This calls for a second update

Oh me, oh my!

I just had to post a second update about today. Probably more for my own brains and retention of new thoughts then anything.

Tonight was the first installment of the Healing School. It was the biggest and heaviest teaching, but one that I LOVE to think about and LOVE to teach. Basically it's laying the foundation for the rest of the sessions and lays down the idea of healing and the Kingdom of God.

Two very good questions were brought up at the end, which is good because that makes us all think. One was the whole Job thing, and I personally believe that you just have to make peace that Jesus did it all on the cross for us and I much rather having Jesus in heaven, reigning in power then forcing him back up on the cross in order to fulfill my own powerless mindset.

The second question was concerning Paul and that pesky thorn in the flesh which we always fail to properly study. When I got home, we cracked open a bunch of massive books and started searching around. A few conclusions have to be made. So here they are:

#1. If proper exegisis is done it is extremely unlikely that the thorn in Paul's flesh has anything to do with sickness. The much more believable outcome is that the thorn is people. People oppositing Paul's work. This makes much more sense and doesn't go against the very Gospel of our God.

#2. If Paul was in fact sick, then some serious questions must be asked. If Paul was sick and made a case for it, then that would go directly against all of the teaching of Jesus and the atonement that Jesus made for all humanity once and for all. So then you must ask yourself, "Was Paul saying that Jesus was lying?" which then you must ask, "Was Jesus not telling the truth concerning healing and telling us to pray on earth as it is in heaven?" Of course we know that Jesus was not lying. Of course we know that Paul was not saying that Jesus was wrong. So if Jesus was right and Paul was right, we can then come to the conclusion that probably we are wrong with what we are thinking. Therefore we must change our thinking and realize that Paul was not sick.

Once again, if Paul was sick and said God allowed it then he is going against the full weight of Jesus and His Gospel. The only other option in this is that we are wrong and what we are believing isn't right.

Bring it back to proper exegisis and you'll find that the thorn in the flesh was the people opposing Paul, which caused Paul to stay humble and die to his soul (what we often call.... flesh).

#3. The question arises, "Why do people so badly want to find loop-holes out of the Gospel of Jesus Christ?"

Tonight was great fun. The questions caused me to really think, which is what this particular teaching does. You really have to come to some serious conclusions about what you believe, why you believe it, and does it honestly line up with the word of God?

Either way... I WANT MORE!!! GOD GIVE ME THE FULLNESS OF YOUR SPIRIT!!!