The Path Of The Second Child

The Path Of The Second Child.

Ecclesiastes, Chapter 4, Verse 15.

I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

It is not about the first born, but the second born

It is not about Adam generation, it is about Noah generation.

It is not about Adam, but it is about Jesus.

It not about the tree of life, it is about the tree of knowledge of good and bad.

It is not about Cain, but is about Abel. (Seth took the place of Abel).

It is not about Japhet, it is about Shem.

It is not about Terah, it is about Abram.

It is not about Ishmael, it is about Isaac

It is not about Esau, it is about Jacob.

It is not about Dan, it is about Joseph.

From Manasseh & Ephraim have to share (Ephraim was given predominance over Manasseh. (Gen. 48:13-21). Ephraim and Manasseh shared the "birthright and blessing" between them, therefore, they "must" at all costs be "redeemed" from the nations of the earth. )

It is not about Aaron, it is about Moses.

Now Moses (House of Jacob -Levi) ordains Joshua (House of Ephraim). 

The Cup and The Coat

 

Mark 10:⁵⁰ And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.

He was used to his situtation and he had gotten and farmilized himself with a way of surviving. He got himself a coat and cup to help him cope with his blindness.

He sat there hearing people move on with there business, walking and leaving him there, but he was stuck there. How many times have you heard of people progressing with there career, there businesses expanding, others getting more education, people getting married but you are stuck there, nothing showing but a cup and a coat.

Look at the blind man cup and see what peole  give him at his hour of afflictions. What have men of this world given you in your time of afflictions, Fake promises, phoney friends, donations that wouldn't help. Because there was nothing they could give that would save him from his affliction. Men of this world can't save you from your blindness.

You may have everything, but there is a spot of blindness that you got that no education, no money, no wife or husband, no friends can fix it. And because of his blindness he could become part of this bigger society at the time. So he had to come up with a way of coping with life.  But he got something.

The blind man could hear and he could scream and he could cast away his cup and coat.

And Jesus stood still. His screams made Jesus stand still. He got the attention of Jesus. Are you willing to get Jesus attention.

Glory be to the Lord, that he stood still and and he commanded them to call him.

The very people that told him to shut were the very people that called him. he very people that couldn't pay attention to him had their eyes on him. I tell you...

GET THE ATTENTION OF JESUS, AND YOU GET EVERYBODY'S ATTENTION

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Should I cast away my coat or shouldn't I, it is all I got, the coat and the cup, it is my way of coping with life,

But Jesus has called........

Humility Test

Now without going into how one develops humility, let's consider how one might measure the level of one's humility. These are some ideas following the  Implicit Association Test (IAT)

• Do you respond to rebuke by getting angry or by giving careful consideration to the rebuke?
• If someone disagrees with your opinion, do you demonize and slander the person, or do you do you try to understand their point of view?
• Do you read the Bible looking to obey it, with an application oriented mindset, or do you try to read into your own ideas and your own chosen lifestyle? Do you find that your study is dominated by trying to get around what it says?
• Do you submit to legitimate human authority figures as the Bible directs?
• If you are a wife, do you accept and practice your God-given role of being subordinate to your husband?
• If you are a women do you accept and practice the politically incorrect gender specific commands in the New Testament?
• For those who speak and teach spiritual things, is your speech and reasoning dominated by your own words and ideas, or those of the Bible?
• When you hear the phrase "Word of God" do your own words and ideas come to mind or does the Bible come to mind?
• Are you generally afraid of what people think of you? (This indicates pride!)
• This is generally a misconception. It is not characteristic of Biblical humility for one to place a high value on other people's opinion of them. The humble are more concerned about doing what is right than doing things to make themselves more popular. Thus "the righteous are as bold as a lion." Prov 28:1 Confidence in God is characteristic of Biblical humility. "So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded."Heb 10:35
• When you think of leading someone to Christ, do you tend to replace the "gospel" with your own personal testimony?
• Do you talk more about Christ of the Bible or more about yourself and your own personal experience of Christ?
• Do you tend to pray more for yourself or more for others?
• Are you involved in regularly meeting the practical needs of others?
• Concerning you secular career and ministry objective, are you trying to make something of yourself, or are you trying to make nothing of yourself? (Joh 3:30 "He must become greater; I must become less.") Is your objective to serve, or simply to make a name for yourself?

SoulMates - Bible

Q. Did really God create someone specifically for You?

Nope, he said, a husband/wife is not only not a biblical promise, it is also not a specific element of God’s “plan for my life.” God’s plan is for us to be made more holy, more like Christ… not marry a certain person. There is no biblical basis to indicate that God has one soul mate for you to find and marry. You could have a great marriage with any number of compatible people. There is no ONE PERSON for you. But once you marry someone, that person becomes your one person.”

Having one predestined, predetermined soul-mate always sounded too fairy tale to me.

Eve Made for Adam

Genesis 2:20-25 “But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, ‘This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.’ Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.”

A soul mate isn't someone you discover; it's someone you intentionally and prayerfully become. I don't believe that society's definition of "soul mate" is healthy or spiritual. It's great for the movies  but no one's marriage is like the romantic movies you've seen. Anyone in a successful marriage can tell you that "success" in marriage doesn't come from finding that one person you were meant to be with. It only comes from giving up the selfish behavior that served you while you were single, and focusing on selflessly serving your spouse instead. 

Nowhere in the Bible does God say anything about soul mates. God gives us the simple details on how to have a great marriage: Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her. Wives, respect your husbands. Both of these are intentional acts of selfless sacrifice that will guarantee us to have a happy marriage.  

Most people don't like the idea of having to work for a soul mate. But you will never speak with a happily married couple that will tell you that they haven't had to work hard for the happiness they have together. 

The Adage of soul mate has been spread my those that love themselves. As the bible says, in those times men will become lovers of themselves.. what other way can this been shown than to love yourself so much to the extent of thinking that out of the billions of people; there is one who was specifically made for you.

Methuselah

"And about these also Enoch, [in] the seventh [generation] from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him."
( Jude 1:14-15)
 
Methuselah comes from muth, a root that means "death"; and from shalach, which means to bring, or to send forth. The name Methuselah means, "his death shall bring"
Methuselah's father was given a prophecy of the coming Great Flood, and was apparently told that as long as his son was alive, the judgment of the flood would be withheld; but as soon as he died, the flood would be brought or sent forth.

Gen 5:21Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah. 22Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, ...

It was after Enoch received a prophecy from God about the future that he walked faithfully with God. Jude 1:14-15.

Seven days before the beginning of the Great Flood Methuselah died. Apart from having Noah give the people of the message of the flood God and graciously given them a living prove for every-time they mentioned Methuselah they knew that the day the man would die there would come destruction for the earth by flood.

Many have preached about the flood without ever mentioning the oldest man who ever lived, hiding the mercies of God of how lonhg our Lord postponed Judgement on earth. Already currenlty we are told we are on borrowed time for our Lord is coming but graciously has he extended the time.

969 years -- this were the years man was reminded of the flood and requested to repent and for 969 years men still refused to heed to the call.

The Lord says "For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies," declares the Lord GOD. "Therefore, repent and live." (Ezekiel 18:32).

Matthew 24:37 ...'But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.'

Luke 17:28-30 ...'Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.'

Get Ready

Moses preached to the Egyptians day in day out but their hearts were harden and they couldn't hear him. One day he preached to the children of Israel and told them to get ready and that was that. A time has come for the born again Christian to get ready, The Lord is coming to get you out of the world, smear yourself with the blood of the Lamb, that you might not be forgotten. For now, the message is no longer to the world but to the church ---- Get ready to go