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Joy Joy Joy / robin aylor God makes promises for joy... The world makes promises for joy... It's true... God created us in a fashion so that we have the greatest joy possible when we find our satisfaction in him… He made us that way. And you see… he is the greatest and the best there is. And guess what… finding our satisfaction in him is exactly what glorifies him. That's what he wants for us… to find satisfaction in the best there is… Jesus Christ. You might say he wants us to be a Christian Hedonist by seeking the greatest joy possible by treasuring him for who he is. Here’s a couple scenarios: If someone’s job was to trade stocks for profit and they were given a trustworthy tip that the next Amazon or Microsoft was available to buy real cheap… In their joy they would sell all the stocks they owned so they could buy that stock. If you went to a garage sale and found a antique for 10,000 dollars that you saw valued at 10 million dollars on antique road show… You would go home and in your joy sell

Throughout history many Religions of the World have believed that offering sacrifices to God brings people favor and makes them acceptable in God’s sight. It seems as though it is something built in man that lets him know that something must die… blood must be spilt to account for the brokenness of man. The Bible also makes this connection between sin and death and sacrifices. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death… Hebrews 9:22 …without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. We’ll come back to that shortly… So yes, there have been lot’s of human sacrifices to false gods throughout time… to try and make up for the inadequacy of humanity. The ancient Hawaiians believed that by sacrificing humans to Ku, the god of war, they could achieve victory in their battles. For the Mesopotamians, when royal families died, they sacrificed the palace attendants, warriors, and handmaidens so they could accompany their masters into the afterlife. The Aztecs believed that in order to keep the sun ali

Exodus 33:18-23 (ESV) Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” 19 And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.” 21 And the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, 22 and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. 23 Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.”

Exodus 33:18-23 (ESV) Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” 19 And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.” 21 And the Lord said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, 22 and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. 23 Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.”

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Memory Verses With Ukulele and Spoken Word Here's the basic chord construction for Ukulele. Chords are not formatting properly to words. Maybe you can figure it out. I ad-libbed a bit on some of them. To transpose to another key this should help: http://www.logue.net/xp/ C Bb F C Psalm One Thir-ty Five, Six C Bb F C Whatever the LORD pleases, he does,  C Bb F C in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps. Psalm Sixteen Eleven       C                           F       You make known to me the path of life;  C                               G               in your presence there is fullness of joy;  Am G      F                             C at your right hand are pleasures forever-more. Psalm Thirty Four Eight Am Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! G Am

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Proverbs 5:11 and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, The Beginning Of Life Is Jesus The End Of Sin Is Death / Daniel Castor Sins goal is not to briefly distract us from God, but to own us, enslave us and then consume us! Our life is what sin wants and it won't be happy until it has us. “Be killing Sin, or sin will be killing you.” That's right, these are our options. And it gets even worse than this. We can't run from sin. It lives within us; and in our natural state we choose to indulge in it. Because of this truth there is no way for us to conquer our sin. We are in a hopeless situation. Fight with all that we have and we still loose. How then can we kill sin? What hope is there for us? We must call upon the name of Jesus! At the name of Jesus sin shutters, it can do nothing, sin knows that it has no power over Christ. Oh there was once a time when sin tried with all its might to defeat Christ. Every sin committed from the beginning of time to the end was put on hi

Proverbs 11:27 Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to him who searches for it. Not Of Works... Yet Grace To Seek Ye First... Brad Chase What is good that we should seek it? James 1:17 says Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. And what does it mean to search for good diligently? Matthew 6:33 says: But seek FIRST the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. In other words set your eyes on the kingdom of God before any and all other things. I have 4 children all under the age of 10. They have this down whether they know it or not. See, they know, that if they want something from dad in the evening, then they need to seek to please him during the day. They will work together and seek good behavior and helpfulness and obedience hoping for the favor of dad when he gets home. They will police each other all day to keep the machine

Proverbs 15:12 A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise. Scoff, Scoff / Robin Aylor See if you notice any similarities in these examples with todays text. Some people get fighting mad when others play jokes on them… and yet one of their biggest thrills is to play jokes on others. That’s somewhat ironic I think. Some others like to give to people in need but would be humiliated to receive something from others and be thought of as the ones in need themselves. I’m pretty sure most criminals who enjoy shooting others definitely do not want to be shot themselves. I think it still works. Our text today is quite similar I think. It talks about a scoffer. A scoffer is proud.. he ridicules, mocks or scorns others… so scoffing can include reproving others in this kind of prideful way. Those who reprove others like this do not want to be reproved themselves.That’s why they won’t go to the wise for counsel. They don’t want the sinfulness of their own heart to be exposed. Proverbs 5:11-13 l

Today I want to talk about a story… a man from the Old Testament… Joseph. But first I want to ask you a question: Have you ever been done wrong or hurt or taken advantage of by others? Of course you have. Some of you may have been abused by a family member or maybe you were used or stolen from by a so called friend. Maybe you were lied to by someone you love. Everyone has been done wrong by someone; and everyone has done someone else wrong. Today I want us to look at Joseph… Remember Joseph in the Old Testament? Who can tell me how many brothers Joseph had? Who was his mother and father? Right. He had 11 brothers and Jacob or Israel was his father and Rachael was his mother. When Joseph was young his father made something for him… Do you remember? Genesis 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. 4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could no

Proverbs 14:24 The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the folly of fools brings folly. Normally we might only think of a king wearing a crown, but a person who is wise in things… say financial things… as a king rules over his empire they rule over their finances. And they wear another kind of crown. Their financial wealth is a crown that shows wisdom and expertise in that area. Also consider that the meaning of wealth is not restricted to money but can indicate abundance in other areas of life. It might be wealth in things or you may be rich in friends or a person may be said to have a wealth of knowledge. God calls us to be wise not only financially but with our time, eyes, mind and heart. And if we are there will be something to show for it… a crown if you will show who we are in all those areas. 
And how will you know know the fool in his folly when you see him? What will be the unforgettable eye catching crown he wears that tells of his expertise in the area of foolishness? It will be the folly fair

Proverbs 14:23 In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty. I used to own a restaurant in Prague Oklahoma. We had an extra large round table where coffee drinkers would congregate every morning. The round table became notorious as a place we would look forward to setting together in fellowship. We did what most people do over a cup of coffee; we talked. We talked about how people in our culture try to get the most for themselves by doing the least they can for others. We talked about how politicians buy votes by promising more to those who work less. Yes, and as we talked we solved many of the Worlds problems. We fixed Congress, straightened out the office of the President, we fixed the Nation, straightened out our State and our Town… Ironically, we said all the government did was talk, talk, talk and how they never got anything profitable done… and so we discussed how wrong everyone else was and how we would do things different if we ruled the world… and things would be oh so much bette

Proverbs 14:22 Do they not go astray who devise evil? Those who devise good meet steadfast love and faithfulness. The #1 definition of the word “devise” on my dictionary says: “plan or invent (a complex procedure, system, or mechanism) by careful thought”. So it seems that for one to devise evil… or good for that matter it takes intentional thought… and work. This may not be that important but I like double negatives. And though there’s not one in the verse answering the question requires one for it to be answered correctly. Notice this passage doesn’t ask whether people go astray who devise evil. If it did the answer would be oh yes they surly do go astray; but instead it ask: Do they not go astray who devise evil? So we must answer No… so… they do not, not go astray… or to put it anther way they do go astray. Double negatives are interesting. For example: * The two negatives in “I can’t get no satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones actually indicate they do get satisfaction since “can’t and “no” cancel o

Proverbs 14:20 The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends. Well, let’s see… I think we all know the truth in this. There are certain kinds of people in the world who are friendly with people they think they can profit from. True? These people dislike and ignore those who they cannot gain from which much of the time tends to be the poor. It is common for people who have won lots of money or have received a large inheritance to be swarmed with folk who want to be their friends. Maybe you’ve seen the movie 2nd Hand Lions which is a great example of people claiming to be friends with the two best friends that came into lots of money. These greedy fair weather friends can be shallow leeches that attach themselves to people with money and live by sucking off of others life blood the way parasites do. They will stick close to them like a fly on a million dollar race horse. Shoot, partner, they might even be satisfied for a while just to swarm around the trail of poo they leave behind

Proverbs 14:19 The evil bow down before the good, the wicked at the gates of the righteous. In the world even today, wickedness cannot stand tall, confident and true in their heart in the presence of godly people walking in Christ. They run from Christ, remove themselves from the exaltation of Jesus or from the hearing of Gods word. Or if they stay, they are flooded with the Light of the Lord and who can stand firm in their own self righteousness before him? And so in our daily life we see this verse play out in some context… Those who reject Jesus will seek to remove themselves from the presence of believers who exalt Christ or they will begin seeking God and as they see his glory submit themselves to the Lord. In this context they do bow down to God before those who are righteous in Christ. 1st Corinthians 6:2 seems to indicate something related in some fashion. It says: Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world?... So Believers will judge people like Adolf Hitler, Nero and even our neig

Proverbs 6:9 How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? Arise From Your Sleep Robin Aylor When researching the common land slug, at first I found no benefits for their existence. Upon further inquiry I found that slugs eat dead and dying organic matter and thereby releases nutrients which enrich the soil. There is a European black slug that eats dung and also lays its eggs in it. After hatching, the larvae live in the dung for three to four weeks. Look, God had a purpose in creating slugs. They are for his glory; but the focus of this proverb parallels their characteristic of living a life of very slow and little action. They are perceived as nasty, slimy and gross creatures that move slower than a sloth or the hour hand on a clock. Laziness is clearly a bottom of the barrel existence that feeds off of worthless desires leaving a stench of selfishness and a trail of mucus to mark it's path. Although laziness is a sin in itself, I suspect it can also be brought on by or

For more go to braggingonjesus.com Proverbs 6:25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; 26 for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life. So I’ve written a poem here and just to explain it a little… each verse begins with one of the four sections of this passage. Captured By Eyelashes robin aylor Do not desire her beauty in your heart Though her lines and shape be works of art When lust promises love by a-la-carte Don’t look back, run away, escape, depart And do not let her capture you with her eyelashes You’ll get twisted and tangled with deep bloody gashes When you try to escape you’ll be flung back to her latches Like a black widow she will drain you and blow on your ashes For the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread Though a mere 60 cents in Bangladesh it is said The dirty bomb she carries is worse than a nuclear war-head On the soul of the man who when warned never fled But a marri

Today we’ll be looking at a crazy little thing called love. Well, it’s not really crazy…nothing could be more sane.. There’s many types of love. Our focus is not, well, on erotic love as in making love… and not affectionate love as in friendship… and not really umm kinship as in love that’s connected to family and relatives… Today we will look at Agape love and how it can be a cure for a horrible epidemic that has been sweeping the globe for a long time. It’s like a disease that cripples peoples lives and makes them un-useful in God’s kingdom and his work. It’s an outbreak of an epidemic called depression. So let’s begin looking at the cure. Agape love is the highest form of love. It is the type of love God has toward us when he gave his only Son to be paid the wages of our sin. Agape love within our life should come along side of the other types of love I mentioned strengthening the bond between friends as they walk through life together… improving the relationship of a man and wife in marriage and fortifyi