About John

What would God say about me?

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1 John 1:15-17

"This is a great list of things that God says about John before he is born. He talks about John being filled with the Holy Spirit which is different than most of the ways that people knew the Holy Spirit leading up to this point. He certainly talks about John being faithful and doing what it is that God is calling him to do. I don't know that there is any reason to believe that God speaks a declarative word over the lives of every individual before they are born. That's probably fanciful thinking. However, if God were going to speak a word over my life, say at my rebirth, these are the kinds of things I hope He would say. It's clear that God has a set of parameters that he considers to be holy living and we should be making certain choices to be the kind of man that God made us to be and of course God wants us to make those choices out of a regenerated heart which honors Him daily. Let's desire that. Let's desire that God's observations of who we are and who we will be are not just encouraging so that we get what we want but declarative in a way that we can be what he wants us to be. Lord, help us be men of God. In Jesus name, amen."

Overtime: 

This is a pretty awesome list of signs of greatness. I notice that they differ from each other. First, God will take notice and see John as great. He will never have wine or liquor presumably for his whole life. He would be filled with the Holy Spirit-filled. It's like he would be a Christian from the womb which is even more significant because their were no Christians yet. Mostly, the Holy Spirit would settle on people but that they should be filled was unheard of and in John's case it would be from the womb! God was making a really significant pronouncement. We can see from this side that John was foretold as the forerunner of Jesus which means it's like far less odds than winning the lottery and for that reason totally unexpected. This is a pronouncement of God's grace, not only as it would be seen directed towards John the Baptist but also as it would be seen directed toward the entire Earth. Because John would be proclaiming the coming of Jesus Christ he would be offering an amazing opportunity to come back into relationship with God even before the crucifixion. In theory,

John's "gospel" would be a preparatory one. It would be a little incomplete because it did not include the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. However, it called for faith and repentance which, to this point were the ingredients of salvation. They would continue to be more

His grace would become clearer as the final piece-the death, burial, and resurrection were accomplished. We know that even after years of ministry John's understanding would not be complete and somehow the Holy Spirit's identifying Jesus word be less clear because while in jail he would ask. Unless, of course his question was for others not for him. When he first met Jesus, both of them still in the womb, he leapt for joy. Also, they were cousins which was a close familial relationship for two men so connected to God.

We have The Holy Spirit in us and are free to choose to follow Christ however He would have us to. Let's do the best we can to make sure whatever Jesus would say about us would sound good

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A Reasonable Request

A Reasonable Request

We've been working through a number of apologetics texts again at New Heights on the Tuesday nights opposite Faith Force which is our new children's program. During our time together I have been reminded vividly of exactly how reasonable our faith is.

What strikes me hard is this: why did I spend 25 years of my life not recognizing the plain and simple fact that the creation in which we live is so organized as to be undeniably created by an intelligent being? Why did I not make that very logical realization to its next to most logical conclusion? I guess I can understand why I failed to connect Jesus clearly to the God of the universe who must exist. I didn't know much about him or what people were claiming he had done.

As a 25-year-old man I literally only knew one person who was professing to be a Christian and trying to live the way they thought Christ would want them to. If that was so in 1995 imagine how many 25-year-olds now have no living witness in their circle? Don't think about it too long though. It will break your heart.

The teleological argument for an intelligent designer is also called the pocketwatch argument. It basically says that if a person were walking along in the desert and stumbled upon a pocketwatch they would naturally assume by virtue of its intricate design that it was put together by a designer. There's no way the various parts that make up a pocket watch fell together on their own or by the impact of chaotic forces.

Our world shows incredible attributes of intelligent design. There are so many factors necessary for sustaining life and making our planet habitable that if they did not exist we would not exist. Yet, these factors do apply And we do exist.

DNA contains information and everyone who studies DNA recognizes it as essentially a programming language. It's a programming language that exists in every organic thing. Trees have DNA, dogs have DNA, and people have DNA. DNA which is intricate and essentially submicroscopic controls the operations of every living thing like incredibly well-built HTML code. However, DNA is infinitely more complex than HTML.

Someone put it together. I could have figured that out. Maybe I did.

In retrospect, I think I was like a fish in a fish tank. I was considering that the things that I could see were all of the things that I would ever have to deal with. I never considered that the glass walls that surrounded me and contained my life were temporary. That is, I never considered it until 25 years in.

Graciously, God led me to Himself. I don't know how many people encounter God because they take a long and deliberating look. It seems to me like most encounter Him because as Paul says in Acts 17 their life has been organized in such a way that they will look around for him. Then in the looking they find him and realize he was never far away in the first place.

I think we should let our light shine before men. Jesus commanded it of course. But, what I'm saying is that I think it makes sense. We must entreat everyone that we know to accept that the incessant, very clear, merciful pleading of the God of heaven should no longer be dismissed.

This is why we don't save people. Jesus saves people. We can only add our witness. We certainly should. That's the pathway to people glorifying God at the coming of Jesus. Jesus said it this way: So let your light shine before men...

I don't live in regret now. I don't regret the first 25 years of my life that didn't glorify God the way they might have. I don't regret pushing off my decision to be saved two weeks even when I knew with absolute certainty that I was taking a risk he wouldn't call me again. Would I do it again? No way.

Even though I don't live in regret now I know that one day, looking back at my life, I'm going to get a clear view of all the waste. It seems like that will be a sad day, a day when I will need to be comforted by the Lord. As I have been looking at the very logical reasons to believe in a living God, who sent his son Jesus to die for us, came in the flesh was God the Son and took on the sins of men to take them to the cross, and rose again on the third day, I prayerfully desire that I'll find more souls who will join me in the pursuit of representing Him well for as long as we have left.

Tell them. Shine before them. Seek them out. Overcome evil with good. Do not be ashamed of the gospel. Those who hear you and see you will one day wonder why it took you and such a concerted effort for them to see what was right in front of their face.

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Acts 9:7 Privy to Another's Conversation

Acts 9:7  

Acts 9:7 (NASB2020)

The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.

Sometimes, the conversation between someone and Jesus is/was meant for them alone. Here, enough happened that they were sure something happened without them knowing exactly what. It left them speechless but not mute, just perplexed to the to point of saying nothing. It's that feeling that should comes over kids when the adults are talking and the conversation is inherently significant. The ache, the emotion, and the anticipation of what comes next... They didn't see Jesus but apparently Paul did. They didn't know what was going on but from the beginning Paul asked questions and got answers. These were not saints and this conversation was not about them getting saved. I wonder what would become of them but for this moment in time it is significant that they were held without anything to say.

Genesis 2:25 Not Part of the Original Scene

Genesis 2:25

Current things we are concerned about, like always, were not part of the original scene. Clothes, appearances, danger, worry, regret, living outside God's plan, of course sin of any kind, and death. Before the fall they were living together, vulnerable, feeling worthy of each other's love. They had virtually limitless provision, they had God walking with them in the coolness of the garden, and they were vulnerable but not weak. From here, they might look uncivilized or pre-development but the reality is that if shame and selfish, wicked behavior comes with those developments then we don't actually want them. But it's too late now.. Unless God should deal with them we are hopelessly stuck. Then, He did deal withthem. He did provide rebirth, Spiritual healing, and he conquered shame, sin, and death. We don't live like we are fallen. We are now to live a life alive in Him, our darkest hours are known, our foolishness, wickedness, our shame, and He has dealt with it all. While we were yet sinners Christ died for us. We live beyond the veil, behind the curtain, insidethe bubble, and we have already won though for all practical appearances the battles still rage.

Judges 5:16 Get off the fence

Judges 5:16

There are great many people sitting on the fence. Perhaps they are determined that God is good and that He rewards those who seek Him but they're just not sure about risking all for Him. They're not sure about moving. They're not sure whether what they've been doing to this point is enough? There will come a day when we may compare a person who searches his heart to determine whether or not he will step out for God to a person who does not search and we will determine that the person who did search is such a better person. But better than searching one's heart to try to figure out whether or not one is going to move for God is actually moving. For, there will really come a day when God will ask did your hearts not burn within you while we walked? Could you not find certainty to get beyond doubts? There you still sat while others were acting upon the truth. No, Lord, please let it be thatI/we are found faithful. Let us be found among those who act upon what we know not those who simply search our hearts.

God wants us to watch our speech and reflect His love Titus 2:1

Titus 2:1

I feel a personal indebtedness to God to honor this verse with my true effort. God wants us to speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine. This means so much more than telling people what the Bible says or even what we know of God's personality or even what we know of the miracles that God has done. God wants us to carry ourselves and to communicate in such a way that nothing we say or do detracts or distracts from the truth, from the whole body of truth that God has bestowed to the church by His Holy Spirit, by His word, by His presence with us in all things, by giving us the keys to the kingdom and the promise that we wil lnot be overcome by the gates of hell. The bottom line is how you carry yourself and the messages you deliver will create a stage and a spotlight for the doctrine of the Lord. So it should be. Some things we might say might not be beneficial. Some things we might do might distract from the truth that God has delivered. It's time we got busy making sure our lives are a reflection of the love of the Lord and his desire to have relationship with us.

Only God is God, He's got this.

Fear God alone. Trust Him to do as He's promised.

It is good to know who you are working for. When that someone is someone else or yourself the end product will always include discontent. Recognizing His power, His perfect plan, His direction that can be submitted to despite our lack of understanding, results in His being the one to carry the burden for certain choices.

 If we have to deliberate our motivations and more, then there is no untouched sleep. Even being hurt doesn't have to be internalized if we know that the forward march is directed by Him and that our bottom line effort is submission to His will. No one else can be the goal, set the goal, or provide the necessary resources to stay the course.

Fear the Lord and Him alone and when you settle down at night and your mind plays over the days events your mind can be put in check and peace can ensue. Evil cannot win against God but evil can have a lasting impact against a person who is doing the walking in his or her own strength. There is also a temporal Victory where arrogance or ignorantly seeking a furtherance of relationship with another yields a sort of peace as we settle down thinking about today's victories.

We make ourselves comfortable with failure claiming our diagnosis or villainizing another party or ourselves. We feel vindicated because we justify the outcome. These methods are temporary and evil is actively having victories. The ONLY real victory is to submit to the Lord and be born again and faithful over whatever circumstance, trusting He is working His plan to it's betterment. That will function as a shield and portion that facilitates a rest that comes at physical dormancy and serves as a testimony to the one whom we serve. Saying, He's got this, becomes a simple victory that calms bewilderment and makes struggling to comprehend obsolete. Have peace at rest. Fear the Lord alone.

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many churches much possibility of getting it wrong

It just occurred to me that sometimes in wanting to get things right, even the will of God, we actually make things harder for those who are somewhere not quite caught up with us. We want to make sure our choices are correct, that we have cut obvious temptations out of our life and that we are reaching new heights in Jesus. The problem is, there are people who are watching us and even following in our footsteps and our diligence amounts to little more than a stumbling block for them. We refuse to eat food sacrificed to idols and they don't even have that decision on their radar yet. We teach giving faithfully and they haven't even thought things through that they might have to give. 

The many churches of the world seem to be an example of the problem. I think there probably are as many different ways to be the church as there are groups of people who want to be the church but then that puts people in the place where they have to find a church and they have to choose from several opportunities. We want them in our church or in rarer cases we really DON"T want them to come to our church. People have to find their church home without the clarity of having fewer choices. 

After all is said and done, the right one is the right one according to what God says but it may not have the programs that people are looking for, actually probably won't, because they are not there yet. It probably doesn't look perfect. God will say and we are meant to know the mind of Christ but because there is so much variety we are asking young believers or believers who haven't necessarily grown to where they are supposed to be to make a choice that outside God they would not be able to make . 

I suppose this is why churches must have an understanding of the kind of people the church is supposed to be reaching, not speaking judgmentally but season of life, families, professional, etc. If anyone would fit that probably would be ideal but then it probably never is exactly like that. 

Let us lead them to Jesus, be better people and a better church , and I suppose let us be sensitive to making the decision in as Godly a way as possible. 

Messy God

Judges 1:4 NASB1995

[4] Judah went up, and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands, and they defeated ten thousand men at Bezek. 

This is a lot of death. It would have a lot of collateral damage. Dead bodies would have littered the ground. This happened at many points in history actually. This is also an example of why at one point the Lord said He would not destroy them all at once. Scavengers feast, prosper, and grow plentiful, it's a form of pollution, and a mess that has to be dealt with. The area becomes less useful. Plus, even seeing the destruction of an army is actually a traumatic event and losing family in a slaughter like this is hard on survivors. Great cost, great loss, and far reaching ramifications but here the ten thousand lost lives is just a line in a history. We can glance over it but we certainly wouldn't if we were living it. This same disconnected mindset can affect us when we hear about tragedy in others' lives. God's heart of compassion is even bigger than ours many thousands times so imagine how He sees it and how severe the sin of man was to bring Him to initiate a flood or declare the wiping out/casting out of an entire region's population. But it's true that while they were dealing with all that they probably didn't have time to be burning their children in the fire or visiting Temple prostitutes, etc. In some sense this tragedy brought peace or at least restrained wickedness. If there were men who had reached a height of wickedness so that every thought of their heart was wickedness all the time then this was ten thousand instances of stopping greater evil. In any case, He is just and this is the outcome so there you have it. God is willing to make a huge mess in order to deal with evil.

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The very thing that God gave us to overcome worry

Why is, "God's got this," not enough? Why do we say we believe and yet misuse our brain power and our heart strength in concern for future outcomes that we cannot  or should not control by any amount of concern? It is a misuse of the same sentience that God made us in His image. Seeing future events, planning, dreaming, and being able to change certain outcomes, all are aspects of our God-given personhood. Moreover, we sometimes feel these things in our soul. When this ability is corrupted and applied against us or applied by us in a wrong fashion we lose the very freedom that Christ died for. When freedom is overcome by fear and doubt, by anxiety and worry, we should turn to the Lord and be changed. When we experience a supernatural expression of out of control concern we should rebuke it and stand firm in the faith. But it feels so hard because it is our God-given greatness put to misuse. The same thing that traps us MUST be submitted to Christ for His use to set us free.

Matthew 6:34 NASB1995

[34] “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

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More than victory

I have seen an important pairing in that a victory is so much sweeter when there has been a grand challenge. It doesn't mean as much to win when there was no chance,, or at least appeared to be no chance of losing. This is that. Christians suffer through some of the worst things that life has to offer and then ultimately proceed to the greatest victory. Push me to my limits and watch my glorious victory, is not something we might ask for but it is just as sweet none-the-less. The smaller the distance between us and possible loss the sweeter the victory but at the same time faith reminds us that we cannot lose. And while not losing is a great victory and greater when it appears someone could lose, an even greater victory is to be faced with circumstances that testify to defeat and to know that, contrary to appearances, victory is in the offing. To be able to cry, we win, we win, when as far as everyone is concerned the game is not yet over AND to be proven correct, is more than to conquer. In fact, it is a victory so sweet as to be almost unbelievable.

Romans 8:37 NASB1995

[37] But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 

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New Heights Fellowship Baptist-Pastor
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Loving as a Progenitor

People are different and when people are found to be similar they are easier to relate to. When it seems someone is prioritizing you then it feels safe, even natural, to prioritize them. When it comes to relationships someone has to make the first move. Often it seems at if no one did. It happens that family, for example, just naturally prefers one another. This preference follows many other lines such as hobbies, similar ownership, personal habits, and even shared experiences. I think about summer camps making friends for life out of people from different backgrounds. The bottom line is, people find a reason to love those who love them but the Bible actually calls us to love unrequited. Be an originator with no better reason than that God has authored it. A few verses later, He reminds us that that is how God did it for us. God not only loved us when we hardly knew Him but when we were living opposed to Him. Following His example is accomplished when we choose to love as a first response and without reservation. Moreover, the more we love, the more we become who the word says we area in Christ. Sinners stumble on right activities but do it for the wrong, even completely logical reasons. We most adopt this alternative: Love others though they may not know you or even care about you. Then, and only then do we have something, a trait, an identity, a huge blessing, a grand victory, a powerful light to be shined, a notable internal change, and more to be His people. In the extreme, this means loving our enemies. In it's genesis we find our new reality. 

Matthew 5:46 NASB1995

[46] For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.5.46.NASB1995

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The debate continues

The amendment expanded language to include ANY position with the title Pastor including children's etc. Also, included the term "elder". We believe this, hence we voted for it heavily but to change the constitution is meant to be difficult. AND we have churches who have the terms in practice. If we were so solidly for this we have allowed churches to use the term Pastor for non-senior positions AND there's a question about the term elder. It's enough, has been multiple times now to put a fly in the ointment. Add "intentional difficulty changing a constitution to "female elders" and ALL pastors and you get just enough to have a concern. Also, information was given from the platform concerning opening up a legal issue if it passed, that makes four and with all those concerns the negative only managed to marshal just over a third of present votes. But, it was enough. No female elders? Absolutely NO pastors even over children when we have churches who will have to adjust? potential legal ramifications? Stacked needs of 2/3 which so designed to protect the constitution at all costs? None of these are easily dismissed concerns but still got a LOT of votes in the affirmative. It's not over. Here's the real question, with spending so much effort on this, where are we being distracted from working on something else? Also, when and if it actually happens will we have damaged something that we didn't mean to? Are we doing damage now by continuing to spend time on it? Got me. I'm not sure God has managed the investment. And, I am NOT presenting one side or another-jist speaking as to why, in my opinion, why we are still debating it. 

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How to grow a small church

Generate a prospect list by whatever your people do want to do. Knocking on doors is a good example. Baked goods, simple gifts of some kind. Look for a few green prospects. Then, I suggest having a candid conversation with them about vision and possibilities. You may have to say something like, we know we are in a building situation. Will you come and work to build this with us? To get that going you are probably looking for someone who is already a professing believer and is being pulled that way by God. Ultimately, the new believers will be your strength but they are also messy by comparison. Do not hit h your wagon to anyone fleeing a previous ministry situation and saying something bad about their previous church. But your prospect generator whatever it is will generate red (not interested), yellow (maybes),  and green (likely). Reconnect with green over and over until they either get involved, your interaction with them lead to the conversation above or they turn yellow or red. Community ministries such as food pantry and so on are just avenues of prospect generation. They may provide conversations where in the gospel can be shared and people can get saved. They may not. Either way, they will generate a list of prospects if you collect information from those you serve. Then funnel that list of prospects into the red green yellow system that I laid out above. Take heed in entering into the conversation that I explained above and treat it like you are looking for people who are called to form the growing version of your church. Caught by God, of course. If you find one or more families or individuals who fit that criteria-Called by God and willing to stick it out during the dry times, Then you will have what you need for sustained growth. Any core group of people can come up with simple ways to accumulate a list of names. Getting people into the red group is just as important as getting people into the green group. It even happens that people in the red group wound up getting saved and jump into the green group. Because contacts are continually being made with people in the green group You can encourage people by helping them realize these are not cold calls but talking to people who have said that they would be interested in a new church home. Even if you only generate a few names weekly on the lists In a year the list will be 150 names A good portion of which will be red and yellow and some percentage will be green. You should probably have some prayer warriors in your church who will be willing to pray over the names on the list segments. They can pray as the Lord leads of course but asking people what you can be praying for them about is a way to generate name for the list. Your people can say something like our church keeps the list of people that we regularly pray for and we know that God is going to provide miracles for those people. Would you like to be on it? What can we pray for? Would you say that you are looking for a new church home? Would you be an interested and knowing more? These are sample questions. They are questions your people can ask while waiting in the doctor's office, while sitting in a restaurant, while dealing with their family, whatever. Getting enough information to contact the people on the segments will actually be easiest when the contacts are green, harder when they are yellow, difficult when they are red. Asking someone who has professed a certain amount of interest in being included on the list or who has been served by giving them something if you can inform them when God has done a miracle for someone on the list and/or If it would be okay for someone to check up with them to see if God has done the miracle...would be a good way. One huge blessing when working with a population of seniors is the often time they will garner some respect in conversations with anyone who is tender-hearted. Middle-aged and younger Christians can be viewed with suspicion. If a 70-year-old man or woman carries a notebook and collects information from people they run into at a restaurant or whatever for a purpose similar to the example given above it is unlikely that anyone will take offense especially because your people can be trained not to push past objections at all. Once church members are engaged in collecting names for the list and a simple system for following up with people who are on the list and in the green category, post card, call, visit, visit, visit, etc. has been put in place and all the names are being bathed in prayer, whether or not the church grows will be largely up to God (which makes it a given because this is what he wants) and regardless of whether it takes weeks months or years The church will be doing what the church should be doing and being with the church is supposed to be all throughout the process. Souls will be won. It is possible that you will win dozens or hundreds of prospects to other churches because of rising tide raises all boats and the name of the kingdom will spread far and wide in small increments and ever-growing larger increments if new people coming are enlisted to the same process. I'd be more invested in ensuring this latter outcome than I'm ensuring the growth of the church. It seems more honoring to God even though God has assigned us to lead his sheep and grow his flock. 

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No Stumbling the Young Ones...

As Christian men we have a truly powerful responsibility to protect the upcoming generations. While we are learning and growing in our faith, while we are earning our income and paying our bills, while we are dealing with our own health concerns and managing our household, we absolutely must protect the integrity of God's upcoming family. We must avoid setting a bad example, teaching a looser interpretation of the scripture, throwing a fit when we vehemently disagree with someone else's course of action, poorly portraying the love of God, failing to enact generosity, and the list goes on. We must speak the truths of Christianity and live them to the best of our ability while at the same time being transparent about our weakness as men so that the upcoming generation does not believe that our flawed methods of existence are sufficient to bring God the glory that he deserves. If we realize that we have received everything that we have from God through Jesus then we ought not to act as if some of it we somehow earned or as if we know better tactics than those that God has taught us. Tell them Jesus is king, show them jesus is king, and be transparent about your own failings in marking out Jesus as king. No excuses, just a simple scriptural teaching that we must give the absolute best we can for and to our Lord but realize that he deserves even so much more than that. Then, if they do likewise, they will do well. #reachingnewheightsinjesus

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New Heights Fellowship Baptist-Pastor
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