Friday, May 27, 2011

Three P'S OF Worship

WORSHIP: IS IT?
Preaching; Praying; Praising The LORD… OR
Partying; Playing; Practicing Pagan Cultural Traditions
A lot of things have ~changed~ since the day when Solomon built the ~temple~ where the folks could come togather to worship the LORD… BUT Even then, IT didn’t take long for the very one that God gave permission to build IT, TO contaminate IT with the rituals of false gods and goddesses…. SOOOOOoooo…. Read: (I Kings 11: 4-10)….
~Just Maybe~ there ain’t much changed after all…..
Modern Day, Houses of Worship, where the people that call themselves after God’s Only Begotten Son, gather to: Worship, have succeeded in doing the same thing that King Solomon did… Only worse, and in a more subtle way…
Why do you reckon the Father had Penned down by the Apostles, what HE gave HIS Son to speak OF: Pertaining TO, & Warning OF: These Days? Of the god of this world? The roaring lion, the tempest?… (John 12:49)..
Paul, gave warning to the Christians of his time, Not to forsake the assembling of themselves together… So that they could and would be ~Exhorted~ in and by the Word, shared and interacted with each other in: the ~Lord, Jesus Christ,~ through the ~Guidance of the Holy Spirit~
(Hebrews 10:25)… “NOT Forsaking the ~Assembling~ OF ourselves together… BUT *Exhorting* one another.. So much more… as ye see the day approaching…
According TO: AS IT IS Written, Peter, Paul, John, nor any of the disciples of that day, DID NOT, gather the folks together to celebrate each others fleshly lives, events of the world, or play games in the Houses where they gathered TO: “Preach the Word” OF God….
BUT today, *IF* you get up and make the effort to dress yourself appropriately for an appearance before the LORD IN HIS House of Prayer, TO: assemble, with those that claim HIS Son’s Name, you just might get the surprise of your life….
First you will not be able to tell from the dress whether you have arrived, AT: a worldly sports event, a nite club dance hall, or a gathering of a street gang…. FOR there IS A Mixture OF: the world gathered there, even among the leaders in shorts: tank tops, with tattoo’s shining, mini skirts with bottoms glowing, lungs exposed down to the waist, baubles, bangles, painted faces and hair colored to reflect the appearance of ~Jezebel~…
You try to tell yourself that: This IS God’s House of Prayer and the services WILL Be carried out in ~Truth~ with the Three P’s being Prominent in here and then the, Next meeting everyone will have learned how to ~SHOW~ Respect, and have an honorable fear before the LORD as IT IS Written that they should….. BUT, WAIT… These are ~THE~ ones that stand before the congregation as teachers, leaders, deacons, their wives, and families that Paul Instructed IN: the proper way to fill these offices…. (I Corinthians 11:1-34)… (31) … *IF* we would judge ourselves… (act, dress, behave, in an appropriate manner) we should not ~BE~ judged…
NOW, we go back to the ~Day~ that each one of these came to the ~Alter~ before God the Father and the eyes of the world: Declared Christ to be their Savior, Accepted That God The Father sent HIS Son To die for their sins, walked into the view of the public to be Baptized, indicating a ~~NEW~~ Walk in Christ, putting away ~The Old Man~, and walked out in the same filthy garments of world that they were wearing when they walked into the pool… promoting the same false teachings, claiming to be liberated in Christ, TO: Continue in the ways of a lost and dying world, setting an example of the world of men’s traditions before those that come TO: Learn HOW to have a closer walk with the LORD… Those that the Father drew to HIS Son, and the Spirit led to be saved, and declare the Son to the glory of the Father…
Did the Spirit lead them into the mire of the world? What IS being offered here?
(Romans 6:6) & (Ephesians 4:22) & (Luke 5:37 - 38) … Jesus SAID: “No man putteth ~New Wine~ into ~Old Bottles~; Else the new wine ~WILL~ burst the bottles, & Be spilled…~~New Wine~~ *MUST* Be put into ~New Bottles~ ..; & both are preserved…
SOOOOoooo… If we are Baptized and we come up a ~new person~ in Christ, we must fill our hearts with a New Walk and not settle them or pour them back into the old walk or else they will break and the new life will be spilled out and we will perish in and with the world….
Read the warnings that John wrote by the Word of Christ to the Churches… IN:
(Revelations chapters 1-4)….Did HE NOT WARN: about the, “Jezebel” that calls ~Herself~ a prophetess, that IS Allowed to teach and seduce Gods’ servants, to commit fornication with idols? (2:20) … (3:14).. “I Know thy works that thou art neither hot nor cold” Churches that have become settled on their lees and just go along with their traditions, go back home and live as the rest of the world lives…..
ISN’T This the very same thing that King Solomon did? He did not bring the false teachings into the meeting in the temple, BUT he set up the groves near enough that the people could cast their eyes upon the false gods and goddesses, contaminating the ~True Worship~ in the temple…He offered sacrifices unto the false gods and goddesses… Folks want to teach that his sin was having so many wives and concubines, but that was the beginning of his sin, his sin was allowing them to turn his heart from the LORD, and then he paid homage to, sacrificed to their false gods, and false teachings….. TOO many times we look at the temptation as the sin instead of what the temptation leads to, resulting IN our failing to be ~Obedient~ unto God’s Commands.. Which IS Why we continue to fall, crawling, and wallowing around in the same sin over and over, and that SIN IS Simply being ~~Disobedient~ TO God’s Word, HIS Command, HIS Way… By trying to do things *OUR* way…
Isn’t that exactly what we do when we: color, hide, hunt eggs, a practice done before the very goddess that Solomon set up for the people to observe… that IS A part of a false worship, and we mix it all up in the Biblically Written Account OF: The One that gave His Life that we may live, but in doing this we will surely die……Because we reject the: Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit, Because… IT Looks innocent, IT IS fun, and IT would be alright as a child’s game any day of the year, BUT, the thing that makes *IT* an abomination IS we inject *IT* into the blessed account of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, The Blessed Son of God the Father IN Heaven, Jesus Christ, thus contaminating the ~~Truly Written Account~ of THIS life Saving Event in God’s Holy Written Word…
God gave us a time and a place for ~all~ things… HE gave us HIS Word in seriousness, not to be mixed and wrongly taught by the false teaching of the ~antichrist~… AND When we mix any pagan custom with a Biblical Account of Christ, we are speaking Against Christ rather than FOR Christ, and IF we are not for Christ then we are WHAT?
(Romans 1:16) … States.. “For I am ~Not~ Ashamed of the Gospel of Christ” .. and folks circulate this message around as a testimony for Christ… BUT those same folks contaminate THE Very Gospel OF Christ with the lies of false worship and pagan teachings…. WHY?
Because IT looks good, it seems right, it sounds righteous… BUT!!
(Matthew 24:5)… Jesus Said: “Many shall come; ~IN My Name~, saying I am Christ, and shall deceive many”… Are we not contaminating the ~Name of Christ~, by promoting Christmas, as a season of Santa Claus? Why on earth would we not keep the seasonal gift delivering separate from the ~~Blessed Event OF The Birth OF God’s Only Begotten Son~, on this earth… What IS gained by this mixture? Eyes are cast upon the ways of the world, by the cunning lures of Satan the Devil that old dragon, who cunningly led Adam and Eve to believe that they could be as gods IF they did what they wanted to do Instead of doing what God said!…
AND many Churches can’t even spend one hour during that season giving the ~Message~ of Christ Birth, because they are in a rush to get to the ~~*PARTY*~~ of the world…
NOW! We are not to judge each other because that belongs to God… AND IT IS Written THAT Judgment ~First~ begins ?Where? …
AND IT IS ALSO Written: that these days will not come except there be a falling away… Reckon the leaders of the congregations are helping in that falling away…
(II Thessalonians 2:3-4) .. So that the man of sin, the son of perdition be revealed as he who exalted himself above all that IS called God, so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God.. shewing *himself* that he is God… The same as Isaiah wrote of IN: (Isaiah 14:12 - 15).. Lucifer, the devil thought to exalt himself up in the heavens above the clouds to ~BE~ LIKE .. *THE Most High*… Exalting his throne above the stars of God:. So Satan IS working overtime going about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour… (I Peter 5:8)
I once heard IT Said: “IF” one congregation offers hotdogs and cokes for people to come join in their services, then the one down the street will offer, hamburgers and ice cream… to increase their numbers… And *IF* you look at the announcements, the ~Invites~ to these services, you will sadly see how this saying came to be… BUT…. IS this how Christ commissioned us to offer The Word of His Father?
Were we not ~Commissioned~ TO Come out from among *them*? AND ~WHO~ IS *THEM?
(II Corinthians 6:14-18)… “What fellowship hath *Righteousness* With ~Unbelievers~” This IS preached only to be interrupted as a union of marriage between a man and a woman of different belief’s, BUT IS NOT the congregations of THE Church supposed to be *Married* TO: Christ? And not the idols of pagan beliefs and cultural traditions?
What concord (peaceful coexistence, or agreement) hath: Christ with Belial? OR! What Part hath he that believeth with an infidel?… Here’s where IT Gets Sticky! Folks teach that we individuals are the temple of God and that this does not apply to the Church as a group of people… BUT! *IT* IS* we individuals that are the temple of God, In which Christ dwells in us and we in Him, THAT assemble ourselves together, to worship the LORD, God Almighty Father?… and yes, there are others of the world that come in, the tares, among the wheat, Jesus said, “Let them grow, together, until the harvest”… BUT we are to let them grow in the truth, that all may be won to Christ, not in an abominable false teaching that all may be lost and become tares to be burned in the fires of hell…. Examples SET?
This *IS* where we are to ~~Come~~ out from among them… TO Stand Firm on and IN God’s Will and Way that by our: True Teaching of the Word of God, they may be led to THE ONE that can and does save… for true we cannot save anyone not even ourselves, only Christ, THE Way, THE Truth, THE Light…. BUT! *IF* we the people don’t first obey God’s Way, and second teach the Written Word IN *Truth*…which IS the first because That IS What Christ Commissioned us to do, so IF we obey we will teach the ~Truth~ The Whole Truth, AND *Nothing* BUT THE TRUTH, where are we leading the lost, to Christ or the world of Satan, ~Already~ sentenced to destruction… YET, folks keep trying to ~~Save~ the world by changing IT, instead of working out their Salvation and leading others by ~Keeping and Showing *Faith* IN Christ… walking IN His Light, Obedient TO HIS Way…
(Ephesians 6: 11 -18).. Take on the ~~Whole Armor~ of Christ & AND & ~Take~ *The Helmet OF Salvation*, & *THE Sword of the Spirit*, Which *IS* ~THE WORD OF God…
BUT by, our mixing in false teachings for fun, play, party time, joking, comedy, good time in the ways of the world, we are neither ~Teaching God’s Way~, Setting A Godly Example~ OR even growing ourselves in the truth, but we are wandering around in the world as lost sheep, who could return to the fold, *IF* we *Listen* For the Master’s Voice, and not the sound of pagan music beating out a rhythm of the lost and dying world in out ears…
~These Scripture ARE Written, AS Clearly, AS IT Gets~… BUT OH, ONE thing you gotta do IS read, Accept, study, learn, Believe, take them to heart, AND Put them to USE in your walk through This fleshly life, for growth in strength in these last days..
AND IT would be wonderful IF we ~could~ assemble ourselves together for the ~Right~ Reasons, Instead of a good time in the world….

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Biblical Warnings OF Falling Away

(I Peter 4:8)… *IF*… ~the righteous~ ``scarcely`` be saved; where ~shall~ the ungodly and the sinner appear?
(Jude 1:5)… I will put you in ~remembrance~ of this…though you once ~knew~ *This*.. How that THE LORD, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not….
(I Corinthians 10: 1)…Paul said: “I would not have you ignorant, how that ~all~ our fathers were under the cloud, and ~all~ passed through the sea:” .. (v.3-4)..AND did all eat the *Same* Spiritual food & did ~all~ drank ~OF~ that ~Spiritual~ *Rock* that followed them; & That *Rock* was Christ… BUT! (v.5-6).. But with many of them God ~WAS NOT~ well pleased: FOR they were overthrown in the wilderness… NOW!.. ~~These Things~~~ WERE our *Examples*, TO The *Intent*, we should ~NOT~ lust after evil things, as they also lusted.. AND WHAT DID THEY DO?
(Ephesians 2:7-9)…By grace are ye ~Saved~ not of yourselves : *IT IS The Gift * OF God: NOT of works lest any man should boast.. For ~we~ ARE HIS workmanship, created IN Christ… *UNTO* ~Good Works~… ~~WHICH God hath before *Ordained* That we Should Walk *IN* Them….
We cannot do any good work of our own that will bring salvation to ourselves, FOR IT IS ONLY Through Christ that we are saved… BUT we are saved TO Good works and *IF* we don’t maintain those good works, Which God set before, which IS: Obedience TO HIS Will AND Way, Faithfully Believing, THAT HE IS ALMIGHTY, Bowing before God with fear and trembling, Then God WILL turn us over to the one that we seek to follow…the one we deceitfully cast our eyes toward.. WHICH IS Why we must Preach Truth, and Truth Alone so as not to mislead anyone…
(Romans 10:8-10) … “The *WORD* OF *Faith*… which we ~preach~.. That.. *IF* thou shalt *Confess* with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and *Believe* IN thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be ~Saved~…” (TOO Many Pastors Stop here and don’t bring forth the rest)… *FOR*… (Because *IF*)… “~With the heart a man *Believeth* unto Righteousness; and with the mouth ~~Confession~~ IS made unto **Salvation**…
Paul showed us that we indeed do have a requirement, an action that must be implemented on our part…. *IF* we would be saved” …… AND **Remain** Saved… FOR Just as The Example THAT IS Written for us of The Israelites that God Saved, out of Egypt, by the blood of the sacrificial, lamb through their obedience of belief and faith IN God’s Word, led by the, cloud… “*IF*, we stay IN the Rock, that followed them we are safe, *IF* we step out of that Rock as did the Israelites, and look back to the land of Egypt, making an image of their god, and eating dancing and being merry in the world, Christ will overthrow us today and let us wander in the desert of Satan’s world….. Jesus said: To HIS Father: “those that Thou gavest Me I have kept”… (HOW Did He Keep Them?) .. “IN THY NAME”… (John 17:12)… Not in the name of pagan celebrations… BUT In the Father’s Name BY:.. (v14)… “I, (Jesus) ~HAVE ~ *Given* them THY (God The Father) Word; and the world hath hated them, BECAUSE they *ARE NOT* of the world , ~Even AS I ( Jesus ) am not of the world)~…
Christ did not suffer and die that we could live freely in sin following the traditions of a lost and dying world, BUT that we could be free from that sin… IT IS Today, just as IT WAS In the very beginning, we are still ~Required~ to: “OBEY” God’s Will and Way, NOT HE our own!
(Acts 11: 11-15)… Peter Said: “the spirit ~Bade~ me go with them… and he showed us how that he had seen an ~angel~ in his house which bade him send men to Joppa, to a man named Peter… *** Who, ~SHALL~ tell thee ~~Words~~, whereby thou and thy house ~Shall Be *Saved*…. (NOT that any of the words that we can preach or speak has any more healing power than the works that we do, BUT!… That the words that were spoke, the message delivered, the Bible taught in Truth, *WILL* lead ones to grow IN: A Belief, Developing Faith, Rendering Obedience TO: AND Being Led by The holy Spirit, humbly Confessing that Jesus Christ IS The Son, OF God The Father which IS: The Requirement BY Which we may be Saved IN Jesus Christ…
(Luke 18:42)… Jesus SAID:… “thy *Faith* hath *Saved* thee” ….
Jesus didn’t pick this person up and say, you are saved, He doesn’t pick us up and out of the mire of this life and just automatically save us…. God The Father *WILL* call us out, *Draw us to HIS Son, Jesus Christ, and send warning, By The Holy Spirit, But *IF* we can’t take our eyes OFF of the world, then He will let us go right back into it… Just as HE Did the Israelites…
HE led them out of the bonds of Egypt, by HIS Son Jesus, they were ~*Saved*~… ~BUT!~ they did not want to retain God in their thoughts, heart, and mind, they wanted to return to the ~~Ways~~ of the worldly Egyptians….
Being saved by ~Grace~ : (which IS: ~Being In God’s Favor~) … Requires something, in fact a lot on our part, and yet when compared to the burdens put upon us of the world, by the world, and in the world to make a living, maintain our health, our lives and lives of our fleshly families, *IT* *IS* a very, small, simple thing that God ~~Requires of us~~ in order to be saved, and maintain that ~~Salvation~~ (being delivered from sin through Jesus)…AND gives us a better walk through this this life as well as gives us HOPE of life eternal in heaven… . & *YES*, *IT IS* our responsibility to *Maintain*… Preserve our walk with and in Christ Jesus, God’s Only Begotten Son… He ~WILL~ hold to us, only *AS* long *AS* we hold to Him… *IF* we start to cast hungry looks out into the ways of the world, seek refreshment in pagan cultures, set up our own traditions, or seek to adopt the customs of the heathen nations, ~THEN~ He * WILL * ~Turn~ us over to the things that our hearts desire……
HOW DO WE preserve our walk with and in Christ, *IF* we are not saved by works, BUT by Grace? HOW Was Noah Saved?…. BY *FAITH*… At any time Noah could have given up and said this IS TOO hard for me, I am alone in the world, there IS NO `Crowd` to run with, I want to be popular, I want to spend my time having fun, I am tired of doing this hard work… and what would have happened? Read: (Genesis 6:6)
(Mark 16: 15-16) ..Jesus Said: “Go ye into ~~ALL~~ the world and ~Preach *The Gospel* TO Every creature… He that ~~Believeth~~ and IS Baptized, shall BE Saved;…. BUT he that believeth ~Not~ shall be damned”….
He didn’t say go out and party with the world and draw them in to a party in their honor IN ~~The House Built to Assemble ourselves together to Praise The LORD a one body~~, and all will be saved…. AND He did not say that our own salvation would be maintained in doing these things but: AS IT IS Written, AS Paul said:
( Philippians 2:12 )… “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling”…
(Luke 8: 12) .. Jesus SAID, in a warning parable: .. “Those by ~the Wayside~… *ARE* they that *HEAR*, ~THEN~ cometh the Devil, AND ~Taketh~ The *Word* ~OUT~ of their hearts,…(WELL, TO take something *OUT* *IT* must have been *IN*) (WHY?) lest ~they~ should *BELIEVE* and be saved…” ( Once we *Believe*, we must continue TO *Believe*… ) This IS the True message that should be preached to the people, Instead of ~Once saved Always Saved~…
Just as in the days of Job, the Devil, can’t take us out of Christ hand, but he can deceitfully lure us away *IF* by God’s Permission he IS Allowed to tempt us… and he IS: as long as these last days are being fulfilled…..
(Psalm 95:8)… Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, & as in the day of ~temptation in the wilderness… (We are living in the days of temptation as in the wilderness today, this time of wandering, waiting, for ~The Promised Land) & Jesus Warned: & He gave us instruction as to ~How we could and should ~Protect ourselves against losing our salvation….
(Mark 14:38)… “Watch AS Well AS Pray, lest ye enter into ~~Temptation~~… The spirit truly IS ready, but the flesh IS weak….” (IT IS against principalities that we fight, not flesh and blood) (Ephesians 6:12)… (So *IF* we allow the beam of the principle of our salvation to be shattered by the spirit of darkness, in the lust of the fleshly eye, we strengthen the evil and weaken the spirit of obedience.. Within ourselves…)
And Christ gave us warning of these things, we gotta seriously pay attention… Many folks even in the Churches act as thought this is ~ALL~ a big joke…poke fun at it, make stand-up comedy of IT, ~Entertainment~ in the world… But when Jesus was being beaten, spit on, mocked, cursed, and when He hung on the Cross for our deliverance from sin… IT WAS NOT A JOKE!… IT WAS NOT FOR FUN!… IT WAS out of ~LOVE~ for us!! NOW, How do we show our ~Love~ for Him?
In our earthly relationships, how many times have you told your spouse, you don’t love me, because you never pay any attention to me… You don’t treat me right, because you are always poking fun at me in public…. YOU, hurt MY Feelings, when you look at someone else with ~Lust~ in your eyes, and you flirt with them, and *IF* you don’t stop, then you can have them, because ~I am through with you~….. Consider this as you read the Biblical warnings of: Being Saved and Maintaining our own salvation, BY continually walking IN & BY Faith, BY Believing IN The Father, HIS Son, Jesus Christ, AND The Holy Ghost, The THREE That ARE A DEVINE UNIT OF ONE……

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

FLowers IN God's Kingdom

There IS a Beautiful Old song that I enjoy entitled: “Where The Roses Never Fade”… For some reason I awoke this morning with that song on my mind….. As I lay there thinking of the words it brings out, I realized that we grow here on this earth as do the flowers too… AS the ~Parable~ of the seeds that Jesus told of…. IN:
(Mark 4: 3-20)…Jesus refers to a sower, which IS Himself, that went out to sow seeds…and ~some fell by the way~, some fell on stony ground, some fell among the thorns, and some fell on ~GOOD~ ground and did yield fruit…Read IT ALL IN THE Bible and Think, Consider, Which type of Christian do we prove to be?
One that hears the word, takes IT to heart, they receive *IT* with gladness, BUT fail to do that which will keep them deeply rooted in THE Will of God.
OR one, looking back at the world one time to many, trying to be friends with the world and straddle the fence, have their cake and eat IT TOO, mixing in the customs of the world with their worship, so that the world eventually overpowers their worship, and Satan takes the WORD out of their hearts… SO that the seeds that we bear are seeds dead in the world…
Gods Kingdom IS likened unto a grain of ~mustard seed~, which, when sown in the earth, is less than ~ALL~ the seeds that be in the earth: BUT When IT IS Sown, *IT* Groweth UP, & Becometh ~Greater~ than ALL the herbs, and shooteth out great branches….. (Mark 4:30-32)
(THAT *IS* The Key Phrase Though… “When *IT* IS* Sown”… When we mix *IT* with man’s traditions, and pagan customs we contaminate the word, weakening the fertilizer that we are supplying the seed that we planted with, and it will dry up and die eventually, being engorged with a diet of the ways of the world…) *IF* IT Was that TRUE seed that we were planting as Jesus commanded we do, then the branches would be growing strong so that many birds would come to rest on and in the ~Mustard Seed~… BUT!
Some statistics that I heard the other day, sorta saddened me.. Because it said that there were something like 20,000 Baptist Movement Churches that had not had ~ONE~ Baptism in the whole past year…. When you consider one of the *Last* commands that Jesus gave His followers to do, before He returned to His Father in Heaven, to sit at HIS Right Hand as our Intercessor, WAS:
(Matthew 28:19-20)… “GO ye Therefore, AND *Teach* ~ALL~ Nations, baptizing them IN the Name OF: The Father, and of The Son, AND OF, THE Holy Ghost: *Teaching* THEM TO OBSERVE ~ALL~ Things Whatsoever *I* Have Commanded you!”…
(notice IT IS NOT Written of His Words that He said, GO and mix up the Gospel with a bunch of pagan customs, and men’s traditions, and present this before the lost and dying world to confuse them as to what exactly IS: Right and What IS Wrong…. But when He ~Taught~ He taught from What?…. (Luke 4:16-17) . (Matthew 21:42) . (John 2:22) . (Mark 12:24).. & many others…. What did Paul say we must do to keep our faith built up?
(II Timothy 3:14).. “Continue IN the things which thou hast learned” … (15).. Where were these things learned? .. (v.15).. “From a child thou hast *Learned* FROM ~THE Holy Scriptures~,” WHY?… (v.15-b) …which ~ARE ABLE~ To make thee wise unto salvation … Through *FAITH* which IS IN Christ!” … *IF* we don’t read the Written Word, we can’t *Learn OF Christ, OF The Father, and of the Holy Ghost, IT IS This learning, this humble desire to know by accepting and reading God’s Holy Written Word that we are able to ~Grow~ In God’s Will and Way…
Someone wrote, we have ~no~ need to ~Learn~ *OF* Christ, because when we are saved, Christ lives IN us, and guides us,… IT IS Exactly this sort of teaching that leads so many people astray… IT Leads the ignorant to think that whatever they do IS OF God: SO IF they go out and shoot a doctor because he is running an abortion clinic, then Christ within them did this… IF they want to have an affair outside of marriage or a homosexual encounter IT IS Okay, because God will allow this to be so, and the sin IS hidden in Christ blood…. SAD, Sad, sad…
& AND& those ~New IN Christ~ must learn, have need to be taught…..AS Jesus Said:
(John 6:45)…*IT IS Written*, ~By The prophets~ “AND they shall ~ALL~ *Be Taught* OF God” … (This does not say by God, although HE Can certainly teach us many lessons, BUT IT Reads ~~OF, as in About~~ God)… “Every man therefore that ~Hath~ *Heard*, and ~Hath~ *Learned* OF THE FATHER, cometh unto Me” … (How many people do we meet that will only proclaim the Son, and in doing this deny the Father???…) Beware the antichrist! ..read: (I John 2:22)… (Hebrews 13:9)
The Fathers draws us unto the Son, (John 6:44) & we cannot go to the Father except ~BY~ The Son, Jesus Christ, (John 14:6) .. BUT TO Grow in Knowledge ~OF~ THE TWO OF THE Three That ARE ONE… God Gave us a BOOK OF ALL Instruction…. AND HE Gave us Instruction TO Read *IT’S* Pages….
(II Timothy 2:16)… “*ALL* Scripture *IS* Given ~BY~ Inspiration OF God, and *IS* ~Profitable~ FOR Doctrine, FOR Reproof, FOR Correction, FOR: ~~INSTRUCTION *IN* RIGHTEOUSNESS~~” … WHY? .. (v.17).. “That ~The man~ of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished, unto ~ALL~ *Good Works*…..
*IF* when we make that conscious commitment to serve the LORD, we are drawn by The Father, to the Son, step forth and declare Christ as our Savior, and are Baptized, and are misled from the moment and even before so that when we come up out of the water, we have lost the battle against the unseen evils of Satan, the lures of rebellion and rejection, versus urging of the Spirit to read and learn OF The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit, because we are led to: ~Think~ that we know something when ~WE~ know nothing….we walk on believing as we have been taught, rushing head long into a falsely promoted faith, we are walking right into the claws of Satan. Just as Eve was snookered into a belief that she would not surely die for *Disobeying* THE Word of God…… Rejecting the urging of the Holy Spirit to abide in God’s Will and Way…
Jesus said, “take my yoke upon ye, AND ~Learn~ OF ME”, (Matthew 11:29)… BUT IF we see no reason to READ His Written Word, then I reckon we may not know, even that…
AS in (Genesis 1: 11-12).. Where God created all things that be, and He brought forth the ~tree~ yielding fruit, whose ~seed~ was *IN* itself, after his kind….. By design God made ~ALL~ things, ~FOR~ a purpose.. A position, A place….. IT IS When we as ~modern day~ way-breakers, set out to change that design, that place, that we find ourselves in trouble, and yelling at everyone else but ourselves the guilty one, for falling prey in our own arrogant ignorance to our plight in Satan‘s trappings…
God gives us that choice, Still today, TO obey HIS Word, the urging of the Spirit, to learn, OR to reject that desire, become entangled in the world OR just say *NO* to It’s ways governed by the dragon….
SOOOoooo… *IF* we AS Christians followed THE Commands THAT Jesus gave us, did The Will of His Father and ours, there would be no need to bring before the courts of this world a big messy law suit because: The government IS Taking: In God we trust, off of, ~Caesars Bills~, OR, prayer out of It’s schools, because of mixed ~Religions~ that attend it, OR marching around in protest, signing petitions, because the Government of THIS Country, that the Christians lift up over, and above, their Maker, in praise, honor, and loyalty, IS going to take away the: National Day of Prayer, that IT set before them anyway to make them dance a little harder before the gods of this world instead OF: THE ONE TRUE God, that they claim as their Maker…
Someone recently wrote: we are all slaves, to the masters that we serve… So True… and the Christians, who call themselves after God’s Only Begotten Son, have willingly and hungrily attached themselves to a lost and dying world, with and by the abominations, cunningly placed before their greedy eyes by, Satan the Devil, the god of this world, (II Corinthians 4:4), allowing themselves to become enslaved TO: It’s customs, It’s games, It’s merchandise of trade, and yet all the while, lying to themselves that this IS God’s Country, ONE Nation, Indivisible, (Meaning not separable into parts, BUT this country has always been separated into parts, and more so today, Indians on reservations, Muslims have their own little countries and fly their own flag in it Right in the middle of this nation) WITH Liberty (freedom of what, right to choose to be poor while the rich get richer off of the poor) and Justice, (fairness of what?) for ~ALL~. Proudly saluting the flag in an act of prideful worship, singing IT’S praise before the alters of God… while the very ones that Jesus Said, go forth and ~Teach~ are laying in the ghetto’s, on the streets, starving, abandoned hopeless. WHY?
Because ~The Church~ IS busy taking pleasure trips, throwing ice cream parties, coloring, hiding, and hunting eggs of the flesh, buying presents, wrapped in elaborate paper, and throwing parties in Christ Name, having a good time in the world, ~INSTEAD OF~ standing firmly planted in ~THE GOOD SOIL~ OF God’s Written Word the Bible and planting the seeds of ~Eternal Life~ in their walk through this life….
OH, they give, ~Easter Egg Boxes~ & ~Santa Clause Boxes~ to the poor and the lost twice a year, filled with lures of the world, and place a Bible verse in it and this is a ~Major Witness~, or they pass around a message of: Don’t be ashamed of Jesus, OR, A petition to be signed to keep prayer in school, IS This a pitiful show of faith? (Mark 12:38) .. Of those that make a big show of protesting for what? To be seen of others? For this Isn’t preaching and teaching the Gospel of God’s Kingdom or of HIS Son Jesus Christ… IF we as Christians would do this we would realize that we like Paul, and Peter, are not bound by chains of any sort, but are ~Free~ in Christ… we can pray any where, any time, any day, we don’t *NEED* to be chained to a day proclaimed by the worldly government to pray, do we?… We certainly do not need permission to pray in school if we walk about as a Christian should, with a pray in our heart, in our thoughts, on our mind, which keeps us walking, Closer, to the LORD… AND! We certainly should realize that the filth that the money of Caesar is used on should not be associated with our walk in the LORD..
BUT, come assembly time, IT’S ALL About the world and what we have done in it…
Who excelled in sports… Who is the beauty winner, what party is being held next, what movie of the occult IS playing that as soon as they get out of service they are rushing to enjoy… God’s children? OR? OH, we pray for rain for our crops, safe travel, or pray that the rain stop, or a fleshly healing, but do you ever hear a prayer offered up for A ~Spiritual~ healing for anyone? Think about IT! What flower sprung from the seed of your life here? Did IT Bloom with God’s LOVE, showing forth the beauty of HIS Mercy, giving a glimpse of HIS Kingdom to a lost and dying world? OR does IT look like the rest of the weeds, the tares that are growing amongst the wheat… (Matthew 13: 26-30)
*IF* the Church, and the people that claim to be True followers of Christ that fill IT, walked, talked, acted in a manner befitting the NAME, there may be more wheat entering into the Church of God, instead of tares taking over and choking out the good seed….before they have a chance to grow…
*IF*, we walk in the Lord, as we should,
AND *IF* we speak of His Word* as we must,
The example’s that we set, we will never regret,
For, the flower of God’s Love Will break even the hardest Crust.
Blooming forth in Truth and Declaration,
OF: God’s Holy Message, HE sends from Above,
Producing seeds that will sprout, never wither in doubt,
For they Will be fed, Only By God’s Undying LOVE…..

Monday, May 23, 2011

"Wings OF Love"

Many times I have heard IT spoken from the pulpit, “don’t speak of Satan, don’t waste time on him because IT draws attention to him and takes our focus off of God”.. BUT we don’t stop and think about the things that he subtly sets before us to draw our focus and attention off of God and puts us right into the ~Pocket~ of the ~roaring lion~ the adversary, that goes about devouring whom ever IT can… (I Peter 5:8)
SOOOOOOoooo… the wise thing to do would be to *READ* THE Book of ~ALL~ Instruction that God had penned down for us today to have as a reminder of *HOW* we should walk *Obediently* IN HIS Will & Way.. AND Thus ~Maintain~ protection against the wiles of Satan and certain destruction as one of his followers…. The one, WHO, tries to appear as: Jesus in many settings, thus misleading many ignorant…
(Isaiah 9:6).. Jesus IS referred to AS: “The Prince of Peace”…
(John 16: 7-13) .. Jesus said: When The Comforter has come he will, “Reprove” (Convict or refute).. the world of: Judgment (v.11).. ~Because the prince of the world~ IS judged… (That prince of the world IS Satan, AND (v.13)… The Spirit will Guide us into ~ALL~ truth, but we must follow in order to Be guided…)
(John 14:30) Jesus said: “hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the ~prince of this world~ cometh, AND hath nothing to do with me”…. (So why in the world would we try to put and keep, ~in God we trust~ on the money that belongs to this world, of Satan? Yes, we use *IT*, but the testimony of: ~Our Trust In God~ is badly tainted and utterly destroyed by the things that this coinage buys, of and in the world, IS IT NOT? Why do we waste so much ~TIME~ trying to sugar coat our sins by, attempting to put God, where even Jesus said, He did not go)…. when Jesus Said, “The prince of this world has nothing to do with Him“?… Why would we not be better witnesses of our LORD, to simply remain ~Loyal~ to HIS Kingdom and share the Gospel of *IT* and of HIS Son Jesus Christ, get off of our duffs and get about ~The Work~ that Jesus commissioned us to do, IN: (Matthew 28:18-20) .. The ~Prince~ & ~Savior~ Whom God the Father, hath exalted with HIS Right Hand TO Give ~~Repentance TO Israel AND forgiveness of ~our~ sins?) (Acts 5:31)… AS IT IS Written IN The Bible That God Had Penned Down for us TO follow?
Many Scriptures, give warning to: those who have chosen a walk with Christ, against falling into the clutches of that old devil, the serpent by being drawn away by temptations of the world… AND, YES! We cannot be taken out of or touched as long as we are under the wing of protection of Jesus Christ, BUT, we ~CAN BE~ enticed out from under that safety shield and exposed venerable to the jaws of death…. IN & BY our very own ignorance…. Many Times IT IS Because we want TO: Use our time reading Books of The world, sexual oriented, how to have magnificent bodies, fashions that lure, all instruction into how to have and illicit affair, draw men’s or women’s attention for what? A sexual encounter outside of marriage? OR a homosexual oriented building up of power….? AN Excuse to simple ~Read~ one’s daily *horoscope*… Rather than: *The Sound Instruction The God had printed in the Bible… When *IF* that one had ~~READ~~ the Bible INSTEAD OF a reading offered by the world of Satan, they would KNOW that this IS AN Action that IS Prohibited BY our Savior, and Jesus did not suffer on the cross so that we could be free to seek our fortune, our luck, by following a ~horoscope~~! *ALL* these things are simply designs by the adversary to draw silly folks away from and out of the: “Safety Net” of God’s Protection… AND WE Do have the responsibility of ~learning~ what we should and should not do, Because, God HAS Given US what we need to learn this from… AND Yes, HE guides our conscious, by The Holy Spirit, but do we pay attention? How do we understand what the Spirit is convicting us of, *IF*, we don’t have that ~Desire~ TO Learn & Follow?
When Jesus prayed TO His: Father TO: Keep His followers what did He ask?
(John 17:9)… “I ~pray~ *NOT* for ~the world~… BUT for them which THOU gavest Me; for they are THINE” … (11).. “Keep Through THINE OWN NAME those whom THOU Hast given Me, that they May BE One as We ARE” … (He prayed for those that had been saved, taught the truth, not the lost of the world…..)
So this indicates that we are IN Need of Guidance from the Father, and OF Safe Keeping from the Father, Through The Son, and BY The Holy Spirit… AND, IN ORDER TO Maintain the ~Safe Keeping~ What MUST we DO?
(Matthew 16:24)… Jesus SAID: *IF* any man ~Will~ come after Me, let him *deny* himself & take up his cross and follow Me…. (This IS pretty plain that we ~ARE NOT free to dredge out our own walks in our own paths, seeking our own way, & trying to put God and Christ into IT… BUT we ~MUST~ be followers & we must follow closely, not lagging far behind, dallying in the world, in the sight of the vulture that IS lurking to devour, the lion that is going about roaring, Satan the devil….)
(John 10:27).. Jesus said: “My sheep ~hear~ My voice and they ~Follow~ Me: (29)… & no man can pluck them out of My hand.. (29)… no man IS able to pluck them out of My Father’s Hand” … (BUT, We gotta stay within ear shot AND! When we got the music of the world going so loud that it is literally vibrating the earth under our feet, what do we hear? The warning cluck of the mother hen, calling us to get back under her wing? OR the sound of the ~Beast~ blasting us further away from the protected: Fold of Christ?) FOR… Jesus Said Again!
(John 12:25-26).. “He that loveth ~his~ life shall lose *IT*: & he that hateth ~his~ *life in ~this world~* shall keep *IT* unto life eternal….. “*IF* ~any man~ *Serve* Me, let him *Follow* Me: & Where I am. there shall ~ALSO~ My servant BE: *IF* any man serve Me, him Will My Father honour”… (Are we so ~In Love~ with the customs of pagans, the video games, the parties, and fun times that the world has to offer that our minds are busy, busy, busy, with the world, leaving *NO* Time to ~Think about or Study~ The LORD, until we want something… and many want something more monetary then spiritual?) IT IS our duty TO Stay under God’s Protective Wing, where we are covered… He does not hold us IF we want to go…What did Jesus SAY? “Where I am, there shall also My servant be”. Jesus will not hold us IF we want to wander into the lost and dying world, neither Will He follow us there… We must be willing to ~STAY~ under His Wing… or be as: Jerusalem, ~Who~: would not have IT…
(Luke 13:34) & (John 9:62)… No man having put his hand to the plough, and looking back IS fit for the Kingdom of God… (So we can’t look back at the world, but we gotta plow forward focused on The Kingdom OF GOD, not the ways of the world…) & (Mark 10:20-21) … A young man had followed the true teaching since childhood, BUT: Jesus said: “one thing thou lackest: go thy way, sellest whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, & thou shalt have treasure in heaven, take up they cross AND Follow Me”… But the man was grieved and went away… from under the protection of Christ, Why? Because he loved the things of the world more than he loved the LORD!
A good warning **NOTE** I heard from a Preacher, the other day: He said, “Busy IS Simply: B-eing U-nder S-atan’s Y-olk”… SO… remember, when you are working so hard to be a good Christian, but you are plowing through the world instead of the Bible, following the way that Jesus established for us, just as busy as a beaver… Stop and think about what ~Message~ or Testimony you are presenting of yourself to a lost and dying world, what reflection are you making OF: God’s Only Begotten Son That He gave so that ~who-so-ever *Believeth* on Him should not perish, BUT have everlasting life~….
Here *IS* THE *IF’S* that give choice even after we a saved…. By choice we can and *Must* follow Christ to remain under His Protection, and under His Father’s Favor… AND *IF* we, cast our eyes out into the world, look to and desire the things that IT has to offer, & then in this lust, wander TOOOoooo… far from the fold, step out too far away from under God’s Wing of Protection through our own arrogance of self righteousness and high minded self image… we are sitting ducks to be plucked off by the adversary, of Christ, Satan the Devil…
First & Foremost, we MUST learn… Our *Faith* IS held strong by what? “A Closer Walk With Thee, LORD”. & ~HOW DO~ we *Establish*, that walk? BY: ~Learning~ where to walk IN order to Stay under the protection of Jesus Christ… AND YES! We must continually ~Prove~ our stance, being aware of where we put our feet, else we may step into a hole that we can’t get out of…. AND YES! *IF* we do and we call upon the LORD, with a truly repentant heart, HE will hear our plea and forgive…
BUT so many times folks want to ~Tell~ God what to do, instead *Listening* TO God and doing what God tells them to do.. … AND A GOOD Way to listen to God IS Through the Reading OF HIS Written Word, and in Prayer for Guidance of and BY THE Holy Spirit… Which ~Ain’t~ Cool to many folks, ~with~ *I* KNOW* IT ALL* egos…
ALL of God’s creation and HIS little creatures can teach us many lessons *IF* we will just ~LOOK~, humbly observe them… AND Not place our focus on: the god of this world… as Satan IS also referred to: IN: (II Corinthians 4:4)
Ever watch a mama hen and her chicks? IF not, do it sometime.. She keeps them close by, and they instinctively stay close by, with a soft clucking sound.. Her eyes are constantly watching all around her for danger, while on her chicks too…. IF danger appears, they scurry up under her and she sits on them spreading her wings over them to keep them safe,… BUT *IF* one has strayed ~TOO~ far off she clucks loudly for IT to hurry to her for protection, & *IF* IT pays no attention, IT ends up being: “food for the predator“….
So IT IS With Christians Today: we are God’s children, biddies, BUT we must listen to HIS voice and stay: ~Close~ to HIS Wing of Protection, so that when Satan comes calling we can scurry under God’s Feather Blanket warmly protected from: ~ALL~ evil & harm…. AND we must peep out our voices to HIM to let HIM know that we are *Listening* TO HIS Voice, HIS Clucking, IF we wander too far off into the world of Satan, so that we forget to peep, so that we can no longer hear God’s Clucking Sound Calling us back to safety, we get TOOOooo… brave in our *OWN* wanderings, we just may be lost and fall into that eternal pit of fire as a ~friend of that old dragon~….
What did David *Pray*, before THE LORD?
(Psalm 57:1).. “Be merciful unto me, O God, for my soul ~Trusteth~ IS THEE: Yea, *IN* the shadow of THY Wings, will I make my refuge… Read the whole chapter… (Psalm 63:7) too.
(Malachi4:1-2).. ‘The ~day~ cometh, that shall burn as an oven; & ALL the *Proud*, ..that do wickedly.. Shall be stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up,” saith, THE LORD.. BUT unto you ~That Fear~ *MY NAME*, shall THE SUN OF Righteousness arise with healing in His Wings….
Where does this tell us that we need to be found standing and doing what?…. Fearing the LORD God Almighty Father, and humbly abiding under the healing wings of protection IN HIS Son, Jesus Christ…. NOT OUT chasing our tails like a dog in the ways of the world….
(Psalm 91:1 & 4)… HE that dwelleth in the secret place of: THE MOST HIGH, shall ~Abide~ *Under* The Shadow OF: THE ALMIGHTY…..HE shall ~Cover~ thee with HIS ~feathers~, AND Under HIS Wings, shalt thou trust: HIS Truth Shall BE thy shield and buckler….
Some of our mistakes, that Satan sets before us to subtly draw us away from that protection IS: found IN:
(Proverbs 23) the whole chapter read IT All… (1) when thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently ~~What IS Before~~ thee:…(Are you going to compromise your faith and loyalty to God, by what this ruler desires that you do? By what the world IS serving you TO: consume? By doing what seems nice and showing undue support for the ruler of the nation that you live in… BY lifting up a golden eagle statue, and claiming that the statue of THE ~lady~ of freedom IS your liberty, what have you done? BY lifting up the flag over the congregation of the gathering together of God’s people to Worship HIM and HIM ALONE, what have you done?…
Denied God’s Kingdom?
Fell to the lures of the world led BY: Satan the devil, made him happy, that he was able to draw your attention away from the Protecting Wings of THE LORD by declaring that your protection IS: found in a piece of cloth, a statue, and a golden image… ALL Idols of the world….
As Jesus said, lamenting Jerusalem’s turning their backs upon Him:
(Luke 13:34)…. “O Jerusalem which killest the ~prophets~, and stonest ~them~ that are sent unto thee; HOW Often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, AND ye would not”…. (This was God’s children, BUT they did not want to be under the Wings of Protection of Christ, how many Christians today, who claim to be God’s children, reject the protection of Christ, by walking in the world….?
Today, we spend so much time in the world, showing our loyalty to a country that IS denying Christ The Son, & God His Father, every day… chasing after the ways of the world in ~~ALL~~ things, the pagan cultural celebrations, placing more emphasis on them while calling IT after Christ, The Son of God… An Abomination.. of false teachings..
Getting so caught up in the things that money can buy that we get into debt way over our heads, thus succumbing to the lures of the evil one, by getting entrapped in endless work days so that we have no time to Properly instruct and care for our families… resulting IN: divorce, adultery, our children turned out into the streets, to dope, gangsters, tattooing their bodies, rebelling against everything, attitudes of: destruction…kill everything that moves... Wake UP Folks… Pay Attention! THINK! LOOK AT The Fig Tree! AND Stop ~everything~ that you are doing, gather in your children, Pick up the Bible, get down on your knees… chirp to the LORD, in humble repentant prayer & Listen for HIS Clucking to guide you back into the fold…. Under the protection OF HIS Wings of Love….

Friday, May 20, 2011

Games People Play

The ~Games~ people play any more, serve as a detachment from a caring people… There has always been evil in this world, from the git-go… When Satan fell and proved himself in opposition to God THE Father. through his ~~Iniquity~~… (Ezekiel 28: 12-19)…
The ~Enmity~ that God The Father put between the seed of the ~serpent~ and the seed of the woman was: The Deliverance of God’s children from the grip of this ~Iniquity~ BY The Son of God, Jesus Christ… WHO Proved ~Obedient unto even unto death… (Genesis 3:15) & (Philippians 2:8)…. Folks, here is an ~Eye-Opener~ … this was not a *JOKE*, for the world of comedy, This ~WAS~ NOT~ A Game, BUT THIS *IS* life: This means LIFE OR DEATH>… AND THIS ~IS~ A choice that we each MUST consciously make…
AS Moses warned IN: (Deuteronomy 32:46-47).. “SET your hearts unto ~~ALL~~ the words which I testify among you ~~This Day~~ Which ye shall *COMMAND* your *children*, ~TO OBSERVE~ *ALL* The Words OF THIS LAW…. SEE *IT IS NOT* A ~VAIN~ thing for you: Because: *IT IS* your life: & ~Through~ this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land”…
This *IS* Serious, IT IS NOT A VAIN JOKE of the day…. A Cartoon, A sick debased *GAME*, for us to play, or to teach our children to play…
Jesus Himself Said, AS IT IS Written IN: (John 6:40)… “AND THIS *IS* The ~WILL OF HIM~ (God THE Father) .. That Sent Me (Jesus Christ THE Son)… , That ~Everyone~ which seeth The Son and Believeth ON Him, may have ~~Everlasting Life~~: & AND & *I* (Jesus) *WILL* raise him up at ~The Last Day~….
(John 17:3).. Jesus Said: “This *IS* life eternal, that they might ~Know~ *THEE*, THE Only TRUE God, and Jesus Christ, Whom THOU Hast Sent.”….
ALL THE *IF’S* IS Not Over and Done with unto Jesus Returns to gather ~~ALL~~ God’s children Home…. AS IT IS Written IN:
(I John 2:24)… “Let therefore ~ABIDE~ (as in dwell in) *IN* you, which ye have ~Heard~ from the beginning… **IF** that which ye have heard ~From~ The Beginning~ shall remain *IN* you, ye *ALSO* Shall ~Continue~ *IN* The Son, AND *IN* THE Father..
So how shall that which we have heard from the ~~Beginning~~ *Abide* IN US *IF* we don’t read the ~Written Word~~ of God’s Commands, HIS Laws, HIS Statutes, to Honor, and Obey, HIS Will and HIS Way??? We can’t then we hop out into our own belief’s and men’s traditions, and fall to the ways of the world led by Satan the Devil….
Folks want to teach that *IF* we are saved then we are in Christ and we can do no wrong… BUT… as long as we are still in these fleshly bodies, YES, we can do wrong… AND Jesus IS NOT A PART OF That wrong,, that *Disobedient* ACT… BUT we have stepped out of His protection into the world, which IS Why ~~THE BIBLE~ gives us so many Written Warnings by the prophets, by Peter, Paul, John, Mark, and Luke.. That we must be mindful of how and where we walk… Even recording the Words OF Jesus warning IN:
(Matthew 7: 21-24).. “Not everyone that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the *Kingdom OF Heaven*”…. (23).. “Then will *I* (Jesus).. ~Profess~ unto them, *I* Never Knew you: depart from Me, ye that work *Iniquity*” … (24)… “Therefore, (Because OF, Accordingly)… ~Whosoever~ .. (Not only those that are lost but those that claim Christ Salvation)… ~WHOSOEVER~ … *Heareth* (AS IN ALL THE EARS THAT HEAR) .. Whosoever heareth ~These sayings OF Mine~~ and doth them….” SO we have a choice, Whether we hear: The Written Word, and reject IT, OR whether we ~Hear~ the Spirit bid us do or do not do, and we *OBEY*, then we are IN God’s Will and Way, and *IF* we reject either one, then we ARE Out of God’s Will and Way , and we WILL pay the consequences…
Which God that Father Had Written for us to Read and To understand in Several Scriptures.. Go back and read (John 6:40) again…
(Deuteronomy 30:11-18).. (15) .. “See, I Have set before thee this day, life and good, & death and evil….
Folks want to spit at this because ~IT IS~: Old Testament, and IT does not apply to modern man…. BUT God’s ~~LAW~~ OF Obedience has never gone away, and WILL Never Go Away… ANYTIME someone lifts up their head in challenge to or of God the Father… *IT IS Disobedience*… AND When we step out OF: God’s ~LAW~ OF Obedience,,, IT IS A Direct Challenge TO And OF God….. Any way you slice a “Sour Cream Cake” you are gonna get a piece of *Sour Cream Cake* and nothing else…..
SOOOoooo… IT IS With our life as we live IT here in these fleshly bodies….. What we put into the Cake of our life IS what we are gonna get out of it… Whether .. IT IS Obediently Good unto life eternal OR whether IT IS Disobediently Evil unto Eternal death… FOR THAT IS: what *SIN*, *Iniquity*, *Offense*, *Transgression*, *Wrong*, *Evil*, are ~ALL~ listed under and attest to….. That IS the *SIN* that Adam and Eve committed in the Garden…. THAT IS the sin that we commit today when we decide for ourselves that this looks good, seems right and so we’re gonna go ahead and do it… INSTEAD OF: Seeking the Scriptures for Guidance, Praying to God the Father IN Jesus Name for Guidance BY THE Holy Spirit, IN ~ALL~ Decisions… & AND & … THE Worse Travesty OF ALL: *IS* when we hand over our children to the false teachings of: Pagan Cultures, Men’s Traditions, THE World OF Make Believe, That Warps their young minds into monsters…
First we teach them that The Bible Isn’t ~~ALL~~ that there IS: Because we mix in IT’S Truthful Teachings, The Customs of Abomination that God, Forbade HIS Children to participate in ~Before, From THE Beginning~~… Our Excuse, Jesus came and died and was Resurrected and this changed ~~Everything~~ we no longer have to pay attention to God’s Laws, Because Jesus Loves us as we are and He lets us do as ~~we~~ please…. Because He wants us to be *Happy*… AND Happy IS ~~ALL~~ That The World of Satan Has TO OFFER… AND since Jesus died for sin we are free… Yes we are ~Free TO: Accept~~ God’s Saving Grace, AND Abide in Obedience TO HIM… OR pay the price of falling to temptation…. Jesus did not die to free us to live in sin, but depart from sin….
IT Isn’t Just the Joy of: Singing praises to THE LORD, OR talking to The Father By the Holy Spirit, IN Jesus Name…. THIS IS THE DOOR THAT JESUS Opened to us…. TO enter into AS Paul Describes IN:
(Acts 14:27) .. When they had ~ALL~ come, & had Gathered ~The Church~ together, (What did they do? Sing happy fleshly birthday to each other, color and hid eggs, OH, OR sing the national anthem and give praise to the Roman Empire?)…. (~OR~) … The Church Together, they rehearsed ~ALL~ That *God* had done for them, ~&AND&~ HOW *HE* Had Opened THE *Door of Faith* unto the Gentiles……
Yet when Christians want to praise God, IT IS After they have praised and pledged their allegiance a piece of fabric, an ensign that represents the country in which, God placed them to live AS A Testimony Unto *HIS* Name….. Where God put each of us: TO: Teach THE Gospel OF HIS Kingdom, and OF HIS Son Jesus Christ…. Not the Gospel of the country on this earth in which HE placed us to live…
Yes, we are to support the nation in which HE placed us, BUT our Praise IS TO BE OF God… WE, are to obey the laws of man, in the country in which we live, as long as they are not in conflict of God’s Laws…. BUT IF we don’t know God’s Laws, HOW can we remain Obediently ~~Faithful~~ TO God? Maybe that is why so many Christians, can’t seem to serve the LORD God, First IN ~ALL~ Things… Because they study man’s ways, more that God’s Statutes….
The “Ensign” (Flag, Banner) that we should lift up and praise today this very age and time, IS: “Jesus Christ, God’s only Begotten Son”… He IS The Ensign of God’s Kingdom, of which we claim ~~Citizenship~ when we are baptized before the public…
(Ephesians 4:20-22)… But ye have ~NOT~ so learned OF Christ; *IF* SO BE That ye ~Have~ Heard Him, AND Have been taught BY Him, AS The Truth IS IN Jesus, THAT *YE*, (It doesn’t say that Jesus puts IT Away, but this IS our duty through Jesus TO Put away)… That ye put off concerning the former conversation, the old man which IS corrupt according to deceitful lust….. ( Many who are baptized come up walking right on in the same way that they walked before, Because, This is what they have been taught,,, That Jesus changes them automatically, and they have noting to do with it… SO what ever they do they believe IS right… BUT once we ~~Accept Jesus~~, Once we ~~Confess Jesus~~, Once we testify THAT we ~~Believe THE Saving Grace OF Jesus~~ , then we have a cleaning up of our act to consciously perform, a yielding OF: In Obedience TO: Gods Holy Written Word, and That IS The first thing that we should desire to do IS ~~Learn~~ Obedience TO God’s Will and Way, by putting away the ways of the world, not languishing away in the world of Satan….)
(Philippians 3: 18-20)… For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they ~ARE~ the enemies of the cross of Christ.. Whose *End* IS ~Destruction~ whose glory IS their belly, whose glory IS in their shame, who ~~MIND~~ earthly things… *FOR* our ~Conversation~ IS IN Heaven: From whence we look for The Savior, The Lord Jesus Christ… AND (v.9).. ~NOT~ having mine own righteousness, which IS of the law… BUT that which *IS* through the faith of Christ… (This IS NOT the Law of Obedience unto God’s Will and Way, but the law of physical circumcision, FOR we ~Must~ BE circumcised in out hearts, cut off from the world, carrying only the banner OF God’s Kingdom, which IS Christ Jesus…
( Peter 1:14-!5)… AS *Obedient* children, ~NOT~ fashioning ourselves according to the former lusts in our ignorance… BUT -- AS *HE* which called you *IS* Holy, so ~Be ye Holy *IN* ~~ALL~~ Manner of conversation…
The example was given to them that should live ungodly after they have accepted Christ as their Savior… OF: Lot as he lived in Sodom and Gomorrah, BY *choice:* whom God delieverd BUT:
(II Peter 2:7) .. Delivered just Lot, ~vexed~ with the filthy conversation of the wicked: for that man dwelling among them vexed his righteous soul living from day to day among them…
So the next time you run out to the store and strain you pocket book to buy A; Magical Wizard book or game, A Ouija Board, One Of The Many, highly Marketable, and self destructive video games of this world, to place into your child’s hand to make them ~Happy~… *STOP* and ask yourself, IS This short nanosecond of happiness, worth the life of my child? This precious little person that God Himself allowed to come into my life, giving ~~me~~ The *Responsibility* TO raise him/her in ~The Good Way~, protecting him/her from ~~ALL~~ the evils around us in this world… ASK yourself how am I, ~Can I~, call myself protecting them when I am placing the deadliest form of self destruction into their little hands, because the ways of the world have made *IT* attractively appealing to the children… BUT ~IN~ THE *Reality* of this life IT IS bringing upon them destruction, not only of this life, but of life eternal, because IT IS Vexing their soul, IT IS warping their minds, setting them in conflict with all around them, instead of promoting a peaceful love in their hearts… The music that they listen to, the movies that they watch…. Parents Pay Attention: Search God’s Word, Teach ~your children~ God’s Word, HIS Will and Way… bring them out of the Rebellious, challenging condition of mind and heart, before they reach adulthood and are completely lost in an uncircumcised heart condition…
A pattern of: killing, and enjoying IT, A condition of the world owes me because I am great, An attitude completely empty of gratitude for anything or to anyone… AND then when this child walks into a school class room and shoots several classmates, because they being trained in the same careless manner of the world, poked fun at them, IT IS TOOOooo… ~Late~ to wonder why….
NOW IS The time to do something about that child that IS withdrawn into video games, will not mind parental commands, that has no desire to ~Work~ for his supper, but wants someone to hand everything to him/her, while he/she plays… This IS What ~Modern society~ IS promoting… What Churches of this day are teaching with their gotta have fun parties… Yes, the children need and deserve to have a playtime, but some take IT to the extreme, damaging the child’s belief IN anything but gotta play…
Competition IS A Big downfall In A child’s life… Think about IT… children should not have to compete to find love, and acceptance… they shouldn’t have to be ~The Best~, nor should one be lifted up over another in any game of beauty or sport…..
Folks, What on earth are we doing to THE Children… What has this world come to when stand-up comedy can be allowed to make jokes of having sex with a ~~Baby~~ and the audience sits and laughs at it? Wonder why we have child pornography? How do we dress our children? How do we teach them to act? What do we teach them IS Acceptable? Remember children are but a few years away from being adults, and little minds grow big fantasies, that can and are played out as adults…. What we subject our children to, molds their minds into their destinations in this life, and unfortunately life eternal….

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Sodom & Gomorrah Today?

This world as we know it today, as we live in it today is as bad or worse than the ~Sodom & Gomorrah that God *LOOKED* upon to destroy as recorded in:
(Genesis 19:1-25) (Genesis 18:20).. The LORD Said: “Because the cry of Sodom & Gomorrah IS great, and because their ~~Sin~~ IS Very Grievous: & (19:13)…we will destroy this place. BECAUSE, the cry of them IS waxen Great before the LORD; and THE LORD hat sent ~us~ to destroy IT. (19:24) .. AND THE LORD ~~Rained~~ upon Sodom & Gomorrah .. ~Brimstone & Fire~~ from THE LORD out of heaven…
The sad thing today IS: folks *Think* themselves ~~SOOOOoooo….~ much more intelligent than the writers of the old ancient scrolls that contain this account~ .. SO Much more advanced in their knowledge of: HOW the Universe and Nature works, that they can explain this away as just a random meteor that fell from the sky and destroyed these two cities… Fully rejecting the Divinely recorded account written of old…. Even Christendom!
AND! IN This greatly acquired knowledge supposed, by modern day men, Christians & Atheist alike, man proclaims *HIS* freedom from God’s Statutes and Laws that HE had penned down by the prophets of old for us to have as ~Reminders~ so that we not turn from HIS Will & Way into a ~~Path~~ OF Destructive Disobedience…..
Christians claim that *IF* Christ lives in us then we can do no wrong ~~Because~~ The Holy Spirit WILL NOT let us… .. SO they walk in the paths of the world, gladly and freely thinking themselves to be good to go, because they can ~~PUT~~ *God* INTO anything, and Where they want to go because Jesus WILL go there with them making IT ~ALL~ good…. BUT Jesus SAID: and again AS IT IS Written BUT, folks reject: (John 10:27)… Jesus Said: “My sheep ~Hear~ My voice, AND I Know them, AND ~they~ *Follow* Me.”
(Jude 1: 7).. Even as: Sodom & Gomorrah, and the cities about them in ~like manner~ giving *Themselves* Over to ~fornication, going after ~strange flesh~, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of: ~Eternal Fire~… (v.4)… FOR there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before old ordained to this condemnation, ~~Ungodly men~~ turning the *Grace* OF our God into ~lasciviousness,~ AND denying THE Only LORD God, and our Lord Jesus Christ…
Think on this scripture, sincerely, deeply, and see: THE *IF’S* that mankind fail in here…
First: God’s *Plan* for & of man’s deliverance, was set forth from the very beginning, *Nothing* can be out to IT, nor Will HIS Word Return TO HIM Empty…(Isaiah 55:11) (Jeremiah 30:24). There was to be, and there IS men that will not ~Accept~ Christ as King of God’s Holy Kingdom, because they follow after their father Satan the Devil… “ALL” mankind Will Not be saved to live with Christ in New Jerusalem… BUT many ~WILL~ be cast into the eternal ~Lake of fire burning with brimstone~… (Revelations 18:20).. The ~~false prophet~~ and ~~Them that worshipped his image~~ along with the beast…
(I Peter 2: 1-22) ..there were false prophets among them, even as there shall be false teachers among you… who privily shall bring IN: *damnable heresies*, even denying the Lord that bought them, & ~Bring~ swift destruction upon themselves…just as… Sodom & Gomorrah were turned into ashes, making them an ~Ensample~ unto those that ~~After~ should live ungodly… (Random meteor?) OR (Purposed ACT of God)… DO we need to pay humble respect to this account and fear the wrath of God *IF* we disobey HIS Will and Way? OR! ARE we free to do as we please, ~PUT~ Christ IN IT, and we are saved? Read some more of the Warnings of Peter, a man who walked with Christ, a man whom Christ held in His Hand and did not lose to the world BECAUSE He Disciplined, & Taught Peter the things that God the Father Gave Him to Teach….
(John 17:8).. “I (Jesus) have given unto ~them~ (the disciples).. The *words* which THOU (The Father) gavest Me; AND They received them and have known surely that ~I Came~ OUT From THEE, AND They ~Have Believed~ THAT THOU Didst *Send Me*…. Plain as IT Can GET!
AND Jesus SAID: IN: (Mark 6:11)… “Whosoever shall not receive you, NOR ~Hear~ you when ye part thence, shake OFF the dust of your feet for a testimony against ~Them~…” Verily I (Jesus) Say unto you, “IT Shall be ~MORE~ Tolerable for Sodom & Gomorrah, in the *Day of Judgment*, than for that city.”
A little more plain and simple, when you have given the ~~Words~~ AS IT IS Written, to a people, whether they claim to be Christians with their mouth, but in their actions show otherwise, or whether they claim to be atheist, and they reject the ~Written Word~ of God’s Book of ALL Instruction… then IT IS Time to move on… and leave them to the Judgment of THE LORD….
IT IS Not ours to ~judge~ BUT TO: Deliver The Message: AS Christ instructed us to: IN: (Matthew 28:18-20)
IT IS Not ours to go along with them when they deliver false teachings or mix false teachings with True Bible accounts, making the message that they bring into an abomination that causes people to stumble and be led astray, BUT IT IS our position to teach in truth and honesty the words as God THE Father, inspired them to be written and as HIS Son, Jesus Christ confirmed them during His walk here among men… for IT IS By these very words that we maintain a strong faith in our walk with and in Christ, on that ~Narrow Path of Righteousness~.
(John 17: 17-23).. Jesus Prayed to His Father & ours… “Sanctify them through THY Truth: THY word IS truth…That they may be one; AS THOU, Father, art in Me, and I in THEE, that they may be one ~IN~ US: That the world may believe that THOU hast sent Me…” AND this IS given TO: (v.20)… “neither pray I for these alone BUT for ~them~ which shall ~~Believe~~ on *Me* through ~their words~….” (v.12).. “while I (Jesus) was with them in the world, I ~Kept~ them IN THY Name….. and none IS lost…..”
SOOOOoooo… Jesus, prayed for us to His Father to keep us after He (Jesus) had returned to heaven.. ( v.15)… Jesus did not say: “I Will keep them from straying when I am no longer in this world”… But He Prayed to His Father and ours to keep us from evil… “ AND for that to work, we have to ~OBEY~ God’s Will and Way…. Jesus did not pay the sin debt for us to go on living in the sin of the world but for us to come out from the sin of the world and walk in the path of righteousness…. Plain and simple… Folks try to teach that God’s LOVE IS Unconditional and HE Loves us no matter what we do…. This IS True of HIS LOVE, BUT LOVE OR NOT, God does Not tolerate our living in a state of disobedience TO HIS Laws and Statutes… HE did not send His Son to suffer and die, so that man could continue to live a sinful life and still be redeemed… There IS A Condition to our receiving HIS Reward of Eternal Life in the heavens with God, or our receiving an eternal sentence of death in the pit of destruction burning with fire and brimstone…. AND That Condition IS: Obedience…
Folks contend that *IF* Christ lives in us, we Will not be disobedient… BUT, that Isn’t what IS Written, FOR we are warned NOT to be misled even after we have escaped the pollutions of the world ~~through~~ *The Knowledge* OF: The Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled IN Therein… The end IS worse with them than the beginning….
So we can step out of ~The Way~ by our own free will, that God gives us… NO man can take us out, No evil can tempt us away, *IF* we ourselves are not willing to go, for Jesus WILL Hold us by the Holy Spirit, BUT *IF* we desire to go, *IF* our thoughts and minds dwell continually in the ways of the world and not on the Written Word, to stay us in God’s Will & Way, He Will turn us over to a ~reprobate mind~~..
(Romans 1:18-32)… THE *Wrath* OF God *IS* ~Revealed~ from Heaven… Against ~ALL~ ungodliness and unrighteousness OF men, ~~Who Hold The *Truth*~~ IN Unrighteousness… (*NOTICE*, IT IS Not written to the heathen that does not ~know~ the Truth, BUT TO: those who ~know~ & hold THE Truth, IN unrighteousness… so this is written to those who contaminate the truth with the lies of Satan in the ways of the world)…. WHY? (v.19) ~BECAUSE~ that which *MAY BE* ~Known~ of God IS manifested in them: for God showed IT unto them…. (AND What have they done with IT?)… (V.21)… Because ~WHEN~ they Knew God, They glorified HIM NOT AS God, Neither were thankful: BUT Became ~~Vain~~ IN *Their* Imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened…
(Do you suppose this IS describing the putting into the account of the ~Blessed Resurrection of Christ, that Gives us hope of resurrection to life eternal, the rabbit and the egg and the pagan features that man in his vanity has installed into many Bible Accounts of our Blessed Savior, thus ~Knowing God~ they ~glorified HIM Not… but turned to their own vain imaginations… OR IS IT referring to that tattoo that God condemned in HIS Written Word, but we proclaim that IF we put or cut a painted cross in our skin IT points to Christ… Does IT Really, or does IT point to our rebellion against God the Father?
(OR, does IT describe the: excuses that we give for: “coming out of the closet to live the lifestyle the WE choose”… Or the sick comedy of today’s world, we find humor in the pain of a child the elderly when they fall and we submit it on video to enter into the competition of financial gain?) DO we ever stop and think about what we do, why we do it, and what effect IT Will have on others, and HOW IT WILL Reflect on our walk with the Lord? Denying Christ, or Lifting Christ up before others?
(v.22)… Professing themselves TO BE Wise, they become fools… (25) who changed the ~Truth~ of God into A lie, & worshiped & served the ~Creature~ rather than *THE Creator*, WHO IS Blessed Forever…. (26) For ~~THIS Cause~~ God gave them unto *vile affections*….(29) being filled with ~ALL~ unrighteousness… (32) Who *Knowing* The Judgment OF GOD; that they which commit such things ~~ARE Worthy~~ OF death, not only do the same, BUT have pleasure in them that so them… (Read all the verses in their entirety and reflect deeply on the warnings that Paul writes to us…. )
IT IS sad when you hear a Church deacon speak out against one who has tried to point out the wrong doing of these things in the Church, his comeback answer IS: “we know IT IS pagan, but we’re gonna do it any way, because IT IS fun”..! AND The Church stands behind him!… AND continues to do as they please….
(Revelations 2:21)… Jesus Said: “I gave her space TO: Repent, AND she repented NOT.”
(Sodom & Gomorrah?) ….. (22) .. “Behold, I Will Cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her… (23) AND ~ALL~ The churches shall Know that I am He which searchth the reins and hearts: AND I WILL Give unto ~Everyone~ of you According to your works…..”

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Habitual Attitude OR Conscious Humble Obedience

Do we humbly ~~Obey~~ our Heavenly Father, or do we tend to show forth a habitual ~Attitude~ of: “I WANT, what I want, and *I* WANT *IT* ~~MY~~ Way”?
King Hezekiah, tried his best to serve the LORD, do what IS ~Right~ but even he showed a little of today’s ~attitudes~… Our habitual ~behavior~… Our Inability TO Obey, Sometimes the tiniest of Rules… WE tend to want to bend them to the breaking point and then we are appalled that things are not going, ~OUR WAY~…..
(II Chronicles 28:1-2) .. King Ahaz.. Reigned 16 yrs, in Jerusalem but he did NOT that which was ~Right~ in the sight of the LORD..
(II Chronicles 29:1) King Hezekiah, (the son of Ahaz) ~DID~ that which was ~right~ in the sight of The LORD… (v.3)… In the first year of his reign, ~in the 1st month he opened the doors of the House of The LORD, and Repaired them… (For Ahaz had shut them, put out the lamps in The holy Place of God, and set up alters to false gods, and burnt his children in the fire after the abominations of the heathen … we are talking about God’s chosen people in the ~Old Testament Days~ now)…. SO Pay Attention:
(v‘s. 5-) Hezekiah said, “Hear me, ye Levites, ~Sanctify~ NOW yourselves, AND ~Sanctify~ the House of The LORD….. (HOW Do you Sanctify Yourself? …Clean up your act, separate yourself from the filth of the world, cleanse your ways, be set aside from that which IS unclean) AS Paul Wrote: ..`in`
(II Corinthians 6:17).. “Come out from ~among~ them, & AND & ~Be ye *Separate*, Saith, THE LORD, AND Touch ~NOT~ The unclean thing; & I Will Receive you….
(Notice, HE did not say, ~~ I sent MY Son to Give His Life’s blood, on the cross so that you could continue to live in and among the unclean things of this world and I Will Receive you~~… HE Did not say I called you to be or stay *IN* the unclean things, BUT, God SAID, “I Have Called you ~OUT~ of these things to be MY servants…as Peter Wrote IN:)
(I Peter 2:9)… “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, * A peculiar people*; (WHY) that you should ~~SHOW~~ forth The Praises OF *HIM* WHO Hath ~Called~ you out of darkness ~~INTO~~ HIS Marvellous Light:”
AS IN Which, we were once, we ~~ARE~~ to be no more, but we MUST be ~Born Again~ Changed, by a distinct effort on our part to: Obey, for without Obedience To God , we Will Remain in our filthy rags for God Will leave us there, just as HE DID… in Sodom & Gomorrah. And there we will die… Again AS Paul Wrote IN:
(Philippians 2:12) ,,, “work out your ~OWN~ Salvation ~WITH~ Fear and Trembling….
(Not that we can save ourselves, but very simply put *IF* we choose to remain in the filthy rags of this world, after we have claimed to be saved BY: The Grace of God, then we are in a pitiful position of adversity with God as we take our stand in the world, with the world that IS TO BE Destroyed….
(Romans 1:28).. Even as they ~DID NOT~ *LIKE* To retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to, A Reprobate, (immorally, damned) mind….
SO where our thoughts dwell, where our hearts tend to lean, where our eyes tend to lead us, IS Where God Will, let us stand… ARE you political minded to rally the soldiers around the flag of a nation for our safety, for our deliverance from the enemy? Remember King Hezekiah!
Do you follow your, “Daily Horoscope” To see what your day ~Will~ Bring or IS IT Just for amusement, pray tell the difference, in spilt milk, what IS Done IS Done IS IT NOT?
Did the LORD command us to obey HIS Will and Way, to Come out of these things, only IF IT IS For our ~~Amusement~~ IT IS Okay? The same with the worldly celebrations, they are for our Amusement, OUR Fun, so that makes IT Alright…. What kin IS: Alright to Right?
Did the LORD say, to come partially out of darkness and IT Will Be Satisfactory, OR DID HE Call us to come completely OUT of the Darkness TO Show ~~Praises OF HIM~~~ WHO Called us ~~OUT~~??? What ~~Price~~ will we pay for our amusement or pleasure? LIFE?
(II Chronicles 32: 24- 26)… In those days Hezekiah was sick to death, and prayed unto the LORD: and HE spake unto him and gave him a sign.. (II Kings 20: 8-11) …BUT.. Hezekiah ~~Rendered~~ NOT again according to the benefit done unto him:… FOR his heart was lifted…
& there was wrath upon him and Jerusalem….
(26).. Notwithstanding Hezekiah ~~Humbled~~ himself for the *Pride* of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the wrath came ~Not~ upon them in the days of Hezekiah…
When we get puffed up in pride, whether IT BE for our nation, the flag which we gather around and rally to: To relieve us our hunger, our oppression from job loss, the soldiers to ~Keep~ us free, by their sacrifices in doing battle for this nation, whether it is because we have lived with the same person for a certain length of time so we stand and have A Happy Anniversary Song sung to us or the number of years ~~WE~~ have lived this life here on this earth, we need to Remember the ~~Prayer~~ of Hezekiah:::IN God’s House.. (II Kings 19:14-15)… “O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, THOU Art God, even THOU Alone, of ~ALL~ the kingdoms of the earth: THOU ~HAST ~ Made Heaven & Earth”…. (Hezekiah realized that ~~ALL~~ Things belong to, and are of, brought forth, allowed, BY God…. And not we mere humans of flesh… We would do well to read and learn of the examples set forth in: The OLD Testament of what Loyalty, humble obedience, and respectful fear OF and TO God Means.
(II Kings 18:1-7)… Hezekiah (v.4) removed the ~high~ places, brake down the ~~images~~, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent for the children of Israel still did burn incense unto *it* and he called *it* Nehushtan, meaning only a piece of brass, an idol… (v.5)…He trusted IN THE LORD, (v. 6).. He ~Clave~ to THE LORD, and departed NOT from following HIM….(7).. & AND &…THE LORD WAS WITH him…. In other words, he retained God IN his heart, thoughts, and mind, always… not just on Sunday Mornings after all the praises of the people and the world IS over and done… not after he got through reading his daily horoscope. .. Not after he got through with celebrating the customs of the heathen nations… DO we have anyone that IS obedient enough to humble take the heathen ways out of the Services Held in Memory of the Son of God, the opportunity for life that He gave to all mankind? To ~simply~ say, “we will take our stand for THE LORD, we will come out from among them, and we will put away the ways of the world out of our services!”
It IS sad, that I hear so many say, “I can’t pray until I get to the alter at the Church” … When we ~~CAN~~ whether we, walk, ride, or sit, talk with the LORD in Jesus Name, ~NO~ one can stop us… because unless they end this fleshly life or kill the very brain in our heads, our thoughts ~ARE~ under our control…AND IF we are in the *Right* frame of mind, thoughts toward God, we are unable to ~Pray~ The spirit Will pray for us….(Romans 8:24-27) WE can however turn our thoughts over to Satan, by our own error of seeking the things of this world, things ~~NOT~~ beneficial to our eternal life….
God won’t stop us, HE WILL Warn us, just as HE DID Hezekiah, and Hezekiah humbled himself and repented…of his pride… BUT IF we don’t want to retain God in our thoughts, HE WILL turn us over to an evil way…
IF, we want to run down to the alter and pray for God to give to us what we want, on *OUR* terms, and then return to our seats to pick up our daily horoscope reading that we brought to service to save time in our secular life, or to thumb through a book of merchandise to see what we want to buy, from the one that is selling in the Service set aside for Worship of The LORD, then we should not whine and cry when we get into trouble… BUT we do, O Woe IS ME, Why ME LORD, did I not attend Church? Did I Not bow down at the alter in prayer?
ARE ~WE~~ serving in a habitually rebellious way, Preparing to Hear these words:
(Matthew 7:21-23)… “I Never Knew *YOU*”… “Not everyone that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the *Kingdom OF Heaven*, BUT, he that doeth THE WILL of My Father, Which IS IN Heaven…..” OR ARE we serving in a constant mindset toward God, working toward this statement? (Matthew 25: 25)… “Well done, good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many…
IT IS A Tiny, Simple thing, that THE LORD ask us to do… “Come out from among them” why do so many people find it impossible to do?… These same people will stand and testify that they ~~KNOW~~ they are heaven bound, because they claim Jesus blood, and take their seats again and return their attention, their thoughts to the world…
We can claim to be the ~Worlds~ Greatest person, that doesn’t make it to be so, only that we can claim big…. Our claim to be or not to be isn’t what counts, IT IS what shows forth, in our walk, our ~Behavior~, our sincerity of stature in God’s Will and Way…. That ~~Proves~~ where we Stand in Humble Obedient Service….
Do we get up and rally for war, go get men, kill the enemy, even though that enemy has the same name as ours… The government IS Gonna save us, because IT IS The Best, Baddest Toughest Nation in the world… OR do we do as King Hezekiah, lay our problems out before the LORD, declare that ~we~ Know HIM To be the Greatest OF ALL THE Maker of ALL, and Put IT IN HIS Hands, to Lead us, INTO The Right Ways… Thank about IT! Were you Baptized into a worldly nation, or into God’s Kingdom?

Monday, May 9, 2011

Righteousness AND The Law

(Psalm 119: 137)… *Righteous* Art THOU, O LORD, and ~Upright~ Are THY ~Judgments~…
(Psalm 119:142).. THY *Righteousness* ~IS~ AN ~Everlasting~ *Righteousness*, & AND &… THY *LAW* *IS* ~TRUTH~….
(Proverbs 12:28).. “IN The ~~Way~~ of *Righteousness* ~IS~ life; &&& And *IN* the ~Pathway~ thereof , there IS No death…
(Proverbs 23: 17)… ~~LET NOT THINE HEART ENVY SINNERS:~~ BUT:: “BE thou *IN* ~fear~ of THE LORD ~~ALL~~ day long” ….
(Proverbs 22:15)…~Foolishness~ *IS* bound in the heart of a child: …BUT… The ~Rod~ OF *Correction* shall drive It far from him…
(Proverbs 24: 9)…. *The ~thought~ of Foolishness *IS* ~Sin:~ …
(Isaiah 51: 7)… “Hearken”, unto ME ye that ~know~ *Righteousness* … (not the lost & dying of the world, BUT)… ~~The people in whose heart *IS* MY Law;~~
(I John 3:4 & 7)… “Whosoever” committeth ~~SIN~~ Transgresseth~ *ALSO* ~~The Law: FOR ~~Sin~~ *IS* ~The transgression of The Law~….. “little children”, Let ~no man~ *Deceive* you: …~~he that DOETH~ *Righteousness* ~IS~ *Righteous*…
AND What IS ~~The Law~~? “The Ten Commandments”? “The NEW Law that Jesus Gave US”? .. “Thou shalt ~~Love~~ The Lord thy God with ALL thy heart, and Thou shalt ~Worship the LORD Thy God, HIM Only shalt thou serve… Love thy neighbor as thyself… ON These two ~~Commandments hang the ~~Whole LAW~~…(Matthew 22: 37-40) & (Matthew 4:8) Which IS merely the Old Law repeated….
And there are many, Many commandments more than ~~Ten~~ that teach, lead, us in The Pathway of Righteousness…AND put the duty of reform in our hands, to do as in obedience . To God’s Will, for HE does not make us do that which we do not want within out hearts to do…. Just as the old saying goes: “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink”… The LORD calls us, Jesus Leads us, but neither One Will make us drink, we must do that of our own ~~Free Will~~ as IT IS Written IN: (Deuteronomy 30: 10 - 20).. In part--- IF thou shalt harken unto ~~The Voice of The LORD~… To ~Keep~ HIS *Commandments* & *Statutes*…~~Which ARE Written in this BOOK OF The Law~~ *IT* IS NOT Hidden from thee, neither IS IT Far OFF… BUT The WORD IS very neigh unto thee, SEE I HAVE SET: Before thee This Day::: Life & Good; and death & evil: IN THAT I Command thee this day TO LOVE The LORD, TO Walk IN HIS WAYS…. & (Joshua 24:15)… & (Proverbs 1:29 & 3:31) … ALL gives choice of obedience… Another commandment for instance IS: Pay close attention to what IS Written: … (I Peter 1: 13-16)… Be ye Holy; FOR I AM HOLY… IT doesn’t read HE Will MAKE you to be Holy but HE Commands you TO Be Holy, TO Walk IN HIS Holy Way… Not your way….
BUT then why would we have ~~Commandments~~ *IF* God was not going to let us chose, but was going to ~~KEEP~~ us from sinning IF our desire IS TO, our thoughts lean toward the ways of the world….. Does God want a bride that HE has to make obey HIM or does HE Want a bride That Willfully Obeys? According to AS IT IS Written….
IS IT Necessary for us to have ~Written~ OR ~Verbal~ Instruction *IN & OF* The Law and Righteousness in order to follow Christ, and walk the path that IS Pleasing unto the Father? <Many teach that *IT* IS NOT…. To the downfall of many who are easily misled>.
This brings about the false sense of security that IF ~~*I*~~ declare ~~Myself~~ Saved, then what ever I do IS covered by & in the Righteousness of Christ… He works in me and I walk in the ways of the world and ~~ALL~ is well… This is sometimes the mistake that is made when we get so anxious to have a loved one saved and see them accept Christ… WE tell them that all that they have to do IS just: Say “I LOVE Jesus”, be Baptized, and that IS IT. ALL IS DONE!
BUT!!! There IS A *Circle* that MUST be complete: IT IS THE Circle of God’s Love and in IT we (:>) DO (:>).. follow Christ, and walk the path that The Father desires that we should walk, IN *IT* IS found the Complete ~~Trust~~ in God, through and by a ~~Walk~~ OF *Faith*… IN God’s Will and Way, AND IN that faithful walk *IS* found the spirit of humble Obedience to God’s Law, which IS OF HIS Righteousness…. NOT man kinds, made up traditions, not man kinds have a good time, feel good religions, BUT!!! An honest to goodness ~~Seeking of ~The Truth~ in God’s Will and Way…. AND IF The Righteousness of Christ IS NOT preached in this manner, *IT IS* preached and taught TO: Confusion, and who IS the father of the lie to the falling of confusion?
(Hebrews 1:8)… UNTO The Son, HE (THE LORD, THE Father) saith, “Thy Throne, O God, *IS* For Ever and Ever: ~A Sceptre OF *Righteousness* IS The Sceptre OF Righteousness~. What IS A Sceptre? The Hebrew Word: Rahabdos… the rod of iron, staff, or stick with which to beat, applying the: ~Strictest of rule~..
AND What IS That Ruling Sceptre?
(II Timothy 3:15-17)…. That from a child thou hast known ~~The Holy Scriptures,~ which ~ARE ABLE~ TO: Make thee wise unto *Salvation* ~Through~ *Faith* ~Which IS~ *IN* Christ Jesus…. ~~ALL~~ *Scripture* *IS* ~GIVEN~ **BY** ~~INSpritation~~ OF God ….. ~FOR~ *Reproof*, ~FOR~ *Correction*, & AND & ~FOR~ *Instruction* IN ***Righteousness:*** (WHY?) That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto ~~ALL~~ Good Works……. (AND What IS Contained IN THIS *INSTRUCTION*)???? The Laws THAT God proclaimed man must follow! THE LAWS That lead us to and down the Narrow Path of ~Righteousness~ THE One Way that IS The Narrow Gate, Jesus Christ… Did not Paul warn us to: ~~WORK~~ out our own *Salvation*… (Philippians 2:12).. Not that Salvation IS OF us, but Salvation IN Christ, depends upon our ~~Attitude~~, heart condition, the things That we seek…our behavior.. Our ~~work of obedience~~ in fear of God, unto a trustful walk of *Faith*, proving our heart condition, and thought of mind, before God and ~~the world~~…..
(Romans 10:10)… FOR ~with~ the heart… man *believeth* unto ~~Righteousness~~; and ~with~ the mouth … Confession .. IS made unto salvation….
Can we live righteously strictly by The Law in our own way? NO!…. But many who claim to be followers of Christ, claim their way and lead others in this way, because IT IS: “OUR” Tradition, IT IS What ~WE~ Like and there is nothing wrong with IT IF we are saved IN Christ… **IF** is key here… Don’t be misled by a man-made tradition, calmed into thinking that IT IS Good, because brother so-n-so, SAID! “It IS Good”. FOR WE HAVE THE Holy Scriptures to search *IT* out, TO Prove *IT*… & AND & IF *IT* IS denounced by The Written Word, then IT IS Displeasing TO God, AND IT IS NOT Found IN THE Righteousness of Christ…..
(Galatians 2: 19-21)… FOR I ~~Through~~ The Law, am dead ~~TO The Law~~, that I Might *Live* Unto God…..(through meaning that we know the law and IT sets us free from the bonds of ~~Sin~~ in the law, thus we are dead in the law by dying to sin, THAT we May ~~Live~~ unto God… IN HIS Will & Way, because IF we continue to live the same way of sinful fleshly ways of the world, after we have claimed to Accept Christ in our life and we are Baptized making a public profession of this ~~Faith~~…this step of a changing walk, but we fail to show IT, by our steps, then we are NOT dead through the law… but still walk in the ways of the heathen…. AND SO, we are not made alive in God….)
(v.20) I am crucified ~~WITH~~ Christ: nevertheless I ~live~; yet not I, BUT Christ liveth ~IN~ me: & and & The life which I now live ~~~in the flesh~~ I live by *Faith* of ~The Son of God~ Who loved me and gave Himself for me… (SOOOOO our, we gonna put Christ where we want Him, attitudes, does not indicate a faithful walk in Christ, for we have not put away the ~~old fleshly way~~ to walk in the ~~Newness of life…. As a *follower* of Christ).
(v.21).. I (this is Paul speaking) ~DO NOT~ frustrate the *Grace* of God: For *IF* ~righteousness~~ came by the Law, then Christ IS dead in vain…. (SOOOO *IF* we do not die through the law, to the law and ~Live~ unto God, then we ~~Crucify~~ Christ anew…
(Ephesians 4:22-24)…. That ~ye~ (as in you, IT IS your place to put away all these things) put OFF concerning the ~former~ conversation, the ~old man~, which *IS* corrupt to the deceitful lusts: & AND& Be renewed in the ~~Spirit~~ of your mind; and that ye (YOU) put on the ~~New Man~~ WHICH After God *IS* Created IN Righteousness and True Holiness…..
(Ephesians 5: 10-11)… ***Proving*** what *IS* Acceptable unto the LORD… & AND & Have ~~NO~~ Fellowship With the ~~unfruitful ~~Works ~ of darkness….
IS our *Faith* alone enough to prove our walk in Christ? OR Do we ~~prove~~ our Faith by our *Works*? AND Where do we find the Instruction for ~~A Good Work~~? Does Christ just automatically hold us to His Righteousness, OR DO WE have a responsibility to bow down to His Will and Way, and step out of our old way, in order to be secured IN The Righteousness of Truth? Think About IT, Better Still, READ About IT IN THE Holy Inspired Scriptures OF The Bible, God’s Written Book OF ~ALL~ Instruction…..

Saturday, May 7, 2011

"A Day" Set Aside For Prayer?

The National Day of Prayer was set by ~~Congress~~ IN 1952, & decided to be the 1st Thursday in May in 1988.…
Christians ~protest~ that the Current President has put a low key on the day because IT IS Offensive to some people….
THINK -- About IT: WAS IT A Day, that our LORD, our Father in Heaven set for us to ~Observe~? OR, WAS *IT* A DAY, established by the government for the people….WHY? … To control the people?… TO keep the people under the sovereign rule of the worldly government, which is the same reason that ~~Prayer~~ was taken out of the schools…. Because IT Offends Some, and IF IT Exists in Governmental funded places then it weakens the viability of the ruling power… takes away the *Pride* of Satan’s world, from the loyalty of and to the ~~Republic for which this government Stands~~
The same thing with the Bible in school or the ~Ten Commandments~ in the courthouse… These things point to a ~~HIGHER POWER~~ than the man made worldly established system….
Seems, we, the people, are always getting our heads turned in the ~~Wrong~~ direction, by something that IS put before us that ~~Looks~~ Righteous, & Whole….
Don’t get me wrong, I am not bashing the ruling government which we live under any more than I would IF I was a citizen of/in any other country… Because Jesus commanded that we ~~Render~~ unto Caesar the things that belong to Caesar, BUT TO God the things that belong to God…. AND where I support the U S Government in all the ways that IT IS Written for those living here should… My Kingdom IS Not of this World, neither IS my King, Savior, or High Priest….
BUT, just making a point of how people are led by the hooks in their noses of ~blind foolish pride~…..
You hear, folks rally about the soldiers, the armies, how great they are and how we would not be ~~Safe~~ without them… How the government leaders keep this nation on top of all the others… Opportunities to be ~~ALL~~ that you want to be….. Maybe for some… but that very claim and advertisement gives occasion for violence spurred on by jealousy, by competition, by ungodly actions…. BUT raved about by who? Christians…. Christians who maybe have not read: (Daniel 6: 1-28)
(Isaiah 31:1)… ~~WOE~~.. Unto them that go down into ~Egypt~ for *Help*: and stay on horses, and *Trust* in chariots, because they are many; & I ~horsemen~ because they are strong;;; BUT, they ~~LOOK~~ NOT unto *THE Holy One of Israel*…. Neither ~Seek~~ *THE LORD*…..
IS NOT the commanders of the armies, this world The same as Egypt? IS NOT the soldiers and armies of this world the same as the horses and chariots? The soldier does what ~his~ superior officer commands, the his officer carries out the ~~Orders~~ of the ~Commander in Chief~~ the president… Right? …. Yes, we have, children, husbands, relatives in the uniforms of these armies…. WE SEE today and have seen in these wars… Brother against brother & Father against son, have we not? ~SINCE~~
This is a nation, a country which IS made up of peoples from every country in the world, and when we war with these countries then we are in fact fulfilling Bible Scripture as IT IS Written in: (Matthew 10:5-23)… Jesus said, “Go, not unto the Gentiles or the Samaritans, BUT, go preach to: (WHO)…( God’s children ) ..the lost sheep of the house of Israel… (Not that there were some sheep gone astray out of the house of Israel, but that now, the whole house of Israel MUST recognize, accept, and submit, unto the Son, of God, Jesus Christ, and the disciples were to deliver an Important message unto them: ).. “THE Kingdom OF God IS AT Hand”….. (21) brother shall deliver up brother to ~death~…
People seem to get caught up in a chant, it has been so since the first chant was uttered… The vigilantes, hang him, hang him, he is guilty before trial, take justice into their own hands… Mob demonstrations, always turn violent, and yet mankind instigates this sort of gathering all the time…
Abortion clinic’s… look at the violence that has been carried on outside as well as in… Where IS: faith, hope, ~~Trust~~ in the Power of God in these things….
(Daniel 6) .. King Darius signed a decree that was prepared by his princes and presidents, governors, & consolers that no petition should be presented to any God by anyone for 30 days… except the king… under penalty of being cast into the lions den….
IT is the same today, is IT not? … The government takes prayer away from certain times and places, but decrees: A Day when everyone can come together to pray… AND folks flock together and obey this command of the king… INSTEAD of proclaiming that every day in their life here on this earth is a ~~Day OF Prayer~~, nothing new, nothing old, IT JUST IS, *IF* you ARE a child of God…. AND the government cannot take prayer away from any one, or declare anyone free to pray….
DID the Romans put a cap on Peter, Paul, Stephen, did the guards stop Jesus from praying to His Father? Yes, the government can put stocks on the fleshly body, lock us in prison, BUT, the government ~~CANNOT~~ Put a muzzle on our ~~Payers~~ offered up TO God the Father in Humble, Honest, *Faith*… &&& That IS what folks need to be taught… Loyalty TO God, Obedience Unto HIS Word… HOW TO PRAY< AS IT IS Written in God’s Holy BOOK OF ALL Instruction……
Maybe ~~Nation Prayer Day~~ IS A Good thing because IT Does serve to make many folks realize that: hey, we need to pray today, since we haven’t offered up even a prayer of *Thanks* to our Grand Creator for a whole year, not since the last Day that the secular government proclaimed that we could or should pray…. Oh, we have offered up our thanks to the government, the troops, doctors, lawyers, and all the big folks of the nation… BUT, it is hard to get a: “Thank YOU, LORD, in Jesus Name” out of anyone, even on The One Day set aside for prayer… Because that One day is given to prayers of: Give us more, give us strength to kill the enemy, Give us More Power, More Prosperity.
Like a statement made by a past ~President~ of This country, “Ask not what this country can do for you, but ask what ~you~ can do for this country”….. DO you ever hear a public prayer Offered up to God asking: “Father what would YOU have us do?” “What can ~~we~~ your children do to keep our eyes turned toward YOU, and not fall into the wiles of Satan.. In his world?” .. IT IS Always, Give us, Do for us, Keep us, help us, accomplish in our will and way, not: “LORD FATHER keep us in YOUR Will and Way IN Jesus Name we pray” …. Maybe at the end of the prayer, you’ll hear a, “And we’ll be careful to honor and glorify you Name”… This after the world and all that it has to offer has been thoroughly lifted up and celebrated before the eyes of our Maker….
Why get our feathers all ruffled up and run out and protest the government for doing ~~What IT IS Supposed to be doing~~, When we as Christians need to be continually about the business that HAS Been Assigned to us by The Son of God Jesus Christ…That IS the: Preaching of the Gospel OF God’s Kingdom and HIS Son, Jesus Christ, The Ensign of THIS Eternal Kingdom not made by the hands of mankind…. IF we busy ourselves with the work at hand, keep our eye on the prize that God has set for us, then we won’t have time to support the assigned days of celebrations that the government determines that we should celebrate to keep us busy with things other than what we need to be doing….
Think about IT: How much ~~Time~~ IS Spent IN Services at The House where God’s people are supposed to be gathered in ~~Honor~~ of our Father and HIS Son Jesus Christ, Actually IN Honor of the People, the Nation, National Days of Celebration of wars and victories of… WE have one of two choices IF we only attend assemblies for ~~ONE~~ Reason, and that IS to sing praises to: Give Thanks To: and read of and learn of our Great and Grand Maker, then we have to either miss every other Sunday, or drop out completely because, every Sunday is started with some kind of people celebration…. Whether it be a birthday, anniversary, an accomplishment in the world, or just a day to lift up the soldiers of war…. Because ~they~ have kept us free to enjoy a good nights sleep… Folks IF we as Christians, can’t and don’t give THAT Claim to God, then something is sadly amiss… Because IT IS Only By THE Grace of God, IN HIS Goodness and Mercy, that we even sleep to awake in morning…. And IT Should be TO God that we give thanks every day, morning, noon, and night……
AND, we should remember our ~parents~ in the honor that Jesus declared that we should every day, not an officially assigned day as the many, days that we are to support because they are officially designated…
THINK Again: Does IT help the economy for us to celebrate these days, OR Empty our pockets, and deplete the economy? Think how many pills are sold for depression during the ~Big~ holiday in December because folks can’t afford to buy for their families the gifts that the world of commerce has to offer… IS This What God’s Word Teaches? “No man put a stumbling block or Occasion to fall in his brothers way” .. (Romans 14:12-13)… “Every one of us shall give account of himself to God”…
Count on your fingers and toes, how many ~~Occasions~~ have we set before man to stumble them from the Path of Righteousness, IN & BY A Day TO: celebrate things of the world lifted up in, before, and sanctioned by ~~Church~~. The ~bride of Christ~… HOW many foolish virgins are present, but never made IT INTO The wedding? (Matthew 25: 1-13)… “Watch”…..