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WORD 4 TODAY MESSAGES – 2016

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2016

THE IMPERFECT LAW

The Sinai Law, summed up in the Ten Commandments, IS NOT PERFECT.

Since the Sinai Law is IMPERFECT, it CANNOT MAKE ANYONE perfect. (Hebrews 7:19)

And since God IS perfect, the Sinai Law CANNOT BRING ANYONE to common union with a PERFECT God.

Hence the Sinai Law DOES NOT SAVE. (Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16)

According to the Sinai Law the FIRST and MOST IMPORTANT commandment is NOT TO HAVE other gods before Yahweh. (Exodus 20:2-3)

And the SECOND most important commandment is NOT TO MAKE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE. (Exodus 20:4)

Jesus CORRECTED the Sinai Law.

Jesus CORRECTED the Law (Torah) by pointing out that the FIRST – and GREATEST COMMANDMENT – is to Love God (to love Divine Love) with ALL of one’s heart. (Matthew 22:37-38)

And the SECOND is similar to the first: TO LOVE ONE’S NEIGHBOR (to love others) as WE LOVE OURSELVES. (Matthew 22:39-40)

If the Sinai Law were perfect, “love God with ALL your heart” would be its FIRST commandment.

If it were perfect, then Jesus WOULDN’T HAVE CORRECTED IT.

That PROVES it’s IMPERFECT. (Romans 13:9-10)

Love God with ALL one’s heart” is the GREATEST COMMANDMENT.

But it’s more than A COMMANDMENT.

Love (of the Divine kind) is A PERSON.

And that Person IS THE HIGHEST AND ETERNAL LAW of the universe, and every realm of existence. (Psalm 19:7; 1 Corinthians 13:13; James 1:25)

We can follow religious rules and “keep commandments” until our deceived faces turn blue, purple and green.

There is NO SALVATION in doing so. (Galatians 2:21; 3:21)

Jesus, who is the Love OF GOD Personified, that Divine Love that IS God, must be EXPERIENCED – INSIDE each human, and with ALL one’s heart! (Ephesians 3:16-19; 1 John 4:18)

We mustn’t love Him WITH ALL our heart SIMPLY BECAUSE “it’s a commandment”, but because IT’S HIM!!!

Jesus IS WORTHY of our WHOLEHEARTED LOVE, DEVOTION, WORSHIP, PRAISE, EXALTATION AND BOUNDLESS ADORATION!

1 John 4:16:

He that LIVES IN LOVE (Jesus) LIVES IN God, and God (Jesus) LIVES IN HIM.”

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2016

LOVE IS YOUR VICTORY

Since the Tower of Babel, human language has been fractured.

All human language is, at times, deficient.

This is particularly true in the English language where the word "love" is concerned.

To us, "love" can mean ANYTHING from natural affection for a close friend, family member or relative, to sexual desire for another person, to LIKING something or someone a lot as in "I LOVE chocolate", to sublime love for God.

In the game of tennis, "love" means NOTHING, ZERO.

However, there's a reason Jesus had His apostles write the New Testament in Greek.

Greek has three distinct words for what we call "love":

There's phileo for love toward friends and family.

There's eros for sexual desire.

And there's agape for Divine Love.

According to 1st John 4:16, God is neither phileo nor eros. He is AGAPE.

Divine Love is God's very Nature.

That Divine Nature was placed in our hearts when we experienced the New Birth of the spirit (2 Peter 1:4; Romans 5:5; John 3:5).

Therefore, WE HAVE God's Own Nature, His Divine Love INSIDE OF US, in our inner man, from the moment we're born again (Galatians 5:22).

That Divine Nature (AGAPE Love) is our victory in EVERY situation.



God is God because He IS Agape.

God is Agape because He IS God.

That's WHY God NEVER LOSES.

He has NEVER lost and He NEVER will.

Agape love is His Victory and He/it is also OUR victory.

Love won't be unequally yoked with anything lesser.



Love and only love will rapture us.

LOVE CASTS OUT FEAR (1 John 4:18).

LOVE CASTS OUT TORMENT.

LOVE TRUSTS (1 Corinthians 13:7).

LOVE TRIUMPHS & NEVER FAILS (1 Corinthians 13:8).

LOVE STAYS FOCUSED ON HIMSELF (on God, on Love).

LOVE IS YOUR HEALTH.

LOVE IS YOUR PROVISION.

LOVE IS YOUR SOLUTION.

LOVE IS YOUR SALVATION.

LOVE IS ETERNAL.

LOVE IS YOUR VICTORY.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016



GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT

We’ve all seen it and heard it:  you’re channel surfing one day and you come across one of those religious channels that promise God’s “blessing” in exchange for $$$.

The scam artist whips the audience into an emotional frenzy tells you to go to your phone and donate and then, like a perfectly programmed piece of greed-driven software, “prophesies” that “God” just told him (or her) “there’s a person watching who NEEDS TO send a $10,000 gift right now” and when he does, his business troubles will magically END.

Or he erupts into gibberish to impress the audience with how “spiritually gifted”, “spiritually superior”, and HOW “FILLED with the Spirit” he is.

He’s FULL OF IT, alright.

Those who regularly appear on “Christian” TV are “Christian leaders” and you’re supposed to do EVERYTHING THEY TELL YOU, right?

Besides, everyone knows you HAVE TO BE SPIRITUALLY SUPERIOR to speak in tongues, right?

WRONG. 

ON BOTH COUNTS!



And being in front of a TV camera no more makes one a “spiritual leader” than being in front of a stove makes you a great chef.

99% of the “tongues” spoken on air are FAKE.

ANYONE who “speaks in tongues” ON CUE is A FREAKIN’ FAKE.

The gifts of the Spirit manifest NOT when WE WILL, but when THE SPIRIT WILLS (John 3:8; 1 Corinthians 12:11).

But even REAL tongues (and, yes, THERE IS such thing as the GENUINE gift of tongues) DO NOT PROVE that anyone is “spiritually superior” to anyone else.

The gifts of the spirit are listed in 1 Corinthians 12:

1. Word of wisdom.

2. Word of knowledge.

3. Faith


4. Gifts of healing.

5. Working of miracles.

6. Prophecy.

7. Discerning of spirits.

8. Different kinds of tongues.

9. Interpretation of tongues.

1 Corinthians 12:7 says gifts are given to the Church for “profit”, meaning SPIRITUAL profit.

Unfortunately, the hucksters that flood Kristian airwaves, took that verse to mean FINANCIAL PROFIT and, sure enough, they’ve been PROFITING from our gullibility and IGNORANCE ever since.

The word translated “profit” is sumpheron which means “TO BRING TOGETHER”.

The gifts of the Spirit are NOT given to manipulate others or squeeze money out of our peers.

They are given TO BRING believers together in unity of Spirit.

Paul made it clear that CARNALITY is what causes DIVISION among us (1 Corinthians 3:3-4).

Far from proving “superiority”, the very fact we need those gifts JUST PROVES HOW SPIRITUALLY DESTITUTE AND NEEDY WE ARE.

Matter of fact, the gifts of the Spirit manifested most abundantly in the MOST CARNAL congregation established by Paul, the church at Corinth:

Corinthians were THE MOST CARNAL, SINFUL group of Christians to which Paul had ministered, to the point that one guy in particular (1 Corinthians 5:1-2) was sleeping with his own stepmother!

In addition, they struggled with worldliness, there were, as already noted above, DIVISIONS, believers were SUING one another and allowing THE UNSAVED to settle disputes among them (gee, where have I heard THAT before?) (1 Corinthians 6:1-11).

They had trouble with marriages and celibacy (7:1-40), there was competition between males and females (11:2-16), and even about taking Holy Communion (11:17-34).

And yet, they were MORE PROLIFIC in gifts of the Spirit than ANY OTHER congregation.

While genuine gifts of the Spirit are nothing short of wonderful, they are also rather easy to imitate, WHICH HAS MADE SPIRITUAL COUNTERFEIT REACH PANDEMIC PROPORTIONS IN OUR TIME.
No one’s ever accused satan of being a poor imitator (Matthew 24:4).

It’s RARE and extremely difficult to find a so-called “Christian ministry” on TV that’s not working some angle on “gifts of the spirit” to extract money from its viewers UNDER FALSE PRETENSES.

If ANY ONE gift is desperately needed in our time, it’s the gift of DISCERNMENT.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2016



DREAMS AREN'T PROOF

Every so often someone writes about some dream they've had with prophetic images, and wants us to interpret and or share the dream as Bible prophecy.

Although I have VERY FEW TIMES, judged a dream to be from God, and given an interpretation to certain individuals, I've never passed myself off as an interpreter of dreams.

Dreams are not the Bible.

Dreams DON'T PROVE anything.

Although God can and has used dreams at times to communicate important things to those He's chosen for significant roles, that is not His primary means of communicating.



His main methods of communication are His Spirit and His Word.

Yes, He gave Pharaoh a dream that Joseph interpreted.

He gave Nebuchadnezzar a dream that Daniel interpreted.

He gave Jesus' stepfather Joseph a dream about taking Jesus to Egypt and out of Herod's assassin reach.

But most people AREN'T Joseph or Daniel.

And most dreams (the vast majority) come from our subconscious and not from God.

Again: most dreams (the vast majority) COME FROM OUR SUBCONSCIOUS and NOT FROM God.

So, just because someone had a vivid dream, with prophetic imagery, that doesn't mean you or I can base doctrine or teaching on it.

The internet is TEEMING with people who claim to have had "dreams from the Lord" about the Rapture.

It’s also filled with dreams and “visions” about some great tragedy like an asteroid hitting the earth, or a large quake or tidal wave wiping out certain nations or parts of the United States.

What they all have in common is that they never come true.

The other thing most of them share is that they appear today and disappear two months later, after the alleged "dream or vision from God" doesn't materialize.

I'm human and make mistakes like everyone else, albeit UNKNOWINGLY and UNINTENTIONALLY.

But we've been on cyberspace for over a decade. Glory to Jesus!

And, Lord willing, I don't plan to disappear any time soon. At least not until the Rapture takes place.

I have once or twice shared vivid dreams with scriptural content (that others have sent in) and VERY CLEARLY said "JUDGE IT by spirit. This ISN'T Scripture. You don't have to receive it as Truth".

We base our teaching on the Bible, on reputable recorded history, or both.

I've had some pretty vivid dreams myself regarding the Rapture.



I've never shared them publicly or taught ANYTHING based on my dreams.

Consequently, WE CAN'T and WON'T PUBLISH every dream that everyone has and thinks it has prophetic meaning.

If someone has such dream, the best thing to do is to write it down, keep it in your heart, go before God, and ask His Holy Spirit that IF the dream indeed came from Him, to reveal His intended meaning.

Then WAIT FOR HIS ANSWER.

After all, if the dream or vision was given TO YOU, even if it was from God, it was primarily FOR YOU, and not for everyone else.

Therefore, you DON'T NEED ME as "interpreter" or intermediary.

There's NO BETTER INTERPRETER OF DREAMS - IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE -
than the Holy Spirit.

And every born again child of God has DIRECT ACCESS to Him.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2016



THE GREAT MIRAGE

If we have ETERNAL Life, then it’s ETERNAL and nothing and NO ONE, least of all satan, can take it away from us.



If we have eternal Life, then we’ve ALWAYS had it and NEVER LOST IT.

NOT EVEN in Eden.

What we lost in Eden is THE PERCEPTION of Oneness with Eternal Life (Jesus).

The human soul was deceived and sinned.

And lost the PERCEPTION of THE ETERNAL (God, I am) and became SUBJECT to THE FALSE NOTION OF “TIME”.

This, in turn, brought SPIRITUAL and PHYSICAL DEATH, in that order.

Physical “death” is only possible in “time”.

Physical death is ONLY TEMPORARY.

Everyone who’s ever died, as I have shared often, will be resurrected AT SOME POINT:

Believers will rise first, then tribulation believers, then the Two Witnesses, then ALL WHO HAVE DIED without Christ.

THAT PROVES that PHYSICAL death IS A LIE.

THAT THE ONLY TRUTH is ETERNAL LIFE (Jesus). (Exodus 3:14; John 14:6)

Therefore, those who DO NOT RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE (Jesus) SENTENCE THEMSELVES to ETERNAL DEATH.

SPIRITUAL DEATH is NOT ceasing to exist: it is eternal existence IN TORMENT, in THE HORRIFIC NOTION OF BEING ETERNALLY SEPARATED FROM Him who IS Eternal Life.

It is being TORTURED BY HIS CONSUMING FIRE, WITHOUT ever being consumed.

God (eternal Life) is a consuming fire: (Deuteronomy 4:24; Isaiah 33:14)

His fire can purify, glorify and ignite the greatest spiritual passion to the point of ELEVATING and TRANSLATING (rapturing) us into THE HIGHEST DIMENSION.

Or it can TORMENT those who have rejected Him with the regret of WHAT THEY COULD HAVE BEEN – and forever LOST.

Bottom Line: The Consuming Fire (God) is ETERNAL.

If we BECOME like the Fire, we are glorified by Him AND BLESSED BEYOND human comprehension.

If we RESIST the Fire, we become anti-Fire and IT WILL BURN US FOREVER.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2016

ROT IN HELL, FIDEL

There’s a new resident in hell, and he’s in a terrible place.

As I have shared before, there are degrees of punishment in hell.

And this guy is IN THE VERY WORST.

And DESERVEDLY so!

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No longer can he call the shots and have others tortured IN THE MOST VILE WAYS IMAGINABLE and executed at will.

No longer can he delight in murdering over 200,000 in his infamous firing squads.

No longer can he confiscate their property.

No longer can he divide families.

No longer can he shoot those who are so desperate to leave his hellhole they decide to brave the Florida Straits sometimes on top of an old tire, or a flimsy mattress, trying to float their way to freedom.

No longer can he send thousands to rot in horrendous prisons, just for opposing him.

No longer can he oppress anyone.

No longer can he impose his will on hapless citizens of a prison island.

And no longer will he be a “folk hero” to stupid Hollywood nitwits or to the godless secular media, who calls “good” evil and evil “good”.

THE TABLES HAVE TURNED.

This evil, evil man who caused SO MUCH PAIN -- to SO MANY -- is being judged ACCORDING TO all the evil that he did.

Do I delight in his demise?

No.

And YES!



I wish he’d repented, received Christ and been saved.

On the other hand, I have to honor God because He is very compassionate, but also VERY JUST.

This wicked bastard had 90 YEARS on this earth to change his mind and heart.

That’s way more than most people ever get.

And this spawn of satan STEADFASTLY shunned good and CHOSE EVIL.

Those who deny Jesus and reject His offer of FREE FORGIVENESS to all who receive Him into their hearts, and TRUST HIM completely for salvation – WILL BE JUDGED ACCORDNGLY.



ALL those who REJECT His Grace, will get His RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT.

And those who’ve been THEIR VICTIMS WILL finally GET JUSTICE and be VINDICATED.

The old communist now KNOWS there’s a God, KNOWS that God is Jesus, and KNOWS that there’s a hell.

Rarely would I approve of celebrating anyone’s death. But there are a few instances when it is warranted. (2 Chronicles 23:21; Proverbs 29:2; Isaiah 14:3-11)

That’s why I’m not critical of those who poured out into the streets to celebrate Castro’s death.

I would have been critical if THEY HADN’T.



SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2016

ISRAEL AFLAME

It’s been a busy month here in the United States, first with the General Election, and all the commotion going on in its aftermath, then with Thanksgiving and Black Friday which, for retailers, marks the beginning of the annual Christmas shopping madness.

Meanwhile A LOT is going on in certain parts of the world, most notably in Syria, France and Israel.

As I mentioned recently, Vladimir Putin is determined to destroy all opposition to the totalitarian rule of Bashar al Assad, even if he has to totally destroy that country – and most of its population, including many children – in the process.

And, taking full advantage of Obama’s weakness and of the fact that he has 56 days left as President, he seems to want to get the job done BEFORE Trump’s inauguration.

The people of Syria have endured horrific suffering for the past 6 years.

There are no words to describe the hardship and carnage.

Then there’s France, where a terror attack in Paris was recently foiled (thank God!).

However, an elderly woman in a home for monks in southwestern France was not so lucky, as she was killed by a Muslim terrorist.

This just a couple of months after Islamic terrorists entered a church in Normandy, forced the 85-year old priest to his knees and decapitated him.

And several cities in Israel have had to be evacuated due to Muslim savages SETTING THEM ON FIRE: among them Haifa, and Beth Shemesh which is pretty close to Jerusalem.

A Muslim imam in Canada actually prayed to “allah” to burn ALL of Israel.

In other words, they’d rather SET FIRE TO AND DESTROY the Holy Land than allow Israel to possess the Land given to them BY GOD as eternal possession.

It appears that those “nice”, “peace loving” Muslims who practice a “religion of love and peace” have come up with a new form of terror: ARSON.

As these brutal demoniacs are setting fires all over Israel, fire fighters and other first responders are tackling more than they can handle.

Please wonderful intercessors, please brothers and sisters, PRAY FOR ISRAEL.

Let’s take DOMINION OF the atmosphere over that country and MAKE this awful arson fires to STOP.

Thank you.



SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2016

INTERPRETERS

"Because THE CARNAL MIND IS ENMITY AGAINST (ANTI) God: for IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO the law of God, neither indeed can be" (Romans 8:7).

Once upon a time in Church history the written Word of God was locked up in monasteries and available ONLY to clergy.

It was INACCESSIBLE to the faithful.

Consequently, they could only get the Word "filtered" through TOTALITARIAN, DICTATORIAL religious hierarchy.

What religious despots SAID IT SAID, or said it MEANT, was to be accepted WITHOUT QUESTION, whether it was true or not.

History is witness to the DISASTROUS consequences of such tyranny: flagrant anti-Semitism, horrible "crusades", the INFAMOUS, UNHOLY INQUISITION, and other barbaric atrocities too numerous to mention.

DESPITE such OPPRESSION, God managed to get through to a German monk named Martin Luther, who realized the DECEPTION, greed, and desperate need for reform.

His message was welcomed by many as a breath of fresh air, hope and FREEDOM:  

"I don't need some stuffy, biased, out of touch religious tyrant telling me what HE SAYS God said. I can read what God ACTUALLY said FOR MYSELF".

One of the welcomed reforms that Luther brought was that believers did not have to BLINDLY ACCEPT what religious leaders taught as scriptural Truth, but were to allow the Holy Spirit, the Author of the whole Bible, to reveal His TRUE INTENT.

However, when dealing with EXTREMES, the pendulum tends to swing, not to the middle, but to the OTHER extreme.

Such has been the case among Evangelicals and others.

Somehow this freedom was misconstrued to mean that "I can NOW INTERPRET the Bible to mean WHAT I THINK it means".

Some even took it up another notch and said "I'm going to filter God's word through my PERSONAL OPINION, add a good dose of prejudice, an even greater measure of fear, and establish my own religion

If those guys in Rome could get away with it, so can I. 

I will use people's disdain for Rome's historical abuses and claim to be THE ANTITHESIS: that they were wrong, that all others are wrong, and that MY RELIGION is the ONLY correct one.

Then I will BRAINWASH my followers with my doctrine".

The result has been 230 major disputatious denominations, each having many sub-groups, not to mention AN EVER GROWING NUMBER OF CULTS who no more teach the Word of God than I teach Mein Kampf.

All this coupled with the computer age has produced A LETHAL MIX OF RELIGIOUS DECEPTION which Jesus foresaw 2,000 years ago and pointedly warned would be the hallmark of our time (Matthew 24:4-8).



NOWHERE does the word of God say we are to INTERPRET IT.

Repeat: NOWHERE does the Word of God says we are TO INTERPRET IT with our corrupt, carnal minds.

As the anchor Scripture above says, our natural mind IS ANTI-God and ANTI-Christ.

Our natural minds ARE IN ENMITY AGAINST God. They are AT WAR AGAINST God.



And you're going to TRUST THAT MANURE-FILLED CESSPOOL to tell you WHAT A HOLY, HOLY, HOLY God said and meant?

NOWHERE does the word of God authorize ANYONE TO CAPRICIOUSLY STATE "I think that means thus and so"

NOWHERE!!!

NOWHERE does the Word of God authorize ANYONE (listen up, prophecy gurus) to say "I BELIEVE the Antichrist is alive", or "I BELIEVE he will sign a 7-year peace treaty with Israel" or "I BELIEVE we're headed for a cashless society" or "I BELIEVE there are NO SIGNS that precede the Rapture" or, for that matter "I BELIEVE" ANYTHING.

WHO CARES WHAT YOU BELIEVE?

The ONLY thing that matters is WHAT GOD SAYS.

Repeat: The ONLY Truth, and consequently, THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS, is WHAT GOD says.

What you THINK, what you BELIEVE, YOUR OPINION or MINE, about any Bible related topic ARE IRRELEVANT and of NO USE TO ANYONE, let alone to the Kingdom of the Most High.

And if our beliefs CONTRADICT Scripture, as is often the case, particularly in the areas of Salvation and Bible prophecy, they ARE WORTHLESS ABOMINATIONS.

When we STUDY the Word of God, we are to regard it as what He is: HOLY.

We are to approach Him-it with GREAT RESPECT and REVERENCE.

We are to seek the Spirit of God WITHIN US, who INSPIRED that Word.

We are to ask Him to guide us and REVEAL TO US not what "we believe" but what He intended to say, but WHAT HE ACTUALLY MEANT.

We are to ALLOW HIM to unveil and UNFOLD the meaning of His HOLY Word to us.

We are to focus on Him - tell our carnal minds to SHUT UP, and LISTEN TO THE SPIRIT.

We are to have the attitude that Jesus exemplified in the Garden of Gethsemane:

NOT as I will, Father, but AS YOU WILL. (Matthew 26:39)

Those who approach God's Word with a PRECONCEIVED AGENDA, or some religious bias, are downright DISHONEST.



Truth is found ONLY when we're humbly WILLING to accept God’s Word, REGARDLESS of what He-it may be.

As long as we fail to humble ourselves and YIELD TO HIS WILL, WE WILL LIVE IN DECEPTION, DECEIVING OTHERS AND BEING DECEIVED:

Ever "learning", but NEVER COMING TO the KNOWLEDGE OF the Truth.


God doesn't need "interpreters". He speaks VERY CLEARLY.

His Spirit will speak DIRECTLY and CLEARLY to your heart, if you ask Him, IF YOU ARE WILLING to receive Truth, and then He will back it up SOLIDLY with His written Word.

What He needs is people who TOTALLY LOVE HIM and want THE Truth (Jesus) AT ALL COSTS and ABOVE ALL ELSE.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2016

ALL THE WAY

Jesus is about to return. When He does, His Appearance will rapture us, and translate us in an instant, into the Spirit realm.

That realm is MORE REAL than the physical.

The visible, physical realm is only temporary. The invisible, spirit realm is eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18).

Therefore, EVERYTHING we presently see around us will dissolve. It will be no more.

The physical is about to give way to the eternal.

If we were in the spirit realm we would see each other, touch each other, and communicate with each other, just like we do in the earthly realm: Actually, far better.

I'm addressing this message primarily to those who SAY they're Christian, but whose hearts and minds are far from the Lord.



Professing Christians who have a long list of priorities ahead of Jesus…

Who believe with their heads, but have never REALLY GIVEN Jesus THEIR HEARTS.

Who call themselves believers, but have NO INTIMATE, PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP with the Savior…

Who THINK they're Christian because their ancestors claimed to be.

Or because they DO good deeds, attend Sunday school, BELONG TO A PARTICULAR DENOMINATION, or participated in some religious ritual like first communion, confirmation, or even water baptism.

ANY church ritual you participate in, where YOUR HEART isn't TOTALLY involved is an EMPTY, MEANINGLESS ritual.

Despite some or all of the above, you have never REALLY GIVEN YOUR HEART TO JESUS.



YOU HAVE NEVER MADE JESUS NUMBER ONE IN YOUR LIFE.

I'm talking about giving Jesus EVERYTHING: Your heart, your mind, your body, your possessions, your life, your dreams, your ambitions, your time, your talents.



I'm talking TOTAL, ALL-OUT, NO HOLDS BARRED, 100% COMMITMENT TO HIM.

Matthew 7:22 talks about a bunch of people who will say to Jesus "didn't we DO many wonderful WORKS in your name?

And He will answer "I NEVER KNEW YOU".

It’s NOT about “doing”: it’s about KNOWING (in the biblical sense).

It’s about TRUSTING Jesus completely.

If you REALLY KNOW and TRUST Jesus, you’ll hold NOTHING BACK from Him.

Again: If you REALLY KNOW and TRUST Jesus, you’ll hold NOTHING BACK from Him.



He becomes YOUR VERY LIFE.

Do you KNOW Jesus? I don't mean His Name. Do you KNOW HIM as a Person, as your God, your Lord, and your spiritual Lover?

If you don't, I urge you to “do”.



The time for tepid Christianity is over.

If you call yourself “Christian”, then BE ONE with CHRIST: ALL THE TIME, ALL THE WAY.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2016

 GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD

 

1Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good.

His love endures forever.

 

2Give thanks to the God of gods.



His love endures forever.

 

3Give thanks to the Lord of lords:



His love endures forever.

 

4 to Him who alone does great wonders,



His love endures forever.

 

5 who by his understanding made the heavens,



His love endures forever.

 

6 who spread out the earth upon the waters,



His love endures forever.

 

7 who made the great lights—



His love endures forever.

 

8 the sun to govern the day,



His love endures forever.

 

9 the moon and stars to govern the night;



His love endures forever. (Psalm 136:1-9)

"Give thanks to the God of heaven. His faithful love endures forever.” (Psalm 136:26)

Father, we thank you and praise you, in the Name above every Name: THE NAME OF JESUS.

We THANK YOU for all the blessings that you freely and abundantly bestow on your children:

Thank you for keeping us safe.

Thank you for providing for our needs.

Thank you for the blessing of freedom.

Thank you for health, protection and prosperity.

Thank you for your Goodness with which to delight to bless your children.

We pray for our political leaders and ask that you grant them supernatural Wisdom FROM ABOVE on how TO GOVERN this nation and its citizens.

We pray for our spiritual leaders, that they will ALWAYS PUT YOU FIRST, and speak ONLY THE TRUTH.

Guide their steps, strengthen their hearts, and use them for your glory.

Thank you, Jesus that you NEVER leave us nor forsake you.

Thank you, Jesus, that YOUR LOVE ENDURES FOREVER.

THANK YOU that you love us, come rain come shine – AND NO MATTER WHAT is going on in our lives, whether good or bad.

Your love is ENDLESS and unconditional.

THANK you most of all, for that GREATEST EXPRESSION of your Divine Love, which led you to give your Life on the cross, SO WE COULD HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.

We ADORE YOU, Lord Jesus. We praise you and EXALT YOU. We give you THANKS, from the bottom of our hearts.

And we give you ALL THE GLORY now and forevermore.

Amen.


Happy Thanksgiving!

 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2016



LIVING OF THE GOSPEL

“Even so the Lord has ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel.” (1 Corinthians 9:14)

This verse is regularly quoted, OUT OF CONTEXT, by greedy preachers trying to justify their opulent lifestyle with Scripture.

God’s Word is very clear:

Those who preach the Gospel are TO LIVE OF the Gospel.

They are to MAKE A LIVING, and support themselves and their families FROM preaching the Gospel.

Problem is, a lot of religious people who CLAIM to be “ministers of Christ’ and CLAIM to “preach the Gospel” DO NEITHER.

They DO NOT preach the Gospel: they preach man-invented religion.

Nor were they ever CALLED BY JESUS into His ministry.

They DO NOT tell the LOST how to be saved.

What they do is LIE and tell dumb Christians HOW TO GET RICH by (supposedly) giving TO THEM!!!

The other problem is that the Scripture says they are TO LIVE of the Gospel. It does not say they are to BECOME RICH from preaching the Gospel.

Therefore, even if they make a perfunctory, two-minute pitch on how to receive Christ and be saved, THAT DOES NOT ENTITLE THEM TO BECOME FILTHY RICH AT THE EXPENSE OF GOD’S DUMB SHEEP.

If their unbiblical “excuse” were correct, then we should see AT LEAST ONE of Jesus’ 12 Apostles becoming rich from their preaching which, coincidentally, WAS FAR SUPERIOR to the diluted rhetoric we hear today.

Peter was Jesus’ handpicked leader of the 12. Did Peter GET RICH from preaching?

No. He was entrusted by Jesus with ministering to Jews and Israelites (Galatians 2:7) and he “fed Jesus’ sheep” as instructed. (John 21:17)

He remained a lowly fisherman ALL OF HIS LIFE.

He died in Jerusalem and was buried without pomp or circumstance in a common cemetery, his remains placed in a plain ossuary simply etched with the phrase “Simon bar Jonah”.

Peter NEVER SAT on a fancy throne, never lived in a fancy palace filled with priceless paintings, sculptures and tapestries, never wore fancy religious garments, never walked around holding a staff with a crucifix on top, never wore a fancy ring, or asked anyone to kneel before him and kiss that ring.

2. Well, that was Peter. But certainly John MUST have gotten rich. After all, he is called “the disciple that Jesus loved”. (John 21:20)

After all, Jesus EVEN ENTRUSTED HIS MOTHER MARY to John’s care. (John 19:26-27)

Surely God blessed him with prosperity.

After all, Jesus would have wanted HIS OWN MOTHER TO LIVE IN LUXURY.

Nope.

John and Mary lived MODEST lives commuting back and forth between Jerusalem and Ephesus in Turkey.



At some point Mary passed away, and John would eventually be BANISHED to a barren penal colony, in a tiny island named Patmos, where he was instructed to write the Book of Revelation.

No luxury, no beautiful clothes, no money, no fancy carriages, and God only knows WHAT he got to eat and drink, or even HOW OFTEN.



Well, what about James?

He was one of the three disciples closest to Jesus, along with Peter and John.

He was at the Mount of Transfiguration and GOT TO SEE JESUS TRANSFIGURED from mortal to immortal (Matthew 17:1-2)

Hate to tell you this, but James NEVER BECAME RICH EITHER.

In fact, he was incarcerated AND THEN BEHEADED by wicked Herod shortly after Jesus’ Ascension. (Acts 12:2)

Well, then certainly Paul must have gotten rich from preaching the Gospel!



Lord knows Paul was THE MOST PROLIFIC PREACHER OF THE GOSPEL IN HISTORY.

He wrote TWO THIRDS OF the New Testament!

He was even "caught up" to Paradise IN A PRIVATE Rapture!!! (2 Corinthians 12:1-5)

Paul did live “OF” the Gospel, as God always provided temporary food and lodging for him in the homes of certain believers. He also provided for travel expenses and other temporal needs.

Did Paul become rich from his outstanding preaching?

No.


He ended his days in a dark, squalid, roach infested, rat infested, putrid, smelly prison, were he couldn’t even see the light of day. (Philippians 1:13-14)

No fancy ANYTHING for Paul: And NO WEALTH.

His amazing life on earth came to and end when wicked Nero ordered his decapitation. (2 Timothy 4:6-7)

Therefore, when some religious charlatan uses this verse as a convenient “excuse” to “justify” his excess, his hypocrisy, and his greed…

When he or she MANIPULATES this verse in order to convince you TO SEND MONEY to him or her…

Tell them: “if what you say is true, if the “give in order to get” “prosperity Gospel” you preach is true, then we must see it WORKING in the Apostles that Jesus personally called and chose TO SPREAD HIS MESSAGE.



Since we DON’T see it IN ANY OF THE APOSTLES’ lives or ministries – and they were FAR BETTER PREACHERS THAN YOU ARE – your message is FALSE.”

 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2016



WITHHOLDING IS SIN

“…whoever KNOWS THE RIGHT THING TO DO and FAILS TO DO IT, FOR HIM IT IS SIN.” (James 4:17)

When God gives us some special knowledge, revelation, or experience, it is NOT intended for us TO SELL IT, or TO HOARD IT.

It is NOT FOR OUR OWN self-aggrandizement, NOT ONLY for our own benefit, but FOR THE BENEFIT of His Body, and/or for the lost.

It is for us TO SHARE with unbelievers, with the Body of Christ, or both.

And such sharing is to be done FREE OF CHARGE.

The ONLY time we can withhold such information is when God SPECIFICALLY tells us TO DO SO -- and even then ONLY UNTIL a certain point in “time”. (Daniel 12:4,9; Revelation 10:4)

Those instances, however, are VERY RARE.

Those instances are also TEMPORARY.

Jesus told us to “go into ALL THE WORLD and PREACH the Gospel”. (Mark 16:15)



Jesus NEVER TOLD US to “go into all the church and SELL BOOKS

Jesus NEVER TOLD US to “go into all Christendom and SELL prophecy”, let alone LIES that WE CALL “Bible prophecy”.

Jesus NEVER TOLD US to sell our brothers and sisters ANYTHING: no CDs, no DVDs, no books, no “blood moons”, no “harbingers”, no “magical” prayers… no magical prosperity formulas… NOTHING!!!

And yet a couple days ago I tune into Fox News and this supposed “minister” of Christ appears in a PAID COMMERCIAL, peddling his book with a “magical” prayer that will (supposedly) quench fear and “keep people safe”.

There is NO SUCH THING.

Answered prayers depend in large part on deep conviction that Jesus LIVES IN us, that He is ON OUR SIDE, that we overcome the enemy by His precious and holy Blood, and that He has ALL AUTHORITY in heaven, on earth, and IN EVERY REALM of existence.

And even the faith that gives us such CONVICTION – IS A GIFT from God. (Romans 12:3; Ephesians 2:8)

We can meditate the Word, and commune with the inner Jesus in order to enhance that faith, BUT THE FAITH ITSELF COMES FROM HIM.

We can’t earn it, we can’t work for it, WE DO NOT DESERVE IT, and there are NO MAGICAL PRAYERS or MAGICAL FOMULAS to keep us safe or achieve prosperity.

The aforementioned commercial IS NOTHING BUT A RELIGIOUS CON.

And if the con artist who appears in that commercial is SO CERTAIN that his magical prayer “works”, then WHY DOESN’T HE SEND THOUSANDS OF FREE COPIES to our brothers and sisters in places like Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, China, Burma, North Korea and other similar places TO KEEP THEM FROM BEING SLAUGHTERED in the most heinous ways imaginable?

Anyone with even HALF a brain knows WHY.

Just like the charlatan who advertises all over the internet a “secret” verse from the Gospel of Matthew that’s supposed to magically “cure” whatever illness a person may have.

The Gospel of Matthew has been around FOR 2,000 YEARS. And there are no “secret” verses or “magical” verses that make sickness go away.

Jesus IS THE ONLY HEALER. (Mark 16:17-18)

And even JESUS told us He was “limited” to do ONLY WHAT HE SAW THE FATHER DOING. (John 5:19)



Divine Healing IS A GIFT FROM GOD’S GRACE.

Again, it cannot be earned, deserved or obtained through some “biblical” incantation.

Can you imagine some poor person afflicted with cancer or some other terminal illness, experiencing financial distress (the two usually go together) DESPERATE to be healed, and this HEARTLESS, GREEDY, MANIPULATIVE religious SWINDLER tells them “I have a magical formula FROM GOD, that will CURE YOU, but you have to send me $49.99 plus shipping in order to find out what it is?

Am I THE ONLY ONE who finds such tactics REPULSIVE?



WHERE in the Bible do we find THAT DISGUSTING marketing ploy?

NOWHERE!!!

Don’t be stupid, Christians!

THINK BEFORE you BUY.

Jesus instructed His disciples:



FREELY you have received, FREELY give(Matthew 10:8)

If it COSTS YOU MONEY, it’s a worthless gimmick.

If it COSTS YOU ANYTHING other than YOUR HEART, it’s NOT FROM GOD.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2016

A CHANCE IN HELL

“…Behold, I lay in Zion FOR a FOUNDATION a STONE, A TESTED STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNERSTONE, A SURE FOUNDATION: HE THAT BELIEVES (in Him) SHALL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME.

Justice also will I make the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line…

And YOUR COVENANT WITH DEATH SHALL BE ANNULLED, and YOUR AGREEMENT WITH HELL SHALL NOT STAND”… (Isaiah 28:16-18)

In Mark 16:15-16 Jesus COMMANDED US to “GO INTO ALL THE WORLD, and PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.

HE THAT BELIEVES and is baptized SHALL BE SAVED; but HE THAT BELIEVES NOT SHALL BE CONDEMNED.”

Jesus said that those who DON’T believe will be condemned.

However, He DIDN’T say they’d have to believe IN THIS LIFE in order NOT to be condemned.

THAT idea was ADDED by religion.

Of course, THE IDEAL thing would be for everyone to believe (TRUST) Jesus COMPLETELY for Salvation in THIS life.

But we live in an imperfect world, where people and things usually fall way short of what’s ideal.

We MUST preach the Gospel TO EVERYONE, as Jesus commanded, so they can receive Him, trust Him and be saved IN THIS LIFE…

OR THE NEXT!!! (Matthew 12:32)

Contrary to what organized Christianism teaches, hell is TEMPORARY. (Revelation 20:13-14)

Hell is NOT eternal.

The lake of fire is eternal. (Revelation 20:15)

But NO ONE goes into the lake of fire until the END OF the Millennium (until AT LEAST 1,004 years from now). *

* The two exceptions being the Antichrist and the false prophet who are tossed into the lake of fire at the end of the tribulation. (Revelation 19:20)

Therefore, EVERYONE IN HELL still has A CHANCE of receiving Christ and being saved.

Salvation IS STILL POSSIBLE in hell.

Those who heard the Gospel in this life and failed to receive Christ, WILL GO TO HELL, but they CAN RECEIVE Jesus, while being in hell, and be ultimately SAVED.

And Scripture teaches that those who are in hell RETAIN THE MEMORIES of what they saw and heard IN THIS LIFE. (Luke 16:22-27)

Therefore, if they heard the Gospel while on earth, and failed to receive Jesus, THEY CAN REMEMBER that Gospel in hell itself and STILL get saved.

To my knowledge, there’s NO Gospel being preached in hell.

There are no preachers in hell, and the ones there who were preachers DIDN’T KNOW the Gospel. That’s why they went to that awful place.

That is why I T’S SO IMPORTANT that we share THE GOOD NEWS of FREE SALVATION through TRUST (faith) in Jesus – IN THIS LIFE.

After all, when they find themselves in that horrific place, they will realize that everything those dumb Christians said with regards to Salvation IS TRUE.

And, hopefully, many of them will think:

“I’m stuck in this hopeless, horrible, God-forsaken place, what the hell can I lose by giving my heart to Jesus NOW?

It may be too late, but it’s worth a try. WHAT do I have to lose by trying?”

God has promised that those WHO TURN TO JESUS WITH ALL THEIR HEARTS – even in hell itself – can still be written in the Book of Life and BE SAVED (Psalm 49:15; 86:13; 116:3-4; Hosea 13:14; Amos 9:2; Matthew 5:21-26; Revelation 20:15)

God has promised that His Word WILL NOT RETURN VOID that (sooner or later) it will do what He (THROUGH US) sends it to do and IT WILL PROSPER IN THAT UNTO WHICH HE SENDS IT. (Isaiah 55:11)

And we have a “MORE SURE Word of Prophecy”, which is MORE CERTAIN that things that we experience in space-time. (2 Peter 1:18-19)

If you need guidance on HOW to share Christ with others, please click on the “SOUL WINNING” link at the TOP LEFT of this page.

Please give your loved ones, and everyone you care about, a chance to receive Jesus into their hearts IN THIS LIFE.

And, should they fail to do so, at least give them A CHANCE IN HELL.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2016

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