Gaining Righteousness in God

 Righteousness is a specific concept.  Given we are defining it right, we are going to be flush with scripture.  Someone may be able to internet search "Bible Concordance and Righteousness," and quickly come up with a list of scriptures.  In understanding Bible concepts, another stumbling block people often have run into is making a concept abstract.  How does a specific concept 1:1 apply to life in 1000 BC or 33 AD or today?  Given someone is having a hard time making that 1:1 application.....they may have been wrong.  

Righteousness is the quality of being morally right or justifiable.  

Given a police officer did something that looked funny, he may be called into the police chief's office to.....justify and explain himself.  Christians are justified through The Lord Jesus Christ.  That was the STARTING point of faith. That was not the end.  Given someone was backsliding and wrong, were they really ever saved?  Did they really know God?  Faith is a personal relationship with The Lord Jesus Christ.  Jesus chastises and rebuked those he loves.  (Hebrew 12:6)(Revelations 3:19)  

Before Christ, a Roman may have believed he was righteous in Roman Virtue.  A Spartan may have been a kind of righteous in his martial virtues.  Saul the Pharisee, believed he was righteous in The Laws of Moses.  

- All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.  (Isaiah 64:6)
 

<sup>- None is righteous, no, not one;11 no one understands;no one seeks for God.12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good not even one.”  (Romans 3:10-12)

Given someone thought they were a good person, they may have been resistant to God, and been doing evil.  Apostle Paul and Saint Augustine were the worst of sinners.  It was a letting go of the ego, and an admission that someone has been less than and wrong where God's Spirit may be able to come in and be working in a man.  A man abides in Christ.  Abiding in Christ, some of God's righteousness may show through.  

A starting was the admission and repentance.  Faith is a journey.  God is hard.  Righteousness is hard.  

Addendum - 

A lot of sin may have been tied to the ego.  Men compete.   Men compete at school.  Men compete at work.  Men compete at sports.  Men compete in love.  How is the competition?  

What drives a young man to cheat on his homework or a test?  He may have been lazy looking for an easy way out.  He may have been in competition, looking to get ahead unfairly.  

What drives someone to lie?  He may have wanted attention for something he didn't do, or lack of attention for something he did wrong. This may be tied to the ego.  

What drives greed and avarice?   Ego.  Someone wanted attention.  He was materialistic.  He wanted to show off his cool new toy regardless of if was some sort of tech device or a new car or boat.  

What drives lust?  Sex is gift from God.  It is nice to be with the opposite sex in marriage.  Given the competition become wicked....someone may have needed to know he could.  He may have thought he needed to get his.  Youthful curiosity may have been warped into something wicked.  

A man seeking God, he drops the Ego.  Say "I don't care."  He drops the ego and the competition.  He seeks The Lord Jesus Christ, and is in competition with himself towards being a better man in Christ.  Righteousness doesn't necessarily "Just happen."  Being saved by The Grace of God, that may happen in a moment.  Someone may need to work on somethings in Sanctification, a process.  A man lets go of the Ego....what does he find instead?  Honor.  God is honorable.  A man may need to clean his honor.   

Question:  What are some things a man may need to do towards jump starting sanctification and being more right?  

A man may need to move.  A man may need to get out of his routine, and be away from bad influences, and spend some time alone with God.  Take your phone with you.  A smart phone, given someone had one previously, it may be a pretty useful tool towards sanctification.  There may be some apologizing, and confessions that need to happen.  

Question:  How are you defining Faith?  

There are a lot of words that are similar but different.  Belief does not equal faith.  They are not the same thing to be interchanged.  

Faith started with belief.  Faith is a knowledgeable dependence, a personal relationship with The Lord Jesus Christ.</sup>  

Spiritual and Other Dimensional

Given someone has been reading on this blog we have covered the Spiritual before.  The Spiritual is "Other Dimensional."  I am not much of a Mathematician nor Quantum Physicist. My math education stopped around pre-Calculus. I identify that the Spiritual is "Other Dimensional" like "Stranger Things."  I haven't gone much past explaining it more than that.  Recently, I have been watching the science fiction TV series "12 Monkeys" on Amazon Prime.  There are some interesting allegories there that work spiritually, good or bad.  I watched the TV series with God.  I started working out some concepts.  This is going to be some notes on 4th and 5th dimensional things.  

Three dimensions may be a measure of width, length, and depth.  A fourth dimension may be a measure of time.  For God, a day is like 1000 years, and 1000 years a day.  (2 Peter 3:8)  Time is measured by change.  The Earth rotates around its axis.  The moon rotates around the Earth.  The Earth around the sun.  Given a man was locked in a pitch dark room for three days, and no on brought him any food, and he was stuck there, he may have lost conception of time.  There may have been no movement.  Time may have existed.  

God has an hour glass of time.  In heaven, things may have been going slow, and in hell, things were fast.  The hour glass flips, and something changes.  Things sped up in heaven, and God started actively working on Earth in big ways so that people knew it was him.  

A fifth dimension may have been change.  Change is different than time.  Mr. Smith, he mows his lawn every Saturday at 10:00 am.  Change may be his grass growing.  Change is Mr Smith cutting the grass.  Change may be Mr Smith taking his family camping one weekend, and not mowing the grass, or mowing on a different day.  Change comes with autumn when the grass stops growing.  There are a lot of variables in change.  

I started thinking about this in the context of someone "jumping" or teleporting watching the "12 Monkeys" TV show.  Given someone created a space ship, and was going to "Skip jump," what kind of calculation would someone need?  Space is big and vast.  Calculating for change is complicated.  What was empty space at some period of time, at a different period of time there may have been a comet there or an asteroid.  I have been thinking about this and decided to write it out.  I don't know what good it does anyone exactly, at this time.  I wrote it out.  

Addendum -  

Question:  Is time travel possible?  

I don't know.  Someone researching it was possibly sinning.  They were trying to play "god," egotistically looking to change something, not accepting how things are.  Spirits effect motivations.  What was the motivation to work to research time travel?  

As far "12 Monkeys" the TV Series goes, someone was calculating space time.......and change.  Given someone was teleported somewhere, kind of blindly, he may have been teleported into a person or a tree or something.  That would be bad.  

Question:  What other allegories in the TV series work?  

I am on Season 4 right now.  There was a lot of interesting things through Season 2.  

There are hierarchies. Hierarchies are natural.  Some hierarchies may be: 

Child-Mom-Dad-Jesus.  (1 Corinthians 11:3)    
Student -Teacher -Principle -School District 
Worker - Manager- District Manager - CEO.  
A priest/pastor, he has a flock.  Were you in the fold?  

Your average person, he is in these hierarchies.  He perceived things in a particular way.  There is Freedom in The Lord.  God is King of Kings and Lord of Lords.  In personal relationship with God, someone may be able to be outside of these hierarchies, seeing things more as God sees them.  

The TV series "12 Monkeys" it makes a similar allegory, but in its own way, regarding time.  There is something to it.  

Sand Paper Heart

 On Twitter, we are @manonfire63......On Twitter, I linked something about having a Sand Paper Heart, and getting the best of Satan.  

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The Question:  How does someone end up with a Sand Paper Heart......like someone was a scientist and they were looking to recreate it?  

Love is a complex thing.  Different people, they love differently.  I like the Five Love Languages.  People tend to give and receive love differently.  

Given someone was looking to empty out their heart, as I did through God.....they possibly love their parents.  I did not.  Your parents or sibling are possibly in your heart.   

Long story short, I deployed to Afghanistan, and lived there for a year, with fifteen days of leave. Over the course of being in Afghanistan, I only called home three times.  I left with no one I cared about to see me off, and I came home with no one I cared about to welcome me back.  

I have some pleasant memories of my parents.  Most of my most pleasant memories were sitting in the living room, maybe on my dad's lap, watching "Star Trek the Next Generation" or "The Wonder Years" or something.   Over the course of life, my parents were not in my heart.  It wasn't a rebellion.  I didn't hate them.  I didn't love them.  My dad was cheap.  He would rather be in his routine, mowing the lawn every weekend, and watching American Idol than to come see me off to war or welcome me home.  

Having an empty heart as I did, that is not something easy or something to be replicated, like someone was trying for it.  It is a horrible thing.