FOOTBALL SEASON IS SOON UPON US and
I don’t like football! But hey! I’m a free moral agent and I don’t have to! Just ask some of the players if they like to knit, wear makeup, write books, play the violin, camp or have a Ladies’ Day Out… some might, some might not. We all are different; thank God! He loves variety and so should we!

Our Creator is the Great Artist! Just look at the different colours of people; the variety of puppy dogs alone, also horses, flowers, frogs, fruits, veggies, the vast and beautiful arrays of topographies… I could go on and on because God does. He loves variety; He loves beauty. Amen!

God also has created a desire in every person (so it must be okay  – it is more than okay – it is a God-given desire) to play. Play time! Rec time: ya! Relaxation time (down time) ya! Man (that’s mankind ya’ll) loves sports, enjoys hitting, kicking, throwing. It uplifts the soul. The spirit of the godly man is perfect: the body must be maintained and it someday will die (or be raptured) and decay, but: the soul must be fed continually.

Your soul, my brother, must be fed. Your soul, my sister, must be continually renewed.

BUT THIS “JOY STORY” is not about sports at all. Psyche! Don’t throw the game. Naturally, the majority of Americans (I say this because that is what I am) think of sports, attend sports, participates in sports often. Sports are fun play and that is a God-idea!

Selah…

The ‘game’ I’m talking about is Christianity. This is an analogy. I am cleverly comparing throwing the game with throwing Christianity. Listen up!

A sports player who purposefully throws a game might do it for money. I have heard of boxers taking a dive! Disgusting! A person might do it to favor someone they think seems to win more than they do. One example is that of a doting parent who believes it is the loving thing to let their precious little junior falsely ‘win’ rather than teaching him —- the rules. Sometimes you win the game; that’s called being the winner – sometimes you are the loser…

Let’s face it now: throwing the game is wrong! It is dishonorable!

TRUE CHRISTIANITY:

Throwing the game is wrong. Throwing the game is lying. It is calling a right call wrong. God never endorses lies: His archenemy does that, the father of lies – satan! Let’s be honest! Let’s be full of truth! Lying is evil. Calling evil good is evil! Calling good evil is evil!

Certainly Christianity is not a game: it is in truth the right relationship with God, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, with yourself and with mankind.

 

Matthew 22:35-40
One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

 

This being said, when one ‘throws the game’ in Christianity this is the analogy, the point I am making, not trying to make, is this: God never lies. He is incapable of lying…

 

Numbers 23:19
“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. He has said, and will He not do?

Titus 1:1-4
Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect and the acknowledgment of the truth which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began, but has in due time manifested his word through preaching, which was committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior; To Titus, a true son in our common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

 

Selah…

Therefore, He expects His children to love Him and obey Him! Jesus says if we love Him we will keep His commands. We will not want to throw the game – that is – believe that we have any right to change the rules! We know where we came from! Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. Right is right. Wrong is wrong. We who love the LORD God Almighty want to willingly submit to the One who is perfect and exceedingly lovable. We who truly love God know He knows and He instructs us! We who love Him are not arrogant enough to be like those building the Tower of Babel, wanting to make a name for themselves. No! We want to glorify the name of the only LORD God Almighty! Amen!

 

IMAGINE:

• if we truly put God first: even before our loved ones: spouse, children, parents!
• if every child of God – Christians and Torah Jews never lied!
• and we never compromised His Word to ‘get along’ with the world, our own flesh and the devil!
• and we were never ashamed of our Creator!
• and we really walked out the truth of having no other gods!
• if we were sexually pure – enjoying the gift of sex according to God’s standards!
• and we always chose never to steal: be it an employer’s time, someone else’s spouse, a paper clip!
• and if we never walked in jealously, but were truly thankful for another person’s personal blessings!
• and if we were never embarrassed to live the way of the Master and forever proclaim to Hell with devil’s ways!
• if we didn’t love our physical lives so much as to shrink from physical death!

Maybe some people would look at us and decide God is the better way – the only way! Boldness is a requirement to Christianity!

Selah…

LET’S MOVE ON:

In this day, as in thousands of years ago, people lie. Eve started it! (Yes! God does point fingers!) Adam was held accountable as he willingly defied his Creator (Eve was beguiled – read Romans 5 – Adam was blamed.) Because God and I love you, here is a good place to speak more truth:

 

2 Timothy 3:1-5
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,  treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

DON’T THROW THE GAME:

PEOPLE NOW ARE:

• lovers of themselves
• lovers of money
• boastful
• proud
• abusive
• disobedient to their parents
• ungrateful
• unholy
• without love
• unforgiving
• slanderous
• without self-control
• brutal
• not lovers of the good
•  treacherous
• rash
• conceited
• lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God
• —having a form of godliness but denying its power

And what does God rightly (of course) always tell us what to do with sin and those who continually choose evil?

Have nothing to do with such people.

Beloved: we are in the last days. This is truly a no-brainer! satan is writhing and screaming to his demonic realm: “GET THEM!”

God speaks to us in a still, small voice for the most part. He does speak: and He speaks through creation, mathematics, archeology, science and much, much more.

The Man who died for us all grieves over those who perish in their sins, going to their eternal home – Hell! He has done everything He needed to do to warn them, to bring them into His house:

 

John 14:1-4
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.  My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”

 

 Like the Marines, God is looking for (and He knows who we are!) a few good men!

 

Matthew 7:13-14
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

 

As I have chosen Jesus Christ as my only Lord and Savior: I also pray for all of you this:

 

Joshua 24:14-15
“Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” 

 

Do not be deceived, rebellious, unrighteous, and just plain evil. There is only one way to God and only the wise, humble and honest enter through the right door!

 

SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FROM THIS “JOY STORY”:

Ephesians 4:22-24
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;  to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Isaiah 5:20-21
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.

Acts 17:11
Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.

John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.

John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 

Revelation 12:11
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

 

 

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