Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama quoted Jesus in an effort to back up his political views on taxing the wealthy. In his speech he said, it also coincides with Jesus's teaching that for unto whom much is given, much shall be required.” The Scripture President Obama was referring to can be found in Luke 12 the second part of verse 48."From everyone who has been given much, “meaning the knowledge and grace for which brings abundance in many forms” much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more." (NASB)Within this context, the verse President Obama quoted is saying that the more truth you know, the more Christ will require or expect of you.
"Taxing occurs in many ways". Abundance does not give the right to violate others.
This is basically the whole focus in the Bible to learn Gods Grace and then be required to pass it down so that his children (people) whichever you want to say can enjoy what God has intended from the very beginning, Heaven on Earth, meaning to enjoy knowing and living in Gods love.
Really cool if you believe in God A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that exists?" A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!" "God created everything?" The professor asked. "Yes sir, he certainly did," the student replied. The professor answered, "If God created everything; then God created evil (choice). . And, since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then we can assume God is evil?
." The student became quiet and did not answer the professor's hypothetical definition. The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth. Another student raised his hand and said, "May I ask you a question, professor?" "Of course", replied the professor. The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?" "What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The other students snickered at the young man's question. The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460 F) is the total absence of heat; and all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat." The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?" The professor responded, "Of course it does." The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present." Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?" Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course, as I have already said. We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of man's Inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world.
These manifestations are nothing else but evil. To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created todescribe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart.
(http://www.truthortradition.com/iphone/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85:satan-started-as-a-star&catid=40:the-devil&Itemid=60) At this point let us turn to the description of Lucifer’s fall found in Isaiah. I have highlighted his five “I will” statements to accentuate the deliberate choice he made to reject God’s grace (biblically, the number five indicates “grace”). Note that this passage ends with a revealing statement from God’s perspective about who Satan really is, when stripped of all his lies and pretensions. He is very small indeed, apart from what God has given him through His grace and generosity. When he is finally revealed for who he is, and judged in righteousness by the Son of Righteousness, all will marvel at what a pretender he really is, and how unworthy of notice
Isaiah 14:12-17
(12) How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! [KJV-“Lucifer” [1] You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
(13) You said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
(14) I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
(15) But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit.
(16) Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate; “Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble,
(17) The man who made the world a desert, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?”
The fall of Lucifer left a big hole in heaven, so to speak, as he vacated his position of authority and power as one of three archangels (along with Gabriel and Michael). He also talked one-third of the angels into leaving with him in his descent to oblivion (he is very persuasive). This caused a radical restructuring of heavenly authority, the faithful angels having to fill the void left in the rebels’ wake. The position Satan left was not easily filled, for God had “broken the mold” when he made Lucifer to be his “right hand man.” God had given the position to Lucifer as his “birthright,” so to speak, since the latter just “woke up” one day as a created being equipped to the max. God instituted a plan for filling this position with another exalted being. But we can surmise that He purposed in His heart that the next time it would be by someone earning the right to it, someone who would not try to grasp at equality with Him. The following passage highlights Christ’s humility in contrast to Satan’s prideful power-grab.
Philippians 2:5-8
(5) Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
(6) Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
(7) But made himself nothing [KJV—“of no reputation”], taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
(8) And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death, even death on a cross.
(9) Therefore, God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
(10) That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
(11) and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
The presence that man is to learn to pass down to the next generation so that the following generation can have a presence of truth as well as a much happier life, with more of a chance to live and love in Gods Grace. To learn for the grace of another’s fulfillment is a definition of true love. ( Matthew 5:16 ) Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your father who is in heaven.
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