Joshua Burrier

Follower of Jesus, Husband, Father, Author & Practicing Literalist. Co-Host of Corner2Corner Bible Study. We're in Mark on Rumble, YouTube & Spotify.

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@thevivafrei The problem is outlined in Sherlock Holmes statement about the Dog that didn't bark.

These dogs already know who the people are in the hoodies.

Funny, yes, but not accurate.

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@catturd2 Clarification please:
The UN faces imminent financial collapse
-or-
Those 193 countries face imminent financial collapse.

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@IMAO_ My guess is that we are told to like him without anyone quite explaining why...

And that causes a natural revulsion.

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He answered, “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” -Luke 10:27

When Jesus was asked what the Greatest Commandment was, that was the answer. It follows that if this is the answer given, then it is extremely important that we take the time to understand why, what its component pieces are, and how it applies.”

In Matthew 22:40, we get this follow up: “All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” I would add “the Gospels and Epistles”, but they weren’t written at the time Jesus spoke.

And in Mark 12:33, the questioner replies with: “To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

If you haven’t seen this line of questioning from these three different perspectives, please take the time to before continuing.

Continuing on, Jesus lays out five things for the Greatest Commandment:

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart.”
The heart and its emotions are one fifth of the commandment. It is easy to think of love as merely an emotional issue, but emotions are only a part.

“Love the Lord your God with all your soul.”
Your Spiritual life is one fifth of the commandment. Here we need to be tender to the calling and unity of the Holy Spirit. This is where we find “the peace that passes all understanding”.

“Love the Lord your God with all your strength.”
Your abilities are one fifth of the commandment. What is the outcome of our strength? Our wealth and our health.

“Love the Lord your God with all your Mind.”
Your intelligence and wisdom are one fifth of this command. We grow this asset to more correctly divine the application of this and the others.

And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
The call to be in relationship with others has an interesting “legal” disclaimer. Not “Love your neighbor as they say they want” nor “Love your neighbor, period”, but “Love your neighbor as yourself.” It is interesting that Jesus gives us the tools to measure what “Loving our Neighbor” means.”

All four attributes cover the entirety of an individual. There is nothing else to our person outside of these four. Add to that the relational aspect of the fifth, and everything you are and hold dear is commanded to be used for the love of the Lord your God.

And in these five areas, we must grow. We must also recognize and value others who have been gifted in one of these areas better than we are. That’s where relationships and building the Body of Christ comes in. I am not the best at emoting, but I enjoy and employ the applicable nature and philosophical nature of Christendom (Mind). I am, therefore, grateful for those who are able to “weep with those who weep, and rejoice with those who rejoice”.

There comes a warning about these attributes from Paul in 1st Corinthians 13:

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, have not love, I gain nothing.”

The same danger that the lawyers had stumbled over that Jesus had encountered, we too face: To love God’s gifts and worship them in place of the Lord your God.

For the Lawyers, it was the Law that God gave to protect and provide for his people was turned by Man into a tool to oppress them.

We see the same thing now, Christians pursuing one of these attributes to the death of the others and then also the whole of the commandment.

Those that pursue the heart exclusively, they are easy to spot as they have Pride Flags out front, ready to accept anybody, anything, and any doctrine. I believe they are about 20% correct.

Those that pursue the soul exclusively, they are easy to hear as they speak in tongues and dance wildly. Others may have several record deals. I believe they are about 20% correct.

Those that pursue the strength exclusively, they are easy to spot as they have big churches and giant tithes. I believe they are about 20% correct.

Those that pursue the mind exclusively, they are easy to spot as they have many, many, many rules and doctrines. So much so that if you even say “Rapture” or “John Calvin”, it’ll start an amazing one-sided argument. I believe they are about 20% correct.

And what do we get? A lack of integrity of the whole body of Christ. 20% churches arguing that their 20% is the only part that matters. Churches without the mind to apply God’s word to various situations, without the strength to do the work and help others in need, without the soul to bond the church body into a cohesive whole, without the heart to give grace to those humbled by their own choices, and without the love and relationships to build each other up in Christ.

I fear that if we don’t come together soon, our own “enlightened self-interests” will tear us apart.

And it's not like God has not shown us these attributes by example. He has. With his Mind, he designed Space, Time & Matter as well as all within. With his Strength he crafted that creation into existence. With his Spirit, he breathed life into creation, even Man. And with his heart, he formed a relationship with his creation. Even though both would be broken.

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@MZHemingway No Relation

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@C_3C_3 @Gimblin No Relation.

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No Relation.

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@TheBabylonBee HOW DARE YOU, SIR!!!

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@WPTV From the article ...it's "cruel" and "inhumane"

says the people who weren't allowed in to investigate.

How would they know?

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@XiongLiz67947 @WPTV @DanielMorganX1 For the record, your post was hidden by X for being"possibly offencive" and the other one that says "f them pos" was viewable. Smh

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@_NamrokNamrok_ @JoshuaDone You mean, The day that the last Slaves learned that Republicans had outlawed slavery over the Democrats violent Protest Day.

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@johncardillo @Gimblin Please clarify:

Is it Florida culture?
Or
hockey Culture?

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@ksorbs Like, which one?
COVID vaccine? COVID Booster? Booster 2? Booster 3?

So many shots. It hard to know.

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@loganclarkhall @Gimblin I disagree.

We must continue to point out that if someone ignores due process and the Constitution to enter, then we will uphold their request and leave them devoid of due process and the Constitution.

In fact, not giving them due process is their due process.

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It really bugs me that more parking lots don't focus on safe walkways.
-Put a wide path leading from the entrance to the back of the lot.
-Centralize pedestrians crossing car traffic to one easily avoidable spot.
-Have several smaller cart collection sites. More access along the path will keep cart collection out of traffic and cut down distance walked by customers to a return. (Yes, about 20% of people still can't walk that far)
-plant shade trees next to the path without blocking it.
#SocialEngineering
#safety
#trafficsafety
#trafficcontrol

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@AXECOP You should do it yourself. No really. Do it!

Scene: sheriff's men on escort duty when one catches a raccoon 🦝 to the face.

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@RebulWorld Parents, run! This toy is the loudest little screamer.

It was a "gift from a friend". I don't think they liked us.

If you don't like the family, this is a perfect gift.

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@IfindRetards Hearing Pokemon evolution music