My Yoke is Easy

Jesus Christ Is Lord!
23 October 2010

I want to continue on with the principle of self control and self responsibility and how in this world they are connected to being unequally yoked.

Verses below speak of being enlarged through what takes place in you and this based on the knowledge passed on through the open mouth of those who had already been enlarged internally.
Do you understand what this is saying?
The word straitened is rooted in the meaning of being hemmed in (control). Verse 12 says that we are not controlled by what is being taught but we are being taught to control ourselves.

How does that relate to this world and being unequally yoked?

2 Corinthians 5 & 6

1We then, as workers together with Him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
2(For He saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

11O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
12Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
13Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

The answer is found through the common Greek word used back in Chapter 4. The word that distress is translated from in 4:8 is the same word as straighten. What these verses in chapter 4 tell us is that if we speak the truth we will suffer and they will try to restrain us. This is the modern demonization we see any time we speak truth.

Example: Watched Senator Burr in a debate on the public broadcasting channel the other night. The moderator, Judy Woodruff, focused on question designed to put Burr on the defensive. Senator Burr was asked if he thought homosexuality was a choice or genetic. Burr responded that he didn’t know. His opponent said it wasn't a choice. Senator Burr, as are many others, has been coward into not stating the truth. Homosexuality is a choice and is deviant and perverted. It should never be considered normal or equal to the natural.

This is a truth and anyone who dares say it is demonized.

Another example:
Juan Williams makes a statement of truth; he is then attacked by C.A.I.R. and they try forced him into silence as the evil doer. C.A.I.R. the front group here in the US for the Islamic Jihadists shows their evil intentions and tendencies but the attacks come as if it is the reverse.

And again, Remember what I have told you about the demonization technique. They will take a little bit of what you say, add their own context and then use their created context to demonize you.

Why speak the truth? What can you expect and what will it bring you? Read Corinthians 4, 5 & 6 again. Remember what I have told you about entering into the kingdom through much tribulation.
2 Corinthians 4
6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
8We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
14Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Proverbs 16, Psalms 77

In the Name of
Jesus Christ My Lord
Thank You My Father
Jesus Christ Is Lord!
From 9 June 2010

Tim D’Annunzio
timvote.com

Do you understand the strait gate and the narrow way? Matthew 7 describes it before and after mentioning them. The word strait here means that it is restricted because of the obstacles restricting the passage and narrow here means to crowd, and is also translated afflict, trouble and tribulation.

The obstacle?

Matthew 23: 13
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

2 Thessalonians 1 and Acts 14 describe this way that we will enter in.

Acts 14: 22
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

2 Thessalonians 1
1Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
4So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
5Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
6Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
7And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
11Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
12That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 45, Psalms 5, Philippians 2

Psalm 1
1Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
5Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Those who trouble us talk the talk but the actions don’t match their words. They traduce and destroy. And as with Cain you will know them by their mark, by their fruit.

In the Name of
Jesus Christ My Lord
Thank You My Father