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FOUNDATIONS II (GENERATIONAL GAPS AND MISSING LINKS)
Repeated mistakes, whether in the life of an individual or in the lives of persons from the generations of people who originally made them are an indication of a faulty foundation. I have heard people say things like "germs do not kill a black man" or that "the anointing of the white man makes him proof to all evils". Well, there is an exception to that rule. Where we inherited good foundations, it is better to fortify, rather than destroy them. We should not only resemble our parents by adopting physical features from them, or get wild, evilly or bizarre as they were, but adopt and express those Noble traits that some of them of distant or near generations left behind because these are the fibres that sustain humanity and ourselves. If our parents were white people who committed their lives in sinless service to God and we just for the benefit of having a more noble and superior generation, in addition to the wild and voracious tastes of the contagious, denegrading generations we find ourselves, fail to build on such traits and lifestyle, we are a missing generation, and must account to God of why we made ourselves transgressors, by destroying the Noble works of others.
Paul says:
"According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth there on. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon." (1Corinthians 3: 10).
He then goes on to outline in 1 Corinthians 3: 12,13 various building materials which corresponds to THE DEEDS OF EACH PERSON IN EACH GENERATION AND IN THEIR LIFETIME: gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, and if I may add, no material at all (or no contribution whatsoever), while enumerating implications. Obviously, there are golden, "silvery", etc deeds people do, although the term is fast fading away from human use.
If we choose to drink, because as coming from strong generations we know we won't get intoxicated, then we have created far down the line from us, weak generations of people who will drink, and will be accountable for such generational bridge. The scripture declares:
"Thy People also shall be all righteous..." (Isaiah 61: 21)
So, the idea of having a Judas among the twelve is obviously out of place. After all, Judas was replaced by Mathias. There must not always be a Judas in a wholesome system. We are to be "all righteous". A Judas is a disaster sign, and having one must not be accepted as a form of embracing a general human weakness, because someone has rightly said that "the worst thing to happen is for soldiers of an army to envy themselves in a battle field, because they will not shoot at the enemies but at themselves." Who are these enemies within the rank, failing on their responsibilities while claiming weakness God's grace can adequately fill? God gives grace. He makes us do even easily those things we can't do if we ask Him. Ordinarily, we know that generating or producing goods of a particular quality makes for gain of a particular margin. Enforcing good habits, good traits (rather than destroying and making jest of them as being odd), maintaining virginity, honesty, integrity, chastity, etc, only make us better along the line. And that will need discipline. Or we may end up producing weak and morally fragile people as the Anti-Christ, who only live to know the test of food, have sex with pigs, eats faeces in a temple and assiduously serves the devil. So, every generation has got a responsibility which is to build with the right material (deeds, attitudes, lifestyle) on the right foundation (that is, repeating and enforcing those good traits found in our generational line).
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FOUNDATIONS II (GENERATIONAL GAPS AND MISSING LINKS)
FOUNDATIONS II (GENERATIONAL GAPS AND MISSING LINKS)
