Navigating People, Politicians, & Choices Like The Prophet Samuel
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I'm an Anglican Priest in the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island (my pronouns are he/him/his) and I get to serve in the Parish of St Margaret of Scotland, in the beautiful city of Halifax, NS, that sits on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq people. Email me at rev.ed.onlineministry@gmail.com and I will do my best to respond.
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When I was a teenager and young Christian I worked on a farm. The summer months were busy with harvesting and picking fruit, so I usually had to work weekends. On Sundays I'd try and catch the 6 pm service. So I'd leave work, tear up to the Baptist chapel on my bike to make it in time, leaving my dirty work boots on the chapel doorstep. A few of the older church members grumbled about me in dirty work clothes. My response was God didn't care what I looked like and wore. He looks at our hearts. God was pleased that I made the effort to come and worship Him. A little mud and grime wasn't being disrespectful to God. He was happy seeing me as I was knowing my desire to worship with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.
How you knew that, as a teenager, is amazing! Good for you! I wasn’t even going to church after I got confirmed, at about 13. Kids had fun by making fun of me, since why go there. Kids, and for that matter adults, can sure be crummy!
Two of the best things my mother taught me were, Never judge a book by its cover and Believe half of what you hear and none of what you see (don't make assumptions). Just because something looks a certain way doesn't necessarily make it so. Thanks Rev Ed. A good reminder.
It’s believe half of what you see and none of what you hear..
@@Ericviking2019 My Mother taught it different lol.🤔
@@Ericviking2019 especially involving gossip!
It is so much easier to go by appearance. It takes thought to judge a person by their heart. I told my granddaughters that someone could be dressed nice and say what we want to hear, yet be dangerous. Someone could look grubby and disheveled and be the most honest, decent person you will ever meet.
Once again you have shown the true power of the beauty of the soul!
Thank you Rev Ed. I haven't been to church since Covid. It has been difficult for me to find a church that is not MAGA. In the meantime I get a good serving of spiritual food via your videos. Thank you for your wonderful messages. I feel calm when I hear your wise, kind, and reassuring voice.
Just got off the phone with a friend who is Nicaragua. Safe and happy and has been for 5 yrs….yiur vote is being threatened by guns…..and the threat of violence in order to keep their guns.
What a mouth full, yes off the subject…then grabbed my Ipad and here you are!
Amen Thanks Rev Ed for your preaching and Discussion, God sees the heart ❤️ and feelings and the Soul of a person .. People and groups get caught with labels and seeing the outside of a person, a lot of Judgemental thinking..If we look at the beauty inside of a person and allowing that person to live and feel who they are in Gods world we doing good..This was a great message God Bless 🕊️
Wonderful talk, Rev. Ed. To find out that Jesus said to look at a man's heart just blew me away because that is the main criterion I use to judge another. After all, the heart is the seat of love, of courage, of integrity. Anything else is shallow and mostly meaningless and transient.
It certainly tells me what I need to know to make a choice in the upcoming election. You have, once again, made my day, sir.
I have made your daily videos a consistent part of my daily routine. You inspire me & you assist with keeping me honest with myself, that's a huge gift for which I am most grateful. I learned a long time ago when a treasure appears, take it up & use it to sustain myself & my well-being. Your videos are proving to be a great investment into me, I am most appreciative for these moments of Grace. Much love to you & yours❤️
Love that!
Amen!
Once again, it always comes back to heart and love. Thank-you.
"You don't need eyes to see.
You need vision."
Reverence - Faithless.
(The full lyrics describe part of a spiritual journey.)
Thank you for this message.
I love the messages you give me. I truly ha ve learned more from you. Thank you and God bless you. I was in a dark and sad place in my life and I started watching your videos and you lifted me up to a point where I found God again and see Christ's teachings as a loving way to guide me.
I received your thank you card, Rev. You didn't have to, but I thank you. Im glad i could try to help Mal out. I just wanted to share with her some words that help me in my mental health struggles.
Thanks for continuing work. It is always a joy to hear your messages
Excellent explanation of this scripture,we need more people to read the Bible and know it for themselves, not just following what the preacher says. Thankful for your discernment
You hit it out of the park. You shall know them by their fruits has never failed me. It is good to also applied that inward to your self. To see how you measure up to reflecting Christ and where you need to do some work.
I thank God your videos showed up on my feed - I don’t subscribe to many but I have to yours. The more I grow in Christ the more I look into the heart of others - what I saw very clearly last night while visiting a friend was Selfishness - it almost brought tears to my eyes - it broke my heart because I see how so many have put self before family - and definitely put self before God. What a sad world we are becoming but I just keep reminding myself I don’t belong to this world - my life and my heart belongs to Jesus and his kingdom. Thanks for your encouragement to stay in the word❤️🇨🇦👍
Will I sacrifice the world or let the world sacrifice me?
Good morning Teacher Trevors. 😊
Good morning!
Love.
4:27 You got me to laugh out loud here, Rev!
Thank you for your words and prayer: fruit of the spirit. Perhaps, too, at some point deservedly reviled folks become "the least of these."
Amen
Thank you. Amen and God Bless
Thanks, Rev🖖🏽💝🙆🏻♀️
Let us see also to our own house. The Church would have much less of a challenge with evangelisation, or with vocations to ministry, if its leaders didn't spend so much effort trying to dictate to the Holy Spirit whom She may and may not call.
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amazing POWER and LOVE "One Day At A Time" for 44 years of sobriety.
Thank you to all of you and those yet to follow!
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I missed watching your service and sermon live last sunday, but you reminded me to watch it now. Thankyou.
It was funny that you compared a little girl with a big burly man as an extreme. example of appearance that should not be our understanding of discernment.🙂
Grete is wonderful. Greetings, thomaselliot. Love.
@@howardcohen6817 had to look Grete up. She doesn't seem all that wonderful, if is Grete and Gregor your talking about 🙂
@@thomaselliot2257 No, sorry, I meant Greta Thunberg (and Donald). h
@@howardcohen6817 ahhh 🙂 👍💕
Thank you Rev Ed for sharing this First Testament Bible story this is one of the stories I go to to push against the alt right evangelists who claim Trump as the choosen one. This and how King David prayed to God in humility asking for forgiveness and repenting his sin of taking another man's wife then sending the same husband to battle to be killed, on contrast to Trump who in an interview stated he doesn't pray for forgiveness as he feels he has done nothing requiring to be forgiven by God.
This second story regarding King David I use as pushback again the hypocritical alt-right flimsy justification that Trump's un-christian words actions and behavior are ok as God uses broken people for his uses. All the great people of the Bible the God choose had sinned, had struggles and those whom society would not typically choose. However, they all, unless I'm grossly mistaken did their best to listen trust and follow God's plans. And, most of all humbly prayed for forgiveness when they sinned. That being the opposite of Trump who in his narcissistic arrogance believes being humble and admitting to any wrong is weakness.
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul
I really struggle to understand the attraction of Trump. Anyone should be able to easily see him for what he is. How churches can hold that man out as the one they support is troubling to me. Sure he says what they want to hear but his overall actions and words show him for what he is. Perhaps some of those church leaders need to watch this video or re-examine these verses. Thankyou for your thoughts.
I don’t understand the attraction of Trump either! Fortunately, more and more people are seeing the light. Republican Voters Against Trump posts thousands of stories of former Trump supporters explaining why they no longer support him.
Poilievre seems pretty hip 😃
Check out Canada's true Hip... Poillievre doesn't come close...
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@revedtrevors4961 You'll never hear me complain about Canadian artists. Fun fact, one of my Canadian friend's (who is a commie and got locked down near Wuhan when that thing happened) most prized positions is a photo of him with his arm around Trudy. 😄
Hi Ed, I have watched most of your messages. I can only feel your message is to follow the teachings of Jesus. You speak of good works, loving your neighbor, and honoring God. That you chose to be a Christian. I do not come to condemn, but to speak the Truth of the Holy Spirit. You preach a good word. You never preach how the Holy Spirit convicted you of your Sin and to come to the Saving Grace of Jesus's work on the Cross for your redemption of your Sin and receiving of his Holy Spirit thru your Faith. If the Holy Spirit truly resides in your Soul, you must believe you are truly saved in the knowledge of the Truth, I believe you should speak it with your mouth and not thru your good works or how we should respect each other. Search your heart, to know if God truly resides in there and possesses your Soul. To not have the Holy Spirit, when you face Jesus face to face, will he say" Depart from me, for I NEVER KNEW YOU". We can not know Jesus WITHOUT having the Holy Spirit of TRUTH in us. May God Bless you.
Oy - another Christian chastising an Anglican pastor for being "works based".
@@suetrubluThe message was given as a gift not as chastisement, so, do with it as you will.
I am sorry you see the Spirit in such a limited way.
I've yet to hear the Rev say that "good works" are the qualifier to becoming a Christian. Quite the opposite. If you listen to his testimony Rev. Ed had a spiritual awakening, a conversion experience after spending many years growing up in church. Every one who is born again has their own "come to Jesus" moment. Some of us have a supernatural experience of brokenness, others a quiet realization of God's love and confession of their sins. If you cannot see the Holy Spirit in Rev Ed then you must be spiritually short-sighted. Being a Christian is much more than speaking in tongues and making a ruckus in church. The real work of Christianity is boots on the ground, loving your neighbor, serving those in need without judgement, and shining the light and love of God through your actions. God sees beyond denominations. I'm here from a Baptist and Brethren background. I follow Rev Ed because I see a humble man of Christ doing his best to serve God and not professing to know all the answers.
@@Teresa-L.2024 I never mentioned "speaking in tongues or making any ruckus" I am saying the Holy Spirit IS Christianity and anyone professing to know Jesus Christ without the mention of, or recognizing the Saving power of the Holy Spirit in their life, is denying his existence and the promise of him that Jesus proclaimed he would give to all true believers at the moment of Salvation. If a person does not have the Holy Spirit Spirit inside, and yet say "I am a Christian" they are a liar and a false teacher and still in need of True deliverance thru his Blood, that Jesus shed on the Cross, so that ALL that come to him will be cleansed AND Sanctified and worthy of being in the presence of God.
Rev, you talked about what you've read about lgbtq+ and how it relates to the Bible. I have a daughter who is in that group. I looked in your playlist but didn't see any particular group of videos. It was from a couple videos ago I think. Can you help me out here?
Is there a particular thing you are looking for?
@revedtrevors4961 You said that through your reading of the Bible, including Greek and Hebrew, your view on homosexuality is not the same as some of the other denominations. I am looking for what you've read that changed your mind so that I can read it as well and pray over it. While I believe that it is only by the Grace of God that we have eternal salvation, I struggle with believing that because someone loves another of the same gender they are going to hell. We are all sinners, we're born with it. I mean that's what I believe in, but I also believe that with true repentance Jesus forgives us our sins. But I've always been told not so with homosexuality. So, I'm looking to understand what you've read that changed your heart and mind. Sorry for the length, just trying to be clear.
This is an old vid I did. I think I talked about a few sources in here.
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts. God bless you.
To your "itching ears" comment that you have been accused of saying what people want to hear, I can think of no better response than that attributed to Luther, to "show me from a clear word of Scripture where I am wrong, only then will I recant."
I see more of Christ in biden
Apologies for dumping this on one of your videos, I don't know how else to get in touch. Someone who is intelligent and seemed normal suddenly started posting about how nuclear war was prophesied in the bible and the world is going to end soon. Just thought I would link the source of his belief in case you've heard this before and would like to cover this sometime.
If he's right. I'd prefer not to know 🙂.
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Mostly, this guy's interpretations are forced and problematic, but there ae some very interesting things in here. This guy starts out with some major truths that he then ignores throughout nearly his entire presentation. In Numbers 12, God tells Miriam and Aaron that while they are also prophets, Moses is something more than a prophet and everything God says to a prophet is given in symbolism. The guy repeatedly points out that every word of scripture is symbolism, but he refuses to understand that the things we can see are symbols of things we cannot see (Col 2:16, 17) where the "shadows" we can see are shadows of reality, which Paul states elsewhere is a reality above and beyond the three-dimensional space (or four-dimensional space-time) that we understand today.
Paul, at a time that time as a dimension was not understood described reality as consisting of four dimensions. Today, theoretical physicist describe reality of consisting of anywhere from seven to 21 or maybe even 23 dimensions, and space-time is only a holographic projection or simulation, language very close to that used by Paul. The things we can see are symbols of the things we cannot see, and faith is defined as the evidence of those things we cannot see. On a quick side note, presumption is the opposite of faith according to biblical definition and something can only be defined as faith if at some point it can be verified. Most of what passes for faith is presumption, and can easily be proven to be so, not because the truth can be proven, but because the thing being claimed as truth is easily disproven by the available evidence.
This guy wants to claim the symbolic things are symbols of other things that can be seen, and even states at one point that the symbol cannot possibly have a "spiritual" (symbol of the unseen) interpretation. Most, but not all, symbols are in some way defined in scripture, but whether clearly defined in scripture or not it is usually something that cannot be seen, although it may, at a very low level of understanding, manifest in some small way, as something that can be seen. For instance, the laws of warfare define a tree as a man (something that can be seen.) Other prophecies define a tree as a nation (something that cannot be seen; it is an abstract concept). And, as I often teach, especially in dream interpretation, sometimes a tree is just a tree. It's very easy to read way too much into prophecies, and I believe this guy is doing that.
Many of his prophetic interpretations are forced, and his own logic and examples prove that he is trying to force a much bigger event into things that happen at a considerably smaller scale. My own study and experience show that if there is a physical manifestation of the prophecies while they are occurring in the unseen realms, those physical manifestations are very small and very localized. This guy provides his own proof of this with his mushroom clouds in a forest fire example. It is actually more common to see these effects in pyrotechnic shows. Have you ever gone to an airshow and seen the simulated bomb drops where explosions on the ground are set off in black powder bowls? It's also possible to see similar effects from gas explosions at a concert, although these are usually too small to adequately generate that type of a fireball and gas usually does not generate enough soot to have the dark smoke cloud, but the effect is still there. You don't need nukes to see what he then says HAS to be nukes. His interpretations are being forced.
The sword in prophecy is the symbol of war, but that war does not have to be nuclear. On a smaller, personal scale, the sword is more a symbol of an execution. Ezekiel does many times reference the sword as one of the judgments of God. On a national scale that is certainly true, but God's fire is also repeatedly defined in the law and prophecy as his word. In Revelation 1, Jesus has a sword of fire proceeding from his mouth, and whether the judgments are individual, national or on the entire world, it is this sword, the words of his mouth, that perform the judgment. We are told we die the second death with him in baptism, and with a little more study, that death is reasonably easy to prove to be repentance and surrender to God's will instead of our own. This is what all of those prophecies are prophesying.
I have never heard about the 70 Jubilee prophecy he referenced, but I know enough about time-cycles and how they work, and know enough about the original fulfillment of the 70 year judgment on Judah in Babylon to understand what he is saying and to believe it to be plausible, but up to this point the judgments are on the church, Israel and Judah, not Babylon and the Beast System which has been the tool of God's judgment against the church, Israel and Judah. That judgment may well be ending this year; there are other evidences of that so I would not be surprised, but the purpose would be to set the church, Israel and Judah free IF they have repented of the sins that sent them into judgment in the first place. God does not need war, much less nuclear war to bring that freedom. I would be very surprised if war is how that occurs, yet there are prophecies showing that God's people are to "fight wars" in courts both in heaven and on earth by my interpretation, to "drive out" the nations that are occupying our inheritance, the earth. However, these battles are fought with spiritual weapons and the sword of the spirit is the word of God, not nuclear bombs and God destroys his enemies by making them his friends.
It is unwise to try to force physical interpretations on things that are to be seen spiritually. Another of the things we will experience in the "last days" is a plague of hailstones the weight of a talent of gold. He says a talent is approximately 75 pounds. That is true of silver and other lesser metals. For some reason, a talent of gold is usually said to be 100 pounds also some claim it is only 75 pounds. Isaiah 28 says our refuge of lies (presumption) will be swept away by hail, therefore, hail is the symbol of truth, the only thing that can overcome lies. Water weighs about eight pound per gallon, so a 100 pound hailstone would contain 12.5 gallons of water. That is a considerable volume. Have you seen a 10 gallon aquarium? Furthermore, a hailstone will be infused with a large volume of air, so maybe we should think of something the size of a 20 gallon aquarium. Hailstones are generated by uplift within a thunderstorm. If earth's atmosphere could generate the kind of winds that would provide that much uplift, all life on the planet would be destroyed before the hailstones could fall to the ground.
No, these hailstones will be irrefutable truths that are completely and fully devastating to orange monsters and their followers, and will destroy their beloved lies completely. The symbols this guy is interpreting are highly unlikely to be physical war and physical weapons, much less the worst physical weapons known to man. At the same time, Jerusalem is a plural, so all prophecies of Jerusalem reference both the old Jerusalem in Palestine and the New Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven. With the establishment of the New Jerusalem, or even before, Jeremiah 19 says that the Old Jerusalem will be destroyed, never to be rebuilt again. Maybe a physical destruction is to be understood here but I doubt it; I believe the ideology it represents will be destroyed. If it is to be physically destroyed, I am willing to consider the possibility that in order for man to be discourages from rebuilding it, it will be destroyed by nuclear bombs, and maybe we should be watching what is happening over there now with that end in mind. If it has to be destroyed physically, we are nowhere near ready to have even the elect inherit the earth and rule and reign with Jesus, and the millennium will not yet happen, but that is a possibility we cannot just ignore.
David wasn't picked for his gentleness. He was picked because he was skilled at killing with a sling. Upon becoming king, he betrayed Uriah, one of his most loyal men, because he wanted to get it on with Uriah's wife. David didn't have a good heart. Also, picking someone with a good heart would have been out of character for Samuel, a prophet who commanded that nothing be left breathing when the Israelites conquered a city.
If that were the truth then you make God out to be a thug. David wasn't perfect. None of us are. But David came to a realization of his sins and asked for forgiveness. If you read the Psalms, which David wrote, you'll see there were many times he confessed and agonized over his sinfulness and begged for forgiveness.
Amen!
Amen
Thank you Rev Ed for sharing this First Testament Bible story this is one of the stories I go to to push against the alt right evangelists who claim Trump as the choosen one. This and how King David prayed to God in humility asking for forgiveness and repenting his sin of taking another man's wife then sending the same husband to battle to be killed, on contrast to Trump who in an interview stated he doesn't pray for forgiveness as he feels he has done nothing requiring to be forgiven by God.
This second story regarding King David I use as pushback again the hypocritical alt-right flimsy justification that Trump's un-christian words action 10:45 s and behavior are ok as God uses Broken people for his uses. All the great people of the Bible the God choose had sinned, had struggles and those whom society would typically choose, but they all, even if only at the beginning walked and talked with God and followed his commandments. And, most of all prayed for forgiveness and seeked to repent their sinful ways.