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Does God Want to Please us?

Jeremiah 10:24 Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

We find ourselves lost in a desert in all direction there is nothingness. Which ever way we go it is death, we have no clue what to do, we have no direction, we have no water?

Suddenly a person appears a man dressed in desert grab, he says: “listen to me, you must take every step I tell you to take, you must follow my word carefully. There are many dangers, poison water holes, wild animal and evil elements that will destroy you”.

The question is, is this man here to please us, or save us? Certainly we would be pleased he showed up, no matter who he is, as long as he was helping us. But what if we got it wrong, what if we thought this man was their to please us?

Matt. 7:24 "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
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7:25 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock. 7:26 Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.
7:27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."
7:28 It happened, when Jesus had finished saying these things, that the multitudes were astonished at his teaching.

Lets say the man was weak, he was indecisive, he wanted more to please us than what we needed to hear to survive? What if he allowed us to drink poison water because he just couldn't say no! He didn't want to see our disappointment?

Isaiah 14:10 They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?

Ezekiel 16:30 How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, seeing you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

Matthew 26:41 Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

Actually that is question is it not? Does God want to please us or save us? Are we in a hostile environment, or is life on earth a paradise, a paradise that wicked spirit force in heavenly places are selling to ever person on this earth, as good, beautiful, and wonderful, as the life we seek with all our thoughts and actions?

1 Corinthians 11:32 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

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2 Corinthians 4:4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Is God our buddy, is he our friend that see only good in us, and lets us do and say whatever comes into our hearts, and minds? Does he allow us to boast as being a Christian's to take what ever path on earth as long as we have him in mind? Why then does Christ tell us that the road leading into life is narrow, it is cramped, and hard to find? Does that sound like Christ is trying so hard to please us, to be our friend that he tells us anything whatever to hang on to our friendship?

Proverbs 4:14 Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men.

Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Matthew 7:14 How{TR reads "Because" instead of "How"} narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

Luke 13:24 "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

Micah 7:5 Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

John 15:14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

The Desert

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So we find ourselves in the desert with no way out, and having no direction, suddenly a man appears telling us what we need to do, and how to do it, and then disappears. But what if we think that person can't leave us, and we just sit right there until he shows up with everything we need, a ride, good food, begging us to go with him, isn't that the standard of human reasoning, but is it God's?

Actually that is the standard of humans, it is the standard of human reasoning, but the question is, is God saving us out of death and darkness of the human desert of sin? Is it not human kindness that so often is sin in this world, so what we call kindness may not be God's thinking at all?

Psalms 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

Psalms. 90:1 <<A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.>> Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. 90:3 You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men." 90:4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night. 90:5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. 90:6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry. 90:7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
90:8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 90:9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. 90:10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away. 90:11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you? 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
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How do we see God is the real question? How have we been taught God is the ultimate question of life and death is it not? Do we follow Christ invisible headship, and/or do we attach human reasoning, human logic, and kindness to what God tells to do, or not do? Do we unwittingly demand Christ serve us that he waiting upon our every whim and need in this world, or do we please God waiting upon him as our King?

Heb. 5:7 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
5:8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered. 5:9 Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
5:10 named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
5:11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing. 5:12 For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food. 5:13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. 5:14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Hopefully, we understand from reading the bible that Eve in the Garden took that approach to God. She determined that God must answer her, and wait upon her, or he was withholding something good from her. Which, of course, made God wicked, and Eve God's headship and teacher!

She made herself god that God YHWH must answer to her needs and wants, God must explain himself to her because she thought herself equal to God from some misguided motives, like want a partnership, a soul mate with God.
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Somehow, she thought God needed to explain why he created things the way they were in paradise?

It did not take much help from the wicked one, that is, the Devil to change her mind about all the things God had created in beauty and peace for her and her husband, for her to impute wickedness to God's love.

Philippians. 2:3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
2:4 each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others. 2:5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, 2:6 who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, 2:7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. 2:8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

The Watering Hole

Eternal life for Adam and Eve was in the Garden of Eden, everything outside the Garden was not life but deserts away from the source of life, God. Once outside the watering hole of eternal life Adam and Eve found themselves in their own ways of death and sin, there they lived in a desert away from the once illustrious beautiful life of God.

Genesis 2:10 A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.

Isaiah 49:10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water he will guide them.

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Matt.7:15 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
7:16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Everything was a struggle in their own ways, everything had the joy of good, but also the bad of evil in it. Nothing they could do would allow them back into the paradise of life. They must go to a lesser gods of thinking in how to survive in a desert until the elements in time would take them back to the ground from which they came from. All thoughts of eternity was no longer a reality that God had created in their hearts. They would suffer in the sweat to their face in pain and sorrow and in the darkness they had created then finally they would be fully consume at the end of their days by their own ways.

Jer.17:5 Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
17:7 Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is. 17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? 17:10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

The message they had learned at tremendous pain and suffering was that there is no light in darkness and if anyone tells them there is, they are lying!

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Matt.7:17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. 7:18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.
7:19 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire. 7:20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.

1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

God is light, outside of God is darkness, death, sorrow, pain, and sickness, God is the watering hole for every person. Let us remember God had created as a son of God in his image. Satan created many son's of sin in his image of darkness, Satan makes himself into the angel of light for sinners in darkness outside God's watering hole of eternal life, but he is not the light, and/or the source of life, only God is, the light!

1 John 3:11 For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

1 John 2:10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

The desert of death and darkness is the ways of this world. God appears to us, in one form or another to direct us into the ways of light, but we, and wicked spirit force have many evil plans that tempt us into all direction. Moreover, we also have religion, weeds Christian's that are consumed with making God a man, that is, into the desires of their flesh by placing religious titles, objects, schools, and position, to give the world to their member so they can transform darkness into light. Yes, the power like the world wheels in their government that religion has and wants, which keeps her as nothing more than a prostitute pleasing the flesh of men and woman to hold power and wealth over others.
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Ephesians 2:3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Romans 8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Religion does not remember the lesson so profoundly learned by Adam and Eve, and all the heavenly hosted that there is no darkness in the light. One is in the light, or they are in darkness, there is nothing between the two, but the demons play ground, the middle road of living a lie while drunk on part truths that God loves the worlds ways.

James.1:16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Matt.6:24 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.

Matt. 5:37 But let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' be 'No.' Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

One cannot have both the darkness and the light, they may be approved by everyone in this world, but they are not in the light of God lost in Eden.
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Adam could have started a world that worship everything including himself, and his wife, but that would not put him into the light, it would only deceive others that they to could have the darkness, while calling light darkness, and darkness light living the first lie that Satan darkness is the light.

Truth of Adam and Eve was painful truth, they had lost the light and the proof was they could never go back into the the Garden of Eden (light). However, what lies would they tell to others, and how long before they themselves got to believing their own lies?

Yes, the power of death makes one believe the lie, does it not? For the same self-serving cowardice was found in the first lie, it is also found in all those that sin in their flesh believing the flesh can save them by good works towards God, and/or by saying holy words from their bible.

Wouldn't it be nice to say holy words over a weed and it be transformed into a wheat how much labor and cost would that save the farmer?

For flesh is cowardice it is also the lie, created by a coward and a liar Satan the Devil.

Revelation 22:15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

The Power of Life Giving Spirit

Life started and ends with the Spirit of God, whom is a Spirit Himself. Outside him as our light, that is, the Spirit person of God there is no life that is eternal. Man was created as an eternal being a little lower than angels, but having the life of God in them made them in God's image as eternal beings.
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Everything below that standard is a lie, it is corruption and is not the truth of God's eternal life whom created us to live forever. We must come back into paradise to have eternity with God there can no darkness in the light or we are not in the light.

That is the message we have heard from the beginning of all creation. It is the same message God gave to Christ his Son whom became the light to us sinners, who became our eternal life.

John 8:12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world.{Isaiah 60:1} He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."

John 9:5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Do we want life, eternal life with God more than this world, or do we want the best of both worlds living a lie while we change the words of God as did Satan the Devil to have his own ways, over God's truth about the light?

Do we think God is to please us, letting us be the exception in the desert where we have some of both worlds because we are “special”? The question then is, do we deserve better than God's own perfect Son Christ Jesus who didn't sin, but suffered greatly in this world to prove Satan a liar; exposing the works of Devil for his Father by the light of his love?

John 17:15 I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

John 17:16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

Yes, that is the question? Do we love truth more than ourselves?

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Is that the same old question, do we think we can have both light and darkness, and be in the light? Do we love the lie, that is, loving our ways more than God's ways?

So how would we know that?

Mark 12:30 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.'{Deuteronomy 6:4-5} This is the first commandment.

Coming to the Light the Test of Test

John 3:19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

John 3:20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

John 3:21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."

Many have destroyed their lives and the lives of others to find out the hopelessness of not being able to direct their own steps.

Cut to the heart they come to God through Christ to ask for forgiveness, not for a gift, not for a better life, not for money, not for popularity, not to be accepted by a group, but just as it is? They have seen their wicked and corrupt ways and are deeply and profoundly sickened and sorry for sinning against God.

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Luke. 18:9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
18:10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
18:12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'
18:13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

Coming to the light of Christ is bearing one soul to the truth of ones own ways, bring it to a person that openly exposes the lies, that puts us fully into the light of his own incorruptible light (love) that was given him by God. No man can prevent this from happening, and no man can make it happen. Hence, no religion, place, government, or thing on this earth can bring a person to the light of Christ, but themselves for their own wicked ways.

Matthew 26:75 Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." He went out and wept bitterly.

If it is our living passion to expose the truth in others their wicked ways; thinking that it is from God as a Representative of God on earth, we have been consumed by the lie of darkness so deep that we have believe the lie.

In fact the light in us may will be darkness, the question is how deep is that darkness if it is the way of the whole world seeking only truth of others sins?
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1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

Luke 11:35 Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.

Luke 11:36 If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light."

Lets us not think we are the living light of God that brings all things into the light as so many do. Yes, they do, thinking they are pleasing God by exposing the lie in others. Did Christ set out to expose the lies in others? Was that the Good News? No, he did not! Christ is the light, anyone coming into contact with the light would automatically have their sins exposed, for Christ is the light. Did Christ while on earth being the light of God, make anyone come to him unwillingly? Did he go looking for a fight? Did he get so heated up that all he did was be consumed with exposing the lies of others?

Is that the Good News?

Coming to the light is judgment, but coming to the love of God is a sweet judgment because we want to please God, for he is love.

Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Matthew 19:14 But Jesus said, "Allow the little children, and don't forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these."

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Matthew 25:39 When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?'

John 7:37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" He who hears, let him say, "Come!" He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Christ the light loves the truth more than any person to have ever walked this earth. He alone knew the Father, and that is why he alone was sent to us because he could tell us the truth about what? The Father YHWH!

Christ hated the lie, but he did not send his apostles out to expose the lies of others. No! No! No! He sent them to preach the good news of a release from captivity from, what? Sin from Adam's sin, to declare the glorious good news about his Father who is love that was setting us free from sins judgment and its captivity!

What a simple plain kind messages, what has happen to that message?

Luke 4:18 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted,{NU omits "to heal the brokenhearted"} to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed.

The world was in darkness, there was no light in the world, he Christ was the light in the world. He being in the world exposed the lie if one loved the truth. The truth is sin is in all mankind, not just one person, Christ hated that lie corrupting mankind into death, not us, but the sin they must be freed from by God's love.
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God himself has allowed thousand's of years of corruption to exist on earth in the painful reality of living in sin, in a desert, away from him, the oasis of His eternal life. Why has he suffered so much, by allowing it to go on so long? Because he does not make people come to the light. He does not put on a light show, a heavy hitting movie, and/or rock-band to bring ones to the light for the popularity of this worlds wisdom.

God does not dazzles us with angels

He needs no man on earth to bring one to the light of Christ, did you know that?

Yes, that is true, the spirit sons of God are happily directing the work of the Good News from heaven out of love for their Father YHWH. God's know which person are searching for the truth of themselves, or are seeking the truth of others. Satan examined God motives, he said his examination was light, which was a lie. Light does not examine light! Eve examined God's motives and her husbands. And Adam just imputed evil that God would take his wife. But not one of them examined their own motives why they were being so evil towards God the light? The question was why were they were imputing wickedness to God's when he is love, and every thing God gave and provided for them was love, (light) not merit like they were going to have to earn in their ways after sinning?

Why should God owe us anything in love?

Revelation 14:6 I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

The message is God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all, he cannot lie, he is the light. If that is true the only problem would be, us, or others telling us God is both darkness and light.
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Hebrews 6:18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Stop Judging

Matt.7:1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.
7:2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

Jesus made it absolutely clear the message from the beginning was that God is only light. All things outside of God are darkness with no middle ground, how can they examine the light?

Love cannot fail

Christ knew those with good hearts would come to the light no matter what mans opinion was of them or their so called religion. They would come to see God as love, they would impute only good, that is, love to God, for he is the light, is he not?

Luke.7:36 One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table.
7:37 Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment. 7:38 Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. 7:39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner."

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7:40 Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you." He said, "Teacher, say on."
7:41 "A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 7:42 When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"
7:43 Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly." 7:44 Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.
7:45 You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet. 7:46 You didn't anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. 7:47 Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."
7:48 He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."
7:49 Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"
7:50 He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."

But Christ also knew the truth of the fallen flesh, so he made a profound statement about all truth. You, see Eve judged who? Adam judged who? And above all else who did Satan judge?

They judged the light, not themselves, but the light, God who had no darkness of sin or evil in him. How can one judge the light and not be wicked? How can one judge what can't be judged which is incorruptible, and come off right when they are found in corruption?

God whom gave them life they were created in his image how could they judge their own imagine without judging themselves?

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What motives had they put above God that is the real question, were their motives pure and righteous, having no selfish ambition in them, unlike God who is always love with no selfishness in him at all?

1 John 3:1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

1 John 4:8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

They judged themselves perfectly into death by trying to judge God by their own selfish motives, selfishness is not God's image they were created in, what was going on? They thought God only purpose was to please them in every little need, and when they found something they didn't seem to have enough of, a lack, they judged God to get the thing they wanted!

James. 4:1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
4:2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
4:3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

Matthew 18:32 Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

Matthew 25:26 "But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.

Did they come to the light, the truth of God? (love) No, not really, they came to where it costed them something they wanted from God, something they thought they deserved from God.

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Subsequently, Jesus told his disciple to stop judging each others, to get something that one thought they deserved from others. Not to do that because all they would get back is the same measure of judgment! That was the measure Adam and Eve got back, nothing good comes from judging others when we forget the truth of ourselves. That is the demons play ground, not the light! Love is the light that will not accept a debt paid our of obligation or concession of some payment.

In other words, how are we going to bring one to the light by judging a person, when God doesn't do that? He does not set up disasters on earth some where, like false religion teaches, to make ones come to him. How does love lack, how can God be love and then lack in the worship where he himself uses selfish tactics to get ones to come to him in worship. Do we see the impossibility of such evil reasoning, do we think God is love, or do we see him as the Devil light and darkness?

Rom. 13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Moreover, that is why Christ stated that it was a wicked and crooked generation that looked for a sign, a sign for what reason, so they could be done with the world, that is, having it destroyed by God for them, so they had no longer any problems they themselves had created from sin. So they would get a new world they thought they deserved from God! Why else would false prophecy become so much more important than God's love who gave us life already in Christ Jesus?

Selfishness begets selfishness, love begets love!

How can selfishness be found in God? How selfish is wanting the death of the entire human race be so we can have a

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a better world we believe we deserve because we judge others as unworthy of that? So here is the truth, would you like to know it?

So here is the truth would you like to know it?

Our living in selfish ways of this world causes a good person to see their relationship to other selfish people, but they do not account themselves as better or more deserving but having the same selfishness. When found in this truth (Christ the light), in this light, (that nothing good dwells in our flesh) they see without God love, a morally high standards that raises everyone and everything on this earth to total perfection in love, lost by Adam, where no one does any harm to others in thought, motives, or actions, as real salvation, not a partial salvation of changing a person by some harsh treatment through the laws of their religion.

They are moved by God's love to serve him. It is in God's love not their own that motivates them in trying to love others. That test of test in a world that does not know God proves to be the removal of all evil thoughts that the selfish flesh believes and lives in towards God, it is an acid test as if by fire. Love cannot fail if we test ourselves against it?

Testing the spirits is testing ourselves against the Spirit of Love, God is love, if we don't know love we don't know God. That is not saying we are love or will become love. It is saying that we learn who we are by testing ourselves against God's love. Not another person love!

No! God is not pleasing us, he is leading us in Christ to remove the evil of sinful thoughts about the truth, which is love, which is God who is love. It is only in love that we know God. Which love is the light of this world for all those wanting God's love and coming to it willingly because they loath their own ways that has lead them into destruction and hurting others that didn't deserve it.
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Jeremiah 2:22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh.

Pure justice is the lye of a laundryman soap, it washes the dirt off us as it does anyone else wanting to bath in the light of Christ.

However, when we take that soap and make others wash in it, it is our unrighteous judgment not Christ whom will not make one bathe if they don't come to the light willingly.

Matthew 20:28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

Matthew 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers{TR adds ", raise the dead"}, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

It is false religion that takes the power of the written word of God and drives everyone and everything to the light by every word and breathe it speaks. Furthermore, now you know why her judgment (false religion) is twice as much!

Revelation 18:6 Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.

Those loving the light see first themselves and direct others to the light, as Christ himself did (God's love the light). With complete trust they know Christ will not lose any of his sheep. They take no delight in the world, nor do they try to make parts of it theirs by condoning the darkness in themselves as light so they can have what they want in this world..

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