Flunked The Final

Posted on June 29, 2012 by LovingLikeGod.com

This is very powerful. There is no wealth that can compare with being loved and knowing it.  That is faith’s response to the gospel.  (A phrase from the well known song, “Summertime,” comes to mind:  “…Your Daddy’s rich and your Ma is good lookin, so hush little baby, don’t you cry…”)

God’s love is not reactive like the kind of love that is only good for friends.  God’s love is redemptive.  It has the power to change the lives of those who believe it, Romans 1:16.

Another thing about God’s kind of love is that it is not quantifiable for tax purposes.  Those who are loved are tax exempt in the most important sense of exemption.

In any case, once I saw this, it was very easy to see that both the kingdom and the economy of God had come to earth at Pentecost.  Remember the question of Jesus students/disciples:  “Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?”  Restore at this time the economy of Israel?  The financial sovereignty of Israel?  Not in the way they were thinking, and, for the most part, not in the way we have been thinking for two thousand years now with our carnally minded, earth bound point of view.  God had something better in mind. Much better!  But it was only available after the Holy Spirit came upon them.
Information/teaching/(doctrine) is not enough, not even when you get it from the Word of God.  Understanding only comes with, and in the Spirit of God.
If we grieve the Spirit, we are bound not to get it!

Around the turn of the century, I had been wrestling with “what came first: the Spirit/chemistry or the body language?” or rather, “the Spirit or the community?”  That brought me to the circumstances that positioned the early Church for Pentecost.

Perhaps Jesus hung around for forty days because He knew they would never make it in the upper room for fifty days.  (The wonder is that they made it for ten.)

It’s not nearly so important what we know as it is who Jesus knows: “Get away from me, I never knew you,” Matthew 7:23.  “Now that you know God or rather are known by God…” Galatians 4:9.

That may have been the last time that the Church ever got into one place in one accord.  The thing that keeps us from being in one accord is all the stuff we think we know, and even the stuff we actually know.  What is needed is the gift of stupid.  We need to become as little children.  The problem is that we have been trying to substitute knowledge for the power of the Holy Spirit – (Daniel 12:4) information for affirmation.

In the beginning, they didn’t know anything but Jesus.  They came together and wound up in one accord.  The Chemistry of God fell on them all.  Then they began to get to know things.  They especially began to get to know Jesus.  Sad to say, it wasn’t long before the chemistry got smothered.  It is the same today. Very soon they knew too much to come together again, let alone in one accord, Acts 20:29, 30.

In short, we really do need to know “…nothing, but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified,” 1 Corinthians 2:2.  That looks to me like the only way that we are ever going to return to the upper room.  Knowledge not only “puffs up,” 1 Corinthians 8:1. it blows us right out of the Kingdom of God, the Church. “Systematic theology” is an oxymoron.

God is not a system!

It is a matter of doctrine versus life. We could wish it were only “as distinct from life,” but, sad to say, it really is “versus life.”  This doesn’t have to be true if our doctrine is Christ, but more often than not, such claims only turn out to be more lectures and letters; and, oh yes, even books.

After three and a half years of being taught the doctrine of Christ, by quite arguably history’s greatest Teacher, they still didn’t understand.  Not only that, but after the resurrection there were forty more days of post resurrection teaching focused on the Kingdom of God, taught, not just by history’s Greatest Teacher, but by then, resurrected.  (That’s got to be more riveting than a Ph.D., at least, where undivided attention is concerned.)

They flunked the final, Acts 1:1-7.  Or, was it only the mid-term?

Continued Reading.  See:  Addendum to Flunked The Final

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The Old Creation Witness – The Dark side

Posted on June 23, 2012 by LovingLikeGod.com


Romans 1:20, 21

I need to begin this post by filling you in on the latest research findings that seem to be consistent with what I had already begun to see, and that is the analogy between cancer, and what continues to call itself “church.”  The following two paragraphs are excerpted from some of our latest research findings:  (Again, I am not intending to impugn what God calls church here, only what is calling itself “church.”) Christ made Himself of no reputation.  We on the other hand call ourselves things in order to have a reputation.  That is anti-christ.  That is what they were doing in Corinth (1 Corinthians 1:12, 13).  That is why their meeting “did more harm than good.” (1 Corinthians 11:17, 18).

“Researchers have found that mice with breast cancer treated with Avastin and Sutent, (both of which work by stopping the growth and formation of blood vessels, a process called angiogenesis) found that tumors treated with these drugs developed more cancer stem cells, the cells that fuel a cancer’s growth and spread, and that often are resistant to standard treatment.  Both the number of cancer stem cells and the percentage of cancer stem cells that make up the tumor increased after being treated with each of these therapies.”

“The researchers found that the cancer stem cells increased because of a cellular response to low oxygen, a condition called hypoxia.  And they were able to determine the specific pathways involved in hypoxia that activate the cancer stem cells.

Results of the study appear online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition.”

Having laid those chips on the table…

America, even the western world, and increasingly the whole world is eating itself to death and bankruptcy.  Sad to say this is very profitable for the conventional medical community, (the big pharmaceuticals) as well as the quack alternative promoters.  It is very costly for the population as a whole, whether by Federal budget deficits or straight out of the pocket insurance costs and co-pays.

Increasingly what we are seeing is that our best hope lies in our nutrition, including “The Bread of Life.”

What we are up against is the medicinal version of religion.  Jesus as “The Great Physician” shows up at the temple, (the religious version of the illicit relationship between the big pharmaceutical companies and the FDA).  The religious experts allied with the Roman occupiers, (Pilate and Herod) and they want to kill the one who came that we might have life rather than a bunch of self-promoting medical – religious quackery.

Well that’s the way it looks to us at this point in the battle.  We are very grateful for the therapists we are presently working with, who are honestly seeking after the truth of the matter, so much so that they are willing to put up with all my very confrontational ways.  I should say that they are more open than what I have experienced to date in what has been calling itself “church,” and “church leadership.”

With that as background, here is what I am seeing with increasing clarity:

#1. Cancer once was a normal cell that has undergone a mutation, in fact quite a number of them over what could be a very long time, even years.  Once they arrive at the point where they can be identified as bona fide cancer, they have mutated, in at least three ways.

  • First, they no longer know what their function is, in short, they don’t know what they are doing.
  • Second, they don’t know when to die.  Normal cells have a genetic life expectancy. Not so with cancer.
  • Three, they reproduce at an inordinate rate.  Normal cells are programmed to reproduce at a rate appropriate to their function.  In light of these three, here’s what came in yesterday:

Perspective:

#2. My chemo usually starts with 90 minutes of intravenous Avastin.

Cutting Edge Research Findings:

#3. They are only beginning to see that cancer tumors also have stem cells, mutated stem cells that rapidly reproduce the cells that they are in fellowship with in the tumor.

#4. These stem cells are also the key to metastasis.

What’s calling itself “Church””

#5.  Shortly after finding that out about stem cells, stem cells also dropped into the hopper of cancer being a picture of what is calling itself “church” slot.

#6.  So it’s not only mutated cells in, and of the tumor, there are also these other cells in the tumor called “stem cells.”  These are the missionaries/ ”church planters” of the tumors.  They are also mutated, and even without leaving the tumor for foreign fields in other parts of the body, they do everything they can to increase the size of “church” all the way to “mega church.”  Institutional “dog and pony shows” are simply various mutated versions of stem cells.

#7.  I’m still thinking and praying about all of this, and not yet sure just what the religious equivalent of Avastin is, but I know this much – it is a foundational poison of choice among the big pharmaceutical companies, and conventional or systematic medicine–the kind that stands in opposition to the nutritional “Life” that Jesus came to bring. One thing we do know about Avastin, however, and that is it cuts off the blood supply. That just can’t be good. (Hebrews, 10:19, 20)

I’m sure that seminaries manufacture the stuff, once the “dog and pony show” people get it down pat.  You know, people like, the Kansas City 7, John Wimber, C. Peter Wagner, and the like.  The Shepherding Movement also was headed in that direction when it broke up as a result of mutations of its own.  Even if we have been in remission, the pressure for the cancer to come back in a new mutated form is always there, that’s why we need to “… guard our hearts with all diligence…”

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIXmiW84Ubw

#8.  What hit me the day after the stem cell revelation, fresh from my then latest blog post, which touched on “… because iniquity abounds the love of most will grow cold…” According to Strong’s, the root of that word is pretty close to mutation,.. WOW!!!  It’s even more of an elaboration of “mutation” then I remembered from past meditation and study!

Elsewhere I have confessed that Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of The Bible with Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries is my number one defense against religious experts – the Big Pharma of religion.

For those of you unfamiliar with how Strong’s works,  it was compiled a long time ago, (1890).  The advantage of that is that it is not as loaded with contemporary religion’s conflicts of interest as was true in the days of the King James translation, not that those translators didn’t have conflict of interests of their own.

It is keyed to the King James Translation and every word and occurrence of a word in the King James Version is tied to a “Strong’s number.  The numbers can then be taken to the appropriate dictionary in the back of Strong’s.  Here we find not only the original word, and its definition, but also references to the numbers associated with the root words from which the word in question is derived.

With that as explanation, here are the critical Strong’s numbers in connection with iniquity:

#458, anomia an-om-ee’-ah from 459; illegality, i.e. violation of law or (genitive case) wickedness:–iniquity, X transgress(-ion of) the law, unrighteousness.

#459, anomos an’-om-os from 1 (as a negative particle) and 3551; lawless, i.e. (negatively) not subject to (the Jewish) law; (by implication, a Gentile), or (positively) wicked:–without law, lawless, transgressor, unlawful, wicked.

#3551, nomos nom’-os from a primary nemo (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals); law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of Moses (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively (a principle):–law.

Wicked #4190 poneros pon-ay-ros’ from a derivative of 4192; hurtful, i.e. evil (properly, in effect or influence, and thus differing from 2556, which refers rather to essential character, as well as from 4550, which indicates degeneracy from original virtue); figuratively, calamitous; also (passively) ill, i.e. diseased; but especially (morally) culpable, i.e. derelict, vicious, facinorous; neuter (singular) mischief, malice, or (plural) guilt; masculine (singular) the devil, or (plural) sinners:–bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked(-ness). See also 4191.

#2556 kakos kak-os’ apparently a primary word; worthless (intrinsically, such; whereas 4190 properly refers to effects), i.e. (subjectively) depraved, or (objectively) injurious:–bad, evil, harm, ill, noisome, wicked.

#2550 sapros sap-ros’ from 4595; rotten, i.e. worthless (literally or morally):–bad, corrupt. Compare 4190.

– mind boggling!!!  “Iniquity” is mutated life that deviates from proper function.  Iniquity is what causes the love of most to grow cold!

Love!

For more reading on the subject, see:
Heresy In A Nut Shell, (or “Cell” as the case may be)
Hurricane Cancer: The Silent Storm

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The Part That Shows

Posted on June 15, 2012 by LovingLikeGod.com

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“Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”  Proverbs 27:17 (KJV)

Iron sharpens iron

“Countenance”:… As I look at Strong’s, I would have to say that the meaning is “the part that shows.”  That’s what I am struggling with, “the part of me that shows.”  I only looked this up just now, and that only in relationship to you, to try to explain what I have in mind.  Turns out the passage says what I wanted to say better even than I understood it.  The word is used in association with shewbread.  The word there for bread is translated from the original word meaning something to eat, either bread or grain.  Some years ago now I was working on a book chapter titled “GOOD FOOD BAD FOOD.  “Beware the leaven of the Pharisees.”

What we are on our face, is what we feed to others.  By getting in each others face, it is possible to make each other more edible, more nourishing, more fruitful.

“Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.”  In the original, the root word from which the word “sea” comes is salt. Revelation 17:15 tells us that “The waters you saw…. are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.” ” We are the salt of the earth…”  Our transparency is our savor, “the part that shows” Webster puts it this way, “that quality of a thing which acts on the sense of taste or of smell.”

Paul puts it this way, and in this instance, THE MESSAGE translation is really clear – 2 Corinthians 2:12-3:6 – “When I arrived in Troas to proclaim the message of the Messiah, I found the place wide open: God had opened the door; all I had to do was walk through it. But when I didn’t find Titus waiting for me with news of your condition, I couldn’t relax. Worried about you, I left and came on to Macedonia province looking for Titus and a reassuring word on you. And I got it, thank God.

In the Messiah, in Christ, God leads us from place to place in one perpetual victory parade.   Through us, he brings knowledge of Christ.   Everywhere we go, people breath in the exquisite fragrance.   Because of Christ, we give off a sweet scent rising to God, which is recognized by those on the way of salvation-an aroma redolent with life.   But those on the way to destruction treat us more like the stench from a rotting corpse.

This is a terrific responsibility.   Is anyone competent to take it on?  No- but at least we don’t take God’s Word, watered down, and then take it to the streets to sell it cheap.   We stand in Christ’s presence when we speak; God looks us in the face.   We get what we say straight from God and say it as honestly as we can.

Does it sound like we are patting ourselves on the back, insisting on our credentials, asserting our authority? W ell, we’re not.  Neither do we need letters of endorsement, either to you or from you.  You yourselves are all the endorsement we need.  Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you.  Christ himself wrote it- not with ink, but with God’s living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives- and we publish it.

We couldn’t be more sure of ourselves in this- that you, written by Christ himself for God, are our letter of recommendation.  We wouldn’t think of writing this kind of letter about ourselves.  Only God can write such a letter.  His letter authorizes us to help carry out this new plan of action.  The plan wasn’t written out with ink on paper, with pages and pages of legal footnotes, killing the spirit.  It’s written with the Spirit on spirit, his life on our lives!”

Love!

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