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Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?: The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station

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Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

The world thinks no one.   The world is wrong.  We cannot hide,   The Lord sees and knows all.

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Psalm 139:8
“If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.”

Jeremiah 23:24
King James Version (KJV)24  
“Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.”

Isaiah 29:15
“Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?”

The world believes they can hide their sin,  that what they do in secret,  is secret.   The Lord sees,  and He cares.  He loves all men,  and died that all might be saved.

He sends none to HELL,  WE SEND OURSELVES.   By ignoring His unspeakable gift. (His death on the cross and resurection). By not asking His forgiveness.

Isaiah 29:12-14
King James Version (KJV)
“And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.”

The marvelous work,  is hid,  from the wise and prudent,  they cannot understand,  it is Spirituality discerned. They believe what they see,  and touch.

Not that which can see and touch them.   We must turn to God.

Psalm 107:18 
“Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.”

The refusal of the Lords gift,  draws them ever farther from God, the righteousness of God,  morality,  honesty,  integrity. 

Psalm 73:28 
“But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.”

Hebrews 10:22  
“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.”

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We must ask Gods forgiveness for our secret sins,  He knows,  and if we continue,  they will be revealed.   When He forgives,  He forgets,  I wish I could forget also.

Lord,  help me to Submit to You and Resist the devil,  so he will flee.

Wherefore my beloved: The Fix-it Shop – Filling Station

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Some sage advice from Paul and James.  Hearken Diligently to some Godly council.

1 Corinthians 10:14
“Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.”

Flee from idolatry.  The Lord means business.

Exodus 201-4
King James Version (KJV)
“And God spake all these words, saying,
I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.  Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.”

The Lord is pretty clear.  He wants our undivided love and obedience.   We must learn to love, listen and obey Him. 

He has delivered us, gave His life for us.  His desire and direction for our life, will always be better then our own.

Philippians 2:12
“Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”

Work out your own salvation:  Your own, is the key here, as much as we want everyone to know and love the Lord.  You are the one who counts.

As we grow in the Lord, we grow in the Fruit, people are attracted to tasty food.  The Lord should be a good taste in their mouths.

When they interact with us, our personality, honesty, trustworthiness, joy of and love of the Lord. Should draw them to ask, “what in our life, is different? ”  Why are we ….?

If we work on our selves,  others will notice.

“with fear and trembling”

Should we be in fear, trembling?  We should know the Lord wants us to be Holy, Separated unto Him, (sanctified), Consecrated,  (our lives dedicated to His Service).   Our minds renewed by the washing of the Word.  Our Faith increased by praying in the Holy Spirit.

Knowing the Lord, should relieve us, of Fear of Damnation and Hell….we are delivered from sin and death.  Our concern should be, of how we miss the mark.  Knowing we are forgiven, if and  when we realize it and repent.

James 1:19
“Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.”

“swift to hear,”

How often have I heard what I wanted and not what was said, or meant? 

How often have we taken offense, where none was meant? 

Or Ingnored what we didn’t want to hear. 

The world refuses to hear and recognize the Love, Mercy and Grace of the Lord.  Pray that theirs ears are opened to the truth.

“slow to speak”

Boy, this is a lesson that is hard for me.  Like Peter, I am apt to say, “Not me Lord, I’ll never deny you.”   You know what happens.

Psalm 39:1
King James Version (KJV)
“I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.”

James 1:25-27
King James Version (KJV)
“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.

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.  Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

James 3:1-10
King James Version (KJV)
“My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.  For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.  Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!  And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.  Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.”
Proverbs 6:2
“Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.”
12-14
” A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.  He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;  Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.”
16-19
“These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:  A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,  An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,  A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.”

Our tonuges, what comes out of our mouth, is often a problem.  It reveals what is in our hearts.  Is it truth and life or sin and death?

2 Peter 3:14
“Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things,  be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.”

“Such things”
2 Peter 3:13b
“look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”

We are looking for the promises of God, will we be found to be in peace, without spot, blameless?  Will we dwell in righteousness?

Again we must live a life of repentance.   Knowing when we miss the mark and be willing to turn from sin  to the Lord.

The only righteousness we have is given to us by the blood of Jesus.  He has bought and paid for all, only those who accept Him will profit.

If you want your friends and family to come to know the Lord,  do as I say, not as I did.  Love them in the love of the Lord.

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John 3:17
“He came not to condemn the world, but that through Him the world might be saved.”

Lord, open my eyes and heart, to obedience and service.

2 Peter 2:1 Study -The Fix-it Shop – Filling Station

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2 Peter 1 ends with a warning :19b-21
” ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”

We need to make sure we believe what the Word actually says.  All understanding of scripture should have 2 or more witnesses, (verses that agree), and all who prophesy, their words, need to agree with scripture.

Which brings us to:

2 Peter: 2. 1.
“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”

How do we know who are false prophets and teachers?  Like the Treasury Department, (the Secret Service), we need to know the real deal, so we recognize the false.

We cannot rely on others,  we must have a basic working knowledge, so we we realize whether what we hear matches the Word.  There is no other God, then the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We must know them, walk with them, be led by the person of the Holy Spirit.  We need at least an overview of the Word.

Deuteronomy 13:1-5
King James Version (KJV)
“If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,  And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;

Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.  Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.”

We, in our sophisticated society, no longer believe in Spirits, Ghosts, Miracles, signs and wonders.  The Word clearly tells us beware.

Deuteronomy 18:20-22
“But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?  When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.”

False prophets can also perform signs and wonders.  The Lord allows it:

Deuteronomy 13
“for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.”

So how can we tell what is truth?  We must know the Word, we  can’t rely on what we see, we must know the Lord.

Jude 1:4
King James Version (KJV)
“For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Ungodly men: 
Men who claim, Holiness, Morality, Honesty are no longer applicable, we are forgiven. 

We need to repent, when we sin, ask forgiveness, live a Holy, Acceptable life,  become a Living Sacrifice knowing the good, acceptable and perfect will of God.

1 Corinthians 6:20
King James Version (KJV)
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

Once saved, always saved?
2 Peter: 2. 2.
“And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”

This is one of the many scriptures, that if taken at face value debunk that teaching. (Once saved, always saved),  If Cain could leave the presence of the Lord, (?), turn His back and walk away, then it is possible for us.

Hebrews 6:4-6
King James Version (KJV)
“For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,  If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.”

2 Peter 1:9
“But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.”

Forgotten his Salvation.  The Prodigal Son returned and his Father ran to meet him, if he had not returned, he was still a son, but lost to the Father.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?   If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.”

We are indeed forgiven but we must be ready, willing and able to repent when we fall short of the Glory of God.

1 Corinthians 5:5
“To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.”

A saint in sin, always has the option of repentance.  No repentance,  no forgiveness, sin seperates us from God.

You are welcome to disagree, but back it up with scripture.

“No one can snatch us out of His palm,”  but His hand is open, we can walk off.

Stand fast in your faith, and see the Salvation of the Lord.

Blessings
 

partakers of? – The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station

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Do you realize how much we partake in, (share, take part of or become like), the things and qualities of the world, or of God?   We really need to become more aware of what is entering our minds, bodies and souls.

Is it life and truth or death and destruction?

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Peppermint Chap Sticks: The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station

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“Seek and ye shall find.”

My wife apparently loves Peppermint Chap Sticks,  she discovered them a few years ago. 

Unbeknownst to me, this year, she remembered she couldn’t find them last year.
(She thought).  Soooo…

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