Today’s Tweets

Colossians 2:10
“…and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.”
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So… what’s your problem?

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Jesus is the Answer to every existential question:
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Colossians 1:17
“And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.”

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Baptism doesn’t save, but it’s extremely important because it’s a prime indicator of what we think about Jesus. Think about possible reasons why a person would be unwilling to be baptized? Those reasons tell you where they really stand with God.

I’m not in favor of the sinners prayer because I see no scriptural precedent of such.

I’m in favor of baptism.

Do you believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and rose from the dead?

Yes?

Then be baptized right now.

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Christian fellowship is genuine friendship.

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In “works based” Christianity there is no salvation because salvation can’t be earned by religious rituals or by trying to be good. Their conscience has them trapped on this treadmill of self effort, and it can never be satisfied by these efforts, and therefore peace eludes them, and yet at the same time it won’t let them go, either.

But “works based” is not the only false version of Christianity. There is also Liberalism, which goes to the other extreme and denies the necessity of repentance, and redefines sin, rejecting the authority of scripture.

So, in the former, a guy has a troubled conscience, and in the latter, no conscience at all.

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A rebellious life is bad, and yet so is an irrelevant life.

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Jesus described what Hell is like in great detail and warned people that if they don’t repent they will go there.

You be the judge of whether He was just making it up to scare people.

See Mark 9.

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John 15:9-10
“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.”

Notes

• God’s love is unchangeable. If someone doesn’t do what Jesus says they are not abiding in His love. He did not change His mind about them.
• Keeping Jesus’ commandments (doing what He said) is not a religious exercise, it is how we live our lives, moment by moment, 365 days a year. His teaching is to influence every thought, word and deed, and be the arbiter of what we believe. Every moment we live we have an opportunity to keep His commandments.

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We were once worldly, but Jesus became our world and we love this life in Him better than our old worldly life.

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Do you live independently of God, as in, “free” from God?

If so, you’re not free at all, but a slave to sin.

You also might be very lonely.

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God doesn’t forgive people on an arbitrary whim or feeling, He forgives on the basis that His Son, Jesus Christ, paid the penalty and satisfied the law on their behalf, and they believe Him – the price for our forgiveness has been paid and settled.

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1 John 4:19
“We love Him because He first loved us.”
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When did God begin to love you?

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The future belongs to Jesus Christ and those who are His.

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“…Turn many to righteousness…”

See Daniel 12:3

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If the Holy Spirit is in you then Christ is in you, and you are no longer alone, and you can no longer live as if you were alone, but must consider this other Person who lives in you.

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One paradox facing the political world is that most of the serious issues in society are moral issues, but morality is supposedly a religious issue, not a political one, so politics becomes a defacto religion.

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Do you know what the Holocaust was? (Got to ask, there’s been a lot of dumbing down)

Do you think it couldn’t happen again?

If supposedly civilized people were capable of such evil, has anything changed in human nature since then to prevent a repeat of history?

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Revelation 21:16

“The city was shaped like a cube, because it was just as high as it was wide. When the angel measured the city, it was about 2,400 kilometers high and 2,400 kilometers wide.”

(Contemporary English Version)

It is physical. You can’t have a spiritual kilometer.

It’s a super sci-fi city which can accommodate a lot of people.

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US retailers trying to sexually groom little kids and finding the public doesn’t buy it… ….yet.

More brainwashing required before the public can fully embrace the perversion.

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Not seeking any credit, glory or recognition for yourself is part of what it means to be truly set free in Christ Jesus.

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Why would you envy someone super successful, super rich or famous if they’re a lost soul?

And even if they were saved it still wouldn’t be right to envy them.

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1 Corinthians 6:9-11
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”

Notes

• The context here is concerning PROFESSING CHRISTIANS, not the world. He is addressing born again people and warning them not to decieve themselves, for if they practice these things they will not inherit the Kingdom of God. People who are not born again will not inherit the Kingdom, anyway, even if they don’t commit any of the sins listed here. You cannot inherit the Kingdom just by abstaining from these sins listed here, because “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God”. Only by faith in Jesus Christ are we justified and cleansed from our sins.
• Note that ALL forms of sexual immorality disqualify a person from the Kingdom. While homosexuality is indeed very serious, let’s remember that simply having lustful thoughts is sexual immorality (according to Jesus) and will disqualify a person just as much as homosexuality.
• Note that covetousness is also on that list. So, your favorite TV preacher is not going to Heaven and is just as disqualified as a homosexual.
• Revilers? Angry folks. They’re also not going.

“And such were some of you..”

Some of the believers there were ex-homosexuals, ex-thieves etc…

So, we should never consider anyone too hard or too far gone for Jesus to save.

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When someone says their church has the “true gospel”, say, Hold on a minute! The Gospel is recorded in the Holy Bible alone, and what’s written there is the only authoritative Gospel, there is no other Gospel, so, whoever reads that Gospel straight out of the Book has the true Gospel, even if they don’t understand it. So, it’s ridiculous to claim your church has the “true gospel” when the true Gospel is contained in the text of the same Bible which all Christians carry. For example, if the Book of Romans is read out in any church then the true Gospel has been preached. Of course, the preacher might try and deny what was read out, or convolute it, but if it was read out then the people have indeed heard the true Gospel, and if they have a Bible they have constant access to it.

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Is there any conflict in your conscience with what you’ve read in the Bible?

Has reading the Bible stirred up anything in your conscience?

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How many people in the world are hungry this moment and don’t know when or how they will get their next meal?

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If you’re faithful to Jesus, the right people will acknowledge you, and the “right” people will denounce you, just as it was with Him.

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What would life be without Jesus?

It would not be a life at all.

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Romans 1:18
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness…”

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It means they suppress the truth of God within themselves, which they know to be true.

Next verse:

Romans 1:19
“…because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.”
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In other words, their whole life is built on hiding from God, from avoiding His truth.

They have chosen illicit pleasure over God, and the only way they can then enjoy the life they’ve chosen is to suppress the truth within their own heart and conscience, if perhaps it might spring up and threaten their supposed happiness.

In other words, sin can only be “enjoyed” if God is removed from the picture.

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Modern spirituality offers the chance to feel spiritual without repenting of sin, therefore it’s a delusion.

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Christian PRIDE events?

If Christians started walking around in their underwear to show they are proud of being Christian you would think them insane.

Hello?

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A true Christian is not worldly, but he’s also not out of touch with the world around him. Knowing the reality of Christ doesn’t mean one becomes out of touch with reality.

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Unfinished prayer would be unfinished business.

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Prayer is the greatest pleasure the human spirit can partake in.

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If there were no love of Christ Jesus then life would be a living hell.

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To not know the love of Christ Jesus is to really not know love at all.

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One thing about being a worshipper is the thought of ignoring God or not acknowledging Him is detestable to you. You can’t imagine ignoring Him. You can’t imagine living without being conscious of Him. That’s a detestable thought.

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Never undervalue a person because of their sin.

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Any kind of bias reveals a lack of the true love of God, for God is unbiased, He uses the same measure for everyone, with perfect equity.

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This morning when you asked the Father to accomplish His will today in your life (and your friends) did you believe and joyfully expect Him to do it?

And when the day is done, was His will done?

When people “say prayers” they often don’t think much about what they’re asking God to do, today.

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Why do you go searching for the truth in churches, on TV, or YouTube etc. if you have a Bible in your hand?

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Don’t publicly embarrass others over their sins unless you would like the same treatment for your sins.

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Praying for someone is more effective than complaining about them.

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One of the key indicators someone is filled with the Holy Spirit is they preach Jesus Christ.

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Can a person truly comprehend God’s word (and therefore understand Him) and yet continue to disobey Him?

Is disobedience due to not comprehending God’s word and therefore misunderstanding Him?

Is disobedience due to a limited comprehension or a false comprehension?

Can a person have a correct comprehension of God and yet still have a limited measure of comprehension?

Can a limited comprehension be fully free of misunderstanding God?

If a person continues to disobey God’s word but thinks they comprehend God’s word, aren’t they deceived, and their “knowledge” is not the true comprehension of God’s truth?

Is it possible to know Christ without knowing His truth?

Ephesians 3:16-19
“…that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
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Comprehension of the love of Christ is the true knowledge of God’s word, and its ultimate aim, and it is the true and legitimate reason to seek understanding, resulting in being filled with the fullness of God.

Today’s Tweets

Rebellion against God is the only explanation for much of human behavior, just as children often rebel against and resent the authority of their parents and do things to try and hurt them.

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Much of human behavior on this planet is ample proof that satan and demons exist and control people, and many times there is no other explanation for such evil.

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Regardless of what your church teaches, you have a Bible, and it will be according to the truth in that that you will have to give an account one day.

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We are your people forever, LORD.

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Supernatural and spiritual are synonyms.

We are both natural and supernatural beings: physical and spiritual.

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Jesus is REAL, and this world is phony.

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Read today:

Someone who “speaks alot but says very little.”

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When someone comes to mind it could be that God purposely did that so we will pray for them.

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The devil is getting the world he’s always dreamed of, where nearly everyone is compliant to him, but his nightmare is coming.

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The Bible says a One World Religion is coming. It is an amalgamation of all religions. It’s what the world has always yearned for – an ideological framework for evil people to consider themselves spiritual or divine.

By amalgamation of religions I don’t mean those religions cease to exist, but all nations will worship the Beast and thus uniting the world spiritually.

It’s already mostly in place with the ecumenical and interfaith movement.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
“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.
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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“Strong delusion” in order to believe a lie.

The “lie” is a spiritual belief, a religion.

Signs and wonders are spiritual manifestations.

So, it’s far more than a political belief, it’s a spiritual belief, a religion.

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Because it’s a big world you can be sitting there enjoying your tropical paradise while all the suffering in the world seems a world away – out of sight and out of mind.

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Jude 1:4
“For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Notes

• “They turn the grace of God into lewdness”. Lewdness, sensuality. It suggests sexual immorality. The language used here could be misunderstood. Obviously, the grace of God cannot become immorality, for that which is immoral cannot be the grace of God. It’s a phrase best paraphrased as, “turning the grace of God into a license, excuse or validation for sin”. It also strongly suggests that it’s the belief that the grace of God redefines sin, or even makes the concept of sin void, so that sin does not really exist anymore. Thus, it offers the promise of eternal life without repentance from sin, which is very attractive to insincere Christians.
• As to these people denying the Lord Jesus. It seems they are denying Him by their actions or beliefs, and not by their mouths, because the text indicates these people were acknowledged as, and claimed to be, Christians.

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Bad expressions of Christianity have a twofold effect: They trap some into dead traditions, while driving others away from Jesus, confirming their prejudices and giving them an excuse not to believe the Gospel.

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Put this to your Liberal “pastor”:

So, you have no objection to homosexual lifestyles?

He answers, No.

So, you have no moral objection to it?

He answers, No.

So, if you have no moral objection to it then you would be free to have sex with another man if you wanted to? Right?

Listen to his answer, and the fakeness of his answer reveals the fakeness of his “faith”.

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Jesus went around casting demons out of people.

But today people snigger at the idea.

But maybe it’s the demons who are laughing at such people’s ignorance?

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Wouldn’t you agree that you have a spirit or soul inside you – that what constitutes “you” is something more than physical matter alone?

If you agree, then why is it so hard to believe in God, or to believe what Jesus said and did?

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The man who arrogantly opposes God is the quintessential fool.

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A good indicator of spiritual wealth in Christ is how many people we genuinely pray for by name each day.

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The Bible teaches that satan has been at the heart of religion since the beginning, because all the nations described in the Old Testament were totally committed to pagan religion. In ancient times everyone was religious. Satan has always opposed God and entrapped man by giving him a substitute for God.

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If you’re a man, you should be a man of God.

If you’re a woman, you should be a woman of God.

Why would you want to be anything less?

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How does the church system perpetuate itself?

• By keeping Christians dependent on it.
• By making Christians think the church system is Biblical.
• By keeping Christians ignorant of the New Testament pattern.
• By keeping Christians bound to tradition and not open to the leading of the Spirit.
• By not equipping Christians to function as per the New Testament pattern.
• By making Christians passive toward their God given gifts and roles.
• By suppressing the God given authority of every follower of Christ.

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Are you becoming what God wants you to be?

Or are you more conscious of what people expect you to be?

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If your day does not start spiritually the way you planned then all is not lost because you’ve still got 23 hours left in the day to get back on track.

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What really matters?

Make that your first priority.

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We’re not against LGBT people, we’re against them forcing others to conform to and affirm their beliefs.

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Whenever I see a notice of someone’s passing I think of the absolute finality of it – how they had their chance to choose Jesus Christ, but now that choice is no longer available to them, because whatever condition they died in, that’s what they’ll be for eternity. God’s judgment is final. Each person judges themself if they reject His Son, and God respects their wishes and decision.

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If Jesus ever loved you, then He still does because His love is the constant of the universe. The issue is never that Jesus stops loving someone, but, rather, that they choose to depart from His love, not “keeping themselves in the love of God” – they did not abide in His love, but cut themselves off from His love. Jesus has never failed to love someone.

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On miracles of healing.

Jesus said all things are possible to him who believes.

Now, why don’t you just walk into a hospital and heal everyone if you believe?

You can’t do that unless you have the faith to do that.

Where do you get the faith to do that?

Jesus is “the author and finisher of our faith”.

So, is it as simple as asking Him to give you the faith to do that?

You could ask Him for the faith, but it’s not as simple as that.

If it were God’s purpose and plan for you to go and clear out hospitals and put them out of business then He would have communicated that to you and given you the faith to do it.

It can’t be that, overall, God didn’t give you the faith to carry out His purpose and plan for your life.

When we face a person who is suffering we desperately want to relieve their suffering.

Yet, we should realize we can’t manufacture the faith to heal them. We can’t muster it up by our own willpower. It has to come from God.

In this respect we are helpless to act on our own, and so it should be.

When we realize we are powerless within ourselves to do miracles, it’s the great compassion of the Lord in us which can cause us to believe He can heal them.

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Replied to Ben Shapiro:

Under God’s Sovereignity all religions have historically provided a social framework which has prevented anarchy from taking its course, and therefore preserving humanity, as such.

We see this also in the institutions of government, of which without them there would be anarchy.

But this doesn’t mean either religion or government are a means to know God, even though God has allowed them to exist for the aforementioned purpose.

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When you pray for someone you “could” be the only person on earth praying for them. Therefore, God has given you a great responsibility.

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If you were living 2000 years ago and saw Jesus life, miracles and teaching, death and resurrection first hand, would you have followed Him?

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A lawless person can never understand the grace of God, for if they don’t agree with the law to begin with, how can they appreciate His grace toward offenders of the law?

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Someone passes away yesterday and everyone’s saying he’s resting peacefully now… well… how do you know that? It’s a nice sentiment, but is it true?

Jesus said you must be born again to see the Kingdom of Heaven.

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See nature as a work of art created by the most wonderful Artist.

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The Holy Spirit is God. Not a lesser “god”. Not a force or power, but God, personally, Himself.

He is also called the Spirit of Christ, and is referred to as “Christ in you, the hope of glory”.

So, if He is in you, there’s no distance between you and God.

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To put Jesus first in your life doesn’t mean you live in a spiritual bubble just thinking about Him all the time, and nothing else. We need to think about a lot of things, however, if Jesus is first in our life then He GOVERNS our thoughts, words and actions.

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The concept of celebrity would have to the most empty or phony thing going on on the planet.

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Do you think it’s possible there are politicians today whose plan is to purposely bankrupt a nation, financially, as well as morally and spiritually, with the goal of societal collapse so they can declare martial law and take total control and start building their Marxist paradise?

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In this contradictory world it’s hard to define “rights” when it’s often the case that one’s “rights” trample over the rights of others.

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Matthew 24:29-31

[29]“Immediately **** AFTER **** the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

[30]Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

[31]And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
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Now, the “elect” scattered all over the world could only be the body of Christ, all the redeemed of the earth.

The text says they are gathered from all of the earth and heaven, meaning this:

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
[16]For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
[17]Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
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So this happens AFTER the tribulation, as per verse 29.

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1. You notice something a person does and it registers in your mind and conscience as something wrong or offensive to God.
2. The natural response is to feel badly toward this person, or to disregard them as a person.
3. But the spiritual response is to pray for them.
4. Then, after prayer, and because you prayed for them out of love, it’s harder to harbor bad feelings or to write them off.

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2 Peter 2:6
” ….and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly…”
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An example of what?

An example of what God will do to such societies.

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Without true fellowship, which consists of true, committed friendships, you don’t have a church, you have something else, which has the label of “church” on it.

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1 John 4:4
“You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”

Notes

• The greater One lives in the disciple. A disciple of Christ has Christ in them.
• Therefore, a disciple lives in a position of victory over sin, the devil, and the devil’s puppets.
• There should be no air of superiority, because Jesus is the greater One, not us.
• However, there definitely must not be any sense of inferiority in us in relation to the world around us because the greater One lives in us.
• To faithfully serve the greater One we must cast off feelings of superiority or inferiority, and identify fully with Him, in Him.
• This produces holy boldness, where otherwise we would be timid or fearful, trying to protect ourselves from being humiliated or embarrassed.

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How modern Christian “ministries” operate and promote themselves has more in common with the Hollywood entertainment business model than with the New Testament pattern. The similarities are striking. The paradigms are so similar: it’s a business relying on aggressive marketing strategy and self exaltation and promotion. Even people who should know better are sucked into this fake way of life. How else can they have a “ministry” if they don’t promote themselves?

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Romans 12:1-2
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

Notes:

a. It’s only reasonable to yield back to God what He gave you.

b. The world tries to make you conform to it. It wants you a true conformist to all things evil and stupid. Will you conform? Or will you resist?

c. The only escape from captivity to the world’s pull is a renewed mind. God changes our mind and the way we think about things to bring us into line with how He thinks about things, or His attitude toward things. This renewed mind conforms to God’s word and does not conform to the pressure of the world.

d. The word of God must change the way we think about EVERYTHING.

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Just stick with the text and it’s the same as if the Apostles were visiting preachers at your church, because it’s the same message.

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The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only hope.

One hundred years or a million years from now we’ll still be living our life and doing well, achieving things and having fun with the people we love.

Eternal life is the best thing going.

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Certainly, seeking debate is not the reason for sharing God’s word, however debate is often needed.

1 Corinthians 14:29
“Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge.”

Meaning, the issues were sorted out right there and then.

The other elders spoke up concerning a message when it was necessary to clarify, question, correct or denounce what had been said in the assembly.

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Jesus said, “To whom much is given, much is required”.

So, with the silent Christian, is it that nothing has been given to them and that’s why they’re silent?

Or is it that, much has been given and their silence is simply because they’re irresponsible and unfaithful with what they’ve been given?

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Don’t fall for the lie that to love someone you have to accept what they believe or do.

The Bible does not teach that.

Jesus did not practice that.

It’s great when we can accept what a person believes or does, but when we can’t we are not forced to accept it out of love.

It’s gross manipulation to force people to accept your beliefs by accusing them of lacking love or compassion if you don’t.

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To experience God’s gracious help and power in every aspect of life pray in faith at all times for every need, challenge, weakness or obstacle. This should be as natural as breathing.

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Human beings are a wonder and a marvel, not by accident, but by design.

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No one hates evil as much as God does.

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Does the life we live truly reflect how much we love God?

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True Christian love is a reflection, extension or manifestation of Christ’s love. If we truly love someone it is because Christ in us loves them. The love we have for them originates from Christ, Himself.

You know, one of the proofs of this is because of the fact that if our love for the Lord becomes cold, so does our love for people. Why so? Because without communion with God we don’t experience His love for people.

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There are many forms of deception, but the root of all deception is to be deceived about what sin is before God. This was the original deception in the Garden.

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With whichever church fellowship we are personally connected with, surely it would be good, right and pleasing in the sight of the LORD if we prayed for every member daily by name?

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The only hope for someone is they come to terms with, and heed, the truth. If they bypass the truth and go ahead anyway there’s no hope for them.

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The LORD taught us to pray the Father’s will be done each day.

Now, if we neglect to pray for His will to be done in our lives do we think it will be done anyway, whether we pray or not?

If it would be done anyway, then what point is the prayer? It would be just some superficial ritualistic thing which doesn’t mean a thing.

And as well, if we pray and believe God’s will be done today then the whole point of the prayer is that He will perform His will for us today.

We can be certain that His good and perfect will will be done for us today.

We can be certain we are in His will.

We can know the wonder of living out our life according to His good plan and purpose, no matter where we are or what difficulties we face.

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Democracy is a choice of ideology. Choose wisely.

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Only desire to be like those who are like Christ. Don’t desire anything less than to be Christ-like in your manner of living.

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A person is either drawn toward death or drawn toward life. There is no neutral ground.

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Jesus taught that in His Father’s house are many dwellings, or rooms in which to live. They’ll be fantastic rooms, but don’t expect a bathroom.

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The policy of endlessly printing more money means they’re either incompetent or criminal: either, they don’t know what they’re doing, or, they do know, but they don’t care about the consequences, or, they are planning to bankrupt the nation so they can declare martial law and take total control.

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If something is of God, how could you take the credit?

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Some people are horrified by a certain politician’s sexual escapades 30 years ago, but they’re not horrified by butchering babies in the womb, butchering little kids by cutting off their genitals, or by any kind of sexual perversion? So it must be a kind of politically driven hypocrisy. If you’re going to horrified by his sin, be horrified with everyone else’s as well.

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It’s a battle of “rights”.

A man, who identifies as a woman, says it’s his “right” to compete against women in sport, or to use their bathroom. But the women say it’s their “right” to not compete against men and to exclude them from their bathroom.

Who will win when one person’s “rights” walk all over the legitimate rights of others?

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If you mean by “religious” we have set, formal, programmed services, or special priests or clergymen to tell us what to do, or holy places, holy days, candles, robes, chanting, reading prayers out of a book, statues, idols ……… …..then… no, we’re not even slightly religious, and glad to be free from all that stuff.

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I know Jesus is the Answer, for everyone.

No matter how bad the circumstances.

There is no circumstance too difficult for Him to make us victorious in it.

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No matter who you are, you either believe the Word of God or the word of man.

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If there’s a Christian I know of personally, and I never pray for them, I would be kidding myself to think that I love them.

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Imagine there’s an invisible man and he picks up a glove and puts it on his hand. The lifeless glove comes to life. Then he removes the glove from his invisible hand and it becomes lifeless again. Your body is that glove, and the invisible man is your spirit, your inner man.

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You know Jesus owned nothing except the clothes He wore?

And yet you also know He owned the universe, right?

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If we take our definition of church from the New Testament then much of what we’ve called “church” is not church, as per the New Testament definition.

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Read today:

“40% of all US Dollars were printed in the last 12 months.”

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The eye consists of over two million working parts.

That’s at least two million individual mutations for the eye to create itself accidentally and begin working.

Of course, that’s ridiculous, but its an ideology people cling to because the thought that God exists is just too painful to consider.

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Heard today:

“Men receive honor to themselves which belongs to Jesus Christ, alone.”

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The power of God toward the believer means our own power is now irrelevant.

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Not many years from now Christ’s eternal Kingdom will have come, but where will you be? Do you have a part in His Kingdom?

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For the true Christian, death is behind them. Their old man died, and they were born again, never to die again.

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Demons can counterfeit the Holy Spirit so that people are demonized but think it’s the Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit is Holy, and any other spirit is an unholy spirit.

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The only chance to be holy is to have the Holy Spirit.

How else?

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When was the last time you saw this happen? When was the last time you did it yourself?
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Jude 1:3b “…contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.”

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This was written 2000 years ago:

Revelation 11:9
“Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves.”
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So, back then, people would have objected to this and said, “Its impossible for everyone in the world to see two men in Jerusalem!”. …which it was, then.

So it spoke of a time 2000 years ahead, and it accurately predicted the kind of technology which would come into being so far off in the future.

This is because God gave this prophecy, which means READ IT VERY CAREFULLY.

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Christianity is one of the world religions, however, true Christianity is not in belonging to the Christian religion, but in personally following Jesus Christ.

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1 John 2:18-19
“Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.”

Notes

• Note the distinction between a future Antichrist (singular) and the present Antichrists (plural).
• This means the Antichrist was not existent in John’s lifetime. (It was not the Roman Emporer)
• The Antichrists “went out from us”, which means they were false converts to Christianity. They went out of the fellowship of the Apostles to continue and pursue their own version of Christianity, of which the Apostles rightfully denounced.
• If the Antichrists were false Christians, then the final Antichrist will also be a false Christian.
• If the final Antichrist is a false Christian, then his followers might also consider themselves to be Christians.

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When a Christian is drawn toward the fake, they must not know the Real.

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Some politicians will only allow interviews by sycophants. They’re scared of honest or difficult questions. And this is also true with religious leaders.

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To Ben Shapiro:

Romans 10:2-3
“For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.”
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If you’re trying to establish your own righteousness then you have no righteousness.

If you are doing good or attending church etc. so that you can be considered righteous then you’re still outside the Kingdom of God because you are trying to earn your own righteousness, and have not received the righteousness of Christ.

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When someone’s church is a soft-rock concert it’s hard to talk in any depth about the things of God because they’ve never had to think.

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It’s true that when someone sins against us we really feel the pain, hurt and the ramifications of the reality of sin, and then we can understand what effect our own sin can have on others, and perhaps sense something of what God feels about sin, because all sin is against Him, personally.

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Even if you don’t have a good church within reach, get up at 5 am and spend 2 hours alone with the LORD and you’ll have the goods.

What’s the point of this post?

No matter our circumstances we can be filled with the Holy Spirit and effectual in His Kingdom.

Sometimes the lack of a good church is used as an excuse for spiritual lethargy.

The point of this post is obviously not to find an excuse not to fellowship.

Anyone who truly fellowships with God in private will seek out fellowship with God’s people because they have the love of God in them.

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God is exactly as He is described in the Bible.

No need to wonder what God is like.

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Though the Bible doesn’t say, I wouldn’t be surprised if everyone in Heaven is equal in intellect. The guy who is a little behind the eight ball here becomes a genius when he gets there, because there are no limitations.

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We’re not supposed to play off the love of God against the wrath of God. There is a phony thinking today which says the love of God means there is no wrath of God.

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The point of being filled with the Holy Spirit is He does with you as He wills and your whole life becomes an expression of His will and His work.

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Do you believe Jesus will be with you every moment for the rest of your life?

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It’s not a choice between loving God and loving people, for we can only truly love people if we love God.

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Read today:

“… only 4% of people who claim to be Christians have a Biblical world view.” (From a Barna survey)

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Good government policy can help a society to some extent, however, nations are dying because of a spiritual disease called sin. Policy can temporarily help manage the problem, but it can’t cure it.

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Governments are for the purpose of maintaining law and order, and civic infrastructure.

They should not be in the business of ideology.

They should serve the people by maintaining freedom and security, and that’s all, and not control people’s minds or tell them what to think or believe.

We need the police, but we don’t need the thought police.

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If we don’t know God then we don’t know who we are or what we are.

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To the Lord Jesus Christ:

You are my Redeemer.
You are my Friend.
You are my Savior.
You are my Lord.
You are my Sanctifier.
You are my Teacher.
You are my Guide.
You are my Counselor.
You are my King.
You are my Brother.
You are my Provider.
You are my Healer.
You are my Comfort.
You are my Defender.
You are my Helper.
You are my Advocate.
You are my Priest.
You are my Shepherd.
You are my Life.
You are my God.

You can tell Him, if you like.

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Prayer for others is the main business of the Kingdom.

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Christian, if you have the internet you have a great tool to share God’s word and Gospel. Why don’t you use it? I guess you’ve got your reasons.

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The highest joy possible in this life is to know the Lord Jesus Christ.

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A guy teaches “how to heal people like Jesus did”.

Only God can heal. So, how do you teach people techniques to do healing when only God can heal?

What does it mean? Does it mean there’s a special trick you need to learn in order to “get” God to heal people?

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Christian, when you come to your Father in prayer it’s the same as if you were physically in Heaven before His throne and He’s looking right at you, giving His undivided attention to everything you’re saying to Him. This is why we pray. This is how God sees prayer. This is why God wants us to pray in faith, through Jesus Christ, His Son.

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Truly understanding God’s word is about understanding God, to the end that we know Him, producing faith, obedience and love in us. If we truly know God we will love Him, believe and obey Him.

Therefore, the greatest service we can render to humanity is to help them understand God’s word.

The greatest activity of the church is in a diligent pursuit of understanding and obeying God’s word.

The centerpiece of the church should be the reading of scripture, and it’s proper study and discussion.

All else is secondary to this.

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If a Bible teaching is unnecessarily complicated isn’t it a case of the teacher trying to prove how clever he is?

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The New Birth is the greatest experience that can happen to a human being, resulting in a totally new life, so those not sure if they’ve been born again most likely haven’t.

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Love what Jesus loves.

Hate what Jesus hates.

Be conformed to Him.

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For those who don’t know Jesus Christ, oftentimes, if they want something to be true, then it is true – it’s the desire for something to be true which makes it true – they believe only in those things which they perceive as expedient for them to believe. Do you know there’s a problem with this?

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Ephesians 4:13-15
“…till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect (fully mature) man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— “
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“…carried about with every wind of doctrine…”

This is implied here as quite normative for those who have not yet “grown up in all things into Him who is the head – Christ”.

They are “carried about” by the doctrine. The image is of a sailing boat blown around aimlessly on the sea by fickle winds.

What’s your latest fad doctrine?

What’s the flavor of the month?

What will be the thing you are pushing next month?

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2 Thessalonians 2:1-3
[1]Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
[2]not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
[3]Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition”
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According to the text, when does the “gathering together to Him” (Vs 1) (the rapture) happen?

The answer is in Verse 3.

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Corporations have always decided for you what’s cool and what’s not. Now they’re deciding for you what you should believe about sexuality.

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To have an unbiblical belief is to believe in a lie.

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To care for a person’s soul is to genuinely love them.

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The Holy Spirit wants to bring us to a point where we believe every word of God.

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Heard a famous pastor say that the only thing keeping people out of heaven is self righteousness, when they refuse to accept they need a Savior, because they believe they are a good person. It’s true it is one thing keeping people out Heaven, yet there’s also another thing, which Jude warned about, and it is to “turn the grace of God into a license to sin”. A person can believe in the grace of God, and claim to have the righteousness of Christ, but if they don’t repent they are still lost.

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We can pray about everything if we want God’s help in it.

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Today’s Tweets

Alone

When we take into account all the scriptures say about conscious, eternal punishment it seems that those outside of Christ will be alone forever. There will be no friendship or relationships in that “outer darkness”. There’s no one to talk to. They have to suffer alone. And it’s their utter loneliness, isolation, hopelessness and despair which eats away at them, which is “the worm that never dies”.

Have you ever been truly alone for any length of time?

If you’ve been born again it’s impossible to be alone because Jesus Christ is in you, and you in Him.

Man was not created to be alone.

When a person rejects Jesus Christ they also reject everything God created them to be.

They get what they want, and they have all eternity to regret it.

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See, even if you do improve your life it still doesn’t mean you achieve eternal life.

Eternal life is a gift which only Jesus can give.

Religion, at best, can only modify human thinking and behavior.

Whereas only Jesus can give eternal life.

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Tucker often used a mocking manner or tone of speech.

Maybe God’s trying to teach him not to do that?

As a Christian it’s dishonorable to do that, and it’s also unproductive, as intelligent people will switch off.

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There’s ample proof of God’s existence just within the extreme complexity of your own body.

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2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
[1]Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
[2]not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
[3]Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
[4]who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
[5]Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
[6]And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
[7]For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
[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.
[9]The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
[10]and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
[11]And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
[12]that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. .
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Verse 1. The coming of the Lord and our gathering to Him IS ONE SINGLE EVENT.

Verse 2. This event is called “the day of Christ”.

Verse 3. Two things must happen before Verse 1 is fulfilled.

Verse 8. When is the Antichrist destroyed? When Jesus returns. This means that Verse 1 is only fulfilled AFTER the Antichrist’s reign reaches its end, because it ends when the Lord returns and we are gathered up to Him.

Verses 9-12.

The deception of the Antichrist is twofold:

a Through signs and wonders.

b. Through a certain doctrine.

Verse 12 indicates that the appeal of this doctrine is that people can “have pleasure in unrighteousness”. They don’t feel guilt over unrighteousness. In this doctrine you can be unrighteous and not feel guilt.

In other words, such people can commit evil and still consider themselves highly spiritual people.

Verse 11.

God gives them a strong delusion to believe a lie.

The lie is twofold:

a. That the Antichrist is God.

b. That sin is no longer sin, but something we can legitimately seek pleasure in without feeling guilty.

Verse 4. Because the true Messiah, Jesus Christ, is God, the false messiah must also claim to be God.

Seems like the world is ready for this, doesn’t it?

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Those who don’t stand for the truth have already fallen for a lie.

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Are you looking for some kind of praise or recognition from men?

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John 14:2-3
“In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”
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There are many houses there.

In Revelation we only see people around the Throne.

And yet there are many houses there, with people living in them.

Do you have a house reserved for you?

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Mankind acts as if God doesn’t exist.

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How would you describe your attitude toward God?

Cooperative or uncooperative?

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Prayer is the most powerful thing a person can do because when God answers prayer it is a far more powerful action than solely human effort can produce.

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Colossians 2:9-10

“For in Him (Jesus Christ) dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;
and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.”
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In Christ you are complete.

Outside of Christ you are incomplete.

To be complete in Christ means you have everything He has (except His divinity) imputed to you.

But anything other than this completeness is a state of spiritual bankruptcy: separation from God.

You either have everything or nothing.

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Even though democracy was created by the ancient Greeks it’s only a recent phenomena, historically speaking.

This great experiment with freedom, however, began to go horribly wrong.

Democracy, not surprisingly, became a choice of good or evil. It was no longer just about “politics”, but about serious moral issues.

Human nature is sinful, so, no surprise that the masses began to have more affinity for evil policies than righteous ones.

And as people increasingly opt for evil leaders it’s no surprise that these leaders crave power to the extent that they would gradually phase democracy out, censoring any other point of view, while denying that they’re doing that.

And thus, due to sinful human nature, democracy becomes a failed experiment.

My tbought was that, perhaps God gave the world one last chance to choose righteousness and freedom, and the world threw it back in His face?

The lesson? Mankind is not worthy of freedom.

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If you were God, how would you feel if people didn’t believe what you said?

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Every person should become the person Jesus wants them to be.

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Ephesians 5:5-6

“For this you know, that no sexually immoral person, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.”

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Taking the whole chapter into consideration it’s clear that Paul is warning professing Christians that, no matter what they claim to believe, if they are still sexually immoral or covetous they are not going to Heaven.

He is not saying these are the only sins which keep people out of Heaven.

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Futility is that thing which is disconnected from God.

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If you enjoyed any good ‘thing’ today remember the Source of it, and that He also gave you the capacity to enjoy it.

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“Abortion rights” rest on the fallacy that a baby in the womb is not a human being and therefore has no “rights” of its own.
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The Gospel is not predicated upon whether Christians live perfect lives, or live up to what you expect from them. It’s predicated upon one perfect life, alone. It rests solely on Jesus Christ. It is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. ‘We preach Christ, not ourselves’.

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Isaiah 29:13
“Therefore the Lord said: “Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths And honor Me with their lips, But have removed their hearts far from Me, And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men”
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This also describes many in the traditional religious church system today.

They know what they’re supposed to believe and say about Christian things, and can say it on cue, when required, but their heart is somewhere else. It’s just words.

They may call you “brother” but they don’t love you like a brother – their heart is not in it.

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Thinking about the Lord Jesus Christ should make us happy.
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Quote:

“… Tucker Carlson asked Elon Musk to elaborate on what Larry Page had said about AI. “He really seemed to be — wanted sort of digital superintelligence, basically a digital god, if you will, as soon as possible,” the now-Twitter-CEO replied.

Musk continued to assert that Page has publicly stated that “the whole goal of Google” is to bring about artificial general intelligence, or AGI.”At one point I said, ‘what about, you know, [how are] we gonna make sure humanity’s okay here?’” he recounted, laughing. “And, um, then he called me a speciesist.”

Techstory.in

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When we talk of being a servant we don’t mean relieving others of their responsibility and doing their work for them. For example, if you make your child’s bed you are not serving them, you’re doing them a disservice. And the same goes in the church. If you’re teaching all the time then, rather than being a servant, you’re doing what others should be doing, so you’re doing them a disservice by doing what they should be doing.

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Get the Word out!

Why expect others to do it?

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Corrie Ten Boom:

“What we have to do,” said Corrie, “is love these people who hate us—love them, pray for them. These people are wounded people who have hate in their hearts. They need forgiveness. They need the Lord. That is the answer we must give.”

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Difficulties are God’s opportunity to show His power.

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Just because someone is a genius it doesn’t mean they are a good example.

There are comic geniuses who, unfortunately, are smutty.

I don’t find sexual innuendo funny anymore.

And it’s not because I got old or old fashioned, it’s because Jesus Christ is real to me.

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The life Jesus gives us is an endless life – a life without end.

Because His Kingdom shall have no end.

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Jesus Christ.

He’s the One.

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If you’ve received eternal life in Jesus then you see the things of daily life from an eternal perspective.

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True Christianity is to love the unrighteous as much as the righteous.

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It’s a cruel joke to encourage someone to continue believing in a lie.

When you wish them on their pagan days that’s what you do.

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How could we be embarrassed to follow the greatest Man who ever lived?

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We say ‘God bless you!’ so lightly, because if God blesses someone it’s the most amazing thing they can experience in this life.

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Woke ideology tries to coerce, badger and even threaten people into believing evil is good.

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Get ready for eternity.

You might get a lot of old pictures popping up in your feed. I get a continuous stream of pics of 70s rock stars. Someone clicked a picture and that memory is still floating around all these years later. But it won’t be long till even these memories fade and return to dust and vanish forever. Whatever significance they had, if any, will be forever lost in time.

To try and hold the things of this present life in your grasp is as futile as chasing the wind.

Quote, “All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.”

Hopelessness.

But the Christian life is about now and the future.

It’s about a sure and steadfast hope based on Christ’s promises.

It’s about a permanent future which won’t be lost in time, which will never decay, which has conquered the futility of existence in this present world.

Do you have eternal life in Jesus Christ?

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The conscience is not the definitive guide as to what constitutes guilt before God: His word is the absolute guide on this.

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A church which does not encourage questions does not encourage thinking. This is a huge problem today: the unthinking Christian.

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Do as you would like your children to do. Be the person you would like them to be.

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Willful sin is a willful act directly and personally against God.

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Those who want a society without God may eventually realize that in such there is no genuine love, but everyone is out for what they can get, so it may come back to bite them later.

Large inner cities in America are proof of this.

They are a failed Left Wing social experiment.

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Incumbent governments often pretend that vote rigging is impossible and demonize the opposition if they investigate the possibility of it. They are betting on people having short memories, because it wasn’t so long ago it was they who were questioning the validity of an election.

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Your greatest gift becomes your greatest liability if you take credit for it.

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What’s the most romantic thing? It’s when someone willingly gives up their own individual life and independence to covenant before God to be with you all your life, unconditionally, forsaking all others, come what may. It’s beautiful. It’s the definition of love.

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One of the central themes of the Bible is the GOODNESS and LOVE of God.

If that’s what He’s like, if that’s His nature, why wouldn’t you expect Him to be good to you?

Why would you expect Him to be something other than good when it comes to you?

Why would you expect Him to go contrary to His nature when it comes to you?

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God gives us faith to do His will.

Therefore, we can’t have faith for things which are not His will.

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Amazing how an ideology can be pushed onto people without them realizing it’s an ideology they’ve swallowed. That’s the power of the mainstream media.

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If you want to achieve something you’ve got to want it more than wanting the things which impede it: there comes a choice.

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If you miraculously and suddenly became rich it wouldn’t help you know God. So, wealth is very over-rated.

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The brain is the physical hardware, but the software of the mind is spiritual.

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Even if a person’s conscience is fully seared or dead, at least they could still remember back to when they once were ashamed of sin.

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Don’t know why you want a Godless society?

Haven’t you noticed that Godless people don’t treat others very well?

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God made good things for man so man could enjoy them and then realize that God must be good.

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There are no “auspicious” days. That is superstition.

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It might interest you to know that Jesus Christ does not believe the theory of evolution.
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Mark 10:6
“But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.”

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We are to respect people, but we’re not compelled to respect their beliefs or lifestyle.

Jesus loved people, but without affirming their sinful lifestyles.

He loved the person, not their sin.

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I saw the movie, Jesus Revolution.

My take away is that it shows the love people had back then.

Another take away is the opening of homes to the seekers. Open door policy.

Very few people want smelly people in their living room.

They don’t want to take a risk.

They haven’t really grasped Jesus’ concept of giving your life away.

On the charismatic issue it portrays Chuck Smith as bringing balance when Lonnie Frisbee started to believe it was all about him.

In the end it sanitizes Lonnie’s life with no mention of his backsliding.

I think God could use it to awaken churches to the real, dying world outside their doors and cause them to ask, what are they doing?

They don’t want smelly people in their living room because they don’t even want clean cut believers in their living room, as it’s their private space.

Another point

I know it’s just a movie, and is extremely limited as to the picture it can paint of the real history of the revival.

But there was an element of the Jesus People movement not mentioned.

And that was that many Jesus professing hippies had not repented of their sins and were still on drugs and extra marital sex.

There were two camps, the real and the fake.

The movie doesn’t touch on this but implies it all was real.

Another point

God can use a movie like this to reach many people with the simple Gospel.

To see the simplicity of how normal people in normal life can be drawn to Christ by the Holy Spirit.

This the heart of everything because it’s God’s heart.

He calls people to, Come!

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At that point in history young people were questioning everything.

That was fertile soil.

Everyone should agree that the Holy Spirit should lead everything in an assembly.

The question is, who decides what the leading of the Holy Spirit is?

People have different takes on what they think the Holy Spirit is leading to do.

Another take away from the movie:

Note the emphasis on water baptism as the immediate response to the Gospel, as per the NT precedents.

It’s not baptismal regeneration.

But it evokes a public confession from the convert.

Without this open confession or testimony there would be much confusion as to who is a believer and who is nor.

Hence the wisdom of God in commanding baptism.

Today’s Tweets

When false stuff is happening in Christendom, is the reason many don’t notice it or care about it because they are also false, so it doesn’t seem false to them?

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The same technology which gives you freedom today will take away your freedom tomorrow.

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The world is in for a rough ride, according to prophecy.

Depend on Jesus to keep you.

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As nothing can compare with Jesus Christ, then nothing should compete with Him for first place in our life.

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Both our intellect and the Holy Spirit should work together.

God said the New Covenant is when He writes His laws and commands in our hearts and minds.

Heart and mind – Spirit and intellect.

Hebrews 8:10
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”

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Read today:

“ChatGPT is going to make people even dumber”

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The things you consider to be good things are good only because the God who made them is good.

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Not listening to the Holy Spirit will cause failure, but, more importantly, it’s also downright disrespectful to not listen to Him.

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Jesus name is used as a blasphemy because any other name wouldn’t be a blasphemy.

‘Oh Steve!’ is not blasphemy.

‘Oh Jesus!’ is blasphemy.

Why?

Steve is not God.

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Central to Woke ideology is the notion that if you disagree with them then you must hate them, and therefore you are a menace to society, a “right wing extremist”. They are blackmailing society with this false dichotomy.

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Galatians 6:3

“For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.”
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It means everyone is a ZERO, a “nothing”, when we come before God as sinners, our nature fallen and degraded by sin.

We come to Him spiritually bankrupt.

By faith He makes us a new creation.

Now, we are still a “nothing”, BUT now we are IN CHRIST.

Being in Christ doesn’t make us “somebody”, because any good thing we now possess comes from Him. We can’t take any credit for it, and we want Him to get all the glory, so we no longer desire to be “somebody” but are happy being a “nobody” in Him.

Let us heed the warning. If we think we are a “somebody” we deceive ourselves, we are self deceived.

This is totally the opposite of what popular preachers teach.

This is perhaps one of the main reasons we get ourselves into trouble, when we think we’re a somebody, when we’re really a nobody.

Pride is a state of delusion before the Throne of God.

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What happens when the “rights” of one group trample over the rights of another?

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If one lives their whole life and never preaches the Gospel they are an absolute failure as a Christian and they’ve wasted their life.

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It’s true that if we’re faithful in the Lord’s work we don’t have time to worry about the last days.

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When the grace of God is working in someone’s life it’s a wonderful thing.

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The removal of parental rights in western countries means the state effectively owns the children for life.

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You would think if we understood how fragile we are we wouldn’t dare entertain pride?

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If anyone comforts themself with the belief that Jesus won’t be returning soon, they must consider that they need to be ready to meet Him today, because this could be their last day on earth.

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Did you know there were musicians and music in Heaven before humans were created?

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The issue with the New Testament church pattern versus the traditional church system is not merely a legal technicality, it’s a question of which kingdom is represented: the kingdom of God or the kingdoms of man, the kingdoms of this world?

A 1 Cor. 14 format presupposes that the Holy Spirit wants to speak through a number of people during a church meeting, and that’s the whole purpose of assembling as a church, to hear what the Holy Spirit is speaking through the body of Christ.

Therfore, a church system which does not allow this must be against the Holy Spirit speaking through the body.

It would actually be against the Kingdom of God.

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Why would you encourage someone to continue believing things which aren’t true and which will ultimately destroy them? It might appear to be loving, but it’s the opposite of real love.

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Sin is a spiritual force, and when this cancer is fully grown in a person they become proud of their sin and think it’s a virtue.

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Make the LORD the focus of your happiness and you’ll be happy.

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Jesus wants you to have eternal life.

But is this what you want?

Maybe some like the idea of eternal life but are not too keen on facing Jesus?

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Christ’s Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom. His dominion and government shall have no end, scripture says.

Therefore, the things in our life which are of His Kingdom remain forever.

Other stuff will soon be gone and forgotten forever.

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If to become popular you must compromise the truth and who you are, it’s better to remain unpopular.

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Some are more apt to listen to a gracious person, while others are more apt to listen to the arrogant.

If you are gracious you might attract people who appreciate grace and disdain arrogance.

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What would you like the LORD to work in your life today?

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How many lessons of life are there to learn?

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Billions of people believe that mythological gods exist, and they pray to them every day.

No one is laughing at them.

But if you believe what Jesus said about Heaven and Hell then people will laugh at you.

Have you figured out why this is?

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Talking to God is better than not talking to Him.

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Read today:

“The sudden rise in transgenderism amongst young people is most certainly due to indoctrination”

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To be “born again” means, once you were dead in your sins, but now you’ve been raised from the dead, alive to God, a new creation, never to die again: joined to the Lord Jesus Christ- one spirit with Him.

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Jesus Christ is the giver of life.

Come to Him that you may live.

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A church is a people held together by the love of Christ. There are many organizations: religious, cultural, political or social etc. in the world, but none of them is held together solely by the love of God as the true church is. It’s a living miracle, a testimony to Jesus Christ.

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Read today:

“Humanity seems to have lost the ability to differentiate between good and evil”

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When a cultural Christian sees a scripture they immediately categorize it in their mind as a “religious” subject, and thus theoretical or philosophical, and therefore not applicable to how they are living moment by moment.

Because God’s word is not written in their heart.

They might think it’s interesting, but it’s not life to them.

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The meaning of our life is defined by our destination.

As Christians, our destination is to be face to face with Jesus Christ for all eternity in His Kingdom.

So, this destination defines the meaning of our daily lives.

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China is positioning itself for a post-American world order.

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In modern Christian music the effort to sound emotional ends up sounding like they’re depressed. Maybe they are and it comes out in the music?

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For those in Christ, no one misses out.

Some have very comfortable lives.

Some endure extreme suffering.

Some live their dreams. Others endure boring monotony year after year.

But in the end no one in Christ misses out.

So, whether you get everything you want in this life, or whether life deals you a rotten hand, in the end you get your incredible reward if you remain faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Revelation 18:4-5
“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. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.”

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Have you come out yet?

If you have then you won’t be destroyed when judgment hits, because judgment is no longer on you.

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God’s word is all about……

…God…

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And it’s about us in relation to Him.

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Praise and Worship.

Praise is in the songs we sing.

Worship is in the life we bring.

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If we, as Christians, ever get deceived about something it’s because our own pride set us up for it.

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The world will explode, but we don’t know when.

We don’t want it to happen, but it’s going to happen.

It will happen because God has decreed it.

Why would God degree such a thing?

Man must experience the consequences of rejecting God. He must drink the bitter cup right to the bottom.

There is no peace for the wicked, the Bible says.

A wicked world cannot have peace.

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A true Christian elder (not leader) never seeks:

• Your money
• Your possessions
• Your praise
• Your honor
• Your glory
• Your thanks
• Your time
• Your obedience
• Your submission
• Your loyalty
• Your agreement
• Your devotion

What they seek is you really come to know Jesus Christ.

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Self glory dishonors God.

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There’s nothing about true Christianity of which you could call it a religion.

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True prayer is borne out of great dependency on God.

The self sufficient can never know God in the same way as those dependent on Him do.

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Can you see yourself in the near future standing before the Throne of God with all your brothers and sisters, the great company of the redeemed?

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Where we stand in relation to any command of the Lord Jesus Christ is an indicator of where we stand in relation to Him.

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You might be enjoying living in a Godless society until you’re on the receiving end of what Godless people can do to you.

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Jesus is worthy of your trust.

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We wouldn’t want to equate having religion with having God.

The most intensely religious places on earth are also Godless places.

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If you love someone start praying for them right now.

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God made the human race.

And the only way He could redeem us humans was to become one of us and legally bear the punishment for our sins on the Cross: the one Man dying for all men.

He became one of us so we could become like Him.

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Of all the life experiences a person can experience the greatest is to experience the gift of a new life in Jesus Christ.

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I’m sure God won’t judge someone for a wrong understanding of the Book of Revelation, as no one has perfect understanding, but someone who twists scriptures and uses evasive literary devices is a fraud, so, it would not be good to have Him judge you as a fraud on Judgment Day, even though you believe you’re a Bible scholar.

Slippery false teachers say they have an “interpretation” of the Book of Revelation, but when you look at their interpretation it’s not an interpretation, it’s simply double talk, which reveals they don’t believe it. So, instead of coming out and saying they don’t believe it, they offer their “interpretation” instead.

Regarding the Book of Revelation, one of the false assumptions which crops up is, that because the book was addressed and sent to the seven churches in Asia-Miinor (Turkey) this means everything prophesied in it applied to those people at that time. The reasoning is, what good would it be to write to them of things which would take place in future generations?

That would be like assuming that when you see a prophecy anywhere in scripture that it applied only to the people living at that time. Whereas the opposite is mostly true.

Even “if” the Book of Revelation were not fulfilled in our generation, it still speaks to us because it reveals the nature of the Lord Jesus Christ (who is the center of the Book) and it warns and prepares us, and it opens our eyes to the glorious future God has provided for those that love Him.

This is why the first century saints were promised a blessing when they read the Book, even though much of it was still future for them (Rev. 1:3).

And of course, they had the responsibility to preserve the text for future generations.

As we can also be mightily blessed reading it today.

86Personally, I do believe it will be fulfilled in this generation.

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God created the universe by speaking one word.

He will destroy it by speaking one word.

He will create a new earth and universe by speaking one word.

It only takes one word from Him.

We really have no clue about such power because we are trapped within our own small minds and our limited, superficial world.

It would be like trying to teach a flea about the power of an elephant. The flea can’t relate to it as his world is much smaller.

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Christian, you are now in the process of being prepared to rule with Jesus Christ forever in His Kingdom. Enjoy this preparation time.

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The most subversive or counter cultural thing you could do is follow Jesus.

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Revelation 18:4-5

“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. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.”

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So, a certain number of Christians are in Babylon and need to come out.

Maybe someone reading this is still in Babylon?

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Imagine if one of the Apostles had started peddling their epistles for 100 shekels a piece?

Everyone would have been outraged, right? It would have been phoney.

So, what happened between then and now?

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God’s words are neither positive or negative, they are simply true.

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One of the reasons religious rituals and traditions were created was to justify the existence of a religious system and perpetuate it. Create tradition, then create a system to maintain it.

If there was Biblical faith and fellowship, such as was in the first century, there would be no grounds for a religious system.

To some extent the Lord Jesus came up against this with the Judaism of the day.

He encountered a system which departed from God and existed to feed and line the pockets of an elite few.

So, their main interest in upholding tradition was to feed the cow which they milked. It was a real cash cow, or the goose which lays the golden eggs.

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Woke ideology has the power to brainwash people into hating someone, and they don’t even know why they feel that way, they just do.

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If you study the life of any heretic you usually find a narcissist at heart: someone in love with himself.

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If you were the devil, how would you try and destroy Christianity?

You could have several options open to you:

One is you could create another religion with the express purpose of killing the infidel Christians.

But a more sinister, deceptive method would be to twist the Gospel and create a fake Christian religion, so that people think they are Christians when they’re not.

Another would be to infiltrate true Christianity with fake interpretations of the Bible so that Christians start justifying sin, greed, covetousness or immorality, and thus become spiritually dead.

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The key operative word to describe Woke ideology is “control”.

They want to control you: what you think, what you feel, what you believe, and what you will do or not do.

They will control your feelings toward political leaders, and quickly chastise you if you don’t toe the line.

They will control your views on morality or sexuality, on vaccines, on climate change etc..

Woe to the person who doesn’t conform.

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Here’s some heresy:

Quote: “The Gospel will grow and will win! At some point the world will become Christianized by a slow process. Then Christ will return one day and raise the dead, deliver the Kingdom to the Father and destroy death. The saved will enjoy the gift of immortality and the unsaved will receive the wages of sin…death.” unquote
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It sounds “positive”, right? How could something “positive” be false?

Answer: If your positivity is a lie, then it’s not very positive. You can’t spin a lie into something positive.

If you dismiss the Book of Revelation (as this guy is doing) then what happens?

Revelation 22:18-19
“For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book;
and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.”

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A guy was calling his false Bible teaching a “hermeneutic”, perhaps with the thought that by tagging this theological label onto it then it lends it credibility, like, ‘Oh, it’s a hermeneutic! Then it must be okay’. The theological jargon tricks the simple minded.

But a heresy is not a hermeneutic, it’s a lie.

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The Lord’s Table was and is the real EASTER.

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Someone told me they were listening to a spiritual teacher and they took note of the parts which agree with scripture and ignore the rest. Now, if a teaching does not agree with scripture then it’s a lie. So, the guy is sometimes speaking truth and sometimes lying. So, why are you listening to him at all?

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You’re reading or listening to the Bible with the same Spirit which wrote it. That’s how God intended it.

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Man-made Christian festivals are observed by genuine Christians in a God honoring way.

Yet, they could honor Him just as much without observing the festivals.

But with nominal Christians, which comprise the majority, festivals are a dubious exercise. It is that special time to atone for all the weeks and months they ignored God, and feel they have compensated for that by turning up at church on those days.

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I wouldn’t think I’m honoring God more by observing a man-made tradition than I would by just living my life day by day for Him.

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The first problem with Christian festivals is they were man’s idea and not God’s. This is the first issue to grapple with.

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Jesus is the only Man ever whom the devil could not get to obey him.

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Outside of Christ – dead to God.

In Christ – alive to God.

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As soon as you divide a nation into black and white you’re faced with the problem of determining who is black and who is white? How black is black? How white is white? Is there a special camera which scans your skin and declares you black or white? It’s stupid.

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The prosperity gospel is also a derivative of the Biblical concept of God giving temporal blessings for obedience.

Where it goes astray is it turns this Biblical concept into a formula for success and thereby God is used by man for his own greed or covetousness.

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Christians need to clearly understand the difference between legitimate and illegitimate pleasure.

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The greatest thing I can do in my life is talk to God.

It’s not the only thing, but it’s the greatest thing.

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For the redeemed there’s an old story and a new story, an old life and a new life, an old man and a new man, a blind man and a sighted man, a heart of stone and now a heart of flesh, a closed chapter and a new beginning.

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God is perfect.

And we are not.

So, the only way we can be with Him is to be perfect.

And we know it is impossible for us to make ourselves perfect.

So, we are lost in our sins with no way out.

But God made a way. Jesus is the way.

So, God makes us perfect by faith, because Jesus legally carried all our sins upon Himself on the cross, shedding His blood and dying on our behalf, and rising again to be our Justifier.

God brings us into His Son, so He sees us in Christ, clothed with His righteousness.

So we can boldly approach the throne of God.

Hebrews 10:12-14
“But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.”

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God doesn’t bless anything which is not motivated by love.

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If a spiritual tradition is not ordained by God, and neither was practiced by the early church, are you really sure it is something which is part of the Kingdom of God?

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The most pertinent thing about predestination to understand is this:

Acts 17:30b

“God… … commands all men everywhere to repent”

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Regarding drag shows, why don’t Christians parade around in their underwear before children to show they are proud of being Christians?

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Every empire has an expiry date. Look at history.

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Don’t be expecting WW3 to start soon, but be personally ready for it, because it could start anytime.

Today’s Tweets

There are only two kingdoms on this earth, and two kings. Both are polar opposites when it comes to the principles they function by. And one has a future, and the other, none.

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How should you respond to the fact Jesus died for your sins in your place and rose again?

By repentance and faith in Him.

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The question of, ‘What is the meaning of my life?’ only has a definite answer if Jesus Christ is our life.
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Ephesians 2:1
“And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins”

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The more our life finds its meaning in Christ, the more meaningless the world appears.

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The most noble desire a human being can have is to glorify the LORD Jesus Christ in their life.

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When someone does not have the fear of God it means they have no fear that God will punish them if they pursue sin. It’s like a criminal who mistakenly thinks he’s got away with his crime.

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Nobody should ever be compelled to conform to Left Wing, Woke ideology.

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For me personally, I’m not conscious I belong to a certain race, therefore I’m not proud of my race or skin color, it’s irrelevant. Not proud or ashamed of it. Nor am I proud or ashamed of my nationality, because I could have been born anywhere on earth.

Those in Christ are now children of God.

Nationality is a responsibility, not an identity, unless you choose it as your identity.

What about your culture!?

Couldn’t give a hoot about it.

I do thank God for a Christian influence through my mother, but that is not a culture.

I thank God for Christianized culture, compared to the alternatives, yet it’s not my identity.

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God keeps His word.

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Many are cool with Jesus just so long as He doesn’t interfere with their morality.

And the Liberal “Jesus” is cool with almost everything, except the Bible.

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Perhaps an indicator that not many Christians think about God’s word is because so few talk about it, for if we think about something we usually talk about it, if it’s important.

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Man’s need is twofold:

He needs God’s forgiveness, and he needs to be recreated on the inside into a new person.

Only Jesus Christ can do this.

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a. How did man’s conscience supposedly evolve out of the primeval slime?

b. Conscience alone is not an infallible guide if it’s been corrupted and defiled by the power of sin.

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Jesus was extremely busy, and He got tired, however He never used this as an excuse not to rise up early and commune alone with His Father.

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To Matt Walsh:

If aliens exist elsewhere in the universe they’re in for a big shock when God destroys it very soon.

He made it by commanding it to exist.

He will destroy it the same way, with just one word.

And He’s going to make a new universe, the Bible says.

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If we don’t have love for people we don’t have love for God.

This is why the trending “self based spirituality” in Christendom doesn’t work.

Where it’s all about just you and God it doesn’t last.

God won’t allow people to know Him based on solely selfish motives.

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Three points about money.

1 Timothy 6:5,9-10
[5]useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.
[9]But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.
[10]For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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Looking at 1 Tim. 6:5, 9-10 we see three points in regard to money:

1. God is not to be used as a means or formula to obtain wealth (Vs 5).
2. It’s wrong to desire to be wealthy (Vs 9).
3. The love of money is evil and leads to sorrow (Vs 10).
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I guess you’ll be burning some books now and turning off popular preachers?

“From such withdraw yourself” (Vs 5)

Desire to be successful, but not to be wealthy..

No one desires to fail, do they?

If it’s wrong to desire to be wealthy using legitimate means, it’s certainly wrong to desire it by illegitimate means.

Prosperity preachers get wealth by illegitimate means.

Desire to succeed but don’t covet wealth.

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Believing the truth is crucial when you consider the alternative.

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Some points on “repentance”:

• If we’ve repented of something it means we no longer do it.
• If we’ve repented of something we are rightly ashamed of it.
• If we’ve repented of something we make “no provision” for it. “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.” (Rom. 13:14).
• If we’ve repented of something we begin to see it as God sees it, and not how we formerly viewed it.
• If we’ve repented of something we no longer justify it in our mind.
• If we’ve repented of something we now understand that we were insulting the Holy Spirit.
• If we’ve repented of something then we’ve experienced the power of Jesus Christ over sin, as He helped us to repent, and sanctifies us.
• If we’ve repented of something we now agree with God’s word, whereas previously we were not believing His word, evidenced by our disobedience.
• If we’ve repented of something then the love of Christ has filled that place in our heart and soul.

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I decided back in 1990 not to follow the church system, and there’s not been a day since that I’ve regretted that decision.

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The politicization of justice means the death of justice.

Heard today:

“Weaponized judicial system”

“Painstakingly searching for a crime to pin on a political foe”

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The more someone needs amusement, the more they lose their ability to think.

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Jesus taught there is a Heaven and a Hell, and He is the only way to Heaven. In fact, He promised eternal life to whoever would believe Him.

Now, you would think more people would be interested in eternal life?

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What’s happening in America is you have the country divided down the middle into two groups:

Group A has some kind of morality, or at least a mental assent to Biblical morality.

Group B has virtually no morality left, nor believes in Biblical morality.

And Group B passionately hates Group A.

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To believe false teaching is to believe a lie about the nature of God.

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Some popular, harmful false teachings today:

• That you need to do certain prescribed stuff to “enter into” or “attract” the presence of God.
• That people who claim to do supernatural feats have more spiritual authority than those who don’t.
• That the more popular a leader is the more spiritual authority they have.
• That large churches demonstrate God’s endorsement or favor.
• Unthinking or unquestioning acceptance of any kind of prophecy.
• Any kind of spiritual authority separate from the authority of scripture.
• The belief that to expose false teachings and teachers is unChristlike.
• The belief that one’s religious organisation is the one true church.
• The belief that every person is either a Calvinist or an Arminian.
• The belief that no matter what sins you commit you could never be separated from Christ.
• The belief that speaking in tongues is the sole evidence one is filled with the Holy Spirit.
• The belief that spiritual gifts ceased after the Aposties died.
• The belief that there are Apostles today who have authority like the original Apostles.
• The belief that the commandments in the New Testament are no longer applicable today because they are “the letter of the law”.
• The belief that all the warnings in the New Testament are only to the unsaved and never to the saved.

Etc. Etc.

And this is just scratching the surface.

Of course, this list focuses on some false beliefs by mainstream Christians.

I’ve not touched on the false beliefs of cults.

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Now, if God has reconciled you to Himself, then you’d be okay, right?

You can’t be half reconciled to God.

You’re either reconciled, or you’re not.

So, what good is religion or spirituality if you’re not reconciled to God?

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John 3:20-21

“For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”
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The picture here is that to live in sin is to live in darkness and to love the darkness, and living in the darkness is to love a lie, therefore, when the light or truth penetrates the darkness , the lie they love is threatened by the light and the truth. The person who loves a lie doesn’t want any kind of proof that it is indeed a lie they love.

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Wherever you see spiritual celebrities you know people have more faith in the celebrity than in God. This is obvious, because where there is true faith in God there are no celebrities.

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“Six feet of dirt make all men equal.”

–Spurgeon

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How do you change the church system apart from doing the very same things you’re trying to change? Because, unless you are a part of the system and conform to it they won’t listen to you. It’s like Catch 22.

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How can a prophet expose corruption in the church if he would have to begin by exposing his own corruption, or that of his associates?

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“I’ve reached a higher level of spiritual consciousness!!!”

Great, but you’re still not reconciled to God, right?

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GOD is the busiest Person there is. And yet He never gets tired.

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We’re fools if we think our life has nothing to do with God.

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With many of us, we’ve survived only through God answering prayer. It wasn’t some cool spiritual exercise, it was a matter of survival.With many of us, we’ve survived only through God answering prayer. It wasn’t some cool spiritual exercise, it was a matter of survival.

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The more popular self-proclaimed “prophets” or “apostles” are, the more fake they are.

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Christ’s love for us will always infinitely exceed our love for Him.

Makes you want to love Him more.

This is our day job

Today’s Tweets

It’s fitting for a creature to worship his Creator.

You are His idea, after all.

Where would you be without Him?

You wouldn’t exist.

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To Ben Shapiro

Dear Ben,

If you’re absolutely sure Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, and, if it is true He didn’t rise, then Christianity would be a sick joke, based on a fairy tale.

We appreciate the genuine respect you have for Christians.

However, if Jesus did not rise again, and the early Jewish Christians deceived the whole world about it, then, according to your conviction, how could you respect Christians? If what you believe is true, then Christians are either monsters or simply insane.

You mention that you hold to the “Jewish belief ” concerning Messiah.

What you mean is the popular Jewish belief.

A significant number of Jews today don’t hold to the popular Jewish belief regarding Messiah.

And in the first century AD thousands of Jews believed Jesus to be the Jewish Messiah.

The antisemitic tendency in “Christendom” took centuries to develop, as Christianity departed from its Jewishness and from the King of the Jews.

In fact, first century Christianity was true spiritual Israel. See Romans 11. The Gentiles are grafted into Israel to be one people with the Jews, IN the Jewish Messiah, who is the King of Kings, the LORD of Heaven and Earth.

Your Jewish brothers who believed Jesus is their Messiah did so because they met Him alive from the dead.

If you met Him, would you change your mind?

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Jesus’ resurrection is not mythology – too many lives have been transformed for that to be the case, because belief in mythology doesn’t transform your life and set you free from sin’s power.

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The future will soon be here.

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If you’re in a condition where you know and admit you’re not free, then, what does Jesus have to say about it?

“If you continue 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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Faith grows through use.

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As God has been patient with you, accordingly, be patient with others.

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Jesus left His Father’s throne in Heaven to come to earth willingly, fully knowing that He would be nailed to a Cross, die, and rise again, redeeming a multitude of people, and that He would, as a Man, be the Head of this new human race.

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If the Holy Spirit is in us, He might speak to us at any moment, day or night, according to His good pleasure and purpose, even when we might not be expecting Him to.

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Anti-Christian prejudice is just as bad as racial prejudice.

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A good thing taken to excess is sin, but a bad thing is always sin, whether indulged in excess or not.

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“You can gauge what a person loves by what they devote time, resources, and passion to.”

–Michael Boldea, Jr.

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When someone doesn’t receive the fear of God they get a skewed or false understanding of the love of God.

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When you study any scripture, desire that the purpose God spoke it will be fulfilled in your life.

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The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Life, so to be filled with Him is to be fully alive.

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Sin will drain the life out of you, because the only life you have is from God.

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The concept of life only means anything in relation to God, the giver of life. What life is can only be understood in reference to God.

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Do people use social media to seek affirmation from others? The desire to be affirmed?

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The word “soul” crops up everywhere in the Bible, but these days it’s rarely used.

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In Christianity, the man-made things were made to serve man’s desires or interests, not God’s.

And God-ordained things serve God’s interest, not man’s.

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May you speak by the Spirit, and may the hearers hear by the Spirit.

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We cling to our life, but we don’t even know what it is.

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The life of God and the nature of God are synonymous.

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The kind of life we have in us determines the kind of life we live.

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God gives emotional experiences, but He doesn’t expect people to seek after emotional experiences, but rather, to seek Him and believe Him. There is a big difference between seeking God and seeking an experience.

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The one who cries out for mercy for others is the one who has, himself, received great mercy.

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When we tell people, ‘Jesus loves you!’, we also need to explain that all have sinned, fallen short of the glory of God, and are under His wrath. So, the way in which Jesus loves you was that He laid down His life for you, and now calls you to repent and come to Him, and come into His love, and escape His wrath. That’s what ‘Jesus loves you!’ means.

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Imagine a court room scene where the judge, jury and attorneys were all criminals. The accused would think, ‘These people aren’t qualified to judge me!’.

This is kind of why Jesus said, Don’t judge! Because, as all are sinners, how is one sinner qualified to judge a fellow sinner? If he did that, wouldn’t he be a hypocrite?

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Ecclesiastes 12:14

“For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.”

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You know that everything that happens is going to be judged.

There will finally be perfect justice.

Injustices will be judged, so justice will finally be served in every outstanding case.

Whether you get justice now, justice will be served before too long.

Never be discouraged if it appears people are getting away with stuff. They’re not.

Everyone will have their day in court.

Jesus Christ will judge this world.

This present, lawless time is only a blip in light of eternity.

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The human condition is understood in view of man’s brokenness and alienation from God. This is how we understand our nature and behavior – a shared, common human condition, the result of sin separating man from God – sin permeated our nature, predisposing us to avoid and disobey God.

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In Christ, the more dead to sin, self and the world we become the more alive in Him we become. And the more alive in Him we become, the more we become dead to sin, self and the world.

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Transubstantiation and Baptismal Regeneration are by nature the same lie.

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The Word and the Spirit are both essential, like both wings of an eagle are essential.

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It’s not very loving to validate the false beliefs of another.

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If it were not for the grace of God where would you be?

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Vote for the party which is less antisemitic and less antichristian.

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A church is on the right track if everyone is growing in maturity, holiness and love, with each member becoming more effectual in prayer and in sharing the Gospel.

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If the religious rituals and traditions you practice originate from man and not God, then why are you doing them?

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Whenever someone pisses you off, just reserve judgment for five minutes, then review the case. It might not be so serious five minutes later.

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The true glory of God is so glorious that human beings would be terrified to witness it even for a few seconds.

It’s way more than goosebumps and soapy music.

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Don’t… “…give place to the devil”. (Ephesians 4:27)
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Don’t give him any place in your heart, mind or soul.

That is, don’t do things which give him a place in your life.

And walk in the Light, so there’s no place for darkness in you.
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God can have mercy on even the most evil people.

He will have mercy on whom He will have mercy, scripture says.

If He wills to have mercy on a very evil person, who can question it?

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Two great errors of judgment:

To think a work of God is a work of the devil.

Or to think a work of the devil is a work of God.

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1 John 5:10a
“He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself…”
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This witness is way deeper than our emotions because emotions fluctuate, but the witness of His Spirit never changes.

This witness causes us to not depend on how we feel.

This witness is a wellspring and anchor for our soul and mind.
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Romans 8:16
“The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,”

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The secular and political world can’t avoid dealing with moral issues, as the rule of law and upholding it all come under the category of morality, however, it’s got a problem as society degenerates, because the Biblical absolutes of morality are being abandoned, and immoral people are now deciding what is morally acceptable.

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Indoctrination of the youth, censorship and political correctness steer the population away from free and critical thinking and gets them to think in line with the government, and thus undermines democracy by stealth.

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We still have a responsibility to preserve the environment whether climate change is mainly due to human activity or not. Degrading the environment will directly impact human health and survival far more than climate change might.

I doubt it’s got much to do with human activity because the planet’s climate has undergone significant cyclic changes over recorded history, and none of these could be blamed on human activity.

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Only the HOLY Spirit can make us holy and keep us holy.

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If the Holy Spirit is in you, how much influence is He having on how you’re living out your day today?

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Those making a career in the church system often treat others as “objects of ministry” rather than life-long friends.

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If the Spirit of God is in you then demons should be afraid of you, not you afraid of them – evil people should be afraid of you, not you afraid of them. Because “greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world”.

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I think the main purpose of social media is to help us pray for people.

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My guess is the food in Heaven is neither meat or vegetables, but something much better than these. There’s stuff there we can’t even imagine or dream of.

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The most loving and compassionate thing we can do is point someone to Jesus.

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Praying for others is the most serious business on the planet.

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Quite amazing to consider we have the same Spirit in us which descended upon the Lord Jesus at His baptism, and the same Spirit who was in the Apostles…

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The true Gospel gives true hope, and a false gospel gives false hope.

You can walk into some churches and ask people if they’re saved or born again, and they have no idea what you’re talking about. That’s a false gospel and a false hope.

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All the graces of life: faith hope and love, goodness, righteousness, knowledge, have to be a gift otherwise people could boast about having them.

Cause and Effect

Another case against Baptismal Regeneration:

1 Corinthians 1:14-18
“I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name. Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Besides, I do not know whether I baptized any other. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. Christ the Power and Wisdom of God. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”
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If Baptismal Regeneration were true, then Paul would have desired to baptize as many people as possible. He would not have restrained himself from baptizing all the believers in Corinth at that time, if baptism were the means to obtain salvation.

His point is not against baptism, but that baptism is not the Gospel and it is not the means to be born again. It is a fruit of being born again.

He also raises the issue that baptism is in Jesus name, not in any other name, or the name of a church, therefore it doesn’t matter who does the baptizing.

Faith is the cause, and goodness and holiness in love is the effect, or the fruit of our faith.

If we had the power to be good people by ourselves then goodness would not be described as FRUIT of the Spirit. Fruit of the Spirit means it comes from Him, it is His fruit.

Our faith is a gift, and it’s the means by which God produces His good fruits in us.

Personal holiness and righteousness is the FRUIT of believing Jesus Christ.

It cannot be produced by ourselves as a means to reach God. By our good works we can’t reach God.

Galatians 5:22-24
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”

Today’s Tweets

God deals with each person individually, and that’s why it’s hard to make blanket statements about revivals such as Asbury. You could have the wheat and the tares, the sheep and the goats in the same building.

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If we’re not having our own personal revival, what’s preventing it?

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Here is the equation: More of Jesus, more of His word, and less of the other stuff.

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If you want to know anything about God you need to look at His only Son, Jesus Christ.

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How could we NOT always be thinking about Jesus if He is in us?

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We should try and help people understand, but we’re not responsible if they don’t.

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The open shamelessness of modern society is an expression of hatred toward God; it’s like giving Him the middle finger. That’s the spiritual meaning of it.

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Pick any person in the world at random:

How many care about this person’s soul?

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1 John 4:7
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is BORN OF GOD and knows God.”
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BORN OF GOD. That is, born again.

If you have been born again it’s because you’ve been BORN OF GOD, which means, spiritually, God is now your Father.

Your physical body comes from your parents, but, now, your spirit or inner man was fathered by God, Himself.

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Don’t underrate marriage.

Through marriage, families are created.

And godly families are the greatest thing on the planet.

Someone will say the church (body of Christ) is the greatest thing on the planet, but show me the church as it should be without godly marriages and families.

And to erode marriage means to erode the family, which is to deprive individuals of true love, and thus to erode society until it collapses

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Probably every person doesn’t thank God enough.

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The Father is your Father and He loves you very much. That’s what Fathers do.

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Jesus forgives AND makes us new people. That’s the package deal.

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For a Christian, loneliness is an opportunity to experience Jesus’ friendship.

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There’s two types of people:

Those to whom God is their joy in life.

And those who perceive God as a threat to their enjoyment of life.

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What if God arranged for a live video channel between Heaven and Earth, would more people be interested in what’s happening up there? Or a live Hell channel?

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Reading all the Bible prophecies which are yet to be fulfilled, our flesh should tremble, but our spirit should rejoice.

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Part of the new global consciousness of the New World Order is the idea that the Land of Israel is not the God given homeland of the Jewish people.

The whole world is being brainwashed into this thinking.

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If you say that the reformation of Israel has no significance to God, at least admit it has a lot of significance to satan, because he is turning the whole world against them. Of course, scripture explains that God is using satan as a puppet, and if you are against Israel you could also be one of his puppets.

So, satan has his puppets, and satan is God’s puppet, as in, an unwitting instrument of God’s judgment.

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If some came into a Christian gathering and claimed they felt God’s presence, and this affected their emotions, such as they began sobbing, or trembling, or felt loved, or felt convicted of their sins: this, in itself, does not contradict the Gospel, and is no basis for assuming it is a deceptive spirit. If we assume that all spiritual experiences must be of the devil then we are the ones deceived.

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Can God make you happy?

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Husband, if you love your wife then it’s not a big deal if she nags you, right?

Wife, if you love your husband then it’s not a big deal if he nags you, right?

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Asbury Revival (continued)

At the beginning there is no leader, no program, no chairperson. It just flows. But you can be sure this won’t last. A leader, a chairperson, a program will arise, either for better or for worse. Biblically, oversight must be there (but don’t assume oversight means control or orchestration). Elders must have the oversight, because, otherwise, there will be false teachings or prophecies made, or demonic manifestations, and there would be no one to keep this in check. The devil could do whatever he likes with impunity. However, this kind of New Testament eldership is extremely rare in practice, and what will more likely emerge is an hierarchical and controlling power structure, as is normal in traditional churches.

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The Asbury Revival is mostly repetitive, emotional songs. Now, you wouldn’t want to take this as a formula, that if your church just sings emotional songs over and over then God will touch people.

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Man’s nature is such that if he doesn’t believe God’s word he will believe superstition instead.

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A soft life makes you soft.

A tough life makes you tough.

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Until I was 24 I was not willing to follow Jesus, then, He changed my mind.

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Trying to attract the Holy Spirit?

So, He is not in you?

You can’t do stuff to “get His presence”.

If His presence is not in you then you’re not His.

Such superstitious thinking grieves and dishonors the Lord.

There are godly emotional responses to God, and there’s contrived emotion.

The key word here is “response”.

Every disciple of Jesus can be full of His Spirit at all times, wherever they are. So, we rejoice in Revivals, but we don’t go chasing after them, or hopping from church to church to find the Holy Spirit if, indeed, we are living in the fullness of the Spirit daily.

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The fear of the LORD is not so easy to define.

It’s not being afraid of God.

The devil is afraid of God (and rightly so).

It is an absolute acknowledgement that God judges perfectly righteously, without partiality.

We see it in Paul the Apostle. He said that if he went back to his old life then God would condemn him.

Now, it doesn’t mean Paul lived in fear of this.

It just means he was not deceived about God’s righteous judgment.

The person without the fear of the LORD is deceived about God’s judgment.

They go on in sin, perhaps using grace as an excuse, not knowing they are heading for judgment.

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Since there’s a judgment day coming, wouldn’t it be wise to get right with God?

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Sometimes there’s a conflict between what we’d like to do and what we should do.

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God is the source, through His Word and Spirit. No man is the source. This is the safe approach to church.

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The Holy Spirit is never weak, but our spirit can be weak, depending on how much quality time we spend alone with God.

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The movie “The Truman Show” (made prior to social media) portrays a reality TV show where the public become addicted to following the mundane life of Truman (Jim Carrey) and get their fulfillment and purpose, kind of vicariously, through him.

Prophetic.

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If you’ve been redeemed, it means someone else has paid what you owe.

A Redeemer.

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When we see this planet cohabited by 8 billion precious souls, why do we value the life of some of these souls above others?

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We don’t put the creation above its Creator.

Romans 1:25
“…who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.”

It means they served the things God made, which includes themselves, and not God.

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Love gives us a different perspective of people, things and God.

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Here’s the Sunday plan. Every member of your church gets up at 5 am and spends an hour or two alone with God. Then later they all get together and share what God taught them in that precious early morning meeting with God. And there’s your REVIVAL right there.

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Smart cities will evolve into high tech surveillance prisons.

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Only God can convince people about Himself.

Yet may we be His instruments in this.

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It’s not how long we pray but how much faith we have.

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By humbling ourselves before God we can avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble and pain.

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It’s very hard for a wealthy man to enter the Kingdom of God, Jesus said.

Why is that so?

Could give you at least 3 or 4 reasons right off the bat.

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For the disciple of Jesus, the future is absolutely glorious.

It’s gonna be tough going for a while, but glorious.

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I’m aware I wouldn’t be so well received some places if I had a different skin color.

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Where there’s sin in a Christian’s life there cannot be true joy.

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God is infinite in power, and yet there He is allowing Himself to be nailed to a Cross?

Understand this and you’ll understand who He really is.

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The Christian’s true spiritual authority in Christ is only appropriated and expressed in humility.

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Eternity is the real deal.

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Interesting to note that of all the sick people who came to Jesus for relief from their pain, not one heard Him say they had to continue in that state because God didn’t want to heal them. Out of the thousands who came to Him for healing, how many did He turn away because it wasn’t God’s will?

And another interesting aspect of Jesus prolific healing ministry, with literally thousands healed of major illnesses, is that it’s not recorded that He required full repentance from sin when He healed people.

However, He did expect those healed to repent, after experiencing God’s goodness to them.

Matrimonial Notice

We have three daughters for whom we seek godly spouses.

Aged 25 and 26. All love the Lord.

Please email me if you would like to discuss:

Ianvincent.india@gmail.com

Thanks.

Revival

A person who travels to the other side of the world to get into a room and experience God may be sincere and may have a genuine spiritual hunger, but unfortunately they’re blind and deaf to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. However, if in going there they did finally come to understand and believe the Gospel, it would be worth it.

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The topic of Revival is trending.

Would you say your own prayer life could be described as a personal Revival?

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As Christians become more superficial their concept of revival becomes more superficial.

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If some came into a Christian gathering and claimed they felt God’s presence, and this affected their emotions, such as they began sobbing, or trembling, or felt loved, or felt convicted of their sins: this, in itself, does not contradict the Gospel, and is no basis for assuming it is a deceptive spirit. If we assume that all spiritual experiences must be of the devil then we are the ones deceived.

However, beyond this, there are many experiential manifestations which are from deceiving spirits.

There’s two camps of deception:

a. The false spirit people (they have no discernment)

b. The anti-Holy Spirit people (they have taken discernment too far and falsely discerned)

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Feeling God’s presence is one thing.

Making it into a doctrine is another.

Drawing the wrong conclusions is another.

Building your faith upon a feeling is another.

Yet it doesn’t mean it’s impossible to feel God’s presence at times.

Of course, feeling God’s presence has virtually nothing to do with His actual presence.

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Is the Asbury Revival a “genuine move of the Spirit of God”?

Yes and No.

In those who are genuine, it is.

And in those who are not genuine, it’s not.

Today’s Tweets

You can’t see God, but He can see you.

Walk by faith, not by sight.

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If the national identity is a religious identity then it results in tyranny.

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If the HOLY Spirit is in you then consider yourself “on call” at all times for His service.

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Evangelism has two aspects:

1. Saving of souls.
2. As a witness to Jesus Christ, so no one has an excuse.

It’s like a two-edged sword.

Matthew 24:14
“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.”

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We all have the time to seek God, the question is, do we really have time for Him?

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A Christian says, the nation must unite together.

But how can the kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness be united?

We can pray that we can live in peace.

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Asbury Revival. The Spirit of God has always brought revivals. And people have always quenched the Spirit, causing the revivals to cease, or go into fanaticism. The idea of traveling somewhere to see God perform on stage is not what God has in mind when He revives His people. And the NT record witnesses to this, how the Spirit of God moved.

Everyone can have revival today, if they will repent and believe.

To travel to a revival in order to experience it sounds like an act of unbelief, not faith.

God is not at some place.

If you truly believe on the Lord Jesus Christ then God is in you.

If God is in you, it would be unbelief to go somewhere looking for God.

Notably, how did the Spirit of God move in the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ?

Did he set up a stage and invite people to come and watch?

Sooner or later, a narcissist will try and hijack the revival by using it as his own personal platform for self aggrandisement.

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When I hear of revival in America I don’t feel it’s a sign that all will be well, but it’s great mercy and grace prior to national judgment coming. God is reviving His people and preparing them to weather the storm of judgment which is coming.

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On the subject of revival:

If we’re not praying for revival, what are we praying for? Praying for non-revival??

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It can be a fine line between seeking to be filled with the Spirit, and asking God to give you a tangible manifestation of His power (which would be like seeking a sign). Scripture exhorts to desire the fullness of the Spirit, and yet never to seek after physical signs or proofs.

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Human nature is such that man either seeks fellowship with the light, or with the darkness: with the righteous, or the unrighteous. Man is made for fellowship.

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The final delusion, the last nail in the coffin, is when a person is proud of what they should be ashamed of.

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There’s something which is surely unsettling in heaven, when someone lives without God all week and then goes to church on Sunday. It would be better they don’t go than to pretend.

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True prayer has been compared to breathing.

And the root word for Spirit means “breath”.

Without taking the analogy too far, breathing is done subconsciously. And there is that element with praying in or by the Spirit. How prayers form inside us is mysterious. It’s spiritual, and also engages the intellect.

By the Spirit means formed by the Spirit.

Whether the prayer is formed in our own language, or in an unknown language.

An example of a prayer not by the Spirit would be when we just have a good idea, pray it, and it turns out it wasn’t God’s will.

In a dead church, prayer is solely by the intellect or soul, and not by the Spirit.

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The promise.

Will He keep His promise?

Will He keep His word?

Because, if He does, what have you got to worry about?

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In the true disciple of Jesus: Christ is in them, and they are in Christ. This is spiritual union. There is no more distance between them and God.

Good News.

But bad news for those in the religion business.

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1 Timothy 6:7

“…We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.”

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We are going to be leaving this world, but we can’t carry anything with us where we’re going. We have to leave whatever we’ve accumulated behind.

What will you have after your life here is over?

If you have Christ now, you will also have Him when you leave this world.

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Whatever we find disgusting in the world, the roots of it are in our own sinful nature. Therefore, airs of superiority look foolish before God, who knows that we are dust.

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Love is our duty, but it can’t be JUST a duty, otherwise it’s not love. Relate this to God or man.

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Last century saw two World Wars. Now, have people’s hearts really changed since then to avert another? Are the present world leaders just as capable of such immense evil as those of the last century?

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I don’t think God wants to compete with video games (or whatever) for people’s attention.

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I just hear snippets of modern music here and there, and I wonder how many options are left for contorting the human voice into something different? The present styles or singing will no longer be cool in a few years, so, either, they go back to older styles and rehash them, or come up with new contortions of the voice. Maybe the voices will get more and more bizarre as people demand a new sound ? Maybe more animal sounds? Hyena style singing? Or Gibbon sounds?

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God has known every generation, from the cradle to the grave. He’s known every one of them by name.

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God will help us understand what we need to understand, and, if there’s stuff He deems we don’t need to understand, we should be at peace about that.

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Heard today:

“If we’re to instigate revolutionary change, we must transform human consciousness.”

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In other words, if we want to control the masses and get them to go along with our agenda we need to modify their consciousness to come in line with ours.

And this massive brainwashing is indeed happening. You’ve heard of global consciousness?

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Everything you ever need to know about God is written in the Bible.

In case you’re interested.

You can learn things about God from nature.

But still, everything you need to know is in the Bible.

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If we speak the truth, you never know, some might be drawn to the truth.

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From God’s perspective, His children are seen as bright shining lights moving around on a planet cloaked in deep spiritual darkness. They are the only lights in this thick and evil spiritual atmosphere.

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2 Corinthians 13:14

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.”
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Fellowship is in the communion of the Holy Spirit.

If people in a group all share the same Spirit then they have fellowship.

They will all share a common witness of the Spirit.

And they will all have a witness in them to the word of God.

When we teach God’s word in such a setting, all receive God’s word.

True ministry is spirit to spirit, or heart to heart.

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As God doesn’t forget those faithful to Him, neither should we forget those faithful to us.

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Another case against evolution. How did birds know they need hollow bones in order to be light enough to fly?

Did birds with solid bones keep crashing, so they had the idea they better lighten their bones?

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God has never failed to give grace. There is also responsibility.

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Living without the Holy Spirit would be like a fish trying to live on the dry land.

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More people have experienced religion than have experienced the Holy Spirit.

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God gives us life to do His will, not our own.

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The “Church of England” says, “God is neither male or female”.

Consider, that Jesus is the Son of God, not the daughter of God, and He is God the Son, and that He called God His Father, not mother.

On this basis it’s patently false to want to call God an “it” or “mother” rather than, Father.

Just having a lot of money and buildings doesn’t make it a legitimate church.

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The kind of Christian more likely to be accepted by the general public is the one who never speaks up about what Jesus said.

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He is far more conscious of us than we are of Him.

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A baby in the womb is just as much a person as a baby out of the womb. It doesn’t become a human being after delivery. It’s already a human being. What are you robbing that person if you murder them?

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If Christ is our life, even if our world falls apart, we still have a life.

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Holiness is the only true, lasting beauty, and every follower of Jesus can have it.

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Galatians 2:21
“I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”

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In other words, if we could redeem ourselves, then Christ died for nothing.

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Regarding the satanic Grammy show: Yes, there is a fallen angelic being named satan (among other titles). We know this because Jesus Christ described him in detail. Now, he has deceived the whole world, scripture says. So, this means his stooges are the most deceived by him. All those medieval images of satan, the dude in red pajamas with a pitchfork, is all a caricature which he created so that people would mock the idea that satan is real. He wants people to think of him as a myth because he has the most power over those he has convinced that he doesn’t exist. So, the Grammy show is just another joke which satan has got his puppets to perform. Satan knows he will soon be thrown into the Lake of Fire, and he wants to take as many with him as he can.

The trick, therefore, is that people associate the devil with the medieval image. They don’t expect him to come adorned with gold and expensive religious gowns, and with a cherubic, kind and loving face. The Bible says he comes as an angel of light.

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The suffering caused by the earthquake leaves us helpless to lend a hand. However, such devastation will come to our own doorstep before too long, then we can lend a hand.

Today’s Tweets

Proceed with prayer.

And go ahead with great confidence in God.

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The things going on in Heaven right now are far better and more interesting than the things going on here.

The people in Heaven have no faults or weaknesses, nor bias or ignorance, and they’re all full of love. Not surprising they get on well up there.

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Matthew 25:6-7
“And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’
Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.”
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The whole body of Christ hear a cry that Jesus is coming soon. Seems to indicate the cry comes from the Spirit of God.

This happens at “midnight”, which means right at the end of the age.

Is the true body of Christ hearing this cry in the Spirit right now?

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Imputed (positional) righteousness and practical (temporal) righteousness are one package. You can’t have one without the other. And it’s like a marriage, the two become one. You live righteously because God recreated you into a righteous person, and imputes the righteousness of His Son to you.

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Spiritual strength is strength of character.

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Often people mistakenly think of truth as something within the confines of religion.

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In a mature house church the topic of “house church” is no longer the main topic discussed.

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The Kingdom happening right now is that which is conformed to the Eternal Kingdom of Christ. Such people already live by the same values they will live forever with in His Kingdom.

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Life and living; the idea, from concept and design, all the way to the finished creation, was God’s project.

It didn’t create itself.

This means all the myriad nuances of what it means to live, enjoy and experience life were God’s idea.

It wasn’t accidental.

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Who defines what is immoral?

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Remember when the vaccine was pushed as “totally safe”, even though the long term effects were unknown?

Remember when you were forced to be vaccinated to supposedly safeguard the lives of others?

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Probably, the people who love their country are the ones who pray for it, that there will be a turning from lawlessness to righteousness. Pray for righteous leaders.

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Exodus 20:12
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.”

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It’s to honor them unconditionally, whether you think they are good or bad parents.

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First, God made the planet, and made it capable of supporting life, then He made the life to inhabit it.

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We live for Him, and we live by Him.

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Do you believe everything made itself out of nothing for no purpose?

If so, that is your belief, or your faith or religion.

But it’s an absurd religion to cling to.

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In a complex organism there are a multitude of individual components, of which, the absence or malfunction of even just one of them might make it impossible for it to live. Now, if each component made itself, for no reason, and purely by accident, that’s a lot of accidents that needed to happen in perfect sequence and harmony to make the organism live. Talk about a miracle of luck.

Each component of an organism had to be individually designed and created (just as in any complex device) to fit into the overall plan, so an organism is not just one creation, but an ordered assembling of thousands of individually created components. Not to mention all the components which make up just one component.

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Servants are either faithful or unfaithful to their Master.

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If we’re too busy to spend time alone with God then we’re fools.

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Some critics say Jesus never claimed to be God and never demanded people to worship Him, and therefore couid not be God.

This thought presupposes or assumes that if Jesus were God, the proof of this would be in Him going around claiming to be God and ordering people to worship Him.

That is a foolish assumption because it betrays an ignorance of the humility of God. If the Messiah has to glorify himself, then he has no glory. Just as anyone who glorifies themselves. Jesus didn’t glorify Himself, His Father did.

There are several things to consider:

a. Jesus did make some claims: He claimed preexistence. He claimed He was with the Father and sent to earth by Him. He claimed that He and the Father were One, and if you had seen Him you had seen the Father. He claimed authority to forgive sins. He claimed to be the Messiah, prophesied in scripture. He claimed He is the King of God’s Kingdom and that He will judge and rule the whole human race.

b. When people acknowledged Him as God, either verbally, or by bowing down and worshipping Him, He accepted it. If He were not God He would have been a sinner for allowing people to worship Him.

c. When John the Baptist sent messengers to Jesus asking if He is the One, Jesus replied, not by making a claim about Himself, but asking John to make up his own mind by considering the things He had done. Only God could have done such miracles.

Of course, this is only concerning the subject of claiming to be God.

There are other facts which attribute to His divinity.

Chiefly, His resurrection from the dead.

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When we are born we are born into this world and belong to it, but if we are born again we belong to another world and to a Kingdom which is not of this world.

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If a church is filled with the Holy Spirit it doesn’t need a leader/s, but it will need Elders as facilitators.

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Hatred for the Jews, and denying them their ancestral homeland, is not normal hatred, it is a spiritual enmity which began when God made a Covenant with Abraham.

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Selective Outrage is outrage selected as per one’s particular political, social or spiritual ideology.

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A miracle of grace.

Grace is the greatest miracle, and is available to all.

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Someone said, they have no idea what it means to be “born again”.

They have no way to understand what it means because it hasn’t happened to them.

It means God gives us a new life.

How does He do it?

First we need to acknowledge to God we are dead in our sins, guilty, and rightly condemned for breaking God’s laws, and confess our need for a new life. We need Him to wash away all our sins and guilt and make us new people who have power over sin. Set free from bondage.

If we want a new life, we must let go of the old life, and renounce our sins.

By grace you are saved through faith in Jesus Christ.

Get alone with God. Truly repent and put your trust only on Jesus. We will need to no longer trust ourselves or in any religion. We need to trust the Person of Jesus Christ.

If you are saved by grace, then you’re saved and born again.

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There are coincidences and there’s also providential “coincidences”. God’s providence is a great wonder. He’s so great, and yet His eye is on the sparrow, and as there’s a lot of sparrows to feed it shows how great He is. He cares for all people, scripture teaches.

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The truly positive message is the one which helps conform us to Christ, reveals Him, and helps us to know Him better.

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The world says, get for yourself.

Jesus says, deny yourself.

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The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of Christ, so if He is in us then we have all the resources of God within us. However, for those resources to be accessed depends on a whole bunch of things. They will be accessed according to God’s order, plan and purpose, and through growing in knowledge of Him. They will be accessed through faith, through the Word of Truth, through connection to our living Head, Jesus Christ, and by our fellowship with the members of His body. In other words, having ALL the resources of God within us doesn’t make us independent of others, nor does it mean we have a short cut to living and growing like Him, as it doesn’t cancel our need for diligence, commitment to understanding God’s words in scripture, faithfulness, servanthood and loving obedience.

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Jesus said, “I am the Door!”

An open door.

Open to you right now.

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The Cross was horrific.

It had to be.

Because man’s sin is horrific.

God Himself paid our debt in full.

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Some churches expect too much, while others expect too little.

Some lay heavy burdens of commitment, overloading people’s lives with programs, while others don’t even know the concept of commitment.

How we relate to other Christians, and what form it takes, needs to be voluntary and without pressure to conform.

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God owns everything, including the time. It’s all His.

Therefore, we have a problem, don’t we, if we’re not comfortable with this fact.

Creator = Owner

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Scripture is like fresh pure water in the desert.

Surely people can tell when they read scripture that is at a whole higher level than reading anything else?

If the Word of God doesn’t mean anything to you, then, if God’s words don’t mean anything to you, how can it be that God means anything to you?

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There’s us knowing Jesus Christ, and there’s Him knowing us.

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That He personally knows me is too wonderful to fully comprehend.

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Give honor to whom it’s due.

How much honor is due to the Lord Jesus Christ?

If people called you an idiot, you would feel dishonored.

People use Jesus name as a mockery.

It dishonors Him.

It’s like making Him out to be an idiot.

Now, to dishonor Him is a very serious business.

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If God helps you achieve something, how much credit could you personally take for it?

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For me, one of the saddest things in the world is to watch someone zealously pursue a religion, philosophy or spirituality, and yet miss out on God’s free gift of salvation, which is by faith in Jesus Christ, alone. Imagine devoting your entire life to a lie, and then dying, losing your soul, because your own efforts could not atone for your sins. And considering the sheer numbers of such, it’s a tragedy of epic proportions.

There’s those who are trying to earn salvation, and those who think they’ve earned salvation, and there’s those who don’t believe they need salvation, and there’s those who are not sure what they believe.

And there’s those who know Jesus Christ has saved them.

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In the world, evil is thought of as that which a person does that harms others.

Whereas, Jesus taught it’s much more than this: because a person might not harm anyone, and even do good to others, yet still be evil in themselves, in relation to God.

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Matthew 7:22-23

“Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’

And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

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These trust in their own righteousness, as seen in their appeal to the good things they have done.

Jesus calls them lawless.

No doubt, at the very least, they actually are lawless in their inner man and thoughts, if not outwardly lawless, while all the while publicly touted as notable Christians.

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We’re either blessed here, today, or we go to glory and have a blessed day there. Either way we have a blessed day.

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Colossians 3:4
“When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.”

James 4:14
“…whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.”

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What is your life?

If Christ is our life, the things which are life to us must have some connection to Him.

Things done in Him, in His life, by His life, have life. Other things don’t have life, they are dead things.

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The world is not an illusion, but what it promises is an illusion.

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Nationalism based on a religion isn’t actually nationalism anyway.

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It’s not a question of who is right and who is wrong, it’s that Jesus is right. Our confidence is only in the fact He is right, and not on whether anyone else, including ourselves, are right He is right, and He is completely and perfectly right about everything, and He is alive. If He were dead it wouldn’t matter if He were right, but He’s alive.
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Acts 17:30-31 “Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”

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Whether people are in Heaven or Hell, now they know the truth.

Today’s Tweets

It’s terribly sad to see people exit this world without a Savior. They may have scoffed at the idea, or been insulted by the thought that they need a Savior. But all that’s changed now. They’re no longer laughing.

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Your REAL friends are the ones who pray for you.

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With God’s help you can have a much better life.

Jesus said, “I have come that they might have LIFE, and have it more abundantly”.

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Christians are free to choose whether they will have a cultural or religious identity. They should realize they have a choice. Many would be unaware that it’s quite okay not to have a cultural or religious identity.

For example, I wouldn’t feel I’ve betrayed my ancestors or family if I choose not to conform to their culture or religion.

I’m Australian. What is Australian culture? Drinking beer, meat pies, bush hats, speaking the vernacular, going to the footy, watching cricket on TV… ??

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The Bible tells us where the world is heading and what’s going to happen.

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Social media portrays stars and celebrities as if they actually have a life, but this is an illusion being painted. Don’t fall for the illusion.

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When we comprehend and consider that God answers prayer, we realize we should be more serious about prayer.

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Colossians 3:23 “And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men”
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Meaning, there shouldn’t be anything we do which is not unto the Lord.

Hmmmm?

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If we have more zeal than love, or if our zeal overtakes our love, you know where that ends up.

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2 Corinthians 2:9 “For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.”

Hmmmm?

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Zechariah 4:6b “…Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.”

Here is the way forward.

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Hebrews 10:31
“It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”
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Either, you’re in His hands, or you’re going to fall into His hands, and that would be terrifying.

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Don’t know what to preach?

Luke 24:47
“…Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations…”

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Commented

On abortion rights…

Surely a conflict of interest here between the rights of the mother and the rights of her child.

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Righteousness makes you feel clean, and unrighteousness makes you feel dirty or unclean.

The Bible describes the difference between clean and unclean.

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God’s grace is sufficient, the Bible teaches. Whatever our circumstance, His grace is sufficient.

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Christ is the truest friend. He’s the true definition of a friend. Let’s be such a friend to those we meet.

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The popular narrative is that the WEF are the good guys who want to save the human race, so whatever they want to do must be with the best intentions.

It’s extremely naive.

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Comforting to know that Democrat riots are always “mostly peaceful”.

Extreme bias in the media.

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It raises the issue of fake conversion.

Surely, the people who say to Jesus: “Lord! LORD! We did great things in your name!”

And He says, “I never knew you!” ….

…Surely these people are false converts.

Jesus describes them as “lawless”.

They have a type of conversion, but it’s a fake conversion.

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Anything with the wrong motive is doomed from the start.

Unless God intervenes.

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God lets faulty foundations collapse because He can’t build on such.

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To a friend:

I understand the need to share your burden, and I feel honored you shared it with me.

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Truth wins.

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You would think that someone’s desire to rule the world would disqualify them from the position?

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Christian, if the Spirit is working mightily in your life, then He can also work mightily in the lives of those you’re praying for, for they’re really no different to you.

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Psalm 95:7b-8a

“…Today, if you will hear His voice: Do not harden your hearts…”
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Have you heard His voice today?

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Have you spent time alone with God today in an attitude of awe, worship, adoration, reverence, thankfulness, love and joy?

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Don’t miss out on your one chance at immortality.

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1 Corinthians 15:53b “… This mortal must put on immortality.”

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If Jesus didn’t rise from the dead then you would never need to bother yourself with Him.

But He did rise, never to die again.

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When we receive a criticism, our reaction sometimes reveals the state of our conscience, whether it’s clear or cloudy.

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Jesus shows us what is real.

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The Bible says God spoke the universe into existence, creating it out of nothing except the words He spoke.

What incomprehensible power!

Ought to get to know Him, right?

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To know Jesus Christ is the ultimate.

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If the HOLY Spirit is in us, He should lead us, and not we, ourselves.

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Jesus died for our sins and was raised on the third day to produce a new kind of people, a new species, a new creation: a kind of people who never existed before.

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Do what you know you should do, before God, and leave the outcome to Him, in simple trust. He only expects us to do what we should do. He doesn’t expect us to have control over the outcome.

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Absolutely every issue or dilemma facing every person is ultimately a question of truth.

So we should never undervalue truth.

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The written Word does not replace the Spirit, and neither does the Spirit replace the written Word.

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For a true Christian, the future is always better than the past.

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If goodness is measured and defined by human standards, alone, then, comparatively, that is, comparing people with people, there are good people and bad people, by that definition.

But, by God’s definition, and by His law and commands, the people who are considered good by society’s standards are not good in the sight of God.

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Sometimes it’s hard for us to comprehend God personally involved in our lives, since He is infinite, and we, so small, and seemingly insignificant or inconsequential.

The Lord Jesus encouraged us to ask the Father for all our needs.

This won’t distract Him from weightier matters, because He’s already personally involved and invested in our life, and He’s already helping us, whether we ask for His help or not. And He loved us before we loved Him.

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Things only have meaning because they’re designed to have meaning, and we’re designed to understand their meaning.

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Gatherings of God’s children is where the love is supposed to be on this planet. Also known as, church.

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It’s wonderful when you delight in something and it’s because the Holy Spirit in you is delighting in it.

A note on “tongues”

A brief note on “tongues” (speaking in a language you don’t know):

• On the Day of Pentecost the “tongues” were in known languages, of which there were people present who could understand them.
• In 1 Cor. 14 there is a detailed explanation of “tongues”. Paul says the utterance in a “tongue” needs an interpretation. This indicates that such utterances were in languages unknown to anyone present.
• The interpreter needed a gift to interpret. Interpreters weren’t people who were naturally familiar with the particular language being uttered.
• Now, why would God give a message in the Chinese language to a church which spoke French?
• So, it seems to indicate that the languages referred to in 1 Cor. 14 are not known languages, they are utterances directly from the Holy Spirit in the language He uses.
• 1 Cor. 14 also asks us to distinguish between a message to the church in “tongues”, and privately praying in “tongues”, as both are described.
• In the genuine manifestation of the gift it is the Holy Spirit speaking, with zero input or contribution from the speaker.
• So, it is either the Spirit, or the flesh. It can’t be an amalgam of both.
• Counterfeit gifts are so common today that the average Christian may never have witnessed genuine gifts.
• It is foolish to base your “theology” upon whether or not you have experienced what scripture describes.

Today’s Tweets

Can anyone see a problem with the elite deciding for the masses what is factual and what isn’t?

As a Christian, I respect civil authorities, but I certainly don’t trust them.

In Gov we trust??

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Read today:

“The “new normal” is healthy people suddenly dropping dead…”

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If you’re on Twitter you would know that unusually large numbers of healthy young people are dropping dead from heart conditions.

Other platforms are suppressing the truth.

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The mRNA was hailed as “safe” by governments, even though its long term effects were unknown.

Isn’t that criminally irresponsible?

Now, the short term effects are coming out, and the long term effects will be more clear over the coming years.

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The true Christian life is a perpetual interaction with the indwelling Holy Spirit.

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The Bible is the only authority on matters pertaining to God.

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You can’t get better guidance than by the Holy Spirit, can you?

“I get guidance from the Bible!”

Yes. Guidance as far as the truth is concerned. Guidance on issues of truth.

Yet the Bible alone can’t guide every step you make day to day, and lead you to the people you need to meet, guide you when to speak or keep silent etc.. We need both the Bible and the Holy Spirit.

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I’ve never encountered a problem where the Bible was the problem.

If the Bible is not the word of Jesus, then it’s worthless.

But if it is His word, the truth He has preserved for His disciples to heed, then live by every word of God.

And as to a supposed choice between living by His Spirit or living by His truth, there is no such choice or option.

I guess you’re familiar with liberal “Christians” who support evil and justify it by saying the Bible is not literally God’s word?

The devil doesn’t mind you talking continuously about grace and love or “Jesus” just as long as you don’t call out what the Bible describes as sin.

Re: “Did Jesus promise the Bible to lead us into all truth?”

How do you know Jesus promised to lead us into all truth?

By reading the Bible.

Now, which truth is He going to lead us into?

The truth He inspired and preserved for us.

Okay, let’s look at the problem of legalism, which is a huge problem.

The Bible is not the cause of legalism.

In fact, the whole New Testament teaches against it.

That’s how we know legalism is wrong. We know it from scripture, by the Spirit.

So, when people misuse the scripture, it doesn’t mean there is a fault with scripture.

Some might say, “oh, he became legalistic by emphasizing the Bible over the Spirit”.

Surely, this does happen, but it’s rare.

Usually legalists are trapped by extra-biblical rules or laws.

Hebrews 8:10 (from Jeremiah 31)
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”

Now, is this truth, which He writes in our mind and heart, a different truth to scripture?

Will it be extra-biblical truths?

You might think it’s a funny thing, but it’s the Holy Spirit which causes me to defend and uphold scripture as the only authority on matters pertaining to God.

The Holy Spirit never causes us to look to the Holy Spirit as the only authority concerning God.

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Heard today from a wise woman:

“We should read the word of God, and anything in our life which doesn’t conform to it we should be willing to change. “

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If you don’t have God, what do you have?

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If God can’t give us joy, then why should anything else?

What happens is when the LORD is our joy, we find joy in the simple things of life because we understand every true joy of living has its origin and meaning in Him.

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If we don’t preach the Gospel it’s ultimately due to a lack of love.

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1 Corinthians 12:18
“But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.”
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The picture here is like a physical body, with all the organs and muscles etc., placed by design exactly where they need to be for the healthy functioning of the whole body.

So, mysteriously, God places each member of Christ in His body, which is His church, by design, with the intent of playing its part in the healthy functioning of the church, universal and local. Each member somehow finds themselves where God intended them to be in the body. …somehow. Because He is able to do it. It shows His majestic Sovereign authority over His creation.

Ephesians 1:22-23
“And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,
which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.”

As wonderful as this truth is, no truth can be used as an escape from responsibility.

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Testimony

We’ve had an evening prayer meeting with all our family for nearly 25 years. Only on rare occasions do we miss. We all take turns to share the word of God. So each day it’s someone’s turn to share and facilitate discussion, and another person’s turn to lead us all in the prayer of agreement for all whom we pray for. We pray for all our family, relatives, friends, neighbors, government, and also for any needs. The kids have been sharing the word of God since they began to read, and leading in prayer as well. We take time to sing thanks and praise to our God, preferring to sing songs which are directly from scripture. When we gather for prayer, around 7 pm, we first just chat about anything touching our lives. We also talk business plans, and anything needful. Then after that we praise God, share His Word, and pray.

Personally, I believe it’s one of the most vital aspects of our life.

The most vital aspect is our time alone with God.

And the secondmost, is our time together in prayer.

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As society degenerates you can expect that governments will eventually “own” your children, as in, parental rights will be removed, and the state will have all rights over the child, and each child will undergo compulsory brainwashing in the narrative of the state, with the goal of producing compliant, unthinking, obedient citizens. It’s already well on the way.

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When we preach to the Jewish people, we’re not calling them to leave Judaism and adopt a Gentile religion, we’re calling them to recognize who the Jewish Messiah is.

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How could we think we are better teachers than the Holy Spirit?

Therefore, we must be totally dependent on the Holy Spirit when we teach.

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It’s reassuring to know that our God is infinitely more powerful than the devil.

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Read today:

“When grace becomes an excuse to live in sin, you’re no longer under grace, you’re under deception.”

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Each person’s life and soul is exceedingly precious.

Yet in the world, life is cheap, and people discard their own soul, or trade it for worthless things.

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When someone says “God told me!”, say to them, The only way we know anything about God is because He revealed it to us by His word and Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is the only teacher, so all we truly know about God is because “God told me”, so why say, “God told me!”?

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They have a hierarchical understanding of spiritual authority.

If they think you are on a lower tier of spiritual authority to them, they will feel threatened if God is working in your life, because, in their mind, it would be unthinkable that you come to be above them in the hierarchy.

Of course, there is no hierarchy.

That is carnal thinking.

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Complain about someone…

…don’t see any change.

Pray for them…

…see change.

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Every Christian who waits on the Lord is revived in their spirit.

(See Isaiah 40:31)

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1 Peter 5:6-7
“Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”

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Cast your concern upon the LORD, and He will take care of it.

Whatever is worrying you, trust Him to take care of it.

And He will.

What a friend! What a Father!

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The most interesting and fascinating subject of all is God.

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Christian fellowship is special because Christ is there.

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Does Jesus have to compete with the world for our attention?

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The brain tends to work better if it’s used, and so does the heart.

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Atmospheric music is nice to listen to, but what “is” the “atmosphere”, actually?

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Jesus Christ doesn’t want us to be religious with Him, He wants us to be real with Him.

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The Holy Spirit can bring clarity on perhaps every facet of life we need clarity on.

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The parable of the Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1-13)

David Wilkerson once said that these were perhaps the scariest verses in the Bible, because the five foolish virgins are obviously professing, church-going Christians who are looking forward to the Lord’s return, and yet they try to enter the Kingdom, but are shut out forever.

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If your civilization goes back 4000 years, you’re not an occupier.

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Anyone can feel lonely at times, but the person with Christ in them knows they have no valid reason to feel alone, because if He is in them and with them they’re not alone.

You might FEEL alone, but you’re not.

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If someone passionately shouts out their claims, many will think it is true simply on that basis, and not by examining the claims. So the main thing is to be a good actor, and people will believe you.

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The medicinal and nutritional properties in plant life were engineered with precision to sustain life and treat nearly every medical condition, and this was done before there was any life to sustain, or any sickness to cure.

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The Holy Spirit is given us to help us do what would be impossible to do without Him.

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Read today:

“To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible offends you assumes if there is a God he wouldn’t have any views that upset you.”

Today’s Tweets

If the Spirit of Christ is in you, which aspect of your life won’t He touch and bless?

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If our enemy is lied about or misrepresented, and we don’t stand up for him, it’s because we lack Christian character.

Lack of character is the big problem today.

Many don’t even understand the concept.

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Three days in. Time is flying. The Christmas spirit will wear off by February.

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We’re utterly blessed when the Kingdom of God is manifest in our marriage and family.

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For Christians, if perchance we don’t achieve all our dreams or goals, or get all that we might want in this short life, it’s okay, because we’ve got forever.

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House church is as real as its friendships are real.

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Online amusement has robbed the youth of their youth, and therefore their future.

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Everything derives its true meaning from God.

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Are we at His service?

When He calls, do we answer?

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Just as our online browsing history is permanently recorded, so does God record everything we think, say or do.

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Good wishes are fine so long as solid prayers are behind them.

Otherwise, they’re nothing but wishful thinking.

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Massive technological advancement, while at the same time massive moral and spiritual decline.

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With Christ – SAVED

Without Christ – LOST

This is what Jesus taught.

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If the HOLY Spirit of God lives in you then you are ALREADY BLESSED. How could you be more blessed than that? Why would you need some dude on the internet, who doesn’t even know you, to pronounce his blessing on you?

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It was only to sin once which caused Adam to be cut off from God and lose everything. Just one sin, one time, did it. Similarly, even “good” people are cut off from God by their sin and need a Savior and Redeemer.

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A mature Christian can gladly bear with the foibles or fleshly weaknesses of others. They can even get on with the eccentric or simple minded. But an immature Christian finds it haxrd to be friends with difficult people because they’re not yet mature and grounded in the love of Christ.

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Where there’s compromise with ethics there will be compromise with the truth.

You can’t expect a commercial ministry to have a firm grasp of the truth because they’ve already abandoned it to pursue their commercial religious enterprise.

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7.9 billion souls riding with you on this tiny rock hurtling through space.

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Beyond the illusions of life in this world, Jesus is calling you to come to Him.

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Jesus said, I have come that they might have LIFE, and have it more abundantly.

We don’t need a new religion.

We need a new life.

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If we pray ‘God’s will be done’ won’t it be fantastic if He answers and does His will?

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God is a good provider.

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May the LORD periodically remind us why we’re here.

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We didn’t have any resources so we started drawing on God’s resources, and that’s how we lived.

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The sins of others sometimes evoke in us an attitude of despising, however we would need to first despise ourselves, because we’ve probably done the same thing.

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The Left doesn’t want you to moralize, unless you want to moralize about Trump.

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Hope is what optimism wants to be when it grows up.

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Miracles don’t defy science, they just show that science doesn’t have all the answers.

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It would be a low view of marriage if a person believed marriage was created solely for man’s benefit, because then they might judge they’re no longer getting any benefit for themselves out of it and leave their spouse.

There are valid reasons for divorce, however probably 90% of divorces are over invalid reasons, and simply due to narcissism, selfishness or an unwillingness to forgive.

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Love is a big subject, but ultimately it’s defined in the Cross of Jesus Christ. Here is love. Here is what God is like.

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All who have walked with Jesus have found Him faithful and true.

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Look up to Heaven and say, Father, I want all the faith that’s available!

Wouldn’t you like more faith?

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How could you have the Holy Spirit of God in you and not think about God?

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If Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead, then believe any religion, it won’t matter.

But if you know He did rise again, believe only Him.

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The Passover meal was to be eaten by families in their homes. Similarly, the LORD’S meal was to be eaten in homes, and not in temples.

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Receive another believer as if you were receiving Christ Himself.

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Grace from beginning to end.

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“Scientists have discovered that just about everything about the basic structure of the universe is balanced on a razor’s edge for life to exist. The coincidences are far too fantastic to attribute this to mere chance or to claim that it needs no explanation. The dials are set too precisely to have been a random accident.”

• Robin Collins

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Prayer actually connects us with people in a way that no other way can because it connects us together in God.

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A major societal trend of the last 2 years is a concerted effort to get the masses to blindly trust the government, and this has been fairly successful.

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Most of the major problems each society faces have no solution apart from each individual being transformed by Jesus Christ.

Alleviation policies are there, but no solutions, because the problem is with human nature.

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For a Christian to knowingly and purposely sin is to be a hypocrite.

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In revival times our social life gets sanctified and transformed into fellowship life.

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May your church be a little “reality zone” within a world of unreality.

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A disciple of Jesus does what He says.

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When we quote one verse of scripture we’re aware that the Bible has much more to say on that subject than just that one verse.

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A Christian is either walking in the Spirit or grieving the Spirit.

If neither of these, they’re not a Christian.

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As God has made each person physically unique, so is everyone who is born again made spiritually unique in Christ. He doesn’t make clones.

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All the world is guilty before God, for all have broken His laws.

When someone breaks the law, they’re guilty of breaking the law whether they feel guilty or not. What they feel is irrelevant to the fact of them being guilty.

If offenders of God’s law feel their guilt and then run to the Savior, Jesus Christ, His once and for all sacrifice on the cross deletes their guilt absolutely.

But if offenders don’t feel and acknowledge their guilt then they don’t run to the Savior, and their guilt remains, and they suffer eternal judgment for it.

Or worse still, they feel their guilt, but they, in vain, try to atone for it themselves and redeem themselves through good deeds or religious rituals, and still their guilt remains, and suffer eternal judgment.

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Despite the condition of the “church”, each individual has no excuse for not being filled with the Holy Spirit, with the subsequent outcome of that.

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If we give false comfort to the lost, what does that make us?

False teachers.

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We can’t attribute meaning to something if it doesn’t already have meaning in relation to God. If it doesn’t mean anything in relation to God, why should it mean anything to us? We want His reality, not an artificial reality.

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If you live in a developed country you are living off all the hard work and ingenuity invested by those who came before you.

Today’s Tweets

When Jesus of Nazareth came along, people saw Him open blind eyes, make cripples walk, and even raise dead people back to life. Then they saw Him die, be buried, and three days later come back to life.

Now, whatever their understanding or beliefs concerning life, death, or God were, the fact of these miracles they witnessed confronted them.

This was not within the realm of philosophy or religion.

They were undeniably confronted with God.

And nothing has changed.

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No amount of religious observances or rituals can make us Christians.

Only Christ in us makes us His.

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Jesus’ physical body is seated at the right hand of the Father in glory.

His Spirit is here, indwelling His people.

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Human life literally hangs by a thread.

How fragile we are.

Edwards said that those outside of Christ literally dangle over Hell by a slim thread, and it is the sheer mercy of God the thread hasn’t snapped under the weight of their sin and they drop into Hell.

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Refusal to pray for someone can sometimes be a refusal to extend mercy.

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One way to test whether a conspiracy theory is true is to look at the odds or probability that so many people could secretly conspire together to keep a great secret and not break ranks and spill the beans.

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It’s futile to seek happiness independent of God.

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If you see a dead body, what you’re seeing is someone’s shell. They are no longer in that shell. They are somewhere else.

The inner person is a spirit.

For us who are born again, our spirit lives solely by the Holy Spirit in us. We have no life independent of God.

Christ is now our LIFE.

If we didn’t have Him in us we would be spiritually dead.

And this was our former state: we had a spirit living within this physical shell, but our spirit was dead in sin.

Christ made our spirit come alive by His very presence in us, and recreated us into a new creature, a new person, in His image.

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Christian, would you consider yourself to be a servant?

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Psalm 23:4

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are WITH me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”

…You are WITH me.

….You are WITH me.

….You are WITH me.

So I will fear no evil.

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Abiding in Christ bears the fruit of that abiding, Jesus taught in John 15.

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Read today:

“For Christians, the greatest happiness in this life is knowing that the greatest happiness is not in this life.”

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Dependence on God manifests in near constant prayer and thanksgiving.

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The greatest intelligence is God, Himself.

All other forms of intelligence originate from Him.

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In the world, truth is a perspective which takes shape according to personal interest. It’s subjective.

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Saw a video of some Christians being beaten with pieces of wood for their faith, and they just stood there and took it with dignity. No one could rob their dignity.

It should convict their attackers and the spectators that these people have something they don’t have.

(I can’t mention where it took place)

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King David’s songs still good after 3000 years. Love singing them.

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Aren’t we lucky we evolved the ability to reproduce, otherwise we would have been goners!

Eventually we had to evolve a functioning reproductive system, otherwise what would have happened to the human race?!

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Titus 2:14
“…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.”

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We are His own special people.

He is purifying us for Himself.

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As Christians, we choose our own discipline. If we drift away from fellowship with God, that emptiness caused by our lack of fellowship with Him is our discipline.

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Read today:

“The happier you are within, the less material goods you need to buy.”

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All the famous people will soon be dead, gone and forgotten.

Only in Christ does life have eternal meaning.

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When you see a person do you see a living soul? Or something else?

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For every thing which God does for us He’s worthy of being thanked for it.

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Societal trends are driven by copycat behavior, which, in turn, is driven by spiritual influence. The starting point is a deep feeling of inadequacy or discontentment.

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If people are wonderful, their Creator is much more so.

If people are kind, their Creator, who bestowed them with this ability, is much kinder.

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In the Lord’s Table (which is the culmination and fulfillment of the Old Covenant feasts) the simple act of eating a meal and filling our stomachs is elevated to something holy in the sight of God. We can learn something from this, that true holiness is manifested in how we live in this physical world before God: the marriage of the spiritual and the physical.

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God knows what it’s like to be one of us because He became one of us.

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Who wants to have a “Woke Totalitarian Social Credit System”?

Persecution in India

Today’s Tweets

The Almighty can never be enlisted by man for his own purpose.

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In Christ, God not only forgives us, but establishes us before Him as if we’ve never sinned.

Jude 1:24
“Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy”

Hebrews 10:14
“For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.”

Unpack this, and believe Him, and praise Him forever.

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When we know the beauty of our Creator, then we can appreciate the beauty of His creation much more.

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Babylon can’t be the world system because the world destroys it, then mourns its passing. Rev. 17 & 18.

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John 8:44b
“…there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.”

In this chapter Jesus compares truth with lies. He teaches that the devil replaces the truth with lies in the hearts and minds of men. These lies are created to substitute for the truth.

The devil speaks a lie from his own resources, in other words, he thinks he has the authority to be the arbiter of truth, as if he were God. We see this in the Garden of Eden when he assured Eve that she would not die, contrary to the truth she heard from God.

If God says something, it is true because God said it.

So, the devil wants to get in on this too, and thinks that if he creates a lie, that people should unquestioningly accept that lie as the truth.

Of course, how this works out in real life is that the devil gets people to believe just like he does, that they are the arbiters of truth, and therefore, that they are intrinsically spiritual authorities, so, whatever they say, it must be the truth, because they are the source of truth, yet they’re seemingly oblivious to the fact that the devil is the author of their lie, and their true father.

They are self-referring. They believe something to be true because they want it to be true. So, truth becomes what they want to be true.

Therefore, they speak from their own resources. In other words, they are lying, but have convinced themselves that their lie is the truth.

Keep in mind the subject is about truth IN RELATION TO GOD. Not truth in general.

So spiritual truth is a question of authority.

And regarding the devil creating a lie from his own resources, it could possibly imply he creates a lie and then, out of pride, believes the lie he has created. His pride could be so great that he can’t help but deceive himself.

And then this same equation works out in his stooges.

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There might be others who care about your soul more than you do.

Of course, you never asked them to care, but still they do.

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If we were to be in control of our appetites, by the Spirit’s help, it wouldn’t necessarily mean we are legalistic or ascetic. It might just mean that we have a purpose for being in control of our appetites. By the Spirit, we can be in control if we want to.

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Why should God do anything for you?

Please think of the true response to such a question.

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Principled, or expedient?

Expedient:

“(of an action) convenient and practical although possibly improper or immoral.
“either side could break the agreement if it were expedient to do so”

A Christian acts out of principle and not out of any other motive.

Of course, love is the guiding principle.

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While the manner in which a spiritual message is conveyed is important, the most important thing is whether it’s true.

Whereas, today, the manner or style is more important than whether it’s true.

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Every kingdom over history had a beginning and an end. The current kingdoms are no different.

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In the Bible, “death” simply means to be alienated from God.

In this context Jesus says to believe on Him and LIVE.

From death to life. No longer alienated from God.

When people physically die, nothing changes with them spiritually. They will exist forever in whatever spiritual state they died, either forever in union with God, or forever alienated from God.

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The New Testament account of the Christian faith is unique to all other faiths, and even quite apart in practice to historical Christianity, itself. There were no temples, no religious buildings or edifices, no statues or icons, no priests, no rituals, no bells, no smells, no robes, no holy days, no holy ground, no holy water, no superstitions, no list of church rules, no liturgy, etc etc.

Then, what was it about? If it didn’t have anything which normally constitutes a religion, what was it? What mighty power propelled a movement forward which had no religious forms to bind it together?

It was the transformative power of the Gospel by the power of the Holy Spirit. It was a people transformed by the Spirit of God.

The transformative power of the Gospel is why I’m talking to you right now.

The Christian faith is a community of people who share the one fact that Jesus has saved them, and they’ve been born again.

And in every nation there are some Christians who live out their faith together free of the baggage which arrived centuries after the church was born.

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Existential thought

Who or what are you?

Are you just an animated piece of meat, a bunch of cells, which came from nothing and will return to nothing?

Are you just a physical lump of tissue?

You might answer, ‘I am a human being!’

Okay, what exactly is a human being?

Or you might say, ‘I am me!’

Okay, what is ‘me’?

What I’m driving at is, we can only know who or what we are in relation to our Creator.

Has your Creator said anything about who or what you are?

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Luke 12:15
“And He said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.” “

If one’s life does not consist of possessions, then what does one’s life consist of?

We could also surmise that if one’s life does not consist of possessions, then it also does not consist of achievements, or honors this world bestows, or anything this world has to offer.

What is your life?

What does it mean?

1 John 5:12
“He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.”

What did Jesus’ life consist of?

John 4:34
“Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.”

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John 10:10b
” I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”

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Ultimately, a Christian’s identity is in Christ alone. Other things, which might appear to be their identity, are not their true, eternal identity.

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We’re saved if we have the Savior.

Because we can’t save ourselves.

If you’re outside of Christ then you have no Savior or Redeemer and thus are under God’s wrath and righteous judgment. You’re in terrible danger.

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Use your spare moments to talk with Him.

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We should remember that the Holy Spirit in us knows everything.

What a Helper!

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One effect the presence of elders in a church gathering should have is to help people think a bit deeper than they otherwise would in a traditional church setting.

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Spiritually, things which are left undone will come back to bite us, one day.

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John 3:1-3
“There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” “

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Nicodemus was, no doubt, a good man by society’s standards. And he was a religiously devout man, believing that God exists, and even a man well read in the scriptures.

And yet Jesus tells him he needs to be born again.

Whatever goodness he possesses, or kind deeds he does, or whatever religious beliefs or observances he practices, these do not and cannot make him born again.

And unless he is born again he won’t see or enter the eternal Kingdom of God.

Have you been born again?

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Now, as God designed everything that exists, then, to think about food, He designed all the flavors (cooked or uncooked) so, to design a flavor would mean He knows what things taste like because He created the taste – and flavors which He knew we would like would be flavors or tastes that He, Himself, liked first. Not saying He had a taste test first, but showing how much amazing complex intelligence went into such things.

The God is in the details.

Many people wouldn’t contemplate that everything that exists was designed.

For example, even emotions, feelings, sensations, and the whole sphere of experience.

Anything you’ve experienced only exists because God designed and created it.

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The early church didn’t have to face the issue of some people feeling lonely or forgotten at Christmas because there wasn’t any Christmas.

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Who told people it’s not cool to follow Jesus?

Who decides what is cool?

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Just think how much patience and understanding the Son of God had with the people He interacted with?

Hebrews 12:3
“For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.”

Being patient with people will undoubtedly bear much more fruit than being impatient with them.

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At any given point where a person won’t accept what they read in Scripture, that is the gateway to deception and delusion.

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If we want people to pray for us, it’s reasonable that we also pray for them.

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Ones attitude toward God’s word is exactly one’s attitude towards Him.

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The ways the Holy Spirit works can be deemed mysterious, because God moves in mysterious ways. Mysterious ways means in ways we don’t fully understand or comprehend. For example, He has been given to those who obey God as the Helper, to help us do what we couldn’t do on our own or by our own resources. As far as our witness of the Gospel goes, He is there to help us communicate it and guide our words, bringing His words to our remembrance. So, there is always this tension between these two dynamics: that which is by the Spirit, and that which is solely from our mind, independent of the Spirit. That which is by the Spirit is never solely by the Spirit, but we can also speak entirely independently of the Spirit, which is all of us and none of Him.

And the Spirit won’t force us to speak.

So, if we are silent concerning the Gospel, is this due to Him or due to us?

Silence on our part can be cured through prayer. Be in a spirit of prayer at all times, and this heightens our sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, and, therefore, if He has something to say to someone through us, we won’t miss it, and also, through prayer, God will move on people’s hearts and sovereignly initiate conversations towards the Gospel or God’s word.

We need to be a vessel fit for the Master’s use:

2 Timothy 2:21
“Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.”

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God cannot be our joy if the world is the source of our joy.

And yet we can enjoy stuff even if it’s not the source of our joy.

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This present, fallen world cannot be united in righteousness, only united in evil.

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He knows those who depend on Him, and He won’t let them down.

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If there’s food in Heaven it won’t be eaten because anyone’s hungry or needs it, it would be eaten for other reasons, like simply for joy and to glorify God. And if it’s there you can bet it’s the best food and wine you’ve ever tasted.

One thing we know, eternity won’t be boring.

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Grace is never an alternative for repentance – it’s not an option for those who don’t want to repent.

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If anything perpetually moves in a certain direction, no matter how gradually it moves, it eventually reaches where it’s heading to. The direction it’s moving in has a destination. Now, apply that to the degeneration of a an individual, society or nation. The world is not getting better. People are not getting better, they’re getting worse, because they’re heading in the wrong direction, which is away from God. Only the Lord knows how far they will descend into evil before God says, Enough!.

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Usually people’s objections to the Bible are really their conscience being disturbed by it.

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Ceasing from sin doesn’t earn our justification, as Christ earned that for us, but it does mean we’re no longer earning the wages of sin, which is death. Abiding in Him is not a meritorious work, but simply the outcome of grace through faith. If we continue willfully in sin then we’re not abiding in Him, and therefore, if we thought we could live this way and still be justified by grace then we’d be deceived.

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The Bible says God destroyed cities and nations in times past for doing things which are considered quite normal today.

We’ve been sold a bill of goods.
We’ve been brainwashed by institutions of society, government and religion which are blind leaders of the blind.

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Acts 5:32
“And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

So, it’s most likely that where there is not obedience there is not the Holy Spirit.