05/19/18 HEAVENLY FARE
TASTE and SEE that the Lord is good.
HUNGER and THIRST after righteousness.
BE FILLED with His Spirit.
Friday, May 18, 2018
05/18/18 DASH-CAM MESSAGE TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD
05/18/18 DASH-CAM MESSAGE
TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD
CORRECTION, THE PASSAGE IS PSALM 34:8, (not 38:4 oooops)
NOTES...
When we eat something we enjoy, we invite our friends, "taste this."
Something new, we say, "taste this."
Something we have enjoyed for years, we say to a new comer, "taste this."
Something a child has not had yet, we say, "taste this."
"I know if you taste it, you will love it."
Some foods are scary. Like oysters.
Some things I don't eat, not because they taste bad, because I never tasted it.
Psalms 34:8
8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Some people do not want to TASTE and see. I am not talking about a "trial salvation." I am talking about taste, open up to God, allow God to have access to our inner man and our whole life.
Some folks do not want to taste because they are not interested in the Christian life, sometimes because of the lives that they see people live.
I don't blame them because I see people who live miserable lives and call themselves Christians. Christians ought not to have miserable lives. It is a misrepresentation.
Sour disposition
Critical
Negative
Fault finding
Judgmental
Arrogant.
And sometimes all of this is in one person.
Even without sin we sometimes turn people off, just because of our own personality quirks and peculiarities. But we should not willing allow things that are contrary to the nature of God. We ought to have love, kindness, mercy, gentleness, long suffering, wisdom, understanding, forgiveness.
Some people have their own view of being a Christian and there is no way they are going to taste. They are not going to visit a Bible preaching church; or come to a Bible study to learn the word of God.
Some folks have no idea of what it means to be a Christian and they don't want to taste. We need to get them to come with us to services so they can see a body of believers in unity and worship.
Of course, our services better be worth visiting. They need to see joy, peace, power, love.
It does not have to be a perfect church.
It does not have to have the greatest preaching.
It does not have to have the greatest singing.
BUT IT NEEDS TO HAVE SOME LIFE IN IT.
It needs to have LOVE.
It needs to have JOY.
Then when people come they will be able to TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD, as they watch our lives individually and corporately. Then the Holy Spirit will be able to speak to them about their own relationship to God.
Little children do not like to try new foods. But when it comes to tasting and seeing that the Lord is good, children are quicker to respond than most adults.
Adults have deadened themselves to the inner drive to know God. Adults have weened themselves off of spiritual food and developed, acquired a taste for worldly fare. Sin is not only an inner desire, it becomes an acquired taste.
smoking and drinking alcohol are something you have to be able to endure before you start to enjoy it. It is addictive and controlling. People don't start out with a strong affinity for evil. They usually have to work their way into deep sin slowly.
Profanity, obscenity, crudeness, meanness, crime. Yes, there is a sin nature, but deep, dark sin is repugnant to young sinners. It is something they have to get use to before they enter it enthusiastically.
The more people become acquainted with sin, accustomed to sin, the more they acquire the desire to sell out to sin.
Children do not have to re-acquire a taste for God, because they are born in a state of grace. God has already included them in the atonement. We all needed it from conception because we were born with a tainted, a twisted nature. Remember, Jesus is the Savior of all men, and that is because every preborn has been made acceptable to God by the blood of Jesus.
After we are born we all have an empty space in our heart that only God can fill. We are born with a proclivity to sin, but also with an affinity for God. Children need to be nurtured in Christ. Every child comes to a point where we sin against God and we need to call on Him for salvation. But if a child has not been fed on spiritual food, on love, on truth, on mercy, on tenderheartedness, on purity, then that child falls away quickly and completely into the path of sin, desiring the things of the flesh, rather than the things of the Spirit.
Just as a child will turn his nose up and make a face at a new dish and, so it is that those who have been away from God will do the same when they are invited to TASTE AND SEE THAT GOD IS GOOD.
Especially when you offer them the tender side of salvation. Pride holds on to the darker, carnal parts of life and rejects the loving, gentle, trusting and kind aspects, because they are seen as weaknesses.
People have a taste for the ungodly and turn away from that which is godly.
We need to live in such a way that people see something in us that draws them to God, that causes them to TASTE and see that the Lord is good.
TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD
CORRECTION, THE PASSAGE IS PSALM 34:8, (not 38:4 oooops)
NOTES...
When we eat something we enjoy, we invite our friends, "taste this."
Something new, we say, "taste this."
Something we have enjoyed for years, we say to a new comer, "taste this."
Something a child has not had yet, we say, "taste this."
"I know if you taste it, you will love it."
Some foods are scary. Like oysters.
Some things I don't eat, not because they taste bad, because I never tasted it.
Psalms 34:8
8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Some people do not want to TASTE and see. I am not talking about a "trial salvation." I am talking about taste, open up to God, allow God to have access to our inner man and our whole life.
Some folks do not want to taste because they are not interested in the Christian life, sometimes because of the lives that they see people live.
I don't blame them because I see people who live miserable lives and call themselves Christians. Christians ought not to have miserable lives. It is a misrepresentation.
Sour disposition
Critical
Negative
Fault finding
Judgmental
Arrogant.
And sometimes all of this is in one person.
Even without sin we sometimes turn people off, just because of our own personality quirks and peculiarities. But we should not willing allow things that are contrary to the nature of God. We ought to have love, kindness, mercy, gentleness, long suffering, wisdom, understanding, forgiveness.
Some people have their own view of being a Christian and there is no way they are going to taste. They are not going to visit a Bible preaching church; or come to a Bible study to learn the word of God.
Some folks have no idea of what it means to be a Christian and they don't want to taste. We need to get them to come with us to services so they can see a body of believers in unity and worship.
Of course, our services better be worth visiting. They need to see joy, peace, power, love.
It does not have to be a perfect church.
It does not have to have the greatest preaching.
It does not have to have the greatest singing.
BUT IT NEEDS TO HAVE SOME LIFE IN IT.
It needs to have LOVE.
It needs to have JOY.
Then when people come they will be able to TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD, as they watch our lives individually and corporately. Then the Holy Spirit will be able to speak to them about their own relationship to God.
Little children do not like to try new foods. But when it comes to tasting and seeing that the Lord is good, children are quicker to respond than most adults.
Adults have deadened themselves to the inner drive to know God. Adults have weened themselves off of spiritual food and developed, acquired a taste for worldly fare. Sin is not only an inner desire, it becomes an acquired taste.
smoking and drinking alcohol are something you have to be able to endure before you start to enjoy it. It is addictive and controlling. People don't start out with a strong affinity for evil. They usually have to work their way into deep sin slowly.
Profanity, obscenity, crudeness, meanness, crime. Yes, there is a sin nature, but deep, dark sin is repugnant to young sinners. It is something they have to get use to before they enter it enthusiastically.
The more people become acquainted with sin, accustomed to sin, the more they acquire the desire to sell out to sin.
Children do not have to re-acquire a taste for God, because they are born in a state of grace. God has already included them in the atonement. We all needed it from conception because we were born with a tainted, a twisted nature. Remember, Jesus is the Savior of all men, and that is because every preborn has been made acceptable to God by the blood of Jesus.
After we are born we all have an empty space in our heart that only God can fill. We are born with a proclivity to sin, but also with an affinity for God. Children need to be nurtured in Christ. Every child comes to a point where we sin against God and we need to call on Him for salvation. But if a child has not been fed on spiritual food, on love, on truth, on mercy, on tenderheartedness, on purity, then that child falls away quickly and completely into the path of sin, desiring the things of the flesh, rather than the things of the Spirit.
Just as a child will turn his nose up and make a face at a new dish and, so it is that those who have been away from God will do the same when they are invited to TASTE AND SEE THAT GOD IS GOOD.
Especially when you offer them the tender side of salvation. Pride holds on to the darker, carnal parts of life and rejects the loving, gentle, trusting and kind aspects, because they are seen as weaknesses.
People have a taste for the ungodly and turn away from that which is godly.
We need to live in such a way that people see something in us that draws them to God, that causes them to TASTE and see that the Lord is good.
05/17/18 DASH-CAM MESSAGE (NOTES) RECOVER THE TEACHINGS
05/17/18 DASH-CAM MESSAGE (NOTES)
RECOVER THE TEACHINGS THAT WERE ABANDONED, TURN FROM SINNING RELIGION.
(13 minutes overview of the visible church abandoning the Scriptures and then rediscovering Biblical truth, from the time of the Protestant Reformation).
The modern, western world is constantly being told, by followers of sinning religion, that Christians have to sin. This is a hand me down from paganism that infected the post apostolic period of the Church, but has continued to pollute the well of teaching until the present time.
Some folks in sinning religion say we cannot live without sinning. We will sin in WORD, THOUGHT AND DEED, which is just about every way to sin.
Others in sinning religion say that we will sin in word, thought and deed, EVERY DAY.
They want us to understand that we are rotten scoundrels to the core, and even the grace of God cannot save us from sinning, but He will take you to heaven anyway.
Of course it is even more than just EVERY DAY. It is ALL DAY LONG. It is not like they say we will only sin a part of the day, like with an hour long sin. That would only be one out of 24 hours, but that is not enough sin for sinning religion. They mean we are going to sin THROUGHOUT THE DAY, every day.
By the time they stipulate how much we will sin, it will be that so-called born again believers in Christ, covered by the so-called blood of Christ, and saved by the so-called grace of God, then we are no better off than the devil, except that we are "saved."
Sinning religion says that God saves people, simply because He chooses to save certain people and He deliberately leaves others in their sins, without any hope of salvation, without the call, the effectual call of God. The god of sinning religion has not saving mercy for some people, but if he does call them it is taunting and teasing, because he has no intention of saving them.
If we go back to the Bible, which is a long way from sinning religion, we find out that the Church did not get into this condition overnight. Adam got into his condition suddenly, though it was a long time coming. There was a moment when Eve was tempted, deceived, and she yielded and then she tempted Adam and he entered into sin suddenly.
Sinning religion today was spawned from the same source as Adam and Eve's sin. It was the devil, the serpent. Paul said that he was jealous over the church and feared lest believers should be deceived and sin, AS WAS EVE, by that serpent.
Sinning religion is the temptation to do what Satan says to do, rather than obey God. BUT WE CAN OBEY GOD, because we are told, "Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world."
We are told that people in the Old Testament could not obey God, could not keep His commandments. Well, the Bible contradicts that assertion, because God enabled them to keep His word, His laws.
KEEPING, OBEYING THE LAW OF GOD IS NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH SALVATION. NO ONE IS SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW, but God does not require us to keep laws that are impossible to keep.
There is so much of the Bible that you have to eliminate in order to follow sinning religion, that I can't even believe it.
If we go back to the New Testament we are told before the life and ministry of Jesus that He would save His people from their sins. But sinning religion says that Jesus saves His people from their guilt, punishment, from the results of their sins, but not from their sins.
John the baptist (John was a good Baptist), said that Jesus was the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.
John preached that the kingdom of heaven was at hand and therefore people needed to repent.
Jesus came along and also preached the kingdom of heaven and repentance.
Jesus also told people to DENY THEMSELVES, TAKE UP THEIR CROSS AND FOLLOW HIM.
He said, GO AND SIN NO MORE.
Jesus said, IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.
Jesus said, BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART, FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD.
Jesus said a lot of things that sinning religion does not believe applies to us today, or they twist what Jesus said, making it mean what He did not intend for it to mean.
The New Testament after Jesus, with Paul, Peter, James, John, Luke declares a consistent message that the style of life, the quality of life, the standard of life, which was to be lived by anyone who came to Jesus was, TURN FROM SIN.
Eventually someone asked a foolish question like, "Can we still sin if we are saved." The answer was, "
MAY IT NEVER BE, GOD FORBID, HOW SHALL WE WHO ARE DEAD TO SIN CONTINUE TO LIVE IN SIN?"
We are DEAD TO SIN, and alive to God.
We are to WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE.
The Old Man is to be CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST.
God gives us enough grace to RESIST TEMPTATION.
We can OBEY THE GOSPEL.
And it goes on and on and on...
Sinning religion has no place in the New Testament.
But after the life and ministry of Jesus, and during the ministry of the apostles, there were movements beginning to rise up in opposition to the doctrines of God.
But the presence of the apostles kept the rise of false doctrines at bay.
But once the apostles were gone, the attacks on Scriptures intensified.
During the time of the Early Church Fathers (subsequent to the apostles) the doctrinal foundation of the Church began to crumble. resulting in a collapse of Biblical teaching, replaced by a multitude of false doctrines, propagated by a slew of anti-Bible groups.
A long list of groups, from within the Church and outside of the Church introduced false doctrines that eventually found acceptance in some local congregations.
Augustine came along, with his own baggage of confusion and then led the organized Church further from orthodoxy. Since he became a major voice in the western Church (Rome), his errors became authoritative. His errors were really the foundation of Calvin's major errors. Calvin himself said that his beliefs were based primarily on the teachings of Augustine.
Calvin's teaching became fundamental to the Reformers. The belief in unilateral and unconditional election the continuance in sin and the connection of sin with the human flesh as seen in dualism, the belief in using force and violence in the name of God and the Church, the veneration of Mary.
Because the Reformers continued to cling to Roman teaching they responded to persecution, not as Biblical Christians, but as Romanists, by raising up armies to fight the Catholic armies which were sent to kill the Protestants. Then the Reformers sent their armies against other armies raised up by other Reformers. Then the Reformers sent armed men against other believers who did not believe in violence or bearing the sword or killing anyone. The Reformers also saw themselves as rulers over civil issues, and even executed, killed other professing believers because they did not submit to the doctrines of the religious rulers of the region.
This is the religious beliefs and training that has come to the modern, western world, through the Reformed and Calvinistic influences.
In the days of the early Church, the light of truth shone brightly through the Divine revelation of the Holy Spirit to, and through the apostles. Darkness began to fill the Church in various regions after the demise of the apostles until the the word of men replaced the word of God. Through the efforts of the Reformers, light was being rediscovered and restored to the Church. Little by little the abandoned truths were reclaimed.
The Reformation was not a complete return to Biblical Christianity. It would take considerable more time to rediscover doctrines concerning missions, the church, the Holy Spirit, heart purity, eschatology. As someone has pointed out, the problem is not that there were Reformers, but that the followers of the the Reform leaders did not continue to move away from their own limited understanding of Biblical truth.
Today there is much more Bible truth available to us than the Church had for for over a thousand years. Sadly, the truths are not usually found in a single group, because various groups followed their founders only as far as the founders went in their reforming.
Christians today are needing to rediscover Biblical Christianity, just as the reformers and Christian leaders have in the past. This means that we must turn away from the teachings and traditions, with which we have been raised, and follow other Biblical teachings that have been rediscovered outside of our own denominational heritage.
RECOVER THE TEACHINGS THAT WERE ABANDONED, TURN FROM SINNING RELIGION.
(13 minutes overview of the visible church abandoning the Scriptures and then rediscovering Biblical truth, from the time of the Protestant Reformation).
The modern, western world is constantly being told, by followers of sinning religion, that Christians have to sin. This is a hand me down from paganism that infected the post apostolic period of the Church, but has continued to pollute the well of teaching until the present time.
Some folks in sinning religion say we cannot live without sinning. We will sin in WORD, THOUGHT AND DEED, which is just about every way to sin.
Others in sinning religion say that we will sin in word, thought and deed, EVERY DAY.
They want us to understand that we are rotten scoundrels to the core, and even the grace of God cannot save us from sinning, but He will take you to heaven anyway.
Of course it is even more than just EVERY DAY. It is ALL DAY LONG. It is not like they say we will only sin a part of the day, like with an hour long sin. That would only be one out of 24 hours, but that is not enough sin for sinning religion. They mean we are going to sin THROUGHOUT THE DAY, every day.
By the time they stipulate how much we will sin, it will be that so-called born again believers in Christ, covered by the so-called blood of Christ, and saved by the so-called grace of God, then we are no better off than the devil, except that we are "saved."
Sinning religion says that God saves people, simply because He chooses to save certain people and He deliberately leaves others in their sins, without any hope of salvation, without the call, the effectual call of God. The god of sinning religion has not saving mercy for some people, but if he does call them it is taunting and teasing, because he has no intention of saving them.
If we go back to the Bible, which is a long way from sinning religion, we find out that the Church did not get into this condition overnight. Adam got into his condition suddenly, though it was a long time coming. There was a moment when Eve was tempted, deceived, and she yielded and then she tempted Adam and he entered into sin suddenly.
Sinning religion today was spawned from the same source as Adam and Eve's sin. It was the devil, the serpent. Paul said that he was jealous over the church and feared lest believers should be deceived and sin, AS WAS EVE, by that serpent.
Sinning religion is the temptation to do what Satan says to do, rather than obey God. BUT WE CAN OBEY GOD, because we are told, "Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world."
We are told that people in the Old Testament could not obey God, could not keep His commandments. Well, the Bible contradicts that assertion, because God enabled them to keep His word, His laws.
KEEPING, OBEYING THE LAW OF GOD IS NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH SALVATION. NO ONE IS SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW, but God does not require us to keep laws that are impossible to keep.
There is so much of the Bible that you have to eliminate in order to follow sinning religion, that I can't even believe it.
If we go back to the New Testament we are told before the life and ministry of Jesus that He would save His people from their sins. But sinning religion says that Jesus saves His people from their guilt, punishment, from the results of their sins, but not from their sins.
John the baptist (John was a good Baptist), said that Jesus was the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.
John preached that the kingdom of heaven was at hand and therefore people needed to repent.
Jesus came along and also preached the kingdom of heaven and repentance.
Jesus also told people to DENY THEMSELVES, TAKE UP THEIR CROSS AND FOLLOW HIM.
He said, GO AND SIN NO MORE.
Jesus said, IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.
Jesus said, BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART, FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD.
Jesus said a lot of things that sinning religion does not believe applies to us today, or they twist what Jesus said, making it mean what He did not intend for it to mean.
The New Testament after Jesus, with Paul, Peter, James, John, Luke declares a consistent message that the style of life, the quality of life, the standard of life, which was to be lived by anyone who came to Jesus was, TURN FROM SIN.
Eventually someone asked a foolish question like, "Can we still sin if we are saved." The answer was, "
MAY IT NEVER BE, GOD FORBID, HOW SHALL WE WHO ARE DEAD TO SIN CONTINUE TO LIVE IN SIN?"
We are DEAD TO SIN, and alive to God.
We are to WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE.
The Old Man is to be CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST.
God gives us enough grace to RESIST TEMPTATION.
We can OBEY THE GOSPEL.
And it goes on and on and on...
Sinning religion has no place in the New Testament.
But after the life and ministry of Jesus, and during the ministry of the apostles, there were movements beginning to rise up in opposition to the doctrines of God.
But the presence of the apostles kept the rise of false doctrines at bay.
But once the apostles were gone, the attacks on Scriptures intensified.
During the time of the Early Church Fathers (subsequent to the apostles) the doctrinal foundation of the Church began to crumble. resulting in a collapse of Biblical teaching, replaced by a multitude of false doctrines, propagated by a slew of anti-Bible groups.
A long list of groups, from within the Church and outside of the Church introduced false doctrines that eventually found acceptance in some local congregations.
Augustine came along, with his own baggage of confusion and then led the organized Church further from orthodoxy. Since he became a major voice in the western Church (Rome), his errors became authoritative. His errors were really the foundation of Calvin's major errors. Calvin himself said that his beliefs were based primarily on the teachings of Augustine.
Calvin's teaching became fundamental to the Reformers. The belief in unilateral and unconditional election the continuance in sin and the connection of sin with the human flesh as seen in dualism, the belief in using force and violence in the name of God and the Church, the veneration of Mary.
Because the Reformers continued to cling to Roman teaching they responded to persecution, not as Biblical Christians, but as Romanists, by raising up armies to fight the Catholic armies which were sent to kill the Protestants. Then the Reformers sent their armies against other armies raised up by other Reformers. Then the Reformers sent armed men against other believers who did not believe in violence or bearing the sword or killing anyone. The Reformers also saw themselves as rulers over civil issues, and even executed, killed other professing believers because they did not submit to the doctrines of the religious rulers of the region.
This is the religious beliefs and training that has come to the modern, western world, through the Reformed and Calvinistic influences.
In the days of the early Church, the light of truth shone brightly through the Divine revelation of the Holy Spirit to, and through the apostles. Darkness began to fill the Church in various regions after the demise of the apostles until the the word of men replaced the word of God. Through the efforts of the Reformers, light was being rediscovered and restored to the Church. Little by little the abandoned truths were reclaimed.
The Reformation was not a complete return to Biblical Christianity. It would take considerable more time to rediscover doctrines concerning missions, the church, the Holy Spirit, heart purity, eschatology. As someone has pointed out, the problem is not that there were Reformers, but that the followers of the the Reform leaders did not continue to move away from their own limited understanding of Biblical truth.
Today there is much more Bible truth available to us than the Church had for for over a thousand years. Sadly, the truths are not usually found in a single group, because various groups followed their founders only as far as the founders went in their reforming.
Christians today are needing to rediscover Biblical Christianity, just as the reformers and Christian leaders have in the past. This means that we must turn away from the teachings and traditions, with which we have been raised, and follow other Biblical teachings that have been rediscovered outside of our own denominational heritage.
05/17/18 RECOVERING THE ABANDONED
05/17/18 RECOVERING THE ABANDONED
After apostles, Bible truth was abandoned, replaced by paganism and false religion. Have you recovered N. T. beliefs?
I followed this post with a 13 minute DASH-CAM MESSAGE video, entitled RECOVER THE TEACHINGS THAT WERE ABANDONED, TURN FROM SINNING RELIGION.
It is an overview of the abandoning of Biblical truth after the Apostolic Period of the Church, the spread of false teachings until the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, the rediscovery and restoring of Biblical truth after the 1500's and the continued errors of false doctrine that have corrupted the modern, western form of Christianity.
After apostles, Bible truth was abandoned, replaced by paganism and false religion. Have you recovered N. T. beliefs?
I followed this post with a 13 minute DASH-CAM MESSAGE video, entitled RECOVER THE TEACHINGS THAT WERE ABANDONED, TURN FROM SINNING RELIGION.
It is an overview of the abandoning of Biblical truth after the Apostolic Period of the Church, the spread of false teachings until the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, the rediscovery and restoring of Biblical truth after the 1500's and the continued errors of false doctrine that have corrupted the modern, western form of Christianity.
Thursday, May 17, 2018
05/17/18 PRAYER ROBBERS
05/17/18 PRAYER ROBBERS
Those who yield to the devil, siphon prayers that could be spent on those who resist and are being attacked by the devil.
Those who yield to the devil, siphon prayers that could be spent on those who resist and are being attacked by the devil.
05/17/18 A NON RULING RULER?
05/17/18 A NON RULING RULER?
A ruler with no rules does not rule.
Either the ruler enforces his rules, or
Forces his rules, or
Makes being unruly the rule.
Just thinking about those who claim there are no rules in the Christian life.
A ruler with no rules does not rule.
Either the ruler enforces his rules, or
Forces his rules, or
Makes being unruly the rule.
Just thinking about those who claim there are no rules in the Christian life.
05/17/18 THEY GO TOGETHER
05/17/18 THEY GO TOGETHER
HUMILITY and SURRENDER
helps us Understand and Communicate
HOLINESS and PERFECT LOVE.
HUMILITY and SURRENDER
helps us Understand and Communicate
HOLINESS and PERFECT LOVE.
05/17/18 SADLY MISUNDERSTOOD
05/17/18 SADLY MISUNDERSTOOD
The carnal mind misinterprets Biblical Love (as it comes from God and Christians) as judgmental, vindictive, austere, mean spirited.
(sad face)
The carnal mind misinterprets Biblical Love (as it comes from God and Christians) as judgmental, vindictive, austere, mean spirited.
(sad face)
05/17/18 A GREAT (but quiet) TRUTH
05/17/18 A GREAT (but quiet) TRUTH
IMPERATIVE, (wow).
"Wait Upon The Lord,"
"Be Still And Know That I Am God,"
Because He comes to us as, "A Still Small Voice."
IMPERATIVE, (wow).
"Wait Upon The Lord,"
"Be Still And Know That I Am God,"
Because He comes to us as, "A Still Small Voice."
05/17/18 NO TIME TO WASTE
05/17/18 NO TIME TO WASTE
A Consistent, Productive, Victorious life
REQUIRES a History, a Walk, and Faithfulness
TO Scripture and Obedience.
REDEEM THE TIME
A Consistent, Productive, Victorious life
REQUIRES a History, a Walk, and Faithfulness
TO Scripture and Obedience.
REDEEM THE TIME
05/17/18 STEP BY STEP
05/17/18 STEP BY STEP
WHOA!!! Great service last night. God showed us.
Amazing Past.
Indescribable Present.
Unimaginable Future.
PRAISE HIS NAME
I hope you take the little time it takes to read the following Scripture. It addresses the kind of service we had last night.
The service was heart searching, soul stirring, awe inspiring, God glorifying, enlightening, challenging.
We (children and adults) shared and examined personal encounters with God.
Whatever our personality, gifts, needs, we all must to be open to God, consistent with Scripture, conformed to the image of Jesus, obedient to the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is our Guide, the Holy Bible is our standard and a holy life of faith and love is our objective.
I mentioned the past, the present and the future in my post, because God wants to be present and active in our lives, from beginning to end.
The past provides the foundation upon which God builds our lives.
The present indicates our response to God's leading and working.
The future is only as bright as our relationship to Him.
Don't expect a great outcome without a great input; a great return, without a great investment
1 Corinthians 2:6-16
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
WHOA!!! Great service last night. God showed us.
Amazing Past.
Indescribable Present.
Unimaginable Future.
PRAISE HIS NAME
I hope you take the little time it takes to read the following Scripture. It addresses the kind of service we had last night.
The service was heart searching, soul stirring, awe inspiring, God glorifying, enlightening, challenging.
We (children and adults) shared and examined personal encounters with God.
Whatever our personality, gifts, needs, we all must to be open to God, consistent with Scripture, conformed to the image of Jesus, obedient to the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is our Guide, the Holy Bible is our standard and a holy life of faith and love is our objective.
I mentioned the past, the present and the future in my post, because God wants to be present and active in our lives, from beginning to end.
The past provides the foundation upon which God builds our lives.
The present indicates our response to God's leading and working.
The future is only as bright as our relationship to Him.
Don't expect a great outcome without a great input; a great return, without a great investment
1 Corinthians 2:6-16
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
05/16/18 ONLY TRUST IN CHRIST
05/16/18 ONLY TRUST IN CHRIST
Trump is just a man. Not even a saved man.
(so far) In SOME WAYS, he is a better President than any I have actually seen in the past, and certainly a welcome change from from the OTHER possibilities lately.
I never believed other Presidents were the anti-Christ, although the morals and attitude toward Christ, the Holy Bible and Christianity, put certain ones in that camp. Still, I never thought anyone of them would be the Beast of the Bible.
Likewise, I do not believe Trump will be the anti-Christ. Trump has done good things, and right things while in office. This of course does not qualify him for sainthood, but even if he turns against the good things he has done as President, and even if he were to ever become more reproachable to morality and Christianity than any other President was, he still would not qualify to be the anti-Christ.
So, why this post?
Obama showed us that a man who is personable, regardless of (maybe because of) his worldview and Humanistic orientation can win the people and be hailed as a great man, even though he undermined the history and heritage of the greatest country that ever existed.
The anti-Christ will be personable and he will be the champion of the masses. Trump could do even more than he has already done to help America and Israel and the rest of the world, but that will not make him the Messiah.
In fact, it will be a hero (as seen by some in Obama and as seen by some in Trump) who will become the favored son of the post rapture world. No, neither one will become the Beast, but the Beast will not be seen as a monster by the masses. No matter what good things anyone does (or is perceived as having done), we should not be surprised when a hero turns out to be a zero. Remember, Satan comes as an angel of light. Hopefully Trump and those who follow in his train will not betray America.
As I said, I am glad for the good that has happened in this present Administration, but I also know that things are going to go extremely bad before things become paradisaical.
Do not trust in hoses or chariots or the arm of flesh or mere men. Rejoice in the good things, as they happen. But ONLY, PUT YOUR TRUST IN CHRIST.
Trump is just a man. Not even a saved man.
(so far) In SOME WAYS, he is a better President than any I have actually seen in the past, and certainly a welcome change from from the OTHER possibilities lately.
I never believed other Presidents were the anti-Christ, although the morals and attitude toward Christ, the Holy Bible and Christianity, put certain ones in that camp. Still, I never thought anyone of them would be the Beast of the Bible.
Likewise, I do not believe Trump will be the anti-Christ. Trump has done good things, and right things while in office. This of course does not qualify him for sainthood, but even if he turns against the good things he has done as President, and even if he were to ever become more reproachable to morality and Christianity than any other President was, he still would not qualify to be the anti-Christ.
So, why this post?
Obama showed us that a man who is personable, regardless of (maybe because of) his worldview and Humanistic orientation can win the people and be hailed as a great man, even though he undermined the history and heritage of the greatest country that ever existed.
The anti-Christ will be personable and he will be the champion of the masses. Trump could do even more than he has already done to help America and Israel and the rest of the world, but that will not make him the Messiah.
In fact, it will be a hero (as seen by some in Obama and as seen by some in Trump) who will become the favored son of the post rapture world. No, neither one will become the Beast, but the Beast will not be seen as a monster by the masses. No matter what good things anyone does (or is perceived as having done), we should not be surprised when a hero turns out to be a zero. Remember, Satan comes as an angel of light. Hopefully Trump and those who follow in his train will not betray America.
As I said, I am glad for the good that has happened in this present Administration, but I also know that things are going to go extremely bad before things become paradisaical.
Do not trust in hoses or chariots or the arm of flesh or mere men. Rejoice in the good things, as they happen. But ONLY, PUT YOUR TRUST IN CHRIST.
05/16/18 FROM ANOTHER PERSON
05/16/18 FROM ANOTHER PERSON
I posted a link that addressed the problem of Calvinism. The article was well done and it saved me some time just to reference this work, rather than write it out for myself (again).
I realize that anyone can deny anything, at least in their own minds. However, the verses in this article are clear and self evident. I have often referred to them myself and shared them with other people. Of course,
"A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still."
I offer verses to people, in hope that they will see the truth. However, I am posting this primarily for those who already believe this truth. It is concise and to the point. I hope you enjoy and are blessed.
I hope you are blessed by this link and this site. (You should be able to click back to this site.)
http://evangelicalarminians.org/5-biblical-texts-that-calvinists-cant-wiggle-out-of/
I posted a link that addressed the problem of Calvinism. The article was well done and it saved me some time just to reference this work, rather than write it out for myself (again).
I realize that anyone can deny anything, at least in their own minds. However, the verses in this article are clear and self evident. I have often referred to them myself and shared them with other people. Of course,
"A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still."
I offer verses to people, in hope that they will see the truth. However, I am posting this primarily for those who already believe this truth. It is concise and to the point. I hope you enjoy and are blessed.
I hope you are blessed by this link and this site. (You should be able to click back to this site.)
http://evangelicalarminians.org/5-biblical-texts-that-calvinists-cant-wiggle-out-of/
05/16/18 FALSE MEMORY AND FALSE TRUST
05/16/18 FALSE MEMORY AND FALSE TRUST
CONFABULATION, a terrible destroyer of beautiful relationships.
CONFABULATION joined with, ARROGANCE is virtually impervious to truth. HUMILITY and SUBMISSION are essential to deliverance.
CONFABULATION, a terrible destroyer of beautiful relationships.
CONFABULATION joined with, ARROGANCE is virtually impervious to truth. HUMILITY and SUBMISSION are essential to deliverance.
05/16/18 NOW AND LATER
05/16/18 NOW AND LATER
Thank You Lord for doing the impossible for me and others, spiritual and physical, eternal and temporal. Great is the Lord and greatly to be Praised.
(I hope your read the following comment, and especially the last passage of Scripture)
Unless the rapture takes place in my lifetime, many of my blessings will come to an end, either because of death or because God has another plan. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, blessed be the Name of the Lord.
Sometimes the burden, the difficulty is relentless, is nearly overwhelming (and would be without His presence and the knowledge of His goodness).
Sometimes the deliverance comes, while other trials linger.
Sometimes relief and restoration comes, but then we still need Him for another round of trouble.
Sometimes we have to fight the battle all the days of our lives, but He never leaves us nor forsakes us.
He is always faithful.
He never fails.
He will give us victories along the way, and
He will give us the final victory.
Galatians 6:9
9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
2 Corinthians 4:7-18
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Thank You Lord for doing the impossible for me and others, spiritual and physical, eternal and temporal. Great is the Lord and greatly to be Praised.
(I hope your read the following comment, and especially the last passage of Scripture)
Unless the rapture takes place in my lifetime, many of my blessings will come to an end, either because of death or because God has another plan. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, blessed be the Name of the Lord.
Sometimes the burden, the difficulty is relentless, is nearly overwhelming (and would be without His presence and the knowledge of His goodness).
Sometimes the deliverance comes, while other trials linger.
Sometimes relief and restoration comes, but then we still need Him for another round of trouble.
Sometimes we have to fight the battle all the days of our lives, but He never leaves us nor forsakes us.
He is always faithful.
He never fails.
He will give us victories along the way, and
He will give us the final victory.
Galatians 6:9
9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
2 Corinthians 4:7-18
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
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