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04/26/2020

I have read many teachings on the armor of God that the Apostle Paul wrote about in the book of Ephesians, but most to me, atleast, made it more complicated then it is. God said that he would take the simple things and confound the wise. Paul when writing about the armor of God was just teaching something that he had already taught, he just explained it using the armor of a Roman soldier. When a soldier during any century wore the uniform of their military, people did not see individuals, they saw the country in which it represented. Paul in different places wrote that we are to clothe ourselves in Christ, to put on Christ etc. Jesus said that he would be in us and we would be in him. This is the same thing Paul was teaching with the illustration of a Roman soldier fully dressed in armor. Paul said that we were baptized into Christ. Think about this for a moment please; when a person drowns, they drown because they can't hold their breathe any longer. At this point the water is not just all around him/her it is now in them as well, this is what baptism represents. Christ in us and we in Christ. The armor of the Roman soldier is just a different way of saying that you are in Christ. In 1st or 2nd John it is stated like this; as Jesus is so are we .... This means we are in the truth (Jesus ), we are covered in his righteousness, we can walk in his peace, which is eternal and unfaiding, we have the very same faith as Jesus ( as he is so are we ), our salvation is not and can not be abtaiand through self effert, it is a gift and the heavenly does not repent when he gives a gift, it belongs to the recipient for ever and the very weapon that he used to defeat the devil he has given to us, the word of God. The word of God will not come back void but will acomplish that in which we send it to do. Mark 11: 23, 24 says that if we believe what we say will happen, it will happen. You have what you say. The word of God is pure and perfect and this is what it produces. Who's words are you speaking? We are in Christ and our enemy does not see us but he sees Jesus, he is our armor and he can not be defeated. Amen

04/13/2020

I was sitting here and doing my usual bibie study and the Holy Spirit asked me if I knew what being led by him was, and yes to some extent I did. I've always had some questions about the subject though. If you do not know what being led by the Holy Spirit is and where he's leading you, then how will you know who's leading you or where they are leading you to? Well actually it is so simple that many people just plain miss it. The Holy Spirit was given for a purpose, the heavenly father does nothing that does not have a purpose, he is always purposeful.There are a few functions that the Holy Spirit fullfills in a beleivers life, I will only be focussing on one, where he leads us to and why. It is his function in our lives to lead and guide us into all truth. Jesus stated himself that he was the truth, not a truth, but the truth. The Apostle John wrote that he was full of grace and truth. Full means, filled, brimming, packed, overflowing, etc. So Jesus is not only the truth, but overflowing with the truth. One of the main functions of the Holy Spirit is to lead us to Jesus or the truth, they are one and the same. The Holy Spirit is the revelator of who and what jesus is, what he did by being crucified, dying, going to hell, in mankinds place and what Jesus accomplished by his resurectoin and ascension to the right hand of the heavenly father. But how does one know if they are being led to the right place or not. There is only one way to accomplish this and this is to study the Word of God by being part of a firm bible teaching church with proven Pastors, Teachers, Bishops and Deacons. Some churches call these different offices by different names but they all mean the same thing. The Holy Spirit can only reveal Jesus through the Word of God. Eventually you will be so saturated in the Word of God that You will have know problem in knowing if it is God or not God, who is revealing themselves to you. This is called discipleship. The Holy Spirit is the friend that sticks closer then a brother, and comes to dwell on the inside of a believer as they turn their will life over to the care of Jesus. If you are a believer the Holy Spirit is living in your spirit and desires an intimate relationship with you. Do not be religeous with him, talk to him like he is your best friend because he is, and he will never leave or fosake you.

04/13/2020

Why is the truth so important? Because the body has an enemy that will go to any length to discredit the validity of the word of God. I would say most Christians will hear a sermon and because the person delivering it is popular in Christian circles, they just swallow it whole, thinking nothing of it. The words in the bible are inspired by God, but not necessarily the punctuation marks. We need to understand that the bible was not written in the english langauge and because of this, it had different rules for grammer then when writing in english, and vise versa. The scriptures never contradict themselves. If their is a contradiction it is not with the inspired Word of God but in the translation. Two apparent contradictions is in the account of the resurectiuon of Jesus, found in Mark and Matthew's Gospel. In order to understand this dicrepency one must first must understand how the Israelites structured their nights and their day's. From six pm to to six am where their nights and from six am to six pm where their day's. In the modern world we go from twelve pm to twelve am for our nights and twelve am to twelve pm for our day's. You can see that these are two different systems. Matthew Chapter 28 verses one through seven very plainly states that Jesus rose some where between six pm and six am on saturday. (This also poses another problem and this is, on what day was Jesus actually crucified. You need to understand that there are regular sabaths and there are high sabaths, which there was both accurring on this particullar week, and we will deal with this on a different post). When you read Matthew twenty eight it say's very cleary that Marry came to the tomb on the first day of the week at dawn, and every bodie should agree that the first day of the week is not saturday or their regular sabath day. In verses five and six the angel told her that Jesus was already risen. It could not have been the first day of the week, because she arrived around six am, at the end of their night and the beginning of their days, and Jesus rose before Marry ever came to his tomb, which was sunday morning. Jesus rose at some point durring the night or, saturday night. This would also mean that Jesus was crucified on wednessday. This is what happened because on that week there was a cellebration of the passover, unleavened bread and their weekly sabbath. Their was a Sabbath on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, on this particullar weeek. We will go into this on a different post. This discussion will continue.

03/31/2020

Thr Holy Spirit woke me up and started talking to me about the rich young ruler which you find in Mark chapter ten verses seventeen to twentyseven. Most people in the church for some reason look at Jesus as one that ministered under the new testament. This is one hundred percent wrong, he ministered under the old covenant. I don't have time now but if one would do an indepth study on what the new testament says about the purpose of the law, you would be very surprised. The law served a few purposes but the two main things that it did was reveal ones sin and it was a minister of death. The word of God say's that no man shall be justified by the works of the law. Back to the rich young ruler. Jesus revealed to him six out of the ten commandments. The rich young ruler thought that he done something grand, but when he was presentd with the first two commandments he became sad, his substance became his god and an idol. These two commandments revealed the true condition of his heart and they slew him. He wasn't all that he thought he was, but Jesus gave him the way of escape and it was none other than him self. The law (and by the way there are six hundred abd thirteen not just ten) could never of make anyone righteous in the sight of God, this could only come in the form of a gift. Only through the death, burial and resurection of Jesus could this occur. The law can only reveal sin but it is only God who can deal with sin. When one becomes born again they become a brand new being that never existed before and there old sin nature is destroyed and and they receive the very nature of almighty God himself. This is the gospel of good news, Jesus accomplished everything for us, we just need to eccept this grace. amen

03/20/2020

I was at my desk having my morning intimacy with the Holy Spirit and he led to read a story by this person that I follow. He rides motorcycles in motor cross races, and when he first started he would concentrate on a rock or root or some other thing in order to avoid it, the crazy thing is that the verry thing that he was trying to avoid was what he usually hit and then he would crash and burn. The Bible tells us to fix our eyes on Jesus. The word fix means to fasten, secure, affix, anchor, glue, bond, lodge and on and on. Our enemy know's this principle and will throw all kinds of thoughts at us in order to get us to fasten our minds on something other than the Word of God. James 1:21 and 1 Peter 1:9 say that it is the Word of God that has the power to save or souls. The word salvation in greek means deliver, health, salvation, save and saving. So this tells us what the Word of God will do, not might do. Please, if you get nothing else from this blog, get this, your help for any situation or thing that you nead is found in the Bible. Study to show yourself a workman who does not need to be ashamed. God is LOVE and his word will not fail.

03/18/2020

Righteousness is a gift from The heavenly Father to one who put one's trust in Jesus for the forgivenss of one's wrongs, that have been committed. Romans chapter 11: 29 says that the Heavenly will not change his mind concerning the gifts that he gives out. Righteousness or right standing with The heavenly Father is a free gift given to one who puts one's trust in Jesus. You can never loose the righteousness that the heavenly Father gives because he gave his word concerning it and the heavenly Father can not lie' never ever.

03/16/2020

The old Testament was written for our admonition and there is much that one can learn from it. One thing that I've learned is that the heavenly Father wants an intimate relationship which each person individually. Many people are like the ancient Israelites in that they would seek the Father only when they where in some real hot water. This is all good and all that but any Father wants to be more then a bails bondsman. A father wants a intimate relationship with his children. A father wants his love to be recipricated, returned, for a father needs love also. And so it is with the heavenly Father. He is our protector of course but he's our daddy also. God is LOVE

02/13/2020

This past year has been especially hard, there has been much illness for me but Jesus has been true to his word and has walked with me through it all. I've had some of the greatest times of fellowship with the Holy Spirit during this past year. The apostle Paul wrote that if he must boast that he would boast of his weeknesess so that the power of God might rest upon him. I always wondered about this, finally the Holy Spirit revealed to me what Paul was trying to convey. This is was what he was saying in a nut shell. Light shines the brightest when it's the darkest.... The apostle John wrote " The light shines in the darkness and the darkness can never extiguish it ". Grace and mercy be multplied to you from God the father and the Lord Jesus the Messiah.

01/21/2020

What actually is the gospel that we beleiver's in Jesus proclaim? That Jesus died a sinless life on a roman cross, was buried and on the third day he was raised from the dead according to what scripture had prophisied thousands of years before and was seen alive by the twelve disciples and also by more then five hundred beleivers at the time. The good news is that Jesus offers every human being eternal life with no strings atteched. If you beleive with your heart that God faised him from the dead and confess with your mouth that he is Lord you will be saved. This is the promise from Jesus to every human being that ever existed, past, present and future. And he does this witout you having to earn it. A person who does this is made the rightousness of Jesus himself. In other words you get the status of having all your wrongs ( sins ) fogiven and forgotten forever by God. No other religeon promises this, only Christianity does. Then to top this all off, the cherry on the sunday if you will, we are all promised that when we die that we will be resurrected with glorified and eternal bodies, a body exactly like that of Jesus himself, and all you have to do is beleive in your heart that God raised him from the dead and confess that he is Lord, period. Grace and peace be multiplied unto everyone By the Father and the Lord Jesus the Christ.

01/20/2020

Jesus's work on the cross has been 100% completed. There is no more that he can do for us. The issue is not what Jesus has done, it's that we don't know what he's done. Many Christians spend hours a day watching tv, surfing the internet, spending hours on social media etc. The word of God says that we can become a partaker of Gods very own divine nature, Gods very own divine nature, did you get that, this is a huge truth if you catcth onto it. His divine nature. Wow. But we only can do this by knowing what his promises are, because we become partakers of his divine nature through all the great and precious promises written through out the word of God. Many Christians don't even know were the book of Genisis is. The word of God tells us individually to study the word. What ever one values most is what they spend the majority of their time doing. God said that you can partake of his verry nature but you have to study the bible for yourself. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you all.

01/17/2020

I try to write something encouraging each day but some days I'm a bit lax. Christianity is a progressive walk with the creator of all things. When we begin we are are blank page and in the end we will be a page filled with beauty. How do I know this, because this is the promise given to us by our creator. He has stated that it was he whom began the good work in us and that it will be him who finishes it, and all of his handy work is just splended. But were is the starting place? It is none other then putting our trust and confidence in the man, Jesus who is the savior of the whole world. There is no other name under heaven by which a man must be saved. Salvation does not come from being a muslim, practicing zen buddism or from any place other then Jesus. Jesus said I am THE WAY and THE TRUTH, NO ONE gets to the father but by me ( JESUS ). Jesus is love, may you find love now.

01/09/2020

Pursue love. This is the goal for all who have put their trust in Jesus. Jesus is the word of God incarnate and the word is God and God is love. In order to grow more and more like Jesus we must practice loving people and as we do this we become more like God. In order to do this we need to know what love is as defined by God and this takes being dedicated in studying the word of God concerning love. First Corinthians chapter thirteen is a great place to begin. Lets get to work.

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