Don't Listen to Trash Talk

Deuteronomy 13:1-6

Deuteronomy 13

"IF A prophet arises among you, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder,

And the sign or the wonder he foretells to you comes to pass, and if he says, Let us go after other gods—gods you have not known—and let us serve them,

You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being.

You shall walk after the Lord your God and [reverently] fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and cling to Him.

But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has talked rebellion and turning away from the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage; that man has tried to draw you aside from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So shall you put the evil away from your midst.

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own life entices you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods—gods you have not known, you nor your fathers,"

Jesus is saying here that there are people He has given Word Wisdom to in dreams and Prophets. They speak from Him... But.... If you are told. By any of them to do anything other then live as Christ Is in this world; 

1 John 4:17

"In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world."

Then don't go there with them... Walk away.... You know better....

PJCopty

Jesus Knows Our Works

Revelation 3:8-9

"I know your [record of] works and what you are doing. See! I have set before you a door wide open which no one is able to shut; I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept My Word and guarded My message and have not renounced or denied My name.

Take note! I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet and learn and acknowledge that I have loved you."

Jesus told us all in His Speach before He went to The Cross, that God Knows Who Is His. You can not con God, or fool The Hoky Spirit, nor can you really pull a fast one over on one that Hears The Hoky Ghost Speak...

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God Kind of Corrections

Hebrews 12:8-10

"Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all [of God’s children] share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons [at all].

Moreover, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we yielded [to them] and respected [them for training us]. Shall we not much more cheerfully submit to the Father of spirits and so [truly] live?

For [our earthly fathers] disciplined us for only a short period of time and chastised us as seemed proper and good to them; but He disciplines us for our certain good, that we may become sharers in His own holiness."

The Lord has given me some "God Kind of Discipline Talks," of late... To clear up some finishing touches to old relationships that misappropriation of my thoughts caused hurt feelings. I must own, though I know The Lord's Word, when I give it out ahead of Him, I was wrong to do so. He will deal with His Own... I will respect what He has already given me, and that is an "Eternity With Him..."

Take that Jesus corrections friends, it is worth an eternity to you...

PJCopty 

What Makes A Prophet Vary Form The Path

1 Kings 13:7-10

Then the king invited the holy man, "Join me for a meal; I have a gift for you."

"The holy man told the king, "Not on your life! You couldn't pay me enough to get me to sit down with you at a meal in this place. I'm here under God's orders, and he commanded, 'Don't eat a crumb, don't drink a drop, and don't go back the way you came.'" Then he left by a different road than the one on which he had walked to Bethel."

He is zealous, sure of his orders and obeying to the letter! So, what changed his mind?

1 Kings 13:12-18

"Their father said, "Which way did he go?" His sons pointed out the road that the holy man from Judah had taken.

He told his sons, "Saddle my donkey." When they had saddled it, he got on and rode after the holy man. He found him sitting under an oak tree.

He asked him, "Are you the holy man who came from Judah?"

"Yes, I am," he said.

"Well, come home with me and have a meal."

"Sorry, I can't do that," the holy man said. "I can neither go back with you nor eat with you in this country. I'm under strict orders from God: 'Don't eat a crumb; don't drink a drop; and don't come back the way you came.'"

But he said, "I am also a prophet, just like you. And an angel came to me with a message from God: 'Bring him home with you, and give him a good meal!'" But the man was lying."

Surrendering to a peer!

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Joseph's Coat

Genesis 37:5-7

Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. He said, "Listen to this dream I had. We were all out in the field gathering bundles of wheat. All of a sudden my bundle stood straight up and your bundles circled around it and bowed down to mine."

Genesis 37:31-35

"They took Joseph's coat, butchered a goat, and dipped the coat in the blood. They took the fancy coat back to their father and said, "We found this. Look it over—do you think this is your son's coat?"

He recognized it at once. "My son's coat—a wild animal has eaten him. Joseph torn limb from limb!" Jacob tore his clothes in grief, dressed in rough burlap, and mourned his son a long, long time. His sons and daughters tried to comfort him but he refused their comfort. "I'll go to the grave mourning my son." Oh, how his father wept for him."

Joseph's father loved him deeply, because of who was his mother... Jacob loved Rachel so much more then his other wives and showed favor to his two son's from her. Did this start their hatred of Joseph? Was it because a coat made for him separated him from them, and then the Gift from God magnifying his set apartness? I think so... If it had not been for one brother, Reuben, their hatred of his favor, would of killed him...

The Coat of many colors started the Call to Specialness...

PJCopty

Seal It Up Daniel

Daniel 8:26-27

"The vision of the evenings and the mornings which has been told you is true. But seal up the vision, for it has to do with and belongs to the [now] distant future.

And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick [for several] days. Afterward I rose up and did the king’s business; and I wondered at the vision, but there was no one who understood it or could make it understood.

Daniel 12:4-8

But you, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the Book until the time of the end. [Then] many shall run to and fro and search anxiously [through the Book], and knowledge [of God’s purposes as revealed by His prophets] shall be increased and become great.

Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, there stood two others, the one on the brink of the river on this side and the other on the brink of the river on that side.

And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?

And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right and his left hand toward the heavens and swore by Him Who lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half a time [or three and one-half years]; and when they have made an end of shattering and crushing the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

And I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, O my lord, what shall be the issue and final end of these things?

Daniel 12:9-13

And he [the angel] said, Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed till the time of the end.

Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be tried, smelted, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but the teachers and those who are wise shall understand.

And from the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days.

Blessed, happy, fortunate, spiritually prosperous, and to be envied is he who waits expectantly and earnestly [who endures without wavering beyond the period of tribulation] and comes to the 1,335 days!

But you [Daniel, who was now over ninety years of age], go your way until the end; for you shall rest and shall stand [fast] in your allotted place at the end of the days."

A lot of things were going on in Daniel's day. He was captured, put with wizards, and had to endure contempt for the gospels sake. He was shown things that would transpire in the last days of Jesus coming and being a sin offering, and dying on a tree. Daniel was told things that would happen to the Jesus People in the last days, and then he was asked to seal it up, because they would search it out in their day, and then He told him to go to his place, and wait for he would be in that allotted place with the holy Jesus People.

PJCopty

Now When Daniel Heard

Daniel 6:10-12

"Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house, and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he got down upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.

Then these men came thronging [by agreement] and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.

Then they came near and said before the king concerning his prohibitory decree, Have you not signed an edict that any man who shall make a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except of you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed or repealed."

"...As he had done before..." Daniel heard that they got the king to sign their papers. He went straight up and opened his windows towards Jerusalem. After that he continued serving The Lord like he always has... Better to be right before The Lord Jesus... Than with with any other thing...

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