The Seven Stars, Look Where They Are.

“The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.” Revelation 1:20

We are always reminded in the scriptures of whom we are. We are sinners saved by grace, we are church members by the choosing and setting in place by God, and we serve by God’s grace. We come to a better understand over the years and appreciate it more as we grow in the wisdom of God. This is what the Apostille Paul was talking about when he wrote “But by the grace of God I am what I am…”1 Corinthians 15:10 I am so blessed to be a minister in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and more blessed to have been more so selected to be a Pastor of one of the Lord’s Churches. We sometimes speak of how church is to thank God for the Pastors, how the church should bless their Pastors, but what about the Pastors the churches? What a place in the church to be, her Pastor! Praise God for His wonderful gift to me and those like me. I love being a child of God, it is the most blessed of all His creation, and it will be the most exciting in the time called eternity. I think sometimes, what the future holds for us poor worthless sinners that God chose before the foundation of the world to save. Sometimes, I simply get lost in my thought, I love to wonder when the Lord might return and rapture us all out of this evil, God hating world. What a blessed thought! Then, we must return our thoughts to what is real right now, and that is continuing the work of God on this earth and in the churches. I am a Pastor, a man that God has set in this church to feed, love, care for, and to protect with everything I have and everything Christ gives me to do so. I pray that what I do is enough, and in the end Jesus Christ, the churches Head, the judge of all the lost and saved will say “job well done”! But I must be consistently reminded again, even with the fight I put into the work, “…by the grace of God I am what I am…” These seven churches in Revelations are not only seven local churches but also seven periods of time of the “church age”. The church age began when Jesus first called her out, brought her together, and spoke to her, and set her in Jerusalem. Her end will be when Jesus returns for the rapture. Through time she has been through many troublesome times, times where members were slaughtered for the cause of Christ, and until today which is the time of apostasy. But with every moment of this time, Jesus Christ has stood in the circle of the churches. Every time the church gathers, she gathers for one reason, to hear the message God has sent her through her Pastor. This is the reason that as Pastors we need never forget our commission “feed my sheep”. Feed them with the message that Jesus Christ has put in your heart, you are the mouth piece of Jesus Christ on this earth. As Pastors, we are the seven stars, messenger’s, Pastors to the local churches, and Jesus Christ, the one in the center of the churches, the one who holds us in His right hand has sent for this, so, very important work. As Pastors we will do what Jesus Christ wants, say what He wants, and do what he wants without fear of anyone in all creation, because He holds us all in His right hand. Personally, I cannot think of a more blessed place to be as the churches pulpit, nor a more blessed time to be than right here in the year of our Lord 2018! So, no matter what that time brings, Satan and the world brings to us, no matter the time of Apostasy is here, and the churches are small in number, I know Jesus Christ holds me in His right hand, there is no better place to be than that. So, Pastors, hold your head up, do your called and ordained work, and keep looking-up, our Head is coming soon. May God bless us all in 2018, and remember where you are and Who is holding you.         

Matthew 1:21 “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.”
I cannot thank God enough for the birth of our Saviour Jesus The Christ. He is my life, He is my salvation, He is my everything good. God was so gracious to every soul that is saved by His birth, life, death, resurrection, and His sitting of the Fathers right hand. But, I believe the Christmas holiday is a mockery of our Lord’s birth. I know that some Christians celebrate the holiday, and that is their prerogative. I do not condemn people who do, for my family also do somewhat. No Christian is perfect, and we are not judges and condemners of those who do. Personally, I find it offensive to the birth of Jesus Christ to see what it is. We must admit that Christmas is not a Holy Day but a pagan, secular day and it should be treated as such. However, it is a holiday in America and the world and it affects us all in some form. And, it is a true blessing to me personally when it is over, and the New Years has come. It, like so many other truths in the bible are the reason that believers of truth are ridiculed and treated like monsters against the world, making monsters out of those who believe Christmas is not Christian but worldly. People, in general hate the truths of the bible because they hate the doctrine. But, they also hate those who believe the truth. Let us remember believers, Jesus said, "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.” John 15:18 They call us mean and unkind because of what we believe, the word of God. So, let us always also remember what Jesus said in Matthew 5:44 “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;” However, let us witness about the true birth of Jesus and what His birth means to us as Christians. Not just this time of year but everyday of the year. We are only good witnesses if we do the truth in love, even if we are hated for doing it. As Christians we are not to be as they are, allow it not to cause us to sin, and our true witness to be damaged. We accomplish nothing in anger, but in love. Let us remember to follow the example of Jesus, and to love those that hate us. Our witness is not about Christmas neither about Easter it is about the birth, life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I love believers in Jesus Christ, I know that some of us will disagree, but do not allow that disagreement destroy our fellowship in Jesus Christ. We are the children of God, and we are what we are by the grace of God. God has not taught us all the same or we would all be the same, and we are not. If you believe the truth you are blessed of God the Holy Spirit, we cannot condemn others who have not seen the truth. As Christians we are about love and not hate, so let the world do what it does and keep yourself pure in the Lord. Thank you, Father, for the birth of my Saviour Jesus The Christ and the salvation given to me in Him!!       

Not One Single Righteous Person.

“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:” Romans 3:10

 

If you sit and listen to people talk, they love to tell you how good they are. They love to tell you how smart they are and how much smarter than they are than other people. But when you hear God talk, He tells us how filthy and unrighteous we are. God said in verse 9 “What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;” and He was talking to both Jews and Gentiles, which is every living soul on the earth. God, yes, the God of creation, the God of all knowledge has just told us that we are sinners and as sinners we are totally depraved in every possible way. Now to those whom reject this truth need to study their bible and pray for the Holy Spirit to give them understanding. Not only are we totally depraved and totally sinful, we are also dead to God, and there is no light in us. “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” Isaiah 8:20 If there is no light then there is no life and if there is no life then we can do nothing righteous. Many people on this earth will spend their entire adult life attempting to satisfy God in some way, but their labor is totally useless. It is not until one understands that without the Holy Spirit moving in them, quickening then dead spirits, inserting light, life, and faith, then they will never be righteous. Lost people have no knowledge of God or righteousness. Without knowledge there is no understanding of God. “There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.” Romans 3:11. Therefore God has concluded that without knowledge and understanding of God and our sinfulness, prevents us from ever truly seek God. Therefore, God has concluded that they have gone out of their way seeking their own righteousness, and the end result is their entire effort is totally unprofitable. “They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” Romans 3:12 The final conclusion is their entire life will be nothing short of total misery, because sin and remaining in the lost state is miserable. “Destruction and misery are in their ways:” Romans 3:16 A person cannot have peace in this life unless they know Jesus Christ and have believed on Him as their Saviour. Because peace with God only comes through His Beloved Son Jesus Christ. “And the way of peace have they not known:” Romans 3:17 These folks will never truly fear God in their lost state, and one cannot be saved and not fear God. “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” Romans 3:18 The very thought that one can simply at will repent and become righteous, or the thought that somehow a person can simply change themselves by making a decision or choice is very flawed. God said, that’s right God said that NONE will seek Him because NONE have knowledge and understanding to do so. People who simply want to be religious, and have chosen Christianity as their religion, are not Christians. One is not a Christian until they have been quickened by the Holy Spirit and have believed on Jesus Christ as THEIR Saviour. To think otherwise is self-deception, because God has just described people’s inability to change what and who they are. God went on to say, “Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:” Romans 3:22 That faith is the righteousness of God, that is faith in Jesus Christ as Saviour. Not a little bit Saviour, not much Saviour, but total Saviour. Outside of Christ is simply darkness, and ignorance of God, sin, and the Saviour of mankind.

God, Will Send Then Strong Delusions.

“And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: (12.) That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12

It appears to me that many people have issues with this verse of scriptures. I have read this explained away in so many different ways, it makes you wonder if they have any idea. People just cannot accept the fact about God’s Sovereignty no matter how the scriptures explains it. I get tired of people who simply reject God and who He truly is. Let me be crystal clear here, God does as He pleases, saves who He pleases, and does with people as He pleases. Serving God is not a choice on our parts but rather a choice of God. If God chooses not to save, but only a small remnant then that is God’s choice and that choice is without fault or guilt. God is not obligated to save sinners, any of them, but does so by grace and mercy on a remnant of unworthy sinners. God was not obligated to save Jacob, He chose to and also chose to let Esau go to hell. God did not have to choose Israel, but He did and did so over the other nations of the world. It was not Pharaoh who hardened his own heart, but God. God has the absolute right to do as He pleases as long as the work is not sinful. It is not sinful or unjust for God to refuse to save certain sinners, because He does not have to save a single one. It is not sinful if God creates one sinner an adopted child and creates another person to betray Jesus Christ i.e. Judas Iscariot. God is the creator of everything, and it is His pleasure to do as He pleases with that creation. The question was asked in Romans 9:21 “Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?” and the answer is found in verse 23 “And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,” God has the right to make any vessel as He chooses, God owes no one anything. Therefore, it is no wrong thing if God sends people “strong delusion” that they do not believe the truth. People will naturally believe the lie of Satan; therefore, God is simply keeping them in their natural lost self, allowing them to be led by the nose by Satan. See, God does not have to cause a person to sin, it is natural, nor does He have to cause people to believe the lies of Satan, they naturally do it. When the scriptures say, “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:” Romans 1:24 it does not mean that God changed them, He just never saved them. Sin comes naturally to people, so does following Satan and his lies, therefore God just never redeems them. The thinking that God has to accept all who believe is simply false. God saves sinners as He has chosen them to be His adoptive children before the creation of the world. However, the saddest part of everything is when people fail to see the Sovereignty of God, and make false suggestions that God wants everyone to be saved. Here we see the opposite, we see God sending these folks “strong delusion” so that they will never believe on Jesus Christ. “That they all might be damned who believed not the truth” They do not believe because God never made them to repent. People fail to give God the glory He has earned in saving a remnant of the world, making it so that they will never believe. Look at this example, God could actually come to this earth in the form of a man, do exceedingly strong miracles and wonders, and they still would not believe. If that will not change people, then what makes one believe that they will ever believe. Only a Sovereign God can cause a sinner to leave the vomit called sin and worship Him. God has given them up, three time in Romans 1 verse 24, 26, 26 God gave them up to sin. Even some of them worshiped God, but in a lie. Verse 23 "And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." They worshiped God in a false way, believing lies over truth.

“Doubtful Minded”

Luke 12:29 “And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.”

This week in out Wednesday Night studies, we came upon these two words. These two words are very great words when you consider everything contained in them. Most people refer them to food because that is what God is talking about. I believe it is speaking to our faith in general, how strong is it. Notice in verse 22 it says, “And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.” When the Lord says to “…Take no thought for your life…” He is referring to our life in general. We all talk about our faith and how God is going to take care of our every need, we talk about how God controls all things, we also say “God has this, don’t worry about it”. Great truths, but just how much faith do we truly have? Some say, “if I believed in predestination, I would walk in front of a bus”. Also, some will say “I do not need to do anything God is going to do it for me”. Well this is the real world, and I believe I am as sovereign grace as anyone else. However, reality is reality and let us all understand, we live by faith in this world. The bottom line is we do not know the will nor the workings of God unless He manifest it to us, and normally the fact is finished when He does that. I believe we ought not be doubtful in anything in life, we should trust the Lord in every aspect of our life. However, with that said we should not “under-doubt” either. Now what do I mean by “under-doubting”, we should not trust what we do not know, and what we do not know is what God’s will is. This is the best example I know, if you think you are the strongest of faith then try this, leave your doors unlocked at night, your windows down in your house and sleep sound without worry. Put a 100.00 bill on your car seat and leave your windows down at the mall with your keys in the car. I tend to believe none of us are that brave, but why not? God has promised to protect us, He has promised to supply our every need. The problem is that we do not know God’s will nor God’s plan for us, but we do believe “He has this” and the outcome will be His will, without doubt. Our doubtfulness in this life is stronger in us than we like to believe. It is not wrong to lock your doors and windows at home, and it is dumb to leave an 100.00 bill on your seat with the windows down at the mall. I believe we can all agree. God said if our faith was strong enough we could move mountains. “Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.” Matthew 21:21Beloved let us all face it, we are all weak in faith, but some more than others. In closing, I believe it is totally faithful for us as Pastors to concern ourselves with the security of the sheep God has set us over as overseers. We cannot just say “God’s got this” and we do not need to do anything. God gives us the tools, and we need to use them to protect the churches of the Lord. It is not a lack of faith, but it is the same reason you work everyday to buy food and pay the bills, it is not a lack of faith either. God is absolutely going to protect us, but we also need to work at protecting ourselves also. It is time we secure the church houses. God gave us tools to use to be safe and we need to use them. I have decided that I am, if some believe it is a lack of faith on my part, and our churches part then so be it. But we are not going to attend church wondering if today, some lunatic who hates God and churches is going to slaughter the sheep of God. We live in a different era, the hatred of some people is a reminder of what it was in the “dark ages” when about fifty-million Christians were slaughtered for their faith in the Lord, His churches, and His word. We may be coming to a repeat in history, and it is not a lack of faith to fight back. Only God knows the future, and He does indeed have it, and I pray that He fully secures us all. Let us love and pray for each other!   

The Sovereignty Of God.

“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5

I am a firm believer in the sovereignty of God. I believe that whatever God chooses, ordains, predestinates, or wants will come to pass. I believe that God controls the entire universe including this world, as well as everything in all creation. I know that the “Religionist Christians” believes that God is controlled, at least in part by mankind and their will, but that is the biggest lie in their belief. God does not ask, beg, not plead with sinners, He saves sinners. I also believe in election, that is God choosing a remnant of mankind to be His beloved children via adoption. All of His children are washed in the blood of Jesus Christ. We do not work our way to heaven, we are not baptized into heaven, and we do not join churches to get into heaven, or anything else. God before the creation of the world chose us to be His children at His own will and pleasure, and in time the Holy Spirit leads us through the process of salvation until we are saved. Nothing with God happens by chance, and God left nothing in the hands of man. In fact, no person can on their own choose to come to Jesus Christ, we must be invited in by being drawn. “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him…” John 6:44 Jeremiah is proof of the sovereignty of God. Jeremiah never had anything to do with his relationship with God, God chose him and worked His will in him just as He does with each and every one of His beloved children. Listen very close to what Paul said as he described the sovereignty of God in his Christian life. “But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace…To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:” Galatians 1:15-16 Just like Jeremiah Paul was a sovereign vessel of God’s choosing. As you study the scriptures you will find loads of examples, and if you think about your salvation you will also see the sovereignty of God in your salvation and life. Let us look at another example in Isaiah 49:5 “And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.” God formed him in the womb to be His servant, he had nothing to do with it. God’s Sovereignty is a beautiful thing that the “Religionist Christians” have over time not only rejected but demonized into hate by some of the very believers that God has saved. They will tell you that “God cannot change your will” but that is a lie from the pits of hell. Just like “it is your decision” is a lie from the pits of hell. There is not one single example of this is the entire word of God. The blind preachers that lead the blind into hell are fake preachers. They teach what they learned some school instead at the feet of the greatest teacher the Holy Spirit. But you who are saved, saved by the Spirit of God need to study the word of God, you need to learn the truth and stop worshiping in unspiritual churches and learning from unsaved men and women. God never called these people to preach, and He does not use them. Their churches are not God’s assemblies, and they have no truth. God is sovereign and everything is under His control. “In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:” Ephesians 1:11 I will end with this wonderful passage of scripture.

"Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him...He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young…Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance...Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him...With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding...Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing." Isaiah 40:10-15

Are We Cannibal?

John 6:54 “Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

If we must eat the flesh of Jesus Christ and drink His blood, then wouldn’t that make Christians Cannibals? I know some folks believe that the wafer, unleavened bread, or etc. that they take at the Lord’s Supper turns into the actual flesh and blood of Jesus Christ. However, the truth is, no it does not. We are Christians, saved by the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and we have our sins pardoned by His blood. That is salvation as a whole to us if we believe in Him and all this. Salvation includes nothing else and anyone who says is does not have a scriptural leg to stand on. People are preaching things in the scriptures that are no there. We are Christians by faith in Jesus Christ, which was actually given to us by God’s Holy Spirit. But some people like to abuse the scriptures because they are lost, (the Lord calls it the blind leading the blind, Matthew 15:14 “Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”) and they lead them right into a fiery ditch called hell. We must search the scriptures to make sure what we hear is true or not. Folks, we are not cannibals, we do not actually eat the flesh and drink the blood of Jesus Christ. The unleavened bread and the wine is simply a metaphorical representation of His flesh and blood. The actual symbol here is a showing of His broken flesh and His spilt blood for us. The intaking of the wine and bread is to show us taking it in to keep living. It does not keep us living but metaphorically it shows that Jesus Christ is more than a name, more than a person, He is in us and He is the two main substances we need to stay alive. It reminds us that we need nothing else in this life but Jesus Christ in us. It also reminds us of what He did for us to bring about our salvation. He allowed His flesh to be broken and His blood to be spilt and death to take Him in order to bring life to all that God will save. Folks, some things are out of order and to actually believe that the bread and wine turn into the actual flesh and blood of Jesus Christ is gross to say the least. It is cannibalism at the least. The Lord’s Supper is the most valuable thing a Christian will do, and a church will do together. But it is simply a metaphorical reminder of what Jesus Christ done for us, and a reminder that He is all we need to live. It is also a reminder to us that He lives in us and keeps us living also. So as often as your church observes it, always attend and take of the Lord’s Supper. Always remember that Jesus Christ gave His flesh, and spilt His blood to give you salvation and eternal life with Him, and God. “For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.” 1 Corinthians 11:26 

What Is Truth.

John 17:17 “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”

This is the most absolute question man must ask themselves, especially if they are a Christian. The bible says a lot about the word TRUTH, but we need to seek and find the truth. We must first understand that man are liars, Satan is a liar, the father of lies, and man gets their lying form him. “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. “He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” John 8:44 Therefore as Christians we must decide what truth is, however, in our search for it we must understand that the truth does not come from man. Unless a person is saved and taught of the Holy Spirit they will never know nor understand truth. Mankind teaches lies all the time as truth, but it is only lies. They confuse the truth in their own misunderstanding and believe it as truth. Mankind is always seeking truth to glorify themselves, so God said, “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.  Amen.” Romans 1:25 And God made sure there was an astounding “Amen” in there. If you look at the vast majority of what is called “Christianity” you will find they glorify man while belittling God to make their doctrine support their works rather than God’s grace. They even declare that Paul and James were not in context with each other to prove their lie. So, as we seek to hear, read, and understand truth, let us first understand where truth comes from. First, it is not from man, God said “…let God be true, but every man a liar...” Romans 3:4 Second, we must understand that God is truth, Jesus is truth “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6 And we know that the Holy Spirit is truth “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.” John 16:13 and also note that “HE” will guide you into ALL truth. It is not man that is truth, except that the Holy Spirit is leading them to teach the truth. Is your teacher reading scriptures and teaching them, or is he out in left field teaching with man’s wisdom? Does he truly stay with the teaching of the scriptures or does he teach with his philosophy? Personally speaking, I see a lot of churches failing to use God’s word, especially on their signs. I see a lot of manmade slogans and not scripture. Now I’m not saying some of the slogans are “ok” at best, however why not God’s word? What saves sinners, slogans, hell houses, hell films, or the gospel? Jesus said, “And the gospel must first be published among all nations.” Mark 13:10 He does not mean first and then the philosophy of man but first and foremost. It is the Gospel that must be taught not man’s philosophy which includes everything other than the gospel, works, baptism, church membership, and etc. etc. etc. Churches must understand that their pastor’s wisdom and slogans might sound good and slick, but the gospel is what God saved sinned with. The gospel is truth, and only the gospel. "...how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures...And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:” 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 not “the key to heaven is hanging on a nail” which is a total lie. Folks, it is truth, and as wise as slogans are God’s word is always truth no matter what. Also Jesus is the light, life, way, and everything you need to be saved, you do not need anything else. Everything else is changing the truth into a lie. Seek the truth, but it is only found in God’s Holy Word.

Christians have been, and will always be hated.

2 Timothy 3:12-13 “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution…But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.”

Paul, writing to young Preacher Timothy is explaining to him about evil people. Paul speaks of two sorts of evil people, (1.) “evil men” could very well be lost people who hate God, and (2.) “seducers” which is defined as an impostor which I would think could be counterfeit Christians who are not real Christians. These two groups could include also Christians who have actually fallen away from the truth. I must believe that all three groups must be included here. Paul speaks here of it never getting any better, in fact he says it will get “worse and worse”. As Christians we must understand that people of all sorts, even some real Christians hate and work against the truths of God. I see weak Christians allowing God’s truths to be trampled on by lost imposters and helping them to promote the false teachings of Satan. Paul warned young Timothy “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine” 2 Timothy 4:3. I see these people as weak Christians who change God’s truths into lies, because in this same scripture Paul wrote, “after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers” then in verse 4 Paul wrote “they shall turn away their ears from the truth” as though they believed the truth before. And Paul went on in verse 4 to say, the truth “shall be turned unto fables.” Which means fiction or lies. This tells me that these people knew and understood the truth before their turning God’s truth into Satan’s lie. Paul went on in verse 5 to warn Timothy, as we ought to also be warned “But watch thou in all things” meaning we must hold on to the truth and not fall from it, as these others have. Paul warned that this falling away from the truth would grow worse and worse, but also the impostors and the evil men would also grow worse and worse. Now God is speaking about time as a whole. We sometimes speak of the past in our time, going back to the 50’s and 60’s and so on when times were better for Christians. But to God it is simply time therefore we are not talking about generation to generation but time as a whole. What we see today is simply those past years evolving into today when the sin, imposters, and the falling away from the truth flowering into what we have today. Today it is seen as evil to believe the truth and the lies are seen as glorious truths. They have managed to change right into wrong and wrong into right. I have even heard people say about biblical truth, “I would not serve that kind of God”, well you do not! If you do not serve God in biblical truth then you do not serve God. This is why churches and Pastors and Missionaries of truth are struggling, people hate the truth of God, but flock to the lies of Satan. We, who love biblical truth are not just ignored, we are hated with the hate of Satan in their hearts. It seems like, you love the truth and other people, even those impostors hate you. There is no such thing as “we disagree”, nope, it is hate pure and simple. But Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 3:14 “But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;” Paul went on to write in 2 Timothy 4:5 “…do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.” What Paul just said was, “Timothy, you do the work of a called gospel preacher that carries out fully the truth of God’s word, while proving it”. We must understand that we are not alone, God is with us. Sure people will hate the truth, they will hate God, and they will hate you for believing the truth, but walk in it anyway because leaving it has greater consequences than staying with it.  Luke 12:4 “And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.” Only God can deal with what is after this life. This life is as a vapor, but life after this one is an eternity, and so are the crowns and rewards for standing on the truth. Yes beloved, we are hated, but we are loved by even a greater power, God!

Believing The Truth.

“And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. (24)  Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: (25) Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.” Romans 1:23-25

As we ponder our hearts on these scriptures, let us all think about truth. Truth is something that is very hard to find in the Twenty-First Century, almost everything said or done today is a lie, phony, or just plain untruth. If you look-up the word “truth” in the scriptures you will find it means - stability, figuratively certainty, trustworthiness, and sure -. But to us what is truth, and where do we find it? How about church, is your church teaching truth, no I am not talking about what they say is truth, but real truth. Well let’s see if we can figure it out. We know that the bible is truth, and we know that Jesus is truth because the Bible tells us He is. “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6 and we know that the bible is truth because it is the absolute word of God, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:” 2 Timothy 3:16 We know that the writers of the bible were inspired because the bible tells us they were. If we do not believe God, the bible, and Jesus Christ then we have absolutely nothing to trust to be truth. God tells us that mankind are sinners, liars, corrupted, and enemies of God, Jesus, and the bible. Since mankind are corruptible and totally depraved they have nothing in common with God, fleshly or spiritually. That means mankind is doomed for eternal hell and there is nothing that can change them, not even themselves. God is clear that only He, and He alone can change the Ethiopians skin color, the leopard’s spots, or the sinner and hater of God that mankind is. Unless God change a sinner, they will die a sinner at enmity with God. “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” John 6:44 The only truth found on the face of the earth is in the bible, and the men speaking the messages of God from the pulpits. But, even at that it is limited to a small few. How do you know if your pastor is preaching the word of God in truth, study the scriptures. Jesus said of the scriptures, “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” John 5:39 While many search for the truth of the scriptures, they cannot find it, because they are not of God. Since they are not of God they change God’s truth into a lie and preach hearsay rather than truth. You will find in this evil, corrupt, godless world it is easier to preach a lie than the truth. This is why, men love a lie more than the truth, and therefore people will flock to a false hope in themselves, rather than a real hope in Jesus Christ. However, the saddest part of it all is they change Gods truth into a lie and serve the lie as truth. But, this is very sad “…God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts…” in other words God is not going to change them, ever. Therefore, it is up to you to figure out what is truth and what is the lie of Satan, and does your church teach truth or a lie. If you are blessed to figure it out then follow the truth, it is still being taught. Ask yourself when listening to your Pastor, is this the bible or is this a lie? To many Preachers teach false doctrine, lies, untruths and call them truth. They read words, phrases, and lies into the scriptures that are not there. They will teach you doctrine that is man’s doctrine and not Gods. Beware, your eternal soul may burn forever and ever. Folks, the truth is hard to find, and only God will show it to you. So many believe lies because it sounds good to the lost sinner, the world, and Satan. Be careful, study the word of God, and believe what it says. Just allow the scriptures to teach you and you will know the truth, you will know the real Jesus Christ our Saviour. "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; (32) And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (36) If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." John 8:31-32, 36

God Works In Us The Will To Do…

Philippians 2:13 “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”

I know and understand mankind enough to know this, as mankind we believe there is not much we can’t do if we just set our hearts and minds to its conclusion. However, we must understand the works of God, for spiritual things can only be accomplished by God. Fleshly speaking there is a lot we can do if we set our minds to it, but it is only by the power of God that we can work spiritual satisfaction to God. First, let’s look at salvation. Only God can cause a lost sinner to repent and seek salvation, and to receive it. No one has the ability to turn from their old nature to a new one if God has no given them a new one to start with. God uses the examples of an Ethiopian changing their skin color of a leopard changing their spots. Neither can change what they are no more than man can change what they are, depraved, lost sinners. Second, let’s look at church membership. Church membership is brought about by God also. People don’t just join a church, God has chosen the fold before the foundation of the world, and He has elected His church before the foundation of the world. God in comparing the church to a human body says in 1 Corinthians 12:18 “But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.” He said “every member” meaning that if you are a true church members that God has set you in the church, and in the position He wants you to serve in that church. God chooses the Pastors, missionaries, and all other workers as He is pleased to send them. Just as He sent the prophet Jeramiah. The main problem with so many today is they either fail to understand these truths, or they are ignoring this. Let us look at what John said in John 3:27 “John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.” Some have said we should add “of his own will” when speaking of man, which does the original text no harm at all. Because spiritually speaking the closer a believes is to this thought, the closer they are to God, and trusting God in everything. God is always telling us to look to Him for our life resources. James wrote in James 1:5 “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.” Whatever you need ask of God, stop trying to do-it-yourself. You are not washing your car, or changing your oil. You are a believer in Jesus Christ, you are attending to the King’s work. When working for the King it is best done if he is doing it through you. Let us look at what Amos said in Amos 7:15 “And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.” Amos did not just choose to do this work, God sent Him and like so many others, he obeyed and did as the Lord said. We must be patient and wait on the Lord, He knows what is best and what need to be done. The “preacher” Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 7:8 a very profound truth, “Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.” Let us remember that waiting on the Lord to act in us is better than just acting. I remember waiting more than 20 years in the ministry before the Lord gave me my first and only church, and it was worth the wait! If you have a need, your church has a need, or if you are searching for a work, or searching for workers, always remember God sets people in place as He chooses, be patient. We will end with these words, “And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron…So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.” Hebrews 5:4-5 DO NOT ATTEMPT IT, IF GOD HAS NOT CALLED YOU TO IT. Amen!

The Everlasting Father.

Isaiah 9:6 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

Here in this wonderful passage of scripture God gives us some most wonderful and exciting news about our Saviour Jesus The Christ. First notice the words “For unto us a child is born” God speaks here as a thing already done, God did not say this Child would be born but as though He already had been. So how is this The Saviour of mankind, Jesus The Christ? We must understand that we are speaking of God, Who is eternal. There is a reason that God never changes, that reason is because He is eternal. John Gill described this word “eternal” this way “God is eternal, from everlasting to everlasting; the Ancient of days, before all things, and all time; which is, and was, and is to come:” since God is “before all things, and all time; which is, and was, and is to come” He can describe things as though they have already happened, because to God they have. This is the reason God cannot change, He has already predestinated, or ordained all that is going to be. Therefore, before the creation of the world, before sin entered the world God had already ordained our Saviour, Jesus The Christ, therefore it was as sure as though it had already happened. Another example of this is found in Romans 8:29-30 “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (30.) Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. God foreknew them (His Elect) before creation and had predestinated them to be called, justified, and glorified and it is as certain as though it had already happened. If you are saved you have experienced all of these except one, being glorified has yet to happen, this completion of our salvation will not take place until Jesus raptures us in His return glorifying our bodies completing the trifecta of our salvation soul, spirit, and body. So, while we can ascribe all these other names to Jesus Christ, some have an issue with the words “The everlasting Father” Their argument is, how can the Son of God also be described as “The everlasting Father”? I must ask, of whom are the scriptures describing, Jesus is not just a Son, He is the Son of God. Jesus declared in John 10:30 “I and my Father are one.” Now understand, they are not one as the churches are unified as one, but they are absolutely one single being. Jesus also said in John 14:9 “...he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?” Also remember in John chapter one verse one where John wrote about Jesus “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” This is proof that Jesus Christ was not “just” Gods Son, but God Himself in the likeness of sinful flesh. In Verse 14 of John 1 it says, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…” If Jesus Christ is God, then He is God in the flesh. The words “everlasting Father” recognizes His as creator of all things. Which is verified in Colossians 1:16 "For by him were all things created..." and in verse 17 it says, “And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” Again, speaking of Jesus Christ. This is telling us that Jesus Christ is “the Father of eternity”, which identifies Him as the creator of all things, before all things He was. One thing about Jesus Christ people forget is, He is God, very God. While He was born as a child, He came from eternity which is proved out in all the above scriptures.  

Do You Know The Power Of God?

“What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:” Romans 9:22

We live in a time when there is much powerful destruction in the world, earthquakes, hurricanes, shootings, etc. etc. etc. The question that is often asked is “where is God”? Well, one thing that is absolutely true is God is Omnipresent or everywhere at one time, no place is ever without God. God is a Spirit; therefore, you might never know God is present unless you just accept the fact that God is Omnipresent. If one truly knew God, and who He is, one might ask this question out of ignorance “where is God”. People look at God with different eyes, some look at God as though He does not exist, some look at God through moral eyes (thinking He is what they think He should be), Some look at God as a weak and insignificant being who depends on us to help Him. But, regardless how one looks at God, and regardless how He may appear in their mind, God is The only true God, and that makes Him Omni-everything. God is all-power, all-knowledge, He is all-holy, and God is all-right in all His doings and choosing of His doings. The first thing one must understand about God is, He answers to no one. People are not counselors to God, He is a Self-Existent Being Whom existed alone before creating everything that exist. Next, one must also understand that whatever God chooses to do, that He will do, regardless to what you might think of it. This leads us to this extremely important point, God is ABSOLUTLY SOVEREIGN, this means (God is a Supreme Being choosing, ordaining, predetermining, and executing His will and pleasure). People must know that if God wants something to be, it will be, regardless to what you might think of it. One must also understand that God owes no creature anything, nor does he owe them an explanation about the things He does. God controls all His creation, even the evil of Satan did God make for His own glory. The issue some people have is they have no idea who God is, they are simply ignorant to God’s Being. I hear people make the most ignorant commits about God, like “I cannot serve a God like that”, or like “my God would never allow that to happen”. Here in our text scripture it says, “What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known…” what if God was to make His power known? What if God was an angry with the sinfulness of the world and wanted to make His displeasure know? So why if God was sending some destruction to show us we have gone too far in sinfulness. Would you believe that? Oh, you don’t believe it, your God is not that kind of God, then you do not serve the God of the bible. Folks, God is not who we think He is, God is not who we want Him to be, God is pure Sovereign in His will and purpose. This means God controls everything, read Ecclesiastes chapter 3 and Ephesians chapter 1 and Romans chapter 9. And when you read them stop making excuses for them and believe them. We are simply created beings to be used as God is pleased to use us. If God has predetermined that you die a horrible death then you will, if God has ordained that you live a long glorious life you will. God had predestinated that millions of His own elected children die horrible deaths in what is called the “dark ages” at the hands of Catholicism and others and they did. If you read history, true history, you will find that God’s people have always suffered at the hands of our enemies, why, because God chose for it to be that way. Folks, it God was willing to show His wrath the things we see happening today is nothing compared to what His true wrath is. We must remember God is not a man, He does not think like a man, nor does He do as a man, and no He is not a woman either! God is a Spirit and does at His own choosing, and if you do not accept God as He is then you do not serve the God, one true God that is the God of the bible. John 4:24 “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”           

It Is Time For Christians To Come Together As One.

“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,” 2 Corinthians 6:17

I have in my lifetime seen this scripture abused more time than I can count. I have over the years heard it taught that this scripture means white people and black people cannot mix, that they cannot worship together, that God means for us to be separate, that is the biggest lie I have ever heard!!! Shame on any believer that has been saved by the grace of God who believes such a thing. God would never tell his beloved children to separate. If a person is white and teach their children to hate or to devalue black people then that person is wrong. And if a black person teaches their children to hate white people they are just as wrong. It matters not what history was, it matters not what happened in history, all that matters are what happens now. Folks, if you are saved then you must LOVE all other children of God, no matter what. Race, Nationality, nor anything else should keep a child of God from loving another child of God. God never told His children to separate or to hate, in fact God said if you do not love the other children of God then you are not saved. 1 John 4:20 “If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?” God did not exempt race or Nationality! It is time for the separation because of race to stop, and it must stop on both sides. We were saved to bring glory to God and we cannot bring glory to God if we cannot worship the Lord together. When John wrote that “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 He was saying that He loved people from all Nations and not just the Jews. It makes me angry when Christians seek for ways to separate themselves rather than ways to bring us together. There is no doubt what God is talking about in our text scripture. The Lord set the context in 2 Corinthians 6:14 “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?” As Christians, we are not to be “yoked together” with unbelievers. Most people believe this is speaking about marriage, well it is, but it goes deeper than marriage. The word “yoked” means - not to mingle with unbelievers – that would include marriage but it would also mean in life as a union of friendship or association of any sort. But what is absolutely does not mean is by race or nationality. As I said before, I never intend to re-hash history, because what happened has happened and no one can change that. If you look at believers throughout history millions of them were abused, mistreated, and killed in horrible ways. John Newton, who wrote the most famous hymn of all time “Amazing Grace” was both a slave and a slave trader. But when he was born of God his entire life changed, and he was a wonderful child of God. There is way too much hate in the world than for believers in Jesus Christ to join it. Any Christian who hates another Christian needs a salvation check. We are brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus and we ought to behave as such. There is one God, and one Saviour, and we are all God’s children by God’s choice. There is no room for the murmuring and hatred among Christians. When we are with the Lord we will all be the same, like Jesus. We ought not do things that offend our brothers and sisters in Christ, nothing! We ought not do anything that causes our brother and sisters to sin. Folks, this world and the “god” of it is a hater of God, and His children, therefore let us step above this sinful world and show the world how Christians should love and support one another. Psalms 1:1-3 “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful…But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night…And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”    

Heathenistic Rage.

Psalms 2:1 “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?”

The word “heathen” here means “nations” but let us not make so much of that because what is a nation, it is the people. As we look at our own nation (The United States Of America) we see much rage. We have reached the point where there doesn’t seem to be any solution or compromise, we cannot be brought together because of their rage. This is indeed very sad times we are living in. It seems that if you are a Christian, and mostly a Christian of biblical substance then you are the vainest person on the earth. We see the heathenistic among us rage like we have never seen it before. And it should not be surprising, should it? If one is a student of the scriptures you have learned over the years that this earths systemize structure is anti-God. God told us in 2 Corinthians 4:4 that Satan is the “god of this world” and so therefore Satan hath “blinded the minds of them which believe not” from many things and including that they shall never believe. If one has no power to believe the gospel then that one will never be able to recognize right from wrong, and the truth form a lie. This headship over the world and the people of the world took place in the fall, in creation God gave Adam dominion over the earth. God created all things in the earth and gave Adam reign over the earth. But Adam bowed to Satan and ate the forbidden fruit giving that dominion to Satan. Now, as the Bible clearly points out Jesus Christ will in the millennium bind Satan in chains for one thousand years and take back the world and the system of it that originally belonged to Him in creation. However, with all that said it explains to us the heathenistic rage of the people against God, Jesus Christ, the bible, the churches, and Christians. Satan hates all those things and since these lost people cannot understand any of these things, they are following their fathers will. "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do..." John 8:44 Just as we as believers in Jesus Christ are God’s children, all others belong to Satan, just as our Fathers will we will do, they will also do their fathers will. This is the reason they are so raging against Christian, as their father rages against our Father. The more time go on the more worse they get, demonizing the other side in order to bring shame on those who believe biblical truth. Calling us racist, and all the other horrible names they can call us like “deplorables” which means disgraceful, shameful, dishonorable, unworthy, inexcusable, and etc., etc., etc. why, because we simply disagree with them. The thinking of the out-of-control raging mind is to destroy the opposition so that there is only one universal thinking path, Satan’s lying path of deception. This is the exact reason for their hate of anyone that contradicts them. Now, they have reached the point of silencing the other side of free thought, making one school of thought, Satan’s thoughts. So, if you believe that homosexuality is wrong, or transgenderism or abortion, or anything else they believe is right, then you must be eliminated. Remember, they can only be one school of thought, therefore the freedom of speech is only good if you agree with them. One voice, one thought, one mind set. Anything is good, as long as God hates it. The thought is to oppose God in every area, and to defeat Him by silencing Him. The rage is worse than ever, now we have congressmen shot, and happiness over it because he disagrees with them. We have protesters in the street ready for war in order to silence the other side. While it is all a disgrace to God, it is happiness to Satan who is the “power of the air”. Folks, please do not underestimate these people and their rage, they will stop at nothing to stop us Christians. They are dangerous, they are mad in rage, and are evil in their wicked hearts. Never doubt what they will do, their minds are satanically controlled. These “…people imagine a vain thing?” against good, right, honesty, and God. “The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.”  John 7:7 

The False Theory About This Verse.

“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” Joshua 24:15

It always makes me angry when people abuse and misuse the scriptures to prove a lie. Please understand there is not one single scripture in the entire word of God that tells us to choose Jesus Christ as our Saviour, not one. This scripture has been falsely used repeatedly as a salvation scripture and it simply is not. All scriptures must be used in the context in which the Holy Spirit inspired the writes or not at all. To misuse a scripture out of context is making the scriptures speak a lie, and the word of God, like its author, does not lie. The context here is about choosing between serving false gods and the God of all gods. It is not even in reference to salvation and has nothing to say about salvation. The context is in verse 14 “Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.” Therefore, the proper context is, are you going to serve me or the false gods your fathers served? God was not talking to lost sinners, they cannot serve God.  The Lord goes on to say but if you are going to serve me “…fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth…” You cannot properly serve God any other way then in truth. But if one is going to lie about the context of this scripture then that does nothing to serve the Lord in truth. Jesus said in John 4:24 “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” But the reality is most of those Arminian Preacher cannot even tell you what truth is. If they do not know God’s plan of salvation then how can they lead others to true and pure salvation. How can they speak the truth and lead their churches in a spiritual service if they have not even learned the context and truth of the scriptures? The truth is that God saved sinners, we have nothing to do with salvation, no decision, no choice, no prayer, no baptism, no works, no anything else. All of these are Arminian lies taking the scriptures out of context in order to make-up false doctrine. Look what Jesus Christ Himself said about salvation, “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him... John 6:44 now go look up in the Strong’s Concordance the word “draw” and you will see it means to “drag”. Now, I did not say it means “against our will”, no not at all, Paul said He makes us willing. “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” Philippians 2:13 it is not in us to do good to God, He puts that will there. Folks, it matters not what men say about the scriptures, it matters not how smart they are, it matters not how holy they may appear, the truth is it is either truth or a lie. There is not in between, there is not half-truth and half-lie, because with God only the absolute truth will do. The only choice that was made about salvation was God’s choice before the world began. As Paul said in 2 Timothy 1:7-11 “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. (8) Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; (9) Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, (10) But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: (11) Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.” The truth is folks, there is no choosing salvation, unless God has chosen you and called you with a Holy Calling to come to Jesus Christ and be washed in the sin cleansing blood.

The Wicked Shall Be Destroyed Together.

“But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.” Psalms 37:38

 

I know when we speak of the judgment of God most transgressors laugh, but not so fast. God has promised that sinners will account for their sins. If your sins have not been covered by the blood of Jesus Christ then one day you will absolutely account for them before the Throne of Judgment called The Great White Throne. “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.” Revelation 20:11 The One who sets on it, in which “from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away” is Jesus Christ. “For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:” John 5:22 this same Jesus who so many have no respect, no fear, and reject as the Saviour of mankind. It is He whom the Father has set the right to judge the saved and the lost. The saved will get rewards or lose rewards, but the lost will be put into eternal hell because they do not belong to the Son of God. “And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Matthew 7:23 It is not that He does not know them, in fact He knows everything there is to know about them. But, since they have rejected Jesus Christ as their Saviour then He does not know them as His, as washed in His blood. Jesus said in John 10:14 The Saviour puts it this way “I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.” He knows His sheep and in return they know Him, but all those that transgressors are not His, and He knows they are not His. They can plead their case all they want, but to no avail. Salvation is not about works, it is about the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ when He died for His own, those that He has known as His before the world began. This (Great White Throne) is where He will resurrect all the lost, judge them, and cast them all into the lake of fire as He has chosen, with the devil and his angels being in the hottest part. “And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” Revelation 20:10 “Then all the remaining lost will follow them into their appointed place of torment forever and ever.” Revelation 20:13-14 “And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works…And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.” People think that they have defeated God, that He and Jesus Christ are pointless, but in time they will all see that Jesus Christ is setting on the His Throne and that Jesus Christ is their judge. This is where the end of Satan and his demons will meet their demise as they, and all that believed in their lie is forever burning. Folks, there is only one escape, and that is through the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no other way, no other escape of the last judgment and the eternal punishment in hell. 1 John 5:11-12 “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son…He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” Which judgment will you be a part of, at His coming in the cloud, or at the great white throne?

The Righteous Are Like A Tree Planted By The Waters.

Psalms 1:1-3 “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. (2.) But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. (3.) And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”

Oh, what a blessing it is to serve God. Some people look at it as a chore, or a regret, but to those who serve the Lord, it is indeed a true blessing. We look in this world and try to figure out what keeps us healthy, what can we do to be happy, well we do not have to look far, it is godliness. The scriptures say that if we “…walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful… he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season…” So it seems to me that if we (as Christians) are looking for happiness in this world, then we find it not in the world but in godliness. If you find in your church a very godly person you will find a well fed, and satisfied person. You will find a person not starving for things but a well-nourished in every part of their life. Now, I did not say a person without life issues, that is something we are going to suffer, death is also guaranteed by God, but you will find a person that takes life as God gives it and is satisfied with what God gives. Every time you read in the scriptures about this you will find that this is true. God said, “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.” Galatians 5:16 For a Christian, life is not about this world, it is about the life to come. Gathering fruit in this life that is of value in the life to come. Walking in the counsel of godliness is a Christians most happiness because the godlier you walk the closer you are with God. “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 I believe this fellowship is with God, as believers we also have a closer and better fellowship if we walk in the Spirit together, but I believe this is our fellowship with our Father. This is when we are agreeing with God and walking in the Spirit. God asked this question, “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” Amos 3:3 Well, how can they? God also said “No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Luke 16:13 Beloved, if you are walking with God, you will not be serving the world but rather God and the reverse is also true. Therefore, we see if a Christian is walking with God they are “… like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season…” The river just keeps feeding them, and they look green and produce godly fruit all year around because they are feeding from the river of godliness. This is how Christians continue to be content, they are happy with what God gives them. They know that God can and will supply every need they have, they know the lows and highs in life are by the good measure of God’s grace, and they know they that God has ordained their life and them living worldly is not going to make it better. So, please let us remember what God said through the Prophet Amos “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” Or you’re not going to walk together, and in that walking together will cause the Believer in Jesus Christ be their happiest. Folks, it is on God’s terms not ours. Just like worship, it must be in spirit and truth or not at all, you must walk in the Spirit or not at all. If you and God do not agree in the walk then what good is the walk? This is how the godly believer is happy and content, they believe and walk in Christ together with God the Father.   

God Will Never Have Pleasure In Wickedness.

“For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.” Psalms 5:4

I believe, in the times we now live in, and as evil that has captured the world more and more, people believes God is “ok” with the evil of the world. Please, never be fooled by the actions of this Satanic controlled world, nor weak, full of nothing churches and Pastors today. There are things about God that so many have either forgotten or simply never learned about God, God will never change! Any sort of homosexually is still sinful to God, it has been from the beginning and God will not change on it or any other sinful acts. Abortion is still murder, and that will never change either. If God has called it a sin, murder or evil, it is still the same today. Please take this warning, no one, and I mean no one can change God, His Word, or His personality. “For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” Malachi 3:6 What a blessing for the Israelites that God did not change, because if He had He would have destroyed them long ago. God said of Himself in Revelation 1:8 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” If God is the beginning and the end, and the first and the last, then what else is there. One small detail most people do not understand about our Sovereign God is, that everything is done by His predetermined will. Therefore, God has not already consumed us. If people would stop listening to those weak, watered down preachers, and would learn that God is going to punish sin. People are not winning against God, He is not “ok” with the evils of this world. God said He has NO PLEASURES in sin or evil. And those that commit such evil and try to force it on other will also not walk with God, and why would they, God hates them. “The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.” Psalms 5:5 preacher are foolish and they tell not the truth, God hates the WORKERS as well as the sin. People need to hear the truth and not a watered-down version. People need to hear that God is going to punish evil and the evil doers. People are going to the eternal lake of fire for their sins if they are not washed and pardoned by the glorious blood of Jesus Christ. Preachers today are weak, and watered down, most of them know nothing of God or His word. God calls them the blind and He says they are leading the blind, well that has the eternal lake of fire written all over it. Matthew 15:14 “Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.” And God tells us to “Let them alone…” not to even try to make them see the truth. Let them go, let then enjoy the lies they teach, let them go to the fires of hell, because there is nothing we can do to change them or their ways. So, when preachers tell you that things have changed with God, His word, and His churches, believe them not. It’s just some bling preacher driving a bunch of blind people right into the ditch of Eternal Hell. Matthew 25:30 “And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” And please notice the words “unprofitable servant”. Folks, it is my plea and prayer that people see the truth of our Sovereign God before the car hits the ditch of eternal hell. God has not changed, He cannot change. Do not believe the PhD lies from the artificial church pulpits, God is the same and He is not going to change, EVER!  

Love is God, And It Should Be Us As Believers.

“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. (8.) He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” 1 John 4:7-8

Think about this question, what is the greatest thing in a believer that has been saved by God’s grace and the Blood of Jesus Christ? Here is you answer, LOVE. I wonder what is more important to some Christians, love or doctrine? Folks, please understand I am as much a doctrine man as any other but the greatest thing we have in us is love, because God is love and God is in us. It truly does surprise me sometimes at the amount of anger in some Christians heart over doctrinal difference, almost a hatred. The scriptures conclude “We love him, because he first loved us." 1 John 4:19 Who loved who first? God did, God loved you while you were yet a sinner. You were a nothing, nobody sinner who knew no truth and did not love God and yet by His grace and mercy, because of His love He elected to love you and to save your unworthy soul. There are way too many Christians that allow their love for other Christians fall short because of doctrinal differences, this is a disgrace to the God that loves every single one of His elect. I believe as Christians we have made to many separations for too many dumb reasons in the past. Look at our past and look at God’s word, we have all failed God. God said, “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God…” there is not stipulation on that love, none at all. God did not say, “if you all agree in doctrine, or if you are the same race, or if you are all the same nationality”. No, God said “Beloved” let us love one another because God is love and He chose to love you. Christians are not haters, they are lovers. There are no greater Christians than others. If you are saved by the love, grace, and mercy of God then you are as important to God as any other believer. After salvation, the ones who walk the closest with God as the ones who walk after the Spirit of God and in truth. But, beloved, it does not separate us there, we still must show our love to those who may fall short. Let us remember, those who walk in truth walk there because God has elected to show that to you, but others do not because God has not showed it to them. This does not make you any better, brighter, or more loved than any other Christian on earth. There was a time when God loved the Jews, and the Jews thought that God would never love anyone but them, but thank you Lord, He also loved me a Gentile sinner. Beloved, if you are saved, if you are loved of God, then share that love with other believers, it is called “redeeming the time”. Let us learn from the past, let us breakdown the walls of separation and love all the family of God, respect them, and show God that we are no longer the past of separation. God point blank said, “If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?" 1 John 4:20 Beloved, it matters who you are, what church you are a part of, what race, nationality, or anything else, if you hate your brother in Christ for any reason, you are a liar and may not even be a Christian. Folks, the world and Satan hates all alike, and because of Jesus Christ, why should Christians be like them. God finished up with these words, “And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.” 1 John 4:21 

Two Forbidden Words.

1 Peter 2:15 “For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:”

There are certain words that as Christians we ought not say, and two of them are “Ignorance”, and “Foolishness”, but why not? These are not insulting words to people, we just take them to be insulting. God used them and used them much. See when it comes to God’s word, it says so much that offends people that most Pastors have by-passed the scriptures for common sense preaching. Most have determined the Bible to be an insulting book. We are taught to mock another person in any way is not good, therefore we ought to by-pass the truth and teach lies to make everything “politically correct”. There are two things I truly hate that many people do, I hate it when people ignore the scripters, and I hate people teaching lies. To be ignorant means – a person does not have the knowledge of something – the word foolish means - mindless, or unbelieving – neither one of these words are critical of a person, they are words to describe a person that simply does not understand. Personally I am ignorant of a lot of things, and foolish on others. However, the worst ignorance is, ignorance in the scriptures. Man has the scriptures so watered down that they have become worthless to teach. Now, what is teaching the scriptures? Teaching the scriptures is an ability to teach verse by verse, chapter by chapter, and book by book in the context that they are written. If you will notice there are a lot of Preachers that spend useless, time consuming talk rather than preaching. Preaching is not reading a passage of scriptures and then consuming time with a story or a joke or etc. When the church is together it is God’s time with us. It is time to spiritually worship the Lord and to dwell in the truths of His word. God said there is only two ways to worship God, in spirit and in truth. John 4:24 “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” A spiritual worship of God is to hear the word of God and to have fellowship with God as the sermon is being taught. Second, if there is no truth from the teacher then there is no fellowship. You cannot fellowship in lies with God. Please do not be fooled by who is teaching. There are good men, men with great higher learning, all the way to a PhD that are ignorant to the scriptures. And, on the flip side there are uneducated men who teach the scriptures and are masterful in the scriptures. I knew a man (Forrest Keener) who had no high school graduation who created a masterful bible study course for home seminary education, and was a masterful Preacher. Never judge a servant of God on his educational level, but on his biblical education from the Holy Spirit. Look at what God said, “In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. Luke 10:21 God hid the truth from the educated and revealed them the simple minded. A man can be book educated but that is not bible educated. Oh, I know they desire to teach the bible but they are ignorant and foolish in the scriptures. God also said, “For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.” Luke 10:24 If God has not taught them to you through the Holy Spirit, then you have not learned them, that is learned the truth. It I easy to learn Satan’s lies, but impossible to learn God’s truths unless God teaches them to you. How is your Pastor? Does he teach the bible or earthly fiction? Do not be fooled by his great knowledge from a Seminary of a University is he God educated or ignorant and foolish?   

Why Can’t People Understand God; and Jesus Christ.

“In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.” Luke 10:21

As you drive down the streets in your town, city, or community you will see places of worship almost on every corner. You will see all sorts of places to worship and you will see anything from small congregations to the most extreme and large ones. Why are they so many? Why are they so many different denominations, and so many of each of the same denominations? Do you really need a First Baptist, a Corner street Baptist, a Faith Baptist, and etc. Do you really need a Church of Christ, and a Catholic, and a Pentecostal, and so forth and so on? One might ask who is right and who is wrong, and could they all be right? Well that’s a lot of question with few simply answers. However, with a small and bold answer, NO, they cannot be right, it is impossible that they could all be right. Even the many types of “Baptist Churches” are not even agreeably right. This is the bottom line, there is only one truth, and one church of truth. And just because a congregation calls themselves “non-denominational” that means nothing accept they will believe anything and accept anyone. When looking for a church of truth, and the true church one must look to God’s word. You cannot look to your own thoughts, or your own heart because both are deceitful, even if you do not think they are, they are. God said “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9 and this is why it cannot be trusted to make spiritual and godly decisions. God went on to say these words of wisdom, “He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.” Proverbs 28:26 See, the only thing that can be trusted in making decisions in life is the word of God because it is the absolute truth. God said in 2 Timothy 2:15 “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” If a person is ever going to understand the truth of God in His word they must study the word and allow the word to teach them. To many people teach the word instead of letting it teach them. The Bible speaks on its own, all you have to do is to listen. If you listen to a preacher or a teacher, listen to see if they are teaching the bible, verse by verse, defining words, and if they are in the context meaning of the passage. If they are not, then the church and those teachers are wrong for you. But with everything said, and so much more to say, there is a profound reason that many falsely believe the bible, God has never taught it to them. You cannot simply learn the bible no more than you can simply “get saved”. This is the truth so few today will believe and teach, the only real Saviour is God in His power and person of Jesus Christ, and The only real teacher of the bible is the Holy Spirit. If God does not save a sinner they are not saved, it God does not start, build, and sustain a church they will not be a church. This is why you have so many denominations and so many different sections of those denominations. People who do not know the truth of the bible trying to teach things they do not understand. Most do it simply for money. God is the teacher of the bible and He uses the men He chooses to teach those that learn. No title behind or even in front of a man’s name makes him a more sure teacher of the bible. Let us not forget God said “…that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes…” And we must ask why, “…for so it seemed good in thy sight.” All mankind is wrong about the bible until God has showed it to them, no matter who they are. And please understand that God has not showed it to everyone. Always remember, there is only one truth and one that reveals that truth, God. We must make sure we are being taught the truth and if you are in doubt please seek the truth elsewhere. I can tell you this, as a Sovereign Grace Baptist I have studied hard and it is my absolute understanding that we are right without a doubt. If I were not I would seek the truth till I found it, and so should you. The truth only comes to those whom God shows it, has He showed it to you?

Do You Know This God?

Nahum 1:4-7 “He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. (5.) The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. (6) Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.  (7.) The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

It is funny to hear some Pastors and Christians describe God, and then you must wonder, do they even know Him. I laugh every time I hear Pastors proclaim these ignorant words, “God can’t change your will, it is your decision” when speaking of salvation. The reason I must laugh is because it is so untrue, this is not the God that saves. The God that saved me is the God of Sovereignty, immutability, Omniscience, Omnipresence, in fact my God is the only One who can save a sinner. Beloved, just read the text and tell me that God cannot change a persons will. The absolute truth is, if God does not change a persons will it will never be changed. Folks, there is nothing in the scriptures to support their claim and I mean nothing. Everything in creation obeys God’s commands, even nature. As God has many times told us over and over in His word, if He does not save us we will never come to Christ Jesus for salvation. Paul said in Romans 3:11 “There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.” Folks, this is every human being, none of them will ever seek the Lord because it is against our sinful nature to seek righteousness. Look what God said of man, Job 15:16 “How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?” this is not some men it is all mankind. People want to rob God of His saving glory and Jesus Christ His saving glory by putting this into the hands of man. God never put these in man’s hands because man would fail just like we have failed at everything else. We must understand when we came to Jesus Christ for salvation we were delivered by the power of God, not by our decisions. Jesus Christ said in John 6:44 “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” Why can’t a person come to Christ without being drawn? Jesus also said in John 12:32 “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” Please note the word “men” is in italic which means it does not exist and the translators added it. However, please note the word “draw” in both of these verses, it absolutely means – to drag – why does God have to drag us to Christ if it is our choice, and God cannot change our wills. But please take special note of the words in John 6:44 “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him…”  Jesus Christ Himself said that no man can come, except the Father draw him. Why if the Father refuses to draw a soul to Christ, can that person come anyway? And how does God draw us or drag us? Well, first of all God cannot fail therefore all that He calls, or draws, or drags will come. Romans 8:14 “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” And please note “many as are led… they are the sons of God” There is nothing about a sinner’s choice, there is nothing about a sinner making a decision, there is nothing about anyone else doing anything, only God. Folks, the pulpits today are full of wrongness and people filling them who has never been saved. Let’s see what God calls these people. Matthew 15:14 “Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.” Look where these blind leaders are leading you too. And God said to leave them alone, but I must try to make those being lead to see. Folks, those that hate the Sovereignty of God are blind, think about it. 

Abstain!

“Abstain from all appearance of evil.” 1 Thessalonians 5:22

One of the greatest problems of believers in Jesus Christ is to abstain from evil, but God has demanded of us to do it. While we are yet sinners even while in the gracious salvation of God. No human is perfect and we should never expect another to be perfect. God warned us through the Apostle Paul, “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” Romans 12:3 As Christians we must think soberly because it is easy for proud believers to tend to believe that somehow they are more highly and more respectfully above others. But as we think soberly and not thinking more highly of ourselves than we ought, we should remember that we are all sinners saved by the grace of God. And as sinners none of us are better than the other. We must believe that all the goodness in us if in Jesus Christ and given to us by the holy Spirit through the grace of the Father. Paul went on to say in Romans 12:3b “…according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”  We must understand that God deals with us independently of each other. It is God that takes a single lump of clay and molds each of us the way He chooses too. One He may give many gifts of grace, another somewhat less, and some He may have made them a vessel for destruction. There is not injustice with God He has the right to do as He please, just as you would if you created something. Therefore, the more you know, the stronger you are, is the more blessed with Gods “measure of faith”. Therefore, I believe it is wrong to be critical of one who lacks the graces you do. However, lacking grace, faith, and understanding is one thing, but to disobey God is another. Christians often get themselves into trouble by knowingly disobeying God. Even the simplest believer knows it is wrong to disobey God. Therefore, it is our job to avoid sin in our lives and to worship God with all our being. God warns us throughout His word to avoid evil and sin. We should not be around it, nor be a part of it so that we are not tempted. The less temped you are the less likely you are to disobey God.

 

Now to our main point. We are not only to avoid sin but we are also to avoid putting ourselves in a place that even looks like sin. Notice exactly what God said “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” In other words, don’t put yourself in a position that it is going to make you look like you are sinning. Let me use this example, if you are sitting in a bar where drinks are served, one might assume you are consuming alcohol, and if you are sitting with a pretty woman one might assume you are with her instead of your wife. Now all of this is assumption, but you are going to be mad it someone claims they saw you. But here is the question, who’s fault is the misunderstanding? It is yours for allowing yourself to be seen in “…appearance of evil.” We don’t need to forget that God also told us “That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.” 1 Thessalonians 4:12 How are we walking honestly before them if we are walking with them? Folk’s don’t sit with sinners unless you want to look like one of them. Regardless of the measure of faith that God has given to us, we all know by faith alone to avoid sin, and here God tells us to even avoid the appearance of it. I finish with this thought, please read it very careful. “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” Philippians 4:8