Friday, August 31, 2007
Everything that is Here
I John 2 :15 -17
Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
That is all that is here "lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life" It is what
got Adam and Eve
Gen 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
lust of the flesh "saw that the tree [was] good for food"
lust of the eyes "that it [was] pleasant to the eyes"
pride of life "a tree to be desired to make [one] wise"
It got them and if not for Jesus it will get me. But
I Jn 4:4
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
A Hebrew 11 Kind of Man
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, and a founding member of the Confessing Church. The Gestapo report on Bonhoeffer described him as "completely in the opposition." In October 1944, Bonhoeffer was moved to the dreaded Gestapo prison in Berlin; in February 1945, he was taken to Buchenwald. He was then moved to the Flossenbürg concentration camp where, on April 9, he was hanged. The SS doctor who witnessed Bonhoeffer's death later recalled a man "devout . . . brave and composed. His death ensued after a few seconds . . . I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God." Bonhoeffer sent one final message, to George Bell in England:
"This is the end, for me the beginning of life."
A Great Man of God I am going to enjoy meeting him one day.