The power of Zero to change your life

A man was pulled over by a police officer for driving through a stop sign. The police officer asked the man why he hadn’t stopped.

“I slowed right down and could see that the road was clear” said the man.

“yes, but you didn’t stop” said the officer.

“But I went really, really slow”

“but you didn’t stop”

“what’s the difference between going really, really, really slow and stopping?” the man asked

“$200” said the officer.

The difference between zero and a little bit can be enormous.

This BLOG is about the power of zero – if you grasp the implications it will change your life

Nobody learns their zero times tables at school – because it’s too easy…

1 x 0 = 0

2 x 0 = 0

… 12 x 0 = 0

the answer is always zero!

Intimate relationships in the bible are described in terms of multiplication equations

‘… a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.’

Two (2) become one (1) – 1 and 1 can only equal 1 through multiplication (and division – but that’s another story)

1 x 1 = 1   two become one

We can say that their lives, because of an intimate relationship, are multiplied together they are not merely added to each other

In the same way the bible says that ‘…he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him.’

Two (2) become one (1) – our life becomes multiplied together with His

1 x 1 = 1

Jesus had zero sin

If Jesus had zero sin and our lives are multiplied together, through an intimate relationship, then we have no sin

So, if you sinned every second of every hour of every day of your life and then you ‘joined yourself to the Lord and became one Spirit with Him’ the equation looks like this:

3600 sins/hr x 24 hrs/day x 365 days/year x your age x 0 = 0

His sinless sacrifice is enough for the whole world – even if everyone was as bad as you!!

3600 sins/hr x 24 hrs/day x 356 days/year x 40 years x 7,000,000,000 people x 0 = 0

 ‘He who knew no sin became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him’

‘Come lets us reason together says the Lord – though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool’

It’s important that we don’t just add the Lord to our life, because adding zero has no effect whatsoever, but if we enter into an intimate relationship with Him, we become sinless – it’s the only possible mathematical solution to the equation!

‘But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.’

And just for good measure try and divide a number by zero using your calculator. You will get an error message because the answer is what’s known as a singularity. Engineers and Scientists describe physical phenomenon with equations. If the denominator of the equation tends toward zero (meaning it is being divided by zero) whatever the equation is describing will be destroyed. It’s like the piercing screech you hear when a microphone gets feedback.

‘The reason the SON of God came was to destroy the forces of evil’  

Your life can be multiplied by Him

Darkness is divided by Him

Why 42 is the meaning of life the universe and everything…

My first Blog ever

I thought I would begin with something small like the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything.

The question – what is the meaning of life the universe and everything? – was posed, in the book ‘hitchhikers guide to the galaxy’, to a supercomputer named Deep Thought. After pondering and calculating the answer for 6.5 million years Deep Thought announced to those waiting in anticipation that he had the answer, but, he said….

“You aren’t going to like the answer ….

it’s 42”

I believe Deep Thought was right – on two counts – you might not like the answer…. and it is 42.

I stumbled across the meaning of this number when I saw an ancient code engraved in rock sitting in plain sight outside St Martins in the field near Trafalgar Square in London

Two essential background clues:

clue 1

In the ancient text that originally contained the code on the rock, the number 6 symbolizes man and human weakness.

Man was created on the sixth day.

The ultimate expression of the weakness of man is well known…

 “This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number a man, and his number is 666”

6 = man and human weakness

clue 2

The number 7 is used over 800 times in this ancient text and is well known as the number for completeness, perfection and describes Logos the perfect word of God

7 = Logos, the perfect word of God

the code in the rock

Stone engraving of code – St Martins in the field

WORD BECAME FLESH

7           x          6

42

‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. (Deep Thought was right, they didn’t like the answer) But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word (7) became (x) flesh (6) and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth…. For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.  For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.’