Raymond Kelsey:
CLASS OF 1978
Tillar High SchoolClass of 1978
Tillar, AR
University of Texas at ArlingtonClass of 1988
Arlington, TX
University of ArkansasClass of 1981
Monticello, AR
University of Central ArkansasClass of 1980
Conway, AR
B. C. Prewitt Memorial Elementary SchoolClass of 1971
Tillar, AR
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The Remembrance (JESUS, THE CHRIST)By Raymond Kelsey
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THE REMEMBRANCE (JESUS, THE CHRIST)
As I sit here and wonder about current events or the what or where abouts of peers and friends of youth and
progression, I realize that so many are in existence but sadly to say that their lives are just that..."benign"!!! It is often
said or quoted, "many people retreat or repress their inner person out of the fear of social identification because of
past experiences or a type of self-induced social trauma denying their very soul"!!! It is sad that every new day that
the Lord God brings to every soul that He desires to be His own, we passively ignore the very blessings that we
so summon from Him, being ignorant to understanding that God use's people as a vessel and a vehicle to express
and exemplify Himself as a blessing to each and every one of us!! This is a very important element that keeps us all
together and in touch with one another through communication for the advent of immortality justifying by "spirit"!!
Ethnographically, I daily observe the visits to various social networks, from one's of the past and present, and
there are many, conversely, it reflects the "silence" (out there but not heard from) of the individual's when it should
be reciprocating and echoing from the past and present justifying "grace and mercy" with rejoicing and thanksgiving
for just life and living!!!
For reasons beyond surface understanding, there is no fullness of true godliness or spiritual interaction from the
colleagues, friends, or associates that identify themselves as such!! The same parallels as witness and testimonies
that are evident in some of our communities from "whence" we were taught and nurtured, observing the decay of
what was once an abundant life. How could life once so vibrant and filled with spiritual effervescence come to a
sudden stop with visual as well as functional acceptance as if life never existed??
Our world, country, states, cities, communities, homes, churches, schools, social and professional belonging as
well as any other institution or sub domain are in grave trouble and danger of receding to the darkness of
selfishness and fear as opposed to being the upright sapiens that we were made to be, given power and
understanding to represent every cause at every turn. We have allowed a darken society of ruling untouchables
dictate our choices for today and tomorrow although they can't lower the "Son" and raise Him again on the eastern
horizon!!
God is a powerful, ever-loving, and everlasting God...He allows rain to fall on the good and the bad; He holds the
seas (2/3 of the earth surface) back from the land of His children...He knows what you will be doing when you get
to where you are going. He's in control and aware of your every move and your very thought...there is no hiding
place, yet we retreat to a form of hermetic security of individuality where there is no life or interaction with Him or
those that say that they "truly" represent Him!!!
Too many people today are "caught up' and the "rapture" haven't even come yet!! Don't get caught up in the
wrong "caught up"!!!! Too many are into self-righteous cults, over intelligent or pluralistically ignorant, and often
following conservative traditions that may very well be exponential 'ol wives tales and fables, however not into the
understanding of the love of Jesus Christ which is "promised" to all and to any or all that "cry out" to Him that He
may here our voice; He has promised to answer the call of His children affirming that He will never leave us alone.
We must, however pray, as He has commanded us to do, for it is His order and protocol....well, there's not much
crying' going on lately in this proud society of spiritual amnesia, so nothing is being heard and a prayer or summon
can't be answered!!! God said, "if my people who are called by my name, would humble themselves and pray, and
turn from your wicked ways, I'll heal your land."
We are all under the lamb of God, Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, both the shepherd and the lamb. The coming,
presence, and ascension of the very lamb of God was to fulfill the prophecy of witnesses for God of the Old
Testament. Christ purpose was not to cast out the early witnesses, but to confirm the testament of God by which
the prophets were witnesses of God through His spoken and divine power.
Our country and our lives will not recover from this socio-spiritual tragedy and loss until we appeal to the
Creator as He said do.....as He(God through Jesus Christ) said, "I am on the throne and the earth is my
footstool...for I am the I AM" (you can put anything behind I AM you want to and it will still be of God)...."If men
(earth) would humble themselves and pray (and not try and figure it out without Him, sorry, not going to happen,
God can't deny Himself and has no respect of person or nation) and seek My Face!!!! Then (a resultant or reaction to
an action or an input) I WILL HEAL YOUR LAND!!!!! (Earth) Our country and our world is hurting, but not seeking
treatment from the only provider that can cure this transnational wound and heal this global affliction. Hurt is the
beginning of healing and only the original potter can bond or restore pieces of a broken vessel that was
customizingly built through artistic His creation.
When we as people of God (and those of you that don't think that you are, just remember The I AM)are going to
come into the understanding that men don't rule earth.....if that were so, God would not have to glorify Himself as
He frequently does calling on "The Rocks" as He said "If men don't glorify me, I'll glorify Myself and the Rocks will
cry out to me....Where does a storm starts from...a rock...where does a hurricane come from...a rock...where does
a earthquake come from...a rock...where does a tornado come from....a rock, where does a tsunami come from, a
rock...where does an oil exploration explosion on "wildcat venture" in the Gulf killing or will die everything in its
polluted path come from...yeah, you're right, a rock!!! Wake up world!!!
For we are not under the law as Jesus said, but grace and redemption through the bloodshed, death, and
resurrection of Jesus "The Christ" (Messiah) by the power of God through the Holy Spirit that the grave is no place
for life or the living. Jesus was placed in Joseph's sepulcher, a borrowed tomb, meaning as He promised He would
not be using it long and He would return what he borrowed!!
We have nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to Jesus Christ, for we glory in all of sin and darkness and are
ashamed of the very Power that can deliver from sin or spiritual desolation. We were allowed as children to not
only come to Him as Christ would say, suffer (allow) the little children to come to me. We came to Him not only at
church on Sunday's, but at home; also at school, on the play grounds and while performing extracurricular activities
and ancillary events; "color and gender", and socioeconomic status and conditions were not factors for "believing".
It's a privilege to have Christ in our lives and not a right. It is a disgrace to Him and His Father for those that are His
as well yet, they do not believe!!!
For those of you that seek spiritual understanding under the Law of Moses doctrin...Expand for more
e and philosophy of the dated
Jewish teaching apparently don't understand the reasoning for the coming of the Messiah being Jesus!! This is
perhaps why there are no responses or comments when it comes to interaction or inter-union!! If the law is just,
then why did Christ have to go the cross and die for even the very fools that placed Him there?? It was after the
crucifixion that the very one's that performed such atrocity realized what the law of Moses meant!! They killed
innocent blood out of their own selfish and blind ignorance and were perplexed by their actions. Judas himself, the
transgressor, quoted, "weve killed innocent blood", then hung himself and died although Christ Himself granted to
the twelve at the last supper that His transgressor should also live. If we are to seek another man (priest) who
cannot keep his own creative law, then why did Christ come and go to the cross taking place for us? Why?
Because of men's ignorance, selfrightousness, and disbelief!!!
If Christ had not come, we would still be enslaved by an ecclesiastical caste system that the Jews developed for
their own way of persuading and controlling the life and spirit of another individual person divine
outcome (a gentile) ...circumcision on the eight day does not get you into heaven and if it did, absolutely, positively, and
unequivocally, no women would be going to heaven if this were the case(men and women alike were in the upper
room when the power of the holy spirit presented Himself in cloven tongues and it did not ask for a headcount of
who had been circumcised or who was a Jew or Gentile or a man or a woman)....baptism superseded and did
away with circumcision and the first day of the week which is Sunday and not the seventh day which was the
Sabbath day for the Jews and not the Gentiles (anybody other that a Jew which is not of color but influence)
superseded the Sabbath.
God rested on what was the 7th day after all of His creation; get this in your hearts and minds. God set aside
the seventh day as a day of rest and recovery, fasting, praying, worshipping and praising Him for His mighty works
that we may remember that it is He that is in us (holy spirit) and not he that is in the world that we should worship!!
Keep in mind that God sent Himself by the way of His son Jesus the Christ into the world not to condemn the world
but to let us know that through Him Himself that we (our souls) can be saved that we may join and be with Him for
eternity having an everlasting life if we believe and establish a practice by the power and the gift of the Holy Spirit;
becoming practitioners of the faith of the reasons for the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!!!! Christ
Himself did not obligate or require us to set aside any-day, because the Holy Spirit is with us "everyday"!!! He even
told His chosen disciples during the last supper before his earthly judgement, strongly reminding them by examples
and symbolism that taking communion of bread and wine represented the purpose of His presence in the flesh here
on earth. The bread that he shared even with the one that would forsake Him and lead Him captive into the hands of
the enemy were there at this breaking of bread and Christ knew this as well yet He gave this fellow the same
fellowship and opportunity for eternal life....
The bread that they shared represented the body of Christ (the church, the new covenant) and the wine
represented His blood(new witnesses redemption) that He was about to sacrifice for the posterity of time that true
believers of the church would have eternal life which is in "spirit"!!!
Jesus Christ said, "as often as you have this breaking of bread and consumption of wine, do it in remembrance of
ME"!!!!! This very statement to the apostles and the propagation of christians that would follow the forthcoming
doctrine through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit implied that christians must apply themselves to the retrospective
history of the presence of Jesus Christ and His purpose for being here on earth even up until the time of His
ascension. More importantly, these implications applied to the prospective (future) remembrance as Christ would
have us to let and allow the guidance of the Holy Spirit direct the choices and decisions in our lives that which is
our future, even until life becomes eternal. He did not say do it on the Sabbath, or on Sunday, or on Wednesday
night at church or bible study;neither did he reserve Christmas Day (the anniversary of His birth), or at
Thanksgiving, but He said, "as often" implying, whenever you do it, (keeping it holy and sacred for righteousness
sake) remember why I came and remember why I taught, remember why I preached, remember when I healed,
remember when I performed miracles, remember when I FORGAVE, remember when I was persecuted that you
may be persecuted too for my sake and your eternity, remember I never lied, remember that I am your only real
friend, remember I Love You, remember my commandments and my covenant, remember I went to the cross for
you, remember I wiped away ALL of your sins, remember that I told you that I would never leave you alone,
remember I promised to send you the Power by the Holy Spirit, remember that I was before Moses, David, or
Abraham, remember when I was pierced in the side on the cross by a mean soldier and water poured out of my
body and ran down the streets of Jerusalem and baptized all of the prophets that I had sent and the ones who
believed in me before I even appeared by the promise of the prophet Isaiah that they will be saved too, remember
the BLOOD that I shed for the sake of this "new covenant" and the ones that will come after me that they too "can
be saved" by believing in Me and knowing that I am my Father's Son the creator of "all things" knowing and believing
that I am myself and My Father, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT that I will send to you when I return to MYSELF AS MY
FATHER that you will never ever have to be alone again being judged by the law of man on the eight-day, remember
I will go into a borrowed tomb (letting you know it was not meant for me or your eternity and I wouldn't be there long
and anything that you borrow you shall return ) and that I WILL BE LIFTED BY THE POWER OF MY FATHER FOR
YOUR SAKE WHICH IS IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH AND THAT I ALONE WILL HAVE POWER OVER ALL HEAVEN
(firmament above the earth's surface) AND ON EARTH AND THERE WILL BE NO OTHER GOD THAT WITH
WITHSTAND MY POWER." Christ said, "AS OFTEN AS YOU DO THIS, REMEMBER ME!!!!"
Personally, I can't for the life of me understand why people want to isolate or ostracized themselves from the
power and the love of Jesus Christ OUR Savior!!! Christ desires that we as His children come together in His name
and remembrance and not try to "hideout" and not having a fulfilling spiritual identity that is given freely empowering
His promise for your natural and eternal safety! If you're not in Christ, how do you say you love another, let alone
one another?? We are kept by "THE REMEMBRANCE" someone somewhere is not thankful or grateful enough to
realize it....!!!!
RK2009
Author's Bio:
Age: 52
Occupation: Retired Military
Current Status: Student
Major: Sociology and Counseling Psychology
Religion: Christian
Passtime Interests: Reading and Writing, gardening, music and arts (singing and drumming), mentoring,woodwork, motorcycling, flying private aircraft
Favorite Literature: The Bible,(The New Testament)
Favorite Subject Reading: Social Stratification/ Social and Economic Inequality
Current Endeavors: Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology - Social Stratification and Rural Sociology)Vanderbilt University
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