tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66119053420906048852024-03-18T21:28:06.686-07:00guidanceDesigned to keep others in the lighted path via spiritual nourishment. Our other goal is to help promote and prosper Catholic and Christian renewal in the quest for truth in our faith and for a better quality of life that in the guidance of the Holy Spirit we may share God's light and blessings with others in our spirit through His Son, Jesus Christ, living in His love, mercy and grace, learning to enlighten, guide, love and forgive, we may live forever in the glory of His name, Amen.edwinoelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027792245405868950noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611905342090604885.post-37073416586038577232017-05-30T21:00:00.002-07:002017-06-22T21:27:11.675-07:00The Kingdom of God<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See from your enlightened vision at the center frame, the Holy Trinity, from left to right: Jesus, the Blessed Mother as Queen of Heaven and the Main Vessel of the Holy Spirit, God the Father (the invisible God but in images of truth from the 'word,' Christ is One in His Spirit), and the holy ones, also as vessels of the Holy Spirit, where we may feel our oneness of our spirit with the Spirit of God, with the cherubim and the seraphim there in God's Kingdom to uplift our faith in Jesus, as the 'word' of God, for "with God all things are possible" (as in Matthew 19:26).<br />
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<i>Jesus the 'Christ,'</i> our loving Savior, Redeemer and true Messiah,<br />
"with Him alone," as the <i>'word' of God, </i>we are saved. <i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LetsKjohKeepJesusInOurHearts/">"Let's KJOH, Keep Jesus in our hearts, forever,"</a> </i>here to proclaim the truth in His gospel as 'Minister of The Word,' (facebook page, 'like it,' as we may live in the oneness of our spirit, to spread the 'word,').</td></tr>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">As we pray fervently the <a href="http://www.cathedralofmary.org/pray-the-rosary-online/"><i><b>Holy Rosary</b></i>, in the forgiveness of sins</a>, and <a href="http://www.comepraytherosary.org/">in the </a><i><b><a href="http://www.comepraytherosary.org/">intercession of the Blessed Mother, the apostles, the saints and the holy ones</a>, in our fellowship with them who lived forever with The Lord, hear us, O Lord,</b></i> as you, the reader, pray alongside with me, for the Holy Spirit has drawn you to be part of this great message from the Spirit of God:</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"><i><b>"Thank you, O Holy Spirit, with Your divine presence in my humbled heart, You have come to fill my heart and soul with Your love. mercy and grace that I may feel our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ in Your guiding presence.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">And that I may feel Your heavenly Kingdom from within my heart, where my love for You and my love of others brings so much peace and joy in my inner being, connecting us to Your greatest commandment in the love of God with all our strength and the love of others, in truth of your gospel.</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">May You bring us closer to You as a united family of believers, for we know, You have come to live with us, as we open our hearts to You, sinners we all are, living in this temporal flesh that will turn to 'nothing' when we face mortal death, and in the gift of 'divine logic,' with Your grace coming from the heavens, may we know and realize, from deep within our being, we cannot obtain anything, nothing material, when we die, just as when we where born, we came out to this world with 'nothing' (as in 1 Timothy 6:1-7).</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">May Your 'divine wisdom' guide us now as we pray with our contrite hearts, asking forgiveness of our sins from our material pride, that has hurt our loved ones, all dear to us, and our neighbors, that in their love we connect with You to being fruitful, yet, in their hatred and arrogance, may Your gifts from Your Holy Spirit guide us to be loving, forgiving and enlightening to the fruits of truth in Your gospel, lifting each other up like holy angels abiding by Your 'word' of wisdom, and obeying Your greatest commandment of 'love,' the greater 'law' that You have blessed each one of us with, the faithful, that we may prosper in our lifetime.</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">It is by Your 'love' You have come to create us, that by Your light, the 'love' that You bestowed on us and instill in our innermost being, may continue to guide us, 'made in Your image and likeness,' may we see fruits of oneness in Your Spirit, as we live with our family and our neighbors, wherever we may be, in the many events, there always, to 'test our faith.'</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">And may Your holy angels and holy ones be there to protect us from harm, as they guide us to Your truth, to be a living witness to Your greatness, and may Your ever 'active and living 'word'' bind us against evil and sin, that by carrying Your holy cross, our souls may not suffer as much, for by Your grace, we see You, dear Lord, carrying this heavy burden to be as light as You have allowed us to carry, alongside with the many virtues You have bestowed on us, may all these gifts be part of our daily lives, by Your light, darkness is 'not to fear,' as it comes consumed in the perfection of our deep faith and love for You, O Lord Jesus. </span></b></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">May we chose to live and remain in You and with You, to believe and trust in You, with faith that shall see no bounds for us to doubt, with You as our Good Shepherd, we are made complete. </span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">Any obstacle that may come our way, be it a stepping stone to lead others, the poor, the sick and the astray, to Your heavenly Kingdom, that more souls may be saved from slavery to sin, and more souls may rejoice with You by Your light and wisdom, by the power of Your 'word,' deliver us, O Lord, from death in sin to Your light, in 'life and love.' </span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">We know You love us all, O Lord, but the imperfection of this life may bring us back to sin. While we may sin, may Your light, love and mercy come upon us to stay strong in our spirit, to parry the alien, the devil, the tempter, who may come to lure us once again to his many deceptions. </span></b></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">Forgive us O Lord, may Your loving grace and mercy hone us, by Your blood that cleanses us, to abide by Your 'word' and to do Your 'will.' </span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">With You, Lord God, help us grow our spirit, that the minds of our enlightened souls may see us freed from sins of vanity, lust, selfishness, envy, jealousy and disobedience, and sins of omission, as You align our 'free will' be guided to the path to You heavenly Kingdom, in obedience, "Thy Will be done, on earth, as it is in heaven."</span></b></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">May abundant blessings come to our family or household, and in our church or community of faith, in spirit and in truth, as we seek Your righteousness and with You, may we strive to be perfect and holy as You, O Lord.</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">In Your love for us all, having shed for us all Your precious and most sacred blood, may You see us transformed to holiness, as we may shed our blood, tears and resources You have gifted us, as we spread Your gospel in truth of Your 'word,' and by Your blessings, with Your many gifts from Your love, mercy and grace, may You see us guided as 'victors' of faith.</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">Come to me with my open heart to make me feel Your Spirit through Christ Jesus, our loving Savior. </span></b></i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">Make me be one with You, that I may feel Christ's fullness from within my being, for indeed, "God's Kingdom is at hand, in my heart of love where Jesus' 'words' and teaching may fill my innermost being, in my thoughts, heart and soul with acts of good deeds and good works as gifts of grace in miracles of faith from Your Holy Spirit, that from my mouth comes wisdom from Your 'word,' made ready to spread to the whole world truth in Your gospel, that more may be saved from Your consuming light, where darkness has come to divide and destroy families and nations from among the weak in the flesh and spirit.</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">Let You light shine upon me, O Holy Spirit, let my small candle glow in the dark that others may follow, for it takes one single light to light the many candles to strive to glow in the dark, for with You, O Lord, Your consuming light endures forever, just as Your everlasting 'word,' they live forever in the hearts of the faithful, and with You, O Lord, "all things are possible."</span></b></i></div>
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<b><i>Enkindle my flesh with Your 'word' as I grow my spirit with Your Spirit, O dear Lord, my bravery be based upon the sharpness of my sword, sharper than the double-edge sword that I may carry onward to victory of my faith.</i></b><br />
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<b><i>With You in my trust and my faith, I come not to be forsaken but lifted up to the heavens with Your holy angels upon Your greater 'Will.' </i></b><br />
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<i><b><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">From among families, communities and nations, in the whole world let Your light shine, O Lord, where the whole universe has taken its course of orderliness and peace, with the many stars like angels shining upon Your wondrous creation, that Your truth in Your 'word' may shine forever in my heart, with peace and joy as I rejoice with You, in fellowship with Your abiding and obedient angels and the holy ones.</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">And together, as nations of true believers may see us become One with You, O Holy Spirit, as One with The Father and Jesus as The Son and The Lamb, He who gives light to the 'new creation' where You, as the fullness of the Deity in bodily form, the living Messiah who comes to judge the living and the dead, comes center in our lives. </span></b></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">With Your sovereign authority and dominion over all creation, and may the light in our souls bring us eyes and visions, the new city of Jerusalem, where God's Sacred Temple is, we may see, from a glimpse of the 'new heaven and the new earth' in the Book of Revelation, may You see us ever closer to You, to our path to glory, O Lord and our God.</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">Grant us Your Spirit of adoption, to the lighted path as we may grow our spirit, drawn by The Father to The Son, that we may all be together among the consecrated to truth in the promise of Your 'word,' made manifest as we live in the truth of our spirit, to glorify The Father through The Son, to become one body, united with God in the Holy Spirit, begotten by The Father through Christ Jesus, The Son, where The Father and The Son are One to be glorified, for "whoever confesses The Son has the Father as well (1 John 2:23)." </span></b></i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">As true heirs to You heavenly Kingdom, O Lord, may we live forever with You as Your worthy, 'children of God.'</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">Here are the steps to take, <b>to feel God's Kingdom from within, in our hearts of love, as our Lord Jesus with the Holy Spirit may so allow our enlightened souls, to feel His presence from within our being, to be shared to many, <i>where we may boast not of ourselves, but of Him, the holy and mighty one, in Christ Jesus, He who possesses the Spirit of God in the 'Word,' as the power in us</i></b>:</span></div>
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<b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496198419795_2657" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">In every way, <i>as we may possess God's Kingdom with Jesus in our hearts,</i> may <i>we boast of The Lord, for everything comes from Him as gifts and blessings, there in us, </i>'to test our faith.' That in every good thing we may do, may we do it in the glory of The Lord who created us, and in the glory of The Lamb who died for us on the cross to save us from sin. </b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">That by the grace of God, we too have died with Him in true baptism, buried with Him alive, that we may arise with Him, at an opportune time, where 'time and space' He has control, in His perfection He leads us to His divine wisdom, that we may be perfected with Him guiding us to His righteousness, where 'true faith,'by His light, may He guide us to His everlasting 'truth' in His everlasting 'word.'</b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">We need to repent of all our sins that in Christ's righteousness, we become one with Him as we may see total cleansing from all our sinfulness, <b><i>that we may see us freed from our slavery to sin, and to strive to be holy and righteous as God is holy and righteous</i>.</b> <b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">This is how we may see true and lasting happiness and peace from within and around us, <i>Christ as our Good Shepherd, trusting in Him in the strength of our spirit and of our faith, we are made complete.</i></b></span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">With Him we shall not want anything in the flesh to fill us with imperfection, rather, to <i>fill us with love and God's mercy. for as </i>we have lived by His grace, <i>blessing may come from The Lord Most High to us and our household. </i></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">In the<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"> <i>lighted path</i></b> <b>may we <i>grow our spirit aligned to the Spirit of God</i></b><i>.</i> He is the 'truth the way and the life,' He is the ever shining light that exposes corruption from our sinful souls and minds, deceit and deception in darkness where no evil may hide, <i><b>all darkness exposed by</b> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496198419795_5618" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">the light of truth made manifest by the 'word' of The Lamb, the Holy Spirit and the vessels of truth in the holy ones, as living witnesses of God's love and miracles of faith, that we too may live in the glory of God as witnesses of His truth and miracles, that by His light the many eyes of our souls may see His signs of love, life and truth from within and around us, where in every event in our lives, He comes to test our faith.</b></i></span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">Where is then the truth in us, is it not <i>in our spirit that connects to the Spirit of God?</i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>The Holy Spirit has shared me His light, as His anointed 'minister of the 'word.'' I am here to enlighten, not to judge, for the true Judge of the world is Jesus our Savior and Messiah, He is the 'living God' who 'judges the living and the dead.' </i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>I am here to guide you to His light, that in the forgiveness of sins, darkness may not rule your body with your hearts and souls, with His light in His precious blood may cleansed us of all our sins and be one with Him, again, as 'we remain in Him in the truth in His guiding 'word.''</i></b><br />
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<b><i>The Holy Spirit is there to guide us, as our light from within us, opening our hearts to God through Jesus comes His truth in His way to guide us through all challenges in life.</i></b><br />
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<b><i>He is everywhere in all of creation and rules all of creation as "the fullness of the Deity in bodily form," He being One with the Spirit of The Father, the Almighty One, the unseen God, with Him is the One who sits at the throne as God's heavenly Kingdom, He as The Lamb who gives light to God's Kingdom, He who is God 'incarnate' conceived of virgin birth by The Holy Spirit through the Blessed Virgin Mother who is the Mother of all, She who possesses the Spirit of Wisdom that we all may be guided by the 'Word' of God in Jesus, to save us and cleansed us from sin in evil and darkness, to be one with Him He who created us, and The Lamb who saved us us from sin, as One true God, One in union as One body with The Holy Spirit, One Spirit of God as the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega, the true ruler with dominion of the universe and the world in all of creation, seen and unseen. </i></b><br />
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<b><i>Jesus being the 'Word' of God, it is the 'Word' that judges, He who rewards or condemns us of our actions, in deeds and thoughts, that we may be humbled before God, and see 'truth' from within us, our 'spirit of truth' that aligns with Jesus, the 'Word,' the 'Light,' the 'Truth' and the 'Way' to everlasting life.</i></b><br />
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<b><i>In our 'hearts of love,' comes the Holy Spirit's forgiveness of our sins, to deliver us from evil in darkness, as we remain in Him, in Christ's Jesus, by His light comes the 'bread of life,' His body and blood we may partake, to give us eternal life.</i></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b>In Genesis 1:27, made and created are we in </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">'the image and likeness of God,'</i><b> to that same form, </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">in spirit and body,</i><b> may we remain in obedience to Him, our <i>One true </i></b><i><b>God, He who has loved us so.</b></i></span><br />
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<b>From the beginning, <i>knowing the truth of our creation and the lures of the serpent, </i>we may know the<i> truth in our being with Jesus in us, that </i><i>may come anointed by The Holy Spirit to obey and do God's will,</i> <a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/1john/2">as in <i>1 John 2:24-27</i>, where the <i>gospel of John leads us</i> to <i>"Life from God's anointing</i></a>."</b><br />
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<b><i>Evil ways of the serpent is not of us, it is our conscience in The Holy Spirit to guide us to Jesus, as the Blessed Mother, all the Apostles and the holy ones come united as one body of the Holy Spirit of God to have condemned all evil in the flesh, that with Christ in the possession of His Spirit and His 'word,' the 'word' that comes out from our mouth are words of 'love and light' that lifts us up to God, through angels and holy ones to see us strong in our spirit and our faith, and free us from slavery to sin and darkness.</i></b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">In <i>Judas' repentance and 'true faith,' </i>the <i>essence of the breaking of the bread knocking him out to consciousness,</i> </b><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">having realized how meaningless and imperfect worldly lust, fame, wealth can be, as <i>against true and everlasting love and mercy that lasts forever made manifest by his Lord, Teacher and Master, </i></b><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>our Lord and Savior freed him from the fires of hell.</i></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b><i>Sacrifice in the Sabbath means </i></b></span><b><i>nothing in truth of our salvation, where God's mercy is not there</i></b>, <b>where the <i>power of the 'word' is denied and so are the commandments,</i> nothing truthful binds our<i> weak souls in our sins of pride</i>, <i>when our spirit refuse to grow because of our fears, anxieties and insecurity.</i></b></div>
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<b>But as Jesus said, in <i>Mark 2:27-28, <a href="http://usccb.org/bible/mark/2">"The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath. That is why the Son of Man is lord even on the sabbath."</a></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Jesus has come to fulfill the 'law,' not to abolish it, that by His divine 'word,' in our faith of Him, His 'word' comes from the mouth of The Father. It remains our 'true faith' in Him by His holy, mighty and living 'word' that we are 'not' bound by the 'law of Moses' or the Torah, or the law of man, man being by nature human comes his 'deeds there to possibly corrupt us of our misguided mind while we live in the flesh, where sins of pride may see us deceived by the devil telling us to rebel upon the 'word' of God, whence, comes our denial of Jesus in His mighty 'word.' </i></b></div>
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<b><i>By His 'word,' let the light shine upon us to lead us to true salvation, where by His death and resurrection, our sins are forgiven where faith in His light justifies His 'word' the will never pass away. </i></b></div>
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<b><i>By the grace of God the 'word' remains blessed as gifts from above, guarded by angels, it is presented to us in the victory of our faith in God through Christ our Savior, in unity with the Holy Spirit, it remains bounded by God's love for man and His creation. </i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif;">"The truth in our spirit binds us closer to God, in Christ's righteousness and holiness, for the truth in our baptism we die with Christ and in Christ with the fruits of the Spirit of God waiting to be revealed as we arise from our imperfection and sinfulness. From death to sin we arise in the truth of our spirit where the flesh may no longer rule us but the Spirit of God as we open our hearts to Christ Jesus, our loving Lord and eternal Savior, who leads us the way to life, the way against darkness, the way to His ever shining light where evil and darkness have no power on Him, as they have no power on us who remain in Him." </span></i></b></div>
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In <i style="font-weight: bold;">Matthew 16:6, </i>Jesus also said,<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i><b><i><a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/16"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">“Look out, and beware of the leaven</span><span style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 1px 0px;"> of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”</span></a></i></b></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496198419795_5627" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">In the miracles of faith, see truth in the 'word' where<b><i> <a href="https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Jesus-Christ-Our-True-Healer">healing comes from our 'true faith' in Christ Jesus</a></i></b><i><a href="https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Jesus-Christ-Our-True-Healer">, our true Savior, in Him is our Divine Healer and our Divine Mercy</a></i>, and in <b><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/First-Vita-Plus-USA-Healing-Herbs-from-the-Word-of-God-1275635569211187/">healing herbs blessed and nourished by God</a></i></b> (Reference to <a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/sirach/38"><b><i>Sirach or Ben Sira 38</i></b>, NAB, on </a><b><i><a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/sirach/38">'Sickness and Death,'</a></i></b>) with<a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/genesis/3"> </a><b><a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/genesis/3"><i>The Lamb in Jesus </i>as the</a><i><a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/genesis/3"> 'tree of life,'</a> - </i></b>in <i><b>Genesis 3:22 and 24</b></i> with <a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/revelation/22"><i><b>fruits that makes us live forever </b></i>as the <i><b>'Holy Eucharist,'</b></i></a> and <b><i>Revelation 22:2</i></b>, where<b><i> <a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/sirach/38">leaves are used as medicine to the nations</a></i></b><a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/sirach/38">, as the <i><b>'word' of God</b></i>, that </a><i><b><a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/sirach/38">aligns with the healing herbs, nourished by God, the 'word' that are forever active and living,</a> they come with angels guarding the living 'word,' where faith in the 'word' heals us in many ways, and where 'agape love,' the highest form of love, adds life -,</b></i></span> <b>leading the true faithful to perfect unity in our faith, onto immortal souls we come bounded to eternal life, <i>where Christ's blood comes the 'promise of the new covenant of God' with our great father, Abraham.</i></b><br />
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<b><i>The great message of the 'Passover' is done, upon the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus where sin in death brings us back to life that by His sacred blood as ransom, the light of the world has come to save us. </i></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b><i>Jesus is the "light of the world," by His everlasting 'word,' comes His light there to destroy as it consumes darkness in His path.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b><i>"The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world"made true by His blood that purifies as it cleanses our sinful souls.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b><i>By the uniting power of the Holy Eucharist among all Christian believers comes His body and blood making us one body in God's Holy Spirit, the true believers of His 'word' becomes one true Christian and Apostolic church in fellowship with the Blessed Mother and the holy ones as vessels of truth.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b><i>This is the truth in our spirit, our spirit so proclaims in the Apostles Creed, we become living witnesses of Christ's light through our faith. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b><i>In the new covenant of God, Christ's body and blood comes the promise, by virtue and faith that remains undoubting, for by His 'word' we become one with Him.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b><i>Many times, we consider these as 'ordinary' and 'regular' events, just as when we see us healed, are these not signs from God through our true Master as Lord of Life and light, He as the 'Author of life,' He who rewards us of our good deeds and He who condemns us of our bad deeds and behavior?</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b><i>"In due time, in His time, in the truth of our being with our spirit the connects to God's Spirit, soon we may know His living truth inside of us.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b><i>These signs from God may soon see us aware of God's presence within us with Jesus in our hearts, we come humbled to open our broken and sinful hearts to Him."</i></b></span><br />
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Remember, <b>Jesus said to his disciples and all those listening to Him</b>, in<i style="font-weight: bold;"> John 14 :26-27:</i><br />
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<b><i><a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/john/14:1">"The Advocate, the holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name—he will teach you everything and remind you of all that [I] told you."</a><span class="bcv" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: "arial important"; font-stretch: normal; left: -40px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; top: 19px; width: 25px;">27</span><a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/john/14:1">Peace </a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/john/14:1">I leave with you; my peace I give to you</a>. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid."</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">And in t<a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/john/14">he whole chapter of John 14</a>, is the truth of His gospel, that He will be dwelling with us, in the body of all true believers, for "in my Father's house there are many dwelling places (verse 2)," our body is His sacred Temple, His peace is in us, those baptized in truth and they who remain in Him as consecrated by Him with the Father, as in <a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/john/17">His prayer in John 17</a>, and all those who believes in Him and obey His commandments, remain and abide in His 'words' will have inner peace in themselves because He dwells and remains in us. </span></i></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">And the new commandment in<i> 1 John 2:7-11, <a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/1john/2">that those in the light cannot hate their brothers and sisters, but love them</a>, and pray that they be blessed by the Holy Spirit that they may see the light.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Jesus mentioned three times in His prayer, the word<i> 'consecrated' </i><a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/john/17" style="font-style: italic;">(verses 17 and 19 in His prayer in John 17)</a><i>, a very revealing word from the Holy Spirit, only in the Catholic Bible (NAB) will you see the original and the true 'word' of God, not in any Protestant bible versions, using 'sanctify,' 'holy,' 'separated from truth,' and the likes, where the true faithful remains consecrated to give glory to The Son and The Father, consecrated in the true essence of the 'word' and the blood of Christ which is the promise of the 'new covenant,' the true essence of 'the breaking of the bread.'</i></span></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Whereby, in His sacred blood, His divine presence may be felt in the Holy Eucharist, as many may have felt Him, where we come 'consecrated' in truth as we remain in Him, revealing Himself in His promise of His heavenly Kingdom, and eternal life. </span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Revealing to us when we see us humbled before Him our unity from among true Christian believers are in oneness with His 'universal' church where He remains the only cornerstone, for His heavenly Kingdom we may feel within us in our fellowship with The Holy Spirit, with the vessels of truth that leads us to Him, Christ Jesus our Savior and Redeemer, to lead us to His light, to His flock.</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">And if by <b><i>our faith</i></b>, <i><b>Christ's resurrection on Easter Sunday comes the greater glory of God in our Savior's glorious resurrection as the day of the Sabbath, whence, comes the fulfillment of His 'word' justified by our 'true faith' blessed by God and His grace coming from the heavens, by God's will comes the day of the Sabbath.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i><b>The 'Son of Man,' indeed, is 'the lord even on the sabbath,' where man comes healed in many ways through gifts, blessings and grace from God in the Holy Spirit even on the sabbath, therefore, 'sabbath was made for man,' not otherwise.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i><b>Our love for God and for our neighbors comes God glorified not only on the sabbath, but every single day of our lives, "whether we eat or drink or whatever we do we are here in this life to glorify God in our love of one another, that in God's mercy, we may likewise have mercy on those who may have offended us, for in our forgiveness, comes our righteousness before God, as victors in our faith acknowledging our very own sinfulness and imperfection.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i><b>Is this not the true essence of 'the breaking of the bread,' where in our love and mercy, comes God's love and mercy upon us?</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i><b>For <a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/6">how can God forgive us if we fail to forgive others</a>, as in Matthew 6:15? Let God judge us, not us, but care to enlighten others who may sin, in the guidance of the Holy Spirit, leading us to the power of the 'word,<a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/12">' the 'word' that acquits and condemns us in our actions and ways of conduct and behavior</a>, as in Matthew 12:37. </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i><b>As we abide by His 'word,' comes our righteousness and perfection in Him, where His 'word' remains active and alive, with holy angels there to uphold its truthfulness and to protect the faithful where the Holy Spirit remains as our Advocate, to defend us of our faith. </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i><b>The apostles wondered why their Rabbi in Jesus, speaks to the crowd in parables?</b></i></span><br />
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And in<i style="font-weight: bold;"> Matthew 13:10-17, </i>Jesus further explains<i style="font-weight: bold;">:</i><br />
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<b><i>"Because knowledge of the mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven has been granted to you, but to them it has not been granted. To anyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich (in spirit and in truth); for anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away. This is why I speak to them in parables, because,</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Isaiah's prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says: </i></b><br />
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<b><i>You shall indeed hear but not understand, you shall indeed look but never see. Gross is the heart of this people, they will hardly hear with their ears, they </i></b><b><i>have closed their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear </i></b><b style="font-style: italic;">with their ears and understand with their hearts </b>(connects to our spirit to God's'love' and love of others)<b style="font-style: italic;"> and be converted and I heal them.</b><br />
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<b><i>"But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. </i></b><br />
<b><i>Amen, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and hear what you hear but did not hear it."</i></b><br />
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<b><i>When you are chosen, God draws you near to be in The Lamb's lighted path, to be among the consecrated. He knows what is in our hearts. In our repentance of all sins of pride may we see His light through our unfailing faith.</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Our faithfulness comes the true essence of our resurrection from mortal death, where our shield of faith parries away evil as we rebuke Satan with The Lord's mighty and holy name, in Jesus the Christ; His teaching and parables lead us to truth in His 'word' and His promise to the humble and the meek as God's chosen, onto eternal life, may we see and hear the wonders and magnificence of the 'word.' </i></b><br />
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<b><i>When we see the signs of God in our own misfortunes, in the loss of a loved one, loss of material property or some gifted with worldly wealth, in our illness or recovery, when we are in trauma or healed, in accidents as we may survive or live in pain, in our jobs, business or career in our success or failure, in war and peace, in love and relationships, in our mission to serve Him and others by our love and our faith, in our deep faith in Christ Jesus or self doubts, in seeking eternal life or false beliefs in human traditions and culture, and more events in our life, are these not the tests of God of our faith? </i></b><br />
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<b><i>Again, remember, in 'divine logic,' there is nothing material we may obtain when we die.</i></b><br />
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<b><i>"With our perishing flesh it is our 'spirit of love' that will guide our souls to eternal life, with Him in Christ, who is the 'resurrection and the life.'"</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Do we not care to seek the Kingdom of God and God's righteousness through Christ Jesus, He who lives and reigns forever as true Judge of the living and the dead?</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Seek 'true faith' in our hearts of love, and see 'truth' from our inner being, where the flesh may lead us to sin and darkness, where our spirit in our hearts of love lead us to a vibrant and healthy soul, made alive and active in the truthfulness of the 'word.' </i></b><br />
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<b><i>See the truth in our spirit and answer the "Why's," why He died for us of our sins? </i></b><br />
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<b><i>Is this not because God loves us that with Him we may have eternal life? In Christ's resurrection, do we see confidence in our faith as we abide by His 'word' and remain in Him, that by our mortal death, we may see us resurrect with Him, He who remains in us? </i></b><br />
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In <i><b>1 John 2:18 and 21, </b></i>Saint John writes to the chosen <b><i><a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/1john/2">"many antichrist have appeared. Thus we know this is the last hour." "I write to you not because you do not know the truth but because you do, and because every lie is alien to the truth."</a></i></b><br />
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<b><i>Beware of the antichrist, they who misleads the many to deny Christ by denying His 'word' of truth. "Every lie is alien to the truth," meaning, when we see a single lie or many lies against the commandments of God preached by the antichrist and false prophets, and they never repent of these lies, the alien in the devil is in them, where they prosper on things of pride and of evil and greed in their selfishness, where Mammon comes their false master, prospering on the lies of the flesh, bounded by material things in the corruption of their minds.</i></b><br />
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<b>From deep within our minds with our enlightened souls, if </b><b>we see the great difference between</b><b style="font-style: italic;"> 'temporal life' and 'eternal life,' that it is better to live in immortality with us living forever with The Lord that with Him we are made complete ... "praise be The Lord our God who dwells in us, as we listen, see and hear His eternal and everlasting 'word' </b><b><i>that makes us perfected in Him in the mightiness of His 'word.'"</i></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b>Our </b><b>sword is His 'word,' it will stay <i>triumphant over evil and darkness, over curses of sin against the 'law of Moses,' and over all laws of man derived from human wisdom.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b><i>By our 'true faith' in Christ Jesus His 'word' supercedes any law, for the 'word' comes from the mouth of God, it comes more powerful than anything imperfect where all things material may change or pass away but God's 'words' are perfected in Christ, as the 'truth' in this life, 'truth' in the world and 'truth' in all of creation.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b>In<i> Matthew 24:25,</i> J</b><b>esus said,</b><i style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/24">"Heaven and earth will pass away but my words will never pass away."</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">Our hearts<i><b> renewed</b></i>, <i><b>His body and blood purifies and cleanses us from all sins, our robes turn white and glowing with rays from Christ's light</b></i> <i><b>of mercy </b></i>we come purified in union with the Holy Spirit, as <i><b>throngs of angels sing in the heavens in the glory of God. </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i><b><a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/20">"Thus, the last shall be first, and the first will be last,"</a> </b></i>as Jesus said in the parable, <b><i>"Workers in The Vineyard," </i>in<i> Matthew 20:16.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i><b>"Jealousy and envy are acts of malice and selfishness in our hearts, where lies in gossips may follow."</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b>Do away with these prideful acts</b> that we may stay pure in heart in the eyes of God, <b><i>for these acts can cause the soul to suffer sans repentance. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/proverbs/14">"A tranquil mind gives life to the body, but jealousy rots the bones,"</a> </b><b>as in</b> <b style="font-style: italic;">Proverbs 14:30.</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b><i>The Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, comes our glory with Him, in our conquest of darkness and worldliness in the world.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">In this life of darkness, may we become God's instruments of change as we pray that we be His <b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">'chosen ones,' </b>as the elect, here to make a difference in the lives of the poor and the astray.</span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">Open our hearts of love and mercy, therefore, The Holy Spirit may reward us to His fruits of gifts and blessings, with our household, as we may live by His grace.</b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">Trusting in Him, we abide when He says, 'Do not worry,' living in His Spirit comes bountiful blessings and miracles of faith as we uplift the poor, the sick and the astray </b>onto the light of love and life. In our<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"> 'trust of Him'</b> who has saved us from slavery to sin<b>, the evil one lies in wait for an error in our ways, when we do worry with stress coming from imperfect and passing things, the flesh may sin, in the absence of self-control as gifts from The Holy Spirit.</b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b>Demons after demons run into the fray tempting us to utter blasphemous words that may defile us. <i>Sins of pride may follow leading us to destruction, violence, division and death. </i></b></span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">On the other hand, if we see us happy when people around us are happy, <i>the acceptance of the 'word' comes music to our ears, a beautiful sign, indeed, from The Lord, His gifts of grace is upon us, from among the consecrated and the faithful.</i></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">With Judas' <b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">betrayal</b>, and Peter's <b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">denial</b>, <b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>how many times will we become untrue to ourselves before our true senses come to our being in our guilt when we do the same? </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>Sins remain imperfect as our attitudes may change over time. Gifts of self-control, love, patience and temperance may guide us to be true to ourselves, true to our inner being.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>"Silence and inner peace," may work as a beautiful virtue against evil, until the Holy Spirit comes with the angels to minister to the tempter in the desert, or the evil one as serpent in a beautiful garden and scenery, like the 'Garden of Eden.' </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>With His loving Spirit, in the light of His 'word,' comes our acquittal as against our condemnation in sins of the flesh.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">If Judas came out tortured in pain by his guilt, <b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">do we not feel the same in remorse of our many sins of pride? </b></span></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">'No enemies' in our list of 'book of life and love,' where Jesus has said, <i><a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/5">"love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Heavenly Father,"</a></i> as in Matthew 5:44-45.</b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">With no enemies in sight, as we may duplicate God's 'unconditional love,' 'agape' love, the highest form of love, <i>how can evil win in the victory of our faith</i>?</b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">When we die, truth in 'divine logic' tells us nothing material we may obtain, for all blessings come from God, all there to test us in our faith.</b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">But Judas never feared death, for him, a life long torture he may not bear for the love of his Master and Rabbi, taking his own life comes his payment in full for the love of his friend and Master, all in the fulfillment of the scriptures.</b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>With our many sins of pride, do we have the courage to face this shameful death, yet, with Saint Peter, to honor and give glory to God is never shameful at all, it is the victory of our faith </i>to quell the fangs of hell through repentance of our sins.</b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">If you have seen another Judas </span>become an apostle in the New Testament, book of the 'Acts of the Apostles,'<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"> see the truth in your spirit, in His mercy, comes everlasting life, where our spirit aligned with His 'word' comes the light to everlasting life, as we remain in Him.</b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">In our faithfulness and love of Him, all in account of our oneness with Him <a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/john/6"><i>when we work for food that does not spoil, yes, work for the food 'that lasts for eternal life,'</i></a> as in John 6:27.</b></div>
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<b><i>The Holy Scriptures, if you have noticed, are in parallel to our ongoing life, see the signs of God when we sin</i>, and see the <i>hands of God leading us to His truth, to Christ's light.</i></b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">Freed from all guilt, in Christ Jesus, in<i> 'total freedom,'</i> we have conquered darkness, as we may continue to pray that our spirit may grow,<i> to partake of the Eucharist at every opportunity</i>, as we <i>strive to be holy and righteous as God is holy and righteous.</i></b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">In God's Heavenly Kingdom from within our hearts of love, <i>nothing accursed, no malice and guilt may bind us in the pureness of our hearts,</i> all these will God 'not allow' in His sacred and holy place, <i>from the twelve gates come the angels guarding each post, where all of darkness remains blocked by God's everlasting light. </i></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">Fifth</span><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">, <i>see the truthful signs of 'the breaking of the bread,' fruits from gifts of technology and science are gifts from God through the Holy Spirit, where groaning from the vessels of truth come the truth in heavenly answers to our prayers.</i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">Approach these gifts as grace from God, as God has said, <i><a href="http://usccb.org/bible/isaiah/43">'See, I am doing something new,' </a>as in Isaiah 43:19, yes, through man or through nature and creation, new things from the Holy Spirit of God, He has created many things, so with the evolution of man. </i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>The intelligence of man improves over the years, generation after generation, in truthfulness of our spirit, as always,"God's will be done,"and "with God all things are possible," all these gifts in our life are gifts from God through the Holy Spirit, as grace from heaven above in showers of bountiful blessings come upon us in condemnation of sin and darkness, where wickedness will never last as fruits of our spirit may see the light transform the many to truth in the 'word.' </i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>As we remain by His light, and to live by His 'word,' 'divine wisdom' comes before us leading us to better understand life in truth about 'divine logic,' where 'divine science' comes in the miracles of faith, and where His light comes to man that God creates new things through His Spirit, attuned to the love of others, comes the many inventions and innovation in man in the light of creation. </i></b></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>From all these, with many other signs, may we see Jesus revealed in our hearts of love, these are the many miracles of life, where signs from God are revealed in ones 'true faith.' </i></b></b><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="font-style: italic;">Remember, we cannot be God, or we sin in the idolatry of our souls, where pride may rule in the weakness of our flesh. </b><b>But we can be</b><b style="font-style: italic;"> 'with God,' by our faith may we see His light guiding us to His truth, that there is only One true God, as One Spirit in the Holy and Divine Trinity.</b></span></span><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>Who can question in truth God our Almighty Father, no one, except the 'instruments' of the son of destruction, the devil, who tempts us in sins of the flesh.</i></b></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>With God's Spirit in us, no evil has power on us, for The Lord of the light of truth, in Jesus our mighty Lord and Savior, has come upon us as we remain in Him.</i></b></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>It is in 'the breaking of the bread,' that we may see our oneness with all creation and our oneness with God, to lift each other up in our love of one another and in our love of Jesus who is the light of life in us.</i></b></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>Realizing this eternal truth we see the importance of 'selflessness' as truth in our being, as against 'selfishness' where evil comes to rule us in our 'ego.'</i></b></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>The more we prosper our 'ego' the more we may sin for truth is not in us where love of God and love of others is denied, whence, 'survival of the fittest' may come to rule meaningless philosophies is life, where things imperfect comes us bind us onto darkness.</i></b></b><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Knowing that Jesus died for us to save us from sin, we remain clean when born, clean of sins. </i><i>He having loved us in many gifts and blessings we may have in this life, what goodness can we share back to Him,</i><i style="font-weight: bold;"> is it not sharing His kindness and goodness with our family and neighbors?</i></span></span><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>In the true essence of 'the breaking of the bread,' may we see our connection with one another in our love of our neighbors to start with our love for our family, the keeping us united comes our unity with all our neighbors and all of creation, where we all connect with one another to be one in our love for God through Christ that by His teaching we see us arise with Him in the truthfulness of our being seeing through greater peace and happiness in this world in our true 'selfless' and 'unconditional love' with all others.</i></b></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>Will this practice not see our oneness with Jesus as 'the truth in this life,' and our oneness in our being by being true to ourselves where the Holy Spirit comes the power in our faith that remains true what binds us to Him and eternal life?</i></b></b><br />
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<b><i>Will we not see greater happiness in the world when we see the wealthy connects to the poor in the greater understanding of 'divine logic' where true miracles happen in 'divine science?'</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Our own transformation is made through Christ's light, that in our light, and by our light, we are made worthy justified by His 'word,' to share His light to the many. </i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>The light of truth comes images and visions in man, where God creates through instruments of His divine wisdom, and where light creates from the power of the 'word,' where man's creativity emanates. </i></b></b><br />
<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><br /></b><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>"Forever, God is Almighty, omniscient, omnipotent and all knowing."</i></b><br />
<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><br /></b><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>"And Jesus is One with God and His Almighty Spirit." </i></b><br />
<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><br /></b><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>"As he ascended into heaven and sits on the right hand of The Father, what we may hear from the Holy Spirit is 'word' from the mouth of The Father, and the chosen may utter 'words' coming from The Father through the Holy Spirit."</i></b><br />
<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><br /></b><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">No wonder, <i>the <a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/10">enlightened scribes write from the inspiration of the divine, from The Father through the Holy Spirit,</a> as Jesus has said in Matthew 10:20. </i></b><br />
<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><br /></b><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>"God knows our hearts, while on our own we pray for what we may need, God has a better answer to our prayers, for God knows best."</i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><br /></b><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>All have sinned, yet, transformed to holiness and faithfulness to The Lord, may many more be transformed, as The Father draws us closer to Him through Christ our Lord, in the guidance of the Holy Spirit.</i></b><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">In<b style="font-style: italic;"> Matthew 10:32-33,</b> Jesus said<b>,</b><b style="font-style: italic;"> <a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/10">"Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father. But whoever denies me before others, I will deny before my heavenly Father."</a></b></span><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><br /></b><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>In God's heavenly Kingdom, nothing accursed, no malice and guilt may bind us in the pureness of our hearts, all these will God 'not allow' in His sacred and holy place, as mentioned before, </i>the twelve gates from the 'new heaven and the new earth' comes the angels guarding each post. </b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">Each one of us must be on guard against the deception of evil as we<i> embrace godly ways filtered by the 'word.'</i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">May the Holy Spirit guide us that the greatest commandments of God be obeyed and by His 'word' we may abide, <i>not two or three 'words' but all the words that come to us as a promise of our salvation</i>. </b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">True freedom in 'spirit and truth' remains in our abiding spirit, where our innermost being </b><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">tells us to <i>love God with all our strength and to be ever faithful to the end, just as how the apostles have loved Jesus, their Rabbi, Lord and Master, and in the pureness of their hearts, they have loved His wondrous teaching, His eternally true and uplifting 'word'and parables. </i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>They may have been confused many times in understanding His parables and teaching, but by the light of The Holy Spirit, God's divine wisdom has come upon them they being the 'chosen' ones and the elect, to lead them through the Holy Scriptures leading us to 'true freedom' from darkness and sin in the death and resurrection of our beloved Savior, He who has loved all of us and all creation, that by the light of His 'word,' we may see from the truth in our spirit that His love and mercy is eternal and everlasting to the faithful, and the unfaithful, comes a renewed spirit, seeing the 'lighted path' as the way to true salvation, and by the truth in their spirit, being in the lighted path, their 'universal' faith comes to rescue the many to free themselves from the son of destruction. </i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>Judas was tempted by the son of destruction, as we can all be tempted by him as the alien that invades our peace and the serenity of our hearts, but anyone who lives in the light, sees all darkness consumed, that is why, God through Christ, has sealed our fate in true baptism, for baptized Catholics will remain as Catholics, consecrated we are with our Lord Jesus Christ and The Almighty Father, Jesus will continue to seek us as His lost sheep, saved by the groaning of the Spirit in fervent prayer in the intercession of the Advocate, who comes to defend us of our faith.</i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>Whence, comes the gospel writers, so with Saint Peter, Saint Paul and the rest, reminding us of our 'true faith' in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, that made in the image and likeness of God, we may see the poor, the sick and the astray to be guided by the light, and we, to abandon darkness in false prophesy and the antichrist. </i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>His 'divine word' completes us in the fullness of Him who gives light to the world, He who lives and dwells from among the faithful, that wickedness in darkness may soon perish in the perfection of His time.</i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>His light tells us not to fear death, for death comes as 'wages of sin.' </i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>However temporal and imperfect 'death' is, His light brings us closer to Him by the power of His 'word,' that the faithful may see death as a stepping stone to 'true life' which remains everlasting, happy, joyful, peaceful and glorious, for who may feel God's glory from within us except the 'true' faithful, who, by the tests of our faith, in the many events and challenges of 'time and space,' we see the greater power of the God's wisdom from the truth in the 'word,' as binding us to Him gives us joy as we rejoice with Him in the fruits of inner peace. </i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>In the confidence of our faith, we may come to realize His 'word' is what condemns evil and darkness in this imperfect world, that with Him, in His guiding hands, we see us protected in the fulfillment of our earthly mission, that more may be saved from hell, from the burning pool of fire an sulfur. </i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>May light of truth come to us to save the many who remains astray, to be molded to be true to their inner being, to live as God's chosen, the consecrated, the 'new Israel,' to be one with the Spirit of God.</i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>In my personal experience, the 'word' has given me my 'true faith,' in many miracles of life God in Christ Jesus has lead me to become a true witness of His love and mercy for us all, where in my love of Him, as I boast of Him and abide by His 'word,' I see His truth in His mercy among the true faithful,</i></b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>As I remain in Him to stay brave and courageous against all challenges of my faith, guided by His light where even death I may not fear, I see greater order in my life seeing the wisdom of His 'word' comes His lamp stand shining on me coupled with His electrifying embrace giving me confidence in the truth of my faith that I may share His light to others that more may be saved. </i></b><br />
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<b>From within our body is the cross of Christ that we may need to carry as we journey with The Lord to bear the imperfection and sinfulness of our being. </b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">Without this cross like adhesive, it is but impossible to hold all our body parts together, our bones, cells and tissues. </b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>It is what this temporal life offers, to test us of our faith, carrying His cross is a blessing as He binds us to His very righteousness from within, for the love of Him is greater with His 'word' comes the many promises of our faith, the promise of the new covenant of God, that by His blood we need not fear death, rather, fear the One who gives life to our soul or face suffering and death from our sinful souls in Gehenna when we refuse to submit ourselves to repentance, but those in the light, 'true faith' in The Lord Jesus comes to save them cleansed by His most sacred blood.</i></b><br />
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>We live and commune with the poor, the sick and the astray, so with the rich, wealthy and the powerful in position and stature, but God through Christ tells us to live a simple life, whatever our status in life may be, rich or poor, we need to connect to the world, that may lead us to the light of the gospel, where true lasting happiness and peace belongs.</i></b></span><br />
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<b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496198419795_4934" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>Glorify The Lord as we share the good news, the 'Kingdom of God,' whence we may feel, where Jesus with the Holy Spirit remains in us as the greater power from within, greater than he (devil/alien) who is in the world.</i></b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><i>"Once again, may God's 'word' transform us to become true to our being, having been created and made in 'the image and likeness of God.'"</i></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; color: #454545;">3) the<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"> 8 Beatitudes spell the promise to the faithful to God's Kingdom</b>, on <b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">Matthew 5:1-12</b>, </span><a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/5" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/5</a>, <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496198419795_3331" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">further explained on 'salvation ebook 2,' on "Jesus is Real ...," above; </b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">All for the love of Jesus, our Lord, Master and Savior,</b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">1) invoke the Holy Spirit and humbly open your hearts to God;</b></div>
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<b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496198419795_5637" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">3) be freed from darkness and death, by the mighty 'word' of Christ Jesus, obey the commandments and spread the truth in the gospel; do not let Mammon rule you, </b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">Onto the lighted path, the Catholic 'universal' apostolic Christian </b><b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496198419795_4874" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">faith with cleansing from the true blood of Christ, the Holy Eucharist, the promise of the new covenant of God to Abraham, we as the new creation; 'trust in The Lord' and 'not to worry,' much more with the 'healing herbs' from the 'word,' to help prevent sickness and death, and to heal us in many ways; our fear of death emboldens us to possess the Spirit of Christ from within, in the victory of our faith, we become one with Christ in unity with the Holy Spirit with the vessels of truth, one with holy ones, many have died mortally, happily rejoicing in God's Kingdom, they now live forever with The Lord, sharing with us in our spirit; </b></div>
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<b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496198419795_4912" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">4) rebuke all evil with The Lord where nothing accursed may thrive in God's heavenly Temple, the new city of Jerusalem, the holy Temple of God;</b></div>
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<b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496198419795_4907" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">5) 'the breaking of the bread' where bountiful miracles of faith come in our love of one another as we bear with one another in each other's imperfection, that with Christ, we come perfected in Him as we live with Him;</b></div>
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<b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496198419795_4886" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">6) light of truth, in the pureness of our hearts, God may reveal Himself to us;</b></div>
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<b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">7) 'Laminin,' the cross in us we need to carry;</b></div>
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<b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496198419795_4882" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">8) 8 Beatitudes, spell God's Kingdom from within and around us. </b><br />
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edwinoelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027792245405868950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611905342090604885.post-79807196358557990182015-05-25T15:48:00.000-07:002017-01-11T20:52:20.230-08:00"Jesus is Real - An Attestation to the Truth and 'Divine Logic,' and Seeing Jesus in Magnificence," Pinoy Blogger post<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/edwinoel.tanglao">Divine Logic</a>
God wants us to be happy in this life as we glorify Christ's Jesus in us, our loving God and Master, being One Spirit with The Father, He is our friend at the same time, He being caring, kind and merciful, compassionate for He gives us hope, an everlasting hope that will never disappoint, for He knows who we are, He being all knowing, and He is in us and everywhere, He being omniscient, He knows the answers about what is true in this life, and God's 'word,' may tells us in the Holy Bible, if only we open our hearts to Him, He who is the power from inside of us, in unity with the Holy Spirit comes Him who is as perfect as God can be, the only begotten Son of God, we are pleased to have Him as God incarnate, as the 'word made flesh.'<br />
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He knows what is best for us, He is our Lord and Savior, the true Messiah to judge the living and the dead. <br />
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As 'the author of life,' affirmed by Saint Peter, He repays us of our bad deeds and repays and rewards us for our good deeds, and as we open our hearts to Him, in the pureness of our soul, He may reveal Himself to us, His loving presence in our humbled hearts, touching our souls with His embrace, One with God's embrace in His visitation, in the faithfulness of your hearts He may touch you as His chosen one, ready to spread what is true in the gospel, for you to lived up to your mission of being witness of many miracles of faith, miracles you may feel and see not only from your very eyes, but from the many eyes of your faithful soul, His 'words' and teaching touching your kind and contrite heart, to many revelations in signs you may see from the heavens above, from the sky, the sun, the moon, the stars, or from many events in your life, as you ponder in the tranquility of your soul, in the silence of your heart, comes His thoughts in your thoughts, or you may hear Him talk or whisper to you, like an angel in your conscience, for the many vessels of truth tells Him what is true about you and the world in the many evens that may come, all attuned to His 'word' for the Holy Spirit is the God of prophetic spirits.<br />
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He has condemned evil and will always will, so are the instruments of evil and darkness from among them comes the wicked, the filthy, the murderers, those who have lived with death in their flesh in the misdeeds of the body. <br />
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Being one with Him in our love of others sees us in His fullness, as Christ lives in us as the 'fullness of God' in us.<br />
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Evil has ruled many of us in this life because of our wrong ways, more evil has comes to invade or peace and true happiness, where instead of believing in Christ as our only Master, we believe in other gods where the false god in Mammon lives in our 'ego,' the engine that builds an unseen wall from within us blinding us of God's truth without us realizing it, we may have allowed him to rule our minds, the devil, the alien in us, where the brain made of flesh may come out unfiltered in the corruption of our minds, corruptions of worldly things blinding us of the light that may free us from all deceptions from darkness, for in this ever shining light is Jesus the Christ, from where greater wisdom may come, all in what is true in 'divine logic,'<br />
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The Holy Spirit in us, comes to guide us in 'divine logic,' in the light of the 'word,' where from 'divine wisdom,' comes the filtering of darkness from corrupted 'human wisdom.'<br />
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From light to light comes the Almighty power of God comes the One True God from the same Spirit of God, a personification of the Holy Trinity.<br />
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For if God is Almighty and all powerful, all knowing, omniscient and omnipotent, 'with God all things are possible.'<br />
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It is will remain our 'ego' to block us of this eternal truth, where one faithful Catholic religious director says of 'ego,' an acronym that means, 'edging out God.'<br />
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For indeed, 'ego' in 'eros,' a Greek term as the lowest form of love, it tells us of our love of 'self.'<br />
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If you feel you have it, may the light shine upon you and see from deep within your mind what 'self pity' means.<br />
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As time may pass, as one gets humbled, are we not hating ourselves for we only love ourselves?<br />
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If you have experience a great wondrous feeling of being loved by others, better than loving yourself, or a great feeling of peace and happiness in your love of your spouse, your son or daughter, a child you may not know but touches your soul in his suffering, is this not loving others, is this not a greater gift that we may see in our Creator who made sure that it is in loving others in truth, that we may see our love grows connecting ourselves to the greater wisdom from beyond our minds, the spirit from within us that connects to the Spirit of God, <br />
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Is this not how God created us, out of His love for us He created us, and the key there is, "He has loved us first,"<br />
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In <i>1 John 4:19, "We love because He first loved us."</i><br />
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Do we not see this in our Creator, do we not see this in Jesus who died for us in the forgiveness of our sins, that in Him, we may have everlasting life?<br />
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Do we not feel Jesus in our hearts of love?<br />
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Do we not feel our loved one in our hearts of love?<br />
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If God has given us freedom with our own 'free will,' may we see 'greater freedom' in our obedience to Him, for He taught us, "love of God and love of others," as God's greatest commandment, and this is LOVING in TRUTH, with no malice or guilt in our hearts, where in the pureness of our soul seeing 'agape love,' the highest from of love, leading us to God's unconditional love, is this not TRUE FAITH in us, leading us to the 'WORD' of God, where the light is adding LIFE to others in our LOVE, a love that is TRUE? <br />
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If we cannot love in truth, as we really FREE from within?<br />
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If something from inside us bothers us, is this not because we FAIL to FORGIVE, as a component of loving others in truth, even LOVING our ENEMIES to become our life long friends?<br />
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If we know that in these, comes the many miracles of our faith, that more may see the fruits of God's love in them and in their household, for they have believed in His 'word.'<br />
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Will the many death in wars, bloodshed in many crimes of violence and destruction, homelessness among the poor, is it not our spirit of truth, where our faithfully departed are now living forever with The Lord, telling us, to open our hearts to God and see how we can mend our broken hearts, that from the guidance of the Holy Spirit and His vessels of truth, come our holiness, that Christ may reveal Himself to us with tears of joy in our hearts seeing many people and children saved from destruction and division of relationships, and illnesses caused by man's pride, he who may think, "I am better than God, I don't need Him for I have a mind of my own."<br />
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As he may be humbled in illness, in death and suffering of his household and neighbors, will he then see the signs from God that our human minds may always see us defiled by evil words, leading us to sinfulness, where death may comes nearer with the many demons that may add in our sinful lives.<br />
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Where is true education then leading to our salvation?<br />
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The 'word' of God, and truth in the gospel free us from the corruption of our souls, where truth in 'divine logic' bring us to life, forever with Christ, as worthy and true children of God.<br />
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"Love begets love, hate begets hate, but, in God's light comes the 'word' that gives us lasting peace and happiness, for in His light comes 'true faith' as victory over all of darkness and evil in this life in the corruption of our minds (KJOH)."<br />
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Many of us suffer because of our fears, our negativity binds us to evil and sin, that we are blinded by our ego to see the Spirit of Christ in us to seek true happiness in life, many of us fail to see what is true in our spirit, to see what is meant by 'letting go' and 'letting God' rule our lives for in our love, comes God's Kingdom in our hearts and souls, witnessing and proclaiming the true miracles of faith that may come as we live in God's grace.<br />
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It is the Holy Spirit who wants me to share in God's truth, the truth of our being, that more may be set free, leading to the joys of living in God's Kingdom, which we may feel in our lifetime, as we seek God's righteousness in Christ Jesus our true Messiah, and every believer of this eternal truth may feel His fullness in his heart.<br />
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How can we see true joy, peace and happiness if we come to satisfy ourselves first before others?<br />
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God has created us 'not' one or two, but many, that we may share our love for one another.<br />
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We may have a family of our own to spend this life together, that before we were born, God knew what path we will be taking, all in God's 'divine plan,' He knowing what is in our hearts.<br />
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Is it living in God's words and living in the Spirit of God that we may fully understand this mystery?<br />
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We may not, as long as we have a hardened mind, fail to understand this mystery and truth, but one thing I have noticed, as I have learned to believe in God's words, surrendering everything in this world at the foot of His cross, my material and emotional pride, has given me much peace and joy from within.<br />
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Only then did I realize, with my humbled and contrite heart, that Jesus Christ is my Lord and my only Master, the same feeling that King David may have felt, with The Lord as his Good Shepherd, for in him, there is nothing that he may want to guide and protect him from darkness and evil.<br />
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Many miracles in my life have occurred, from my total healing in spirit and in body, to the many blessings that I have seen in my family, so long as I need not worry, just be my best for Jesus and for the love of others, while I work for The Lord in service of Him who has shown me great love and mercy despite all my inequities, in Him I have come to be strong in my spirit, that I may enlighten others to His light, to His 'word,' to His ways.<br />
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In Christ's fullness in my being, I have learned not to entertain any malice against another, for everyone needs to be loved and given value, as I may enlighten more people of what Jesus' teaches, how to love in truth, and how to love in the Spirit of God, avoiding to bear false witness against another, for in our 'ego,' we may always fail to enlighten, when in truth, in the humility our hearts, this is when we may see the light in the many eyes of our soul, it is our faith in His 'word' answering the many mysteries of God in my life, and so with the true faithful, with God, many have been set free from the bondage of sin, with no 'ego' to blind them, with The Lord, no fear of darkness and death my bind them from darkness, for light consumes darkness in their souls, where the light of God's everlasting love and mercy shines from within.<br />
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God wants to remind us that we have His Ten Commandments to follow and obey, and as Christ came forth conceived in virgin birth through Mary, our Blessed Mother, the mother of God, to live in the Spirit of God as the Son of the forever living God, again, He wants us to follow God's greatest commandments, all summed up to: loving God with all our hearts, mind and souls, with all our strength; and loving others as God loves us. or as we love ourselves.<br />
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Jesus has come to fulfill the Law and not to abolish it, and it is 'love' in truth that He has come to teach.<br />
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Again, many things in this world come unfiltered, as we may rely only on 'human knowledge,' all based on 'human intelligence' and 'human wisdom,' is this not what the serpent promised Eve and Adam, the knowledge of 'good and evil,' where he comes short of defining the difference of 'good and evil' in the flesh, where human wisdom rules, not on 'good and evil in truth,' where truth is in the 'word?'<br />
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Where is then that filtering element, as you may open your heart to God, the filtering element is in God's words, for God's words are 'active and ever alive,' forever they will be, all in the Holy Bible, complete we you may read from the original text, from NAB (New American Bible), where the Spirit of God in us can best explain to us what has been revealed to the chosen scribes of truth, where only our spirit where God is present in us, may reveal what is true in the bible verses, however one natural person may interpret it (revealed in the salvation tool), the truth is in our spirit, where the vessels of truth from the Holy Spirit, the holy ones in our hearts of love, comes to our souls as gifts of wisdom, understanding and knowledge of what is divine, may we see or perceive from the many eyes given to us by The Lord of Light, from our faithful soul.<br />
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Indeed, in the light of Christ, no evil may hide, His truth sets us free.<br />
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The devil deceives the many from what is true in this life, that is why many of us do things evil because of money and things passing, with them comes an imperfect time, made imperfect as we sin in their imperfection. <br />
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But when will all these become perfect?<br />
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In our perfection in Christ, read more on the 'salvation tool' and be freed.<br />
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Look around you, whom do you think is the 'false' master, is it not money and things material, where all things passing we may see in the essence of 'time and space,' comes the truth that in this temporary life, is this not God testing us of our faith?<br />
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Many are lost as they put their ego first, where evil may see in us our weakness, where we may lie in the flesh, then may come more misdeeds of the flesh.<br />
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Believing in truth in 'divine logic' may reveal to us the truth in this life, depending on how deep is our faith, or on how we may see our faith increased on how much things meaningless that we may need to surrender before The Lord, is this not how we may grow in spirit?<br />
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How may we humble ourselves to God, to keep our hearts and minds fertile?<br />
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Like 'humus' that grows in our souls to remove our blindness from 'true faith,' where in our seeing souls, the many eyes, God reveals in us the many eyes of His Spirit passed on to our souls, that we may see the true meaning of God's love in us, through Christ Jesus as The Lamb of God possessing the ever shining light, He remains our one and only true Master in this life, our one and only true Lord, as the King of all Kings, and Lord of all Lords, our final Judge as the forever living Messiah in our faithful hearts.<br />
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Again, we may totally be missing the whole point in this life, which is the 'love' of our Creator in us, and the 'love of Jesus' in us, that we may understand in full the purpose of our being, for Jesus is 'the way, the truth and the life.'<br />
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Giving back to Him His truth, is our love for one another, in truth, and see us blessed as we may not doubt, in the perseverance of our faith, and see greater miracles of faith and healing may happen before our very eyes.<br />
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Verily, God loves us and wants us back in Christ Jesus, His only begotten Son who ransomed us from sins and evil, that we may have everlasting life in us in the forgiveness of sins, for Jesus is 'love' as God is, and His divine message to us all is 'not to hate,' or we become a 'liar' like the devil when we hate, and how can we be redeemed from 'hellish life' if there is malice in our hearts, as in the revelation of 'Truth in Purgatory' to Saint Catherine of Genoa (links seen from the salvation tool)?<br />
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Whoever has seen Jesus has seen The Father, for they belong to One Spirit, the Spirit of God, and where Jesus is the true 'Word of God,' where every word that comes from His mouth are so absolute and so true and perfect; His words are 'active and alive' piercing through our body, our souls, and penetrates down to our bone and marrow that we may know the attitudes of the heart, and his words are as perfect as God can be, for He is God 'incarnate.'<br />
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If we utter the same words to help enlighten, the words coming out from thee mouth of God, in all these, we are made instruments of Him who is in us, where His Spirit rules our soul, it is our humbled soul in the obedience of our hearts, that we may become a servant leader of His cause, sharing His light.<br />
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If we get misunderstood when we boast of Him, blessed are they who may fail to understand. May the light of Christ, One with the Holy Spirit, shine upon them that they too may possess His consuming light.<br />
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If we have proven ourselves deserving of God's love, Christ's listens, that in our prayers for our loved ones, our dearly faithfully departed, we may feel them in our being that they in us, in our hearts of love, are now 'like angels' in heaven, where we feel God's love in us as it is in God's love in them, where in our hearts we may feel God's heavenly Kingdom from within, for Christ is in us, they all lived forever in Christ, in them is the truth in our spirit, the truth that Jesus has already conquered the world that He now judges the living and the dead, He now repays those mortally living of our conduct, and rewards those who do good deeds, that we must hold each other's arms to proclaim of God's truth and be one with Christ in our journey through life.<br />
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In the 'breaking of the bread,' comes our unity of our love for one another, bearing with one another all of our imperfections, for we are all sinners in this imperfect life, that from within us, may we be touched by The Holy Spirit to continue to love and forgive, in all these, cleansed by His blood in the Holy Eucharist, comes our perfection in Christ Jesus.<br />
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"The time to live in God's glory is 'now,'" that more may see God's Kingdom from within, and the cross as the power of God, may save us, by the cross may we renew our lives in the righteousness and holiness of Christ who died for us.<br />
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It remains The Father to chose the ones to live in His vine that He nourishes, by 'divine plan,' He knows what is true in our hearts, that in the glory of The Lamb comes His glory as The Father.<br />
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All these truth come from the Holy Scripture, and they remain true forever.<br />
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Jesus is the Lamb in the love of The Father and of the human race, as the new creation, that He has to send His Son, to set us free from the sins of our fore-parents, in Adam and Eve.<br />
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It is funny we are doing the many sins of Adam and Eve, the sins of pride, is this not the same sins in the 'idolatry of our souls?'<br />
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Is this not where false prophets come though wrong and misguided beliefs by way of atheism, agnostics, and non-Christian believers, is this not the lies of the serpent that death may come upon us where we put Mammon as our false god, in money, lust which may create in us living from among the wicked, the filthy and the dogs, unable to control our mouth and our actions in the misdeeds and vanity of the flesh?<br />
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Going back to truthfulness may we see 'divine logic' guiding us to our true purpose in this life, where God may lead us back to His only begotten Son, and the Blessed Mother in Mary, in her many apparitions, she wants us to go back to her Son in Christ Jesus, and to stay in His light that true joy and peace may reign in our hearts, so in the hearts of many as we may come together in our faith, sharing the joys of living with The Lord, in His heavenly Kingdom from within us..<br />
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The realities of life makes everything passing, meaningless and imperfect. <br />
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The prince of darkness, the devil, may never stop deceiving us, not until we may see from within us the truth in possessing God's heavenly Kingdom in us, that we may become a living witness of God's many miracles as we prosper true love, true peace and true joy from our hearts.<br />
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The perfection of God's love remains in us, as we may not fear anything of evil, where fear of death follows. <br />
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While many things in this life may come imperfect, have you not noticed, do we not see our perfection when we see and feel Christ's holiness and righteousness in us?<br />
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As Jesus said after the arrest of Saint John the baptist, "The time is fulfilled, The Kingdom of God is near," as in Mark 1:15 (NIV), "...repent and believe in the gospel,"<br />
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"Jesus comes our everlasting hope, comes true peace and joy in our hearts (KJOH)."<br />
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It is evil that rules our flesh if we allow our 'ego,' affected by the evil virus, to control our being.<br />
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If we fail in understanding because of our 'pride,' is it not our 'ego' that blocks us from learning the truth from within?<br />
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Truth in 'divine logic,' in the truth in our spirit, where 'living in the Spirit of God makes us more powerful than living in the flesh,' how then can we ever reconcile eternal truth from the lies of the flesh? <br />
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'Love of 'self' (ego), remains the hindrance to true peace and joy in this life.<br />
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How can we be freed from our slavery to sin, if we force ourselves to believe that the root cause comes from our 'ego,' leading us to believing that we are better God?<br />
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But can we be God? <br />
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In mortal death, we cannot be God, but our witnessing of God's heavenly Kingdom is within our hearts of love, coupled with the many miracles of faith that may come along, in healing, in wondrous gifts of talents in us and in our household, in life being added to us as we may escape death in many ways for God's grace is in us in the any events that may come to test our faith, are these not signs from God than His heavenly Kingdom is in us.<br />
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If we see deceptions in the corruption of others with things passing, do we not see the truth in the 'word?'<br />
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Jesus said, "Anyone who finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it," as in Matthew 10:39 (NIV).<br />
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See this reality before our very eyes, the signs of God in our life are real and true, that by His 'word' comes our salvation, adding life to us, adding miracles for Christ Jesus is the bread of life, and the ever shining light that leads us to salvation, where in our hearts of love, we may see a glimpse of the 'new heaven the the new earth' living by God's grace, by God's truth in His light. <br />
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If we see us healed with healing herbs, in Ben Sira or Sirach chapter 38 of the Old Testament, we see the 'word' of God leading us back to health and life with healing herbs that God blesses and nourishes to be used by doctors blessed by God, keeping true to their faith.<br />
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[Read on: <a href="http://edwinoeltanglao.hubpages.com/hub/Empowered-by-Jesus-in-Destroying-the-Evil-in-Us"> Evil Virus Spread by Our Ego</a>]<br />
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It is 'human logic' that will lead us to the truth in 'divine logic,' as we may learn to open our hearts to God, open our hearts to the love of God, that in Christ, we may see God's love for us blessing us in abundance in our spirit, and in things material and passing as God may allow, and as the Holy Spirit may give us spiritual gifts, so with gifts of knowledge in the love of one another.<br />
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All these come from God, through Christ Jesus, who is the light of creation and the light of truth in the Spirit of God, all these we may fully understand as we read on the 'salvation tool,' <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Real-Attestation-Divine-Magnificence-ebook/dp/B00X2IFUKC/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1430707110&sr=1-2&keywords=jesus+is+real">"Jesus is Real - An Attestation to the Truth, and 'Divine Logic,' and Seeing Jesus in Magnificence."</a><br />
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Get the printed version that you may share with others of what is true in the Spirit of God, all these inspired by the Holy Spirit, where in truth,<br />
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God has revealed Himself to me, and all these I share in the many miracles of life.<br />
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That in the light of truth comes healing of every family, every nations and of the whole world in the Spirit of God, where Christ Jesus is, he is everywhere, as the fullness of the Deity in bodily form, he is above all things and above all authority, again, as true Messiah, he comes to judge us all, the living and the dead, in this life, in this world, and in the after life, where we all connect with one another in our love for each other, that no evil may rule us, whence we may see, from within our hearts, the Kingdom of God is in us.<br />
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May peace and joy come to our hearts of gold, our kindness and generosity of our loving hearts bring us to Christ's fullness in our being, that more lives may be saved as more may see God's Kingdom in their hearts of love,<br />
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Where is war, hatred, lust and selfishness if we have the Spirit of God in our being, where Christ reigns forever in 'true faith,' by His grace we live.<br />
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Your reactions will be greatly appreciated as you may see greater revelations from the Holy Spirit reading in full the 'salvation tool' on 'Divine Logic,' as we may give value to one another, in truth and in the love of Christ.<br />
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May we see God's fullness in your being in Christ, for 'God's words' are forever eternal and will never pass away.<br />
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Blessings to you all as we continue to pray for one another to spread what is true in the light of Christ.<br />
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edwinoelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027792245405868950noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611905342090604885.post-88587677137637623532014-08-14T01:29:00.001-07:002015-05-25T16:06:04.082-07:00Changing Tracks: Mario Joseph, Muslim Imam convert to Catholic Priest and Preacher - Taped Interview on YouTube with Cristina Casado<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A great revealing interview with Mario Joseph, the Muslim Imam - formerly known as Moulavi Sulaiman - who converted to the Roman Catholic Christian faith, now a guest in this Youtube recorded show: <i>Changing Tracks with Cristina Casado </i>to talk about his conversion.<br />
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In the process of his interview, <i>Mario Joseph, an ordained Catholic Christian priest, the following im</i><i>portant parts of the interview are worthy of note (thanks again to my friend, Bob Villasor for sharing me this very important youtube video reference via email) </i>that more may be inspired to share the light of truth in Christ with all others who may seek God's kingdom and His righteousness:<br />
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<b><i>What does the Koran says about Mohammad and about Jesus?</i></b><br />
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"The name of the Prophet Mohammad I found in Koran 4 places. But the name of Jesus I found in 25 places. There itself I was a little confused. Why does the Koran gives more preference to Jesus?'<br />
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"And second thing, I could not see any woman's name in Koran. Prophet's Muhammad's mother's name or wife's name or children name, no. In the Koran, there is only one woman's name I found: Mariam (Mary), the mother of Jesus. No other woman's name.'<br />
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"And in the Holy Koran, Chapter 3, the name of the chapter is "Family of Mariam," and the Holy Koran Chapter 19, the name of the chapter itself is "Mariam." I was very curious to know why the Koran say all these things? About Mariam, Holy Koran Chapter 3 verses 34 onwards, says that 'Mary was born without original sin. She never commited any sin in her life, she was ever virgin.'<br />
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"Koran Chapter 3 verse 23 says that she went to Heaven with her physical body. Even the Assumption is in the Holy Koran.'<br />
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"And then about Jesus, I read Chapter 3 verses 45-55 verses, there are 10 points which the Koran makes about Jesus. The first thing Koran says, the Arabic word which means 'Word of God,' and the second things which means, "Spirit of God." And the third is 'al-Masih' which means 'Jesus Christ.' So Koran gives the name for Jesus: 'Word of God,' 'Spirit of God,' 'Jesus Christ.'<br />
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"And then the Koran says Jesus spoke when he was very small like 2 days after his birth. He began to speak. Koran says that Jesus created a live bird with mud. He took some mud, formed a bird, then He breath into it and it became a live bird. So I think he can give life. He gave life to mud clay.'<br />
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"And then Koran says that Jesus cured a man born blind, and a man with leprosy, etc. Curiously, the Koran says that Jesus gave life to dead people, Jesus went to heaven, He is still alive and will come again.' <br />
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"When I saw all these things in the Koran, my thinking was what the Koran says about Mohammad. According to Koran Prophet Mohammad is not the 'Word of God,' not the 'Spirit of God,' never spoke when he was 2 days old, never created any bird with mud, never cured any sick people, never raised any dead people, he himself died and according to Islam he is not alive and he will not come back.'<br />
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"So there was a lot of difference between these two prophets. I did not call Jesus God. My idea was, 'he is a prophet but he is a prophet greater than Mohammad."<br />
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<i>Then Joseph asks of his Arabic teacher of 10 years in Arabic college how God created the universe, and he said, </i>"through the Word," <i>and when he asked, 'Word as Creator or creation?' His teacher was very careful in answering the question and may have felt he was being tricked. </i><br />
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<i>When Joseph concluded that since the Word of God is the Creator, then "Jesus is the Creator, then the Muslims must become Christians," his Arabic teacher was irritated that he told him to get out, and so Joseph further narrates... </i><br />
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"Suppose if he says the Word is creation, he will be trapped, you know why? He said everything created through the Word. Suppose if he said the Word is creation then how did God create the Word? So he cannot say the Word is Creator, he cannot say the Word is creation so he was quite angry he pushed me out of his room and said, 'Word of God is not the Creator nor the creation, you get out of here,' he said.'<br />
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<b><i>If you see things so clearly, why do you think Muslims do not convert to Christianity?</i></b><br />
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"They try to prove, they say, 'the Word is not the Creator, not the creation, the Word is not God. Not God. Not the Creator, not the creation, so not God."<br />
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"So they don't equal with God that's all their problem. So then when he said that, I told my teacher,<br />
'Word is not the Creator, not the creation, that is why Christians say the Word is Son of God.'<br />
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"Then he told me if there was a son of God I must show him the wife of God. Without wife, no chance of having a son. Then I showed a portion from the Koran: Koran says that God can see without eyes, God can talk without tongue, God can hear without ears, it is written in Koran. I said if that is the case, He can have a son without a wife.'<br />
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"So there we had a big argument and you know at the end what I did? I took my Koran, put it on my chest and I said, "Allah, tell me what I should do? Because your Koran says Jesus is still alive, Mohammad is no more. You tell me whom should I accept. <br />
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"After my prayer I opened my Koran, I did not ask anyone, I asked only my Allah. When I opened Koran I saw Chapter 10 verse 94. You know what Koran says? (He said the verse in Arabic then translated it to English) "If you any doubt in this Koran which I give to you, go and read the bible or ask the people, those who read the bible, the truth is already revealing that."<br />
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<i><b>What prompted you to become a baptized Christian (now being a Catholic Christian):</b></i><br />
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"So if you ask me who made me Christian? ... but the Holy Koran converted me to Christianity <i>(referring to his previous story of his being led to that given Koran verse after praying to his Allah for enlightenment).'</i><br />
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<i><b>What happens to those who will accept Jesus as their Savior?</b></i><br />
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"In John 1:12, it is written in the Bible that anyone who accepted Jesus, Jesus will give them power to become children of God."<br />
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<i><b>The joy in believing in Jesus:</b></i><br />
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"When I know that it was my last moment of death<i> (as his dad tried to kill him for believing in Jesus)</i>, I thought anyway Jesus died, but he came back. If I believe in Jesus, and die, I too may get my life, you know. A kind of joy, it is better to die in Jesus.' <br />
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<i><b>When he was about to be killed by his father, uttered the name of 'JESUS' and was saved:</b></i><br />
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"When I decided, suddenly, a light fell on my forehead. A moonlight, something fell on me. And there was a kind of electric shock, something passed throughout my veins. I was so energized from somewhere the energy flowing through my body. I could not control myself. There was so much energy in my bones. I pulled my dad's hand down, and I cried out 'JESUS!' <br />
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"When I cried out, my dad fell on the ground. When he fell with the knife which he was holding there was a big wound on his chest. And there was bleeding, and some kind of foam coming from his mouth and he was screaming.'<br />
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"And all were shocked: my brothers and mom, my sisters. They don't know what was happening. So they thought my dad was already dead. They took my dad to the hospital. When they were running to the hospital, they forgot to lock my room from outside."<br />
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<i><b>How he escaped:</b></i><br />
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"And I was in an energy that I cannot tell you because I was like I was only born, no food so many days, more than twenty days. New born but with a lot of energy.'<br />
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"So I just came out, put on my dad's clothes, and ran into a taxi on a way straight to get out <i>(and the taxi driver was a Christian who knew what were his issues, he helped him providing him food, candies, he became his best friend with whom he has contact every now and then)."</i><br />
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<i><b>He knows and believes that Jesus is everywhere:</b></i><br />
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"That day (having survived the whole harrowing ordeal with his dad), I know that Jesus is alive, even now. Whey I call him. Everywhere I know that he<i>(Jesus)</i> is present.'<br />
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"<i>(Reiterating if he believed in the many gods and goddesses in India, he said he is not certain what happens when he dies) </i> But in Christ, who died, but he came back. So I have a hope if I die in Christ, I will come back. So it is better to be sure of death, and that should be in Christ.'<br />
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"I am not afraid of death but that is a fact. The only thing I am thinking: after my death, what?'<br />
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"To have eternal life, you need Jesus."<br />
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<i><b>Destiny after death in Islam, Buddhism or Hinduism - "uncertain:"</b></i><br />
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"You have to think like this, when Prophet Mohammed died, he was buried but we don't know where he went. If I believe in him and die, I don't know where I will go <i>(so with those who believe in Buddhism of Hinduism, people lived and died in India, Mario's country, and says he does not know where they went).'</i><br />
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<i><b>As Christians, where do people go after they die as they get purified in Christ?:</b></i><br />
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"But only in Christianity Jesus took my sin, my punishment, and removed sin from me, and He made me pure, and He can surrender me to God. The Father saying he's pure. I have purified, I have taken all his transgressions, his punishment and his sins. so now you can take him to heaven.' <br />
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"So Jesus is my Savior. He's a perfect man, because I am man. My Savior should be a man. And He is perfect to God because I need eternal life; Only God can give eternal life.'<br />
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"It's very simple to tell you. The consequences of sin is death. So, to remove the death what you must do ... to remove the darkness you must bring light. The same way, to remove death you must bring life.'<br />
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"Whose life? In the Old Testament they were giving the life of animal, because they believe the life in blood and animal blood. And Muslims are doing this even now. But to remove my death, I need eternal life. From where I can get eternal life? Only from God. And that is given by Jesus on the cross.'<br />
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<i><b>The essence of salvation in the body and blood of Christ and the power of the Holy Eucharist in the Catholic faith:</b></i><br />
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"So when I partake in His body and in His blood, I am partaking in His life. I am becoming part of His life.;'<br />
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"That's why Jesus calls me 'brother.' And Jesus and we both call God "Daddy." You know, it's a union in God, and we are obtaining eternal life. So to receive always, you must be a Catholic.' <br />
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"Because Jesus clearly said, "If you eat of my body, if you drink my blood, you shall never die. Even if you die, I will raise you."<br />
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"So, that's why I decided to become Christian, especially a Catholic."<br />
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<i><b>What is the message to Europe regarding the new global evangelization trust in Christ?:</b></i><br />
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"In Revelation 2:2-4, "God himself says I know the hard work you did for me. Spain did lot of hard work for the name of Jesus, and I know how much you suffered for me. Lot of suffering we have gone through for Jesus.'<br />
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"And I know how you tolerate the false prophets. Spain has faught false prophets for many years, and then God says, but now I have a complaint against you. You lost that first love, get back that love. So then to Europe God is saying only one thing: get the same love back.". <br />
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"So then to Europe, God is saying only one thing: 'Get the same love back. How your forefathers where here - get back.'<br />
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"And we all will pray for that and we will work for that. That's all my ambition." <br />
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Amen. God bless Catholic Christian convert priest and preacher, Mario Joseph. <br />
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I strongly feel the Holy Spirit in him. He is an instrument of truth in Christ, and "boasts in the Lord," in his openly declared ambition, selfless with no malice, and in the purest of intentions.<br />
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As in <i>1 Corinthians 1:31</i>(source: biblehub.com,NIV), <i>"Therefore, as it is written: "Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord." </i><br />
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<i><b>"God in Jesus calls on us to unite in Him, and by the power of God's words, in Jesus' mighty name, staying empowered in His lighted path with the crucified Christ in each and everyone of us, may we fearlessly enjoin Him, as we journey through life in Him and with Him to lead us back to the glory of God's love in Christ that we may all conquer the world in PEACE in His LOVE and COMPASSION and free it from the bondage of deception, malice, selfishness and pride, from the bondage of sin, in hatred and vengeance, senseless killings including abortion and violence, in worldly relationships and lust, in making money in Mammon as master in the idolatrous offender and deceiver who is but desperate to propagate only evil in darkness." </b></i><br />
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<b><i>"To God be the glory, as we may 'let go' of all our fears and find more meaning in this life, as we may live in faith and strive to be perfect seeking God's kingdom in Christ's righteousness, in good deeds and kindness, in love and forgiveness, as we may put our trust in Jesus, our Lord and Savior, our true Master and King, and 'let God.'"</i></b><br />
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[Read related post: <i><a href="http://edwinoeltanglao.hubpages.com/hub/Amazing-Laminin-Binding-Truth-of-the-Cross-and-Creation-and-Avoiding-Hell">Supporting links and ebooks for "'Laminin,' Binding Truth of the Cross and Creation, Avoiding Hell and Purgatory</a> on what physical manifestation the human body has that connects us to the truth about Christ Jesus and the power of His death on the cross, that more people in all nations may come united, steadfast and strong in sharing the light of truth in Christ Jesus, that more may be saved.</i>]<br />
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edwinoelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027792245405868950noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611905342090604885.post-37846723565611554572014-04-10T12:12:00.001-07:002014-04-10T12:14:11.481-07:00"Seven Percent Only" - Praying in truth and unconditional love is priceless <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><a href="http://www.catholictreasury.info/books/treatise_on_purgatory/">"The Treatise on Purgatory - Saint Catherine of Genoa" from </a>www.catholictreasury</i><br />
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You may not believe in Purgatory, but this may change your outlook in life as Saint Catherine of Genoa shares her vision of Purgatory in her life long devotion to God as you read through our above link.<br />
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I was just ticketed for parking violation. My lovely wife reminded me on a Thursday morning of July 2011 that I should go look out from the balcony of the apartment building we are staying in Los Angeles, California, and see the ticket on my car's windshield.<br />
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Sure enough, I saw the familiar small white envelope on my car's windshield. It was my second parking violation ticket, and a charge of another $68 will be another slash on our budget. And to think, I can't imagine that I forgot all about the need to re-position my car the day before when me and my 18 year old son had just done a pretty good hand wash on it two days before the traffic enforcer caught it sitting on that side of the road where the city street sweeper truck was scheduled to do its cleaning routine for that week, and almost all the time that day before, I was just proudly gleaming at it enjoying the sight of my newly washed car that saved me around $10.<br />
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Oh well, as they say, "if something will go wrong, it will go wrong," and I have to admit of my human weakness, and I rejoice in acknowledging my weakness in my forgetfulness as I am made whole in Christ every time I see myself humbled. And I am happy for those who accept their faults for it is this acceptance of what is true that one learns to renew and better himself and stand strong as witness to God's truth in his words.<br />
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I just have to console myself that, perhaps, the city needed more funds to cover its bigger deficit. And spending $68 for six months parking near the sidewalk is not really bad, huh?<br />
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With a weak faith, the evil one could have easily ruined my day, but the Holy Spirit seems to be reminding me always not to worry, for worrying will not add a single hour or day in my life, as Jesus has said to his disciples in <i>Matthew 6:27</i>.<br />
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And in <i>2 Corinthians 11:30</i>, Saint Paul in Christ states, <i>“If I must boast, I will boast of the things that will show my weakness.”</i><br />
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What can happen worse is a possible heated conflict among individuals because of a disagreement over flimsy things such as anything material that is never worthy of any argument, as all things that one cannot bring along upon one's death, these becoming eventually meaningless. And it is in treasuring things that may bring one to eternal life, for me, is more worthy of keeping in one's heart and spirit, and being steadfast in our faith that we may never falter in sharing this truth with our family and love ones, if we truly love them and care for them. And is this not the words of God that we should learn to seek and adhere to?<br />
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That is why, for me, the essence of faith and obedience in His words through Christ Jesus has become an important guide in my life, and I know that anything material cannot be brought along when I will be called by God Almighty telling me my ''time is up.'<br />
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In<i> 1 Thessalonians 5:16-17</i>, Saint Paul, after he admonished everyone to live in peace with each other, to encourage the timid to help the weak, to be patient with everyone, nobody to pay wrong for wrong and to always be kind to each other and to everyone else, he said, <i>“Be joyful always, pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” </i><br />
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And the more I live my life, the more peace and happiness comes in my heart and spirit as I reflect on above powerful verses.<br />
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In above example, there is nothing that compares with attuning your life in humility and obedience to God's will through God's words in Christ and his commandments, that we can better prepare ourselves ready and duly cleansed and worthy of God's embrace even while we live this life, as Purgatory in itself.<br />
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<b>Essence of Purgatory </b><br />
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The essence of Purgatory coincides with the truth in Christ's teachings and it clarifies the meaning of <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/retribution">retribution</a>, <a href="http://www.scborromeo.org/confess.htm">confession of sins</a>, <a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/forgiveness-bible-verses/">forgiveness of sins</a>, prayer and repentance with renewal, and Purgatory's state compared with heaven and hell.<br />
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Here on earth, according to Saint Catherine, we can already start cleansing our selves from all sins and from all impurities in our hearts and spirit, as we prepare for the afterlife, when we will one day be with our Lord Jesus Christ in heaven, as she has done so herself, manifest in her life long dedication to God, in humility and total obedience to His will, especially in her last 10 years of her life serving and showing her selfless sacrifice in the care and love of others.<br />
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Come to think of it, how can we be accepted in heaven if we still are attached to things material, to our pride, to sins of lust and other sins that make our souls unclean and unfit to ever be worthy of God's embrace in His Heavenly Kingdom?<br />
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Will it not help for us to approach all things that is set forth before us as trials from the Lord, and that he may not burden us with something the we cannot bear or endure, so long as we stay faithful to him?<br />
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In <i>Romans 6:11-14</i> St. Paul states, <i>“In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.”</i><br />
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<i>2 Corinthians 10:3-5</i> exhorts us in St. Paul, <i>“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”</i><br />
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That is why, whenever I experience something that goes wrong, I pray for a better understanding of all these and rejoice in God's blessings instead of uselessly panicking and getting tempted with the thought of something that is here to test my patience and my faith, as I always trust in the Lord that nothing on earth can ever be greater than Him and His love for all of us through His Son, Jesus Christ.<br />
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And in everything unexpected that happens in this life, I believe, blessings will soon come in abundance through faith in Christ Jesus, as has been proven many times in my life with my family.<br />
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A few days after my parking violation, we saw a long beautiful cabinet table sitting near the recycling bin, seemingly slightly used and made of good material. For whatever reason the former owners discarded it is the least of my concern, but it fit very well our need for our bedroom TV and the need for extra drawers to duly help organize a few clutter in our room.<br />
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We felt that this saved us another $200 or so if we opted to purchase a similar versatile table.<br />
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"God is really good," I said to my wife, "he provides us with what we need." My wife smilingly nodded with glee in her eyes. To think it is not the first time that we experienced God's goodness.<br />
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In <i>Proverbs 37:4</i>, <i>“Delight yourself with the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.”</i><br />
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And it is in the guidance and enlightenment of the Holy Spirit that we can further be guided in this truth as we continuously thank God for giving us the desires of our heart.<br />
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Let us now get into the life of Saint Catherine of Genoa before we summarize to you the essence of God's revelation to her about Purgatory in 'The Treaties of Purgatory."<br />
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<b>Saint Catherine and Her Faith</b><br />
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As early as in the young tender age of 13, Saint Catherine has already confessed of her wish to enter into the convent of Santa Maria del Grazie, in Genoa, Italy. This house of the Augustinian Canonesses of the Lateran was where her elder sister, Limbania, took the vow as a nun. <br />
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When her confessor heard this, he immediately told the young Catherine of the difficulties of the life of the religious to which she responded with such 'prudence and zeal' that amazed Father Cattaneo Marabotto prompting him to see in her something that is 'not human but supernatural and divine.'<br />
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She grew up to become a tall and beautiful lady with a 'well shaped body, fair complexioned and possessed dark eyes. It did not take long before her elder brother, Giacomo, who inherited her father's wealth and possessions when he passed away, planned her betrothal to Guiliano Adorni, from the powerful Ghibeline family, with the support of her mother, and she was left with no choice as she accepted this cross to carry in blind obedience to her mother and her elder brother.<br />
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Her husband was described of possessing a 'strange and recalcitrant nature who wasted his substance in disorderly living.' But as years passed, she was exposed to practicing a certain commerce with the world. Until her conversion in 1474 during the Eve of Saint Bernard when she fell down unconscious from prayer as she saw a vision of our Lord covered with blood from the cross from whence, she cried out loud, "No more of the world for me! No more sin!"<br />
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She devoted the rest of her life caring for the sick while being guided by the Ladies of Mercy and living in a life of prayer. She was able to obtain from her husband a promised that she would live with her as a brother, which he kept. She lived in utter sacrifice and avoided all kinds of worldly temptations.<br />
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A few years after her conversion, her husband joined her in her works of mercy after he himself received the third order of Saint Francis. And in 1497, she nursed her husband until he died, extolled her of all her virtues in his will and left her all his possessions. <br />
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Saint Catherine suffered in her life while serving and caring for sick as 'rector of the hospital with unlimited powers.' She so arranged that her prayerful devotions and her ecstasies will not interfere in her activities while she cared for the sick. And in total humility and faith in the Lord she happily joined our Creator on the 15th of September, 1510.<br />
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Recorded by Mrs. Charlotte Balfour, as extracted from Saint Catherine's writings, "We should not wish for anything but what comes to us from moment to moment," Saint Catherine told her spiritual children, "exercising ourselves none the less for good. For he who would not thus exercise himself, and await what God sends, would tempt God. When we have done what good we can, let us accept all that happens to us by Our Lord's ordinance, and let us unite ourselves to it by our will. Who tastes what it is to rest in union with God will seem to himself to have won to Paradise even in this life." <br />
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<b>Saint Catherine's doctrine, "The Treatise of Purgatory</b><br />
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In conceptualizing her vision of Purgatory, Saint Catherine states that those in Hell are careless in their salvation while those in Purgatory are those whose guilt have been wiped away from the moment of their death as they have acknowledged their sins and have earnestly 'repented for their offences against divine goodness,' with their pain ever lessening with the time.<br />
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Both those in Hell and Purgatory have 'no more free will' upon the time of death, with those in Hell having the will to sin, and 'bears the guilt with them throughout eternity,' as they suffer the pain they would have to endure without end.<br />
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Men dead in sin merit infinite pain for an infinite time, but God's mercy only allotted to him at a given time and has determined the quantity of pain, in justice 'God could have given him more pain.' <br />
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Saint Catherine emphasized, <i>"O how dangerous is sin committed in malice! Hardly does a man repent him thereof, and without repentance he will bear its guilt for as long as he perseveres, that is for as long as he wills a sin committed or wills to sin again."</i><br />
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If you try to examine your conscience, do you in anyway feel bad or feel the pain, sorrow, grief and the guilt as you sin such as wantonly denying the words and commandments of God and in Christ by:<br />
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<li>lying before others to suit your own selfish desires and satisfaction and not accepting who and what we really are and not asking forgiveness for our sins and iniquities;</li>
<li>bearing as a false witness against another;</li>
<li>your ill intent to defraud, malign or punish another out of your own selfish desires, out of envy, jealousy. or out of undue retaliation or vengeance;</li>
<li>your non-forgiveness, persecuting others, including yourself, by letting them or yourself suffer the pain, either physical or emotional, out of self-pity, your own anger, selfishness, pride, vain conceit, with your continuous tirade of demeaning words, insults, blames, curses or slander against something done which merit not anything that may be noble, righteous, or worthy of praise, and out of love, that disrespects the dignity of your neighbor whose body made in God's image and likeness becomes a sacred temple of God, and against anything which you yourself may have also been guilty of before;</li>
<li>or an opinion or point of view which goes against the words of God and the evil outcome thereof;</li>
<li>coveting, claiming or using without due permission or authority what is not yours or belongs to your neighbors;</li>
<li>vanity and love for material things more than our love and our trust in God through Christ Jesus, and through our love of others, that God, not we or anything material, may be glorified;</li>
<li>and all other sins of lust you can think of? </li>
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If we feel no remorse or any guilt in any of the aforementioned sins of malice, we may be bound to Hell where there is the absence of God. <br />
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And Saint Faustina, in her<i><a href="http://www.divinemercysunday.com/vision.htm"> 'Vision of Hell,'</a></i> where God revealed to her the different tortures of Hell that all may know about the truth and the reality of the existence of Hell, also complements the revelation of God on Saint Catherine about Purgatory.<br />
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The pain of those damned in hell, however, is still 'not infinite in quantity' as the 'dear goodness of God sheds the ray of His mercy even in Hell.'<br />
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Only God knows what punishment one will need to endure in Hell or in Purgatory, depending on how we have lived in this life and depending on the depth of our prayers as we pray with all our heart and in all sincerity, that through our good deeds and love for others, our God of love and mercy and forgiveness, through Christ our Lord and Savior, may hear and listen to us.<br />
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God wants us to continue to be prayerful, as we praise. thank and show how we adore Him through His Son, Jesus Christ, and to follow him, what we may be guided in his light, and be willing to share this light too with others as we show our genuine love can concern for our neighbors, starting with our own family.<br />
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Is it not apparent that it is in loving God and others that we truly see a more fulfilling, noble, honorable and respectable way of loving ourselves?<br />
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Praying for our dearly departed love ones, and for others worthy of our prayers, for God's rays of love, mercy and forgiveness to possibly cleanse those still in Purgatory as a show of our love and concern for them, as we believe in the power of the love of God and the power of prayers, is this not what God wants of us, a show of our intense faith through our love for others?<br />
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In<i> Mark 11:24</i>, Jesus said, <i>“Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” </i><br />
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And may <i>God's greater wisdom in the Holy Spirit guide us in our faith</i> that through it all, God knows what is in our hearts as He is all knowing, almighty and powerful. Obedience and humility to His will makes us whole in Him, and believing that in His time and in His way, He knows what is best for us as He answers at best our prayers as part of His greater plan for us all, that we may remain in His light and <i>not turn to where darkness is for in our doubts and in our pride come our weakened souls onto temptation from the evil one, in deceit that feeds malice in our flesh to satisfy hunger in our ego</i>. <br />
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In everything, may our spirit be stronger in the humility and obedience of our hearts and souls to God, ever abiding in Jesus in our faith, for as always, may we see greater wisdom in believing in God's will upon us all, as in the Lord's Prayer,<i> "God's will be done,"</i> as we may as soon, in our faithful and loving patience,<i> 'taste and see the goodness of the Lord.'</i><br />
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In <i>John 15:7, “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”</i><br />
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And in<i> Matthew 19:26, </i>Jesus Said,<i> "With God, all things are possible."</i><br />
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[Read our related post on: <i><a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2011/07/commentary-on-jesus-saves-via.html">"... 'Jesus Saves' via Christaninsal.Over-blog.com, on Love in Christ, Mama Mary and the Saints"</a></i> as you may want to seek for further enlightenment in God's words.]<br />
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Saint Catherine reminds us too that those committing malice who refuse to repent and renew, they shall bear its guilt for as long as they persevere, that is, for as long as they will to commit the sin or they will to sin again, they may be in danger of being bound for Hell if in this life they continue to sin in malice and refuse to totally cleanse themselves of this sin.<br />
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We are being admonished by Saint Catherine, by divine enlightenment, to be stronger in our faith than our cravings for anything material, to be selfless in our love for God and of others, less we want to suffer Hell, as early as in this life.<br />
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Through it all, knowing and believing that we have the crucified Christ in us, in "laminin," the protein molecule that binds the cells and tissues together that make us one body, and yes, it is in a form of a cross, we need to be stronger in this life as we carry our own cross while being strong in the Spirit of Christ, and that in Christ there is hope, for in Christ and with Christ there is everlasting love and mercy as we may live in His truth, in His light and by His redeeming and sanctifying grace.<br />
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[Read on related supporting post to ebook: <a href="http://edwinoeltanglao.hubpages.com/hub/Amazing-Laminin-Binding-Truth-of-the-Cross-and-Creation-and-Avoiding-Hell"><i>"Supporting Videos and Links for ebook,'Laminin,' the Binding Truth of the Cross and Creation ..."</i></a>]<br />
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It is in dying to one self and being one with God through Christ Jesus, and in Christ, that one may experience this feeling of ecstasy in him as he experiences his oneness with God.<br />
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She likens our cravings for material things as similar to one who, by instinct, cannot but bear living without bread in this life, to which one reacts so strongly with the pain felt so intense with its absence that one is experiencing Hell, his impatience and his will may lead him to be damned in Hell, as his will may become wholly and solely focused on the bread which he so desires.<br />
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But for one who lives in restraint and is able to deny himself of his worldly cravings and has accepted the words of Christ as the real and true food for himself in this life, may very well be freed from guilt, as he would bear every pain and suffering necessary to see God in Christ Jesus, our true Savior who has brought us life and love.<br />
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<b>Life Cycles Toward God or Mammon</b><br />
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Leaning towards God through Christ, may very well conform with Saint Christine's message of renewal and redemption that may cleanse one's self and may lead to eternal life, as opposed to that vicious cycle towards evil that lead to Mammon and Hell.<br />
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Let me try to simplify the two vicious cycles that may either make or break relationships in our life, and these are as follows: <br />
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1) one with God as master >>> any given situation >>> practice love, humility, forgiveness, sharing using God's words and Commandments as weapons and tools >>> be joyful, pray, and give thanks >>> avoid conflict >>> peace and love >>> more productive, efficient and fruitful in the light of truth in Christ >>> HEAVEN<br />
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note: above cycle may continue until death, and onto eternal life, may lengthen life, and more importantly, may lead to HEAVEN<br />
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2) one with Mammon (material things, money, sins of lust, power, wealth) >>> any given situation >>> worry, blame, dig on past mistakes using pride, selfishness, human wisdom and intelligence or hurting/lethal weapons as tools >>> injuries, death, >>> conflict, unforgiveness, hatred, vegeance >>> goes back to worry, blame, etc. = vicious cycle of never ending conflict, inefficiency and new unproductive situations are created with snowballing effect >>> growing Mammon in the absence of God in Christ >>> HELL <br />
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note: above cycle may continue until death, and it may shorten life, and sadly, may lead to HELL, even as early as in this life, especially when there is the absence of God in one's life<br />
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Do you see now the clearer picture and the root causes of good and evil? Which cycle would you rather choose?<br />
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<b>Two Rays of Light from God for Cleansing</b><br />
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Saint Catherine talks of two kinds of rays from the enormous light from God. One that purifies and another that destroys all the imperfections in our soul, and destroys the 'self' in us, although already in the state of the absence of guilt with complete repentance made during our lifetime.<br />
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This 'self' refers to our inner being that has caused us to sin in malice, pride and selfishness.<br />
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As we have accepted the love of God in Christ, there is a need for our purification, one free from all imperfection as one takes away the rust from his soul until it becomes pure as gold ready to face God and be one with Him. <br />
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Earlier in this life, God wants us to already purify ourselves from any imperfection that we may be cleansed from sin and from all guilt in confession and repentance, followed with total renewal that anytime we are called, we are purified and sinless, as well as guiltless to perfection, ready to be one with him in eternal life.<br />
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In<i> Matthew 5:43-48</i>, Jesus tells the crowd and his disciples,<i> “You have heard that is was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”</i><br />
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edwinoelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027792245405868950noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611905342090604885.post-77321530889715035322011-08-15T12:37:00.760-07:002011-11-30T18:38:41.518-08:00Redeeming USA and the World from Debt and Chaos, With Music Video 'You are Mine'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqkA8wyG6IHPgne8eFMSRuVaFzLrQNqfySSurIoHerqS5HwtqzH5YyT-sJLWr5UzFDE__tUXgVi_ly3M2DNj31M3QJImfImrlTedBEBCt-K7E8ratH3aKyqS06GvNtjwZy-5G2jYjjNjp_/s1600/Cave+Atlas+Mountains+06L+picasa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqkA8wyG6IHPgne8eFMSRuVaFzLrQNqfySSurIoHerqS5HwtqzH5YyT-sJLWr5UzFDE__tUXgVi_ly3M2DNj31M3QJImfImrlTedBEBCt-K7E8ratH3aKyqS06GvNtjwZy-5G2jYjjNjp_/s1600/Cave+Atlas+Mountains+06L+picasa.jpg" /></a></div><i><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/european-central-bank-moves-stem-debt-crisis-154555435.html">'Debt Crisis Hits Heart of Eurozone, ECB extends Lifeline' via Yahoo News</a> </i><br />
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USA, the "Number One Economy in the World" has been humbled by its Debt Crisis with a whopping $14.3 Trillion and more in unsettled international loan obligations.<br />
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Everybody knows whatever happens to America, with its great power and influence, a big part of the world follows. <br />
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And now, we see many of big guns in the European Union also showing signs of weakness in the stock market as in above link.<br />
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A video presentation from a well known economist and financial analyst has predicted the downfall of America as early as 2008, when it bailed out many a big name in the American business industry and worldwide.<br />
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And another one suggested three investment solutions out of the <i><a href="http://moneymorning.com/2011/07/27/debt-ceiling-debacle-three-investments-to-make-before-washington-disfigures-your-portfolio/">Debt Ceiling Debacle through our link on Money Morning.</a></i><br />
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But what could be the best solution?<br />
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It seems no ordinary man can save America from its woes, and this time, do you think a miracle from God will save America, or the world?<br />
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Not even Superman, Batman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Wolverine or much less Lady Gaga or Justin Beiber or even Captain America can solve the problem, lol?<br />
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<b>The Need for God and Love in this World</b><br />
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Is it not true that the America we once knew has put emphasis to God's role in helping shape this nation since the time it gained its independence from England on July 4, 1776? That was the time when the first President of the United States in General George Washington was head of government. <br />
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And up until the US constitution was amended by secularists who were convinced that America should be a secular state instead or a godless state on November 2004, when second term President George W. Bush was elected in November 2, 2004, did we see the word 'God' removed in the US Constitution and on the Preamble, as an effect of approved amendments.<br />
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During the term of the greatly loved, God fearing US President Ronald Reagan, we saw him turn the US economy around in mid 1980's despite gargantuan challenges in his term. <br />
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After his term, however, many of its people have sadly and slowly slipped from ever thinking about God or to even thank God for the many blessings that the Almighty has granted this nation blessed with great talents, and rich in God's love and favor, and for a great many years some looked up to the US as the new Israel with many migrating to this 'land flowing with milk and honey.'<br />
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Indeed in 2004, we have seen that in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preamble_to_the_United_States_Constitution"><i>American preamble, there is no mention of God in it anymore</i></a>? <br />
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While I see America embracing all kinds of culture and diversities in its existence as a freedom loving nation, this is all good as it is in God's words to love one another and to exercise our own 'free will' in this life, within the given limits and bounds of the laws of the land in the attainment of due peace and order as we are bound by the laws of man through its duly formed and approved constitution and legal principles of rights and justice.<br />
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But don't you think too much freedom can really be dangerous?<br />
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And come to think of it, how can America, the home of the brave and the strong, ever find its way out from its own mess with possible miracles from God when many have gone astray and have not seen the essence of obedience to God much as it has seen wealth, power and material things to lead its path?<br />
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If we were to look it up in the Holy Bible, God has made it clear when He said we can only choose one master, and it is either God or Mammon (evil, material, money, sins of lust or pride). <br />
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Sadly, America and much part of the world have turned to Mammon or evil in this life. Evil has now crept into the windmills of American minds, and so with most of the world.<br />
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If we have seen America rise to greatness and believe that it is the hands of God that has brought America to where it is right now, is it not proper to give God the honor due Him, and see Him heal this seemingly lost nation and its people who are full of hope and promise of what opportunities may lie ahead?<br />
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In Malachi 3:8-10, God admonishes us to trust in Him and give Him what is due, a 10th of our income in tithes, through His church, the poor and the needy, aside from our family and community, and he will bless us abundantly. <br />
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“Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me.<br />
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“But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’<br />
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“In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it."<br />
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Enriching ourselves selfishly is contrary to God's commandments in Christ, as it is contrary to a government's concern on its main obligation to satisfy the needs of its people.<br />
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We cannot close our eyes from the lessons of the past, on how God has kept His covenant of love with His people, that He has always been forgiving as we have in Him a God who is 'slow to anger,' but when He is pushed to the limit, He shows his wrath just to remind us His words are true, and we need to believe and follow His lead. <br />
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We cannot continuously deny the truth in God's words and the truth of His existence through miracles and wonders He has shown us and with what we see around us including the great technology that we now enjoy with all these making our life easier, implanted in the minds of a select few to become instruments of His love for us, the many apparitions of our Blessed Mother calling us time and again that we may be guided by the light of her Son in Jesus, and the Holy Spirit's ever magnifying presence in those who have opened their hearts to believe in Christ's love and divine mercy.<br />
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What more can we ask for as we still remain blind from all this love that God has shown us? Did we or are we now heeding his call for renewal and conversion?<br />
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Blessed are those who continue to thank and glorify God for the gifts and blessings they receive while using their God given talents, as I continue to pray for those who are still lost and confused in this world that they may open their hearts and spirit to God, through His Son Jesus Christ, and celebrate this life in his goodness as they come to realize how important God's gifts in them are that these may be used for the love of many, especially for those who are in need. <br />
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As in <i>Matthew 5:3, </i>Jesus said, <i>"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." </i> And in <i>Matthew 5:8</i>, he said, <i>"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."</i><br />
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[Read further on our related post: <i><a href="http://edwinoel.typepad.com/blog/2011/08/commentary-on-guidance-love-and-saint-paul-love-of-god-and-self-pity.html">"Commentary on - 'Love' by Saint Paul, Love of God and Self-Pity" on TypePad.com</a></i> with related links on knowing more about God, his message in these times and the essence of 'love' in this life.]<br />
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God knows everything as He is all knowing. And in this short and limited life we are allowed to live on this worldly planet, we are being tried and tested by our Creator how well we receive and abide by His commandments, and how well we understand and live in accordance to the truth in His words.<br />
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In Near Death Experiences or NDE's, some doctors and scientists attending to people who claimed to have seen a bright light and deceased people whom they recognized as their love ones during the given time they were known to be clinically or brain dead, have concluded that there is consciousness of the spirit in such instances. <br />
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Some have claimed to have seen Jesus or a similar image of him. Some claimed to have heard God and have been engulfed by an inexplicable joy, love and happiness in a body of radiant light. Some have vividly given an account of what they have seen and heard during their NDE, duly confirmed by people around them on given instances.<br />
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Is this not a proof of the truth in afterlife and in the consciousness of the spirit after the death of our body?<br />
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While Jesus has made clear that his next coming is on the Last Judgment, he also has said, in <i>Matthew 19:26, "... with God, all things are possible." </i>And Christ Jesus, being God made man, can make his presence felt to people who have learned to accept him, through the Holy Spirit, and who may be needing enlightenment, through our prayers, anytime and in anyway as he so wills it, and in all these, God's love for man is made manifest in our faith as we learn and chose to live in God's grace.<br />
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[Read more on NDE via inside links on: <i><a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2011/07/commentary-on-jesus-saves-via.html"> "...'Jesus Saves' via Christaninsal Over-blog.com, on NDE, Mama Mary and the Saints."</a></i>]<br />
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In many recorded apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mother with miracles of healing, conversion and enlightenment attributed to these, and while praying through Christ's intercessors in saints and the blessed, yet, deceased people, many learned and respected individuals in society have remained baffled by these events.<br />
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While many die of deadly illnesses, we see enlightened doctors and scientists who find natural complements and medications worthy of their time and efforts while doing meaningful researches. Many of them have seen more success ratings on similar cures achieved, compared to highly and technologically advanced gadgets and forms of modern therapies and medications.<br />
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Many honest inventors and innovators with selfless desires to help man in his plight against poverty, pollution, rising cost of power, oil and other commodities and services, have been emboldened to pursue their worthy efforts to help the poor, hapless individuals and the downtrodden who have very limited resources, education and other material capacities to keep up surviving in a morally sick and wealth driven economy. <br />
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Are these not indications of God's hands moving us towards Him through those who have seen the light?<br />
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If many people see the separation of the church and the state as ideal, there should be no qualms on that as God wants man to be obedient to the laws of the land and to pay our taxes, so long as they are for the good of man and help provide for the needs of man. <br />
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As Christ has said, in <i>Luke 20:25, "Then give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."</i><br />
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However, God has created man to be of help to man, irregardless of what race or nationality, what culture or religion, or what economic, political or philosophical belief; and that man use all of God given resources for the love of others, not for the love of one or a selected few.<br />
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Jesus Christ has always been for the poor and the marginalized, and has always admonished us through the church to help these brothers of ours, in that they may have a better quality of life, and in so doing that we may be blessed. <br />
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Christ also reminds us not to lose our soul by clinging to what is worldly or evil, as he is more concerned of our spirit, which has a greater influence on our body and on the way we carry ourselves in society. <br />
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If only our government leaders and politicians on post realize how instrumental and important their roles are as catalysts of God's plan for us in this life, they should find it their responsibility to lead man towards love of neighbors as it is in this high ideal that man accepts the truth in God's commandment through Christ, who has been sent by God to truly save mankind from destruction and evil in this world.<br />
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May we learn to use material things to glorify God, not the other way around where we become enslaved by material things wherein we become more like robots or puppets of our own creation, lost and confused as to how we can get out from an entrapment of our own making as we seek more satisfaction for things that cannot can never satisfy us in full, as we crave for something higher with our pride and vanity getting the better of us, until we realize how foolish we have been wasting our life for something that will never last, and things that we cannot bring along when we come to pass.<br />
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[Watch this 'cool' and meaningful music video: <a href="http://youtu.be/nDOPNLzEFH0"> "World Order" which reminds us how we may react like robots or puppets</a> as we allow ourselves to be ruled by our insatiable worldly vices.]<br />
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Have you not noticed how fast technology has improved, how new things have kept man overwhelmed and how fast time has passed, and yet, in one blink of an eye, how man has been humbled with the downfall of a business giant, the crashing of the stock market, unexplained solutions to the foreseen threat of global warming, the violence and bloodshed among brothers in the east, the death or fall of a dictator, the difficulty in controlling a devastating tsunami, earthquake, hurricane, an oil spill or a series of powerful tornadoes, the explosive eruption of an angry volcano, and many more series of unusual events seen right before our very eyes, and recently, the discovery of a mysterious dwarf star, named <i><a href="http://youtu.be/MqV0StQbJQs">Elenin, which, for a while, other observers found it to appear like a controlled object with an unpredictable movement</a></i>. <br />
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Others say it does not look like a mere comet as some in NASA may have described it. And according to some analysts, it may be the one causing earthquakes and other natural calamities around world as it draws nearer to the earth in between the sun, and the YouTube video contributor even estimated this to happen somewhere September 26 and 27 this year, when there may be an expected polar shift as Elenin wrestles with the sun with its own gravitational pull, and may spell chaos and destruction.<br />
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Apparently, NASA has announced in August 2011 (on this link by <i><a href="http://news.discovery.com/space/comet-elenin-wont-kill-us-says-nasa-110817.html">Ian O'Neill on August 17, 2011, "Comet Elenin Won't Kill Us Says Nasa,"</a>)</i> that there is nothing to worry about Elenin as it is far too small to becoming a real threat to our planet.<br />
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While Elenin, as described by NASA to be of no threat to us, this may have awakened many to the truth in the words of God about the importance of loving one another that we may have eternal life in us, and that we may always seek guidance and see redemption in the light of Christ as we shun from evil.<br />
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And that anytime, we may be ready to face our Creator when 'rapture' comes, and as in <i>Mark 13:32</i>, Jesus said to his disciples, <i>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001320; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone."</span> </i><br />
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Let there be no mistake about it, that God moves in mysterious ways, and no human wisdom or human intelligence can ever fathom, for<i> "He is our great and ever loving God, from whom all good things come."</i><br />
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We may always relate calamities, disorder, violence and chaos all over the world to chastisement and retribution as what has been proclaimed in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation" style="font-style: italic;">book of Revelation</a><i>. </i>But the most important question that we may nee need to always ask ourselves is, <i>"Are ready in both body and spirit?"</i><br />
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Even in the <i><a href="http://www.tldm.org/news6/thirdsecret.htm">Third Secret Message of Fatima from Christ Jesus as revealed to Sister Lucy by the Blessed Mother</a></i>, a greater punishment is to be expected if Jesus' call for prayer, atonement and sacrifice will be left unheeded. And with so much evil going on the the world and in the church, Satan is seen to be working doubly hard as he knows he is running short of time. <br />
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In<i> Revelation 16:15</i>, St. John wrote of God Almighty’s message to all men, <i>“Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed.”</i><br />
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God in Christ Jesus has been calling on us for repentance, renewal and conversion that we may lead others to see his light. And we pray that God may save us from the perils and threats towards chastisement. <br />
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In <i>Matthew 16:25-26</i>, he tells his disciples, <i>“For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?”</i><br />
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Jesus also reminds us in <i>Matthew 19:23</i>, as he tells his apostles, <i>“I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” </i><br />
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In <i>Matthew 23:11-12</i>, Jesus Christ said to the crowd with his disciples, <i>"The greatest among you will be your servant. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."</i><br />
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Is it not true that when we die we are humbled, not matter how rich, famous or powerful we may have been in our lifetime, whether we like it or not, our decaying body will be like the dust of the earth that will be trampled upon by all kinds of creatures and living organisms at any given time.<br />
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Whence, we shall be judged not only by God, but by people who have known us, who would either pray for us that our souls may be forgiven and accepted by our Heavenly Creator, or to deserve the fires of Hell, as you have lived a life with no forgiveness in your heart, nor has even asked forgiveness, arrogant, proud, conceited and uncaring, selfish or lacking in the love of others, full of malice, deceit and untruthfulness, no respect to life, too judgmental against others as not to recognize or accept his own faults with no guilt or remorse for any wrong doing, and enjoy the lavish of power, wealth, and all other sins of lust that the evil one finds delight with, yet, never lasts.<br />
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God calls on us to cleanse our body and our souls as early in this life, as <i><a href="http://www.cfpeople.org/apologetics/page51a013.html">Saint Catherine of Genoa</a>,who has received this divine revelation in her lifetime,</i> calls it as Purgatory or cleansing oneself while living in this life, compared to the Purgatory after death where we are cleansed with two rays of light from God that purify our souls and destroy all our sins before being totally cleansed and worthy to enter the gates of heaven, for those who have lived and renewed themselves in Christ and are already free from guilt as they have fully been forgiven for all their worldly sins including malice towards others before their death, that we may bring our family and our love ones together to be one with Christ and in Christ, and lead others as well to his light, and gain that elusive entry into God's Heavenly Kingdom.<br />
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[Read more on our post: <i><a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2011/08/truth-in-purgatory-as-in-vision-of.html">"The Truth in Purgatory as in the Vision of Saint Catherine of Genoa," </a></i>and see its relevance in our life as it intends to enlighten.]<br />
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In <i>John 20:23</i>, Jesus said to his disciples, <i>“If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."</i><br />
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While the US has not been stingy in sharing its vast wealth and technology to the world by: enhancing its role as the policeman of the world against abusive tyrants and dictators in the name of freedom, justice and democracy; providing material and manpower assistance to countries devastated by natural and man induced calamities; and by sharing its advanced technology and know-how for greater efficiency and productivity to countries that need it most, it has, nevertheless, fallen short of providing lasting peace in the Middle East and has become suspect to promoting its own national and global interests. <br />
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In fairness to the US, however, let us not close our eyes to the many people and countries it has helped, influenced and inspired in the fight for freedom, justice and democracy. Many more are in line, but is war with violence and death to many the real answer as we seek true and lasting peace? <br />
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Or would it just be a vicious cycle that will keep on recurring because of culture, or a never ending peace with vengeance, sins of lust, pride and selfishness that runs and rules the mind, and with a distorted definition of love without forgiveness in one's heart?<br />
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Through Jesus' Christ's teachings may we gain wisdom, and through humility, we may find and gain respect and honor.<br />
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It is in accepting our faults and differences and our willingness to change and be renewed in Christ that we are made whole. And it is in humility that we find strength.<br />
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As in<i> Proverbs 15:33</i>, <i>"The fear of the Lord teaches a man wisdom, and humility comes before honor." </i><br />
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Living this life in accordance to how Christ wants us to live can make our life more peaceful, orderly and joyful, as he wants us to experience how beautiful living in heaven is while on earth, with a life full of love for others, and where the love of God abounds as He lives in us.<br />
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In <i>John 6:47 and 51</i>,<i> “I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life … I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” </i><br />
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After successfully driving away a demon from a mute person who eventually spoke miraculously as he was healed, in <i>Luke 11:23 </i>Jesus said to the crowd who witnessed this, <i>“He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me, scatters.”</i><br />
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God wants us to give importance to His words and commandments, and putting Him at the center of our lives through Christ His Son, will be more pleasing to Him.<br />
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<i>“I and the father are one,”</i> said Jesus in <i>John 14: 11-14</i>, and he added,<i> “Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me… I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.”</i><br />
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In Psalm 95:8-11, it states, <i>“Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah (means quarreling), as you did that day at Massah (means testing) in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried me, though they had seen what I did. For forty years I was angry with that generation. I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.” So I declared an oath in my anger, “They shall never enter my rest.”</i><br />
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In <i>Numbers 14:18, “God is slow to anger, abounding in love.”</i> But when his wrath comes in disobedience, many people perish.<br />
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In <i>Matthew 14:22-33,</i> Jesus was seen walking on a stormy sea by his disciples. They were terrified momentarily thinking that they have seen a ghost. When Jesus identified himself, Peter, as the leader noting to be recognized, asked Jesus if he could come to him. Jesus called him to come and he did. He was already walking on the water when strong winds frightened him and he began to sink, for he cannot swim. He frantically asked help from Jesus. Wherefore, Jesus grabbed him by the hand as said, <i>"You of little faith, why did you doubt?"</i><br />
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Christ calls on us to fully trust in him and not to be carried away by power, wealth, sins of lust and of pride as these will deprive us of true happiness. We may never find lasting satisfaction in all things that are temporary in this life. <br />
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Rather, is it not in sharing our love with others or anything that is good given from deep within our hearts that we find true satisfaction?<br />
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In <a href="http://christianpf.com/5-bible-verses-about-money-every-christian-should-know/"><i>Acts 20:35</i>,<i> in the words of our Lord Jesus himself, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."</i> </a> The more we share our love with others, in any form, be is in prayers, in thought or in praise, or be it anything material, the more we are blessed. <br />
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And we may as well wake up to reality and ask, "Can we bring any of our belongings when we die?"<br />
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We may live up to 40, 70, or a 100 years but do we ever realize how the evil one has made a fool of us as he has kept us lured and enslaved by material things?<br />
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How important is it to live more than a 100 years when we can choose to live for eternity in Christ? <br />
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Whether we like it or not we will have to face death some time, and when we do, is it now wiser to prepare for eternal life instead of enriching ourselves yet cannot enjoy all these when we die, while forgetting and forsaking our poor or sick brothers who are in need of help or comfort?<br />
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What is the use of working so hard expending our blood, sweat and tears for a future nobody knows for certain? Or would we rather prepare our soul for eternal life than compromise it and suffer in hell?<br />
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Do we want to keep our life meaningful with God guiding us, or meaningless with things that can never give us true satisfaction? Is not a meaningless life comparable to a bubble that pops outs into nothingness in just a matter of time and disappears into oblivion?<br />
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When we die, is it not from dust we came, to dust we shall return?<br />
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For whatever God has created, only God has the right to take away. Does this not, therefore, makes us mere administrators of material things in this life and not as true owners, and all we have is a borrowed life?<br />
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Medals, trophies, paintings, cars, mansions, houses, certificates of ownership. bank accounts, investments, savings and other treasures that we keep in our life, will all these matter when we die if we have not lived to love others? <br />
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Or would these matter more if we have shared all these selflessly for the love of others, feeling so light and happy as we see tears of joy in between hugs of loving, giving and forgiving?<br />
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As in the bible, the book Ecclesiastes reminds us that everything in life is meaningless, but not until we learn to understand the wisdom of God and strive to become mature in spirit that we learn to<i> “fear God and keep His commandments, which is the duty of man,” (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)</i>, whence, shall God <i>“bring indeed every deed into judgment, including every hidden things, whether it is good or evil.” </i><br />
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<i>2 Corinthians 10:3-5</i> exhorts us in St. Paul,<i> “For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”</i><br />
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Looking back in history, have we not seen how many powerful people and a great many nations that have been toppled down from power and humbled as they turned to materialism instead of obeying Christ's words in loving one another?<br />
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Is this not true for individuals and families, where those who refuse to do what is good find more trouble living by themselves or with their love ones?<br />
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In <i>1 Corinthians 1:19,</i> Saint Paul states, <i>"For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."</i><br />
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God moves in mysterious ways and He knows every move we make as we cannot hide anything from Him. He is Omnipotent as He is Omniscient, He is Immortal and Ever-Knowing as He is Everlasting for He has created everything. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.<br />
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In<i> Matthew 10:26-42, </i>Christ assured his disciples not to be afraid of people who hate them because of him as he said, <i>“So do not be afraid of them, there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be known. What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.</i><br />
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<i>“Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.</i><br />
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<i>“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn</i><br />
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<i> a man’s enemies will be the member of his own household.’</i><br />
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<i>“Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.</i><br />
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<i>“He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives the One who sent me. Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and anyone who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward. And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward.”</i><br />
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May we be enlightened by God's words and pray that within our hearts and spirit we may better understand the true meaning in every verse of the holy scriptures in the Holy Bible. And with the guidance<br />
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In <i>James 1:6-8</i>, Saint James reminds us not to doubt the wisdom in God's words,<i> "But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is just like the wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind; That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double minded-man, unstable in all he does."</i><br />
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And with regards to his teachings, Jesus made it clear to his disciples in <i>Matthew 24:35</i>, as he said, <i>"Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away."</i><br />
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<b>To America, a Call for Redemption </b><br />
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America, I can feel it through the Holy Spirit, that you are being called by God to listen to His words of truth, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, that you and your people may be saved ... and the whole world may follow.<br />
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We pray that President Obama, all the leaders and people of this great nation, and other nations of the world heed God's call for redemption towards humility and obedience to God's will in Christ by showing their concern for others as opposed to being enslaved by material things. <br />
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And in so doing, save man from the clutches of further destruction due to the evils of materialism, havoc and chaos from greed, and the pitfalls of false beliefs that show no reverence to love and life, the latter being the very same essence that give meaning to Christ's words, therefore, to be addressed with due respect and honor.<br />
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God is calling upon us to use material things to prosper God's love through the love of others, and be selfless in our efforts to redeem this beautiful land and this beautiful planet as a whole that God has given us.<br />
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As we are in pursuit of true peace and happiness, only in Christ, in following and believing his words<br />
and trusting in him, will we be able to attain this goal, guided by his love, mercy and power over all evil.<br />
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And with him, we are saved.<br />
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As in <i>Matthew 6:33</i>, Jesus tells his disciples, <i>"... seek first His (God’s) kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." </i><br />
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And never again shall we use material things to benefit evil, rather, use material things to glorify our Lord Jesus Christ, in whose words we see the light as he<i><a href="http://scripturetext.com/john/14-6.htm"> "the way, the truth and the life," as in John 14:6.</a></i><br />
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America, let us all be unified as a nation, concerned of this nation's survival and existence.<br />
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It is in heeding God's call for redemption that we can truly heal our land, and this goes beyond redeeming America from its ever growing debt burden and other material woes, as we try to address the root cause which is man's greatest folly, that of idolatry towards 'excessive materialism' and towards sins of lust, pride and power ... leading to Mammon.<br />
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As man has been created in the image and likeness of God, the body with life in it has become the temple of God.<br />
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The focal point of the attack from the evil one is the body of man. Once weak in its faith in Christ, the body succumbs to sins of lust, love of fame, wealth, power and false glory as all these lead to emptiness and the lies of evil.<br />
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Pride, vanity and selfishness then drives man to hatred at the slightest provocation, that leads him to retaliation and vengeance. If uncontrolled, may lead to violence and other disorderly behavior, which often times can be compared to childish and immature reactions. <br />
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With love that is of Christ, we die to our 'self' as we become humble and obedient to God as we start to find happiness serving others by showing our concern for all men, and this is what the evil one fears. <br />
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The evil spirit wants us to be subservient to his evil ways and be controlled by its chains of malice, lies and deception, hatred, vengeance and non-forgiveness that continue to rule in evil people's hearts.<br />
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Unfortunately, the evil one has been successful so far in confusing man as to the true meaning of its scheme, purposely distorting it to satisfy its purpose of justifying its evil plans to rule the earth as many who are weak in their faith are swayed to this belief, resulting in the death of many, and the others completely lost as they have been deceived into accepting false beliefs of love which in reality, promotes hate, deception and violence mainly intended to divide rather than unite, create trouble rather than bring peace, sow terror and anger rather than promote love and forgiveness.<br />
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Let this evil unmask itself and see him by its evil ways, with no reverence to life and no respect to love that is pure, true and unconditional. <br />
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In truth, it is the opposite of love that is merciful, forgiving and understanding as described in the Gospel of Saint Paul, and this is the love in Christ which is love of others.<br />
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Be not afraid of the evil one when you are with Christ and in Christ, because by the mere mention of Jesus, His Holy Name, the evil one scampers away in fear for he is the 'King of Kings' and the 'Lord of Lords.'<br />
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And for those who have been deceived, the need for guidance and enlightenment through love and peace in the light of Christ as we may proclaim the truth that they all be redeemed, renewed and saved to becoming true servants and true followers as men in Christ.<br />
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Let no evil come to prey on America's people and the rest of the world who may see and embrace the light, as they shall all be guided in Christ and with Christ. <br />
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All shall be exhorted to overcome all temptations to do evil, create havoc, disorder, confusion. destruction, or riots as what is happening now in the UK, Greece and in the Middle East. May the love of Christ prevail that peace may reign in their hearts.<br />
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And standing as one, together in nation building through God and in Christ, we shall see us rise beyond debt and evil, seeing God through Christ, lifting us up to redemption as we maintain our focus onto supporting and enhancing ways that may prosper our faith, which in reality goes beyond our economy, using all of our efforts and resources including nature which comes free from our Creator as needed, bleed if we may, sacrifice and contribute materially, physically and spiritually, as this warfare is now beyond physical, in accordance to our individual capacity while maintaining freedom, truth, peace, justice and equality for all, until we see this nation once again rise from the clutches of evil, and into the palm of God Almighty, whom our forefathers have long honored, revered and worshiped, hence made this land great and wonderful, where His Son in Jesus, the great Savior and Messiah, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, shall dominantly reign from among all of creation. <br />
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Now is the time to repay God's kindness in Jesus by offering all the love that we can give, all the love that we can share to America, this great nation that we love, and in this, that we all may be healed and be blessed by our Almighty God and Father, who lives and reigns forever.<br />
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And that we may be guided to profit not for material and selfish gains, rather to profit in both body and spirit, in our love for our family, in our love for others, and yes, in our love for this great and wonderful nation in Christ Jesus, and be it so too for the love of all people of God around the world.<br />
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We may have seen similar bleeding made in Thailand, Japan, South Korea, in the UK, Australia, Russia, Germany, the Philippines, and other parts of the world, as we have likewise seen in the US during the civil war and during the two World Wars, when all of these countries have responded to the unseen hands of God through Christ, towards unity and self-sacrifice into productive nation building brought about by that resounding call from their spirit to love one another.<br />
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Truly, each time, these life changing exercises have ignited a magnanimous response from among the peoples which resulted in awesome economic recoveries in miraculous proportions beating all odds.<br />
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While not all have been Christians, all have responded, nevertheless, with the same kind of 'unconditional love' that Christ has taught us. And in all these, it was the hands of God, with the love and mercy in Christ Jesus, which made possible the humbling of men for 'love of country and people.'<br />
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The ball is on us, America, to show our full trust in our Lord Jesus Christ and our love for one another that we may see this country prosper in the light of Christ.<br />
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That anyone who believes in this exercise of love in Christ, may also live in Christ. The burden of choice, however, lies solely on the people's will as a healthy exercise of their own 'free will.'<br />
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As in <i>Matthew 19:26, "With God, all things are possible."</i><br />
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In <i>2 Peter 3:1-18</i>, Saint Peter, the Rock, on whom Christ started building his church, writes about the Last Judgment as the <i>“Day of the Lord,”</i> that we may further see the truth in Christ,<i> “Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.</i><br />
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<i>"First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.</i><br />
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<i>"But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.</i><br />
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<i>"But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.</i><br />
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<i>"Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by the fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.</i><br />
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<i>"So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.</i><br />
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<i>"Therefore, dear friends, since you already know this, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your secure position. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.”</i><br />
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In <i>Romans 6:19-23</i>, Saint Paul admonished the former slaves now set free, <i>“I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."</i><br />
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From the <i>Book of Ezekiel 18:3-32</i>, it is written,<i> “Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each one according to his ways, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!”</i><br />
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Let us wake up to truth that no material things last, and all material things can only give us temporary happiness, and when we die, it is our spirit that lives. We live to satisfy God by following Christ, and not the evil one who enslave us to sin as we fall from his trap and deception, which brings us to the love of material things, to veer us away from God and keep us away from true peace and happiness, the latter being made whole by sharing our love and our concern for others, and our show of mercy and forgiveness to our neighbors.<br />
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With God, who has the sole power to destroy the spirit, as in Matthew 10:28, as we learn to live in Christ in our love for others as against selfish gains and greed, our spirit continues to live as we are saved in Christ through faith and good deeds, and as we live in his grace, and so may we live in eternal and heavenly bliss with Christ Jesus standing by our side in atonement of our sins before our Heavenly Father.<br />
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And in all these, all those who believe and live in Christ Jesus, may see the light, in the USA, together with those in the whole wide world and its peoples, may be redeemed from the clutches of evil and darkness, that all may be renewed to be one in God's love, hope, mercy and forgiveness, and that they who may be renewed may help change the rest of the world, as they may see the goodness in sharing the light of Christ to the whole world, and that in all these, God may be glorified.<br />
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Listening to God's words and reflecting on them as we pray for continued guidance in the Holy Spirit make us better understand His wisdom in Christ Jesus.<br />
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In <i>John 2:22-23</i>, as it is written,<i> “Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus in the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist – he denies the Father and the Son. No one denies the Son and the Father. Whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.”</i><br />
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Reading on our above post link, there has been so much hype on "Same Sex Marriage" and now it is endangering our closely guarded freedom through the "Defense of Marriage Act," and we take from Christ's words that it should be protected, otherwise, we may only be inviting more temptations into our lives promoting the sins of lust. <br />
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And if we are here to protect more lives and prevent more suicides out of disillusionment, despair, depression and depravity, are we not adding more by promoting "same-sex marriage," and further confusion and hatred in this world as we encourage self-pity rather than true love of others if we promote sins of lust? Or would opening one's heart and spirit to Christ for physical (that is, both mind and body) and spiritual healing help and provide a better solution?<br />
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Is the "pursuit of freedom and happiness" the right of the few endangering the right of the many then justifiable?<br />
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[Please read further with truth on God's words on: <i><a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2011/06/love-and-saint-paul-as-against-self.html"> "'Love' and Saint Paul, Love of God and Self-Pity"</a></i>] <br />
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Any action that may create economic activity is not necessarily for the common good or is it?<br />
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Porno magazines, X-Rated DVD's and other pornographic materials, Gay Bars, Prostitution Dens and the like, are these promoting good values that will prosper community building or will these only help destroy relationships and families and continue to eat into the moral fiber of society?<br />
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God does not want us to rush in our judgments like our great great grandparents in Adam and Eve did when they ate the forbidden fruit, rather, weigh them carefully before getting into activities that promote sins of lust, while reflecting on the truth in His words through His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, our True Redeemer and Messiah. <br />
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Think of the ill effects of such activities on our family. Asking ourselves what if these happen to our love ones? Do we have the moral authority to tell them and enlighten them to what is wrong when we ourselves are doing or tolerating what is sinful or lustful?<br />
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Have we not noticed how evil things we may have been doing in the past gets back to us through our love ones? <br />
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Many times, it is always better to refrain from what is forbidden by God than regret the consequences later on.<br />
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God knows everything that happens around us, and He 'will repay' what is due to evil doers. And repayment may be as fast as it may happen while we spend our life here on earth, or, it may happen in the afterlife, when we will be called for <i><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/retribution">retribution</a></i> on the day of judgment.<br />
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In <i>Romans 12:17-19</i>, Saint Paul reminds the many of words of God, <i>"Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eye of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘it is mine to avenge, I will repay, ' says the Lord."</i><br />
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And in <i>Psalm 95:8-11</i>, it states, <i>“Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah (means quarreling), as you did that day at Massah (means testing) in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried me, though they had seen what I did. For forty years I was angry with that generation. I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.” So I declared an oath in my anger, “They shall never enter my rest.”</i><br />
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While God in Christ Jesus wants us to love our neighbors, we have a responsibility to abide by his words of truth, as we can only boast of his words and be guided by his words as in <i>1 Corinthians 1:17-31.</i><br />
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Further, in<i> 1 Corinthians 2:4-5</i>, St. Paul says in all humility, devoid of eloquence or superior wisdom, but with love and in truth in the spirit and with the crucified Christ, <i>“My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.”</i><br />
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And writing about the <i>‘Wisdom of the Spirit,’</i> St. Paul states in <i>1 Corinthians 2:6-16, “We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written:</i><br />
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<i> "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him…”</i><br />
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<i> "The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught but the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment:</i><br />
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<i> "For who has knows the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?”</i><br />
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<i> "But we have the mind of Christ.”</i><br />
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On God’s temple in us and the power of humility with no malice towards anyone as against bickering and hatred brought about by divisiveness, <i>St. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 3:16-23. “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple.</i><br />
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<i> "Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a “fool” so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.” And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.” So then, no more boasting about men! All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Caphas or the world or life or death or the present or the future – all are yours, and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.”</i><br />
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Anyone who sins in lust and promotes this sin or any other sin is not a follower of Christ but one who denies Christ and follows evil. How can one live in peace if he denies Christ?<br />
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[Read more about denying Christ on: <i><a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2011/07/commentary-on-what-does-bible-say-about.html"> "... What Does the Bible Say About Tattoos and True Peace in Christ Jesus</a></i>]<br />
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<i>2 Corinthians 10:3-5</i> exhorts us in St. Paul, <i>“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”</i><br />
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<i>Romans 6:11-14</i> St. Paul states,<i> “In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.”</i><br />
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May we find our faith going stronger as we become witness to Christ’s teachings in our own homes as we continue to pray and ask for his blessings, his guidance and protection to keep our family intact and safe from the evil one with the love of Jesus in our hearts. <br />
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[Read on our related post: <i><a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/08/in-support-of-pro-family-groups-stand.html"> "In Support of Pro-Family Group Stands Against Allowing Same-Sex Marriage."</a></i>]<br />
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Here is my honest belief and commentary on above post linked from Over-blog.com as I continue to pray for our guidance and enlightenment through the Holy Spirit. My purpose in this blog is not to malign or condemn anybody, rather, to be an instrument of the truth in God's words in my own expression of my love and concern for others, as one having seen the light, that they too may see the light of Christ with the message of unity among men towards love and forgiveness, irregardless of one's religious, political, philosophical or ideological inclination and to willingly share it with others, among members of their community and with the rest of the world.<br />
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[Read as subject of commentary: <i><a href="http://christianinsa1.over-blog.com/">"'Jesus Saves' via Christianinsal.over-blog.com."</a></i>]<br />
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<b>Mama Mary and the Saints</b><br />
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I so too believe that the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessed_Virgin_Mary_(Roman_Catholic)">Blessed Virgin Mother is the Mother of Christ</a></i> as presented in the scriptures.<br />
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A deeper meaning comes, that she is the Main Vessel of the Holy Spirit, best explained on the<a href="https://guidancehealthentertainment.wordpress.com/2015/05/04/jesus-is-real-an-attestation-to-the-truth-and-divine-logic-and-seeing-jesus-in-magnificence/"> 'tool of salvation' on e-book inspired by the Holy Spirit, "Jesus is Real - An Attestation to the Truth ..."</a><br />
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She loves us so much as she has loved Jesus, her Son, who is the Son of God.<br />
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As Catholics, we honor Mama Mary as such as she has become the chosen one of God who would bear His Son, with the Angel Gabriel himself being sent by our Heavenly Father to give meaning to this great and joyful revelation, just as Jesus has been the chosen One of God to be the Son.<br />
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While the Blessed Virgin Mother has been so honored, just like many other saints who have lived with Christ and in Christ, contrary to what others insist that they are being worshiped when they are not, rather accept them as well loved intercessors to Christ Jesus, with the power of the Holy Spirit extended to them as they have all become one with Christ, and Christ is still, the one and only "Mediatrix of All."<br />
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Mama Mary was born 'sinless,' as her nephew, John the Baptist's parents, Zechariah and Elizabeth were also righteous and 'blameless' before God as in<i><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/1-6.htm"> Luke 1:6</a>. </i>Mary was 'favored in fullness of God's grace' being 'with the Lord,' as in<i><a href="http://bible.cc/luke/1-28.htm"> Luke 1:28</a></i>. Nobody was worthy except her to become the mother of God in Jesus as this has been God's plan for her among all elect even before creation, that Jesus' victorious death and resurrection may be fulfilled. This special role is indeed worthy of great praise and thanksgiving as we are blessed in her holy presence ever guiding us towards the love of her Son, Jesus, as all the others saints, whether physically present or not in this life, have tirelessly and relentlessly continued to do so, inspiring us in our faith in Jesus.<br />
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It is no wonder that many miracles and apparitions have been credited and recorded to Mama Mary's name because of the love that she has shown for mankind and for those who believe in her Son, Jesus Christ, that their love for Jesus may grow. <br />
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If the love for Mama Mary can be so intense, it is because she personifies the ever loving mother we have in heaven, who from the beginning, has been ever faithful and obedient to our Heavenly Father, having been Divinely blessed and chosen by the love and grace of God, with a heart so pure and holy, living a life so simple, humble and true.<br />
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Will this not also true among the saints and beatified people, who, by their intense love of God in Jesus, have become instruments of the power of the Holy Spirit and have become vessels of God's love in Christ, with enormous miracles granted in their powerful intercession.<br />
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Let us not be divided by our faith in Jesus because some Christians insist that Mary is not to be worshiped which is a total misconception and is misleading as it is untrue and unverified. The Catholic Christian faith never teaches that the Blessed Virgin Mother and the saints are to be worshiped but honored.<br />
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Honoring the saints and Mama Mary should not mean we submit ourselves to the sin of idolatry, because the saints and Mama Mary are all instruments of the love of God in Jesus and they being intercessors, all point to Jesus through the Holy Spirit as the source of their power, love and blessedness.<br />
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Let us remember that Jesus does not want us divided in our faith, rather, to be ever strong, steadfast and united against all evil that continue to divide and deceive us to weaken our faith when divided, as we get confused and vulnerable through our pride and ego, through our self serving human intelligence which veers us from the truth in God's words in Jesus.<br />
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And when they are honored, it does not mean they are being worshiped through images made for them inside churches, rather, their spiritual bodies are honored and respected as in them is the true Temple of the Holy Spirit, as they remain pure and holy.<br />
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Yes, we do not have to kneel before statues and the Catholic Church also says this, but if some Catholic faithfuls want to kneel before images of Christ, Mama Mary and the saints, it is meant to worship God and glorify God, as we all know as true Christian believers, that Christ is the only way to the Father, and together with the Holy Spirit, he and God the Father are One.<br />
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This makes images as mere reminders of our faith, just as the crucifix is, not as statues or idols being worshiped or are ever to be worshiped.<br />
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I just hope and pray that no one puts malice in this practice as showing reverence and honor to Mama Mary and the saints can be expressed as humanly as possible and Christ, having lived among men, as the "word made flesh," can very much relate to this human expression of love of God through others.<br />
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And this too has been manifest in his<i><a href="http://www.bible-basics-layers-of-understanding.com/miracle-at-cana.html"> first miracle when he turned the jars of water into wine</a></i> at the prodding of his mother, Mama Mary, who meant nothing more than to provide life, joy and happiness in a great feast of love in itself, a wedding celebration in Cana. <br />
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And through Christ Jesus, the true Messiah, as God made into Man, following him and putting our full trust in him through his words of love and in the forgiveness of sins, we may be saved.<br />
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As in <i>1 John 2:1-6,</i> Saint John exhorts all men to walk with the light of Christ,<i> “My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense – Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.</i><br />
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<i>“We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. The many who says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly complete in him. This is how we know we are in him. Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.”</i><br />
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[Read on related hubpost designed to further enlighten us on our faith: <i><a href="http://edwinoeltanglao.hubpages.com/hub/Our-Spirit-May-Live-in-a-New-Body-Even-When-God-Calls-Us-as-We-May-Pass-from-this-Life-if-God-so-Wills"> Even in Death our Spirit Lives as we may Die in Christ, in God's Will, we Live</a></i>]<br />
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Many times, we too, or anyone who so believes, become faithful intercessors of Christ Jesus whenever we help pray for the needs of our brothers and sisters, and believing that Mama Mary and the saints can become more powerful intercessors for our petitions through the power of Christ and the Holy Spirit, this has further strengthened our faith in God as many of us have seen the fruits of this practice with the countless mind bungling miracles and blessings that have occured and continue to happen in this life, and many times, no ordinary human being or even the learned scholars or scientists can explain.<br />
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Will all these be welcomed with joy and happiness rather than with ridicule and speculation if it comes as a a message from God on the love of Christ Jesus especially to those who have learned to believe, that others too may see the truth in God's words?<br />
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For indeed, God moves in mysterious ways. And in all these, God is glorified.<br />
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[Read further on this related post: <i><a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resource.php?n=1001">"Graven Images: Altering the Commandments?" from CNA.com</a></i> for insights we may find helpful as we seek guidance with the truth in God's words.]<br />
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If kissing images is considered idolatrous, would kissing the picture of your mom, child, girlfriend, dad, wife, best friend or whoever you love be considered also idolatrous if God teaches us to show our love and concern for others, while keeping in mind that our love for God is never to be compromised because without Him we are nothing? <br />
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Would praying before God while in front of, or holding a picture of a love one we are praying for constitute idolatry? <br />
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Is asking for prayers through our family members and friends in our community be different from asking intercessory prayers from Mama Mary or the saints and the blessed yet holy people who are, nevertheless, deceased or departed?<br />
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<b>Love in Christ</b><br />
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In <i>Matthew 22:37-40</i>, Jesus said to the Pharisees in the presence of a crowd and his disciples on the question of what is the greatest commandment, <i>“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law of the Prophets hung on these two commandments.” </i><br />
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Are not the first four commandments in the<i><a href="http://www.the-ten-commandments.org/the-ten-commandments.html"> Ten Commandments </a></i>referring to the love of God, while the rest, to the love of others?<br />
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And as long as we acknowledge and believe in our deep love of God and of others, more than anything else in this world, we are saved in the light of Christ. <br />
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Let us always pray that we do not fall into the trap of deceiving ourselves from the truth implied by this powerful commandment of God in Christ which is the love of God and the love of our neighbors.<br />
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Let the true meaning of the scriptures find their way into our hearts through the Holy Spirit as we reflect on the truth that God made everything out of His everlasting "love' for man. <br />
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Being able to avoid sins of lust and the lures of power and wealth make us stronger in our faith as we allow the Holy Spirit to empower us, becoming stronger in protecting ourselves from being enslaved by things material which only make us weak in body and spirit as we become wordly.<br />
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Persevering in our faith, on the other hand, makes us whole with Christ and in Christ and no one can ever break that powerful bond in us.<br />
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If our great fore parents in Adam and Eve, the first man and woman created by God fell from sin because of eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of wisdom and knowledge, the apple representing material things, let us not fall too as an easy prey to the evil one by being overcome by our pride or by vanity and be carried away by human wisdom and intelligence that keep dividing us and tend to pull us away from the truth in the love of Christ Jesus, Our Lord and Savior.<br />
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We must fully understand why Jesus, the Son of God, suffered and died for us on the cross, precisely so with his words of truth and love, and in his death, resurrection and ascension into heaven, we too are saved from sin through the forgiveness of sins and the promise of eternal life for those who believe in him, have faith and follow him.<br />
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What we have lost through the sin of Adam and Eve, we have regained in Christ through the gift of life eternal.<br />
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<b>NDE or Near Death Experiences</b><br />
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Moving further, during the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfiguration_of_Jesus"> transfiguration in<i> Matthew 17:1-9</i></a>, did not the apostles Peter, James and John see Elijah and Moses, the latter two, despite their having already departed from this world, were seen talking with Jesus? If you believe in this, does this not reveal to us the truth in a living and conscious spirit even after our death?<br />
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It may interest you to note that in the presence of some doctors and learned experts in the medical world, after careful study and observation on some <a href="http://www.near-death.com/experiences/experts03.html" style="font-style: italic;">duly recorded near death experiences</a> or NDE, they have made baffling discoveries about the<i><a href="http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research08.html"> consciousness of the spirit</a>,</i> and as an example<i>, </i>despite a brain dead patient - a spirit that saw his own body as he drifted away from it, went from room to room near his own room, saw and heard conversations among people in those rooms before returning back to his own body. <br />
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And when he got up vividly recounting every detail of what he saw, heard and experienced, all the doctors and medical experts were amazed yet convinced of their conclusion about the consciousness of the spirit despite a brain dead person.<br />
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With the <i><a href="http://www.near-death.com/experiences/triggers13.html">consciousness of the spirit</a></i> away from its brain dead body, does this not give essence to prayers passed on to saints for intercession, where the power of love in prayers really matter? <br />
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Those who experienced NDE have claimed to have seen their deceased relatives and the consciousness in their spirit. <br />
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Will this not give credence to Catholic Christian beliefs of praying for the dearly departed that they may enjoy eternal bliss and happiness with God in heaven, and so they too can pray for us and return the favor? <br />
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No wonder I have felt protected too, and so with my family, with my brush with death in previous car accidents, mild heart attack and mild stroke, as I continue praying for my son who passed away just two days after birth, about whom I am always proud to claim we already have an angel in heaven, for my Dad who passed away at the age of 63, and for my many friends and relatives whom I pray for that our Heavenly Father grant them eternal peace in heaven.<br />
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<i>In Matthew 22:30</i>, Jesus said to the Sadducces who questioned him on marriage and resurrection, <i>“You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage, they will be like the angels in heaven. But about the resurrection of the dead – have you not read what God said to you? I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”</i><br />
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And being with Christ make us ‘like angels’ when we die, and like angels, we are no longer dead but living as one with God in life eternal, forever.<br />
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In Christ, we overcome death as we overcome the wages of sin which is death.<br />
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[Read our related post on the power of prayers: <i><a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/04/prayers-can-move-mountains.html"> "Prayers Can Move Mountains"</a></i>]<br />
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And going back to kissing pictures and holding pictures of our love ones in prayer, is this not just a show of human affection and physical attachment that we are prone to do for our love one, and not idolatry?<br />
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Do not sportsmen kiss their trophies or winners and champions in any kind of human activity of event do that too, but are they worth of our condemnation or judgement of being idolatrous? Is this not being merely human and purely a normal human reaction as we live in the realities of this life we need to savor the fruits also of our labor or arduous training to also give meaning to and celebrate God's gift of life?<br />
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Less we become overwhelmed, perhaps, that we forget that in all these, God needs to be glorified, including everything that we are blessed with in this life.<br />
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Isn't it so that because of God and with our God given talents we excel and prevail in activities we allow ourselves to be a part of? <br />
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Aren't we allowing the evil one prey on our weakness whenever we forget to honor God as due? Are all these including our talents not coming from God? If so, do we not allow ourselves to become a pawn of the devil whenever material things matter more than the One who created us all, our Heavenly Father?<br />
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While we respect other religions which do not believe in the Holy Trinity - ie, the worship of Three in One God namely, the God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit - we still pray for their conversion and enlightenment through the Holy Spirit that they too may see the light in Christ.<br />
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While I may obviously be biased in my faith, is it not Christianity which promotes love and respect to life, forgiveness of sins, belief in only One True God, freedom in the practice of other religion and respect to others' faith, promotes love of God more than love of worldly and material things, belief in one True Messiah in Jesus Christ, the only Begotten Son of God, and the amazing truth in his wonderful miracles of healing, driving out demons, calming the sea, raising the dead to life, great miracles performed out of faith in Jesus and those made in his name through the Blessed Mother, the saints and the faithfuls, the power and truth in his words and teachings on top of the many miracles performed by God the Father as recorded in Holy Bible as He has prepared man for the coming of His Son in Christ, our True Redeemer and Savior.<br />
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Indeed we are blessed with the saving grace in Christ Jesus.<br />
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Reading from our link on "<i><a href="http://www.divinemercysunday.com/vision.htm">'Vision of Hell'</a></i> as shown to <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Faustina_Kowalska">Sister Faustina Kowalska or Saint Faustina</a></i>, you will see how <i><a href="http://www.faustina.ch/index_en.htm">God revealed to Saint Faustina</a></i> the truth about Hell while guided and protected by an angel in the presence of angry devils so <i>"no soul may find an excuse by saying there is no Hell."</i><br />
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Reading through it, <i>do you not see how and why we already see Hell around us as we live this life, that with the absence of God in our life and the absence of love and the lack of it, we are rendered weak in health, fail in our relationships, and suffer in depression, sadness, loneliness, too much anxiety and fear, with some of us ending in hospitals, rehab centers, psychology clinics, mental hospitals, jails and in other God forbidden places?</i><br />
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Sister Faustina also mentioned, on top of the seven kinds of tortures, about<i> "the caverns and pits of torture where one form of agony differs from another," designed for particular souls depending on how they have sinned. </i><br />
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Even in the earlier recorded revelation of God to Saint Catherine of Genoa, in her divinely inspired writings on "The Treatise of Purgatory," I can see a relation of this revelation to that of Sister Faustina as they complement each other. <br />
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While Saint Catherine writes about the truth in Purgatory, Sister Faustina shares with us her vision about the tortures in Hell.<br />
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Saint Catherine tells in her biography that as early as in this life, she has learned to endure the pains of cleansing and the purification of her heart and spirit, dying to her 'self,' as she dedicated the latter part of her life in the love and service of others while caring for the sick. And for her, living in the love of Christ was incomparable as she was blessed with great and unexplained joy and happiness.<br />
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[Refer to our post on: <i><a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2011/08/truth-in-purgatory-as-in-vision-of.html">"The Truth in Purgatory as Seen in the Vision of Saint Catherine of Genoa"</a></i>] <br />
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In<i> Matthew 5:22</i>, Jesus said, <i>“But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool,’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.”</i><br />
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May we learn to avoid bigotry and hatred towards our misguided brothers, rather, peacefully guide them to Christ, less we wish to endanger ourselves into the fires of hell.<br />
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And in some NDE, there were some who mentioned of struggles or a downward pull to darkness before they saw the light, and as they prayed to God or Jesus, they were brought to the indescribable light of God and love. <br />
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Is not this a fitting revelation of how true God and Jesus is? And with God's mercy and forgiveness, we are given the chance to renew ourselves and be a light to others. <br />
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Anyone who had this NDE experience and having seen that bright awesome light - usually attributed to the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_Paul_the_Apostle"> <i>presence of the Holy Spirit as seen by Saint Paul</i> </a>before Jesus revealed himself to him temporarily blinded for three days before setting forth to witnessing Christ's resurrection and the truth in his words - is considered very fortunate and blessed as one is given another chance to life and another chance for renewal and redemption. This may become an encouragement for others as one becomes a living witness to the truth in God's words in Christ.<br />
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Alas, for the <i>weak in faith who still remain blind and cannot see the true message and meaning of this experience comes real misery. </i><br />
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<i>But for those who have surrendered everything to God and have the Holy Spirit in them, in humility, kindness and the presence of Christ in their hearts, all these bring them true joy and happiness for they have accepted the truth in Christ and have considered this life as temporary leading to what greater glory there is into eternal life. </i><br />
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<i>This life, therefore, for those who believe, becomes no more than a stepping stone from materialism to life everlasting, from death to immortality, from darkness to light.</i><br />
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Praying for guidance through the Holy Spirit while onto our linked sites in this post can better prepare us to understand the essence of the NDE and on Sister Faustina in the light of the truth in the love of Jesus, and to be careful not to be deceived by some elements in NDE claims as some may be fraudulent with the absence of filtering mechanisms on the site. We pray, nevertheless, that the Holy Spirit will enlighten us for those which veer us away from Jesus and his words.<br />
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Truly, God moves in mysterious ways. I can see how many people in NDE have been made instruments to make us realize the truth in the afterlife and the truth about the living light that engulfs one with the enormous love of God, some of them seeing or hearing and feeling Jesus, the Son of God.<br />
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We Christians are indeed fortunate to have Christ reveal the truth in his words, and it is up to us to live them and to share them with others that they too may be saved.<br />
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In<i> Philippians 1:21</i>, Saint Paul writes as he rejoices in God’s words and in his overwhelming faith and love in Jesus, <i>“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”</i><br />
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Let us be enlightened, my dear brother, that Jesus is the Son of God, made human by God precisely so we can better relate to God through him.<br />
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We both know that Jesus suffered enough, my brother, more than enough, to save us from sin, and from all sins that man can think of including sins of pride, arrogance, anger, hatred, slander and murder, lust, greed, sins of omission, of non forgiveness, of retaliation and vengeance, gossips, malicious thoughts and intent over others and all other sins of the flesh or of material things that no one can ever take with him when he dies.<br />
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And so long as you put your heart and soul for him and to live your life in him and with him, then you are saved, yes, we are all saved in Christ Jesus, by the grace of God in faith, doing good deeds and become a shining witness of the truth in God's words.<br />
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In <i>James 2:26</i>, Saint James said, <i>“As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.” </i><br />
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And in <i>Romans 8:36-39</i>, Saint Paul makes it clear how we, as believers, become more than conquerors: <i>" As it is written:</i><br />
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<i> “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”</i><br />
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<i> “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, no any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” </i><br />
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Further in <i>Colossians 3:5-14</i>, Saint Paul states his message on idolatry and the need for unity among all Christian believers,<i> “Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.</i><br />
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<i>“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”</i><br />
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And in <i>1 Corinthians 3:16-23</i>, Saint Paul makes it clear to all followers of Christ, and to even those who are learning to know Christ, to respect and love one another as not to boast against each other as he tells them, <i>“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are the temple.</i><br />
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<i>"Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of age, he should become a “Fool” so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness; and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.” So then, no more boasting about men! All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future – all are yours, and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.” </i><br />
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Let us, therefore be one, my dear brothers, in worshiping God as due, through the light of Christ and spreading his love and the truth in him here and around the 'wide wide world' through his words, and put a stop to our unnecessary debates of judging each other.<br />
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Otherwise, do we not become unwilling and weak instruments of the evil one as we are dividing ourselves from the love of God which only benefits evil because that is the only way that the devil can further his claim to his own truth?<br />
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In <i>Ephesians 4:29-32</i>, Saint Paul writes to the Ephesians about being careful with what comes out of our mouths, out of which should come love and compassion instead of evil and malice, <i>“Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”</i><br />
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If we believe that all material things are foolish things in this world, as written in the scriptures, should we worry about idolatry which refer to things that are also material, and is not dwelling on this issue, therefore, foolish and divisive as this cannot save our soul more than the love that we show for each other can?<br />
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And is it fair to talk against the Mother of Jesus, when she has shown many times her love and concern for us through her recorded <i><a href="http://www.marypages.com/">Marian Apparitions</a> </i>in different parts of the world which includes Medjugorje 1981, Lourdes 1858, ,Ponmain 1871, Pellevoisin 1876, Gietrzlwald 1837, Knock 1879, Fatima 1917, Guadalupe in Mexico 1831, Banneux 1933, Beauraing 1932, La Salette in 1846, Rome in 1842, Paris in 1830 and Syracuse 1953.<br />
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Have you ever experienced the love of a mother? If you did, you may understand me when I say, "there is nothing that can compare with the kind of love a mother filled with grace can ever give and offer to all her children." <br />
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No wonder for some smart kids, they find it wiser to ask what they need from their dad through their mom, huh, lol. <br />
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But on a more serious and truthful note, the more love we project through our prayers, that love multiplies through all intercessors to Christ Jesus.<br />
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And for Mama Mary, we are all her children and as such, her love for us abounds with care, compassion, protection, understanding and forgiveness.<br />
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And in praying the Holy Rosary, made from within our hearts, Catholic faithfuls ask the Blessed Virgin Mother, and the saints as they may be included in the<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/litany"> <i>litany</i></a>, to intercede for us as our vessels to Christ and the Holy Spirit for the forgiveness of sins, for love and unity in the family and the community and for all other petitions it may be personally designed to address.<br />
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However we may design our prayers, for so long as they are said from within our hearts and express our love of God through our love for our fellowmen, the more God listens to us.<br />
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Whether you support this or not is not for me to demand, but to learn to love our Blessed Mother as we love our own mother, ever thankful of the sacrifices they went through while showing the kind of love only a mother can give, and the saints as well, as they have become true witnesses of God's goodness through Christ, the way we are taught by Jesus to love our neighbors and one another, is my humble prayer.<br />
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And for my hope, that for unity in our purpose.<br />
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For is not love that which conquers all a higher and deeper goal than what our intelligence dictates?<br />
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Is not love higher that anything else, and yes, higher than the law of the universe, because God is love?<br />
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In <i>Romans 13:10,</i> Saint Paul, after exhorting the Romans to 'love others as yourself,' and states further, <i>“Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”</i><br />
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With our divisiveness are we professing our love for others because we base our judgment on what we know and what we believe as human intelligence? Is not human intelligence limited to what we read, hear and see and is not of the Holy Spirit? <br />
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May 'love' in God's words fill our hearts and soul as we seek the truth in the Holy Spirit. <br />
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And in <i>1 Corinthians 13:8</i>, Saint Paul in the love of Christ stated, <i>"Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away."</i><br />
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We may not realize it, but the evil one siphons to his side those who are lost in this world and make them his, namely, all those who are weak in their faith and are prone to take their life because of the lack of it, and those who do not know and believe in Christ, or the anti-Christ as Jesus would call anybody who denies and refuse to believe in him.<br />
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And with the truth in the love, mercy and forgiveness in Christ, may all be enlightened to draw ourselves, and the unbelievers to open their eyes and spirit that they too may learn to know him, be nearer to him and learn to thank God in Jesus and glorify him in all good things and in all circumstances, for it is from God, that all good things come, and it is in Christ that we abide by God's will in us.<br />
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[Read and get further inspiration from our post: <i><a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2011/06/love-and-saint-paul-as-against-self.html">"'Love' by Saint Paul, Love of God and Self-Pity"</a></i>]<br />
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Let us, therefore, challenge ourselves and pray for unity of purpose and believe, as we are one body in Christ Jesus, and pray for those who have not accepted Christ yet in their life.<br />
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And together, we can be stronger as we spread the love and the truth in Christ around us, that we all can be saved.<br />
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And as Saint Paul wrote in<i> Romans 8:31</i>, <i>"If God is with us, who can be against us."</i><br />
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[Read further on an enlightening post for our children: <i><a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/05/teaching-children-about-love-and.html">"Teaching Children About Love and Obedience In and With Christ Jesus"</a></i>] <br />
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edwinoelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027792245405868950noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611905342090604885.post-68702895443190674842011-07-08T03:43:00.021-07:002012-02-10T10:42:03.475-08:00Commentary on - "What does the Bible Says About Tattoos, and True Peace in Christ Jesus"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6hJFQTcs6htwrEetAgtJgCnx_XRwmGmgkfguLSmVd46c0DVy5jCLNjKfCy7NNMITY4b71KzoNjIx7GUXQKafxFCqyikWe6c6rqb3nJbtU7BHYT-ym3TVU1XU_uAdDLHTQe4neVRFg2N_Z/s1600/Cave+Atlas+Mountains+06L+picasa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6hJFQTcs6htwrEetAgtJgCnx_XRwmGmgkfguLSmVd46c0DVy5jCLNjKfCy7NNMITY4b71KzoNjIx7GUXQKafxFCqyikWe6c6rqb3nJbtU7BHYT-ym3TVU1XU_uAdDLHTQe4neVRFg2N_Z/s1600/Cave+Atlas+Mountains+06L+picasa.jpg" /></a></div>Let it be known that this commentary is not intended to condemn, rather, to help heal as Christ is for love, hope and truth, and in him there is forgiveness for those who wish to follow him in faith and in works that they renew and be redeemed from their sinfulness.<br />
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Reading this link, <i><a href="http://www.bible.com/bibleanswers_result.php?id=230">"What does the Bible Says About Tattoos," </a></i>can further guide us about tattoos as having evil or witchcraft connotations.<br />
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And going to <a href="http://www.albatrus.org/english/living/body_mods/what_the_bible_says_about_tattoos.htm"><i>another link of the same title tells us about the same thing</i></a>, that tattoos have been identified as pagan practices in Japan, South America, Asia, Africa, Alaska and in other parts of the world, not to mention those in prison cells, of course, where it is a prevalent feature on those who just came out of the penitentiary.<br />
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Today, most people regard it as a form of art, but may we not forget that honoring God's words in Genesis is more important, first and foremost, that God created us in His image and likeness and that we should honor and respect our body as the Temple of God, sacred as one having been created by the Father.<br />
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<b>Peace Be to Those Who Follow Jesus, But Will There be Peace for Those Who Deny Him?</b><br />
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Our life is a borrowed one, from God, for one who believes in creation.<br />
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[Read on post: <i><a href="http://edwinoeltanglao.hubpages.com/hub/Amazing-Laminin-Binding-Truth-of-the-Cross-and-Creation-and-Avoiding-Hell"> 'Laminin,' Binding Truth of the Cross and Creation, Avoiding Hell, Purgatory and Generational Sins</a></i>, that we may see and believe that God in the crucified Christ is the truth in our being.]<br />
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Others may not believe in this but if probabilities become one of the basis, have we not noticed how many people who have learned to trust and surrender themselves to God are more blessed with peace and love in their life together with their love ones? And those who do foolish things against others and go against the will of the Father as embodied in the <i><a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resource.php?n=30">Ten Commandments</a></i> and in the <i><a href="http://www.jesuschristsavior.net/Beatitudes.html">teachings of Christ Jesus</a></i> have, more often than not, a more confused, insecure and troubled life?<br />
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And for so long as we put God first in everything that we do, we are saved.<br />
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God is all knowing and makes sure all those who follow Him through His Son Jesus Christ, keeping him in their hearts and not deny him, will be blessed and saved spiritually.<br />
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Peace to those who follow him. But will there be true peace for those who deny him?<br />
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Let me qualify this. While we are all sinners, Christ wants us to continue to grow our faith in him. <br />
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With his love, mercy and forgiveness, we can be saved through confession, prayers and our willingness to change in his ways, as we seek his guidance through the Holy Spirit. <br />
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Follow through as you reflect on the following passage from the book of Matthew, and be guided with the truth in the words of our True Messiah, Jesus Christ, while he was challenging his twelve disciples to carry his words with determination, full of trust and unwavering faith in him as they set forth to heal the sick, drive out demons and preach in Jesus' name among the<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gentiles"> Gentiles</a> or non-Jewish community.<br />
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Imperative and stern as his warning may have been for those who may deny him, which is a grave sin equivalent to blasphemy or denying God Himself as he and the Father are One, he wants to make his disciples confident as his followers, representing the Son of God, who is more than a prophet or a teacher, that many more will be led to the truth in Christ Jesus. <br />
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Yet, let not this passage be misinterpreted. Behind this warning is a forgiving and a merciful heart that is full of love and who brings peace to those who turn to him for redemption, conversion and renewal.<br />
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Look around you and pray, as I do believe that <a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/04/prayers-can-move-mountains.html">'prayers can move mountains,' </a>and you will realize the truth beyond this powerful message of Christ with what is happening for those who turn away from Jesus.<br />
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In <i>Matthew 10:26-42</i>, Christ assured his disciples not to be afraid of people who hate them because of him as he said, <i>“So do not be afraid of them, there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be known. What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.</i><br />
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<i>“Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.</i><br />
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<i>“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn</i><br />
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<i>“‘a man against his father, </i><br />
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<i>a man’s enemies will be the member of his own household.’</i><br />
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<i>“Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.</i><br />
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<i>“He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives the One who sent me. Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and anyone who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward. And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward.”</i><br />
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Do we not notice how unprecedented catastrophes have caused the world much death, destruction and devastation such as the gulf oil crisis, the powerful earthquake in Japan that caused a great tsunami tilting the earth's axis, the rising of waters in populated areas, the series of powerful and deadly tornadoes plowing across the US, the upheaval in the Middle East and in Greece, chaos within households and families and some more looming in the horizon on top of the global economic crisis due to the growing sinfulness of man towards materialism as against the love and fear of God through the love of others?<br />
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God moves in mysterious ways. It is only in Christ Jesus and allowing ourselves to be enlightened by the power of the Holy Spirit through baptism in deep faith, with prayers and good deeds shall we be able to comprehend better His ways, His words and commandments.<br />
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Being able to read this is no coincidence, that you too may share the light, and with the love of Christ, you can better understand that "all things happen for a reason."<br />
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[Read on our related post: <i><a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/12/gods-awesome-works-in-gods-awesome.html"> "God's Awesome Works in God's Awesome Creation and the Messiah in Jesus."</a></i>]<br />
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<b>Obedience to the Will of the Father</b><br />
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And going back to our body, while we may be allowed to love and preserve it, as to keep it healthy, lovable and beautiful, let us not be overwhelmed by our own perception of beauty to the extent of being defiant to what God allows, lest we want to be engulfed by too much of our pride, arrogance and selfishness that unwittingly, we are led to the dark side of life, where the evil one may be feasting with delight as it lurks and waits for the kill.<br />
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Everything can be done in moderation just as long as it does not go against the will of the Father and so long as it does not cause undue harm to others.<br />
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But is not a tattoo or piercing one's skin to hang an attached object worn more out of pride and a sense of belonging, or plainly a sense of insecurity more than anythings else? <br />
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Do we need to follow others with utter disregard of good healthy and hygienic practices that these may just endanger our own safety and the health of others as well? <br />
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Anyone already with tattoos can reflect on how God has loved you since the time He created you with no unnecessary blemish on your skin. But now your skin is blemished out of your own wish and craving because it is the fad, is this not like graffiti on the Temple of God?<br />
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Do you think our Creator will be happy or will He be happier if it is left clean just like anybody else who truly trusts on His will, out of honor, respect and obedience? Or would this be sacrilege and disobedience to the Father? <br />
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Now, if this has been out of ignorance of God's will for us, how are you wanting to repent if that mark on you stays? Don't you think you have been marked differently from the others now that you have become a black sheep with an indelible mark on your skin? <br />
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Yet, because of God's great love for you, Christ will still seek you as a lost sheep who ran astray to return back where you belong, to his flock, and see the light in him and the true meaning of peace and happiness in life.<br />
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And that tattoo on your skin now becomes your reality check, and has become a positive reminder of God's unconditional love for you, with that fervent hope that you will never find yourself lost again.<br />
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Not the emptiness that evil and the dark side of life brings, which will make you feel confused and lost forever.<br />
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Would piercing, cutting one's flesh with tattoos or unnecessary dangling ornaments give us fulfillment in this life then?<br />
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Or are we just being fooled by the evil one to adore or idolize others or ourselves while taking away the true and more lasting happiness when we chose to live with Christ and in Christ?<br />
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Would living in simplicity and humility, with more dignity, integrity, honor and respectability be a better option than self denial and self-pity brought about by sins of the flesh, foolish pride and insecurity?<br />
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Is this truly loving oneself or just putting your self and your love ones at risk as they too may get confused getting the wrong signals from deeds that steer us away from the more responsible and the more disciplined behavior in Christ?<br />
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What is the real long term effect of this practice? Is it going to be good for everybody or not?<br />
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As in <i>Proverbs 15:33, "The fear of the Lord teaches a man wisdom, and humility comes before honor." </i><br />
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[Read on another post on: <a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2011/06/love-and-saint-paul-as-against-self.html" style="font-style: italic;"> "'Love' by Saint Paul, Love of God and Self-Pity,"</a><i> </i>for added enlightenment.]<br />
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The possibility that the needles or tools used in piercing may not have been properly sterilized is always there and this already pose some danger. <br />
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And being dragged further to what is evil and wrong because of the so-called "normalcy bias," wherein many people get hooked to thinking that it is normal to do what everybody does, without first weighing the realities and the long term negative repercussions these create in society can do us more harm than good.<br />
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Is this not only digging ones own pit to doom and trouble, and sadly extending the effects to future generations?<br />
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Is it not time to wake up to reality and learn from the lessons of our past as our early fathers have tested our Almighty God of His patience and power which includes the great flood in Noah's time, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the fall of the Tower of Babel, the rise and fall of many conquerors and dictators, the devastation caused by the Great Plague, by World War I and II, the now dwindling world economy that is causing a lot of chaos and confusion in many parts of the globe? <br />
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<b>Evil That Veers Us Away from Jesus</b><br />
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Is it not time to see the truth in what is being imparted to us by God the need to go to His Son, Jesus Christ, and get inspiration from his teachings that we may thread the right path? <br />
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We may not realize it but those who lead us away from Jesus, and make us believe more on the power of the mind than of God, in psychic powers, in mind readers, in fortune tellers, playing spirit of the glass, transcendental meditation and levitation, propagating pornography, abortion and same sex or gay marriage, suicide bombing and terrorism, evil and violence on video and computer games, false prophets and soothsayers, black magic and voodoo worshipers, sorcery, witchcraft and the like, be wary, as these are the very tools of the evil one to deceive those who are weak in their faith and become willing victims, trapped from the dark side, only to see their lives troubled in the long run as they are carried away by wealth, power and materialism.<br />
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Anything that promotes hatred, divisiveness, lies, various ways leading to deny the truth in Christ Jesus and utter disregard for love. life and concern for others is not of God, but of the evil one.<br />
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<b>Keep Our Light Burning in the love of Christ</b><br />
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Would a "never care less" mentality help us as we become blind to what is eating into the flesh of man that continues to destroy the fabric of society, as we are losing grip and our hold onto our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who suffered and died for us on the cross?<br />
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Will giving up be the right path? Or will it be holding up the light of Jesus, to shine in this world and show pure love for ourselves by loving God through the love and genuine concern for others?<br />
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Nothing is ever too late for our God is a forgiving God, and with the love and mercy in Jesus, His Son, the Prince of Peace and our Advocate to the Father and Redeemer for the atonement of our sins, and our sincere intention to renew ourselves is what counts most, for whatever is past can never be undone. <br />
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We can only hope and pray for the misguided for renewal, that the Holy Spirit may come upon them, and that with the love, mercy and forgiveness in Jesus, they could be freed from sin.<br />
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In <i>1 John 3:13-15, “Do not be surprised my brothers, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and know that no murderer has eternal life in him.”</i><br />
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Anyone who does good for his neighbors is blessed, but anyone who lives in hate and vengeance will hardly attain peace in his life.<br />
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God knows knows what is in our heart, we can never hide anything from Him.<br />
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Let the wings of human justice take its course, whatever the outcome, show love, mercy and compassion and give thanks to God, for vengeance is not ours, but that of God.<br />
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And in <i>Romans 12:14-21, “Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice, mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.</i><br />
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<i>Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eye of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘it is mine to avenge, I will repay,’ says the Lord. On the contrary:</i><br />
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<i>“If your enemy is hungry, feed him, </i><br />
<i>If he is thirsty, give him something to drink.</i><br />
<i>In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”</i><br />
<i>Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”</i><br />
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And moving forward in Christ is the best remedy, that the evil one may again cower in fear and may be rendered maimed and powerless as we continue to thank and glorify God the Father Almighty for everything good in this life.<br />
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Turning back to Jesus, the Good Shepherd, as a lost flock is our calling and this should not remain unheeded lest we want to be lost forever from his protection, care and guidance, as he is the "Truth, the Way and the Life," for in him we see the light, and in him and with him, we find true happiness and peace in this life.<br />
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In <i>1 Corinthians 1:17-31</i>, in the Gospel of St. Paul, he writes to the Corinthians, <i>“For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel – not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.”</i><br />
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<i>“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written:</i><br />
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<i>“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.’</i><br />
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<i>“Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.”</i><br />
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<i>“Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were influential, not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things – and the things that are not – to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God – that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: </i><br />
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<i>“Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”</i><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle">Saint Paul</a> was once a persecutor of the church of God when he was both Jewish as he was a son of a Pharisee and a Roman citizen, and called himself ‘abnormally born’ unworthy of being called an apostle, yet, by the grace of God, he was renewed as Jesus Christ revealed himself to him after his resurrection.<br />
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He was temporarily blinded upon seeing a vision of the resurrected Christ. And thus began his new life as a Christian who became a living witness to God’s love and resurrection, spreading the good news and winning converts to the church as inspired by the Holy Spirit in parts of Europe and Asia Minor.<br />
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<b>Definition of Love by Saint Paul</b><br />
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In <i>1 Corinthians 13:1-13</i>, Saint Paul writes through the Holy Spirit to inspire us about love:<br />
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<i> “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.</i><br />
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<i> “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrong. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.</i><br />
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<i> “Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled, where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.</i><br />
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<i> “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”</i><br />
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With the love of Jesus, the essence of love becomes more meaningful as we see husband and wife, true friends, families, communities and nations become<i> </i>powerfully intertwined with one another professing the kind of pure and unconditional love that Christ Jesus wants all men to know, learn and practice.<br />
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Impossible as it may seem, but it is the kind of love that our Heavenly Father has shown to us as manifested since the time of creation where he designated man as ruler and above all of creation.<br />
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It was when Adam and Eve became disobedient to God's command not to eat of the forbidden fruit from the tree of wisdom and knowledge that both were banished from the Garden of Eden, felt ashamed of their nakedness and had to experience the realities and hardships while living this life. <br />
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Instead of living an immortal life, they had to experience death as a consequence. And men, henceforth, multiplied, offsprings upon offsprings, good and bad, they began to fill the earth. <br />
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Until God sent His only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, as promised and as proclaimed by the prophets, born of the Virgin Mary, that through his passion and death on the cross, and his eventual resurrection and ascension into heaven, that man was saved from the sin of Adam and Eve, through baptism in water and in the Name of the God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit - the Holy Trinity in One God.<br />
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Since we have been created out of the love of God, so shall we be saved by the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior and the True Messiah.<br />
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And it is in our faith and in following God's commandments and Christ's teachings, we are made complete as these painstakingly lead us to salvation and to life eternal.<br />
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As many religious would say, "God never promised us a bed of roses." Otherwise, would we still be challenged to do what is good in this life by following and adhering to his commandments?<br />
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With our 'free will,' do we not enjoy our freedom as long as we know and realize our limitations? Do we not know that love comes with a responsibility, as it is not only for ourselves but for others as well?<br />
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[Read on related post on hubpost.com: <i><a href="http://edwinoeltanglao.hubpages.com/hub/God-or-Mammon">God or Mammon - to Serve only One Master</a></i>]<br />
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Is this not when we learn true discipline and live our life in truth and with the love of Jesus that we better enjoy life with God's blessings seeing us through the afterlife?<br />
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<b>The Law of Man and God's Love</b><br />
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Man's laws are basically made to govern people that there may be order in the community but God's love is more supreme than any other law as it surpasses all that was, that is and that will be.<br />
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Man can have varied applications of the law of the land but God's love is the one that encompasses all laws as it is limitless, infinite and eternal.<br />
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And so is Christ's words, which is God's words. <br />
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<i>“I and the Father are one,”</i> as Jesus stated in <i>John 14:11.</i><br />
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And the divinity of Christ has been seen since that time he was born when angels proclaimed his presence in a manger to the nearby shepherds, the day he was baptized by John the Baptist and the heavens were opened as God spoke through the Holy Spirit pleased with His Son in Jesus, during the Transfiguration at the mount as he was seen with Moses and Elijah with God's voice again acknowledging His Son in him and during his resurrection and ascension witnessed by many besides the apostles.<br />
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In <i>1 Corinthians 1:17-31,</i> in the Gospel of St. Paul, he writes to the Corinthians, <i>“For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel – not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.”</i><br />
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<i>“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written:</i><br />
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<i>“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.’</i><br />
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<i>“Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.”</i><br />
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<i>“Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were influential, not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things – and the things that are not – to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God – that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: </i><br />
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<i>“Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”</i><br />
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Jesus made it clear to his disciples in <i>Matthew 24:35</i> as he said, <i>“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”</i><br />
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And in <i>John 15:12</i>, Jesus made clear his commandment of love, <i>“… Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” </i><br />
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And the more we accept and believe that this life is only temporary, the more we learn the importance of God's wisdom in this life. <i><br />
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Have we not noticed how God has tried to reveal His love for us in this life with the many trials and blessings that have come upon us just to test our faith in Him? Did all these happen by chance or for a reason?<br />
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Whenever we do good to others, do we not get back the joy, peace and warmth of others? Is it not God making all these happen? And without Him our Creator, can we live a meaningful life, and find more strength in Him through Christ Jesus, instead of being confused and lost in the face and presence of evil and darkness?<br />
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And when we do what is against God's will, do we not feel the guilt, the shame and God's constant reminders that what went wrong is causing us trouble or even illness?<br />
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But when we show humility, mercy and forgiveness, love and charity, compassion and understanding towards others, do we not get all these in return making our life easier, healthier and more manageable?<br />
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And when we keep on sinning, not listening and not heeding to God's words, do we not stumble and fall along the way, or see something unusual happening in our life that seems to be leading us to the light of God in Christ?<br />
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Think about it, God in Jesus has been there all along in your life and yet you still fail to recognize, listen, respond and acknowledge him as he has been calling you to return or join him in his flock. <br />
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Yet for those who responded, some of you may still have wandered as your faith wavered having stood on rocky or thorny ground<br />
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[Read on this link: <i><a href="http://www.bcbsr.com/survey/pbl5.html">"The Parable of the Sower," Matthew 13:3-2)</a></i>].<br />
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Never lose faith, for in the love of Jesus, and with God's mercy and forgiveness, there is hope for those who repent and work their best towards complete renewal.<br />
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Should we not thank our loving and merciful God through Jesus for his goodness and faithfulness by serving him in our own way and by becoming a good Christian example to our family and to the community we belong?<br />
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Would this not make everybody happy?<br />
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<b>Love of God and Self-pity</b><br />
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Christianity begins at home and in <i>1 Timothy 3:1-5,</i> St. Paul defines the overseer as the <i>"husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect.” </i><br />
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If we opt to be ruled by material things or by money, which the evil one prefers, can we ever attain satisfaction and peace in our life? <br />
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Is not the true meaning of love, therefore, the love of God, more than the love of material things? <br />
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Are we not being deceived by the evil one when we prefer to be blinded by material wealth, power and sins of lust which lead us to more problems, anxiety, fear and with no peace in ourselves and our love ones? <br />
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Is not our refusal to admit our own mistakes, our incorrigible spirit, our lack of guilt or remorse over sinful acts, our lack of empathy blaming others yet frown on those who blame us a sign of moral degradation which come out hurting more people including our love ones? Is this not the wrong mind set that needs proper direction and guidance, which otherwise, would cause more trouble than good?<br />
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Is this not veering away from the truth where one is trapped into insensibly believing that cheating, spreading lies and hate, doing graffiti everywhere, <a href="http://www.albatrus.org/english/living/body_mods/what_the_bible_says_about_tattoos.htm">tattoos or cuttings on the body which is God's temple</a>, cursing and committing slander, creating fear and hurting others' feelings with our uncontrollable emotions and anger are but normal and should be tolerated?<br />
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[Read on our related post: <a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2011/07/commentary-on-what-does-bible-say-about.html"><i>"Commentary on - What the Bible Says About Tattoos, and True Peace in Christ Jesus"</i></a>]<br />
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And on encouraging same-sex marriage, are we not encouraging more homosexual practices and sins of lust in our society and unwittingly legalizing pedophile practices, forgetting the lessons on the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah">destruction by God of Sodom and Gomorrah</a>? </i><br />
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Where do we think we are leading our society if we keep on keeping a blind eye on the sins of man, are we not pushing it to further destruction?<br />
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Are we not getting into the pitfalls of the so-called 'normalcy bias' which make us think that whenever many people do it, it has become a norm and it is alright to follow and do the same? <br />
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And is not love of oneself or selfish love more of self pity than anything else as this leads only to sins of lust, anger, pride, arrogance, hatred and greed, and that any of these takes away the true meaning of love?<br />
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Are we not killing ourselves more in this life as we become slaves of sin and of things material, which tend to push us more into the dark side of life?<br />
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On the other hand, if we love God by loving our neighbors and sharing with them the love of Jesus, do we not have peace and true happiness?<br />
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When asked by Martha to tell her sister Mary to help her with her chores for Jesus’ visit into their home with the apostles, in <i>Luke 10:41</i> he said, <i>“Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”</i><br />
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Listening to Jesus’ teachings first and putting them into practice before you go on your chores for whatever purpose and consideration would better equip you to face the trials and challenges in this life as you will be more blessed with God’s words in your path glorifying His name in Jesus.<br />
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Life is what we make it, and "we sow what we reap."<br />
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While we respect the great sacrifice that others make to live a decent way of life, don't you think attending too much to things that are material can rob us of the time that God has intended for us? And following this strenuous routine can bring about more problems on our health, our safety, our family or on our life long concerns and possessions, aside from losing our direction towards the path to salvation?<br />
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In <i>John 6:27</i> Jesus said to his disciples, <i>"Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”</i><br />
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While God wants us to be ever productive in this life using our God given talents and wisdom to glorify His Holy Name, is it not balancing and prioritizing our life to what truly is noble and worth emulating in the eyes of God before us and others the best option that we can make?<br />
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Will this too not bring more happiness to all who delights in God's favor?<br />
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In <i>Proverbs 37:4, “Delight yourself with the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.”</i><br />
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As and as in <i>Matthew 6:33</i>, Jesus tell his disciples, <i>"... seek first His (God’s) kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." </i><br />
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Have you ever realized how many times things just happen and gets into the right place in your life and in your favor whenever you just leave things to God and fully trust in Him as you surrender everything to His will?<br />
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In <i>1 Thessalonians 5:16-17</i>, Saint Paul, after he admonished everyone to live in peace with each other, to encourage the timid to help the weak, to be patient with everyone, nobody to pay wrong for wrong and to always be kind to each other and to everyone else, he said:<br />
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<i>“Be joyful always, pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”</i><br />
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<i>2 Corinthians 10:3-5</i> exhorts us in St. Paul, <i>“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”</i><br />
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In<i> Romans 6:11-14</i> St. Paul states, <i>“In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.”</i><br />
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In <i>1 John 2:1-6</i>, St. John exhorts all men to walk in the light of Christ, <i>“My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense – Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.</i><br />
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<i>“We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. The many who says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly complete in him. This is how we know we are in him. Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.”</i><br />
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Further in <i>1 John 3:13-15, “Do not be surprised my brothers, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and know that no murderer has eternal life in him.”</i><br />
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If hating others is tantamount to murder, does this help us further understand the wisdom of loving and forgiving our enemies by guiding them to the light of Jesus? <br />
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In <i>Colossians 3:25, “Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.” </i><br />
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And in <i>Romans 12:14-21, “Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice, mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.</i><br />
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<i>"Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eye of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘it is mine to avenge, I wrill repay,’ says the Lord. On the contrary:</i><br />
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<i> 'If your enemy is hungry, feed him, </i><br />
<i> If he is thirsty, give him something to drink.</i><br />
<i> In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.'</i><br />
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<i>"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”</i><br />
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May Saint Paul's definition of love that is pure, with malice to none and love that is 'responsible' as we care for others, further inspire us and make a clear imprint in our minds as we KJOH (keep Jesus in our hearts) and put our 'trust in the Lord.'<br />
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I can attest to the truth in the love of Jesus through my life experience. If you feel the same way, stand up for the truth and let your voice be heard that others may see the light. Alleluia. <br />
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[Read on our related posts on <a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/12/gods-awesome-works-in-gods-awesome.html"><i>God's Awesome Works in God's Awesome Creation</i></a> and <a href="http://www.guidancehealthentertainment.com/2010/02/jesus-christs-teachings-seen-in-9010.html"><i>"Christ's Teachings Seen in 90:10 Principle" for added inspiration.</i></a>] <br />
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edwinoelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18027792245405868950noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6611905342090604885.post-59173690459214930702011-05-04T15:53:00.002-07:002011-07-09T10:49:27.827-07:00Commentary on the Death of Osama Bin Laden and Seeing the Light in Jesus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-jN__XzIa3FkLNzA-dN7Zaj-0l9yF6ZPGe8Z-co6p9gvX1aJXhhg6hxX05EOLTmFOXv-o9YzeFqkIL7NjrbHCfn0gcZuNTAGNCo22DXtaijz3lOQ2Wn6eg4nmZ0Ql5fCve_rT2vdFlHB9/s1600/1-discover-personal-info+aol+via+ghe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-jN__XzIa3FkLNzA-dN7Zaj-0l9yF6ZPGe8Z-co6p9gvX1aJXhhg6hxX05EOLTmFOXv-o9YzeFqkIL7NjrbHCfn0gcZuNTAGNCo22DXtaijz3lOQ2Wn6eg4nmZ0Ql5fCve_rT2vdFlHB9/s1600/1-discover-personal-info+aol+via+ghe.jpg" /></a></div><b>Death of Osama bin Laden</b><br />
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While many in the US were celebrating the death of Osama Bin Laden (OBL), killed by US Navy Seals in a clandestine operation on the first of May, 2011, there was no Muslim outrage condemning his death in Pakistani territory from his supposed Al Qaeda, Taliban and Muslim Extremists or Fundamentalist supporters.<br />
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Is this a sign of the waning of support to his cause with even many of those interviewed from among the Muslim community across the US welcoming the breaking news as a sign of relief? <br />
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The Master Terrorist who had inspired many suicide bombings killing thousands of Muslims, Americans and innocent civilians from around the globe which included the daring yet infamous 911 attacks inside the US itself failed to elude his own death this time.<br />
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[Read on our related Yahoo News Link - <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110502/wl_time/08599206885800">"Death Comes for the Master Terrorist - Osama bin Laden"</a>]<br />
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In <i>Proverbs 14:22, “Do not those who plot evil go astray? But those who plan what is good find love and faithfulness?” </i><br />
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[Read on another related link under National Catholic Register - <a href="http://www.ncregister.com/blog/was-osama-bin-laden-chronically-stupid-or-what/">"Was Osama bin Laden Chronically Stupid or What?</a>] <i><br />
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Do we not find true peace and love if we choose to love God with our whole heart, mind and soul, and love our neighbors in God's grace with compassion, care, mercy and forgiveness?<br />
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Otherwise, do we not find more stress in our life as we hide from the truth and see the true light of God?<br />
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In <i>Matthew 7:15, 19-20</i>, Jesus said while preaching to the crowd, <i>“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly they are ferocious wolves… Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.” </i><br />
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Over the years, US intelligence found it very difficult to locate Osama bin Laden until very recently, as they were closely following his most trusted courier, Sheikh Abu Ahmed of Kuwait, they found what seemed to be a very likely hiding place for OBL, a high-fenced mansion ironically situated a few hundred yards away from Pakistan's prestigious Military Academy.<br />
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And after weighing his options, President Obama gave the go signal for a carefully planned raid into the compound until the elite Team Six of the US Navy Seals successfully accomplished the operation with the death of OBL. <i></i><br />
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[Read on another Yahoo News link - <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_bin_laden_hunt_for_bin_laden">"Phone Call by Kuwaiti Courier Led to bin Laden"</a>]<br />
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<b>Seeing the Light in Jesus</b><br />
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How many times have we seen haughty and proud men who have abused and caused death to mankind, in that they have become evil in their ways, fall down from power and humbled by God?<br />
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In the death of Osama bin Laden, may we see the light and do what is good for man, and open our eyes that we may find wisdom as we veer away from darkness and evil.<br />
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That we should see the message of Easter as the dawn of a new beginning renewing ourselves to be one with God as Jesus has paved the way in fulfilling heaven’s plan to redeem man through his passion and death on the cross, his miraculous resurrection and ascension.<br />
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And that we may learn to carry our own cross, deny ourselves by being humble and selfless in our efforts to lead others to him in this life that they too may see God’s promise of eternal life <i>(read Luke 9:22-23).</i><br />
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In <i>1 John 2:15-17</i>, St. John, through divine guidance from the Holy Spirit tells us, “<i>Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world – the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does – comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.”</i><br />
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May we always remember that God created everything in this world and in the universe, with man and his God given talents making possible the discovery of more wonderful things for man to enjoy life on earth. And that without God, we are nothing.<br />
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[Read on this related post, <a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/12/gods-awesome-works-in-gods-awesome.html">"God's Awesome Works in God's Awesome Creation and the Messiah in Jesus," </a>that we may better understand God and believe in Him with an open heart.] <br />
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While Jesus was praying, upon his baptism at the River Jordan by John the Baptist, and as stated in the gospel of L<i>uke 3:21-22, “heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: ‘You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.’” </i><br />
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With power over life and death, as God is in him and he in God, Jesus is our true Redeemer who is the Truth, the Way and the Life.<br />
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Is it not appropriate that we use all things to glorify His Holy Name by doing what is good for man?<i></i><br />
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Have we truly asked ourselves and realize the fundamental truth in this question, can we carry anything with us after our death? Is not everything material left here on earth when we die? Is not only our spirit that remains in us as we are summoned by our Creator when our time has come?<br />
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Hence, while here on earth, is it not proper to thank him for his goodness by using all things material for the love of God and man that we may attain salvation?<i></i><br />
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As God has revealed to us that we are made in His image and likeness, therefore, do we not consider our body sacred that is worthy to be praised and filled with anything that is good and pleasing to Him?<br />
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<i> </i>In the beginning during the days of creation, as in<i> Genesis 1:26, “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." <br />
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Once again, while it is true that we are made masters of God's creation, Jesus reminds us not to lose our soul by clinging to what is worldly or evil. In <i>Matthew 16:25-26</i>, he tells his disciples, <i>“For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?”</i><br />
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And in <i>Proverbs 15:33, "The fear of the Lord teaches a man wisdom, and humility comes before honor." </i><br />
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[Read on our related post on <a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2011/03/commentary-on-wall-of-water-slams.html">"Wall of Water Slams Japanese Town on Yahoo News and Divine Mercy Chaplet"</a> and go to its links on Sister Faustina's Vision of Hell and see real Hell is] <i><br />
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In <i>Matthew 11:28-30</i>, Jesus says, <i>“Come to me all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” </i><br />
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Just pray and lift up to God all our problems, troubles, sufferings, trials and tribulations, and ask forgiveness for our sins as we forgive those who have wronged us as they seek to make amends with us, and think of no malice against others or be judgmental and God will take care of the rest as we do what is best, ever productive and honest in God's eyes as we do our work and chores, for the good of our family and for the good of others as well. <br />
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In this way we are cleansed of all evil and we are ready to accept Him as our true God and Savior through the Holy Spirit - the Sacrament of Baptism in water, in the name of the Father, the Son and in the Holy Spirit is the first step for a true Christian believer to be cleansed and be under Christ’s shield and direction towards salvation - ever prayerful for his faithfulness, love, mercy, guidance and protection. <br />
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Just trust in Him and follow his words and commandments in praises and good works and you will see abundant blessings, miracles, good health and peace in your life.<br />
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May God continue to guide and bless us all as we keep Jesus in our hearts. <br />
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Japan, the world's third largest economy, can be seen on our above YouTubeVideo link humbled by the fury of mother nature.<br />
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[See related link on NASA.gov on <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/japanquake/earth20110314.html">"Japan Quake may have Shortened Earth Days, Moved Axis"</a>- may have shortened day by 1.8 microseconds, see other earthquakes' effect on earth's axis]<br />
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While we spend countless hours trying to make both ends meet, playing our favorite video game, watching our favorite movie of sports, burn our our eyebrows reading a best selling novel or browsing the web for ways to earn money, driving to a great world wonder or scenic spot or just pondering, texting, daydreaming or sleeping, may we not forget that when our time us up and it is time to go, we make sure our soul is saved. <br />
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And make no mistake about it, it is in Christ's words and teachings that we are saved.<br />
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Jesus made it clear to his disciples in <i>Matthew 24:35</i> as he said, <i>“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”</i><br />
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In <i>James 1:6-8</i>, Saint James reminds us never to doubt in God's words, rather, find strength in our faith through Christ, <i>"But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind, That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does."</i><br />
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And in <i>1 John 4:13-16</i>, apostle and gospel writer John proclaims through the divine guidance of the Holy Spirit who Christ Jesus is, <i>“We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.”</i><br />
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It is so appalling indeed that still, many in this life are in darkness as they have no or low regard and respect to life in others.<br />
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Gruesome as it may seem, the practice of abortion has been legalized in many parts of the world, on top of the violence through merciless killings and worse, search the web for human fetuses eaten in Japan and China.<br />
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We are all encouraged to pray for all unbelievers that they may find enlightenment in Christ, ask forgiveness and be forgiven for their sins, for our sins and that of the whole world, as it has been revealed by our Lord Jesus to <a href="http://www.catholicplanet.com/articles/article151.htm">Polish Sister Helena Faustina Kowalska</a>, through the <a href="http://www.mercyimages.com/venerate_Divine_Mercy_Image.aspx">Divine Mercy</a> prayer, that the world may turn to God and find renewal in Jesus. <br />
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Sister Faustina, herself, has <a href="http://www.divinemercysunday.com/vision.htm">seen the vision of hell</a>, with the devils hating her as she has become equipped with this revelation from God Himself, that "no soul may find an excuse by saying there is no hell" and that all may believe in the many tortures and sufferings of those in hell, in eternal damnation. <br />
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A <a href="http://www.mercyimages.com/video_holyhour.aspx">DVD link here shows the vision mission of the Divine Mercy Chaplet,</a> as inspired by Sister Faustina's revelations of God's message to relate to the whole world.<br />
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This beautiful and very powerful daily <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgoAPCW20QE">3 O'Clock prayer</a> urges us to pray to God through our Lord Jesus, <i> "Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal one, have mercy on us and the whole world," (</i>mentioned three times)<i> </i>and <i>"Jesus, King of Mercy, we trust in You." </i>And as Sister Superior Mother Mary Bernard puts it, "one soul that raises itself raises the world." <br />
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The introduction prayer goes, <i>"You died Jesus, but the source of life flowed out for soul and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fountain of Life, Immeasurable Divine Mercy, cover the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us." "O Blood and Water which flowed out from the heart of Jesus as a Fountain of Mercy for us, I trust in You."</i><br />
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In <i>Matthew 21:42-43</i> Jesus said in the "Parable of the Tenants," when asked of what the landlord will do to the tenants, referring to those who do not heed his words, rejects him and lacks the faith and trust in him, <i>“Have you never read in the scriptures:</i><br />
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<i>‘The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone, the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous is our eyes.</i><br />
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<i>‘Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”</i><br />
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Also in <i>Matthew 16:25-26</i>, Jesus tells his disciples, <i>“For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?”</i><br />
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Can all the material things, lust, power, wealth, pride and worship of other gods as pagans do in this world save us when we are called for our last farewell? Are we apt and ready meet our Creator on the life beyond?<br />
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While we are admonished by God to be productive in our work, may our attitude towards our work and those around us be that of Christ and in his Spirit, as in the <a href="http://bible.org/seriespage/parable-talents-matthew-2514-30-luke-1912-28">"Parable of the Talents,"</a> that we may glorify God in whatever good we do and become true witness to his words with love and in truth in our hearts.<br />
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Proverbs <i>15:9-10</i> puts it,<i> “The Lord detests the way of the wicked but he loves those who pursue righteousness. Stern discipline awaits him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die.”</i><br />
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And for those who turn to God, obey <a href="http://www.the-ten-commandments.org/the-ten-commandments.html">His commandments</a>, and abide by <a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/04/christs-teachings-and-counting-our.html">Christ's teachings</a>, in his love they will find what true peace and happiness is as they find more blessings in this life, and the promise of eternal life.<br />
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The more we fill our hearts with the <a href="http://bible.org/seriespage/holy-spirit-gospels-appendix">Holy Spirit</a> through prayers and thanksgiving, humility, love and forgiveness, the more we feel God's love, presence and blessings in this life. <br />
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As in God's words, in <i>2 Chronicles 7:14</i>, it is stated, <i>“If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”</i><br />
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[Read on our related linked post on<i> <a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/12/gods-awesome-works-in-gods-awesome.html">"God's Awesome Works in God's Awesome Creation."</a></i>]<i><br />
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Is it not so inspiring to hear that many American billionaires are into a philanthropic mood donating billions of dollars to those deserving? </div><br />
As in <i>Proverbs 37:4, “Delight yourself with the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.”</i><br />
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Sharing with others especially the poor can indeed be humbling and it lightens your spirit as you feel the blessings radiate in your soul. Your heart smiles with your lips as you watch how much happiness you have shared with others.<br />
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[Read on our related post on <a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/12/wonder-in-sharing-commentary-on-mark.html"><i>"Wonder in Sharing - Commentary on Mark Zuckerburger's Interview"</i> <i>on Time Video</i></a>]<br />
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In <i>Matthew 6:33</i>, Jesus tell his disciples, <i>"... seek first His (God’s) kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." </i><br />
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Everything good comes from God. Is it not just proper that we share our blessings with others as we are mere administrators of God's creation? <br />
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We will all soon be called as our term ends in this world, yes a short lived life. Whence, we can all ponder and realize that we are all no different from others.<br />
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We have been born with nothing, and we will see our life end also with nothing, only memories that we have left our loved ones, and those who continue to remember us.<br />
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And are we worthy of eternal life as Christ our Savior has revealed to us by his death and resurrection?<br />
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As the book <i>Ecclesiastes 12:13-14</i> reminds us, everything in life is meaningless, but not until we learn to understand the wisdom of God and strive to become mature in spirit that we learn to <i>“fear God and keep His commandments, which is the duty of man,” </i>whence, shall God <i>“bring indeed every deed into judgment, including every hidden things, whether it is good or evil.” </i><br />
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[Read more on our Amazing God on our posted link,<a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/12/gods-awesome-works-in-gods-awesome.html"><i> "God's Awesome Works in God's Awesome Creation."</i></a>]<br />
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In <i>Matthew 23:11-12</i>, Jesus Christ said to the crowd with his disciples,<i> "The greatest among you will be your servant. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." </i><br />
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And in <i>1 John 4:13-16</i>, apostle and gospel writer John proclaims through the divine guidance of the Holy Spirit who Christ Jesus is, <i>“We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.”</i><br />
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<i> </i>[Read on another related post<i>, <a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/06/billionaires-urge-rich-donate-your.html">"Billionaires Urge Rich - 'Donate Your Money'"</a></i>]<i></i><br />
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Feel more fulfilled as we help more people make their life more meaningful as we KJOH.<i><br />
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Fenville (Michagan) basketball star, Wes Leonard, was responsible for the winning basket in his team's win over Bridgman (Michigan) High, but a sad unexpected fateful incident happened during the team's celebration on their victory.<br />
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Wes suddenly collapsed on court and was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital.<br />
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Team coach Ryan Klinger had all praises for Wes as very courteous and had always exuded optimism in his ways.<br />
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He is a great loss in this world but Pinoy Blogger (PB) prays that in his stead come forth thousands more, although much better if multiplied in millions, who would be inspired by his positive attitude in life.<br />
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What triggered the untimely demise of this remarkable teenage athlete who his coach shared as having cared much for his body, is to date mysterious and baffling.<br />
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God moves in mysterious ways. We never can tell when we are called.<br />
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Things happen in our life so fast, even with our love ones, sometimes, when we least expect it.<br />
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In <i>Revelation 16:15</i>, St. John wrote of Almighty God’s message to all men, <i>“Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed.”</i><br />
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What is important are<i> </i>ready in both body and spirit to accept death? If not, when will we be ready?<br />
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If the time comes, will we still have to time to tell God to wait?<br />
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When we see our love ones depart from us, do we not feel a loss or a void in our life which we know we cannot redo, alter, rewind or edit?<i><br />
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While we have time living in this world, will it not be more worthwhile if we do cherish the presence of our love ones in our midst and show our care, love, humility, understanding and forgiveness that our life and theirs may become more blessed, happier and more meaningful as we move forward instead of blaming each other for what we know we can only learn from ... as we can never undo the past?<br />
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Christ states in <i>Matthew 6:27, “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”</i> and adds further in <i>Matthew 6:34, “Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble (or evil) of its own.” </i><br />
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Blessed are those who continue do good and inspire us in this life and those who have gone, as we pray for eternal peace of their soul as they rejoin our Heavenly Father, our Almighty God and Creator.<br />
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As in <i>Matthew 6:33</i>, Jesus tell his disciples, <i>"... seek first His (God’s) kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."</i><br />
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[Read on our related post on <a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/12/commentary-on-michael-jacksons-ghost-on.html">"<i>Commentary on Michael Jackson's Ghost on Live TV."</i></a>]<br />
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Let us continue to pray for guidance in this world as we KJOH.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/obama-rescinds-bush-era-conscience-regs/">http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/obama-rescinds-bush-era-conscience-regs/</a><br />
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We pray for the respect to human dignity and the preservation of life as we detest abortion practices that continue to ruin American Society and the world.<br />
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There have been studies made on those who had undergone abortion with many of them regretting it as they had more health problems later on aside from the guilt that they have carried as they journey through life, with a good number experiencing broken families.<br />
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With a forgiving and merciful God, I pray for their guidance and renewal as they become witness to the ill effects of abortion, that others may learn from their mistakes.<br />
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In <i>Hebrew 6:7-8</i>, Saint Paul writes, <i>"Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for who it is formed receives the blessing of God. But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned."</i><br />
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Listen well and heed God's commandments and Christ's teachings as we are being reminded by Jesus when he said to his disciples in <i>Matthew 13:14-15, “In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah,</i><br />
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<i>“You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving; for this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.” </i><br />
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Let's be guided in the truth as we adhere to God's words in Christ Jesus, that we and our family be blessed in this life and the life to come as we KJOH. <br />
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Read on above link and see how a beautiful entertainment celebrity, Sharon Lee Giganti, found the light and now wants to share her incredible transformation and renewal through her life experience.<br />
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Sharon is now happy serving as a catechist and a professed member of the Holy Family Institute.<br />
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<i>In John 14:6 </i>Jesus said to His apostles, <i>“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”.</i><br />
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Further in <i>John 3:16</i>, Jesus said, <i>“For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”</i><br />
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Trust in God through His Son Jesus, our Lord and Savior, and believe in him as you become a witness to his goodness, his words and everything will be alright.<br />
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This blogger did, and he is now happy counting his blessings, at peace in his spirit as he lifts up everything to him after doing what he feels is best after seeking help and guidance through prayers and thanksgiving in Jesus ... then prays that "God's will be done." Yes, let's have fun as we KJOH. </div><br />
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As we pray for peace, order and justice in the Middle East, let us get inspiration from Chronicles 7:14 which states in God's words through the prophets, “If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” <br />
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In the second letter of St. Paul to the <i>Corinthians (4:1-6)</i>, he has challenged everyone to become steadfast in their faith and glorify Christ in his teachings in the face of the growing temptations in this material world of high rise buildings, highly computerized technology and things of the flesh, <i>“Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways, we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. </i><br />
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<i>"On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God… The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.”</i><br />
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If we really love our neighbors, we have to share to light, and see the truth in love with God through Jesus.<br />
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[read on our related inspirational link post on <a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2011/02/beneath-turmoil-in-middle-east-signs-of.html">"Beneath Turmoil in Middle East, Signs of New Movement for Muslim Renewal"]</a><br />
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Jean and Scott Adam with Phillis Macay and Bob Riggle were spreading God's love in Jesus with their bible giving ministry when they were killed as hostages under Somali pirates ... they did not die in vain ... as we pray for peace and love in Christ that the whole world may see the light with the death of these modern day martyrs who died spreading Christ's love as they have shown deep in their hearts their love for others.<br />
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</div>In <i>John 15:12-13</i>, Jesus reiterated his greatest commandment to his apostles, <i>“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” </i><br />
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Beyond the hostage drama and the violence that occurred, many of you may want to look at what happened on a different perspective guided by more related verses from the bible. <br />
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In <i>Philippians 1:21</i>, Saint Paul writes as he rejoices in God’s words and in his overwhelming faith and love in Jesus, <i>“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”</i><br />
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Above powerful verses may have inspired Jean and Scott Adam and their two friends, as some of you may want to reflect and internalize in our spirit.<br />
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We see violence, hatred, vengeance, obsession with lust and money which spell the lack of love in our midst as many of us get over our emotions and are tempted to sin.<br />
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More often we fail to see the light as we prefer to dominate our life with darkness in our mind. Will not this further push us down to the bottomless pit where there is no return?<br />
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Is it not time that we turn to God and pray for justice as we lift everything to Him? And henceforth, pray with guidance that God's will be done.<i><br />
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“... fear God and keep His commandments, which is the duty of man,” </i>as we read in <i>Ecclesiastes 12:13-14, </i>whence, shall God<i> “bring indeed every deed into judgment, including every hidden things, whether it is good or evil.” </i><br />
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</i>In <i>John 8:31-32,</i> Jesus states, <i>“If you hold to my teaching you are really my disciples; then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free,” </i><br />
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And in <i>Chronicles 7:14</i> it states in God's words, <i>“If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”</i><br />
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</i>In <i>Matthew 21:42-43</i>, on the 'Parable of the Tenants' Jesus said when asked of what the landlord will do to the wicked tenants, <i>“Have you never read in the scriptures:<br />
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‘The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone, the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous is our eyes.<br />
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‘Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”<br />
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Learn from above link and the many comments, see the truth in Christ when compared with what the Masonic Lodge professes.<br />
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Whilst we as Christians believe in "love" of God and of neighbors that spell the greatest commandment through the love of Jesus, his words and his teachings, let us not forget that we have a duty to lighten the path of all unbelievers to the "Truth" in Christ, our Lord and Savior, as one that leads to salvation and eternal life.<br />
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And in <i>1 John 4:13-16</i>, apostle and gospel writer John proclaims through the divine guidance of the Holy Spirit who Christ Jesus is, <i>“We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.”</i><br />
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In the <i>second letter</i> of St. Paul to the <i>Corinthians (4:1-6)</i>, he has challenged everyone to become steadfast in their faith and glorify Christ in his teachings in the face of the growing temptations in this material world of high rise buildings, highly computerized technology and things of the flesh, <i>“Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways, we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. </i><br />
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<i>"On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God… The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.”</i><br />
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[Read further on this related enlightening link, a write up on<i> <a href="http://www.biblebelievers.com/jmelton/Lodge.html">"The Plain Truth About the Lodge" - by James L. Melton</a></i><a href="http://www.biblebelievers.com/jmelton/Lodge.html">]</a><i> </i><br />
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And Jesus made it clear to all, in <i>Matthew 5:17-20</i>, as he strongly asserted, <i>“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law of the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them; I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.” </i><br />
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[Listen to Catholic evangelist, Fr. Robert Barron,<i> <a href="http://wordonfire.org/WOF-Radio/Sermons/Sermon-Archive-for-2011/Sermon-527-Preaching-the-Radical-Word-6th.aspx">on his insights on above powerful verse and related verses for added inspiration</a></i>]<i> </i><br />
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<i>In John 14:6</i> (Holy Bible) Jesus said to His apostles, <i>“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”. Further in John 3:16, Jesus said, “For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” </i><br />
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<i>“I and the father are one”.</i> In <i>John 14: 11-14</i> Jesus added, <i>“Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me… I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.”</i><br />
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And as in <i>Matthew 6:33</i>, <i>“Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.”</i><br />
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In <i>John 8:31-32</i>, to the Jews who have believed him, Jesus said, <i>“If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” </i><br />
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<b>Spiritual Warfare</b><br />
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This fast ever changing world has slowly alienated us from God and the truth in Jesus with the many evil practices that have engulfed ever doubting men who have little or no faith at all in Jesus. <br />
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This has been the main strategy of the evil one to veer us away from God in Jesus. Don't you think he has been successful? <br />
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Just look around you, can you not see the dwindling morals of society with abortion practices that kill being everywhere, bullying in schools and public places, racism, lack of freedom of religion in many countries, people promoting the sin of lust in pornography, prostitution, gay marriages, addiction to computer and video games, addiction to drugs, alcohol, gambling and smoking, excessive vanity to beautify oneself that eventually distorts ones natural beauty and inner harmony, curses and slander being a part of ones vocabulary that hurt not only humans but also God as man is made in his image and likeness, reluctance in allotting a day of worship for God on the Sabbath, rape and senseless killings, corruption in work, family and in the government, non-payment of debts from neighbors, lies and scams everywhere especially in the internet victimizing hapless and honest individuals for the sake of monetary gains and many more which have utterly disregarded love of God and of neighbors as embodied in the <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resource.php?n=30">Ten Commandments</a> and in Jesus' greatest commandment and teachings in the New Testament?<br />
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In <i>Matthew 22:37-40</i>, Jesus said to the Pharisees on the question of what is the greatest commandment, <i>“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law of the Prophets hung on these two commandments.”</i><br />
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Beliefs in Freemasonry and the Masonic Lodge, on the other hand, are prone to disregard the truth that Jesus Christ is our true Redeemer with their own set of beliefs and practices.<br />
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Instead, they honor Hiram (Hiram Abif), believed to be the builder of King Solomon's Temple and is the Freemasons followers' epitome of "fidelity to one's word and the brevity of life," "murdered by three ruffians during an unsuccessful attempt to force him to divulge the Master Mason's secret password" (as sourced from Wikipedia). <br />
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Similar practices have prompted the Catholic clergy and many other Christian sect leaders and pastors to admonish their followers not to join these organizations because of their heretic nature.<br />
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<i>2 Corinthians 10:3-5</i> exhorts us in St. Paul to remain faithful to Jesus and shun from ways that try to alienate us from Christ, <i>“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”</i><br />
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With this temporary life we have here on earth, even if we put the average life span to around 55 to 80 years, is it not too obvious to be too short compared to eternity?<br />
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Would we allow then the evil one to fool us still that it is better to be enslaved to sin and be happy in this material world than to be free from sin and gain life eternal in Christ?<br />
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In <i>1 John 2:15-17</i>, St. John tells us, <i>“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world – the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does – comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.”</i><br />
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[Read our Wikipedia link for your <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_Freemasonry">educational consumption, "Christianity and Freemasonry."</a>]<br />
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This has been made clear in the Holy Scriptures of the bible that there would be people who have ears but refuse to listen, have eyes but refuse to see as they are content of the worldly pleasures that this life has manifested on them and embedded in their minds and spirit as a rejection of the truth in the Holy Bible and in Christ Jesus as the true Son of God.<br />
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As Jesus has said to his apostles (Matthew 13:14-15), <i>“In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, </i><br />
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<i>“You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving; for this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.” </i><br />
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And may we not forget to strengthen further ourselves, especially our children, psychologically, physically, emotionally and spiritually from the <i>curses</i> that resulted from immoral, pagan and heretic practices that even our forefathers may have unknowingly joined, participated in or entered into with the <i>"Armor of God"</i> in the many challenges, trials and temptations that they may pass in this life, as we too, should wear every second, every minute, every hour in our life, to equip us with the tools to empower us through the Holy Spirit against evil forces in the unseen realm of <i>"spiritual warfare"</i> ever present in this world. <br />
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By great faith and good works, and by using the mighty name of "Jesus", coupled with intense prayers invoking the presence of the Holy Spirit, of forgiveness and mercy for us all, together with the sins of our immediate and past or great ancestors, we will never fail in our quest against the evil one. <br />
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Roman Catholics do the powerful <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Pray-the-Rosary">Holy Rosary</a> and the <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resource.php?n=318">Divine Mercy prayers</a> for the forgiveness of sins, and for spiritual guidance and enlightenment as well. <br />
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The right tools to use are further emphasized in <i>Ephesians 6:13-16, "Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints."</i><br />
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<b>St. Peter on False Teachers and Their Destruction</b><br />
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In <i>2 Peter 1:1-22</i>, St. Peter writes of “False Teachers and Their Destruction:”<br />
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<i> “But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them – bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.</i><br />
<i> ‘For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment, if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deed he saw and heard) – if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority.</i><br />
<i> ‘Bold and the arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings, yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord. But these men blasphemes in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.</i><br />
<i> ‘They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you. With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed – accursed brood! They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaan son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness. But he was reduced for his wrongdoing by a donkey – a beast without speech – who spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophets madness.</i><br />
<i> ‘These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to lustful distress of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity – for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the cared command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”</i><br />
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Be wary though, as <i>St. Paul </i>reminds us<i>, “Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted,” (Galatians 6:1), </i>as we pray for guidance and enlightenment in assertively showing our brothers the right path with works of love and in truth, and as we hold on ever strong in our faith in Christ Jesus, as he reveals the signs of this truth in this life whilst we learn to open our hearts to the Holy Spirit.<br />
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In <i>Philippians 1:21</i>, Saint Paul writes as he rejoices in God’s words and in his overwhelming faith and love in Jesus, <i>“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”</i><br />
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If in everything that we do, we need to follow God's commandments and be faithful to Jesus' teachings and the beatitudes (as in <i>Matthew 5:1-12</i>): to love one another, to humble ourselves and be poor in spirit, to be forgiving as God has been forgiving, and to be compassionate and caring, then would there not be true peace in ourselves and in our life?<br />
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Whilst we respect the practice of all religion amongst all people in this world, the need to stand by our faith is our calling and that the whole world may know about the truth in the teachings of Christ Jesus as we show our love for all our neighbors as that of God's love for all men manifested in His Son Jesus.<br />
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As in <i>John 3:16</i>, Jesus said, <i>“For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” </i><br />
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In <i>Matthew 5:3-10,</i> Jesus Christ said,<br />
<i>"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.</i><br />
<i> Blessed are the those who mourn for they will be comforted.</i><br />
<i> Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.</i><br />
<i> Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.</i><br />
<i> Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy.</i><br />
<i> Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God.</i><br />
<i> Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called the sons of God.</i><br />
<i> Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness for theirs is the</i><br />
<i> kingdom of God."</i><br />
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And our God is a "God of love and of life, a God of peace, humility, mercy and forgiveness, and He is good all the time"<br />
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Reading from the book of <i>Jeremiah 33:11</i> in the Old Testament, <i>"Give thanks to the Lord Almighty, for the Lord is good; his love endures forever." </i><br />
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In <i>Matthew 6:33</i>, Jesus tell his disciples, <i>"... seek first His (God's) kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."</i><br />
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<i>Also in Matthew 5:19</i>, Jesus said to the crowd, <i>"Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven."</i><br />
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And in <i>John 15:12</i>, Jesus made clear his commandment of love, <i>"... Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."</i><br />
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<i>"I and the father are one".</i> In John 14: 11-14 Jesus added, <i>"Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me... I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it."</i><br />
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Even before the world was made, God had already chosen us to be his through our union with Christ, as in <i>Ephesians 1:4 </i>(echoed from similar messages in <i>Isaiah 49:16 and Jeremiah 1:5</i>). And those who believe and do what God teaches will be blessed. Still, we should not lose heart but try to win the unbelievers that they too may see the light and be healed. As Jesus has said to his apostles <i>(Matthew 13:14-15), "In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah,</i><br />
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<i> "You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving; for this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them."</i><br />
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In <i>Luke 10:21-22</i>, Jesus full of joy through the Holy Spirit said to his apostles, <i>"I praise you Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure."</i><br />
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<i>"All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to who the Son chooses to reveal him."</i><br />
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Many people had the privilege of seeing Jesus, and there would be other people in this lifetime to be given the chance to see Jesus, however, not all will.<br />
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And for the true believers, in us, his spirit lives. Many will be called, but only a few will be chosen to see and witness with Jesus in their hearts.<br />
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Many will continue to despise and refuse to believe in him despite the many miracles that may happen and will happen in his name in our lifetime as they chose to material gain over spiritual enlightenment.<br />
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And we pray for these people that one day they may be guided and see the light.<br />
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Jesus added further in <i>Luke 10:23 "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it."</i><br />
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Upon being asked by the Pharisees who were testing Jesus of his teachings, in <i>Matthew 22:37-40</i>, Jesus said to them on the question of what is the greatest commandment, <i>“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law of the Prophets hung on these two commandments.”</i><br />
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When asked about judgment day, in <i>Matthew 25:31-40</i>, Jesus said to his disciples, <i>“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with, him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly gory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.</i><br />
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<i> Then the King will way to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirst and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.</i><br />
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<i> The righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we wee you sick or in prison and go to visit you?"</i><br />
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<i>The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’”</i><br />
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And looking back at <i>Proverbs 29:23</i>, it states, <i>“A man’s pride brings him low, but a man of lowly spirit gains honor.”</i><br />
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<i>Proverbs 15:9-10</i> puts it, <i>“The Lord detests the way of the wicked but he loves those who pursue righteousness. Stern discipline awaits him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die.”</i><br />
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And in <i>1 John 4:13-16,</i> apostle and gospel writer John proclaims through the divine guidance of the Holy Spirit who Christ Jesus is, <i>“We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.”</i><br />
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In the parable of the tenants, the landlord’s servants and his son himself were all killed by the ungrateful tenants sent to harvest the fruits in his land. And in <i>Matthew 21:42-43</i> Jesus said when asked of what the landlord will do to the tenants, <i>“Have you never read in the scriptures:</i><br />
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<i> ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone, the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous is our eyes.’</i><br />
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</i><br />
<i>Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”</i><br />
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May all be guided by these words and heed God’s words in Jesus, that all will be saved from imminent destruction as we abide by him to bear good fruit at harvest or day of judgment. <br />
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In <i>Matthew 7:15, 19-20</i>, Jesus said while preaching to the crowd, <i>“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly they are ferocious wolves… Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.”</i><br />
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Jesus reminds us not to lose our soul by clinging to what is worldly or evil. <i> </i><br />
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<i>In Matthew 16:25-26</i>, he tells his disciples, <i>“For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?”</i><br />
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And regarding his teachings, Jesus made it clear to his disciples in <i>Matthew 24:35 </i>as he said,<i> “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”</i><br />
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Above link on Yahoo TV shows the man with the booming voice, Ted Williams, as he finally finds the truth in God and now listens more to his mom to keep God in his heart. <br />
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In <i>Proverbs 28:13</i>, it states, <i>"He who conceals his</i><br />
<i>transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion."</i><br />
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Blessed with 9 children, Ted Williams lost control of himself as he forgot about God and submitted to peer pressure, drugs and other vices.<br />
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Getting back to God has been his mom's advice but he never listened before and now, after his unfortunate ordeal of being lonely, sad and homeless, he finally finds compassion, forgiveness and redemption with the hands of God leading him to a brighter tomorrow as a video showing his beautiful voice went viral on the internet and on national television news that resulted in several job offers.<br />
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In <i>Matthew 16:25-26</i>, Jesus tells his disciples, <i>“For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoesoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?”</i><br />
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Indeed, God moves in mysterious ways and Ted, by the struck of fate, his moving story has become a worldwide sensation making him an instrument of God's love and mercy for man.<i><br />
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In the bible, the book Ecclesiastes reminds us that everything in life is meaningless, but not until we learn to understand the wisdom of God and strive to become mature in spirit that we learn to <i>“fear God and keep His commandments, which is the duty of man,” (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14), </i>whence, shall God<i> “bring indeed every deed into judgment, including every hidden things, whether it is good or evil.” </i><br />
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In <i>Matthew 11:28-30, </i>Jesus says, <i>“Come to me all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” </i><br />
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As this touching story of Ted Williams unfolds, let us hope and pray that more Ted Williams will come to see God's light and wisdom by following the teachings of Christ Jesus, God's Only Begotten Son, especially in these days of economic depression and uncertainty when many people are lost and confused turning into quick remedies such as drugs, thievery and other crimes, sex, porn, gambling and other worldly vices and pleasures that can only lead into more troubles and problems as they get trapped into evil and into the dark side of life. <i> </i><br />
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What is happening to us in this world is all of our making and we have to stand up and take responsibility by being more cognizant of our worldly and ungodly behaviors that has kept us away from God and prone to sin.<br />
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God has always reminded us to change but often, we do what is against His commandments and we never listen to His words of wisdom that can help us overcome everything in this life.<br />
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In <i>Matthew 19:26</i>, Jesus said to his apostles, <i>“With God, all things are possible.” </i><br />
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And it is written in<i> 2 Chronicles 7:14, "If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” </i><br />
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The need for spiritual guidance and enlightenment in God through His Son, Jesus, can lead us to a better life ... and into life eternal life. <i> </i><br />
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In <i>John 14:6</i> Jesus said to His apostles, <i>“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”. </i>Further in<i> John 3:16,</i> Jesus said<i>, “For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” </i><br />
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A great dancing couple, do you agree? They appear to be trained dancers with their well coordinated moves.<br />
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I just wonder, the supposed bride is not wearing a more appropriate wedding dress, unless they were married in a civil court?<br />
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Whether or not this was scripted for funniest stuff, it is still cool and an awesome entertainment for everybody.<br />
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<b>Sharing What You Do Best </b><br />
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Will it not be great if married couples can offer some quality time to do the same for their guests? <br />
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This can be very entertaining for anyone, and see the appreciation that follows, lol.<br />
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Sharing your God given talents can make life more meaningful especially when shared with others.<br />
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For a more memorable wedding reception after church ceremonies, it is probably one of the best ways for a newly married couple to show their love for each other jump starting their celebration with a fitting dance number in complete harmony with one another as you have been married as one body and one spirit with God in the holy sacrament of matrimony. <br />
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Just make sure you can dance with both feet, or you can forget the whole thing, lol.<br />
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No, don't give up, you can do other things you do best and show them as early, you are ready to face the challenges of a married couple, 'for better or for worse, for richer for poorer and ‘til death do (you) part,' as you dedicate your efforts for others, that is, your family and friends right there supporting you.<br />
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You may want to sing your favorite song doing a duet, a poem that will inspire your marriage, a verse or a biblical message or a parable that will keep you holding on together no matter what and at whatever cost.<br />
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<a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resource.php?n=1266">[<i>read our related link on ‘Preparing for marriage” via catholic news agency.com</i>] </a><br />
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<b>Marriage as ‘Forever’ and Annulment</b><br />
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And in the Catholic faith, however, marriage is forever and divorce is taboo. "Being one in body and spirit with God," let no man separate it, unless it has been void or proven to be invalid from the beginning to which an annulment may be filed which can take up to 16 months to process for a possible approval by the diocesan Tribunal.<br />
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In <i>Matthew 19:5-6,</i> Jesus said to the Pharisees on the question of man divorcing his wife, <i>“Haven’t you read, at the beginning the Creator made them male and female, and said, ‘for this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one. Therefore, what God has joined together, let man not separate.”</i><br />
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When one or both parties may have entered the marriage in good will, but with lack of openness, honesty, maturity, full freedom of choice, the right motivation, emotional stability, or capacity to establish a community of life and love with another person, this may open up the doors to a possible annulment case for the Tribunal to decide. <br />
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On the question of the necessity of a 'pre-nuptial agreement' in marriage, I am personally against this as it undermines the sacredness of marriage and reduces it to material considerations and negates the vow of oneness in love even in financial or economic difficulties brought about by certain situations beyond the control of each spouse. This, for me, in the true test of the greater love that each spouse has on each other, that no material element or issue may break this sacred bond together, and that while death may separate each one from the other, their oneness may be cherished together even beyond this life, as they become one with God having lived in God, and ready for life eternal.<br />
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As in <i><a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/4-4.htm">Matthew 4:4, Jesus said that 'man cannot live by bread alone but by the words from the mouth of God,' </a></i>the more we should become stronger as we are guided by God's words, more than we may be lured to the bondage of sin whence we may be subject to the <i><a href="http://bible.cc/romans/12-19.htm">wrath of God as in Romans 12:19</a></i>, compromising that elusive goal to eternal bliss.<br />
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Every person has the right to ask the Church to examine a previous marriage and see if it was a valid marriage or not, taking into consideration the presence or the lack of a freely chosen commitment between two mature, knowledgeable and capable adults to enter a covenant of love in a community for life, with priority to spouse and children.<br />
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<a href="http://www.idotaketwo.com/christian_remarriage.html">[<i>read our related link on Catholic Annulment Guide via Idotaketwo.com</i>]</a><br />
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<b>Remarriage After Annulment</b><br />
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In the end, saving the marriage would be the other object of the church as much as it can and it will welcomes any couple who had a previous annulment of their marriage as they so decide to remarry. <br />
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Some may end up doing this, though rare as it may seem, if they stay unmarried in the Catholic Church with a different spouse, as they come back to terms and often find themselves in a more fruitful and a stronger relationship after a ‘temporary separation.’ <br />
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Yes, that's right, why did they ever decide to seek annulment in the first place? <br />
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God moves in mysterious ways. <br />
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Anyone in the Spirit, can always seek guidance and enlightenment in the Holy Spirit. And before you make a drastic decision to change your life through annulment, pray, and pray hard. <br />
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Humble yourselves before the Lord and empty yourselves of your pride and arrogance, selfishness or deceit, temper and childishness, hatred, boredom and impatience, sins of lust, excessive vanity and materialism and instead find true peace, love, mercy and forgiveness in the words of God through His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, and everything will be alright as you keep him in the center of your life.<br />
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Your love for your children, whether legitimate or adopted , may help keep your love for each other burning and shining. <br />
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Even if you have no children, you have each other and the whole world to love. When you are in the love of Christ, your love will flourish as you continue to give thanks and pray, and will grow abundantly in Christ as your marriage will be blessed. <br />
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There have been amazing instances of childless couples being gifted by the Lord with a child. Sarah, the supposed old and barren wife of Abraham, still gave birth to a gifted and blessed child in Isaac because of God's love for Abraham. <br />
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Remember, <i>"with God, all things are possible" (Matthew 19:26).</i><br />
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And in <i>Proverbs 37:4, “Delight yourself with the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.” </i><br />
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And those who so decide to remarry after their marriage has been annulled, nevertheless, requires the help of their parish priest or the assigned parish office staff member for this purpose.<br />
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If you heard of and believe in the saying, “Love comes out lovelier, ‘the second time around,’” then you know what I mean.<br />
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[Read on our related post: <i><a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2011/06/love-and-saint-paul-as-against-self.html">"'Love' by Saint Paul, Love of God and Self-Pity" which, for me, is the best definition of true and pure love in Christ.</a></i>] <br />
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<b>Seek God’s Guidance in Christ</b><br />
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As I have mentioned earlier, before any couple decides on a divorce or an annulment, please pray and take away pride and arrogance in the relationship as it is living in God’s spirit that we should be guided, speaking with love and in truth, with humility and forgiveness for a more peaceful and harmonious family life. <br />
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In <i>1 Corinthians 7:2-7</i>, St. Paul says on marriage, <i>“But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise, the wife to her husband. The wife’s body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband’s body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife. Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. I say this as a concession, not as a command. I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God. One has this gift and another one has that.” </i><br />
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Perhaps, men are normally prone to long for sexual pleasure that is why the Holy Spirit in St. Paul, as a concession, admonishes husband and wife not to deprive one another from this bodily pleasure to free them from evil and from further temptation of the flesh. <br />
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Expressing a deeper understanding of 'unconditional love' for each other makes the body and spirit one with God as they selflessly offer their love for each other in true passion and grace.<br />
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In this way, the love of God in you is consummated.<br />
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And alas, how wonderful and beautiful this feeling can be as you are doing this not only to show your deep love for each other, but because of your deep love for God our Almighty Father and Creator.<br />
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And what greater gift can God give you than rewarding you with heavenly happiness out of your faithfulness in Him and being one in Christ, His Son, as you express your selfless and unconditional love for each other in this human endearment in total surrender and sacrifice, as this has become<i> 'God's will for you in Christ Jesus.'</i><br />
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And what could be a more fitting gesture of His love for you as He grants you a child, one of the greatest gifts and treasures that one can have in Christ.<br />
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In <i>1 Thessalonians 5:6-17</i>, Saint Paul, after he admonished everyone to live in peace with each other, to encourage the timid to help the weak, to be patient with everyone, nobody to pay wrong for wrong and to always be kind to each other and to everyone else, he said, <i>“Be joyful always, pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” </i><br />
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Pray that married couples do not deprive one another of being expressive and passionate of their love for each other by retaliation for unmet expectations or needs as this is in itself a sin of pride and selfishness, rather, surrender and submit to each other as both their body and spirit belong to one another, having been blessed as one with God through the Holy Spirit in the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony. <br />
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Otherwise, they may just be inviting the evil one to get into their weakest link and succumb to sins of lust and materialism, whence, they become unwise instruments of evil than being sacred instruments of God’s plan to keep their marriage and family life eternally blessed.<br />
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I feel and believe that each wedded couple surrenders practically everything in this life to each other during their marriage, and their vows of unconditional love, care, humility and total commitment to one another in a sacred covenant with God should further bind them together in love.<br />
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To selflessly and continuously pursue this goal is but honorable and sublime… and let no one put this asunder. <br />
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If one falters and falls to sin, let true love with humility, mercy and forgiveness reign as against pride and selfishness with that willingness to renew one self and accept each other again, as God has been loving, merciful and forgiving in Christ, and finds happiness in seeing all his lambs and children happy being one with him, and becoming ever faithful and obedient to God's will.<br />
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And remember, we cannot hide his anything from God as He sees everything. <br />
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For all those who continue sin and stay astray, they 'will repay' and repay they will.<br />
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In <i>Romans 12:17-21</i>, Saint Paul in Christ writes,<i> "Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eye of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘it is mine to avenge, I wrill repay,’ says the Lord. On the contrary:</i><br />
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<i> “If your enemy is hungry, feed him, </i><br />
<i> If he is thirsty, give him something to drink.</i><br />
<i> In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”</i><br />
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<i>"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”</i><br />
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God cares about what we do to our bodies and self abuse is being discouraged as in<i> John 31:1-3, “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl. For what is man’s lot from God above, his heritage from the Almighty on high? Is it not ruin for the wicked, disaster for those who do wrong?”</i><br />
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In <i>Matthew 5:28</i>, Jesus exhorts the crowd against adultery, <i>“But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”</i><br />
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In <i>1 Corinthians 10:13</i>, St. Paul writes, <i>“No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful, he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.” </i><br />
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We always pray for enlightenment with great self control and discipline that should help us in our fight against evil and slavery from sin that we may always keep our hearts and spirit pure in every way, as we prepare to meet our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, someday, in his coming.<br />
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And would it not be a blessing to see our children grow with much love and joy in God’s guidance that they too may be blessed with a happy family in the next generation?<br />
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We do not want material things, the evil one or ‘Mammon’ to rule our life would we?<br />
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God wants us to be the master of material things while we give thanks and glorify His Holy Name in all these, and not to become a slave of anything material.<br />
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Remember, all these that we have on earth are all temporary. We cannot bring any of them when we die can we?<br />
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As such, God is watching us. <br />
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Being ever faithful to our marriage vows and to our covenant with Him through Christ Jesus in this life as we keep and obey his commandments for the love of God and of our neighbors, we are bound to enjoy heavenly happiness and peace as early as in this life, and a much better extension awaits us leading to life eternal.<br />
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Being one with God in Christ makes our marriage and family life truly blessed as our faith and good works make us whole with God, and this makes our relationship wonderful and magical as it is meant to be .... with Christ, it is forever. <br />
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And as always, KJOH (Keeping Jesus in our hearts) can make our marriage relationship even better, do you agree?<br />
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You may read further and get more inspiration on our related post on <a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/06/almost-600-couples-renew-marriage-vows.html">“<i>Commentary on – 600 Couples Renew Marriage Vows in DC,” for inspiration.</i></a><br />
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As a prelude to our above featured video link on <a href="http://time.com/">time.com</a>, it may interest you to note that Mark Zuckerburg was born with a dentist dad and a psychiatrist for a mom, although she preferred to assist her husband in his dental clinic, and perhaps, to spend more time with the growing Mark. <br />
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Mark is now the youngest billionaire in the world as facebook CEO and people are just amazed how this wonder kid did it fast big time. <br />
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If you believe in the great role the parents have in keeping their children smart from conception to adulthood and in taking a positive outlook in life with that willingness to share with others, then, you may be in the right path of helping grow another wonder kid. <br />
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Pinoy Blogger (PB) believes that the love that we can share in this world goes back to us in multiple blessings. <br />
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Life may not be easy as trials, criticisms and temptations abound. <br />
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And it may not only be sheer determination, guts, will power and resilience that make everything move the way they do in this world, rather, it is faith in God Almighty through His Son Jesus that puts more fuel and power into any worthy endeavor, praising and thanking God and giving credit to whom it is due, that our good Lord may be glorified. <br />
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It does not matter how high your aspirations may be, just keep your expectations low and never wane in your trust in Jesus, for it is in your moments of failure that you must stay strong, calm and composed for he is with you, never to be carried away by your emotions.<br />
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And he knows what is best for you. If it is not for you it will not be for you. Whatever the outcome, win or lose, you stay a winner with him.<br />
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And you will be amazed what greater plans he has for you and for all of us who believe in him. <br />
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Not until we see and understand things this way, we may not be able see our dreams to last as we see ourselves stumble and fall many times in our life and just believing in ourselves devoid of love, compassion, charity, mercy and forgiveness for others may not be wise. <br />
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Let us learn from the examples in history where men of high stature fail because of their uncaring stance for others. <br />
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In the end we know that those who have been unjust and persecuted others will fall into the pit of darkness as they themselves cannot see peace within their spirit as we see in them a proud, arrogant, selfish and an unforgiving spirit.<br />
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Jesus reminds us not to lose our soul by clinging to what is worldly or evil. In<i> Matthew 16:25-26</i>, he tells his disciples, <i>“For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?”</i><br />
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And further in <i>Matthew 5:3-10</i>, Jesus Christ said in sharing the 8 Beatitudes,<br />
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<i>“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.</i><br />
<i>Blessed are the those who mourn for they will be comforted. </i><br />
<i>Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.</i><br />
<i>Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.</i><br />
<i>Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy.</i><br />
<i>Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God.</i><br />
<i>Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called the sons of God.</i><br />
<i>Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness for theirs is the</i><br />
<i>kingdom of God.”</i><br />
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With God on our side, our complete trust and faith in Him will lead us through. <br />
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Whatever and whoever you may be and the rest of the world will see your dreams through even beyond your lifetime, if only you trust, believe and follow his words of love in truth and justice. <br />
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As Jesus Christ has said to his disciples in <i>Matthew 24:35</i> with reference to his teachings, <i>“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”</i><br />
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Read on related our related post on <a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/12/gods-awesome-works-in-gods-awesome.html">“God’s Awesome Works on God’s Awesome Creation - Commentary on Flicker Pics.”</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yahooeditorspicks/galleries/72157625550600212/">High-Speed Captures - a gallery on Flickr</a><br />
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See these great high speed capture photos on our link above. <br />
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Out of God's creation comes out man's creativity and ingenuity. And with man's talents and prowess is the affirmation of Our Almighty God's grandeur as He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. <br />
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Do not all of what you have seen in our link show God's awesome power in His foremost creation which is man supported by nature, God’s other complementing creation? <br />
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Without God, how can all these happen? Clearly, man cannot do all these alone. <br />
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Go beyond physics and science, and open your heart and spirit, you will see and understand what I mean (watch interesting videos and web links along highlighted phrases). <br />
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If you dig deeper into the Holy Bible and seek its true meaning, it all spells one thing, that there is only one God who has created us all, gave us His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to save us all from our sins and lead us to life eternal. And in <i>John 4:24</i>, Jesus declared, <i>“God is spirit, and His worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”</i><br />
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Consider the following truths:<br />
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<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>No wonder <a href="http://www.ask.com/wiki/Charles_Darwin">Charles Darwin</a> cannot even support his evolution theory with missing links (<i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1iCjKWzeEE">see our interesting you tube video link</a></i>) still to be proven;</li>
<li>even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein">Albert Einstein</a> who despite being considered by some as an agnostic still sticks to his humble views on the "weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being" believed by some to lean towards God's existence (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWraC-OUudc&list=PLCE22CBAD78076ADC&index=4&playnext=4">see this enlightening you tube video link depicting how a young exceptional student like Albert Einstein may have debated with his school teacher with his early knowledge of physics</a>);</li>
<li>no UFO findings cannot be substantiated until now, most of what scientists know about the universe are all unsupported or vague theories which they try to explain based on 'scientific facts' whose very origin until now baffles them;</li>
<li>the amazing formation of the human body from fertilization, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2l1-kvKomg&feature=related">embryo to fetus to baby formation inside the womb to birth</a>, and the metabolic growth and synergy of the human anatomy in complete harmony with its surrounding environment until death is already a miracle in itself;</li>
<li>even the so called genes cannot be clearly defined with some scientists making claims of us emanating from apes making this issue all the more confusing and contradicting;</li>
<li>the mysteries of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jekxRvP-688">Shroud of Turin</a>, <a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/04/suggested-books.html">incorruptible bodies of saints</a> and other miracles attributed to <a href="http://www.near-death.com/experiences/evidence07.html">praying through saints</a> and other miracles through prayers of the religious as well as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLncO5_idk4">eucharistic transformations</a> baffles the ordinary man, more so the learned scientists;</li>
<li>findings of some doctors and scientists on <a href="http://www.near-death.com/experiences/evidence02.html">near death experiences</a> (NDE's) where the spirit separates from a clinically dead body and comes back to life now makes many believe in the consciousness of the spirit without its body and you can add your own awesome experiences with God in this life.</li>
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[Watch this very inspiring video on a great huge work of art, <a href="http://downloads.cbn.com/cbnplayer/cbnPlayer.swf?s=/vod/MW131v2_WS"> 'Resurrection of Jesus Christ' painting by Ron DiCianni which will soon be seen at the Dallas Musem -</a> thanks to Eydie Randolph for the email update]<br />
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<b>The Messiah in Jesus</b><br />
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It is no wonder that despite the wondrous miracles that Jesus had done in the latter part of his life, many people were still not convinced that he was the Messiah as prophesied by the prophets. They even condemned him to die crucified along with two thieves.<br />
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Does this not manifest that evil is in our midst and it all started in the Garden of Eden, when, Satan was successful in alluring Adam and Eve to disobey God by eating of the forbidden fruit?<br />
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And now with Christ's passion and death on the cross, his glorious resurrection and ascension into heaven, he has empowered us to defy evil and not be lured to his evil ways if we only trust and fully believe in him. <br />
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In <i>Philippians 1:21</i>, Saint Paul writes as he rejoices in God’s words and in his overwhelming faith and love in Jesus, <i>“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”</i><br />
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Further, in <i>Philippians 2:3-16,</i> Saint Paul and Timothy, by the Grace of God and through the Holy Spirit reveals the need to live and love for others, <i>“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus."</i><br />
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In <i>Romans 8:31</i>, St. Paul writes in assurance, <i>"If God is for us, who can be against us?”</i><br />
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And if you read the Holy Bible, the Old Testament is all about the covenant of God and man about the coming of God's Only Begotten Son to save us from the original sin, that of Adam and Eve, and the New Testament is the fulfillment of God's greatest gift to man, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLY7yI1xV-M&feature=related">His Son Jesus</a>, our Lord and Savior who is the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMrAafe7Mns&feature=related">Lord or Lords and the King of Kings.</a><br />
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Jesus is the "Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world." There is redemption at the moment we start to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqp89bkFe8k&feature=related">believe in him and follow him as the true Messiah</a> whom God has sent to save our souls and lead us to life everlasting, as he has shown in his life and has proclaimed his power over life and death.<br />
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<b>The Divinity of Christ</b><br />
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In <i>Luke 2:13-20</i>, upon the birth of the baby Jesus, the angel of the Lord with a great company of heavenly host said to the shepherds living out in the nearby fields, <i>“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on who his favor rests,” and they all went to Bethlehem to see the child as both Mary and Joseph were amazed how the shepherds learned all this through an angel of the Lord. “And they returned glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen.”</i><br />
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When Jesus discreetly took three of his trusted apostles, Peter, James and his brother John to a high mountain, he was suddenly transfigured into divine form seen with his face shone like the sun in his white shining clothes talking to Moses and Elijah, who appeared out of nowhere in glorious splendor. <br />
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The Transfiguration was the second time that God's voice acknowledged to glorify his Son, the first time was during Jesus' baptism through the Holy Spirit with John the Baptist at the River Jordan, in <i>Matthew 3:16-17, “At that moment, heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my Son, whom I love, with him I am well pleased.’” </i><br />
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Jesus, Moses and Elijah were overheard by the three of Christ's apostles discussing God’s plan for redemption with Jesus’ impending death on the cross. Peter said to him in his excitement of what they saw, as stated in<i> Luke 9:33-36, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters – one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” </i><br />
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Then a voice came from the cloud, saying, <i>“This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him.” </i> When the voice had spoken, they found that Jesus was alone. <br />
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And Jesus told them not to tell anyone of what they saw “not until the Son of Man is risen from the dead”. <br />
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Three apostles witnessed the transfiguration that their succeeding account of what they saw would be believed and to strengthen the hearts of the disciples whose concept of the crucifixion of Christ was one of denial. <br />
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That they not stand the way of Jesus’ fulfilling heaven’s plan to redeem man through his death, resurrection and ascension. And that we may learn to carry our own cross, deny ourselves by being humble and selfless in our efforts to lead others to him in this life that they too may see God’s promise of eternal life <i>(</i>read <i>Luke 9:22-23).</i><br />
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From the <i>Acts of the Apostles, 10:33-38, “Peter proceeded to speak to those gathered in the house of Cornelius, saying: ‘In truth, I see that God shows no partiality. Rather, in very nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him. You know the word that he sent to the Israelites as he proclaimed peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all, what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power. He went about doing and healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.’”</i><br />
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<i>“I and the father are one”. </i>In<i> John 14: 11-14 </i>Jesus added,<i> “Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me… I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.”</i><br />
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Only Jesus can claim this and he alone has claimed it with conviction. His overwhelming power over evil has countless times seen manifest on earth through his followers and former non-believers, who now enjoy the gift of faith and the fruits of God's love in Jesus. <br />
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In<i> John 6:53-58, </i>Jesus said to the crowd while teaching in the synagogue with some grumbling and unbelieving Jews around him:<br />
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<i>“I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and dies, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.”</i><br />
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In the Holy Sacrament of the Mass, through the consecration of the Holy Eucharist, Catholic Christian faithfuls humble themselves before the Lord Jesus Christ with a cleansed soul as they partake in his body and blood through the bread and wine that was offered.<br />
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With this sacrament, the covenant of God in us through Jesus is further strengthened, our faith, belief and witnessing in him as part of his flock renewed.<br />
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What greater joy can be felt than to welcome once again God's spirit with the body and blood of Jesus in your heart flowing through your veins revitalized, energized and healed in the Holy Spirit? <br />
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Nonetheless, we need to follow this up with works and good deeds. Let us be guided in <i>James 2:26, </i>as he said, <i>“As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.”</i><br />
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<i>Even before the world was made, God had already chosen us to be his through our union with Christ, as in Ephesians 1:4 (echoed from similar messages in Isaiah 49:16 and Jeremiah 1:5). And those who believe and do what God teaches will be blessed.</i><br />
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<i>Still, we should not lose heart but try to win the unbelievers that they too may see the light and be healed. As Jesus has said to his apostles (Matthew 13:14-15), “In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, </i><br />
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<i>“You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving; For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.” </i><br />
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Jesus encourages us to spread his words and teaching, as in <i>Matthew 28:19-20, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” </i><br />
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<b><i>Healing in Jesus</i></b><br />
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Have you ever noticed how our health is affected once we get carried away negatively by our emotions and reactions?<br />
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But the more we practice Christ's teachings of love, hope, faith, humility, mercy and forgiveness, the more we gain inner peace and happiness? And through this, as we are cleansed by the Holy Spirit, do we not heal faster and even help our love ones heal faster too?<br />
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[Read on: <i><a href="http://www.guidancehealthentertainment.com/2010/05/goodbye-to-heart-disease-see-how.html">Goodbye to Heart Disease? See How, and Nitric Oxide</a></i>]<br />
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Is this not the message that God wants to relay to each and everyone of us, to have faith in Him and in Christ's teachings that we can better enjoy this life on earth and to prepare ourselves for life eternal? <br />
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From the<i> Book of Ezekiel 18:3-32, </i>it is written,<i> “Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each one according to his ways, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!”</i><br />
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Now, more than ever, not only Hebrews, but all people of all other faith and religion who wish to know more about Jesus the True Messiah and the Son of God, you are herein enjoined and invited to pray for further guidance and enlightenment through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, the true Redeemer, as we open our spirit and welcome him in our hearts, then see and share the light in this site or click on <a href="http://www.mycatholicsource.com/mcs/tp/topic_page-rcia_resources.htm">RCIA</a> (You can email me via edwinoelt@yahoo.com).<br />
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Why do we have to harden our hearts and deny Christ in God when we all will one day die and be humbled like the soil of the earth, stepped on and trampled by others and feasted on by nature, and nothing, yes nothing, will we be able to bring with us except our souls and our past which will be the basis on the Day of Judgment? <br />
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Why not rather live in truth and in love, and by following Christ's words, we may have true peace and happiness that we can share with others, for the love of man, and for the love of God in Christ Jesus? Whence, we may one day enjoy the fruits of our love in God's Kingdom onto eternal life.<br />
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In <i>Psalm 95:8-11</i>, it states, <i>“Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah (means quarreling), as you did that day at Massah (means testing) in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried me, though they had seen what I did. For forty years I was angry with that generation. I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.” So I declared an oath in my anger, “They shall never enter my rest.” </i><br />
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<b><i>Prayer to Welcome Jesus in Our Hearts</i></b><br />
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<i>"Grant that I may know you dear God through Jesus, your Son, as I open my heart and spirit to you. Fill me up with your love that your Holy Spirit may come upon me with your power, care, protection, kindness, mercy and forgiveness that with you I may be cleansed from anything evil or unworthy of your presence, and that with you I may be healed, learn to forgive and be renewed that I may see and share your love and your light with others and that I may have peace in myself. Amen."</i><br />
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... recite this prayer, as I so believe that <a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/04/prayers-can-move-mountains.html">prayers can move mountains</a>, every morning when you wake up, anytime during the day and in the evening before you sleep, rest assured Jesus will reveal himself through the Holy Spirit in you.<br />
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<a href="http://www.guidancehealthentertainment.com/2010/02/jesus-christs-teachings-seen-in-9010.html"><i>[Read on our related post on 'Christ's Teachings Seen on 90:10 Principle' for further guidance]</i></a><br />
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Just look around you and see, and feel as you fully open and surrender your spirit to our Almighty God and Creator, and through His only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, you will feel oneness with him and with all of his creation.<br />
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Indeed, we have an awesome God in an awesome creation. Amen.<br />
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We do appreciate your thoughts and your comments.<br />
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<i>Read our related post on<a href="http://guidancedhealthentertainment.blogspot.com/2010/06/shroud-of-turin-burial-cloth-of-jesus.html"> "The Shroud of Turin - Burial Cloth of Jesus Christ, Resurrection Signs and NDE's."</a></i><br />
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It's appalling how people can be so weakened by lust that even pretentious preachers can be used by dark forces to commit major crimes such as kidnapping, prostitution, pedophilia and in some cases even murder under the disguise of insanity. <br />
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It took a courageous girl of 14, now 23, to expose this heinous crime after 8 long years of an agonizing wait since the abduction to the chagrin of the victim's family. <br />
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At long last, we see light at the end of the tunnel with this case about to close, seen to favor Elizabeth Smart and her family, after the estranged wife, Wanda Barzee, of the culprit, Brian David Mitchell, testified against the latter that 'he was a great deceiver.' <br />
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As in <i>Matthew 7:15, 19-20</i>, Jesus said while preaching to the crowd in Galilee with his disciples, <i>“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly they are ferocious wolves… Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.” </i><br />
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Remember that God wants us to love in truth, in peace and justice that we may always see the light. <br />
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Let us be aware that anyone who goes beyond this is deceiving us a darker path.<br />
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In <i>Matthew 6:24</i>, Jesus also said, <i>“No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Mammon (money/lust/power).”</i><br />
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