How Christ fell in modern thinking

[Rick C. Hodgin]

An excellent teaching outlining how Jesus has been pushed out of our
lives, society, thinking, and even consideration.

We've been duped by an enemy working globally against mankind.

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

25 minutes to challenge your thinking.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[Mr Flibble]

You can now no longer even be bothered to attempt to disguise your spam as
something else? Now you just post URLs to random shitty Christian videos?
You are a dick. Just fuck off.

/Flibble

--
"Suppose it’s all true, and you walk up to the pearly gates, and are
confronted by God," Bryne asked on his show The Meaning of Life. "What
will Stephen Fry say to him, her, or it?"
"I’d say, bone cancer in children? What’s that about?" Fry replied.
"How dare you? How dare you create a world to which there is such misery
that is not our fault. It’s not right, it’s utterly, utterly evil."
"Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid God who creates a
world that is so full of injustice and pain. That’s what I would say."

[bitrex]

Isaiah 28

[Rick C. Hodgin]

Absolutely.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+28&version=KJV

It is with great prayer I seek to escape the coming judgment,
through having asked forgiveness of sin, and then to be obedient
to the will of the Father:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A21-23&version=KJV

I feel like I fail a lot. I always feel like I could be doing
more.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[bitrex]

If Christ said the yoke is easy and the burden, light, then it must be
so. If it doesn't feel light then only other explanation is it is loaded
down with excess baggage Christ didn't put there.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On 10/3/2018 11:09 AM, bitrex wrote:
> On 10/03/2018 10:46 AM, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
>> On 10/3/2018 10:41 AM, bitrex wrote:
>>> On 09/29/2018 06:54 PM, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
>>>> An excellent teaching outlining how Jesus has been pushed out of our
>>>> lives, society, thinking, and even consideration.
>>>>
>>>> We've been duped by an enemy working globally against mankind.
>>>>
>>>>      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOdpfPmeMIA
>>>>
>>>> 25 minutes to challenge your thinking.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Isaiah 28
>>
>> Absolutely.
>>
>>      https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+28&version=KJV
>>
>> It is with great prayer I seek to escape the coming judgment,
>> through having asked forgiveness of sin, and then to be obedient
>> to the will of the Father:
>>
>> https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A21-23&version=KJV
>>
>> I feel like I fail a lot.  I always feel like I could be doing
>> more.
>>
>
> If Christ said the yoke is easy and the burden, light,

It's not quite that simple.

He said His yoke is easy, and His burden is light. That yoke
and burden is to follow Him in all we do, by conscious choice,
which is easy, and is not hard to do in and of itself.

It's the following Him that is easy. It's the backlash you
get from the people in the world that is heavy. Jesus also
said:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+16%3A33&version=KJV

33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye
might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation
[great trouble]: but be of good cheer; I have overcome
the world.

Everyone who stands tall for God is like a bright light in the
room. For all the darkness seeking to be in this world, that
right light is a constant reminder of their dark fate. As such,
that darkness rises up to attack that light and try and snuff
it out.

> then it must be so. If
> it doesn't feel light then only other explanation is it is loaded down with
> excess baggage Christ didn't put there.

I know of no saint of God in active outreach ministry who is
not consistently attacked, burdened by those attacks, feeling
the weight of their ministry, from those around them who are
unsaved. They receive strength and are emboldened by communing
with other saints, which is why we're told not to forsake the
assembly of the brethren, but it is a burden consistently.

It's not a smooth life to serve God. You're up against the
very enemy of this world who desires to see us destroyed. God
lets us be attacked at times, and then gives us the strength
to stand up against it ... if we choose Him, and choose to do
so. In this way, He is building a witness for us.

An individual proclaiming he/she is able to do something,
their claim has no validity unless there is a witness to go
along with it. Jesus is giving us that witness for all of
eternity by allowing us to go through trials and tribulations
here.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[bitrex]

Did they shoot your mother to death or burn your house down or something?

[Rick C. Hodgin]

It's spiritual warfare, bitrex, not carnal.

Watch this video:

The Invisible War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDVWvOQvlK8

There are no fence sitters. No people on the sidelines. Every-
one is a player.

--
Rick C. Hodgin

[bitrex]

On 10/03/2018 12:50 PM, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> On 10/3/2018 11:09 AM, bitrex wrote:
>> On 10/03/2018 10:46 AM, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
>>> On 10/3/2018 10:41 AM, bitrex wrote:
>>>> On 09/29/2018 06:54 PM, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
>>>>> An excellent teaching outlining how Jesus has been pushed out of our
>>>>> lives, society, thinking, and even consideration.
>>>>>
>>>>> We've been duped by an enemy working globally against mankind.
>>>>>
>>>>>      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOdpfPmeMIA
>>>>>
>>>>> 25 minutes to challenge your thinking.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Isaiah 28
>>>
>>> Absolutely.
>>>
>>>      https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+28&version=KJV
>>>
>>> It is with great prayer I seek to escape the coming judgment,
>>> through having asked forgiveness of sin, and then to be obedient
>>> to the will of the Father:
>>>
>>> https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A21-23&version=KJV
>>>
>>>
>>> I feel like I fail a lot.  I always feel like I could be doing
>>> more.
>>>
>>
>> If Christ said the yoke is easy and the burden, light,
>
> It's not quite that simple.

You think too much, man. Very common problem with intelligent people.
Hammer, nail. I try to avoid it hammer-nail when I can.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

Things exist in fundamentals, bitrex. It's where Christians are
called to operate. We seek with great diligence the root, the
lower component which then when understood reveals naturally the
upper components.

All Christians must press in and seek the truth in this way, or
they'll be ill-effective servants of Christ in this world.

BTW, it's taken me over a decade to come to these realizations.
That's regular study, regular reading the Bible, regular list-
ening to sermons and Bible Study audio and video, etc.

It is something that's solidly in scripture, but you have to
get a solid foundation to be able to see and discern nuance
and subtlety in scripture.

But, I'm not the only one teaching these things. Look to the
greats in history. Charles Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards, George
Whitefield, et al ... they teach the same things.

It's there with much study and a focus of that intelligence
upon the subject matter rightly, with a right pursuit of the
truth. Everyone will discover it if they press in properly.

--
Rick C. Hodgin