the pissing preacher (is pissing in the bible? i never knew)

uh this video just simply made me remember why preachers frustrate me at times. i sat there an watched it laughing trying to figure out if this was real or not...but then i heard the few amens and realized "crap this is for real". i even looked up the scripture and sure enough, "1 kings 14:10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall"...wow, i found the other passages as well...it's crazy what the bible has in it...hahaha

the one major thing that i have noticed over the last 15 years of church and ministry is that when we see a well meaning preacher standing in his pulpit yelling about some sorta of sin and or soap box he has, it usually means its what he or she is dealing with the most. in other words, it's like the preacher who gets up and says not to do the very thing he can't stop himself from doing when he is by his self or where no one can see him. or the tv evangelist preaching against sexual sins and then gets caught having an affair. unfortunately i have seen and been around men and woman of God who have fallen while condemning someone else while they are fallen (fallen means, getting caught doing something you shouldn't be doing) and for the longest time i have been shouting from the mountain tops "preach the GOSPEL"...the gospel isn't a soap box to stand on and pick on a particular sin or group of people who are sinning, it's the good news about how God redeemed man through jesus and because of this redemption we now have the ability of God in us to do the right thing...and when someone messes up we have the grace to forgive and restore...that is what God is and who He is in us if we will let Him be!!! we don't have to preach what we are against but we can preach, talk, communicate what we are for...and i am for the Gospel...God has made peace with man. Sin is no longer the issue rather identity is now the issue...when we know who we are in jesus sin is easy to walk away from!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God loves us so very much...more than we will ever know!

i find that when you have someone who screams "HOLINESS, LIVE HOLY OR GOD CAN'T USE YOU", that person usually isn't that holy when no one is watching. and really that statement is not true...because if it was God couldn't use anybody. he couldn't have used moses because he was a murderer and a complainer, he couldn't have used samson because he was a fornicator or was having sex with an ungodly woman who wasn't his wife, he couldn't have used king david, a man after His, God's own heart, because david was a liar, murderer, adulterer, cheater, and he even tried to cover up his sin too before getting caught. if holiness or "pissing sitting down" was the issue then none of us would qualify...that's why i believe so strongly in teaching and preaching and talking about "WHO WE ARE IN CHRIST" rather than "who we aren't and how we better try to be". the world needs to know God and that salvation comes through His son Jesus and because of jesus you are now qualified, accepted, worthy to be called His child. this is what frees people from sin and gives them the strength to live holy. i am not sure "standing up to piss" is what God is saying right now...or maybe He is and i am just totally misunderstanding salvation and reaching to the world with the love of God. yeah that's probably true...

this is true about me, i would never want to sit in the seat of the scornful judging a preacher for what they feel God is giving them to preach on but i do challenge preachers to sit down and listen to what and how they are saying it. is what i am preaching about coming from a place of love for people, is what i am saying going build up someone and give them the courage to go on and live right? condemnation doesn't produce God's ability in someone to do the right thing rather it hinders it. jesus never pointed his finger and yelled "we have men sitting down to piss today and i am the Son of God and i pee only the way God's pee's and that is STANDING UP, GLORY". however you do have jesus pointing his finger to religious leaders and telling them that they were a bunch of judgmental snakes...you also see jesus turning and reaching out his hand to a woman caught in adultery and giving her the strength to not sin anymore, forgiving her, showing her acceptance...we have jesus when he was on earth challenging every religious duty that was listed under the law and on the other hand forgiving a ruthless criminal hanging next to him on a cross. He was and is the living gospel...what he does is what i do!!! you don't have scripture of jesus ever condemning the world, rather you do have him standing up against church people for being judgmental...does jesus have a standard for holiness? yes, but the way he preached was different from ours. he actually gave a sinner the right to call God abba or father first. he established the relationship with God, told people who they were and who God has made them to be, THEN, they had the ability and strength to change there behavior, and maybe that was peeing sitting down, maybe someone really struggled being a "standing up to piss" kind of a guy...really, maybe!!!

in closing this preacher struck a good nerve in me that had me look inside and make sure that what i am saying is out of love and not out of being right...it had me thinking i guess.

hmm, i had to write about this too because, well, maybe i feel guilty...i sit down when i pee...ask tonya...

peace