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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Commented

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.

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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.

Today’s Tweets

Churches should be as close to real life as possible, to equip people for real life.

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Even if we’re non-conformists by nature, we still need to conform to Christ by conforming with His truth. We need to bend. The proud person will not bend.

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If the LORD Jesus is the greatest joy of our life then we are connected to the true source of joy.

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Life in Christ’s eternal Kingdom is something like this life, only much better. It would be a supreme tragedy if you missed out.

It’s life as God had always intended it to be.

The life we have lived has been corrupted by sin, by our sin and the sin of others.

It’s barely a life compared to how life is lived up there.

There’s some differences, like you don’t get married there.

Also there’s no temple there in the Holy City, implying the practice of religious rituals has ceased.

No police either.

No rent to pay. You get a free house.

Never sin, never get sick, never die.

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The moment we are born again we discover that the Jesus of history happens to still be very much alive.

“You must be born again!”, Jesus said.

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If a pregnant woman is punched in the stomach and the baby dies, that’s legally and rightfully defined as the murder of the child.

But if a doctor rips that same baby apart then it’s supposedly not murder.

See what we’re dealing with?

A society which believes evil is good, and good is evil.

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There wouldn’t be much of a problem in observing man-made traditions if we made it very clear they are indeed man-made and not given by God. If churches announced that every man-made tradition is exactly that, and not instituted by God, then perhaps people would start asking why they bother with things God never instituted?

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Philippians 3:18-19
“For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things.”

Or… “…they think only about this life here on earth.”

We have to think about this life here on earth.

But enemies of the Cross think about their life here on earth to the exclusion of thinking about God and His truth.

We first need to worship God and seek first His Kingdom and righteousness, and then He will guide how we should think about our life here on earth.

Enemies of the Cross don’t necessarily reject the Bible, prayer or church attendance, but they only see these things in terms of them getting the things they want in life, as a means to a worldly end, because they have “set their mind on earthly things”.

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The “Christian” who lusts after gold will, ironically, never walk the streets of gold.

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It’s a false assumption to assume someone doesn’t have love simply because you don’t like what they’re saying. It would then be that the only loving people are those who tell you what you want to hear. Maybe it’s come to that?

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1 John 5:21
“Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.”

In other words, don’t become an idol worshipper.

An idol is not God.

To serve or worship something which is not God is idolatry.

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Jesus said: “Because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold”.

Seems to imply that the love of many believers becomes cold because they are affected by the lawlessness they see around them. It doesn’t seem to imply the believers become directly lawless, but, rather, their love becomes cold, and this opens them up to the possibility of becoming lawless by making them weak and vulnerable.

The church in Ephesus (Rev. 2) left its first love, and yet was not lawless.

Had they not repented of losing their first love it would have led to lawlessness.

So, somehow, believers choose to see stuff they shouldn’t and their love becomes cold.

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Colossians 1:10
“…that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God…”

This means every thought, word, attitude and deed should be worthy of Him.

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You never see the “fact checkers” fact checking Joe Biden.

And the reason for this shows it’s not about fact checking at all.

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It’s funny how some groups or individuals are never censored for their hatespeech, while others are falsely accused of it?

Maybe Big Tech should drop the idea of being the moral police?

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Rigging the news is like a back door way of rigging elections.

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A brother who is against Christians voting writes: “The vote is an instrument used in making the people acquiesce in everything done legally by their elected officials.”

If this logic be true, then when you obey the laws of a government you would be acquiesing to everything done by that government. And this is obviously not true.

Then, to be sure you are not acquiesing to the government, you would have to willfully disobey every law of that government so that you can be clear in your conscience that you’ve not shown your approval or signaled any acknowledgement of the validity of that government.

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Interpretations of the end times or Christ’s return should not affect the urgency of the Gospel message, because of the simple fact that today could be the last day and the last chance for those you’re preaching to.

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The wisdom of God often comes to us as His provided solution to a problem or dilemma we face.

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When Saul was arresting Christians, little did they know that this angry little man would soon be their Apostle.

God works in mysterious ways.

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Kanye suspended from Twitter for essentially saying what one of the world’s greatest religions has always been saying?

It shows the kind of “diplomatic immunity” that religion enjoys.

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Just an observation, that in many parts of the world, when people refer to their “culture” they are referring to how they lived in times past, but their present culture is one which has been assimilated into American culture. Not a judgment, just an observation.

And freedom means you are free to do this if you want.

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For most of human history, of an evening, people would usually sit around the fire and talk, or read, or pray, or sing, or suchlike.

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Dysfunctional people…
Dysfunctional families…
Dystopian society.

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Psalm 37:23
“The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, And He delights in his way.”

Absolutely fantastic!

A person is daily taking steps in life and God is daily taking delight in watching them, and it is He who is ordering each step: which is, to guide, bless and establish each step of life.

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A servant of the devil will naturally hate a servant of God.

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One of the most fantastic truths is we can look up to Heaven and speak to God and He hears and listens, and we can do this anytime, anyplace.

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God meets us where we are, but He doesn’t leave us there.

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The FBI knows Maxwell was trafficking children but they don’t know to whom she was trafficking them.

Imagine that! You’ll need a good imagination.

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Matthew 6:33
“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”

So, seeking the Kingdom is not something we do when we get round to it, it’s what we do first.

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As Christians, if we’re ever truly or validly corrected by a fellow believer, it’s not them correcting us, it’s the word of God correcting us.

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For any given subject, we should try and take into account all that the Bible says about that subject.

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A disciple is like his Master.

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I can sympathize with someone who rejects “church” or “Christianity” due to a faulty perception caused by misrepresentations of such, because it doesn’t mean they have consciously rejected Christ, it could mean they have rejected caricatures of Him.

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Don’t seek after joy or happiness, seek the LORD and His righteousness and you’ll have genuine joy in Him.

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The approval of the herd or mob?

Or the approval of God?

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What if people in the world work harder at making money than Christians do for the Kingdom of God?

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The first disciples had scientific evidence of the existence of God, because they saw with their own eyes Jesus give sight to the blind, make the paralyzed walk, raise the dead, make the deaf hear, cast out demons, walk on water, feed 5000, and rise from the dead.

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There are many practical difficulties we face, and each one is supposed to be a point of prayer.

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The death or denial of self has to preeminently mean the death or denial of pride.

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Are our responses to the word of God honest responses, or are they evasive responses, or defensive responses, or something else?

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Read today:

“Jesus didn’t say, Go into all the worid and tell them they’re okay.”

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The film “Fail Safe” (1964) is a fictional account of a nuclear standoff between America and Russia. It depicts how much responsibility falls directly on the President, as Commander in Chief, as the one who must make instant critical decisions in the event of a nuclear incident or showdown. It shows the terrible pressure a President could come under to safely handle such an event and steer the world away from nuclear Armageddon. Americans should choose a man who could handle the pressure of such an incident. Her enemies see a cognitively challenged, often incoherent man shouldering this immense responsibility, and perhaps they see it as an opportunity?

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On Judgment Day everyone’s actual or secret life is revealed.

Embarrassing, or what?

Flee to Christ and He will save you the embarrassment, and, far more, in that you can be like Him.

See: 1 John 3:2-3

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It’s a great place to be when the Holy Spirit instantly settles questions or matters in your heart or mind concerning the daily details of living and your decisions, giving you peace as you go along.

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A big mistake of modern society is the belief that using profanity or blaspheming makes one sound clever.

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Now, your stats on Twitter should be the actual figures and not figures manipulated by stooges of the Democrats.

Today’s Tweets

Spend as much time alone with God as you deem Him worthy of.

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If God did not exist, life would be futile and meaningless, and it would not exist in the first place.

If God did not exist, you would look back on all your memories of the life you’ve lived and realize it was all for nothing, for soon you will die and cease to exist, and everyone else as well, so it would be as if you never existed, because all your memories would no longer exist, they would have died with you.

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The beauty of creation is really His beauty.

And how would you know something is beautiful unless He gave you the ability to know it?

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Hyper spirituality leads to false spirituality.

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I’ve known nominal Christians who’ve mistakenly equated trusting their church denomination with trusting God. They think they both mean the same thing, so if you trust your “church” then you are trusting God.

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Ephesians 4:14a “…that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine…”
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Waiting for the next wind of doctrine to blow in from YouTube and fill your sails and carry you further away from knowing Jesus in reality?

A substitute for Him, and something to waste your life pursuing?

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The early church pattern was in a way that people were confronted with reality, because it was relational.

Today, people don’t want a relational church, but rather a way to avoid reality and still feel blessed.

Like your friend the “Apostle”. If he visited a Biblical church they would ask him on what basis he has made himself to be an Apostle? He wouldn’t like that church. He would only like a church which confirms him in the unreality which he has chosen.

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How we feel about our enemies is a good indicator of how well we know Jesus Christ.

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The righteousness of Christ is imputed to the repentant believer.

This means his guilt has been washed away and he’s empowered to live righteously, abiding in Christ.

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Right or wrong is always a question of what is truth, and what is a lie.

Whatever is right is the truth, and whatever is wrong is a lie.

To do what’s wrong is to believe and propagate a lie.

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Are you having fun?

Well, I’m having joy, so I guess I’m not missing out on any fun.

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Mercy rejected means you miss out on mercy and get justice.

You want mercy.

You don’t want justice.

Jesus fulfilled the justice so we can receive forgiveness without God violating His law.

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In a democracy, if enough people decide something is morally right then it becomes morally right. This is a weakness of democracy.

As to rights, churches also have a right not to perform gay marriages if it goes against their beliefs.

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An amount of time is allocated to every person.

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If the HOLY Spirit is in a person He will communicate with them moment by moment.

Christ is our life.

Everything concerning our being is His business.

If the Spirit of God indwells a person then nothing concerning their life can be compartmentalized away from Him – every aspect of their being has to do with Him, and they should be aware of His approval of every word, thought, attitude and action, or His disapproval.

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Novak fnally allowed into Australia, because it turns out that un __ ed people were never a danger to anyone, and the public were brainwashed into believing they were.

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Help him/her, LORD, to have a conscience.

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Humans know something about love, and even animals know, but we can’t fully grasp what it is, because God is love, and we can’t fully grasp who He is.

BTW, the love of God is totally compatible with the wrath of God. This highlights how limited our true understanding of love is.

From our perspective, God created love, but from His perspective, He is love, so it wasn’t created at all, it’s who He is.

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If you’ve got a conscience, that’s all the proof you need that God exists.

Everyone’s conscience witnesses there is a God.

And if there is no God, how do you explain what a conscience is?

How does right or wrong exist without God?

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It has been said the “prosperity gospel”, in relation to God, is like marrying someone for their money.

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A Christian should never think anything about themselves independent of the LORD. Who are we, as individuals, when we constantly need Him and can do nothing without His help? Without Him we are helpless. What do we amount to, personally, if, without Him, we amount to nothing? We have nothing of ourselves to glory in, only Him.

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The Bible teaches conformity to Christ, as opposed to conformity to the world (see Rom. 8:29, 12:2).

If we are conformed to the world, who are we conformed to?

You guessed it.

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Read today:

“Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect either with his ultimate identity.”

This nearly hits the mark, but not quite.

“Sins in himself”?

When Paul said, “In my flesh dwells no good thing” and that he denied his flesh, he was not admitting he was committing “all kinds of sin”, for if that had been the case he would have been a hypocrite. As far as Paul’s past goes he admitted he was a criminal. As for his present, he said, “I have lived with all good conscience before God until this day” (Acts 23:1).

It’s true that Paul’s identity was in Christ alone and not in what he had done or not done. He was a child or son of God who also just happened to be an Apostle.

Liberals love to imply that Paul was living in sin because they think it kind of justifies their sinful lifestyles.

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Christians love their country, and yet their citizenship is in Heaven.

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A Christian can never say they weren’t supplied enough grace to face their circumstances.

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If we struggle with prayer there’s no shame in that – it’s only shame if we give up the struggle and cease to pray.

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“Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.” (Romans 11:22)

Which will you choose to experience, His goodness or severity? Everyone will experience either.

We shouldn’t let one attribute obscure the other.

God is love, and He also is Holy.

Oftentimes the goodness of God is redefined and perverted to mean God will cater to your lusts.

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If God is whoever you imagine him to be then all you have is an imaginary god.

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Democracy is better than the alternatives, and yet it’s also the vehicle through which a society can choose its own destruction.

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“See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” Ephesians 5:15-16)

So, the fool wastes the time God has given him. Implied here that if he wastes his time he gravitates toward evil.

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Your spiritual life is your life.

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You want to be happy now, but God wants you to be happy through all eternity, and this is His promise in Jesus Christ.

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Honor should be reserved for those who deserve it, and not for those who seek it.

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It’s good to understand the last days, and even better to understand that today could be your last day and to be ready to stand before Jesus Christ.

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Ultimately, everything gets settled in a higher court.

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With church (assembly) there should always be this sense of what the Head of the Church desires for His church.

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The Bible really only has one subject…

Him.

The message is about Him, not us.

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A sad part about traditional Christianity is that multitudes think that the traditions they cling to were instituted by God.

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The more we comprehend the greatness of God, the less impressed we are with great people.

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Paul faced discouragement at times, but he snapped out of it. And to be fair, the things he faced were much tougher than what we face, so, therefore, he had perhaps more grounds for discouragement than we.

The cure for discouragement is to accept with joy the fact that you have been called to be a
bond-servant of Jesus Christ, so unless you are discouraged with Him, then what grounds do you have for discouragement? He will never let you down, so there’s no grounds for discouragement with Him. But if others let you down there’s still no grounds for discouragement because you don’t serve them, they are not your master. Live unto the LORD alone, like Paul did, and discouragement will be temporary, not permanent.

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As the Holy Spirit is not materialistic, the materialistic Christian has not much clue about the Holy Spirit.

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We sometimes think we are hindered from having a ministry, then we remember that the Holy Spirit is not hindered.

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Christianity and the Gospel rests upon Jesus Christ, alone.

And so do you and I.

Today’s Tweets

What will you look like 100 years from now?

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Read today:

“If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.”

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“Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.” (2 Corinthians 13:5)

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What are the ramifications for our lives if Jesus Christ lives in us?

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Looking at history ya think, What a bunch of savages!

Let’s see what the savages are planning next.

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“The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverse mouth I hate.” (Proverbs 8:13)

If we don’t have the fear of the LORD then we don’t have the love of the LORD.

Unless we hate evil we don’t know the love of God.

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“Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years” (Revelation 20:1-2)

The text tells us that just one angel is required to arrest the devil and take him into custody and keep him in jail, ceasing his worldwide power in just one simple operation.

Only one angel is needed for this great task because this one angel is an agent of God, sent by God to do this task, therefore he has all of God’s power behind him to effectively fulfill the task. It’s not about the strength of the angel, it’s a question of whose power and authority he is sent in.

The same goes with us if we are ambassadors or emissaries of Christ.

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When we pray for someone do we fully appreciate the value of their soul?

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God has some rules.

And we broke them.

Threw them back in His face.

His rules reflect His nature – who He is.

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“I am with you always” is enough for my soul to live upon no matter who forsakes me.

–Charles Spurgeon

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To redefine God’s word is to redefine God and therefore end up with a false god.

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How do you feel when people trust you? You feel good, because it’s an expression of love.

Then, how does Jesus feel when people trust and believe Him? How does the Father feel?

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“There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, Yet is not washed from its filthiness.”

Proverbs 30:12

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Over a 24 hr period, how much time would you talk to God?

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“For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.” (Hebrews 12:3)

Then we won’t become weary and discouraged in our souls.

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Matthew 22:37-39
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

This should describe our life. Our life should be described as such: Here is a person who loves God with all their heart, soul, mind and strength, and truly loves everyone.

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If you were the devil, what kind of religion would you invent to get people to worship you while they think they are worshipping God?

Probably one where people have no moral restraints but can still feel spiritual.

This is the final ace up his sleeve:

You can be spiritual and immoral at the same time.

How? By redefining God’s word.

The emerging world religion redefines Biblical love.

It is based on a perversion of what the love of God means.

“Love Wins” …. maybe some have heard of that?

Ultimately, the definition of “love” will be to conform to a universal faith and government.

Haters will be those who follow the Jesus of the Bible These will be deemed as threats to humanity.

We are seeing it emerge right now.

Anyone who questions the left wing narrative is “fact checked” then banned because they don’t conform to the “community standard”.

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If you know God cares for you then you know He cares for everyone.

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Man has a problem with God called sin.

Jesus removed that problem.

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When you read the philosophers of history it’s good to ask, Where are they now?

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No matter how much God works in a person’s life it doesn’t turn them into a “god” because all His works in us are works of His grace and totally unmerited, therefore He gets all the credit, not the person.

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Imagine trying to “escape” from God or deny His existence when He’s the One who gives you every breath?

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Money preachers and commercial prophets embody the dreams of those Christians who desire to be rich, who see in them a formula to “get” God to make them rich, not understanding that in doing so they’re becoming just as much a fraud as the preacher they follow.

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The Holy Spirit lives in us (who follow Christ) and He doesn’t need reviving, but we do, so, it’s going to be through Him we are revived.

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God so loved the world…

You’re in the world, right?

So, if God so loved the world, that would include you, right?

Check it out in John 3:16..

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“But He answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.” (Luke 19:40)

Think of the application for our personal lives today.

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As the church (the people who have Christ living in them) goes through persecution then the vital things will take preeminence over the trivial.

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Eternity is the real deal.

Today’s Tweets

The whole point of church is to grow in Christ and become more like Him.

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If the HOLY Spirit is in you then you’re very interested in holiness.

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Billions of galaxies out there.

The Universe is big.

Even if there were only one galaxy in the universe it would be massive, but there’s billions of them.

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Saw today the “pillars of creation” images from the James Webb Space Telescope. Two things came to mind: The images are 6500 light years away, so they are images of what it looked like 6500 years ago. And they report to have proof of stars forming in these images. So, we have proof stars were forming as recently as 6500 years ago. Interesting from a Biblical perspective.

Young stars, young planets?

It’s interesting that we can see back in time, as it were, to around the time the Bible says creation happened.

If this pic proves there are young stars then there also must be young planets.

Let’s see a pic from 7000 light years away.

If I’m asked, ‘Do I believe in a young earth?’, I would answer that with a question, Did Jesus believe in a young earth?

What Jesus believed is reliable, for He is the incarnate Son of God, God in the flesh.

In John 10:35 He said, “the scripture cannot be broken”.

It’s recorded on numerous occasions that He held the Jewish scriptures up as the authoritative word of God.

He never edited the book of Genesis.

So, my point is, because of who Jesus Christ is, you’re on safe ground if you believe what He believed.

And you’re wrong if you don’t.

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There’s only Jesus, there’s nothing else, and if you have Him you have life.

‘He who has the Son has life’, the scripture says.

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Because man was made in the image of God he was made a spiritual creature, and, as such, he is made in such a way to believe and to function by belief, therefore, man either believes the truth or he believes a lie, he cannot believe nothing, unless he is a vegetable.

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As Jesus is the only person to ever cure physical blindness, He’s also the only person to ever cure spiritual blindness: giving sight to the blind, physically and spiritually.

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The Creator knows His own creation very well. He knows you and I very well. He gives life and breath to every creature.

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God is not silent.

He sent His Son into this world.

Hear Him.

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If you could experience everything this planet has to offer it would still be nothing compared to experiencing Heaven.

And to experience Heaven will be to come face to face with the risen Lord Jesus Christ.

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One day, when you stand before Jesus Christ to give an account of your life, will you be able to say, ‘I know Him!’ ?

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You could no easier escape God’s law than you could the law of gravity.

God’s law still applies to people regardless of what they believe.

The same as the law of gravity still applies regardless of whether you believe in it.

The law of gravity doesn’t discriminate.

Neither do God’s laws.

“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, 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.” (1 Cor. 69-11)

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“And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.” (Rev. 20:12)

Books. A biography on every person who ever lived. Flattering to think there’s a book being written about you? Maybe not.

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A commercial “prophet” always appeals to something in your flesh.

If I believe the commercial “prophets” on Twitter I come to the conclusion that I am the center of the Universe and God exists to serve me.

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Contrary to the left wing narrative, the beliefs of others, and their expression of those beliefs, can’t possibly harm you, it’s only their actions which could cause harm.

If someone preaches the earth is flat he is not harming me, is he? Even if he tries his best to convince me, he’s still not harmed me. Only the unbalanced would think someone else’s beliefs have traumatized them.

If any religion gets on its soapbox and insists it is the truth, it has not harmed me.

It’s a fundamental human right to believe what you want to believe and tell the world if you feel you need to.

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You can’t discuss politics without touching on moral issues, so, then, it’s going to be a difficult discussion when people have different concepts of morality.

How do you measure morality?

What will be your yardstick?

Morality becomes a very murky debate and tends toward hypocrisy when there’s no moral absolutes.

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“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.” (1 Peter 3:15)

This means someone who has real hope in them has such a tangible hope that it can sometimes be recognized by unbelievers.

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A divided heart is simply one which has some desires which agree with God’s desires and also some which do not.

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Because Jesus Christ is LIFE, His presence means life, and His absence means death.

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Read yesterday, “Everything we need to know about God can be seen in the Cross of Calvary”.

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There’s only one Man who lived a perfect life and is therefore a perfect Man.

Believe Him.

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With many of the people mentioned in the Bible, God had a purpose for their lives, and He fulfilled that purpose in them.

What about you?

Do our lives serve His purpose?

Our natural inclination is to serve our own purpose.

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In Heaven, no one loves themselves.

It’s kinda different.

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False equivalence: Many people have falsely predicted the date of Jesus’ return, therefore this is proof He is not returning soon.

No. It doesn’t prove a thing regarding His return.

Or is it a Strawman?

There’s a false equivalence when people say that the fact that the Old Covenant has been superceded by the New Covenant means God has finished with the Jewish people and has no plan to save the nation and bring them into the New Covenant..

…or to say that the present blindness of the Jews in seeking to restart the OT sacrificial system is a proof that the reformation of Israel has no prophetic significance…

False logic.

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“Why isn’t the opposite of ‘pro-life’ referred to as ‘pro-death’?”

—Jack Hibbs

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“For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.” (Titus 2:11-14)

No theological jargon here, such as people get tied up with nowadays. We’re looking for Jesus to return, described as His “glorious appearing”. A secret return would not be a “glorious appearing”.

This is our blessed hope. All generations were expected, by God, to be looking for Jesus’ glorious appearing.

And those who died in Christ were not disappointed, for to be “absent from the body is to be present with the Lord”.

And if we should die before Jesus returns we’ll also not be disappointed, and will miss out on nothing.

For when Christ returns He is bringing all those who died in Christ with Him.

He “redeems us from every lawless deed”. He purifies us by washing us in His own blood.

And He gives us a holy zeal to do His good works, to express His goodness to others.

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“We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 5:8)

Instant transportation. It’s as if you are standing on the street in London, then you close your eyes for a moment, and when you open your eyes you’re standing on the street in New York. One second before you were in London. Now you’re in New York.

Absent from the body, present with the Lord.

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Anything that’s not true is bad.

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“You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because 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.” (John 8:44)

The devil was once an Archangel. He was the first liar, and kind of invented lying. He created a lie in his own mind and believed the lie he created. No one lied to him, he thought up the concept all by himself.

Imagine creating a lie and then believing it, knowing it’s a lie?

The devil knows he is lying, but his children don’t seem to know that their father has conned them.

The devil created lying, and therefore it’s in his DNA to lie, and to cause his children to believe a lie.

So, there is a dubious, dark, shadowy spiritual inheritance we have inherited from our father, the devil.

We need to exchange this father of liars for the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We need a new heart.

If we cannot accept what Jesus said then we don’t love the truth. His truth only hurts and offends those still clinging to a lie.

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Judgment Day – the ultimate fact checking by the ultimate Fact Checker.

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The indwelling Holy Spirit always rings true with the written word He inspired.

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Any thought concerning the true nature of God should excite us – make our spirit soar, longing to be with Him face to face

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It’s a mistake to seek to experience peace of mind or soul but not seek to be reconciled to God through Jesus Christ and experience His peace.

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To a very thirsty man, just plain water is the sweetest drink on the planet.

Why?

Because it’s life.

Think about the spiritual equivalent.