Saturday, July 18, 2026
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Finally in sight, the finish line is upon us! 
What a time to be watching and waiting!
For so long, believers have looked forward to the glorious return of our King. Some days the wait has felt long, but every day brings us one step closer to that incredible moment when we will be with the Lord forever.
As we watch the world around us, we can see events unfolding that remind us just how near we may be to the fulfillment of God's promises.
The signs spoken of in Scripture continue to point us toward the blessed hope that has encouraged believers for generations.
So don't grow weary. Don't lose your excitement. Keep looking up!
Today could be the day our King calls His people home. What a wonderful thought! The race is almost finished, the victory is already secured, and eternity with Jesus grows closer with every passing moment.
Until then, let's stay faithful, stay encouraged, and keep our eyes fixed on Him. The finish line is ahead, and our hearts are filled with joyful expectation!
Come, Lord Jesus! Let today be the day! 
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Friday, July 17, 2026
The Nephilim Lie
One of the most absurd teachings in our day is taken from the fictional book of Enoch concerning the nephilim and devils. It is blasphemy to assign to devils the same ability as Father God to place His Son, Jesus Christ, in a body in Mary's womb.
What was the devil's main objective? He wanted to become as powerful as God. Since he could not do that, he pretended to do so, deceiving the people God created into believing the devil is as powerful as God the Father.
And now he has deceived many prominent preachers that devils mated with human women and created giants. The Bible does not teach this at all, but sadly, because people will not pray and ask God to expose false teaching, they believe the false teachers.
It is an easy matter when we look at simple evidence from the Bible that angels and demons do not procreate among themselves; where would they get the seed to impregnate a woman?
God said when He created the animals they each only procreated with their own kind. Cats do not mate with dogs, elephants do not mate with tigers and so on. How much more silly to say that spirit beings who don't even mate with each other would mate with human flesh.
It is total nonsense that devils mated with humans and yet this lie has been accepted by many modern teachers today.
Something is seriously wrong in the Christian culture when blasphemous lies can be taught and most people in the churches are accepting it.
Perhaps most people love the intrigue of myths and refuse to ask God what is truth and what is not. Mixing myth with truth is devastating to evangelism.
1 Timothy 4:3-5 "…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. 5 But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."
The challenge is to ask God for truth, even if you find yourself going against your Christian culture, to believe only truth!!!!
What was the devil's main objective? He wanted to become as powerful as God. Since he could not do that, he pretended to do so, deceiving the people God created into believing the devil is as powerful as God the Father.
And now he has deceived many prominent preachers that devils mated with human women and created giants. The Bible does not teach this at all, but sadly, because people will not pray and ask God to expose false teaching, they believe the false teachers.
It is an easy matter when we look at simple evidence from the Bible that angels and demons do not procreate among themselves; where would they get the seed to impregnate a woman?
God said when He created the animals they each only procreated with their own kind. Cats do not mate with dogs, elephants do not mate with tigers and so on. How much more silly to say that spirit beings who don't even mate with each other would mate with human flesh.
It is total nonsense that devils mated with humans and yet this lie has been accepted by many modern teachers today.
Something is seriously wrong in the Christian culture when blasphemous lies can be taught and most people in the churches are accepting it.
Perhaps most people love the intrigue of myths and refuse to ask God what is truth and what is not. Mixing myth with truth is devastating to evangelism.
1 Timothy 4:3-5 "…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. 5 But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."
The challenge is to ask God for truth, even if you find yourself going against your Christian culture, to believe only truth!!!!
Foolish Men Who Depend on Themselves Instead of Christ
Men seem to always want to depend on themselves to make things happen the way that seems right to them.
Proverbs 14:12 "12 There is a way that seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death."
It is the heart of mankind to think they must figure out every minor detail to get things right. When we walk by faith in Christ, it is not merely something we say; it is something we trust in that is the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is not a concept; He is a person, and He leads us in all things. We need no scripted material in our gatherings to edify one another. Can a man script something better than the Holy Spirit? NO!
John 16:13 "When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come."
The same principle that applied to the apostles when they would be handed over to the authorities also applies to the gathering of believers. Trusting in Christ is not an idea in our heads, it is how we live our lives.
Matthew 10:19-20 "19 But when they hand you over, do not worry about how to respond or what to say. In that hour, you will be given what to say. 20 For it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you."
No one can bring about order and truth better than the Holy Spirit. The key is how much faith the believers have to trust in Him for all things.
Mankind continually reverts to its own devices while claiming its plans are from the Holy Spirit.
The challenge for us would be to test how many times we try to figure out things on our own, compared to how many times we trust in Christ.
And, please, may no one ever use the excuse again, "God gave me a brain", which is the most foolish justification for trusting in oneself right from the devil's mouth.
My answer would be that God gave us a brain, and look what we did with it. When we wanted to trust in ourselves, mankind fell into punishment and despair for trusting in its own brain.
Those who say foolish things like, "God helps those who help themselves," do not understand that God helps those who cannot help themselves. The moment we begin to trust in our own ways and thinking is the day we fail without hope, and sadly, so badly we don't even know we have failed.
Proverbs 28:26 "Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered."
May we remember the words of God and forget the foolish words of man.
Proverbs 14:12 "12 There is a way that seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death."
It is the heart of mankind to think they must figure out every minor detail to get things right. When we walk by faith in Christ, it is not merely something we say; it is something we trust in that is the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is not a concept; He is a person, and He leads us in all things. We need no scripted material in our gatherings to edify one another. Can a man script something better than the Holy Spirit? NO!
John 16:13 "When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come."
The same principle that applied to the apostles when they would be handed over to the authorities also applies to the gathering of believers. Trusting in Christ is not an idea in our heads, it is how we live our lives.
Matthew 10:19-20 "19 But when they hand you over, do not worry about how to respond or what to say. In that hour, you will be given what to say. 20 For it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you."
No one can bring about order and truth better than the Holy Spirit. The key is how much faith the believers have to trust in Him for all things.
Mankind continually reverts to its own devices while claiming its plans are from the Holy Spirit.
The challenge for us would be to test how many times we try to figure out things on our own, compared to how many times we trust in Christ.
And, please, may no one ever use the excuse again, "God gave me a brain", which is the most foolish justification for trusting in oneself right from the devil's mouth.
My answer would be that God gave us a brain, and look what we did with it. When we wanted to trust in ourselves, mankind fell into punishment and despair for trusting in its own brain.
Those who say foolish things like, "God helps those who help themselves," do not understand that God helps those who cannot help themselves. The moment we begin to trust in our own ways and thinking is the day we fail without hope, and sadly, so badly we don't even know we have failed.
Proverbs 28:26 "Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered."
May we remember the words of God and forget the foolish words of man.
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Hated Because of Christ
Matthew 10:35-37 "…35 For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’ 37 Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;…"
Luke 12:51-53 "Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on, five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
Mark 13:12 "Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death."
Matthew 24:10 "At that time many will fall away and will betray and hate one another."
Mark 6:4
Then Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”
This is the life of the one who follows hard after Jesus Christ. They will find themselves surrounded by people who hate them, not because of their sin that was dealt with on the cross, but because they are free from the cultural rules and ideas that God never gave to those who are born again.
Those who hate the born-again believer may use past sin against them, but their real reason for the anger is that they have been transformed by Christ and the unbelieving family members hate them for their freedom and joy in Christ.
Luke 12:51-53 "Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on, five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
Mark 13:12 "Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death."
Matthew 24:10 "At that time many will fall away and will betray and hate one another."
Mark 6:4
Then Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”
This is the life of the one who follows hard after Jesus Christ. They will find themselves surrounded by people who hate them, not because of their sin that was dealt with on the cross, but because they are free from the cultural rules and ideas that God never gave to those who are born again.
Those who hate the born-again believer may use past sin against them, but their real reason for the anger is that they have been transformed by Christ and the unbelieving family members hate them for their freedom and joy in Christ.
Actions, Attitudes and Words that Destroy Relationships
People who are attempting to mend a relationship don't ignore the problem and just return with a gift without any apology; we can be sure their behavior will not change.
When someone has harmed us but does not feel any regret about it while wanting to pretend it never happened or that what they did was not wrong, because in their mind, you deserved it, then you know they are just manipulating so the consequences will go away.
A young woman once told me her husband insulted his mother, mocking her weight, saying, "You really look like a grandma now." This young woman supported the disrespect of her husband by saying, "She needed to hear it." When I corrected her that it was rude, mean, and unbiblical to insult a parent in such a way, she argued with me as though she thought it was acceptable to act in this manner.
There was never an acknowledgment that this act was wrong; in fact, I was disrespected for the correction. When you see this mentality in ungodly people who attend church gatherings every week, you can be sure there is a lack of love, humility, and all the other fruit of the Spirit.
Those who love Christ are convicted of their rude actions and words and learn from it to grow into lovely, kind individuals. Those who argue with correction and refuse to admit they did anything wrong do not grow.
Sadly, these same people who refuse to grow emotionally and spiritually will gossip to ruin the reputation of others because of their need to make the one who corrects look like the bad one.
People who have the fruit of the Holy Spirit cannot stand hurting others; they repent quickly and do not repeat the same actions. And, they never defend their rude behavior, they are ashamed of it and say so out loud.
When someone is rude and unkind regularly and never repents from it, it is likely they were never born again.
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."
When we love God and are led by the Holy Spirit we are deeply aware of our own attitude and actions, growing over the years, never growing worse.
There is a love that dwells within the born-again believer that is acutely aware of the needs of others more than even our own.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 "4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
Philippians 2:2-4 "…2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being united in spirit and purpose. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves. 4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others."
Finally, relationships are not broken by the big things; they are destroyed by the constant little things that demonstrate a mentality of hatred.
Gossip to harm others and rude comments and actions are what ruin a relationship, the very reason God gave us the fruit of the Spirit of Christ and the love necessary to grow a relationship into a beautiful picture of His love for His Church.
3 John 1:9-10 "I have written to the church about this, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not accept our instruction. So if I come, I will call attention to his malicious slander against us. And unsatisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers and forbids those who want to do so, even putting them out of the church."
Paul dealt with gossip, rudeness, and disrespect in the church gatherings, calling it out, he addressed the problems to convict of sin those who are arrogant, while protecting those who are being attacked by these wolves in sheep's clothing.
We are living in the times of 2 Timothy 3, in which people in the churches will have a form of religion but deny Christ in their attitude of superiority and the lifestyle of indulgence.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 "Difficult Times Will Come
3 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."
I am comforted by the fact that one day the Lord will make everything right, and no one will get away with their disrespect for His Word and others.
When someone has harmed us but does not feel any regret about it while wanting to pretend it never happened or that what they did was not wrong, because in their mind, you deserved it, then you know they are just manipulating so the consequences will go away.
A young woman once told me her husband insulted his mother, mocking her weight, saying, "You really look like a grandma now." This young woman supported the disrespect of her husband by saying, "She needed to hear it." When I corrected her that it was rude, mean, and unbiblical to insult a parent in such a way, she argued with me as though she thought it was acceptable to act in this manner.
There was never an acknowledgment that this act was wrong; in fact, I was disrespected for the correction. When you see this mentality in ungodly people who attend church gatherings every week, you can be sure there is a lack of love, humility, and all the other fruit of the Spirit.
Those who love Christ are convicted of their rude actions and words and learn from it to grow into lovely, kind individuals. Those who argue with correction and refuse to admit they did anything wrong do not grow.
Sadly, these same people who refuse to grow emotionally and spiritually will gossip to ruin the reputation of others because of their need to make the one who corrects look like the bad one.
People who have the fruit of the Holy Spirit cannot stand hurting others; they repent quickly and do not repeat the same actions. And, they never defend their rude behavior, they are ashamed of it and say so out loud.
When someone is rude and unkind regularly and never repents from it, it is likely they were never born again.
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."
When we love God and are led by the Holy Spirit we are deeply aware of our own attitude and actions, growing over the years, never growing worse.
There is a love that dwells within the born-again believer that is acutely aware of the needs of others more than even our own.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 "4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
Philippians 2:2-4 "…2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being united in spirit and purpose. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves. 4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others."
Finally, relationships are not broken by the big things; they are destroyed by the constant little things that demonstrate a mentality of hatred.
Gossip to harm others and rude comments and actions are what ruin a relationship, the very reason God gave us the fruit of the Spirit of Christ and the love necessary to grow a relationship into a beautiful picture of His love for His Church.
3 John 1:9-10 "I have written to the church about this, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not accept our instruction. So if I come, I will call attention to his malicious slander against us. And unsatisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers and forbids those who want to do so, even putting them out of the church."
Paul dealt with gossip, rudeness, and disrespect in the church gatherings, calling it out, he addressed the problems to convict of sin those who are arrogant, while protecting those who are being attacked by these wolves in sheep's clothing.
We are living in the times of 2 Timothy 3, in which people in the churches will have a form of religion but deny Christ in their attitude of superiority and the lifestyle of indulgence.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 "Difficult Times Will Come
3 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."
I am comforted by the fact that one day the Lord will make everything right, and no one will get away with their disrespect for His Word and others.
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