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The Violence In The Pigs Pen!

Jesus made a point, he stated a divine truth of God's creation, and what was that truth? He said that whatever measure we measure out will be measure back to us! That measuring out can be positive or negative its not a one way street!

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.

In other words, our self-respect, our love, our honor really does depend upon us! If we have two standards of respect for others based upon whatever information with think we own, and are entitled to, thus, allowing us to disrespect a person personal rights; that same measure will become our lot in life , perhaps, our whole life. (that is the judgment of God upon all of us)

Now if we lived in a perfect universe where love was the rule of law imagine how that divine law would benefit every living thing? There would be only giving, and in that giving would be life in abundance, and constant goodness.

But, of course, we don't live in a perfect world. Unfortunately we live among people who are dysfunctional having some very abusive behaviors.

Facts: Are you an important person?

The answer you give may indicate to psychologists how narcissistic you are. And on a societal level, the answer people give is changing. In 1963, when adolescents were asked if they considered themselves important, only 12 percent answered affirmatively. 30 years later (1993), that percentage had risen to 80.
The Evil Among Us

To measure out respect and honor to a person with destructive behavior is like throwing your pearls before a swine.

The lust found in the pig for its own animistic flesh will not care about your pearl or your love and kindness; they are so self-consumed with their own needs that every relationship they have is maintained by their manipulating others kindness to feed their all consuming needs.

Matthew 7:6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

One should not step into a herd of pigs with a bucket of food not unless they have no respect for their own life. Many of pig farmer have been consumed by their own pigs for doing such!

Moreover, many of us have had our entire life ruined by an narcissistic person that consumed every minute of our time and attention only to turn on like a wild beast leaving devastated and alone, financially ruined, and with problems we have to deal emotionally for the rest of our lives!

Life is serious, it is precious, and that is why we honor and show respect for all humans born or unborn. But caveat! If we don't first measure out the same respect and honor to our own life God has given to us then others will steal it and destroy our lives as worthless for their own needs just like a pig can't see a pearl's value while rolling in the mire of his pig pen!

Matt.13:44 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field. 13:45 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,
13:46 who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

Jesus made it clear that we are to be cautious as a serpent, and innocent as a dove, two spices that are very cautious of their survival. Doves don't eat out of your hand and they are harder to pet, they are beautiful but illusive creatures

Proverbs 12:26 A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Serpent always slither away and they don't play like a cats or dogs, they don't want the attention, and neither does a dove! Pigs love attention if it provides them food for their flesh, dogs can hardly live without constant attention and affection of the flesh!

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

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

Matt.10:16 "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Thieves and Time Bandits

Does a boss have respect for your personal time or needs? Not really, they are concerned with getting all they can out of you for the money that they are paying you for the time you give them, correct?

Your time is precious because without it a person could never run any type of business on this earth. But what of a thief, or a time bandit, what motivates them?

Matthew 6:19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

Matthew 6:20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;

Well, both are idolatry, they covet what is someone else valuables, they see only their own wants and needs so they will use every form of treachery to steal what is yours as a false god!

John 10:1 "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

John 10:10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

They have no kindness or compassion and certainly no respect for your hard work or the time that you've shown them. They have but one purpose to take what is yours for themselves. The greed in their own heart consume them so where they have no natural affection for another person hard work. No! what they want from you is for their needs. They cannot honor a person rights or they wouldn't be a thief!

Proverbs 21:26 There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don't withhold.

Sadly, those that are foolish and immature don't understand that there are people that want emotional attention so badly they are consumed with a black hole for they own needs. They will like a wild breast consume every second, minute of you time divesting you of your spirituality, and then turn upon you in a heart beat for some small infractions; most often it is when you don't give them their deserved respect they require.

Respect to the narcissistic personality is all consuming, they measure out no respect for others times and space so they are devoid of self-respect. Respect cannot be gained by taking one must give it to build it in themselves.

Thus, a person devoid of respect is offended over a word out of context, a voice infliction, anything that takes away from their pride of self importance.

Proverbs 29:23 A man's pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
Emtional Manipulators

If one measure out honor and respect to a manipulator you have put your goodness into a pigs pen that will not be appreciated at all then the pig will turn upon you and rip you to piece.

Psalms 73:22 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Pigs are not designed to be moral creatures they are driven by the lust in their flesh. You are to them not a good, or bad person, but something that gives them food for their belly. All the good feeling and love you may wish to project into them only means more attention for them, which equals more food for their bellies!

2 Peter 2:12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed.

Does the pig appreciated your hard work, your trials, your love, your losses, your integrity, your honesty, your truthfulness, or your love of God? No they do not! They can't, the question then becomes, do we respect ourselves and the gifts God has give us?

Do we desire the pigs attention more than Christ?

Do we hold the treasure of Christ as fine pearls, rare and precious, so precious we would not even consider taking them into a pig's pen or letting a dog chew on them like a bone?

Matt.25:8 The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' 25:9 But the wise answered, saying, 'What if there isn't enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.' 25:10 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. 25:11 Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.'
25:12 But he answered, 'Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you.

You see how is a pig going to manipulate you, or a dog, if they can't get to your the treasures of your heart, your emotions? Can a con-man con someone without manipulating their emotions? You see it is the want of our hearts that gives the con-man his job, nothing more!

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.
4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Maturity In Christ

Those who are mature in Christ have the gift of the Spirit of God's discernment.

For us to want attention more than Christ dwelling in us blinds us to the gift of discernment. Let us remember that without suffering in our flesh we cannot become mature in Christ.

James. 1:23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
1:24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 1:25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
1:26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.

So the job of a Christian's is not to feed pigs, or dogs, but those that Christ tells us to help by God's Spirit.

That is not our choice, it is the head of the bodies choice. If we are not prepared to give up every relationship for a relationship with Christ then we are not deserving of him in our lives. Moreover, its impossible for Christ to lead us by Spirit when we are conflicted in our own spirit by immaturity!

James.1:6 But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
1:7 For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord. 1:8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

It is that type of suffering that brings us to maturity, and the gifts of God's Spirit. An immature person cannot test the spirits because they have so many conflicting spirits in them by their own emotional needs Christ to them is little more than a Satan Clause to nature their every whim in their flesh!

1 Peter 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; 4:2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Mature Christian's understand it is God's Spirit that makes a person mature in Christ, “if”, God permits? A mature Christians' is not responsible for an immature Christian's feeling or emotions, they cannot change them nor should they assume they can, and/or take up a war with flesh and blood to bring that person into some sort of captivity by rules and laws that they enforce by taking their rights away as a free will with a conscience given by God.

2 Corinthians 4:2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

1 Timothy 1:5 but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;

Romans 14:4 Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

Romans 14:10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Christ is at the door, he is at every person heart door, but he will not open that door and walk into your personal rights, no matter how much he knows we are wrong or what he can do to change us. Christ is not the evil slave, who presumes rights over others free will to make them do the right thing.

Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

Those that want that type of work done must turn to false worship of demons whom do exactly that! Demons take the rights of others, they steal what is rightfully a person freely will, that Christ honors and respect. (That is why Babylon the Great is the lurking place of demons)

Now that is they only way we can show honor and show respect for all men, its not getting involved into their destructive behavior in thinking we are saving them by letting them steal the precious gift of Christ life in us to be used for mundane evil treasures on earth to feed their own wanted lust of their flesh. We are not to intrude into personal space; a door has a lock on it the person has every right to open it or close. We have no right to beat it down pry it open For us to assume we can take that right because of some biblical knowledge, or the person does not know what best for them goes against everything God is from Adam fall into sin by his free will!

Forgiving a Pig, its Still a Pig!

No matter how many times you forgive a pig its still going to be a pig, is that our job to changes pigs into angles of God? Or rather to listen the Spirit of God in telling us to shake the dust off our feet and leave the changes of people to the King of eternity?

1Cor.3:3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men? 3:4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly? 3:5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him? 3:6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. 3:7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

You see, if we are to change someone who is responsible for their own actions before God, how is that their actions?

If we chose to do so we are going to be full of anger, and there certainly a lot of angry Christian's now days! Here is a simple truth do you trust God? Do you believe that he cares more then we do?

Do we think without us the world would come to end? Do we think we could actually be responsible for all the billions of lives on this earth, and what of all the dead waiting a resurrection? What power do we have? Satan says we are all powerful we can change people lives into loving God by our good works?

Isa.40:6 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
40:7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass. 40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever."

But no where within our bibles are those words found true, it is only God that judges who is his, and who is not, not us! People take on God's role, and/or Christ role simply because they think they have a God given right to change others with the power of God's word the bible, but that is not a bible teachings.

1 Thessalonians 4:11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you.

A busybody is a person who meddles in the affairs of others. Sometimes this meddling is under the guise of “helping,” but usually the “help” is unwelcome and uninvited. Busybodies are often people who are dissatisfied with the level of drama in their own lives and gain satisfaction by becoming involved in the problems of other people. Gossip is usually a staple of every busybody, but it is usually camouflaged as a “prayer request” or given under the pretense of asking for advice.

1Tim. 5:11 But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;
5:12 having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.
5:13 Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

It is God who changes a person by his will, not against our will, he gives us a new personality, not us, not a religion, not a bible, or a teacher of the bible.

Those fears in lust to chang others is not of God, or from God they are found in us, in our own lack of love for our fellowman, in our own insecurity of our flesh! We push and push, until we find ourselves living in the pigs pen, in constant pain and anguishes that not one pig cares about!

Then we fall apart as a Christian's and we just can't understand why the bible is not working for us? So the problem is do we appreciate what God has given us, no matter what all the world thinks? What if everyone in the world rejected us because we have the love of God?

Do we expect God to give approval of feelings and emotions we have for needs in our flesh?

Well, that is not the case, but we must accept what God has given us as personal responsibility, and not what the world calls personal responsibility, we are to give not only to the good but also to the wicked, we honor all men, by allowing them the free will to chose for themselves if they chose to know, or not, if they chose to take from the tree of good and evil, not our business! If we are misguided in thinking we have some right to love them beyond they own right to free will, then light in us is really darkness!

Matthew 6:23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

We have the discernment of Christ to leave people alone, to mind our own business. If we do not do that we lose the peace of God, because we are trying by uses God word to change others beyond their personal rights, that is, control others feelings, thinking, and lives by the power of the scriptures.

Anger and fear and the works of our flesh come from tying to control things that out of our control as humans. The wicked spirit force are very angry because they are using all their power to control humans on earth.

Thus, we see the violent out busted expressed in human's doing horrific acts against each others. But remember the anger comes from trying to control the free will of others in their God given right of free will to chose life or death.

We have eternal life if Christ is in us, however, if we feel plagued it is by the fruit of our own dealings, what are we measuring out? Do we understand we honor all men in their personal rights, we do not take rights away because we feel entitled because they are of our religion or they lack godly education. We honor all people, not some people with acceptations.

Christian's do not exploit weakness in others to gain a disciple or control of their friendship with us. We measure out honor to all men we give them their rights because we honor their life as precious and from God unlike the world who takes rights and demeans human dignity.

Titus.3:1 Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
3:2 to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men. 3:3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
3:4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
3:6 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;

May The Peace of God be With The Spirit You Show.

Daniel