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The Emmaus Journal - Strangers In A Strange Land
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The Emmaus Journal - "Strangers In A Strange Land"
Do you often feel like an Alien? In fact, have you recently
inquired if you were really still on Planet Earth? Do the things
of this World just seem more and more foreign to you?
Well, Dear Friend, you are in good company! Our Apostolic
Brother Paul felt the same way and said the same things. Perhaps
in a different language, but it is still relative for today. In
fact, Paul went one step further. He said you were suppose to
feel and speak the same way. In fact, if you didn't, Paul again
took it one step further! Paul questioned your so called "born
again" experience.
It is quite apparent within our global society today that
ANYTHING GOES. We are living in the day and age of pure
lasciviousness. Modesty, integrity, morals, discipline, and
accountability are rejected values. Our so called human rights
and personal ethics have degenerated on an over all scale
leaving common sense to fly the coop. Both, rarely to be seen
anymore like an extinct species. All the while our acute
intelligence in academia is at its highest peak within our
quantum race toward prideful superiority. Leaving dysfunctional
disorders to coagulate into heart attacks and obesity. If it
takes a "village to raise a child" nowadays, that village has
seemingly been swept away by a deluge of universal disrespect
and idolatrous arrogance.
The pitiful end to this scenario is - most Christians blend so
well into all of that! The major congregations of Christianity
has unfortunately become just another organization, and a vast
Find Those PeopleThe Emperor's New Clothes was a favorite childhood story of mine. It made me laugh. I couldn't believe that all those adults were standing around, ..... one at that. Especially in the promoted church world of today,
which has become homogenized to the point of dilution, polluted
to the point of stagnation, assimilated to the point of
derision. All multiplying into a not so innocent ignorance full
of mindless delusion.
Thankfully, even thru all of this, Jesus, known as Yahshua
(Jah's Salvation) has kept the few who will not bow to this
worldly profusion of erosion. These few thru the ages have been
called, and right up into our 21st century, the 'Remnant'. Only
to find the 'Remnant' is almost impossible. To locate one who
might be separated out of this conformed multi commercialized
staging of todays Christian hierarchy is a challenge. To find
one who might be separated from the party spirit within the
highly organized and socialized Christian order is another
challenge altogether. The Remnant surely remains just that, a
small trace that is still remaining from the original. Only
Yahshua (Jesus) is the true discerner of His own Remnant that
have been willingly and purposely separated. Separated from and
then separated to.
Our Brother Paul continued to exhort and rebuke the early
Believer's as he missioned from city to city, telling them not
to be conformed to the world; but to be constantly transformed
by the renewing of their minds. (Romans 12:2) Renewing of the
minds to what? Yes, the Gospel of Yahshua (Jesus), but more
intently and purposely, that they would discontinue to think and
act like the rest of the world they had been brought out of thru
Yahshua's (Jesus's) salvation. Meaning quit plainly, stop the
pagan and idolatrous ways once walked in out of ignorance. Come
out and be separated with the power of The Holy Spirit and do
not reflect or give homage to the pagan practices of the world.
Whether in Church (Synagogues) or out of Church. Whether in the
Spirit or out of the Spirit. Whether being in bonds or not.
Whether in sufferings or not. They were instructed to show the
fruits of repentance and to live a life now that portrayed the
spiritual transformation that Yahshua (Jesus) had provided. To
daily live from a heart that is cleansed of worldly pollution's.
Whether from within the religious order or the secular order.
Yahshua (Jesus) himself admonished people to observe and do as
the scribes and Pharisees taught regarding the Torah, but not to
do what they performed in their daily lives. For their hearts
were still within the pollution's of religious order and
worldliness. (Matthew 23)
This same scenario has, and perhaps has never, ceased down thru
the church ages. Paganism still abounds in cloaked illusions
full of deceit. We are experiencing many of its unbridled root
symptoms that are emerging at an alarming speed for all eyes to
see now and all ears to hear. Strangers in a strange land?
Indeed! And so we must be. Or else we will be swept along in the
tidal wave of lip service with our own pagan traditions and
erroneous religious teachings. A stranger in a strange land;
according to the dictates of our Faith we must be. A stranger in
a strange land; according to the resolution of our service and
work we must be. So if you seem to feel like a foreigner in a
Real SpiritualityMy fiancee' and I frequent a restaurant in L.A. called Real Food Daily. The concept behind the name is ..... strange land, realize it. You are! Rejoice in it, for it is the
results of your salvation. Embrace it, remembering you are on a
journey toward your real home. Be glad you remained as a
stranger in a strange land to obtain you rightful destination
prepared for you with Yahshua (Jesus).
C.L. Mareydt d23
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