Jaws 2

Several emails on this..No right or wrong answers...But since chum is basically stinkin', rottin' maggot-filled fish guts, this is the "arrangement" that I came up with:

Brody and the Bucket of Chum

For from within, out of the heart [bucket] of men [Chief Brody], proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:[chum] Mark 7:21-22

The Ocean Water

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Is. 57:20 [it is where the wicked dwell]

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter...Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy? James 3:10-17

Water in the Bible represents words...words that get "cobbled together" as knowledge and ways in which a man's heart walks..what comes out of the heart of man reflects their chosen walkway--a walkway of devils or a walkway from above.

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart. Jer. 4:18

Jaws
The salt ocean water is dark and produces death. The million different heart walkways offered by the world are all of death (ever see what a flood of salt water does to a lawn) and darkness and all ultimately authored by Satan [Jaws]

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Prov. 14:12

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 2 Cor 4:3-4

"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. John 8:44

Satan swims and prowls those dark waters seeking to devour.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 1 Pet. 5:8

Quint and the Boat
Satan uses a million false prophets [Quint] who "market" to man a million different courses to take [the boat] across the ocean of death.



Satan is now devouring his false prophets, but both Satan and his unwitting servants will be devoured in the Judgment by the word of God.

by Pat Marvenko Smith at revelationillustration.com

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. Is. 1:18-2

I said there are no right or wrong answers, only instructive answers.

The instruction
Jesus died to save and cleanse our chum buckets to become his manna-from-heaven buckets..Therefore with our born again buckets:

Let's be the salt of the earth...and not be chummin' the waters!

Jaws

A favorite seen from Jaws. Can it be used as an illustration for our spiritual instruction?


Fill in the blanks

Chief Brody = _____?

Chum = _____?

Bucket = _____?

Shark = _____?

Water = _____?

Quint (the old shark hunter) = _____?

Boat = _____?

Obviously no right or wrong answers, just instructive answers.

Ps 2 - Breaking Bands and Casting Cords

vs.1-2 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying],

The sinners and wicked in Psalm 1, who are standing and counseling in the ways of the world, are here counseling against God and Jesus Christ, the Anointed.

In the perverted and inverted world of man's wisdom, white is black and black is white, good is evil and evil is good. And as they walk in this wisdom, they seek to eliminate the "negative" (that is God's word of righteousness) while spewing the "good news" of evil.

Are the "people" pushing their leaders to anti-God decisions (like Pontius Pilot) or are the leaders leading their people down that path, or both? Either way, it's just noise in the "vain" and evil system that will pass away.

Vs.3 "Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us."

We see in other OT passages where the Hebrew word 'mowcer', that is here translated "bands", refers to the irons that were placed around the slave's neck leading them along a path according to the will of the master:

Shake thyself from the dust; arise, [and] sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Is. 52:2

and "cords" were used to restrain hands and arms":

Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And [there were] liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread. Jdg. 16:12

To the unconverted, God's word seems like the bands and cords of a slave because it tells a man where his feet should and shouldn't walk and who and how their hands should serve.

vs 4 He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord scoffs at them.

God here turns the table on those who were mocking His word in Psalm 1:1.God is now the One doing the mocking. Why? Because God's words of freedom and life are being ridiculed by fallen man as bondage, while their bands and cords of spiritual darkness and sin are hailed as freedom.

Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men! Ps. 117:13-15

Fallen man is born in spiritual death and darkness---held by bands in the way of sin and forced by cords to serve the world and Satan. God offers forgiveness and freedom in Christ---freedom to walk in God's way of righteousness, and power and authority to serve our risen King. But to the wicked, bondage is freedom and freedom is bondage.

vs 5 Then He will speak to them in His anger And terrify them in His fury, saying,

God's mocking turns to words of judgment---but judgment mixed with mercy, and a call to repentance, as we see in the remainder of this Psalm.

---------------------------------------------------------------
(the following four verses is a dialogue between God the Father and His Son)
[God says]: vs. 6 "But as for Me, I have installed My King Upon Zion, My holy mountain."

In scripture, mountains often symbolize the centers of kingdom power. The world's mountains mostly consist of unholy rulers that counsel and mock upon unholy mountains. But God has appointed his Son to be a vastly superior King of a vastly superior kingdom---New Jerusalem.

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm." John 18:36

We see the place where God's King rules is mount Zion, a place of grace. The time is growing short but the door is still open for all sinners to repent and enter into God's holy kingdom.

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of {the} righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than {the blood} of Abel. Heb. 12:22-24

[Christ says]: vs 7 "I will surely tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to Me, 'You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.

Jesus was sent into the world to accomplish God's work of salvation by accomplishing two works:

1) to proclaim the words of His Father (the "decree"):

Therefore Pilate said to Him, "So You are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say {correctly} that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice." John 18:37

2) To become the Lamb of God, the only begotten of the Father, that would take away the sins of the world.

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, "SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME; IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND {sacrifices} FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE. "THEN I SAID, 'BEHOLD, I HAVE COME (IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME) TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.' "Heb 10:4-7

[God says]: vs. 8-9 "Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance, And the {very} ends of the earth as Your possession. 'You shall break them with a rod of iron, You shall shatter them like earthenware.' "

In verse six, we see Christ being appointed by God to be King over a spiritual kingdom, New Jerusalem. Christ's reign as King of Kings over the earth is to be part of an inheritance that will initially involve words of judgment (the symbolic meaning of a "rod of iron"), resulting in the destruction of "earthenware"---i.e. flesh.

Pat Marvenko Smith RevelationIllustrated.com

In the foregoing dialogue we see the Son, as King of heaven and earth, being subject to the Father's plans and purposes.

• God appoints His Son as the King of God's "mountain".
• God begets His Son and gives Him a "decree" for the world to hear
• God offers His Son the earth and authorizes Him as Ruler and Judge

And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, "YET ONCE MORE I WILL SHAKE NOT ONLY THE EARTH, BUT ALSO THE HEAVEN." This {expression,} "Yet once more," denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Heb. 12:26-27 [shaking the earth may well be when the winnowing of the chaff occurs (Psalm 1:5) where only the righteous in Christ remain as part of God's Kingdom.]

vs 10-12 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish [from] the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed [are] all they that put their trust in him.

This Psalm ends with God's merciful but urgent warning to his enemies who think themselves wise, but they are fools.

Kings are surrounded by servants all day long. But wise kings will become servants...servants of the Lord.

We see the phrase 'fear and trembling' several times in the New Testament where each time it carries the meaning of 'undivided attention'. A sinner can only kiss the Son when he has turned away from the world's ways that are perishing. Kissing the Son must mean to personally receive by faith the words of the Son of God---words that issue forth from the heart of God into the heart of whosoever will.

See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned {them} on earth, much less {will} we {escape} who turn away from Him who {warns} from heaven...Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe;for our God is a consuming fire. Heb. 12:25, 28