7544	Forums / Theology Forum / Belief/behavior	on: April 21, 2007, 11:54:38 AM
Quote Shalom again! Can you picture it? A UN meeting where nations from around the world have met to unseat the Global Emperor, Yeshua Ben-Elohim haMashiach v'haMelek Yisra'el? Suddenly, in the middle of the UN meeting, they hear laughter that seems to come from everywhere around them. Then, the voice articulates a challenge. "Yeah? Try it! I put Him there and I will keep Him there! ... You better be careful! You better learn your lesson! Support my Son or you might just tick Him off! You don't want to make Him mad! Happy are those who TRUST in Him!" THAT is what Psalm 2 is all about! Retrobyter If you are suggesting that Christ rule is physically revealed in the future  (thousand yrs)then we are left without an advocate or we are left with a theory of advocacy. Christ reign is in His causing all things to work. Christ is a personal advocate for all of His children. David was a warrior who banished all of his enemies from the kingdom. He united the kingdom of Israel by His bravery in his constant devotion to his King. He was a man who thought Gods thoughts after Him. Because of the Trinity being one in essence , we have it worked out in the working out of all things for the glory of God. We can have complete victory in His design for our lives.In that relationship of the Father and the Son there is for us an advocacy. The nations worship idols who are lifeless. At the earliest stages of a wicked mans rational paradigm, the thoughts are only worthless. They begin to scheme against the King. Men are like snakes from birth. Because their thoughts are only evil continually they set up dead images to worship. Men actually worship things that cannot respond to them. They worship powerless images. Because the nations are bent on their images, they actively set out to plot against the righteous. They try to over throw the kingdom of God and His worshipers through their dead imaginations. But God will put them to fight. He will make them drink the cup of His furry for all eternity. We have the horns of Gods protection. Just like his church grabbed the horns of the altar so that God would surround them with His shield, so we can offer to Him ourselves as living sacrifices in prayer before Him pleading His promises. The horns are our petitions. They are in a single minded regenerated saint. Our single mindedness is shown by the kind of petitions we learn from His revelation to us. These petitions from His promises must be digested and mused over night and day. These meditations are Gods response to our needs. In His promises is complete responses to our every need. He is the King of every thing that is decreed for our lives , before the foundation of the world. His protection is in His law, and decrees , and in His promises. We look to Him for every thing. When we are unable to keep His law He has given us a remedy in His Son. We are never left without hope. Even when we feel as if our sin is too big for His Son, we have the horns of prayer that we can grab onto so that in grabbing those horns we are hoping in God.That musing creates in us deep desires for His glory to be manifested and it is that hoping against hope paradigm that gets the relief in the morning, or in the sign of His meeting our needs specifically to infuse our hope. In His communication to us through the petitioned willing grant to our wills we are then looking to Him to meet that need with a true communication in His answer in the morning.Once we eagerly wait for Him to answer we are learning to see Him in the morning of each day. We get a glimpse of total victory over our enemies by that morning by morning in that communication to us through the circumstances for our relief of these morning signs. When we grab the horns of prayer we experience a freedom of our Fathers care that surpasses all human ability. We can come as if we are rejected by everyone around us because comparing His care to human fathers it is our getting a snake in that human paradigm. We can come to Him as if our closest relation is an enemy. Because compared to them meeting our needs they are woefully lacking. We can come knowing that God will grant us victory over our chiefest enemies , knowing that His protection is ordained to destroy those who are working for our demise. In our horn of prayer we are grabbing onto the absolute truth in all our circumstances knowing that the remedy is for us, not because of what we do, but because of what we are in Him, helpless, needy and begging. He meets the needs of the unable. We can feel absolutely powerless in the horns of prayer, even sensing our demise, even feeling defenseless, being taken advantage of even tho the wicked are at some point just in their dealings with us, yet compared to Gods just requirements, utterly lacking in compassion. In that deli ma we have a Father that sees beyond the philanthropy of men to the evil intent to destroy the gospel and we have a just recompense in Him. We need not feel helpless in our irresponsibility in our helplessness because we can go as far as we can in being unable having that freedom in our Fathers care and know that His grace will win out over societies standards of the outward appearance justice. In the horns of prayer we can go before Him in complete freedom knowing that in His care we can fail completely in our trust of Him. Knowing that because He is holding onto us it is not our ability that will cause Him to smile at us, not our trusting that will cause Him to work on our behalf, not our feeling confident that will cause Him to act. But it is in our want, our need, our weakness that He will act. It is because we are the absolutely screwed up and inconsistent person that He delights to set as His prized possession. When we are sinning the worse His is most active in our lives. It is because of our need out of our feeling helpless that He acts helping us hope and hold onto those horns. Oh it is in His speaking to us through prayer in the most unusual paradigm that we are convinced that He is not like us. We are the most unusual people in this world. We are the most strange people. We trust in a God that others think are like them but will be surprised by our strangeness. We can think contrary to every one in the world and know that it is because we trust in the One who is not like anyone in the world , we can have confidence even when we feel like the hunchback man. Yes , the more we know God the more strange the world will be to us and the more of a stranger they will think we are. It is in His care that we will not succumb to the world system. We are the only ones in the universe when we feel the Fathers smile. It is a totally single minded regeneration.