Today is your encounter with a holy God

[Rick C. Hodgin]

This message is for those who will be saved. Listen to the
contrast between the false Christian, and the true, circumcised
heart, of the life changed from within by Jesus Christ:

From 15:10+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5baWgvEqbeg&t=15m10s

God has a new relationship in store for you. No longer the
God you've mocked. He is opening your eyes to see Him as
He is, with a consuming fire that will purge your soul, and
bring about real change that will endure.

God awaits you, oh sleeper.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Kenny McCormack]

In article <2487f9b0-d3bb-4e4e...@googlegroups.com>,

Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>This message is for those who will be saved. Listen to the
>contrast between the false Christian, and the true, circumcised
>heart, of the life changed from within by Jesus Christ:

Since you like to share YouTube URLs, you really, really need to view this
one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScRIt7FkWSY

Best lines: You're worse than Comcast!
& I can't believe you fell for this shit.

The last, in particular, is you to a tee.

--
Those on the right constantly remind us that America is not a
democracy; now they claim that Obama is a threat to democracy.

[Chad]

I took the bait and watched that video. I have to admit that guy is more interesting to listen to than the blonde shemale sitting at the desk next to me at work.

[Malcolm McLean]

I did too. Slack period at work.
Friendly atheist has quite a web presence and I used to regularly watch his
stuff. Basically he's a sensible atheist and I have many points of agreement
with him.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

Chad wrote:
> I took the bait and watched that video...

Malcolm McLean wrote:
> I did too...

You should watch the video I posted. It will change your life. Forever.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Malcolm McLean]

I'm already a Christian.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 11:51:54 AM UTC-4, Malcolm McLean wrote:
> I'm already a Christian.

Share your testimony. Teach other people how you can be a Christian
first, and developer and everything else you are in your life second,
that it is not shameful or wrong to put Christ ahead of other things
in your life ... in fact, it is the correct thing to do.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Jens Stuckelberger]

On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 5:29:04 AM UTC-4, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> This message is for those who will be saved.

Good. Many of us do not want to be shaved, so we'll carry on
ignoring your drivel.

[Ben Bacarisse]

Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuc...@nowhere.net> writes:

> On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 5:29:04 AM UTC-4, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
>> This message is for those who will be saved.
>
> Good. Many of us do not want to be shaved,

Speak for yourself! ;-)

> so we'll carry on ignoring your drivel.

Sound advice.

--
Ben.

[Malcolm McLean]

I've written books on computer programming and books on Christianity.
But they're different topics. You could say, and rightly, that the
books on Christianity are more important than the books on programming,
because they can potentially save souls whilst the books on programming
can only make a secular activity more efficient. But to follow that
argument to its conclusion, no-one would write any books on programming
at all.

[James R. Kuyper]

On 2017-10-30 15:38, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuc...@nowhere.net> writes:
...

>> Good. Many of us do not want to be shaved,
>
> Speak for yourself! ;-)

I agree. According to my wife, if I didn't shave frequently enough, her
skin would get bloody whenever I kissed her, and I don't want that
happening. :-)

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 4:14:27 PM UTC-4, Malcolm McLean wrote:
> On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 6:01:24 PM UTC, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> > On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 11:51:54 AM UTC-4, Malcolm McLean wrote:
> > > I'm already a Christian.
> >

> > Share your testimony...
>
> I've written books...

Testimony? You can post it somewhere else. Just include the link
here in a reply on C programming if you like.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

PS - We are not to divide our lives like that, with our vocation here,
and "our faith" there, but we are to be unified people, bringing
everything about our relationship with Christ continuously into
all we do. He is worthy of everything we uplift to Him, as we
also remember that even our mind, even our fingers, even our eyes
were first made by Him, and given to us.

It is right to give Him credit for everything we do rightly, even
when we can only do things as rightly as we're able, but when it
is a purposeful good work, we should ascribe it back to Him first.

[Jens Stuckelberger]

Damn! I forgot that my wife also complains when I kiss her
unshaved. I guess I'll have to be shaved too, after all.

[fir]

W dniu poniedziałek, 30 października 2017 21:14:27 UTC+1 użytkownik Malcolm McLean napisał:
> I've written books on computer programming and books on Christianity.

Im not quite a christian this times now..
its becouse religion (like for instance
christianity) mix to big dose of bullshit with some potential/virtual dose of insight only (if i got some deepar insight on life it was more from my own exact thinking mixed with some day-life experience, it could touch small elements
of christianity (esp i was always liking
to consider what is true/honest and what is not) but thich 'touch' is like not enough to make me said follow the religion or something like that, its more like follow the honesty, follow the logic)

hovever i got some ambitions to be a fiction writer, for example today and yesterday i was thinking about a pseudonyme 'Walter Bright" - Walter is my name of some choice for like 2 decades
if not more - it is like that becouse
of this 'alter' (walter/alter) and when
you need alterego in book the name walter seems fit.. then when getting a Surname to that name it should be not long and should fit and this Bright is one of top
choices to fit (i even dont thinked of another) - what is curious this is all incidentally name of reall fellow, guess who (the d language maker) Isnt it curious? (im not value d language to much, its more like obvious concept naming on c hovever and this has some weight, but this is weird incidence
to me [hovever i must say that if name of Walter i used in small pieces of fiction whan i was a teenager then i dont yet chose 'Bright' as a name and i then read this name of d maker so i am partially influenced in 'normal' way, hovever thinking separately i also would probably take that name at least if it wold apper o me in some choice-set)

(maybe that story is to long, but it somewhat curious and make me remember my old plans of writing fiction / the genre which i was written as teenager and i would write it more in fact i could call 'dream fiction')

[fir]

> would write it more in fact i could call 'dream fiction')

(this is hovever not real name of this genre i would write - i would callit another name but said this 'dream fiction'
from lazynes as rough appriximation, as im
to wearylazy to precise) [there are some books who play like in a dream world,
i remember some polish like 'bromba' 'porwanie w tuturlistanie' but i hope my
own style would not be quite like that - maybe more technical

[Rick C. Hodgin]

Walter Bright is the name of the author of the D language.

Christianity isn't a religion. It is forgiveness of sin by
Jesus Christ, a new life from the spirit, and a complete
rewrite from within about everything involved with life
and living.

When God draws you to Jesus, to truth, when He opens up
your understanding of spiritual things, you are utterly and
completely amazed and dumbfounded over what has just
happened to you. It takes you completely by surprise, and
the entirety of your life is re-invented from within. Every
last focus and purpose you previously possessed for life and
living changes, and aligns more and more with God over time,
and as it does you stand in amazement at the change taking
place in your life.

Those who think Christianity is a religion have never met
Jesus Christ. They are part of a social club, obeying a list of
rules and regulations, trying to earn their way to Heaven by
their pious righteousness.

It doesn't work that way. Jesus saves you when the Father
draws you to Him. And you have as little to do with your
spiritual birth as you did with your flesh birth.

Just seek the truth for real, even if you have no idea what it is
or how to find it. God examines your intention, and when you
seek the truth for real, He will make it possible for you to
find it, and it will lead you to Jesus, salvation, and eternal life.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Malcolm McLean]

On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 10:56:49 AM UTC, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
>
> Those who think Christianity is a religion have never met
> Jesus Christ. They are part of a social club, obeying a list of
> rules and regulations, trying to earn their way to Heaven by
> their pious righteousness.
>
> It doesn't work that way. Jesus saves you when the Father
> draws you to Him. And you have as little to do with your
> spiritual birth as you did with your flesh birth.
>

The Church is an objective secular as well as a spiritual reality.
That's why it's common to speak of the building as "the church".

As a secular reality it does indeed have some of the characteristics
of a social club with rules. It has meetings which you can attend,
members can drift in and out of de facto participation, occasionally
it is necessary to impose discipline which in extreme cases can mean
suspension of the normal privileges of membership.

The idea of sola fide (by faith alone) has got to be seen in its 16th
century context. Wealthy people had for centuries beforehand been
endowing the Church with land and money, in exchange for prayers
for the soul. Eventually so much money ended up in Church hands that
the secular rulers eyed it enviously, there was also arguably an economic
need for resource reallocation. So the idea came about that endowments
didn't help the soul, and therefore charity did not contribute to salvation.

However sola fide is a dangerous doctrine. It's rare for human beings
to be too charitable.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 9:16:01 AM UTC-4, Malcolm McLean wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 at 10:56:49 AM UTC, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> >
> > Those who think Christianity is a religion have never met
> > Jesus Christ. They are part of a social club, obeying a list of
> > rules and regulations, trying to earn their way to Heaven by
> > their pious righteousness.
> >
> > It doesn't work that way. Jesus saves you when the Father
> > draws you to Him. And you have as little to do with your
> > spiritual birth as you did with your flesh birth.
>
> The Church is an objective secular as well as a spiritual reality.

The church is ONLY those people who are born again. There is no
other aspect of the church. Those who are of that church are here
in this world to carry out His ministry, for we are AMBASSADORS of
His Kingdom living in a foreign land, and proclaiming as MINISTERS
(priests) His Kingdom. We are servants of men, and we teach them
the things of God and of His Son, Jesus Christ. Period.

EVERYTHING else is religion, and EVERYTHING else is as damned as if
they were following actively after Satan, snatching people from the
streets and killing them on an alter to that evil.

Soccer moms. Business executives. Computer programmers. All people
world-wide who ARE NOT IN CHRIST are dead. They are the walking dead.
They only have a wisp of vaporous life in this world before they face
a HOLY HOLY HOLY God in judgment.

ONLY those people who come to Jesus and say, "YES I AM GUILTY! I AM
A SINNER AND I NEED TO BE FORGIVEN! JESUS, SAVE ME!" will be saved.

THE REST will be cast into the ETERNAL Lake of Fire, which is the
SECOND death, and is Hell.

-----
People do not realize who God is, who they are, why we are still in
this world and not caught up to Heaven the moment we believe. We are
here to continue His ministry. He said to Peter three times, "Do you
love me? Feed my sheep/lambs," and He gave us the commandment to love
one another, and to go ye therefore and teach.

CHRISTIANS ARE EMPLOYED by God. We are TASKED by Him to a SPECIFIC
task. It is to proclaim with fullest measure His majesty, His Kingdom,
His free gift of salvation. We are to proclaim Him and give Him glory.

EVERYTHING else is dung. Even our best works are but filthy rags,
and that term filthy as used in the Bible refers to the cloth of a
woman's unclean menstrual period emission. That is how God sees our
personal works here even when they are in righteousness.

-----
So many people are going to approach God in His Kingdom on that day
of judgment and say, "Lord, Lord, look at all these wonderful works
we did for you," and He will reply to them, "Depart from me. I never
knew you."

TO BE ALIVE IN THIS WORLD BORN AGAIN AS A CHRISTIAN IS TO PROCLAIM THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH EVERYTHING YOU POSSESS. HE IS NOT ISOLATED FROM
AREAS OF YOUR LIFE. HE INFILTRATES AND CONSUMES AND TAKES OVER EVERY
AREA OF YOUR LIFE. HE BECOMES YOUR LIFE. YOUR FOCUS IS UPON HIM FOR
WHAT HE'S DONE FOR YOU, SAVING YOU FROM THE FLAMES. YOUR FOCUS IS THEN
HIS FOCUS BECAUSE HE IMPRINTS UPON YOU THE PURPOSE OF HIS OWN HOLY
SPIRIT, WHICH IS TO REACH OUT TO THE LOST SO THAT THEY TOO MIGHT BE
SAVED.

Consider where you are, Malcolm. And consider the souls around you in
your life. Are they being shown, and taught, and led appropriately as
an instructor who cared about their students would do? Or is that man-
to-man / man-to-woman relationship different?

Only you and God know the answer to that question. I know that I fail
continuously in my service to Him. Even when I try to do good works,
and put in time and effort and research and labor and involve others
and do my best, yet do I always come up short.

It is not by my merit that I will enter into Heaven. Christ has already
done that for me. But it is by my being saved that I labor with great
passion and vehemence, knowing that God can take even my failings when
I am moving for Him, and turn them into victories.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+13%3A5&version=KJV

5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own
selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is
in you, except ye be reprobates?

-----
The church is binary. People are either saved, and therefore 100%
saved, changed from within, all things made new ... or they are damned.

There will be a lot of "good people" in Hell. And a lot of "good people"
in Heaven. There will also be a lot of "bad people" in Hell. And a lot
of "bad people" in Heaven. It all came down to what we did with Jesus
Christ and His free offer to take our sin away, to acknowledge that we
are a sinner, to agree with Him that we are guilty of sin and are in need
of a savior. All who do this will be saved. The rest will perish, and
it will sweep over them unaware as it was in the day of Noah.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[asetof...@gmail.com]

However sola fide is a dangerous doctrine. It's rare for human beings
to be too charitable

-----
I Agree... The Sola fide was the doctrine of that heretic of Luther
that some charismatic seen in Inferno

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 5:29:04 AM UTC-4, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:

I was asked this today by someone in email:

-----[ Begin ]-----
> Xyz wrote:
> If God can do everything why does He need any of us to do something?

My reply:

He doesn't. We are invited to be a part of His Kingdom. It is a gift,
but it is also part of His plan.

Consider: If you were wealthy, and had great skill, you could build vast
buildings, large campuses, fill them with machines and devices to build all
manner of things from chairs and shoes to superconductors and everything in-
between. But, you would not want to build everything and do everything all
by yourself alone. You would want to hire people to come and do work in
your buildings, with your machines. It would be to your credit what you did
in building everything, but it would also be lonely to do it alone. You
ould want companionship, fellowship, and for people to see what you have
done.

God created the whole universe. He has purposes for fellowship with us on
those scales.

We (mankind) were the only beings of all creation made in His image and
likeness. We literally look like God, just as your child would look like
you. Your child wouldn't look like a dog or a deer or a fish, and even
though God created angels and planets and gold and dolphins and horses and
everything else, we were the only creation made in His own image and
likeness.

God is creating for Himself a family. He made Adam first, and he was alone.
God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone," so He put Adam to sleep
and took a rib and made a woman for Adam and brought her to him... the first
marriage. Flash-forward to Jesus' death at the cross, and the thing He did
there on the cross was take away the sin of those who put their faith in
Him, so that they could be saved. The last thing that was done to Him
before He was taken down from that cross was for Him to be poked in the side
after He died, and out came blood and water, the very thing that comes out
during a new birth. Jesus, by His own death at the cross, birthed all of
those who believe in Him to eternity. We are called "the bride of Christ"
in the Bible, which means He made for Himself a bride, which was also taken
out of His own side at the cross in His death. He purified us and made us
spotless by His own grace and mercy, so that we could be with Him rightly
in Heaven.

We are all sinful wicked evil people. Even if we're not that way all the
time, there are times when we do horrible things. But God is and remains
perfect. He could not have a bride for Himself that was basically a cheap
woman, one undeserving of honor because of her bad behavior. So, God has
made His own bride completely spotless by His own sanctification.

There is such a teaching here, Xyz. It's the greatest conveyance of love
and creation we could ever know. It is God Himself making Himself a bride,
and making her full of honor and glory and chastity, which is that which
Christ gives us at the cross.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[jlad...@itu.edu]

On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 1:30:49 PM UTC-7, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:

> Testimony? You can post it somewhere else.

Physician: heal thyself.

[rickchod...@gmail.com]

hi, this is my post, look ar OP email address then you know i am Rick C Hodgin

[rickchod...@gmail.com]

At day, i can control my body. At night, evil Rick beat holy Rick and evil Rick controls my body !