the best God can do to counteract that is to give specific orders to satan....
But hold up a minute! What do I mean.... "The best God can do?".... Shouldn't I be saying "God's in charge folks! Don't worry! He has everything under control and He knows just what He's doing!"....
No.... I should not be saying that.... Because that is a misaprehension....
WHAT DOES THE WORD SAY?:
Gen 1:26-28 LITV
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And God said, let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth.
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And God created the man in His own image; in the image of God He created him. He created them male and female.
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And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the seas, and over birds of the heavens, and over all beasts creeping on the earth.
SHOOT'N FROM THE HIP:
Go way far back to the Book of Beginnings.... Who really was in charge of this earth?
I want you to notice two things here.... First that God made Man in His image.... According to His likeness.... Which means we are supposed to have all the attributes of God Himself.... Well.... Almost all....
Second that God put MAN in charge of this earth.... He said to fill the earth (with more humans) and subdue it (take control of it).... Not only that but we were to rule over it....
We were blessed to be rulers of this world way before Jeremiah told us God set us over the nations.... But something went horribly wrong.... I don't feel we have to go over the Adam and Eve story again.... Except to say that once again we see that doubting God.... Laboring under misaprehensions concerning His charicter.... Is what caused the fall.... Along with the sin of pride....
Satan convinced Eve that God was holding out.... Eve chose rather to be as like God as she could (not understanding that she was the perfect image of God already).... And to go for that which He was holding back (not knowing what it truly was going to be like to know good and evil)....
And instead of chopping off that snakes head.... Adam knowingly took his own bite....
And here we are.... With a broken and sinful and pride filled world on our hands.... The title deed to which.... And control of which.... To a man or woman.... We have all turned over to satan.... Just as the first couple have....
Only nowadays we actually do blame it on God!
The audacity!
Why did I say that? Because Jesus said something that should have made God's charicter clearly discernable by His children....
WHAT DOES THE WORD SAY?:
Mat 11:27 KJV
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All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, andheto whomsoever the Son will revealhim.
Joh 10:30 KJV
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I andmyFather are one.
SHOOT'N FROM THE HIP:
Ok fine.... That was two.... .... Jesus said He knows the Father (God) and the Father (God) knows Him.... And that He and the Father are one.... Not only that but that He does nothing of Himself but that which He sees the Father doing [
John 5:19]....
So what do we see Jesus doing? We see Him teaching.... We see Him preaching.... We see Him healing [
Mat 4:23].... We know He was anointed of God to preach the gospel.... To set at liberty those in prison (bondage).... To heal and to restore.... This should make Gods charicter plain to those who wish to see it....
I have often said I don't understand why "it must be God's will" comforts folks.... It doesn't comfort me.... If I were a person who didn't already know God's true charicter.... It would get me ticked something fierce against God.... Like my husband....
Fifty years ago he prayed fervently for God to heal his grandfather.... Because his parents were Catholic.... They taught him to pray to Mary.... He actually told me he never heard anything about Jesus but that He was Marys Son.... If that is not a shame.... I don't know what is.... It made me cry....
At any rate.... His grandfather died.... And his parents told him it was God's will.... And to this day he struggles with thoughts of God not listening to him.... That God was going to do what God was going to do.... And that there is nothing we can do to stop it.... And man is he ever MAD.... At GOD!
But God did not take his grandfather away.... Many times we see Jesus giving people back their loved ones.... Consider the widow of Nain.... Mary and Martha.... The Roman Centurion....
Consider "Talitha cumi"....
The fact is that death was never.... Is not ever.... Will not ever be.... God's will....
WHAT DOES THE WORD SAY?:
Rom 5:12-17 KJV
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Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
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(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
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Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
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But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
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And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
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For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
SHOOT'N FROM THE HIP:
There are a multitude of things to learn from the above passage.... I just wish to outline two....
1: Death is a comunicable disease.... "Death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned".... We have all fallen short of the Glory of God.... We have all lived in sin at one point or another.... And just as Adam's sin had it's effect on all mankind and even our natural world.... So our sin has it's effect on those around us.... Death is (especially unnatural and untimely death)a result of sin.... In God's perfect world.... No one dies.... Death wasn't supposed to be here.... But because of Eve's misconception (specifically sinning because of it) and Adam's willful sin.... Not to mention our own.... It is here....
But God didn't do it....
2: There is a cure....
WHAT DOES THE WORD SAY?:
Rom 5:18-21 KJV
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Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
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For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
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Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
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That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
SHOOT'N FROM THE HIP:
The free gift.... Paul tells us that the free gift of Jesus Christ is salvation by grace through faith.... Jesus says that those who believe in Him shall not perish (die) but have eternal life.... That those who believe are no longer under judgment and condemnation.... But those who don't are already condemned....
The difference between those who do believe and those who don't is that one (through faith and acceptance of the sacrifice our Lord provided) has stepped out from under the condemnation that Adam brought to the whole world [Romans 5:12].... And one has not....
If you have.... Then the benifits of that step are yours.... The words of Jesus are not just some comforting platitude in an ancient book designed to be good bedtime stories....
WHAT DOES THE WORD SAY?:
Luk 4:18-19 KJV
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The Spirit of the Lordisupon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
(19)
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Joh 10:10 KJV
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The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Joh 10:27-30 KJV
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My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
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And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall anymanpluck them out of my hand.
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My Father, which gavethemme, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
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I and my Father are one.
Joh 11:25-26 KJV
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Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
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And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?