Why me?

I have colon problems like man men my age. Last night was a very bad night for me trip after trip to the bathroom followed by an accident that many in my position knows both bathrooms were busy and there it goes, loose bowel. As I was standing there in tears from embarrassment and tears from the pain I asked out loud not really wanting to believe who I was really asking I asked in anger, "Why Me?"

Through a sequence of events this morning starting with an email from my pastor about something totally different, 'Noetic effects of the fall from Albert Mohler'. So I looked this up and it was a question from this past weekends radio show of Al Mohler. I studied into it and then went to www.desiringgod.com to look for a sermon that Al Mohler gave but stopped when I saw another video on the sight that caught my eye. It is a Speaker Panel at the 2010 Desiring God conference. I love watching these because ti shows another side of pastors talking to each other and in front of lay people like me, its cool. I was watching and thinking back at last nights events and my burning question and John Piper says the following:


I would also say that we leaders here believe in a certain vision of God’s sovereign grace. There’s not a thing in you or me that inclined God to chose you for himself. It is totally free. This is our theology: unconditional election, regeneration, propitiation. Our theology is meant to flatten us so that no one would boast in the presence of God. Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord. The new Calvinism is about smashing human pride and getting glory for God. The cross is good news showing how much I’m loved and that it’s free. He’s going to get you a theology with him so massively at the center that you won’t even think of being there.

found here: http://www.desiringgod.org/conference-messages/speaker-panel-with-piper-anyabwile-chan-and-mohler

To say the least I have my answer and I am humbled. Humbled and ashamed for not remembering what I have gone through before in my life that has been filled with events like the one last night and many other times. I am also ashamed because this is not the first time I have been told this or heard this, my mom and dad told me several times that God has a way to slow us down and say hey what's really going on here and consider what we have been missing. And mom would always and still does today that the answer is always the same, GOD!

Why am I still sick? -- God

Why am I still here and not dead? -- God

What is my answer for my life's troubles in the past and present?

GOD!

He is always the Answer.

AMEN! 

Hubris

Do we now in 2014, know more than those in the First Century Church? 

Quick answer No.

To think that we here in the 21st century know more than a person that is called an Apostle such as like Paul or Peter, who saw Jesus with their own eyes is prideful. Today we are seeing this in our culture in our days. In example of that pride Matthew Vines' book "God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships".

This is an example that can and very well be the beginning of a major split in evangelicalism. 

It doesn't take a philosopher or theologian, although it helps us lay people, to know that what is thought of in the 1st century or even before that as a sin is STILL a sin now. The bible teaches that God is the same, yesterday, today and forever:

Hebrews 13:7-9

English Standard Version (ESV) 7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 9 Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.

 This is what was taught to the Hebrews as read in The Holy Bible then and we can rest assured that this brilliant, holy teaching is accurate today. 

We need to take teachings as like Vines' and line it up with scripture and see if what he says is what God has said since the beginning. 

When you do you will see that it is true then and a now homosexuality on the whole is a sin. But we need to teach what is good and what is right and that which is holy, to those who do not want to see that this and any other sin is wrong, and we need to restart using the 'R' word.

REPENT!

Psalm 7:12

If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;

Matthew 3:2

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Mark 1:15

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”

Mark 6:11-13

English Standard Version (ESV)

11 And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.” 12 So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent. 13 And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them.

Acts 8:22

Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.

and on this last one REALLY read it and study and pray that you have repented as well. (this goes for me as well)

Romans 2:3-5

English Standard Version (ESV)

3 Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

all scripture taken from www.biblegateway.com