06/07/18 IT IS GOOD TO ACCEPT GOD'S LIGHT
Just because we were misled to believe that Christians are commanded or permitted to be violent is no reason to remain in the DARK.
Thursday, June 7, 2018
06/07/18 THIS SHOULD BE A CINCH
06/07/18 THIS SHOULD BE A CINCH
Name all New Testament directives for believers to use physical violence against enemies.
Too many to name?
NAME ONE.
Name all New Testament directives for believers to use physical violence against enemies.
Too many to name?
NAME ONE.
06/07/18 SHOULD BE EASY, RIGHT?
06/07/18 SHOULD BE EASY, RIGHT?
Just curious. Which post Resurrection New Testament believers responded to violence, with violence?
Just name 10.
Just name 5.
OK, just 1?
Just curious. Which post Resurrection New Testament believers responded to violence, with violence?
Just name 10.
Just name 5.
OK, just 1?
06/07/18 MAYBE THE BOOK OF HEZEKIAH
06/07/18 MAYBE THE BOOK OF HEZEKIAH
Can't remember where that verse is found. You know, the one where Paul said, "Take my spear, I'll take your life."
Can't remember where that verse is found. You know, the one where Paul said, "Take my spear, I'll take your life."
06/06/18 DASH-CAM MESSAGE I WAS NOT TAUGHT NON VIOLENCE
06/06/18 DASH-CAM MESSAGE I WAS NOT TAUGHT NON VIOLENCE
IT IS PEACEMAKING, NOT PACIFISM
In this video I point out that I was not taught non-violence as a child, or in Bible College, or by Friends, or by Wesleyans or any other group. I came to my understanding when I studied to see what the Scriptures actually say. In fact, everything I was ever taught was consistent with the Roman Catholic and Reformed point of view, which is the basis of other errors in the modern and western Church. In this video I turn my attention to the error of violent Christians and misplaced attention on the Arm of Flesh.
We all know people who follow certain religions or hold to certain religious beliefs because that is what they have been trained to do rather than because that is what they have discovered to be true.
This is true for people raised in Islam. While there are fully convinced Muslims, it is probably true that most Muslims are Muslim because that is the way they were raised. In fact, there are Muslims who would readily leave Islam because the do not agree with the beliefs of Islam, but they fear for their lives. Remember, Islam was born in religious violence, propagated through religious violence, sustained by religious violence.
People in other religions also follow their religions because they were brought up to follow their religion, rather than being convinced believers in their religion. They have followed families, communities.
People also follow the CHRISTIAN RELIGION. They follow primarily because they just accept what they have been taught.
This is seen in the Catholic faith, but also among Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostals.
But it also happens with those who are followers of a faith relationship with God. Though they hear the gospel truth and they place their faith in Jesus, they are not always led into more truth.
It happens also with cults. People are brought up in the so-called Jehovah's Witnesses or Seventh Day Adventists or Latter Day Saints (Mormons), but because they have always been taught that the Bible is filled with errors, they do not learn the truth and they close their ears and heart to the message of God.
Not only are there people in the cults who were born into the cults, but there are people who came from traditionally Christian backgrounds into the cults, because their churches failed to teach them the Bible. This includes the Baptists and Methodists, among others. The cults are able to allure those people by telling them that they will teach them the Bible. What they do not tell them is that they are going to give false interpretations that are actually contrary to the Bible. But people, not knowing any better, are ensnared.
The cults "interpret" the Bible according to their own false prophets and writings (J.W.s have The Watchtower; SDA has Ellen G. White; LDS has Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and a list of false prophets. Then those who convert to the cults are steeped in false doctrines, which blind them to the truth of God's word.
Sadly, even those who are part of "Bible believing" churches have not been told the whole truth of God. Other Christians often reject me or my teaching when they hear me talk about such "STRANGE" doctrines as holiness of heart and life or Non-Violence. These two doctrines are not strange, according to the Scriptures, but they are strange to our modern, western Christianity.
The Bible clearly teaches that God saves us from all sin in this present evil world; that His blood cleanses us from all sin; that we are conformed to the image of Jesus; that we can be more than conquerors; that we can always be victorious.
I also teach that there is a difference between the Church and the State, and therefore the State has been given the responsibility to govern nations and to protect the righteous and punish the wicked. Christians are not given the right to wield the sword of steel for the State. The Church has been given the ministry of reconciliation by wielding the sword of the Spirit.
The confusion goes back to the Roman church, the Reformers and Protestant groups who followed in their steps. The Roman religion believed that the Church and the State can be, could be, should be on and the same. This was retained by the Reformers and incorporated in the first Reformed churches, then adopted by subsequent Protestant groups.
These western, modern churches have taught against the idea; the New Testament idea; the Jesus idea, the Apostolic idea; the Early Church idea that Christians are suppose to be Peacemakers, non-violent witnesses for Christ, willing to lose their lives for the gospel's sake, rather than take lives. Christians do not bear the sword of steel; they do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities and power, against spiritual darkness; they do not use carnal weapons, but spiritual weapons; they love their enemies. These things seem strange to modern, western Christians, when in fact these beliefs are as old as the New Testament.
I mention this because people who accept much of what I teach and preach begin to think I am off on a weird tangent when I preach non-violence, even though this teaching is straight out of the Bible. But because they have been taught differently, they "KNOW" that Peacemaking cannot be right. They (and this includes me) have been taught that Christians take up weapons to protect ourselves (but that is not Biblical); take up weapons to protect our families (but that is not Biblical); protect our homes, our churches, our community (that is not Biblical); and to protect our nation (and that is not Biblical). God has commanded the State (the governments of this world) to protect the righteous and punish the wicked.
Then people ask, "what about the Old Testament record." Well, the Old Testament concerning taking up arms has nothing to do with Christians and our response to evil. God has a nation in the Old Testament. He does not have a nation in the New Testament. God has a kingdom. Some things in the Old Testament did not carry over to the New Testament. God has a kingdom, a spiritual kingdom without natural or political borders. We should be good citizens in our various countries, but this does not mean we are trying to establish any earthly kingdom through physical force.
Jesus said, "if my kingdom were of this world, THEN WOULD MY SERVANTS FIGHT, but my kingdom is not of this world." This is not hard to understand.
The idea of non-violence, of Christians not bearing the sword of steel is so contrary to what they have been taught that non-violence seems to them to be cultic.
But here is a very real problem. Today, in our western, modern world, Christians talk so boldly about bearing arms, with which they will use violently and possibly with deadly force. Because of their religious training they believe violence and lethal force are their God given right. But the Second Amendment is not compatible with the New Testament, for Christians. Instead of taking up arms against our enemies, we pray for them, love them, feed them. We may flee from them but we cannot be violent with them.
Think about this. What good has been accomplished by believers bearing arms, wielding weapons, threatening violence? IT HAS DONE NOTHING. God gave the State this responsibility, not the believers. Christians brandishing weapons has not stopped the enemy. Christians owning weapons has not secured our communities or protected them from the overthrow by darkness.
Christians are trusting in the arm of flesh and failing to trust in God. They think in terms of violence rather than faith. They think in terms of guns being their hope, rather than God. In fact, they speak as if weapons are their gods.
THE MORE THAT CHRISTIANS TRUST IN THE ARM OF FLESH, THE LESS WE WILL SEE THE POWER OF GOD. American Christians are boasting in chariots and horses instead of trusting in the Lord. No wonder we are losing ground. The Church in America is being marginalized and snuffed out because people are turning to the sword of steel rather than the Sword of the Spirit.
Believers today talk about guns and violence as if they are God's way of deliverance, or as if they are God or God's plan, but we are not seeing deliverance.
Someone may say that PRAYER AND FAITH do not save us either. Well, I can't say that. All I know is what the Bible says, and what I have personally experienced and that tho which others have testified.
The New Testament forbids it.
I have been delivered from physical violence by calling on God.
Others have been delivered from physical violence by calling on God.
Others have suffered defeat when they have trusted in the flesh.
No, we do not always escape physical harm through faith, but we always please God through faith. We will not win or convert this world, but we must be faithful to God in this evil world. However, I have seen miraculously rescue His people, even from physical attacks because they fought with spiritual weapons instead of carnal weapons. ON THE OTHER HAND, I do not see people using carnal weapons and winning our spiritual deliverance.
LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE TODAY.
Look at what is happening with the domination of Secular Humanism.
Look at what is happening to our children.
LOOK, people don't even know what bathroom to use. THAT IS SPIRITUAL DARKNESS, DECEPTION AND DEFEAT.
The State has the right and the Obligation to bear the sword of steel to protect the righteous and punish the wicked. If the State refuses to do its Divinely appointed task, God will send in dark forces and remove the authority from that State. Either serve God willingly or serve your enemies unwillingly.
His kingdom is not of this world. I am not trying to establish an earthly kingdom. I am trying to win the lost through the preaching of the gospel.
The more that believers trust in the arm of flesh, trust in chariots and horses, trust in men and the systems of men, then the less they will trust in God. If our weapons are carnal, we will not know how to wield spiritual weapons and fight spiritual warfare. THOSE WHO LIVE BY THE SWORD (of steel) WILL DIE BY THE SWORD.
The battle is heating up. Don't delay in spiritual armor, weapons and warfare. Look how quickly things have gotten really bad, and it is going to get worse, even more quickly.
Though people have learned great truths from their churches in the past does not mean that everything they were taught was true.
MY TESTIMONY...
I was not taught Biblical non-violence by my father.
I was not taught Biblical non-violence by my churches as a child or young person.
I was not taught Biblical non-violence by my Bible college.
I did not learn Biblical non-violence from my friends, the Friends.
I did not learn Biblical non-violence from the Holiness folks.
It may have been there, but I did not hear it.
After Bible college and after being a pastor for several years, I came to a point that I wanted to know what God said, so I researched the word and found God's viewpoint.
Love does not take a gun and blow people into eternity without God.
As a young man in the 1960s I considered joining the Marine Corpse and going to Vietnam to kill Vietcong in order to stop Communism.
NOW DON'T LAUGH AT ME.
I thought maybe I would take a Bible in one hand (to convert the lost) and a machine gun in the other hand to stop the Communists.
I WAS WRONG. I WAS WRONG. I WAS WRONG. I had blindly swallowed the popular, but un-Biblical idea of Christians killing for the glory of God.
I don't teach non-violence as an essential to get saved. We must all walk in what light God gives us. God's grace covers a lot of "stuff" in our lives. We don't have to be perfect in understanding in order to be saved. But this is important light, and it will become more evidently important in difficult times.
We live at a time when people view GUN TOTING as if it is the same as BIBLE TOTING. People are confusing the sword of STEEL with the Sword of the SPIRIT.
IF WE DON'T LEARN SPIRITUAL WARFARE we will depend on carnal warfare.
Christians can server their country without taking up arms. And when we come to the knowledge of the truth we find out that we cannot serve God by taking up arms. We are called to be Peacemakers.
Even our society will turn against those of us who will not take up arms.
Cowardice is not standing for truth without a gun. Boldness and courage is standing by faith and trusting in Jesus instead of the arm of flesh.
IT IS PEACEMAKING, NOT PACIFISM
In this video I point out that I was not taught non-violence as a child, or in Bible College, or by Friends, or by Wesleyans or any other group. I came to my understanding when I studied to see what the Scriptures actually say. In fact, everything I was ever taught was consistent with the Roman Catholic and Reformed point of view, which is the basis of other errors in the modern and western Church. In this video I turn my attention to the error of violent Christians and misplaced attention on the Arm of Flesh.
We all know people who follow certain religions or hold to certain religious beliefs because that is what they have been trained to do rather than because that is what they have discovered to be true.
This is true for people raised in Islam. While there are fully convinced Muslims, it is probably true that most Muslims are Muslim because that is the way they were raised. In fact, there are Muslims who would readily leave Islam because the do not agree with the beliefs of Islam, but they fear for their lives. Remember, Islam was born in religious violence, propagated through religious violence, sustained by religious violence.
People in other religions also follow their religions because they were brought up to follow their religion, rather than being convinced believers in their religion. They have followed families, communities.
People also follow the CHRISTIAN RELIGION. They follow primarily because they just accept what they have been taught.
This is seen in the Catholic faith, but also among Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostals.
But it also happens with those who are followers of a faith relationship with God. Though they hear the gospel truth and they place their faith in Jesus, they are not always led into more truth.
It happens also with cults. People are brought up in the so-called Jehovah's Witnesses or Seventh Day Adventists or Latter Day Saints (Mormons), but because they have always been taught that the Bible is filled with errors, they do not learn the truth and they close their ears and heart to the message of God.
Not only are there people in the cults who were born into the cults, but there are people who came from traditionally Christian backgrounds into the cults, because their churches failed to teach them the Bible. This includes the Baptists and Methodists, among others. The cults are able to allure those people by telling them that they will teach them the Bible. What they do not tell them is that they are going to give false interpretations that are actually contrary to the Bible. But people, not knowing any better, are ensnared.
The cults "interpret" the Bible according to their own false prophets and writings (J.W.s have The Watchtower; SDA has Ellen G. White; LDS has Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and a list of false prophets. Then those who convert to the cults are steeped in false doctrines, which blind them to the truth of God's word.
Sadly, even those who are part of "Bible believing" churches have not been told the whole truth of God. Other Christians often reject me or my teaching when they hear me talk about such "STRANGE" doctrines as holiness of heart and life or Non-Violence. These two doctrines are not strange, according to the Scriptures, but they are strange to our modern, western Christianity.
The Bible clearly teaches that God saves us from all sin in this present evil world; that His blood cleanses us from all sin; that we are conformed to the image of Jesus; that we can be more than conquerors; that we can always be victorious.
I also teach that there is a difference between the Church and the State, and therefore the State has been given the responsibility to govern nations and to protect the righteous and punish the wicked. Christians are not given the right to wield the sword of steel for the State. The Church has been given the ministry of reconciliation by wielding the sword of the Spirit.
The confusion goes back to the Roman church, the Reformers and Protestant groups who followed in their steps. The Roman religion believed that the Church and the State can be, could be, should be on and the same. This was retained by the Reformers and incorporated in the first Reformed churches, then adopted by subsequent Protestant groups.
These western, modern churches have taught against the idea; the New Testament idea; the Jesus idea, the Apostolic idea; the Early Church idea that Christians are suppose to be Peacemakers, non-violent witnesses for Christ, willing to lose their lives for the gospel's sake, rather than take lives. Christians do not bear the sword of steel; they do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities and power, against spiritual darkness; they do not use carnal weapons, but spiritual weapons; they love their enemies. These things seem strange to modern, western Christians, when in fact these beliefs are as old as the New Testament.
I mention this because people who accept much of what I teach and preach begin to think I am off on a weird tangent when I preach non-violence, even though this teaching is straight out of the Bible. But because they have been taught differently, they "KNOW" that Peacemaking cannot be right. They (and this includes me) have been taught that Christians take up weapons to protect ourselves (but that is not Biblical); take up weapons to protect our families (but that is not Biblical); protect our homes, our churches, our community (that is not Biblical); and to protect our nation (and that is not Biblical). God has commanded the State (the governments of this world) to protect the righteous and punish the wicked.
Then people ask, "what about the Old Testament record." Well, the Old Testament concerning taking up arms has nothing to do with Christians and our response to evil. God has a nation in the Old Testament. He does not have a nation in the New Testament. God has a kingdom. Some things in the Old Testament did not carry over to the New Testament. God has a kingdom, a spiritual kingdom without natural or political borders. We should be good citizens in our various countries, but this does not mean we are trying to establish any earthly kingdom through physical force.
Jesus said, "if my kingdom were of this world, THEN WOULD MY SERVANTS FIGHT, but my kingdom is not of this world." This is not hard to understand.
The idea of non-violence, of Christians not bearing the sword of steel is so contrary to what they have been taught that non-violence seems to them to be cultic.
But here is a very real problem. Today, in our western, modern world, Christians talk so boldly about bearing arms, with which they will use violently and possibly with deadly force. Because of their religious training they believe violence and lethal force are their God given right. But the Second Amendment is not compatible with the New Testament, for Christians. Instead of taking up arms against our enemies, we pray for them, love them, feed them. We may flee from them but we cannot be violent with them.
Think about this. What good has been accomplished by believers bearing arms, wielding weapons, threatening violence? IT HAS DONE NOTHING. God gave the State this responsibility, not the believers. Christians brandishing weapons has not stopped the enemy. Christians owning weapons has not secured our communities or protected them from the overthrow by darkness.
Christians are trusting in the arm of flesh and failing to trust in God. They think in terms of violence rather than faith. They think in terms of guns being their hope, rather than God. In fact, they speak as if weapons are their gods.
THE MORE THAT CHRISTIANS TRUST IN THE ARM OF FLESH, THE LESS WE WILL SEE THE POWER OF GOD. American Christians are boasting in chariots and horses instead of trusting in the Lord. No wonder we are losing ground. The Church in America is being marginalized and snuffed out because people are turning to the sword of steel rather than the Sword of the Spirit.
Believers today talk about guns and violence as if they are God's way of deliverance, or as if they are God or God's plan, but we are not seeing deliverance.
Someone may say that PRAYER AND FAITH do not save us either. Well, I can't say that. All I know is what the Bible says, and what I have personally experienced and that tho which others have testified.
The New Testament forbids it.
I have been delivered from physical violence by calling on God.
Others have been delivered from physical violence by calling on God.
Others have suffered defeat when they have trusted in the flesh.
No, we do not always escape physical harm through faith, but we always please God through faith. We will not win or convert this world, but we must be faithful to God in this evil world. However, I have seen miraculously rescue His people, even from physical attacks because they fought with spiritual weapons instead of carnal weapons. ON THE OTHER HAND, I do not see people using carnal weapons and winning our spiritual deliverance.
LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE TODAY.
Look at what is happening with the domination of Secular Humanism.
Look at what is happening to our children.
LOOK, people don't even know what bathroom to use. THAT IS SPIRITUAL DARKNESS, DECEPTION AND DEFEAT.
The State has the right and the Obligation to bear the sword of steel to protect the righteous and punish the wicked. If the State refuses to do its Divinely appointed task, God will send in dark forces and remove the authority from that State. Either serve God willingly or serve your enemies unwillingly.
His kingdom is not of this world. I am not trying to establish an earthly kingdom. I am trying to win the lost through the preaching of the gospel.
The more that believers trust in the arm of flesh, trust in chariots and horses, trust in men and the systems of men, then the less they will trust in God. If our weapons are carnal, we will not know how to wield spiritual weapons and fight spiritual warfare. THOSE WHO LIVE BY THE SWORD (of steel) WILL DIE BY THE SWORD.
The battle is heating up. Don't delay in spiritual armor, weapons and warfare. Look how quickly things have gotten really bad, and it is going to get worse, even more quickly.
Though people have learned great truths from their churches in the past does not mean that everything they were taught was true.
MY TESTIMONY...
I was not taught Biblical non-violence by my father.
I was not taught Biblical non-violence by my churches as a child or young person.
I was not taught Biblical non-violence by my Bible college.
I did not learn Biblical non-violence from my friends, the Friends.
I did not learn Biblical non-violence from the Holiness folks.
It may have been there, but I did not hear it.
After Bible college and after being a pastor for several years, I came to a point that I wanted to know what God said, so I researched the word and found God's viewpoint.
Love does not take a gun and blow people into eternity without God.
As a young man in the 1960s I considered joining the Marine Corpse and going to Vietnam to kill Vietcong in order to stop Communism.
NOW DON'T LAUGH AT ME.
I thought maybe I would take a Bible in one hand (to convert the lost) and a machine gun in the other hand to stop the Communists.
I WAS WRONG. I WAS WRONG. I WAS WRONG. I had blindly swallowed the popular, but un-Biblical idea of Christians killing for the glory of God.
I don't teach non-violence as an essential to get saved. We must all walk in what light God gives us. God's grace covers a lot of "stuff" in our lives. We don't have to be perfect in understanding in order to be saved. But this is important light, and it will become more evidently important in difficult times.
We live at a time when people view GUN TOTING as if it is the same as BIBLE TOTING. People are confusing the sword of STEEL with the Sword of the SPIRIT.
IF WE DON'T LEARN SPIRITUAL WARFARE we will depend on carnal warfare.
Christians can server their country without taking up arms. And when we come to the knowledge of the truth we find out that we cannot serve God by taking up arms. We are called to be Peacemakers.
Even our society will turn against those of us who will not take up arms.
Cowardice is not standing for truth without a gun. Boldness and courage is standing by faith and trusting in Jesus instead of the arm of flesh.
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
06/06/18 MAN YOUR BATTLE STATIONS
06/06/18 MAN YOUR BATTLE STATIONS
I saw an article some time ago, that explained "Why there are no Christian children in North Korea." Without retelling the article, the point is that godlessness and empowered resistance make it criminal for Christian parents to raise their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
Not only does, The State police the family, and
Not only does, Society impose godlessness on the citizenry, but it is also true that
The children become agents of the State, resisting and rejecting the message of Christ, and then
They become witnesses against their own parents.
SOOOOO WHAT? Well, the "sooooo what" is that Secular Humanism is taking a stronger hold of our American society, making Christians into outlaws and turning children against family and family values.
DON'T COUNT ON THE 2ND AMENDMENT PEOPLE. THEY HAVE HELD ONTO THEIR GUNS AND SURRENDERED THEIR COUNTRY, THEIR MORALS, THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR RELIGION. The gun toters are no more effective in securing spiritual victory than a snow flake surviving a blast from hell.
BEFORE YOU GET TOO UPSET WITH ME, you better look at what our country has become and what it is becoming, ALL THE WHILE BOASTING IN THE ARM OF FLESH.
Our faithfulness to God is under attack and our defense is spiritual. READ THE NEW TESTAMENT. Only warriors for Christ will stand in the power of the Spirit.
I am glad for the respite that God has given us under Trump's administration (for however long that may last), but the end is evident in the word of God. Those who are godly WILL suffer persecution, and only the godly will stand in the day of temptation, trial, trouble.
By the way, I am not upset or disappointed in the folks who shoot off their mouths rather than stand for truth. That is just part of their nature. They need to turn to Jesus and follow Him fully. More is accomplished by faith than fury anyway.
OH YEA, THIS IS GOING TO WIN ME FRIENDS.
I saw an article some time ago, that explained "Why there are no Christian children in North Korea." Without retelling the article, the point is that godlessness and empowered resistance make it criminal for Christian parents to raise their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
Not only does, The State police the family, and
Not only does, Society impose godlessness on the citizenry, but it is also true that
The children become agents of the State, resisting and rejecting the message of Christ, and then
They become witnesses against their own parents.
SOOOOO WHAT? Well, the "sooooo what" is that Secular Humanism is taking a stronger hold of our American society, making Christians into outlaws and turning children against family and family values.
DON'T COUNT ON THE 2ND AMENDMENT PEOPLE. THEY HAVE HELD ONTO THEIR GUNS AND SURRENDERED THEIR COUNTRY, THEIR MORALS, THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR RELIGION. The gun toters are no more effective in securing spiritual victory than a snow flake surviving a blast from hell.
BEFORE YOU GET TOO UPSET WITH ME, you better look at what our country has become and what it is becoming, ALL THE WHILE BOASTING IN THE ARM OF FLESH.
Our faithfulness to God is under attack and our defense is spiritual. READ THE NEW TESTAMENT. Only warriors for Christ will stand in the power of the Spirit.
I am glad for the respite that God has given us under Trump's administration (for however long that may last), but the end is evident in the word of God. Those who are godly WILL suffer persecution, and only the godly will stand in the day of temptation, trial, trouble.
By the way, I am not upset or disappointed in the folks who shoot off their mouths rather than stand for truth. That is just part of their nature. They need to turn to Jesus and follow Him fully. More is accomplished by faith than fury anyway.
OH YEA, THIS IS GOING TO WIN ME FRIENDS.
06/06/18 QUEEN OF SCIENCES
When I was in a discussion with a medical doctor (a man of science) I told him that my specialty was Christian Theology, which is the Queen of the Sciences. Of course, not knowing history or Christian theology, he disputed my assertion.
I pointed out that Christian theology is a more exact science than medical science. Of course, he scoffed at such lunacy. I then pointed out that medicine, as a science was not always one hundred percent successful and that there are many physical ailments that medical science does not even address. He agreed. I then pointed out that the Bible is always right when it addresses the spiritual and relational problems of man and that the Bible addresses every spiritual need of man. I also asserted that if people would apply the Biblical solution to their problems, they would inevitably be delivered from their spiritual malady, therefore Christian theology is actually more exact and is more successful in dealing with its field of concern than medicine is.
Needless to say, he was not happy about my explanation, and sadly, neither was he convinced.
But I stand by my position. The spiritual, relational, moral problems of man are addressed in the Bible. They are answered by the Bible and they are healed, when submitted to the God of the Bible.
When I was in a discussion with a medical doctor (a man of science) I told him that my specialty was Christian Theology, which is the Queen of the Sciences. Of course, not knowing history or Christian theology, he disputed my assertion.
I pointed out that Christian theology is a more exact science than medical science. Of course, he scoffed at such lunacy. I then pointed out that medicine, as a science was not always one hundred percent successful and that there are many physical ailments that medical science does not even address. He agreed. I then pointed out that the Bible is always right when it addresses the spiritual and relational problems of man and that the Bible addresses every spiritual need of man. I also asserted that if people would apply the Biblical solution to their problems, they would inevitably be delivered from their spiritual malady, therefore Christian theology is actually more exact and is more successful in dealing with its field of concern than medicine is.
Needless to say, he was not happy about my explanation, and sadly, neither was he convinced.
But I stand by my position. The spiritual, relational, moral problems of man are addressed in the Bible. They are answered by the Bible and they are healed, when submitted to the God of the Bible.
06/06/18 SHORT WEEK - LONG WEEK
06/06/18 SHORT WEEK - LONG WEEK
Did you ever have a week just D R A G G G G on and on and on and on? Or find your self saying, "WOW, where did the time go?" Some folks are going to be shocked when they "suddenly" stand before God, having to answer for a life lived in resistance to His rule and His revelation in the Bible. BUT NOT TO WORRY, if life seems to have slipped past too quickly at that point, you have an ETERNITY to think about your misspent life.
Did you ever have a week just D R A G G G G on and on and on and on? Or find your self saying, "WOW, where did the time go?" Some folks are going to be shocked when they "suddenly" stand before God, having to answer for a life lived in resistance to His rule and His revelation in the Bible. BUT NOT TO WORRY, if life seems to have slipped past too quickly at that point, you have an ETERNITY to think about your misspent life.
06/05/18 FROM NINE YEARS AGO
06/05/18 FROM NINE YEARS AGO
3/13-18/09 WE SHOULD BE TAKING OVER THE WORLD WITH LOVE
TAKING OVER THE WORLD CANNOT BE DONE IN OUR SPARE TIME OR WITH OUR EXTRA CHANGE.
Some Understand
Pinky asked, “Brain, what are we going to do tonight?”
Brain said, “The same thing we do every night Pinky, try to take over the world.”
Why is it that so many of the wrong people have the right idea but so few of the right people have the right idea? Godless governments, Christ-less cults, greedy money grubbers and even cartoon critters have causes that motivate them to take over the world.
Consider the Muslims, the Mormons and the misnamed Jehovah Witnesses. They all have a different Jesus, a different gospel and a different spirit (2 Co. 11:4) than what the Bible presents, but they are all driven with the same consuming desire to take over the world. While their cause is not worthy, their zeal is noteworthy. Some of these groups have young adults that support themselves for two years in "missions" service to their religion. They put their lives, their careers, their families, their education on hold for the cause of their religion. Some young men and women forego family life altogether to promote the false doctrines of pagan religion. Some young men and women tie bombs to themselves and die in the name of their god. Yet, the numbers of those who are brought up with the Gospel of Christ are leaving the Church by the multitudes.
Unbridled commitment is found in ideologues, military rulers and captains of industry as well as religious zealots. Their messages are wrong, their methods are wrong but their sacrifice to success is far beyond that of their Christian counterpart, who is vision-less and passionless. In fact, the worldlings have adopted the marching orders that Jesus gave to the Church, when He said, "Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations."
But Where Is The Church?
The Bible says that he who wins souls is wise (Pr. 11:30), yet most who believe themselves to be believers in Christ will spend their lives promoting the passing fancies of this world, but never take the Great Commission personally or seriously.
While the Church at large is "at ease in Zion," the lost are plunging into hell. Over 70,000 die every day in the 10/40 window without ever hearing the gospel. It is said that over 230,000 people die every day. If ten percent of that number is saved (not likely) then over 200,000 die every day without Christ.
Christians cannot, should not, count on the kingdoms of this world to win the lost. Jesus said His kingdom is not of this world (Jn. 18:36). The Bible says that the kings of this world rage against God (Ps. 2:2). In fact, the whole world is in wickedness (1 Jn. 5:19) under the power of the Prince of Darkness (Ep. 2:2; 2 Co. 4:4). Some of them act in principle (legislation, philosophy, education, religion) and others act in violence (persecution, oppression, opposition). They wield the power of the sword of steel (Ro. 13:4). God is not pleased with wicked leaders (Ps. 110:5-6; Pr. 16:12; Pr. 25:5)
God has given the power of the Sword of the Spirit to Christians (Ep. 6:17), yet they seldom wield it in battle against the powers of darkness (Ep.6:12).
Our hope is not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. Someone has said, "When the power of love replaces the love of power, there will be peace." At least there will be an active army following the Prince of Peace. B.J. Thomas sang, "Loving people and using things, rather than loving things and using people." It is understandable that the world is confused, but the Church should understand these things.
Paul said,
1 Corinthians 15:34
(34) Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
PASSAGES IN ARTICLE
2 Corinthians 11:2-4
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
Proverbs 11:30
30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
John 18:36
36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
Psalms 2:1-2
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
1 John 5:19
19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
Ephesians 2:1-2
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Romans 13:3-5
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
5 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
Psalms 110:5-6
5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
Proverbs 16:12
12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
Proverbs 25:5
5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Ephesians 6:17
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Ephesians 6:12
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Launch Out and Hold Fast,
Pastor David L. Gould
3/13-18/09 WE SHOULD BE TAKING OVER THE WORLD WITH LOVE
TAKING OVER THE WORLD CANNOT BE DONE IN OUR SPARE TIME OR WITH OUR EXTRA CHANGE.
Some Understand
Pinky asked, “Brain, what are we going to do tonight?”
Brain said, “The same thing we do every night Pinky, try to take over the world.”
Why is it that so many of the wrong people have the right idea but so few of the right people have the right idea? Godless governments, Christ-less cults, greedy money grubbers and even cartoon critters have causes that motivate them to take over the world.
Consider the Muslims, the Mormons and the misnamed Jehovah Witnesses. They all have a different Jesus, a different gospel and a different spirit (2 Co. 11:4) than what the Bible presents, but they are all driven with the same consuming desire to take over the world. While their cause is not worthy, their zeal is noteworthy. Some of these groups have young adults that support themselves for two years in "missions" service to their religion. They put their lives, their careers, their families, their education on hold for the cause of their religion. Some young men and women forego family life altogether to promote the false doctrines of pagan religion. Some young men and women tie bombs to themselves and die in the name of their god. Yet, the numbers of those who are brought up with the Gospel of Christ are leaving the Church by the multitudes.
Unbridled commitment is found in ideologues, military rulers and captains of industry as well as religious zealots. Their messages are wrong, their methods are wrong but their sacrifice to success is far beyond that of their Christian counterpart, who is vision-less and passionless. In fact, the worldlings have adopted the marching orders that Jesus gave to the Church, when He said, "Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations."
But Where Is The Church?
The Bible says that he who wins souls is wise (Pr. 11:30), yet most who believe themselves to be believers in Christ will spend their lives promoting the passing fancies of this world, but never take the Great Commission personally or seriously.
While the Church at large is "at ease in Zion," the lost are plunging into hell. Over 70,000 die every day in the 10/40 window without ever hearing the gospel. It is said that over 230,000 people die every day. If ten percent of that number is saved (not likely) then over 200,000 die every day without Christ.
Christians cannot, should not, count on the kingdoms of this world to win the lost. Jesus said His kingdom is not of this world (Jn. 18:36). The Bible says that the kings of this world rage against God (Ps. 2:2). In fact, the whole world is in wickedness (1 Jn. 5:19) under the power of the Prince of Darkness (Ep. 2:2; 2 Co. 4:4). Some of them act in principle (legislation, philosophy, education, religion) and others act in violence (persecution, oppression, opposition). They wield the power of the sword of steel (Ro. 13:4). God is not pleased with wicked leaders (Ps. 110:5-6; Pr. 16:12; Pr. 25:5)
God has given the power of the Sword of the Spirit to Christians (Ep. 6:17), yet they seldom wield it in battle against the powers of darkness (Ep.6:12).
Our hope is not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. Someone has said, "When the power of love replaces the love of power, there will be peace." At least there will be an active army following the Prince of Peace. B.J. Thomas sang, "Loving people and using things, rather than loving things and using people." It is understandable that the world is confused, but the Church should understand these things.
Paul said,
1 Corinthians 15:34
(34) Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
PASSAGES IN ARTICLE
2 Corinthians 11:2-4
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
Proverbs 11:30
30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
John 18:36
36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
Psalms 2:1-2
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
1 John 5:19
19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
Ephesians 2:1-2
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Romans 13:3-5
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
5 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
Psalms 110:5-6
5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
Proverbs 16:12
12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
Proverbs 25:5
5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Ephesians 6:17
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Ephesians 6:12
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Launch Out and Hold Fast,
Pastor David L. Gould
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
06/05/18 YES, BUT.
06/05/18 YES, BUT.
Can a Christian still sin? YES, but then again, a Christian can poke an ice pick into his eye, but why would he want to do that?
Can a Christian still sin? YES, but then again, a Christian can poke an ice pick into his eye, but why would he want to do that?
06/05/18 BOTH/AND
06/05/18 BOTH/AND
Are you as eager to avoid and be kept from sin as you were to be forgiven of your sins?
Are you as eager to avoid and be kept from sin as you were to be forgiven of your sins?
Monday, June 4, 2018
06/04/18 DASH-CAM MESSAGE DO YOU WANT TO BE SAVED FROM ALL SIN?
06/04/18 DASH-CAM MESSAGE DO YOU WANT TO BE SAVED FROM ALL SIN?
(As with other impromptu messages, I did not have an outline plan. I just said it as I got it. But I do try to think orderly and systematically.)
Did you ever ask God to keep you from sin, all sin?
Do you believe He can and will?
If you don't ask, don't be shocked if you sin.
(NOTES TO FOLLOW)
(As with other impromptu messages, I did not have an outline plan. I just said it as I got it. But I do try to think orderly and systematically.)
Did you ever ask God to keep you from sin, all sin?
Do you believe He can and will?
If you don't ask, don't be shocked if you sin.
(NOTES TO FOLLOW)
06/04/18 BEWARE THE ANGELS OF LIGHT
06/04/18 BEWARE THE ANGELS OF LIGHT
During service last evening, I mentioned that I had engaged a group of young men (Mormons) in a discussion. When I said something to those men about Adam's sin, they balked and tried to correct me. THEY BOLDLY told me that Adam did not sin when he ate of the forbidden fruit. Of course, I knew better, because GOD SAID SO. They then proceeded to tell me that Adam's eating of the forbidden fruit was an act of REDEMPTION.
I know, I know, that is so totally absurd it is unthinkable. But here is the thing. The devil lied to Eve, saying that eating the fruit would not kill them, but it would actually make their lives better. Through this lie, he ensnared Eve and then Adam. It was such a deceptive thing Paul would warn Christians, thousands of years later, not to be deceived by the Serpent, as was Eve, in the Garden. As I mentioned this during the service, the pastor spoke up and pointed out that for Adam's action he and Eve were expelled from the Garden. GOD KICKED THEM OUT OF THE GARDEN, not because Adam was being redemptive but because he was being REBELLIOUS. This is a HUGE reality. Adam polluted the entire human race with his rebellion, and the Mormon's laud him and twist the history.
Here is part of what we should learn from such a false representation and twisting of Scripture. FALSE RELIGIONS say they believe the Bible, but then they claim to have another book (or more), which explains why the Bible is WRONG.
The Mormons do the same. They say they believe the Bible, but then they make Adam a redemptive, rather than a rebellious person, and they offer another book to explain the errors of the Holy Bible. Of course the error is in not believing what the Bible says.
If a person or a group cannot even get the first pages of the Bible right, then how corrupt are they going to make the rest of the Bible.
Don't forget, God did not kick them out of the Garden because Adam tried to save Eve. IT WAS BECAUSE OF ADAM'S OVERT WICKEDNESS and disobedience to the known will of God.
Salvation would require Jesus (not Adam), the true Son of God, to come in the flesh and die for the sins of the world and to raise Himself from the dead, physically.
Do you realize how blind a person has to be, in order to believe such a gigantic lie as the Redemptive Adam in the Garden of Eden? This is what happens when we allow something else to become more authoritative than the Bible. If we don't know and understand the basics, we won't understand the deeper things.
During service last evening, I mentioned that I had engaged a group of young men (Mormons) in a discussion. When I said something to those men about Adam's sin, they balked and tried to correct me. THEY BOLDLY told me that Adam did not sin when he ate of the forbidden fruit. Of course, I knew better, because GOD SAID SO. They then proceeded to tell me that Adam's eating of the forbidden fruit was an act of REDEMPTION.
I know, I know, that is so totally absurd it is unthinkable. But here is the thing. The devil lied to Eve, saying that eating the fruit would not kill them, but it would actually make their lives better. Through this lie, he ensnared Eve and then Adam. It was such a deceptive thing Paul would warn Christians, thousands of years later, not to be deceived by the Serpent, as was Eve, in the Garden. As I mentioned this during the service, the pastor spoke up and pointed out that for Adam's action he and Eve were expelled from the Garden. GOD KICKED THEM OUT OF THE GARDEN, not because Adam was being redemptive but because he was being REBELLIOUS. This is a HUGE reality. Adam polluted the entire human race with his rebellion, and the Mormon's laud him and twist the history.
Here is part of what we should learn from such a false representation and twisting of Scripture. FALSE RELIGIONS say they believe the Bible, but then they claim to have another book (or more), which explains why the Bible is WRONG.
The Mormons do the same. They say they believe the Bible, but then they make Adam a redemptive, rather than a rebellious person, and they offer another book to explain the errors of the Holy Bible. Of course the error is in not believing what the Bible says.
If a person or a group cannot even get the first pages of the Bible right, then how corrupt are they going to make the rest of the Bible.
Don't forget, God did not kick them out of the Garden because Adam tried to save Eve. IT WAS BECAUSE OF ADAM'S OVERT WICKEDNESS and disobedience to the known will of God.
Salvation would require Jesus (not Adam), the true Son of God, to come in the flesh and die for the sins of the world and to raise Himself from the dead, physically.
Do you realize how blind a person has to be, in order to believe such a gigantic lie as the Redemptive Adam in the Garden of Eden? This is what happens when we allow something else to become more authoritative than the Bible. If we don't know and understand the basics, we won't understand the deeper things.
06/04/18 A GOOD PRINCIPLE
06/04/18 A GOOD PRINCIPLE
If brother X turns against his church and takes steps to ruin lives, ministries and families rather than repent, reconcile and be restored, DO NOT BLAME OR ACCUSE faithful, loving Christians for obeying God, rather than compromising God's rule over them and over His church.
If you join in with the blasphemer, you become guilty also and you make the cut deeper than it was before.
Hopefully you will not face this problem. But if you do, having been forewarned, you should now be prepared.
If brother X turns against his church and takes steps to ruin lives, ministries and families rather than repent, reconcile and be restored, DO NOT BLAME OR ACCUSE faithful, loving Christians for obeying God, rather than compromising God's rule over them and over His church.
If you join in with the blasphemer, you become guilty also and you make the cut deeper than it was before.
Hopefully you will not face this problem. But if you do, having been forewarned, you should now be prepared.
06/04/18 SUIT UP
06/04/18 SUIT UP
To treat churchmanship lightly is to take a peashooter to a nuclear war with the devil.
Ephesians 6:10-18
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
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, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
1 Timothy 1:18-20
18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
2 Timothy 2:1-5
1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
To treat churchmanship lightly is to take a peashooter to a nuclear war with the devil.
Ephesians 6:10-18
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
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, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
1 Timothy 1:18-20
18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
2 Timothy 2:1-5
1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
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