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AI Overview
In 1 Corinthians 5:6-8, Paul writes about removing "old leaven" (sin and wickedness) from the church, urging believers to celebrate the Lord's Supper with "unleavened bread of sincerity and truth". He also instructs in verse 11 to not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, etc.
Here's a more detailed breakdown:
Paul uses the metaphor of "leaven" (yeast) to represent sin and wickedness, stating that "a little leaven leavens the whole lump". He encourages believers to "cleanse out the old leaven" and to celebrate the Lord's Supper with "unleavened bread of sincerity and truth".
Paul writes, "But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler". He emphasizes that believers should not associate with those who are openly living in sin.
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A Presidential Speech or as some like to call it, "a good old-fashioned Sermon:" https://youtu.be/g5db_ovYvo0
(Please rewind to beginning of Sermon.)
I was at my computer but had to clean up some dishes. I looked on “You Tube,” for something to listen to while I was in the kitchen. I clicked on this little bio concerning Bob Dylans conversion from Judaism.
Next, I listened to a 2nd clip that came on after. It also dealt with Bob Dylans conversion but was only three minutes long or so.
Afterward, a sermon from Billy Graham came on and I decided to listen to that. The entire sermon dealt with the subject of, “The Heart.”
While listening to the clips on Bob Dylan there were two things that “stuck out,” to me. The first one was when it was explained how at a concert, a ticket holder had thrown a “Silver Cross,” on stage. Apparently, this was a habit among concert go-ers, and that was “to throw things on stage.”
Anyway, the account was mentioned in both clips, so it must have been considered a significant event in Bob Dylan’s life. Nonetheless, in both accounts, it was recorded that like two days later while Dylan was in Tucson, AZ, he had an encounter with Jesus Christ in a Hotel Room.
Well, as I was listening to the accounts, I was reminded of the "Book of Acts,” and how handkerchiefs were taken from the apostle Paul and people were healed.
And so, I was thinking, I wonder if the individual who threw that Cross on stage Prayed for or had his Church pray for that object?
AI Overview
The account of handkerchiefs and aprons being taken from the Apostle Paul and used for miraculous healings and exorcisms is found in Acts 19:11-12.
Perhaps, maybe we need to start praying for these “Media Stars,” that they become as little children, get rid of their pride and convert to the one true God.
I mean, stranger things have happened in the church, but we really ought not to dismiss anything.
The other thing that “stuck out,” to me was an “anecdote” concerning John Lennon. During one of the worse seasons of Bob Dylan’s life he received a lot of “flack,” from others in the “spotlight” within the Entertainment industry. Apparently, they couldn’t handle it that one of their own began to profess Christianity and many seemed to “kick the guy as he was already on the ground,” for coming out with a gospel themed album.
During the time when Dylan released a song or spoke a” word,” which stated, “You got to serve somebody,” Lennon right before his death, either recorded or was about to record a song which stated, “You have to serve yourself,” or something like it.
Please refer to these links to make sure that my words are accurate or “as I thought I heard.”
Nonetheless, it appears that “John,” tended to speak some dumb things when it concerned “spirituality.”
I posted a story a few months ago, concerning his assassination and the commentator stated that after John Lennon was shot to death, his assailant made a statement to the effect, “Now, I will be more famous than John Lennon.”
Well, I believe that the commentator was suggesting that had not Lennon made the statement concerning “How the Beatles were more popular than Jesus,” he might not have been shot to death.
Lastly, those two clips were followed by a sermon from Billy Graham, I don’t believe in coincidences.
Therefore, perhaps there are a few out there who may need to hear this sermon.
I mean, it cain’t hurt, can it?
In fact, it may be a hurting a lot more worse, if a few of you don’t listen to it.
Who knows, you could become the fifth “Beetle.”
And I’m not just talking “Reincarnation,” here.
1st link: https://youtu.be/P-N-_Fnaos4
2nd link: https://youtu.be/90y1lO-4-AY
3rd link: https://youtu.be/HEh56_F1S-8
Music Link: https://youtu.be/sU7ygB8GJzI
Beautiful story about the life of Jesus: https://youtu.be/iH8dLuxs0Fk who
John 6:47-70 New Living Translation
47 “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes has eternal life. 48 Yes, I am the bread of life! 49 Your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, but they all died. 50 Anyone who eats the bread from heaven, however, will never die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever; and this bread, which I will offer so the world may live, is my flesh.”
52 Then the people began arguing with each other about what he meant. “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” they asked.
53 So Jesus said again, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you cannot have eternal life within you. 54 But anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise that person at the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. 57 I live because of the living Father who sent me; in the same way, anyone who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 I am the true bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will not die as your ancestors did (even though they ate the manna) but will live forever.”
59 He said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
Many Disciples Desert Jesus
60 Many of his disciples said, “This is very hard to understand. How can anyone accept it?”
61 Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining, so he said to them, “Does this offend you? 62 Then what will you think if you see the Son of Man ascend to heaven again? 63 The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 64 But some of you do not believe me.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning which ones didn’t believe, and he knew who would betray him.) 65 Then he said, “That is why I said that people can’t come to me unless the Father gives them to me.”
66 At this point many of his disciples turned away and deserted him. 67 Then Jesus turned to the Twelve and asked, “Are you also going to leave?”
68 Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life. 69 We believe, and we know you are the Holy One of God.”
70 Then Jesus said, “I chose the twelve of you, but one is a devil.”
Music Link: https://youtu.be/cHn1POJovZA
Music Link: https://youtu.be/VuUqfqLDOHY
3-28-2025
Many times, after a good sleep, I will awake, and it is like the Lord has just downloaded a whole lot of revelation or wisdom into my “spirit.” Therefore, it’s like a have a whole lot of “sections” going on in my mind and hopefully they will all come together to create a wonderful and colorful “Quilt” that you can either hang on the wall or use during those long lonely nights in winter.
I felt in my “spirit,” that there were a whole lot of “Clergymen,” who I have really offended by posting part of my former lifestyle on a web page. You see, I wrote about a period in my life where I liked to listen to, “Cheating Songs,” or “Country Songs,” that involved everyday love songs or life situations which narrate particular parts of life which people go through.
Well, if that wasn’t enough for some of these “criticizers,” I happened to mention that there was another whole part of society which grew up occasionally “drinking in a bar.”
“Oh, my God, Betty Ann, now he is talking about liking neighborhood bars and how he liked beers such as Schlitz, Stroh's, and Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer.”
No, no, for goodness sakes I never liked Pabst, I always thought that it was made in a factory in which perhaps a water leak was adding an extra little amount of water in the vats. I might have been wrong, but it wasn’t my first choice.
Now Schlitz, that almost always had a little “kick,” to it.
Can I tell you a teenage anecdote?
After I got my license, I would buy these old cars in Detroit. I mean, you could look in the newspaper any week and normally find a car within the price range of fifty to a hundred twenty-five dollars and they ran well. The only thing was though, they were like ten to twelve years old.
So, some of my first cars were a 58 Chevy, a 1960 Plymouth with long fins, among others.
Nonetheless, my favorite was a 1958 Ambassador made by Rambler.
The Ambassador was like the answer for ‘Rambler,” as compared to the GM Cadillac, Lincoln by Ford Mo Co, or Chrysler Imperial. Those were all the Luxury cars of the particular “makes.”
Well, this car wasn’t as big as those cars on the outside, but inside it was huge. The car had both a back and front seat, where each seat was folded down in a way which would make all four seats come together into one big bed by combining all four seats into a unit which would perfectly form together. I mean, everything just became one big bed. The car had either four or five ash trays with a cigarette lighter in each one of them, power windows, perhaps it was air conditioned, I forget, but it was the most solid “ride,” of any car that I had ever driven. As I recall, the thing weighed like forty-five or fifty hundred pounds and with a huge V-8 engine. It was like a Tank, and great for visiting the Lake or “partying in.”
(Can I say that?)
But it was a great ride for an up-and-coming teenager who normally would fill his cars up with a “boatload” of kids cruising the neighborhoods.
Well, on occasion, we would drink alcohol during those years, but at sixteen or seventeen, you were not legal to buy it. Nonetheless, I am not sure who found the guy, but there was an older man, whose main diet consisted of “twelve-ounce bottles of Schlitz beer,” for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Well, I am surely not glorifying drinking alcohol, nor am I bragging about “how wonderful” those times were, as I am much ashamed of my early life. Nonetheless, I am just relaying a part of my “growing up,” years as a street kid from Detroit.
So, anyway, if we ever needed someone to buy us beer, we would drive across Schoolcraft, to a lesser neighborhood and to go pick up this older man at his run-down almost “shack.”
Then I would drive the guy up to the Convenience Store where he would buy us all the beer that we wanted, so long as we paid him accordingly with twelve-ounce bottles of “Schiltz.”
I swear, I don’t know how I get off on those rabbit trails.
Nonetheless, given the choice between Pabst and Schiltz, I would prefer Schlitz, take it from an expert in the field?
Well, my point was…what was my point…
Oh yea, I think that I upset so many preachers when I write about these things is because many were born in households of “Clergy.”
You see, they can’t understand an individual who can walk in a bar and to sit down and to order a beer. It is “anathema,” I am sure to many of them for a believer or someone converted to even speak of such things within the confines of “our religious upbringing,” and sacred “Temples,” or our sacred Media.
Nevertheless, even though most PK’s turn out to be devils, and are far removed from the church, there is still a remnant which desires to hold our “Traditions,” over every other minister within the “church.”
You see, many grow up believing that they are a special class of people within the church who are the only real “sacred class” recognized by God.
I am sorry, but it's just the truth.
Therefore, it is really easy for them to criticize or to judge me, if I happen to spend a few days writing about my experiences listening to “secular music.”
“Have you heard the latest, now he has transformed all of his “Music Links,” to country songs.”
Hypocrites, just can’t stand living without thinking four hundred new ways to “TRAP, Jesus.” Why he can’t be Holy, he writes about Schlitz beer, and Honky Tonk angels.”
No, it is sad, but many of these guys need to understand that there were kids who grew up not under a strict legalistic household where you were brought up to believe that you all were above your fellows.
Other human beings experience a life that you never imagined, yet it was normal to them.
It wasn’t some “Babylonian existence.” These were still good people they just didn’t have..
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When I was in the world and God had called me to move up to Lansing in order to learn about Him, I was really into a few Rock and Roll performers. Mostly more Folk like or had a unique singing ability that just “stuck out,” to me. Bob Dylan was my absolute hero, I had always liked Rod Stewart, and performers such as Van Morrison. Nonetheless, when I chose to become a Christian, there was just something inside of me that knew that I needed to give up listening to worldly Music and to begin listening to Christian Praise and Worship Music.
And it wasn’t religion or legalism which had decided the factor to me, but it was that something happened to me when I listened to this music which gave so much “Glory,” to Jesus.
I fell in love with the beautiful songs which told such wonderful stories about the ‘Son of God.”
I began reading the Bible and the Lord opened up my eyes to a little “shepherd boy,” named David.
This David character had a heart just like “God,” the Bible said.
Therefore, when I first realized that I was going to be one of those, “Jesus Freaks,” and then I heard a story on how Bob Dylan, had a ‘born again,’ experience with Jesus, I got to thinking, “Wow, what if go up to Lansing become a Christian, and then someday be able to meet “Bob Dylan,” in the flesh. Wow, wouldn’t that be something.”
Well, what happened was that I went up to Lansing, I became a real Christian, and I met Jesus Christ in the flesh.
So, it was just a short time later and I don’t think I would’ve gotten out of bed to go down to the East Lansing Record store, off campus to even see this “super star.”
And I don’t mean any disrespect to Bob Dylan, because I still love him as a performer and song writer, but no one will understand the comparison until you meet Jesus Christ in the Flesh.
One of the greatest Preachers of the last few hundred years was a man called T.L. Osborn. He was like one of the first to hold mass crusades in Africa and India of as many people as a million in one meeting.
Nevertheless, he once preached a sermon saying, that your life will never ever be the same if you ever meet Jesus’ face to face in this life.
You see, he never had mass crusades or wielded the Power of God in which he so aptly did until after he had a face-to-face encounter with Jesus.
But you see, in the scripture above I have written the account of when Jesus told his followers, “If you want to follow me, you have to eat the flesh of the ‘son of man,’ and you have to ‘drink his blood.’
Well, this was too much for many of them, so they walked away from believing in Jesus.
I guess, today it would be like if a Preacher were preaching about Jesus and then his enemies exposed parts of his former life or even of his struggles with “sin” today.
So, the guy gets up in a podium and he says, “Hey, I am not denying any of those things, I am not perfect, and if you are looking for “perfection,” in a preacher just go visit all of those churches whose Preachers are trying to run me down.
But I am not there yet. Nevertheless, if you want to follow that which I share from the Bible or that which I share from the apostle Paul’s writings, then you have to accept all of me. The Good, right along with the “Bad.”
I am a sinful man and not worthy to be “worshipped” as if I was some kind of “Rock or POP star, I am just a ‘lover of Jesus Christ, and you can either accept the fact or reject it entirely.
You see, it makes no difference to me, but it makes a difference to your “soul,” don’t let these jealous and envious Pharisees try to steer you clear from the truths that I reveal from the “word of God.”
And that is all she wrote!
No, sorry, I forgot a point.
After I arrived in East Lansing, I had heard a rumor which stated that Bob Dylan had renounced his belief in Christianity. It was no big deal at the time, because it is a “Narrow Road,” in life and many end up “falling away.”
Well, I never heard much afterwards because I separated myself from most worldly resources.
Yesterday, however, I heard two little “Bios,” on Dylan, and none mentioned that he ever renounced his Faith.
What I did learn though, was that Bob Dylan had many abandon him, reject him, and persecute him, so what that told me was that I believe his “Faith,” to be real, as that is just a “given,” when one accepts Christ.
That is just expected if you have hopes of following Christ, though few ministers are willing to reveal this "Truism," to the church.
Perhaps, one day you may “get it,” or perhaps one day you may not?
Nonetheless, I am just the Messenger!
Music Link: https://youtu.be/HuxdT0TkJ1o
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