Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there beany other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Whenever someone yelled “LOOSE HORSE,” nobody stopped to ask whose horse it was. They only asked where? And then they ran towards the problem.
“What do you do with an aging backstretch employee who has lived in a tackroom most of their life and depends on the racetrack for an income and is or will become too frail to work? When that fragile horse person loses his or her job, he or she stand to lose their living quarters and benevolent benefits. The answer is far from easy, in fact, I remember (on several occasions) it being a nightmare! There is a new developing program called “STABLE FOOTING” heading to starting gate and I am very hopeful for a strong finish and we could all pitch in no matter how little or a lot. Let’s get this horse to the Finish Line!
Here is a message from former Maryland trainer Scott Regan and retired pony girl Cathy Rosenberger.
“Good afternoon and thank you for allowing me a few moments of your time.
To bring the temple of your body into union with other temples forms the Church of God!
Two out of one hundred people are the Pillars of the community, holding most of the weight, doing most of the work and enduring most of the responsibility.
“Let the Righteous Smite Me!”
PSALM 141:5
Doing nothing at a time when nothing can be done has never been my strongpoint. Being a man who cares about reforming culture to some moral rectitude of accountability has been an exhausting mental exercise of futility. To say that society has lost its responsibilities is a gross understatement! Martin Luther King, Jr., George Washington and James Madison all have one attribute in common. Let us call that characteristic, “Redemption”.
The Difference Between Truth and Justice:
Why do Evil Doers Define What Society Defines What it is to “Be a Good Person”?
“Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you. But I will come to you very soon, … and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. What do you prefer? Shall I came to you with a rod of discipline, or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?”
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.”
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
“From the fruit of their mouth a person’s stomach is filled; with the harvest of their lips they are satisfied. The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”
The world has rejected you. That is not your fault!
Why Not Just Pray Directly To God?
One reason we pray in Jesus Christ’s name is because Jesus was human. We are human. If we remove being human from our prayers, we pray to God using Godliness, not humanity. Are we gods or are we humans? Can we think the thoughts of God, or can we only think the thoughts of man?
“Evildoers are trapped by their sinful talk, and so the innocent escape trouble. From the fruit of their lips Îpeople are filled with good things, and the work of their hands brings them reward.”
“… deliver me and be merciful to me. My feet stand on level ground … “
Vindicate me, Lord, for I have led a blameless life; I have trusted in the Lord and have not faltered. Test me, Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind; for I have always been mindful of your unfailing love and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness. I do not sit with the deceitful, nor do I associate with hypocrites. I abhor the assembly of evildoers and refuse to sit with the wicked. I wash my hands in innocence, and go about your altar, Lord, proclaiming aloud your praise and telling of all your wonderful deeds. Lord, I love the house where you live, the place where your glory dwells. Do not take away my soul along with sinners, my life with those who are bloodthirsty, in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes. I lead a blameless life; deliver me and be merciful to me. My feet stand on level ground; in the great congregation I will praise the Lord.
“I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.”
“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.”
“By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; 20 by his knowledge the watery depths were divided, …”
Chapter 3
My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, 2 for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity.
3 Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the Lord.” 2 Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord. 4 Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord respected Abel and his offering, 5 but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.
“Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful.
1 Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong; 2 for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away.
But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. 16 And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many [f]offenses resulted in justification. 17 For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)
“Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life…”
A Daily Bible Study of THE BOOK OF JAMES
Friday, November 1, 2024
JAMES 1:2-8
Trials and Temptations
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.
“Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle to everyone.”
“Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.”
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?”
“… But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
“Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.”
This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand.
And the Lord asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” “A plumb line,” I replied. Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
“Our Father Which art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass upon us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen”
All which ye seeks, man who climbs mountain-top for wisdom, is found only within the cloth which girds thine loins at the bottom!
Our Purpose:
It seems to be the glaring liability that most men only aspire for the minor degrees of knowledge. This fallacy has inculcated such a liability of drastic proportions upon the institution that raising it back up to its former glory is an up-trestle ladder-climb!
The historic metamorphosis from an operative Craft (a tangible, constructive ablative of means,) to a speculating population has caused the masses to assimilate into an incoherent, purposely self-deceived anti-ouroboros). (Mackey)
Remaining exist a purview which treads beyond Common Man’s ambition.
“I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside. 2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it
“This is a true saying, If any man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a worthy work. A Bishop therefore must be unreproveable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harborous, apt to teach, Not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not covetous.
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
At the age of 47 years old, I was compelled to write a letter to my eighth grade English teacher.
Mance,
Joe Biden did not write the, “Build it back better plan”. That bill was written by the legislative branch. That bill, specifically, was written by the house budget committee, championed by a guy named, John A. Yarmuth. Biden did not have the power to write the act, because he is a different branch of government than the branch which writes legislation! Please, Mance, name, one job, and one project, here, which was created by the bill you are referencing.
“Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.”
“… Stand at the crossroads and look;
ask for the ancient paths,
ask where the good way is, and walk in it,
and you will find rest for your souls. …”-JEREMIAH 6:16
“…ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it,…”
“ …as they ride on their horses; they come like men in battle formation …”JEREMIAH 6:23
With Anticipation at Springdale Racecourse (circa. 1999 A.D.)
–Words of God-
“Flee for safety, people of Benjamin! Flee from Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa! Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem! For disaster looms out of the north, even terrible destruction. I will destroy Daughter Zion, so beautiful and delicate. Shepherds with their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents around her, each tending his own portion.”
Take a’hold of your sins!
When getting-run-off-with by your own actions,
Take a hold!
Post a Stewards’ Inquiry and let the Big Boss decide what the correct course of action is to take!
Long Road Ahead
“Not that I have already obtained this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.”
“We bring The Bible with us from place to place, when always The Bible is inside our hearts.”
“We bring The Bible with us from place to place, when always The Bible is inside our hearts.”
A Decision
To decide between taking a vacation for reading The Bible and getting closer to God or taking a vacation for experiencing a new life by getting closer to another person, is a decision few men have the opportunity to make.
“And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses andescape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.”
“Then Jesus said to them, “A little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.”
“The While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” These things Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.”
“While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” These things Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.”
“…and so it is to the journalist, the recorder of Man’s deeds,…”
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“As in the game of chess, if the news-watcher is the pawn, the pawns seem to be preforming the en-passant on the opening move, capturing imaginary pawns, making incorrect, unwarranted moves that are not even true to the game! It is commonplace that a story does not even have to be true, but if it is reported first, the objective of today’s news is to report guilt as the verdict until proven innocent by technicality! Truth no longer dons the crown or wears the signet ring; for Timing is the new emperor, and the Emperor Wears No Clothes!”
Chip Van Hassel
Promoting lies, or, “Fact Checking,” to see if the new lie aligns with the newest, approved Common Conjecture is amoral, faulty and detrimentally abusive and destructive to the good of Common Man! Logic furthermore behooves society to question conjecture and to not make the Newest Common Conjecture an agreed upon consensus, but compels us to compare conjecture to factual conclusions.
Which training method did Jonathan Sheppard employ?
When somebody complained how Jonathan Sheppard would never explain his training program to them, this was my response:
Well, some of us understood his training program which was essentially reverse-engineered in congruency with the horse’s running date, its condition, the competition it would be up against, along with the expectations of its upcoming performance while always keeping the race AFTER that performance in mind.
What is the beginning? Where is that end? Who seeks a question? How tell an answer. When middle is, “middle,” “now, middle,” is middle, now!
You would think that to love the Lord, God, our creator, would be inherent,… a, “given,” … just an understood fact of life! Who wouldn’t love the one who created everything? That’s easy! … Right? Ahh,…but many do not believe they were created. They do not believe that there is a being to express gratitude towards! They do not believe in God. They believe that randomness and luck are the primordial conditions which have initially catalyzed life!
If randomness and luck were the beginning, (the only, two ingredients which formed the zygote of all of which has ever been,) how is it not random and lucky that there is a God, who, himself, was created by that randomness and luck, thereafter, such God created order and predictability, … the world?
“Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. … Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”
How do we re-learn those things which our grandparents had never been taught?
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“…there are fewer and fewer students of the game anymore.
Journeyman’s Journal
October 21, 2025
…And the People Went Insane!
The difference between the world today and the world we grow up in is not definable. We cannot put our finger on what is different or why; but we all know that collective consciousness has changed.
It is not a shift!
Do not call it a, “shift,” because the road and also the vehicle are all different animals, today, altogether!
“The ruthless will vanish,
the mockers will disappear,
And all who have an eye for evil will be cut down…”
-ISAIAH 29:20
“As when a hungry person dreams of eating, but awakens hungry still; as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking, but awakens fading and thirsty still. So will it be with the hoarders of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.”
“…By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; by his knowledge the watery depths were divided, …”
Chapter 3
My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity.
Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.
“…Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, …”
Paul tells us:
“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of Brethren, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
“Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”
JOHN 17:3
Dakkuan’s Notes:
Stillness
Ninja Scroll
Securing stillness of the in-breath builds strength. Securing humble restraint of the out-breath builds character. Not knowing allows purity.
Chip Van Hassel
Stretching is very, very important, because, not only does it help to prevent you from injury, but it also conditions and readys the muscles for exertion, growth and physical trauma. Stretching After strenuous activity not only strengthens and conditions the muscles further, but stretching lessens your body’s recovery time. … One of the Key proponents to getting and staying fit is understanding and utilizing your body’s recovery time (mental recovery time is something to explore when more advanced methods and exercises are introduced). After all, recovery time is what we Live for… (explanation- we don’t workout just for the act of working out. We do it so we feel good for the duration of the time when we are not working out.) In other words: any time you are not working out is “recovery time”. The amount of recovery time you take always determines your body’s needs in conjunction with your physical self expectations. Wake it, Breath it, Eat it, Sleep it, Live it; Be It!
“…my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God. I will also ignore your children.”
HOSEA 4:6
“You are permitted to understand the secretes of the Kingdom of God.”
LUKE 8:10
“But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.”
1 CORINTHIANS 2:10
“This message was kept secret for centuries and generations past, but now it has been revealed to God’s people. For God wanted them to know that the riches and glory of Christ are for you Gentiles, too. And this is the secret: Christ lives in you. This gives you assurance of sharing his glory.”
COLOSSIANS 1:26-27
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
John 10:10
“In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have bought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”
EXODUS 16:1-2
“So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law.”
GALATIANS 5:1
“And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.”
EPHESIANS 2:6
“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.”
“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”
“… After all, it takes the Strength, Wisdom and Beauty of a Free Man to offer charity to a brother in need,..”
The hand of charity is not short, but the arm which reserves it genuflects to the miser. …
After all, it takes the Strength, Wisdom and Beauty of a Free Man to offer charity to a brother in need,.. but only if that charity does not weaken such Free Man or his home.
Chip Van Hassel
Where is there a Lodge Of Master Markers, Who’s moon-body has surfed Beyond this already-traversed marble?
Is it from the east? Is it to the West? Could it be farther South, Or even closer north?
Could the albatross Have already flown across, Leaving the mariner’s quiver inclined by the motion of chilled skin?
This building, A tabernacle to those who seek, Is both verb and noun, Word and sound.
‘Tis a corner-cutters’ dream, That tent, That rejected stone! I may not mark it alone!
No longer a symbol, Lost carving, or word, The Master’s capstone Has corners which point directions.
Where hath the path been beaten to; and who’s feet have tamped-down that earth?
No master carves his own name; No flint strikes against steel. No building Raises its own gables.
If the search Is to build here and now, than the ashes of the earth are the edge of this town.
“For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.”
In consequence of the services to the Christians performed by the Poor Fellow-Soldiers, Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, gave them for a habitation, for hitherto they seem to have had no fixed place of abode,
“the place or royal house to the South of the Temple of the Lord, vulgarly called the Temple of Solomon,”
This place or royal house was
“within the sacred inclosure of the Temple on Mount Moriah.”
The large Court between the Temple of Solomon was also conceded to them. They were, henceforth, termed, “The Knighthood of the Temple of Solomon,” and sometimes, as in the Rule of St. Bernard, “The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Jesus Christ and of the Temple of Solomon.”
“Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”
“And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses andescape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.”
“Then Jesus said to them, “A little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.”
“The While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” These things Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.”
