No Spiritual Hospice

 

Ephesians 6:10-18 NKJV  10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand, therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints---19 and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly as I ought to speak.

We see this as 12 commands for the Saints: to be strong in the Lord, be strong in His power, put on the whole armor of God ( not the world), STAND, having your loins girded about His TRUTH,  putting on the breastplate of righteousness, having feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, taking the helmet of salvation, using the the sword of the Spirit, praying in the Spirit and watching in prayer.

To be fully armored is to be heavily armed as a soldier. This armor of God gives us ability to stand against all enemies. Ability to withstand all attacks. It also gives ability to quench every fiery dart of Satan.

Now prayer is not the part of armor but is in addition to this full armor. If we choose not to do this, then we walk through this life with no soaring, and again I say no soaring with God in the heavenlies!  

Isaiah 40:30 Even youths shall faint & be weary, & [selected] young men shall feebly stumble & fall exhausted; 31 But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, & hope in Him] shall change & renew their strength & power; they shall lift up their wings & mount up [close to God], as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run & not be weary, they shall walk & not faint or become tired.  [Heb. 12:1-3]

Wait on the Lord, He Who is from everlasting: He who is above those little gods of idols, not pecking at the ground like chickens..…God, the Creator, the God who is not fatigued nor exhausted but continues daily in His mercy to extend life, love & peace to us! It is in Him we look for & expect…..to be the renewed….and rise toward the Son of God!  ( Three points from Isaiah 40: to abide in the Lord, to be active and …. to fly above the circumstances)

Without this prayer added, this verse is ineffective. We must power up with God to see Ephesains 6:18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints

What if people chose to just go so far with God and then reside in hospice care? You know it as the program that provides palliative care and attends to the emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill patients at an inpatient facility or at the patient’s home. In this hospice care one is only expected to live nor more than 6 months. So does the Christain decide to hide out, lay on the edge of active life and choose dying over living? Hospice is to be the “specialized medical care” focusing on comfort and support emphasizing quality of life and dignity during the very end of life. You choose not to seek God, give Jesus praise, but only choose to take from others, say like the leech!

Proverbs 30:15-16 NKJV 15 The leech has two daughters-----Give and Give! There are three things that are never satisfied, Four never say, “Enough!” 16  “The grave, the barren womb, the earth that is not satisfied with water-----and the fire never says, “Enough!”

The Leech is described as taking without contributing anything at anytime. How sad if we as a people do not contribute to the care of our family or those in need around us!

1.   Sheol and fire always try to destroy

2.   The womb and the soil strives to produce; just put posts in the ground when building a fence and the soil will try to make it produce

Those in their own glory and multitude with pomp and jubilant voices descend into it: Jeremiah 13:15-16 Hear and give ear: do not be proud, for the LORD has spoken. 16 Give glory to the LORD your God before He causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you are looking for light, He turns it into the shadow of death and makes it a dense darkness. 

1.   These are headed for “hell” ….the shadow of death ; makes it dense darkness; Drunkenness robs one of the ability to act; their feet stumble while looking for light : Phil. 3:19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame---who set their mind on earthly things.

2.   Their honors are in the “dust”….this is death & the grave Ps. 49: 17-20 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him. 18 Though while he lives he blesses himself (for men will praise you when you do well for yourself) 19 He shall go to the generation of his father’s; they shall never see light. 20 A man who is in honor, yet does not understand, is like the beasts that perish.

Death is the equalizer: the foolish rich can die like the wise poor can

With the armor of God on, we are to continue to sow God’s word into our lives. Not that we peck the ground but soar with eagles. 1.  Would be made perfect….1 John 2:1-5   Amp Bible  My little children, I write you these things so that you may not violate God’s law & sin. But if anyone should sin, we have an Advocate (One Who will intercede for us) with the Father----[it is] Jesus Christ [the all] righteous [upright, just, Who conforms to the Father’s will in every purpose, thought & action]. 2 And he [ that same Jesus Himself] is the propitiation (the atoning sacrifice) for our sins, and not for ours alone but also for [the sins of] the whole world.

3 And this how we may discern [daily, by experience] that we are coming to know Him [to perceive, recognize, understand & become better acquainted with Him]; if we keep (bear in mind, observe, practice) His teachings (precepts, commandments).  From the NW ..back to page 2

4 Whoever says, I know Him [I perceive, recognize, understand, & am acquainted with Him] but fails to keep & obey His commandments (teachings) is a liar, and the Truth is not in him. 5 But he who keeps (treasures) His Word [who bears in mind His precepts, who observes His message in its entirety], truly in him has the love of & for God been perfected (completed, reached maturity). By this we may perceive (know, recognize & be sure] that we are in Him. In this love of God,…..we pray…

a.         Pray 1st before doing anything!

b.         If someone has spoken evil of you as in gossip, pray.

c.         If someone in the workplace has fired you, pray!

d.         If someone has passed suddenly within your family or circle of friends, pray!

e.         If someone, who you do not know, suddenly writes something concerning you for others to see and read…pray.      Seek the God of love!

This best way is through prayer….to do the right thing, and the Lord will remind you of His word in you…

2. Established and far from Oppression: Isaiah 54:14-17 Amp. Bible  

14 You shall establish yourself in righteousness (rightness, in conformity with God’s will & order): you shall be far from even the thought of oppression or destruction, for you shall not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near you.  Established in God they are no longer tossed about or afflicted

15 Behold, they may gather together and stir up strife, but it is not from Me. Whoever stirs up strife against you shall fall and surrender to you. 16 Behold, I have created the smith who blows on the fire of coals and who produces a weapon for its purpose; and I have created the devastator to destroy.

Anyone who troubles God’s people will themselves be troubled!

17 But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This [peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the servants of the Lord [those in whom the ideal Servant of the Lord is reproduced  ,,,chickens for chicken city, chicken soup)]; this is the righteousness or the vindication which they obtain from Me [this is that which I impart to them as their justification], says the Lord….many marching in unity for ruin…anything against God is for ruin…(unity is those who believe consistently and stand continually on His power words!)

Understand we are to be the secure in God…so..do we know Him as our justice..?    Justification comes through the heart: one which is  either…based in God and His teachings , those commands and the other is based in the ruins of the divisive of evil against God and His people.

What any one person thinks of you or me should not rule over us, only God’s rule,  His standard is to be raised against the tongues of judgment. Whether they wrote it, spoke it, tweeted it….God’s commands should be our standard for life…..WHY obey or answer a fool? A foolish person should not have dominion over us….Any malicious intent, God will take care of it and we must participate by faith knowing He will care for us and we are the secure in HIM!

Eyes on Jesus, Eyes on Him Who Renews our Strength….Psalm 27: 13-14 … NKJV 13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. 14 Wait on the LORD; be of good courage; and He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say on the LORD!

That believe : is the  ‘aman…Strongs: 539….is to be firm, stable, established, also to be firmly persuaded.

Mounting up on Wings of Eagles:  Go from strength to strength: Psalm 84:4-7  Amp bible  4 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied ) are those who dwell in Your house and Your presence: they shall be singing Your praises all the day long. Selah [pause and calmly think of that]! 5 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man whose strength is in You, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

1.         Whose heart: their thoughts and actions are on God

2.         They are always happy and to be envied!

6 Passing through the Valley of Weeping (Baca), they make it a place of springs; the early rain also fills [the pools] with blessings. 7 They go from strength to strength [increasing in victorious power]; each of them appears before God in Zion.  Zion is God’s stronghold and a place of restoration…

No Fainting: Galatians 6:6-9  Amp Bible…6 Let him who receives instruction in the Word [of God] share all good things with his teacher [contributing to his support. 7 Do not be deceived & deluded, & misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside;) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap.

God does NOT like those who wear masks and pretend to be godly!

8 For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality) will from the flesh reap decay and ruin & destruction, he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. 9 And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in action nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we will reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.

This sowing is spiritually done! Those who sow to the spirit will enjoy eternal life in the here and  now in way which other Christians do not. The harvest comes to the faithful who sow, not only the word of God into their lives but also in the finances, and in prayer!  There are churches who will not allow the Holy spirit to move within their service! Sown towards that power of God, then you operate in His power, praying in the Holy Spirit, loosing Him in your lives….( Understand all is God’s. You own nothing. God does. He provides. He is to guide and move you into His plan, not your plan!)

In closing: Ex.19: 1-6 Amp Bible    1 In the third month after the Israelites left  the land of  Egypt , the same day, they came into the Wilderness of Sinai. 2 When they had departed from Rephidim and had come to the Wilderness of Sinai, they encamped there before the mountain. 3 And Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him out of the mountain, Say this to the house of Jacob and tell the Israelites 4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagle’s wings and brought you to Myself. 5 Now therefore, if you will obey My voice in truth and keep My covenant, then you shall be my own peculiar possession & treasure from among & above all peoples; for all the earth is Mine. 6 And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation [consecrated, set apart to the worship of God]. These are the words you shall speak to the Israelites. Those of unity…a kingdom of priests…                                                                                  

From this passage of Exodus 19, the people were to obey God. He would bless them. Their perfection, that completion was to be in God,  and through the teachings of the Gospel we know today! “Bore you on eagle’s wings, was the miraculous life of living in and through the Spirit of God!  Why would we not want to live that way always?

Jesus brought it all together in His Sermon on the mount:  Matthew 5 :6 Blessed, and fortunate and happy and spiritually prosperous ( in that state in which the born- again child of God enjoys His favor & salvation) are those who hunger & thirst for righteousness (uprightness & right standing with God, for they shall be completely satisfied.

It is a spiritual kingdom that is one which operates in having faith in God. It is trusting God no matter what! This is only one of many blessings that were listed in Matthew 5, but all of them were given by Jesus that the kingdom citizen would adhere to and become the ideal who acknowledged they are the poor spiritually, sense their inadequacies, and reach for that which is supplied by heaven through Jesus Himself. This kingdom is the dwelling where self-sufficiency is no virtue nor is self-exaltation practiced. The only strength we need is found in the Lord, and in that we go from strength to strength in Him….Amen!

No spiritual hospice, our soaring is seeing Him in the heavenly place where we are seated in Christ Jesus!

 

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Feeding on Foolishness

 

FOOLS MUST BE DEALT WITH DIFFERENTLY THAN THOSE WHO ARE WISE. We cannot deal with all men in the same way. Our response to people must be based on the kind of character they have demonstrated.

 Reading through the book of Proverbs last week, and this stood out in our reading: Proverbs 21:6-7  NKJV 6 Getting treasures by a lying tongue is the fleeting fantasy of those who seek death. 7 The violence of the wicked will destroy them. because they refuse to do justice.

In reading the meaning a stumble toward death and the "destroy" means to drag them away. They move toward death quickly.

Matthew 16:1-4 Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Him asked that he would show them a sign from heaven. 2 He answered and said to them, “When it is evening you say, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ ‘Hypocrites!’ You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times. 4 “A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. And He left them and departed.

1.         From verse 4: Jesus’ description of Israel’s religious leaders is reminiscent of Deut. 32:5 where Moses rebuked Israel for rejecting Yahweh.

2.         Deuteronomy 32:5-6 NKJV They have corrupted themselves; they are not His children, because of their blemish: a perverse and crooked generation. 6 Do you thus deal(repay the )with the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?

3.         The relationship with the LORD is ruined when His children no longer act like His children.

4.         They had become a grotesque mockery of what God created them to be

Ever wonder where some of these teens arrested today were raised? Some speaking as a parent say they are the sweet child who harms no one. Yet they destroy store windows, steal produce from the store and take off running when police arrive. Interesting! Who in their right mind would take a knife to a track event in the spring time? Who decides to run down people on a roadway and call it accidental  done?  But what if these teens are just like their parents. What if they act the same manner and ready to use a weapon just because they are mad about something? Another thought here: young adults carrying signs saying ideas are not illegal? No they are no illegal, but not done in God will bring disaster. They bring consequences like a knife at a Track Meet!

Matthew 12: 39 But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

A spiritual adulterous exhibition was presented by the scribe’s and Pharisees because of their rejection of Jesus

1.         Jonah’s experience in the depths of death would be Jesus experience as well

2.         Three days and three nights: Jonah 1:17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Jonah 2:1 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the fish’s belly. 2 And he said: “I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction, and He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and You heard my voice. 3 For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the floods surrounded me; all Your billows and Your waves passed over me. 4 Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.’ 5 The waters surrounded me, even to my soul; the deep closed around me; weeds were wrapped around my head. 6 I went down to the moorings of the mountains; the earth with its bars closed behind me forever; yet YOU have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD, my God.

3.         Away from God’s presence…a life threatening situation

4.         Going into the belly of Sheol, the inner part of the earth, the grave

5.         From verse 6 the moorings or the bars of Sheol the land of the dead beneath the great deep; from the pits refers to Sheol

One thing for certain, fools are liars!  They may say the jury is all white when there is only what 4? And the rest are Hispanic and Asian. (total of 12) Liars are known when they can count the crowd for themselves and then tell the journalist there is only white folks on the jury. Lying is sin and is dangerous.

Steve Hill was founder of Heartland World Ministries Church in Dallas. He was widely known for preaching the uncompromising message of Christ throughout the world. He wrote this before his passing into heaven.   He wrote:     The challenging of God’s authority goes back to the Garden of Eden, starting with the serpent’s challenge to Eve: “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” (Gen. 3:1). This satanic challenge was twofold: First, did God really say that? And second, God didn’t really mean what He said. After all, you won’t die if you eat from the tree (vv. 1-5).

That twofold challenge continues to assault us today. Best-selling authors tell us the biblical text isn’t reliable, that the biblical manuscripts we have in our possession are hopelessly contradictory, and that we can know little or nothing about the real, historical Jesus. Other authors tell us that the Bible is no more than a collection of religious traditions and that God Himself is nothing more than a religious myth.

For the most part, though, the challenge to the authority of the Scriptures is subtler, and some of it flows out of the deification of man, which says, “The Bible must live up to my standards. I will judge the God of the Bible based on my morality rather than the God of the Bible judging me based on His morality.” In short, when the Scriptures contradict our feelings and preferences rather than crucify our feelings and preferences and bow down before God and His Word, we question God’s Word.

Steve Hill had written this as well:   Universal reconciliation promotes a get-out-of-jail-free mentality—that in the end, everyone will make it into heaven because of Jesus’ death on the cross. (In contrast, universalism teaches that all paths lead to God.) There may be future suffering, but it will be purging rather than punishment, and ultimately everyone will be saved.

Proponents of universal reconciliation point to verses that teach that God reconciled “all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross” (Col. 1:20). And they point out that just as in Adam all die, in Jesus all will live (Rom. 5:12-21).

What would you say if someone attempted to persuade you that Adolf Hitler was in heaven? “Abomination!” you would scream. “You’re deranged!” Yet that’s a sample of the fundamental false teaching of this layer of “avalanche snow.” Added to other layers mentioned previously, we will find the believer’s foundation deteriorated, and when the storms come in damaging ways, life is extinguished.

Are we feeding on foolishness?  Do we really recognize a false teaching that is a strong wind of error? If we think a color of a person makes it right to kill is totally wrong! Character is what counts when standing with God. This is what Martin Luther King extended in his speech before his death. He wanted his children to be known by the content of their character and not the color of their skin!  If we are in that place, darkness is coming down quickly!

A. W. Tozer wrote, "So skilled is error at imitating truth, that the two are constantly being mistaken for each another. It takes a sharp eye these days to know which brother is Cain and which is Abel." The apostle Paul also speaks to the outwardly pleasing behavior of apostates and their teaching when he says, "For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:13-14). In other words, do not look for apostates to appear bad on the outside or speak dramatic words of heresy at the outset of their teaching. Rather than denying truth outright, apostates will twist it to fit their own agenda, but as pastor R. C. Lensky has noted, “The worst forms of wickedness consist in perversions of the truth.”

Peter says, “But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves” (2 Peter 2:1). Another aspect of true believers is that they have been delivered out of spiritual darkness into light (Ephesians 5:8) and therefore will not deny core truths of Scripture like Arius did with the divinity of Jesus.

Ultimately, the sign of an apostate is that he eventually falls away and departs from the truth of God’s Word and His righteousness. The apostle John signifies this is a mark of a false believer: “They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us” (1 John 2:19).

Ideas Have Consequences

That God takes apostasy and false teaching seriously is evidenced by the fact that every New Testament book except Philemon contains warnings about false teaching. Why is this?

1.         Simply because ideas have consequences.

2.         Right thinking and its fruit produces goodness, whereas wrong thinking and its accompanying action results in undesired penalties. As an example, the Cambodian killing fields in the 1970s were the product of the nihilistic worldview of Jean Paul Sartre and his teaching. The Khmer Rouge’s leader Pol Pot lived out Sartre’s philosophy toward the people in a clear and frightening way, which was articulated in this manner: “To keep you is no benefit. To destroy you is no loss.” ( are we not seeing baseball players of the majors wearing uniforms and caps to celebrate the LGBTQ folks. God only made male and female)

3.         It should be remembered that satan did not come to the first couple in the Garden with an external armament or supernatural weapon; instead, he came to them with an idea. And it was that idea that condemned them and the rest of humankind, with the only remedy being the sacrificial death of God’s Son!

The authority the Master gave you and me  is for putting people together, not taking them apart. We want to get on with it and not have to spend time on reprimands.  And that’s about it, friends. Be cheerful. Keep things in good repair. Keep your spirits up. Think in harmony. Be agreeable. Do all that and the God of love and peace will be with you for sure. Greet one another with a holy embrace. All the brothers and sisters here say hello. The amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, the extravagant love of God, the intimate friendship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.  Amen!

 

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Marveling at Abomination ?!?

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Revelation 17: 1-18 NKJV   Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, 2 “with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.” 30 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. 5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6 I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.

Revelation 17:7 But the angel said to me, “Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her. Which has the seven heads and the ten horns. 8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the worlds, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. 9 Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. 10 There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue for a short time. 11 The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth; and is of the seven, and is going to perdition. 12 The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. 13 These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. 14 these will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is the Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with are called, chosen and faithful.”

Revelation 17: 15 Then he said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues. 16 And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate, and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 17 For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. 18 And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.”

 

From verse seven of Revelation 17, the angel asks John why he marveled….why he had admiration for that which was of the devil! Then the angel goes on to give detail of what he saw: “I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her. Which has the seven heads and the ten horns. 8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the worlds, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

He goes on to say, that those on the earth will marvel at what they see going on. You have seven heads or seven what would be called kingdoms and of these there exists ten horns. That seen as mega companies that with one mind can rule the world and really not have a kingdom at all. And John marveled at what he saw! These mega kings will yield their power and authority unanimously to the beast which could be Rome. ( the papal)

Seven kings began this endeavor but five have fallen. So he who takes this corporate mountain forward is he who has only a short time. We know that is Satan who has but a short time on earth. It will come down to a “great fight”. But Jesus has this victory! Making war with the Lamb is the wrong thing to do. And yet we see even today many making war with Him, and if they are making war with Him they are against you too! But we are the Lord’s lords and the King’s kings and called chosen and faithful.

The woman is destroyed by the very beast, the forces of Anti-christ upon whom she rode into influence and power. We see unusual things occurring today of what is social cult and how one group desires to shut another down.

But God is using that which the enemy employs against us, against those who try to kill His own. Scripture tell us this: Proverbs 26:27 Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him. Proverbs 28:10 Whoever cause the upright to go astray in an evil way, he himself will fall into his own pit.

 

Revelation 17: 15 then he said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues. 16 And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate, and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 17 For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. 18 And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.”

The harlot is destroyed, the papal ruling with influence and power. The corporate king will rule the fleshly earth for a short time. God causes the kingdoms to unite with Babylon the harlot church. This certainly has to do with commercialism in the world. And that which is established as the world market will be in play at this time. Certainly we have seen how it is trending today! But those drunk with power will fall indeed. God will have His way. And if you remember that which we have covered about in Revelation 18, there is a funeral song, celebrating the fall of Babylon, the harlot church which is commercialism at its highest degree of power!

 Yes, one of the seven angels had invited John to witness  the judgment of the great harlot. The religious part is only apostasy at its worst part sinning against God! Sitting on many waters, this agent of evil will sit on many controlling areas of the Gentile world. It is comprised of the most eligible men and women for compromise and intrigue. The world will be drunk in her own wine, that fornication with great evil influence and staggering wretchedness.

In the early part of education for this nation, America was un-apologetically as to incorporating the Bible, prayer to the God of the Bible, and biblical values in every aspect of school life. I know for when I began the first grade back in the twentieth century, my first reader was a McGuffey Reader and it was written with some scripture was added from the Bible. And the young readers prospered in their reading habits. So when they graduated from high school they could read and understand. But today it is rare to find a young person who can read or do math. But in that of God, this system produced a people that produced the most powerful and prosperous nation the earth has ever seen.

Now in this hour, the children of our nation are inundated with liberal ideologies, and those atheistic teachings. Principles in our public schools today and in most universities (including many Christian institutions) are being indoctrinated with often false, biased and anti-biblical information. It is Biblical truth and Bible-centric values that is the key to renewal and restoration in America’s failing educational system. Yeah, they teach the big bang theory! Take a look at the aftermath of the Grand Canyon. There was a great flood that caused that to happen and the Bible teaches how it came about.

 

Today there is the excess of government and overreach. In this nation, it is by the people for the people, but many within governmental positions, men and women are choosing their agenda over that of the people’s. They seem to think they know what is best and who is right when they are voted into their new position. It is someone telling you how you are to care for your body. No thank you, my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and no nasty jab will pierce it. My body, my choice thank you, NO!

The progressive liberal agenda, empowered by well-known men and women in the arts and entertainment industries, have made significant gains in the political arena over the past few decades. From the governmental and educational systems there is the misapplied interpretation of the phrase, “separation of church and state.” We must see a shift in this arena in order to preserve the Christian heritage that America was founded upon. The goal is to put in place righteous political leaders that will positively affect all aspects of government.

The media mountain that exists today persists to its own news giving what is false and fantasy. Pick up a newspaper and nine times out of time, you will find several articles pointing to a certain agenda and change that is not good for any country. The media as radio, T.V. news stations and that of the internet seem to have an agenda as well.  We have seen film-making, music and social media drive cultural tastes. The advertisements on any channel reflect a fallen nation: it reveals a heavy reliance on drugs for everything. It gives direction toward sex appeal, alcohol, and entertainment as to gambling, playing slots, and buying lottery tickets. It reveals a darkness toward targeting children.

I heard today that parents who protest about what is being taught in their classes to their children in school is wrong. That those who do that are terrorists. Yeah, this was on a news broadcast just today. But what about truth, what about allowing someone to speak truth about their concerns of what is being taught in regard to changing who you, the child is or what he or she will become. School is not to teach a child to be an "it"!

Within business, we find the mom and pop stores being shut down to run as the conglomerates climb higher in power and product. They tend to sell everything the people want. In that ability to literally create wealth through ingenuity, enterprise, creativity and effort and is a God-given gift and a universal impulse. The markets and economic systems that emerge whenever people are free to pursue buying and selling become the lifeblood of a nation. This includes anything from clothing, to pharmaceuticals, to household goods, building supplies to contractors, also farms to small businesses to large corporations: it is a buyer’s market. But when you have corruption invading into the fabric of business, one can see: idolatry, greed and covetousness. In response, the Church must embrace its responsibility to train up those who are called into the marketplace to manage businesses and provide leadership with integrity and honesty. As a believer we have learned from God’s will that He desires us to have wealth. And He desires for His Church to use its wealth to finance the work of Kingdom expansion. Simply put: Prosperity with a purpose.

 

Let us keep within God and His teachings receiving what Jesus taught and know our best days are ahead of us and not behind us. Amen. We will see some strange things appearing, but fear not God is with us!

But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable always abounding in the works of the Lord, knowing your labor is not in vain in the Lord. ( 1 Corinthians 15: 57-58)

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Glory!

 1 Thessalonians 2:12 that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory. 13 For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.

In referencing conduct, Paul calls those of believers in Thessalonica to walk worthy of God who had called them into His kingdom and glory. We are so blessed to have God who loves us and has called us into His kingdom and His glory. And then to receive His word that will hold us in that kingdom of God and His glory too!

Paul, the Apostle, reminded believers to walk worthy of God while pleasing God. If married they were to be faithful to one spouse and they could expect some suffering as was written in 1 Thessalonians 4:6..that no one should take advantage and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. 7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.

It is the truth that we are to behave with honor and with purity in all our relationships!

Luke 5:36-39 NKJV 36 Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of  the new does not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wine-skins; or else the new wine will burst the wine-skins and be spilled, and the wine-skins will be ruined. 38 But new wine must be put into new wine-skins and both are preserved. 39  And no one having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, “The old is better”.

  God saved us! He sent the Son of His love to redeem us from death, hell and the grave. In this passage of Luke 5, Jesus is describing those who are the satisfied with the old system of the Law and the tradition of the elders.

For you and I, the teaching Jesus talked about was radical indeed. And what He taught could not be used as a patch over the existing form of Judaism (the old garment). New wine is put into those who are of Jesus Christ. They hear His voice and adhere to His teachings! The radical teachings of Jesus moves the complacent out of that recliner and into life.

As we see even in this day, there are many who like the “old” ways of doing and their normal is to do what is good in their sight! But Jesus was bringing light to what God had planned for man to live in accordance with His kingdom that had come.

2 Thessalonians 2:13-17 NKJV 13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth, 14 to which He called you by our gospel for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught whether by word or our epistle. 16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, 17 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.

Like the those in Thessalonica, we are chosen for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and we are chosen to belief in that truth! Amazing GRACE!

Then we are to know that we are called to the same gospel Paul preached, so that we would obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ! From this passage, glory is the salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. To which you and I are called by the Gospel, yes, what Jesus taught from the Sermon on the Mount. We stand fast in that faith of the word given us…....we hold to that tradition of what is revealed by the Son of God and those prophets and apostles whom He sent to declare His word! So now may our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father who has loved us, given us everlasting consolation, that hope by grace, comfort our hearts, and establish us in every good word and work. Amen.

It is in the labor of life and that labor of speech that we may know this process that Paul speaks of in that sanctification was not by which a Christian grows in Christ likeness but the initial work of grace in which the Spirit of God works in us the believer to make us God’s possession.

When you and I were born again, we went through that period of time when we did not have the same vitality in our thinking nor in our reasoning. We certainly were " street smart ” to the ways of the world, so we had to learn, to gain understanding of God in His wisdom to express the new life that was within us. And yes, that comes by forming the mind of Christ we see in Philippians 2:5-6.

“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God. "

Jesus saw  His being of God as something to be given away and not selfishly grasped for or horded. He willing came to earth to live as human being on our behalf, to experience what we experience. Yes He relinquished His glory through retaining His deity. Matthew 11:29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls.

Jesus called for an open, yes free, and loyal relationship when He spoke the word yoke. In that relationship to Jesus, we gain the ability of obedience to the Law’s righteousness which was His burden.

From Luke 21:19 By your patience possess your souls. That soul is the seat of our affections, our will, that desire, emotions, reasoning and understanding.

Patience in Romans 15:5 is interesting.  Verse 5: Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus 6 that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Whether you are a weak Christian or a strong one, our conduct in relationships is forbearance and love so that a unity of believers will be seen as that harmony of praise together for God and the Lord Jesus Christ!

 Our conduct should be righteous, being led by the Spirit of God where we are no longer controlled  by issues like depression, anger, anxiety, jealousy, hopelessness, fear, or suicide.  We should not be ruled by our emotions. In Jesus and by His walk to Calvary, His bloodshed to redeem us from the hand of the enemy, you and I are now chosen as God’s instruments. We are chosen for restoration! He has enabled us to be the hearers of His word,  to understand His word and to  embrace  those words that speak a direction and a life! He came to redeem us and to show us that we are of value. Our focus is to be kept on Jesus, who directs us by His Holy Spirit to have that patience to possess our souls and to take charge of all those things connected with it. 

We should be satisfied in Him and understand that satisfaction is not found in the world. No one thing can satisfy you for very long. If you think of Judas Iscariot, he walked with Jesus, heard the teachings, and yet his heart for that one moment was to take the Roman empire down, moved out of Israel and use Jesus to do it! But no, Jesus would not take any throne at that time. If you look back at Esau, he was famished from hunting all day and was really hungering for something to feed his belly. Yet, he wanted it now and sold his birthright to get it. People are never satisfied for very long!

If we refuse Jesus and His kingdom that He brought to us, we are refusing our birthright for His kingdom. Satisfaction is only found in the Lord. Psalm 91:16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation. Those who know God’s name are in covenant relationship with Him. Those who revere and honor Him are satisfied in deliverance, in honor, and preservation. It was a blessing to Israel and is a blessing to us. It means we belong to God and to His kingdom. We have a home in His glory!

Jesus spoke of  glory in John 17! John 17:22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one;

This glory (doxa) is dignity and honor!  John 14:6-13 NKJV  6 Jesus said to him, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life:. “No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7 “If you had known Me, you would have known the Father also; and from now on You know Him and have seen Him.” 8 Philip said to HIM, “Lord show us the Father & it is sufficient for us.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long and yet you have not known Me, Philip?” He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, & the Father in Me?” ‘The words that I speak to you, I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.” “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

No one gets to the Father without first acknowledging Jesus! This passage should epitomize our lives: that encapsulated within the Father and the Son in us so that we experience the same works. Jesus was pointing them to the Father always, pointing them to truth and life revealing the Authority with which Jesus spoke.

Jesus was not a people pleaser. It was always for the sake of the Gospel and for the glory of God that Jesus was active in communicating the Gospel of grace. Jesus did as His Father commanded Him to do so. Jesus obeyed, He gave the Message, encountered conflict and was crucified. His crucifixion was for life to those who required a REDEEMER!                                                     

Paul writes in I Corinthians 1:18, “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” Consider, though, that many who claim to be Christian today do not consider the idea of forgiveness through crucifixion to be foolishness.

They glory in what the cross produced but foolishness to them is His example of complete surrender, which we are to imitate. As a result, it is the nominal Christianity that has become tolerant of sin, increasingly more human-centered, and less inclined to actions that might involve them in some kind of discomfort or inconvenience that disrupts their day.

Yes, it is the carnal mind that says surrender is folly, because it creates a vulnerability or the possibility of some kind of loss. But it is the same carnal mind that is blind to the vital reality that God is on His throne, overseeing the outcome—gladly using His power on our behalf if we will only but trust Him with our lives.

Glory is comprised of His word, the salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in that truth! Holding to that tradition of what is revealed by the Son of God and those prophets and apostles He sent to declare His word so that now by the Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father who has loved us, has given us everlasting consolation, that hope by grace,  that comforts our hearts, and establishes us in every good word and work.

The message: forgiveness of sins. The response: should be likewise a self-denial, that complete surrender, a reckoning ourselves as already dead to this present, evil age so that we might live for Him with a kingdom in mind, a life revealed and relationship of secure love indeed.

Glory!

 

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