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       Blessed are...
       By: Runner Date: October 18, 2014, 2:46 pm
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       By Danny Enlow
       
       How can God say He doesn't know us? Scary thought! Especially
       with the words,"Depart from me you workers of iniquity!" This
       being a reply to those who said,.. "But, I did all these things
       in Your name!"   What am I missing in this dialogue? Where's the
       Grace? Where's the, "If you declare My name before men, I will
       declare Yours to My Father?" What was the purpose for this
       "downer" statement?
       How could God say He doesn't know us?  Especially when we are
       doing things in His name? To add to the downer, He said that it
       would be many that would get this reply!
       Let's look at what was behind everything Jesus said. He always
       spoke to the very root of an issue. He unveiled wickedness in
       the heart of the matter, and mostly these were addressed to the
       religiously smug hypocritical types.  Jesus has no great
       tolerance for the religiously smug judgmental attitudes. He
       addressed these types with no regard for their "feelings".
       "Snakes and white sepulchers" He called them. He also told them
       one of the "harshest" things I have ever heard in my life!  He
       said," You make proselytes of men and make them twice the sons
       of hell that you are"
       Jesus also says,"Blessed are the poor in spirit" and "Blessed
       are the meek" and "Blessed are the peacemakers" and "Blessed are
       those who mourn". He also told the woman caught in adultery,"
       Nor do I condemn you go sin no more".
       I believe that Jesus was very hard on the smug, because they are
       rooted in pride, thus not rooted in His Grace.   They still are
       very much impressed with there own "righteousness"!   These are
       the ones who never cry in the presence of the knowledge of The
       Lord. They still do things only out of making their own
       "greatness" known which closes off the "knowing" of God that we
       desperately need. We can close off the intimacy which comes
       through humility and weeping in the knowledge of our knowing
       Him, by holding on to our judgmental pride! THIS IS THE
       DANGEROUS PLACE THAT I BELIEVE JESUS ALWAYS ADDRESSED!
       To those who actually allow God to "know" them. That knowing
       being a place of humble abiding......He says,"I am with you
       always!".. "Well done you good and faithful one!"  These are
       those who walk in fear and trembling in a proper sense. Those
       who are tenderized by the heart of their "knower".  By riding on
       the waves of His Grace and not by any other merit!!
       D.E.
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