Post by pitbull on Oct 7, 2008 4:36:49 GMT -5
DAILY WISDOM
“Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.” [Proverbs 7:24]
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
BINDING THE HANDS OF JESUS
Mark 15:1
Many people think this is so horrible but never wonder if they are binding the hands of Jesus.
1. We bind the hands of Jesus if we refuse to get saved. [John 3:7; Acts 4:12]
2. We bind the hands of Jesus if we refuse to be transformed in our behavior and thinking. [Romans 12:2; Ephesians 4:20-24; 1 Peter 2:2; Philippians 4:8-9]
3. We bind the hands of Jesus if we refuse to pray. [James 4:2; Hebrews 2:17-18; 4:14-16; 7:25]
4. We bind the hands of Jesus if we refuse to serve in a local, autonomous church. [Ephesians 5:23-27; 4:16; 1:22-23; 1 Corinthians 12:27]
5. We bind the hands of Jesus if we refuse to do what we can because of neglect, apathy, lukewarmness, etc.
6. We bind the hands of Jesus if we refuse to share the Gospel with the lost. [Proverbs 11:30; Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8]
May we lose the hands of Jesus and let Him bless us as He wants to.
RELIGIOUS AWARENESS
Pantheism
Pantheism is the view that everything is of an all-encompassing immanent abstract God; or that the Universe, or nature, and God are equivalent. More detailed definitions tend to emphasize the idea that natural law, existence, and the Universe (the sum total of all that is, was, and shall be) is represented in the theological principle of an abstract 'god' rather than a personal, creative deity or deities of any kind. This is the key feature which distinguishes them from panentheists and pandeists. As such, although many religions may claim to hold pantheistic elements, they are more commonly panentheistic or pandeistic in nature.