tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627408441641256152024-03-14T06:18:30.017+11:00Chezandlilly'sChezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-53310025890452398542011-09-27T20:37:00.002+10:002011-09-27T20:44:09.575+10:00The Doctrine of Hell Breeds Arrogance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been some time since I posted anything in this here blog of mine so I thought I'd start off by saying that this year I've been through one of the biggest battles of my life... my breast cancer returned to the bones.. spine, ribs, pelvis, neck and tops of my arms. Thankfully... Father God has seen fit for me to be gradually healed. Not in the miraculous as we think of miraculous, but through hormone treatment. I do believe that God provides the medical community with all the knowledge they have, so to me it comes from Him anyway. I'm not in remission yet, but am on the way... maybe a few more months? I'm hoping so. I'm feeling so much better at the moment and can't believe how sick I actually got.. including hospital stays and losing twenty kilo's (or forty three pounds) through cancer anexoria and pain medications. Anyway, I'm going to post an article I found in Julie Ferwerda's site, here:<br />
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http://www.julieferwerda.com/<br />
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I encourage anyone to look through Julie's site, it's very uplifting and informative when it comes to the belief that God will eventually save all. <br />
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Julie's article is called: The Doctrine of Hell Breeds Arrogance, here:<br />
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As I look back at my old self who once believed in hell, I realize
how many terrible consequences such a false doctrine has had on me and
even all of mankind. One such consequence is pride and arrogance. I can
easily think of at least three important expressions of arrogance that
arise from such a doctrine.<br />
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<b>1. I am responsible for my salvation.</b> This notion
only applies to advocates of “free will” for salvation (as opposed to
Calvinism that only a select few are saved not by their own will, but by
God’s predetermined will). Most free will advocates are going to balk
at this suggestion, but let’s face it. If I have to be responsible for
choosing Jesus over hell, I have already given myself the God-like power
to determine my own fate. Even making a choice is a form of self-effort
and attempt (and one that most people in the world never even have the
opportunity to make, I might add). This is not what the Bible teaches.<br />
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“So it is God who decides to show mercy. <i>We can neither choose it</i> nor work for it” (Rom. 9:16).</div>
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“You did not choose Me but I chose you” (John 15:16).</div>
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“And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw (lit. drag) all men to Myself” (John 12:32).</div>
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“For by grace you have been saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a
result of works (including decisions), so that no one may boast” (Eph.
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At this point, some people will say, “Yes, but you see that even Paul
said that we are saved THROUGH FAITH. So right there, it is a choice!”<br />
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Let’s reconsider these old lenses. Sadly, through the mistranslation
of one little word in many of the newer Bible versions, “in,” we have
missed something very significant. We are not saved by our faith <i>in</i> Jesus, but by the faith <i>OF</i> Jesus. Consider the following passage as rendered more correctly in the KJV:<br />
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“But now the righteousness of God without
the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even
the righteousness of God which is by FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST unto all and
upon ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE…” (Romans 3:21 22).</div>
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Notice the faith of Jesus is imparted BOTH to all, AND to those who
believe! You might also take note that most modern versions omit the
part about “unto all” before the part about “and all them that believe.”
Worth looking into why it was omitted!<br />
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<b>2. I am responsible for the salvation of others.</b> Of
course I’m not suggesting that you are Jesus and you can possibly or
actually save anyone. But isn’t it pretty arrogant to believe that you
are at least partly responsible for keeping people out of hell? Why
bother telling them about Jesus as a ticket out of hell unless you feel
responsible? Why send out missionaries unless we think we are somewhat
responsible for the eternal fate of others? Again, this puts us on a
throne of sorts, suggesting that we have any power over the destiny of
others. What a grave responsibility that would be if we truly had this
much power over real lives and fates.<br />
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<b>3. I must play “God” in the lives of people I love.</b> If we really believe in hell, and hence we really believe that <i>most people</i>
for all time are going to be sent there, and we really think we can
intervene on behalf of or influence others to any extent—we come to the
obvious conclusion (sometimes unconscious) that we must play God to make
sure that our loved ones know the truth and are prevented from
mistakes, wrong beliefs, dangerous paths, and ultimately damning
unbelief. We end up believing that we have to control our universe or
sphere of influence because it is crucial to keep our loved ones from
choosing a wrong path that could lead to hell.<br />
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In this belief system, the world is not a safe place for our friends,
our children, our families, and our spouses. In fact, it is not even a
safe place for us to question our beliefs, such as the doctrine of hell
and where it actually came from and IF it even occurs in the Greek and
Hebrew Scriptures (which it doesn’t)! On this throne, God can’t fully be
trusted and it is up to us to steer them in the right direction and to
ultimately keep them out of hell.<br />
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But is this the “god” of the Bible—one who is largely subjected to
the will and actions of man? Are we that powerful that we can possibly
determine the destiny of ourselves and others? Can we change or
interfere with the will of God?<br />
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“I am God, and there is no one like Me,
declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things
which have not been done, saying, `My purpose will be established, and <i>I will accomplish all My good pleasure…</i>‘” (Isaiah 46:9-10).</div>
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What is His will and good pleasure? He has stated it over and over. Here is one example of thousands:<br />
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<span class="highlight">“This is good and
acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who WILLS all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2:3-4)</span>.</div>
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Relax. Step down off the throne. Bask in the truth of your Father’s
full control over and intent of GOOD for all his creation! He would no
sooner banish and eternally punish any of His children than you would
yours. He has spoken, and it is finished. Love. Does. Not. Fail. (1 Cor.
13:8).<br />
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<br />Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-55839826944107628572010-11-28T00:48:00.000+11:002010-11-28T00:48:44.423+11:00The Myth of Free Will<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/TPEMAyV4jiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/BXVZKOo1L8Y/s1600/38098_1539530530913_1314403998_1441923_5151836_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/TPEMAyV4jiI/AAAAAAAAAaU/BXVZKOo1L8Y/s200/38098_1539530530913_1314403998_1441923_5151836_n.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><strong></strong>By Clyde L. Pilkington, Jr.<br />
I was raised in the “free will” doctrine and taught it diligently for many years as a pastor. We all do have a will: the “problem” is that it isn’t free. “Free will” is a myth.<br />
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We did not choose our race, our nationality, our sex, our eye or hair color, our birth date, or even who our parents were. No “free will” there at all, and that is just for “starts.”<br />
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“Free-will” is “influenced” by our culture, our society, our peers, our sex, our upbringing, our parents, and by our spouses, etc. “Free will” is simply an illusion. Everything about us is a composite of influences around us, and in circumstances over which we have no control or choice whatsoever. We did not even choose to be here.<br />
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Something as basic as the weather conditions restrain our so-called “fee will.” For instance, we use our “free will” to “choose” to go hiking – then a strong thunderstorm settles in and changes our “free will” plans.<br />
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My mother had no “free will” in getting cancer. My father had no “free will” in dying from it. Jenny had no “free will” in her husband abandoning her and her children. Bob had no “free will” in the loss of his job. Jerry had no “free will” in the drunk driver that paralyzed him and killed his son.<br />
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Aashish had no “free will” being born, and then living and dying without ever even having heard of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ – not even once, let alone the gospel of what He had done for him.<br />
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We all have a “will,” but whatever are its characteristics, “free” is definitely not one of them. Even our belief in “free will” is not of our own “choosing” – it was thrust upon mankind by the religious system. It makes for good theology, but it just isn’t true. Paul warned us of religion’s <em>“will worship”</em> (Colossians 2:23); and if we listen closely we can hear this worship of human “free will” in the language of its believers:<br />
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“<strong><em>I</em></strong> believed in the gospel.”<br />
“<strong><em>I</em></strong> came to Christ.”<br />
“<strong><em>I</em></strong> chose to place my faith in Christ.”<br />
“<strong><em>I</em></strong> decided to live for God.”<br />
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The disciples may have thought that they chose to follow the Lord, but Jesus set the record straight:<br />
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<em>“You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you”</em> (John 15:16).<br />
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This is why John wrote that the work in Israel was not <em>“of the will of man, but of God”</em> (John 1:13).<br />
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As parents we love our children; and they love us “back.” They respond to our unconditional love of them. They do not love us out of “free will” – they did not pick us out and “choose” to love us – they were influenced in their “decision” to love us only because we loved them first. They were set up! And so it is with God in His relationship with us. We learn this from John’s simple words:<br />
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<em>“We love Him, because He first loved us”</em> (I John 4:19).<br />
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There is no “free will.” The reason that we love Him is completely <em>outside</em> of ourselves. His love is the <em>first cause</em> from which our love springs. Paul wrote of this love being manifest through the Lord Jesus Christ to us:<br />
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<em>“For the love of Christ constrains us”</em> (II Corinthians 5:14).<br />
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His love is not just available, or a potential love, nor an offer of love; but a <em>constraining</em> love. “<em>Constrain</em>” is a strong word. The Greek word from which it is translated is <em>sunecho.</em> James Strong defines it as “to arrest (a prisoner).” The word is so strong that it is used in the Scriptures of being <em>overtaken</em> by a disease (Matthew 4:24; Luke 4:38; Acts 28:8).<br />
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It is interesting that Paul used this word, for he knew firsthand of Christ’s constraining love. It arrested him on the road to Damascus. Paul (Saul) was not seeking Christ. He did not “choose” Him. Paul met the resurrected Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus, and there called Him “Lord” (Acts 9:6). This was all the grand, abrupt, course-altering, sovereign work of God in reaching Paul.<br />
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Paul was on his way to Damascus to do harm to the saints there. He did not change his mind by his own “free will.” Rather, it was the dramatic “Damascus Road experience” that transformed his will. Paul met with spectacular interference to his “free will.” He met the resurrected Christ! One day, those who have not trusted Christ during this life will be resurrected and brought into the presence of the Son of God, and will with Paul call Him “Lord.”<br />
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<em>“That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” </em>(Philippians 2:10).<br />
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Oh, the extent to which God will go to reach man! Isn’t it odd how Christendom limits God’s ability, and yet makes man’s will free. God is not limited at all, and in due course He will pull out all the stops in reaching mankind with His love.<br />
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There are two “wills” in the universe: the Creator’s and the creatures. God’s will is FREE, the creatures’ is not. God <em>“will have all men to be saved”</em> (I Timothy 2:4), and He Who <em>“works all things after the counsel of His Own will”</em> (Ephesians 1:11) will <em>“reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven”</em> (Colossians 1:20), making Him <em>“the Savior of all men”</em> (I Timothy 4:10).<br />
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When my children were young we lived on a busy street with no fence around our house. I would not allow them to play in or near the street. They had no “free will.” I constrained them with my love.<br />
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We are not the masters of our own fate. We are not the lords of our own lives. We are the creatures, not the Creator. <em>“He is Lord of ALL”</em> (Acts 10:36), <em>“in Him we live, and move, and have our being”</em> (Acts 17:28), and our response to His love is all a matter of timing, <em>“but every man in his own order”</em> (I Corinthians 15:23).<br />
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None of us had any “free will” in being included in the disobedience of Adam. It was forced upon us. Neither do any of us have any “free will” about the undoing of Adam in the obedience of Christ.<br />
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<em>“Therefore as by the offence of one</em> [Adam] <em>judgment came upon <strong>all men</strong> to condemnation; <strong>even so</strong> by the righteousness of One</em> [Christ] <em>the free gift came <strong>upon all</strong> men unto justification of life.”</em> (Romans 5:18)<br />
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Not even our faith to believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior is a matter of our own choosing.<br />
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<em>“For by grace are you saved, through faith, and that <strong>not of yourselves:</strong> it is <strong>the gift of God</strong> …”</em> (Ephesians 2:8-9).<br />
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THIS is the good news, believe it or not.<br />
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<em>“If we believe not, yet He abides faithful: He cannot deny Himself”</em> (II Timothy 2:13).Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-73326850119429035042010-10-08T00:07:00.000+11:002010-10-08T00:07:46.701+11:00GREAT EVIL KING RELIGION & The Prophets of Baal<div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The following is an essay written by Jacob Israel, in which he shares why he is withdrawing from sharing the revelations he's received from Father so that people will learn to look to the Kingdom within instead of relying on him to find what they are looking for. </div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I am greatly encouraged by this exhortation and teaching. The Lord revealed much of what is written here to me about eight years ago. Sitting in a Pentecostal meeting, listening to 'the man' out front and feeling the great power emanating from him the Lord revealed to me it was nothing but Baal worship. I left (and there was very much in the leaving, having been a pew warmer for about thirty years) but kept quiet about it for a long time only sharing it with a few who would then look at me like I was nuts. I can have a giggle now.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Bold type and italics are mine.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>GREAT EVIL KING RELIGION and The Prophets of Baal.</b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Many want to know why I have decided recently to basically drop away from the social scene, and end my popular radio program for awhile. I wanted to give everyone a simple answer. But I know few would understand, if I simply said, “I was meant to” “It was necessary for me to go, to let you find the answers alone”</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ecclesiastes 9 14There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. 16Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. 17The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There are FEW who are that “little CITY” and indeed there are FEW in this CITY, which is the LIGHT set upon a Hill. We are that Light that cannot be hid.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Matthew 5:14</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But then there came a GREAT KING against this CITY (Christ in us) and besieged it. This Great King called Religion has made slaves, prostitutes, murderers, thieves, and adulterers of us all, allegorically of course. You see first we become these terrible beasts, and then in the natural world these terrible beasts (murders, peodefiles, rapists, prostitutes, adulterers, etc) appear. Every evil we see in the natural is a direct result of a spiritual evil in the heart of man.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Let me show you some of the evil I have seen under the son… One we all know well, CARNAL RELIGIOUS LEADERS turn the Truth of God, the Word of God, which is the SEED that we are too sow into the world (hearts of men) into MONEY, and they have said, follow after Money, Sow your Money, Make more money. That it is God’s will for you to be in perfect health, and perfectly wealthy, and that God wants YOU to prove to HIM that you are serious about your faith by the size of HOW MUCH MONEY YOU GIVE help build, what they (the great evil kings) call the Kingdom of God, which is nothing more than a fools house of cards which will come crumbling down. You are only building a wicked man’s kingdom, the Kingdom of God is righteousness, faith, joy, and power in his spirit which costs nothing but your submission to God.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">However, the Great Evil King religion, has convinced men and women to literally and spiritually kill others, to kill themselves, to convince others to do the same. To torture, to war, to death, this is what the great evil kings of religion are fighting for. Total domination and control of YOU! You are all slaves, you go to church and feel better about yourself by going and giving because you were told this pleases God, yet it is the very thing that disgusts God the most.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You have become dried up bones, there is no LIFE (TRUTH) in you, because the GREAT EVIL KING RELIGION has sucked you all dry, financially, emotionally, spiritually, with their candy coated lies, and when you lose your family, divorce, become broke, and your loved ones die even though the Great Evil Kings said they would be healed with enough faith, you ignorantly will return. “Thank you Sir or Man, may I have another.”</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But there is found in this “little city” a “poor man” who will deliver this city, but no one will remember his name, for the name of God is what all a man needs to know. You see, as Solomon said, the words of the Wise are heard in quiet (deep meditation and sincere seeking) MORE than of him (the great evil kings) that rules among fools.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jeremiah 23:14</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>You don’t have to go far to find an altar of Baal today, they are on almost every street corner. There are so-called fig trees all around, and yet NONE PRODUCE FRUIT.</b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">PEOPLE are HUNGRY TODAY, the CHRIST in them is screaming, FEED ME TRUTH… And as that SPIRIT OF CHRIST drives us toward JERUSALEM (which means the teaching of peace) we, who are now awake, as it is the dawning of a new day, will see these Fig Trees have no fruit at all and we will CURSE THEM. We will say, these man made temples, churches, mosques, kingdom halls, and more will NEVER PRODUCE FRUIT FOR US AGAIN… And we too will see it wither away before our eyes. As I have seen over these last ten years of my life.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mark 11:21</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedest is withered away.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There are so many things wrong with the Great Evil King Religion, that I couldn’t possibly name them all and address them all in one essay, but I will say, a great LIGHT is shining for those who have eyes to see it, a great LIGHT for those who are bold enough to open the blinds to feel it. And this LIGHT is truth, and this TRUTH is Word of God, and this God is LOVE.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Luke 10:27</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.-</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This do, the man Jesus said, and you will LIVE! Now some will question who is your neighbor, well your neighbor are those that have been robbed, stripped and beaten by THIEVES, and the THIEVES are those who try and enter the KINGDOM ANY OTHER WAY but the STRAIGHT GATE, which is LOVE, WHICH IS TRUTH, WHICH IS CHRIST. The THIEVES are all of these RELIGIOUS LEADERS you are putting your faith in!</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">GOD WANTS ALL OF YOU TO GO TO THE MOUNTAIN, and see God FACE TO FACE. But like Israel, you refuse, you’re like “Nah Moses, you go up there, if we go there we will surely die… you come back down and tell us what to do.” CARNAL MAN wants to be ruled by MAN, and what did Moses and his law produce DEATH!</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Exodus 20 </div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">18And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. 19And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">People don’t want to DIE TO THE ILLUSION that they are in control. They would rather worship and serve the CREATURE “MOSES” or the Man “JESUS” INSTEAD OF THE CREATOR.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now LISTEN, you want to know the truth? You want freedom? Well, there is but ONE WAY in, LOVING ALL, and UNDERSTANDING God is IN CONTROL.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>We need to enter this rest, HIS REST. We have to cease for our works, our belief that we must do this or that, and most importantly our belief that “we” are actually in control, and have free will. This lie </b>is the reason people suffer the way they do today. You are wrangled by the Great Evil King Religion into believing “Your dead in your many sins, and you MUST DO SOMETHING to be saved, say something, do this, do that.” Yet, the sad thing is, while millions take the bait, hook, line and sinker, they don’t realize they are eating of the very Tree that causes them the DEATH (Ignorance) they suffer from. The Great King Religion is the Great Satan, it is the Key Master who lures you in the gates of Hell (Your suffering, lack of faith, and ignorance) with the promise of riches, salvation, and peace IF ONLY YOU DO SOMETHING! It’s up to you, The Great Evil King save, Because GOD’S ARM IS SHORTENED AND CANNOT SAVE! God needs YOU…. What a crock!</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hebrews 3</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">18And to whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? 19So we see that <b>they could not enter in because of unbelief</b>.-</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Everyone has been told they are in control, and so they become the ANTI-CHRIST sitting on God’s throne (Your mind and heart) saying I am John, Grace, Helen, Bob, etc, and I am the master of my destiny, I make the choices, I call the shots. But with all your hard work, and all your FREE WILL thinking, you still feel empty, you are tired, you feel like a failure, and can’t find the peace, you have hang ups, insecurities, need counseling, drugs, alcohol, your relationship fall apart, you feel lost and alone. So what does the The Great Evil King Religion tell you, “You’re not doing enough, giving enough, or believing enough.”</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But the ONLY WAY TO KNOW PEACE is to know GOD IS IN COMPLETE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE. Your ups, your downs, your decisions, your mistakes, your EVERYTHING! This truth sets your free, not the empty promises of perverse idol worshiping greedy men and women.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Matthew 10 29Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. 30But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now when you learn that everything else is VANITY, that your work, your effort, your belief, your church attendance, your giving, your this, or that, that you did with the belief if you GIVE IT SHALL BE GIVEN, RUNNING OVER… MEANS NOTHING! When you understand it is all VANITY! When you finally let Go and let God, then you overcome. When you DIE TO YOUR SELF EFFORT AND VAIN BELIEFS, then you OVERCOME and BECOME the Christ, the ANOINTED ONE! – This is what ISRAEL did not want to do, they didn’t want to DIE to their egotistical lives. They had been tricked into believing their works were actually pleasing to God, as to realizing they are an abomination in his site.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When you hear your Religious Leaders shouting about all of their SALVATIONS, HEALINGS, AND GREAT TESTIMONIES, AND PEOPLE THEY SET FREE… They are bragging about what they did, while pretending to say God did it through them. They say, of “we” are just the vessel, so send in your love gift and the anointing of God will flow through me to this prayer cloth and we will send it to you, and you lay it on your sick loved one and with enough faith, they will be healed. HOGWASH! They should be ashamed of themselves, But God is IN Control of even that! You see we are ALL ONE and one day, we will ALL COME TO THE UNDERSTANDING AND THE STATURE OF THE PERFECT MAN.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ephesians 4:13</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">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:</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ephesians 4:4</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There is ONE body (humanity), and ONE Spirit (God), even as ye are called in ONE hope of your calling (To realize who you are, CHRIST)</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When you understand you are God’s child, and you say, “Not My Will, but Your’s Father be done” when you understand, it’s not about You, but the SPIRIT THAT IS WITHIN YOU. When you say, “I can DO NOTHING OF MYSELF” and grab hold of the fact that YOUR LIFE IS NOT YOUR OWN, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID IN CHRIST, then CHRIST will no longer be HID, AND that little CITY WILL SHINE BRIGHT FOR ALL TO SEE!</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Great Evil King Religion, has given birth to hundreds of thousands of lying profits, imans, pastors, priests, evangelists, rabbi’s, and new age teachers, all saying “Do what I say and you will be okay.” But they are all LIARS, and GOD has turned them all over to the REPROBATE MIND, and the more they believe the lies they teach the more arrogant, prideful, and pitiful they become. But one by one, these domino’s will fall, the question is what will that mean to you?</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">TIME TO DISAPPEAR FOR AWHILE</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Recently, after seeing my name next to name of a man, who I know to be a thief and liar, a Bishop who claims miraculous healings without proof, who boasts, tears down, and is on the rise in the “evangelical world” I was taken back.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What happened? How did I, who never wanted to be in the same company with such men or women, all of sudden find himself as a “must read” author next to this sheep shearer?</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jeremiah 50:6</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place. -</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">At first I was disgusted seeing my allegorical Fiction “The Calling” placed in the same company, with some nonsensical self help “Christian” mumbo jumbo manual written by a man who doesn’t know his right (truth of God) from left (lies of Man).</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But then the more I thought about, the more I realized, people were beginning to make me a “name”, a “somebody”. However unlike so many others who crave a “name”, I don’t. This is something that is not acceptable to me, as I am NOT A NAME. I am not a MAN that has all the answers, or even a man who knows God, except in part.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You’ll hear many Religious Leaders say, “The Lord told me”, “God spoke to me clearly”, “God said ten people are going to send in one thousand dollars tonight” … etc… Yet, every true prophet from scripture never heard clearly, never trusted what they heard, and everyone, EVERYONE WAS FORCED TO DO GOD’S WILL… Jonah, Moses, Joseph, even Jesus wanted the cup to pass. – But these GREAT EVIL KINGS OF RELIGION say they have a main line from God, and hear him clearly. Well guess what, only in Babylon would someone not be declared insane. I don’t HEAR GOD, I get revelation, and pray it is correct. So much for your LYING PATHETIC LEADERS who you willingly allow to rape your young, rob your wallets, and have the nerve to say you’re not doing enough and need to do more. They get off on their control, telling you when to fast as a congregation, when to commit to having sex with your partner as a congregation, they get off on the control. THEY ARE A PLAGUE, THEY ARE THE FROGS that CROAK and have gotten into your bedroom, kitchen, living quaters, every aspect of your life, you have allowed the ENEMY OF GOD to steal and rob from you. You live in constant Fear of a God who LOVES. But that is all about to change. Because I go away, so you will go within!</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">All I know, is what I know, if it is the truth, than it is the Grace of God and of myself I’ve done nothing. If it is not truth, then God has allowed me to believe such, and it is once again by the grace of God and I cannot write anything but what I have written and there is a purpose. Which means, God is in control of the TRUTH spoken and the LIES spoken.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You see there is great freedom knowing you are not in control of your life. Now this doesn’t mean you aren’t always striving to do right, you are. It doesn’t mean you aren’t always looking to help others, better yourself as a child of God, you do. But you understand YOU aren’t doing the work, God is GIVING YOU THE DESIRES of your heart. It is your greatest desire to be close to your Father, this is why you prayed “Not my will, not what I believe, teach me the truth no matter what the cost, Lord teach me, Father use me.”</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is submission, but that does not mean it is giving up, in fact you do more, seek more, reach higher, bow lower, but YOU DON’T HAVE A CHOICE, and you understand that. So when the storms of life come, you KNOW IT IS FOR YOUR GOOD, BECAUSE YOU LOVE!</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Six months ago I lost my cool and had it out with my Mother N Law, God bless her. Because after this big fight, we decided to sell out house, and we ended up in my wife’s dream house, 3 times bigger, less of a mortgage payment, an apartment to rent if we wish, a pool, and because of issues with permits, we have lived here since June 15, and our rent is one dollar a day, until we close, and my asthma is gone. Now had I not gotten all carnal and had such a terrible blow out, with a woman I now love, than I wouldn’t be writing this to you from my new office. God instigated this argument, he set the stage, he sent the tormenting spirit (as he did with King Saul) and got me to do exactly what I needed to do, so he could Bless us as our family has grown in him. But like a fool, I beat myself up for months about losing my temper, but now I have seen, if I never did this, I would have problem breathing, in a shotty small house, instead of a huge brand new blessing of a home, FOR LESS MONEY.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Wise person knows that in every hard and bad time there is a greater blessing because of it. Where would the flowers be without the manure, the pearl without the suffering of the oyster, the diamond without all that pressure?</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So why should I get upset when I see so many Prophets of Baal in the land, tormenting God’s children, imprisoning them with lies, and fairy tales, making them fools by claiming miraculous healings, and miraculous wealth… Those that continue to build the wall higher and higher until all people can see and know Babylon’s folly, is surely also part of God’s plan. The bigger the bully the bigger their fall. And the GREAT EVIL KING RELIGION will fall. Because God is in control of it all. And God RAISED THE BULLY UP as he did Pharaoh.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Romans 9:17</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So the question is, if God is hardening the Great Evil Religious Kings of the world, and putting lies in their mouths, where is the proof, why, and what is the point?</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">1 Kings 22</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">20And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. 21And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You see AHAB was a false prophet, he was the SON of OMNRI (which means in Hebrew, “God’s pupil”) – Now OMNRI may mean “Pupil of God”, like many of the “religious leaders” claim to be out there, but Omri, like many others who do evil in the sight of the Lord, are meant to be much more than simply pupils of God.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We are GOD’S CHILDREN… You can study, and quote scripture until the cows come home, but if you have not LOVE and the TRUTH, it would be better if you had not studied at all, than to give birth to an “AHAB”… Which is exactly what is ruling the land today.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">AHAB, a lying king, married to Jezebel and we all know (that Religious spirit) only wants to kill the Truth of God. So how does God handle such false teachers, like AHAB? By getting them to FURTHER BELIEVE that the LIES THEY TEACH will bring them VICTORY, when in fact, it will be their destruction. Which is a good thing, because a man must first die to himself and the LIES he believes before he is born again.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So when I see those out there teaching lies, robbing their congregants with candy coated poisonous words, I know that God is yet in control of this as well. He needs to brings the liars or the land to their knees and there is no better way to do this, than to make them believe that they can do whatever they want, and that God is not watching. (And just WHO do you think filled their heads with this belief?) – Well read the next passage and you tell me.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">22And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a LYING SPIRIT IN THE MOUTH OF ALL AHAB’S PROPHETS. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. 23Now therefore, behold, the LORD HATH PUT A LYING SPIRIT IN THE MOUTH OF ALL THESE THY PROPHETS…-</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You see, God is the one that has PUTS THE LIES in the Mouths of these False Prophets. Now why would God do such a thing?</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is to BRING AN END TO THE LIES we have believed, so People can finally be set at liberty and may know the truth. It’s sort of like that old story you heard about a child who was caught smoking a cigarette, his father gives him a whole pack and sends him to his room and says he can’t leave till he smokes the whole pack. The kid got so sick from those cigarettes, he never touched them again.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>There is going to come a point in the congregation’s lives, when they too will become sick of all the lies they have been force fed and swallowed over the years. They will grow tired of hearing about scandal after scandal, seeing no change in their life and in their heart, having no hope, and now broke, and they will finally turn to God and say, “God I don’t know what to believe, who to believe, and what is true?”</b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>AND THAT’S WHEN THE TRUTH WILL BE REVEALED TO THEM! The instant people stop going to Man to know God, but go to God to know God, they will find the Truth and the Freedom they so desperately crave.</i></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">24But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee? 25And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an INNER CHAMBER to hide thyself. -</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When we GO WITHIN, (the kingdom/reign/rule/truth of God is within) – That is when you SEE (Understand) where THE SPIRIT of the LORD WENT… It never went anywhere, it is we, the CARNAL SOUL in the BODY that went to a far country and forgot who we were and where our home was… Micaiah understood this, before the liars of the land knew this, but he also knew eventually they would GO WITHIN, even if it was to Hide Themselves from the devastation to come.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So to briefly address why I decided to go off Facebook and end my radio program for a time, it was because I truly have no choice in the matter. I was tired of seeing so many people being so misled, I was becoming sickened by the hypocrisy from the pulpit, I was saddened by those who I KNOW would benefit from understanding the TRUTH.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">SEVEN GREAT TRUTHS</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">1) God is LOVE 2) God has a plan 3) God is in control 4) God cannot fail 5) You cannot fail because God will not fail 6) You will overcome, because God has created you to live the life you are living and you will reap what you sow and will learn to submit yourselves to the truth 7) God will bring you into his rest by frustrating you with your vain self effort and imaginings that will never comfort you.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">THERE IS SUCH GREAT HOPE! WE CAN’T LOSE, EVEN THE GREAT EVIL RELIGIOUS KINGS WILL RETURN</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Romans 8:38-39 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.-</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is OUR HOPE! Nothing, and I mean NOTHING shall separate us from the LOVE OF GOD, which is in CHRIST, which is OUR LIFE! This is what everyone needs to grab hold of. YOU ARE NOT IN CONTROL! You don’t accomplish anything or destroy anything. You are not who you THINK YOU ARE.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">1 Corinthians 6:19</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost <b>which is in you</b>, which ye have of God, and YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN?-</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For years I have been trying to share this with others. This is the hidden meaning of my novel, it is the very core of everything I write, it is my very reason to live, my passion, my heart, MY DESIRE, which is not my own. So for awhile I did the best I could to share this. I wanted to inspire, to encourage, to share what I had learned, that everything was according to plan and that we should not fear, anything, but reverence God, and seek Love in all we do. This is why I began my radio show, my Facebook, my blog, to spread this and to get my Novel out there, which I believed with all my heart, was a key to the kingdom. I believed, and still believe, my Fiction, would help many to question who have never questioned, and help those to see who have questioned and haven’t seen before.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This was and is my hope. Because I believed, and still believe this is what was written, and that I was, as the lead character in my novel was, a VOICE IN THE DEAD WOODS. I wanted to be a FIG TREE with FRUIT. And so each day I prayed and woke to help inspire or encourage anyone who would read my posts, entertain and get to question anyone who would hear my programs, test and try any who would watch my Youtube videos, and wake up anyone who would buy my novel… But yesterday, it all seemed like such vanity to me.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I was tired of seeing so many perverse men and women making bold claims, that I knew without a shadow of a doubt were not true. My heart broke every time someone would say I had no faith, and that I somehow was quenching the SPIRIT OF GOD. As if this is possible. I don’t know about you, but I don’t need to have a literally blind person healed to know God and to have Faith. We are to put our faith in the UNSEEN, but the whole world is sensual and want miracles and show, and want natural things that they can naturally wraps their mind around.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Because….</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">1 Corinthians 2:14</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Watch what we are to put our faith in.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hebrews 11:1</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And without FAITH (in the UNSEEN) it is impossible to please God.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Read the Faith chapter, each great man and woman of God DID NOT SEE A NATURAL THING, they didn’t look for the promises, they didn’t need to, they had faith that God was true and man was a liar.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And those lost tribes of Israel, are lost to the temporal natural carnal world, led by carnal men, more concerned with gaining wealth or losing it, than with what GOD TRULY WANTS OF THEM. submission</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So I decided to leave Facebook, the radio, at least for a time, because they had not tasted what I had tasted, they weren’t where I was, they hadn’t understood what I understood, that NO ONE IS BETTER THAN ANOTHER, and there was NOTHING I COULD DO ABOUT IT! So, I would walk away.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“I AM NOT A NAME I AM GOD’S CHILD!”</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So, I shut down my facebook and would no longer do my radio program, until I felt it was right again, if it ever was wrong, it was God that made it so. For those who say this is a mistake, I say, there are no mistakes with God. Now here is the MAIN REASON I decided to take myself out of the equation. People were beginning to think HIGHER OF ME than they should. People were turning to me for answers, and I DON’T HAVE THE ANSWERS, GOD DOES. And every single one of us, Has God WITHIN, waiting to give us every answer to every question. But many are looking to me, AND OTHERS, as if WE have what they have not.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">John 16 5-13</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?-</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">No one has asked where I am going, but why I am going. That’s the wrong question people.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">6But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. 7Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. -</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I received so many sorrow filled emails, people feeling like there was something wrong, like I had been attacked or torn down, but I had no choice in the matter, and it wasn’t until writing this letter that I realized why I was leaving for a time, it was so YOU ALL COULD FIND THE TRUTH WITHIN YOU, WITHOUT NEEDING ANOTHER LIKE ME TO TELL YOU.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If all those who claim to know the TRUTH leave, than those who worry they don’t have the TRUTH will find the TRUTH has never left them nor forsaken them. PEOPLE, YOU DON’T NEED THE EVIL KINGS OF RELIGION because the Poor Man with wisdom will save you from their whiley ways, and he will not want credit for doing do. You need only simply knock and the door will be opened, seek and you will find.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">12I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. 13Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come(REVEALED IN YOU), he (CHRIST) will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.-</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have done all I can for now, I am not a police man for God, pointing out the flaws of the liars of the land. I am not a RELIGIOUS KING that people should turn to for advice and prayer. I need to go away, so they see that GOD is IN THEM, and THEY are in God, and we are all ONE!</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">John 17:21</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.-</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The reason why people believe in the lies of these false religious teachers and profits today, is because they want NOW MORE THAN EVER to have an experience of God. They are hurting, and they want answers, they want freedom, but they are following their itching ears. They are looking for the answers OUTSIDE of themselves. They are looking to the natural as the spirit, and forbidding the spirit for the lies of the natural man. This is why we find people claiming miracle healing, miraculous tongues, resurrection of the flesh, and other phenomenon, when NONE OF IT IS TRUE!</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They have been taught these things are true by liars, and so the lie became the truth and the truth became the lie, and I find myself wishing things were different.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Romans 1:25</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.-</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So God did to them, what he did to Prophets of AHAB, he turned them over to the REPROBATE MIND. (And no, this has NOTHING to do with homosexuality, that is another LIE of MAN)</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Romans 1:21,22</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. -</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And remember the FOOL in his heart, says THERE IS NO GOD. These religious leaders today, driving their fancy cars, boasting miraculous shows, dressed in thousand dollar suits, taking the money from the poor and the hungry, DON’T TRULY BELIEVE IN GOD. If they did, they would not do what they do, act the way they act, or live the way they live. They would be transparent and not care what others will think and say. IT IS TRUTH THAT SETS PEOPLE FREE, not the FACADE OF TRUTH. The NAKED EXPOSED UGLY TRUTH is one hundred fold better then a handsome well dressed lie!</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So God gave them over to their VILE AFFECTIONS (LIES) as he did with AHAB’S PROPHETS. But I know that I am not the one that needs to correct them. These Prophets of Baal can gather together, cut themselves with stones, scream, shake, quake, jump up and down scream and shout, and the lord will not take their sacrifice.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">1 Kings 18</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">21And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? If the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.-</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">WHO ARE YOU GOING TO SERVE? WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE UP YOUR MIND? HOW LONG LORD WILL THEY SUFFER BEFORE THEY ENTER IN? So I leave this challenge to all the Prophets of Baal in the land, as Elijah did before me.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">1 Kings 18:25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under. 26And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. 27And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awakened. 28And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. 29And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded. 30And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down-</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Prophets had no power, when in the presence of the Man of God. They looked as fools. And when the PEOPLE realized they had been duped by these money hungry witches with all their signs and wonders crusades and visions of hell, heaven, allah, Jesus, and Joseph Smith… I stand here saying, WHERE IS YOUR GODS when you call on them? Why is not your SACRIFICE accepted? Why are the people in bondage and have no hope?</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Then they will see the TRUTH, and grab hold of the HOPE OF GLORY, <b>CHRIST IN THEM, not far from them, not coming soon, but WITHIN THEM</b>. And I travail until Christ be formed in the Body, and when the BODY WAKES OUT OF THE SLUMBER these liars have caused, they will KILL THESE PROFITS (Meaning they will no longer go to their churches) – And BABYLON WILL FALL, and is FALLEN ALREADY. Then they, like I, will REPAIR the ALTAR OF THE LORD which was broken down by their greed and insecure need for control and power, and the altar will be repaired… OUR HEART!</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So, leave your mega churches, keep your money, pay your bills, and turn within. Stop your works, see the truth, BE ONE AS WE ARE ONE, AS I AM ONE WITH THE FATHER, AND THE FATHER IS ONE WITH ME, I IN YOU, YOU IN ME, AND WE IN GOD, FOR GOD IS ALL IN ALL and in control of all, setting the stage for THE GREAT EVIL KING RELIGION TO FALL!</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you feel led, send this to as many as you can. One can set a thousand to flight!</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jacob</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">www.JacobIsrael.org</div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“The Truth Will Change You”</div>Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-14921529974800762152010-09-04T16:57:00.002+10:002010-09-04T17:01:34.276+10:00what is the second death?<meta content="OpenOffice.org 3.2 (Win32)" name="GENERATOR"></meta><style type="text/css">
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</style><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I came across this quote today and decided to include it here, mostly because I had nowhere else to put it..:) </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For a long time now I've been trying to gather thoughts on what the second death, or, lake of fire, means. That it's <u>not</u> a literal lake filled with literal fire is without doubt but it's still something hard to put into words. The following is not the whole of it, but a tiny part.. and food for thought.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> A quote from David Sanderson (<i>and I don't know who he is, only what he's reported to have said</i>).. </span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/TIHtLG9D5QI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/PTuU4GHhO4Q/s1600/39101_419684004110_851424110_4484455_507496_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/TIHtLG9D5QI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/PTuU4GHhO4Q/s200/39101_419684004110_851424110_4484455_507496_n.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"What is the second death...?" The second death is Judgment. The scripture has many names for it. It's the work that parental and almighty God intended (and absolutely able) to finish 'creating mankind in His image', 'conforming him to the image of His Son', 'scourging every son that He receives', 'burning out (<i>fire</i>) ...of dross' etc. It's also the 'taking up the cross and following', the, 'dying to self', etc.</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's not always 'punitive' and often altogether lovely. It's educational, spiritual, beneficial, and scriptural.</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Judgment fails if it's 'eternal' (<i>never ending</i>), without redemptive or corrective benefit, or unjust by being either insufficient for the task, or demonically cruel as in the pagan/christian 'hell'. God is the perfect Father, and that makes Him the perfect Judge. (perhaps that also answers your question about the unbelieving 'good' man). God doesn't fail.</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">People who believe both Scripture and the successful creation/salvation of all humankind know that this is no easy, flippant Gospel.</span></span>Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-15440061409850543752010-08-26T09:18:00.001+10:002010-08-26T13:04:38.286+10:00Love Jesus Not Religion: GET OUT OF BABYLON A great word from Jacob Isreal.<br />
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<a href="http://lovejesusnotreligion.blogspot.com/2010/08/get-out-of-babylon.html">Love Jesus Not Religion: GET OUT OF BABYLON</a>Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-4712581581857179342010-08-11T08:24:00.000+10:002010-08-11T08:24:49.709+10:00without our choice!<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Everyone believes we were condemned by Adam "without our choice"... However, if you believe that, remember the SAME ALL that were condemned by Adam will be saved by Jesus "without our choice",..... If this is not true, then Adam was GREATER than Christ ... Think about it!!! (Rom, 5:18 and 1Cor. 15:22)~T.Trumino~</span></h6>Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-49859191745570557632010-02-04T23:21:00.004+11:002010-02-04T23:34:14.969+11:00God's Sovereign PurposeGod's Sovereign Purpose, mankind's choice is limited to God's Choice! **<br /><br />He placed a scoop of Clay upon another until a form lay lifeless on the<br />ground. All of the garden inhabitants paused to witness the event.<br />Cherubims hovered, Seraphims stretched, eagles paused on rocky cliffs to<br />watch.<br /><br />"You will love me, nature" God said. "I made you that way, you will love Me<br />universe, for you were designed to do so, you will reflect My glory,<br />heavens, for that is how you were created. Ps. 19:1. But this one will be<br />like Me.... this one will be able to choose, through my choice.**<br /><br />All were silent the Creator reached into himself and removed something<br />unseen, a seed, "it is called 'Man,' Seed of the woman.(Gen. 3:15, Holy<br />Spirit guarded seed until Messiah). Creation stood still in silence and gazed<br />upon the lifeless form.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/S2q9osM-IqI/AAAAAAAAAXw/vk0u3B8yTJY/s1600-h/light+man+%28200+x+188%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 188px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/S2q9osM-IqI/AAAAAAAAAXw/vk0u3B8yTJY/s400/light+man+%28200+x+188%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434364407133905570" border="0" /></a><br />And the angel spoke, "But what if... "what if he chooses** not to love?" the Creator finished His masterpiece!<br /><br />"Come I will show you." Unbound by time, God and the angel walked into the realm of tomorrow. "There, see the fruit of the seed of man, both sweet and bitter."<br /><br />The angel gasped at what he saw, spontaneous love, voluntary devotion,<br />chosen tenderness, never had he seen anything like these.<br />He felt the love of the Adams. He heard the joy of the Eve and her daughter, he saw the<br />food and the burdens shared, he absorbed the kindness and marveled at the warmth.<br /><br />"Heavens has never seen such beauty, my Lord truly, this is your greatest<br />creation."<br /><br />"Ah, but you've only seen the sweet, now witness the bitter."<br /><br />A stench enveloped the pair. the angel turned in horror and proclaimed:<br />"What is this?" the Creator spoke only one word. "Selfishness."<br /><br />The angel stood speechless as they passed through the centuries of<br />repugnance, never had he seen such filth, rotten hearts, ruptured<br />promises, forgotten loyalties, children of creation wandering blindly in<br />lonely labyrinths.<br /><br />"This is the result of choice?" the angel asked.<br /><br />"Yes, But, The creature (creation) was made subject to vanity, not willingly,<br />but by reason of Him Who has subjected the same in Hope." Rom. 8: 20.<br /><br />"Will they forget you?"<br /><br />"YES"<br /><br />"Will they never come back?"<br /><br />"Some will, most won't, for aions, but ultimately all will." "I turn man to<br />destruction: and say, Return you children of men." Psalm 90: 3. "None can<br />resist my will." Rom. 9: 15-22.<br /><br />"What will it take to make them listen?"<br /><br />The Creator walked on in time, further and further into the future, until he<br />stood by a tree, a tree that would be fashioned one day into a cradle, even<br />then He could smell the hay that would surround Him.<br /><br />With another step into the future, He paused before another tree, it stood<br />alone, a stubborn ruler on a bald hill, the trunk was thick and strong. Soon<br />it would be trimmed, soon it would be mounted on the stony brow of<br />another hill, and soon He would be hung on it. He felt the wood run against<br />a back He did not wear yet.<br /><br />"Will you go there?" the angel asked.<br /><br />"I Will"<br /><br />"Is there no other way?"<br /><br />"There is not."<br /><br />"Wouldn't it be easier to not plant the seed? Wouldn't it be easier to not<br />subject the man to a choice?"**<br /><br />"It would"<br /><br />The Creator spoke slowly. "But to remove the choice** is to remove the<br />love." He looked around the hill and fore saw a scene, three figures hung<br />on a cross, arms spread, heads fallen forward, they moaned with the wind.<br />John 19:18.<br /><br />Men clad in soldier's garb sat on the ground near to the trio, they played<br />games in the dirt and laughed. Men clad in religion stood off to one side,<br />they smiled, arrogantly, cocky, they had protected God, they thought by<br />killing this false one. Women clad in sorrow huddles at the foot of the hill.<br />Speechless, faces streaked with tears, one put her arms around the other<br />and tried to lead her away but she wouldn't leave.<br /><br />"I will stay, she said softly... I will stay."<br /><br />All heaven stood to awe, all nature rose to rescue, all eternity poised in<br />agony, but the Creator gave no command.<br /><br />"It must be done....." He said, and withdrew.<br /><br />But as he stepped in time, He heard the cry that He would someday<br />scream.<br /><br />"MY GOD, MY GOD WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?"<br /><br />He wrenched at tomorrow's agony. the angel spoke again "it would be less<br />painful"<br /><br />The Creator interrupted softly. "But man wouldn't love." They stepped into<br />the garden again, the Maker looked earnestly at the clay creation, a<br />monsoon of love swelled up within Him. He had died for creation before He<br />had made it. Rev.13:8. God's form bent over the sculptured face and<br />breathed. Dust stirred on the lips of the new one, the chest rose, cracking the red mud,<br />the cheeks fleshed up, a finger moved, an eye opened. But more incredible<br />than the moving of the flesh was the stirring of the spirit, those who could<br />see the unseen gasped.<br /><br />Perhaps it was the wind who said it first, perhaps what the star saw that<br />moment is what has made it blink ever since. " It looks like..... it appears<br />to be so much like... it is Him!" The angel wasn't speaking of the face, the<br />features or the body, he was looking inside--- at the spirit. Ecc.3:21, 11:7<br /><br />"It is eternal!" gasped another.<br /><br />Within the Redeemed man, God has placed a divine seed. A seed of<br />Himself. The God of might had created earth's masterpiece. The creator<br />had created, not a creature, but another creator, and the one who had<br />chosen to love had created one who could love in return.<br /><br />"I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I even my hands, have<br />stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. I have<br />raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways; he shall build<br />my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price, nor reward, says the<br />Lord of hosts." Isaiah 45:12, 13.<br /><br />Now it is our Choice** to Love our Father, the Creator, because of Jesus??<br /><br />**"You have not chosen me, but, I have Chosen you." John 15: 16.<br /><br />Scott Paris 12-3-2000Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-92099374463646109232009-12-10T22:25:00.003+11:002009-12-10T22:29:52.431+11:00Awesome!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/SyDbcYGFNfI/AAAAAAAAAXU/Rtha_FiMqd4/s1600-h/44e7390f-880a-4e37-90e2-88fa633ce4ed.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 362px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/SyDbcYGFNfI/AAAAAAAAAXU/Rtha_FiMqd4/s400/44e7390f-880a-4e37-90e2-88fa633ce4ed.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413568032650114546" border="0" /></a>Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-47234424584015229642009-12-03T21:24:00.004+11:002009-12-03T21:48:32.142+11:00WISH WE HAD MORE TRIALS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/SxeW6m_7uyI/AAAAAAAAAXM/q4sttcuLFWA/s1600-h/intercession.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/SxeW6m_7uyI/AAAAAAAAAXM/q4sttcuLFWA/s400/intercession.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410959410954222370" border="0" /></a>Life has become one trial after another lately, and it was only today that I was able to finally give up and surrender my all to Him. Trials require death... to self. The flesh is always screaming out it's indignation at what it has to suffer and mine has been screaming pretty loudly (and it says it doesn't want more trials!)... but thanks be to God Who is giving me the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ. The way forward is now clear... HE is the Way... the Truth and the Life. And this suffering will produce a transcendently transcendent eonian burden of glory.<br /><br />I read this good article online tonight and thought I'd share it here:<br /><br />Suffering for Christ’s sake must be a great gift, or else God wouldn’t grant us the gracious privilege. I’m referring to Philippians 2:29: "For to you it is graciously granted, for Christ’s sake, not only to be believing on Him, but to be suffering for His sake also."<br /><br />Believing is graciously granted, we all concede. But what of this other? To be suffering for His sake. Yes. This, too, is graciously granted. What? You mean it’s not a sign of divine indignation? Not a cosmic accident? Not a bad day? No. Rather, it’s grace. If we’re suffering for Him, it means that we’re doing something right; He’s doing us a favor. It means that He has chosen us in grace for a high privilege. What privilege? To enjoy an even higher reward of glory.<br /><br />"(We are) joint enjoyers of Christ’s allotment, if so be that we are suffering together, that we should be glorified together also" (Rom. 8:17).<br /><br />This life isn’t all there is. If there were no resurrection, we would be the laughingstock of all people. But since there is a resurrection, we are the laughingstock of all people.<br /><br />"For the momentary lightness of our affliction is producing for us a transcendently transcendent eonian burden of glory..." (2 Cor. 4:17).<br /><br />"Transcendent" isn’t a mystical word. In the Greek it means, "over-cast." This is not a meteorological term, but means, "cast up over all else." It’s something incredibly high, higher than the highest thing. The apostle wants to emphasize this, so he calls the glory "transcendently transcendent." This sounds like ridiculous redundancy, and it is. Paul had nothing in his language to describe it, so he does the best he can with what he has. When he runs out of words, he simply repeats the best one he has.<br /><br />Note that our afflictions are what produce the burden of eonian glory. (Note: "eonian" is a transliteration of the Greek aionion. It means, "having to do with eons." Our glory will last forever—everyone knows that—but how wonderful to know that it pulsates as well through the following two glorious eons. Not everyone enjoys the privilege of eonian glory. Billions of people will be dead during the two glorious eons ahead. We enjoy eonian glory because Christ favors us.) There is still glory without heavy suffering. That is, we don’t need to bear heavy crosses here to enjoy resurrection life there. Salvation is free. But we won’t know the transcendent depths of glory unless we suffer for His sake. Often, this includes crosses.<br /><br />Someone is elbowing into the text, saying: "Average glory is good enough for me. Keep the cross out of my life." I understand that. I can relate to that. I don’t like crosses, either. If this is how you feel, then a crossless life is perfect for you. Live your life and worship God however you can.<br /><br />Others want to taste everything. They want to taste glory to the dregs, and our Lord Jesus Christ knows who they are. To accommodate them, He graciously grants that they should taste suffering to the dregs as well. This suffering has to be graciously granted, because no one can start up a suffering program to win glory. Men and women can’t whip themselves, starve themselves or seclude themselves into glory. Our sufferings, in order to count, must be graciously granted by God; God is up to the task. So just keep living, try to have a good time without breaking the law, and leave the "graciously granted" part to Him. What I’m telling you is: don’t become the author of your own trials. He thinks up good enough ones without you helping Him.<br /><br />Note that the trials are called "light," while the glory is a "burden." Paul had a healthy perspective here. We often suppose that these trials are weighty and that the glory could never eclipse the pain. This is so wrong.<br /><br />Our bodies need to be changed. Why? Because we can’t carry so much glory in these frames. Without new bodies, we couldn’t bear the glory ahead. It would be like asking a light bulb filament to channel a nuclear explosion.<br /><br />Comparatively, then, our present burdens are light. This is hard to understand now, in the heat of battle. But one day soon, when you feel the glory, you are going to thank God for every tear. You are going to thank God for every minute of every trial you were ever called upon to endure. And then you’re going to say, "Oh, God. So this is why I had to go through that."<br /><br />And then you’re going to wish you had gone through more. For real.<br /><br />Martin ZenderChezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-37460033992852025102009-11-11T21:13:00.001+11:002009-11-11T21:15:52.676+11:00Why should we preach the gospel now if God is going to have all men to be saved in the end?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/SvqOxhmQ6DI/AAAAAAAAAWk/ym3krVRnrJ8/s1600-h/christ+hug.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 220px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/SvqOxhmQ6DI/AAAAAAAAAWk/ym3krVRnrJ8/s400/christ+hug.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402787684467927090" border="0" /></a><br />This is a very ridiculous question, but nevertheless, many people continue to ask it in light of the salvation of all men. Our answer is to be found from Romans 10:14,15. We must understand that the preaching ( and teaching ) of the gospel is the means by which God AWAKENS the human race to what He has ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED in Christ. This is taking place and will continue to take place in the ages to come.<br /><br />-Romans 10:14,15 states, … How then shall they call on Him in Whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in Him of Whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! … Let us also consider what 2nd Corinthians 5:18 tells us. It states, … And all things are of God, Who has reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation; …<br /><br />-What beautiful passages of scripture! They both testify to the fact that we have been called to preach and minister the salvation and reconciliation of our great God. We must first take into account that God has already ( past tense ) reconciled the world unto Himself. This means that ALL PEOPLE have been reconciled to God by Jesus Christ ( whether they know it or not ). Even with this having been accomplished, mankind is still called upon ( by God ) to recognize, repent, and respond to what God has made available. We don’t preach to “get people saved”, but rather, we preach to AWAKEN THEM to the fact that God has already saved and forgiven them. THIS IS GOOD NEWS! THIS IS THE GOSPEL! We must stop thinking that our preaching, altar calls, and formulas ( the sinner’s prayer ) is what saves a person. In essence, they are already reconciled, but they just don’t know it yet. With this being said though, man is still accountable ( to God ) to repent and respond in faith to the message of reconciliation, which then leads us through the salvation process of our spirit, soul, and body.<br /><br />-We are called upon to preach the gospel for the purpose of awakening the human race to the fact ( GOOD NEWS ) that they have been reconciled to God by the death of His Son Jesus Christ. How can a person know that they have been reconciled to God unless someone tells them? This is God’s method of causing all men to come to the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, WHETHER NOW, OR IN THE AGES TO COME! So … Let us …<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">-PREACH THE GOOD NEWS!-<br /></div>Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-80596659364895528522009-10-26T21:54:00.004+11:002009-10-26T22:03:11.609+11:00Lilly<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/SuWBqsqxhAI/AAAAAAAAATw/NifN6HZysnU/s1600-h/Netty%27s+photos+Nov+08+003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 199px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/SuWBqsqxhAI/AAAAAAAAATw/NifN6HZysnU/s400/Netty%27s+photos+Nov+08+003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396862299018462210" border="0" /></a><br />The following has been sitting on my sidebar for a few months, so today I thought it best to put dear little Lilly to rest by putting her in her own blog post. She was so cute as a puppy, as you can imagine a chihuahua pup is very small and dainty.<br /><br />Lilly passed away 23rd July 2009, she was aged approx 6 yrs and was my daughter's pure blood, long haired, chihuahua. I loved Lilly and was going to have her as my own next year after I had finished chemotherapy, found a job and place to live. She was hit by a truck this morning in a quiet street, which is unusual as she was street smart. I really love you, Lilly, and I'm so sad I won't have the chance to look after you.<br /><br />Rest in Peace, our most cutest little being...Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-17253092198828132342009-10-17T16:53:00.000+11:002009-10-17T16:54:29.048+11:00Rev Right interviews Jesus<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tfhxVc1eFeo&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tfhxVc1eFeo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-66671646375972460092009-09-19T17:20:00.003+10:002009-09-19T18:02:52.173+10:00Quote from Charlotte Bronte's novel 'Jane Eyre'.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk81/meefsgirl/Jane_Eyre_and_Helen_Burns_by_how-1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 260px;" src="http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk81/meefsgirl/Jane_Eyre_and_Helen_Burns_by_how-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />The English author Charlotte Bronte wrote a novel in the early eighteen hundreds called 'Jane Eyre', which I started reading yesterday, and I was so impressed by a passage that I thought I'd share it. <br /><br />It is well known in the circles of Christian Universalism that her sister, Anne Bronte (one of her poems was posted by myself a month or so previously), was, what we'd call today, a Christian Universalist. When I read this passage from Jane Eyre I was left wondering if her sister, Charlotte, was, even though she didn't declare it openly, of the same belief. <br /><br />In the story, Jane is sent to a school provided for by charity in which the children lived in very harsh conditions, especially by today's standards, and Jane's one and only friend by the name of Helen Burns was continually emotionally and mentally abused by one of the teachers. Helen suffered her pain with such a Christlike attitude that it always left Jane amazed. Helen taught Jane many valuable spiritual lessons in her short life (she died of typhoid soon afterwards). Here is the passage I wish to share, spoken by Helen:<br /><br />"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. We are, and must be, one and all, burdened with faults in this world; but the time will soon come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies; when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh, and only the spark of the spirit will remain, -the impalpable principle of life and thought, pure as when it left the Creator to inspire the creature: whence it came it will return; perhaps again to be communicated to some being higher than man -perhaps to pass through gradations of glory, from the pale human soul to brighten to the seraph! Surely it will never, on the contrary, be suffered to degenerate from man to fiend? No; I cannot believe that: I hold another creed; which no-one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention; but in which I delight, and to which I cling; for it extends hope to all: it makes Eternity a rest -a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last: with this creed revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low: I live in calm, looking to the end."<br /><br />In writing this passage it seems to me that Charlotte also held to the Great Hope.Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-75177911723548636202009-09-13T16:56:00.003+10:002009-09-13T17:15:57.722+10:00More from the Oracles of God<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/SqybsbyHuKI/AAAAAAAAAO0/B3Czj10hceA/s1600-h/loveneverfails.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 190px; height: 125px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/SqybsbyHuKI/AAAAAAAAAO0/B3Czj10hceA/s400/loveneverfails.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380846842475428002" /></a><br />This, you can take to bank: God is not removing His Holy Spirit from the earth and leaving everything to the devil, as it is commonly preached. The day of grace is not on the threshold of ending. The door of mercy is not about close. The fact is, we have only seen a fraction of grace and mercy in comparison to what will be coming. Just wait and take note of what the sons of God will be raining upon creation that eagerly awaits their glorious manifestation. This great company of kings and priests who are after the order of Melchisedec will truly be an apocalypse of Jesus Christ's mercy, grace, and power to creation. Moreover, it will not end with this or the coming age, but will continue throughout the ages to come. Due to the very purpose and nature of our God's love, grace, and mercy, the Son of His express image, and those of His body, this love, grace, and mercy will be shed abroad to all until all things are made new.<br /><br />Truly, we have only had a fore-taste of God's mercy and grace which are centered in Jesus Christ; yet there is more, much more. Through the vast ages to come, He will continue to unfold these unfathomable treasures, manifesting them through His vessels of mercy. This is a sure thing that will be freighted by the power of unmerited love. It will pour down from the Throne until the fullness of God and His Christ is revealed to all and in all, even until God becomes All in all! <br />Elwin R Roach <br />http://www.godfire.net/apocalypse_14.htmlChezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-83890734655810799562009-09-13T16:46:00.004+10:002009-09-13T16:54:37.312+10:00Oracles of GodEverything that God is--whether it is His thoughts, His intent, His will, His power, His authority, His love--it is contained in His Word which is His Oracle that expressly speaks. Paul certainly knew something of this: "For of (Grk ek, out of) Him, and through Him, and to (Grk. eis, into) Him are all things." Romans 11:36. The apostle summed up very well in this short verse what Ray Prinzing termed as the law of circularity, and I know of no simpler way it could have been said. For truly, out of Him, through Him, and back into Him are all things. The ALL that came out of Him by the sound of His word will proceed through Him, and this is by His word which is fire, and the ALL will return back into Him from where it came. Nothing lost, nothing wasted, but ALL made new and drawn back into Him through Jesus Christ! <br />Elwin R RoachChezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-18388477266886374282009-09-04T00:29:00.007+10:002009-10-21T00:53:42.731+11:00Depths of God, depths of satan<p class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 310px;"><a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gustav_Jaeger_Bileam_Engel.jpg"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Gustav_Jaeger_Bileam_Engel.jpg/300px-Gustav_Jaeger_Bileam_Engel.jpg" alt="Balaam and the angel, painting from Gustav Jae..." style="border: medium none ; display: block;" height="235" width="300" /></a><span class="zemanta-img-attribution"></span></p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: trebuchet ms;">Just recently I made a new online friend in a Christian forum by the username of 'Kittenshere', and Kittenshere also believes in the Reconciliation of ALL. She posted a collection of teachings in paragraphs of the outstanding Bible Teacher, L Ray Smith, of bibletruths.com. A fantastic site to learn some of the meat of the scriptures. So, here is her post and it reflects exactly how I feel.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: trebuchet ms;">THE DEPTHS OF SATAN--teaches that what God does mostly, is HATE! He is a God of eternal hatred and vengeance. He is pictured as the chief of Hypocrites. He tells mankind to love their enemies, but shows his perverted love toward mankind by torturing most of our loved ones in fire for all eternity. God's wish of saving all humanity is thwarted by the sovereign power of man's supposed free will, and thus most of the human race will eternally hate and despise and curse their creator for ever making them. This teaching of satan has absolutely no redeeming value to it. God will be remembered eternally for being the greatest failure in the history of the universe. This doctrine is both the most evil and the most stupid teaching ever taught.<br /><br />THE DEPTHS OF GOD--teaches that what God does and is, is LOVE! He is a God fully capable of bringing the whole human race to repentance through judgments and cause man to learn righteousness. The purpose for man's creation is to teach him obedience and love, so that he can be molded into the very image of God himself and be manifested as the Eternal Sons and Daughters of God in the family of God. God's plan brings unspeakable happiness and pleasure to every creature in heaven and earth. God's plan will be totally successful down to God's very last wish. The church teaches the DEPTHS OF SATAN, NOT THE DEPTHS OF GOD, and they accuse those who do teach the DEPTHS OF GOD as false prophets and of the devil.<br /><br />1. Where do we find them who say they are the apostles and are not?? the church....rev.2:2<br /><br />2. where do we find them who have left their first love?...in the church.rev 2:4<br /><br />3.where do we find them that say they are jews and are not, but are synagogue of satan?....in the church.rev 2:9 and 3:9<br /><br />4. Where do we find satans seat and where satan dwells?...in the church. rev 2.13<br /><br />5. Where do we find the doctrine of Balaam?.... in the church. rev 2:14<br /><br />6. Where do we find them that hold the doctrine of the nicolaitans that Jesus HATED?.... in the church.rev 2:15<br /><br />7. Where do we find that woman Jezebel, that calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce servants to commit fornication?.... in the church. rev 2:19<br /><br />8. Where do we find the depths of satan?.... In the church rev.2:24<br /><br />9. where do we find them that are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked?.... in the church.rev 3:17<br /><br />There is no greater evil taught in the church today than that of the doctrine of eternal torment. There is nothing that can be taught by the mind of man or demon that is more deplorable, detestable and disgusting than the thought of being physically, mentally, and spiritually tortured for all eternity. The thought of eternal torture is far beyond all evil, immoral, corrupt, damnable, deprived, heinous, hideous, loathsome, nefarious, obscene, repugnant, vile and wicked sins of all the universe combined. The very thought, the teaching, and the doctrine, of eternal torment is the greatest evil than can ever be conceived. Any human who would torture others are considered the lowest form of humanity. the churches teach of a torture by fire in hell never ever coming to an end and they call it FAIR and JUSTICE. ETERNAL TORTURE IS NOT FAIR OR JUSTICE. But it is the depths of satan. It is INORDINATELY EVIL, IT IS THE ULTIMATE SIN AND IT IS BLASPHEMY OF ALL BLASPHEMIES. IT IS A DOCTRINE THAT DEMEANS THE VERY CHARACTER OF GOD. This doctrine of eternal torture says that God is evil and unjust beyond any sane comprehension. This doctrine says that God, who saved the worlds worst sinner that ever lived, in a flash of light, cannot save most sinners. This doctrine says God is more evil then He is loving. This doctrine makes God out to be less caring and merciful and the worst of sinners. This doctrine contradicts hundreds of scriptures. This doctrine makes God out to be a hypocrite when He tells us to love our enemies, but does not follow His own teaching.<br /><br />Will the same God who says to us, love your enemies, be the one that will torture our friends, neighbors and loved ones? Is this the reward we get for loving our enemies?? God will torture our loved ones? This is double talking, unscriptural nonsense. God wants us to love our loved ones and love our enemies, because we are growing into HIS IMAGE. You cannot show your love to your enemies by torturing them, and NEITHER CAN GOD.<br /><br />On the DEPTHS OF GOD so little is taught in the churches. The doctrines that are scriptural, such as the fact that Jesus is the Savior of the whole world, and that GOD will save the whole world, and all that GOD has created is here for the purpose of training humanity to become sons and daughters of God, in the image of God.... are not taught in the churches and should be taught but instead they teach the depths of satan.</span><br /><div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/281193ea-5309-4840-a94d-a6635375e198/" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]"><img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=281193ea-5309-4840-a94d-a6635375e198" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /></a><span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"></script></span></div>Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-85335076507463320972009-08-23T09:35:00.002+10:002009-08-23T09:35:57.884+10:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/SpCAyFYUDpI/AAAAAAAAANU/SEVvkr9rcuo/s1600-h/1ykglk.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/SpCAyFYUDpI/AAAAAAAAANU/SEVvkr9rcuo/s400/1ykglk.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372935953378971282" border="0" /></a>Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-23773833201117535802009-08-23T09:11:00.005+10:002009-08-23T09:34:13.137+10:00Just As Lost1 Corinthians 1:23-24 boldly states that the religious are in the same boat as the worldly: uncalled. The difference is that religious people appear called; they claim to believe in Christ, but believe in their belief in Christ (free will) instead; worldly people at least dispense with the hypocrisy and state plainly their disbelief in Christ. What qualifies a person as religious? Salvation by self. To the religious person, the cross is a snare in that it is too finished. Religion says that man must work for (finish) his salvation. The most subtle way to believe in salvation by works is to believe in human free will. Human free will substitutes the will of man for the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as the final arbiter of salvation.<br />Martin ZenderChezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-55398519637332221542009-08-22T10:38:00.002+10:002009-08-22T10:45:06.878+10:00O' Lord You're Beautiful!<div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0vE_ea-_h80&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0vE_ea-_h80&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Oh Lord, You're beautiful<br />Your face is all I see<br />For when Your eyes are on this child<br />Your grace abounds to me<br /><br />Oh Lord, please light the fire<br />That once burned bright and clean<br />Replace the lamp of my first love<br />That burns with holy fear<br /><br />I want to take Your Word and shine it all around<br />But first help me just to live it, Lord<br />And when I'm doing well, help me to never seek a crown<br />For my reward is giving glory to You<br />Keith Green<br /></div>Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-38292713899278614182009-08-12T13:54:00.008+10:002009-09-03T22:58:40.650+10:00A Collection of Sayings...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/SoI-FLG73UI/AAAAAAAAAME/A6ebRGUn3A4/s1600-h/fIRE+BRIDE.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 153px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/SoI-FLG73UI/AAAAAAAAAME/A6ebRGUn3A4/s400/fIRE+BRIDE.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368921964381199682" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" >Fire Bride</span><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">I have a contact in Facebook who says the most amazing things about God and spirituality in his wall posts, so I save them. I find the things he has to say very uplifting and encouraging, and they speak to my mind and spirit. Here is a collection of his sayings:</span><br /><br />Paul said, "To be carnally minded IS death." So that explains the death that must be cast into the lake of fire. Hell is torment that goes with carnality; all those works of the flesh, jealousy, envy, malice, etc. We should be asking God to cast us into that lake for a real cleansing!<br /><br />Your old religious heavens, which were your former resting place where you felt so secure in the religious cradle your church mother rocked you in, is beginning to shake and fall, in the light of what this fire-word is revealing. Yes, they are passing away as if being shaken down by an earthquake, a great avalanche of truth. "The ELEMENTS shall melt... Read More with fervent heat; the earth also and the works that are there in shall be burned up." "The first man (of our inner nature) is of the earth, earthy." THAT is the earth which is to be burned up, our old Adam nature.<br /><br />"Awake, thou that sleepeth and Christ shall give thee light." Awake! Learn a great and fundamental truth right here, we must all come through the fire (through the cleansing of God's word). That "lake of fire" of Rev. 20 is where the "death and hell" in everyone of us has to be cast. Fire, being God's word, is surely enough to burn out all the wood, hay, and stubble within you, and anybody else.<br /><br />The rewards are surely wonderful for those who dwell with the devouring-fire, with everlasting burnings, because the devouring fire, that everlasting burnings is none other but our God who IS a consuming fire.<br /><br />"When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. Isa. 43:2 Remember that God loves you just as much when you are in the lake of fire, as when you are on the mountain top of God.<br /><br />The Cross of Christ deals with our false identity and the influence it has had on our lives. Jesus Christ said that if we wanted to follow him, we had to do two things. One is that we must deny our “self,” because it has no existence in reality, for God did not created a SELF. The imaginary “self” we thought we were came from Adam, and is a sinner that has got to die.<br /><br />The religious systems of the world have made SIN the centre of their theology, and then formed a humanistic solution for dealing with the problem. John records for us the truth saying, “For God sent not his son into the world to CONDEMN the world, but that the world through him might be saved." Jn 3:17. The sending of the “WORD” into the world had nothing to do with condemnation but to giving life to all mankind.<br /><br />One of the most important things you will ever see is that God is not holding you accountable for your sin. You may say that’s impossible, but listen to the Word: "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation" (2 Cor. 5:19).<br /><br />God is impartial. He has, therefore, the same design in creating all men, that he had in creating the first man. God is good; and no good being can act with a bad design. The design which he had in creating man, and the design which He has in creating all men, must therefore be good. To create beings for misery, would be to create them with a bad design.<br /><br />If we think we can escape the fire, we are in the greatest deception. There is no other way to become the temple of the Lord. "But who may abide the day of His coming? And who shall stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like fuller's soap; and He shall sit as a purifier of silver; and He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver...(Malachi Chapter 3)<br /><br />God Himself is a consuming fire, and His ministers are also like a fire. "Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord." Jer. 23:29. Again He says, "Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, because ye speak this word, behold, I will make MY WORDS IN THY MOUTH FIRE, and this people wood, and it shall devour them." Jer. 5:14. "If any man's work ... Read Morebe burned he shall suffer loss." Oh, yes, you may wonder if anything is going to be left. And often times there isn't very much, if anything, to leave. "But he, himself, shall be saved; yet so as BY FIRE. Yes, if he is willing to separate himself from those dead and worthless religious words and let God's fire (word of truth) reveal them and burn them up, he can be saved.<br /><br />As Jesus walked we ought to walk with the same mind and relationship from God. We need to come to that place in our life where we are able to instruct the young in mind into the deeper revelations of God. We should not continue as sheep throughout our entire life. There comes a time and a season when we must elevate our standing and move into the heart of God.<br /><br />All I am truly doing is watering and nurturing that seed (Christ) that is in every man. Then everything that is contained in the seed can begin to grow and as it overtakes you in the garden of your soul, your "old man" is suffocated and killed and thus Christ is produced in your life.<br /><br />Since Jesus is the resurrection, we have to be in Him in order to be in the resurrection! If we have been born of the Spirit, we are spiritual beings. We have been raised out of our death in Adam, and we have been put into the life of Christ! If Christ is in us, resurrection is in us; if we are in Christ, we are in the resurrection!<br /><br />I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'' He is not the God of the dead but of the living."(Matt 22:32) The fact that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are alive today proves that they are no longer dead. Although the bodies of the fathers are still in their graves, yet the fathers are alive.<br /><br />When Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies," He gave us a new concept of resurrection. Notice that Jesus did not say that He was bringing resurrection, or that resurrection was a future event in history. Instead, He brought us a new understanding of resurrection when He said, "I am the resurrection". When Christ, the resurrection, dwells within us, we don't need to wait for what we already possess. Our physical death cannot stop the continuation of our resurrection life.<br /><br />Do you THINK or FEEL that God condemns you ? According to the scriptures, God DOES NOT CONDEMNS US. "God was in Christ, reconcialing the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses to them." [2 Cor. 5: 19.] '' Therefore, there is now NO CONDEMNATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST because through Christ the law of the Spirit of life SET ME FREE from the law of sin and death'' [ Rom. 8: 1 -2 ].<br /><br />If the wages of sin is death, then Jesus did pay the price for the sin of the world in being made flesh, overcoming all things, dying on the cross, and being raised again on the third day. He experienced the spiritual aspect of death ( the carnal mind ) and the physical aspect of death ( His crucifixion ).<br /><br />There is only one God and only one life - His life. All else is only a manifestation of that life. God's life can never be separated from Himself, or given to another to make him a god. In Jesus Christ we have the revelation of who God is and what He is. He is the One who comes into our understanding and awareness of spiritual things, to cast down all our imaginations, idols, or wrong ideas of God.<br /><br />Sin in man has its origin in the flesh, or in his animal nature, and this animal nature is destined to be destroyed. Nothing but the spiritual nature of man can survive the tomb. Hence, in a future state of existence he will be free from those passions, appetites and desires, which in this world lead him astray and entice him from the path of virtue.<br /><br />Do you believe that you have a choice in salvation? There is a great difference between offering to give a thing, and actually giving it. Nothing is said about offering to give eternal life; but on the contrary, it is said, "The free gift came upon all men unto justification of life." This free gift is to result in justification of life to all to whom it came.<br /><br />Predestination. This comes next. . . and it is not a frightening word. It simply means "to mark out beforehand." When I seek God and live for Him and seek to walk in His ways, I am not framing my own destiny. I am rather fulfilling a destiny that was predetermined from the foundation of the world. That is why "there remaineth therefore a rest [a sabbath] to the people of God" (Heb. 4:9). Once we recognize that He foreknew and predestinated us, then we know for sure that His call was a creative Word, and not a mere invitation. There is a cause behind the call that reaches back and beyond the foundations of the world. And the cause is hidden in His own heart of Love—He doesn’t tell us why He loved us so.<br /><br />I can assure you that hell is right here on this very earth. Odd that not one reference to hell in the Bible refers to any other place. Mainly I believe that torment and suffering are more between the ears of man. To escape is to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then and only then are you free. Otherwise the flames entrenching the lost is a necessity for some will be saved so as by fire.<br /><br />The fire of God is His judgment in our lives that consumes the refuse in us, which is WOOD, HAY, AND STUBBLE! God’s fire is for PURIFICATION, NOT ETERNAL TORTURE! Nothing was tortured in "Gehenna", only consumed and changed into another form. Your FIERY TRIALS are the process in which God is consuming your carnality and CHANGING YOU INTO THE VERY IMAGE OF THE SON OF GOD.<br /><br />"Gehenna" was the city dump of Jerusalem, the Holy City, where every unclean and unnecessary thing was burned and consumed. The antitypical "Gehenna" to which our Lord alluded in His teaching is the process of PURIFICATION by which every unclean and unnecessary thing in the lives of His Holy People is purged and consumed by the fires of His judgment.<br /><br />If God prepared a place in which He was going to torture billions of the human beings He created, how could He say it never entered His mind? (Jer 19:5, Jer 32:35, Jer 7:31)<br /><br />To move from something that is only a noun to something dynamic and unpredictable, to something living and present tense, is to move from the law to grace.<br /><br />Dale ThompsonChezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-19367425013037237682009-08-04T16:25:00.002+10:002009-08-04T16:30:22.422+10:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/SnfU0WJa5AI/AAAAAAAAAL0/a9GwG0M4WTI/s1600-h/hannah+whitall+smith_thumb%5B10%5D.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 244px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/SnfU0WJa5AI/AAAAAAAAAL0/a9GwG0M4WTI/s400/hannah+whitall+smith_thumb%5B10%5D.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365991476798612482" border="0" /></a><br /> <p> </p> <p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color:#800000;">Hannah Whitall Smith </span></b></div><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Because of her long personal search for God out of the strongly non-creedal religion of the Society of Friends, Hannah’s understanding of truth did not always match the formal doctrines of the evangelicalism of her day, doctrines which had been fashioned into evangelical orthodoxy after centuries of theological debate. Most Christians who knew her or of her were aware of these differences. Some had a real problem with her “broadness,” but most did not.</p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Several factors contributed to the wide-hearing her spiritual counsels received among evangelicals in her time and up to the present time: (1). She never chose to ride a hobby or promote her differences publically. Total submission to God and following Christ were the key notes of her writing and preaching. (2). Her readers and hearers were in a revivalistic tradition which was loyal to basic evangelical doctrine which believed that life not doctrine was the true test of pure Christianity. (3). She had the skill of a spiritual genius in getting to the heart of relational spirituality. Her God was the Omnipotent Lord, but above all, the Loving Father, and she was his devoted child. God was family, like her father, her mother, her sisters and her brother, only so much more.</p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hannah’s heresies have not been emphasized in these limited selections from the thousands of entries available. Many today who know her only through her writings know very little about them, or, if they do, like those who knew her best, they still accept her spiritual insights as valid in the same way that most evangelicals of her own generation did and for the same reasons. Like Job, God put her to the test. And like Job she put God to the test. Her ability to tell us about it is what still helps us home to God today.</p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>To a Friend, The Cedars, August 8, 1876</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong></strong><b><span style="font-size:130%;">BROAD, BROADER, BROADEST</span></b></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><em>And now what do you think of it all? I think one of two things, but which one is right, I don’t know. Perhaps you can tell me. Either I was awfully wicked in the whole matter, and God was not in it anywhere and all the success was because of our natural gifts and talents. Or else I was awfully good, so good as to have lost sight of myself to such a degree as to be only a straw wafted on the wind of the Spirit and so consecrated as not to be able to form a desire even, except that the will of God might be fully done. I waver about myself continually. Sometimes I feel sure I have progressed wonderfully, and that my present sphinx-like calm and indifference to everything whether inward or outward except the will of God, is very grand. And then again I think I am an utterly irreligious and lazy fatalist, with not a spark of the divine in me. I do wish I could find out which I am.</em></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><em>But at all events my orthodoxy has fled to the winds. I am Broad, Broader, Broadest! So Broad that I believe everything is good, or has a germ of good in it, and “nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving.” I agree with every body, and always think it likely everybody’s “view” is better than my own. I hold all sorts of heresies and feel myself to have got out into a limitless ocean of the love of God that overflows all things. My theology is complete, if you but grant me an omnipotent and just Creator. I need nothing more.</em></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><em>“God is love,” comprises my whole system of ethics. And, as you say, it seems to take it all in. There is certainly a very grave defect in any doctrine that universally makes its holders narrow and uncharitable, and this is always the case with strict, so called orthodoxy. Whereas, as soon as Christian love comes in, the boundaries widen infinitely. I find that everyone who has travelled this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose from their old moorings. I bring out my heresies to such, expecting reproof, when lo! I find sympathy. We are “out on the ocean sailing” that is certain. And if it is the ocean of God’s love, as I believe; it is grand.</em></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><em>But, enough! Now, what will you do with it all?</em></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Reblogged from: http://not1lost.blogspot.com/ </span><br /></strong></p>Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-27479124262862859312009-07-29T10:36:00.005+10:002009-07-29T10:50:38.062+10:00The Potter's Wheel<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/Sm-bk0Us7ZI/AAAAAAAAALs/iNM0_3gfdTA/s1600-h/psalm92_4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 239px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/Sm-bk0Us7ZI/AAAAAAAAALs/iNM0_3gfdTA/s400/psalm92_4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363676738044620178" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="center"><span style="color: rgb(130, 127, 128);font-size:130%;" >The Potter's Wheel</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" align="center"><span style="color: rgb(130, 127, 128);font-size:130%;" >When you’re troubled and discouraged<br /> In the darkness of the night<br /> When obstruction clouds your vision<br /> And you just can't see the light.<br /> <br /> When life’s trials overcome you<br /> And you have nowhere to turn<br /> When you’ve reached the very bottom<br /> There are lessons you must learn.</span> </p><p align="center" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(130, 127, 128);font-size:130%;" ><!--Code generated by Cool Web Scrollbars from Harmony Hollow Software--> <!--http://www.harmonyhollow.net-->For the clay is being molded<br /> It’s been twisted, pulled and tossed<br /> It’s been rolled and it’s been pounded<br /> Till the ego has been lost.<br /> <br /> He will put you through the furnace<br /> You’ll be tested to the brim<br /> Your life will be in pieces<br /> Till you give your soul to Him.</span> </p><p align="center" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(130, 127, 128);font-size:130%;" >From blemish to perfection<br /> His hands will form the clay<br /> This human piece of rubble<br /> Must let God have His way.<br /> <br /> When you come to Him all battered<br /> In the form of mortal man<br /> When you cry to Him in mercy<br /> You will find the Potter’s hand. </span> </p><p align="center" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(130, 127, 128);font-size:130%;" >He will grind you, mold and chisel<br /> The friction you will feel<br /> Till He gently carves and shapes you<br /> Upon the Potter’s wheel.<br /> <br /> </span> <span style="color: rgb(130, 127, 128);font-size:130%;" > Author/Written By:<br /> <a href="http://www.marilynspoetry.com/"> Marilyn Ferguson</a><br /> ©2005</span> </p>Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-75482858015025680962009-07-28T14:37:00.005+10:002009-07-28T16:17:55.381+10:00Declare a Fast in the Land?"Declare a Fast in the land," said the Pastor with microphone in hand, but these words he did not understand.<br /><br />Just more control is what he wanted to show, the words of God he did not know.<br /><br />"For four, or forty days, as a congregation we'll pray until God gives us what we say." And so like children the Pastor and his flock continued their play.<br /><br />Whether only juice, water, or bread, this is the way it is always said when a fast is declared in the land of the dead.<br /><br />Man takes God's truth and turns it to lies. It all about man's works, not the truth, for the truth they despise.<br /><br />If this wasn't so the true meaning of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting" title="Fasting" rel="wikipedia">fasting</a> they would know. Their spirit would be fed and their understanding would grow. They would stop with the lies, manipulation and control, they would see the word of God in the only thing we can fast from, if the truth be told.<br /><br />Shall the children fast when their Father is here? Can they ever be hungry when their daily bread is near? Their bread, which is the revelation of God's Word made clear. How can we fast from something so dear? Unless we are ignorant of God's truth and cannot hear.<br /><br />It's not literal food that feeds our soul, it’s not literal food we fast from, it is the Word of God that is sown. In the wilderness we are tempted with lies and it is hard for God to show the truth we need to know because our minds a filled with the lies these pastors, priests and so-called prophets blow.<br /><br />Listen carefully before you follow a man made fast. If you follow vain tradition, and ignorant teachers, you follow the wrong teachers down the wrong path.<br /><br />We are the body and the bread that is broken. The water is the Word we’re immersed in, the sincere milk is the rudiments of God's word spoken. The Fish and the Sheep are women and men that seek. The meat is revelation that is quite deep, the honey is enlightenment that opens yours eyes so you can see. In the Promise Land there is no fasting or hunger for you and me.<br /><br />So don't be like the disciples of John and those that follow after the teaching of those that are less than the least in the kingdom. The law and the prophets bring death, but Christ brings liberty, peace, righteousness and freedom.<br /><br />Jacob<br />www.JacobIsrael.org<br />"The Truth Will Change You"<br /><br />I have always wondered why I was never led to 'fast'.. :)<br /> <div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/7689cdcf-55c3-4b4e-8aa8-20bf3fe17910/" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]"><img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=7689cdcf-55c3-4b4e-8aa8-20bf3fe17910" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /></a><span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"></script></span></div>Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-37243820807131728882009-07-03T21:14:00.003+10:002009-07-03T21:30:19.235+10:00Reconciliation<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/Sk3rrJ2ZppI/AAAAAAAAAJU/VsnZ73vXZsc/s1600-h/Gfriday.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 118px; height: 135px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nkmtUwhY980/Sk3rrJ2ZppI/AAAAAAAAAJU/VsnZ73vXZsc/s400/Gfriday.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354194658624382610" border="0" /></a><br />CLV John 12:31 Now is the judging of this world. Now shall the Chief of this world be cast out.<br />John 12:32 And I, if I should be exalted out of the earth, shall be drawing all to Myself."<br /><br />KJV John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.<br />John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">men</span> unto me.<br /><br />NASB John 12:31 "Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.<br />Joh 12:32 "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself."<br /><br />The word 'men' is not in the original Greek.<br /><br />Jesus said that when He was lifted up He would draw all into Himself. The word men is italicized meaning it was added for clarity. The subject he was talking about was judgment. He drew all judgment for sin unto Himself. He did that by drawing all men unto Himself also. So all men were in Christ when He died on the cross. When He died we all died. When He raised from the dead we all raised from the dead with Him, Holy, Righteous and Perfect in the eyes of God. All men are in Christ, even as all men were in Adam. As sin was imputed to us through the one man Adam, righteous has been imputed to us because of the obedience of the one man Jesus. We really never enter into the equation. It has always been between God and two men. Our receiving of the gift is the kind of receiving you do when you catch the flu. Your body receives the organism whether you want it or not. Your spirit received righteousness through the faith of Jesus Christ. Our job is to reveal to the "world" the righteousness that already exists in them" not to get to become righteous through some work that they might do, which I might add even includes believing. The entire world has been redeemed whether they believe it or not. When that revelation of Redemption is revealed to them and they believe it is when they come into "salvation" which is for the soul which is the mind the will and the emotions.<br />Tom TonskyChezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162740844164125615.post-543725242586253582009-07-03T11:52:00.008+10:002009-07-03T12:21:52.153+10:00Tithing ~ is it valid under the New Covenant?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk81/meefsgirl/breadandwine.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 229px;" src="http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk81/meefsgirl/breadandwine.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in }</style--><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This morning I thought to look at this lesson on tithing that a friend of mine had posted in a particular forum. He'd done a huge study on this topic and I thought I'd post the main points. I left some out to tidy it up as there were quite a bit of 'personal' quotes and quips.</span><br /></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">For a long time I have felt the Holy Spirit tell me that tithing was not a requirement in the New Covenant. I'd read a few books about it, and read many articles which were good teaching, but I felt there was something deeper, the postings my friend StevenL had given from his study was that deeper teaching. In fact, I believe it goes deeper still, the scriptures are like that. So here is that teaching, I hope it helps someone to break free just that little bit more from the Law still preached in pulpits around the christian world..</span><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b>Tithing</b></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: bold;">That there may be food in My house.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">John 4:32 But He said to them, “I have </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u><b>food</b></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> to eat of which you </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u><b>do not know</b></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">.”</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Malachi 3:10 Bring all the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>tithes</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> into the storehouse, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>That there may be food in My house</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, And try Me now in this,” Says the LORD of hosts, “ If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it.</span><br /><br />Why does he want the tithes? So there will be <b>FOOD</b> in His <b>House</b>.<br /><br />What is His <b>House</b>?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>you</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> are the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>temple</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> of God and </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>that</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> the Spirit of God dwells in you?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Ephesians 2:19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 having been </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>built</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>stone,</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>you also are being built</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> together for a </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>dwelling place of God</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> in the Spirit.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">1 Corinthians 3:9 YOU are God's </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>building.</b></span> (Read the surrounding verses to see Paul's allegory. We're going back to "God's <b>field</b>"....think "tithe"..... later.)<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know that </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>your body</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> is the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>temple</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> of the Holy Spirit </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>who is</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?</span><br /><br />So, His <b>House</b> is the people of God, corporately and individually. It is a <b>SPIRITUAL HOUSE. </b>It's not located in some particular place so that we can "go to the house of God." You can't GO there. You <b>ARE</b> there. It's certainly not in Jerusalem for an antichrist to go sit in.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">John 4:21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>neither on this mountain</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>nor in Jerusalem</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>in spirit and truth;</b></span><br /><br />This <b>House</b> is Haggai's House. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Hag 2:9</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">1 Peter 2:5 </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>you</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> also, as </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>living stones</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, are being built up a </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>spiritual house</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, a holy </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>priesthood</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, to offer up </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>spiritual sacrifices</b></span> (think "<b>tithe</b>") <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">5 And Moses indeed </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>was</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>afterward,</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> 6 but Christ as a Son over </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>His own house</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, whose </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>house we are</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.</span><br /><br /><b>HIS HOUSE</b> is a spiritual <b>House.</b><br /><br />This House is also a <b>PRIESTHOOD</b>.<br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">God's House is also a Priesthood, a Building, a Field, a Body, a Family, a Temple.</p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">1 Peter 2:5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>holy </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u><b>priesthood</b></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, </span><span style="color: rgb(46, 139, 87);"><b>to</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> offer up </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>spiritual sacrifices</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(FOOD!)</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Hebrews 7:11 Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>was there</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> that another priest should rise according to the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>order of Melchizedek</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, and </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>not</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> be called according to the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>order of Aaron</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">? 12 For the</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>priesthood being changed</b></span>, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">of necessity there is also a </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 51, 102);"><b>change of the law</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">.</span><br /><br />At the appearing of Jesus, God manifested in flesh, at the end or consummation of the ages, a <b>NEW PRIESTHOOD</b> also was established. The old one, under the order of Levi (Aaron, the High Priestly family) was found to be ineffective and useless. It represented <b>FLESH</b>. ~ <b>The flesh had to be fed with</b> <b>physical food</b> ~ or, of course, they would die or at least be hungry and unable to work. The <b>tithes</b> and offerings (<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">FOOD</span>) of the NON-PRIESTLY tribes <b>were used to feed the physical temple servants so they could be 'holy' (separated to the work).</b><br /><br />But the physical temple with its appointments and rituals, law, priesthood, is now GONE. The Priesthood changed, it changed <b>TRIBES</b>. Jesus was born into the world through <b>JUDAH</b> (meaning <b>Praise</b>) and became a Priest after the order of <b>Melchizedek</b> (meaning King of Righteousness) and not Aaron. The Levitical was on the order of and represented <b>FLESH</b> and <b>DEATH</b>. Melchizedek represented the order of <b>Spirit</b> and <b>LIFE</b>! Perpetual LIFE!<br /><br />So we NOW have a Priesthood after the order of PERPETUAL LIFE, the order of Melchizedek. And Melchizedek (Jesus) has a <b>FAMILY</b>. A holy Family. Holy meaning separated to Him. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Come out from among them and be separate says the Lord...... </span>A <u>PRIESTLY</u> FAMILY<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, </span> A <u>ROYAL</u> FAMILY.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">To Him who loved </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>us</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b> </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">and washed </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>us</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> from </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>our</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> sins in His own blood, 6 and has made</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><u><b>us</b></u></span></span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>kings and </b></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><u><b>priests</b></u></span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">to His God and Father, to Him </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>be</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Hebrews 2:10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>are</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> all things and by whom </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>are</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> all things, in </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>bringing many sons (</b></span>children<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>) to glory</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 11 For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>are</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><u><b>to call them brethren</b></u></span>,<br /><br />So we are all BROTHERS/SISTERS/KINDRED in this <b>Royal Family of</b> <b>Priests</b>. A Priesthood based on the order of the King of Righteousness, based on Perpetual LIFE.<br /><br />Previously, in physical fleshly, Israel, there was only ONE family/tribe of priests. God's original intention was that the whole nation of Israel be a priestly tribe.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>special treasure</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> to Me above all people; for all the earth </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>is</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> Mine. 6 And you shall be to Me a</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u> </u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u><b>kingdom of priests and a holy nation</b></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">.’ These </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>are</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”</span><br /><br />But we know that Israel failed to obey. Then, at Sinai, when they made the calf and had the big party, God separated LEVI out for the Priesthood because they alone took up swords, sided with Moses, and killed their brethren who had rebelled.<br /><br />But then, at the establishment of God's New Covenant through Christ Jesus, at the end of the ages, the <b>Ekklesia, God's Called-Out Family</b>, <b>became the fulfillment of God's original intention.</b><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">1 Peter 2:9 But </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><u><b>you</b></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>are</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> a chosen generation, a </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>royal priesthood</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, a </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>holy nation</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;</span><br /><br />God's House is now a Spiritual House, A Spiritual Nation, A Spiritual Body, A <b>Spiritual</b> <b>Priesthood</b>. No separated tribe exists in This Nation. The Whole Nation is now holy (separated).<br /><br />This Holy Spiritual Priesthood has its own <b>Spiritual</b> <b>FOOD</b>. It offers spiritual sacrifices. </p> <p><br /><b>ALL THE PRIESTS ARE REQUIRED TO DO IS EAT</b>.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">John 4:31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">32 But He said to them, “I have </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>food</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> to eat of which </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u><b>you do not know</b></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">.”<br />33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>anything</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> to eat?” </span>(Looking for the physical/flesh)<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">34 Jesus said to them, “</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>My </b></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:180%;"><b>food</b></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="font-size:180%;"><i><u><b>is</b></u></i></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. </b></span>(Looking in the spiritual)<br /><br />What about us? As Priests in God's House are we eating this food? Christ is our example.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">1 John 2:6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>just as He walked.</b></span><br /><br />Our <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>FOOD</b></span> should be doing the will of God and finishing His work in us.<br /><br />You can see why He would want this <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>FOOD</b></span> in His House. You can also see why it wouldn't be good not to have this <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>FOOD</b></span> in His House.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">1 John 2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>is</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>he who</b></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><u><b>does the will</b></u></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>of God abides forever.</b></span><br /><br />If we don't eat this <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>FOOD</b></span>, we will pass away with the world.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Phillipians2:13 for it is God who works in you </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>both to </b></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>will</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>and to </b></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>do</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>for </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i><b>His</b></i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b> good pleasure</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">.</span> <<<<<<<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>PRIEST FOOD</b></span><br /><br />It should be apparent that this <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>food</b></span> cannot be purchased with money.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">1Ho, every thirsty one, come ye to the waters, And he who hath </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>no money</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, Come ye, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>buy</b></span> (paradox?) <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">and </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>eat</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, yea, come, buy </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>Without money and without price</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, wine and milk. 2 </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>Why do ye weigh money for that which is </b></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>not bread</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>eat good</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">3Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>your soul doth live</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.</span> (Young's Literal)<br /><br />Here's the only place I think we can connect "tithe" (Food in His House) with money. If God tells me to give money to someone (it's His will) and I do it (His will) then I've partaken of the <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>Food</b></span> in His House. But even then, the tithe (<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>food</b></span>) is NOT the money, but my <b>ACT OF DOING THE WILL OF GOD.</b><br /><br />You can have the biggest "church" in the country, the most members, with every single one of them giving 10 % of his or her gross income to the "house of God", and still not have one particle of True Tithe anywhere in sight.</p> <p><br /><b>MORE ON FOOD..</b><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">John 6:27 Do not labor for the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>food</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> which perishes, but for the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>food</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> which </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>endures to everlasting (age enduring)</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> life, which the </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>Son of Man will give you</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.” </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">John 6:32 Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>true bread from heaven</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">. 33 For the bread of God </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b>is He</b></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">John 6:51 I am the </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>living bread</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>live forever</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">; and the bread that I shall give is </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>My flesh</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, which I shall give for the life of the world.”</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">John 6:53 Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>eat the flesh</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> of the Son of Man and </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>drink His blood</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, you have </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>no life</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> in you. 54 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For My flesh is </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>food indeed</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, and My blood is </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>drink indeed</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">. 56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>feeds on Me</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> will live because of Me. 58 This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.”</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">John 6:60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>this,</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> said, “This is a hard saying; who can understand it?”</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">John 6:66 From that </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>time</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> many of His disciples went back and </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>walked with Him no more.</b></span><br /><br />PEOPLE are still stumbling over the <b>reality</b> of the Good News. Take away all the physical trappings, the temples (houses of god), the pews, the crosses, the doves, the priests/pastors behind their pulpits, the sermons, the money "tithes", the sabbaths, the rules, etc. and most would just scratch their heads in bewilderment and walk away. The church members of today have little, if any, greater knowledge of Spiritual Truth than the religious Jews that Christ Jesus had to face.<br /><br />Most will mouth the fact that Christ FULFILLED the types and shadows of the Mosaic law (or before law) but then in actuality continue to carry on as if the types were NOT really fulfilled.<br /><br />Christ fulfilled the law of Tithing by doing what Israel in the flesh would not do. He filled the True Temple Storehouse with the <b>True Food</b> from above.......<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>HIMSELF</b></span>. A Blessing that overflowed and could not be contained. The Second Adam became a Life-Giving Spirit.<br /><br />But the blinded keep trying to transform the fulfilled tithe into <b>MONEY</b> and then trying to use the prophecy in Malachi to get financially blessed or to expain why they've been financially blessed. What vanity! What delusion!<br /><br />NOTE: I did NOT say that God will not financially bless people. I said that God does not financially bless <b>because</b> one keeps the law of tithing. No law of tithing exists for God's children. </p> <p><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A Bit of extra teaching concerning Abraham and his tithing to Melchizedek:</span><br /></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Hebrews 7:1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated “king of righteousness,” and then also king of Salem, meaning “king of peace,” 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">4 Now consider how great this man </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>was,</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> to whom even the patriarch Abraham</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>gave a tenth of the </b></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><u><b>spoils</b></u></span>. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><b>SPOILS. SPOILS SPOILS</b></span>.5 <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">And indeed those who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to receive tithes from the people according to the law, that is, from their brethren, though they have come from the loins of Abraham; 6 but he whose genealogy </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>is not derived from them received tithes</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. 7 Now beyond all contradiction the lesser is blessed by the better. 8 Here</span> (<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><b>in ancient Israel with a Levitical priesthood</b></span>) <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">mortal men receive tithes, but there</span> (<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);"><b>in the land around the Salt Sea where the battle took place in the Genesis 14 account</b></span>) <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">he </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>receives them,</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> of whom it is witnessed that he lives. 9 Even Levi, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham, so to speak, 10 for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him. 11 Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>was there</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> that another priest should rise according to the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>order of Melchizedek</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, and not be called according to the order of Aaron? 12 </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there is also a change of the law</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">. 13 For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>another tribe</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, from which no man has officiated at the altar. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">14 For </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><i>it is</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> evident that our Lord arose from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. 15 And it is yet far more evident if, in the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another priest 16 who has come, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>not according to the law of a fleshly commandment</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, but according to the power of an endless life.</span><br /><br />So.....the Genesis account says nothing about anyone receiving "tithes in heaven". Melchizedek was definitely on the earth. What else? Scripturally, Abraham tithed <b>ONCE</b>. To the High Priest Melchizedek. <b>ONCE</b>. What did he tithe? <u>His</u> money, <u>his</u> cows, <u>his</u> chickens, <u>his</u> gold.....what? What does the Scripture say he "tithed?" He gave the Priest a tenth of the <b>SPOILS OF BATTLE. THE SPOILS BELONGED TO THE KINGS FROM WHICH THEY HAD BEEN TAKEN. </b>No other scriptural evidence exists that Abraham EVER tithed from his own possessions at any time.<br /><br />And so from this, church scholars (needing cash) derive a doctrine that "since Abraham tithed church members must tithe." (Meaning church members should pay 10 % of their income to the church.) This is one of the greatest <b>HOAXES</b> and <b>DECEITS</b> of all time.<br /><br />But wait! Does the High Priest Christ Jesus receive "tithes"? Oh yes He does. But do we send him money into heaven? No. Do we go to battle and kill a bunch of thieves, take their goods, and send the SPOILS to heaven, like Abraham? No. So how does He get His "tithe"? Well, here's one way, if you can hear it.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Isaiah 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>Jesus</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> shall bear their iniquities. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">12Therefore will I </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>divide him a portion</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> with the great, and he shall </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>divide the spoil</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.</span><br /><br />I wonder why I've never heard it preached that we can buy "whatever our soul desires" even wine or strong drink....and eat and rejoice before the Lord?? Sounds like a pretty good party to me.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Deuteronomy 14:22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, the produce of the field, year by year. 23And </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>thou shalt eat</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> before Jehovah thy God, in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear Jehovah thy God continually. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">24And if the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>way be too long for thee</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>place</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> is too far from thee, which Jehovah thy God will choose to set his name there, when Jehovah thy God blesseth thee; </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">25then shalt thou </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>give it for money</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, and bind the money together in thy hand, and </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>go to the place</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> which Jehovah thy God will choose, 26 and thou shalt give the money for </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>whatever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever thy soul asketh of thee</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">; and </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><u><b>thou</b></u></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b> shalt eat</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">(who shall eat?)</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>rejoice</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u><b>thou, and thy house</b></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">27And thou shalt not forsake the Levite that is within thy gates; for </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>he hath no portion</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>nor inheritance</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> with thee. 28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates; 29 and the Levite -- for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee -- and the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>stranger</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, and the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>fatherless</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, and the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>widow</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">, that are within thy gates, shall come, and </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>shall </b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u><b>eat </b></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b>and be satisfied</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest</span>.<br /><br />The tithe was always about EATING AND DRINKING. Somehow this got left out of all the thousands of "sermons" I've heard on "tithing." And somehow they always leave out the part about the <b>booze</b>. I wonder why this is?<br /><br />Another question: Where is the <b>PLACE</b> now that YHVH has chosen to <b>SET HIS NAME?</b> In order to "tithe" we <b>MUST</b> go to this <b>PLACE. </b>I wonder how many even know where <b>HIS NAME</b> dwells today? That's where we've gotta <b>EAT</b> and <b>DRINK</b> and <b>REJOICE</b>. </p>Chezandlillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07013446635325028600noreply@blogger.com0