I have been mocked by Christians for being on Facebook. They say these are not real friends.
I laugh at this because I have had more real relationships with friends on Facebook than I ever had in person. I have even met some of my Facebook friends, and it was a lovely time in the Lord. Paul wrote letters to people he never met and counted them as brothers and sisters in Christ.
Most people who have lots of friends really have no friends at all because the relationships are based on elevating themselves personally using superficial and meaningless chatter to flatter.
There is an old proverb that goes like this; "a man with lots of friends has none at all."
Friends are people who share your principles and embrace what you love. They do not agree on every little thing but are gracious when they disagree. They love you too much to do anything that would hurt you.
Friends do not bludgeon you when you correct them, they think about what you have said and value your insight.
Proverbs 27:6: "Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."
Proverbs 18:24 "A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."
In these last days when true friends are few God has given us the internet to connect with godly people who love Who we love, that is Jesus Christ.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
If You Meet On Facebook for Edification You Have Obeyed God
If you have met on Facebook or any other social media with other believers around the Truth of the Word as led by the Holy Spirit, you have not neglected the gathering together.
We live in a world now in which the institutional churches have disobeyed Christ more than they have obeyed and have been perverting His Word more than obeying it.
The church buildings are full of man's rituals, making people feel comfortable rather than building them up in the Word. These places have expectations God never gave and discourage what God commanded.
The people sense they are safe because of the rituals and the hierarchical system that elevates men above Christ. The system is protected, and people who expose it are demonized.
Familiar rituals that God never commanded are many; here are a few:
Paid pastor system;
Holiday celebrations through pagan influence;
Buildings called temples;
Pictures of a man depicting Christ;
Pressure to formally join as though tied to one gathering with the expectation of working within that system alone;
Needing permission from leadership to preach and teach the gospel outside the building;
There are many false teachings inculcated with much psychology that trumps Bible teachings;
Teachings about the nature of marriage that defy what God told us in the Bible;
Telling the attendees that only the dedicated preachers should be sharing the gospel in the community;
Disallowing anyone to preach who does not have a seminary degree;
The altar call; and
Then the most ridiculous pressure of all is when the leadership forbids people from having Bible studies in their own homes unless sanctioned by the hierarchy.
There are more unbiblical things going on in these institutional churches, but the few I mentioned should be enough for us to avoid them. God's way was for us to be the Temple and to meet in the homes of others who are the Temple of Christ.
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."
Obey God's Word, seek Christ, and avoid all unbiblical things you were taught that has ruined the churches today!
We live in a world now in which the institutional churches have disobeyed Christ more than they have obeyed and have been perverting His Word more than obeying it.
The church buildings are full of man's rituals, making people feel comfortable rather than building them up in the Word. These places have expectations God never gave and discourage what God commanded.
The people sense they are safe because of the rituals and the hierarchical system that elevates men above Christ. The system is protected, and people who expose it are demonized.
Familiar rituals that God never commanded are many; here are a few:
Paid pastor system;
Holiday celebrations through pagan influence;
Buildings called temples;
Pictures of a man depicting Christ;
Pressure to formally join as though tied to one gathering with the expectation of working within that system alone;
Needing permission from leadership to preach and teach the gospel outside the building;
There are many false teachings inculcated with much psychology that trumps Bible teachings;
Teachings about the nature of marriage that defy what God told us in the Bible;
Telling the attendees that only the dedicated preachers should be sharing the gospel in the community;
Disallowing anyone to preach who does not have a seminary degree;
The altar call; and
Then the most ridiculous pressure of all is when the leadership forbids people from having Bible studies in their own homes unless sanctioned by the hierarchy.
There are more unbiblical things going on in these institutional churches, but the few I mentioned should be enough for us to avoid them. God's way was for us to be the Temple and to meet in the homes of others who are the Temple of Christ.
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."
Obey God's Word, seek Christ, and avoid all unbiblical things you were taught that has ruined the churches today!
One Temple
There is only one physical temple for God in this world and that is our bodies, the bodies of those who have trusted Christ. We can meet anywhere at anytime with anyone we choose to edify one another as we worship God in Spirit and in Truth as we walk through this life.
These church buildings that people attend have made the believers lazy. They do not read their Bibles at home, pray at home or witness in their communities.
Their once-a-week gatherings give them a sense of having done their duty, and they go home with no change in their hearts or enthusiasm for Christ. They have placed their trust in that "institutionally educated" man paid to do his job, instead of in Christ.
The gatherings have become a structured system with men's expectations that include no one speaking except the one man up front.
This is not at all the Biblical model given to us in the Bible for the gathering of believers. God told us that as we gather together we are to edify one another.
We are not called to make sacrifices to God as in the Old Testament times. We are called to receive His sacrifice for us as the final word. Our sacrifice is our service to Him in the world.
The gathering of the believers is for edifying one another, speaking to one another, all participating as led by the Holy Spirit. This is what bonds us together, elevating Christ not ourselves.
We are the living sacrifice with Christ living in us.
Romans 12:1-2 "1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God."
When we edify one another in the Lord, He is glorified, the focus is Him.
1 Peter 1:3 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,"
Our time with the believers in gathering should enhance our daily walk, giving us boldness and the ability to share Christ in the community.
In the modern church gatherings, people are discouraged from speaking while they face forward in worshipful fashion toward the one man speaker. Anyone who disrupts him will be silenced or ushered out if they will not stop talking.
Hebrews 10:24-25 "…24And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds. 25 Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching."
Acts 2:42 "They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer."
Matthew 18:20 "For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”
There is no formula in the gathering in which someone else makes the decisions of what to sing, speak and what to pray without the input of the others. The Holy Spirit leads each one to bring a prayer, a speaking or a song; the Holy Spirit is preeminent, not a person up front.
1 Peter 4:11 "If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen."
Philippians 2:9 "Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names."
The modern churches do not glorify man and are full of dead, lifeless ritual with emotion thrown in to make it seem legitimate.
God's way of gathering glorifies Christ and not people. I grieve every time I hear someone say something like: "I like that preacher because of the way he preaches", or worse: "I go to that church because of the music."
We should never gather to enjoy ourselves! We should gather to edify one another to the glory of Christ.
We are living in the end times full of false doctrine, false worship, false humility, and everything else false too. It's all ritual to satisfy the emotions of people who have little depth, living entirely on superficial sentimentality.
Glorifying Christ is not on the minds of most Christians; their personal feelings and happiness drive everything they do.
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."
These church buildings that people attend have made the believers lazy. They do not read their Bibles at home, pray at home or witness in their communities.
Their once-a-week gatherings give them a sense of having done their duty, and they go home with no change in their hearts or enthusiasm for Christ. They have placed their trust in that "institutionally educated" man paid to do his job, instead of in Christ.
The gatherings have become a structured system with men's expectations that include no one speaking except the one man up front.
This is not at all the Biblical model given to us in the Bible for the gathering of believers. God told us that as we gather together we are to edify one another.
We are not called to make sacrifices to God as in the Old Testament times. We are called to receive His sacrifice for us as the final word. Our sacrifice is our service to Him in the world.
The gathering of the believers is for edifying one another, speaking to one another, all participating as led by the Holy Spirit. This is what bonds us together, elevating Christ not ourselves.
We are the living sacrifice with Christ living in us.
Romans 12:1-2 "1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God."
When we edify one another in the Lord, He is glorified, the focus is Him.
1 Peter 1:3 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,"
Our time with the believers in gathering should enhance our daily walk, giving us boldness and the ability to share Christ in the community.
In the modern church gatherings, people are discouraged from speaking while they face forward in worshipful fashion toward the one man speaker. Anyone who disrupts him will be silenced or ushered out if they will not stop talking.
Hebrews 10:24-25 "…24And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds. 25 Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching."
Acts 2:42 "They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer."
Matthew 18:20 "For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”
There is no formula in the gathering in which someone else makes the decisions of what to sing, speak and what to pray without the input of the others. The Holy Spirit leads each one to bring a prayer, a speaking or a song; the Holy Spirit is preeminent, not a person up front.
1 Peter 4:11 "If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen."
Philippians 2:9 "Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names."
The modern churches do not glorify man and are full of dead, lifeless ritual with emotion thrown in to make it seem legitimate.
God's way of gathering glorifies Christ and not people. I grieve every time I hear someone say something like: "I like that preacher because of the way he preaches", or worse: "I go to that church because of the music."
We should never gather to enjoy ourselves! We should gather to edify one another to the glory of Christ.
We are living in the end times full of false doctrine, false worship, false humility, and everything else false too. It's all ritual to satisfy the emotions of people who have little depth, living entirely on superficial sentimentality.
Glorifying Christ is not on the minds of most Christians; their personal feelings and happiness drive everything they do.
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."
Gossip and Slander the Devil's Favorite Tactic Even Today
Gossip and slander has been the favored tactic of the devil. He managed to convince Eve that God was the bad one. God who gave her everything she enjoyed and a perfect body and health, as well as paradise to live in, was painted as the problem. It should not surprise us that the devil uses the same tactics today.
Where Does the Spirit of a Man Go After Death
For those who have wondered what happens to the spirit of a person who has died, God makes it clear.
Those who trust in themselves without Christ have no hope of life in heaven after they die. The wonderful thing is that it is so easy to gain heaven that most people think it is too easy.
God said if we believe in Him, place our trust in Him, and what He did for us on that cruel cross, He will save us, completely transform us and keep us saved until He comes for us. He does all the work in us, all the cleansing and all the keeping of us. All we have to do is trust in HIm.
Trusting in Him does not mean going to church, reading your Bible enough, speaking about Him or anything else we do. It means believing Him when He said He died to pay for our sins and we must trust Him to change us into a new creation.
The spirits of those who have died either go to heaven or hell, depending on whether or not they have trusted in Christ. Those who have trusted in Christ go to heaven, and those who do not go to hell.
2 Corinthians 5:8 "
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord."
Luke 16:19-31 "19 "There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man 's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham 's side. The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. 24 And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’"
Pride is the ruination of any person; it prevents people from doing the easy thing to avoid having to admit their own sinful hearts. Pride does nothing good; it merely keeps people in bondage to themselves and their weak and beggarly self-regard.
Those who have trusted Christ understand the incredible freedom they have from sin and from the influences of those who would buffet them because they love Christ.
Bondage to sin is far greater than unsaved people realize; it robs them of everything joyous and creative.
Christ has all the answers; He knows our hearts perfectly and what we need better than we know ourselves. People lie to themselves; they think they are good when they are not. They think they deserve heaven when they have only boasted of themselves without Christ or anyone else as their priority.
Sin is slavery, and freedom in Christ is release from that bondage. Unsaved people do not know they are in bondage; the devil has convinced them that sin is freedom, but it is the worst kind of enslavement.
Galatians 5:1 "5 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery."
John 8:36 "So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."
Those who trust in themselves without Christ have no hope of life in heaven after they die. The wonderful thing is that it is so easy to gain heaven that most people think it is too easy.
God said if we believe in Him, place our trust in Him, and what He did for us on that cruel cross, He will save us, completely transform us and keep us saved until He comes for us. He does all the work in us, all the cleansing and all the keeping of us. All we have to do is trust in HIm.
Trusting in Him does not mean going to church, reading your Bible enough, speaking about Him or anything else we do. It means believing Him when He said He died to pay for our sins and we must trust Him to change us into a new creation.
The spirits of those who have died either go to heaven or hell, depending on whether or not they have trusted in Christ. Those who have trusted in Christ go to heaven, and those who do not go to hell.
2 Corinthians 5:8 "
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord."
Luke 16:19-31 "19 "There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man 's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham 's side. The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. 24 And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’"
Pride is the ruination of any person; it prevents people from doing the easy thing to avoid having to admit their own sinful hearts. Pride does nothing good; it merely keeps people in bondage to themselves and their weak and beggarly self-regard.
Those who have trusted Christ understand the incredible freedom they have from sin and from the influences of those who would buffet them because they love Christ.
Bondage to sin is far greater than unsaved people realize; it robs them of everything joyous and creative.
Christ has all the answers; He knows our hearts perfectly and what we need better than we know ourselves. People lie to themselves; they think they are good when they are not. They think they deserve heaven when they have only boasted of themselves without Christ or anyone else as their priority.
Sin is slavery, and freedom in Christ is release from that bondage. Unsaved people do not know they are in bondage; the devil has convinced them that sin is freedom, but it is the worst kind of enslavement.
Galatians 5:1 "5 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery."
John 8:36 "So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Our Peace and Joy is in Knowing What is Coming Soon
The world we are living in today is very difficult for the born-again believer. They watch every day those who claim to be Christians but lack the love of God and all the rest of the fruit of the Spirit. It is more disturbing to watch "Christians" act like this because we expect it from unbelievers, but when someone claims to be a Spiritual brother or sister, it is far more disruptive.
Isaiah 5:20-21 "20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter. 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight."
Malachi 2:17 "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?”
Proverbs 24:24-25 "Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”—peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him; / but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and rich blessing will come upon them."
Amos 5:7 "There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground."
When we have studied the pattern through the lens of the Bible we can clearly see what is going on, once our eyes have been opened we can never see things as we used to see them again.
This is why it is such a blessing to know that Christ is coming soon, we will go home to celebrate the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and after that we will come back with Christ when He destroys evil on the earth.
I ponder continually what it will be like when Christ our King is ruling the earth during the first 100 years of the Millennium, when everyone will act as they should. For a time at the beginning, everyone who enters the Millennium will be a follower of Christ and will possess the love of Christ.
What a blessing to know this mess will be over soon and better times are coming when Christ is ruling the earth.
Hallelujah!!!!
Isaiah 5:20-21 "20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter. 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight."
Malachi 2:17 "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?”
Proverbs 24:24-25 "Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”—peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him; / but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and rich blessing will come upon them."
Amos 5:7 "There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground."
When we have studied the pattern through the lens of the Bible we can clearly see what is going on, once our eyes have been opened we can never see things as we used to see them again.
This is why it is such a blessing to know that Christ is coming soon, we will go home to celebrate the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and after that we will come back with Christ when He destroys evil on the earth.
I ponder continually what it will be like when Christ our King is ruling the earth during the first 100 years of the Millennium, when everyone will act as they should. For a time at the beginning, everyone who enters the Millennium will be a follower of Christ and will possess the love of Christ.
What a blessing to know this mess will be over soon and better times are coming when Christ is ruling the earth.
Hallelujah!!!!
Monday, October 12, 2026
Nothing Has Changed and People Have not Changed
In the book of Genesis, God describes how life for the people of the earth was going on normally, and they were not listening to Noah.
God never said in His Word that people mocked and laughed at Noah, but we know it was so because those people were no different from the people of today.
Matthew 24:37–39 "37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be."
2 Peter 2:5 "5 and did not spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;"
Hebrews 11:7 "…6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him. 7By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. 8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going."
The people who hated God have always mocked Him and His people. Nothing has changed. All things are as they have always been.
Thankfully, one day soon Christ is going to wipe away the evil upon the earth and those who have trusted in Him will be with Him.
God never said in His Word that people mocked and laughed at Noah, but we know it was so because those people were no different from the people of today.
Matthew 24:37–39 "37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be."
2 Peter 2:5 "5 and did not spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;"
Hebrews 11:7 "…6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him. 7By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. 8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going."
The people who hated God have always mocked Him and His people. Nothing has changed. All things are as they have always been.
Thankfully, one day soon Christ is going to wipe away the evil upon the earth and those who have trusted in Him will be with Him.
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