Creation Foods News

 

Apple tree - I had to grow into eating apples daily.

My pancreas warrantee expired, and I found out vegetables and fruit were exquisitely delicious.

I have dozens of Poke Berry plants (8 feet tall) in the backyard gardens. That is the favorite food of 61 species of birds - and it is freely planted, fruitful, and good for the soil, not a jack in the beanstalk wild thing like vines and thorns.

 

I finally defrosted the freezer, once the Ice Cream Deep Freezer (sob) and now vegetables only (yay!).

I decided to get plenty of my favorite frozen additions to the Creation Super Stew for the deep freezer.

I put in 

• 4 chopped spinal
• 4 chopped kale
• 4 mushrooms
• 4 onions/peppers.
• I bought 18 cans of Cicero Beans aka Chick Peas aka raw humus with oil - not my cup of tea.

I did that because there are shortages on any given day.

The fruit allotment included

• A large bag of Crisp apples.
• Two bundles of bananas.
• Two large packages of blueberries.

I got one package of sausages and 1 package of sausage slices.

I passed by chocolate, ice cream, candy, chips, popcorn, cookies, heavily salted nuts, frozen pizza, pre-cooked dinners, canned salt soup (YUK!), road-kill chicken, beef, etc.

At the Register - ALARM!

A Hispanic woman cashier said, "Are you going to eat all that?" She warned me against bananas, which are very healthy - with many nutritional benefits. The third world lives on the protein of their high fiber beans, and Walmart is often out of my favorite low salt Chick Peas, the cheapest vitamin source I have seen.

I filled the deep freezer logically (for once) and left the odd-ball frozen greens in the small freezer - collards, turnip greens, etc. Some things have to wait until there is room for my odd picks.

Sassy refused to sit next to Ronald McDonald by herself. I should have stayed away from fast foods, too.

2 PM Today - John 1 - Reformation Seminary

The YouTube link is here

Fourth Gospel = Moses commentary - 

Jesus is the Exegete of the Father.

"Thayer was president of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis for 1894 and 1895."

17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. - The exegete of the Father.

(Exegesis is the way in which the actual text is explained, without guesses, omissions, deletions, additions, and distortions.k

Strong - to unfold, declare: John 1:18 (namely, the things relating to God; also used in Greek writings of the interpretation of things sacred and divine, oracles, dreams, etc.; cf. Meyer at the passage; Alberti, Observationes etc., p. 207f).)

John the Baptist Fulfilled Isaiah 40

19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? 20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. 22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? 23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.

25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? 26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; 27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose. 28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. 30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. 31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. 32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. 33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. 34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Trinity 11 - Tax Collector and the Pharisee - "For if the tree is there and is good, the fruit will follow unbidden. If faith is present works must follow. If I confess that I am a sinner, it must follow that I will say: Alas God! I am a rogue, do thou cause me to be good."

 

Eleventh Sunday after Trinity, Luke 18:9-14. 

A Picture and an Example of a True Saint

6. Hence the beginning of goodness or godliness is not in us, but in the Word of God. God must first let his Word sound in our hearts by which we learn to know and to believe him, and afterwards do good works. So we must believe from this that the publican had learned God’s Word. If not, it would certainly have been impossible for him to acknowledge himself to be a poor sinner, as this Gospel reports. Indeed, it has a different appearance here, because St. Luke seems to insist more strongly on external works and appearances than on faith, and lays the emphasis more on the outward character and conduct than on the root and on the faith of the heart within.

Nevertheless we must conclude that the publican had previously heard the Gospel. Otherwise his smiting his breast and his humble confession would not have occurred, had he not previously had faith in his heart.

7. This is also proper fruit, since it promotes God’s honor; as God desires nothing but the offering of praise, as Psalm 50:23, says: “Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me, and to him that ordereth his way aright, will I show the salvation of God.” In this way the publican also proceeds, gives God the offering of thanksgiving and secures to himself the forgiveness of sin, and praises God, puts himself to shame and exalts the truth above himself.

Therefore we must praise and commend his work, because he gives God the highest honor and true worship. For he says: “God, be thou merciful to me a sinner.” As though he would say: I am a rogue, this I confess, as you yourself know. Here you see that he confesses the truth, and is willing that God should reprove and revile him; yea, he does this himself, and casts himself down the very lowest, and with God he again rises upward, gives glory to God that he is gracious, kind and merciful. But in himself he finds nothing but sin. Wherefore these are the true fruits of faith.

8. Thus we have learned from his fruits the publican’s faith. But how shall we understand what Christ says: “This man went down to his house justified,” as he had already been just through faith, before he smote his breast? He certainly must have been just before. Why then does Christ say here: “He went down to his house justified?” This is what I have often said, if faith be true, it will break forth and bear fruit. If the tree is green and good, it will not cease to blossom forth in leaves and fruit. It does this by nature. I need not first command it and say: Look here, tree, bear apples.

For if the tree is there and is good, the fruit will follow unbidden. If faith is present works must follow. If I confess that I am a sinner, it must follow that I will say: Alas God! I am a rogue, do thou cause me to be good. So this publican cares for nothing and speaks freely, though he puts himself to shame before all people, he does not care for that, as Psalm 116:10 says: “I believe, for I will speak. I was greatly afflicted,” and says: “God, be thou merciful to me a sinner!” As though he would say: I now see that I am lost, for I am a bad man, and acknowledge my sins. Unless I believe and hold to God’s mercy, and take the cup of the Savior and call upon God’s grace, I will be ruined.

9. Thus faith casts itself on God, and breaks forth and becomes certain through its works. When this takes place a person becomes known to me and to other people. For when I thus break forth I spare neither man nor devil, I cast myself down, and will have nothing to do with lofty affairs, and will regard myself as the poorest sinner on earth. This assures me of my faith. For this is what it says: “This man went down to his house justified.” Thus we attribute salvation as the principal thing to faith, and works as the witnesses of faith. They make one so certain that he concludes from the outward life that the faith is genuine.