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Christianity has only one celebrity.
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Woke ideology, enforced by government, infringes on the most basic of human rights, the freedom to have your own beliefs: It becomes illegal to believe that certain things are wrong or immoral, and you are forced to affirm things which you believe are wrong – and things which were considered wrong by society only a short time ago, therefore it’s a form of totalitarian control. Purporting to uphold human rights, it tramples over them.
LGBTQ have the same human rights as anyone else and should be treated equally under the law as anyone else. If you’re going to arrest someone for mocking an LGBTQ person then you’ll need to arrest anyone who mocks anyone. Arrest those who mock Trump or Biden. The law should apply equally to all, or not at all.
Under anti-hate laws, if Joe Biden says something which incites someone to hatred, then who gets arrested, Joe, or the guy who is upset? Will the Trump haters be arrested? Or will Trump be arrested because he is hated? It becomes hard to know who to arrest.
The concept of the law is idiotic.
The new anti-hate laws won’t be used to protect Christians from hate. It will be used to protect everyone except Christians. You’ll be free to mock Jesus Christ all you like. But you better be careful who else you mock. So, it’s not about anti-hate at all, it’s about knowing whom to hate and whom not to hate. It’s social engineering.
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The far Left and the far Right are birds of the same feather: both are hateful, violent, use censorship and propaganda, neither allows free speech, and their goal is total control.
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With a Christian and his political views, the issue is not so much whether it’s right or wrong to hold “political” views, but whether those views are true. A thinking person will have views on a wide range of things, but if they believe things which aren’t true then it impacts their life in many ways. Just the thought of believing a lie should be abhorrent to someone who loves the truth.
Therefore, one’s political views, or any views, could be relevant to one’s life in God’s Kingdom: Our thought life can’t be segregated from the Kingdom of God, for His Kingdom touches every aspect of our existence.
If it affects your life, it is a Kingdom issue. Jesus doesn’t have a religion, He has a Kingdom.
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It’s possible to have a great scientific mind, and, yet, also be deluded about certain things. You’ve heard of an “evil scientist”? The fact that he is deluded about certain things doesn’t mean he can’t be a scientific genius. He might have the highest IQ in the worid and yet believe everything created itself out of nothing for no reason. People can be right about so many things, and yet wrong about the things which matter. A person can have incredible knowledge, and yet not know what he needs to know. He might know everything, per se, but not know God.
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Jude 1:20-21
“But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.”
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If we pray in the Holy Spirit our faith is stronger.
The Holy Spirit is into prayer.
Are we into what the Holy Spirit is into?
Not everyone who prays, prays in the Holy Spirit.
Praying in the Holy Spirit is part of living in the Holy Spirit.
Many don’t live in the Spirit, so they can’t pray in the Spirit.
Their prayers are only from their mind or conscience and not from their innermost being.
“Keep yourselves in the love of God.”
This means it’s possible to remove yourself from the love of God.
God’s love is unchanging, yet, love is a relationship between two, so if one severs the relationship then the love of the other cannot reach them. God’s love never changes, but our reception of His love can change if we no longer value His love.
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The mind and the heart are inextricably linked. If one is blessed, the other is blessed. If one is degraded, the other also is.
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Heaven is not boring, but neither is hell, because people are in too much pain to be bored.
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In a dialogue, if the other guy happens to be wrong it’s not a permission to tnink you are superior. Comparing ourselves with others is always a trap.
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Some people want Jesus to return in 500 years, others in 20 years, others in 5 years, and some want Him to return today.
It’s worth understanding that Jesus will return on the day the Father has appointed, therefore, whether you desire Him to return today, or in 500 years, that desire will have no bearing whatsoever on determining the date of His return. Many people mistakenly tnink that God will fashion reality according to their wishes and desires, and Bible prophecy will be according to their timetable, and their timetable is based on what they think should happen. They think that if they want Him to come later, rather than sooner, then this will determine that He is coming later, rather than sooner, which is a narcissistic and anthropocentric position.
One guy has an “optimistic” view that the things God said will happen in the last days, won’t happen, or at least won’t happen any time soon. His “optimism” is grounded in the hope that God is mistaken. So, it’s not optimism, it’s foolishness.
In the Kingdom of God you don’t build or create your own reality by thinking or believing certain things. Rather, God graciously shows you His reality, and you conform yourself to the reality He has established.
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Philippians 4:13
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
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a. Christ strengthens a disciple to do His will.
b. A disciple is to depend on Christ’s strength alone to do the will of God.
c. Everything Jesus requires, expects and desires us to do CAN be done through Him strengthening us to do it.
d. A holy life is only possible through Christ strengthening us to be holy.
e. As Christ is directly strengthening us to do His will, He won’t strengthen us to do that which is not His will, or is incompatible with His will, or is against His will.
f. For Christ to strengthen or empower us to do His will and plan it means He is present, indwelling us, and everything we do is part of communion with Him, if He is supplying the strength to do it.
g. If a believer sins, they can’t say that Christ failed to strengthen them against that sin. The truth is they didn’t want Him to strengthen them against that sin. If we desire to be strengthened against sin, He will surely strengthen us.
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Everything natural had a supernatural origin.
If you believe Almighty God created the universe, how could you not believe in the miraculous?
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God’s forgiveness is given only on the basis that Jesus suffered, bled and died for us, and on no other basis.
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Ask the LORD to help you be the person He wants you to be.
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God gave every one of us a life.
We all threw that life away.
But Jesus gives a new life.
We can be born a second time through faith in Him.
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Your conscience is a wonderful gift from God, and a wonderful friend who will serve you well if you take care not to betray him/her.
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Modern thinking and values assume God doesn’t exist.
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Under Woke ideology, which spiritual beliefs are forbidden?
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Can an organization whose charter states their goal is genocide, be considered a valid political party with whom negotiations could be conducted?
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The devil tries to hijack our prayer life.
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According to the Bible, all these fake predictions of Jesus’ return are actually a sign He is returning soon.
There will be a Rapture one day, so don’t let fake prophecies about it give you a false confidence, if you’re not ready. A lot of people will be left behind. How do you know you won’t be left behind?
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Leviticus 19:2
“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.”
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Be holy. Okay. Here is the reason to be holy. Why should we be holy? Because He is holy.
This will only mean something to those who know the difference between what is holy and unholy, and to those who find their true identity and life in God, alone. They want to be like Him.
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Whatever you’re doing: is it the truth?
Is it representative of the truth in Jesus?
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Perhaps one of the signs someone is not ready for Jesus’ return is if they would be disappointed if He returned today, because it would ruin their plans.
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To worship? or not to worship? That is the question.
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Shallow Christians search for a shallow church and find they don’t have to search far.
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The vital truth is the truth of your life in relation to God. What is true in relation to Him? Which things does He deem to be true?
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Find the truth, then live in the truth.
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I didn’t start believing the Bible because I wanted to or because it appealed to me, I started believing it because somehow I knew it was true.
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There is a pattern for church meetings and function in the New Testament. Now, wouldn’t you think that if God instituted such a pattern through the Apostles that you would spiritually benefit much more through such a church than you would a church which follows man-made traditions?
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It’s not Jesus’ fault or the Bible’s fault that religious kooks exist.
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The main dynamic of a church meeting is what the Holy Spirit wants to do in the lives of those present. This should be the main consideration.
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Everyone who loves Jesus does so because they owe Him their life, because He brought them from death to life.
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“But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.
He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. ” (1 John 2:5-6)
If we abide in Jesus, which means to live in Him, then, if we’re living in Him our life will be like His, for it is His life in us: we in Him, and He in us.
And the text here reminds us that we know we are living in Him if we are living by His word.
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God”.
Living in Jesus won’t be just a philosophical or theoretical position, but a practical way of living: doing what pleases God, and abstaining from what displeases Him.
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A Christian might sometimes feel they are on their own, but they’re never actually alone, if Christ is in them. And they know the actual reality of their being is they are always in the sight of God, the angels and all the inhabitants of Heaven, who are watching and listening. They’re always in a very “public” space, in this regard. There’s no hiding place, as such.
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I much prefer to be a child of God than a child of the devil.
What about you?
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Revelation 4:2
“Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.”
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It’s all about Him.
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What is the difference between superstition and faith?
How will you know whether you have superstition or faith?
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“Prepare to meet your Maker!” the Bible exhorts us.
It’s only reasonable your Maker will want to meet you and have a talk, right?
We you wouldn’t want to tnink you could avoid meeting your Maker, right?
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Jesus is many things: God, the Son of God, Lord, King, Savior, and much more.
Yet, can you say He is your friend?
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If God ever declared something as evil, or as good, then you can be sure that He has not changed His mind or His values, and that it is still evil in His sight or good in His sight. Man changes his values, but God does not. His values constitute His nature. His nature cannot change, therefore His values are unchangeable.
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Jesus said, what is born of the flesh is flesh, but what is born of the Spirit is spirit. He said, you must be born again, by the Spirit. Born of the flesh means our natural state. The flesh represents our inherited sinful nature. But born of the Spirit means the creation of a new person within the same human body. The inner man is recreated by God into the image of His Son, Jesus Christ. A new race of people was created. Jesus said they will never die.
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In America, what is the political persuasion of most of the people who commit senseless violence and crime?
You know the answer, but it’s politically incorrect to answer it. You could get in trouble.
So, this ideology has failed, big time.
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Wouldn’t it be best to find your true identity in the One who created you?
Then come to find out that He also died for you.
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An honest person highly values the truth.
Honesty and truth are natural companions.
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Read today
“When the Roman Empire defeated and exiled the Jewish people from Judea, they changed the name to Palaestina. By changing the name, they aimed to remove any connection between people, land, and God.”
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The Bible teaches there’s certain things you should feel guilty about doing.
Modern Woke ideology contradicts this and teaches there’s nothing you should feel guilty about doing.
Hence, the latter has become very popular and influential with youth, conforming their conscience to any evil thing, removing that icky sense of guilt which might come from reading the Bible.
Imagine a parent telling a child, ‘Look dear! You can do anything you imagine to do. I will place no restrictions on you because I love you and want you to be free!’? The child might think, ‘Wow! This is great! Thanks! I love you!!’
This is how a whole generation has been indoctrinated.
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Jesus taught that every one of His disciples has a work to do: a Kingdom work. Every day His disciples should check if they’re faithfully doing His Kingdom work.
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There won’t be any political correctness on Judgment Day.
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James 1:22-25
“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;
for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.”
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Therefore, if a true Christian sins it’s because they’ve momentarily forgotten who they are in Christ.
They’ve separated hearing from doing.
Whenever we hear, we need to make immediate application to what we’ve heard. It’s not a form of amusement or knowledge for knowledge’ sake.
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If my greatest desire was to truly be like Jesus, I would be much more like Him than I am.
1 John 3:2-3
“Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.”
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In other words, if anyone strongly expects, believes and desires to see Jesus one day and be like Him, they will desire to be like Him now, taking heed to how they live. They want to be like Jesus in their thinking, desires, values, passion, commitment etc. They want to be like Him on the inside.
Yes, on that glorious day we will look stunning on the outside, as He looks absolutely glorious, yet it’s how we look on the inside which is the lasting, eternal beauty of the Lord.
Of all the desires we have, is the desire to be like Him the strongest?
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In Christ “we live and move and have our being”.
Worth contemplating.
At this moment, is your being in Him?
Is He the reason for who and what you are? And do you find your being in Him?
Interesting word: “being”.
There was a magazine called, “On Being”.
Good subject. What is your “being”? What are you, exactly?
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In the quietness with the risen Lord Jesus you can find quietness for your soul.
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Joel Osteen says, “I’m not a poverty preacher! God is not honored if you’re poor and broke!”
Let’s try and deconstruct this outburst to see what he really means.
It seems he is making a binary choice between a supposed “poverty gospel” and a “wealth gospel”. In Joel’s mind there are only two options: wealth or poverty. If you don’t go for wealth you get poverty. He can’t see anything else.
It’s a false dichotomy he is presenting.
He can’t see that NO leader of the early church was wealthy, and yet they perhaps didn’t live in abject poverty, either.
Would Joel and friends be able to comprehend that no true leader of the church ever desired to be wealthy?
Jesus was not wealthy (as in He possessed nothing) yet quite a lot of money or resources flowed through His group to those in need.
So was Jesus dishonoring God and giving the Gospel a bad image by being poor?
Could Jesus have enjoyed wealth if He had only followed Joel’s teaching and example?
When people looked at Jesus’ life, the thought of a “get rich quick scheme” may not have been the first thing they thought of.
Joel can’t fathom that people who are not wealthy can be happy.
Now, there’s many issues related to this subject, such as Joel getting his wealth corruptly through merchandising, what is supposed to be, the word of God.
Now, neither wealth or poverty, in themselves, honor God. What honors God is how we conduct ourselves if we are rich or poor or in-between.
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When someone is holding onto a lie as their only hope, they don’t tnink too kindly about hearing the truth.
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In cultural Christianity, religious days are the time to get religious.
On this day (Easter) some political leaders are honoring Jesus Christ.
Yet the only way to truly honor Him is to believe and obey Him. Otherwise it’s only lip service.
Hence, there is a huge gulf between cultural Christianity and actual Christianity.
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Why is the Bible banned in many places in the world, and frowned upon in the western world?
Because it tells you exactly where you stand with God.
The word of God is the mirror which shows us what we really look like inside.
Also, it’s perceived as a kind of torture to be faced with the fact that the wages of the things you love is death.
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God has the power to vaporize this planet in a spilt second.
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Read today
“The surgical mutilation and sterilization of children is the worst sin of our age.”
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Don’t follow the Christian religion, as such, but just try to obey the word of God. If it’s not in the word of God, why do it?
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The moment you drift away from God, you drift away from reality.
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The New Testament pattern for church is only a blessing if the participants are blessed with the fullness of the Holy Spirit and have adequate spiritual maturity. Otherwise it’s a mess, or as boring as.
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The bad orange man is accused of being a hypocrite for selling Bibles. Perhaps he is a hypocrite for doing that. But just to point out that hypocrisy is not the only form of evil. The person who proudly and unashamedly commits evil because they believe evil is good is not a hypocrite, but are they any better than a hypocrite? Are the orange man’s critics morally superior to him?
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Music, and such like,
can give enjoyment, but not fulfilment.
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Looking back over history, whenever people turned their back on God it didn’t turn out well for them.
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Read today
“Russia is ramping up its preparations for a “large-scale” war with NATO, the Institute for the Study of War says”
Jesus said, the truth shall set you free.
What do we need to be set free from?
Sin.
The truth is the only thing which can break the power of sin.
This means that sin can only enslave a person when they don’t have the truth and believe things which aren’t true.
Jesus said, He who the Son sets free is free indeed.
Again, free from what?
Free from sin.
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For better or for worse, Israel will be the centerpoint of world history from now on. Why? Because the words of God must be fulfilled.
There are terrible times ahead.
Before the real Messiah returns, a false messiah will come to power, called the antichrist or beast, in scripture.
But somehow the Jewish people will survive in Israel, though the casualties will be high.
Ultimately, and we don’t know when that will be, the whole world will attack Israel. No allies left. Public enemy number one. It will be to try and complete what Hitler started: the final solution, because supposedly the Jews are the cause of the world’s problems.
What’s going to happen is that the whole world is going to come to a realization: ‘Why are we fighting one another??!!! We should unite and fight the REAL enemy, which is the Jews!’ …it will come to that in the end, the Bible says.
Then, their survival will depend upon God alone to defend them from their enemies. All their allies will have deserted them.
So, it becomes the ultimate showdown.
If it’s true that God promised the Jews that land forever, then He will bring His promise to fruition.
The true Messiah, Jesus Christ, returns and destroys those who seek to destroy Israel.
So, God alone will save Israel. She will not be saved by anyone else.
Then it’s game over for God’s enemies, and just the beginning for His people.
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With Bible prophecy, get the facts, first, and then the application. How will the truth of these facts practically apply in your life? What will be the outcome or ramifications for you after accepting the facts? Facts first, then application. If no application, then it’s merely entertaining oneself.
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You would tnink it would be a simple matter of showing people they’re wrong so they can accept the truth, but until they accept the truth they don’t think they’re wrong.
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A pure heart needs to be linked to a sound mind.
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Our thought life is the litmus test of whether we really want to glorify the LORD.
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Jesus said, “I will give you rest”.
You will find “rest for your soul” in Him.
Matthew 11:28-30
“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
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I’ve known Christians who are striving in their flesh to be a Christian and don’t have this rest which Jesus promised.
They depend more on their own ability to figure things out than on the Holy Spirit.
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A true Christian doesn’t consider anyone their enemy – even those who hate them.
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Read today
“Don’t strive to be well-known, strive to be worth knowing.”
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As the greatest command is to love God completely, then, how we love, whom we love, and what we love becomes the essential and core issues of our existence: It all comes down to love.
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1 Corinthians 13:13
“And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
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Is there any valid reason not to love God?
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Anything in your heart you could thank God for today?
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When you read that ‘God answers prayer’, what is the first thing you think of? Money? Or lives transformed into the image of Christ?
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You are able to have an opinion about Abortion because you weren’t aborted.
You are able to campaign for Abortion because you were fortunate enough to not be aborted.
Those who were killed were never able to weigh in on the subject or voice whether they wanted to be killed.
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Jesus promised eternal life.
If anyone else promised you that it would be laughable.
It means a life with no end. But a real life, much more than just existing.
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When people appear to have no moral absolutes, it’s not entirely the case, as it’s more like they have shifted the goal posts to make new moral absolutes: rejected God’s law and replaced it with man’s law, so that some perverted thing is now the moral absolute.
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Mark 4:19
“…and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.”
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a. The truth of the word of God produces fruitfulness. Anything which restricts the word of God tends to unfruitfulness. This indicates the supernatural power of the truth, as Jesus said, ‘My words are spirit and they are life’.
b. Desiring “other things” means desiring things which God does not desire for us, so it becomes a tension between what God desires and what we desire. We know what God desires for us by the truth of the word of God.
c. The thought is also here that other things have replaced God’s things, so that there is no place for the truth of God’s word in our heart and mind.
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Wonder whose idea it was to distract people from thinking about God? Now, who would want to do that?
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Revelation 18:4
“And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues”
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This tells us that if God’s people are separated from everything Babylon stands for then they won’t receive the judgment which is coming to her. God will shield them from His judgment.
God will use 10 nations as His instruments of judgment.
Revelation 17:16-17
[16]And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
[17]For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.
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What we do or don’t do reveals who we really are.
For example, how would we know we love someone?
It’s only by our actions toward them that we could know whether we love them.
This applies to God, first.
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Christians believe the meaning of life is Jesus Christ, because they were once dead in their sins and under God’s wrath, but are now seated with Christ to reign with Him forever. And there you have the true meaning of life, which is to have eternal life in Jesus Christ. You may not agree with us now, but one hundred years from now you will know it’s true.
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Jesus didn’t care what others thought about Him, in the sense that He was not moved or swayed by public opinion about Him, whether the opinion was good or bad.
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Read today
“Just to give the level of foolishness that exist today amongst so called ‘Christians’ today, a brother just 2 days back told me ever since he put the word ‘Apostle’ along with his name he gets more than 300 requests a day on FB….
…..People think it is a joke to give themselves titles. I know of an Evangelist who called himself Prophet, Apostle and then also added Bishop to his name. This man has a great testimony in Christ and had been a spiritual icon to many, an instrument in changing the lives of many but ever since he started this nonsense his spiritual life went downhill and even those around him (especially his own family) suffered great losses because of him. Lately the things I heard of his doings are very shameful for even a normal human, let alone a Christian.”
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Only God can teach about God.
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1 Peter 2:17
“Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.”
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Revelation 3:16
“So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.”
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The correct theological interpretation of this verse is, if we are lukewarm, unless we repent, He will vomit us out of His mouth.
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Gaslighting is increasingly being used as a political strategy: you accuse the others of doing what you’re doing to draw attention away from the fact that it’s you that’s doing it.
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Every single person in Christ has a particular stewardship they need to fulfill. Whatever our circumstances, God has given us a stewardship to be faithful with.
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Governments cannot be trusted with a cashless, digitized financial and ID system. It’s giving them too much power, and they will abuse that power, and you will lose your freedom and rights and be totally controlled by the state and at their mercy. When the government controls your financial transactions it has totalitarian control of you to do with you as they will. And you can also say goodbye to free and fair elections.
And you’ll have to conform to their ideology, or you’ll be re-educated.
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The US Constitution ensures the separation of Church and State, and yet also consider that the whole document reflects the Biblical principles of those who wrote it. So, they were advocating for separation of Church and State, but not for separation of Biblical principles and the State, because the whole thing is a statement of Biblical principles and values.
The “church” and the Bible are not the same things. The founding fathers fled to America to escape “the church”. They rejected “the church” (so called) but didn’t reject the Bible.
Of course, they had their own problems as well, but that’s another subject.
However, no doubt the founding fathers would be horrified with the immorality and lawlessness which now grips America.
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The Bible forewarns us of a “great falling away” so that when it happens we are careful not to be a part of it.
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Years ago I was walking through someone’s workshop and as I walked past a large welding machine, the whole machine moved about 6 inches with a great thud. I was astonished. I checked it to see how it could have moved on its own, but there was no way it could of. So I went over to the owner of the workshop and told him what happened. He smiled and said that such occurrences happened there.
There is a spirit world. When supernatural things happen you can’t “follow the science” because it’s beyond the scope of science.
The greatest supernatural event in history was the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Impossible, right?
Yes… …but it happened anyway.
Revelation 19:2
“For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her.”
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Let’s look at two elements here:
a. “Corrupted the whole earth”
Looking back 2000 years from the present, as you consider the history of all these centuries, which civilization managed to corrupt every other nation on earth? For a start, such a thing was not possible prior to the advent of mass communications last century.
b. “with her fornication”
The original Greek text uses the word Porneia here, which means sexual immorality, from which we get the word pornography. Now, in scripture, this can mean, both, actual sexual immorality, or it can mean unfaithfulness to God by going after another god. And usually the two go hand in glove.
Now which civilization do you know of in the last 2000 years was able to influence and corrupt every other nation on earth in these things?
It’s both Rome and America, which are two aspects of “the harlot”. Rome exported the false gospel, which is spiritual fornication, and America exported sexual immorality or promiscuity. Rome slaughtered an indeterminate number of martyrs over the centuries.
Of course, this does not mean that all these nations which were corrupted were paragons of virtue. Every society is riddled with sin, but America had more influence through mass media than any other nation to bring hidden, shameful things out into the open as expressions of pride.
I’ve personally witnessed this transformation since the internet came in the country where I live. Sin was always there, but now there’s no shame or conscience. I’ve witnessed this Americanization with my own eyes over the last 35 years, and can compare before and after.
Historians would have to single out the 20th century as the one which was like no other before.
It’s considering this vast sweep of history by which we must understand the Book of Revelation.
American friends know I’m not against them for telling the truth. Some of them may not be fully aware of how their nation has corrupted the whole world in just a generation.
And also with fake Christianity or churches, in whichever country you find it you come to understand that their movement began in America. The prosperity gospel, just to name one. Africa is almost totally under the grip of this cult. Other nations are not far behind.
The time is very late.
Come out of her my people lest you be punished with her, Jesus said.
If it’s a crime to be a Jew, then consider me a Jew as well.
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The internet in the Bible.
Revelation 18:9
“The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning…”
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Babylon is destroyed by fire in one hour.
The leaders of the world will be watching a live stream of this event.
Prior to global communications this was obviously impossible.
For some of these world leaders it won’t be a surprise because they are the ones who planned its destruction.
In Revelation 17 and 18 I see both Rome and America.
Destroying Rome and America simultaneously is like killing two birds with one stone: Rome is the historical root of false Christianity, and America is her offspring, which marketed false Christianity to the world. Virtually every cult there is and every false teaching today originates from America. Most modern churches are clones of American churches.
What I see is Rome and America simultaneously destroyed by a full on nuclear attack.
This becomes a turning point for the whole world.
The New World Order is kickstarted.
The resultant cloud from the bombs will bring devastating climate change. Crops will fail. Martial law implemented. Hence, Revelation 13.
Don’t know if Putin is in the Bible, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he is.
He threatens both Europe and America, and the Middle East, potentially. He has ambitions for Ukraine, and who knows how far into Europe he wants to push?
When I read Revelation 17 and 18 it appears that both Rome and America are destroyed simultaneously.
Such a scenario seems possible in the near future.
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Attempting to see the coherence of scripture is a good tning, but elevating man’s opinion to the same level as scripture is not. Man-made theological systems are often seen as more authoritative than scripture itself. Rome leads the way in this.
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Today is the International Day to Combat Christophobia.
So as we celebrate this auspicious day may we not blaspheme the name of Jesus or have any kind of anti-christian attitudes.
(This is satire)
None of these supposed “phobias” are actually phobias.
If someone disparages the name of Mohammad they are Islamophobic.
But if someone disparages the name of Jesus they are not Christophobic?
Do you see anyone facing charges for being Christophobic?
The whole woke paradigm change is a con.
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The disciple of Jesus “walks by faith, not by sight”. They see Jesus by faith, not by sight: “looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith”. To walk by sight means you don’t walk by faith. Spiritual sight means the Holy Spirit in you connects your spirit to God. There is spiritual fellowship now with God. Hence, we can know someone whom we can’t see, by His word and Spirit.
God knows that we can’t see Him physically, because He designed it that way, and for a purpose.
He perfectly understands our position. He knows our frame, the scripture says.
Know what kind of faith God requires from you, and give Him that kind of faith.
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Very hard for people to reconcile the wrath of God with the love of God, but it shouldn’t be so hard to understand, because we have both these qualities within us.
Ever had righteous indignation?
Where does righteous indignation come from? God.
And genuine love comes from God.
If evil did not make you rightfully angry, then you would not be holy, and you would not love what is holy.
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The world is changing, but Jesus is not.
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Would you rather be a man of God or a man of the worid?
Would you rather be a woman of God or a woman of the worid?
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If I wasn’t a Christian, I would be asking, What IF the Bible is true?
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What if you keep begging God for mercy because you don’t believe you have His mercy? Ever asking, but never receiving?
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Religious men had the silly idea of building grand edifices in order to make people in awe of God. But how can something man-made leave you in awe of God? To be in awe of God look at everything except the man-made things. Most of all, look to God in the flesh, crucified for you.
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Humans are designed in such a way that they either worship God, or a substitute for God.
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Many think Jesus was teaching a religion, when, in fact, He was teaching reality.
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Within His Kingdom it’s reality and truth.
Outside His Kingdom it’s unreality and falsehood.
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Every answer to prayer is a reminder of who is the ultimate authority.
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To sacrifice your principles is to destroy yourself.
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Western Liberals talk freely about the separation of Church and State, but they’re a little cagey when it comes to talking about the separation of Islam and State.
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Psalms 51:6
“Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.”
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This refers to moral truth, and this truth is in relation to God and is determined by God. Moral truth is the truth about God’s standard of morality.
To Him, it’s simply truth. We call it morals, He calls it truth, because it is truth about Himself.
Righteousness is moral truth, and sin is a lie. To sin is to believe a lie regarding moral truth. In the absence of moral truth in the inner person, there will be immorality within: the rejection of truth and the acceptance of a lie.
God desires our innermost being reflect His truth, and steadfast reject anything less than the truth about God’s moral standards.
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The quality of our prayer life is perhaps the key indicator of the quality of our relationship to the LORD.
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When people make themselves out to be something, that something is a facade.
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Your body needs food.
Your spirit needs God.
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In Christianity, those who claim to be leaders are invariably on the lookout for followers.
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If it’s a crime to be a Jew, then consider me a Jew as well.
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The devil has the ability to make really good music, and also the ability to make really bad music and cause people to think that it’s good.
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Some people think that humans were created by alien beings from an advanced civilisation and these aliens visited the earth from time to time to help mankind.
It’s kind of on the right track in the sense that God is a super intelligent being who created us and who has visited the earth, and is even here now. The thing is, He is far more “advanced”, and His civilization (Heaven) far more “advanced” than any science fiction writer could imagine. It is literally out of this world.
The Bible says we are His offspring.
But if anyone is an alien it is satan and his angels. They masquerade as aliens and fool a lot of people. They are the ones who cause people to believe in aliens.
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Liberal Christians can take something which God hates and spin it around so that you are wrong for not going along with it, but those doing it are fine.
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Abortion is an issue where politics and faith collide.
Israel is also such an issue.
And there are many such issues.
Ultimately, man was only ever supposed to be governed by God.
This will happen again only after man has fully experienced the consequences of trying to avoid being governed by God.
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Imagining something about yourself: about who or what you are, never changes the reality of who or what you are: All it means is that who you tnink you are does not match the reality of who you actually are.
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Kamala Harris visits an abortion clinic? True.
Kamala Harris laughs and smiles as she watches a baby writhing in agony, being dismembered while he/she is still alive? Noooo!
She can’t do that because that would draw attention to the barbarity of it.
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Why do top athletes take their training so seriously?
Because it works.
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When we praise God truthfully we are reflecting back to Him the wonderful truth about Himself He has revealed and declared in His word.
Fantastic experience just to stand outside and look up to Heaven and open your mouth and declare back to Him His power, glory and majesty.
Religion is usually more about man than about God.
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2 Peter 1:17-18
“For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” And we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.”
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Meaning, they heard an audible voice, not a spiritual voice.
What would you have done if you were there and you heard God the Father’s actual voice speaking to you?
Apart from the shock and wonder, perhaps you would be overwhelmed with a desire to know Him personally and to love Him with all your being?
Isn’t it a beautiful revelation, that God is a Person, and you are a person made by Him in His image, and that He is not a force (as in Star Wars) and nor is He a philosophical or religious concept?
And also worth noting that the only known time that the Father has audibly spoken from Heaven was concerning His Son.
God could speak audibly to mankind anytime if He wanted to.
But He reserved this honor for His Son, alone.
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Voting conundrum:
Here’s your choice:
a.You can either get poked in the eye….
b. Or poked in the eye ten times followed by a hit on the head.
You have to choose which one of these.
???? Hmmm? Difficult choice?
And if you refuse to choose, you get option b. , anyway.
When the Left talks about “freedom” they mean the freedom to do whatever they want WITH YOU: Total control of you. An Orwellian dystopian society. Just like in communist countries when the government celebrates the “liberation” of the country.
If you live in a free country but don’t vote to preserve that freedom then do you deserve to live in a free country?
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Really hate the categorization of people as either black or white.
If you want to categorize people according to their skin color, try these categories:
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It should be illegal for a government to list a person’s race, skin color or religion in their files. As a citizen, all these points should be irrelevant.
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Would it be possible for political negotiations with people who cut the heads off little kids?
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If Hamas had carried out its raid on America and gang raped and decapitated the daughters of the President, then you might expect the government to have a different view of Hamas. Distance or proximity affects people’s perceptions and sensibilities.
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IMO, in Christendom, 90 % of those who become famous do so because fame is what they desperately sought after, and painstakingly and methodically worked to achieve.
Which would be severely embarrassing when they face the King.
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There’s never a precedent in the NT for one man being the shepherd of a church and having authority over the elders.
In every scriptural example it is the elders who are joint shepherds/pastors of a church, without any hierarchy of authority.
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How we use our time is the best indicator of where our heart is and what is important to us, and, therefore, of what we believe.
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Revelation 17:8b
“…And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when THEY SEE the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.”
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a. The “beast” is a man (Rev. 13).
b. “Was, and is not, and yet is” refers to this man as dying and then coming back to life. Trying to replicate the resurrection of Jesus.
c. All people in the world will see this man and witness his “resurrection”. Only possible since the advent of the internet. So, you see the internet was invented at just the right time for the words of God to be fulfilled…
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Normally God doesn’t call a man a beast, but in this case He does.
It’s not a flattering term.
Because a beast is less than a man.
Beasts are wild animals, and the reason they are wild is due to the fall of man and the subsequent curse on creation.
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About praying to images of Jesus:
True faith is anchored in His promise.
If someone has promised you something, looking at their picture won’t help you believe their promise, because their outward appearance is not the thing you have trusted in, rather, you have trusted in their integrity.
Anyway, the images are not Him, they are what people want Him to look like.
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Jesus gave His word.
Is His word good?
Could you depend on it?
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The government has banned the term “illegal immigrants” because it doesn’t want the public to be reminded that they’re promoting something illegal and in doing so are acting illegally. They must think people are dumb enough for this to work.
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“Jan 6 committee allegedly suppressed testimony showing Trump admin pushed for National Guard presence: report” (Fox News)
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Sounds like a kangaroo court Putin would be proud of.
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His Kingdom has no end.
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What is put forward as secular often isn’t secular at all because everything springs from belief systems.
So, the point I’m raising isn’t that belief systems are bad (though I believe they are wrong) but rather that people are always expressing a certain belief system while claiming they are purely secular and objective.
Man can’t escape having beliefs.
Religion is usually more about man than about God.
The atheist believes there is no God
Thats where his belief system originates, from that belief.
We can’t escape having beliefs because we are made in the image of God.
Animals don’t have beliefs.
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If you don’t believe a certain religion is true, why would you want to encourage those people to keep believing something which isn’t true?
You can be friendly and kind to them without encouraging them to continue believing things about God which aren’t true.
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Only Jesus can give eternal life.
This is the meaning of life.
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Revelation chapter 21 describes the New Jerusalem which is a massive future city, 2220 km wide, long and high, specially made by Jesus for His people.
Would you like to live forever in this city?
Perhaps it has fantastic cafes and restaurants?
Our rooms will be out of this world.
But seeing the Father and the Son face to face will be reward enough.
Some say, but it’s a spiritual city!
Thing is that spiritual things don’t have set dimensions like 2220 km.
And the walls are made up of various precious stones. There is no such thing as a spiritual amethyst or ruby.
Furthermore, we will have physical bodies, but glorified bodies, so our dwelling place needs to be in that same order: physical, but glorified. Glorified means without physical limitations: not subject to the laws of nature or physics.
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Only follow the One who rose from the dead.
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What else can you do than trust Him?
Got a better idea?
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We humans seem to naturally act as if everything won’t come out publicly before His throne. We fool ourselves. We are deceived about it.
Then, the issue arises, do we refrain from sin because it will be embarrassing to have exposed, or because we dont want to dishonor the Lord or betray Him?
Don’t do anything you wouldn’t want revealed to everyone on Judgment Day.
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If you’ve tasted the fruit of righteousness…
And tasted the fruit of unrighteousness…
Which tastes better?
Taste and see that the LORD is good, scripture says.
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1 Timothy 4:1-3
“Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,
speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,
forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.”
Notes:
a. They depart from the faith which the Apostles had and follow “a faith” of their own imagination.
b. When they depart from the true faith and follow their own ideas it turns out their own ideas aren’t their own, they have been implanted into them by demons. They gave place to demons by not repenting of their sin, and those demons began to teach them “spiritual truths” while causing them to think it is God teaching them.
c. Their conscience doesn’t bother them anymore. When a conscience is seared it now approves of what it once disapproved.
d. Two examples of what the demons teach them are given: forbidding to marry (forced celibacy) and dietary laws. Naturally, demons do not confine themselves to only teaching these two things. These are just cited as examples. Much of what has been taught as Christian doctrine over the centuries has been such “doctrines of demons”. Every cult follows doctrines of demons. The ___ is the mother of all the cults and is the largest cult. And in this generation, as the great falling away gathers momentum, most mainstream denominations have fallen for Wokism, which is also a doctrine of demons. The prosperity gospel is a doctrine of demons. Liberalism and Preterism are doctrines of demons. Etc..
e. Perhaps, when some think of satan they don’t think of someone who creates “Christian churches” or “Christian doctrines”. They don’t tnink of satan as a creator of new spirtual teachings or one who gives “new revelation” about God. If they go to a church they might not have considered the possibility that what is taught there is invented by demons.
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Praying flat on your back during the night….
Psalms 16:7
“I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel; My heart also instructs me in the night seasons.”
Psalms 63:6
“When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches.”
Psalms 119:55
“I remember Your name in the night, O Lord, And I keep Your law.”
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Jesus commanded to take the Good News to every person on earth. The early church started to do this and found some received it as Good News, but many considered it Bad News and tried to kill them. The Good News becomes Bad News for those not willing to repent before God. Some become very angry to learn that Jesus suffered and died for them to reconcile them to God. But this same truth melts the hearts of some, and they gladly surrender to the King.
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For a man to understand evil he only needs to understand his own heart.
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A new way of living which is actually an ancient way.
What the world is offended by, and what God is offended by, are often not the same things.
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To church folks:
It’s not legalism to read 1 Corinthians 14 and then expect your church to take heed to those instructions and put them into practice. At least to try and put it into practice.
Unless you believe the Holy Spirit has a totally different way of doing church today than He did then.
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Religious pride is worse than normal pride.
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A fantastic transaction.
1 John 5:14-15
“Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.”
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What a fantastic transaction!
The Father is expecting to hear from you today.
Isn’t it fantastic if He is listening to your prayer?
If we pray according to His will and plan, then imagine the pleasure He has to be asked to do that which He Himself desires to do? It’s the pleasure of a Father with a true son. It’s the wonder of two hearts and minds beating as one.
It’s glorious. It’s to participate in His glory.
And what a joy to know He sees us and hears us.
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It’s not about the dudes in the costumes, suits or private jets, it’s about the Carpenter from Nazareth.
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My interest in politics is that of a casual observer who makes remarks when he sees people being conned.
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Look out over the vast expanse of the universe and know that God is a God of beauty and power.
Look at the crucifixion of Jesus and know that God is a God of love.
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Deception and Judgment
Revelation 12:9
“So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him”
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He deceives the whole world, and, yet, on the Day of Judgment the issue of deception will not be a mitigating factor, because everyone is judged according to what they did or didn’t do (Rev. 20:12) and whether they were deceived or not is irrelevant.
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White Robes
Revelation 7:13-15
[13]Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, “Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?”
[14]And I said to him, “Sir, you know.” So he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
[15]Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them.”
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Interesting thing about the color white is that it can’t fade.
I leave my white T shirts out in the sun without fear of them fading.
And also it’s the color which shows up stains the most, which you have to take care the most to keep clean.
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Lawfare:
The new kind of warfare.
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Your beliefs don’t change reality. Believing something which is not true doesn’t make it true.
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Whatever the Lake of Fire is, you can be certain it hurts a lot.
“Oh, it’s only symbolic!!!”
Symbolic of what, exactly?
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Imagine what it would be like if you didn’t know your Creator?
It would be devastating.
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Trump wasn’t charged over Jan 6 because he explicitly told his supporters on the day to demonstrate peacefully. So, to try and disqualify him on the basis that he supposedly incited people to storm the capitol is purely political theater.
If you’re penalized for an alleged crime, but not been charged over that supposed crime, because there is no evidence, then you have a joke of a legal system.
Now, if Trump is truly the embodiment of evil, then maybe Banana Republic style politics is justified?
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One guy is diplomatic in his speech, but his policies mean the death of your nation.
The other guy is rude and bombastic, but his policies are far more conducive to national survival than the other guy’s.
Would you sacrifice your future over mean Tweets?
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If illegal immigration is okay then why can’t you fly into America and simply walk through immigration without papers?
Why not try to make a run for it through immigration at JFK? They can’t deport you. That would be racist.
Why the double standard?
It’s like, it would be a crime to rob a bank through the front door, but not a crime if you do it quietly through the back door.
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Revelation 5:9-10
“And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.”
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They (we) are coming back to earth to reign with Christ.
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God is the JUSTIFIER of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Romans 3:26
Do you believe it?
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Romans 8:1
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
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Therefore, condemnation is the default position of every human being, “for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God”.
In Christ there is no condemnation.
Outside of Christ we’re already condemned because of our sins.
The second half of this verse is deleted from modern translations, perhaps because it frightens insecure people.
Would you be interested in having a life with no condemnation, knowing for sure that God doesn’t condemn you?
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To God, things are either right or wrong. So, if we know Him, then the things He deems as wrong will also be wrong for us, and the things He deems as right will also be right for us.
Our ideas of right and wrong should match God’s ideas of right and wrong.
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If you had to spend the rest of your life in solitary confinement would you still serve the Lord with all your heart?
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The human condition: We alienated ourselves from God.
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When we read the words of God our spirit should soar.
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Political viewpoints and selective morality are often inseparable.
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Joy
Psalms 16:11
“You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
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And joy is a fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22).
Joy is something God produces in us.
If you concoct your own joy then it’s not the true joy of the Lord.
We are told to rejoice in the Lord. But we’re not told to manufacture our own joy.
If we are truly living a righteous life by faith then we have the fruit of His joy deep inside our hearts by the Spirit.
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Extremely complex systems run 24/7 to keep our bodies alive, and yet we’re barely aware of all this frenetic activity on our behalf. How do these systems know they should keep us alive?
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“Making disciples” means helping people become disciples of Jesus, not disciples of us. There’s a big difference.
Sometimes people validly state, you’ve gotta make disciples, not just converts.
Very true.
The thing is, how does Jesus make disciples?
Jesus makes disciples of Himself.
If we are obedient to Jesus, then we find ourselves playing our part in His work to do this.
And since a New Testament church does not have a Pastor, but is governed by a group of Elders who are the Pastors, then the younger believers receive input and support from several people, not just one.
In a balanced and healthy Christian community, no elder could present a younger person and claim that they alone have discipled that person, or that they are their disciple.
Just as no mature Christian could say that they are the product of one man “discipling” them.
As for a discipleship program, the truly Biblical way for young believers to learn to follow Jesus is for them to be in spiritual fellowship in a 1 Cor. 14 kind of church, where there is no program, but they’re led by the Spirit.
Everyone gets a chance to share. Part of the young believer’s development is to begin to share in public the word of God which the Lord has taught them.
Now, what is the issue about an individual being the personal discipler of other individuals? What’s the big deal?
The big deal is the relationship between the discipler and the disciple. If one person is allocated as your “teacher” it becomes a false relationship. It’s okay in the secular world, but not in the Kingdom of God.
If you have “a teacher” it’s almost like that are a Mediator between you and God.
See the Lord’s admonition to call no man your Father, Teacher, Master or Rabbi, in Matthew 23, because the Lord Himself plays those roles in our lives, and no man can take His place in those roles.
Again, hence the need for a plurality of spiritual fathers and teachers.
Then, running a program tends toward a mechanical way of doing things without the life of the Spirit.
I left all this stuff 35 years ago and haven’t looked back.
Relational life is the way to go.
It means genuine friendships.
So, there’s an artificiality to discipleship programs because they are not based on relationship in the body but on an artificially imposed teacher-student relationship.
Programs “work” in the sense that it’s much easier to run a program than to have real, sacrificial friendships.
And because there is personal distance, often people prefer to join a program than have a close friendship and thus avoid the commitment of that.
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It cost Jesus His own blood to wash away our sins.
Do you believe it?
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When the topic of Christianity comes up most people immediately tnink of things which don’t represent true Christianity, such as charlatan TV preachers with private jets, or stained glass windows and elegant cathedrals, or manic street preachers. They think of things which don’t represent true Christianity, and they’re not interested.
But if you could see God’s Throne in Heaven right now, would you be interested in the real deal?
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What could be some reasons for closet Christians to stay in the closet and not “come out” about their faith?
Or could be simply they don’t care their faith is a secret because they don’t care about anyone else’s soul anyway.
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When you kill free speech you kill society.
It is to strangle the humanity out of people, so they become whimpering cowards.
It’s a very malevolent form of social engineering which produces people without a spine.
When any kind of criticism is deemed to be a hate crime then you’ve crossed the line.
Liberals are the most against free speech.
When free speech is restricted it doesn’t mean that all free speech is restricted, it means that any view not shared by the government or big media is restricted.
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Liberal Christians are so insidiously smug and know it alls, but when you really analyze what they believe you find they don’t believe the Bible.
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“Israel’s quarrel with Palestinians is only about their total refusal to accept that Jews have a right to exist.”
–Golda Meir
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Read today
“The Italian writer, pacifist and activist Vittorio Arrigoni moved to Gaza to support Palestinians then he was kidnapped and murdered because he was considered an infidel.”
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You hear of “mother nature”, but never of “father nature”?
Could be because that would be too close to the truth to be comfortable.
One Life – 2023
The true life story of a man who saved children from the Nazis.
You might keep a box of Kleenex handy.
Pride is the essence of what it means to believe a lie.
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If we could see Jesus Christ in all His glory and power with our own eyes we would be so staggered and in shock we wouldn’t know what to pray.
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In the end, the government will determine and define what rights you have. It might not be nice.
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If a fool knew he was a fool, he wouldn’t be a fool.
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“Chinese migrants pouring across southern border spark national security concerns” (Fox News)
If you enter a country illegally, you are not a migrant, you’re a criminal.
If you are a politician who allows people to enter your country illegally, you’re a criminal.
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The “holy grail” of religion is for mankind to redefine morality so that he can indulge immorality with a clear conscience, believing it to be good and not evil, and not just that, but the belief, then, that these things are the essence of spirituality, so that evil does indeed become holy and good, and, ergo, evil doers are no longer evil doers, but holy and good.
This has been the nature of paganism all along.
For example, Hitler considered himself a very spiritual person. He adopted eastern religious symbols as a symbols of power.
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The Islamic “solution” to the “problem” of the Jews is no different to Hitler’s “Final Solution”.
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Have you contemplated what an endless life with God will be like?
You will be happy and content forever.
You can’t wrap your mind around it.
And have you contemplated what eternal punishment will be like? Shocking beyond understanding.
But don’t get angry with me, it wasn’t my idea. Take it up with God.
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It’s going to a rough ride for those who defy God:
Revelation 9:6
“In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.”
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Read today
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
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If you take into account all of human history until now, there have been comparatively few people who have enjoyed freedom.
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Read today
“The UK will become a democratic Islamic state”, say Muslims in UK.”
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This Sunday at church will you share God’s word?
If not, what is the reason?
a. They won’t allow you to share.
b. There is no time available for you to share.
c. You are afraid to share.
d. You have nothing to share.
e. You don’t want to share.
f. You feel you are unqualified to share.
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Seems to me that EVs are way overpowered, and hence need way too big batteries. If the idea of EVs is to economize, and not win the Grand Prix, the motor could be half the power output, and thus half the battery size would be needed. Smaller batteries could mean slot-in cartridge batteries are possible, so instead of waiting for a recharge you just pull out the cartridge and drop in a fresh one, or two.
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Would you say your religion is entirely free of superstition?
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1 Thessalonians 3:5
“For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor might be in vain.”
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How does satan tempt people?
By deceiving and convincing them that what they thought was wrong is not really as wrong as they thought it was.
This is how Adam and Eve were tempted. They were deceived into thinking that what they knew to be wrong was not actually wrong.
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1 Thessalonians 3:5
“For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor might be in vain.”
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The Tempter tries to get us to do his will.
If we yield to temptation we are yielding to the will of the Tempter and doing his bidding.
If we see it that way, the way it is, it helps us not to be deceived into yielding to him and becoming his pawn.
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1 Timothy 4:1
“Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons…”
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Some will depart from the faith means they once had the faith.
And to believe teachings which demons give, through the mouths of their captive human hosts, indicates one has departed from the faith.
And if someone follows what demons teach, you can be sure that these same demons have, not only confused their thinking concerning what the Bible teaches, but have ensnared them again into sin, as well, for it’s a package deal. All those with false teachings are also ensnared in the sins of the flesh. When a person believes what is not true then it affects their whole life.
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We only really live to the extent that we love God.
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Whenever the topic of “spiritual authority” comes up, such as relating to pastors (or woman pastors) the key is to consider that no New Testament church was under the authority of a single man (or woman). There was no spiritual head of a church, for Christ is the head. The responsibility of spiritual authority was jointly shared by elders. These elders were the pastors of a church. There was no man or woman called “the pastor”.
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Jeremiah 23:24
“Can anyone hide himself in secret places, So I shall not see him?” says the Lord; “Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the Lord.”
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When people talk about “their faith” they shouldn’t think that rituals are expressions of faith. True faith is in a Person, Jesus Christ, and hence rituals are now obsolete, because we cannot relate to a Person through external rituals, but from our innermost being and intelligent communication.
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It’s the responsibility of a Christian to do whatever the LORD wants them to do.
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When you create something, it’s yours.
God created everything.
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A lot of support for Navalny now that he’s dead.
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Historically, and even now, some religions give people a licence to commit savagery against others, thinking they are doing it for God. Perhaps some are attracted to these religions for this very reason.
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Heretics are not merely mistaken, they are dishonest.
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During the Inquisitions it was heretics deciding who is a heretic.
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Prayer is the most important thing we will do in this life.
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If your relationship to Jesus is real, then your relationships within His church should be just as real.
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Our relationship to God is the only real wealth or life we have.
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When a person believes in the authority of scripture they no longer have celebrity pastors or teachers.
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Read today
“Moscow will host an inter-Palestinian meeting at the end of February, to which Russia has invited all Palestinian organisations, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad.”
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Birds of a feather…
Unlikely bedfellows, but united in their hatred for the Jews.
Can hatred for the Jews be the unifying force which brings the world together as one?
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What does it mean to truly trust someone?
And, what if that someone was God?
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Revelation 21:27
“But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.”
Revelation 22:15
“But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.”
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There are certain professing Christians who spend their whole life propagating a lie.
They won’t be going in.
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If you don’t know what a cult is, you don’t know who Jesus is.
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Without X and Telegram we wouldn’t really know what is happening in the world.
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Do you know why no Arab country is willing to accept Palestinian refugees?
There are several reasons.
They’re not very politically correct reasons.
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Read today
“Is Europe ready to defend itself?”
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Genesis 6:11
“The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.”
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Revelation 3:2
“Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God.”
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1 Corinthians 9:27
“But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.”
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Paul says that he must discipline his body and bring it into subjection to God.
Our body and mind is either in subjection to God or satan.
If it’s not in subjection to God, it’s, by default, in subjection to satan.
And preaching to others cannot buy immunity.
The Christian who refuses to bring their being into subjection to God is disqualified. The Greek word here means “reprobate”, which is always used in reference to those outside of Christ.
Becoming a reprobate again is not just about being disqualified from heaven, it means that such a person, because they chose to go back into subjection to satan by refusing to bring their body and thoughts into subjection to God, has reverted back to that reprobate nature they once had, and because they are now living as reprobates they are no longer abiding in the Vine.
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Because only Jesus can save, it makes sense to only point people to Him and His truth.
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Read today
“….No Wokeness allowed, only straight facts.”
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Jesus has His way of life for us to live, and it’s a good way of life and truly satisfying.
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Revelation 20:4
“And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.”
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This is the simplest and plainest proof that the Millennial reign of Jesus Christ on earth is still in the future.
Obviously, all those martyred for Christ have not yet been resurrected and they’re not here now ruling over the earth with Christ.
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The truth of God’s word governs us in our innermost being.
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We overcome, or we’re overcomed.
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Revelation 18:9
“The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning…”
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This refers to the internet and to nuclear war, for, obviously, the internet is the only means by which the kings of the earth will be able to see the smoke rising up, and the only way for a nation to be destroyed in one hour is by nuclear war.
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James 1:12
“Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.”
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James 1:21
“Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.”
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Jesus said the word He speaks is SPIRIT and LIFE.
If His word is believed and received it has supernatural power when it is implanted in us to perform what it was sent to do, which is to save us from sin and conform us to His image.
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What is the basis for your beliefs?
The basis for my beliefs is what Jesus Christ said and did.
And, the basis for believing what He said is I believe He was telling the truth.
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The more work we have, the more we need to pray.
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Wrote to a friend:
Bro, I take it you don’t believe you are saved by the grace of God.
Then, what is hindering you from believing that His grace alone has saved you?
What is the thing which obstructs you from believing this?
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Anyone who challenges the regime will suddenly find themselves swamped with legal problems.
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Revelation 20:12
“And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God…..
(You might have thought the dead are dead. Think again. They’re very much alive.
The unknown and the famous are all judged impartially)
…and books were opened, And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books….
(Jesus said every hidden thing will be revealed)
Verse 15: “…And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.”
(Your name in the Book of Life is the only way to escape the Lake of Fire. Note that, while everyone’s life is judged, it’s not judged to determine whether that life has earned a place in Heaven. It’s whether your name is in the Book of Life alone which qualifies one for Heaven.
And, one’s name must be in the Book of Life prior to this judgment.
Jesus promised eternal life to those who truly believe Him. Such people have their names in the Book of Life.
This judgment must include believers in Jesus Christ, otherwise it would be superfluous to note that people whose names are not in the Book of Life are cast into the Lake of Fire if none of their names are in the Book to begin with)
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“Dems won’t deport, because every illegal is a highly likely vote at some point.
That simple incentive explains what seems to be insane behavior.
It has become so brazen that a gang of illegals can beat up police officers on camera in Times Square, get out of jail for free and still not get deported!
Instead, a partly federally funded NGO bought them free tickets to California …”
–Elon Musk
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Turns out the people who made Google AI are raving racists.
Not sure if they’re embarrassed to be exposed as such or not.
They exposed themselves.
They are against our community standards.
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Revelation 1:5b
“…To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood…”
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The blood He shed washes away all our sins. He personally washed our sins away.
If Jesus has personally washed away your sins in His own blood then you are clean.
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The Bible exhorts us to always rejoice in the Lord.
If we know the truth in Jesus and are free then we have a reason to always rejoice.
It’s then only appropriate that we rejoice.
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If a person is enslaved by sin and in bondage to evil spirits then how can they think that by surrendering to Jesus Christ they will lose their freedom? They have no freedom to lose. They’re a slave to sin.
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The most blessed church meetings we have is when we spend a lot of time unitedly praying for folks.
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Make disciples?
Every time you preach the gospel or teach God’s word or pray for folks you are helping some to become disciples of Jesus. They won’t be your disciples, though.
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Isaiah 9:7
“Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”
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The human heart which is governed by Him is at peace with God. The effect of His government is peace.
In sanctification, God removes the things in our lives which set us apart from Him, so He can set us apart for Himself – He separates us from the things which separate us from Him.
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If ten terrorists are holding two hostages, is it ethical to kill all ten terrorists, if need be, to rescue the two? Absolutely. They signed their own death warrant when they took the two hostage. They should have understood that, by doing so, they were forfeiting their right to live.
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Why do people need to be labelled as black or white?
How dark do you need to be to be labelled as black? Maybe the WOKE folks can give us a color chart so we can check each person?
The whole mess began centuries ago when color was a big issue.
Now, society seemed to be finding a way out of racism, but the movement got stalled because people continued to insist on recognizing people’s skin color and differentiating between black and white.
As long as color is recognized, racism will remain.
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2 Thessalonians 2:8
“And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.”
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Not a very auspicious end for the man who will soon rule the whole world.
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Are grandiose ecclesiastical buildings meant to impress God or impress man?
It’s to dupe the simple minded into thinking if the church is rich and powerful then it must mean God is on their side.
But is God impressed?
Have you impressed God today?
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The human body is so complex that science is still trying to understand its complexity.
And you say it made itself?
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If someone considers you a real friend, then check if their faith in you is warranted, and whether you have the requisites of a real friend, such as upholding them in prayer every day.
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What will the geopolitical world look like when the US is no longer able to support and uphold Israel or Eastern Europe? The Bible tells us.
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Liberal Christianity is not Christianity. To be a Christian means to abide in Jesus’ word. If a Christian doesn’t believe what Jesus said then they’re not a Christian. Liberal Christians say they believe what Jesus said, but they don’t. They twist the word of God, so it is false interpretations of scripture they believe in, and not Jesus Christ.
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Imagine if justice was never done?
And injustice is the same as no justice.
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It’s a delusion to think that the Kingdom of God will cover the earth prior to the return of the King in power and glory, without His wrath poured out, and without His judgment of the nations. His Kingdom will cover the earth AFTER these things. For now, His Kingdom is spiritual, and not physical, political or temporal. If people are deleting all the scriptures which pertain to the above, then they’re already deceived.
God always sees our motives.
Why would there be certain scriptures which people don’t like?
Why wouldn’t they agree with it?
Answer:
Etc.
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His Kingdom shall have no end.
Can you wrap your mind around that?
His people will live as long as He does, and that’s forever, an endless life.
Written around 500 BC:
Isaiah 9:6-7
“For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”
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Endless joy, or endless pain.
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If insanity means to not be able to distinguish between fantasy and reality, then the world is insane.
Whether you’re smiling today is of little consequence, but whether you’ll be smiling on Judgment Day is more important.
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We either have our own righteousness, or we have Christ’s righteousness.
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If you struggle with believing some of the things written in the Old Testament, then consider that Jesus Christ believed it all, and He rose from the dead. The resurrection is the key fact, as well as the miracles Jesus did. These are facts. Let these facts, and the fact that Jesus believed the Old Testament to be true, settle it for you.
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If we don’t understand God’s word, then, the problem is with us, not with God.
God’s word is for His people. It will make no sense to those who are not His people.
If we don’t understand the Bible, but feel we need to understand it, and acknowledge the fault is with us and not with God, there is hope.
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If the presence of God is not in you and around you 24/7, then what kind of Christian faith is that?
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1 Corinthians 11:18-19
“For first of all, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
For there must also be factions among you, that those who are approved may be recognized among you.”
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Implies that God has a sovereign purpose in allowing heretics and heresies to spring up from within the church.
Heresies are a test. When true disciples of Jesus are confronted by heresies it only serves to cause them to dig even deeper into the truth of God’s word to ascertain and understand what the truth really is, and their faith grows stronger as a result.
It’s also a test because it quickly reveals who loves the truth and who doesn’t, and we shouldn’t fellowship with people who don’t love the truth.
A person’s ambivalent attitude toward heresies can also reveal they don’t love the truth, because they are not willing to “earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints”.
It’s vital to find out early on whether someone loves the truth, otherwise, it will cause a lot of heartache later on.
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“The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”
(2 Thessalonians 2:9-10)
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James 1:12
“Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.”
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Spiritual performances are designed to manipulate you into a desired spiritual state.
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Revelation 4:2
“Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.”
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Everyone has an appointment here.
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Read today
“I helped a man climb a mountain and found that I too had reached the top.”
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With Jesus there is no superstition, but the religion which has borrowed His name is full of superstition.
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History of Christendom condensed:
The cult got so big and powerful that people thought it must be “the Church”. Once a cult gets millions of followers it gains respectability and is no longer thought of as a cult.
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Do not seek glory from man, but rather seek this: “Well done! good and faithful servant! Enter into the joy of the LORD”.
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The choice:
a. Worship your Creator.
b. Worship something else.
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The Bible teaches that everyone intuitively knows they have a Creator, but choose to worship something else, anyway.
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Our faith is in a living Person, not in a religion. We have faith in Jesus, not faith in Christianity. We love Christians, we love the church, which is the body of Christ, but we don’t put our faith in them. And this alive-from-the-dead Person is the author, sustainer and completer of our faith. Because He lives, we live also.
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Are you a prayerful person?
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Jesus was crucified for us to reconcile us to God, so whoever truly believes on Him is reconciled to God.
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If Hamas were allowed to, they would run through Israel and cut the throat of every Jew they see, for the glory of God. This is their charter. This is their dream. This is the reality of the situation. This is what Israel is dealing with.
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When a country or a people have as their core motto, “Death to the Jews! Death to America!”, do you tnink it’s wise to send them billions of dollars?
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“Hamas has proposed a ceasefire plan….”
From the Israeli perspective, Hamas shouldnt be proposing anything, because Hamas should no longer be allowed to exist, because their charter is committed to the genocide of the Jewish people and this is the only reason they exist.
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…..You are willing to do almost anything religious, EXCEPT come to Jesus.
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Just think if you had a great treasure, and you were taking a journey and couldn’t take it with you, so you entrust it to a friend, committing it into his care, because you deem him to be trustworthy.
Once you commit it into his care you can rest, knowing he will take care of what you’ve committed to him.
2 Timothy 1:12
“For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.”
1 Peter 4:19
“Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.”
…..So, why would a person be reluctant to commit their soul into Jesus’ keeping and trust that He is able to keep what has been committed to Him? Because they deem Him untrustworthy?
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If God is not going to punish us for our sin, then, how can He do that and still be just, without breaking His own law? If He just arbitrarily forgave some and not others He would be unjust, and He would be not keeping His own law.
But God became a Man to pay the penalty of man.
So, whoever believes on Jesus Christ is not punished, because He was punished in their place, fulfilling the law, and hence, God can forgive the believer and still be just.
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Billions have lived their life on the earth and now they are living somewhere else.
Make sure you go to the right place.
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In Isaiah 53 Verse 10 we read that Jesus’ soul was made an offering for sin.
God made an offering for our sin.
God became the offering for our sin.
No other offering for sin is needed than the one God made for us, by sacrificing His own dear Son, Jesus Christ.
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What would be the use of being ‘spiritual’ if you’re not saved?
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Where there is love there is freedom and no tension.
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In politics, it’s messy to raise the issue of morality, because then the question is, who defines morality? It becomes a spiritual matter.
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Perhaps the saddest thing there is, is when people believe things in relation to God and eternity which aren’t true.
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When we get alone with Jesus He becomes more real to us because our attention is undivided.
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What do you want God to do for you today?
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Jesus said, if you come to Him you will experience rest for your soul.
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Jesus taught about Heaven and Hell, and gave clear, simple instructions how to go to the former, and avoid the latter.
Heaven is going to be mind blowing.
Hell is eternal torment.
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The most vital daily consideration is to consider how much we love God.
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Human love for God varies and fluctuates, but His love for us never changes.
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Apart from God, things have no eternal meaning. The true meaning of something is what it means in relation to God.
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Revelation 13
[1]Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name.
(Comment: ‘Out of the sea’ indicates from a land across the sea.
For these 10 horns and 10 crowns: refer to Rev. 17:12-17, Daniel 2:41-44, 7:24)
[2]Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.
(Comment: The dragon is satan. Satan wants his man to rule the earth)
[3]And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
(Comment: See verse 14.
Clearly, this man gets miraculously healed of a fatal wound. People marvel at him)
[4]So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”
(Comment: Because he miraculously lives after being wounded, people will say he is invincible)
[5]And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months.
(Comment:
3.5 years.
See Rev. 11:2, Daniel 7:25, 12:7, 12:11)
[6]Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.
(Comment: Pretty stupid)
[7]It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.
(Comment: See Daniel 7:25, 12:7)
[8]All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
(Commemt: Everyone who doesn’t follow Jesus will follow the Beast)
[9]If anyone has an ear, let him hear.
[10]He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
(Comment: Believers are here at this time)
[11]Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.
[12]And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
[13]He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.
(Comment: Has to be supernatural. People are not so stupid to believe a trick show)
[14]And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.
(Comment: Already many people think anyone who does miracles is from God.
The Beast imitates Christ’s resurrection. The resurrection of Christ is proof He is God’s Son. The “resurrection” of the Beast will be taken as proof he is who he claims to be)
[15]He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
(Comment: How do they know who is worshipping the image and who is not? Remember, we are talking about everyone on the planet being forced to worship this image. So, it’s a full surveillance society)
[16]He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,
[17]and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
(Comment: This indicates a cashless society. If you had cash it would be possible to buy or sell without the government’s permission. It speaks of a fully digital world, with every transaction monitored by the government)
[18]Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.
(Comment: When this man comes into authority he will be identified by all the above characteristics. When you see a man fill all the above qualifications, then it’s obvious he is the one)
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In explanation to my reel, to have Christ’s “righteousness” given to you means RIGHT STANDING with God is given to you. The same right standing that Jesus has is given to us. By ourselves we can never achieve, earn or deserve right standing with God. The good news is it is a gift freely given to whoever believes. The Bible says we don’t naturally have right standing with God, but, rather, that our sins have separated us from God. Jesus removed that separation from God by bearing the punishment for our sins on the Cross. We must appropriate this gift by faith.
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There’s a heresy called ‘Kenosis’, which states Jesus was not God when He walked the earth.
They wrongly figure that because Jesus was a flesh and blood Man, then He was no longer God.
The point of Kenosis, probably, was to try and prove that Christians can only do what Jesus did if Jesus wasn’t God: and that we can only follow Jesus’ example if He was only a Man and not God. Or, that Christians can do everything Jesus did because He was only a Man, and if He could do it as a Man, so can we.
But it’s ridiculous to say that Jesus was no longer God, in order to say that this is the only way we can do what He did.
We can do what He did IF we have the faith to do it, because IF we have the faith to do it, it means He is doing it, not us.
So, every believer can say, IF I needed to walk on water, and if God had a reason or purpose for it, then He would give me the gift of faith to do it.
But until then I won’t lose any sleep over it.
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Jesus voluntarily laid aside His “rights” of divinity, but did not lay aside His divinity, for, God can become a Man, but God cannot cease from being God, because His divine nature is unchangeable.
Philippians 3:9
“and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith”
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Righteous means, that which is right in the sight of God.
To have faith in Jesus Christ is the right thing in the sight of God.
Righteous acts, in themselves, don’t make one righteous, and the reason for this is that our righteous acts do not atone for our sins: they do not satisfy God’s justice.
So, God commands us all to live Godly and righteously, but not to have our own righteousness, which is no righteousness at all, as I noted, because if we have our own righteousness then we are still guilty of sin, because our own righteousness cannot clear us of guilt.
We must obtain the righteousness which is from God, by faith in Jesus Christ.
Jesus suffered, bled and died and rose again to make us righteous in the sight of God, by paying our legal debt to God for us.
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Every aspect of your Kingdom work today has eternal importance and ramifications.
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If you love Jesus Christ then all is well with your soul.
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Notes on 1 Corinthians 14.
Verse 31: “For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged.”
It didn’t mean that people were coming to church expecting to hear a new truth which Jesus did not teach. That would be ridiculous. So, prophecy, here, does not refer to new revelations of truth, or extra Biblical truth.
Verse 24:
“But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he is convicted by all.”
This delineates between teaching and prophesying (though they overlap).
The words pierce the heart of the unbeliever. It’s not just a general teaching.
Verse 26: “How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.”
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A “revelation”… not a new truth, a revelation of the existing truth.
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‘Thy will be done!’ ….is a mighty prayer, if we believe He will answer and do it. It implies implicit trust and belief in His goodness. It implies we believe He has a specific purpose and plan for our lives and He will accomplish it.
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When someone loves God it changes their view of everything.
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For every injustice ever perpetrated, know that one day God’s perfect justice will be done. We have God’s word on that.
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To a modern Christian:
You know that thing you do which you have read in God’s word He commanded you not to?
What is your explanation to Him going to be for disobeying Him?
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Liberals get into trouble because they disconnect the Person of Jesus from the Word of Jesus, so, then, the “Jesus” you end up with does not exist.
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Would you be open to the possibility you’re indoctrinated but unaware of it?
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Those who live for Jesus truly live.
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May the time you get alone and speak to God be the highlight of your day.
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What do you want God to do for you today?
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Jesus rose from the dead.
What more proof do you want?
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Jesus Christ…
“…who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.” (Titus 2:14)
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Note:
Through His death He redeemed us from the penalty or consequences of our sin, AND from the power of our sin, so that we are able to do His good will.
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Eternal life is far more important and wonderful than anyone realizes.
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Concerning any subject or issue: What does Jesus think about it?
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Romans 11:22
“Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.”
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Goodness or severity.
You can choose which one.
Choose wisely, every day.
Choose what is good.
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If you get to know Jesus, you get to know what really matters in life.
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A mature Christian is secure.
An immature Christian is insecure.
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Godliness.
An essential quality to have.
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Moral relativism.
It’s a heart problem.
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Our personal joy is tempered when we consider the suffering of others.
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King David said,
“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever!”.
And it turned out just that way, according to His faith.
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A prophet shouldn’t receive too much honor, after all, they are not his words – he is just passing on the message he has received from God.
What is important to God?
Let’s focus on those things.
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It’s a great tragedy when people are only culturally Christian and don’t have eternal life. So near, and yet so far.
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Will you judge Him as faithful?
Or accuse Him of being unfaithful? Of abandoning you?
Faith makes a righteous judgment about God, and unbelief makes an unrighteous judgment about God, accusing Him.
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When Jesus says, believe and be saved, it’s obvious that He is not promising salvation to unrepentant people, and that in order for one to truly believe they must repent.
In the neurotic post-Christian western world, when the subject of “repentance” comes up, often the reaction is, “That’s trying to earn salvation by good works!”
So, when God commands them to repent, would their answer to Him be, “Sorry, Lord, I can’t repent, because if I did I would be trying to earn my salvation by good works!” ?
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“And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” (Galatians 5:24)
So, repentance accompanies faith. If you have faith, the proof is you repent.
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Read today
“The godless think, We have nothing to repent of because God accepts us the way we are.”
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When you sit appreciating a beautiful sunset, is it the sun, or the One who made it, that you appreciate?
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A disciple is fully invested in Jesus and takes Him completely at His word.
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What is your reaction to the word of God, if there is any reaction within you?
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Ezekiel 43:2
“And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with His glory.”
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Even the ground beneath Him shines.
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Everyone will see one day.
Wonderful or terrifying.
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Ezekiel 38:8-9
“After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely. You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.”
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(See all of chapter 38 and 39)
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It looks impossible for the Jews. Then God wipes out all the anti-semites.
Then:
Ezekiel 39:21-23
[21]“I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them.
[22]So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day forward.
[23]The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore I hid My face from them. I gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.
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So, only after God has re-established Israel and then defended her against the “United Nations” (united antisemites) only then does He reveal His Messiah, Jesus Christ, to them and they enter the New Covenant and are filled with the Holy Spirit and become born again.
And only after God destroys the enemies of Israel do the nations finally realize that Jesus Christ is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Check it out. Ezekiel 38 and 39.
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2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
“And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
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In this chapter a lot of detail is given of how the antichrist will deceive the whole world (except for a minority) and be the “king of the world” for a short time.
It describes that people will follow him because of miraculous things he does, and, as well, as these verses say, he will offer them a new “spirituality”, and God gives them a strong delusion so that they believe it, and, here, we see that the result of this teaching is that they “have pleasure in unrighteousness”.
In other words, they have pleasure in the things they should be ashamed of.
Their “spirituality” redefines sin, as the Bible defines it.
Perhaps the line will be, “God accepts you just the way you are!”
The Biblical concept of repentance will be called legalism, works salvation, and “under the law”.
Of course, you realize Christendom is nearly there already.
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If a person is not saved, they’re not a Christian. They’re only a Christian on the surface, not within.
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Another day, another opportunity to love God.
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An idol is a substitute for God.
Idols can take many forms.
The most common idol is your self.
Anything we love and serve more than God is an idol.
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The most wonderful and exciting thing about a Christian marriage is that you both love and serve the Lord together. It’s fantastic.
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In this day and age, to have a popular “ministry” you have to make compromises, like publicizing and promoting yourself, merchandising etc…. so, it’s not surprising that if one has to make ethical compromises to get where they want to go, they will inevitably find themselves compromising the truth or their morals.
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Belief or unbelief, faithfulness or unfaithfulness, obedience or disobedience: It’s all in relation to a Person, Jesus Christ. If we’re faithful, we’re faithful to Him. If we’re unfaithful, we’re unfaithful to Him. If we’re obedient, we’re obedient to Him. If we’re disobedient, we’re disobedient to Him. Religion has nothing to do with it, it’s relational.
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There are ages to come.
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Ephesians 2:7
“…that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.”
It’s going to be wonderful.
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The things of God, naturally enough, far surpass the things of man.
They surpass in every way: in beauty, power and satisfaction.
But most are blind to this.
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If you visit a New Testament assembly you’re sampling what the Kingdom of God is like.
It’s like Heaven’s Embassy on earth.
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“…Teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.”
Titus 1:11b
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These men were teaching Christians, with the aim and intent that, these, after hearing the teaching, would be willing to give them their money.
So, there’s something about these particular teachings which made people willing to part with their money.
So, obviously, these “”teachers” use the “carrot or stick” approach: the “carrot” being, if you give them money then God will give you back much more, or, the “stick”: if you don’t give your money then something bad will happen to you.
These “teachers” found a way to extract money from gullible Christians.
But these Christians are willing victims and not innocent. It’s because of their own covetousness and ignorance of God’s word that these “teachers” are able to exploit them.
Sounds very familiar.
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Questions for anyone religious:
Naturally, no one likes to be told by others how to live their life.
But, we should be very open to God telling us how to live our life.
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Christians might have heard of the “Living in Babylon” teaching series. Just to be clear, Babylon, in Revelation 17 and 18 doesn’t refer to the world. It can’t, because the world turns against her and destroys her. The imagery of Babylon, “the great prostitute”, an immoral woman, is a juxtaposition of two women: the pure Bride of Christ, and the Prostitute. So, Babylon is a generic term for anything to do with false Christianity. Not the world. The Bride is motivated by love. The Prostitute “church” and related institutions are based on money and false teachings and immoral practices.
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Daniel 12:3
“Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever.”
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Referring to the very final stage of history prior to the return of the King.
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2 Peter 1:4
“…by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”
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Which means, God has promised that those who believe His promises shall escape the corruption that is in the world through lust and will be partakers of the divine nature: Not partakers of divinity, but partakers of God’s nature or character.
This is why they are called exceedingly great and precious promises; for to be delivered from lust means to be delivered from the corruption of it. Lust means an inordinate desire, which means a desire which is outside of God’s eternal order and eternal Kingdom.
The greatest and most precious thing is to know Jesus Christ and walk with Him everyday. He has promised this to those who believe His promise.
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Either God cares about you or He doesn’t.
Which is it going to be?
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2 Peter 1:17-18
“For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory:
“This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
And we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.”
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If you were there and heard that voice from the sky thundering, THIS IS MY SON!, would you have believed that voice and then known that Jesus is truly the Son of God?
I believe. And I believe the Apostles really heard God speak in an audible voice to them that day.
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Here’s how the Kingdom of God works, you see, Jesus has His friends, and His friends are also friends and help each other out.
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The more ideologically driven a person or government is, the less you can trust what they say.
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1 Thessalonians 3:6
“But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always have good remembrance of us, greatly desiring to see us, as we also to see you”
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After hearing of their faith and love, Paul says this in verse 10:
“…night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and perfect what is lacking in your faith”
If Paul visited us today, I wonder if he would find things lacking in our faith, as he did with the Thessalonians, and need to perfect what is lacking in our faith?
What things might be lacking in our faith?
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One of the most sobering verses in the Bible:
Luke 12:4-5
“And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!”
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Sometimes Christians react to the warnings in scripture in a very defensive way, implying that the warnings are legalistic and “under the law”, and perhaps not realizing how this stance accuses God.
Here’s a warning:
Romans 11:22
“Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.”
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If a person is secure and abiding in Christ they won’t feel threatened by this warning.
But if someone is backsliding it should put the fear of God back into them.
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Regarding cultural traditions, sometimes Christians tell me they “have to” do them. I say, no, you have a choice, you don’t “have to” do them. Only do them if you really want to. You are not a slave of the culture.
The angels must be amazed that people don’t worship God.
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Obviously, we shouldn’t try to make enemies or alienate people, however, if, when people find out what we believe about Jesus they choose to distance themselves, we shouldn’t compromise our beliefs in order to keep their friendship, because, anyway, if we did that it wouldn’t be a real friendship to begin with.
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There is only one Holy Spirit, and only one Jesus, and only one Gospel, so why are there so many “gospels”? Because, while there is only one Holy Spirit, there are also many other spirits preaching their own “gospel”.
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“Love” can mean many things in the world, and there are many kinds of love, however, the love of Jesus Christ is a different kind of love to all these others.
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Galatians 5:19-21
“Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are:
adultery,
fornication,
uncleanness,
lewdness,
idolatry,
sorcery,
hatred,
contentions,
jealousies,
outbursts of wrath,
selfish ambitions,
dissensions,
heresies,
envy,
murders,
drunkenness,
revelries,
and the like;
of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
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The New World Order is a counterfeit of the Kingdom of Christ, with a false Christ, a false king.
And, as the Lord Jesus is our only hope, so will people in the world look to the Antichrist as their only hope.
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2 Corinthians 11:14b-15
“…For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.”
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Here we have the concept of “Christians” following “Christian leaders”, yet these leaders are actually servants of the devil, and when they teach it is demons teaching through them, and their followers believe themselves to be Christians, and yet they serve the devil.
This is where it’s going with the New World Order.
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Acts 20:36-38
“And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.
Then they all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spoke, that they would see his face no more.”
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Speaks of a kind of love virtually unknown today.
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John 8:31b-32, 36
“…If you continue in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
“Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.”
If we’re not free, we don’t know the truth which sets us free.
Jesus sets us free from every thing and every force or principle or false belief which separate us from fellowship with God.
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1 Peter 3:7
“Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.”
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Here is one instance where our manner of living can hinder our prayers being answered.
There are many other instances as well.
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We would be kind of fooling ourselves that we love someone if we didn’t pray for them.
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Acts 1:8
“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
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a. The word for “earth” here is “ges”, meaning the physical earth or planet. Now, the disciples had just asked the Lord to disclose the timing of His return. So, in His answer, one thing which must be fulfilled before His return is that the Gospel is spread to the “end of the earth” or planet, that is, to all of the planet, and not just the known world at the time. This is only being fulfilled now, in this generation.
b. Note, that the Holy Spirit has to come upon us to empower us to be witnesses of Jesus. It is a supernatural ability. And, if we are not witnesses, then we must lack the empowering of the Holy Spirit.
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The world is okay with you celebrating Christmas, but not with you following Jesus.
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1 Timothy 5:5-6
“Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day. But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.”
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Dead while she lives….
How many people are dead while they live?
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Republicans are not allowed to question election results, but Democrats are.
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We have to protect democracy by not allowing him to run, because if he runs the majority of people will vote for him, and if that happens it’s the end of democracy!!
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Hebrews 12:7
“If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?”
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The person who endures chastening is one who acknowledges that it is a proof of the Father’s love for them, and that it is a strong expression of His love in that He loves us enough to bear long with us and conform our nature to His nature, for which we will be eternally grateful..
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Revelation 3:19
“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.”
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Revelation 3:19
“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.”
Hebrews 12:6-7
“For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.”
If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?”
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So, to experience the Lord’s correction or rebuke is as much an experience of His love as experiencing His love directly, and it’s also a proof that He is with you, and a proof that you are a legitimate son.
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Hebrews 12:8
“But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.”
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The whole world will celebrate the birth of the greatest Jew.
A Jewish Man, born in a Jewish town is the greatest Man who ever lived, and He still lives.
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Regarding those Christians who don’t believe the warnings in scripture concerning falling away from the faith are addressed to believers: If they are right, then they can ignore these warnings completely and not even bother to give them a second thought, because if the warnings are only for unbelievers, and you’re a believer, then you don’t need to waste your time reading whole passages of scripture if they don’t apply to you. Right?
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Some are happy because they’re getting what they want. Others are unhappy because they’re not getting what they want. But those in Christ are happy regardless of whether they’re getting what they want.
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What’s being reported on Telegram and X continuously is savage and brutal violence breaking out all over the world.
Have you thought about which prevalent ideology and/or religion could be influencing people’s lives in such a way?
There seems to be a common ideological thread connecting these perpetrators.
Of course, we can’t discuss it here on Facebook because it is a company which shares this same ideological view.
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Christmas is an opportune time to talk about Cultural Christianity. Being culturally a Christian, that is, observing Christian culture, doesn’t make you a Christian. Nazi Germany was culturally Christian, which is just one of many examples.
So, just identifying with Christian culture doesn’t make you a Christian.
Even claiming to be a Christian doesn’t make you a Christian.
Jesus said you must be born again to see the Kingdom of God: we must be born a second time by the Spirit of God and made a new person on the inside.
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Isaiah 45:9a
“Woe to him who strives with his Maker! …”
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People seem to ignore or overlook the fact Israel promised a ceasefire the moment all the hostages were released. Hamas could have avoided the destruction of Gaza. They also overlook the fact Israel warned Gazans to move before every attack, and that Hamas tried to prevent civilians from moving, because they were using them as human shields, and perhaps sacrificing them so as to garner sympathy and support.
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Jesus desires we believe and obey Him.
Now, why would this be a problem?
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John 15:7
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”
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Every Christian can compare the fruits of righteousness with the fruits of unrighteousness in their life and daily choose which fruit they like best.
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When Christians get together socially it shouldn’t be all laughs and jokes, there should also be some substance.
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Whenever you see violence perpetrated in the world, check out the ideology of the perpetrator and you’ll find a common thread.
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Jesus was born in Bethlehem. There were Jews, Romans, wise men from Babylon, but where were the Palestinians?
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It fascinates me that people can celebrate something they don’t believe in. Could people really be that superficial?
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It is incredible love that God gave His only begotten Son for us, sacrificed on the cross for our sins, to reconcile us to Himself. There’s no greater love. Abide in His love.
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Imagine if the whole world was put on trial?
No need to imagine it,
It’s going to happen.
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The words of God are exceedingly precious.
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You can’t find a fault with Jesus – with His life or His teaching. This makes Him unique and separate from all others.
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Jesus said that whoever believes on Him will live forever. Now, if anyone else made such a promise you would be correct in not believing them.
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“And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins.”
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Once I was dead in my sin. I was dead to God. Condemned.
Now, I’m alive in Christ. Alive to God. No condemnation.
The dead can’t make themselves alive. But God can make the dead alive.
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Live for Him, and you’ll find Him living in you, and that you truly live.
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The extreme complexity of the systems in your body, and the sheer number of those systems, rule out any possibility you accidentally evolved from nothing.
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The person who loves the Lord Jesus is more apt to heed His word.
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2 Samuel 7:23-24
“And who is like Your people, like Israel, the one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make for Himself a name—and to do for Yourself great and awesome deeds for Your land—before Your people whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, the nations, and their gods?
For You have made Your people Israel Your very own people forever; and You, Lord, have become their God.”
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Each side calls the other “Nazis”, but those who hate the Jews and deny them the right to exist in their homeland are acting more like Nazis than anyone else. These are ones Hitler would have been proud of.Each side calls the other “Nazis”, but those who hate the Jews and deny them the right to exist in their homeland are acting more like Nazis than anyone else. These are ones Hitler would have been proud of.
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Occasionally you’ll hear someone say repentance is not part of the Gospel message.
Consider this:
Galatians 5:24
“And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”
Sounds like they repented.
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Romans 12:2a
“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…”
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So, there is a spiritual power in the world bringing all people into conformity to false beliefs, but the transformed follower of Jesus is now free from this power which conforms people to the world. They are transformed if their mind is renewed by the word of God, and then they are conformed to Christ, not to the world. They live by Christ’s standards, not the world’s standards. They care more about what He thinks than what the herd thinks.
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Come to Jesus Christ if you want to live. It’s that simple.
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Jesus loves you more than anyone else does.
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Do you feel differently today about Jesus than you did on Christmas Day?
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The truly blind person thinks they’ll get away with the evil they commit. They think if they can get away with stuff now, it means they’ve gotten away with it. They are blind to God’s righteous judgment.
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Read today
“Name one famous Palestinian who wasn’t a terrorist?”
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Are you a faithful servant of God?
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Christians are looking for the return of Jesus Christ. Jesus gave a long list of things which must be fulfilled before He returns, and only two of these have so far been fulfilled, which is, the destruction of the temple, and the dispersal of the Jewish people (the diaspora). He said Jerusalem would be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. So, when we see the Jewish people returning and again getting sovereignty over Jerusalem we know the times of the Gentiles is rapidly coming to a close, which means the rest of the things the Bible foretells must take place in a relatively short space of time, in quick succession. For example, we’re told the antichrist’s rule will only last 3.5 years, and then Jesus returns.
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You wouldn’t want to have the wrong idea about God.
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I think there’s many people who don’t have a problem with the existence of God, but have a problem with those who claim to speak for God. This is a healthy view.
There’s only one mouthpiece of God, and that’s His only Son, Jesus Christ. He is unique in history. His life, death and resurrection is proof that He is the only begotten Son of God.
The Apostles only explained the words of Jesus. They didn’t have a new or different message. This is how we know the difference between truth and error.
Only false prophets had a different message. Only false prophets tried to convince people that they alone spoke for God.
Jesus’ words shall never pass away.
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Jesus warned people of a burning Hell.
But people would laugh at you if you talked about it today.
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Christian, there are people around you who desperately need your prayers or your help.
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For many people, they are like those plugged into The Matrix. The only reality they know has been manufactured and fed to them all their life. They are unaware of the reality of God.
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Once you’ve heard the truth in Jesus, you’re either running to Him or from Him.
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What is a human being without their Creator?
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Genesis 6:11-13
“The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.”
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Jesus said:
Luke 17:26
“And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man”
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So we see the increase of violence everywhere around the world, concurrent with Left Wing ideology, Antisemitism, Wokeism and a certain religion, is the beginning of the last of the last days, just as Jesus said it would be.
If you have X or Telegram you can keep up with what’s really happening. Other platforms won’t allow information which doesn’t confirm their narrative.
It’s going to get worse.
But Jesus will deal with it in His time.
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In God’s eternal Kingdom there will be no sin, forever. There will only be love, peace and joy, forever.
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If something works, it works whether you understand it or not.
If something is real, it’s real whether you understand it or not.
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How would you feel if the people living near you were committed to the genocide of you and your people (with the firm conviction that God has committed this holy duty to them) and were quite open about this goal, and regularly brutalized and cut up some of your people just so you know they mean business? You would be thinking about security.
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If you’re abiding in Christ, what is your problem?
Not saying you won’t have any problems, I’m asking you to have clarity as to the actual nature of those problems if you’re abiding in Christ, and to consider the way forward, if you’re abiding in Christ.
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To respond to pettiness is, itself, pettiness.
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365 days…
If you make at least a degree of progress each day, then, by the end of the year that small amount is multiplied and compounded by 365.
It amounts to substantial progress by the end of tshe year.
Question is, do you want it enough to do what is required and to stick at it?
Consistency.
If you lose 20 grams of fat per day that’s 7.3 kg per year.
After 2 years you’re 14.6 kg lighter.
After 3 years you’re 21.9 kg lighter.
That’s not taking into account muscle tissue development or reduction.
Consistency earns big dividends.
To my slalom friends:
If you daily improve one aspect of your upstream gate skill, then after 365 days, how much faster on upstreams will you be?
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‘You don’t understand my problem!’
I understand that Jesus is the answer.
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There are two ways of responding to anything we encounter: responding in the flesh, or responding in the Spirit by faith.
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Imagine a new religion is created of which to even question it could put your life in danger?
Will the world wake up?
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When someone comes to mind, whoever it is, do we feel love for them and want to pray for them?
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Civilizations come and go as history repeats, and they usually decline for the same reasons.
And individuals decline for the same reasons.
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What is your greatest desire in this life?
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Replied to a Left Wing propaganda platform:
Conservative Christians are NOT the reason America is going down the toilet.
They want people to think Conservative Christians are THE problem.
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According to the Bible, the world naturally goes against God, so when you see a popular trend in the world you know it’s an expression of a shared opposition to God.
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Christian, if you continue to feel guilt over sins of the past then you don’t yet believe Jesus’ blood has washed those sins away.
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1 John 1:9
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
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A Christian conforms himself to Jesus Christ and His word, and not to traditions or culture, and not to a lower standard of holiness than Jesus lived and taught.
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Whatever you need help with, the LORD is willing to help you.
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Seize the moment.
Seize the hour.
Seize the day.
Seize the year.
Don’t let it slip out of your grasp.
Lay hold on eternal life.
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If you could go back in time 2000 years, and Jesus walks into your little village in rural Israel, and knowing what you know now, would you ever let Him out of your sight? Would you follow Him wherever He went?
You might stand there thinking, ‘Don’t people know who He is?!!’
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You can’t reason with violent people.
This is why there’s no hope for this world.
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Philippians 2:3
“Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.”
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There are at least 100 billion more galaxies than our own Milky Way galaxy.
Who designed it?
Who made it?
Did it make itself?
Where did matter come from?
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What will you be doing a thousand years from now?
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Read today
“Palestinian girl takes a DNA test and freaks out after learning Palestinians are not a real ethnicity and basically just Egyptians/Jordanians.”
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Prayer only makes sense if you know God is listening to what you say.
So, if you believe God is listening to you it means you believe certain things about His nature or character, especially in regard to you.
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Had Trump’s name been on Epstein’s list it would have been made public years ago.
The list was concealed because it reveals that most of the pedophiles on it were Democrats.
If America survives another ten years you’ll likely see pedophilia legalized and taught in schools as a legitimate sexual orientation. This is where the Left is heading.
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The Kingdom of God functions through a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. It functions through people who know the King.
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Almighty God.
All powerful.
Can speak universes into being.
Became a Man so He could be nailed to a cross.
God became a Man.
It tells us a lot about God and a lot about man.
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The Bible teaches that God considers and weighs every thought we have, every word we speak, and everything we do.
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After Adam sinned he tried to hide from God. But God came looking for Him.
This was my story for the first 24 years of my life.
People do one of these three things:
a. Hide from God.
b. Make a substitute for God and call it God.
c. Come to God.
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I have no problem believing what Jesus said.
I wouldn’t come to Him as say, ‘If you show me a sign, then I will believe you are telling the truth!’.
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Good food with a good taste comes from a good God. It’s His trademark.
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What is the greatest desire mankind should have?
The greatest command is to love the Lord God of Israel with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourself. Therefore this should be man’s greatest desire.
Someone will say, to know the Lord is the greatest desire. Yes, it’s the same desire as desiring to love Him completely and love others, for this is HOW we know the Lord.
Or, someone might say, the greatest desire should be to glorify Him and make Him known.
Or someone might say, the greatest desire should be to obey Him, or to have great faith in Him.
Again, it’s the same thing as loving the Lord completely: it’s a package deal. The truth overlaps and touches everything.
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Regarding sins of the past you’ve repented of: Yes, feel rightly ashamed, but don’t carry guilt if Jesus blood has washed those sins away.
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How many Christians believe they have a responsibility to share the word of God?
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Biased “news” misrepresents the reality of a situation or issue.
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If we worship God, we worship nothing else.
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If you were able to do a call every morning with Joe Biden, Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin you might think yourself important, because you’re talking to important people and have access to them.
Yet, how do you feel about talking to G-O-D? Do you feel it’s the greatest moment of your life?
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If you try to use rape and butchery against Israeli citizens to promote your cause, it won’t work, they’ll wipe you out. This is the message Israel is signaling.
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Read today:
“Have you read the Hamas Gaza Constitution? It explicitly states that it is the role of every Palestinian in Gaza, and the role of all Moslems worldwide, to exterminate all Jews, and capture the Sovereign State of Israel. Does Israel’s Constitution State that? Do you know who gave the Gaza Strip to the Nomadic Shepherd’s, now so called Palestinians, to give them a territory of their own, out of kindness and mercy. Do you know who supervised free and fair elections for the people’s of Gaza, so they could have self determination, and make a life of their own? Israel did. I could go on and on, but I doubt it will change your mind. Facts are elusive to those addicted to ideology.”
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The devil is surely a bad enemy to have, but it’s far worse to have God as your enemy.
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We might not love God very much, but we can desire to love Him more.
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When someone hates a person, it’s hard for them to see any good in that person. The good is ignored.
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God counts you as having no sin if you are in Christ, and that’s one reason it’s called the Good News.
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It’s not surprising that those who don’t recognize the divine authority of the Bible also don’t recognize the God-given right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel as per the Bible.
And not surprising, then, that anti-Bible religion is also anti-Israel religion.
If people don’t believe the promises of God, then they also won’t believe God’s promise to give the land to the Jewish people forever.
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If you do the will of God for your life, that’s the ultimate. You can’t ask for more than that.
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Ask yourself, If the Bible is true, are there any ramifications for me?
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It seems, perhaps, the key barrier to a two-state solution is the question of the sovereignty of the Temple Mount. Neither side will yield. This leads me to think that the powers that be will push that it be deemed “international property”, with sovereignty to neither Israel or the Arabs, but made a neutral territory, with a universal temple built there, like a religious united nations for all “faiths”. Liberals will love it.It seems, perhaps, the key barrier to a two-state solution is the question of the sovereignty of the Temple Mount. Neither side will yield. This leads me to think that the powers that be will push that it be deemed “international property”, with sovereignty to neither Israel or the Arabs, but made a neutral territory, with a universal temple built there, like a religious united nations for all “faiths”. Liberals will love it.
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One of the main instigators caught on video of the Jan 6 Capitol incursion has been let off with only a $500 fine.
It’s extremely suspicious.
Why does he have immunity?
If the Feds instigated the incursion, it means they are political lackeys, and democracy is over.
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It’s only natural that Israel would want to continue to receive America’s support, but it’s going to eventually come to a place where they realize, in the interests of their own survival, they can no longer accept the strings attached to that support.It’s only natural that Israel would want to continue to receive America’s support, but it’s going to eventually come to a place where they realize, in the interests of their own survival, they can no longer accept the strings attached to that support.
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We can’t hear His voice if we’re not predisposed to obey His voice.
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Commented
You’re playing one verse against another verse, rather than believing both of them.
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Is God in the equation, or have you ruled Him out the equation?
Matthew 25:46
“…And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Only two options.
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2 Corinthians 7:10
“For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.”
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2 Corinthians 7:13
“Therefore, we have been comforted in your comfort. And we rejoiced exceedingly more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.”.
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Titus’ spirit was refreshed by the believers in Corinth.
That’s a wonderful thing if a believer can visit other believers and come away refreshed in their spirit.
Our fellowship should be a refreshing fellowship.
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2 Corinthians 7:1
“Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”
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If God had not promised the land of Israel to the Jewish people then Islam would never have been created, and no one would bother about the Jews: they would just be another obscure ethnic group, and Israel would be no more significant than Lichtenstein.
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Living under the influence of God.
How much influence does He have in your life – in your heart and mind?
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Ultimately, Israel will chart its own course, without the UN, and without America.
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The human race was God’s idea. We are His idea.
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Zechariah 14:2a
“For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem…”
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Ah, finally all the nations of the worid become the “united” nations. And what brings them together? A shared hatred for the Jewish people.
The text says that God will gather all the nations against Israel. This is an act of God’s judgment. God brings them together to judge them.
The world will see it as the final battle between good and evil: an enlightened new world order against the crooked and evil Zionist Jews and their stubborn belief in the inflexible and intolerant God of the Bible. After all, we know God would not have a chosen people, right? God would never favor one race like that, right?
Everything will be totally reversed: good becomes evil, and evil becomes good.
And, ironically, it does become the final battle, after all.
It’s just that it doesn’t turn out the way they plan it to.
Zechariah 14:12
“And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”
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Someone says that Zechariah 14 refers to the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, however the text itself clearly rules that out:
a. Verse 2 says the remnant of Jews will not be cut off from the city, however, in AD 70 all the inhabitants were either killed or taken away captive. None were left in the city.
b. Verses 10-11 say that at least part of the city shall be preserved and a remnant of people shall continue to live there safely. Obviously, this does not refer to AD 70.
c. The second half of the chapter refers to people from every nation coming up to Jerusalem to worship God. Obviously, this is yet to happen. And it would be grasping at straws to say that Jerusalem here refers to the church.
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The Christian who thinks he’s mature is not as mature as he thinks.
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Each person should take heed to himself to love the Lord Jesus, be faithful to Him, and be ready to give an account of their life.
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Matthew 5:34-35
“But I say to you, do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne; nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King”
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Now, who is the Great King?!
And, if Jerusalem was the city of Christ the King, then it still is. That’s where He will return to: His city.
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God created them male and female, scripture records: masculine and feminine, and in my opinion, when a man tries to be masculine, or a woman tries to be feminine, and really tries to demonstrate they are, it kind of comes across as fake and not natural.
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Choice:
Choose carefully.
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John 8:31-32
“Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
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Otherwise, we won’t know the truth, and therefore won’t be free.
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Do you have a solution to the middle east problem which ensures the security of the Jewish people and their right to the land of Israel, as well as deals justly and compassionately with the Arabs?
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Sin destroys a person.
Jesus gives life to such a person.
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I rarely get to see TV, but I’m staying somewhere where the only news channel is CNN, so having a look at that, and get the impression that if you keep watching CNN long enough you will become thoroughly brainwashed into leftist ideology. There’s an ideological bias to everything that’s presented.
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Read today
“If the Church is not supposed to be confronted on sin and error, why are the first few chapters of Revelation included in the Bible?”
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I know some people who suffer from depression.
Depression means something or someone is depressing you, because to depress means to push down strongly.
So, someone or something is pushing you down.
The only answer, then, is to identify the cause and get rid of the source, the thing or spiritual entity which is pushing you down, rather than treating the symptoms.
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If people laugh at you for clinging to Jesus Christ, consider the things they’re clinging to?
But don’t laugh at them.
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God already decided what is right and what is wrong.
He didn’t leave it to man to decide it.
But many people think they have the right to determine what is right and wrong.
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When a conservative’s sin is discovered the left cry, Hypocrisy!
Okay. fair call.
Yet it’s interesting to consider the other side of the coin as well.
Is it worse when a leftist commits immorality and is actually proud of it?
Which is worse, the hypocrite? Or the one who is proud and unashamed of their sins?
They both seem equally as bad.
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Place the same value on someone else’s soul as you do on your own soul.
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Jesus said it will be “business as usual” right till the end of the world.
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If you read the Gospels you are confronted with a choice, either to believe Jesus Christ is whom the scriptures present Him to be, and whom He claimed to be, and whom His life presents Him to be, or, He was lying or insane. This is why it can be a scary thing for someone to read the Gospels, because they may have been trying to avoid making this choice due to the personal ramifications of it.
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Preterism says that Jesus returned in AD70. Therefore, the only problem with Preterism is that Jesus did not return in AD70.
It’s like the Flat Earth theory, in that the only problem with it is that the earth is not flat.
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One society dances in the streets when the innocent are chopped to pieces.
Another society silently weeps when the innocent suffer from war.
If I had the choice, I know which society I would rather live in.
But many are forced by the threat of violence to live in a violent society.
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Read today
“No other country on earth would allow 12,000 illegal immigrants a day to pour across the border.
There’s absolutely no reason America should tolerate this lawlessness.”
— someone famous
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To proceed without prayerfulness would seem to indicate one seeks to live independent of God?
Why would anyone want to be independent of God?
Romans 11:25
“For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.”
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So, when the full number of Gentiles come into the Kingdom of God then the nation of Israel will no longer be blinded by God, but will see their Messiah and also come into the Kingdom of God.
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The land of Israel was under occupation for a long time, and then the Jews returned home. Yes, when they began to return they found some Bedouin occupying the land, but there was no “Palestinian people” or “Palestinian nation”, which anyone can verify if they research it.
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According to the Bible, the greatest danger for people is that they fall into delusion. There shall come a “falling away” from the truth and people will “believe a lie”. They will become very passionate about the lie, violently defending it. The enemy will be all those who don’t believe the lie.
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On Tic Toc, increasingly, Woke people are holding up the Quran and saying it’s cool. (They might not be so keen on Sharia Law).
But if anyone held up a Bible they would be a right wing fanatic.
Anyway, there’s a reason we don’t wave the Bible around like that.
There’s a reason we don’t pray in public.
There’s a reason we don’t build church buildings, cathedrals or edifices.
Why? Because true Christianity is to know Jesus Christ and have Him living inside you.
He said, pray in secret.
He didn’t live a life of religious exhibitionism.
There was no outward show.
He didn’t even put on religious robes.
It was just Him.
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No righteous person rejoices in war, however, since October 7, what is the message the Palestinians should have received loud and clear and taken to heart? It is, If you try it again, you know what will happen to you.
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Read today
“It doesn’t take long for the people who support violence to resort to violence.”
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Zechariah 14:2a
“For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem…”
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So, where is America in this scenario?
She has either backflipped and become fully Woke, and is part of the “all nations” attack on Jerusalem, or, she is no longer counted as a nation.
Because, in this final scenario Israel has no allies. “All nations” turn against her.
I would take “all nations” to mean all the significant nations. Interesting how the Bible foresaw the United Nations.
There’s only two reasons why America would cease to be an ally of Israel: a complete Woke brainwashing and takeover of the nation, or, the nation becomes so degraded and weakened, either by war or by Woke policy, that it’s no longer a superpower and no longer considered a significant nation.
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Just imagine if everyone on earth worshipped God?
Have you worshiped your Creator today?
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During testing times we need to examine how we judge the Lord Jesus Christ, whether we judge Him as faithful or unfaithful.
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Original Christianity was distinct from any other religion, not having temples, priests, rituals, idols, holy days, etc..
The church was intended to be as distinct from any other religion as Jesus Christ is distinct from them.
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Read today
“There can never be peace with those who wish to exterminate you”
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“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
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What does this mean?
This denies Israel’s right to exist, therefore it’s a call for genocide.
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Read today
“Why aren’t we holding hearings on crime exploding across our cities, the ANTIFA/BLM riots of 2020, or Henry Cuellar getting carjacked at gunpoint?
Because Democrats know the people rioting, looting, and committing acts of violence share the same ideology as they do.”
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If the Democrats tried to do anything against violence, looting and lawlessness then they would be working against themselves.
Matthew 25:46
“…And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
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Isaiah 6:1
“In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.”
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Everyone gets their turn to see Him on His throne.
Everyone has an appointment there.
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A “two state solution” would just be a stepping stone toward the planned genocide of the Jewish people.
Does Israel (or any country) have to abide by the UN?
What is the ideological basis for the UN having sovereign authority over individual nations?
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Things can be enjoyed, but don’t look to things to make you happy or give you peace.
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One reason the Gospel of Jesus Christ is truly good news is that it is freely offered to everyone, without discrimination. Jesus died for you, whoever you are.
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October 7
“We saw women who were shot in the eyes, in the face. Many times in sensitive places just to mutilate them.
Our team were the ones to open the female body bags. It was indescribable. There was blood everywhere. Their underwear was often very bloody.
The back of the heads were crushed and brains were coming out. One time we were warned, this woman has no legs. Her legs were cut off.
Their faces had grimaces, their mouths were contorted in pain. These women still had blood dripping from their ears. Blood dripping from other places.”
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The Lord doesn’t pay much attention to us gossiping about someone, but pays a lot of attention the moment we start praying for them.
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With many Christians I feel like gently tapping on their head and asking, Is anyone home? What’s going on in there?
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True happiness is only in relation to God.
The “secret” to being happy is to get your happiness from the Lord Jesus Christ.
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2 Corinthians 5:15
“…and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.”
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That we should no longer live for ourselves implies that everyone naturally lives for themselves and not for the true and living God. Here is the root of all of humanity’s problems, that we live for ourselves and not for God. Here is the root of all the church’s problems as well, that self seeking is not put to death. Everyone is looking for something for themselves. Motives are mixed. Few are living purely for Jesus Christ, alone, who died for them and rose again. Few have pure motives.
If we’ve been living for ourselves then we need to start living for Him who died for us and rose again.
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DAVID and GOLIATH
Zechariah 14:2,12
“For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, The houses rifled, And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.”
“And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”
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Then they will realize they made a BIG mistake.
What is their mistake?
What kind of belief system caused them to try and remove the Jews from Jerusalem?
Obviously, the thought of the Jewish people owning Jerusalem, their ancestral capital, is a horrifying thought to them, and so much so that the whole world joins together to try and evict them by killing them.
Now, why are all the nations necessary to defeat just a tiny number of people?
And it turns out that all the world’s military power is outnumbered by this tiny group of people, because God will defend them.
Paul asks, “Has God cast away His people whom He foreknew? Certainly not!”
So, ultimately, the whole world will know that God has not abandoned the Jewish people.
Now, why wouldn’t God abandon them? Haven’t they been disobedient? Haven’t they rejected their Messiah, Jesus Christ?
Scripture is very clear that God intends to have mercy on the Jewish people.
The reason some Christians find it hard to accept this is because they are under the same delusion which the whole world comes under, which causes them to come against the Jewish people.
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True Christianity is about what Jesus Christ can do in a person.
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Read today
“Is she not aware that Arabs in the Levant never formally recognized as “Palestinian” until 1960 under Yasser Arafat?
This was in response to the Jewish State, and the need for the various Arab tribes to unite.
Many of these Arabs actually immigrated into the region at the beginning of the 20th Century from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, & Egypt.
This was mainly because prior to the Jewish presence, most of the land was marshland that was infested with malaria.
This is why the few Arabs that lived in the region sold the land for very cheap.
The Jews that arrived, drained the swamp and turned the land into farmland.
The Arabs in the surrounding countries, going through economic hardships, chose to immigrate to Israel for better opportunities.
Palestinian is not an ethnicity.
It’s a geographical region.
This is why prior to the 1960s, Palestinian was a word that was used for Jews and Christians. Arabs notoriously did not like the label.
This is why most of the businesses in the area, under the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate, such as Palestine Airlines and the Palestine Opera were all Jewish owned companies and institutions.
Please do a little bit of research.
That’s all we ask.”
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75% of Palestinians support Hamas, meaning they support raping women and shooting them or thrusting knives into their private parts, and cutting off the heads of children etc.. and taking delight in it. Now, if you support that, God will repay you in a way He deems fit. It’s scary such people cohabit this earth with civilized people.
So, our prayers go out to the around 20% of Palestinians who are civilized, and yet are suffering the consequences of war.
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“An account from the Nova Music Festival —
“I saw this beautiful woman with the face of an angel and eight or ten of the fighters beating and raping her. She was screaming, ‘Stop it — already I’m going to die anyway from what you are doing, just kill me!’ When they finished they were laughing and the last one shot her in the head.”.
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“Another account from the Nova Music Festival – reported in @TheTimes:
“They had caught a young woman near a car and she was fighting back, not allowing them to strip her. They threw her to the ground and one of the terrorists took a shovel and beheaded her and her head rolled along the ground”
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“I see two girls, I guess 13 or 14. One is lying on the floor on her stomach. Her pants are pulled down towards her knees and there’s a bullet wound on the back of her neck… And there’s a puddle of blood around her head, and the remains of semen on the lower part of her back.”
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Do you remember when, if you were not vaccinated, you were a threat to society?
It was an experiment in social engineering.
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Read today
Palestinian “scholar” Nidhal Siam visited France a month ago & held a big gathering during which he said the usual stuff:
“We will conquer Paris”
“We will conquer Rome”
“The Caliphate is coming”
“We will rule you”
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If we’ve heard the truth, we’ve heard a “positive message”. The truth is always positive, and untruth is always negative, no matter how much positive spin is put on it, however, if one doesn’t love the truth, the truth is perceived as negative.
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2 Corinthians 5:15
“..and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.”
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If we’re living for Jesus, we are truly living – we’re blessed beyond measure.
If we’re living for ourselves, we’ve got nothing – we’re an empty shell.
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The devil doesn’t convince people to serve him, he just convinces them it’s okay to serve themselves, and that way he’s got them under his power and they don’t realize it.
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Isn’t it ironic that to oppose illegal migration was considered racism, and yet those countries which allowed them in now face hostile racism from these same migrants? So, those who opposed it were right after all.
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How to break the ice for sharing the Gospel:
“I’d like to share some of my experience of God with you, if you’re interested?”
If they’re interested, then go ahead.
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Thinking is spiritual. A person’s spirit, soul and mind is all connected.
But just be sure which spirit is influencing your thinking.
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God can do anything by prayer that is according to His plan and purpose, scripture teaches. Nothing is too hard for Him.
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The fact of God’s existence is sufficient in itself, so, even if we can’t comprehend that God has no beginning or end, or is infinite in power, the fact that we can comprehend that He exists and gave His only Son, Jesus Christ, for us, means that we can know Him and live with Him even though there are things we can’t comprehend. Knowing Him does not depend on understanding everything about Him.
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How can anyone think that what Jesus taught does not apply to them?
I started a Telegram Channel.
Here is the link if you’d like to subscribe:
Zechariah 14:2,12
“For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, The houses rifled, And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.”
“And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.”
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Then they will realize they made a BIG mistake.
What is their mistake?
What kind of belief system caused them to try and remove the Jews from Jerusalem?
Obviously, the thought of the Jewish people owning Jerusalem, their ancestral capital, is a horrifying thought to them, and so much so that the whole world joins together to try and evict them by killing them.
Now, why are all the nations necessary to defeat just a tiny number of people?
And it turns out that all the world’s military power is outnumbered by this tiny group of people, because God will defend them.
Paul asks, “Has God cast away His people whom He foreknew? Certainly not!”
So, ultimately, the whole world will know that God has not abandoned the Jewish people.
Now, why wouldn’t God abandon them? Haven’t they been disobedient? Haven’t they rejected their Messiah, Jesus Christ?
Scripture is very clear that God intends to have mercy on the Jewish people.
The reason some Christians find it hard to accept this is because they are under the same delusion which the whole world comes under, which causes them to come against the Jewish people.
2 Corinthians 5:15
“…and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.”
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That we should no longer live for ourselves implies that everyone naturally lives for themselves and not for the true and living God. Here is the root of all of humanity’s problems, that we live for ourselves and not for God. Here is the root of all the church’s problems as well, that self seeking is not put to death. Everyone is looking for something for themselves. Motives are mixed. Few are living purely for Jesus Christ, alone, who died for them and rose again. Few have pure motives.
If we’ve been living for ourselves then we need to start living for Him who died for us and rose again.
Ian Vincent 