An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens May 19, 2024
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What we believe at twenty, has a way of shaping the rest of our lives.
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An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens May 17, 2024
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What most of us call common sense is anything we learn before we’re eighteen.
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An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens May 16, 2024
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Words can kill and words can give life. We get to choose what kind of fruit we want to share.
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The Meaning of the Book of Revelation May 15, 2024
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A twisted mess of conflicting desires. We want what we want until we get it then we wonder why we wanted it to begin with. So often the wanting is much more fulfilling than the getting because the having is always transitory and the losing is inevitable.
Does that sum up your experience in the world? It does mine until I met Jesus and committed my life to Him. The answer never quite fit the question. Or was it that the question never quite fit the answer. Either way I always ended up halfway home half of the time standing on a cold corner waiting to die alone.
I was always asking, “What’s it all about?” Everything seemed so senseless. You work hard all your life and then you die with no U-Haul behind the hearse and no pockets in the shroud. As they used to say in the old neighborhood, “Life’s a bitch and then you die.”
Once I gave my life to Jesus things changed. Hope was birthed in my life and joy filled my heart. Along the way I found two things that didn’t fit the mold of the having not fulfilling the expectation of the wanting. Giving my life to Jesus has proven to be much more than I ever could have expected. And the gift of my wife and the life we have together in Christ grows deeper each day and is better than I ever dreamed possible.
But as to the “What’s it all about?” question God did not leave us without an answer. Many seek it in the Book of Revelation. I have found it there and I want to share it with all who can receive it.
In the Sci-Fi classic “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” the mice ask the ultimate question, “What is the meaning to life, the universe, and everything?” Although an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years eventually comes up with the answer, “42” it somehow leaves everyone a bit unsatisfied.
In real life there is an answer to this ultimate question. His name is Jesus.
It is only through my hope in Him that I can walk through this hopeless world. It is only through my joy in Him that I can face the sorrow of knowing that everything in this world that isn’t in Him is meaningless. Life in this world is a race around a circle looking for a point. You’re young forever until you’re old. Almost everyone says, “If I would have known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself” but few ever do even after they know this truth. The young disregard the old and the old disrespect the young. One hand washes another yet neither hand is ever clean.
The religions of this world seek to make us gods. The religion of God seeks to make us Gods’. We cannot possess what we do not have and that which does not have us seeks to possess us. We enter this world lost and God wants us to find Him so that we can find ourselves in Him. What is the sound of one hand clapping? It is the sound of fingers slapping the heel of our hand. What is the answer to the unanswerable question? It’s found in my exegesis of the entire book of Revelation in one sentence.
Jesus is God, God wins in the end, and no matter how bad it gets we should pray, “Even so come Lord Jesus.”
There you go. That’s it. In other words, “Know Jesus and know peace or, no Jesus and no peace. Every one of us gets to choose for ourselves and in the perfect economy of God through His perfect justice each of us gets what we choose.
Season Three Episode Twelve May 14, 2024
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In Episode Twelve / Season Three of I Took a Right Turn: We share an old-time gospel song: Victory in Jesus and an old revival song: I’ll Fly Away. The homegrown song we share this week is, Be Ready. Our Bible study this week looks at the first paragraph of the introduction to the Book of Revelation in The Message and Revelation 22:20 looking atwho God is and what He has done for us. Robert reads another essay from the first in a series of books on Christian living, (Faith, Hope, and Love) Robert reads Essay # 18 The Meaning of the Book of Revelation.
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An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens May 13, 2024
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When people reply without listening, we may end up with two one-way monologues disguised as a conversation.
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An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens May 12, 2024
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The rich put their trust in money, they think it will insulate them from all the misfortunes of life, until it doesn’t.
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An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens May 11, 2024
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A fool cares only about what they say paying no attention to the words of others.
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An excerpt from the book New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens May 10, 2024
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Those who seek God find wisdom everywhere.
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Jump! May 8, 2024
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Christ came to fulfill the Old Covenant. He paid the price for Adam’s sin and made a way back into fellowship with God. Sin was the problem and Jesus is the answer.
When he was offered up by the High Priest as a sinless sacrifice, He fulfilled all that had ever been required in the Old Covenant.
When He breathed His last on the cross and cried out, “It is finished,” the curtain in the temple was ripped in half. God left the Holy of Holies on earth signifying the end of the Old Covenant. When Christ rose from the dead and ascended into heaven, He poured out his blood on the eternal alter of God in the heavenly temple of God. All the sacrifices of the Old Testament had been but a foreshadowing of this event.
When we confess Jesus as Lord and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead as it says in Romans 10:9-10 we shall be saved.[1] It doesn’t say we might be saved. It doesn’t say we will be saved by and by. It says we shall be saved. The moment we do that we’re born again, recreated, and translated from the old world of sin caused separation from God and death to the new world of fellowship with God and life.
Once we’re saved from the curse of sin we become the righteousness of God. This means we can stand in the presence of God without any guilt, shame, or fear for we’ve become His children. And as His children we have the right and the ability to come boldly into our Daddy’s throne room any time we want.
Think of it this way, if you or I walked up to the gate of Buckingham Palace and told the guard, “Let me in I want to see the queen” we wouldn’t even get a smile from one of those guys. But if Prince Phillip walked up and said the same thing, they would immediately usher him into the royal presence.
It’s the same with us and the heavenly Holy of Holies. God is our Father. We can enter His presence any time we want. There’s no need to beg or plead. It’s our right as His child because we are one with Christ. He’s the head and we’re the body. We’re the very living stones built up into His eternal temple. We’re individually the tabernacles of His Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
Don’t accept less. Be all that God re-created you to be. We’re a new creation the old has passed away and behold all has become new. We dwell this moment in God’s New Jerusalem and collectively we are His Holy Temple. God the Father is on His throne. Christ the Lamb that was slain for the sins of the world and yet lives, is seated to His right hand. The Holy Spirit lives in the temple built of living stones.
There is nothing left to be done. It is finished. There is nothing we can add. We have been given the authority to act in the Name of Christ. We shouldn’t sit back waiting to get good enough. We shouldn’t expect some hireling to do what God has called us to do. We’ve been called to take the light of Christ into a world of darkness.
He never told us to build a lamp. He never told us to pay a lighthouse tender. He told us to take the light of His love to those sold under bondage to the king of this world. And we must always remember greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world.
Jesus told us that if we have faith, even if it’s as small as the smallest seed, and we tell the mountain to jump it’ll jump. So, let’s quit waiting for some collective bulldozer to move the mountains and start living as what we are: children of the Most High God.
In the desert God told Moses to speak to the rock. He told us to speak to the mountains. So now, all together on the count of three let’s say to the mountains in our life, “Jump!”
One, two, three.
[1] Bible Gateway https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+10%3A9-10&version=NKJV 1-25-19
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