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Gerry Gutierrez' Update
Jesus the "Familyless?" “Motherless.” “No one is motherless but by choice.” Jesus’ Mother and Brothers 46While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers
stood outside, wanting to speak to him. 47Someone told him, “Your mother
and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.” 48He replied to him, “Who is my mother, and who are
my brothers?”49Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my
brothers.50For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother. Jesus seems to say to those who demand to speak to him that, “it
is to listen and do the will of God that for which men were created.” Life is Prayer and the most important element of prayer is not
speaking to God in Jesus or in the name of Jesus but to listen to God in Jesus
and by so doing learn to do the will of God. Religious “prayers” will lead men to shout to God as if he were sleeping
to wake him up to hear them and do their will. When these gimmicks do not work with God, men seek to BOOM on
their own, that is Becoming Ones Own Man. BOOM. When this BOOM does not
work for men, they gather together those likeminded and pull rank over others
to invent a city around them with the intention to build a name for themselves
and a tower on the basis of proximity to God and not intimacy with God by
listening to Jesus. Searching for God in order to use God will end up making people
followers of Nimrod who built a tower in Babel only to shake his fist to God
for not listening to the mighty “togetherness” of Nimrod. If the final goal of togetherness is to get God’s attention to do
men’s will they will end up loosing even the proximity of God by common grace
and will be left “Bubbling” and confused with no one to listen their
“Bubbling”. Our sovereign God cannot be mocked. Never aspire to be the “Father” of anyone including your own
children on earth because there is only one Father of all and he is in heaven. Praying right is only possible by first listening to God in Jesus
and doing the will of God. Any other way of “praying” is just “bubbling”
that will never be heard no matter who you are or how close you think you are
to God in the flesh or in proximity. Beware of Babel and “bobbling” it only leads at the end to shake
your fist at God in frustration at the lack of answers to “bobbling” on the outside
door or at the tower of “proximity” or “togetherness. Inside the garden at the foot of Jesus in the cool of the day is
where I want to be found away from fruitless religiosity. What Religion works
within the heart of men is the “Right of entitlement” of the attention of God
outside the garden and outside the gates of heaven while Jesus is in the
playpen with his true family of believers. I never knew my father because he died before I was born. I never
lived with my mother because she was too young to stay home. My sister Adela and I would hear both grandparents speaking a
little sermon from their heart explaining why we are to receive the “board of
education in the seat of learning.” They did not want us to grow up to embarrass them and dishonor God
with bad behavior. Submissively and for our own good we kneeled down on our
knees to receive three blows of a whip that had a convenient handle, two feet
long that end in three separate whips. This blessed discipline was imparted
with the unforgettable words. What a relief that my grandparents were Catholic and believed in
the Trinity, because if they were polytheist pagans they would have not stop
after three blows on our behind. Amazingly enough and contrary to Benjamin
Spock’s views, I do not resent my grandparents at all but admire their love and
disciple specially as they spoke to us from their heart in tears about the
“why?” before the spanking. They always pointed out to God the Father as one to whom they must
give account of themselves and us. By word and deed we learned that there
is only one Father of the Father of the father, of the father ... of all
created beings and in his sight we all are equal and children created to listen
and do the will of God. The wonder of wonders is that by so doing you can
become at the foot of Jesus, the true Mother, the true brother, and the true sister
of Jesus. Just imagine and delight in the fact of making God visible like
Mary who maded God visible in Jesus. Go ye
therefore pregnant with Jesus as his witness and give birth to your testimony
by pen, proclamation and persuasion. Jesus has risen and he is risen
indeed!!! This was the voice of a bruised reed as I smolder with one finger
to write this letter of love to you. Gerry Gutierrez PS. My Website is, perugerry.com
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