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A seed is planted into the ground as a very small seed and remaineth alone until it begins to die and then, in turn, producing many others, a bountiful harvest occurs due to this process. Christ was that seed that was planted so many years ago, that ultimately gave or allowed us access to eternal life…

When someone really goes to heaven…

We need to die if we are to identify with Christ and gain his life. Giving can be on type of dying, for it is a loss for us, but if done in the right spirit it brings us closer to God. But all of our life is to be a continual sowing and dying. In religious life poverty is part of the dying, but many find obedience harder. But that continual dying is what fixes our eyes on Christ and raises us to new life with him.

Today not only reminds us of the amazing events surrounding Calvary and the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, but we’re also reminded of our individual responsibility to respond to them!

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The Christian life is a constant imitation of Christ in dying and rising, first sacramentally, then in various steps of life as we come closer to Jesus, and finally in our ultimate physical death and resurrection.

Both Jeremiah and John were prophets who simply obeyed God and spoke a message that threatened people in power. Both had supporters who protected them to some extent, but both in the end suffered what to their contemporaries would seem like a bad end and did so without attacking their persecutors even though they did have Jesus to identify with. Jesus likewise had persecutors and supporters with his persecutors eventually seeming to win, but we know the end of the story, his resurrection and ascension and present rule. In our age we may likewise have to suffer for speaking or acting in the name of or under the direction of the Lord. But we have an advantage over John and Jeremiah in that we know the end of the story and also knew from Paul to identify our dying with that of Christ so that we can also be one with the risen Christ. In an age of societal collapse it is critical that we grasp this.

We have a story of a man from the city driven into the tombs/desert by demons and Jesus coming and freeing the man so that he demons go into the chaos of the lake in the unclean pigs, while the man is clothed and sober minded, a disciple, who is sent back into the city as a type of apostle. The townsfolk site with the pigs. Likewise the circumcision party wanted to fit in with the culture while Paul who did fit in now has been freed by the cross and identifies with Christ and the new creation and has been sent as an apostle. The chaos of this age can be seen in its demonized state and our identification with the cross, a curse word to the world and a fearful thing to demons is offensive to them. They prefer chaos to the order the the new creation brings. We are sent to them as apostles of the crucified one.

San Lorenzo

Maana ya Arobaini Kumbukumbu 8:2 Aina za Arobaini Kuna aina tatu za Arobaini Siku Arobaini Adhabu ya Arobaini Miaka Arobaini Ni akina nani Waliopitia Arobaini? Musa, Samsoni, Paulo, Eliya, Yona n.k. Maana ya Arobaini Kiroho ni ipi? Tunawezaje Kuilewa Arobaini leo? Arobaini yako leo ni ipi?

saved by grace through faith

It is easy to find Jesus, but it is costly to follow Him.

In the silence God is ... Building your foundation, Fixing You, Building you up (elevation), Waiting on your next move (Dying to self, obedience to the last instruction, standing still, step out by faith)

Making Jesus at home through faith. Keys to fruitfulness.

Fasting in the Hebrew Bible was treated as a faith practice connected to prayer and a healthy prayer life. In a world like our own, where gratification in all of it’s forms are not only made available but almost worshiped, fasting is a human act of defiance that emulates the Christlike denial of self. Fasting is not about results, but our response; about responding to him and what he is doing, and not a way to achieve what we want.