07/31/21 WORDS FROM MY HODGEPODGE LODGE

07/31/21 WORDS FROM MY HODGEPODGE LODGE
But they do fit together and make sense.

These are not fully developed thought, since a full explanation is not my intent at this time.

This is not the Tribulation.

Christians will be gone before the Tribulation.

Christians around the world have suffered terrible trials and troubles, imposed by wicked religions, people, governments.

Christians in USA have escaped most chaos, oppression, persecution, terror, suffering because we have provided a place and social environment receptive and responsive to the gospel of Christ.

However, great suffering is coming to USA, before the Tribulation, as it does to all nations and people because of the widespread rejection Christ and His word.
The righteous will suffer because of the rampant sins of society.

During the Tribulation, those who reject the Mark of the Beast will be persecuted and prosecuted by the godless State.
The Vax and the Mask are not the Mark of the Beast, obviously since the Rapture has not happened yet.
However, we are seeing in the USA how that will play out when the Tribulation actually does take place.

We have wicked leaders that are wanting to tell people they will not be able to go to stores to buy anything, will not be allowed at any public gatherings, not allowed to go to work, hospitals, doctors offices, unless they get vaccinated. They want to take all those who don't get vaccinated and put them into camps until they are vaccinated and the oppressors want to take children away from parents who don't submit to State vaccination.

I KNOW, THIS SOUNDS INSANE (because it is).

This is not a cry for folks to either get vaccinated or not to get vaccinated. I AM SIMPLY POINTING OUT THAT WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A SOCIETY THAT SEES ITSELF AS GOD, AND WILL USE BASIC LIFE SITUATIONS TO FORCE PEOPLE INTO SUBMISSION, which is what the anti-Christ will do during the Tribulation, supposedly "for the greater good."

This is obvious, since the proponents of State imposed vaccinations vacillate on their views and they refuse to live by the same standards, which they impose on others.

I do believe that each person or family should be able to make their own decisions along these lines, without State intimidation.

BUT THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE TO CONSIDER.

Though I am not trying to encourage or discourage anyone concerning the vaccination, I hope you make your choices based on your best understanding.

Remember, we all make choices and do things we don't want to do, because it is the best of all bad choices.
WE SHOULD NEVER COMPROMISE A SPIRITUAL CONVICTION, WHICH IS BASED ON BIBLICAL REVELATION. However, as long as it does not cost you your soul, then you may have to do things that you find repugnant.

We need to make our decisions based on personal convictions, which are based on God's word, rather than decisions based on personal preferences. We need to decide some issues by asking ourselves if it is worth dying for, from a Biblical position.

I don't count on the Government to protect the righteous and punish the wicked, though this is exactly what God requires of government.
I don't trust the Government to make and enforce laws which are equitable and moral, which is also God's requirement.
I don't count on Law Enforcement to protect my spiritual rights, though that is the reason God gave the sword of steel to the State.
I don't count on a lost and Nominal Christian society to understand and help me in time of trouble.
And sadly, I don't count on most people who call themselves Christians to support me in my obedience and service to God, since most of them have no idea what it actually means to be a Christian.

My point is, we need to know God's requirements and graces, we better stay humble, we better be strong. Or as the Bible teaches, Bold as a Lion, Harmless as a Dove and Wise as a Serpent.

As I said, these are just various thoughts rather than developed concepts. But hopefully I have said something that might be helpful to someone.

07/31/21 DON'T BE A SPIRITUAL ORPHAN

07/31/21 DON'T BE A SPIRITUAL ORPHAN

I've known spiritual orphans for decades.
Christians without a local body of believers.
Christians committed to nominal churches.
Christians living the single, uncommitted spiritual lifestyle.
Christians playing the spiritual field.

Resistance and rejection concerning submission and commitment to a local body is spiritual suicide, planned failure.

It may seem cool, avant garde, and it may appear to be fun, and adventurous, but it is a trap of Satan.
God's plan was, and is, commitment to a local body, for fellowship teaching, training, correction, reproof, service.

Commitment to a local body is costly, self sacrificing, self denying.

It is more than going to services or being cordial with other believers.
It is seen in this old saying,
What kind of church would my church be,
If all of the members were just like me?

07/31/21 EVIL LEADERSHIP

07/31/21 EVIL LEADERSHIP

CRAZY: Some folks vote for PARTY that oppressively restricts good citizens but allow party leadership to violate those same rules.

Proverbs 29:2
2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

Proverbs 29:12
12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

Proverbs 16:12
12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.

Proverbs 28:16
16 The prince that wanteth (lacks) understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

Proverbs 29:16
16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

07/31/21 A LOT TO THINK ABOUT

07/31/21 A LOT TO THINK ABOUT

We had an adult (maybe mother) racoon in our yard a couple of times, but I haven't seen it for a while.
Then two juvenile raccoons started coming into the yard for a few days.
Then there was only one for a few more days.
Then there were none.

Strange (and scary) to see them during daylight (because of disease). It has also been really hot, and dry at times. Someone took a photo of a fox in their yard during daylight. I have also seen more snakes this year than last year.

The day after the last racoon was here i saw buzzards feeding on something near my home. I am guessing the raccoons might have met an early demise. Sad.

But it made me think about how quickly a community (even in USA) could be threatened and overrun by wild, deadly, sick, poisonous, rabid animals.

I am a positive person but i realize that sickness, famine, drought, flood, fire, giant storms can cripple or wipe out local communities, large regions and even our country.

Breakdown of infrastructure, terrorist attacks, Government shutdown and oppression are real and present dangers that could reduce USA to a Third World Country overnight.

People scorn Biblical accounts of plagues and judgements and unrestrained despots, while people all over the world suffer natural phenomena and oppression from immoral monsters.

It might be a good time to listen to God.

07/31/21 THE MESSAGE IS THE SAME THE METHOD CHANGES

07/31/21 THE MESSAGE IS THE SAME
THE METHOD CHANGES

The early church met together daily, in some fashion.

Times have changed, our needs are the same.

Use tools to meet daily.

07/31/21 THIS IS MY MOTIVATION

07/31/21 THIS IS MY MOTIVATION

I am especially thankful and appreciative that my postings are being read by my grandchildren.

07/31/21 DON'T TAKE THE DARKENED ROAD

07/31/21 DON'T TAKE THE DARKENED ROAD

Absence of the Gospel in a culture or society leads to darkness, paganism, abomination and oppression.

Rejection of the Gospel in a Christianized culture or society leads to gullibility, abomination and oppression.

07/31/21 THIS IS WHY SO FEW HAVE GREAT VISION

07/31/21 THIS IS WHY SO FEW HAVE GREAT VISION

The path to a greater vision is to walk in your present light.

We don't really dream God's dreams unless we have the mind of God.

07/30/21 TODAY'S LESSONS ARE NEEDED TOMORROW

07/30/21 TODAY'S LESSONS ARE NEEDED TOMORROW

I am constantly amazed at the lesson of following and waiting on the Lord, especially entering uncharted areas.

God is faithful.

07/30/21 OUR HOURS ARE NOT OURS

07/30/21 OUR HOURS ARE NOT OURS

We have a total 168 hours a week. How much of your life do you deliberately spend in body ministry? Our hours are not really ours.

Ministry forms and methods change, ministry goals do not change. They are God's goals revealed in Scripture. Of course, "body life" refers to cooperative work with other believers in your local church.

Sometimes our ministries are viewed as outer man services (feeding, clothing, housing, building, helping) and sometimes our ministries are more inner man oriented (preaching, teaching, praying, singing, counseling, mentoring, exhorting).

In either case it is spiritual ministry and there is a time for both forms. Sometimes, certain individuals need to do the "outer man ministries" in order to help others do the "inner man ministries" (as in the book of Acts, some served tables, in order for others to preach and pray). Everyone should do inner man ministries, but someone needs to also do outer man ministries.

So, back to the question, how much or your life do you deliberately spend in body ministry.

07/30/21 MAKE SURE THE RISK IS WORTH IT

07/30/21 MAKE SURE THE RISK IS WORTH IT

This is a world of conflict.

Limit your battle zone to essentials.

Compromise, even in areas of strong preferences.

We already do.

07/29/21 THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE

07/29/21 THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE

Communists hate freedom, families and FAITH.
Communists lie about being liberators.
They do worse than eat your children.

 

07/28/21 DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME ON IMITATIONS

07/28/21 DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME ON IMITATIONS

Have you saved yourself or your country by your vote, your government, your politics, your Rights, your "privileges," your race, your education, your finances, your anger, your racism, your violence?

The answer is, "NO," to all of these questions.

You may ask if my Bible preaching, Bible study, Bible reading has saved America? NO, but if anyone, anywhere is going to be saved it will be through the proclamation of the Bible. Even when governments, parties and revolutions fail the people in a society, the Bible gives light, hope, strength, truth to the downtrodden. God's word has brought societies out of darkness, rescued fallen and failing societies from oppression, upheaval and overthrow.

But, "YES," I was saved by hearing and believing the Bible and I have seen many individuals, families and I know of communities and societies that have been saved because of the power of the Bible.

God's plan is not to save governments, social structures, races, financial institutions, systems of ethics. God's plan is to save lost people through faith in the atoning death and physical resurrection of Jesus, and He has done so in the past.

This world is lost and is not coming back to God. The believer's objective is to seek for the lost and throw them the lifeline of salvation so that they might be saved. Saving souls, not social structures, is the plan of God and the work of believers.

By the time most folks realize that our world, our society cannot and will not save anyone's soul, it will be too late to invest their lives for the cause of Christ. Sadly, they not only waste the time God gave them, they are withholding the only message that can save the lost.

Don't waste your life.

07/28/21 MY HOPE AND MY HELP

07/28/21 MY HOPE AND MY HELP

Men may boast in governments, horses, riders, chariot, the arm of flesh, numbers, power, BUT my hope and help is in the Lord.

Come and see.

07/28/21 IT MIGHT BE MUCH, BUT IT AIN'T PRETTY

07/28/21 IT MIGHT BE MUCH, BUT IT AIN'T PRETTY

Pretty much, the only time I believe our government is when they openly oppose free Americans.

07/28/21 AT RECORD SPEED

07/28/21 AT RECORD SPEED

The world has always been moving toward The Tribulation, but USA is kicking into warp speed, yet the deceived are totally oblivious.

07/28/21 INTENSIFYING, LIKE BIRTH PANGS

07/28/21 INTENSIFYING, LIKE BIRTH PANGS

Government has always lied, but today the lies are compounded, nonstop, self contradictory, blatant and designed to destroy freedom, faith and family.

07/27/21 DON'T BE A STINKING SUCKER

07/27/21 DON'T BE A STINKING SUCKER

Whether you roll up a weed and wrap it in thin paper, stick it in your mouth then set it on fire, or buy an electronic tobacco burner from a "Vape" store, you are still a stinking sucker, polluting the air, poisoning your own body, wasting your family's money, harming your neighbor, enriching drug dealers, turning a kiss into licking an ashtray. All because you selfishly want to have it your way, claiming it is your right.

Consider this, you are bought with a price (the life of Christ) and your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

 

07/27/21 AND WE THOUGHT IT WAS MAKE BELIEVE

07/27/21 AND WE THOUGHT IT WAS MAKE BELIEVE

Plot from old movies had criminals organizing political machines with crooked lawmen, judges, mayors and bankers, fleecing the community, terrorizing the citizens, brainwashing the children, buying off the lowlifes, misinforming the simple minded, jailing adversaries with trumped up charges and killing off would-be heroes.

Those programs ran from 30 minute TV shows to 2 hour movies. I never realized how much rotten reality could be crunched into a dramatic presentation until now, and it has just begun for US.

07/27/21 VIDEO... LIVING IN THE GARDEN OF GRACE

07/27/21 VIDEO... LIVING IN THE GARDEN OF GRACE
(outline to be added later)

Taste and see that the Lord is good. There is more here than tongue can tell. One video and a few snapshots. This is just me enjoying God's goodness. Pull up a chair and join me.

07/27/21 I AM GUESSING THAT YOU, AS A CHILD OF GOD WILL ALSO BELIEVE THESE THINGS IF THE BIBLE SAYS IT, RIGHT?

07/27/21 I AM GUESSING THAT YOU, AS A CHILD OF GOD WILL ALSO BELIEVE THESE THINGS IF THE BIBLE SAYS IT, RIGHT?

(you might want to search for these ideas in the New Testament, if you have been led to believe that any of them are not true)

If the Bibles says the blood of Christ cleanses His children from all sin, if they walk in the light as He is in the light, I believe it.
If the Bible says there is a perfection, which God provides for His children, I believe it.
If the Bible says God's children can live without sinning, I believe it.
If the Bible says God's children can resist all temptation, I believe it.
If the Bible says God's children can keep God's commandments and do that which is pleasing in His sight, I believe it.
If the Bible says God's children are saved, born again, created to do good works, I believe it.
If the Bible tells God's children to be watchful because they can fall if they become self confident, I believe it.
If the Bible tells God's children to build themselves up in their most holy faith, I believe it.
If the Bible tells God's children to keep themselves in the love of God, I believe it.
If the Bible tells God's children to be perfect in love, as the Father is perfect in love, I believe it.
If the Bible tells us that God's children are "saints" (holy ones), I believe it.

And, by the way, these are all without Biblical contradiction.

If, after you look for these truths in the Bible, you need help finding them, just let me know, I should be able to come up with something.

07/26/21 THERE IS A NEW TESTAMENT STANDARD

07/26/21 THERE IS A NEW TESTAMENT STANDARD

If I was not a Christian, but if I still loved freedom, dignity, success, USA, truth, justice, morality, as much as America's gun toting, mouth running, supposed patriots, proudly boast themselves to be, then we would not be having this conversation.

But I am a Bible believing, Jesus trusting, Holy Spirit following, U.S. freedom loving, family oriented, truth telling, Christian who intends to lay down my life, as the New Testament teaches, rather than take the sword of steel against those for whom Jesus died, though they are violent, selfish, perverted, whether they are domestic or foreign.

FOLLOWING CHRIST AND BEING BIBLICAL
This is called Biblical Christianity and it is despised by atheists, pagans, Humanists and many self professed Christians. It is the life Jesus lived and calls His people to live. I don't encourage anyone to commit violence. I invite you to join God's army of truth and holiness. We are told to wield the Sword of the Spirit and to love our enemies even when we stand in opposition to their oppression and violent wickedness.

I realize my enemies might seek to take my life in the days ahead. I also realize that there will be some folks i consider to be fellow Christians, who might also seek my life because I refuse to take the lives of oppressors. But my hope is to be faithful to Christ and lead folks into a saving relationship with the Prince of Peace and Savior of the world.

This post has nothing to do with God's appointed role of Law Enforcement and Military Defense. God has appointed government to protect the righteous and punish the wicked. But God has ordained for His Church, His Body, His Bride to do His redemptive work.

07/26/21 FOLKS ARE NOT GOING TO LIKE MY EXPLANATION, WHICH PROVES THAT MY EXPLANATION IS TRUE

07/26/21 FOLKS ARE NOT GOING TO LIKE MY EXPLANATION, WHICH PROVES THAT MY EXPLANATION IS TRUE

Did you hear about the strange things I preach? I preach that a world following, obeying, trusting Jesus would have no theft, murder, violence, hunger, loneliness, racism, adultery, abuse, war, lying, cheating, perversion, crime.
Come to think of it, no wonder there are so few people in churches that preach salvation.

Remember, Jesus said...
John 3:19-21
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Folks love their sin more than they love God, more than they love their families, more than they love their neighbors, more than they love society, more than they love humanity, more than they love peace, more than they love justice, more than they love mercy, more than they love truth.

07/26/21 BETTER GET REALLY WOKE WHILE YOU CAN

07/26/21 BETTER GET REALLY WOKE WHILE YOU CAN

Apparently, some Christian parents don't mind their children being abused mentally, physically, emotionally, academically, socially, spiritually by the government, Humanistic indoctrination day camps. But the end of such anti-Bible brain washing is eternity without God. Even if those parents make it to heaven, they will watch their children graduate from the Great White Throne to to the Lake of Fire.

For some it is too late to raise your children right. Those parents are basically left with praying that the seeds of anti-Christian upbringing will fail to come to full fruition.

Even with the best upbringing, children often make the worst choices. Don't compound their obstructions if you still have them at home. If you have grandchildren, encourage Christian education, through ministries or home schooling.

To take your children out of the p.s. system not only saves them from damnable lies, psychological and physical abuse, they will actually learn how to read, think, understand history, write, do math, learn true science.

Don't let anyone fool you into thinking that the "professionals" are more competent to teach your children than you are. Remember, an untold majority of those professionals deny the Bible, reject two genders, support homosexuality, resist basic freedoms, AND they are often untaught in basic education, and have their own academic and spiritual problems that your children do not need to be exposed to.

07/26/21 A TRULY SAFE PLACE

07/26/21 A TRULY SAFE PLACE

No one is safe or in a safe place as long as he/she is separated from a right relationship with God.

Safety is in Christ and His salvation.

07/26/21 CONCERNING the state of THE STATE

07/26/21 CONCERNING the state of THE STATE

'splain me why there's a social shock,
after replacing the Bible with Dr. Spock.

07/25/21 A COMMON PROBLEM

07/25/21 A COMMON PROBLEM

The unenlightened often accuse the saved of self righteousness and arrogance.
Likewise, carnal Christians accuse the pure in heart.

01/29/20 THREE CONDITIONS

3 spiritual conditions:
Natural (unsaved) man.
Carnal Christian.
Spiritual man.

The following notes are an introduction to the subject, they are basic concepts, which need to be studied. If you have questions, I will try to answer you.

All unsaved people are born with two natures;
The Human Nature (the nature to be human; Body, Soul, Spirit);
The Sinful Nature (the nature to sin, aka The Old Man, Carnal Mind).

1. THE NATURAL MAN is the person who lives life in the natural realm, separate from a personal, Divinely imparted relationship with God.

1 Corinthians 2:14
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
The Natural Man is lost, out of communications with God.

2. THE CARNAL CHRISTIAN is the person who lives life in a spiritual relationship with God, having been regenerated and having received from God the Divine Nature, but contending with an inherent evil nature.

1 Corinthians 3:1-4
1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

The Carnal Christian still has his Human Nature, and always will.

The Carnal Christian still has his Sinful Nature, and always will until he calls on Christ in faith to deliver him from "all sin."

The Carnal Christian, at salvation, received the Divine Nature, which is created in holiness and righteousness, aka The Mind of Christ.

The Carnal Christian has two separate natures (attitudes, inclinations) which are diametrically opposed to one another and in constant conflict with one another, seeking to direct the Human Nature, thus the Carnal Christian is Double Minded.

Remember, salvation gives us a new life and a new nature that is cleansed from our sins (rebellious words, thoughts, deeds).

Salvation does not deliver us from the Sinful Nature. Through the New Man our Human Nature is enabled, empowered to trust and obey God. But since the newly converted person now has a new man (spiritual mind) and still has the old man (carnal mind), the Carnal Christian often has an inner battle, desiring to please God, but also having an inner desire to disobey God. This inner battle is addressed in Romans chapter 7.

DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE OF BELIEVING that God leaves the believer in a Double Minded condition. HE DOES NOT. The end of Romans 7 and then Romans 8 (with Romans 6) clearly teaches that God delivers the Carnal Christian from the, "Body of death," "The Law of Sin and Death" (the sinful nature).

The Carnal Christian is saved, but struggles with the tyranny of the sinful nature. God has provided for the Carnal Christian to be delivered from ALL SIN, through the Blood of Christ, the Fire of the Holy Spirit, the Washing of the Word.

3. THE SPIRITUAL MAN is the person who has received Christ and His salvation by faith, but has continued to follow Christ in obedience, bringing him to the realization that God not only forgives sins committed, but purifies from inherent sin nature.

1 Corinthians 3:1
1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

The Spiritual Person has crucified the Old Man, has died to sin, died to the world and the world to him.

The Spiritual Person is living in his physical flesh, but is no longer living in "the flesh" (the mind of the flesh), he is no longer Carnal or Carnally Minded, Double Minded.

The Spiritual Man still has his Human Nature and his New, Divine Nature, but he has been delivered from the Sinful Nature.

The Spiritual Man is pure, even as Christ is pure. He loves with pure and perfect love. He is still attacked by Satan and he must still confront and resist temptation, but the corruption is from outside of himself, not within.

The Spiritual Man walks in the fullness of the Holy Spirit, the light of the word of God and in the footsteps of Jesus. As long as the Spiritual Man walks in the light, he is cleansed from all sin.

The life of the Spiritual Man is always dependent on a continuing, constant and consistent relationship with God, through faith.

07/25/21 JUST TO MENTION A FEW OF THE REJECTED TRUTHS OF GOD'S SALVATION

07/25/21 JUST TO MENTION A FEW OF THE REJECTED TRUTHS OF GOD'S SALVATION

"So great salvation," "Unspeakable gift," "Saved to the uttermost," "Be holy and without blame," "Walk worthy...," "Conformed to the image of His Son," "Keep His commandments and do that which is pleasing in His sight."

Believe it or not, there are some Christians who never use these Biblical salvation truths in their testimony. And on top of that, people actually brag on the power of Satan, by claiming to be sinners who constantly fail God and they boast in the fact that they are not delivered from sin, rather than glorify God for saving them from sin's penalty, power and pollution. They boast in their carnality rather than in the fact that God gives us everything that is necessary for life and godliness, or that God has given us everything that we may be perfect and thoroughly equipped or furnished for every good work.
There is more, much more that God provides, yet people boldly resist and reject.

07/24/21 QUESTIONS POSED BY AN OLD RADICAL

07/24/21 QUESTIONS POSED BY AN OLD RADICAL
(for personal probing, not for argumentation)

Do you think it is possible for the Holy Spirit to teach you some deeper truths through the study of God's word?

Do you think it is possible to miss the enlightening work of the Holy Spirit because you are not listening intently or fully obedient?

Do you think it is possible that God might enable your pastor to lead you into greater light, through preaching, teaching, counseling, exhortation, correction, reproving and instructing you in faith and practice?

Do you think it is possible that you might not receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit's enlightenment concerning Biblical living, doctrine, Scripture, knowledge, understanding, wisdom, discernment and the whole counsel of God, because you think your few years and limited study of the Bible makes you more qualified than a God called, equipped, taught, gifted, trained, led, experienced, full time shepherd, who follows God, trusts Jesus, studies God's word and is empowered by the Holy Spirit?

Is it possible that some folks have discovered truths in the Christian experience that seem foreign and overstated to you?

Is it possible that you are not living life on the highest plane, but rather have settled for life on a lower plane because it is higher than than the plane attained by most who profess salvation?

07/24/21 AN OFTEN MISUSED WORD

07/24/21 AN OFTEN MISUSED WORD

People are proud of drinking, drugging, queering, fornicating, health, wealth, race, place, face, lace, grace.

But pride is a sin because pride is inordinate esteem for self or some other unworthy object.

People often use the word incorrectly but pride is never a good thing.

07/24/21 BE YE WOKE, FOR REAL

07/24/21 BE YE WOKE, FOR REAL

No one is truly "WOKE," unless they are regenerated by the Holy Spirit, washed in the blood of Christ, walking in the light of God's word.

Romans 13:11-12
11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

1 Corinthians 15:34
34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

Ephesians 5:14-17
14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. note
15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

2 Timothy 2:24-26
24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, note
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover (sober up, regain senses, recover one's self, awaken) themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

07/24/21 BRAIN WASHING DAY CAMPS

07/24/21 BRAIN WASHING DAY CAMPS

Blindfolded, brain dead parents worry about masked children as they march them to the godless, Bible hating, immoral change agency of Humanistic indoctrination day camps.

07/22/21 REAL CHANGE, HOPE AND GREATNESS

07/22/21 REAL CHANGE, HOPE AND GREATNESS

Biden is Obama 2.0, Fundamentally Changing (destroying) U.S. with false hope.

I'd rather see America great again.
But our only real hope is Jesus and His Great Salvation.

Hebrews 2:1-3
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him

07/22/21 DON'T BE MISDIRECTED

07/22/21 DON'T BE MISDIRECTED

The devil is on a full force attack on USA's freedom, family, faith, finances and Christians are focusing on politics and racism.

07/22/21 SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

07/22/21 SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

Amusement parks have rides, games, food and shows for all ages.
So too, Satan's amusement park lures folks to entrap them, forever.

07/22/21 TWO EXCEEDINGLY SAD STATES

07/22/21 TWO EXCEEDINGLY SAD STATES

THOSE who never know they need God and righteousness and
THOSE who never hunger and thirst for God and righteousness.
But for those who do hunger and thirst, there is provision.

Matthew 5:6
6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Psalms 42:1-2
1 ... As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

Psalms 63:1-4
1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

Psalms 107:8-9
8 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

(WOW, this throws light on God's outpouring upon His children.)

Isaiah 44:3
3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

God gives us everything we need for life and godliness, such as Divine power, spiritual knowledge, exceeding great and precious promises, Divine nature and deliverance from worldly lust.

2 Peter 1:3-4
3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

07/22/21 AN IMPORTANT LESSON. DON'T MISS IT

07/22/21 AN IMPORTANT LESSON. DON'T MISS IT

"Every promise in the book is mine," is not an altogether accurate statement. Some promises were made to specific people, groups and times, which do not apply to me. Folks need to be fine with God being in charge of making and fulfilling promises His promises, as He chooses. There are enough promises to meet all my needs and desires without me stealing someone else's identity and blessing.

James 1:17
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

2 Peter 1:3-4
3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

But there is a popular doctrinal position that denies the application of some Old Testament principles to New Testament believers. That doctrinal position fails to understand that Old Testament truths were communicated to New Testament believers as examples and for us to either avoid or follow.

For instance, the Exodus of Israel from Egypt is a factual account, concerning places, events and people. But there are God given truths revealed in that series of events that actually set a pattern and a warning to present day believers in their walk with Jesus.

1 Corinthians 10:1-13
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

This passage indicates that God used actual events and people of the O.T. as lessons for N.T. believers. We need to rightly (correctly) divide (understand) God's word.

2 Timothy 2:15
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

07/22/21 BE PREPARED

07/22/21 BE PREPARED

The more you know about God, His nature, His work, His word, His salvation, the more and the better you can worship, praise and serve.

07/21/21 THE DODO'S ARE IN CHARGE OF THE HEN HOUSE

07/21/21 THE DODO'S ARE IN CHARGE OF THE HEN HOUSE

We live at a time when the wicked (consult the Bible) make it illegal for the moral to lift their voices against evil oppression.

07/21/21 JUST TO BE KLEER

07/21/21 JUST TO BE KLEER

Thems (pronounced in Castililian) sacrifice reel 'mericans to bring in dazeezd ferners to stack the vote in their flavour, but send actual Cuban refugees back to be slaughtered by Cuban pinko counterparts.

Thems are willing to give the lives of others to get deir own way. Thems don't want Commie haters on our soil cause den dere would be no more thems.

07/21/21 BEING "WOKE" DOES NOT MEAN BEING AWAKE

07/21/21 BEING "WOKE" DOES NOT MEAN BEING AWAKE

Democrats open the border to COVID and send the infected to neighborhoods across USA, then local dems and libs force US to vaccinate and mask.

 

07/21/21 IT IS BIBLICAL

07/21/21 IT IS BIBLICAL

Jesus is Savior, Jesus is Savior for everyone, but Jesus is not Savior to anyone who does not believe and receive Him.

If you are not saved from your sins, you are not saved.
If you are living in sin now, you are not saved.
If you are not living righteously now, you are not saved.

It is one thing for Jesus to be Savior.
It is another for Jesus to be your Savior.

Jesus is Lord (God, Master, King).
Jesus is Lord of all, but He is not Lord to anyone who rejects, resists and rebels against His will.

If Jesus is your Savior, then Jesus is your Lord.
If Jesus is not your Lord, then Jesus is not your Savior.

For those who are saved, Jesus is Lord of all.
For those who claim to be saved but do not obey Jesus, then Jesus is not their Lord at all.

 

07/20/21 DON'T BE A SUCKER

07/20/21 DON'T BE A SUCKER

When someone cries, "IT IS SCIENCE," remember the whole, "Macro Evolution, throw out your Bible" lie, and where it has led us.

07/20/21 DON'T BE LED ASTRAY BY FALSE DELIVERERS

07/20/21 DON'T BE LED ASTRAY BY FALSE DELIVERERS

I always denounced KKK, Communism and White Supremacy, because I never confused or joined them with the Bible, Christianity or freedom.

C'mon Black Christian community. Get the facts concerning BLM, Socialism and white hate groups. Just as there were white people who stood for your dignity, your freedom, your success, your rights, make sure you are not part of the racists, hate groups that are bringing division, anger, violence to your fellow man (maybe even your fellow believer) by denouncing white people.

Are there bad white people? Well, if they are part of the fallen human race, there are bad people of every race, color, ethnicity. If you don't want anyone to lump you with the bad eggs of your community, then you should not lump all white people with the rotten eggs in their race.

07/20/21 IT APPEARS MR. BACKWARDS WENT INTO AIDEM KROW

07/20/21 IT APPEARS MR. BACKWARDS WENT INTO AIDEM KROW

Understanding socio-political reports of yeahoo, goggle and farcebuk is realizing they are undeveloped, negative pictures in reverse images.

 

07/20/21 SOME FOLKS WILL NEVER LEARN

07/20/21 SOME FOLKS WILL NEVER LEARN

I remember when the wicked State made me and my fellow churchmen outlaws because we would not accept or recognize the State to be the Head of the Church.

I remember they wanted to take away our right to obey God in things that had been recognized as God given rights for Christians for nearly two centuries in America.

I remember the State telling us that we could believe whatever we wanted to believe and say anything we wanted to say, within the four walls of our church building, but we did not have the right to follow our faith and beliefs or preach or teach the Bible outside of the walls of our sanctuary.

I remember when the State started making it illegal for Bible preaching and Christ following churches to meet for worship and teach the Bible, in our homes, through the enforcement of absurd zoning laws and inequitable building codes and manipulated health and safety rules, weeding out Bible churches and salvation preaching, while allowing other "ministries" to operate in the same situation and in the same locations, because those "churches" bowed to the State as the head of the church.

I also remember realizing at the time that they were lying to us and that they would not only deny us our rights as parents to raise our children in the faith of the Bible but they would pass legislation that would force us to commit abominable acts against God, and they would take our children away from us because we raised them in the Christian faith.

Some folks never even paid enough attention to what was happening around them, therefore they have not forgotten, because they never knew, saw, heard what was happening right before their very eyes.

Some folks saw what was going on but they admitted they would not resist the usurping State because they knew they would lose jobs, homes, family, and go to jail, for denying that the State was Lord of the church and believers.

Some folks saw what was going on and gladly followed the abominable State, either because they wanted the government hand outs or because they loathed the radicalism of Bible believing Christianity or because they simply saw the church as a business or an actual arm of the State.

Any way, we are now seeing Statism running rampant, attacks on Bible belief being made into the law of the land, opposition to freedom of "religion" being used as a weapon against Biblical Christianity.

I have had folks (including friends and family and fellow ministers) tell me that I should just go along to get along. They have told me that all I needed to do was chill out, don't rock the boat, fall in line. Some have been so deceived that they said complying with the State in matters of faith and practice was my Christian obligation.

Well, the boat (meaning the social presence of the church in America), she ain't a rocking, she be under attack, fired upon, boarded, set afire and all of those on board are being taken captive, pressed into evil service and having their children fed to the sharks and and stormy seas of persecution.

I haven't been quiet for all these years and I am not starting now. Sadly, I have seen few people stand firm on the Lordship of Christ and it appears that it is even worse today.

If you don't think I am right about our present chaos and corruption, just look around you, and then raise your voice against it publicly.

07/19/21 WHO COULDN'T SEE THIS COMING?

07/19/21 WHO COULDN'T SEE THIS COMING?

Glad I voted for the POTUS who opposed abortion instead of for the monster who forces Christians to pay to murder babies.

07/18/21 A DOWNWARD SPIRAL

07/18/21 A DOWNWARD SPIRAL

Choosing sin is path to spiritual blindness, deafness, wickedness, bondage, death and hell. Choose Jesus and be saved from it all.

07/18/21 TRUE DELIVERANCE

 07/18/21 TRUE DELIVERANCE

Those of you who gloat over social, political and government rejection, resistance and attacks against Christ following, Bible believing, loving Christians better enjoy it while you can, BECAUSE you are on the same list of people and groups to be wiped out. That has always been the way dictatorship and oppression works and that is the way it works now.

To be honest, I am amazed at the gullibility of the blind, anti-freedom, anti-Bible, individuals and groups that are marching to destruction, whistling while they are led to the slaughter.

It is not simply a set of values or a political party or a conservative position that is needed in personal lives and national policy, it is Bible believing, Christ following, Spirit filled, self denying Christians. This world is doomed (at some point in the future, sooner or later), but salvation through faith in Christ is eternal and leads to eternity without oppression and suffering.

Take your chances with the world and its failed policies, but you will suffer the consequences, now and later. Becoming a Christian is a call to follow and serve Christ into the war against darkness. It is a spiritual warfare that is not against flesh and blood, but against spiritual powers of darkness. It is a warfare that does not spill the blood of other people, but might require the spilling of your own blood. The call to salvation is a call to come out from sin and stand against the wiles of the wicked one. The call to salvation is a call to live in the light of God's truth, walk in God's will.

As I said, the hammer and blade of oppression will come against everyone, but those who trust in Christ will be more than conquerors and though they die, they will live forever. We will follow Jesus, who arose from the dead and reigns forever.

Choose your cause.
Choose you master.
Choose your destiny.
I choose salvation from sin.
I choose Jesus.
I choose eternal life.

We can choose because God has given us the option and God empowers us to make the choice.
Therefore choose ye this day whom you will serve.

READ, FEED AND HEED
1 John 2:15-18
15 Love not the world (this present age), neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

People talk about living in grace while being subject to darkness and sin. God's saving grace delivers us from this present evil age. If you are not being delivered from sin, you are not saved, because Jesus came to save us from sin.

Galatians 1:3-5
3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Titus 2:11-14
11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Romans 6:1-23
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.