Racism !!

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Consider This Perspective!!

(The Revelations, the Lord has given to me by the Spirit, along with my teachings and comments, are written in Blue) (May we all have ears to hear)

No one person of their own free volition, within, and of, their own self, using their own freedom of decision ... determines their own skin color, whether brown, black, white, yellow, red, tan or olive. Nor do they determine their own race, nor whether they're born to a financially wealthy family, or a financially poor family. Nor does any one person decide when and where they were born ... whether they were born in an English-speaking country and family, or a German, Russian, Spanish or French speaking country and family. If you had been born in Russia, you would be speaking Russian today. If you had been born in Germany, you would be speaking German today. For the most part, we all become what we were brought up around. We could go on and on here. Surely you get the point. 

To discriminate or dislike someone because of skin color, race or ethnic background is ridiculous, if not totally stupid. Look at what the Apostle Peter teaches in the Christian Bible. Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 

Then look at what the Apostle Paul says: 1Corinthians 15:37-38 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

Another thing ... Just because a person makes a statement in regard to identity, revealing the skin color of someone, does NOT make that person a racist.

The bottom line in the Gospel of Jesus Christ is that ... Jesus never criticized anyone's race !! In fact, Jesus never mentioned anyone's race ... PERIOD !!!

Here are a few examples. Notice the word WHOSOEVER in the following scriptures. He doesn't sound racist to me!

Matthew 7:24 Therefore WHOSOEVER heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

Matthew 10:32 WHOSOEVER therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 12:50 For WHOSOEVER shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

If all people would not ever mention anyone's race, all racism would die. Talking about racism constantly, especially with future generations, is what keeps all of it alive. ><>

... from ... Doc Eggleston ... J Stone Grant

FROM A LAMB TO A LION

Be a Doer, not just a Hearer of His Word !!

(The Revelations, the Lord has given to me by the Spirit, along with my teachings and comments, are written in Blue) (May we all have ears to hear)

Acts 3:6 ... Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth ...

Isaiah 40:28-31 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (These Words were spoken approximately 740-700 BCE Just so you know ... Isaiah was speaking to those who lived back then in his own time ... as well as to those who would live in future generations, who were WAITING upon the LORD to send the Messiah to save them. All though, back then, they did not fully understand exactly how this would be accomplished. They did not understand that their strength would be renewed after Jesus finished the work on the cross ... established God's Kingdom within the innermost being of the believer ... and sent the joy in and of the Holy Ghost to live inside their earthen vessels. They didn't understand back then ... that even after they themselves died ... they would not be left behind. Even then, they would still be saved, and that after the cross and before he rose again, Jesus would come for them. As we all have learned by now, HE led captivity captive)

John 1:29 ... John (the Baptist) seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the *LAMB* of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Revelation 5:5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the *LION* of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose (loosen, put off, melt, destroy, break, dissolve ... Strongs G3089) the seven seals thereof.

He first came as a *LAMB*, but He returns as a *LION*!!

Deuteronomy 28:6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

John 14:15-29 If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you *ANOTHER COMFORTER*, that HE MAY ABIDE WITH YOU FOR EVER; Even the SPIRIT OF TRUTH, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for *HE DWELLETH WITH YOU* and SHALL BE *IN YOU*. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. AT THAT DAY (the day and/or days after Jesus went to the cross and rose again, that is to say the days we live in now) YE SHALL KNOW that I (Christ Jesus) AM IN MY FATHER, and YE IN ME, and *I IN YOU*. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and *I WILL LOVE HIM, AND WILL MANIFEST MYSELF TO HIM*. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that THOU WILT MANIFEST THYSELF UNTO US, and NOT UNTO THE WORLD? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me (Christ Jesus), he will keep my words: and *MY FATHER WILL LOVE HIM, AND WE WILL COME UNTO HIM, AND MAKE OUR ABODE WITH HIM*. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Ye have heard how I said unto you, I GO AWAY, AND COME AGAIN TO YOU. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. And NOW (before Christ Jesus went to the cross) I have told you *BEFORE* it come to pass, that, WHEN (now ... in our day and time) IT IS COME TO PASS, YE MIGHT BELIEVE. 

James 1:22-25 But be ye DOERS of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 

Deuteronomy 28:12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations (peoples), and thou shalt not borrow.
Deuteronomy 33:11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.

2Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time (BCE) by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. ><>

                                                            J Stone Grant

What Does It Mean To Be SAVED ??

(The Revelations, the Lord has given to me by the Spirit, along with my teachings and comments, are written in Blue) (May we all have ears to hear)

On the eighth day after Elizabeth gave birth to "John the Baptist", his father Zachariah, prophesied the following:

Zachariah's Prophecy

Luke 1:67-75 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, and hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: That we should be *SAVED* from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; the oath which he sware to our father Abraham, that he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, *ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIFE.*   

John 5:22-24 (Jesus said) For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Verily, verily, I (Jesus) say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him (the Father) that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 

John 11:25-26 Jesus said ..., I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. 

John 15:11 These things have I (Jesus) spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 

In summary, the bottom line here is ... If you're waiting to be SAVED until after you get the kids through college, or until just before you pass away ... you'll miss it!! SAVED is for NOW ... NOW IN THIS LIFE!! It all starts when you let Christ Jesus (His Word ... He is the Word ... the Word made flesh) enter into your heart and life. You can live, breath and walk in His Kingdom, presence, peace and joy NOW!! He'll help you with all of life's challenges. If you lack the courage to accept the call of Christ Jesus into your life ... then you'll NEVER know true happiness. ><>

                                                                J Stone Grant