Morality constrains indviduals to serve the interests of power for the collective, in the way cells serve the interests of power for the individual. Do you have anything to hide from God? If you do, then Let God search you with his light. Live in accordance with one’s experience of the things which come about by nature. Of no one of all things is there any birth, nor any end in baneful death. There is only a mingling a separation of what has been mingled. Any action for which we can be held morally accountable is one we can choose. We are held morally accountable for our choices. Decision can precede choice. All acts of deliberation and resolution can be completed before one chooses, which is further evidence that the choice is the action itself. Between the time one decides and one acts there is an intent. There will be deliberation, decision or choice, intention (and brain processes, nerve messages, and muscle contractions), bodily movement, and a series of further occurrences, for example, words uttered and a lie told, which extend indefinitely into the future and which appear to be causally related. Direct choices are acts of will. Choices, in the fundamental sense of “choice,” and acts of will are both ways in which we act, not actions themselves. One can do something with effort, take effort trying to do something, and resolve to do something.  #RandolphHarris 1 of 7

Each person serves has reason, wisdom, or knowledge of what is really good and what is really bad. Rightness of an individual action is wholly determined by the kind of action it is, and teleologist, who maintain the rightness of an individual action is wholly determined by the goodness or badnesss of its consequences. Sometimes expected consequences appear to morally require that we make exceptions to moral rules, and sometimes actions with good consequences nevertheless appear to be immoral. Jesus was born about 5 B.C. in Palestine and was executed by crucifixion at Jerusalem proper in A.D. 29 or 30. There immediately arose a conviction among his disciples, reflected in the New Testament of the Holy Bible, that he had been raised by God from the dead, and under the compulsion of this conviction the Christian church came into existence, witnessing to both the divine status and the saving power of Jesus, now proclaimed as the Christ. Jesus was depicted as fully and authentically human, subject, like others, to temptation, hunger, pain, fatigue, ignorance, and sorrow. However, at the same time, he was affirmed as the Lord, Messiah (Christos), the Son of God. #RandolphHarris 2 of 7

This extremely exalted view of Christ reaches its highest expression in the Forth Gospel, which claims in its prologue to Jesus’ life that the Word (Logos), which was in the beginning with God, and was God, and though which all things were made, became flesh, and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; and we have beheld his glory, glory as the only Son from the Father (John 1.14; the conception of the Logos as the universal principle of reason in Greek philosophy). The faith that Jesus was the Christ apparently arose out of a practical acceptance of his status as one who had authority to forgive the sins, to declare God’s mind toward humans, to reveal the truth meaning of the divine Law, to heal diseases, and to assume that human’s eternal destiny and welfare was bound up with their responses to hum. This practical acknowledgment of his unique authority probably crystallized into conscious conviction as to his deity under the impact of the resurrection events. Jesus is identified as a son of man and as the Son of God. It was a publicly observable fact that Jesus was a man, and the fact of faith that he was divine, in that in him all the fullness of God was pleases to dwell (Colossians 1.19). #RandolphHarris 3 of 7

The Holy Spirit, which is referred to apparently indiscriminately as the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ, inspires and guides both individual and the Christian community. God who was incarnate in Christ was the God who had created the Heaven and Earth. This was expressed by the affirmation that God is both Father and Son; and the reality of the Spirit, operating in the World both before and after thirty or so years of the incarnation. However, God’s actions are not only in the past, there is a divine activity in the present that can directly affect the individual today. That human beings are sinful is a theological statement of the observable fact that men and women are persistently self-centered and that even their highest moral achievements are quickly corrupted by selfishness. We must continually keep our soul open to the fact of God’s creative purpose and never confuse or cloud it with our own intentions. If we do, God will have to force our intentions aside no matter how much it may hurt. A missionary is created for the purpose of being God’s servant, one in whom God is glorified. Beware lest you forget God’s purpose for your life. #RandolphHarris 4 of 7

Our Lord’s exhortation to us is to be generous in our behavior toward everyone. Beware of living according to your natural affection in your spiritual life. Everyone has natural affections—some people we like and others we do not lie. Yet we must never let those likes and dislikes rule our Christian life. The true expression of Christian character is not in god-doing but in Godlikeness. Men and women are free and responsible person on whose daily choices depends on their own final good and happiness or irretrievable loss and failure.  I was reading about a Russian scientist who dropped dead and people thought he had been poisoned. Upon further investigation, it was found that he had cancer, which caused blood clot and he had a heart attack, which causes his heart to bleed, but he kept working. While at lunch with friends, the scientist’s heart bled so much that it compressed and stopped beating and that is what caused him to suddenly drop dead. The doctor who did the autopsy said she could not imagine herself working in his condition and that he must have been in extreme pain. #RandolphHarris 5 of 7

No amount of enthusiasm will ever stand up to the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His servant. Only one thing will bear the strain, and that is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ Himself—a relationship that has been examined, purified, and tested until only one purpose remains and I can truly say, “I am here for God to send me where He will.” Everything else may become blurred, but this relationship with Jesus Christ must never be distorted nor ignored. In prescientific cosmology, Heaven is located in the sky above our heads and Hell in the ground beneath our feet. Heaven is now generally conceived of as the enjoyment of the full consciousness of God’s presence and participation in the divine kingdom, which represents the final fulfillment of God’s purpose for his creation; and Hell is viewed as self-exclusion from this. Hell perhaps signifies sheer annihilation. Or is it possible that Hell is the final frustration of God’s purpose by the loss of part of his human creation be reconciled with his ultimate sovereignty, and does the idea never-ending torment, as a form of suffering out of which no good is finally brought? #RandolphHarris 6 of 7

There is the existential standpoint of real life, in which we exercise a fateful responsibility in our moral choices and are confronted with the tremendous alternatives of spiritual life and death, symbolized by Heaven and Hell. There is also the detached standpoint of theological reflection, in which it seems possible to deduce from the two premises of the sovereignty and the love of God that although damnation is abstractly conceivable and is known in existential experience as a dread possibility, God’s saving purpose in relation to his creatures will nevertheless in the end be triumphant, and eternal loss will remain an unrealized possibility. The Christian faith has always drawn people together into a community of faith, or church. Everything that occurs is controlled unexceptionably by fate, which is the continuous causal chain of the things that exist. Nothing comes about except in accordance with antecedent causes. Even in the case of states of affairs that might seem to be of a spontaneous or uncaused nature, obscure causes are working under the surface. People are responsible for their conduct.  If there is sin in your life, do not just admit it—confess it. Are you willing to obey your Lord and Master? #RandolphHarris 7 of 7

QUICK MOVE-IN | HOMESITE 67

New HomesCresleigh HavenwoodQuick Move-In | Homesite 67

4 Bedrooms – 3.5 Bathrooms – 3,489 sq. ft. – $824,533

Home Site 67 is a Residence Four plan, the largest home offered in Cresleigh Havenwood. This two-story, 3,489 square foot home features four bedrooms, including one suite on the first floor, three and one half bathroom, and a true three-car garage.

The covered porch provided a warm entry and the dining room is located right off the entry way. The Kitchen is connected through the Butler’s Pantry providing ample storage. The great room and loft upstairs allow for various uses that will suit your family and lifestyle.

This home includes over $50,000 in options and upgrades
• Durable luxury vinyl plank flooring throughout the first floor
• Gray Shaker Cabinetry with Soft-Close Doors & Drawers
• Over Island Pendants and Under-Cabinet Lighting
• Gourmet Kitchen option with upgraded appliances
• Stainless Steel Farm Sink and Upgraded Faucet
• Flat Screen Prewire in Great Room
• Owned Solar

Best of all, each Cresleigh home comes fully equipped with an All Ready connected home! This smart home package comes included with your home and features great tools including: video door bell and digital deadbolt for the front door, connect home hub so you can set scenes and routines to make life just a little easier. Two smart switches and USB outlets are also included, plus we’ll gift you a Google Home Hub and Google Home Mini! https://cresleigh.com/havenwood/quick-move-homesite-67/