Photophobic Generation: Men Loved Darkness Rather Than Light!

John 3:19. Using Newton's Third Law of Motion, "for every action there is a reaction", i would add this: Reason and Consequence. I would call it the Law of Justified Consequence. It would be like this: For every Action there is a Reaction for a Reason, creating a Consequence. That's how Jesus defined condemnation: The Action: The Light has come into the world; the Reaction: Men loved darkness rather than light; the Reason: Because their deeds were evil; the Consequence: Condemnation. Let's apply this "law" to the most known verse in the Bible, John 3:16. The Action: He gave His only begotten Son (salvation); the Reaction: Whoever believes in Him (faith); the Reason: God so loved the world (love); the Consequence: Should not perish but have everlasting life (eternal life). If you're asking what this verse has to do with "justified consequence", this is the answer: Romans 5:1. The eternal life is the "consequence" for being "justified by faith" in Jesus Christ, and justification is only possible because of God's love for humanity. In the end, salvation or condemnation will the "justified consequence" for everyone's action, salvation for those who believed and condemnation for those who didn't! As Jesus said in Luke 17:26-27, the wickedness was so great that it was "normal" to be wicked, only Noah's family was saved, because of Noah's faith. Noah was justified by faith! Are you loving the Light (Jesus Christ), John 8:12, or are you still walking in darkness?

To BE Attitudes: Blessed ARE the Merciful...

Matthew 5:7. Mercy is one of God's attributes, the Lord Himself declares that in Exodus 34:6. David also calls Him merciful, Psalm 103:8. Here are some verses talking about mercy: Hosea 6:6; Lamentations 3:22. James 2:13. Just like forgiveness, mercy is only received if it is given (showed). The best example i can give you is Jesus' Parable of the Unforgiving Servant, in Matthew 18:21-35, at the end Jesus says this: "So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses". See that the master "showed" mercy to his servant (forgave his debt), but his servant didn't "show" mercy to his fellow servant and because of it the first servant was delivered to the torturers. In this parable, the servant wasn't blessed because he wasn't merciful, he didn't show mercy therefore he didn't obtain mercy. Today, there are many legalistic "christians", thinking that by doing the right thing, they are being righteous, when they are only acting as judges, either absolving or condemning their fellow servants. Romans 14:4. I know sometimes i may sound judgmental, because as they say, i like to "give credit where credit is due", in fact, i can't stand false teachings and when i find one, i write about it. Biblically speaking, we cannot judge people but we must judge their teachings. If you read all my posts and didn't check to see if i'm speaking the truth, you already failed! The day of judgment is coming soon, and as James wrote, if we don't show mercy we will not receive mercy!

Worldliness or Secularism? The Embellishment of Sin.

It's amazing how much humanity has changed in just a few generations. What was wrong before now is acceptable, what was evil now is good, what was ugly now is pretty, etc. Some things are just a matter of taste, e.g.: You maybe think that i'm ugly, but my wife thinks that i'm handsome, her taste or perspective is different from yours and she's not "sinning" because she thinks like that. But when it comes to SIN, what's right is right, what's wrong is wrong, there's no partiality. Whatever was Sin for Abel was Sin for Jesus and it is still sin for us today, e.g.: Murder. It was sin when Cain murdered his brother Abel, it was sin when the people murdered Jesus and it's still sin today. Exodus 20:13, this commandment was given through Moses a long time after the first murder (Cain's), the law only "revealed" God's perspective about sin. Today, we're constantly led to think that good and evil can "coexist", meaning, i can be "good and evil" and still the good in me will, in some weird way, annul the evil. As in that song "Ebony and Ivory" from Paul McCartney: "We all know that people are the same where ever you go, there is good and bad in everyone, we learn to live, we learn to give each other what we need to survive, together alive". It sounds very nice, but this is what Jesus Christ said: Luke 18:19. So the concept of "there is good and bad in everyone" according to Jesus is "false", in ourselves there's only the "bad"! That's the very reason we need Jesus, the Goodness of God. Nowadays, even christian thinkers (i honestly don't know what they are thinking) are creating "nice" words to "define" or "describe" old sins, e.g.: SECULARISM. Before, it was "worldly", now it is "secular"; before it was "fornication", now it is "premarital sex"; before it was "adultery", now it is "having an affair"; before it was "he stole", now it is "he found a loophole", etc, this is what i mean by "embellishment of sin". The embellishment of sin is probably the "father" of the "lesser evil" concept, which is so prevalent in the post-modern christianism, they say that before God "you can lie to avoid being killed", doing so, they are "grading" God's morality. Is it right to do something evil in hope that some good may come of it? If it is, than Jesus Christ wasted his time and life dying on the cross, He could just accept satan’s offer and have his "own" kingdom here on earth. If you consider all the saints who were killed, they were killed because they didn't want to compromise, to deny their faith, they chose to be holy, they chose to be righteous and they chose to lose their lives to gain the eternal life. Can the lesser evil (sin) bring forth the greater good (salvation)?

The Reverse Prayer and the Conspiracy Theory

First of all, this is what i mean by "reverse prayer": A prayer that shows to be the "opposite" of what was asked for. Example: I pray for someone's healing and the person dies (this happened to me); i pray the "prayer of Jabez" (increase my territory) and my "territory" shrinks, etc. What i also mean by "conspiracy theory" is that we (i'm probably not the only one) tend to find the explanation for everything and always come up with some kind of "theory". There are some passages in the Bible where people did the same, for example: John 9:1-3. In this case, Jesus' disciples played the old "blame game", where someone has to be guilty for something and usually when we play that game, everyone is guilty but ourselves. It's an old game, started with Adam and Eve, Adam blamed Eve who blamed the serpent, but in fact, the "original" sin is attributed to Adam, so, Adam was the guilty one! This morning, God taught a difficult lesson, it was like this: The night before, i prayed for a "fruitful" day (many rides, since i'm a cab driver), so i woke up at 3am to get a ride to O’Hare airport. At 5:24am i got an even better ride, it was to midway due at 6am. It was a fake ride, so the process is: Ask for "no load" and wait 20 minutes. I tried to play "smart" and at 6:05am sent a message to the dispatcher saying: "Issue with customer", the dispatcher called right way and i told that was a "fake order" and she put me back in the system. At 6:14am i got a local ride 7 miles away. At 6:24, there was an "open order" in the zone where i got the "fake order", it was to O'Hare and i couldn't get it because i already had the local one. I got mad, but did the local and latter got another local one at 7am. When i entered the subdivision, i saw a friend of mine leaving the subdivision with a passenger. I called and asked him if he got from the company, he said yes. After dropping the passenger, the Holy Spirit showed me that He was trying to "bless" me by giving me a ride to O'Hare, the fake one was necessary in order to get the one to O'Hare, but as i was impatient and didn't followed the proper "rules" (i had an "issue with costumer" but that wasn't the proper way to get the "no load"),  i missed the "blessing" for being impatient, for not being willing to wait for the "blessing" (i had a ride from O’Hare a 9 am, so i had to go empty). The lesson is: Never try to "outsmart" God, He knows what's best for us. It is as Solomon said in Ecclesiastes 8:6. So, what happened this morning wasn't about the money, was about the lesson, and the lesson i learned (hopefully i will apply it from now on) is that God wants to bless me, He will do it at His time and His way, if i miss the blessing, the only one who can be blamed for it is MYSELF! About the "reverse prayer", my conclusion is that i have to pray but at the same time trust that God knows the outcome and if it doesn't happened the way i wanted or expected, the WILL OF GOD IS STILL PERFECT! 1 Timothy 6:11. James 1:3-4.

To BE Attitudes: Blessed ARE the Hungry and Thirsty...

Matthew 5:6. Nowadays, there are many hungry people out there, some are hungry for food and others for power, some for recognition and others for pleasure, etc. It's amazing Jesus' perspective about hunger, usually when we think about hunger we always link it with food, but here Jesus is linking hunger with righteousness. First, let's "try" define righteousness: Integrity, equity, justice, straightness, uprightness, etc. I found this at Wikipedia and i think it's very interesting: The biblical definition of righteousness involves the inherent quality of God. God is right because He is righteous, therefore God can only act righteously. In one instance the word means being right; in another it is used to mean doing right; in still another case it means putting right. It's impossible for God to act unrighteously (unjustly), for doing so, He would be denying Himself. How can we attain righteousness? Paul explains that it is only possible trough faith in Christ: Philippians 3:9. We can only be righteous IN Christ who is the righteousness of God: 2 Corinthians 5:21. About being hungry and thirsty, Jesus said this: John 6:35; John 4:13-14. So, to hunger and thirst for righteousness means to hunger and thirst for Jesus Christ, the Righteousness of God.