22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
23 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
I've seen Sting live when I was much younger and he came and played at one of those open forum venues where people go that is a vacation attraction too. Having a desire to play an instrument and wanting what I know now is not of God but a lot of things aren't either this man is with brilliance when it comes to lyrics and telling a story apart from biblical submission and salvation. Sometimes he has a biblical passages in his songs and he talks about people during the old world. Moon over bourbon street is another very interesting lyric wise. He had another song entitled "If I lose my faith" and the lyric had in it..
" If i ever lose my faith in you
There'd be nothing left for me to do
I could be lost inside their lies without a trace"
Sting is not the only one who has been profound in his lyrics and songs that have interesting stories sometimes with hidden meanings. There's stories in some of his songs just like you get stories in country & western songs. It seems like men search for god + in all the wrong places. They may read the Bible or take passages from it but is their life evidence of disobeying the words in it. God tells us that a danger with men is when they put all their aspirations in their craft. Are you storing up treasures for heaven or for hell ? There's another bible passage somewhere as well. God's ways are higher than ours and so are his thoughts.
12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. Job 5:12 KJV
See: Job 5:12-16
Truly I tell you Jesus Christ - Emmanuel the Jewish Messiah is risen in glory and died for the sins of the world this is the absolute truth. John 3:16 The word of God is the truth and it cannot be undone/broken. Heaven and Earth will pass away but that word of GOD will never pass away. Takening that into account Christ said a man must be born again or he will not see life. It is said when a man is born again he is in Christ. He is not in the world. He is not in some sanctuary hiding. The apostles didn't go hide. Also Paul didn't go hide. But on the other hand we are to abstain from that which God finds Unholy and Evil. There are certain things that a true believer is not to be found doing. Idolatry is massive and fornication too. But the point is our lord and savior Jesus Christ can set you free of all your chains. So you see what this musician songwriter wrote about Sting who was born as Gordon I don't believe he's a true Christian but he had some understanding as some of the others do too but they never connect the dots. Always learning never learn because spiritual things are spiritually discerning. There is a way that seems right to a man in the end it is the way of death. The Lord keeps putting on my heart John 10:10. He came to give us an abundance of life but the evil one comes to sway/temp us away and have us doing things that is evil and abomination unto God. You cannot serve two masters it just doesn't work but that's exactly what the world does. Some people only know Christ by name and what they've taught as a child but they really don't have any sort of relationship. They don't listen to him and they don't have ears to take in and understand and they probably don't read the Bible to absorb those words that are living words too really know those words mean exactly what they mean. I mean look at the street preachers they go out there those that are truly born again and they dedicate their life to the true life in Christ. But look at the opposition sometimes religious people coming to cause trouble. The LGBT community accusing them of hate and all sorts of lies. They're called saints in the eyes of God but they're not hiding from the world in some sanctuary monastery somewhere. They're out there being insulted and preaching and saving souls. They are being a light onto a dark world. Once you learn the real way and you have been made a new creature in Christ you see the rebellion of the evil world just like Christ has seen and you could think let me go hide in some building or in some room but the preachers will be out there saving souls. They live a redeemed life and they're set free from sin, flesh and the devil that's what it's really about knowing Christ and obeying God like King Solomon understood the duty of men is to obey God. On the other hand Lucifer/Satin wanted to be God and convinced Adam and Eve to disobey God and they were naked and in shame. Are you naked in shame? Hiding in some sanctuary somewhere? Need to be set free?
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