Slow Cooker Suicide

by Ken Pullen

Copyright 2015

Scripture used appears in Italics and is from the King James Version or the Complete Jewish Bible

Slow motion suicide

this world’s people are

ingredients by their shopping

their choosing

roiling

boiling

turmoil

tossed of their own accord

in the slow cooker suicide

one pot stew

with only a remnant

only a few

not becoming part, an ingredient

in the deadly

toxic

eternal death stew!

So many

literally billions

upon

billions

professing with their lips they are “Christian”

while living the life of death

in their idol worship

itching ears

turning to fables

serving of the golden calf

following to their death

false teachers

false doctrine

false teachings

refusing the truth

laying up higher bricks in the building of apostasy

the great falling away

while bringing low

out of sight

out of ear shot

the Light, the Truth, the Way

in completeness

omitting nothing

perverting nothing

corrupting nothing

of God’s pure true words of Living Waters…

rather,

instead

supplanting the truth with lies

hiding

seeking the darkness

deceived no less than Eve in the Garden

calling it “good!”

So then, are we to say,

“Let’s keep on sinning, so that there can be more grace”?

     Heaven forbid! 

        How can we, who have died to sin, still live in it? 

Don’t you know

that those of us who have been immersed

into the Messiah Yeshua

have been immersed into his death?   

Through immersion into his death

    we were buried with him; so that just as,

through the glory of the Father,

the Messiah was raised from the dead,

likewise we too might live a new life. 

For if we have been united with him in a death like his,

we will also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 

We know that our old self was put to death on the execution-stake with him,

so that the entire body of our sinful propensities might be destroyed,

and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. 

For

someone who has died has been cleared from sin. 

Now

since we died with the Messiah, we trust that we will also live with him. 

We know

that the Messiah has been raised from the dead,

never to die again;

death has no authority over him. 

For his death was a unique event that need not be repeated;

but his life, he keeps on living for God.  

 In the same way, consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive for God,

by your union with the Messiah Yeshua.

                                                                                    Therefore,

                                                       do not let sin rule in your mortal bodies,

                                                            so that it makes you obey its desires; 

                                                    and do not offer any part of yourselves to sin

                                                              as an instrument for wickedness.

                                                                             On the contrary,

                                                                       offer yourselves to God

                                                                  as people alive from the dead,

                                                                 and your various parts to God

                                                              as instruments for righteousness. 

                                                         For sin will not have authority over you;

                                              because you are not under legalism but under grace.

                                                                                  Therefore,

                                                         what conclusion should we reach?

                                                                       “Let’s go on sinning,

                                                          because we’re not under legalism

                                                                          but under grace”?

                                                                             Heaven forbid! 

                                                                           Don’t you know

                                    that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves,

                                                                                    then,

                                                        of the one whom you are obeying,

                                                           you are slaves — whether of sin,

                                                                    which leads to death,

                                                                         or of obedience,

                                                      which leads to being made righteous? 

                                                                          By God’s grace, 

                                                                                    you,

                                                            who were once slaves to sin,

                                                                                 obeyed

                                                                        from your heart

                                              the pattern of teaching to which you were exposed; 

                                                     and after you had been set free from sin,

                                                       you became enslaved to righteousness. 

                                                                (I am using popular language

                                                      because your human nature is so weak.)

                                                                               For just as

                                        you used to offer your various parts as slaves to impurity

                                                                         and lawlessness,

                                                            which led to more lawlessness;

                                                                                 so now

                                                       offer your various parts as slaves

                                                                        to righteousness,

                                           which leads to being made holy, set apart for God. 

                                        For when you were slaves of sin, you were free

                                                       in relationship to righteousness; 

                                         but what benefit did you derive from the things

                                                      of which you are now ashamed?

                                                 The end result of those things was death. 

                                                                              However,

                                                                                  now,

                                                    freed from sin and enslaved to God,

                                        you do get the benefit — it consists in being made holy,

                                                                      set apart for God,

                           and its end result is eternal life. For what one earns from sin is death;

                                   but eternal life is what one receives as a free gift from God,

                                                                               in union

                                                                 with the Messiah Yeshua,

                                                                                 our Lord.