I WILL GET AROUND TUIT!

28 “But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go work today in the vineyard.’ 29 “And he answered, ‘I will not’; but afterward he regretted it and went. 30 “The man came to the second and said the same thing; and he answered, ‘I will, sir’; but he did not go. 31 “Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you. 32 “For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; and you, seeing this, did not even feel remorse afterward so as to believe him.

HOW TO JUST DO IT FOR THE LORD.

The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament 3338. μεταμέλομαι metamélomai

μεταμέλομαι

GRAPPLE WITH THE PERVASIVE NATURE OF DECEPTION. (V. 30)

YOU SEE IT AUDACIOUSLY DISPLAYED IN THE WORLD OF POLITICIANS.

YOU DETECT IT QUICKLY IN OTHERS.

YOU DENY IT NATURALLY IN YOURSELF.

Jeremiah 17:9 NASB95

9 “The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?

I’ll do it later. It will be just one drink. I won’t give my heart away. My marriage is fine. My boss won’t know. No one will catch me.

Folks you need to believe in the law of reaping and sowing. You plant corn, you expect to get corn. You don’t plant corn. Don’t fool yourself that it doesn’t matter the next year if there are a few stalks that come up because that field had a few kernels left on it. It will fail in the near future.

"It's the easiest Thing in the World for a Man to deceive himself." Ben Franklin

VALUE YOUR INTEGRITY. (V. 29)

KEEP YOUR PROMISE. ()

Matthew 5:37 NASB95

37 “But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’; anything beyond these is of evil.

Matt 5:37

b. LOVE THE CHARACTER OF YOUR SOUL MORE THAN CONVENIENCE.

FOLLOW THROUGH ON YOUR WORD. ()

The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament 3338. μεταμέλομαι metamélomai

μεταμέλομαι metamélomai; fut. metamelḗsomai, from metá (3326), denoting change of place or condition, and mélomai, mid. of mélō (n.f. see mélei [3199], to concern), to be concerned. To regret (Matt. 21:29, 32; 27:3; 2 Cor. 7:8; Heb. 7:21 quoted from Ps. 110:4).

μεταμέλομαι metamélomai; from metá, denoting change of place or condition, and mélomai, to be concerned. To regret (, ; ; ; quoted from ).

- People often wonder, did God force Judas to betray Christ? Look at what is said here. Judas regretted when he saw Jesus was condemned. Judas had a hard heart towards Christ. All that God had to do was judicially harden Judas’ pride. See Judas thought he knew better than Jesus. I gather from this text that Judas just wanted to stir things up a bit. Maybe get Jesus to take a greater stand or perhaps get the crowd fighting with the Romans to bring the

3. CONSTANTLY EXAMINE THE HEART BASED ON THE RESULTANT ACTION RATHER THAN THE INITIAL FEELING. (; )

Matthew 27:3 NASB95

3 Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He had been condemned, he felt remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

The same word for the first son and the unrepentant

1 Samuel 3:18–19 NASB95

18 So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. And he said, “It is the Lord; let Him do what seems good to Him.” 19 Thus Samuel grew and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fail.

1 Sam 3:1

John 3:36 NASB95

36 “He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

"It's the easiest Thing in the World for a Man to deceive himself."

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."

"Women & Wine, Game & Deceit, Make the Wealth small and the Wants great."

Author: Franklin Quotes

The people did not fall for the deceptive hypocrisy of the Scribes and Pharisees.

A great number of pharisees had redefined Godliness for intellectual acknowledgement and social status.

Sinners can recognize hypocrisy and will not choose to leave the things that help them mitigate against the apparent arbitrariness and meaninglessness of life. If religion is merely pomp and circumstance, why give up a little bit of perceived pleasure.

But when someone tires of the vain promises of sin, the message of God’s welcome brings joy and a change of mind and direction. You mean I could have been granted forgiveness and acceptance all this time. I substituted sex, parties etc...

Kimberly Strassel is the Potomac Watch columnist for the Wall Street Journal editorial page, and she has a nifty knack for cutting through all the BS and simply telling it like it is.

She did just that for her 200,000+ followers on Thursday after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic Socialist from New York, released a preposterous 10-year plan called the "Green New Deal" to do away with airplanes, eliminate "farting cows," end the use of fossil fuels, overhaul every building in America, and provide taxpayer cash even to those "unwilling" to work, among a slew of other absurd pies in the sky.

Strassel teed it all up by saying the document, written like a grade-school wish list, could have easily been a plant from wily Republicans. "By the end of the Green New Deal resolution (and accompanying fact sheet) I was laughing so hard I nearly cried," Strassel wrote on Twitter. "If a bunch of GOPers plotted to forge a fake Democratic bill showing how bonkers the party is, they could not have done a better job. It is beautiful."

By the end of the Green New Deal resolution (and accompanying fact sheet) I was laughing so hard I nearly cried. If a bunch of GOPers plotted to forge a fake Democratic bill showing how bonkers the party is, they could not have done a better job. It is beautiful. #GreenNewDeal 33.2K5:57 PM - Feb 7, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacy

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Then Strassel cited a piece by Reason's Ronald Bailey headlined "How Much Will the Green New Deal Cost?"

"2) See Ron Bailey for look at sheer number of turbines, solar panels, facilities necessary just for the 'renewable electricity' bit. Wud need 500k square km, bigger than California. Also note, govt will pay for these -- not private sector," she wrote.

��Kimberley Strassel✔@KimStrasselReplying to @KimStrassel2) See Ron Bailey for look at sheer number of turbines, solar panels, facilities necessary just for the "renewable electricity" bit. Wud need 500k square km, bigger than California. Also note, govt will pay for these--not private sector. https://reason.com/blog/2019/02/07/green-new-deal-democratic-socialism-by-o … 5,1195:57 PM - Feb 7, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacy📷How Much Will the Green New Deal Cost? Climate change is the excuse; radically remaking the American economy is the aim. reason.com

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But Strassel was just getting started. She mocked the proposal's call to "upgrade or replace every building in US for state-of-the-art energy efficiency." As the Daily Wire's Matt Walsh points out, "there are over 5 million commercial buildings in the U.S. Add that to the approximately 127 million households, which is to say nothing of all the schools and churches and hospitals, and you have a project that would cost trillions of dollars and take decades, at a minimum, to complete."

Said Strassel: "3) Also, AOC would put charging stations 'everywhere,' upgrade or tear down 'every building' in the country (homes and businesses), install high-speed rail across every state, upgrade all our infrastructure. (Maybe once Ds allow permitting reform? LOL. LOL. LOL.)"

��Kimberley Strassel✔@KimStrasselReplying to @KimStrassel3) Also, AOC would put charging stations "everywhere," upgrade or tear down "every building" in the country (homes and businesses), install high-speed rail across every state, upgrade all our infrastructure. (Maybe once Ds allow permitting reform? LOL. LOL. LOL.) 5,8485:57 PM - Feb 7, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacy

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But the WSJ's writer wasn't done yet. Next, she mocked the plan's call for the goverment to provide "a job with a family-sustaining wage, family and medical leave, vacations, and retirement security for every American."

"4) Somehow, government-run healthcare, 'family sustainable' wages, paid leave, and 'affordable' housing are also 'required' for a clean economy. I would love to understand this logic. (And imagine what wages will need to be to pay for billion-dollar-per-kilowatt electricity)," Strassel wrote.

��Kimberley Strassel✔@KimStrasselReplying to @KimStrassel4)Somehow, government-run healthcare, "family sustainable" wages, paid leave, and "affordable" housing are also "required" for a clean economy. I would love to understand this logic. (And imagine what wages will need to be to pay for billion-dollar-per-kilowatt electricity) 5,3765:57 PM - Feb 7, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacy

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The proposal also says "we set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast." That set Strassel up yet again.

"5) Key part though people is bit in fact sheet that explains why resolution is not immediately banning fossil fuels or demanding zero-emissions across economy. Because 'we aren't sure that we'll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast.' Note 'fully.' "

��Kimberley Strassel✔@KimStrasselReplying to @KimStrassel5) Key part though people is bit in fact sheet that explains why resolution is not immediately banning fossil fuels or demanding zero-emissions across economy. Because "we aren't sure that we'll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast." Note "fully." 5,3905:57 PM - Feb 7, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacy

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Then Strassel said Ocasio-Cortez is coming after your "air miles and bacon."

"6) Planes run on fossil fuel. No fossil fuel, no visits to granny. Cows produce methane, why alarmists want to get rid of livestock. She can't do it 'fully' in 10 years, but AOC is coming after ur air miles and bacon. This is honesty about how Ds wud micromanage private life."

��Kimberley Strassel✔@KimStrasselReplying to @KimStrassel6) Planes run on fossil fuel. No fossil fuel, no visits to granny. Cows produce methane, why alarmists want to get rid of livestock. She can't do it "fully" in 10 years, but AOC is coming after ur air miles and bacon. This is honesty about how Ds wud micromanage private life. 6,1635:57 PM - Feb 7, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacy

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Strassel also pointed out the absurd plan for funding the expansive government program.

"7) And how to pay for mass trillions in cost? Don't worry! Federal Reserve will just 'extend credit' And 'new public banks can be created to extend credit too.' Because, you know, like, money is just paper, and how hard can it be to make some more of the stuff, right? Right?"

��Kimberley Strassel✔@KimStrasselReplying to @KimStrassel7)And how to pay for mass trillions in cost? Don't worry! Federal Reserve will just "extend credit" And "new public banks can be created to extend credit too." Because, you know, like, money is just paper, and how hard can it be to make some more of the stuff, right? Right? 7,3015:57 PM - Feb 7, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacy

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But her last tweet was the most brutal.

��Kimberley Strassel✔@KimStrasselReplying to @KimStrassel8) Ok. Back to laughing. 8,3675:57 PM - Feb 7, 2019

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