Before Jesus cleansed the temple a second time, “he being hungry” saw a fig tree and subsequently "cursed” it at its root. The following day when Peter saw it, he said, “Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:21-24).
I believe that Jesus’ words were as silver tried, purified seven times: Every word was measured by the Holy Ghost and anchored in “it is written!” As a man full of the Holy Ghost, Jesus was walking by faith that was ever proceeding from the Father; therefore he spoke in faith that was grounded in the Word of God. Jesus would have never said that you could speak to the mountain and it would obey you if He could not back it up with scripture! This gets it out of the realm of the “mystical” and out of the arena of “inward imaging” and into the solid ground of sound doctrine.
The whole chapter of Mark 11 teaches this principle of Jesus walking in faith that came from hearing the Word of God. Note that from the “Mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples” to “find a colt tied.” The disciples did as they were told and found the colt just as Jesus said they would. How did Jesus know to do this? Because the voice of the Holy Ghost within lined up perfectly with the scriptures he had learned. It was written, “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass” (Zechariah 9:9). This was one colt that this man had to let go of!
Why did Jesus cleanse the temple? Was it to make a show or was it sudden impulse? No, it was a fulfillment of Malachi 3:1 “The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.” Jesus plainly stated his motive when He said, “Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer" but ye have made it a den of thieves”(Isaiah 56:7). Jesus walked into the temple by the faith of Malachi three verse one and the confidence of Isaiah!
Why did Jesus curse the fig tree when he knew “the time of figs was not yet.” Remember it was fig leaves that Adam tried to “cover” his sins with. Immediately God showed by making him a “coat of skins,” that only innocent blood could accomplish that. Indeed, the Old Covenant of God with Israel was centered on the blood of innocent animals. But this was never God’s ultimate plan and it never produced the desired results in Israel at that time—that will come at the end of the Great Tribulation. That is why it reads, "The time of figs was not yet."
Jesus knew that this Old Covenant was soon to fade away because he was fixing to cut the New Covenant in His Blood! Nothing could be surer than this: Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel all wrote of the New Covenant to come.! Jesus cursed the fig tree knowing from the scriptures that God could never satisfy his appetite for true worship with types and shadows. God was no longer going to cover mans sin: He was going to cleanse man’s heart and wash away his sins: “But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people” (Jeremiah 31:33). Jesus cursed the fig tree because he was walking in the faith of Jeremiah 31:33!
Now what about this “Holy Ghost Mountain Moving Company? From Mark 11:1 it is clear that Jesus at that time was “headquarted” at “Bethany at the Mount of Olives.” Now I know that "mountain" here is applicable to many things, but Jesus was specifically referencing the Mount of Olives when He taught that we could "speak to the mountain and it would obey."
Jesus said, “Have faith in God.” Romans 10:17 states: “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Where did Jesus get the faith to teach his disciples this wonderful truth? Once again He got it from the teaching of the Holy Ghost that was grounded in the book of the Holy Ghost. He had read in the book of Zechariah 14:3-4: “Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.” Jesus knew that one day he would come back with the armies of heaven and set foot on the Mount of Olives and that it would “depart all the way to the sea!!(I heard Perry Stone teach this part) This truth had "leaped off the pages" of Zechariah into His heart before He ever spoke it to the disciples!
How did he know he was coming back? Because it is w…………
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
IS JESUS STANDING OUTSIDE YOUR CHURCH?
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. — Revelation 3:14-22
This is one of the most alarming warnings in all of scripture: The hour before Christ’s return to catch away His Bride, He is standing outside the door of His church looking in! He is knocking on the door but they seem to be having trouble hearing him because they are in the middle of a service that is being carried to the world with the latest cutting edge technology. The music is simply too loud and the atmosphere to “juiced” for anyone to be heard knocking on this door: After all, IT IS A HOLY GHOST PARTY! Or better yet, as someone recently described an “unbelievable” move of God: It is a “night club atmosphere.”
Jesus is knocking on the door of this church looking for faith: “… Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth” (Luke 18:8)? What He found was a confession of faith but no possession of His presence—He was not there. What he found was a faith that had begun right but at some point had swerved into error: “ Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm” (1 Timothy 1:5-7). Notice this church is lukewarm which is halfway between hot and cold: They were majoring on half truths.
All of this was a fulfillment of what Jesus had prophesied in Matthew 13:33: “The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.” Leaven speaks of false doctrine and its twin sister pride. It is “hot air” that puffs up and makes something look big but in reality it is grounded on smallness and has no weight of glory. It is also something that lightens the weight or mood of something. Is this not much of the Charismatic church of America, the majority of what is seen on Christian television?
Truly it is time to repent. Jesus does not stand at this door and knock forever: He moves “outside the camp” and calls out to the halt and maimed: “Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind” (Luke 14:21). He leaves those who are blind and don’t know it to go to those who realize their deep need of Him!
Is Jesus standing outside your church?
This is one of the most alarming warnings in all of scripture: The hour before Christ’s return to catch away His Bride, He is standing outside the door of His church looking in! He is knocking on the door but they seem to be having trouble hearing him because they are in the middle of a service that is being carried to the world with the latest cutting edge technology. The music is simply too loud and the atmosphere to “juiced” for anyone to be heard knocking on this door: After all, IT IS A HOLY GHOST PARTY! Or better yet, as someone recently described an “unbelievable” move of God: It is a “night club atmosphere.”
Jesus is knocking on the door of this church looking for faith: “… Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth” (Luke 18:8)? What He found was a confession of faith but no possession of His presence—He was not there. What he found was a faith that had begun right but at some point had swerved into error: “ Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm” (1 Timothy 1:5-7). Notice this church is lukewarm which is halfway between hot and cold: They were majoring on half truths.
All of this was a fulfillment of what Jesus had prophesied in Matthew 13:33: “The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.” Leaven speaks of false doctrine and its twin sister pride. It is “hot air” that puffs up and makes something look big but in reality it is grounded on smallness and has no weight of glory. It is also something that lightens the weight or mood of something. Is this not much of the Charismatic church of America, the majority of what is seen on Christian television?
Truly it is time to repent. Jesus does not stand at this door and knock forever: He moves “outside the camp” and calls out to the halt and maimed: “Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind” (Luke 14:21). He leaves those who are blind and don’t know it to go to those who realize their deep need of Him!
Is Jesus standing outside your church?
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER TWELVE
“And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:11-13).
I believe one of the greatest deceptions in the Body of Christ today is a movement built on the lie that for the church to truly function today, God has had to restore the office of the apostle and prophet as a "modern day foundation" of the church. Where is that in scripture? When did Jesus, who is the Author and Finisher of the church ever lose these foundational ministries? If they were lost, does that mean that the church of Finny, Wesley, and Wigglesworth’s time was built on sand? Since these modern apostles rank first in authority, does that mean that David Wilkerson, the founding pastor of Times Square Church, needs to find a modern apostle to submit to so he will come under “proper alignment?”
The scriptures clearly state that the church that Jesus is building sits on a foundation: “And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together growth unto a holy temple in the Lord” (Ephesians 2:20-21). NO OTHER FOUNDATION CAN BE LAID: “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 3:11). Any apostle or prophet claiming to be a modern foundation of the church is simply a liar: “I know thy works, and thy labor, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars” (Revelation 2:2). This is because a modern foundation by its very definition would have to be another foundation which equals another gospel.
Many times in scripture the church is referred to the house of God. The foundation this house sits on is the scriptures that came through the ministry of the original twelve apostles minus Judas, plus Paul. The work of these men of God lives on even though they are dead as pertaining to this life. This is because the words they left us were literally the Words of Jesus and were written not only in His Blood, but also the Apostles blood. This “Blood” still speaks in Almighty Power and Authority today: “And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel” (Hebrews 12:24). Therefore, the church sits on as it were an eternal and unmovable foundation that has not the slightest crack in it. How is it that God had to restore something that had never been lost? How is it we are still falling for heresy the Assemblies of God rebuked over fifty years ago?
"In 1949 the General Council of the Assemblies of God held in Seattle overwhelmingly approved a resolution that was prepared by a committee that dealt with the Latter Rain Movement. The resolution adopted disapproved of the following practices of the Latter Rain, and the action was made necessary as a result of the movement invading the Assembly of God churches:
1. The overemphasis relative to imparting, identifying, bestowing, or confirming of gifts by the laying on of hands and prophecy.
2. The erroneous teaching that the church is built on the foundation of present-day
apostles and prophets.
3. The extreme teaching as advocated by the "New Order," regarding the confession of sin to man and deliverance as practised, which claims prerogatives to human agency which belongs only to Christ.
4. The erroneous teaching concerning the impartation of the gift of languages as
special equipment for missionary service.
5. The extreme and unscriptural practice of imparting or imposing personal leadings by the means of the gifts of utterance.
6. Such other wresting and distortions of scripture interpretations, which are in opposition to teachings and practices generally accepted among us." -
The truth is the church needs to get back to its foundation and quit going from fad to fad! The word apostle means a delegate, messenger, one sent forth with orders. I am sure there are apostles today that fit this description such as Barnabas, Timothy, and Silvanus who were called apostles in the scriptures. But these never claimed to be the foundation of the church because the truth is, that was settled from eternity: “And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb” (Revelation 21:14). There will never be another twelve!!!
I believe one of the greatest deceptions in the Body of Christ today is a movement built on the lie that for the church to truly function today, God has had to restore the office of the apostle and prophet as a "modern day foundation" of the church. Where is that in scripture? When did Jesus, who is the Author and Finisher of the church ever lose these foundational ministries? If they were lost, does that mean that the church of Finny, Wesley, and Wigglesworth’s time was built on sand? Since these modern apostles rank first in authority, does that mean that David Wilkerson, the founding pastor of Times Square Church, needs to find a modern apostle to submit to so he will come under “proper alignment?”
The scriptures clearly state that the church that Jesus is building sits on a foundation: “And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together growth unto a holy temple in the Lord” (Ephesians 2:20-21). NO OTHER FOUNDATION CAN BE LAID: “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 3:11). Any apostle or prophet claiming to be a modern foundation of the church is simply a liar: “I know thy works, and thy labor, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars” (Revelation 2:2). This is because a modern foundation by its very definition would have to be another foundation which equals another gospel.
Many times in scripture the church is referred to the house of God. The foundation this house sits on is the scriptures that came through the ministry of the original twelve apostles minus Judas, plus Paul. The work of these men of God lives on even though they are dead as pertaining to this life. This is because the words they left us were literally the Words of Jesus and were written not only in His Blood, but also the Apostles blood. This “Blood” still speaks in Almighty Power and Authority today: “And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel” (Hebrews 12:24). Therefore, the church sits on as it were an eternal and unmovable foundation that has not the slightest crack in it. How is it that God had to restore something that had never been lost? How is it we are still falling for heresy the Assemblies of God rebuked over fifty years ago?
"In 1949 the General Council of the Assemblies of God held in Seattle overwhelmingly approved a resolution that was prepared by a committee that dealt with the Latter Rain Movement. The resolution adopted disapproved of the following practices of the Latter Rain, and the action was made necessary as a result of the movement invading the Assembly of God churches:
1. The overemphasis relative to imparting, identifying, bestowing, or confirming of gifts by the laying on of hands and prophecy.
2. The erroneous teaching that the church is built on the foundation of present-day
apostles and prophets.
3. The extreme teaching as advocated by the "New Order," regarding the confession of sin to man and deliverance as practised, which claims prerogatives to human agency which belongs only to Christ.
4. The erroneous teaching concerning the impartation of the gift of languages as
special equipment for missionary service.
5. The extreme and unscriptural practice of imparting or imposing personal leadings by the means of the gifts of utterance.
6. Such other wresting and distortions of scripture interpretations, which are in opposition to teachings and practices generally accepted among us." -
The truth is the church needs to get back to its foundation and quit going from fad to fad! The word apostle means a delegate, messenger, one sent forth with orders. I am sure there are apostles today that fit this description such as Barnabas, Timothy, and Silvanus who were called apostles in the scriptures. But these never claimed to be the foundation of the church because the truth is, that was settled from eternity: “And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb” (Revelation 21:14). There will never be another twelve!!!
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
THE BATTLEFIELDS SAFER THAN BATHSHEBA'S BEDROOM!
"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them" (Ephesians 2:10).
The word walk here is also found in Galatians 5:16: “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” Put the two together and you get: “Walk in the good works ordained for you to do and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.” To walk in the Spirit is to be occupied with your Heavenly Father’s business; to walk in the flesh is to do everything but that.
Steve Pettis once preached a message along the lines of the safest place to be in God was in the middle of the storm or on the battlefield. The old saying was “idleness is the devil’s workshop.” The wisdom David learned was the battlefield was the safest place to be: Far safer than the roof of his house! When he should have been doing the King’s work by going to battle—walking in the Spirit—instead he “walked” in adultery with Bathsheba. Had he walked in the Spirit he would not have fulfilled the lusts of the flesh.
The greatest sin in this last hour is not adultery, idolatry, or covetousness; the greatest sin is the deception of hearing the word and not doing it. We are called to do the great work of making disciples and this battlefield for souls is the only safe place to be in the coming storm. To not answer the call of the Lord of the harvest now is to commit fornication with the “Call Girl’s” of this world.
The good work that God has prepared for you to do is that of a soul winner. As a born again believer under the New Covenant, God has made you an “able minister” of the Living Word. As B.H. Clendennen says, “Any man or woman that becomes pregnant with the Word of God can birth a church.” God has written many souls upon your heart: It is time for these “children to come to birth.” What greater work could there be than to raise the dead in sin to newness of life in Christ?
The word walk here is also found in Galatians 5:16: “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” Put the two together and you get: “Walk in the good works ordained for you to do and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.” To walk in the Spirit is to be occupied with your Heavenly Father’s business; to walk in the flesh is to do everything but that.
Steve Pettis once preached a message along the lines of the safest place to be in God was in the middle of the storm or on the battlefield. The old saying was “idleness is the devil’s workshop.” The wisdom David learned was the battlefield was the safest place to be: Far safer than the roof of his house! When he should have been doing the King’s work by going to battle—walking in the Spirit—instead he “walked” in adultery with Bathsheba. Had he walked in the Spirit he would not have fulfilled the lusts of the flesh.
The greatest sin in this last hour is not adultery, idolatry, or covetousness; the greatest sin is the deception of hearing the word and not doing it. We are called to do the great work of making disciples and this battlefield for souls is the only safe place to be in the coming storm. To not answer the call of the Lord of the harvest now is to commit fornication with the “Call Girl’s” of this world.
The good work that God has prepared for you to do is that of a soul winner. As a born again believer under the New Covenant, God has made you an “able minister” of the Living Word. As B.H. Clendennen says, “Any man or woman that becomes pregnant with the Word of God can birth a church.” God has written many souls upon your heart: It is time for these “children to come to birth.” What greater work could there be than to raise the dead in sin to newness of life in Christ?
Monday, October 26, 2009
PREACH THE WORD AND HE WILL COME
And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them. —Mark 2:2
Jesus Christ was and is the greatest preacher of the Word of God. His mission and ministry to a lost and dying world were accomplished through the foolishness of preaching: “And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities” (Matthew 11:1). Make no mistake about it: You can not separate Jesus’ power from his anointed preaching, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised” (Luke 4:18).
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. —Acts 10:38
How was this power released? Through the foolishness of preaching: Jesus preached the Word. You can be sure that Jesus preached from Isaiah 35:5 that “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.” How do I know this? Because Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Jesus preached this truth and the blind saw and the deaf heard. How is it that we read that under Jesus’ ministry that the lame walked and the dumb spoke? Because Jesus preached the word: “Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert” (35:6).
Thank God that this preaching ministry of Christ is still the bedrock foundation of the church that Jesus is building: “Upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18). Luke and the other gospels was an account “of all that Jesus began both to do and teach;” Acts is an account of all that Christ continued to do. When you read of where Peter and Paul preached the “word of the Lord” it was in all spiritual reality Christ himself preaching through them. Paul confirms this when he testifies, “I live, yet not I but Christ liveth in me.”
Any and all church growth “programs” that does not center on “Pentecostal” preaching as the way to grow a church is missing the mark. The preaching of the cross is the power of God and through the foolishness of preaching men are saved. Search the scriptures and you will find that the baptism in the Holy Ghost is all about the tongue of man being “God possessed” to preach the gospel of repentance to a lost and dying world. On the day of Pentecost the Holy Ghost appeared as “cloven tongues of fire and this baptism was immediately manifested: “They spoke with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.” What happened next? This same exact utterance flowed through Peter as lifted up his voice and preached the gospel and three thousand souls were saved. This same “utterance of preaching” was poured out again after the healing of the lame man and five thousand more souls was saved. Read all the book of Act’s and you will see this is God’s blueprint for building the church.
The preaching of the word is the manifestation of Jesus that the church and the world most desperately needs: “But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Savior” (Titus 1:3). Jesus is the Presence of the Living Word of God which is unto us Redemption, Deliverance, Healing, Salvation, Power, and Peace. Preach the Word and He will come! How dare we build according to any other blueprint!
Jesus Christ was and is the greatest preacher of the Word of God. His mission and ministry to a lost and dying world were accomplished through the foolishness of preaching: “And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities” (Matthew 11:1). Make no mistake about it: You can not separate Jesus’ power from his anointed preaching, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised” (Luke 4:18).
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. —Acts 10:38
How was this power released? Through the foolishness of preaching: Jesus preached the Word. You can be sure that Jesus preached from Isaiah 35:5 that “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.” How do I know this? Because Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Jesus preached this truth and the blind saw and the deaf heard. How is it that we read that under Jesus’ ministry that the lame walked and the dumb spoke? Because Jesus preached the word: “Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert” (35:6).
Thank God that this preaching ministry of Christ is still the bedrock foundation of the church that Jesus is building: “Upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18). Luke and the other gospels was an account “of all that Jesus began both to do and teach;” Acts is an account of all that Christ continued to do. When you read of where Peter and Paul preached the “word of the Lord” it was in all spiritual reality Christ himself preaching through them. Paul confirms this when he testifies, “I live, yet not I but Christ liveth in me.”
Any and all church growth “programs” that does not center on “Pentecostal” preaching as the way to grow a church is missing the mark. The preaching of the cross is the power of God and through the foolishness of preaching men are saved. Search the scriptures and you will find that the baptism in the Holy Ghost is all about the tongue of man being “God possessed” to preach the gospel of repentance to a lost and dying world. On the day of Pentecost the Holy Ghost appeared as “cloven tongues of fire and this baptism was immediately manifested: “They spoke with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.” What happened next? This same exact utterance flowed through Peter as lifted up his voice and preached the gospel and three thousand souls were saved. This same “utterance of preaching” was poured out again after the healing of the lame man and five thousand more souls was saved. Read all the book of Act’s and you will see this is God’s blueprint for building the church.
The preaching of the word is the manifestation of Jesus that the church and the world most desperately needs: “But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Savior” (Titus 1:3). Jesus is the Presence of the Living Word of God which is unto us Redemption, Deliverance, Healing, Salvation, Power, and Peace. Preach the Word and He will come! How dare we build according to any other blueprint!
Friday, October 23, 2009
WE HAVE REACHED AN ALL TIME HIGH IN LOWS
"The same things win that always won. And we just have a different bunch of excuses if we lose."—Coach Paul William "Bear" Bryant (1913-1983)
What the great coach was saying is when it is all said and done, it’s all about being solid in the fundamentals of the game. If you can block better and tackle better for sixty minutes, protect the ball and play great special teams, you will win. It is more about Jimmy’s and Joe’s than X’s and O’s! If Coach Bryant was still coaching I do not believe he would be running the spread.
Would to God that the church would walk in this wisdom and get back to the fundamentals of the Book of Act’s. In my twenty-seven years in the church I have seen everything from inner healing to a laughing revival. I have been through the shepherding movement, seen everybody get a personal prophesy, and have heard that when three million Jews left Egypt they all left as millionaires! I’ve lived to see modern day prophet’s and apostles commission a “young champion” evangelist and exalt the man to the point of nausea, only to see the “revival” end in adultery. Now to top it all off I have seen the latest “glory” manifestation: Sudden weight loss—I guess we can pack it on and the Lord will take it off!! One teacher has said we no longer even have to confess our sins; good thing: I don’t know if we’d have enough time.
Just how ridiculous do we want to be? If the world realize what a fiasco much of the “charismatic” church was pulling off, they wouldn’t have time to cover the recent “balloon boy" hoax. We live in a time where the fruits of sin are at an all time high and yet some in the church insist that “sin is no longer an issue” with God. Then why do so many New Testament scriptures have to do with correction of the church? How is it that if God can not lie, and He has said no idolater will inherit the Kingdom of God, we preach that there are “saved” idolaters—sin does not affect your born again spirit? Have we not reached an all time high in lows?
The church in the Book of Act’s majored on repentance, the Baptism in the Holy Ghost, and the preaching and teaching of the Word of God. Their repentance was on a daily basis, they were filled and refilled with the Spirit and their preaching and teaching was from heaven—it was not the fabrication of man’s mind. How strange would they have considered a seminar on the newest way to grow a church. Peter pointed men to the Christ that they had crucified with “wicked hands”; today we crucify the truth because we do not want to offend wicked hands!
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
— Jeremiah 6:16
May God multiply the true preaching and teaching of the Word. If we are not preaching and teaching the Word of God may He mercifully kill us!!!
What the great coach was saying is when it is all said and done, it’s all about being solid in the fundamentals of the game. If you can block better and tackle better for sixty minutes, protect the ball and play great special teams, you will win. It is more about Jimmy’s and Joe’s than X’s and O’s! If Coach Bryant was still coaching I do not believe he would be running the spread.
Would to God that the church would walk in this wisdom and get back to the fundamentals of the Book of Act’s. In my twenty-seven years in the church I have seen everything from inner healing to a laughing revival. I have been through the shepherding movement, seen everybody get a personal prophesy, and have heard that when three million Jews left Egypt they all left as millionaires! I’ve lived to see modern day prophet’s and apostles commission a “young champion” evangelist and exalt the man to the point of nausea, only to see the “revival” end in adultery. Now to top it all off I have seen the latest “glory” manifestation: Sudden weight loss—I guess we can pack it on and the Lord will take it off!! One teacher has said we no longer even have to confess our sins; good thing: I don’t know if we’d have enough time.
Just how ridiculous do we want to be? If the world realize what a fiasco much of the “charismatic” church was pulling off, they wouldn’t have time to cover the recent “balloon boy" hoax. We live in a time where the fruits of sin are at an all time high and yet some in the church insist that “sin is no longer an issue” with God. Then why do so many New Testament scriptures have to do with correction of the church? How is it that if God can not lie, and He has said no idolater will inherit the Kingdom of God, we preach that there are “saved” idolaters—sin does not affect your born again spirit? Have we not reached an all time high in lows?
The church in the Book of Act’s majored on repentance, the Baptism in the Holy Ghost, and the preaching and teaching of the Word of God. Their repentance was on a daily basis, they were filled and refilled with the Spirit and their preaching and teaching was from heaven—it was not the fabrication of man’s mind. How strange would they have considered a seminar on the newest way to grow a church. Peter pointed men to the Christ that they had crucified with “wicked hands”; today we crucify the truth because we do not want to offend wicked hands!
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
— Jeremiah 6:16
May God multiply the true preaching and teaching of the Word. If we are not preaching and teaching the Word of God may He mercifully kill us!!!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
THE END IS IN THE BEGINNING
"And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground" (Mark 4:26).
Luke 8:11 tells us that “The seed is the word of God.” We know that Jesus is the Word of God who is the beginning and the end all in one. Therefore this proves that the end is always in the beginning as in a seed. In God one is just as sure as the other: “I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done” (Isaiah 46:9-10).
This principle is clearly seen in a seed of corn. Now every country boy knows that corn consists of a stalk, blades, silk, tassels, and the fruit which is a cob, seed, shucks and silk. All of this, including the end which is the full corn in the ear, is in the beginning of the seed. Where else could it possibly be? One seed will produce two ears which will average at least 1400 more kernels which again is the end of that original seed. All 1400 were most assuredly in the one from the beginning!
The word clearly teaches that if you can understand the principles of a seed you can understand the Kingdom of God. This means that if we will look to the beginning we can clearly see the end. The word Genesis means beginning. Therefore, the end can be discerned from the book of Genesis as it is the foundation of all that followed.
I believe that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth in seven 24 hour days. We read in Gen 2:2-3 that “on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” This is both literal and prophetic of that which was to come. Prophetically it has a double reference. First of all, it speaks of the day that Jesus who was God in the flesh, rested as it were in the “sleep” of death on the seventh day after He was crucified on the sixth day.
It also speaks of a seventh day of rest which is to come: “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.” (Hebrews 4:9). This ultimately speaks of the millennial or the thousand year reign of Christ: “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years” (Revelation 20:6). This again will be the ultimate fulfillment of Genesis 2:3, “And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.” How can we know this? Because the end is always in the beginning: It is all there in the book of Genesis which means beginning. Isaiah 46:8 could read like this, “I am God… declaring the end from the genesis.”
David said in Psalms 90:4: “For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.” Peter affirmed this in 2 Peter 3:8: “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” Therefore, it is not a stretch to look at the seven days in Genesis as prophetic of that which was to come—to see the end from the beginning. It breaks down like this: it was four thousand years from Adam to Christ which is four days. From the time of Christ till now has been two thousand years which is six days. This means that the seventh day—the thousand year millennial—is all but here: “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light” (Romans 13:11-12). Jesus is coming!!!!
Luke 8:11 tells us that “The seed is the word of God.” We know that Jesus is the Word of God who is the beginning and the end all in one. Therefore this proves that the end is always in the beginning as in a seed. In God one is just as sure as the other: “I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done” (Isaiah 46:9-10).
This principle is clearly seen in a seed of corn. Now every country boy knows that corn consists of a stalk, blades, silk, tassels, and the fruit which is a cob, seed, shucks and silk. All of this, including the end which is the full corn in the ear, is in the beginning of the seed. Where else could it possibly be? One seed will produce two ears which will average at least 1400 more kernels which again is the end of that original seed. All 1400 were most assuredly in the one from the beginning!
The word clearly teaches that if you can understand the principles of a seed you can understand the Kingdom of God. This means that if we will look to the beginning we can clearly see the end. The word Genesis means beginning. Therefore, the end can be discerned from the book of Genesis as it is the foundation of all that followed.
I believe that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth in seven 24 hour days. We read in Gen 2:2-3 that “on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” This is both literal and prophetic of that which was to come. Prophetically it has a double reference. First of all, it speaks of the day that Jesus who was God in the flesh, rested as it were in the “sleep” of death on the seventh day after He was crucified on the sixth day.
It also speaks of a seventh day of rest which is to come: “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.” (Hebrews 4:9). This ultimately speaks of the millennial or the thousand year reign of Christ: “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years” (Revelation 20:6). This again will be the ultimate fulfillment of Genesis 2:3, “And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.” How can we know this? Because the end is always in the beginning: It is all there in the book of Genesis which means beginning. Isaiah 46:8 could read like this, “I am God… declaring the end from the genesis.”
David said in Psalms 90:4: “For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.” Peter affirmed this in 2 Peter 3:8: “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” Therefore, it is not a stretch to look at the seven days in Genesis as prophetic of that which was to come—to see the end from the beginning. It breaks down like this: it was four thousand years from Adam to Christ which is four days. From the time of Christ till now has been two thousand years which is six days. This means that the seventh day—the thousand year millennial—is all but here: “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light” (Romans 13:11-12). Jesus is coming!!!!
THE ROAD OF ENDURANCE RUNS THROUGH THE VALLY OF DEATH
And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. —Hebrews 6:15
There are some promises in God that can only be reached through endurance. Zacharias and Elisabeth had prayed for years for a son but if you read between the lines you will see that they had stopped praying. Luke 1:7 tells us that they were well stricken in years; they were old twenty years ago: now they are really old! Years earlier the candle of hope had burned brightly on the fuel of Holy Ghost expectation but now all that was left was the ashes of heartbreak and hope deferred: “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12).
When the angel told Zacharias, “Fear not for thy prayer is heard,” he was speaking as it were from the Throne of God: “And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand” (Revelation 8:4). What Zacharias had quit praying in time God was still hearing in eternity. In reality his prayer for a son was birthed by the Holy Ghost because the son that was to be born was John the Baptist. God had begun a good work and He was going to finish it the way He has always worked: in the arena of the miraculous.
Known unto God are all of his works from the beginning of the world. All of these works as pertaining to man has to pass through the work of the cross. Before you ever reach the Promised Land you must travel a road called endurance that passes through the valley of death. There are no bypasses on this route. The seed of promise you inherit in the fall harvest always must pass through the winter of reproach before germinating in the spring.
This is consistent throughout the scriptures. There was no way Abraham was going to birth Isaac at eighty-five; Isaac could only come forth at one hundred. God told Abraham that Israel would be in Egypt for four hundred years. Therefore it was impossible that Moses deliver them when he was forty because he was forty years ahead of time. There was no way Joseph was going to get out of prison the “two full years” he hoped he would; his soul must first “enter into the iron. No amount of prayer, no amount of faith and confession, no pleading with God was going to move God’s hand before the set time. All had to endure till the end.
This is good news for those who have endured nights of disappointment, tormented by the question, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” The word forsaken means to let continue as is or to leave alone. How many nights did Hannah endure alone while Peninnah went on with her life, leaving Hannah far behind? I wander how many times did Hannah’s “phone” ring: “Hey Hannah, this is Penninah: Since you’re not doing nothing tonight, would you mind watching my kids again tonight?”
Have you endured the “dark night of your soul?” Have you watched others celebrate promotion after promotion while you remained faithful with seemingly nothing to show for it? The score board may read 36-0 and the headlines read that your season is over, but I have good news for you: The end of your strength is the beginning of God’s! As one pastor said, “God is looking for someone small enough for him to work through!!!”
There are some promises in God that can only be reached through endurance. Zacharias and Elisabeth had prayed for years for a son but if you read between the lines you will see that they had stopped praying. Luke 1:7 tells us that they were well stricken in years; they were old twenty years ago: now they are really old! Years earlier the candle of hope had burned brightly on the fuel of Holy Ghost expectation but now all that was left was the ashes of heartbreak and hope deferred: “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12).
When the angel told Zacharias, “Fear not for thy prayer is heard,” he was speaking as it were from the Throne of God: “And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand” (Revelation 8:4). What Zacharias had quit praying in time God was still hearing in eternity. In reality his prayer for a son was birthed by the Holy Ghost because the son that was to be born was John the Baptist. God had begun a good work and He was going to finish it the way He has always worked: in the arena of the miraculous.
Known unto God are all of his works from the beginning of the world. All of these works as pertaining to man has to pass through the work of the cross. Before you ever reach the Promised Land you must travel a road called endurance that passes through the valley of death. There are no bypasses on this route. The seed of promise you inherit in the fall harvest always must pass through the winter of reproach before germinating in the spring.
This is consistent throughout the scriptures. There was no way Abraham was going to birth Isaac at eighty-five; Isaac could only come forth at one hundred. God told Abraham that Israel would be in Egypt for four hundred years. Therefore it was impossible that Moses deliver them when he was forty because he was forty years ahead of time. There was no way Joseph was going to get out of prison the “two full years” he hoped he would; his soul must first “enter into the iron. No amount of prayer, no amount of faith and confession, no pleading with God was going to move God’s hand before the set time. All had to endure till the end.
This is good news for those who have endured nights of disappointment, tormented by the question, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” The word forsaken means to let continue as is or to leave alone. How many nights did Hannah endure alone while Peninnah went on with her life, leaving Hannah far behind? I wander how many times did Hannah’s “phone” ring: “Hey Hannah, this is Penninah: Since you’re not doing nothing tonight, would you mind watching my kids again tonight?”
Have you endured the “dark night of your soul?” Have you watched others celebrate promotion after promotion while you remained faithful with seemingly nothing to show for it? The score board may read 36-0 and the headlines read that your season is over, but I have good news for you: The end of your strength is the beginning of God’s! As one pastor said, “God is looking for someone small enough for him to work through!!!”
STEPS OF FAITH TRAIL
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off. —Proverbs 23:18
By the time Abraham got to the end where the dirt road of hope turned into the paved road of fulfilled promise, he didn’t look quite as good as he looked some twenty-five years earlier. There were scars of failure and lines of confusion etched in his face. If you do not believe that just listen and you will hear Ishmael somewhere in the background. The truth is, Abraham in blazing the “Steps Of Faith Trail,” had a few missteps along the way. By the time he was a hundred he had placed his hope in Ishmael: “And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee” (Genesis 17:18)! By the time that it was over he knew that God was faithful to his Word: In Isaac shall thy seed be!
And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. —Hebrews 6:15
Faith is not only what you believe, it is the trials and tests and successes and failures you endure along the way! Faith is never greater than when it believes in the face of failure. Faith that believes and comes forth out of the tomb of death is the faith that pleases God. This is because faith of this kind has indentified the source of all true faith which is God and God alone! At 85 Abraham still had confidence in his ability; at 100 all confidence in self was gone. Ishmael was something he could do; Isaac was something only God could do.
To understand this better you have to see that it is all about a seed: “And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be” (Genesis 15:5). Seed is never planted when it is “green” and full of moisture. It must go through death and dryness before planted or else it will not germinate. In other words, the corn on the cob that you eat and is all juicy is not the seed you plant. The seed that you plant is that which was alive, but is now dead and dry.
Abraham was fully alive in his body when he first received the promise of a son. When Sarah suggested that he have a son by Hagar Abraham never once questioned his ability to make it happen! He was very much alive! You can look all day and at this time you will not find him asking the Lord, “How can this be?” He knew what to do and knew that he could do it!!
Abraham was fully dead in his body when he received the fulfillment of the promised son. This was God’s plan all along: When Abraham no longer could, God would. It was never meant to come to pass because of Abraham’s strength and vitality; it was to be solely based on God who raises the dead! The miracle hinged not on Abraham’s timing but God’s.
By the time Abraham got to the end where the dirt road of hope turned into the paved road of fulfilled promise, he didn’t look quite as good as he looked some twenty-five years earlier. There were scars of failure and lines of confusion etched in his face. If you do not believe that just listen and you will hear Ishmael somewhere in the background. The truth is, Abraham in blazing the “Steps Of Faith Trail,” had a few missteps along the way. By the time he was a hundred he had placed his hope in Ishmael: “And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee” (Genesis 17:18)! By the time that it was over he knew that God was faithful to his Word: In Isaac shall thy seed be!
And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. —Hebrews 6:15
Faith is not only what you believe, it is the trials and tests and successes and failures you endure along the way! Faith is never greater than when it believes in the face of failure. Faith that believes and comes forth out of the tomb of death is the faith that pleases God. This is because faith of this kind has indentified the source of all true faith which is God and God alone! At 85 Abraham still had confidence in his ability; at 100 all confidence in self was gone. Ishmael was something he could do; Isaac was something only God could do.
To understand this better you have to see that it is all about a seed: “And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be” (Genesis 15:5). Seed is never planted when it is “green” and full of moisture. It must go through death and dryness before planted or else it will not germinate. In other words, the corn on the cob that you eat and is all juicy is not the seed you plant. The seed that you plant is that which was alive, but is now dead and dry.
Abraham was fully alive in his body when he first received the promise of a son. When Sarah suggested that he have a son by Hagar Abraham never once questioned his ability to make it happen! He was very much alive! You can look all day and at this time you will not find him asking the Lord, “How can this be?” He knew what to do and knew that he could do it!!
Abraham was fully dead in his body when he received the fulfillment of the promised son. This was God’s plan all along: When Abraham no longer could, God would. It was never meant to come to pass because of Abraham’s strength and vitality; it was to be solely based on God who raises the dead! The miracle hinged not on Abraham’s timing but God’s.
Monday, October 19, 2009
SAFE!!
Faith is the confident boasting of the actual existence of truth founded on the rock foundation of truth {the person of God} of things hoped for {the patient waiting of things we have seen coming but are not here yet.} It is the evidence—the proof and conviction given by the light of the scriptures {it is to convince unbelief of its error in the court of truth} of things not seen {as yet in time but must surly come to pass—must be manifested for all to see.} —Hebrews 11:1 (Jeb’s Amplified)
When God speaks to us, his words are words of proof: “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times” (Psalms 12:6). Since they are eternal words they will always stand up to the test of time. No matter how hopeless things may seem, what God has said must surly come to pass.
Faith is the evidence of things not seen as it pertains to us. However, from God’s perspective it is clearly seen as already done in eternity. That is why when we read the book of Revelation it reads like history when it is actually future. For example, the seals were opened, the servants were sealed, and the devil was cast into the Lake of Fire. How do we know these things? By faith which comes from the Word of God which tells in Revelation 4:1 of “things which must be hereafter.” Isn’t that what faith is, the evidence of things not seen as yet?
Let’s examine Abraham’s calling a little closer in the light of the Word of God that we might have the eyes of our understanding enlightened, that we know the hope of God’s calling on our lives. The Lord of Truth is the Faithful Umpire: He calls it like he sees it and he is always right! He called Abraham a father of many nations from eternity before he was the father of Isaac in time: “I have made thee a father of many nations.” As I have said before, God could say this because in eternity this is what God was seeing:"After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands” (Revelation 7:9). All of these were from the loins of Abraham—spiritually and physically speaking thus fulfilling Genesis 15:5: “Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.”
What has God called you? It may look like you are going to be “thrown out” by a mile at home plate by the “left fielder,” but if God the Faithful Umpire of Truth has called you safe, then you are safe. It may look like you are going to be overcame but I have it on good authority that He has called you an over comer. You may have been called barren but Jesus calls you fruitful. You may have been called cursed but your Heavenly Father calls you blessed!
Here comes the throw….Safe!!!!!
How could you be anything but safe? If anybody has ever been out in left field, it’s the devil!!
When God speaks to us, his words are words of proof: “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times” (Psalms 12:6). Since they are eternal words they will always stand up to the test of time. No matter how hopeless things may seem, what God has said must surly come to pass.
Faith is the evidence of things not seen as it pertains to us. However, from God’s perspective it is clearly seen as already done in eternity. That is why when we read the book of Revelation it reads like history when it is actually future. For example, the seals were opened, the servants were sealed, and the devil was cast into the Lake of Fire. How do we know these things? By faith which comes from the Word of God which tells in Revelation 4:1 of “things which must be hereafter.” Isn’t that what faith is, the evidence of things not seen as yet?
Let’s examine Abraham’s calling a little closer in the light of the Word of God that we might have the eyes of our understanding enlightened, that we know the hope of God’s calling on our lives. The Lord of Truth is the Faithful Umpire: He calls it like he sees it and he is always right! He called Abraham a father of many nations from eternity before he was the father of Isaac in time: “I have made thee a father of many nations.” As I have said before, God could say this because in eternity this is what God was seeing:"After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands” (Revelation 7:9). All of these were from the loins of Abraham—spiritually and physically speaking thus fulfilling Genesis 15:5: “Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.”
What has God called you? It may look like you are going to be “thrown out” by a mile at home plate by the “left fielder,” but if God the Faithful Umpire of Truth has called you safe, then you are safe. It may look like you are going to be overcame but I have it on good authority that He has called you an over comer. You may have been called barren but Jesus calls you fruitful. You may have been called cursed but your Heavenly Father calls you blessed!
Here comes the throw….Safe!!!!!
How could you be anything but safe? If anybody has ever been out in left field, it’s the devil!!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
THE SCRIPT THE CHURCH MUST FOLLOW
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. — Ecclesiastes 1:9-10
God does not speak eternal truths and then they come to pass in time; they come to pass in time because they are done in eternity. Jesus was the “Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” before he was slain on earth (Revelation 13:8). Likewise, the church of Jesus Christ has already been seen victorious in Heaven; we will be victorious on earth: “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints” (19:7-8). The church of the last days has been seen in Heaven and she is everything that the scriptures said she would be! As I learned from Bishop Traylor, the script-ure is the Script the church must follow. What a script! What a director! What a producer we have in the Holy Ghost!
The church that Jesus is going to catch away into the heavens to be with him is clothed with true righteousness. This means that the church has grown up into Jesus in purity and power. It means that in the last hour the same Jesus that was revealed in the gospels and the book of Act’s is going to be revealed one more time!!! I have an irrefutable, eternal witness on this: “That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish” (Ephesians 5:26-27). This is the Word of God that the Holy Ghost heard from the very Throne of God and spoke it to and through Paul (see John 16:13). This is eternal evidence that can not be altered!
“For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world” (Hebrews 4:3). The word “finished” is the same word translated “be done” in the Lord’s Prayer: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). We are to pray the eternal “evidence” we find in the Word of God from heaven into a manifestation of His Glory on earth. True faith will be to pray until it comes to pass.
The King is calling to all who will come: “Let us go up to a “Mount of Transfiguration” and pray. In my presence not only will you be changed from glory to glory, I will multiply my words and your house will be saved. You will become all that is written concerning the church, the very reflection of my glory!!"
God does not speak eternal truths and then they come to pass in time; they come to pass in time because they are done in eternity. Jesus was the “Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” before he was slain on earth (Revelation 13:8). Likewise, the church of Jesus Christ has already been seen victorious in Heaven; we will be victorious on earth: “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints” (19:7-8). The church of the last days has been seen in Heaven and she is everything that the scriptures said she would be! As I learned from Bishop Traylor, the script-ure is the Script the church must follow. What a script! What a director! What a producer we have in the Holy Ghost!
The church that Jesus is going to catch away into the heavens to be with him is clothed with true righteousness. This means that the church has grown up into Jesus in purity and power. It means that in the last hour the same Jesus that was revealed in the gospels and the book of Act’s is going to be revealed one more time!!! I have an irrefutable, eternal witness on this: “That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish” (Ephesians 5:26-27). This is the Word of God that the Holy Ghost heard from the very Throne of God and spoke it to and through Paul (see John 16:13). This is eternal evidence that can not be altered!
“For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world” (Hebrews 4:3). The word “finished” is the same word translated “be done” in the Lord’s Prayer: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). We are to pray the eternal “evidence” we find in the Word of God from heaven into a manifestation of His Glory on earth. True faith will be to pray until it comes to pass.
The King is calling to all who will come: “Let us go up to a “Mount of Transfiguration” and pray. In my presence not only will you be changed from glory to glory, I will multiply my words and your house will be saved. You will become all that is written concerning the church, the very reflection of my glory!!"
THIS IS AMAZING!!!
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. —Revelation 19:10
The word testimony is translated witness elsewhere and comes from the word translated witness in Acts 1:8: “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”
The words testimony and witness speak of someone taking the witness stand in a trial to tell under oath the things they have seen and heard. This is then known as evidence which is “something that gives a sign or proof of the existence or truth of something, or that helps somebody to come to a particular conclusion.” “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1).
It really goes without saying but a witness on the witness stand reports only that which is historical fact. Consider a prosecutor asking:
“Mr. Smith, did you see the defendant kill somebody?”
“Yes.”
“When did this murder occur?”
“It happened two years in the future, October 14, 2111!!!!”
This in the natural would be impermissible evidence, but this has always been the case when Jesus takes the witness stand. I believe that Jesus with uplifted hand stood in eternity and swore to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth: So be it because I AM THAT I AM!!! “For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec” (Hebrews 7:21).
From eternity Jesus prophesied the beginning—Genesis—to the end—Revelation: “I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure” (Isaiah 46:9-10). All that you read within the pages of the Bible was a done deal before time began. Therefore God speaks with more accuracy concerning that which is future than the most accurate history book concerning that which is past. You could sooner change the Civil War than change this book!!
God’s Word and his action are one. All prophesy in spiritual reality was not a foretelling of things that would happen but rather an eternal proclamation of that which is already done! As B.H. Clendennen has said, “God never starts a thing till he has finished it!!
Consider God’s “prophesy” to Abraham from eternal evidence. When John the Apostle “stepped” into eternity he saw evidence of Abraham’s seed—both spiritual and natural. He saw the redeemed “out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.” He witnessed 144 thousand descendents from Abraham sealed by God. Above all he saw the Lamb of God which is Jesus Christ who was the promised seed. All OF THIS HAD ALWAYS BEEN IN GOD’S ETERNAL VIEWPOINT!!!
When God promised Abraham that He would make of him a great nation and that in him all families of the earth would be blessed, He was simply WITNESSING to Abraham what he was seeing in eternity: "I have made you a father of many nations (this is past tense). What God was saying was this: “Abraham, I am worshiped by a “great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues.” They worship before my Throne as we speak and everyone of them descended from your loins. Therefore I assure you that if you can count the stars which no man can number, then you can count your Seed!!!!!
This is amazing! What good word has he "witnessed"to you?
The word testimony is translated witness elsewhere and comes from the word translated witness in Acts 1:8: “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”
The words testimony and witness speak of someone taking the witness stand in a trial to tell under oath the things they have seen and heard. This is then known as evidence which is “something that gives a sign or proof of the existence or truth of something, or that helps somebody to come to a particular conclusion.” “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1).
It really goes without saying but a witness on the witness stand reports only that which is historical fact. Consider a prosecutor asking:
“Mr. Smith, did you see the defendant kill somebody?”
“Yes.”
“When did this murder occur?”
“It happened two years in the future, October 14, 2111!!!!”
This in the natural would be impermissible evidence, but this has always been the case when Jesus takes the witness stand. I believe that Jesus with uplifted hand stood in eternity and swore to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth: So be it because I AM THAT I AM!!! “For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec” (Hebrews 7:21).
From eternity Jesus prophesied the beginning—Genesis—to the end—Revelation: “I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure” (Isaiah 46:9-10). All that you read within the pages of the Bible was a done deal before time began. Therefore God speaks with more accuracy concerning that which is future than the most accurate history book concerning that which is past. You could sooner change the Civil War than change this book!!
God’s Word and his action are one. All prophesy in spiritual reality was not a foretelling of things that would happen but rather an eternal proclamation of that which is already done! As B.H. Clendennen has said, “God never starts a thing till he has finished it!!
Consider God’s “prophesy” to Abraham from eternal evidence. When John the Apostle “stepped” into eternity he saw evidence of Abraham’s seed—both spiritual and natural. He saw the redeemed “out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.” He witnessed 144 thousand descendents from Abraham sealed by God. Above all he saw the Lamb of God which is Jesus Christ who was the promised seed. All OF THIS HAD ALWAYS BEEN IN GOD’S ETERNAL VIEWPOINT!!!
When God promised Abraham that He would make of him a great nation and that in him all families of the earth would be blessed, He was simply WITNESSING to Abraham what he was seeing in eternity: "I have made you a father of many nations (this is past tense). What God was saying was this: “Abraham, I am worshiped by a “great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues.” They worship before my Throne as we speak and everyone of them descended from your loins. Therefore I assure you that if you can count the stars which no man can number, then you can count your Seed!!!!!
This is amazing! What good word has he "witnessed"to you?
Monday, October 12, 2009
IS AMERICA SODOM'S GRANDDAUGHTER?
A friend of mine,Bill McCoy, sent me the following word that he received on September 30, 2009:
For I alone am over the earth – it obeys my every command. These earth quakes are from me – my wrath upon the wicked nations of the earth as it was fore told by my Son in Matthew 24. The Lord says, “Repent oh evil nation and change your ways unite with my land and people – or woe to those things to come upon the U.S. It mocks me while it serves the world – abortions, homosexuality, the laws of the land that dare ban me from my children and creation. For your nation has turned its back on me and shakes its fist at my Throne. I see all, I know all – Repent and be saved – continue and my wrath you will see – as it was in the days of Noah, the days of MY prophets – then all will know I Am that I Am – the Mighty El-Shaddai.”
Many will automatically dismiss this because of a false teaching that says that God is no longer the God as revealed in the Old Covenant when it comes to his wrath. They say God used to be angry and he used to judge nations, but now that entire wrath was placed on Jesus at the cross. As one teacher says, “God is no longer angry; he’s not even in a bad mood! There is no way God is going to judge America and if he did he would have to apologize to Jesus!” This man says the problem is we do not let the Bible get in the way of our thinking:Let’s see what the Bible has to say about this.
First of all God in his wisdom left us the whole Bible, not just the New Testament. When Paul said in 2 Timothy 3:16 that, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,” he was referring to Genesis through Malachi because at that time there was no written New Testament. Secondly, it is a gross misrepresentation of God to paint him as this angry Lord who was always looking for sin so he could punish. The truth is, the blood of millions of innocent lambs and other animals was shed to cover sins in the Old Covenant because God is a God of mercy: “Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live” (Ezekiel 18:23)? Furthermore, God is revealed by David as “The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy” (Psalms 103:8).
What saith the scriptures? “If a trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble? If a calamity occurs in a city has not the LORD done it” (Amos 3:6)? Who overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah? “And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly” (2 Peter 2:6). Notice it said example, not an exception. Notice that it is recorded in the New Testament. The problem is that this is not the image of God that we want people to see so what do we do? We change his image: After all, don’t we know best?
Who said God was no longer angry? He is not angry without cause and he is not angry with those who are in Christ, but for those who reject the poured out Blood of the Lamb and refuse to obey the gospel, the scriptures teach that there is a present wrath: “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him” (John 3:36). Paul speaking of the Jews said in 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16: “Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.”
God judged the nation of Israel severely some forty years after the New Covenant began for rejecting Christ: “But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city” (Matthew 22:7). If he destroyed Jerusalem, and if judgment must first begin in the house of God, will he not judge America? Are we not murderers of millions of innocent babies? Do we not worship with Sodom: “Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit” (Ezekiel 16:49-50)? Is America Sodom's granddaughter?
For I alone am over the earth – it obeys my every command. These earth quakes are from me – my wrath upon the wicked nations of the earth as it was fore told by my Son in Matthew 24. The Lord says, “Repent oh evil nation and change your ways unite with my land and people – or woe to those things to come upon the U.S. It mocks me while it serves the world – abortions, homosexuality, the laws of the land that dare ban me from my children and creation. For your nation has turned its back on me and shakes its fist at my Throne. I see all, I know all – Repent and be saved – continue and my wrath you will see – as it was in the days of Noah, the days of MY prophets – then all will know I Am that I Am – the Mighty El-Shaddai.”
Many will automatically dismiss this because of a false teaching that says that God is no longer the God as revealed in the Old Covenant when it comes to his wrath. They say God used to be angry and he used to judge nations, but now that entire wrath was placed on Jesus at the cross. As one teacher says, “God is no longer angry; he’s not even in a bad mood! There is no way God is going to judge America and if he did he would have to apologize to Jesus!” This man says the problem is we do not let the Bible get in the way of our thinking:Let’s see what the Bible has to say about this.
First of all God in his wisdom left us the whole Bible, not just the New Testament. When Paul said in 2 Timothy 3:16 that, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,” he was referring to Genesis through Malachi because at that time there was no written New Testament. Secondly, it is a gross misrepresentation of God to paint him as this angry Lord who was always looking for sin so he could punish. The truth is, the blood of millions of innocent lambs and other animals was shed to cover sins in the Old Covenant because God is a God of mercy: “Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live” (Ezekiel 18:23)? Furthermore, God is revealed by David as “The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy” (Psalms 103:8).
What saith the scriptures? “If a trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble? If a calamity occurs in a city has not the LORD done it” (Amos 3:6)? Who overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah? “And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly” (2 Peter 2:6). Notice it said example, not an exception. Notice that it is recorded in the New Testament. The problem is that this is not the image of God that we want people to see so what do we do? We change his image: After all, don’t we know best?
Who said God was no longer angry? He is not angry without cause and he is not angry with those who are in Christ, but for those who reject the poured out Blood of the Lamb and refuse to obey the gospel, the scriptures teach that there is a present wrath: “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him” (John 3:36). Paul speaking of the Jews said in 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16: “Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.”
God judged the nation of Israel severely some forty years after the New Covenant began for rejecting Christ: “But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city” (Matthew 22:7). If he destroyed Jerusalem, and if judgment must first begin in the house of God, will he not judge America? Are we not murderers of millions of innocent babies? Do we not worship with Sodom: “Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit” (Ezekiel 16:49-50)? Is America Sodom's granddaughter?
Sunday, October 11, 2009
JUDGEMENT
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven. —Hebrews 12:25
The scriptures state that the church of Jesus Christ is presently gathered in the assembly of all assemblies: “But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem….To the general assembly and church of the firstborn….” (Hebrews 12:22-23). The keynote speaker is none other than Christ and his text is the New Testament, “And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel” (12:24).
If you are having trouble getting into this service, I have the exact directions for you. Open your Bibles. If you will look by faith, you will notice an audio and video plug that will enable you to hear and see all that your Heavenly Father is saying and doing. In other words, every Bible comes with “headphones” that enable you to hear Jesus as he expounds his Covenant: “Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures” (Luke 24:45). Likewise, it comes with a direct “satellite” feed that enables you to see all that God is doing: “For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel” (John 5:20).
Do you really want to know what God is saying? Let’s listen in as he speaks: “Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain” (Hebrews 12:26-27). This shaking begins in the House of God: “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God” (1 Peter 4:17). God is fixing to tear down every pulpit that has preached doctrines that have originated at best in the mind of man, and in reality spewed from the father of all lies.
Where does this shaking end? Let’s go towards the close of the “service” as Jesus is declaring his warning of judgment: “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning” (Revelation 18:4-9).
Church in America: Hear the Word of the Lord. We have mocked God our last time! I write this on a day when gays and lesbians marched on our capital and chanted, “Obama, let our mama’s marry our mama’s.” However, this is not the greatest sin committed today. The greatest sin committed today was in the churches, as the pulpit was filled for the most part by preachers who gave no warning of imminent judgment that always falls on a nation whose cup of iniquity is full. We have become like Eli who refused to correct his son’s as they committed fornication in the very House of God and caused men to “abhor the offering of the Lord.”
David Wilkerson has warned for years of seeing American cities on fire and the President not knowing what to do. Perry Stone has likewise warned of an attack on a major city. B.H. Clendennen has quoted a man who chooses his words very carefully, that something major was going to happen in thirty days. Many others have warned of a nuclear attack that comes from Russia. I hope they are wrong; I hope I am wrong.
Could it be that God sealed our fate on September 28, the Day of Atonement? According to Jewish tradition, God inscribes each person's fate for the coming year into a "book" on Rosh Hashanah and waits until Yom Kippur to "seal" the verdict. The ten days leading up to the Day of Atonement were supposed to be days of deep soul searching and repentance. We have not repented: How then can we as a nation escape the wrath of God Almighty?
Jesus is the only "Ark" that is going to float in these last days. In him there is safety and peace from all storms that may blow. He always makes a difference between the righteous and the unrighteous.
The scriptures state that the church of Jesus Christ is presently gathered in the assembly of all assemblies: “But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem….To the general assembly and church of the firstborn….” (Hebrews 12:22-23). The keynote speaker is none other than Christ and his text is the New Testament, “And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel” (12:24).
If you are having trouble getting into this service, I have the exact directions for you. Open your Bibles. If you will look by faith, you will notice an audio and video plug that will enable you to hear and see all that your Heavenly Father is saying and doing. In other words, every Bible comes with “headphones” that enable you to hear Jesus as he expounds his Covenant: “Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures” (Luke 24:45). Likewise, it comes with a direct “satellite” feed that enables you to see all that God is doing: “For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel” (John 5:20).
Do you really want to know what God is saying? Let’s listen in as he speaks: “Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain” (Hebrews 12:26-27). This shaking begins in the House of God: “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God” (1 Peter 4:17). God is fixing to tear down every pulpit that has preached doctrines that have originated at best in the mind of man, and in reality spewed from the father of all lies.
Where does this shaking end? Let’s go towards the close of the “service” as Jesus is declaring his warning of judgment: “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning” (Revelation 18:4-9).
Church in America: Hear the Word of the Lord. We have mocked God our last time! I write this on a day when gays and lesbians marched on our capital and chanted, “Obama, let our mama’s marry our mama’s.” However, this is not the greatest sin committed today. The greatest sin committed today was in the churches, as the pulpit was filled for the most part by preachers who gave no warning of imminent judgment that always falls on a nation whose cup of iniquity is full. We have become like Eli who refused to correct his son’s as they committed fornication in the very House of God and caused men to “abhor the offering of the Lord.”
David Wilkerson has warned for years of seeing American cities on fire and the President not knowing what to do. Perry Stone has likewise warned of an attack on a major city. B.H. Clendennen has quoted a man who chooses his words very carefully, that something major was going to happen in thirty days. Many others have warned of a nuclear attack that comes from Russia. I hope they are wrong; I hope I am wrong.
Could it be that God sealed our fate on September 28, the Day of Atonement? According to Jewish tradition, God inscribes each person's fate for the coming year into a "book" on Rosh Hashanah and waits until Yom Kippur to "seal" the verdict. The ten days leading up to the Day of Atonement were supposed to be days of deep soul searching and repentance. We have not repented: How then can we as a nation escape the wrath of God Almighty?
Jesus is the only "Ark" that is going to float in these last days. In him there is safety and peace from all storms that may blow. He always makes a difference between the righteous and the unrighteous.
Friday, October 9, 2009
NO COMPROMISED BRAND
If I were to write a truthful account about some of the things I like and don’t when it comes to eating I would definitely include the following:
1. There is to be Heinz ketchup on the table: Do not give me a compromised brand!
2. Do not overcook the steak: A little pink in the middle will be just right.
3. Make sure the potato is fully cooked.
4. No mustard. No pickles.
5. Sweet tea is a must because there will be no unsweetened tea at the marriage supper of the Lamb!
6. Top it off with a strawberry pie, homemade ice cream, and a sweet watermelon!
Now if you invite me to eat and you serve according to the above list, I promise you I will “manifest” every time! There will be no struggle to do so no matter how many times you put me to the test because it is who I am. This being true today, it was true yesterday, and it will be true ten years from now if I am living. I hate pickles; I love ketchup! You could write otherwise but it would simply be a lie.
Jesus Christ is the Living Word of God: “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” (Hebrews 13:8). He is the way; He is the truth; He is the life. He is holiness; He is divine healing; and He is divine habits! He is Redemption, Deliverance, Peace, Light, Salvation, And the Resurrection! He loves righteousness and he hates iniquity. He is the God of Love as well as the God of wrath to those who refuse to be washed in the Blood of the Lamb. You could write otherwise but it would simply be a lie!
You can see this over and over in the Word of God. When Jesus is confronted with the situation of his disciples being in the middle of the sea during a storm, we see him manifesting who he was—no struggle whatsoever: “And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea…” (Mark 6:48). Jesus was simply manifesting what he had already declared on his “menu” in Psalms 77:19: “Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.”
We are invited in this last hour to eat at the Lord’s Table. If we will study his word we will know what he desires to feed us daily and he will manifest to the world one more time all that is written in the scriptures. There will be no struggle or sweat to do so no matter how big the test, because he is the way; he is the life; he is the truth. He is who he is: How dare we serve a compromised brand!!!!
1. There is to be Heinz ketchup on the table: Do not give me a compromised brand!
2. Do not overcook the steak: A little pink in the middle will be just right.
3. Make sure the potato is fully cooked.
4. No mustard. No pickles.
5. Sweet tea is a must because there will be no unsweetened tea at the marriage supper of the Lamb!
6. Top it off with a strawberry pie, homemade ice cream, and a sweet watermelon!
Now if you invite me to eat and you serve according to the above list, I promise you I will “manifest” every time! There will be no struggle to do so no matter how many times you put me to the test because it is who I am. This being true today, it was true yesterday, and it will be true ten years from now if I am living. I hate pickles; I love ketchup! You could write otherwise but it would simply be a lie.
Jesus Christ is the Living Word of God: “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” (Hebrews 13:8). He is the way; He is the truth; He is the life. He is holiness; He is divine healing; and He is divine habits! He is Redemption, Deliverance, Peace, Light, Salvation, And the Resurrection! He loves righteousness and he hates iniquity. He is the God of Love as well as the God of wrath to those who refuse to be washed in the Blood of the Lamb. You could write otherwise but it would simply be a lie!
You can see this over and over in the Word of God. When Jesus is confronted with the situation of his disciples being in the middle of the sea during a storm, we see him manifesting who he was—no struggle whatsoever: “And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea…” (Mark 6:48). Jesus was simply manifesting what he had already declared on his “menu” in Psalms 77:19: “Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.”
We are invited in this last hour to eat at the Lord’s Table. If we will study his word we will know what he desires to feed us daily and he will manifest to the world one more time all that is written in the scriptures. There will be no struggle or sweat to do so no matter how big the test, because he is the way; he is the life; he is the truth. He is who he is: How dare we serve a compromised brand!!!!
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