Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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They are soooo cute!
Is Paul Addressing Believers or Unbelievers?
By Pastor Paul M. Sadler
“I’m confused! In Philippians 3:17-20, is Paul addressing believers or unbelievers?”
“17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an example.
“18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the Cross of Christ:
“19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things)
“20 For our conversation [citizenship] is in heaven….”
Paul is addressing both groups! In verse 17 the apostle begins by encouraging those at Philippi who were saved to follow his teachings and manner of life. Notice, however, that he digresses in verses 18 and 19 to add a parenthetical thought. The reason the apostle pauses momentarily here is to point out that there were many who claimed to be Christians, probably for some type of personal gain, but he clearly exposes them to be enemies of the Cross of Christ. They lived to satisfy the desires of the flesh. Their god was food, and drink, and sex, as they gloried in their shame. They were consumed with earthly possessions, which blinded them to their need of the Savior. As a result, their “end is destruction!” Surely this could not be said of the believer. After Paul completes the parenthesis, he resumes with his initial train of thought, confirming our heavenly hope with the saints at Philippi, “For our citizenship is in heaven….”
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/is-paul-addressing-believers-or-unbelievers/
Philippians 3:16-21
Followers Together of Me
1.Phil 3:15-16
a.“God shall reveal even this unto you” – How? First, “Be thus minded”
b.God reveals his will in his word to those that believe – 2Tim 3:16, 1Th 2:13
c.“whereto we have already attained” – not as perfect, not as yet apprehended – 3:12-13
d.“walk by the same rule…” – Rule of doctrine/standard – Col 2:6, but also Gal 6:14-16
e.“ mind the same thing” –Which means there is one thing we mind – 1:27, 2:2, 4:2
a.Paul says more than once, no one else but Christ said so – 1 Cor 4:16; 11:1; 2Th 3:6-7
b.Christ sent Paul to preach the glory of his grace in a mystery – Col 1:25-28
c.Paul is not the mediator, Saviour, but a pattern –1 Tim 1:16, Rom 11:13, Matt 23:2
d.”mark them” – Paul identifies people to follow and avoid (Rom. 16:17)
e.How do you mark them? With honor, heed, help – 1Ti 5:17, 2Ti 1:3, Phil 4:3, Ro 16:3
f.”ensample” – a church function. If you have none, take your pattern from Paul
3.Phil 3:18-19 – Enemies of the Cross
a.The danger of not having a Pauline pattern, the same mind, the same rule
b.“even weeping” – Not to boast or gloat over their error, but to seek them with tears
c.“enemies of the cross” – the cross is the rule, it is the mind, it is the gospel.
d.Things opposed to the cross – Rom 11:28, 1 Cor 1:17; Gal 2:21, 4:11, 5:2-4, 2 Co 11:4
e.Enemies of the cross stand in pulpits talk/walk wrong doctrine – 1 Tim 4, 2 Tim 3:8
f.“God is their belly” – which is why religion continues – 1 Sam 2:12-17, Rom 16:17-18
g.They have replaced God with feelings and experiences as the source of truth
h.“glory in their shame” – the glory is in the here & now in our flesh – 1Cor 15:34
i.Friendship evangelism, hope in the healing, making a better world.
ii.We should glory in the cross of Christ and nothing else can we glory.
i.“mind earthly things” – earthly affections, signs, kingdoms, ordinances- Col 2:20
4.Phil 3:20-21 – Our conversation in heaven
a.The contrast is to the earthly things. Our politics is not earthly, but heavenly.
b.Being an ambassador changes everything about how we live and minister.
c.It is impossible to be so heavenly minded that you are no earthly good.
d.Are we neglecting the world? No, we are trying to save men from it – Gal 1:4
e.“change our vile body” – which is a mystery revealed – 1 Cor 15:47-54
f.“fashioned like unto his” – Remember Christ has an exalted body! Phil 2:8-9
g.We wait for the redemption of our bodies – Rom 8:23
h.The cross of Christ is the only way, the key to a conversation in heaven.
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Happy Cursday, Treepers! This video always remnds me of some of my earliest memories. When I was very small, I loved my father’s prized bird-dog Prince. On cold days, when I was tired of playing in the back yard, I would crawl into Prince’s dog-house for a nap. He was always happy to share his space with me and I remember him curling up around me to keep me warm.
A comment from the Youtube thread . . .
“I have had and lost many dogs during my lifetime on this earth of 66 years. Every time I say to myself that I am not gone get another one because it hurts so bad when you lose them. But somewhere there is always that dog that is lost and lonely or abused and neglected and needs me as bad as I need him or her and there I go again falling in love. This circle continues on for dog lovers everywhere until we die. That is just the way it is and we can’t help it.”
Apparently the Minneapolis police shot and killed a guy tonight. Word is that he shot at them first. So of course the protests gear up immediately.
It was New Year’s Eve..
..the phone didn’t ring..
Winter.. I was going to have a few months off..
The Early Years.. they were the best..
Work hard.. Live hard.. Play hard..
I had other things going on during the winter off-season to keep me busy.. like partying.. and rock and roll.. was there anything else.. ..nope..
just do the thing.. and you will have the power..
We all were chasing the American Dream.. it can’t be illegal if everybody’s doing it..
Stevens and Pruett on 101 KLOL continued to broadcast their politically incorrect FCC violating humor..
And you know that guy wearing a mattress jumping up and down on the side of the freeway.. he’s now doing it on TV..
Houston.. somehow it just happens.. I didn’t know how it happens.. it just kind of does.. happen.. here..
it just kind of happened.. before I knew it.. I was in on an EP and a single.. I found out a recording studio can make you sound like a rock star.. (a few pics had made it on the ‘net.. but have since fallen into the dark web..)
I wasn’t some guitar virtuoso.. I was just doing it for the chick factor..
and now a friend who worked at Cardi’s managed to schedule me as a ‘special guest’ guitarist for a band called Pantera up in DFW.. it was their New Years Eve bash..
they had just changed from hair metal to thrash.. I wasn’t into that kind of music.. but I went anyway.. it was at a place called Savvy’s.. another hot venue on the Texas club circuit..
I warmed up with “Diamond” Darrell and the base player backstage.. “..are ya ready..” ..lol..
Most people know who Pantera became.. I remember them from who they were..
Pantera.. Lillian Axe.. and Sweet Savage.. in Houston we knew they were only a few right decisions away from making it big..
We didn’t need Hollywood or L.A.. or Vince Neil and his Motley Crue.. we had Joey C. Jones and Sweet Savage.. he wasn’t just a singer.. he was an Entertainer..
there also was Stevie Blaze of Lillian Axe at the table.. and others I can’t remember..
The Early Years.. they were the best.. excess and the opposite sex.. and rock and roll.. it was one big party.. at Cardi’s..
and I was just a fck’n diver.. having some winter fun.. and winging it..
in Uptown.. Houston..
[listener discretion advised.. you don’t have to listen.. but the chicks sure did dig it..].
Memoirs of an Oilfield Diver
The Epic Archive
1984-1992
In-depth, intelligent, insightful and thoughtful analysis from all sides of the Defund the Police vs. Back the Blue debate, including Crime Rates, Root Causes of Crime, Policing over the Decades, Police as White Supremacists, Police’s Real Life Experiences in their own words, Antifa Domestic Terrorism, Black Lives Matter Peaceful Protests / Riots, and their impact throughout society. Well worth the Watch (and its Free!):
America is ablaze and divided. Half the nation rallies to support demoralized officers, and the other half demands reform or even disbanding the police.
Where does the truth lie in the fog of media manipulation?
https://crossfire.movie/
It is the last day of 2020.
For Deep State convenience:
Your new 2021 “Autopsy Report” template!
Please destroy all previous forms.
Happy & Healthy New Year to you all.
By the way…
Oo 😛
So funny. I like the part in the original post about auctioning off the empty vodka bottles Pelosi consumed during the impeachment hearings too…..it’s like being on one of taxpayer funded Speaker of the House Pelosi plane trips: American taxpayers involuntarily pay for that sh*t too.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
http://www.saintgregoryoutreach.org
Verse of the Day for Thursday, December 31, 2020
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“Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.”
Micah 7:7 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Someone needs to send this picture to VP Pence!
Wannabe ‘Jeopardy!’ Host Ken Jennings Is A Brett Kavanaugh Rape Truther Who Hates Republicans
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“Jeopardy!” champion Ken Jennings is attempting to backtrack on years of insults hurled at conservatives and others on his Twitter feed in what some have speculated is a bid for the popular game show’s open host position.
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https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/30/wannabe-jeopardy-host-ken-jennings-is-a-brett-kavanaugh-rape-truther-who-hates-republicans/
Thanks for posting that Dora. Alex Trebec was a class act and probably was aware Jennings was a jerk (torture!).
Really a lesson about ‘smart’ people.
13 Archaeological Discoveries That Left Experts Stunned In 2020
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From hidden Nazi artifacts to a secret Knights Templar crypt, these are some of the most jaw-dropping archaeological finds from this year.
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https://allthatsinteresting.com/archaeological-discoveries-2020?utm_campaign=twitterpdanm1&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
good read thanks Dora.
YESTERDAY
“The God of Israel will be your reward.” Isaiah lii. 12
SECURITY FROM YESTERDAY: “God requireth that which is past.” At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise from remembering the yesterdays. Our present enjoyment of God’s grace is apt to be checked by the memory of yesterday’s sins and blunders. But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them in order to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual culture for the future. God reminds us of the past lest we get into a shallow security in the present.
SECURITY FOR TOMORROW: “For the Lord will go before you.” This is a gracious revelation, that God will garrison where we have failed to. He will watch lest things trip us up again into like failure, as they assuredly would do if He were not our reward. God’s hand reaches back to the past and makes a clearinghouse for conscience.
SECURITY FOR TODAY: “For ye shall not go out with haste.” As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, un-remembering delight, nor with the flight of impulsive thoughtlessness, but with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us. Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ.
Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
Oswald Chambers
December 31st Devotional
And another nice version of Auld Lang Syne, from Highland Saga.
Produced by the sort of people that President Trump’s mother, Mary Ann MacLeod Trump, might have known back in the Outer Hebrides.
Reglar,
Lovely. As Hogmany is rapidly approaching here on the opposite side of Scotland to the Hebrides, I would like to offer my take on this auld year.
2020 – Annus most Horribulus
Twenty twenty the year of Big Fraud
Real news censored at home and abroad,
The Wa comPost and the New York Slimes
Did a cover up of the Bidens’ crimes;
The populace eMasculated
By daily Fake News promulgated,
The world lies prostrated on its knees
By this newist bug from the Chinese.
The smoke of satan fills Peters Dome
As marxist doctrine is preached from Rome
Big Brother wants no State or border
With Gates and Soros’ New World Order;
If we don’t oppose the Great Reset
We will fill our children with regret,
WHO would trust scientists in this age
I prefer my stuffing with some SAGE.
We watch pampered players genuflect
Democratic rioters who wrecked,
When our House of Worship was shut down
We were taught some New Speak called Lockdown;
The young and old were rightly puzzled
By seeing herds of sheep being muzzled,
Sadly there was just a tiny few
Who recognised – it was just a flu.
A year which saw new vaccinations
Fake News from the United Nations,
Computer Warming from the IPCC
The usual lies from the BBC;
Bilderberg, Masons and the Skull and Bones
The Deep State spying on us with Drones,
The Wuhan flu brought mass hysteria
Like fear of biblical Assyria.
The Election Fraud in the USA
A Trumpian Witch Hunt by the CIA,
Senile Joe won the Presidents S(t)eal
Boris Corbyn gave us the Green New Deal;
Pope Francis forgot to mention Our Lord
As he pushed the Climate Change Accord,
So let us bid this year ‘good riddance’
We’ll trust next year to God’s providence.
A Happier New Year to Sundance and all you wonderful faithful Treepers.
So, how many pop-up street New Years Eve parties do you think there will be tonight, and will local police even try to break them up if all people are doing is drinking and celebrating the end of a no-good, very bad year? My guess is the Democrat mayors will make every effort to grinch New Years as well.
Looks like Wilhelm is setting up Manhattan with a giant one. I guess NYC is ChinaFlu free if your a reveler.
Georgia expects us to believe military absentee voted over 80% for bejing joe and da hoe?
nope.
https://nexttobagend.blogspot.com/2020/12/told-ya.html
Notice fox?
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/western-media-chinese-communist-events/
Even in these depressing times, there are things worth celebrating.
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Congratulations Matt and Ginger.
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See pictures of the happy couple.
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Matt Gaetz proposes to girlfriend Ginger Luckey…
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/matt-gaetz-proposes-to-girlfriend-ginger-luckey/
Bill Gates, the Incompetent Bungler Who Gave You the Bug-Infested Windows OS, Demands That You Give Him the Power… to Dim the SunThe guy who had to buy an operating system from someone, and who has not been able to work out of the bugs in it after 50 years, just wants the power to seed the atmosphere with reflective particles to reduce the strength of the sunlight reaching the earth.
Bill Gates, among others, is backing the Harvard Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment. The SCoPEx is researching a form of “geoengineering” to prevent global warming. In this case, they’re exploring the idea of spraying tiny particles into the air to reflect sunlight and make the earth cooler. Towards that end, Harvard scientists are planning to fly a balloon full of equipment 12 miles above Sweden next year to gather data.
-Ace of Spades website
But HAARP and chem trails are “just” conspiracy theories… what does this dumb*** think that “dimming the sun” is going to do everything besides humans? He’ll literally destroy the earth if he succeeds in this…
I just wanted to alert some people who may be shopping for appliances. At my job we got a new refrigerator with brand name Midea. I was at Lowe’s yesterday and saw several appliances with this brand name so I googled it. Made in China!! Buyer beware!
#IATATravelPass
Ack, there’s an app for that:
Enables passengers to
(1) create a ‘digital passport’,
(2) verify their test/vaccination meets the regulations &
(3) shares test or vaccination certificates with authorities to facilitate travel.
Can be used by travelers to manage travel documentation digitally and seamlessly throughout the travel experience.
Just say’n… 😉
I guess the only four questions now are: 1) Will any more Republicans rise to object to the electoral votes of the seven States where significant election fraud has been shown to their Legislatures and alternate electoral ballots have been sent to the Joint Session on January 6th? 2) Will Vice President Pence decide those States held no legal Presidential Elections according to the Constitution? 3) Will the State delegations debate and hold a legitimizing election where each of the contested States provide one electoral vote for their choice? 4) Will the Legislature then confirm the winner based on the actual electoral votes which are cast?
My opinion is that this will have to be determined only by God helping the right people at the right time see and act upon the truth. It can happen because God can make it happen and we need to commence praying to God that He will save our Republic by making it happen. I believe that, if God does not intervene on the hearts of the people involved, then He has an even better plan for all of humanity.
Please, God. If it is Your will to help us overturn the election fraud we believe we have found, please make that happen and give our Republic a chance for its own continuance. Father, we place our trust in You. Amen.
You made my day Pokey!
If Republicans do not stand for us on the 6th, we should change party affiliation to Independent and cease all funds to GOP. Time to dump these idiots! Do not tell me the “others side” will win! The GOP is working with Democrats and Globalists.
Kale and Black Eyed Pea Gumbo! Oh, my goodness!
(If you do not know how to make a roux, watch this video – Ms Lori shows how it’s done!)
In light on the gazillions of emails we’re all getting for end of the year donations to various organizations, I thought I would also ask for anyone interested in donating money to me that I don’t care if you get it in by midnight……you can do it anytime you feel like! ???? ? ?.
I take that as a no? ?
Just say’n… 😉
Call me crazy; however,
would seem it’s trying its
best to cough up something.
Aren’t you the lucky one?! 😉
Sen. Perdue in quarantine due to coming in contact with someone that tested positive. This sounds familiar. He is off the trail. We should’ve seen this one coming.
A mine on your hull? ‘Experts’ are pointing to a mine on a Liberia-flagged oil tanker, but used by a U.S. company. https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Possible-Mine-Found-On-Oil-Tanker-Off-Iraq.html
https://twitter.com/ThingsWork/status/1344739126365614080
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Bin…. 🙁
Thank you for pulling it out. Happy New Year. 🙂
Amen
Amen.
Indonesian fisherman comes up with a ChiCom surveillance instrument in his net. https://eurasiantimes.com/chinese-submarine-trapped-in-indonesian-fishermans-net-images-burst-the-internet-watch/
Just say’n… 😉
Happy New Years…
(4 more)
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Suffer us not to be lead into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
test Lev last time.