Jesus is coming and He is very, very angry

NEWS: “Syrian rebels massacre Christian village” They rounded up everyone in the village into the square, even the kids, and then gunned them all down. …..Jesus is coming very soon and He is very, very angry. (Read the Book of Revelation).
The LORD is coming to execute His VENGEANCE, He will repay.

A suggested prayer

For anyone struggling to pray here’s a suggested prayer: Father, please help me to pray!

Take the time to pray slowly and thoughtfully thru the Lord’s Prayer (Matt. 6).

Reading The Bible Narcissistically

I saw this title of an article on the Christian Post. Didn’t think much of the article but the title hits home quite strongly.

Part of the dictionary definition of Narcissism is this: …characterized by self-preoccupation and a lack of empathy…

Self-preoccupation… (Facebook Christian?) Self-obsession is now normal. So then the Bible becomes “useful” when people think it can help them get everything they want in this world and continue in their self-preoccupation. They think in terms of getting the results they want more than in terms of knowing Jesus Christ.

And the lack of empathy which self-preoccupation produces is firstly a lack of empathy for the Lord Jesus Christ so that “Christians” no longer care what Jesus thinks or feels about things – they have even lost their empathy for Him. And this is the high cost of being in love with yourself, it comes at a great cost.

Amazing Fact

Amazing to think that God lives in a true Christian. Yes, God. It’s pretty amazing, and it may be too wonderful to comprehend, but He wants us to believe that it is true.

Rock Of My Salvation

Something worthy of deep consideration

Something worthy of deep consideration: “…It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” (Matt. 4:4)

Peter and the Catholic Church

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Money Cults

Wrote this message to a brother on Facebook: I’m praying for you as it seems you love the Lord Jesus but you are caught up with the money preachers. If the 1st century church could come here today and visit a “money church” they would say that it is some strange kind of “money cult”. None of these preachers would have been given a platform in the 1st century. It is a strong demonic spirit which pretends to be the Holy Spirit. We know that bcos the Lord Jesus is not at the center of it, it is the love of self and love of money. I came out of that movement in 1989. God bless you brother.

Power and Nature

When you think of the power of Jesus then think of the nature of Jesus, what He is like, for THAT is what His power represents, it represents Him and what He is like: holiness, truth, love, mercy, goodness, purity, righteousness – power over sin, the devil and the world – power over “the old man”, over “indwelling sin” – power to preach the Gospel, prophesy, teach and encourage and serve, and power over all the power of the evil one. The power of Jesus in us is simply the nature of Jesus manifest in us – it is our position in Him and His position in us.

If you separate the power of Jesus from the nature of Jesus then you find you are dealing with another spirit and not the Spirit of Christ. That’s the test, the power must match His nature.

Faith and Power

Faith in Jesus and the true power of the Holy Spirit are inseparable – they are one. All of God’s infinite power and authority is in His Son and by faith we have open access to Him – He is the power. You don’t possess power, you are baptized or immersed into Him who is the power.

Genuine faith is a revelation of Jesus, and thus how could there be a powerless revelation of Jesus? That would not be Jesus. How could it be in theory and not in power? To see and know Him by faith is to be caught up in Him. When we are caught up in the revelation of Jesus and of the Father and of His infinite glory and wonder of His love demonstrated thru the Cross then how could we not be caught up in His power? We cannot separate Him from His power. You can’t have Jesus and not have His power and glory. You can’t have an emasculated Jesus. When we have Him we have all that is His, as joint heirs (Rom. 8:17).

So, people are wrong to go seeking after power. It’s Jesus they need to seek, and we know if it is the real Jesus by the fruit of righteousness and holiness and the death of self. The counterfeit “Jesus” allows you to keep your love of self, pride and ambition, and he will even encourage you to seek your own glory in the religious world, but the real Jesus always conforms us to His death and resurrection. The real Jesus has zero tolerance for corruption and has no part in anything fake or of the flesh. The real Jesus has no part in a lie, and He hates those who twist the Scriptures in order to get money or control people.

Oh LORD you were there! The LORD thru out all of time…

This is from Psalm 90.

Wisdom from my wife

My wife was just saying that the commands of the Apostles in the NT only become a duty or a burden to people if they don’t really know the LORD yet.

Prayer is the greatest priviledge

What would happen if prayer became the most exciting part of your life?

One Mediator

In the Church of Christ there is only one mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus (1 Tim. 2:5) and between us and this Man there is no mediator. Whenever men (or women) take on a mediatorial role in the Church that is dead wrong. Elders/pastors and teachers are not mediators, they are not our priests, as we all are a kingdom of priests (1 Peter 2:9). We should never view any man or woman as our mediator to Jesus, as we are all IN Christ already. I realize that not many would consciously do this, but we do it whenever we rely on their teaching or trust in what they teach by default, rather than look into the Word of God and understand it for ourselves. When people leave their understanding of the Bible up to pastors or theologians then by default they are relating to those men as mediators. With this kind of thinking people never grow to know Jesus. True teachers of the Word, then, will never become great in the eyes of men; that is, if they have done their job well.

Caught up in infinity

What’s gonna happen to you if you get caught up in a God who is infinite? (The true God)

Turn your eyes upon Jesus

Just bcos some people misrepresent Jesus that doesn’t mean there is any fault with Jesus, and just bcos some people twist the Bible it doesn’t mean there is any fault with the Bible.

The school of hard knocks

We all had to learn the hard way what church IS NOT so that we can avoid those errors (which are simply the desires of our flesh) and learn from Scripture what the Church REALLY IS, which Jesus said He will build, and then participate with Him in His work in building peoples lives on His foundation. With me, God had a purpose in allowing me to be in “the system” for 3 years (87-89) bcos it caused “stuff” to float to the surface which i thought was dead and gone. So God can use false gospels, which appeal to our flesh, pride and greed, like a mirror to reflect what is in us and to cause us to realize how much we are still led by the flesh and not the Spirit, so that we repent and get transformed (Rom 12:1-2).

Courage to stand up for the truth

These days many genuine disciples of Jesus don’t so much lack a knowledge of the truth as much as they lack the courage to stand up for that truth in the midst of a godless world and a backslidden church. They are kind of in hiding. Courage is needed. Courage from God. En-courage-ment means to receive new courage from the Lord. We should encourage one another and there’s many ways we can do that, but remembering that the Word of God is the encouragement which endures forever.

A smile doesn’t always mean joy

Many times when a modern preacher smiles as he preaches it’s not bcos he is happy or has the joy of the Lord but bcos his ego is being fed by all the attention he is getting.

Facebook Generation

The “Facebook generation” is the ultimate manifestation of a shallow and superficial Christianity. If they don’t care to find out what God said in His word about any matter, if they are too shallow to care, then by default they are swept away with the spirit of the times, by the powers of darkness.

When you read the Facebook updates from the money preachers like Meyer, Dollar, Prince, Osteen etc. one thing you should be aware of is that such quotes always center on the worship of self, the centrality of self (God exists to serve you) and hence it is the idolatry of self, and so that “Jesus” is an idol and not the Jesus of the Bible. It is not normal Christianity. Compare with the NT, with what they believed and lived then, with what these people say and how they live.