Why do I post about Jesus?

[Rick C. Hodgin]

What will Hell feel like?

"Pain."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSPNQ82Sq4E&t=0m5s

http://biblehub.com/kjv/luke/16-23.htm

23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments...
24 ... for I am tormented in this flame.
26 [and] ... there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which
would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can
they pass to us, that would come from thence.

People do not come back from Hell. It is a one way ticket to pain
and torment. But the gospel (the good news) is that Jesus has made
a way out. He's defeated death, Hell, and the grave.

It is important news the enemy of this world won't teach you.

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How bad do burns feel? Do you think that's by accident? A feature
of evolution? No. God gave us such pain from burns as a precursor
demonstration, one which correlates with His teaching, and warning.

And there are so many others.

Jesus keeps us out of Hell. He forgives our sin, making us sin free
and alive again spiritually. That's why I post about Jesus.

I want you to be in Heaven, in the paradise of God, resting from
your Earthly labor and burdens. Your life has tremendous value,
and I want you to prosper without end. Only Jesus makes this
possible, because only Jesus takes away sin.

You have value. You are important. Jesus wants to forgive you. It's
why He came to the Earth as a man, born as one of us, to make
a way out of no way ... but you must receive His gift. You must ask
Him to forgive you. Everyone who asks with a sincere heart is
forgiven. No matter your past. No matter your sin.

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Jesus loves you, and He's ready to take your sin away and forgive
you, to give you eternal life. He is the only one who can do this.
That is why I teach you about Him ... so you will know of your sin,
of the punishment for sin (Hell), and the way out, the way to be
saved.

Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin

[Juha Nieminen]

Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What will Hell feel like?

When will you get into your thick skull that your words have no magic
powers, even though in your delusions you think they have? You quoting
scripture will not magically influence people. They are just empty
words.

Why do you keep making these posts? Because it feeds your own
self-righteousness, you hypocrite.

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[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 2:03:35 AM UTC-4, Juha Nieminen wrote:
> Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What will Hell feel like?
>
> When will you get into your thick skull that your words have no magic
> powers,

I have no power whatsoever. I cannot even teach people those things I
am espousing. It comes from within as God changes the person so that
they themselves will then know that what I am espousing is the truth.

It is not me convincing anyone, but it is me speaking the truth so that
those whom God has changed will know within themselves, as by the very
imparting of the knowledge of God and of the truth of His Son Jesus
Christ, that they are a sinner, that they need to be forgiven, and that
only Jesus Christ can forgive them.

I speak the truth to you and everyone else. It is not my job to make
you believe it. It is only my job to speak it accurately.

> even though in your delusions you think they have? You quoting
> scripture will not magically influence people. They are just empty
> words.

Consider your position alongside the teachings of Jesus Christ:

http://biblehub.com/kjv/john/6.htm

63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing:
the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are
life.
64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from
the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should
betray him.
65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come
unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

It is not me, Juha. I point you not to me, not to a church, not to a
denomination, but to Jesus Christ Himself. I point you to truth, and
I ask you to investigate it ALL for yourself.

You do not need me or anyone else to teach you these things, but they
are all before you if you will only pursue them. God has given us the
Bible, and protected it, so that we can have a solid foundation upon
which to return, so that His Holy Spirit aligns with the word He has
given us, because Satan can also appear as an angel of light and leads
many people falsely who think they are following after God, but are
not. But by verifying our actions with the counsel of many, and holding
those actions to the guidance of scripture and the counsel of many, we
can be assured that we are moving as we should.

> Why do you keep making these posts? Because it feeds your own
> self-righteousness, you hypocrite.

Because I have a burden for the lost souls of this world. Hell is a
place of ongoing fiery torment that will never end. It is a containment
system for those who are not operating in truth, but are operating in
in sin, in falseness.

We are all eternal beings, and we will endure on to eternity. My purpose
in writing all of this is so you will continue to shine and thrive in
eternity. That you will prosper greatly ongoingly. I do not want the
end of you to come in the fiery place of torment. I want you to have the
full future God has carved out for you, if you will receive it.

In a sentence: I have a love for you (and others) because God's love is
real, and has changed me, and now lives and dwells within me.

It is that love God has for His creation which resides in me. And it is
from within that love that I move, because His burden is unto you and
your eternal soul, and this has now also become my burden because He has
redeemed me, and His Holy Spirit dwells within me.

Jesus said:

http://biblehub.com/kjv/revelation/3-20.htm
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice,
and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him,
and he with me.

It's very difficult to ignore a knocking on the door from within a house
or apartment. Jesus is constantly knocking upon your life, your mind,
your soul, your thoughts. He is there in the world, in the beauty, in
the love, in the things done in truth, out of kindness and generosity,
and He is there in the words I speak, and those others like me speak when
we point you to Him.

He stands at the door and knocks, and will receive everyone who opens the
door and receives Him.

He is God Almighty, with all possessions of the entire universe under His
control and command. And the Bible teaches us that we will be married to
Him in eternity, such that His possessions will also be our possessions,
as it is here on Earth after the manner of marriage, where all that's hers
becomes his, and all that's his becomes hers, the Earthly pattern of the
eternal marriage to Jesus Christ by the collective church.

It has been God's plan from the beginning. And it will endure forever.
It is a plan well executed. And all who will be saved will be with Him,
possessing also the entire universe as their own. And all who have
rejected truth, rejected Him, will be contained in the place of fiery
torment, where they can no longer interact with the rest of God's creation,
for they in their sin and falseness are as a cancer unto truth, tearing it
down continually, replacing solid foundations with diseased weakness.

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I posted in the comp.lang.c group just now (slightly redacted):

You have value. Your worth is measured as being well above that
of finest purest gold. I want you to continue on after you leave
this world, shining and thriving forever. I want your future to
be secure that you may prosper greatly. Jesus makes it possible.

It is my prayer for you, and for everyone in this group.
-----

It is my ongoing prayer for you, and for many others. All the people I
encounter in my life actually. Even my "enemies." God's love living
inside of me makes it possible. It is not a Rick-thing, but it is the
life God has given me through Jesus Christ welling up unto this ongoing
outpouring of love and prayer from within the hope I now have assurance
of through Him.

It is ALL God. It is not me. I too am just a recipient. But what He
has given me is available to each of you. All you have to do is seek
the truth, and you too will discover what I have found. And my prayer
is that you will do even more for His Kingdom than I have done, that
you will outshine me so that you might even encourage me to do more.

[Juha Nieminen]

Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 2:03:35 AM UTC-4, Juha Nieminen wrote:
>> Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > What will Hell feel like?
>>
>> When will you get into your thick skull that your words have no magic
>> powers,
>
> I have no power whatsoever.

But you think you do. You think that by repeating those scriptures, they will
magically influence people and cause your god to change them.

In other words, you copy your scripture in the same way as if it were
magical incantations to influence people. You can deny this all you want,
but that's exactly what you are doing.

> I speak the truth to you and everyone else.

In other words, you are a self-righteous hypocrite.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

Juha Nieminen wrote:
> But you think you do. You think that by repeating those
> scriptures, they will magically influence people and cause your
> god to change them.

There is no magic to it. Those people whom God changes on
the inside will self-know that the words of God, the words of the
Bible, are true. For those God changes, the knowledge comes
from within, not without.

His words are spirit and they are alive and active. They cut deep,
right unto the discerning of soul and spirit. It is the power of God
brought to bear against the sinner's sin. It bears witness and cries
aloud in a way the sinner knows and is aware of.

It's not magic. It is the Creator's stamp upon His own creation
that we on the inside know the truth, even if we consciously reject
it, and Him.

> In other words, you copy your scripture in the same way as
> if it were magical incantations to influence people. You can
> deny this all you want, but that's exactly what you are doing.

You have it backwards. God's word is of God. It is authoritative
and wholly foundational. It is the root model that exists in God's
creation. Satan cannot create, but only imitate. He tries to be God,
but fails, yet within his failed attempts are pale imitations, the
varied incantations you cite. They are not life giving, nor do they
have any power of conversion. They are weak jokes. Clouds
without rain. Barren and empty.

God's words, on the other hand, are of Him, of His Holy Spirit,
and they are of Power and Authority.

> Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> > I speak the truth to you and everyone else.
>
> In other words, you are a self-righteous hypocrite.

No. I am aware of my sin, and my need for a savior. I have found
Him and I point you to Him. I teach you to go and investigate for
yourself, teaching continually that you don't need me or anyone
else to bring you to Christ. He draws each of us to Himself. But He also
employs us in His drawing, such that the words you'll hear, repeated
by us, those which are His words not ours, will self-resonate within
your inner soul as by the conversion He made within you.

It is all God. Even when I speak His words, it is all God, for the words
I speak are from Him, the body I possess is from Him, the mind I
possess is from Him, and the opportunities I have in this world are
from Him.

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Look to Him, Juha. He will fill you with truth and make the change
within you possible. I just repeat His words having been already
changed by Him.

[Juha Nieminen]

Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Juha Nieminen wrote:
>> But you think you do. You think that by repeating those
>> scriptures, they will magically influence people and cause your
>> god to change them.
>
> There is no magic to it.

You may use another word for it (such as "supernatural", or
"divine"), but there's absolutely no difference to "magic".
Magic is, by definition, a supernatural event.

You think that by repeating scripture you are going to cause
your god to supernaturally influence people. In other words,
you expect your incantation to have magical effects. You simply
don't like those words.

>> > I speak the truth to you and everyone else.
>>
>> In other words, you are a self-righteous hypocrite.
>
> No. I am aware of my sin, and my need for a savior.

That's self-righteousness right there, and you can't even see it.
You think you are so humble, so pious, so faithful, so loyal.
And you have no qualms about saying that you "speak the
truth".

That's the exact opposite of humility. Which makes you a

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 8:32:18 AM UTC-4, Juha Nieminen wrote:
> Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Juha Nieminen wrote:
> >> But you think you do. You think that by repeating those
> >> scriptures, they will magically influence people and cause your
> >> god to change them.
> >
> > There is no magic to it.
>
> You may use another word for it (such as "supernatural", or
> "divine"), but there's absolutely no difference to "magic".
> Magic is, by definition, a supernatural event.

Magic is either an illusion, or it is demonic. It is the imitation of
that which God actually does.

You are beginning with a foundation thinking that magic is the real
foundation, and that what I speak about with regards to God's Holy
Spirit and the change made inside of a person by God is the imitator.

As I said, you have it reversed. God is true source, and everything
else which purports to be similar to what God actually does, that/
those are the imitators.

> You think that by repeating scripture you are going to cause
> your god to supernaturally influence people. In other words,
> you expect your incantation to have magical effects. You simply
> don't like those words.

God has said that they will. I am repeating His words having witnessed
the impact His words had on my life. As I have stated, I was an atheist
until 2004. I met Jesus Christ that year for the first time despite
having gone to church through my teen years.

> >> > I speak the truth to you and everyone else.
> >> In other words, you are a self-righteous hypocrite.
> > No. I am aware of my sin, and my need for a savior.
>
> That's self-righteousness right there, and you can't even see it.
> You think you are so humble, so pious, so faithful, so loyal.
> And you have no qualms about saying that you "speak the
> truth".

Either Jesus is the way, the truth, or the life, or He's a liar. You
can examine for yourself whether or not He is who He says He is. I
have examined who He is, and I testify that He is not a liar, and that
He is the way, the truth, and the life. I repeat the same, putting
every aspiration I have toward eternal life upon Him. He is my hope,
my assurance, my firm foundation.

> That's the exact opposite of humility. Which makes you a
> hypocrite.

I think you misunderstand what the phrase self-righteous means, as well
as what being a hypocrite means.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/self-righteous
"Confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly
moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others."

My righteousness comes from Jesus Christ. It is not my own creation, nor
my own making. I am a sinner, and I need a savior. In Jesus Christ I
have that salvation, and He takes my sin away leaving me without sin before
God. This gives me righteousness, but it is imparted unto me by Him. It
is in no way, shape, or form, my own doing. And, even as a believer, I
still fail almost continually. Every person who is being honest will stand
before Jesus Christ, before the brethren and state categorically that we
fail. In this flesh, we are weak. Yet in the spirit we are strong. God
has put our weakness away by His death at the cross and given us grace and
mercy so that judgment is not upon us. We strive toward holiness, and in
many ways we achieve it, but we still all consistently fail at some point
or another.

As the athlete puts in the time to discipline their body to achieve their
athletic goal, so does a Christian put in the time to achieve their goals
in serving God. It does not make them righteous. It makes them focused
and purposed, and even that focus and purpose comes from the new birth,
which came from Him in the first place.

It is all God.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hypocrite
"1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious
beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually
possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
"2. a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude,
especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie
his or her public statements."

There is a learning that you are not receiving, Juha. It is not hidden
from you, but you'll never see it unless you start looking for it, and
unless you allow yourself to receive it.

To be clear: Do not look to me, or anyone else who professes to know
Jesus Christ. We are still in this sinful world attached to these sinful
bodies, and although we've been redeemed, and although our walks may be
closer with God than other people's, we are still capable of error and
sin.

Look to Jesus Christ. He alone has THE power and THE authority to not
only set you free, but also guide you into all truth. It's actually what
His Holy Spirit does, meeting you where you are, leading you out of that
place to where you should be, into all truth:

http://biblehub.com/kjv/john/16-13.htm
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you
into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever
he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things
to come.

It is God's down payment of our salvation, His ongoing presence in our
lives, His guidance to make us always moving closer to the people He
desires us to be:

http://biblehub.com/kjv/2_corinthians/1-22.htm
22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in
our hearts.

The word "earnest" there is Strong's 728, which refers to a down payment
or up-front portion related to the whole indicating the sincerity of the
intent upon the future transaction (like earnest money on buying a house):

http://biblehub.com/greek/728.htm

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I leave you with some encouragement, Juha:

http://biblehub.com/kjv/matthew/7-7.htm
7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock,
and it shall be opened unto you:
8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth;
and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Approach God and He will not turn you away. Maintain your belief that
what I am teaching you, and what the Bible itself teaches you, and what
you are able to come to know on your own without my teaching, is no
different than some form of magic, then you will be forever separated
from it.

You must come to God as a child, asking to be taught, desiring to know
the truth about the thing. Do this, and you will find it.

[Daniel]

On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 8:59:46 AM UTC-4, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:

> I leave you with some encouragement,
>

> http://biblehub.com/kjv/matthew/7-7.htm
> 7 Ask, and it shall be given you

Encouragement indeed!

I recall once being on a subway car, and a lady with perhaps some of the same
disposition as Rick was making invective comments to a young Chinese couple
seated opposite, with dire allusions to Leviticus and Deuteronomy. As the
train came to a stop at a station, an attendant came by and asked her to
leave. She ignored him. The attendant tried again. She ignored him again. Then
the attendant looked out the car door and saw a man on the other side of the
platform. He pointed at the man and said to the lady, "do you see that man
over there?" Her eyes flickered in that direction. The attendant said, very
solemnly, "he needs to hear about the lord." The lady got up and left the car.
As the train left the station, the last we saw of her was her walking towards
the man on the platform.

So, Rick, in the spirit of "Ask, and it shall be given", do you see that
newsgroup over there, comp.os.os2.advocacy? They need to hear about the lord.
They really do.

Best regards,
Daniel

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 11:31:32 AM UTC-4, Daniel wrote:
> ...do you see that

> newsgroup over there, comp.os.os2.advocacy? They need to hear about the lord.
> They really do.

Is comp.os.os2.misc close enough?

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.os2.misc/HIu6Rpa28oo/M9_ZAtF9DwAJ

I am porting my kernel to become an OS/2 kernel replacement, and targeting
my OS to be an open source OS/2 OS replacement, so it is within my realm of
interests as well:

https://github.com/RickCHodgin/libsf/tree/master/exodus/LibSF_ES2

[Daniel]

On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 11:48:51 AM UTC-4, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
>
> Is comp.os.os2.misc close enough?
>
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.os2.misc/HIu6Rpa28oo/M9_ZAtF9DwAJ
>
> I am porting my kernel to become an OS/2 kernel replacement, and targeting
> my OS to be an open source OS/2 OS replacement, so it is within my realm of
> interests as well:
>
> https://github.com/RickCHodgin/libsf/tree/master/exodus/LibSF_ES2
>

Touche :-)

Best regards,
Daniel

[Juha Nieminen]

Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> You think that by repeating scripture you are going to cause
>> your god to supernaturally influence people. In other words,
>> you expect your incantation to have magical effects. You simply
>> don't like those words.
>
> God has said that they will.

In other words, what you are doing is performing magical incantations,
plain and simple. You can reword it however you want, but that doesn't
change the fact.

>> That's the exact opposite of humility. Which makes you a
>> hypocrite.
>
> I think you misunderstand what the phrase self-righteous means, as well
> as what being a hypocrite means.
>
> http://www.dictionary.com/browse/self-righteous
> "Confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly
> moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others."
>
> My righteousness comes from Jesus Christ. It is not my own creation, nor
> my own making.

Well, the description seems to fit like a glove, you self-righteous
hypocrite prick. If you had even one honest bone in your body you would
see it, but you are so delusional that you can't even see your own
hypocrisy.