“It’s All Right With Me”

Posted on October 29, 2024 by LovingLikeGod.com

When we leave our first love, we sing another love song. Here is Ella Fitzgerald’s version of that song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT0j5kAG4AU

Just in case you missed all of that, here are the lyrics:

“It’s the wrong time and the wrong place
Though your face is charming, it’s the wrong face
It’s not His face, but such a charming face
That it’s all right with me

It’s the wrong song in the wrong style
Though your smile is lovely, it’s the wrong smile
It’s not His smile, but such a lovely smile
So it’s all right with me

You can’t know how happy I am that we’ve met
I’m strangely attracted to you
There’s someone I’m trying so hard to forget
Don’t you want to forget someone, too?

It’s the wrong game with the wrong chips
Though your lips are tempting, they’re the wrong lips
They’re not His lips, but they’re such tempting lips
That if some night you’re free
well, it’s all right
Yes, it’s all right with me.”

Here is the thought map that brought me to the above song:

The first thought was,

“But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him. And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men, (religious experts) of this generation? and to what are they like? They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.” Luke 7:30-32 KJV.

The problem here is that the religious experts are piping the wrong tune, and singing the wrong dirge.

It’s not Jesus’ Song.

His song is the “Song of Songs!” That is the only love song strong, passionate, and intimate enough to serve authentic relationship with, and in Him.

By the time we get to the end of The Book we see that the Beast, the Harlot, the adulterers, and merchants are all singing the wrong song.

Sad to say, but what’s been calling itself “church” has been buying into this for millennia – at least since Diotrephes, 4th, (3rd) John 9, 10. Please note that the minimum price of the experts sitting in the marketplace is recognition.

This has to do with dealing with rejection, and leadership that rejects the authentic saints. John promised to deal with the rejecting leadership of his day, and we still need to deal with this same problem in our day, as led by the Holy Spirit. By now the problem has gotten much worse, just as predicted:

“But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” – 2 Timothy 3:13 KJV

In short, when we leave our first love, the above song becomes our misplaced worship.

Love!

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The First Commandment With Promise

Posted on October 22, 2024 by LovingLikeGod.com

Please note that this is not a promise made to parents in exchange for honoring their children. No! This is a promise made to children for honoring their parents. The promise is that, “it may go well with you, and your days long upon the land.”

The reason is because the parents are a generation ahead of their children where the art/business of living is concerned. While the reason should be clear to everyone, it isn’t clear today. Today’s children know more about computers and cell phones, but no longer seem to know there is more to life than Facebook and computer games – things like authentic face to face relationships, for instance.

This generational head start applies over the course of an entire lifetime. It’s even better than GPS. :-)

In fairness to the children, it seems that they get wounded by parental dysfunction at an earlier and earlier age, and so are predisposed to avoid real relationships, because that’s where they have been wounded time and time again. To enter the kingdom of God we must enter as a child prior to their wounding, prior to their knowledge of good and evil.

Love!

P.S. I want to encourage you I connection with the most important book on this subject of parenting that I have ever read – “Hold On To Your Kids: Why Parents Need To Matter More Than Peers.”

http://www.amazon.com/Hold-On-Your-Kids-Parents/dp/0375760288/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335996483&sr=1-1 – Hold On To Your Kids

  • By Jay Ferris, originally posted May, 2012.

For continued reading on this subject, see Kingdom Authority Works By Honor

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Fathers and Fatherhoods

Posted on October 15, 2024 by LovingLikeGod.com


Jesus has said, “Call no man father.” Some time later the Apostle Paul bowed his knee to the “… Father from whom every fatherhood in heaven and on earth derives it’s name.” Apparently there are some legitimate fatherhoods, both in heaven and on earth. If we cannot call them fathers, then what are we to make of them?

First of all we need to note that they derive their names from one Father, even The Heavenly Father. They are hoods of the Heavenly Father. They are not fathers, but they are hoods.

A father in the first instance is a seed planter. Fathers plant their own seeds. Fatherhoods may or may not plant the Seed of another Father, even the Seed of Christ. Beyond being seed planters, fathers are first of all validators. They provide or confirm validation that is if they are functional. They also provide discipline, guidance, love, wisdom, and a host of other supplies for the living of a fruitful life.

Where planting there own seed is concerned, all that ends at the border of the kingdom of God. In the kingdom of God we are to call no man father, because here we have only one Father, and it is the DNA of this one Father that we now have in Christ. All other fathers have been done away for us in Him. It is in Him that our new identity derives!

That said, there are those who are fatherhoods to us, and they function as fatherly ambassadors – authoritative  messengers of God the Father. They serve in their “hood“capacity at God’s pleasure, and for the duration of our need. They are ours forever including how much they ever meant to us.

Finally, when Paul wrote of his relationship with Timothy, “But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel,“ (Philippians 2:22 KJV) he was well aware that the authentic original was/is God the Father, and His Son Jesus. Paul and Timothy were the hooded proof of that first begotten Father Son relationship. They were the confirming witness!

Love!

  • By Jay Ferris, originally posted May, 2012
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