🚀 go-pugleaf

463.  Do Not Mix Truth and Untruth  (Undated)
  Jesus said to Nancy, "Do not mix truth and untruth."




                 COMMENTARY

   Can We Learn from the Deception of Eve?
  When God asked Adam and Eve why they ate the forbidden fruit, Eve
said the serpent "deceived" her and she ate.  If deception caused sin,
suffering and death for man, can we not learn from this how it could
happen again?

The Commandment:

  In the Old Testament, in Genesis 2:16-17, the Lord God commanded man
saying, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the
day that you eat of it you shall die."

  In the New Testament, Jesus tells us in Mt 22:37;39, "You shall love
  the
Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with
all your mind.  This is the great and first commandment.  And a second
is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself."

  In John 14:34, Jesus said, "A new commandment I give you, that you
  love
one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another"

The Deception:

  In the Old Testament, in Genesis 3:4-5, we have the serpent [Satan]
saying to the woman, "You will not die.  For God knows that when you
eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing
good and evil."

  Today Satan is saying the same thing, "you will not die"... enjoy
  the
things of this world, they are good. Just take care of yourself and
your family. You don't need to help your neighbor, who is hurting or
poor, the government will do that.

The Temptation:

  In Genesis 3:6, we consider the appeal,  "So when the woman saw that
the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and
that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its
fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate."

  Today the things of the world look good - money, power, sex,
  material
things, etc.  We choose to take care of ourselves first and not
others.  Jesus has told Nancy, "When you are in darkness, you do not
see the Light."

  Have we taken our eyes off God and His Words?  Are we looking upon
the forbidden fruits of this world and considering their appeal?  Do
we find they are "good", they are "a delight to the eye", they are "to
be desired"?  Do we put them before God?  Are we becoming gods unto
ourselves?  Have we come to be all knowing and depend on science and
our own capability to provide security for ourselves in good jobs,
careers, health insurance, material things, etc. and depend on self
rather than God.  Satan is telling us with all these "fruits", we have
no need for God...  We are now independent from God.  Is this not what
Satan did to deceive Adam and Eve?

  Satan has not changed his ways since Adam and Eve in the Book of
Genesis.  He is still deceiving us.  He once said to Nancy, "I have
the whole world deceived."  Are his words to Adam and Eve still
echoing all over this world, "You will be like God."?

The Choice:

  In Luke 16:13 we are told that we can not serve two masters.  We are
choosing either to be obedient and serve God or be disobedient and
serve Satan.  Luke tells us, "No servant can serve two masters; for
either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted
to the one and despise the other.  You cannot serve God and mammon."
[mammon: worldly possessions, profit, riches, wealth, etc.]

  In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus tells us our neighbor is
  the
one beaten up and wounded on the side of the road.  The priest and the
Levite passed him by on the way to worship.  Do we pass by the wounded
today, the poor, the sick, the mother raising a family alone, the
abused child, the abused wife, the teenager in trouble, the old person
alone?  The devil deceives us into believing that we really don't help
Jesus when we help the least of his children.

  Therefore, we choose to have the things of the world and we choose
  to
put them in front of God.  God gets less time, less love and is in
second place.  Jesus has said to Nancy, "My children and leaders of
this Country choose to live apart from Me.  Then you will live in the
darkness you have chosen.  I will not over step your free will.
Suffer you will, little children."

  We are deceived to think we can run from the cross without running
from Jesus.  But He is the cross.  So when we run from the cross,
there is greater suffering ahead, either in this life or later in
Purgatory or the eternal fires of damnation.




     As the Darkness of Sin Increases,
         So Shall Global Darkness

             Romans 6:16  [RSV]
    Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one as
    obedient slaves, you
  are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to
  death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

              Romans 7:5  [RSV]
    While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by
    the law, were
  at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

            1 John 2:9-11  [RSV]
    He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the
    darkness still.  He
  who loves his brother abides in the light, and in it there is no
  cause for stumbling.


============+JMJ+===============
Distributed by Mike Fichera,Conyers List Editor
Conyers members: e-mail to conyers@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu
Questions about the list may be sent to: spidey@magpage.com
Conyers Messages Web Site:   http://www.conyers.org
For older Web Browsers:  http://www.conyers.org/oldconyers.html
In Spanish:   http://www.conyers.org/sconyers.htm