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Sunday Sept 23 Greatness and Perfection

I have posted a very rough draft of my sermon for Sunday in a blog.  In it I advocate forsaking grasping at greatness in order to embrace God.

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I should check it out.  Sounds like it might tie in with where I am going in my sermon titled "Humble Thyself".  My opening thoughts are here:

http://ministerialmutterings.blogspot.ca/2012/09/looking-forward-to-sept...

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I think you will discover I have gone a different direction: relinquishing grasping at greatness in order to embrace perfection in God (to accept God's compassion and to be compassionate as God is compassionate -- Marcus Borg's Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time)

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Ah the begetting nothing ...

 

Fore the love of God, you might have something there ...

 

Giving love makes room for thoughts ... but don't go overboard as some small bit is required to keep you travelling, metaphorically an OBI?

 

To many itsbeyond eM ... simili for myth! Mire literary conjunct-Ur' ... if you get the drift from someone that's not supposted to know ... Holy Roué ... as anciently impressed.

 

Iran is again making a move to make woman part of the uneducated again ... men can't stand the thought of a woman thinking when they're all screwed up in the-O-logi ... the Zeros logic ... like the event of love in a hateful surrounding puts one out-of-it ... metaphorically speaking for what would I know as common ... a gross idiom that bigger'nit seems ... things that bug yah in the night when you're not even contemplating cognitively ... as a sign of something completely different!

 

Ah, the power of myth to blow the mind ... thus it was obviously done as you look about for thinking folks ... they tell me thinking is evil ... according to what they don't know, is my guess!

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When we as man seek GOD . We put Him above us , and so He is.But then we ask Him to serv us. He that is so great that nothing is above Him , I ask to serv me?Help me oh Lord to make it through this day. Walk with me father and watch I do not stubel.Keep me oh Lord from being sick , and heal me from any sickness. Give me oh Lord all I need to live, and help my family.We who follow Him ask many times for Him to serv us. Now heres the great thing about this . He answers are prayer with yes I will come come , yes I will take care of your needs , For I love you , and in love I serv you.This is how to me Gods Kingdom  Works . If you would be great in GODS  Kingingdom . Then you must serv others , not your self. GODS ways are not mans way .There is no one greater than GOD in the kingdom . Yet He servs all.Mans way is if you are King of the World . The world will serv you. GODS way is ,if you would be King. Then you must be willing to serv others.Jesus told Peter ,I would wash your feet. Perter said no Lord . For did not want Jesus to become his servent.  What Peter had not thought about . was what Jesus had said to him . Just a short time befor. They have come to try you , but I have spoken for you.Jesus was about to serv Peter and all mankind, in a way, that never had been done. HE was to become the servert of all .For He  that was  rightness would die for sin , So God could bring His children Home.When we think of the Good Samaritan .Do we not think more of He that served , than he that was served.It is with good reason that we know more of the Samaritan who served . Than the poor man that had been hurt and robed.Or the men who walked by. Or the rober, or the innkeeper. For I believe , the Samaritan was the one doing Gods will. and so was a King from Gods Kingdom.--- All Glory Be To God.

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AC33,

Ever consider God's other cheek? It is a dangerous masque ...

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Hi WaterBuoy---Yes to understand all of Gods way, I seek . But am afraid it will take a better person  than I, to understand all the faces of GOD.  But what I do understand is what ever happens is for My Good  and His Glory. It is GODS plan at work , I believe .Not mine.

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AC33,

God as pure emotion without his twin sibling is a dangerous thing ... unreal images?

 

If you understand God you are not mortal! God is an infinite thing ... a power beyond conception just read the script on unseen things ... objects to be studied! Yet do false powers tell us they are things we shouldn't know, shouldn't question?

 

Powers to avoid at all costs ... why the troops are leaving the church except those that promise em salvation for a price ... the selling of the soul? Why do you think the infinite gave it to you ... a single talent to be displaced by emotions? Such things go unthunk by those that know it all ... I'll be humbled and retreat from such ...

 

But one should learn the myth of soul that some in pure logic say doesn't exist. Perhaps not in the present state ... but nothings perfect!

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Hi WaterBuoy -- The reason of what and why GOD does, something is a Mystery to us . Not to GOD.That is why you must have God, to understand . Your statment that nothing is perfect, I have found to be wrong.  GOD IS.

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Perhaps you haven't found that void of space to realize God in the singular can be aweful dangerous ... a love with not respect for the other half ... like that emotion some m'n swing over their heads at their women ... as if the m'n knew as a dark UV object cast in the light of the sun that was mostly cared for by heis aboriginal mother ... the encient context of mind ... mostly today left behind and buried ...

 

It is said to love all things and yet so many things are darkly hated ... like a Shadow of ignorance or a power that will absorb all the light it can ... like a studious daemon ... hated by Rome ...

 

These are things even you don't need to know according to them ... makes you better at battle ... to fight nothing? That's me just a figment of your imagination that you believe your God should control ...

 

Celestial stir? It is like a spiral dance of light and dark ... did you see that article on the observation of the effect of a Black Hole hole tearing up a bit of reality? The BH isn't really there of course ... just a metaphor of a large soul ... or a hole in what is ...

 

The bible speaks very intrinsically about unseen things and their importance ... like dimples in space ...

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Received applause from the congregation when I put my sermons and bulletins into the recycling bin.  Comments afterward were among the strongest positives I have received in a while.

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Exchanging ideas and idioms is best ... sort of a cyclic process that comes back atchYah beta .... getting away from here into the great beyond may be a myth to some but what's beyond us seems to work better without an allconsuming passion to walk on the neighbour ...

 

Then some say there is no underlying "wee" powers. Explain what holds up a stick, pole, rod or ET'Ihc! The mire dirt that stands bi eM ... allows that a manhas to filter thro' a lot of crap in life to learn anything apart from God (as Love that's not ouda here like intellect--- Webster) then who worships love as God can process that? Perhaps ther's a larger definition of God that includes justice,mercy and humility!

 

Leaves one sort of underfoot as process support system devilish thing, like Baccus, sort of a Shadow of what was ... bled out in the sans ...

 

If they won't read your sermons might as well recycle eM ... sort of redundant for those that didn't listen well; read intuit the first time ... comes back at eM as eccos ... logical?

 

Takes a stretch've soul ... X-Pan's've mind?

 

Like a primal God ... something will come of ID ... always does according to the story, but mortal images of God are d'va-stated that they can't see themselves in the future ... clear as the imaginary sects in the brain ... having intercourse ... out there ... not as it appears to your mortal self ... in heaven as a state of soul ... all things reciprocate ... as Egos ... out there people wish to know of God as a sort of coveted power ... giving the blanket case between whats here and real and what's out there ... spiritual intellect? A mire dark tho'T ... like Ba'T'in the night ... gon'g?

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