WISDOM - LET NOT MERCY AND TRUTH FORSAKE THEE

WISDOM - LET NOT MERCY AND TRUTH FORSAKE THEE

Proverbs 3.3 

THOUGHTS ABOUT GENERATIONS

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       Let not mercy and truth forsake thee:

 bind them about thy neck; write them upon 

the table of thine heart:

             This photo shows my husband when he was just a boy.  Taken in 1936,   I was the same age as Margie in this photo.

 Somewhere - somehow - I KNEW THERE WAS THIS MAN I WOULD MARRY -  I just KNEW !    

               Here I was, same age as Marie and in 1936 I was three 

years old.   Henry was 9,  his sister Lynn was 8  and brother John was 5.    Henry's Dad - Wm. Henry Cash was a farmer.   He and Mom Cash - Anna - loved their children much.  I owe a lot to their love and still today in the Cash family I see that love continuing. 

They left a legacy that still is present in our midst.  

         

     Henry and Anna Cash had moved from Arkansas to California when Henry was just a little boy of 2.  It was the year 1929 when they did so.    The times were very hard, and in the hope of finding work, and being able to farm, Henry's father took his wife and son.     His father, Garrett Gibson Cash and his wife Lenora Lee (Akins) followed.   They said they did not want to lose the privilege of seeing their grandson grow up.    

                

                      As I understand it, Garrett had farmed in Arkansas, and that the "dust bowl" conditions in the area, made him take a serious look at his life.   He followed his son and daughter-in-law to California in 1929. 

Here was a photo from those early days in California.

                       

                                              1939   Wm Henry and Anna Maude Cash

                                      Here is Henry's dad in back on the left. Uncle Garrett next to him, with Aunt Nettie next, while Henry's Mother Anna Maude (Sandine) Cash is on the right.    By this time Henry had four siblings plus Uncle Garrett's children are here too.    Imperial Valley at that time was a primitive area, and the work was SHARECROPPING  but it was a living.  

                                           The family was very close.   I understand from one of the stories Henry told was that "one time, when the Doctor came to examine Mother for a baby that was due, stated "You are a happy family"  because they seemed to laugh a lot, and enjoy each other's company.   

WM. HENRY CASH -OBITUARY

Henry's father was determined to do well.

  He had been named by his folks

after an uncle who preached

 the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  

 His folks were not

able to attend church much,

 but had come to know God through traveling ministers.

His uncle Wm. Henry Cash was one of these who 

gave out God's Word in those early days.

           When their son was born, they named him after the man who had been a large part of their life - Wm. Henry Cash, hoping their son would be, like him, a preacher of the Gospel.  William Henry Cash was John Cash the singer's great grandfather, and Garrett Gibson Cash's grandfather's brother.    Reuben was William's father, and Reuben had several children - Ray was John Cash the singer's father, so as you can see from the diagram - Roy was Reuben's son who was brother to Ray.     Ray had Garrett Gibson, then Wm. Henry Cash (Sr.) and he had his first son named after him.   
My husband Henry had 8 brothers and sisters, of which 1 brother and 5 sisters are still living.   They are 
                         Wm. Henry Cash  b 5/26 (25) 1927  d. 6/24/2012
                           Selma Lenore Cash  1928
                           John Cash  1931
                            Margaret Cash  1933 
                            Frank Cash  1936
                            Helen Cash  1938 
                             Jeanne Cash  1940  
                             Richard   b. 1942   (d.)
                             Tom Cash  1943 
                             Cheryl Cash   1949   

         Final thought - Since John and Garrett were first cousins, that made my husband and his siblings "third cousins".    There can be almost 3000 people in a family by the time you come to third cousins.    My children are "fourth cousins."    Franklin Roosevelt married his fourth cousin - Eleanor -  and that is a different story.

                  This was Garrett Gibson Cash with Lenora Lee (Akins) his wife in 1928.    It looks like it was taken while "for a couple years" the family stayed in Gila New Mexico when little brother John was born.   They went on with their son and two grandsons toward Imperial Valley.    The sharecropping made it possible for them to survive the hard times.   

Here is an excerpt I wrote out many years ago about what I found of William Henry Cash, and his forbear, Queen Ada of Scotland.
There are some who speculate that "she" was really not of the Cashes -  but there are those who do trace back to her.   My thought is that "because of the requirement" for INFANT BAPTISM that was given for proof of who she was - that because these folk perhaps did not BELIEVE IN BAPTIZING THEIR INFANTS she was not accepted as the mother of the CASH family.   However, I am sure that as independent as I have found the Scotch-Irish families of the Cashes to be, that this may well have been the case.

There is you see, much to consider in thinking of WISDOM - Let not mercy and truth forsake thee as Proverbs 3.3 tells us.    Over many years - ever since Jesus died on the cross, and rose again, and gave command to the Apostles and disciples to "Go ye therefore into all nations"  (Matthew 28: 18 - 20)  He returned to the Father and is sitting at the Father's Right Hand, and all authority and power and the right to proclaim the Gospel is in our hands.   
             It is said that "a rose - is a rose - is a rose - is a rose whatever name you may give it."   No matter what you might call a Rose - it does not change what it is, nor how fragrant its smell might be.    It is still a R O S E.   
             Proverbs tells us in  chapter 1.7 "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction."   Again, it tells us  "Turn ye at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you." (Ch. 1.23)  
          In the Collegiate Baptist History Workbook, by James R. Beller, Prairie Fire Press, copyright 2002, I find some interesting things to reflect upon this bit of history that we know about our family.
         Whatever it is, I present my thought to you on this.  In the early centuries, persecution came to the Christians because they preached the Old Testament truths as being fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ.   Their dependence was on the WRITTEN MASORETIC TEXT of the OLD TESTAMENT.   The only Scriptures they had were of the Old Testament.   As the Holy Spirit gave utterance, they were gifted with each of the New Testament epistles, gospels and in time, the Canon was completed in or about 90 A.D.    The purpose of the sign gifts was to ESTABLISH THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.    
      During the years since then, it was first the Christians who were persecuted - their books burned - their lives always at risk whenever someone chose Christ as their Savior, and that God's Word was Holy, God-breathed, and Able to comfort and succor them in their heart and life.
         These believers have been taunted, harassed, persecuted, and hated for their LOVE OF THE SCRIPTURES and for their ADAMANT REFUSAL TO DENY CHRIST.   
          How do we find out about these Believers? 
          The records of those who hated them tell us what they did. The laws that are recorded over the centuries tell us what happened.
All the reasons why they were hated I will give you, but let us first look at the NAMES THAT PEOPLE GAVE THEM.
                       

        65 A.D.    Pudence and Claudia   

        120 A.D.    The Vaudois

        150 A.D.   The Novationists.  

        170 A.D.   The Montanists.   

        311 A.D.    The Donatists. 

         405 A.D     Patrick and the Patricians 

        565  A.D     The Columbans.  

        569 A.D.   The Columbanuns.

        660 A.D.    The Paulicians.   

        700 A.D.   The Albigenses.   

        720 A.D.   The Bogomiis.      

            1000 A.D.   The Paterines 

         1116 A.D.  The Henricians.  

         1126 A.D.   The Petrobrussians.  

         1165 A.D.    The Arnoldists. 

         1300 A.D.   The Picards.   

         1330 A.D.   The Lollards.   
     

          1520 A.D.   The Anabaptists.   

Here are the things that each of these groups had in common:

          1.   These Believers all held to the idea that a CHURCH was independent and self ruling, with each pastor or leader - the Bishop - in charge of the flock, and Christ the head of the Church.

           2.  These Believers all held that a Church was to be made up of only Born Again - REGENERATE members.     The Church was to be only of SAVED PEOPLE.

           3.  These Believers all held that only a Believer was to be baptized, and that this was a command to show identification with Christ.   It was not to be done until a person was already saved.

            4.  These Believers all held to baptism by immersion - as an identification of themselves with Christ in his death, burial and resurrection.   It was not a sacrament - it did not save them.   As they were baptized they became a member of that local church wherever they were or happened to be.

           THIS MEANT THEY DID NOT BAPTIZE INFANTS.

           

           5.  These Believers all held THAT EVERYONE IS RESPONSIBLE TO MAKE THEIR OWN DECISION BEFORE GOD FOR THEIR FAITH.   Whether or not they accept or reject is only with God, not for people to decide for them, nor to force them to make.   They taught that respect should be given to individuals to choose to reject.   

    A ROSE IS A ROSE....IS A ROSE....IS A ROSE.   

     
     Back to my husband's family - I recognize that in the 
day of Queen Ada - it was NOT socially recognized that a person
could BE QUEEN if she was not BAPTIZED PROPERLY AS AN INFANT - that was "the way records were kept"   and so I am saying that I believe S O M E B O D Y had strong faith and kept true to the Lord, and did not BAPTIZE her as a baby - but yet she was the sister of Malcom IV.     

           To continue -  (Moses) Reuben Cash, who was in the Civil War along with those who lost fighting for the Confederacy.    Sherman's troops stripped and burned his Georgia plantation, so he moved his family farther West, homesteading across the Mississippi in Arkansas when he had a son whom he named William Henry Cash.    This was John Cash's grandfather, and my father-in-law Garrett Gibson Cash's grandfather, so they were first cousins.    When my Grandfather named his son  William Henry Cash, he thought perhaps they would also have a Preacher of the Gospel in the family.
         William Henry Cash had been a traveling Preacher to a flock of people who believe the Bible and trusted God for their needs.  He must have been a good example and a comfort to people who had lost everything in the Civil War.      Regardless of the outcome the impact was everywhere.   Life had to begin all over again.   People needed the Lord and they needed the Word of God to help them find direction and faith.

          My husband was born to this fine family in 1927, and he became the Preacher that they had longed for in the family.   I met my husband's Grandfather, and I believe he had a simple faith in Christ.    I believe that because of his Grandparent's faith, my husband was influenced in early life, to seek his answers from God's Word, not from people, not from any organization, but from God's Word.    

                    Here my husband was preaching the Word

 from the pulpit of Mountain View Bible Church, 

Dee, Oregon.

                             I am certain that WISDOM  - LET NOT MERCY AND TRUTH FORSAKE THEE was for certain on his heart all those years he served the Lord.     I know that he demonstrated to me true love for the Lord Jesus Christ and to all that knew him.    

WILL YOU TAKE UP THE CHALLENGE

TO TRUST GOD 

AT HIS WORD ?

SEEK GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART

GIVE HIM ALL THAT YOU ARE 

TRUST HIM TO BE TO YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED

HE WILL SUPPLY

HE WILL LEAD

HE WILL GUIDE

THROUGH HIS WORD

BY THE DEAR HOLY SPIRIT

TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER

THROUGH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND HIS 

FINISHED WORK ON THE CROSS.

FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD

THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON

THAT WHOSOEVER

BELIEVETH ON HIM

SHOULD NOT PERISH 

BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.

JOHN 3.16   

                           

FAITH AND WORKS - FIVE CONSIDERATIONS

FAITH AND WORKS -  

FIVE CONSIDERATIONS-

 by Wm. Henry Cash Jr. 1927 - 2012

                                                   by LILACLADY-JUNEBUG2

FAITH AND WORKS 

A Man may be decent, moral, upright and conscientious, and
yet be far from the holiness of God.     A man may toil, and by the sweat
of his brow, produce an offering just as Cain did in Genesis chapter 4.
He may read, pray, and hear sermons, and yet be still
under sin's penalty - waiting for DEATH AND JUDGMENT. 

IT IS LIKE WHEN I SIT IN A CHAIR.

Sitting in a chair,

a person has to believe 

that chair 

is going to hold 

that person

securely

safely

and 

intact.

THE CHAIR 

HAS TO BE

TRUSTED.

I have seen someone

sit in a chair

and 

it 

fell 

underneath him.

it did 

not

hold him up.

It failed.

YOU MAY ASK YOURSELF

 THESE FIVE QUESTIONS

Question 1.

CAN WORKS SAVE?

Acts 13.38b,39

Through this man is preached unto you 

the forgiveness of sins: and by him all 

that believe are justified from all things, 

from which you could not be justified by 

the law of Moses.

Romans 3.20

Therefore by the deeds of the law there 

shall be no flesh justified in his sight: for 

by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Romans 3.27 

Where is boasting then?  It is excluded.

By what law?  of works? Nay: but by 

the law of faith. 

Ephesians 2.8,9 

For by grace are ye saved through faith; 

and that not of yourselves: it is the gift 

of God: Not of works, lest any man should

boast.

QUESTION 2

WHAT IS SAVING FAITH?  

TO HAVE SAVING FAITH 

is to 

*  Believe the record that God gave of His Son.

I John 5.10 - 12

                      He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself; He that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of His Son.   And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.   He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

*Believing with the heart 

Romans 10. 9 - 11

                            That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord

Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.   For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.   For the Scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

And he brought him forth abroad, and said,
Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be
able to number them: and he said unto him,
so shall thy seed be.   

*Taking God at his word, as Abraham did.

Genesis 15. 6
And he believed in the LORD, and he 
counted it to him for righteousness. 

*Believing God's Promise, as Abraham did.

Galatians 3.5,6 

He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, 
and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by 
the works of the law, or
by the hearing of faith?
Even as Abraham believed God,
and it was accounted to him
for righteousness.

*Trusting after he heard.

Ephesians 1.13

                            In whom you also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise which is the earnest of your redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of His glory. 

ABRAHAM'S EXAMPLE FOR US

Hebrews 11. 8  - 13 

8. By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, he obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles (tents) with Isaac and Jacob, 
the heirs with him of the promise. 
10. For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11.  Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
12. Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable.
13. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Abraham obeyed, his will surrendered.
Abraham was persuaded, mind convinced.
Abraham embraced God's Word, his heart captivated.

QUESTION 3.

WHAT DOES SAVING FAITH DO?

Luke 8.46 - 48
And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.   And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.   And he said unto her,  Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.

Abraham was in a foreign land,
living in tents, with much people, much good,
and no child.   God gave him a promise
of Sarah to have a child, and even
named the child ISAAC.  His name
means "laughter".   Everytime his name was called, they would remember the J O Y  of having this little boy.



John 5.24 
Verily, Verily, I say you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.


Acts 15. 8, 9
(Peter, addressing the apostles and elders)
And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as He did unto us,  and put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

Galatians 5.6
In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. 

Ephesians 2.8,9
For by grace are ye saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God,
not of works, lest any man should boast


Hebrews 10.39
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any
draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

QUESTION 4

DOES SAVING FAITH MEAN 
"LIVING AS YOU PLEASE?"

Titus 2.11 - 14
The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 
teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world, Looking
for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people.

[peculiar =  a people for his very own possession]

Romans 8.13, 14
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

I John 5.14,15
And this is the confidence that we have in him,
that, if we ask anything according to his will, 
he heareth us; and if we know that
he heareth us, whatsoever we ask, we know that 
we have the petitions that we desired of him.



QUESTION 5

WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF
GOOD WORKS?

Matthew 16.27 
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels;  and then he shall reward ever man according to his works.

Colossians 3. 22 - 24 
Servants, obey in all things your masters 
according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.


Revelation 22.12  
And, behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

IN SUMMARY 

WORKS (WITHOUT FAITH)
Belong to nature and the earth, and 
are occupied with the self.

The Focus on Good Works without Faith
is Looking   Inward and downward,
These lead us into darkness
and 
turmoil.

Works have to do 
with one's 
fluctuating
changing 
conditions.

FAITH 

FAITH
MIGHTY FAITH
THE TRIUMPH SEES
AND LOOKS TO GOD ALONE
LAUGHS AT 
IMPOSSIBILITIES
AND 
CRIES
IT SHALL BE DONE.

FAITH LOOKS TO GOD ALONE
FAITH LOOKS UPWARD 
FAITH LOOKS AWAY FROM SELF 
FAITH IF OCCUPIED WITH THE FINISHED 
WORK OF CHRIST
LOOKS UPWARD AND OUTWARD 
LEADS TO LIGHT AND PEACE.
IT IS BASED ON 
GOD'S UNCHANGING WORD.



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