God's Love Compared to Man's Love, No Comparison

Measuring the loss of the love of family and friends up against the love Christ has for us, really we have lost nothing when people we love do not love us. We still love them but they do not dominate our emotions. The love of Christ overwhelmed us every day. Hallelujah!!!

We pray for those who do not have Christ and do not understand how to love, they are missing so very much in this life and an amazing inheritance in the next.

2 Thessalonians 1:5-12 "5 This is a plain indication of God’s righteous judgment so that you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you indeed are suffering.

6 For after all it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted, along with us, when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels

8 in flaming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

9 These people will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

10 when He comes to be glorified among His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed—because our testimony to you was believed.

11 To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will consider you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power,

12 so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, in accordance with the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.'"

We have so much to rejoice over every single day even through all the trials there can be joy as long as we focus on Christ Who lives in us for those who have been born again.

For those who have not trusted in Christ, there is still time to have what all believers have, that incredible love and peace of Christ living in you. It's not hard, all it takes is admitting you are a sinner and asking God to change you into a new person, then He will send His Son Jesus Christ to live in your body. You will never see anything the same way again, everything will be brand new, that's why God calls it being "born-again."

Don't wait, time is short, Christ is coming back for His church soon, make sure you are counted in that number.

1 Minute Before the Second Coming

Choosing Companions through the Guidance of the Holy Spirit

God does not call us to be close companions with everyone who says they are Christians. We are to be close to those whom He assigns to us.

The account of Paul and Silas is a good example of this.

Acts 15:36-41 "36 And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.”

37 Now Barnabas wanted to take with them John called Mark.

38 But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.

39 And there arose a sharp disagreement so that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,

40 but Paul chose Silas and departed, having been commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord. 41 And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches."

If anyone in your circle of influence attempts to pressure you into spending time with or working with someone Christ did not command you, then you are free and even obligated to say, "God did not tell me to do that."

We must surround ourselves with those God places with us for His glory and for His purposes.

Never feel bad because you cannot please a family member who does not know God's will for your life. They may not like your choice to obey God and even may not believe that you heard from God, but that is not your problem.

We are not on this earth to give everyone what they want from us. We are here to please God and do His will.

We need to surround ourselves with those whom God has placed in our path. If we do this our hearts will be full and we will have companions who are on the same path with the same goals.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

"Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken."

1 Peter 1:22

"Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,"

We will have trials and difficult people in our lives, but if our close companions are those who love Christ we have support for following Him.

Proverbs 13:19-20 "…19 Desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but turning from evil is detestable to fools. 20 He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed. "

Showing Grace to the Wicked Does not Change their Heart

Isaiah 26:10 "10 Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD. "

It is the character of a kind loving person to treat everyone with love and kindness. However, when we meet a person who lives a lifestyle of anger, superiority and disrespect we have met a wicked person without a conscience.

The prevailing idea of our time is that all we have to do is be friendly and kind and the wicked person will feel bad about themselves and change their behavior.

It is the teachings of Darwinism that drives this thinking that man responds to kindness by becoming kind themselves. We are not animals, many human beings can be treated with kindness and use our kindness to dominate and control us without any desire to be loving and kind themselves.

Why do I know this? I know this because Christ did nothing but kindness and love to everyone all the time while telling the truth of the gospel to save their souls and yet they mocked Him, beat Him and killed Him because of their desire to be superior to Him.

Evil people do not heal to become loving and kind merely because someone else treats them well. We see this in children who have been indulged by parents who think if they give the child everything they want the children will automatically respond in gratefulness and love.

The truth is all the children I have seen who have been indulged are more disrespectful to their parents and less empathetic to the needs of the parents.

This is why God tells us to use discipline with children to train them out of their natural selfish and entitled bent.

It is also why God tells us that societies need rules and consequences for breaking the rules. Most people will not become loving and kind when given everything they want, they often even most of the time become more selfish and entitled when there are no consequences for sinful behavior.

We see in our own culture right now in the United States, it is difficult even impossible to have a normal corrective dialogue with our generations adult children. They are rude, combative and resistant to learning anything that demands they change their ways.

The school system in our country indulged them even if the parents didn't, causing them to rebel against their parents training.

We are in the end times now, I see more than ever how we got to the 2 Timothy 3 mentality. The removal of rules, standards and consequences has abolished any good character that could have developed in the children.

Without Christ an adult child will become as sinful and stubborn as it is possible to be as the culture indulges and encourages them to "follow their own heart."

Jeremiah 17:9 " 9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?"

When mankind follows its own heart it ends up like Adam and Eve, defying God's commands and making devastation of all that is around them.

Families are being destroyed by the arrogance and self-indulged attitude of mankind. Now we have this same attitude in the apostate churches. Its everywhere all the time. Sadly, no one will listen to correction or instruction, they only search out what they like to hear and resist and punish what they don't like to hear.

As in Noah's day, God said it would be in these end times. What happened in Noah's day? Here's the way it was and is now, that is, everyone did what was right in their own minds and no one would listen to truth. Welcome to our present world.

Judges 21:25 "In those days Israel had no king; all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes."

The lesson here is that Israel was without a king, without authority and because of this they had no standards to guide them. We are living in growing choas and hyper malignant cruelty.

The same cruelty we saw against Christ will be leveled against us from time to time as we move through this life as followers of Him. Ruthlessnes grows every day and will until we come back with Christ as He destroys the evil upon the earth.

2 Timothy 3:1-5

"3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times (ragingly insane) shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."

Isaiah 13:11

"Thus I will punish the world for its evil

And the wicked for their iniquity;

I will also put an end to the arrogance of the proud

And abase the haughtiness of the ruthless."

It is becoming worse in the world but as believers we know Christ is going to fix it all soon. Hallelujah

Erroneous Teachings Increase as we Approach the End of the Church Age

So many false doctrines are coming forward in these last days. In the last days, the Bible says that “even the elect will be fooled, if that is possible” and the meaning is that those who are born again are able to be fooled by many false teachings because they are exposed daily to the writings and concoctions of ungodly people who not only do not seek God but who enjoy proving the Bible wrong, they are influenced by devils.

Matthew 24:24 “For false christs and false prophets will arise and will provide great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.”

Angels or devils are created beings having no power to create a human being in the womb of a woman, only God the Father could do this.

The angels or devils have no seed of their own. They do not even pro-create among themselves. The only way they would be able to do this is if they had the same power God has to “create” things out of nothing. Only God can send His Spirit over a woman and place within her a man child who was Jesus Christ.

We never hear of angel babies except in Greek mythology written by men.

God said “everything after its own kind”, in reference to the species upon the earth. Angels are an entirely different species of being than human beings.

Humans can’t even mate with animals and produce anything and they each have a seed, but their seeds do not mix with anything else but their own kind of seed.

Genesis 1:24-25 “ 24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25 God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.…’

It is a violation of Scripture to believe an angel species could mate with a human species.

Men of God were godly men who married the daughters of men who were pagan women.

The Bible never states that giants in the land had anything to do with angel and human interaction.

God merely states that there were giants in the land at the time of the godly men marrying the pagan women. They were there but not a result of the union of these humans.

The teaching of devils mating with humans is based on a pagan and blasphemous book called “Enoch.” Enoch was very likely a common name in its day, just because there is a book by this name does not mean it was the Enoch of the Bible who wrote it. And, there is a big possibility that the book was a hoax created by paganistic storytellers.

It is blasphemous to say that devils could do the same things as God the Father could do in creating a human being in the womb of a woman as God did with Jesus Christ in the womb of Mary.

The book of Enoch states that the giants were over 400 feet tall. There is no Biblical evidence that there were ever giants that tall. The tallest we see mentioned in the Bible were 9 feet. And, there is no scientific evidence of any man, no bones found that prove there were ever humans this tall.

Without a seed, without the power of God, and with devilish hatred against God it is understandable that the devil would want mankind to believe that he had the same power as God did. After all, he tried to overthrow God and was expelled from heaven by God for his effort.

It makes sense that the devil would attempt to influence humans to believe he has the same power that God does. Because of his determination to overthrow God, he will do anything to undermine the faith and truth in born-again believers. Until this very day, the devil has deceived himself into believing he can destroy God. When he fails to do so he attempts to convince humans that he can do all the things that God can do.

There is a saying; “when someone cannot control you they will control how others see you.” We know this tactic comes from the devil. He is working to destroy mankind’s relationship with God by deceiving men into believing false things about God.

Just as so many people are deluded into many ideas based on their feelings and desires they think the mere choice to believe something makes their belief valid and will bring about what they want. So too, the devil is choosing to believe he can ruin God by ruining God’s followers with monstrous foolish and blasphemous beliefs that undermine the principles and power of God.

Satan knows his time is short and that he is headed for the fires of hell, and yet he still continues to operate as though he can do something to thwart God’s plan for him.

In our culture today many people, including some believers, are operating as though they can create whatever they want by merely speaking it from their own mouths. They do not understand that they are attempting to do what God did, that is speak into existence whatever their heart desires. This is devilish thinking too because only God can speak into existence anything.

There are more deceptions in the church today than have ever been in 2000 years. As the end-time progresses toward the tribulation, we are watching prominent and educated men of God falling into all kinds of deception because of their desire to be seen as superior to others.

Proverbs 2:3-5

“Yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.”

The modern preachers are violating much scripture because they are seeking books written by men to appear educated far more than they are seeking God. They are believing things that violate God’s Word and even fight to defend them when confronted with their error.

When human beings have been influenced by the devil to believe they can be just like God, they begin to pretend they can do the things He did. They claim they have His power over matter and time, when it is nothing more than an illusion brought about by the devil’s influence in their mind, just as he did with Eve in the garden. He influenced Eve to distrust God and to act out that distrust by defying Him.

There is a danger in reading unbiblical books that humans claim have godly wisdom within their pages. We are living in a time when the devils are influencing people through books that were not inspired by God but were actually inspired by the devil.

Enoch is one of these devilish books that has influenced believers and very sadly even prominent well-known preachers have bought into this monstrous lie about the devils mating with human women.

It defies logic to do what so many preachers do, they take a thought out of one of these ungodly books and develop scenarios to fit the Bible.

The book of Enoch states the height of the giants were over 400 feet tall, but the preachers who believe in hybrid humans never tell us this because they know it sounds outlandish so they just leave this part out.

They do not speak of all the other blasphemous things that evil books say, to embrace what they want to convey, attempting to make the Bible fit the book of Enoch.

So many believers do this with psychology and other human ideas, they mix the worldly wisdom which is foolishness with the Bible and concoct their own desired ideas to justify the sin of their desires. In doing this they have to continually take a passage of the Bible out of context and move it to another part of the Bible that fits more with their desired belief. They do this often with other ungodly books written by men who are not born-again.

It is vitally important that when we read the Bible we do not go “verse by verse” but passage by passage. We must read every verse within its context and within the context of the Bible as a whole. Every verse within its context will never be contradicted in any other part of the Bible, it will mesh with the rest of the context of the Bible. And, above all, any teaching must be prefaced by seeking the Holy Spirit so as not to become proud of our own ideas, making things say what sounds good to us or what might be wrong but impressive to others.

Isaiah 28:10

“For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:”

Just Saying!!!!