Old Dog I
Back to: Armies of God 8 – The Faceless And The Nameless
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Bob Neumann
Okay, let’s make this simple. For the last few days “old stuff” has come back home to me. THE BOSS just laughed and reminded me about throwing bread on the water….it comes back to you. HE was talking about “giving” into/unto HIS KINGDOM. There is a saying that goes…”NO GOOD DEED EVER GOES UNPUNISHED”….and that is how the enemy/the world wants us to “perceive” things through the tinted glasses of “enlightened self-interest”. So why, for the first time in months HE wakes me up and asks…”WHY ARE YOU IN THIS FIGHT DOG?”. Like DUHHHH!!!!!!!!†
I’ve been trying to run and hide for weeks now…but the fight seems to follow us into our caves and our holes. So my answer is simple….I have no choice….except to deny HIM. Think on that…please.
At the end of John 6 everyone but the 12 have left HIM because of some very scary words HE SAYS…. HE asks them today…but few hear…and most who do won’t do as HE asks. Old Peter gave the answer…. Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
Simple answer….HIS IS THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN…..unless you want to play craps with the devil…. So I guess that is why HE TOLD ME to tell you this…. READ JOHN 6……all of it. And HE ASKED ME and told me to ASK ALL OF YOU….
“WHY DO YOU FOLLOW ME? ARE YOU ACTUALLY CARRYING YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOWING ME UP THE HILL OF THE SKULL? OR ARE YOU SITTING AROUND WAITING FOR ME TO DELIVER WHAT YOU WANT FROM ME? DO YOU PRAY AS I TAUGHT, HIDDEN IN YOUR CLOSETS? DO YOU FAST HIDING YOUR HUNGER FROM THOSE AROUND YOU? DO YOU GIVE TO THOSE IN NEED WITHOUT EVEN ALLOWING ONE HAND KNOWING THE OTHER?” At this point I know my answer…you need to search your own heart…. but HE ALSO SAID…..
“THERE WAS A TIME WHERE PEOPLE WERE EQUALLY CONCERNED WITH ETERNAL TORMENT AS THEY WERE WITH ETERNAL BLESSING. I SAID “THE FEAR OF THE LORD” IS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM BUT TOO MANY LOOK TO MAN AND NOT TO ME FOR SO LONG THAT MAN’S TEACHINGS ARE MORE ESTEEMED THAN WHAT “IS WRITTEN”. LIKEWISE “WORDS” FROM SOURCES FOUL AND UNHOLY PLEASE THE LISTENER AND EXPAND THE LIE. SO TRUTH IS PUSHED ASIDE AND DECEPTION IS RAMPANT. FEW FEAR WHERE THEY SHOULD. FEW TREMBLE AT THE SOUND OF MY VOICE AND FALL DOWN BEFORE ME. SO FEW INDEED ARE NEAR ENOUGH TO FEEL THE BREATH OF MY MOUTH AS I SPEAK. TOO FEW WILL STAY SO CLOSE TO ME THAT THEY CAN HEAR MY HEART. THESE ARE MY SAINTS, MY DREAD WARRIORS WHO HAVE NOT RUN FROM THE BATTLE. WHO DAILY GET WAILED ON BY THE WORLD THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL, ONLY TO SIMPLY STAND AS I TOLD THEM TO DO.”
“THE VICTORY IS MINE BECAUSE THE BATTLE BELONGS TO ME AND THOSE WHO CAME TO ME INTO THE WILDERNESS OUT OF THEIR EGYPTS AND AWAY FROM THEIR BABYLONS.”
“I CHOSE THE TIME AND THE PLACE FOR WAR.” “†I AM THE LORD OF HOSTS!” “I AM THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE KING OVER ALL THE EARTH”.
“I AM THE SUBDOER OF THE PEOPLES.”
“I AM THE CONQUEROR OF NATIONS.”
“I AM THE SEED THAT CRUSHES THE SERPENT’S HEAD.”
“ALL I ASKED YOU TO DO WAS TO FOLLOW ME, TO COME TO ME WITH YOUR HEAVY BURDENS, LEARN OF ME AND TAKE MY YOKE AND BURDEN,TO PICK UP YOUR CROSS AND TO DIE. IT STARTS WITH FOLLOWING ME, AND SO MANY WEEP ABOUT THE DYING PART WITHOUT EVER TAKING A STEP BEHIND ME.”
“I AM THE WAY….ONLY IF YOU WILL FOLLOW ME.”
“I AM THE TRUTH….ONLY IS YOU WILL LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY AND OBEY ME.”
“I AM THE LIFE….ONLY WHEN YOU WILL LIVE IN ME AND THROUGH ME BECAUSE I AM ABBA’S VINE.”
“AS THERE IS A PLACE OF ETERNAL PRESENCE THERE IS A PLACE OF ETERNAL SEPARATION. EITHER YOU ARE FOR ME NOW AND FOREVER, OR YOU ARE AGAINST ME….AND IN THIS…NOW WILL GUARANTEE FOREVER, ETERNAL, WITHOUT END.” † “SO IT IS UP TO YOU….IS IT EVIL TO SERVE AND WORSHIP ME?”
“JOSHUA ASKED THAT QUESTION AFTER CROSSING THE JORDAN AND TAKING ‘MOST’ OF THE LAND AND KILLING SOME OF THE GIANTS. ACTUALLY CALEB AND HIS DAUGHTERS KILLED THE GIANTS AND TOOK THEIR CITY. BUT THEN AGAIN HE WAS MY SERVANT….MY SERVANTS KILL GIANTS AND TAKE CITIES. DO YOU WANT TO SERVE ME?”
Even now I hear HIS LAUGHTER as I type this…we had talked about old Caleb some time ago and Joshua…. but “we” (the people who run churches †and sit in pews) still listen to the 10 and forget who delivered us out of Egypt and feeds us. Things haven’t changed in too many ways. So HE SPOKE…I type…now I send.
Bob….HE still calls me dog….