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Oct 15, 2017

biblebuffjournal99-CHRIST OUR CORNERSTONE-Bible KJV God's Holy Word

CHRIST - OUR CORNERSTONE

by Wm. Henry Cash, Jr. 1927 - 2012

WHEN A BUILDING IS BUILT, OFTEN "A CORNERSTONE"

IS MEMORIALIZED WITH A SPECIAL CEREMONY TO DEDICATE THAT BUILDING.

WE ARE GOD'S BUILDING - AND JESUS CHRIST IS THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.
BELIEVERS IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WHO HAVE RECEIVED HIM AS THEIR LORD AND SAVIOR, THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER, ARE BUILT UP A SPIRITUAL HOUSE.

JESUS CHRIST IS OUR CORNERSTONE.

First: He is the CHIEF CORNERSTONE.

Matthew 21: 42 - 44

Jesus said unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, "The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner; this is the LORD'S doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes." Therefore I say unto you, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever shall fall on the stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder."

Luke 20. 17 - 18 also refers to this.

Psalm 118: v. 22 - 23

The stone which the builders rejected is become the head stone of the corner. This is the LORD'S doing: it is marvelous in our eyes.

Isaiah 53: v. 12

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors, and he bare the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

SECOND - THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS OUR FOUNDATION.

I CORINTHIANS 3: 9 - 11 "FOR WE ARE LABORERS TOGETHER WITH GOD: YE ARE GOD'S HUSBANDRY, YE ARE GOD'S BUILDING, ACCORDING TO THE GRACE OF GOD WHICH IS GIVEN UNTO ME, AS A WISE MASTER-BUILDER, I HAVE LAID THE FOUNDATION, AND ANOTHER BUILDETH THEREON, BUT LET EVERY MAN TAKE HEED HOW HE BUILDETH THEREUPON, FOR OTHER FOUNDATION CAN NO MAN LAY THAT IS LAID, WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST." 1 CORINTHIANS 1:9 - 11.

We are God's building.

We are to be wise builders so that others can build

upon our work.

The work must be built upon the ONLY FOUNDATION

WHICH IS LAID, WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST.

THIRD - OUR LIVES ARE TO BE BUILD ON THE FOUNDATION - JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF.

I CORINTHIANS 3: 12 - 15 NOW IF ANY MAN BUILD UPON THIS FOUNDATION GOLD, SILVER, PRECIOUS STONES, WOOD, HAY, STUBBLE; EVERY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE MADE MANIFEST: FOR THE DAY SHALL DECLARE IT, BECAUSE IT SHALL BE REVEALED BY FIRE; AND THE FIRE SHALL TRY EVERY MAN'S WORK OF WHAT SORT IT IS. IF ANY MAN'S WORK ABIDE WHICH HE HATH BUILT THEREUPON, HE SHALL RECEIVE A REWARD. IF ANY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE BURNED, HE SHALL SUFFER LOSS: BUT HE HIMSELF SHALL BE SAVE; YET SO AS BY FIRE.

*We must be careful to use the right materials.
*Our work shall be tested, tried by fire.
*The work that abides shall be rewarded.
*The work that is burned - we shall suffer loss -
but our soul shall be saved.
*The building must be fitly joined together.

FOURTH - WE ARE LIVING STONES LAID ON THE FOUNDATION STONE - THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

I PETER 2: 1 - 10

WHEREFORE LAYING ASIDE ALL MALICE, AND ALL GUILE, AND HYPOCRISIES, AND ENVIES, AND EVIL SPEAKINGS, AS NEWBORN BABES, DESIRE THE SINCERE MILK OF THE WORD, THAT YE MAY GROW THEREBY; IF SO BE, YE HAVE TASTED THAT THE LORD IS GRACIOUS.

TO WHOM COMING, AS UNTO A LIVING STONE, DISALLOWED INDEED OF MEN, BUT CHOSEN OF GOD, AND PRECIOUS, YE ALSO, AS LIVELY STONES, ARE BUILT UP AN SPIRITUAL HOUSE, AN HOLY PRIESTHOOD, TO OFFER UP SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES ACCEPTABLE TO GOD BY JESUS CHRIST. WHEREFORE ALSO IT IS CONTAINED IN THE SCRIPTURE, BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A CHIEF CORNER STONE, ELECT, PRECIOUS, AND HE THAT BELIEVETH ON HIM SHALL NOT BE CONFOUNDED. UNTO YOU THEREFORE THAT BELIEVE, HE IS PRECIOUS: BUT UNTO THEM WHICH BE DISOBEDIENT, THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS DISALLOWED, THE SAME IS MADE HEAD OF THE CORNER. AND A STONE OF STUMBLING, AND A ROCK OF OFFENCE, EVEN TO THEM WHICH STUMBLE AT THE WORD, BEING DISOBEDIENT: WHEREUNTO ALSO THEY WERE APPOINTED. BUT YE ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, AN ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, AN HOLY NATION, A PECULIAR PEOPLE; THAT YE SHOULD SHEW FORTH THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO HATH CALLED YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT, WHICH IN TIME PAST WERE NOT A PEOPLE, BUT ARE NOW THE PEOPLE OF GOD; WHICH HAD NOT OBTAINED MERCY, BUT NOW HAVE OBTAINED MERCY.

Christ was rejected , so that we can become a living stone.

As LIVING STONES 'LIVELY STONES'

We build a spiritual house.

THIS BUILDING IS BASED UPON THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.

TO THE ONE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE

HE IS A STUMBLING STONE.

Luke 20.18

Romans 9.32 - 33

" Wherefore ? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled on that stumbling stone; as it is written Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed."

We are the children of the Living God

by faith in Christ Jesus.

Christ is the Chief Cornerstone.

We must build our lives on this foundation.

We become HIS LIVING STONES.

GALATIANS 3.26

FOR YE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF GOD

BY FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS.

JOHN 1.29

BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD

WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD.

JUNE ESTELLE CASH

With the Bible as my guide and compass, as a Believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, I look for His soon Coming to take His Bride home. I am interested in sharing my faith with those who are seeking assurance in their life, and who long for a closer walk with God. Come join me in my blogs to discover for yourself how He can be real to you, and help you in your walk, however difficult it may be. He knows and cares, and I believe He wants me to share what He has given me. i WALK BY FAITH, EVER CLIMBING HIGHER.

Sep 27, 2017

biblebuffjournal99 - MOTHER WAS A LADY -PART 1

WALKING BY FAITH - I KEEP CLIMBING

MOTHER WAS A LADY

by June Estelle Cash

My memories of my mother was that she was a lady.

She fought for her kids. She kept her integrity. She stood on her ground when the question of her "morals" came up.

To begin with, Mother's name was Vida May Carpenter, born April 8, 1915. It was a time of uncertainty, and yet of optimistic hope. 1914 was the year Forrest married Lillias, in the very beginning of a year when our country went to war. Her first memory is of her grandmother Vida May (Ingalls) Brewer who cared for her while her mother "recuperated" from having this little girl. The love that Grandmother gave her was so unconditional that my mother fondly remembered as the R O C K of her family.

Forrest Raymond Carpenter, Mother's father, was working with the Electrical Company of the mill in Shelburne Falls, MA.

This was Lillias May (Brewer) Carpenter

with her daughter Vida May, April 1915.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g41809-Shelburne_Falls_Massachusetts-Vacations.html

SHELBURNE FALLS, MA

https://www.shelburnefalls.com/

HERE ARE TWO PICTURES, ONE OF PRESENT DAY LOOK AT

SHELBURNE FALLS OLD BUILDING, ALSO A PHOTO OF

WINTER AT THE AREA WHERE THE BRIDGE IN SHELBURNE

WAS. TODAY IT IS NEWLY FURBISHED, BUT THEN IT WAS

MERELY IRON GRID, EVEN UP TO 1987 WHEN WE VISITED THERE.

TODAY IT IS A FULLY CEMENTED BRIDGE, WITH MANY FLOWERS.

MOTHER'S SOON REALIZED THEY HAD A CHALLENGE ON THEIR HANDS.

SHE WAS A REDHEAD. HER MOTHER WAS A REDHEAD. HER GRANDFATHER WAS A REDHEAD. AND SHE ASKED QUESTIONS. INQUISITIVE, SHE WANTED TO KNOW

"WHY?"

Here we were. Both parents were perplexed.

In 1915 Children WERE TO BE SILENT

AND NOT TO SPEAK UP

Why?

She asked.

In that era of time, EMPLOYERS did not allow

their children to play with the children of the

EMPLOYED - the workers -

it just was not done.

She took in what people said, and thought about them. She was told, Vida, you cannot play with ..... The children of the

workers were not to be her playmates.

Your father, her mother declared, is part of the Employer's staff- working as the Electrician - and you cannot play with the children of those who are not on the staff. Why? she thought, was it B A D to play with the children of the workers?

Mother did not know that the reputation of the mill was not good. The conditions of the mill worker were less than what really was desirable. Her father did NOT WANT HER to associate with them, for it would be too much a difficult influence for them to deal with. And it could change her future. Mother did discover that they put great store by her, and that they took time to instruct her to "be good"....

Grandmother knew how to do that. She had gone to the State Teacher's Academy, and she had taught Primary School for 3 years before Forrest found her.

Village of Shelburne Falls MA

When I was 13, Grandmother showed me this photo of her primary school where she taught. She was an important piece of the puzzle of my life.

Grandmother had taken a photo of this house, with someone sitting on the porch. I understand it "belongs to the Brown family" so I assume that my Grandfather bought this, then sold it to a "cousin" - The Browns were their B E S T friends. It seems my grandmother was like "a sister" to her cousin Ann Brown.

Here is Anne Brown - A dear friend of my Grandmothers as

well as being a cousin.

The Browns were "cousins" and as they grew up had been in the summers

right by each other on the famous tourist place at York Beach where

the rich and famous gather. At that time, however, there were about 8

families - close friends - and quite a few relatives

on that ridge that overlooked the beach in Maine.

This is where the Nubble Light House is. It no longer is operating,

but is kept for display there. Its horn sounds the warning automatically.

This was Lillias May on her wedding day,

such a lovely Bride.

Here is my Mother Vida with a lady that came to babysit her.

Her mother was quite weak after Vida's birth, and it was

a while before she began to resume her role as Mother.

My Grand-uncle Albert Carpenter visiting at York Beach Maine

probably on the Wedding Day - or when Forrest his brother visited Lillias before getting married in 1914.

This house still is there, I sat on the porch in 1987 when I went with my husband Henry Cash to see it. It seems to me I believe that Mother grew up knowing a strong family, knowing she was loved, and knowing that the family really dared to believe in a future.

I believe this is York Beach view from the Lighthouse,

because the bay is like a U shape and so it would be Eastham.

Eastham was on Cape Cod MA itself, and York Beach is

a cove on the shore of Mass.

Vida here on the left, with her sisters Althea and Esther.

Many happy memories in York Beach, Maine.

I believe that my residence in Blaine at Drayton Harbor WA is in conformity with the heritage I have with my Mother, Grandmother, and Great Grandparents.

My Grandmother Lillias Carpenter was a woman of strong faith. She had been raised by her folks in the Methodist Church in Eastham. Her father Luther Wilbur Brewer was a leather tanner who faithfully served the Lord as a deacon in his church.

This is a very old photo from 1914 when Grandmother and Grandfather got married. I don't know the details, but you

can see in this photo my grandmother in her wedding dress, with what seems to be grandpa, with others over closer to the water.

I understand they had to have three certificates of the marriage because they lived in different counties, and the work also was in another place.

This was the Waterworks in Shelburne Falls MA where Grandpa worked.

York Beach Maine - chamber of commerce

They moved to Adams MA where Mother and her sisters were very close. Here is Esther on the right, with Me next to Mother - Vida May Donato.

I thought this my aunt not me, but my mother was just 17 when she gave birth to me.

So I believe this is me. It would 1934, because I look about 9 months old, it would be Spring.

God had His hand upon my life

because of my Mother.

How she loved me.

If you are a mother,

always be your child's best friend.

Let them talk to you.

Be there.

Listen.

Love.

and be firm to teach them God's Way not the world's way.

John 3.16

FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD

THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON

THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM

SHOULD NOT PERISH

BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.

Here is my father and mother
and me 1933 June 11 I am two days old.

JUNE ESTELLE CASH

biblebuffjournal99 - LIFE IS TO BE LIVED -WALKING BY FAITH

WALKING BY FAITH - I KEEP CLIMBING

LIFE IS TO BE LIVED

Life is to be lived, one

step, one corner

at a time until

We arrive at the crest.

Wistfully looking at

the horizon below

And before, one step

begins the descent

around

and

down,

All the while remembering

the splash of colors,

the shadows and shapes

the hint of glory to come.

Life is to be lived, until

we reach our Destiny,

Home with the Father

at last. Then LIFE really

begins.

June Estelle Cash May 30, 1991

Some years back, when my husband candidated for a number of churches out in the Northwest, we went to Surprise Valley, coming down from Oregon into California by way of Fandango Pass. It was a road that was built for the wagons - it zigzagged down in order to give a horse driven wagon a way to go down.

It was there that a massacre occurred many years ago. But it was a most interesting unforgettable drive down this road for me.

This poem which I wrote later expresses how I feel about Life in what seems to be a precarious experience at times.

Goose lake is a lake which is boundaried by both

California and Oregon.

In order to come from Klamath Falls, OR

we came down on

Fandango Pass.

Here is another shot from Cedarville CA

of the Mountains down which we came.

Here we can see Goose Lake from the trail.

In this map, you can see how we

came down. The view is wonderful, but

expect to be s l o w in driving down

this pass. It is not a highway.

Goose lake is in both states.

If you ever go there, it is well worth the trip.

We went to Fort Bidwell. You can see from this map just how close it is here. Very interesting to find OLD WEST

life still pretty much life here.

Fort Bidwell Not big, but nice.

Most of the way the road looks like this,

but this is more level than on higher.

The rocks speak of God's glory - with shapes here that make me think of huge turtles that were petrified in the aftermath of the flood.

ARK - ENCOUNTER museum

Here is the Surprise Valley - Cedarville Community Church.

It seemed it was "way out in the middle of nowhere"

Everyone was happy to see us, and Henry preached,

and I taught the children in S. S. while he taught the adults.

We went there just that one time.

http://itsaroadtrip.com/road-trip-cedarville/

This link will take you to the Restaurant where we

ate going there and going back to Lakeview Or.

It was so fascinating to watch an empty road become full of trucks

and one by one and sometimes 50 people came in at once

while eating, I observed that everyone was taken care of.

A very good restaurant this was, and I found it on line,

so I am sharing with anyone who is

interested.

What a wondrous message in God's Word!