GOBBLEDYGOOK

The word Gobbledygook, is a very strange word and not easy to understand and difficult to use.  Dictionaries gives explanatory on this word as follows: “ Wordy and generally unintelligible jargon, gobble, slang, talk or writing, especially of officialdom, that is government officials that is pompous, wordy, involved, and full of long, Latinized words.” As you can see this word is very hard to define.  I would just define this word as the blending and not understanding the mixture, and that it makes no sense. O yes, how about fake news to confuse more so.  Yes, all is gobbledygook. 

I am very confused due to reports about some of our governments concerning who said what and are they hiding something?  I am writing this in the middle of July 2017.  Our Government, is using in an open manner and appears that they would like to cause so much gobbledygook and thus to have many government leaders to step down or whatever.  The only thing we average people understand is that mass craftiness is the key to understand the why of gobbledygook.  Truth will be the producer of stability. 

CONFUSION IS THE RESULTS OF GOOBBLEDYGOOK:  Be aware that the tongue is the key that starts confusion. 

 “Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.” (James 3: 5-8 KJV)

 

TRUTH WILL STOP GOOBBLEDYGOOK: With the mass of TV reports, News Papers and a host of unfair political folks such with negative problems will never end.  This is very sad, God Help Us!

“He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.”

(Ps 15:2 KJV)  “and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  (John 8:32 KJV)

Donald R. Fox

No Other Way But To Trust and Obey!

A policeman parked in a residential neighborhood noticed a little boy with a backpack riding a tricycle up and down the sidewalk in front of a house. The policeman finally called out and asked the boy where he was going. "I’m running away from home," he said. The policeman then asked, "Then why are you going back and forth in front of your house?" The boy replied, "Because my Mom won’t let me cross the street." His willingness to obey proved stronger than his desire to run away! The story illustrates that while obedience sometimes places limits on us, it also provides assurance of safety and well-being. The same is true regarding our willingness to obey God. Many who believe in Christ continue to insist we are saved by "faith alone" before any further act of obedience to God. It is preached that sinners need only to trust in Jesus and ask Him into the heart by praying the "sinner’s prayer." Anything else (including baptism for forgiveness of sins) is a "works-oriented" salvation." We are told, "Jesus did it all, and there is nothing left for you to do." Before responding to that, consider this breathtaking statement about Christ and obedience in Hebrews 5:8-9: "Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to those who obey Him." This passage teaches even Christ had to obey God’s plan for Him to suffer on the cross before He could be perfect or completely equipped and fitted to be our Savior from sin! Unlike many today, Bible writers had no hang-ups about saying Jesus requires obedience.

John H. Sammis captured the tone of the Bible’s teaching about obedience to God in 1887 in simple but sublime words: "When we walk with the Lord in the light of His word, What a glory He sheds on our way! While we do His good will, He abides with us still, And with all who will trust and obey. Trust and obey, for there’s no other way To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey" (verse 1 and chorus of "Trust and Obey"). That brings me to Romans 6:17-18 where the apostle Paul – the great proponent of salvation by faith in Christ and His sin-forgiving, soul-saving saving work at the cross – had no problem with writing these inspired words – "But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness." Careful study reveals those words come in the middle of a discussion about how and when the Roman Christians were freed from the condemning effects of sin. Brad Price, on page 137 of his commentary on Romans, wrote about this passage: "The way to be released from the devil’s grip is explained at the end of verse 17. Many emphatically deny that obedience is involved in justification (salvation), but Paul made it very clear (verse 17), that obedience to God is essential. This is how people are delivered from sin." The "form" or "standard" (English Standard Version) of doctrine to which they were delivered and which they obeyed from the heart is found earlier in Romans 6:3-4 – they were baptized into Christ’s death and raised to walk in newness of life (see Mark 16:15-16). Let the Bible speak – to be saved from sin, there’s still no other way to heaven but to trust and obey. Think about it.

By: Dan Gulley, Smithville, TN

Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land

Deu 15:10  Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. 

Here is a law with regards to helping the poor. Needless to say, there will always be poor people everywhere and therefore God commanded: “Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land” (verse 11).

Israel is here commanded to lend or give when they have the means to do it: “Thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother” (verse 7). They are to be ready to lend to the poor among its brethren, not to harden its heart, or withheld their hands from a poor brother who asks for help.

Charity should be part of God’s children’s virtue. If the hand be shut, it is a sign the heart is hardened. A hardened heart is a sign of lovelessness. John wrote: “But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?” (1 John 3:17).

Bowels of compassion will produce liberal distributions: “Thou shalt not only stretch out thy hand to him to reach him something, but thou shalt open thy hand wide unto him, to lend him sufficient” (Deuteronomy 15:8). Sometimes, we are tempted to think when an opportunity to do charity presents itself, whether we should give anything. And, sometimes we gave reluctantly, blaming ourselves we were at the wrong place and at the wrong time. But God commands us to give cheerfully: “Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him” (verse 10).

We must carefully watch against all those secret suggestions which would divert us from our duty or discourage us in doing charity. When we have an occasion of demonstrating our Christian charity, we must do it: “As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith” (Galatians 6:10).

If a brother is hungry, feed him and not just pray for him. James wrote: “If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?” (James 2:15-16).

Do not be grieved when you have to part with your money or possessions. The wise king wrote: “Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase” (Proverbs 3:9). Thank God that you have the means to give. It shows you have been blessed by Him. Therefore, you are honouring God with the blessings He has blessed you when you do good works (Matthew 5:16).

God will remember our good works done to the saints and reward us for them: “because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto” (Deuteronomy 15:10b).

We serve Christ when we are serving our fellow brethren. When we show love for a brother, we are showing love for our Lord. Our Lord reckons a kindness shown to a Christian for His sake is if it were done to Him: “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me” (Matthew 25:40).

Opportunities to do good works are abundant; don’t miss it! Because if you miss it, you are missing out on an opportunity to serve Christ. 

Jimmy Lau

Psa 119:97  Oh how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day.