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[ Created: 2023-08-05 08:42:09  Updated: 2023-08-05 14:44:53 Owner: rl ]
Title: Not accidentally, but with intent    
  
  
  
  

   

  
  
  
  


An accident is something that happens unintentionally.   

Accidents typically associated with bad results.   However, sometimes good things happen accidentally.   

But whether the results are good or bad they are random, lacking in purpose.   

Evolutionists believe that the universe is an accident.   

Atheists believe that life has no meaning - it just is.   

Homeless people just exist.   

Plants just grow and die as a matter of course.   

Animals live by instinct.   

Is simply existing and letting life run its course all there is?   
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he.
We must have a vision of where we are going.     We must stay the path in order to achieve.

Some people come up with their own vision for life.   Any vision is better than none.   

And so, they pursue their vision with purpose.   Sometimes they pursue aggressively, sometime passively.   

Many people get diverted from their vision by circumstances.   In most cases they just change visions and keep moving toward it, though some get discouraged and give up.   

One of my favorite sayings is:
If you don't know where you are going, you probably won't get there.   

Socialistic Globalism represents a vision for man's future.   It is a response to the lack of vision demonstrated by so many people.   
    homeless
    drug addicts
    welfare survivors
    nursing home residents
    kept children, grand-children

As we look at the long term prospects of socialism, we see a vision of limited life, lower expectations, more of a plant-like existence for man.   

But the leaders of the SocialistGlobalist ideology are moving diligently to achieve their vision, their purpose.   Every thing they do politically is On Purpose.   

What vision are they replacing?   
As we see from the above list of visionless classes of people there is none.   

Has it always been that way?   No.   

What was the vision before?   
It was a vision based on
    a Creator
    His Kingdom
    Our place in His Kingdom.   

The Light of the world, the Truth about our Creator came to earth to restore hopeless mankind to the place for which he was designed.   His name is Jesus.   

What did Jesus offer?   Hope for a life lived On Purpose yielding a glorious future in relationship with our Creator.   

The Gospel about that hope was preached by many and believed by many.   As a result, the world was brought out of barbarism into order and prosperity.   

What happened?   

The prosperity brought by the Gospel began to be the end of things rather than just a benefit of relationship with our Creator.   

Even Christians began to worship the creation more than their creator, failing to preach the Gospel.   What is worse, they failed to teach their children.   

Christians began to give place to the devil who moved in and supplanted Truth with lies.   

The Christian vision failed and darkness began to take the place of Light.   Success became the goal rather than relationship with the Holy Spirit.   

Do Christians today even know what their vision is supposed to be?   
Your kingdom come.     Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
The Lord's kingdom is coming.     His will is for earth to operate like heaven where there is uninterrupted life, love, joy, peace, faith and blessings.     

Heaven is the Spirit Realm from which our Holy Spirit Father issues into the Physical Realm.

Jesus told us His vision and He told us how to achieve it.   
And he said unto them, Go you into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
This is the Great Commission.     It is still in force.     We are expected to carry the Gospel to every creature.     

Jesus did not expect every person to believe, but He wants us to make sure all nations hear the Gospel as it is a criteria for His return.     

For after that in the wisdom of the Lord the world by wisdom knew not the Lord, it pleased the Lord by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
There is no substitute for preaching the Gospel of Grace Through Faith for the unbeliever to be saved.     It may seem foolish to preach and it may seem foolish to believe but that is the prescription.

Winners pursue winning On Purpose.   
Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize?     So run, that you may obtain.
The winner receives the prize.     In earthly contests only one wins.     However, in the Kingdom Of God we all receive the Crown Of Life.     We are all winners.

But unlike the one who runs a physical race, we who are In Christ run the race with Him who guarantees our victory.   
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
All of these saints testify to us of the power of faith in the Lord's promises.     So, just as they perservered, so ought we.     

What race are we running?     
The race of faith and trust in and service to the Lord.

But thanks be to the Holy Spirit, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
All we can do is thank the Lord who has given us the victory through the finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It is time for Christians to return to their first love and do their first works.   
    Christ Jesus is their first love
    preaching the Gospel is their first works.   
Nevertheless I have somewhat against you, because you have left your first love.
Ephesus had substituted religion for relationship.     They had become ritualistic instead of Spirit Filled.

Remember therefore from where you are fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto you quickly, and will remove your candlestick out of his place, except you repent.
What are the First Works of a believer?     
To hear the Word, to believe it, to receive it and to do it.     

To resist the teaching and leading of the Word and Holy Spirit puts one in jeopardy of losing their influence - i.e.     having their candlestick removed.     The church at Ephesus no longer exists.

If we begin to live life On Purpose - His purpose - we can enjoy fellowship with Him in the work and we can see lives changed from hopelessness to a bright future of love, joy, peace and prosperity In Christ Jesus.