1 Peter 2:11-25
Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.
12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
13 Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority, 14 or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.
15 For it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men. 16 Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
17 Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king. 18 Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh. 19
For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God. 20 But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. 21 To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
22"He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth." 23When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
25 For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
The idea of planetary health.
Is debated because the chasm in direction factors: a power factor, a money factor, an influence factor, in reality, this really comes down to a hope and a future.
We could start at a Worldwide Pandemic, cutting people off from one another. Cut from employment/sustenance, family, freedom to travel and in a box preserving life itself. We have not had any real conversations about Health Care and Longevity Goals. Stunning.
Health Care and Longevity Goals are a line in the sand, but something more fluffy and comforting might give us a more important pause. The death of the Gift Shop. We do not feel we have the resources to bless one another. The separation of divorce and fault free society. Single mothers and the separation of church and state. And in conversations since the 1980s, mothers of small children had separation civil wars if one should be career minded or family minded. Then the restroom wars. The hopelessness of lower income and advancement slip sliding middle class.
And fearmongering done to us all if we didn't wear same use conversation as being camo of old blue jeans and a bland t-shirt - verbally - to adopt the same values in all conversations. Fearmongering.
The Death of Gift Shops.
Is probably the beginning of the Pandemic.
Planetary health.
"A state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity"- as well as achievement of the highest attainable standard of health, wellbeing, and equity worldwide through judicious attention to the human systems – political, economic, and social – that shape the future of humanity and the Earth's natural systems defining the safe environmental limits within which humanity can flourish.
We can't be generous or gracious without being weak, risking our advancement? A self-centered opportunity we should have grasped like a life preserver. We can't give service, without the bottom of greed never being satisfied. If we withhold affection from our families, they will give greater service, keep their chin tucked and leave us alone to travel to work and do our computer things without taking us out of our air-conditioned environment??? Friends must appear in order and rank to support us to the top rank. Friendly enough, cool enough, not too much above us. Support without commitment.
The patient, earth, is sick. Will fearmongering give enough power to create equity? No.
We have bullied ourselves into Time Out. Pandemic Time Out.
Then, now, the: "What Will Happen Next, Please Be Ok Time."
Are we sunk?
Consider 2010 DISASTER.
2010 This was a man-made disaster.
I knew young men who put on Hazmat suits and started to clean up wildlife fish, birds, mammals covered in the Disaster. The BBC and other news agencies said the Gulf of Mexico was ruined. And in a week, the oil, "simply disappeared." You cannot believe God is Deist and know the 2010 Deepwater Oil DISASTER. A wonder and work of God. A Miracle.
2022 Now consider the Pandemic Time Out.
Go home and spend time with your loved ones away from career. The Sky is Clear. Time to consider family and goals. Goals. Now we have mass transit plans? Healthcare Plans not as costly and coy as mortgages and rent expense? Gift Shops? Never despair. Pandemics do not ever clear up like the Deepwater Oil Spill DISASTER. 5 Years of Pandemic. 5 Years of wars like fighting on an airplane. Then 5 years of improvements remembered for mankind for 500 years.
End harsh rudeness and fearmongering. Be the gift bringer.
2019 Gulf of Mexico Clear Skies
2022 What do we have in common?
Deepwater Discomfort. We might even venture to call this war of souls. The innocent are certainly in the Crosshairs.
Biblical Discomfort.
1 Peter 2:11-25 is not comfortable. The 1990 Larger Episcopal Churches were upset with this passage for condoning slavery. Very similar to saying Prohibition didn't exist. Times are times. Today consider alcoholism, addictions of all kinds, harsh employment, poverty as slavery and let your heart be open.
We cannot be held in the slavery of unkindness and fearmongering. We must Fight the Good Fight of Kindness and Sincerity. Hope for one another. Graciousness. Pull for Justice and Mercy. Not fearmongers.
And if you aren't gracious to the Scriptures, these verses sound very Cotton Mather. Mather, who thundered about sin and knew bonded-slavery, indentured servants, teenagers, were dying left and right. The chance a teenager, usually British, sold to the new world would live, was unbelievably low. From 1642 to 1776 Benjamin Franklin ran from being indentured as a slave.
The road is narrow. Yesterday, today and tomorrow on God's Good Creation, the road is narrow. If Christian charity is sneered at, Gin Lane will lead to repressed values of Human value. Drugs, child abandonment, marriage abandonment, slums and no way to hope for a better life for ourselves or our futures.
If Christian Servitude is enforced, you will be put in jail for eating Ham at Christmas in your home. Or have Cotton Mather as your leader. Oliver Cromwell.
If Power gets hold of Christianity, Protestants and Catholics will kill one another.
We are very much Gin Lane now.
1 out of 3 are alcoholics and substance. 1 out of 6 has been sexually abused. Child abandonment is Homelessness and Divorce Issues. The population of Homelessness has been counted as above 350,000 people in San Francisco. And an additional 350,000 people in Los Angeles with cities experiencing Homelessness as never remembered. 100,000 missing at the Southern Border. Drugs. Crime. 8% inflation, that is Go Brandon for fifty percent increase in gasoline and grocery/health.
Let's be Gracious and Generous to the Scripture:
1 Peter 2:11-25
Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.
12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
13 Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority, 14 or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.
15 For it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men. 16 Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
17 Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king. 18 Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.
19 For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God. 20 But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. 21 To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
22"He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth." 23When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
25 For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
Luke 4
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness 2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. 3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” 4 And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’” 5 And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, 6 and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. 7 If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” 8 And Jesus answered him, “It is written,
“‘You shall worship the Lord your God,
and him only shall you serve.’”
9 And he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, 10 for it is written,
“‘He will command his angels concerning you,
to guard you,’
11 and
“‘On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”
12 And Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’” 13 And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time.
14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
1 Peter 2:11-25
Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.
hungry we have reached a time period of being unsettled.
12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
Exactly. Jesus spoke of a time when we did not realize the time of our visitation. He was saying we have to look for our blessings even as the time is 1 Peter 2:18 harsh. Gratitude is way to combat war against our souls. Luke 4 is not Jesus just suffering. Jesus is speaking up. Not as a gong, but as a force of Life, Light and Goodness. Truth.
13 Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority, 14 or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.
Jesus knew He was in the wilderness and uncomfortable. Correctly, Jesus knew His Father as Authority. Justice of God is merciful. Faith God would guard Him and guide Him.
15 For it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men. 16 Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
Jesus won this argument against evil. Recognizing Goodness and avoiding evil. In the won freedom, Jesus did all things well.
17 Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king. 18 Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.
Jesus definitely isn't the movies. He didn't drop the F bomb. The important aspects of life deal with empires, our future, facing good and evil. Jesus stayed relevant and in God's place and plan. The focus of love and goodness. Not a slave for what is evil. Language is elbows out, today, without the consideration of being direct and knowing when to quit and move on. Jesus does.
19 For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God. 20 But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. 21 To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
Jesus saves us. He has given us a Gift of God.
22"He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth." 23When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats.
Truth. Jesus, as the manifest Word of God, used words wisely. And even as He faced evil, knew there was so much more to Life than just evil. The wisdom of Christ to move past evil and find Joy.
In Faith, Jesus knew Joy instead of oppression. Jesus expects the Goodness of God.
Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
Gift of God. Graciousness unearned. God is Love.
25 For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
Jesus The Lord!
Abba, Father
Isaiah 40:29-31
He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion.
But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.
Abba,
Your Nature is God of Love. God of Encouragement. God of Hope.God wants to save the world in Jesus Christ.
The Nature of Jesus Christ is on display for all generations.Jesus did not send down fire upon the Samaritans.
Jesus explained God allows divorce for hard-heartedness.And explains if we Believe in the Scriptureswe should do the work God gives us to believe,Love and Bless one another.
He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word.
After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Thank You for creating us to be who You want us to be.
Today, we choose to see ourselves as You see us, to believe in our life in You as You believe in us and to love each other as You love us.
Thank you for the resurrection power of Your Presence - living in us as individuals and in your Church.
Dwell in those we Love.Help us always to seek You First.In Jesus Christ, we will finish well.
Asking Your Help and Blessingon Marriages and Families.
Your Beloved, pray for Ukraine, times are difficult and hopeful.
We pray the violence will stop here and in Your Good Creation.
In Jesus Christ, We thank You for Rain,and pray the horrible heat waves will continue to end.
We ask for the return of good weather.
And ask Your Love and Mercy on themany difficult challenges of healing from the Pandemic.
Help us to seek You first.Dwell in us and those we love.We will finish well in Jesus Christ.
We receive everything You desire for us this day. And the days to come.In Jesus. Amen.
To You be the Glory.
Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.
hungry we have reached a time period of being unsettled.
hungry we have reached a time period of being unsettled.
12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
Exactly. Jesus spoke of a time when we did not realize the time of our visitation. He was saying we have to look for our blessings even as the time is 1 Peter 2:18 harsh. Gratitude is way to combat war against our souls. Luke 4 is not Jesus just suffering. Jesus is speaking up. Not as a gong, but as a force of Life, Light and Goodness. Truth.
13 Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority, 14 or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.
Jesus knew He was in the wilderness and uncomfortable. Correctly, Jesus knew His Father as Authority. Justice of God is merciful. Faith God would guard Him and guide Him.
15 For it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men. 16 Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
Jesus won this argument against evil. Recognizing Goodness and avoiding evil. In the won freedom, Jesus did all things well.
17 Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king. 18 Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.
Jesus definitely isn't the movies. He didn't drop the F bomb. The important aspects of life deal with empires, our future, facing good and evil. Jesus stayed relevant and in God's place and plan. The focus of love and goodness. Not a slave for what is evil. Language is elbows out, today, without the consideration of being direct and knowing when to quit and move on. Jesus does.
19 For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God. 20 But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. 21 To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
Jesus saves us. He has given us a Gift of God.
22"He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth." 23When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats.
Truth. Jesus, as the manifest Word of God, used words wisely. And even as He faced evil, knew there was so much more to Life than just evil. The wisdom of Christ to move past evil and find Joy.
In Faith, Jesus knew Joy instead of oppression. Jesus expects the Goodness of God.
Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
Gift of God. Graciousness unearned. God is Love.
25 For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
Jesus The Lord!
Abba, Father
Isaiah 40:29-31
He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless.
Even youths will become weak and tired,
and young men will fall in exhaustion.
But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength.
They will soar high on wings like eagles.
They will run and not grow weary.
They will walk and not faint.
Abba,
Your Nature is God of Love. God of Encouragement. God of Hope.
God wants to save the world in Jesus Christ.
The Nature of Jesus Christ is on display for all generations.
Jesus did not send down fire upon the Samaritans.
Jesus explained God allows divorce for hard-heartedness.
And explains if we Believe in the Scriptures
we should do the work God gives us to believe,
Love and Bless one another.
He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word.
After He had provided purification for sins,
He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Thank You for creating us to be who You want us to be.
Today, we choose to see ourselves as You see us, to believe in our life in You
as You believe in us and to love each other as You love us.
Thank you for the resurrection power of Your Presence
- living in us as individuals and in your Church.
Dwell in those we Love.
Help us always to seek You First.
In Jesus Christ, we will finish well.
Asking Your Help and Blessing
on Marriages and Families.
Your Beloved, pray for Ukraine, times are difficult and hopeful.
We pray the violence will stop here and in Your Good Creation.
In Jesus Christ, We thank You for Rain,
and pray the horrible heat waves will continue to end.
We ask for the return of good weather.
And ask Your Love and Mercy on the
many difficult challenges of healing from the Pandemic.
Help us to seek You first.
Dwell in us and those we love.
We will finish well in Jesus Christ.
We receive everything You desire for us this day. And the days to come.
In Jesus. Amen.
To You be the Glory.
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