Saturday, July 15, 2017

KILLER

KILLER

SNIPPET

“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.” ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

SCRIPTURE

There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death. Proverbs 14:12 NIV

SONG
Branan Murphy - All The Wrong Things                        https://youtu.be/nE0D4jrfBAI

[Verse 1: Branan Murphy]
Maybe I'm not in control
Playing with fire, it's taking me over
I light the fuse and I'm watching where it goes
I wish You would stop me
This feels too good for it to be wrong
I'm just trying to follow my heart
Have I betrayed You all along?
O o-o-ohhh

[Chorus: Branan Murphy]
I'm in love with the mirror
But the face in the glass is a killer
Will I ever get out of my own way? yea-eh
I want all the wrong, wrong, wrong things
I want all the wrong, wrong, wrong things
I want all the wrong, wrong, wrong things
I need You to make me right

[Verse 2: Koryn Hawthorne]
There's a secret place that I go, it's hidden in my mind
I know that it's wrong, need to take a step into the light
Wanna give You all I got 'til there's nothin' left to hide
'Cause when I see You, I can't look You in the face, yea
It's like I'm running from myself, need You to take it, woah-o-o-o-o-oah
I can't do this no more, no more!

[Chorus 2: Branan Murphy & Koryn Hawthorne]
I'm in love with the mirror
But the face in the glass is a killer
(Killer I am)
Will I ever get out of my own way? yea-ehh
(Will I ever get out of my own way? yea-ehh)
Gotta taste it, but it's toxic, toxic
Here again, can't pretend, I don't want it (no-no)
Maybe the reason why I'm stuck on replay
No I want it
I want all the wrong things
I want all the wrong, wrong, wrong things
I want all the wrong, wrong, wrong things
I want all the wrong, wrong, wrong things
I need You to make me right

[Pre-Bridge: Koryn Hawthorne]
Change me, I need You to change me
Change me, I need You to make me right

[Bridge: Branan Murphy & Koryn Hawthorne]
Yeah
Wake up from the wrong side
Wrong side of the fence, yea
I got no defense, no
Can't run from the truth, can't run from my sins
This is the part where you pick me up
You gon' dust me off, and I swear to stop
So help me God, gimme one more shot
But I still want all the wrong, wrong things
'Cause I got all the wrong, wrong kings
Trying to be better but I'm never gonna win the battle
'Til I throw the towel in the middle of the ring
Ring ring, call me out
Pull me out
If it thrills me it's gon' kill me, no doubt
(I'm in love with the mirror)
I thought that vice was playing nice
But it's just faking me out

[Chorus 2: Branan Murphy & Koryn Hawthorne]
I'm in love with the mirror
But the face in the glass is a killer
Will I ever get out of my own way? yea-ehh
(Will I ever get out of my own way?
Gotta taste it, but it's toxic
Here again, can't pretend, I don't want it
(No-no-no-no-no no-no)
Maybe the reason why I'm stuck on replay
No I want it
Oh, I want all the wrong things
I want all the wrong, wrong, wrong things
I want all the wrong, wrong, wrong things
I want all the wrong, wrong, wrong things
I need You to make me right
You know I want it

[Outro : Branan Murphy & Koryn Hawthorne]
I want all the wrong, wrong, wrong things
I want all the wrong, wrong, wrong things
I want all the wrong, wrong, wrong things
I need You to make me right
I need You to make me right...

SENTENCE PRAYER


Father; you are holy and hate all sin for the destruction it brings to Your creation.  Jesus, Your death has freed me from sin and death.  How can I live in it any longer?  Holy Spirit search my life for any delicacy of sin, I foolishly try to hide from You and bring it to death and me to life. Amen REM

Sunday, July 9, 2017

LET THE DAY BEGIN

LET THE DAY BEGIN

SNIPPET

“Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Collected Poems and Translations

SCRIPTURE

The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone.

This was the Lord’s doing;
It is marvelous in our eyes.

This is the day the Lord has made;
We will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:22-24 NKJV

SONG
LET THE DAY BEGIN KEVIN MAX

Here's to the babies in a brand new world
Here's to the beauty of the stars
Here's to the travelers on the open road
Here's to the dreamers in the bars

Here's to the teachers in the crowded rooms
Here's to the workers in the fields
Here's to the preachers of the sacred words
Here's to the drivers at the wheel

Here's to you my little love
Let the day begin
Here's to you my little love with blessings from above
Let the day begin

Here's to the winners of the human race
Here's to the losers in the game
Here's to the soldiers of the bitter war
Here's to the wall that bears their names

Here's to you my little love
Let the day begin
Here's to you my little love with blessings from above
Let the day begin, the day begin, the day start

Here's to the doctors and their healing work
Here's to the loved ones in their care
Here's to the strangers on the streets tonight
Here's to the lonely everywhere

Here's to the wisdom from the mouths of babes
Here's to the lions in the cage
Here's to the struggles of the silent war
Here's to the closing of the age

Here's to you my little love
Let the day begin
Here's to you my little love
Let the day begin
Here's to you my little love
Let the day begin
Here's to you my little love with blessings from above
Here's to you my little love with blessings from above
Here's to you my little love with blessings from above

SENTENCE PRAYER


Father,  Thank you for the gift of a new day.  As the sun rises may my love also grow in the sun.  Holy Spirit, open my eyes to see the blessings from above.  Amen

Luke 14:25-35

The first step to understand a passage is to seek God's wisdom in prayer.  The Holy Spirit is the author of all Scripture. Therefore there is only one original intended meaning.

Zach; initially in our discussion of this pericope, you urged me that all who followed Jesus are called to the same standard. The standard after prayerfully reading the passage is found in verses twenty-six and twenty-seven.  If anyone comes to Me and does not [n]hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. 27 Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

And the passage is plain all followers of Christ must abandon all to follow the one true savior.  A prayerful reading of Luke Chapter fourteen, the Holy Spirit, illuminated to me the emphasis of the chapter was not the standard but the teaching of Jesus, in the first twenty - four verses of the chapter.  The word "Compel, in verse twenty-three, is the key. And the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the highways and along the hedges, and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.

The Greek word translated "compel" is very strong. It is the imperative of "anankazo," meaning "force," "compel," or even "drive." John Wesley gives this comment on "compel them to come in," "with all the violence of love, and the force of God's Word. Such compulsion, and such only…was used by Christ and the Apostles" (John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament, Baker, 1983 reprint, volume I, note on Luke 14:23). Plummer points out that "The compelling was by persuasion" (Alfred Plummer, The International Critical Commentary, Clark, 1952, note on Luke 14:23).  We are to persuade you to come into the church. NLT Favors Plummer with use of urge-which seems week in context.  ASV uses Constrain which Implies pressure to say yes. Surprisingly NET also uses urge.  Best translation for modern usage is Compel used by NIV, NASB, NKJV, and RSV.

In the verse twenty-five through thirty-five Jesus is demonstrating how servants are to urge the crowds to come into the Kingdom of God.  Notice the words of Savior are blunt, persuasive, and leave no wiggle room.  More importantly are Jesus actions, he does not use shame, manipulation or violence for the crowds to enter His millennial feast.  As disciples, we are commanded to forcefully persuade the lost to enter God's banquet!