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?