Show biz kids making movies
Of themselves you know they
Don't give a f*?# about anybody else….
Of themselves you know they
Don't give a f*?# about anybody else….
(‘Show Biz Kds’ from the 1973 Steely Dan album ‘Countdown to Ecstacy’)
Steely Dan (Donald Fagan and Jeff Baxter) shaped a good portion of my listening and playing
time as a musician.
I met Donald backstage in Saratoga. It was very cool.
The song lyrics reflect a truth that Donald Fagan witnessed …
and was compelled to write about in song.
This one is one of my favorites…
And..
Yes, and that is the ‘F’ bomb.
softened up...with the symbols.
He wouldn’t want you to miss the passion..
as he looked out upon the poverty in our culture.
You may find some ‘Show Biz Kid’ in you.
I know I find it in me.
Softened with symbols
A Passionate Man..saw the poverty in a culture 2000 years ago..
I will omit the symbols this time…as I am here to talk to you
of the Paramount manifestation in flesh..
we can sacrificially offer each other..and God.
This, is about Marriage.
Marriage Is Sacred and Binding
31 “Furthermore it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality[e] causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.
Ok…
Adultery.
Adultery in the Heart
27 “You have heard that it was said to those of old,[c] ‘You shall not commit adultery.’[d] 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
Wow Man…that is a little harsh
Don’t you think?
And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made[a]them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’[b] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?[c] 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” 7 They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” 8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality,[d] and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.” 10 His disciples said to Him, “If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”
That I look at marriage of man and woman (yes male and female) as the manifestation of Gods Church (as opposed to ‘our’ church)..
Isn’t just ‘my’ idea.
Of course..if you don’t know Christ as Lord…
Well….
Look for your ‘loophole’ in scripture to get a divorce
or
To get married to your farm animal!
Class dismissed.
It is easy to get distracted by those that profess to know Christ..
That have ‘changed partners’ 1, 2, 3 or more times..
And are raising their hands in praise every Sunday.
Is it a mockery?
Or
Is it ignorance…
Of Who they are raising their hands to.
(‘…making movies of themselves, you know they don’t give…’)
Just who is to blame?
In the name of numbers..
How superficial has ‘the News’ of The Son of God become?
Maybe if ‘we’ make it easy..
And use some ‘tools’
Hey man, be careful.
If…
Marriage is His Church.
What is Its Foundation?
What have you and I adapted into our lives…
to be a little more acceptable..
While fostering ignorance in the wake.
So..
does quoting the ‘Judge’ make me ‘judgmental’?
I’ll share my
My fear…
My conviction..
Is that I wake up one day..
standing before a beaten Man…
holding the bloodied ‘tool’ that was used to inflict the freshest wound..
And Him looking up at me
And then higher
saying..
Forgive him…
he just didn’t know… Me.
As I kick around ‘town’..
And our Lord engages me where I am at…
He lets me understand the importance of me..
-me Choosing-
You know..
I like the new bike…
But…I gratefully park it…
In front of ‘the old school’.
( a little heavy…take your time)
Thus when our Lord further saith, unless a Man forsake all that he hath, he cannot be my Disciple; the Reason is plain, and the Necessity absolute. It is because all that the natural Man hath, is in the Possession of Self-love, and therefore this Possession is to be absolutely forsaken, and parted with. All that he hath, is to be put into other Hands, to be given to Divine Love, or this natural Man cannot be changed into a Disciple of Christ. For Self-love in all that it hath, is earthly, sensual, and devilish, and therefore must have all taken away from it; and then to the natural Man all is lost, he hath nothing left, all is laid down at the Feet of Jesus. And then all Things are common, as soon as Self-love has lost the Possession of them. And then the Disciple of Christ, though having nothing, yet possesseth all Things, all that the natural Man has forsaken, is restored to the Disciple of Christ an hundred-fold. For Self-love, the greatest of all Thieves, being now cast out, and all that he had stolen and hidden thus taken from him, and put into the Hands of Divine Love, every Mite becomes a large Treasure, and Mammon opens the Door into everlasting Habitations. This was the Spirit of the first Draught of a Christian Church at Jerusalem, a Church made truly after the Pattern of Heaven, where the Love that reigns in Heaven reigned in it, where Divine Love broke down all the selfish Fences, the Locks and Bolts of me, mine, my own, &c., and laid all Things common to the Members of this new Kingdom of God on Earth.
William Law in the year 1749
How long have you been settling for good…
While the Best laid it all out for you…
Again and again
So many years ago.
You’ll pay more attention to what He says…
When you Believe.. He and God are One in the same.
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