1969 CLIFF DIVING
Jack n Jill went down the ….
Actually- Obama and Boehner went
over the cliff ….
Yeah- last night the Dems in the
senate passed a compromise of sorts.
But- we did actually do the
‘cliff’ thing- the house has not passed it yet- but it’s not as bad as the
media made it sound.
I fell asleep early and didn’t catch
the whole scoop- but from what I saw it looks like they are gonna raise taxes
on those who make over 400 grand a year and try and settle the rest later.
It really was just kicking the
ball down the road- and letting the president get some of what he wanted-
though those on the hard left- and right- are not happy.
Okay- the past few weeks as I
have been doing the halfway house with my friend John David- I have been kind
of teaching a chapter of the bible each week to the guys.
It is funny how every chapter I
read for the week seems to have some type of personal ‘word’ for what we are doing with the house.
For instance- a couple of weeks
ago the chapter was Jeremiah 33.
I told the guys the other day
that I felt it was no coincidence that a lot of the guys we are working with at
the halfway house are all relatives of David.
John David was a long time addict
in the area where I live- he has 5 or 6 generations all living right around me.
I helped his brother's [Andy]
granddaughter the other day- her name is Kayla.
Plus- she has a cute 2 year old-
so I see her every now and then.
At the house- we have Little
Charlie- Big Charlie- John Boy and Andy.
All related to John David- minus
John Boy.
So- I felt like it was a family
thing as well as an open ‘house’ for others.
So- Jeremiah 33 speaks about the
promises of God to ‘David and his house/family’.
It says there will never fail to
be a family member who will be a part of ‘this house’.
Now- the promises are actually
speaking about the Davidic covenant/promise that God made to the great Jewish
king- King David.
These promises play a very
important role in the history of salvation.
I wrote on this a couple of posts
back- basically God promised king David that he would set a Son upon David’s
throne- and this Son would hold the position ‘forever’.
The Apostles in the book of Acts
saw this promise as being fulfilled thru the death and ascension of Christ to
the right hand of God.
So- that’s what the chapter in Jeremiah
is actually speaking about.
But I also felt like the Lord was
giving us confirmation about what we were doing as well.
See?
It is important- very important-
to make this distinction.
When people begin ‘seeing’
themselves as the actual fulfillment of some bible promise- like the prophet
Jeremiah was actually- in context- speaking about them- then that’s not good.
David Koresh- right up the road
from me in Waco- made this tragic mistake- and we have all seen the end result.
Koresh believed he was the fulfillment
of verses found in Revelation- he took his new name- Koresh- from an actual
figure in the Old Testament [king Cyrus].
When people go down that road- it’s
not good.
But- to apply stuff like the way
I was doing Jeremiah 33- I think is okay.
Now- when I shared this chapter
with John David- I told him a funny thing happened when I read it.
All the promises to David and his
family being involved with ‘the house’.
Well- in my bible- it does not say David.
It says ‘John David’.
Huh?
John- are you going Koresh on us?
No.
I told David about a year ago I
heard a preacher say ‘this year- start personalizing the promises in the bible-
write your name in the spot when a promise is made to someone else’.
So- I did that for about a week
and quit.
But- it just so happened that this
chapter was converted to say ‘John David’.
Yeah- I simply wrote my name over
‘David’ and all the promises were to ‘John David’.
Okay- was going to teach a little
more about these promises and how they are spoken about in Acts chapter 15- the
first church council.
Maybe I’ll do that tomorrow.
For now- just hold tight- we have
to finish repelling down the cliff.
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