The difference between Uncle Sam and Jesus Christ is that Uncle Sam won't enlist you in his service unless you are healthy and Jesus Christ won't enlist you unless you are sick:
"They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17).
Christianity is fundamentally convalescence. Patients do not serve their physicians. They trust them for good prescriptions. The Sermon on the Mount and the Fruit of the Spirit are the Doctor's prescribed health regimen, not the employee's job description.
Therefore, our very lives hang on not working for God. To one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith in Christ's finished work on the Cross of Calvary is counted as righteousness.
Workmen get no gifts. They get their due. If we would have the gift of justification, we dare not work. God is the Workman in this affair. And what He gets is the trust of His client and the glory of being the benefactor of grace, not the beneficiary of service.
Nor should we think that after justification our labor for God's wages begins: "This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?" (Galatians 3:2-3). God was the Workman in our justification, and He will be the Workman in our sanctification.
Religious "flesh" always wants to work for God (rather than humbling itself to realize that God must work for it in free grace). But "if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die" (Romans 8:13).
That is why our very lives hang on not working for God. Then shall we not serve Christ? It is commanded: "Serve the Lord"! (Romans 12:11).
Those who do not serve Christ are rebuked (16:18). Yes, we must serve Him. But we will beware of serving in a way that implies a deficiency on His part or exalts our indispensability.
"Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not" (Malachi 3:18).
How then shall we serve? Psalm 123:2 points the way: "Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us."
The way to serve God so that He gets the glory is to look to Him for mercy. Prayer prevents service from being an expression of pride.
Any servant who tries to get off the divine dole and strike up a manly partnership with his heavenly Master is in revolt against the Creator.
God does not barter. He gives the mercy of life to servants who will have it and the wages of death to those who won't. Good service is always and fundamentally receiving mercy, not rendering assistance.
So if we are going to serve God, then we are going to have to open our eyes to the vastly superior promise of happiness God offers. Then God will exert a greater control over us.
And so we will serve God by believing His promise of fullest joy and walking by that faith. We will not serve God by trying to put our power at His disposal for His good, but by doing what is necessary so that His power will be ever at our disposal for our good.
Without doubt, this sort of serving also means obedience. A patient who trusts his doctor's prescriptions obeys them. A convalescent sinner trusts the painful directions of his therapist and follows them.
Only in this way do we keep ourselves in a position to benefit from what the divine Physician has to offer. In all this obedience it is we who are the beneficiaries. God is ever the Giver. For it is the Giver who gets the glory.
Never forget that it is not we, but the grace of God that is with us (I Corinthians 15:10). Let us obey now, as always, that it is God who works in us, both to will and to do His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13).
Let us spread the gospel far and wide and spend ourselves for the sake of God's elect, but never venture to speak of anything except what Christ has wrought through us (Romans 15:18).
Let us ever pray for His power and wisdom so that all our serving is the overflow of righteousness, joy, and peace from the Holy Spirit.
"For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men" (Romans 14:18).
So the astonishing good news implied in the duty of prayer is that God will never give up the glory of being our Servant.
"Neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him" (Isaiah 64:4).
Another mass shooting in Dallas where I move my family to to slow down the effects of the great reset on them. No such luck, this has to be CIA MK ultra assholes. Or there is something in the shit shots driving people to mass murder
Completely devoid of all logic, reason and all human empathy. I’m just gonna wake up one morning put on my tactical gear take my very expensive firearm and go down to the local shopping Mall ( knowing I’m going to get killed in the process ) and kill a of innocent people including five-year-old children. If that isn’t the definition of a brainwashed psychopath I don’t know what it is. Something very evil is going on here
What a cool human being! Truth is important to him. Truth keeps him going!
I LOVE IT!
Hugs
Love this badass Uncle Sam, truth crawls over all roadblocks and people want the truth!
I like his kind of Badassness!!
me, too
Excellent!!!
Thanks for this Greg...
Passing it forward...
I just love him and his dedication to the people and for humanity. God bless Badass!!
JESUS CHRIST VS. UNCLE SAM
The difference between Uncle Sam and Jesus Christ is that Uncle Sam won't enlist you in his service unless you are healthy and Jesus Christ won't enlist you unless you are sick:
"They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17).
Christianity is fundamentally convalescence. Patients do not serve their physicians. They trust them for good prescriptions. The Sermon on the Mount and the Fruit of the Spirit are the Doctor's prescribed health regimen, not the employee's job description.
Therefore, our very lives hang on not working for God. To one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith in Christ's finished work on the Cross of Calvary is counted as righteousness.
Workmen get no gifts. They get their due. If we would have the gift of justification, we dare not work. God is the Workman in this affair. And what He gets is the trust of His client and the glory of being the benefactor of grace, not the beneficiary of service.
Nor should we think that after justification our labor for God's wages begins: "This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?" (Galatians 3:2-3). God was the Workman in our justification, and He will be the Workman in our sanctification.
Religious "flesh" always wants to work for God (rather than humbling itself to realize that God must work for it in free grace). But "if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die" (Romans 8:13).
That is why our very lives hang on not working for God. Then shall we not serve Christ? It is commanded: "Serve the Lord"! (Romans 12:11).
Those who do not serve Christ are rebuked (16:18). Yes, we must serve Him. But we will beware of serving in a way that implies a deficiency on His part or exalts our indispensability.
"Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not" (Malachi 3:18).
How then shall we serve? Psalm 123:2 points the way: "Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us."
The way to serve God so that He gets the glory is to look to Him for mercy. Prayer prevents service from being an expression of pride.
Any servant who tries to get off the divine dole and strike up a manly partnership with his heavenly Master is in revolt against the Creator.
God does not barter. He gives the mercy of life to servants who will have it and the wages of death to those who won't. Good service is always and fundamentally receiving mercy, not rendering assistance.
So if we are going to serve God, then we are going to have to open our eyes to the vastly superior promise of happiness God offers. Then God will exert a greater control over us.
And so we will serve God by believing His promise of fullest joy and walking by that faith. We will not serve God by trying to put our power at His disposal for His good, but by doing what is necessary so that His power will be ever at our disposal for our good.
Without doubt, this sort of serving also means obedience. A patient who trusts his doctor's prescriptions obeys them. A convalescent sinner trusts the painful directions of his therapist and follows them.
Only in this way do we keep ourselves in a position to benefit from what the divine Physician has to offer. In all this obedience it is we who are the beneficiaries. God is ever the Giver. For it is the Giver who gets the glory.
Never forget that it is not we, but the grace of God that is with us (I Corinthians 15:10). Let us obey now, as always, that it is God who works in us, both to will and to do His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13).
Let us spread the gospel far and wide and spend ourselves for the sake of God's elect, but never venture to speak of anything except what Christ has wrought through us (Romans 15:18).
Let us ever pray for His power and wisdom so that all our serving is the overflow of righteousness, joy, and peace from the Holy Spirit.
"For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men" (Romans 14:18).
So the astonishing good news implied in the duty of prayer is that God will never give up the glory of being our Servant.
"Neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him" (Isaiah 64:4).
Another mass shooting in Dallas where I move my family to to slow down the effects of the great reset on them. No such luck, this has to be CIA MK ultra assholes. Or there is something in the shit shots driving people to mass murder
MATTHEW 24-25 (KJV)
Completely devoid of all logic, reason and all human empathy. I’m just gonna wake up one morning put on my tactical gear take my very expensive firearm and go down to the local shopping Mall ( knowing I’m going to get killed in the process ) and kill a of innocent people including five-year-old children. If that isn’t the definition of a brainwashed psychopath I don’t know what it is. Something very evil is going on here
2 BILLION PEOPLE DIED IN REVELATION 6:8 (ALONE) THE PALE HORSE IS GONNA RUN !!