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Good Upbringing

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THROUGH time and efforts we gain simple things and thoughts. There is more to "unless you become as little children, ..." than strutting about naked. Here are some thoughts on handy, quite general upbringing.

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Take care: Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed throughout:

Encouragement

"Always look at the bright side of life."
boy Much encouragement should not be very much needed for a life well lived, but there are exceptions to that. In one of the Peanut cartoons Lucy van Pelt read a "story" to her little brother Linus. "A man was born, lived and died."
      Linus wondered: "How fascinating. It makes you wish you knew the man."
      The very best motivations (or encouragements) come from within in a developmental process. Soft-spoken encouragements from others may favour tiny sprouts of self-will, self-interests and self-motivations from deep inside at times. But if you mean "business" from inside, you should hardly need being steered much by the words and examples of others.


Abreast

And another "thing" to ponder is how to live between start and finish. It may not be wholly welcome. Some get nervous - talking of death may not be gentle with nervous guys of both sexes. In the end it comes anyhow. But good, clean living may back up healthy life in the period in between. And it could postpone the hour of death by some years or decades even. It depends. And after that, uh!
       The Bible tells you that you're expected to try to keep abreast of central happenings in the hereafter. In part, a happy, successful outcome could depend on major habits set to work well for you, and on what you cultivate in the life-period. Not all lies in good living, but the challenge of enriching oneself thoroughly here and for the hereafter at once is interesting. At any rate, bright upbringing has its phases and its platforms.


How to make it

We'll go into "how-to-make-it". We need a platform. Here are beginner's hints - we hope they're not totally unwelcome:
       It's fairly often possible to derive mental and other benefits from our gold egg outlooks. Here and there you may come across some pictures, and repeatedly the same ones. These small pictures serve as markers and icons; they are deep tokens and as such represent plausible attainments along a plausible path of attainments as indicated by the discourse in question. Here are two of the most common:

Face 1

Face 2
      In most cases the first face image serves as a forerunners of the second face, which represents a further step of attainment(s), as the case may be.


Two icons (figures) show the way

The figures appear in a row of accomplishments - whether inwardly gauged theoretical outlooks, or solid outer attainments. The tilted woman's face points to one level, and the female in profile points to the step right after that. "Tilted Woman's Face" marks the last lay of a trek (marked by a bent arrow) right before the origo, and "A Woman's Profile" stands for the first lay inside the stretch (span) that goes along the diagonal from there.
      The first parts of the arrow-marked route is called a tick tack toe (q.v) part. The yin-yang-derivate figure frequently helps all-round analysis and coupled strategic thinking.
      Now you know the reason why Tilted Woman and Profile Woman often crops up inside the figure-linked essays or songs. Quite ideally such figures help the beginners to identify two important levels of accomplishments or thinking that are connected with two separate levels or layers inside a certain fabric of thinking. You might love to learn it to derive benefits.
      Now, the main intent or purport inside these New Wave essays is that good things may come our way more easily through recurrent study and training that goes along with it. THE ART OF BEING A GENTLEMAN IS EXPLAINED. Still, you have to learn the art of studying and using your own interpretations of the things to come, I can assure you.
      Right at this particular site you also find suggestions and pointers from the advancing art of living well or at times entertain well on the Christian platform of the gospel and New Testament letters - and skills for doing it are hardly included. One needs firm schooling with regular training for that.
      This hinted at, nothing in these counsels should degrade you or debase your next of kin. For that reason, read the main tenets philosophically.

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Councelling

THESE TEACHINGS are distilled. You're about to find plenty of good Bible quotes and well aligned counsels for happy, elegant marriage in their footsteps. What is more, inside is a "skeletal training program" to catch. There are three blocks - such steps - Each has suggestions to adapt on top of. Pick the ones that serve you and your nearest ones, melt the fit selections down to a cogent sentence - and learn to arrive at the homily that suits you perfectly well. If not, learn to reflect on the arrays to learn more and better. New skills may develop in the wake of mature reflections over tens of years.
      Your maturing and musty homily should matter much to you and where you are. Adjust on top of your setting. More goes into these things too - you're referred to the later texts.


1image    Fit marriage should be honoured and honourable, and the love-making strengthening like plenty of grace

NT SIGN KEEP ON LOVING [ducks, for example] - Don't forget to do good and to share with others. [Hebrews 13:1,20,16]
      Marriage should be honoured by all, and the marriage ... kept pure. [Hebrews 13:4]
      It's good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace. [Hebrews 13:9] €
You should have good equipment, generally. Ask for that. Never neglect praying a lot. And be aware that tactless teachings strengthen the love for money. You can do better. Let angels please us honourably and well first, if that kind comes to visit us. Better be on the safe side in troubled waters.
      What is good for the marriage, is fit most often in all sort of settings. And what is more, love and help that goes out to strangers, should first and foremost be perfectly fit and honourable. €


2image    Keep your lives away from a lot rotten, including money love. You should still hoard it, though

NT SIGN ENTERTAIN only angelic strangers. [Cf. Hebrews 13:2]
      Keep your lives free from the [base or idiotic] love of money. [Hebrews 13:5]
Living well is hardly tamed by gentle love. Keep on looking up strange or alien teachings only if that sort of activity is honourable and the fruits of it can be made greatly pleasing for good, staunch and fair living in local waters we're inside.


3image    Get good things and learn they cost money, like entertainment of comrades

NT SIGN HAVE A clear conscience and desire to live honourably - Don't be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. [Hebrews 13:18,9]
      Equip you[rself] with everything good for doing ... what's pleasing to ["I am" at least]. [Hebrews 13:21]
3RD SECTION Let a clear conscience marry honourably and well and laugh from it. Keep abreast of it, abreast of what is about to happen. Besides, learn that good laughter is healthy. It's may be good for your heart to be carried away by such grace inside the grace.


Homily - how to forge ahead

IN SUM Allow no downfall. Be sharp enough for it.
  1. RECREATION IS HONOURABLE AND MARRIAGE MUST SERVE REGULAR AND NICE-LOOKING RECREATION OF ALL INVOLVED. Marriage should be honoured and honourable, and the love-making strengthening like plenty of grace. Love ducks on recreations grounds as well - it often helps to share morsels with them. Yes, that fits solvency first in the marriage, and is often honourable.
  2. A HAPPY HOME ALLOWS NICE-LOOKING AND SPORTIVE "FOLLY" MUCH. not to like sportive and recuperative folly and likeable assets that matters here, may go bad: For note how the bred "good men" and authorities of Jews hated good and all right apostles for their messages and non-conform conduct - It's also necessary to get aware there are often conflicting message inside the over-all mainframe of gospel Christianity, letters and later developments. One has to make the best out of those things, as consistently as one well-nigh can inside the flock. Keep your lives away from a lot rotten money love, yet be pleased to hoard enough - even much - even non-silly but strange-looking teachings also. Hearts know. Greatly pleasing teachings through apostles looked so strange to the Jewish authorities that they decided on murdering a lot of those angelic men. Be aware that what's greatly pleasing to God may look like folly in the eyes of the hating ones, and that you might be hated for living up to it, like the martyrs and apostles.
  3. HEALTHY ADJUSTMENTS MAY COST MUCH - QUESTION IF AN ATTEMPT TO BETTER ONE'S LOT IS WORTH IT - IF THE MEANS ARE AT HAND, AND LOOK OUT. Get good things and learn they cost money, like entertainment of comrades. Don't be carried away by strange teachings - teachings that run largely contrary to the superb messages: and they are much pleasing to the "I am" inside man and woman, I dare say. Perfectly fit means healthy and jovial in graceful surroundings. You have to adjust much for the lack of a good camp, fit surroundings, fit and good fellowmen. If so, well, pray for a lot.

So

Kingly wordsTHIS IS a way: A happy marriage is a good sport. And sports may benefit for much and regular training. St. Paul speaks for the thing - athletic training is his figure of expression.
  1. RECUPERATE. Recreation is honourable and marriage must serve regular and nice-looking recreation of all involved.
  2. HAVE SEEMLY FOLLY FIT FOR ADJUSTMENTS THAT COUNT. A happy home allows much nice-looking and sportive "folly", to be sure.
  3. BE SURE BY ASCERTAINING THE WORTH AND VALUE OF A LOT - firsthand and first-class. Healthy adjustments may cost much - question if an attempt to better one's lot is worth it - if the means are at hand, and so on. I pays to look well ahead and refrain from unwanted leaps in the dark.
Such steps or levels of accomplishments normally take much time and effort - simple as they appear to be. In fact, to live well is a costly art that goes on and on as long as life lasts - the art of living requires adjustments fairly often as we progress or as outer conditions change or deteriorate. Such things often happen. I hope you liked this survey. The next may be harder to swallow.

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Citizenship

1    No cute bluff is good enough if we mean to nourish others

IT SHOULD help a life to become a not too unwelcome citizen. A good speech emboldens and helps skills on and up. Or it lets other people than mere listeners get the initiative and take over. The Holy Spirit repeatedly told and impressed on Peter to kill and eat formerly forbidden food. Sound Gentile customs took over. - Cf. Acts 5:40; 10:9-16 and 11:4-10
      When deep changes of structures or tyranny are launched, the higher the priest or knave finds himself to be, the harder he can get to combat those changes. They may encompass how to eat, with whom and what, and other ritual customs. To turn to God must mean refreshment. Interestingly, the tact of those that were thought of as much holier or closer to God than others, was killer-attuned. And deep changes were out of the question. These inconsistencies can make a guy wonder whether those that purport to be close to God, really are, or what they are close to in their fervour. Acts 5:16-7; 3:19
OT They who wait for [wait on etc.] the Lord [I am] shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. - Isaiah 40:31
All that God did was through men in the days of the first apostles, and some were Gentiles. Men were not dispensed with. And the initial believers had shareware. - Cf. Acts 14:27 and 2:44-5
      Your commitment to raise and nourish someone, may mirror some adamant drive inside. - Cf. Acts 13:32-7
      Wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke! For two whole years Paul stayed (in Rome) in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him. Boldly and without hindrance he preached the kingdom of God and taught about Christ. - Acts 2:19; 28:30-1 €
      God made Jesus Lord and Christ - Peter understood that God didn't show favouritism but accepted men who feared him and did what was right [which is what favouritism is about in rough outline] "You must listen to everything Jesus tells you or be completely cut off from among his people." However, Peter and all the other apostles dispensed with circumcision even though Jesus had been circumcised to be acceptable as a little child, and later vouched for the Law of Moses in every little detail. These things matter to tell. - Cf. Matthew 5:17-20; Acts 2:36; 10:34-55; cf.3:22-3
      Paul managed to complete the task that Lord Jesus had given him - the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace. God made no distinction between Jews and former gentiles, as he purified their hearts by faith, said Paul. - Acts 20:24; 15:9
      But other places in Acts show that the Holy Spirit had to be in it somehow: When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them. When they arrived, they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit hadn't yet come upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. - Acts 8:14-8


2    God stopped Paul and how? He was made an apostle without freedom to go his own, set ways from then on

2ND SECTION FILLED WITH the Holy Spirit good men in those days began to speak in other tongues - the Spirit enabled them. Judge for yourselves whether it was right in God's sight to do as they did and disregard God's handed over Law and customs step by step - whether it was right to obey others than God. As it was said: "Some can't help speaking about what they've have seen and heard." - Acts 2:4; cf. 4:19-20
      To be a real Christian you should be baptised with the Holy Spirit. If puzzled, next wonder what can come out of it. - Cf. Acts 1:1-5; 5:24
      What God eventually did for Gentiles through the ministry of the persecutor Saul after he had stopped putting Christians in jail and have them killed! - See Acts 21:19 etc. €
      When the apostles prayed to Jesus, "Lord, show us which is chosen to take over apostolic ministry," they cast lots. The lot fell to Mathias; so he was added to the eleven apostles. - Acts 1:23-5
      There are those that don't get informed that to cast lots must be Biblical - much like dispensing with your own conscience and moral considerations. It happens.
      In front of the unwelcome cast, perhaps you might decree: "I'm ready to be bound through casting lots." But think of Paul who said: "I'm ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." The significant episodes in his life went over and above casting lots. He didn't have a choice, didn't have the choice of casting lots or let be, even. - Acts 21:13


3    How long-lasting mighty words get, seems to depend in part on the flock that is to stick to them

3RD SECTION PAUL: "Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God. - Acts 20:28
      These shepherds were to act differently than the Jewish priests after Aaron the betrayer, no matter what God had formerly instituted through much-lasting Laws of Moses. There is a time for this and a time for that, in other words. At times and in some settings the two of them can work together.
      Some things can work well for you also.


Summary

God stopped Paul in his way - he was to nourish others through superior messages and stick to that enterprise.
  1. No cute bluff is good enough if we mean to nourish someone in our care or charge and want a warm and good-natured welcome thereafter.
  2. God stopped Paul and how? He was made an apostle without freedom to go his own, set ways from then on.
  3. How long-lasting mighty words get, seems to depend in part on the flock that is to stick to them. It can't be too fickle and lackadaisal, it seems. Happy marriage -
The kingly phraseTHIS IS a way: TO NOURISH and care properly and for long for someone else makes that one welcome somewhere else. The way to harm that liberation and prowess that is coupled with a process like that, is to bar and block the way of independence. Long-lasting, happy unions of marriage and similar arrangements, tend to depend on that the educational progress toward self-help has not been undermined, and that the torrent is not diminished. To foster accomplished people, you know what to do, that is, the trend of normal developments. Otherwise there may be troubles, formal contracts or not. [#1.1]

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Historical Surveys

Historical surveys can be preoccupied with doctrine.

1    The bourbon is to be "shaken, but not stirred".- A James Bond favourite cliché

If you get saved, hope you won't be much shaken. Bad men began to argue with Stephen. They were doctrinated. They could not stand up against his wisdom or the Spirit by whom he spoke. They stoned him for it. He saw heaven opened then, and Jesus in heaven. When you see the Lord in front of you, there's hope you won't be shaken. - See Acts 6:10; 2:25 €
      Exalted to the right hand of God, Jesus received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit. Those who receive it, may have their persecutions also. He said so in part: "They'll persecute you also." - Cf. Acts 2:33; John 15:20.


2    The Holy Spirit took salvation away from Jews and to Gentiles

2ND SECTION Paul: "I want you to know that God's salvation has been sent to the Gentiles!" - Acts 28:29
      Think of that! And suffer no ill effects. That's in the art of living as the Holy Spirit let it be evolved among us Gentile Christians. - Acts 28:5 €


3    Disasters may yet come, and lots of other things

3RD SECTION Paul in a slightly different context: " I can see that our voyage is going to be disastrous and bring great loss to ship and cargo, and to our own lives also." - Acts 27:10
      You'll receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you. - Acts 1:8 €
      The chances are you'll receive more than power and persecutions. The Lord says: "Hasn't my hand made all these things?" - Acts 7:50 (9)


Summary

IN SUM
  1. IT OFTEN PAYS TO TALK SENSIBLY INSTEAD OF GETTING INCOHERENT. If you get saved, hope you won't be much shaken.
  2. BE THE RECEIVER OF THE GOOD THINGS, AFTER ALL THOSE THAT RECEIVED GOD, WEREN'T THE ONES GOD HAD IN MIND INITIALLY AND THAT JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS FOR. The Holy Spirit took salvation away from Jews and to Gentiles.
  3. BE SMART, IT OFTEN PAYS. What we need is the right sort of smartness. I think it's Calvinian, in rough outline. Otherwise, disasters may yet come, and lots of other things.
Kingly wordsTHIS IS a way: Getting coherent and not dwarfed in main thoughts, feelings and outputs is no small accomplishment. You had better go for that. Many savoury outlets on top of initial good things and blessings may be called for in order to accomplish it. Good things, including utensils, very often help savoury living far and wide. And smartness, the right and constructive (upbuilding) sort of it, should make one fit for living adequately as time goes by. [#4.1]

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