https:\/\/youtu.be\/5_XoQ9IKB1U<\/a><\/p>\nGreetings Everyone!<\/p>\n
PTL! We trust our Father that the audio issues have been resolved. \u00a0 Thanks to each of you who sent emails and prayed for us and the issue! It is a victory for all!\u00a0 The message will be on the “The Man in the mirror.”\u00a0 We have updated the notes since last week.\u00a0 So, last weeks notes will match the message for this week.<\/p>\n
WOW! What a gospel and song we have just heard. \u00a0Let\u2019s take a quick look at some of the words to the song. Not all words but a just a few of them.<\/p>\n
I’m going to make a change
\nFor once in my life
\nIt’s gonna feel real good
\nGonna make a difference, gonna make it right<\/p>\n
As I turned up the collar on my favorite winter coat
\nThis wind is blowin’ my mind
\nI see the kids in the street with not enough to eat
\nWho am I to be blind, pretending not to see their need?<\/p>\n
A summer’s disregard, a broken bottle top
\nAnd one man’s soul
\nThey follow each other on the wind ya know?
\n‘Cause they got nowhere to go, that’s why I want you to know<\/p>\n
I’m starting with the man in the mirror
\nI’m asking him to change his ways
\nAnd no message could have been any clearer
\nIf you wanna make the world a better place
\nTake a look at yourself and then make a change<\/p>\n
I’ve been a victim of a selfish kinda love
\nIt’s time that I realize
\nThere are some with no home, not a nickel to loan
\nCould it be, really mean, pretending that they’re not alone?<\/p>\n
These or similar words are preached and taught almost every Sunday in many Churches.\u00a0 They are very good words. They are very powerful words.\u00a0 The words many would call the gospel. \u00a0It\u2019s a gospel of changing yourself and helping others. Talking to yourself or your other self and deciding on behavior modification. All we need to do is see what\u2019s going on around us and open ours hearts to fix or change these things. By doing this we\u2019ll make the world a better place. A better place is truly wonderful and truly subjective.\u00a0 Depending on where you live in the world your idea of better is what\u2019s better for you and maybe a few others. Change is constant in this present world.\u00a0 Change will happen! Some changes will be deemed good and other changes will be deemed not so good. Even bad! But how will these changes affect us? Will they change who we are in our humanity? \u00a0\u00a0When we look in the mirror who do we see looking back at us? Who\u2019s speaking? Are we speaking to the real us? Or is that person in the mirror speaking to us? And which image is truly us? Is it the Natural Man<\/strong> or Carnal Man<\/strong>? Is it the Outward Man<\/strong> or Inward<\/strong> Man<\/strong>? \u00a0Is it the Old Man<\/strong> or New Man<\/strong>? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Is it the image the Spiritual Man<\/strong> or the Corruptible Man? \u00a0<\/strong>Perhaps it\u2019s Wretched Man<\/strong> and not the Perfect Man? <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Well that beloved would depend on your world view!<\/p>\nThere are many different world views and gospels that exist today which can probably be condensed into three specific or dominant views. Each of these views provide its own culture, people groups, racism, justification, status, personal and social significance, faith, and gospel. Ultimately it produces the reflection of who we are in the mirror- the very image of the man or woman we see ourselves to be! \u00a0Because of desensitization to the person of Christ, our identity is held by the affinity of the flesh with two of the three views. These two views are at odds with each other over whose view is right.\u00a0 The body we were born in consumes our thinking and personal identity.\u00a0 Desensitization with its illusion, deception, captivity and delusional thinking has blinded and veiled the eyes of both. One of these two views is from \u201cbelow\u201d and earthly. The second view advocates giving life from \u201cabove\u201d and heavenly, while its foundation is actually death to both. It boasts having the view that a man needs to reflect in the mirror but all the while denying the power. This brings us to the \u201cother\u201d world view which is not associated with the previous two conflicting views. Let us take a look at these world views and their \u201cman in the mirror\u201d in detail.\u00a0 Seeya in fellowship!<\/p>\n
Love in Christ!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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