Wednesday, October 8, 2025
The Church Gathering the way God Taught
When the church gathering is in a home, there are no taxes to be paid, no upkeep or expensive repairs or maintenance, no programs people are expected to attend or donate to, and no salaries that detract from giving to the needy and elderly in the gathering.
When the gathering is in the home, everyone there is edified, and everyone participates.
When churches are in homes, the people are connected and concerned for one another. Everyone participates, and the leader is the Holy Spirit.
All money gathered goes directly to those who need it and for evangelism. Each family takes care of their own finances and gives freely from their own coffers for important needs, not play or entertainment.
There is always money available for visiting ministers who must travel.
When the church meets in the home, the government is not in control through any strings that might keep them monitoring what goes on in that place. The government has no part in the finances and proceedings.
When the people meet in homes biblically, they do not look to one man who acts as an authority over anyone else. The leaders are several, and they lead by example and teaching.
God's way is always best. When man thinks they can help God out by doing things their own way, they ALWAYS mess things up, pervert truth, and make rules God never made.
Galatians 5:1 "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery."
2 Corinthians 3:17 "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."
John 8:36 "So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."
I see a return to Biblical home gatherings to some extent as people see the perversion of "religion" overtaking most church gatherings today. There is much ritual, but they don't recognize it as ritual.
I hear lots of people complaining that they feel no connection to the church they had been attending, and opted to stay at home with their families or others who felt the way they did.
It is the remnant believer who is finding it hard to find a gathering that is Biblical and speaks of Jesus Christ frequently.
The best thing for any believer to do is to ask for wisdom from the Holy Spirit, question all things, and pray for discernment to know what to do next. The Holy Spirit will speak boldly to anyone who loves Christ and wants to know.
When the gathering is in the home, everyone there is edified, and everyone participates.
When churches are in homes, the people are connected and concerned for one another. Everyone participates, and the leader is the Holy Spirit.
All money gathered goes directly to those who need it and for evangelism. Each family takes care of their own finances and gives freely from their own coffers for important needs, not play or entertainment.
There is always money available for visiting ministers who must travel.
When the church meets in the home, the government is not in control through any strings that might keep them monitoring what goes on in that place. The government has no part in the finances and proceedings.
When the people meet in homes biblically, they do not look to one man who acts as an authority over anyone else. The leaders are several, and they lead by example and teaching.
God's way is always best. When man thinks they can help God out by doing things their own way, they ALWAYS mess things up, pervert truth, and make rules God never made.
Galatians 5:1 "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery."
2 Corinthians 3:17 "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."
John 8:36 "So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."
I see a return to Biblical home gatherings to some extent as people see the perversion of "religion" overtaking most church gatherings today. There is much ritual, but they don't recognize it as ritual.
I hear lots of people complaining that they feel no connection to the church they had been attending, and opted to stay at home with their families or others who felt the way they did.
It is the remnant believer who is finding it hard to find a gathering that is Biblical and speaks of Jesus Christ frequently.
The best thing for any believer to do is to ask for wisdom from the Holy Spirit, question all things, and pray for discernment to know what to do next. The Holy Spirit will speak boldly to anyone who loves Christ and wants to know.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Love of Christ Produces Good Fruit
We are living in an irrational world!!! People will be angry with us, not because we did anything to them, but because we are different from them or because we have something they want.
They will be angry at us because they saw someone else angry with us, even without knowing the reason.
They will not ask you about what you did because you didn't do anything they could name; you are just different from them.
If their friend is angry with you, they will be angry with you too, even if they don't know the reason.
This seems irrational and unbelievable, but remember the devil did the same thing with God in heaven. He was jealous, which made him angry at God because God had what the devil wanted. He wanted to overthrow God, take what he had, and ruin Him.
It sounds fantastical that the devil would not recognize that the very God who created Him would be powerful enough to destroy him with the breath of His mouth.
Often, people will concoct a reason to dislike others merely because they have something the angry person wants. They not only want what the other person has they don't want the other person to have it.
Envy is wanting what someone else has, and jealousy is not wanting them to have it, both are monstrous sins against God. Satan was deeply invested in these character flaws and influences people to indulge in them too.
The devil will convince the jealous, angry person that they have a good reason, but the reason is irrational and petty every time.
Those who love Jesus Christ might briefly struggle with feelings of envy or jealousy, but they do not live a lifestyle of it. The Holy Spirit reminds them of their heart condition, and they repent to be cleansed.
A true child of God changed by Christ into a new creation lives a lifestyle of Love, the first fruit of the Spirit of Christ. All the other fruit flows from that Love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
"4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant.
5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered,
6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails; ............."
They will be angry at us because they saw someone else angry with us, even without knowing the reason.
They will not ask you about what you did because you didn't do anything they could name; you are just different from them.
If their friend is angry with you, they will be angry with you too, even if they don't know the reason.
This seems irrational and unbelievable, but remember the devil did the same thing with God in heaven. He was jealous, which made him angry at God because God had what the devil wanted. He wanted to overthrow God, take what he had, and ruin Him.
It sounds fantastical that the devil would not recognize that the very God who created Him would be powerful enough to destroy him with the breath of His mouth.
Often, people will concoct a reason to dislike others merely because they have something the angry person wants. They not only want what the other person has they don't want the other person to have it.
Envy is wanting what someone else has, and jealousy is not wanting them to have it, both are monstrous sins against God. Satan was deeply invested in these character flaws and influences people to indulge in them too.
The devil will convince the jealous, angry person that they have a good reason, but the reason is irrational and petty every time.
Those who love Jesus Christ might briefly struggle with feelings of envy or jealousy, but they do not live a lifestyle of it. The Holy Spirit reminds them of their heart condition, and they repent to be cleansed.
A true child of God changed by Christ into a new creation lives a lifestyle of Love, the first fruit of the Spirit of Christ. All the other fruit flows from that Love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
"4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant.
5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered,
6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails; ............."
Christ Saves the Lost they do not Save Themselves
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The doctrine of eternal salvation tells us that ONLY God could save us from our SINS and no one, not even ONE, is capable of "maintaining" God's grace. It is utterly prideful and a lie from Satan, to believe anyone can somehow do anything or me "good" enough to "stay saved" after being Born Again.
I ask every doubter of eternal security to READ these verses of scripture, and tell us.. Which is a LIE? Which verse tells us that we can somehow save ourselves or maintain that salvation once obtained? It is a LIE from Hell to doubt eternal security and Grace!
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### KJV Verses Reflecting the TRUTH of Salvation Through Faith and Grace, NOT Works of ANY kind. No man can "maintain" what he couldn't "achieve" on his own merit.
#### Faith and Grace Over Works
1. **Ephesians 2:8-9** - "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast."
2. **Titus 3:5** - "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost."
3. **Romans 4:5** - "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness."
#### Repentance and Belief in the Gospel
1. **Mark 1:15** - "And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel."
2. **Acts 20:21** - "Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ."
3. **John 3:16** - "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
#### Eternal Security in Salvation
1. **John 10:28-29** - "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand."
2. **Ephesians 1:13-14** - "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory."
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### Verses on Salvation Not Being a License to Sin
1. **Romans 6:1-2**
"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?"
2. **Titus 2:11-12**
"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;"
3. **Galatians 5:13**
"For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another."
4. **1 Peter 2:16**
"As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God."
5. **Jude 1:4**
"For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ."
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