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.
Monday, October 12, 2026
Judge Righteous Judgment According to the Holy Spirit
If we do not judge actions, we will begin to do those things we do not judge.
A Dangerous Place for a Christian to Be
This is the dangerous state of most churches today! This culture lives on "saying' is enough we don't actually have to obey God! Those who attend churches today make up their own rules and ignore God's commands.
Claiming Christianity and being Transformed by Christ can be Two Different Things
Most people who claim to be Christians do not understand the Holy Spirit working in them because they do not have Him. They have religion rather than a relationship with Christ.
They would say they believe in the Holy Spirit when asked but do not conduct their life as though they depend on Him.
I have mentioned the Holy Spirit to relatives who attend church gatherings, who look at me like I am strange for mentioning Him. They seem genuinely embarrassed and they never mention Him as they depend entirely on their own thinking rather than on God Who created them.
They become angry when Scripture is used to explain things. And, worse, I never hear them speak of Jesus Christ; His name never comes from their lips.
Most church attendees today have never been born again. True believers take the gospel being preached in the world seriously.
The gospel was not meant to be preached in the gathering of believers because everyone there has been transformed by Christ into a new creation. The gospel is for the world, and all transformed believers should be speaking it in the community outside the gathering.
The gathering of the faithful is for edifying one another in the faith, preparing each one to go into the world and be a witness through their speech and their lives lived.
Ephesians 4:11-13 "…11 And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for works of ministry and to build up the body of Christ, 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as we mature to the full measure of the stature of Christ."
Perhaps the gospel needs to be preached within the church gatherings today, because the world has come into the church. There are few authentic believers in the church gatherings today, and most are rejected as fanatics for suggesting we should actually follow the Bible.
Hebrews 13:21 "equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen."
2 Timothy 3:17 "so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work."
2 Timothy 2:21 "So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work."
These commands from God were not suggestions and they are for every believer. There is no training process except through the Holy Spirit. There is no special school to attend for each believer to be equipped to do the work of God. Each believer has a calling, no one is special and no one is excluded.
1 Corinthians 12:7-11 "To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills."
1 Corinthians 12:14-26 "14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
19 If all were a single member, where would the body be?
20 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
23 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,
25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together."
When there is love in the body of Christ, no one is treated as "less than" to elevate others. No one is elevated above anyone else as more important. All believers in an authentic Christian gathering are treated with the same respect and honor as every other believer.
This practice of loving everyone the same is rare in most gatherings. I have seen it practiced, and it is the loveliest thing to observe. The love flows and emanates to everyone without pre-eminence because only Christ is pre-eminent.
Colossians 1:24-29 "24 I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church,
25 of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,
26 the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.
27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
28 Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. 29 To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily."
All believers are called to desire spiritual callings and carry them out as the Holy Spirit reveals them to each one.
They would say they believe in the Holy Spirit when asked but do not conduct their life as though they depend on Him.
I have mentioned the Holy Spirit to relatives who attend church gatherings, who look at me like I am strange for mentioning Him. They seem genuinely embarrassed and they never mention Him as they depend entirely on their own thinking rather than on God Who created them.
They become angry when Scripture is used to explain things. And, worse, I never hear them speak of Jesus Christ; His name never comes from their lips.
Most church attendees today have never been born again. True believers take the gospel being preached in the world seriously.
The gospel was not meant to be preached in the gathering of believers because everyone there has been transformed by Christ into a new creation. The gospel is for the world, and all transformed believers should be speaking it in the community outside the gathering.
The gathering of the faithful is for edifying one another in the faith, preparing each one to go into the world and be a witness through their speech and their lives lived.
Ephesians 4:11-13 "…11 And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for works of ministry and to build up the body of Christ, 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as we mature to the full measure of the stature of Christ."
Perhaps the gospel needs to be preached within the church gatherings today, because the world has come into the church. There are few authentic believers in the church gatherings today, and most are rejected as fanatics for suggesting we should actually follow the Bible.
Hebrews 13:21 "equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen."
2 Timothy 3:17 "so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work."
2 Timothy 2:21 "So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work."
These commands from God were not suggestions and they are for every believer. There is no training process except through the Holy Spirit. There is no special school to attend for each believer to be equipped to do the work of God. Each believer has a calling, no one is special and no one is excluded.
1 Corinthians 12:7-11 "To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills."
1 Corinthians 12:14-26 "14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
19 If all were a single member, where would the body be?
20 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
23 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,
25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together."
When there is love in the body of Christ, no one is treated as "less than" to elevate others. No one is elevated above anyone else as more important. All believers in an authentic Christian gathering are treated with the same respect and honor as every other believer.
This practice of loving everyone the same is rare in most gatherings. I have seen it practiced, and it is the loveliest thing to observe. The love flows and emanates to everyone without pre-eminence because only Christ is pre-eminent.
Colossians 1:24-29 "24 I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church,
25 of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,
26 the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.
27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
28 Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. 29 To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily."
All believers are called to desire spiritual callings and carry them out as the Holy Spirit reveals them to each one.
Sunday, October 11, 2026
Before Coffins and Embalming!
Many years ago, before coffins and embalming, people were buried in the ground and decomposed over a period of time. They decayed naturally; no trace of them was left.
God said we came from dust and would return to dust. Think about it: people tried to stop this decaying process by embalming; ask yourself why. It was almost in defiance of what God said would happen. Was this pagan ritual of embalming to preserve a body for the afterlife another pagan tradition accepted by Christianity?
Think for a moment about the practice of purchasing a very expensive piece of furniture called a coffin lined with pillows for the body that is placed inside. Does this not seem like one is making the person comfortable as though they are alive?
Once we have adopted, through many generations of human tradition, it is impossible to change the thinking of people to embrace truth. Neither burrying or cremation is wrong according to God. Perhaps though the use of pagan rituals to preserve what God said would decay is the problem.
And, if you will use Christ as an example, you might say He was treated with spices and placed in a burial. Let me remind you that He was anointed on the outside; no embalming fluids entered His body, and He was not placed in the ground in a box; He was placed in a tomb above ground.
One more thing Christianity adopted as normal and acceptable that has no real Biblical basis. I know that God looks at the heart and I cannot judge anyone's choice of burial; however, perhaps we place many burdens on ourselves by obeying man's rituals that God never intended. Just something to think about.
God said we came from dust and would return to dust. Think about it: people tried to stop this decaying process by embalming; ask yourself why. It was almost in defiance of what God said would happen. Was this pagan ritual of embalming to preserve a body for the afterlife another pagan tradition accepted by Christianity?
Think for a moment about the practice of purchasing a very expensive piece of furniture called a coffin lined with pillows for the body that is placed inside. Does this not seem like one is making the person comfortable as though they are alive?
Once we have adopted, through many generations of human tradition, it is impossible to change the thinking of people to embrace truth. Neither burrying or cremation is wrong according to God. Perhaps though the use of pagan rituals to preserve what God said would decay is the problem.
And, if you will use Christ as an example, you might say He was treated with spices and placed in a burial. Let me remind you that He was anointed on the outside; no embalming fluids entered His body, and He was not placed in the ground in a box; He was placed in a tomb above ground.
One more thing Christianity adopted as normal and acceptable that has no real Biblical basis. I know that God looks at the heart and I cannot judge anyone's choice of burial; however, perhaps we place many burdens on ourselves by obeying man's rituals that God never intended. Just something to think about.
Those Who Want God on their Own Terms
One Christian told me that God wouldn't want her to be unhappy, so after a divorce, she remarried.
I told her, "You mean God the Father Who sent His Son to the cross to die a cruel death for the sins of other people, wouldn't want you to be unhappy?"
She didn't have an answer for me, except she said this: "You didn't go to seminary so you cannot know the truth of the Bible. My response was, "You mean the Holy Spirit only goes to seminary?"
Sadly, she was taught all these things by a seminary-trained pastor after she left the Catholic church. She left the Catholic church only to jump into another kind of fire, that of the Protestant apostate church.
The Catholic church and the Protestant church are not all that much different; both are full of idolatry and false doctrine. The idolatry here in the Protestant church was toward the paid pastor; in the Catholic church it was the priest and the statues all around.
Mark 7:13 "13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”
Isaiah 29:13 "Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men."
Honoring a man above Christ is clear when someone turns to "their pastor" instead of the Holy Spirit. In our world today most people who claim to be Christians do not have the Holy Spirit because they came to God on their own terms, caring little about the Bible and knowing nothing about the indwelling and working of the Holy Spirit.
Much of the religious system today is cultural and has not been changed by Christ. People have joined a system expecting to get to heaven on their own idea of religion not on a relationship with Christ.
Colossians 2:8: "See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ."
I told her, "You mean God the Father Who sent His Son to the cross to die a cruel death for the sins of other people, wouldn't want you to be unhappy?"
She didn't have an answer for me, except she said this: "You didn't go to seminary so you cannot know the truth of the Bible. My response was, "You mean the Holy Spirit only goes to seminary?"
Sadly, she was taught all these things by a seminary-trained pastor after she left the Catholic church. She left the Catholic church only to jump into another kind of fire, that of the Protestant apostate church.
The Catholic church and the Protestant church are not all that much different; both are full of idolatry and false doctrine. The idolatry here in the Protestant church was toward the paid pastor; in the Catholic church it was the priest and the statues all around.
Mark 7:13 "13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”
Isaiah 29:13 "Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men."
Honoring a man above Christ is clear when someone turns to "their pastor" instead of the Holy Spirit. In our world today most people who claim to be Christians do not have the Holy Spirit because they came to God on their own terms, caring little about the Bible and knowing nothing about the indwelling and working of the Holy Spirit.
Much of the religious system today is cultural and has not been changed by Christ. People have joined a system expecting to get to heaven on their own idea of religion not on a relationship with Christ.
Colossians 2:8: "See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ."
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