We live in a very weird, unnatural world right now in which the devil wants to distract us from what is important by feeding us information that sounds good but is not only of no use at all but often is detrimental. There are more people fighting today on the internet over the most silly things, blowing things out of proportion that which are insignificant.
I have been attempting to learn a little about AI-generated videos and pictures because of all the things I see Christians getting into that seem very "off" to me.
AI has a hard time doing hands and eyes. Look at these things, you can see it is not a real picture. AI is not very good yet at proportions on bodies. If the neck seems too long, or there are too many fingers, you can be sure it is AI-generated.
AI also has a hard time doing letters; sometimes they look smashed together or appear to be melting away. You can be sure it is AI.
One thing I have noticed with AI is that faces look way too perfect. Everyone has flaws, even with makeup. If the face is too flawless and the lips move too perfectly, then we can assume it is AI-generated.
Another thing we see in the shorts is little babies talking rudely and meanly to adults, using words a toddler can't even say. It is appalling to me that anyone would think it was funny for a toddler to speak disrespectfully to an adult.
We are, however, getting to the point that AI can be so well done that it will fool us into thinking it is real. It is best not to believe much of anything on the internet today. We must be very discerning and wise so that we do not waste our time looking at fake stories and, worse, passing those stories on to others.
If it seems stupid or foolish about famous people, it probably is AI, and we should avoid watching it at all. Not to mention if you have no need to know the silly gossip of celebrities or politicians, it is best to ignore them completely.
So, I guess my point is it doesn't matter if something is AI or not, if there is no need to know it, and it does not add to knowledge or wisdom, just ignore it.
Monday, November 24, 2025
The Holy Spirit is the Authority over the Born Again Believer
No believer has authority over any other believer, and we have no need of a teacher, because Christ in us is our teacher. There is no other mediator between us God, than Jesus Christ.
Acts 4:12 "Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
John 15:13 13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you."
Notice that when it is the Holy Spirit working in someone it is God Who gets the glory not man. When man seeks to be the mediator between people and God it is the man who glorifies himself and others glorify the man too.
1 Timothy 2:4-6 "…4 who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.…"
We have teachers, we teach ourselves, we listen to evaluate with the help of the Holy Spirit, and no one has teaching "authority" over us.
John 14:6 "Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
Nowhere does God tell us to obey our leaders within the church, that idea comes from English translations that were guided by the Anglican model. We are to listen to discern, correct the leaders if they are wrong and see them as equal brothers and sisters in Christ.
This is crucial to understand because many leaders bring false doctrine and those who do not read and pray and are not led by the Holy Spirit believe whatever the leaders tell them. Even feeling intimidated and fearful if they do not do as the leaders tell them.
I have heard of cases in which the "paid-pastor" forbade someone in the congregation from holding Bible studies in their home because a pastor had to be teaching it. This is total nonsense. No one needs permission from anyone else to start a prayer group, have a Bible study or even baptise or observe the Lord's supper. We are free to do all these things as led by the Holy Spirit.
If a man in a gathering begins to attempt to bring others under his authority, that is the time to rebuke him for it, and if we refuses to stop and others follow him, then is when we must leave. Placing ourselves under spiritual authority of human beings is to usurp the Holy Spirit in us.
John 14:26 "But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you."
John 15:26 "When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me."
1 Corinthians 2:10-13 "But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. / For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. / We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us."
Romans 8:14 "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God."
Those who are led by the Spirit of God because they have been transformed by Christ follow only Jesus Christ.
Acts 4:12 "Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
John 15:13 13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you."
Notice that when it is the Holy Spirit working in someone it is God Who gets the glory not man. When man seeks to be the mediator between people and God it is the man who glorifies himself and others glorify the man too.
1 Timothy 2:4-6 "…4 who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.…"
We have teachers, we teach ourselves, we listen to evaluate with the help of the Holy Spirit, and no one has teaching "authority" over us.
John 14:6 "Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
Nowhere does God tell us to obey our leaders within the church, that idea comes from English translations that were guided by the Anglican model. We are to listen to discern, correct the leaders if they are wrong and see them as equal brothers and sisters in Christ.
This is crucial to understand because many leaders bring false doctrine and those who do not read and pray and are not led by the Holy Spirit believe whatever the leaders tell them. Even feeling intimidated and fearful if they do not do as the leaders tell them.
I have heard of cases in which the "paid-pastor" forbade someone in the congregation from holding Bible studies in their home because a pastor had to be teaching it. This is total nonsense. No one needs permission from anyone else to start a prayer group, have a Bible study or even baptise or observe the Lord's supper. We are free to do all these things as led by the Holy Spirit.
If a man in a gathering begins to attempt to bring others under his authority, that is the time to rebuke him for it, and if we refuses to stop and others follow him, then is when we must leave. Placing ourselves under spiritual authority of human beings is to usurp the Holy Spirit in us.
John 14:26 "But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you."
John 15:26 "When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me."
1 Corinthians 2:10-13 "But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. / For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. / We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us."
Romans 8:14 "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God."
Those who are led by the Spirit of God because they have been transformed by Christ follow only Jesus Christ.
The Deer Who Come to Visit Us
Looking over the pictures from the last few months, I am reminded of how beautiful the deer are and what a blessing to watch, so I thought I would share them with you. I never saw a white deer before but she is in one of these pictures.
Do Local Assemblies Need To Be Guided By A Pastor?
The Apostasy of the Modern Church
We have all had to question God, asking for truth to dispel all the wrong things we were taught. Only those who want pure truth will realize they have been manipulated and intimidated by a system God never commanded.
Satan has been very clever, twisting scripture to make people believe things that placed them under the control of men while negating the control of the Holy Spirit.
I will never forget a conversation many years ago with a woman who had left the Catholic church and joined the Protestant system. The same system I was in at the time. We also had left the Catholic church and were seeking the truth.
She had been taught a wrong doctrine. During our discussion, I mildly challenged her to look at the Word of God with me so she could weigh what she was taught and what she was about to do, against the Bible.
My friend's answer to me was that her pastor told her what to believe about it, and that settled it for her. She would not look at the passages I suggested because in her mind, she went to the authority and he told her what she wanted to hear.
I suddenly had the feeling that we were back under the priest all over again, only under a different name, the "pastor".
My friend told me I couldn't know the truth because I had not been to seminary. At which point I posed the question to her, "Oh, you mean the Holy Spirit only goes to seminary?" She saw my retort as a rude remark, refused to answer, and no longer treated me as a friend but as an enemy.
Galatians 4:16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? 17 Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them."
The subject of the discussion was remarriage after divorce. My friend had seen many miracles after her husband left her. God provided for her because she was innocent in the matter. But then one day she decided to change her view and remarry. Sadly, her pastor advised her that it was alright to remarry after a divorce. My friend shared that she was perplexed that she no longer saw miracles as she had before the remarriage. She didn't put it together that her blessing of provision dried up when she disobeyed God.
Malachi 2:16-17 …15 Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth. 16 “For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith. 17 You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?
Mark 10:9
"Therefore, what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
1 Corinthians 7:10-11 "To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. / But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife."
Luke 16:18 "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."
Romans 7:2-3 "For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man."
Is it any wonder why my friend refused to look at the passages given by God? She had been assured by her mentor whom she viewed as the mediator between her and God. This mentor was of the Baptist persuasion and she saw him as the authority over the Holy Spirit.
When I spoke out in an adult Sunday school class about this matter, I was told I was not loving if I did not accept this matter of remarriage as the rest of the class was doing. Only one person approached me after that and said they agreed. That gave me a sense of how many people in that group cared about Christ and His truth.
The "pastor' who counseled her to remarry also stated in a sermon that I heard myself, that all teenage children must rebel against their parents at some point, it is normal.
Ephesians 6:1-4 "Children and Parents
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord."
I sent a note up to the pastor in the middle of his sermon with this passage and another one written on it;, the other passage was;
1 Samuel 15:23 "23 For rebellion is as reprehensible as the sin of divination, and insubordination is as reprehensible as false religion and idolatry. Since you have rejected the word of the Lord,
He has also rejected you from being king.”
The pastor was taking questions that night, read my statement, and looked into the audience with a stern look of resolve, and repeated his stance that children must rebel.
Is it any wonder that authentically born-again believers are leaving the organized church system that dominates everything, silences those who speak out for God, and shuns those who speak the truth?
This "pastor' was seen as "the Authority over that congregation of 200 members at that time, but over the years has grown to 1400. Is it any wonder why that church has grown? It has compromised and fed the people what they wanted.
I suggest that this particular church was a microcosm of the rest of the country. As the years passed, in the beginning, I believed this gathering was an anomaly; I was wrong. I found out that everywhere we went in the denominational organized church, the same mentality was emerging rapidly, that being the Bible was only a guidebook of suggestions that we were free to ignore in favor of "love", which was not love at all but tolerance for sin.
In my estimation, I equated this false love with bad parenting in which the parents don't discipline their children and give them whatever they want to keep the peace. The children grow up to refuse any correction or instruction they don't personally like. And that is where we are right now in the churches.
My thoughts in recent years is to cling to what God has told me to do and our soon homegoing as the church is removed. My guess is that most of the people in those institutional gatherings will still be sitting in the pews after the rapture.
Matthew 7:21-23 "21 Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
Keep Looking Up, our redemption draws nearer every day.
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Satan has been very clever, twisting scripture to make people believe things that placed them under the control of men while negating the control of the Holy Spirit.
I will never forget a conversation many years ago with a woman who had left the Catholic church and joined the Protestant system. The same system I was in at the time. We also had left the Catholic church and were seeking the truth.
She had been taught a wrong doctrine. During our discussion, I mildly challenged her to look at the Word of God with me so she could weigh what she was taught and what she was about to do, against the Bible.
My friend's answer to me was that her pastor told her what to believe about it, and that settled it for her. She would not look at the passages I suggested because in her mind, she went to the authority and he told her what she wanted to hear.
I suddenly had the feeling that we were back under the priest all over again, only under a different name, the "pastor".
My friend told me I couldn't know the truth because I had not been to seminary. At which point I posed the question to her, "Oh, you mean the Holy Spirit only goes to seminary?" She saw my retort as a rude remark, refused to answer, and no longer treated me as a friend but as an enemy.
Galatians 4:16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? 17 Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them."
The subject of the discussion was remarriage after divorce. My friend had seen many miracles after her husband left her. God provided for her because she was innocent in the matter. But then one day she decided to change her view and remarry. Sadly, her pastor advised her that it was alright to remarry after a divorce. My friend shared that she was perplexed that she no longer saw miracles as she had before the remarriage. She didn't put it together that her blessing of provision dried up when she disobeyed God.
Malachi 2:16-17 …15 Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth. 16 “For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith. 17 You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?
Mark 10:9
"Therefore, what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
1 Corinthians 7:10-11 "To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. / But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife."
Luke 16:18 "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."
Romans 7:2-3 "For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man."
Is it any wonder why my friend refused to look at the passages given by God? She had been assured by her mentor whom she viewed as the mediator between her and God. This mentor was of the Baptist persuasion and she saw him as the authority over the Holy Spirit.
When I spoke out in an adult Sunday school class about this matter, I was told I was not loving if I did not accept this matter of remarriage as the rest of the class was doing. Only one person approached me after that and said they agreed. That gave me a sense of how many people in that group cared about Christ and His truth.
The "pastor' who counseled her to remarry also stated in a sermon that I heard myself, that all teenage children must rebel against their parents at some point, it is normal.
Ephesians 6:1-4 "Children and Parents
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord."
I sent a note up to the pastor in the middle of his sermon with this passage and another one written on it;, the other passage was;
1 Samuel 15:23 "23 For rebellion is as reprehensible as the sin of divination, and insubordination is as reprehensible as false religion and idolatry. Since you have rejected the word of the Lord,
He has also rejected you from being king.”
The pastor was taking questions that night, read my statement, and looked into the audience with a stern look of resolve, and repeated his stance that children must rebel.
Is it any wonder that authentically born-again believers are leaving the organized church system that dominates everything, silences those who speak out for God, and shuns those who speak the truth?
This "pastor' was seen as "the Authority over that congregation of 200 members at that time, but over the years has grown to 1400. Is it any wonder why that church has grown? It has compromised and fed the people what they wanted.
I suggest that this particular church was a microcosm of the rest of the country. As the years passed, in the beginning, I believed this gathering was an anomaly; I was wrong. I found out that everywhere we went in the denominational organized church, the same mentality was emerging rapidly, that being the Bible was only a guidebook of suggestions that we were free to ignore in favor of "love", which was not love at all but tolerance for sin.
In my estimation, I equated this false love with bad parenting in which the parents don't discipline their children and give them whatever they want to keep the peace. The children grow up to refuse any correction or instruction they don't personally like. And that is where we are right now in the churches.
My thoughts in recent years is to cling to what God has told me to do and our soon homegoing as the church is removed. My guess is that most of the people in those institutional gatherings will still be sitting in the pews after the rapture.
Matthew 7:21-23 "21 Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
Keep Looking Up, our redemption draws nearer every day.
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The Hospitality Crisis
Cell phones have created a hospitality crisis. People spend more time on their phones than with those right in front of them.
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