Tyler got the Good News! Saved his life and turned him around!
WHO IS TYLER?
EDUCATION - TEACHING - HUMAN RESOURCES
Classroom Instruction ... Training/Staff Development ... Program
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Summer Bible Camp Counseling... DVBS Teaching... Junior Church
Directing ...Sunday School Teaching (K- College/Adult) ... Home Bible Study
Leading
When I was young, I believed Jesus was real, but I sure didn't think that He
Loved me, and I was actively considering a suicidal life style or suicide itself
because I didn't care to live in a world that only had selfish and
conditional"love". I didn't believe that any human really LOVED any other
human.
The proof that persuaded me that God not only could but actually
did Love me was that Christ died for me. I could argue with most
other points, but I couldn't deny that Jesus died. Even unbelievers
believed Jesus lived and died. To me that was a historical fact that few
disputed. So when I saw that I had solid historical evidence that Jesus
died, I was ready to seriously consider that just maybe He Loved me
enough to really die for me.
I respected and believed the Bible, so when she showed me book after
book, chapter after chapter, verse after verse that plainly stated that the
reason Jesus died (that solid historical fact), was because God so Loved me
and the world and because He wanted to Love me as Father, as Shepherd, as
King, as Deliverer in a
very intimate and personal relationship, - - - - my eyes began to see,
my mind to understand my heart wanted that Love. When she
showed me why He let them kill Him, that it was His choice, that He
died to take my place in the court of Divine Justice------- well she had
me. I couldn't deny that he died, and she persuaded that God so Loved
me that He sent His only begotten Son to die in my place so that I could
be His child ------- Eureka! Yahoo! I had discovered the Love I was
looking for, a Love that I could live for, a Love to give my life to and
for. I already had believed that He rose from the dead and was coming
back, but now I could have a Father-son relationship with the GOD who
was Love.
I believed her, accepted Him and got all excited. I told her that I
had to check all of this out with the youth sponsor, Chuck Hill, to
make sure that all that she told me was right on. After Chuck confirmed
everything the woman had told me, I thanked him and went up the other
hill side to pray my prayer of thanks, believing, receiving and trusting
Jesus as my God, my King and Saviour. I was such a babe I didn't realize
that I had been born again as soon as I talked to Chuck, because I believed
Jesus and had faith in Jesus alone to bring me into right relationship with
God, as soon a Chuck confirmed it all. I believed, received Him and was
born again even before I made my big formal acceptance prayer.
Talk about a radical life change in a few weeks! Within a month of my 8th
grade year (Oct. or Nov.) my grades rose from D+ to an average of "B".
Instead ofbeing the expelled disrupter of my youth group, I became a
leader in my church youth group, my school's Bible club (the girls had a
hard time believing I had changed). Instead of letting my twisted and
dysfunctional family pull me downwith them, I determined to do what I
could do for my messed up family, especially my mom and dad.
Dear Reader,d o you know exactly where you stand with the
God and Creator of the universe? Have you asked Him to be your
Father in the Heavens? Have you believed/trusted/relied/depended
on the Lord/King Jesus Christ ---the God anointed Saviour King of
Israel ----to save you from your faults, failures and mistakes?
Salvation from personal faults/failures/mistakes belongs to the
poor in spirit. Matt. 5:3 says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is
the kingdom of heaven." If you recognize that you are spiritually
destitute---totally incapable of deserving or earning salvation from
your errors in any way, you are poor in spirit-- you are humble. The
poor in spirit, the humble, understand that they are sinners, totally
impotent to please or to serve God.
To acknowledge that you are a sinner unable to save yourself is
humility. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners (1 Tim.
1:15). Isaiah said, "When You make His soul an offering for sin, He
shall see [His] seed. He shall prolong [His] days and the pleasure of the
Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall see the distressing travail of
His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant
shall justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities."
Poverty of spirit (humility) is interwoven in the act of
repentance, the life-altering change of mind about you, your sin and
God. When you repent (change your mind), you see yourself as you
really are and you change your mind in respect to your relationship to
God the Father and to His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. The act of
repentance brings you to see your sin as ugly as it is, as God sees it, and
you come to a point where you want to be free from it.
Of course, freedom from sin comes only by believing/trusting/
relying on the Lord Jesus Christ. The one who is regularly committing
sin is the slave of sin. However, if the Son shall set you free from
regularly committing sin, you shall be free indeed (John 8:334,36)
The poor in spirit see their impotence to free themselves from
sin/failures/faults/errors. They see that freedom is possible only
through Christ's death for us as our substitute. They recognize that
salvation/deliverance comes by God's act of undeserved and
unmeritted kindness and mercy alone. They choose to believe God
and His Word about themselves and their relationship with Him.
One cannot speak of the Crucifixion apart from the Resurrection.
It is the resurrection that gives us newness of life. Christ's resurrection
testifies to two vital truths. One, it shows that God was propitiated, or
satisfied, with the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ. Jesus became
the bearer of our sins. Isaiah's word is "But he was wounded/pierced
for our transgressions, bruised/crushed for our iniquities; The
chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes (from the
cutting whips) we are healed." In Romans 4:25 we read, "[He] who was
delivered up because of our transgressions, and was raised [from the
dead] because of our justification." "Raised because of our justifica-
tion" means that because Jesus' payment (the death of His body) for our
sins was adequate to satisfy the demands of justice and a Holy God,
God could then declare us righteous, justified and made acceptable in
His sight. Jesus was raised from death because His death for us satisfied
the righteousness of our Holy God.
His resurrection shows us that Jesus Christ conquered death.
Death had a holdover man because of his sin/error/failures/faults.
However, once the death penalty of sin was paid for by the death of
Christ's body, death no longer had any holding power. "The sting of
death is sin, and the power of sin is the law" (1 Corinth. 15:56). Jesus
paid the price of redemption, redeeming us from the curse of the Law,
having become a curse for us ---for cursed was everyone who was hung
on a tree/stake (Deut. 21:23; Gala. 3:13).
His death took away the power of sin. Jesus also took the stinger
out of death by paying for our sin so that we need have no fear of what
awaits us in and after death. Because our sin debt is paid for in full by
Christ, death has no power over us.
Dear reader, have you come to the end of yourself? Have you
seen your total impotence, your total unworthiness? Have you seen
your nothingness apart from God? And have you seen Jesus, God the
Son who took upon Himself flesh and blood that He might die for you
and for all people? Have you decided that you want His Way and Will
in and for your life instead of your own will and way?
Do you believe that? Do you believe He died in your place? Do
you believe that He was made sin for you, so that you, a helpless and
hopeless enemy of God, might have His righteousness and His life?
Have you repented---turned away from self-will to believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ----the God anointed Saviour King of Israel? Out loud with
your mouth agree with God about the God anointed Saviour King of
Israel, and you will be saved, "for with the heart man believes,
resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses [Jesus],
resulting in salvation." Romans 10:10-13.
Joel 2: 32 And it shall be, whoever shall call on the name of the LORD
shall be saved; for salvation shall be in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
as the LORD has said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Ps 119:6 Then I shall not be ashamed, when I have respect to all Your
commandments.
Ps 119:80 Let my heart be sound in Your statutes, so that I may not be
ashamed.
Ps 119:116 Uphold me according to Your word, that I may live; and let
me not be ashamed of my hope.
A PRAYER FOR YOUR TODAY
Holy Father, I praise You for the wonder that You are. God, I
thank You for showing and proving Your Love for me by
revealing Yourself as Jesus Christ of Bethlehem. I accept Jesus
as my refuge, strength and very present help in the trouble of
this world, in the trouble of male-female relationships in this
world today. Holy Father, I acknowledge my own personal
inadequacy for the trials of this world. Merciful God, I
acknowledge that apart from You I am a part of the
problem of this world, not a part of the remedy for this world.
Holy Father, I agree with You that apart from Jesus I can do
no good thing of eternal merit. I give my body, soul,
strength and mind to You as Jesus enables me. I accept only
Jesus as my King, my Saviour, my Director, my Shepherd and
my daily Deliverer. Holy Father, I ask Jesus to come into me
and live in me and work in me to become Your child, and
to become what You want me to be, whatever that may be.
Father, I acknowledge my total daily need of You and my total
dependence on You to live well, safely and successfully. Thank
You for being my Father, my Shepherd, my Counselor, my
Companion and my Comforter. Please keep me safe in Your
hand, and in Your loving embrace.
Most of the preceeding Good News presentation is a paraphrase of K. Arthur's "Lord
Heal My Hurts" K. Arthur may neither subscribe to, nor endorse my files
described below, but the Lord uses her teaching mightily in the mending,
healing and restoring of broken lives, and in the nurturing of believers. For
more helpful information to help you with your decision and walk in Christ,
write K. Arthur at
Precept Ministries
P.O. Box 182218
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37422
(423) 892-6814
Other resources for your walk in Christ:
http://www.emmaus.edu/
http://www.insight.org
http://www.freedominchrist.com
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Today, as a Christian social activist and reformer I find myself in the
midst of controversy. I readily acknowledge that I know "nothing yet as" I
"ought to know", that I have an imperfect understanding and my mentality
is finite. Yet I have web and ftp sites (see below) where my cross
cultural files are an attempt on my part to deal with real and
contemporary life-issues within a Judeo-Christian context as I have
experienced them, and I believe that they have validity and relevance no
matter what the reader's marital status, culture, status, race or
nationality might be. The only "culture" advocated and endorsed is the
Judeo-Christian "culture", no love here for the status quo. The ultimate
authority accepted here is the God-breathed Word of God as found in the
Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible. I have been called an extremist
and informed that I am in a very small minority because of the beliefs
expressed in these my files. Like Luther, I have to live by what I believe,
so here I stand depending on the sovereignty of God and His unending
mercy to show me my error or use my vision to help another pilgrim who
has found that the "average American Christian life" is lukewarm and thus
grossly inadequate to deal with today's issues and circumstances.
These are the subjects/titles available:
� Abortion, Malicious Bias, & Genocide (abortion.txt)
� Angels, Demons & Spirits (AngelsDemonsSpirits.txt; YouAndAngels)
� Biblical Insights on Sex, Morality &Pornography
(BiblcaLSexPornMorality)
� Black Families' Crisis (PlightOfBlkFem-Fam.txt; BlackFamResrcs+.txt;
Black.Family.Resrcs)
� Camelot, a Tale of Tragic Love ( A_Camelot_Dedication.txt)
� Cherishing Your Women (CherishYourWomen1.txt)
� Christian Divorce (Divorce_Remarriage.txt;
Divorce_&_Polygamy.html;
Christian_Divorce.txt; Christian_Divorce)
� Christians and the Tithe ( ChristianTithe.txt )
� Common Law &Informal Marriages (ComnlawInfrmlMarriage.txt)
� Crisis Resolution in the Unity of the Spirit (CrisisResolution.txt)
� Disciples and Their Suffering (Why_Disciples_Suffer.txt;
WhyBelieversSuffer.html)
� Divorce & Remarriage (Divorce_Remarriage.txt;
Divorce_&_Polygamy.html; Christian_Divorce.txt; Christian_Divorce)
� Easter Insights (Easter_Insights.txt; Easter_Insights)
� How and When to Marry (WhenHowMarry.txt)
� How to Survive Divorce (HowSurvive_Divorce.txt)
� Husband Wife Relations (HusbandWifeRelatnsMngny.txt;
Husband.Wife.Relatns)
� Husbands Rule Wives? (HusbandRuleWife.txt)
� Interracial/Interethnic Marriage (InterracialEthncMarrg.txt;
RacelessMarriage)
� Is Jesus Jehovah God? (IsJesusJehovahGod.txt)
� Keeping One's Word (KeepingOne'sWord.txt )
� Keys to Loving Unity in Families and Fellowships
(KeysMLovingUnity.txt;
Keys4LovingUnity.txt)
� The "Let" command of 1 Corinthians 7:9 (Let_Command.txt )
� Man's Need Of Woman (Man'sNeedOfWoman.txt; MenNeedWomen)
� The Marriage of the Godly Lasts Until Death Separates
(Divorce_&_Polygamy.html)
� Marital Intimacy Manual for Contributors (MrtlIntmcyMn4Cntrs.txt)
� Matchmaker Resources (MatchmakerResrcsInt)
� Me In Christ, What Does It All Mean Really? (WhatIAmInChrist1.txt)
� Me In This World, Why? (Why_Me_&_This_World.txt;
Why_Me_Now.txt; Why_Me_In_World.html)
� No Wedding Vows (NoWeddingVows.txt )
� Oaths, Swearings, Promises (OathsSwrngsPrmss.txt; MarriageOaths)
� Plight Of the Black Family (PlightOfBlkFem-Fam.txt)
� Plight Of the Black Female (PlightOfBlkFem-Fam.txt)
� Power Of Female Beauty (PowrOfFemBeauty.txt)
� Prayers for Loved Ones (Prayers4LuvdOnes.txt)
� Prisoner Abuse (PrisonerAbuse.txt)
� Quotes On Polygyny (QuotesOnPolygyny.txt )
� Racism, Nationalism and Bigotry (racsm.natnlsm.bigtry.txt)
� Safe sex? (safe_sex.txt)
� Seniors & Polygamy (senior_polygamy.txt)
� Sex and Dependent Singles ( Youths_Singles_Sex.txt;
UnderageSexBurning.txt)
� Song Of Solomon Part1 (SongOfSolomonPt1.txt)
� Spiritual Warfare (Spiritual_Warfare.txt)
� The Suffering of the Innocent, (Why_Disciples_Suffer.txt;
WhyBelieversSuffer.html)
� The Tithe & Christians (Tithe&Christians.txt)
� Truth vs Falsehoods (truth_vs_lies.txt)
� Underage Sexual Burning and 1 Corinth. 10:13 (
Youths_Singles_Sex.txt;
UnderageSexBurning.txt)
� Unequal Yokes, Interfaith Marriages (UnequalYokes.txt)
� Unplanned Polygyny, a Trail of Tears (UnplannedPolygyny2.Txt)
� Wedding Covenants (WeddingCovenants.txt)
� Who is Tyler? (WhoLTyler.txt)
� Why Only One Husband? (WhyOnly1Husbnd.txt)
� Why Do "Good" People Suffer? (Why_Disciples_Suffer.txt;
WhyBelieversSuffer.html)
� Why Would a Wife Share Her Husband? (WhyWifeShreHsbnd.txt)
� Polygamy Resources ( PolyResources2.txt)
� Polygamy, Divorce & Remarriage (Divorce_&_Polygamy.html;
Divorce_and_PolygamyPt1.html; Divorce_and_PolygamyPt2.html;
Divorce+PolygamyPt1.txt; Divorce+PolygamyPt2.txt)
� Polygamy and Christians Today (ChristianPolyToday.txt )
� Polygamy and Concubines in the Bible (PolygamyConcubines.txt)
� Polygamy and the Law (Legal_Polygamy.txt)
� Polygamy and the Reformation (reformationpoly.txt)
� Polygamy in a Nutshell (minipoly.txt, Polygyny_core.txt;
polyamory_unknown.html )
� Polygamy, Traditional Criticisms (objections2poly.txt)
� Polygamy's Transition from Old Testament to New Testament times
(Ot2NtDivRemPoly.txt)
� Polygamy, Morality and Pornography (PolyMoralityPorn76.txt;
polyandry)
� Polygamy's/Polygyny's Scriptures and Contexts (PolyScripsQuotes.txt;
PolygynyInScrips; Biblical_polygamy.html)
� Polygynous Families: Keys to Loving Unity in Polygyny (
KeysLovingUnity;
Keys2LovingUnity.html)
AVAILABLE AT:
http://www.etext.org/Religious.texts/Polyamory ---
http://www.mindspring.com/~oldservant
http://www.etext.org/Religious.Texts/Polyamory
�ftp.www.etext.org;User:Anonymous; Password: your email address;
Directory: /pub/Religious.texts/Polyamory ---
�ftp.mindspring.com; User: Anonymous; Password: your email address;
Directory:/users/oldservant
Peace, Tyler
[email protected]
http://www.etext.org/Religion-----then click on Polyamory
http://www.etext.org/Religious.texts/Polyamory
http://www.mindspring.com/users/~oldservant
