The World Despises Christ so it Despises Us Too

When you feel alone and despised by others remember what God said; it isn't about us, it's about the mentality of the world that condemns us.

John 15:17-19 "17 This is My command to you: Love one another. 18 If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. 19 If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.…"

Proverbs 29:27

"An unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked."

Isaiah 66:5

"5 Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at His word:

“Your brothers who hate you, who exclude you on account of My name,

Have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, so that we may see your joy.’

But they will be put to shame."

Those who love the world and elevate themselves will taunt believers hoping they will fall and be ashamed, but it is the worldly people who will be put to shame.

Those who love themselves above everyone and everything that is holy will be exposed by those who love the Lord. We can see what they are doing and it has no effect on us but keeps them trapped in sadness, gloom and anger.

John 7:7

"The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil."

The world attacks us, not because of us, but because of Christ Who lives in us. Let Him carry the burden, let Him be our strength.

Trust no one and nothing except the Holy Spirit Only!!!!

If the KJV of the Bible never states within itself that we are to only read the KJV, then no one can assert that as a fact. To say that the KJV is infallible then it would state so within the writings of the prophets. Also, to say the KJV is infallible is adding to the scripture something which is not there.

I place my trust in Christ in everything not in any person, not in translators, and not in translated versions of the Bible. The only inspired version of the Bible was in the original Greek and Hebrew which we have copies of in our day.

I thank God that my trust is not in what man has done, but in what Christ told us through His Word translated through the Holy Spirit as we read whatever version He has given us to read.

The Bible has been translated in most languages today and not from a translation but from the original copies. It's what God has given us and we can trust them.

English is spoken only by 1.46 Billion people in the world today and there are 7.9 Billion people in the world today. Only a small number of the people existing on earth could read English. They must have a translation in their own language translated by men of God who are led by the Holy Spirit.

John 16:12-14 "…12 I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it. 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."

The Holy Spirit is able to bring the understanding to the believer in any translation presented to them and what we read will glorify God not a translation and not a man.

Our modern Christianity in these last days places more emphasis on what man can do than it does on the Holy Spirit Who is capable of everything the believer needs.

Isaiah 11:2

"The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him--the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD."

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."

At Pentecost, God allowed those hearing the word to hear it in their own languages spoken to them in the different language of the speaker.

He can do this too in every translation. He can give the understanding to those in their own language the truth better than the words written on a page.

God's Word is powerful, it is not words on a page, it is Jesus Christ the Word living in us Who enlightens what people write. Yes, those prophets who wrote the word didn't understand much of what they wrote because it was future prophecy and yet we understand it now because we are living in the prophetic times they wrote about.

The prophets had visions they wrote down but didn't understand. We can know now what they meant because we are seeing those prophesies come to fulfillment. That is a miracle in our lifetime, to be able to see what the prophets wrote but didn't understand.

There have been times when I thought I wanted to sit for many many hours, days, years, listening to the prophets when we get to heaven. I still think this but I also now think they may want to sit with us and hear how their prophesies were fulfilled and what they looked like in real time.

Bottom Line; trust nothing and no one more than the Holy Spirit!!!! That's it!!!!

Not A Christians Nation and Going Home Soon

If I hear one more time that America is a Christian nation I will vomit.

Revelation 3:16

"So, because you are lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth! CEV. But since you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spit you."

If a nation is Christian it would not allow abortion, it would not allow nightclubs and prostitution, nor would it be against Isarel. If a nation were Christian the people in it would love God's ways and hate wickedness.

We see wickedness all around us all the time. Marriage is treated contemptuously, children are brash, rude and disrespectful and their parents do not train them to be otherwise.

The movies and tv shows are brazenly immoral and any shows depicting the life of Christ or the Bible are blasphemous.

There are more babies born out of wedlock than in marriage, while half of the marriages end in divorce while the other half endorse it.

Those who are taunted and rejected are the Christians who stand against these things that dishonor God. We are persecuted by those who attend church gatherings as though we are cruel for standing on God's Word.

I have been rejected more by Christians for speaking the truth about divorce and remarriage than any other subject. Our own family members have demeaned and mocked me for not supporting what God condemns.

All the dedicated born again believers have experienced family rejection and even church rejection for staying to the Word of God, and that is in this nation.

2 Timothy 4:2-4

"2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears, they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.…"

Fantasy thinking is on overdrive now as people spend more time enjoying what they want to believe than they care about truth.

Keep looking up brothers and sisters it is all going to be over soon, we will be going home in the clouds with Christ.

Continue to Remember God's Promises to Those of Us Who Believe God's Word

I know that everyone who chooses to live godly lives is going through difficulties of every kind in these last days. May each one keep in mind God's Word to remind themselves He is our strength and He loves us very much.

2 Timothy 3:1-5

Difficult Times Will Come

1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."

Ephesians 6:10-11

"10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil."

2 Thessalonians 3:3

"3 But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one."

1 Peter 5:8-9

"8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9 Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world."

Why I Started Wearing a Head Covering

Self Esteem Teaching and Everyone Gets a Trophy Has Ruined Many People

When someone is treated like they are special all their lives pretty soon they start to believe it. This is what the self-esteem teaching has done for many people brought up in the 70's, 80's and 90's and now into the 2000's.

We are living in an age when people believe they are entitled to be treated special even if they never do anything to earn it. This is the reason it is so difficult to convince people they are sinful by nature and in need of a Savior.

I am convinced this is also the reason people in general are becoming more hyper-sensitive to correction and even vengeful toward anyone who attempts to reason with or cause attitude adjustments in those who are wreckless in their frame of mind.

It has become acceptable and popular to praise people for the smallest things, thinking this is building confidence but in reality, it is reducing confidence and building pride.

Pride is not the same as confidence. Pride causes a person to elevate themselves above what is warranted without having done the difficult work of testing and failing until a problem is solved.

Confidence comes from having done the hard work to learn something valuable from trial and error, that gave them the skills needed to become proficient at their trade. In order to become confident one has to tell the truth about themselves, claiming their own flaws and failures and determining to change what needs to be changed.

No one gains confidence without trials and failures, perseverance and eventually success. No one gainst confidence who look at themselves in honesty and own their own their own defect in character. It is only in admitting our defects that we can change them. Those who will not admit they have flaws will never change and they will never learn.

Those who do not face their own demons will never be able to correct anything within themselves.

Most people today expect relationships to be easy without work and without confession and repentance. No relationship can develop into a lasting and deep one without going through various life experiences, sad, happy, difficult, and easy, with laughter, tears, resolution to problems, and the joy of reconciliation.

Without problem solving there can be no emotional maturity. Those who avoid facing their own flaws and working through the flaws of others will never mature, they remain emotional and spiritual infants without the skills to make it through life having grown and matured into wise elders.

Spiritual and emotional maturity is uncommon in our day and becomes less all the time as we march toward the tribulation. We see now why the devil can manipulate and control so many people. When he has convinced them they can be their own gods no one else can convince them otherwise.

The same lie the devil told Eve in the garden is the lie people are being told today, that they are special and can be in complete control of their own destiny and life outcomes.

Many actually believe all they have to do is think something about themselves and that makes it so. Nothing has to be real as long as they like what they are thinking. Self delusion is rampant in our day, lies are unrestrained and defended far more than truth.

Parents "pride" themselves on how positive they are with their children and the children are less able to progress in their studies and other life experiences. We have been raising spiritual pigmies without the ability to reason rationally.

I don't say these things to make anyone angry but rather to open the eyes of those who have been confused not knowing why things don't work out and why there is no longer any love in the world around them. The love is gone because God has been rejected, the Author of love and all His way spurned.

2 Timothy 4:3-4

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables."

Beloved brothers and sisters, do not become discouraged, keep doing what the Holy Spirit tells you to do, and keep looking up our redemption is drawing near.

Becoming Born-Again

Before I was born again I lived a life of sin, full of sadness and practices that I thought would bring me out of that sadness. But the ways I chose didn't help they only harmed me further. The more I tried to fix what was broken with humanistic thinking the worse things became.

Then one day I fell down on my knees before the Lord in brokenness, shame, and despair. I cried out to the Lord to forgive me and clean up what was wrong in me. From that day forward my Lord loved me and remained my best friend only to bring joy as He fixed what was wrong inside of me.

As the years went by the Lord gave me experiences in life to show me things I had never seen before. He gave me insight into why humanity acts the way they do and that no one has the heart of gold that they want to pretend they have.

What I didn't expect was that those who said they were Christians remained jealous and mean toward me as though there had been no change. They seemed to have developed a hatred toward me for my new joy and peace which they seemed to lack. My eyes were opened to the truth around me and I could Spiritually see the anger in the hearts of those who said they were Christians.

These people didn't commit crimes but they lacked the love of the Lord for one another. They were rude and mean to anyone who spoke of the Lord openly and who was full of joy, as though they resented that they did not possess what the new believer had. These people don't seem to have a story to tell of their sinfulness before they were saved nor are they openly honest about themselves with anyone.

To this day, I remain convinced that no one can become born-again without the same brokenness that I felt on that day the Lord saved me. There is never a reason for anyone to maintain pride in themselves for their own goodness because it does not exist.

The human heart loves to appear good on the outside while on the inside rottenness and self-exaltation flourish. Most unregenerate criminals in jail for their crimes would tell you they are basically good people. Those who have never committed crimes and have lived decent lives as far as we can see will tell you the same thing, that they are basically good people.

Sadly a basically good person could never be arrogant and full of themselves nor could they boast about themselves. Born-again believers authentically changed by Christ know what they came out of, are grateful for His mercy, and can share openly many things that the Lord delivered them from.

I see so many people who attend churches without conviction of their sin of pride, without love and tenderness toward others. I see them hating on people over silly things while rejecting God's word as they claim they follow the Bible.

2 Corinthians 10:17-18

"17 Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.” 18 For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends."

God said clearly in His Word that no one is righteous and the human heart without Christ is desperately wicked. Those who want to believe they are perfect without flaws are proving they are wicked by their propensity to exalt themselves as gods just as Satan convinced Eve to do in the garden.

Romans 3:9-20 "9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, 10 as it is written:

“None is righteous, no, not one;

11 no one understands;

no one seeks for God.

12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;

no one does good,

not even one.”

13 “Their throat is an open grave;

they use their tongues to deceive.”

“The venom of asps is under their lips.”

14 “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”

15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;

16 in their paths are ruin and misery,

17 and the way of peace they have not known.”

18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Everyone who claims to be a Christian should have fallen on their knees as I did all those many years ago. Even if they didn't rob anyone, kill anyone, or do anything against society that proved the criminality in their hearts, they did exalt themselves as though they were gods. They elevated themselves above others and judged the flaws of others that they had and still have until they repent in brokenness.

Romans 1:18

"The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness."

Romans 2:1

"You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things."

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

Romans 3:23

"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,"

I worry more about the pretenders in the church than I do about unbelievers in one sense only, that the pretender believes they are going to heaven therefore they are harder to reach for Christ than the one who knows they have never trusted Christ.

In my estimation, the most frightening passage in God's Word is the one that says many will think they are going to heaven who will be rejected and turned away thinking they are going to heaven because of their own goodness.

Matthew 7:21-23 "21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’"

No one will stand before the Lord and say something as silly as "But Lord, I was a good person."

Psalm 51:17

"17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;

a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise."

2 Corinthians 7:10

"10 For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death."

Evidence of a broken heart over sin is the humility that comes with the fruit of the Spirit of God when Christ moves into our hearts.

Galatians 5:22-23

"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

Hallelujah, Christ changes those with a broken heart but resists those who are proud of how good they think they are, pride leaves when humility comes.