Messiah Music ~ Made a Way by Bryann Trejo

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Message & Prayer:
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. – Fill our hearts with your love and your forgiveness towards others, Lord Jesus.

Month of October, when the nights feel like they’re colder
Found out another victim just got bitten by the cobra
Still looking for some closure, still trying to make some sense of it
Emotions can be sensitive when family and friends in it

I learned revenge can be sweet when you getta tasting it
But in the end, it turn bitter, you getta hatin it
And plus it leaves a sour feeling in your stomach
And who am I to say when other humans should be punished

I’m not approving of the crime that been committed
Crying in the courtroom when the killer gets acquitted
Help me Jesus to be righteous and not wicked
Purify this heart of mine and fill me with forgiveness

Whether you murdered or the one doing the murdering
If you ain’t accepted Jesus it’s a pit that you’ll be burning in
God sent His only Son to save you from destruction
Open up your Bible and follow basic instructions

[Chorus]

You know every hair on my head
And you hold every tear that I shed
I couldn’t run from you, Lord, even if I tried
I couldn’t hide from you, believe me Lord, I tried

So I give, I give everything that I have
Cuz you died so I can live and only your love will last
I lift up both my hands and sing about your faithfulness
I lift up both my hands cuz Jesus made a way for us

[Verse 2]

And who am I, just a man that used to thug
Living in the liquor store and always in the club
Pothead, wicked man yet Jesus still loved me
When I didn’t love myself remember Jesus still loved me

It wouldn’t be no tears if there was never no sorrow
It wouldn’t be a future if it was never tomorrow
It wouldn’t be no courage if there was never no fear
And if God wasn’t real then me and you wouldn’t be here

The generation’s so corrupted, devoted to what’s destructive
Gluttons, cussers, drunkards a bunch of sluggards
Creator of the Universe, the Author of Perfection
Compassionate and loving, an incredible reflection

How could I hide from you, how could I run from you
How could you love me after everything I done to you
You sent your only Son to save me from destruction
So I submit my life to you and follow your instructions, yes

[Chorus]

Message:
Hey,
“Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven. Blessed are those whose sins are covered
Blessed are those who sin and the LORD will not ever count against them.” (Psalm 32:1&2; Romans 4:7&8)
See He liberates, He elevates, or He educates, He compensates He motivates or regenerates and He activates! Let Him set you free; don’t compromise with evil! Hold on to Christ, submit to God with everything you got, my brother! Jesus loves you, be strong my soldier – Yes!

[Ending Chorus]

So I give, I give everything that I have
Cuz you died so I can live and only your love will last

- Copyright Bryann Trejo

This Could Be It!

This is probably the one and only time I'll ever dare to go there: of all the years that people have awaited the ushering in of the new age by the Messiah, this upcoming [Hebrew] year 5777 may very well be it! I'm very glad I heeded the LORD's leading and took off work for all of 2016 in order to keep God's appointed times (Sabbaths).

Messiah Music: Anthony J. Nelson ~ "Deeper"

"Deeper"

Performed by Anthony Nelson & The Overcomers
Video Created by Author D. L. Dunnaville

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~ LYRICS ~

Call me
Back to You

I need Your mercy

Draw me

Close to You
I need Your grace
Shallow waters
Can never satisfy my thirst, Jesus
I want more of You
Shallow idols
Can never satisfy my hunger, Jesus
I need more of You

[Chorus]

My praise
My worship
My adoration
I wanna go deeper
My love
My joy
My reverence
I wanna go deeper

Verse 2

Mold me
Use me LORD
For Your awesome glory
Shape me
Fill me LORD
With Your awesome presence
Shallow waters
Can never satisfy my thirst, Jesus
I want more of You
Shallow idols
Can never satisfy my hunger, Jesus
I need more of You

[Repeat the Chorus]

[Bridge]

I wanna go deeper

[Ending Chorus]

My praise
My worship
My adoration
I wanna go deeper
My love
My joy
My reverence
I wanna go deeper

© 2016 Anthony J. Nelson

Premeditated Murder

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premeditated murder:

intentionally causing the death of another human being after rationally considering the timing or method of doing so


I thank the LORD that I've never personally been in a situation where I had to decide between allowing harm to my family or somehow disabling an attacker. I do know, however, that just as my sports team coaches used to say..."we practice how we play and play how we practice!" In other words, if I decide in advance that I'm going to purchase a lethal weapon while simultaneously telling myself that if anyone ever tries to break into my home and do harm to my family, I'm going to kill that person; then odds are...that's exactly what I'll do if ever put in such a situation. I will have premeditated in my heart that I'm going to murder someone. This is in contrast to deciding and determining in advance that I will exhaust all non-lethal methods available to me at the time of an attack.

I could say much more about this topic and quote a ton of Scripture (e.g. Proverbs 23:7; Matthew 26:52) but instead, I'll just leave you with this [adapted] excerpt from the book "The Myth of a Christian Nation" by Greg Boyd.

"Jerry Falwell Jr, the president of Liberty University, recently encouraged the students to arm themselves saying, 'I always thought that if more good people had concealed-carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walk in and kill.' In the light of Christ’s teaching, what should be our response?

First, the NT is quite clear, commanding us never to “repay anyone evil for evil,” but instead to overcome evil with good” (Rom 12:17; 21). Jesus said, “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you (Lk 6:27-28).

At the same time, we have to admit that it’s hard to take this teaching seriously when it comes to extreme situations. Not only would most of us resist the evildoer, even killing if necessary, but most of us would see it as immoral if we didn’t use violence to resist such an evildoer.

This presents us with a dilemma. Isn’t it more loving, and thus more ethical, to protect yourself and others from such evil acts?

Jesus said, 'Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also' (Matt 5:39). It helps somewhat to remember that the word Jesus uses for “resist” (antistenai) doesn’t imply passively allowing something to take place. It rather connotes resisting a forceful action with a similar forceful action. Jesus is thus forbidding responding to violent action with similar violent action. He’s teaching us not to take on the violence of the one who is acting violently toward us. He’s teaching us to respond to evil in a way that is consistent with loving them.

Everybody instinctively hates those who hate them and believes they are justified in killing people who might kill them. But the whole point of Jesus’ teaching is to tell disciples that their attitude toward “enemies” should be radically different.

Jesus’ teachings aren’t a set of pacifistic laws people are to merely obey. Rather, his teachings are descriptions of what life in God’s domain looks like and prescriptions for how we are to cultivate this alternative form of life. He’s not saying 'Act loving toward your enemy even though you want to kill him.” He’s rather saying, 'Cultivate the kind of life where loving your enemy becomes natural for you.'

A person who lives within the normal tit-for-tat kingdom-of-the-world mindset would instinctively resort to violence to protect himself. But how might a person who cultivated a nonviolent, kingdom-of-God mindset respond?

For one thing, such a person would have cultivated a kind of character and wisdom that wouldn’t automatically default to self-protective violence. Rather, this person would see nonviolent alternatives if they were present. This person’s discipleship in love would have given him wisdom that a person whose mind was conformed to the pattern of the tit-for-tat world would not have.

Not only this, but this person’s day-by-day surrender to God would cultivate a sensitivity to God’s Spirit that would enable him to discern God’s leading in the moment, something the “normal” kingdom-of-the-world person would be oblivious to. This Christlike person might be divinely led to say something or do something that would disarm the attacker emotionally, spiritually, or even physically.

In addition, a person who has cultivated a kingdom-of-God outlook on life would have developed the capacity to assess this situation from an eternal perspective, embracing the truth that living in love is more important than life itself. This person would have cultivated a trust in God that would free her from defining winning and losing in terms of temporal outcomes.

What we must never do is acquiesce to our worldly condition by rationalizing away Jesus’ clear kingdom prescriptions. We must rather strive every moment of our life to cultivate the kind of mind and heart that increasingly sees the rightness and beauty of Jesus’ teachings and thus would naturally respond to an extreme, threatening situation in a loving, nonviolent manner."


—Adapted from The Myth of a Christian Nation, pages 162-167

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