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When He Leads Us

Rev.M.D.Rogers-
7/29/15

When God doesn't lead you along the shortest path to your goal,
don't complain or resist, follow Him willingly and trust Him to lead
you safely around unseen obstacles. Remember, He can see the end of
your journey from the beginning, and He knows the safest and best
route for you to take.

We can "Learn" when, He leads us.

If you were to look back at your life and think about the times you
wanted to take the short cut to get what you wanted, but the Lord
had you wait longer even though it looked like the fastest way. He
knew that by you going right to the blessing, you wouldn't pay
attention to the lessons to be learned along the way; He knew you
wouldn't pay any attention to the many dangers that were lurking
around you.

See, sometimes we look at our present situation and wonder, why is
it taking the Lord so long to get me out of this mess? Why am I
still jobless? Why am I still alone? Why is my life so troubling? –
Children won't do right, husband or wife is getting on my last
nerve! Come on Lord, can't we move a little faster, I want my
blessing!
I'm I telling the truth? I heard Jesus say in Matthew
11:29, "Take My yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and
lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls." See, He is
willing to free you from all these burdens, and give the promise of
love, healing and peace with God.
Is there anybody in here that's, been waiting for a blessing?

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"RESPECT" by Rev. M.D.Rogers

Respect has great importance in everyday life. As children we are taught (one hopes) to respect our parents, teachers, and elders, school rules and traffic laws, family and cultural traditions, other people's feelings and rights, our country's flag and leaders, the truth and people's differing opinions. And we come to value respect for such things; when we're older, we may shake our heads (or fists) at people who seem not to have learned to respect them. We develop great respect for people we consider exemplary and lose respect for those we discover to be clay-footed, and so we may try to respect only those who are truly worthy of our respect. We may also come to believe that, at some level, all people are worthy of respect. We may learn that jobs and relationships become unbearable if we receive no respect in them; in certain social milieus we may learn the price of disrespect if we violate the street law: “Diss me, and you die.” Calls to respect this or that are increasingly part of public life: environmentalists exhort us to respect nature, foes of abortion and capital punishment insist on respect for human life, members of racial and ethnic minorities and those discriminated against because of their gender, sexual orientation, age, religious beliefs, or economic status demand respect both as social and moral equals and for their cultural differences. And it is widely acknowledged that public debates about such demands should take place under terms of mutual respect. We may learn both that our lives together go better when we respect the things that deserve to be respected and that we should respect some things independently of considerations of how our lives would go.
We may also learn that how our lives go depends every bit as much on whether we respect ourselves. The value of self-respect may be something we can take for granted, or we may discover how very important it is when our self-respect is threatened, or we lose it and have to work to regain it, or we have to struggle to develop or maintain it in a hostile environment. Some people find that finally being able to respect themselves is what matters most about getting off welfare, kicking a disgusting habit, or defending something they value; others, sadly, discover that life is no longer worth living if self-respect is irretrievably lost. It is part of everyday wisdom that respect and self-respect are deeply connected, that it is difficult if not impossible both to respect others if we don't respect ourselves and to respect ourselves if others don't respect us. It is increasingly part of political wisdom both that unjust social institutions can devastatingly damage self-respect and that robust and resilient self-respect can be a potent force in struggles against injustice.
The ubiquity and significance of respect and self-respect in everyday life largely explains why philosophers, particularly in moral and political philosophy, have been interested in these two concepts. They turn up in a multiplicity of philosophical contexts, including discussions of justice and equality, injustice and oppression, autonomy and agency, moral and political rights and duties, moral motivation and moral development, cultural diversity and toleration, punishment and political violence. The concepts are also invoked in bioethics, environmental ethics, business ethics, workplace ethics, and a host of other applied ethics contexts. Although a wide variety of things are said to deserve respect, contemporary philosophical interest in respect has overwhelmingly been focused on respect for persons, the idea that all persons should be treated with respect simply because they are persons. Respect for persons is a central concept in many ethical theories; some theories treat it as the very essence of morality and the foundation of all other moral duties and obligations. This focus owes much to the 18th century German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, who argued that all and only persons (i.e., rational autonomous agents) and the moral law they autonomously legislate are appropriate objects of the morally most significant attitude of respect. Although honor, esteem, and prudential regard played important roles in moral and political theories before him, Kant was the first major Western philosopher to put respect for persons, including oneself as a person, at the very center of moral theory, and his insistence that persons are ends in themselves with an absolute dignity who must always be respected has become a core ideal of modern humanism and political liberalism. In recent years many people have argued that moral respect ought also to be extended to things other than persons, such as nonhuman living things and the natural environment.
Despite the widespread acknowledgment of the importance of respect and self-respect in moral and political life and theory, there is no settled agreement in either everyday thinking or philosophical discussion about such issues as how to understand the concepts, what the appropriate objects of respect are, what is involved in respecting various objects, what the conditions are for self-respect, and what the scope is of any moral requirements regarding respect and self-respect. This entry will survey these and related issues.

The Search for the Lamb By Rev. M.D. Rogers

Revelation 5:1-14 

Almost all world religions, past and present, have or have had some type of blood-sacrifice ritual, in hopes that atonement might be made on their behalf to their god...a "search for the lamb." Those who believe in a god or gods have always searched for the right sacrifice, whether first born males, virgins, babies, animals or even themselves so they might appease the gods in this life or the next.

There was even a "search for the lamb" in the Old Testament, when bulls and goats and lambs were offered by commandment of the true and the living God, as a picture of the Perfect Lamb to come. In Gen.22:7-8 Isaac said, "Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together."

God initiated the Passover in Exodus 12 and said in verses 2-7, "This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house...Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats...and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it." This was a precise "search for the lamb." 

But true worshipers of God in the Old Testament knew that the offering of animals could never substitute for the real thing. They continued to "search for the lamb" and longed for and prophesied the coming of the Lamb of God. Isaiah said in chapter 53, verse 7, "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth."

We know this search for the lamb refers to Jesus for in Acts 8, when the Ethiopian eunuch was reading this passage and asked Philip who the prophet was talking about, verse 35 says, "Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus."

But even a God-instituted religion becomes perverted and empty when it turns inward and worships the symbols instead of the Savior. That's what happened to Israel. Even though they talked about a Messiah and a search for the Lamb of Go, they were too self-centered to recognize Him when He came.

John the Baptist had to introduce their Messiah to them and they still would not believe it was Him. In John 1:29 John said, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." The "search for the lamb" must be for the true Lamb of God.

Yet, even today, people cling to the shadow of man-made religion, feeling empty, still searching, when they could have the real thing. The author of Hebrews in chapter 9, verse 12 said, "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.