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MY THREE NEMESES

FITNESS
Self-discipline
Doing what I must do

TEMPTATION
Self-control
Not doing what I must not do

WORRY
Self-resignation
Accepting what I cannot do7

? I AM CONTENT ?

Paul didn’t boast about being content.
He boasted about his afflictions, and listed them (long list).
And then he said, “I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content.”
He lists the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Paul also said it’s so much better to die and be with Jesus.
. . . but better to stay here awhile longer for blessing the people receiving his letter and encouragement.

DO YOU FOLLOW JESUS ? – – – THE REST OF THE STORY

Question:
What do punishment, persecution, and sacrifice have in common ?
Answer:
Suffering

PUNISHMENT
Suffering, and it’s your fault

PERSECUTION
Suffering, and it’s not your fault

SACRIFICE
Suffering, and it’s your choice


More on sacrifice—like a foreign word in our everyday lives.

Suffering by choice, really ?

SACRIFICE
— Giving, till it hurts
— Living beyond my comfort level
— Suffering
— Self-dying
— Self-denying
— Self-drowning
— Self-humbling
— Self-crucifying
— Self-surrendering to follow Jesus, with consequences for saying His name
— Self-acceptance of identity “in the fellowship of His suffering”
— Self-application of His promises—many troubles + deliverance
— Self-contentment, even courage, because Jesus “overcame the world”.

“Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them allI.”


PUNISHMENT
Suffering, and it’s your fault

  • Jesus actually promised suffering for His followers, and deliverance.
  • But He did not promise to save us from all the evil in the world and the consequences of our sins.

PERSECUTION
Suffering, and it’s not your fault

  • Jesus said repeatedly that we are blessed and should rejoice when people do all kinds of bad things to us BECAUSE WE FOLLOW HIM.

SACRIFICE
Suffering, and it’s your choice

  • Jesus called his disciples to leave everything and follow him.
  • He told a rich, young man to sell all, give it to the poor, and follow Him (for riches in heaven).
  • When God told Ananias to baptize Saul (terrorist persecutor), He said, “I will show him (Paul) how much he must suffer for My Name.”

And that, dear friends, is “the rest of the story” if you follow Jesus.
Read your Bible ! ! !

LIMITATIONS OF THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

“America must fight wars within two-year cycles—Iran has kept the same, clear focus on destroying us for four decades.” —–afn.net

ANOTHER TOP LEVEL TRAITOR . . .

ANOTHER TOP LEVEL TRAITOR DESTINED TO NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF JUSTICE IN A DARK PRISON CELL
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Yet another slimy, sickening, treasonous, sovereignty-surrendering, self-governance-freedom-sucking swamp official slips and slides and sails past ‘Congressional Hearings’ without accountability, with impunity.

HOW MANY HAS IT BEEN ALREADY ?
And now:
ONE MORE TIME ? ? ? – – – while Americans pay and suffer and die at his directives.

Doctor F___ is one more case—the ultimate drawing/crossing a ‘red line’—

—“Either you or me (A or B); one of us has to go”:
—Who is it going to be ?

A–Fauche gone (GONE)!
or
B–America gone, because we don’t hang traitors anymore, like we did when we were serious about our country and our freedom.


We can’t live in the Slough of Despondency and this Quagmire of Corruption forever.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

It can be safely assumed:

— AI is created by someone.

— AI is accountable to someone.

— AI is very powerful, but not all-powerful.

— AI is big, very big, growing big and fast.

— AI appears to have come on the scene suddenly, by surprise.

— AI appears to have goals, uncomfortable goals.

— AI may appear to be (become) human, even superhuman.

— AI may appear to be on track to control our lives.

— AI is scarey, perhaps rightly so.

— AI is here, but AI is not a ‘being’, not alive like claims of encounters with assorted monstrous creatures and aliens on ufo’s.

— AI may be compared to (described as) an image with seemingly supernatural powers—an image representing a real, live being that created it.

— AI may be scarey, but not to be feared.

— AI is dangerous, but the creator and operator of AI is far more dangerous—
the ultimate dangerous.


I started with “It can be safely assumed:”
I have listed some of the assumptions that can be made about AI.

I stop here, just short of stating what AI could very well become.

Many readers will guess where I’m going with this, but my purpose once again is giving you something to make you think.




And, you can find my goal played out clearly in fourteen years of writing on this site.
“Making A Difference In Your Life In The Parts That Are For Keeps.”

EDUCATION – – – LEARNING

“The leaders of Iran have gotten a hard education”, but have they learned anything ?

NO ! ! !

The United States has spent a fortune on that education, but have we learned anything ?


What can be learned from the war in Iran ?

— Muslim leaders in Iran faithfully follow the koran:
(A) Negotiate when they are losing.
(B) Attack non-muslims violently when they gain control.
(C) Lie anytime to further islam.

— Muslim leaders in Iran will NEVER give up working on a nuclear weapon to destroy little satan Israel and destroy big satan United States.

— Muslim leaders in Iran believe it is their religion’s mandate to create world chaos to trigger their messiah’s arrival.

— Muslim leaders in Iran will never cooperate with anyone, and they will never surrender.

— Muslim leaders in Iran only respond to force—deadly force‐‐‐believing their death is most pleasing to their god.

DAMASCUS ROAD – – – BUTLER RALLY

Sometimes, many times, God intervenes dramatically in the lives of individuals He chooses and appoints for a special purpose, a specific task.

God arranged something spectacular to first get Saul’s attention, then change his heart and mission from terrorizing Christians to the number one spokesman for Jesus.

At the time of Saul’s conversion (and his name-change to Paul), God told Annanias to baptize him and said,
“I will show him how much he must suffer for Me.”


God arranged a dramatically close encounter with death for Donald Trump in Butler, PA, to get his attention.
God put Trump in the White House by way of an unprecedented mandate from American voters.

God had a mission, a definite task for Trump to accomplish.
Trump got the message.
Over and over he said,
“God saved my life so I can save America.”
Amen to that !

I believe the ongoing overwhelming opposition to Trump is confirmation of that mission.

CLEAN – – – RIGHT – – – PRESENCE – – – HOLY – – – JOY – – – FREE

Create in me a CLEAN heart, Oh God,
And renew a RIGHT spirit within me.

Cast me not away from Your PRESENCE,
And do not take Your HOLY Spirit from me.

Restore unto me the JOY of Your salvation, and hold me up with Your FREE Spirit.”