Seek the Pearl

Let him who seeks continue to seek until he finds.
When he finds, he will become astonished.
When he becomes astonished, he will be king.
And when he becomes king he will find rest.

The Attitude of Jesus

Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death, even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him a Name above every name, that every knee should bow in heaven and on earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the Glory of God the Father!

Saturday, June 12, 2010

The Wisdom of God-pt 1

Paul wrote " There is no one righteous, not even one, there is no one who understands, no one seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. The poison of vipers is on their lips. Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they know not. There is no fear of God before their eyes."
This is the confession of every living person, it breaks our hearts but this is the truth. King David wrote," Have mercy on me, O'God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time of my mother conceived me. Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness, let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out my iniquity. Create in me a pure heart, O'God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Then I will teach transgressors your ways; and sinners will turn back to you. Save me from bloodguilt, O'God, the God who saves me, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness. O'Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it, you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O'God you will not despise. In your good pleasure make Zion prosper; buildup the walls of Jerusalem. Then there will be righteous sacrifices. Whole burnt offerings to delight you: then bulls will be offered on your altar." And Hosea says," Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously:So will we render the calves of our lips."
We are born sinful. In the book of Genesis it explains this.2:15-17 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man," you are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must NOT eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil , for when you eat of it you shall surely die." Then the serpent who is Satan came along and started talking to the woman. Gen3:4,5 "You will Not surely die" the serpent said to the woman,"For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God knowing good and evil."
The seed was planted in our flesh to learn of good and what it is, and evil, and what it is. The Bible does not leave us hanging on this issue, it tells us what good and evil is. Since all human flesh has the seed of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in them, we are doomed to die. That was Satan's first lie to us, the father of all lies. Evil is away from God the only source of life, it is not of God. Though God made evil, he hates it and we learn what evil is, we should hate it also, for it is death, it is nonexistence. The Bible clearly tells us this, it also tells us that God is good, God is love. Because we have the seed of the knowledge of good and evil in us, does not mean we are capable of wielding the power of either, so Paul says,"We know the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: when I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law, but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God---Through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.(Romans7:14-25)

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