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satan LEFT Him!!! (Matthew 4:11)

What would have happened had Jesus NOT KNOWN the WRITTEN Word?

What would have happened if Jesus HADN’T SPOKEN the WRITTEN Word?

We are NO BETTER than Jesus.

If the SINLESS Son of God quoted Scripture when satan approached with evil thoughts…

If JESUS quoted Scripture when satan tried to MAKE HIM DOUBT that He really is the Son of God…

How MUCH MORE MUST WE know, speak and MEDITATE (THINK ABOUT) the written Word?





REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS, THE VICTIM’S FAMILIES, AND ALL THE HEROES WHO ANSWERED THE CALL OF DUTY AND RISKED OR LOST THEIR LIVES ON THAT AWFUL DAY, WHICH WILL BE FOREVER ETCHED INTO OUR NATIONAL CONSCIENCE.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

Hard to believe that IT’S BEEN 15 YEARS since our nation was attacked by a bunch of rabid, evil terrorists!

If you were breathing on September 11, 2001, you will never forget the horror, the disbelief, the pain, the grief, the anxiety and yes, the fear that other attacks would follow.

It was a day no American will ever forget.

The terrorist cowards who indiscriminately killed 2,973 of our citizens, in the name of their false “god” Allah, and with the false expectation of being “rewarded” with an afterlife in paradise with 72 “perpetual virgins”, NOW KNOW BETTER.

They have found out, to their dismay, that there is no Allah, there IS NO PARADISE FOR THEM, and there are no 72, no 50, no 10. . . NOT EVEN ONE VIRGIN AWAITING THEM, but rather an everlasting existence in horrific torment.

Their torment WILL BE COMPARABLE TO what they INFLICTED, or tried to inflict, on others.

The Sunday after September 11, 2001 every church was jam packed with people seeking God. More Bibles we bought and more spiritual counsel sought, than at any other time in recent memory. The trend continued for several weeks.

For those few, precious weeks, our nation was united in mind, heart and spirit.

Unfortunately, most Americans are fickle. They’ve already regained self-assurance, and view 9/11 as an isolated event, which will never happen again.

For all our sakes, I hope and pray that they are right.

They have already forgotten that THE ONLY THING LEFT STANDING among the rubble of the former Twin Towers was two metal beams in the shape of A CROSS.

It was as if, in the midst of all the senseless death and destruction, our Lord were telling us “you have forgotten me, and I am THE ONLY WAY out of this. What I did for you on the cross is THE ONLY WAY to ETERNAL Life”.

They have gone back to their everyday lives and forgotten the God they sought during that time of national mourning and uncertainty, the God our founding fathers worshiped and relied upon, the God to whom we owe the many blessings and freedoms which have characterized our great nation.

They have turned their backs on Christianity, they have sought false religions and false gods, they’ve gone back to their customary debauchery, and many are unrepentant and living in open rebellion and defiance to the true God, to whom they turned in their hour of need.

We think, with understandable horror, about the nearly 3,000 people who were killed that fateful day, but think nothing of PREMEDITATEDLY MURDERING 4,000 innocent, helpless, unborn babies PER DAY.

May God have mercy on us!

We’ve EVICTED the God who so greatly blessed us,AND PROTETECTED US, from classrooms, courtrooms, government buildings, from the public square.

Instead, we’ve worshiped the idols of humanism, secularism and hedonism.

September 11, 2001 was a “wake-up” call to this nation.

God, in His infinite mercy, has spared us. He’s given us opportunity after opportunity to repent, and turn to Him.

He is a loving and forgiving God, who waits with open arms to receive you, if you’ll just turn all your heart, your life, and whatever mess you’ve made of it, to Him. (John 6:37)

Fact is, all of us have messed up. I probably messed up worse than anyone who’s reading this.

Our Jesus is THE ONE AND ONLY GOD AND SAVIOR.

The ONE AND ONLY ONE who offers REDEMPTION and restoration.

The ONE AND ONLY ONE, who once we invite Him into our hearts, FORGIVES AND CLEANSES OF ALL SIN, and DOESN’T EVEN COUNT OR REMEMBER ANY SINS AGAINST US.  (2 Corinthians 5:19; Hebrews 8:12)

If He wasn’t, none of us would stand any chance. I know I wouldn’t!

JESUS LOVES US, wants to forgive us, and restore our nation to even more greatness:

“If my people, which are called by my name, SHALL HUMBLE THEMSELVES, and pray, AND SEEK MY FACE, and turn from their wicked ways; then WILL I HEAR FROM HEAVEN, AND WILL FORGIVE THEIR SIN, AND WILL HEAL THEIR LAND” (2^nd Chronicles 7:14).

“You shall seek me, and find me, WHEN YOU SEEK ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART” (Jeremiah 29:13).

America, it’s not too late for you: Jesus is waiting with outstretched arms to receive you into His protective embrace.

It’s up to each of us to heed, or to ignore, His invitation.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

LAW OR LOVE?

“If you really keep THE ROYAL LAW found in Scripture, “LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR as yourself,” you are doing right. But if… you sin you ARE CONVICTED BY THE LAW AS A LAWBREAKER.

For WHOEVER KEEPS THE WHOLE LAW and yet stumbles and offends AT JUST ONE POINT is guilty of breaking ALL THE LAW.” (James 2:8-10)

“For ALL WHO RELY ON THE WORKS OF THE LAW ARE UNDER A CURSE, as it is written: "CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT CONTINUE TO DO EVERYTHING written in the Book of the Law." (Galatians 3:10)

“For APART FROM THE LAW, SIN IS DEAD.

Once I WAS ALIVE APART FROM THE LAW; BUT WHEN THE COMMANDMENT CAME, SIN REVIVED AND I DIED (Romans 7:8-9)

“And ABOVE ALL THINGS HAVE INTENSE LOVE among yourselves: FOR LOVE COVERS A MULTITUDE OF SINS.” (1 Peter 4:8)

The Sinai Law has never saved a single soul.

Lying and CLAIMING to “have observed” the Sinai Law has never saved a single soul.

Observing the TEMPORARY 24-hour period called Saturday has never saved a single soul.

Ellen G. White HAS NEVER SAVED A SINGLE SOUL.

Herbert W. Armstrong and Alexander Campbell HAVE NEVER SAVED A SINGLE SOUL.

Being Adventist, Church of Christ, or Church of God, HAS NEVER SAVED A SINGLE SOUL.

Love, on the other hand, HAS SAVED – and IS SAVING, even as we speak – MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF SOULS. (John 3:16-17)

Under the Law ALL IT TAKES IS ONE SIN – IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE (as we read above) – to condemn us.

Under faith which functions BY LOVE (Galatians 5:6), there is NO CONDEMNATION (Romans 8:1, 33)

Love does not condemn: love COVERS A MULTITUDE of sins.

That is why God SO LOVED the world that He gave His only begotten Son: THAT WHOEVER believes on Him, will NOT PERISH BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE” (John 3:16)

The Law is NOT the fulfillment of the Law, LOVE IS (Romans 13:9-10).

Salvation has always been and will always be BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH. (Genesis 15:6; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5)

There’s NOTHING we can “do” or “abstain from doing” that can earn us salvation.

The Law CONDEMNS.

Love DOES NOT EVEN COUNT SIN. (Romans 4:8; 2 Corinthians 5:19)

The Law ENLARGES SIN and KILLS US.

Love forgives and forgets sin and GIVES ETERNAL LIFE.

Psalm 19:7; James 1:25:

Love is the ROYAL Law.

Love is the ONE AND ONLY Law in the KINGDOM of God.

Love is THE PERFECT and SUPREME Law.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK

"As a man THINKS... SO IS HE" (Proverbs 23:7)

The world says we are "what we eat". That MAY be true with regards to these temporary PHYSICAL bodies we currently use to get around.

But physical food has NOTHING to do with WHO we ultimately are in our SOULS:

We are WHAT WE THINK.

YOUR SOUL is comprised of YOUR MIND, YOUR WILL and your emotions.

What we ALLOW to linger in our minds: that to which we devote our TIME AND ATTENTION, will affect our lives for better or for worse.

THE HUMAN MIND is the territory IN WHICH SATAN DOES HIS DIRTY WORK.

And his work is ALWAYS EVIL and DIRTY.

When he came after Eve in the Garden of Eden, he PUT IDEAS IN HER MIND: we've been living with the disastrous results ever since (Genesis 3:1-4).

satan knew he COULDN'T touch her spirit.

And even to affect the human body, he has to WORK ON THE MIND.

WHAT do you ALLOW to LINGER in your mind?

Hatred and resentment will not only make you unhappy and miserable, it will probably affect your health at some point.

Likewise, if you allow porn to form a mental stronghold, there's NO WAY you'll ever have a happy and healthy marriage or loving relationship WITH ANYBODY.

Moreover, you will become ADDICTED and may reach the point where no normal person is able to satisfy you.

But there’s NOTHING MORE LETHAL, MORE EVIL, and MORE DAMAGING than ALLOWING FEAR to enter your mind:

Fear that God cannot forgive what we’ve done. (Psalm 103:12; John 6:37)

Fear that we’ve committed the “unpardonable sin”.

The ONLY unpardonable sin is OBSTINATE REJECTION OF Jesus, as THE ONE AND ONLY God and Savior (Matthew 12:32).

Fear that satan can put a curse on a child of God. Baloney! (Galatians 3:12)

Fear that some demon can possess a child of God. (John 10:27-29)

Fear that you can “lose” your Salvation. (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 11:29)

Fear that you may be “left behind” when the Rapture takes place. (Revelation 5:9-14)

Fear that "you're missing out" on something desirable by receiving Christ. (Psalm 16:11; Mark 8:36)

The “list” of fears goes on and on…

FEAR HAS NO PLACE IN THE MIND AND HEART OF A BORN-AGAIN CHILD OF GOD.

NEITHER DOES CONDEMNATION.

NEITHER DOES GUILT.

If you’ve screwed up (as ALL OF US have done from time to time) REPENT (change the way YOU THINK about it) CONFESS THE SIN AWAY FROM YOUR CONSCIENCE, receive God’s forgiveness, DUST YOURSELF OFF, LIFT OFF YOUR HEAD, KICK FEAR AND CONDEMNATION OUT OF YOUR MIND, and TRUST that Jesus HAS YOUR BACK.

TRUST that God DOES NOT COUNT ANY sins against those in whose hearts Jesus LIVES. (2 Corinthians 5:19)

TRUST that Jesus HAS TAKEN AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD, INCLUDING ALL YOUR SINS (past, present, and future). (John 1:29, Acts 3:19; Hebrews 9:26; 1 John 3:5)

Jesus warned that RELIGIOUS DECEPTION in His own Name (coming from supposed “Christians) who even  SAY that Jesus is the Christ) would be the hallmark of the end of this age (Matthew 24:4).

I have warned TIME AND AGAIN about meandering all over YouTube in search of "exciting" RELIGIOUS entertainment which DOES NOT LINE UP WITH GOD'S WORD.

I have warned TIME AND AGAIN about reading, participating, and filling your mind with what’s posted in those "Christian" forums where people can post ANYTHING that pops into their minds, whether supported by Scripture or not, and where the alleged "moderators" are, for the most part, BIASED BIBLE ILLITERATES.

Those who do, END UP BEING CONFUSED, TORMENTED, and ENTRAPPED BY SATAN:

Those who do ARE GIVING PLACE TO the devil: (Ephesians 4:27)

Seek some religious entertainment, some fantasy, or "supernatural" religious experience, APART FROM JESUS HIMSELF, and satan WILL GLADLY provide it for you, CONFUSE YOU, DECEIVE YOU, and PUT DOUBT AND FEAR in your heart and mind.

THAT'S what he does BEST.

ANY THING that causes fear IS OF SATAN. (2 Timothy 1:7; 1 John 4:18)

ANY THING that brings doubt, insecurity, guilt, condemnation, CONFUSION, unrest or makes you doubt your salvation IS OF SATAN. (1 John 3:2)

ANY THING that feeds your old, carnal nature IS OF SATAN.

NO ONE can FORCE YOU to think about something AGAINST YOUR WILL.

WHAT WE THINK ABOUT IS OUR CHOICE.

Again: NO ONE can FORCE you to think about something or about someone: who or what we think about IS OUR CHOICE.

ANYTHING THAT IS OF SATAN, MUST BE REJECTED!

When impure thoughts or images enter your mind, REJECT THEM IMMEDIATELY AND START MEDITATING Scripture, even if it's just ONE verse, even if it's just John 3:16.

You'll see JUST HOW QUICKLY those bad thoughts and images GO AWAY.

Until we see Jesus Face to face, THAT IS HOW the human mind is renewed. (Romans 12:2)

A CHILD OF GOD HAS NO MORE BUSINESS meandering into satan's territory than a fish has any business stepping out of the water.

Make no mistake about it: When you do, YOU PAY A PRICE.

Paul’s counsel in Philippians 4:8 APPLIES TO EVERYONE who’s been born-again into the Kingdom of God:

“…whatsoever things ARE TRUE… HONEST… JUST… PURE, LOVELY… OF GOOD REPORT; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, THINK ON THESE THINGS.

   
             

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

IMPURE MOTIVES

Ever since I started sharing Jesus publicly, teaching His Word, and especially since I shared Seed of Satan publicly and free of charge – revealing the BIBLICAL identity of Antichrist, as opposed to some speculative fantasy – I’ve been deluged by messages from those who CLAIM to be “seeking Truth”.

Unfortunately, the vast majority ARE NOT seeking Truth.

The can claim to be “servants” of Jesus and “only to be seeking Truth” until their hypocritical faces turn purple: but THEY ARE INSINCERE.

I have spiritual discernment (glory to Jesus, and thank you, Holy Spirit!) and I’ve dealt with the public, saved and unsaved, since my teens.

I’m not THAT EASILY deceived.

I can spot a phony in a matter of, NOT MINUTES, but SECONDS.

The vast majority is NOT seeking Truth: what THEY ARE SEEKING is to find some “error” in my teaching.

Why? To bolster their fragile, envious, insecure religious ego:

“This person HAS PROVEN the Antichrist’s identity from Scripture, yet I’M CORRECTING HIM!”

That is WHY THEY NEVER WRITE TO, OR QUESTION, THE PROPHECY TRAFFICKERS WHO HAVE SOLD THEM LIES FOR YEARS AND YEARS.

They NEVER TRY TO CORRECT THEM, or CALL THEM into account.

But they write me and try to “correct” me for teaching the Truth.

Truth seekers DON’T NITPICK.

Truth seekers REJOICE in the Truth and are not trying to remove a tiny speck from my eye, when THEY HAVE A HUGE LOG IN THEIRS.

Truth seekers are gratified to learn TRUE DOCTRINE, and do not feel compelled to write a stupid email pointing out that “you got today’s date wrong”.

Truth seekers DO NOT SEEK typos.

They WANT TRUTH, even if it’s misspelled.

They WANT TRUTH, even if the person quoted the wrong verse in a particular chapter. (Verse 5 instead of verse 3)

Truth seekers DON’T CARE that we use highlights, caps, colors, or underline certain portions for emphasis.

Truth seekers aren’t focused on STYLE but ON SUBSTANCE.

And, by the way, the day the Body of Christ at large GETS these teachings will be the day when I STOP USING such tools.

If they DON’T GET IT with all the emphasis, what hope is there if we convey the Truth in PLAIN, tiny, black text?

These truths have been in YOUR BIBLES, in plain, tiny black text FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, and the Church STILL HASN’T GOTTEN THEM!

I rest my case.

If Truth isn’t getting through to someone, we HAVEN’T ACCOMPLISHED ANYTHING.

Truth seekers ARE SPIRITUAL, NOT carnal.

They ask HONEST, LEGITIMATE, SUBSTANTIVE questions, they don’t try to play “gotcha”.

Truth seekers ARE GRATEFUL and say “thank you”:

They don’t treat me like some “BIBLE ANSWERING AUTOMATON” or like I’m OBLIGATED to answer every dumb question that pops into their heads.

They DON’T ask scores and scores of questions, without ever saying so much as “thank you”, and then TURN AGAINST ME and suggest my teachings are NOT supported by Scripture.

If they aren’t, then HOW COME these hypocrites SOUGHT ALL THOSE ANSWERS from me?

Truth seekers DON’T PASS my teachings off as “their own”, nor do they try to get me TO REFUTE SOMEONE ELSE’S TEACHINGS in order to win an argument.

Truth seekers DO NOT ACCUSE OTHERS FALSELY of "saying things" they never said.

Truth seekers DO NOT FEEL COMPELLED to tell me that “I’m right most of the time, but not always”.

Well, duh…

Is THAT supposed to be some BIG SECRET?

Which of the 12 Apostles was ALWAYS right?

The greatest evangelizer who ever lived, who was caught up (raptured) to the third heaven, and heard things it’s “not lawful to utter” in this realm, says that we ONLY KNOW IN PART (1 Corinthians 13:9).

HOW, then, CAN ANYONE be right 100% of the time?

Although we are never INTENTIONALLY wrong, there’s ONLY ONE WHO IS ALWAYS RIGHT and His Name is Jesus of Nazareth.

Glory to Him from everlasting to everlasting!

Therefore, when you find someone other than Jesus who is ALWAYS right, please let me know so I can tell you and that individual JUST HOW FULL OF CRAP you both are.

Truth seekers are HUMBLE, NOT arrogant.

Truth seekers ALWAYS EXALT JESUS, NOT themselves.

Truth seekers DON’T TRY TO IMPOSE THEIR PREFERRED theological or eschatological agenda. In fact, Truth seekers HAVE NO AGENDA.

They want Truth AT ALL COSTS, REGARDLESS of what denomination OR MORTAL it may CONTRADICT.

When I PROVE to someone WITH GOD’S WORD THE ERROR(S) in their religious teachings pertaining to salvation, and they CANNOT counter or refute my objections, and yet STILL DESPERATELY CLING to their religion, THEY ARE NOT TRUTH SEEKERS, they are IDOLATERS who love and worship their denomination or its founder MORE THAN JESUS.

Truth seekers DON’T SPLIT THEOLOGICAL HAIRS.

When someone wants to argue about whether hell and the abyss are the same, or who is the “king of the north” in Daniel chapter 11, I know that person’s MOTIVES are IMPURE.

What they are is MODERN Pharisees.

They COULDN’T CARE LESS about Truth.

Like the Pharisees of old who BEHELD Truth with their own eyes and COULDN’T RECOGNIZE Him – then added insult by attributing His works to satan – these blind fools (Jesus’ words, not mine) STRAIN OUT A TINY GNAT, but SWALLOW A GREAT, BIG CAMEL. (Matthew 23:17, 24)

They DIDN’T fool Jesus 2,000 years ago.

They DON’T fool Jesus TODAY.

And, since Jesus lives in me, THEY DON’T FOOL ME.

By God’s Grace, those who approach this ministry WITH PURE HEARTS and PURE MOTIVES will get answers.

Those who approach with IMPURE MOTIVES will get nothing.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

THE POWER OF TRUTH

There’s NOTHING and NO ONE more important than Truth.

There’s NOTHING and NO ONE more wonderful than Truth.

There’s NOTHING and NO ONE more POWERFUL than Truth.

Truth has the power to change people’s lives and, thereby, POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD.

Truth CREATED the universe, the world, and everything – everyone in it.

Truth, by very definition, is ETERNAL.

Truth is UNCHANGING.

Truth NEVER CEASES TO BE.

Truth is ALWAYS true.

Therefore Truth can NEVER – under ANY circumstance – be refuted.

The world is STARVED for Truth.

How else can one explain the phenomenon of “reality” TV?

“I’m tired of all the B.S. man. I want Truth. Give me something REAL”.

“Even if parts of it are staged, even if it’s as phony as the Kardashians (at least they’re REAL phonies): GIVE ME something that I can actually BELIEVE.”

Throughout my ministry I’ve always been both amused and dismayed at the number of religious people who THINK this ministry is “all about THEM”.

They THINK that THEIR OPINION will make me change my teaching.

I’d be THE BIGGEST FOOL on earth if I exchanged GOD’S WORD for “THEIR" OPINION.

They think I’m going to budge because they write or utter the words “I don’t agree”.

I KNOW the Truth: WHAT DO I CARE whether they “agree” OR NOT?

Will THEIR “disagreement” CHANGE the Truth?

Because ONE particular message DIDN’T FIT HIS IDEA of what “I should teach”, one egotistical, ungrateful, immature “evangelical” jerk, who feasted at this table FOR FREE each day, actually had the rudeness and self-centeredness to tell me that it was a “wasted” message.

It may have been wasted ON HIM, but I assure you it wasn’t wasted, and we have TANGIBLE PROOF that it wasn’t.

While WE LOVE AND APPRECIATE our loyal readers who ARE born-again, while they are welcome to partake of the Truth we share, and hopefully use it to be a witness for Christ and share Him WITH OTHERS, I DO NOT write PRIMARILY for them.

I minister and write PRIMARILY for the lost.

And the lost can be categorized into two major groups:

1. The religiously LOST. And, unfortunately, there are MILLIONS OF THEM.

2. The LOST with NO RELIGION.

Most Christians lack discernment and have great difficulty in distinguishing Truth from fiction – bless their little, Spirit-neglecting, Word-neglecting, Jesus-neglecting, SELF-DECEIVED religious hearts!

Conversely, the world HAS NO SUCH PROBLEM.

THEY can spot a fake A MILE AWAY!

They can tell who’s genuine, and who’s not, – IN A SPLIT SECOND!

They may not always agree with, OR LIKE, the genuine, but they RESPECT IT.

They’ll at least LISTEN. Or READ.

And, in the end, Truth ALWAYS prevails over ALL lies and over ALL liars.

Truth ALWAYS prevails, period.

Truth, and INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE of Him, is THE ONLY THING that sets people FREE! (John 8:32)

Nothing else and NO ONE else DOES!

The Apostles and Early Church understood this.

And Paul in particular EXCELLED at telling the Truth, REGARDLESS of who liked it or didn’t like it.

REGARDLESS of consequences, or what others might say or think about him!

REGARDLESS of what others might DO to him.

REGARDLESS of who "agreed" or "disagreed" with Him.

That’s HOW the Early Church spread the Gospel TO THE ENTIRE KNOWN WORLD -- WITHOUT technology!