QUOTE (Adullam @ Nov 24 2008, 06:39 PM)

QUOTE (Miki @ Nov 24 2008, 12:08 PM)

Does The Pure Milk Of The Word Need To Be Pasteurized?
This is bad terminology designed to stir up controversy among those that need to hear the word in a way they can understand, It's simply milk and nothing else. They didn't even have pasteurization when God coined the term milk for baby believers
Presenting the Gospel in away babes and the ignorant can receive it isn't wrong.
Dear Addullam. This is only a start for people not the finish. What God has begun in people he will finish with meat.
Hi Mikki,
I mean do we need the word of God interpreted for us by professional clergy. Pastors, in other words, for PASTORization.
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Beloved believe not every spirit..yes there are two evil spirits at work against us all... lay them down at the foot of the Cross.
We must ask ourselves what is it that your HOLDING ON TO...????????
acceptance? from who and why?
Was Jesus accepted?????????
...he was appointed an Office his ministry on Earth (DOING THE FATHER's WILL)...but the WORLD judged him by their own standards, and he was rejected for a position that he was Qualified for, but their expectations where beyond him..and so they crucified him.
IS it I'm right and your wrong attitude...haven't we all done this...and been blinded by our own vain ambitions and pride? yes I have, I am sorry, but I'm human too. I am flesh and blood, not just words written on a screen.
The Rebel spirit on one side of the Cross and the Religious and Pious on the Other...in the Middle our Savior...yes Lord we all fall short.LORD help us, love as you love, and knowing ahead of time that it is better to give than to receive. even if we are rejected for your name's sake...
FOR that is a given...our efforts will not go unrewarded...FOR our treasure lies with the LORD. and oh what a glorious day when all bow down and give PRAISE to JESUS our KING...
and we all EMBRACE LOVE without FEAR.
In my mind's eye, to me it reminds me of a battlefield, where two opposing armies, SURRENDER to each other and EMBRACE, in total forgiveness and mercy.
Rejection...and whom was the most rejected of all...Jesus was, and still is to this day. this is what hurts me most.
I'm being attacked by my OWN household, because I love JESUS, not because I'm Bible thumping. this is the Isolation I am talking of.
When he reached out with his Love he was rejected. HOW DEEP, HOW WIDE, HOW LONG, and HOW HIGH...because he loved much and yet he was rejected.
The rejections RUNS DEEP, WIDE, HIGH, and LENGTHY, but through it all, he filled Heaven and Earth through the Cross at Calvary.
He saw the beginning and the end, and this anxiety of the whole world and their wickedness and Sin, Grieved him deeply so DEEP and was put upon him, yet
he LOVED so DEEPLY and Gave up the SPIRIT in Surrender through his Grace.
Yes Jesus loves us DEEPLY....as deeply as we hurt one another when we grieve the Holy Spirit, but there is RECONCILIATION through the Grace of God go we.
THE CROSS, hard to bear but oh Joy cometh in the morning.
We must lay it down, the rejection spirit that wishes to keep us in shackles.
YOUR NOT INVISIBLE, YOU ARE PRECIOUS IN HIS SIGHT>>> JESUS LOVES YOU
and every time you reach out in LOVE, it will not go unrewarded by our King. He knows are deepest thoughts, and our deepest desires...he is working in us all, bringing down all things that distract us and DISTANCE US FROM LOVING ONE ANOTHER.
building walls around our hearts(like cheese hardening, thanks C7) when we are hurt and lashing out.
WHO HAS HURT YOU, who has caused you pain you cannot let go of? are we not all guilty?
Is there anything that hurts more than loving someone only to have them reject you when you gave all you had.
But here is the GOOD NEWS...JESUS OVERCAME and died so that we could have eternal life with him...and I am praying that I also have the ones I have loved with me, even those whom came against me and Christ in me..... Christ's love, that they and we all may surrender and embrace his wonderful and merciful grace in a world so full of turmoil and hatred and mistrust, because of them being pressed on all sides, like they are invisible and do not matter.
WELL GUESS WHAT, you do MATTER TO CHRIST, he died for you.
You ARE PRECIOUS IN HIS SIGHT. you are HIGHLY FAVORED and written in the BOOK OF LIFE.t Jesus tells us NO YOUR LOVE WAS NOT IN VAIN.
FOR no greater love than this than to lay you life down for a friend.
Does this mean we should be a doormat..certainly not...Jesus tells us not to throw our pearls to swine.
but this doesn't mean that we pray not for our enemies, the unloving and those whose inflictions have turned them away because of
their circumstances in life that have made them hardened to love. God is no respecter of persons.
AND understand this, Jesus ALLOWS US TO BE REJECTED, ISOLATED.
How many times have you thought that O why LORD did you allow that to happen to me...only later to PRAISE HIM FOR DOING SO, for if we had not been rejected by a relationship or situation...we would have been in a worse place.
And how would we learn to love if we have not suffered for loving?
And when you give your all for Christ, for his names sake, YOU WILL BE REJECTED, count on it.
But Jesus takes that personally...This is grieving of the Holy Spirit.
If my people pray and HUMBLE themselves and TURN from their wicked ways, I will heal their land.
Jesus will lead us to all Truth...and he is ABLE to use whomever to give us a WORD of knowledge and confirmation. but ultimately knowledge is just that if not used with the WISDOM of God and the Fruit of the Spirit...that leads us always to Christ, and not the spirit of religion, but the spirit of all Truth, Christ IN us the Hope and the Glory.
I didn't know that by me saying the milk had to pastorized ( which I just meant that with comparing how Jesus turns the water into wine)for we all see through a glass darkly, but Jesus is the all consuming fire. that it would turn this topic into a Science discussion.
And I do not believe the WORD should be watered down....it is a double-edged sword, cutting to the bone and marrow...why
because the Holy Spirit convicts us of our sins, and teaching us to take the narrow road, the one less traveled.
the LETTER kills..
It is by the Spirit that the WORD is ALIVE, in us through Christ.
The FRUIT of the SPIRIT IS?