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'Where are you folks from?' he asked in a friendly voice.
' Oklahoma ,' they answered.
'Great to have you here in Tennessee ,' the stranger said.. 'What do you do for a living?'
'I teach at a seminary,' he replied.
'Oh, so you teach preachers how to preach, do you? Well, I've got a really great story for you.' And with that, the gentleman pulled up a chair and sat down at the table with the couple.
The professor groaned and thought to himself, 'Great .. Just what I need ....another preacher story!'
The man started, 'See that mountain over there? (pointing out the restaurant window). Not far from the base of that mountain, there was a boy born to an unwed mother. He had a hard time growing up, because every place he went, he was always asked the same question, 'Hey boy, Who's your daddy?' Whether he was at school, in the grocery store or drug store, people would ask the same question, 'Who's your daddy?'
He would hide at recess and lunch time from other students. He would avoid going in to stores because that question hurt him so bad. 'When he was about 12 years old, a new preacher came to his church. He would always go in late and slip out early to avoid hearing the question, 'Who's your daddy?'
But one day, the new preacher said the benediction so fast that he got caught and had to walk out with the crowd.
Just about the time he got to the back door, the new preacher, not knowing anything about him, put his hand on his shoulder and asked him, 'Son, who's your daddy?'
The whole church got deathly quiet. He could feel every eye in the church looking at him Now everyone would finally know the answer to the question, 'Who's your daddy?'
'This new preacher, though, sensed the situation around him and using discernment that only the Holy Spirit could give, said the following to that scared little boy.. 'Wait a minute! I know who you are! I see the family resemblance now, You are a child of God.'
With that he patted the boy on his shoulder and said, 'Boy, you've got a great inheritance. Go and claim it.'
'With that, the boy smiled for the first time in a long time and walked out the door a changed person. He was never the same again. Whenever anybody asked him, 'Who's your Daddy?' he'd just tell them , 'I'm a Child of God..''
The distinguished gentleman got up from the table and said, 'Isn't that a great story?'
The professor responded that it really was a great story!
As the man turned to leave, he said, 'You know, if that new preacher hadn't told me that I was one ofGod's children, I probably never would have amounted to anything!' And he walked away..
The seminary professor and his wife were stunned. He called the waitress over & asked her, 'Do you know who that man was -- the one who just left that was sitting at our table?'
The waitress grinned and said, 'Of course. Everybody here knows him. That's Ben Hooper. He's governor of Tennessee !'
Someone in your life today needs a reminder that they're one of God's children!
'The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of God stands forever.' ~~Isaiah
YOU'RE ONE OF GOD'S CHILDREN!!!
HAVE A GREAT DAY!
Keep this going. You have no idea which one of Your e-mail buddies could use a little hope today
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believed in him would not perish, but have everlasting life.
3 comments:
Hey John,
I just wanted to comment that John 3:16 is overused without the verse that follows...
Don't forget that John 3:17 says, "For God DID NOT send his Son into the world TO CONDEMN the world, but to save the world through him."
Be careful with the power of words. Non-Christians are children of God too.
IMPORTANT EASTER MESSAGE Posted By: CliffR [Send E-Mail]Date: Sat, 23-Apr-2011 'Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church'. Matthew ch 16 v18. Peter's acceptance in consciousness that Jesus was indeed the Christ of prophecy, is the rock upon which the kingdom was founded.... For more see:
http://www.revelatorium.com/Starrgram23.htm Also see .... www.wholelook.com http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=202889 ..................and............ Following the crucifixion and after the resurrection, Jesus continued to work for nearly forty years in the fifth dimension, ..... He projected in visibility from time to time to third dimensional awareness in places all around the Planet, ..... Throughout the bestowal, including the forty years following the resurrection, the full Triune capacity of the Creators was upheld by a triune hook up of John the Divine who stood at the right side of Christ, John the Baptist who stood at the left side of Christ, and Jesus and Mary themselves as Christ in the middle. John the Divine upheld the Intelligence factor of the Father, John the Baptist upheld the Substance factor of the Mother, and Jesus and Mary stood together as the Christ Energy Factor of the Only Begotten Son/Daughter. After the death of John the Baptist, James the brother of Jesus stood in as proxy.....Once a Saint always a Saint only works in the higher dimensions, until the vestige lesser conditions on Earth are finally translated away once and for all, and everyone will be working back again in the total Christ glory of the Triune Reality, in which everyone was brought into Creation as Children of the Creators. /// During the bestowal, the Son aspect was given the Earth name Jesus of Nazareth. The Daughter aspect was given the Earth name Mary Magdalene. Jesus and Mary were a Male/Female Ovarian Soul Atom/Atum of Christ Michael, walking as a Soul Mate pair, within the third dimension. Who had undergone special preparations for their responsibility, starting two hundred and fifty million years ago. The Taikoteans were the first of the twelve root races, to undergo evolution in Earth's fifth dimension. Jesus/Mary the first of the Taikoteans to complete the evolution. During the bestowal, the entirety of Christ Michael's seventh dimensional Whole Soul consciousness as this Local Universe's Creator Son/Daughter, was embodied within the combined consciousnesses of the Jesus and Mary projections.
Jesus carried all of the outer aspects of the bestowal responsibility. Mary carried mainly an inner responsibility. One of the main outer related tasks before Jesus, was to translate the Mentallized Illusion's precepts, about death....Life in Man on the other hand, is in no way contingent upon death. Man experiences rude death in their present predicament, only as a consequence of the lesser conditions they inherited from the animal kingdom, which they took on when going in there. It continues only because Man continues to accept death as inevitable. Make no mistake about it, Christ went to great moment two thousand years ago, to make it absolutely clear that death is not the death of the incarnating Soul Atom or Soul Atum. Just the discontinuing of your Soul Atom's current outer plane projection. Once brought forth from Alpha and Omega, Soul Atoms are forever...... http://www.revelatorium.com/Starrgram23.htm
Where Christ and Christianity parted company..... In so doing, *Apostle Paul* bequeathed humanity, 2 millennia of inevitable theological confusion and mayhem, at the hands of clever, but all too often UNWISE, male political priests.It will be remembered that Jesus himself NEVER preached in a building.... The Master ..... envisaged his church ....as the presence of the Christ wherever 'two or more are gathered in my name'. We only come to the 'Father' (self-realization) through the 'Christ' (the unified consciousness).Paul also failed to give equal emphasis or personal expression, to the heart-centered demonstration of Jesus Christ, based on healing and compassion. The exemplification of 'LIVING THE LOVING', was, of course, the mainstay of the Master's mission. Furthermore, by denying the vital spiritual role of women, Paul managed to unbalance the human male/female polarities, for which this race has ever since, paid a heavy price....... Progressively, over the next three hundred years, the foundations of 'The Way' were then systematically destroyed. Iranaeus, Bishop of Lyons, known as the 'Father of the Bible', wrote his 'Five books against heresy' in AD 180. His highly selective inclusion in the construction of the bible of what he deemed 'sacred' texts from the wealth of documents available, totally rejected the Essene, Gnostic and Manichean paths. This led to all Aramaic texts containing the truth of the original teachings, being burned. Then, at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325, the human truth of body, soul and spirit was broken, with the individual human spirit being denied, and relegated to an intellectual quality of the soul. This infamy thus closed the gates of the spiritual worlds to the uninitiated masses, making them easy prey, for manipulative and unscrupulous priests. From then on priests denied the guidance of the unseen realms, that had up till then, inspired the direction of whole nations through oracles, mediums and sensitives......Then, through the 'Article of Anathema' at the Council of Constantinople in AD 550, the most serious assault of all was made, against the immutable Universal Laws that govern creation and ensure human soul growth. Under the malign influence of the 'wicked' Empress Theodore - wife of the Roman Emperor JustinIan - the then Pope (Vergilius) was prevailed upon to declare invalid the Laws of Reincarnation and personal Karmic responsibility (for our every thought, word and deed). The church quickly substituted the doctrine of 'vicarious atonement', claiming falsely that Jesus Christ would henceforth atone for all human 'sin'. Thus, at a stroke, personal responsibility was replaced with the profitable sale of church dispensed 'indulgences', for the pardoning of sin! Having successfully emasculated the original teachings, the church fathers now exercised control over their flock, through fear of Divine retribution and the illusion known as 'death'. At this point the ignorance of 'theology', replaced the spiritual enlightenment of the great Greek philosophers. Europe was plunged into the abyss known as the 'dark ages' of unprecedented blood-letting through distinctly UN-holy wars, inquisitions and the destruction of millions of wise-women, as so-called witches. With them was lost, the precious knowledge of the ways of Nature, also taught by Jesus through the Essene wisdom. Man's unbridled intellect and sheer 'cleverness', untempered by wisdom, yet again brought us, terrible misery.
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