Sunday, November 18, 2012

Understanding this blog



I thought a lot about this blog this weekend.  I am often torn between conflicting thoughts concerning what should be said and what should be kept close.  I am a fool, if nothing else, and I have no answers to my dilemma. 

 Shall I:

talk of Christ,  rejoice in Christ,  preach of Christ,  prophesy of Christ, and  write according to the prophecies, that my children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins.


and let your  preaching be the  warning voice, every man to his neighbor, in mildness and in  meekness.

it becometh every man who hath been warned to warn his neighbor.

Yet in my past, I have borne testimony of things I know now not to be true.  It is a terrible thing to contemplate.  I fear doing so again, considering how consistently I am learning more and more. 

And the Spirit shall be given unto you by the prayer of faith; and if ye receive not the Spirit ye shall not teach.

I do not want to deny the things that sing in my heart and cause me to rejoice either.  I do not want to fail my neighbor.  I want to testify of my King. 

My lips have not been purged by an angel with a live coal in his hand.  I have no commission from Christ.  Both the thought to write and to not write cause me to tremble.  So I am going to write, but I ask you to understand that my understanding is my own.  I am learning.

Here then is my statement:


I am nothing.  I have no earthly or heavenly credentials. Let my words stand or fail on their own. My only hope is that some may find they point to Christ.



Sunday, November 11, 2012

Times of the Gentiles



And they came down and went forth upon the face of the earth; and the first came and  stood before my father, and gave unto him a book,and bade him that he should read.

...the word of the Lord is truth, and whatsoever is truth is light, and whatsoever is light is Spirit, even the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
And the Spirit giveth light to every man that cometh into the world; and the Spirit enlighteneth every man through the world, that hearkeneth to the voice of the Spirit.
And every one that hearkeneth to the voice of the Spirit cometh unto God, even the Father.
And the Father  teacheth him of the covenant which he has renewed and confirmed upon you, which is confirmed upon you for your sakes, and not for your sakes only, but for the sake of the whole world.
(And even so I have sent mine everlasting covenant into the world, to be a light to the world, and to be a standard for my people, and for the Gentiles to seek to it, and to be a messenger before my face to prepare the way before me.Wherefore, come ye unto it, and with him that cometh I will reason as with men in days of old, and I will show unto you my strong reasoning.)
And the whole world lieth in sin, and groaneth under darkness and under the bondage of sin.
And by this you may know the righteous from the wicked, and that the whole world groaneth under sin and darkness even now.
And your minds in times past have been darkened because of unbelief, and because you have treated lightly the things you have received—


Hearken, O ye people of my church, to whom the kingdom has been given; hearken ye and give ear to him who laid the foundation of the earth, who made the heavens and all the hosts thereof, and by whom all things were made which live, and move, and have a being.
And again I say, hearken unto my voice, lest death shall overtake you; in an hour when ye think not the summer shall be past, and the harvest ended, and your souls not saved.
Listen to him who is the advocate with the Father, who is pleading your cause before him—

when the times of the Gentiles is come in, a light shall break forth among them that sit in darkness, and it shall be the fulness of my gospel;
But they receive it not; for they perceive not the light, and they turn their hearts from me because of the precepts of men.
(Yea, wo be unto him that hearkeneth unto the precepts of men, and denieth the power of God, and the gift of the Holy Ghost!
Cursed is he that putteth his trust in man, or maketh flesh his arm, or shall hearken unto the precepts of men, save their precepts shall be given by the power of the Holy Ghost. )
And in that generation shall the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

And there shall be men standing in that generation, that shall not pass until they shall see an overflowing scourge; for a desolating sickness shall cover the land.
But my disciples shall stand in holy places, and shall not be moved; but among the wicked, men shall lift up their voices and curse God and die.

And it came to pass that when my father had read and seen many great and marvelous things, he did exclaim many things unto the Lord; such as: Great and marvelous are thy works, O Lord God Almighty! Thy throne is high in the heavens, and thy power, and goodness, and mercy are over all the inhabitants of the earth; and, because thou art merciful, thou wilt not suffer those who come unto thee that they shall perish!