CONDEMNATION

Posted on 25 Januarie 2012 by Thomas Dreyer

Jesus freed us from condemnation and gave us the power to be free from sin!

Has no one condemned you? ”
“No one, Lord,” she answered. “Neither do I condemn you,” said Jesus. “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”
(John 8:10-11).

No, we are not perfect, but we can choose to walk in the light, and lay bare our sins.

But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say, “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
(1John 1:7-9).

We are not perfect believers because we have no sin, but because we invite Jesus (THE LIGHT) and Father God into absolutely everything in our lives… This does not gives free reign to sin, but freedom from condemnation.

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Therefore judge nothing before the time

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Thomas Dreyer

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one’s praise will come from God.
(1 Corinthians 4:5)

Indeed you are called a Jew, and rest on the law, and make your boast in God, and know His will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the law. You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal? You who say, “Do not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? You who make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law? For “THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU,” as it is written. For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you who, even with your written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law? For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.
(Romans 2:17-29 NKJV).

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Whom are you eating from?

Posted on 8 December 2011 by Thomas Dreyer

Yes, I am a stirrer… a rebel!
My very life speaks of it!
No, not like Juju, I do not believe in politics.
Politics is a power struggle for power, but I am already “full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah” and therefore need no other.

Life is not only about politics, but have many other dynamics. It consists of systems that function collectively and influence one another. All the good and evil are thus shared amongst all these systems and the dynamic workings of these systems are the same, good and evil.

Mankind are all in the same boat, caught within the dynamics of these systems. Not able or willing to break free from it, and such is life.

BUT HOW DO WE LIVE PURE AND PERFECT LIVES IF WE ARE CAUGHT WITHIN THIS LIFE?

YOU NEED THE NEW AND TRUE LIFE FIRST!!! THE LIFE THAT IS ONLY FOUND IN THE LIFEGIVER, JESUS CHRIST!

Death is scary, painful and feared, but I am not talking about physical death. I am talking about separation from the true life through these life systems, killing you over and over again.

The only way to find this new life is to stop eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Choose then to eat from the tree of life. (Genesis 2:9, 17; 3:1-18). You have to accept that your current life is eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. You have to take the steps to stop it and start eating form the tree of life.

Eating from the tree of life is going to cost you something in a worldly sense. So eating of it as one who wades into a river , first ankle deep , then knee deep , then waist deep and then over your head (Ezekiel 47:1-12). This dedication will then produce short term and long term results.

The tree of life have different kinds of fruit and what ever you need, that fruit will be available for you. One of the most important fruits we need is WISDOM. We daily need to receive wisdom from the tree of life (James 3:13-18).

Our greatest fear is for the unknown and this fear might be standing between you and the tree of life. Yes, you have to totally and completely let go of everything and embrace this new life with absolutely everything within you. This is not a once-off thing, but a daily choice. Eat of the tree of life daily… The pips and seeds of the fruit we eat comes into our lives and starts growing. It will first shoot some roots and sometime later the first leaves will break through the dirt.

This is only the beginning and those new leaves are very tender. You might be stepped on a few times by big heavy feet or eaten by a worm… Still you have to make a stand. All the times you were almost destroyed your roots were still growing stronger and stronger. Pretty soon you will grow past this tender times and by making a stand over and over again your stem will become stronger and stronger.

These systems of the world are evil, because they are based on the knowledge of good and evil and we can not always differentiate between the two. But if these systems are built on truth only, they will stand and serve us.

To have faith in the word means to apply the word. We need to be encouraged to test it and to see the truth of the applied word so that we may know that we are participating in an unshakeable kingdom.

Love is the strength, the tool, the action, the dedication and the way we continue on through all these difficult times. Because true love comes from God and will drive out all fear and build you up, enabling you to become the man or woman He intended you to be before the foundations of this world. You are therefore taking part in God’s great plan for mankind…

…The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who cultivate peace.
(James 3:18)

You will never have true peace as long as you are seeking it amongst these systems that are driven by good and evil.

Father God teach us and remind us to find everything we need from the Tree of Life.

Wisdom is a tree of life to everyone who embrace it and the one holding on to it is happy (Proverbs 3:18).

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life (Proverbs 11:30).

A tongue that heals is a tree of life …(Proverbs 15:4).

Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the victor the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in God’s paradise. (Revelation 2:7)

For the bread of God is the One who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. (John 6:33)

The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. (John 6:63)

By Thomas and Leondarion

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*The origins of punctuation marks we use …

Posted on 29 November 2011 by Thomas Dreyer

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Question Mark ?
Origin: When early scholars wrote in Latin, they would place the word questio – meaning “question” – at the end of a sentence to indicate a query. To conserve valuable space, writing it was soon shortened to qo, which caused another problem – readers might mistake it for the ending of a word. So they squashed the letters into a symbol: a lowercased q on top of an o. Over time the o shrank to a dot and the q to a squiggle, giving us our current question mark.

Exclamation Point !
Origin: Like the question mark, the exclamation point was invented by stacking letters. The mark comes from the Latin word io, meaning “exclamation of joy.” Written vertically, with the i above the o, it forms the exclamation point we use today.

Equal Sign =
Origin: Invented by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde in 1557, with this rationale: “I will settle as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of paralleles, or Gmowe [i.e., twin] lines of one length, thus : , bicause noe 2 thynges, can be more equalle.” His equal signs were about five times as long as the current ones, and it took more than a century for his sign to be accepted over its rival: a strange curly symbol invented by Descartes.

Ampersand &
Origin: This symbol is stylized et, Latin for “and.” Although it was invented by the Roman scribe Marcus Tullius Tiro in the first century B.C., it didn’t get its strange name until centuries later. In the early 1800s, schoolchildren learned this symbol as the 27th letter of the alphabet: X, Y, Z, &. But the symbol had no name. So, they ended their ABCs with “and, per se, and” meaning “&, which means ‘and.’” This phrase was slurred into one garbled word that eventually caught on with everyone: ampersand.

Octothorp #
Origin: The odd name for this ancient sign for numbering derives from thorpe, the Old Norse word for a village or farm that is often seen in British placenames. The symbol was originally used in mapmaking, representing a village surrounded by eight fields, so it was named the octothorp.
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Disciple-making

Posted on 28 November 2011 by Thomas Dreyer

Disciple-making is to take someone, in the context of a relationship, through a purposeful process, where you act as a role model of Christ, in order that the total salvation of Christ is built into the life of the believer and that the disciple will later be equipped to build into someone else’s life in a multiplying way

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“all things, whatever you desire that men should do to you, so also you should do to them”

Posted on 2 November 2011 by Thomas Dreyer

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again."
by Stephen Grellet 1859

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NoiseMakers – Rafters Pub & Grill

Posted on 31 Oktober 2011 by Thomas Dreyer

NoiseMakers

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Posted on 28 September 2011 by Thomas Dreyer
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Recognise the work of the enemy

Posted on 23 Augustus 2011 by Thomas Dreyer

Good morning, Lovers of God!

I want us to focus on recognition. Our daily living is plagued by the lies of satan and the only way to stop this infiltration is to know and recognise it when it approaches… Thus, we need to recognise the works of the enemy in our lives. In order to this, we should differentiate between God’s works, our works and satan’s works…

Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine! And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing. For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water. For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.
(Isaiah 5:11-14 BBE).

Our works as in this passage is to make strong drink (alcohol) our lord. We are then not concious of God’s works allowing the enemy to enter into our lives AND his works will always lead to destruction as Jesus said:

The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction…
(John 10:10 BBE).

There is always a consequence, a cause, an effect in every action we take, good or bad… The enemy (satan) will always try to hide this from us, because if we know and understand the consequence(s) of our actions, we will not do it. We will be targeted by satan through thoughts, pictures, ideas and other lies in-order to separate our works from God’s works. Thus as Christians we are walking in God’s works and satan will do everything is his power to keep us from doing so.

For we are His (God’s) workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
(Ephesians 2:10 NKJV).

We need to listen to the voice of God and not the voice of the enemy. Therefore we need discernment!!!

But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
(Hebrews 5:14 NKJV).

We need to have our “senses exercised to discern both good and evil”… Our measuring rod (tool) is LOVE… What is not Love is not the works of God! Our works needs to be the works of God as Jesus said:

… “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.
(John 5:19 NKJV).

It is then Love we need to know and measure everything we do against. Paul gives us an idea of what Love is and what actions Love takes:

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails…
(1 Corinthians 13:4-8 NKJV).

For Love not to fail is to keep God’s commandments and Jesus explained it like this:

If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.
(John 15:10-14 NKJV).

Love then is the source, the measuring rod and the fullness of God’s commandments. Our love should be to lay down our lives for our friends like Jesus did when he proved His love and died on the cross…

Hold fast to this promise:

And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations—
(Revelation 2:26 NKJV).

Blessings,
Thomas

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In Him we live and move and have our being

Posted on 27 Julie 2011 by Thomas Dreyer

Allowing God to open and close the doors of our lives is the only way to move forward. Life is not something dead, set in a bottle, displayed on God’s mantelpiece, no, life is much bigger than that. Life is set in God and God is actively taking part in it, as He has chosen! We can and may therefore choose to live our lives within Him, making Him part of absolutely everything we do.

Time is probably our greatest limitation when it comes to sharing life with one-another, but time is also a gift from God. We should be able to see and recognise God everywhere and in everything. When this is not so, it is TIME to return to the cross. To the place where time stand still and the brutality of the cross’ message of love, peace, mercy and grace is shouted out echoing again through the rooms and hallways of our lives. It is then and only then that living this life comes into perspective…

for in Him we live and move and have our being, … , ‘For we are also His offspring.’
(Acts 17:28 NKJV).

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