Notes from the Pastor http://www.thechurchat14thave.org/blogs/ en-US http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 God is not mad at you http://www.thechurchat14thave.org/blogs/2010/06/25/god-is-not-mad-at-you Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:01:20 +0000 Pastor Patrick Pastor Patrick 7@http://www.thechurchat14thave.org/blogs/ <p>Contrary to most Christians belief, God is not sitting in heaven waiting for you to screw up so He can ZAP!! You. According to John 3:16-18 (MSG) 16 "This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. 17 God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. <br /> 18 Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him. Does this sound like the kind of god that is just waiting to get you? Besides if it were true God would never have let you been born because in Psalms 139 it is plainly written that He knew all about you before you ever were thought of by any human.<br /> Psalms 139:1-24 (MSG) <br /> 1 A David psalm God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand. <br /> 2 I'm an open book to you; even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking. <br /> 3 You know when I leave and when I get back; I'm never out of your sight. <br /> 4 You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence. <br /> 5 I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too&#8212; your reassuring presence, coming and going. <br /> 6 This is too much, too wonderful&#8212; I can't take it all in! <br /> 7 Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit? to be out of your sight? <br /> 8 If I climb to the sky, you're there! If I go underground, you're there! <br /> 9 If I flew on morning's wings to the far western horizon, <br /> 10 You'd find me in a minute&#8212; you're already there waiting! <br /> 11 Then I said to myself, "Oh, he even sees me in the dark! At night I'm immersed in the light!" <br /> 12 It's a fact: darkness isn't dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they're all the same to you. <br /> 13 Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb. <br /> 14 I thank you, High God&#8212;you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration&#8212;what a creation! <br /> 15 You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. <br /> 16 Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day. <br /> 17 Your thoughts&#8212;how rare, how beautiful! God, I'll never comprehend them! <br /> 18 I couldn't even begin to count them&#8212; any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you! <br /> 19 And please, God, do away with wickedness for good! And you murderers&#8212;out of here!&#8212; <br /> 20 all the men and women who belittle you, God, infatuated with cheap god-imitations. <br /> 21 See how I hate those who hate you, God, see how I loathe all this godless arrogance; <br /> 22 I hate it with pure, unadulterated hatred. Your enemies are my enemies! <br /> 23 Investigate my life, O God, find out everything about me; Cross-examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I'm about; <br /> 24 See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong&#8212; then guide me on the road to eternal life. <br /> Do you see the love of the Father toward you. I just wanted to share this with you today</p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://www.thechurchat14thave.org/blogs/2010/06/25/god-is-not-mad-at-you">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div> Contrary to most Christians belief, God is not sitting in heaven waiting for you to screw up so He can ZAP!! You. According to John 3:16-18 (MSG) 16 "This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. 17 God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again.
18 Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him. Does this sound like the kind of god that is just waiting to get you? Besides if it were true God would never have let you been born because in Psalms 139 it is plainly written that He knew all about you before you ever were thought of by any human.
Psalms 139:1-24 (MSG)
1 A David psalm God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand.
2 I'm an open book to you; even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking.
3 You know when I leave and when I get back; I'm never out of your sight.
4 You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence.
5 I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too— your reassuring presence, coming and going.
6 This is too much, too wonderful— I can't take it all in!
7 Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit? to be out of your sight?
8 If I climb to the sky, you're there! If I go underground, you're there!
9 If I flew on morning's wings to the far western horizon,
10 You'd find me in a minute— you're already there waiting!
11 Then I said to myself, "Oh, he even sees me in the dark! At night I'm immersed in the light!"
12 It's a fact: darkness isn't dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they're all the same to you.
13 Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb.
14 I thank you, High God—you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation!
15 You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
16 Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day.
17 Your thoughts—how rare, how beautiful! God, I'll never comprehend them!
18 I couldn't even begin to count them— any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!
19 And please, God, do away with wickedness for good! And you murderers—out of here!—
20 all the men and women who belittle you, God, infatuated with cheap god-imitations.
21 See how I hate those who hate you, God, see how I loathe all this godless arrogance;
22 I hate it with pure, unadulterated hatred. Your enemies are my enemies!
23 Investigate my life, O God, find out everything about me; Cross-examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I'm about;
24 See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong— then guide me on the road to eternal life.
Do you see the love of the Father toward you. I just wanted to share this with you today

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