I posted this in another forum, Apologetics, but found it worthy to apply here.
When I was a child in the 1950s, my grandpa had this old barn on the Land that he settle on a government land grant given for free to anyone who would farm it in the late 1800s. 280 acres best I remember . In this 100 year old barn he milked four Jersey cows and had a milk run delivery. An old man in his late eighties and early nineties.
He set up this galvanized horse troth where he could build a fire under it to boil water and rigged an old washing machine motor with a brush attached where he could scald and clean the inside of the glass milk bottles. My job, and I was about 8 years old was to run the separator, separating the cream from the milk and had this devise mounted to the wall where I would pull down this lever to insert this paper stopper in the top of those bottles.
One day I noticed this wooden object on the wall and asked him about it for what it was. He said that is an Oxen yoke. He began to tell me about how he made it from an oak tree and plowed those fields with Oxen, and took a vacation from Plainview Texas to Scott county Arkansas on an Ox driven cart, to him three months. He went to his tools and pulled out this draw knife. He took that yoke off the wall and begin to explain to me how it worked and said.
If the yoke does not fit the Ox and it hurts he will not pull the plow so I take this knife and fit it to the oxen shoulders to be comfortable on him. For if one of the ox does not fit the yoke there is no way that you can plow a straight furrow.
I never forgot that story and later in life in my late twenties when I gave my life over to God and read do not be unequally yoked with one Jesus or one another, for if you are there is no way that you can perform that perfect task that God instructs us to perform in Him, that you may take up that cross, that same cross as the one that Jesus took up all alone by those who could not be equally yoked with him in the Father. And not even one of his own disciples came to be identified with him at his trials and tribulation, not a single one.
And from what I read in this forum, I have not heard from one at alll who is equally yoked with Jesus to pull that same load from the Lord God of it that Jesus pulled of the One that he called Father of it.
Here is what they say about that. No one can be like Jesus, he was god, no one can be perfect even as your father in heaven is perfect as Jesus was. And they say that Jesus was the only child that God ever had, a son to pull that load by himself when it is you who is supposed to pick up that same load as Jesus picked up and carried it to his death by men who could not yoke themselves to the same.
These who only has a belief for a god, tha yoke that God makes hurts these pride for a belief instead of being the one who is suppose to be equal with Jesus in the same God as he was equal with that he called Father, and impossible to find in yourself to be equal with the very same One Jesus said he was equal with. That huts doesnt it?
Now I will hear how blasphemous that is won't we! It Hurts doesnt it when you read how you are suppose to pull that same load as Jesus did from God Himself as Jesus did, but actually refuse to.
When I was a child in the 1950s, my grandpa had this old barn on the Land that he settle on a government land grant given for free to anyone who would farm it in the late 1800s. 280 acres best I remember . In this 100 year old barn he milked four Jersey cows and had a milk run delivery. An old man in his late eighties and early nineties.
He set up this galvanized horse troth where he could build a fire under it to boil water and rigged an old washing machine motor with a brush attached where he could scald and clean the inside of the glass milk bottles. My job, and I was about 8 years old was to run the separator, separating the cream from the milk and had this devise mounted to the wall where I would pull down this lever to insert this paper stopper in the top of those bottles.
One day I noticed this wooden object on the wall and asked him about it for what it was. He said that is an Oxen yoke. He began to tell me about how he made it from an oak tree and plowed those fields with Oxen, and took a vacation from Plainview Texas to Scott county Arkansas on an Ox driven cart, to him three months. He went to his tools and pulled out this draw knife. He took that yoke off the wall and begin to explain to me how it worked and said.
If the yoke does not fit the Ox and it hurts he will not pull the plow so I take this knife and fit it to the oxen shoulders to be comfortable on him. For if one of the ox does not fit the yoke there is no way that you can plow a straight furrow.
I never forgot that story and later in life in my late twenties when I gave my life over to God and read do not be unequally yoked with one Jesus or one another, for if you are there is no way that you can perform that perfect task that God instructs us to perform in Him, that you may take up that cross, that same cross as the one that Jesus took up all alone by those who could not be equally yoked with him in the Father. And not even one of his own disciples came to be identified with him at his trials and tribulation, not a single one.
And from what I read in this forum, I have not heard from one at alll who is equally yoked with Jesus to pull that same load from the Lord God of it that Jesus pulled of the One that he called Father of it.
Here is what they say about that. No one can be like Jesus, he was god, no one can be perfect even as your father in heaven is perfect as Jesus was. And they say that Jesus was the only child that God ever had, a son to pull that load by himself when it is you who is supposed to pick up that same load as Jesus picked up and carried it to his death by men who could not yoke themselves to the same.
These who only has a belief for a god, tha yoke that God makes hurts these pride for a belief instead of being the one who is suppose to be equal with Jesus in the same God as he was equal with that he called Father, and impossible to find in yourself to be equal with the very same One Jesus said he was equal with. That huts doesnt it?
Now I will hear how blasphemous that is won't we! It Hurts doesnt it when you read how you are suppose to pull that same load as Jesus did from God Himself as Jesus did, but actually refuse to.
