I am growing weary of this "Nephlim" foolishness. It is the latest fad, based on ancient writings not the Bible. Concepts have been gleaned from these ancient writings to interpret the Word rather than the Word being used as the bench mark for evaluation of the ancient writings.
Please would everyone just go to prayer and ask God about this. Why is it so popular, as was "The Prayer of Jabez" where one little prayer was taken out of context to prove that we should pray a certain prayer to gain land, or whatever we want to gain.
Now we have demons who have spiritual bodies mating with physical women producing giants. Why not spirit babies or tiny people,why would they necessarily be giants?
Angels do not procreate even among themselves, they have no human or angel seed to be able to pro-create on any level. The only way they could interact with humans is to possess a human's body, then that would still be the seed of the human.
Myths are being developed everywhere to distract people from the gospel. Notice every cracked pot on the planet loves this stuff, non-believers are jumping on this band wagon as well as believers. Whenever something becomes this popular based on ancient writings, we can be sure it is the devil using it.
When our information comes from extra-biblical writings, we can be sure of error.
I wonder why it is so important to people to believe this, I think it is because it is "science fiction", it appeals to those looking for the bizarre. These same people think they know the Bible because they watched the movie "Noah."
Please don't come on here to argue about "Nephlim", just go and ask God.
Monday, March 9, 2015
Actions Prove Our Words
Forgiveness is nothing more than words for most people, they say they forgive, but their actions prove otherwise, in all things. "Your actions speak so loud I can't hear a word your saying", is a saying we used to hear. We live in a culture that thinks as long as you "say" something that covers it.
But our actions prove whether our words are true.
James 2:14-26
"14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?
15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,
16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?
17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble!
20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?
22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect?
23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God.
24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.
25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also."
But our actions prove whether our words are true.
James 2:14-26
"14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?
15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,
16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?
17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble!
20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?
22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect?
23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God.
24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.
25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also."
No Longer Any Shame
Jeremiah 6:15
"Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They were not even ashamed at all; They did not even know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time that I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD."
"Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They were not even ashamed at all; They did not even know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time that I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD."
What Goes Around Comes Around
Non-believers are still trying to overthrow God as did the devil in heaven when he wanted to be above God.
When we place our own things above the things of God, we are doing what the devil did when he was cast out of heaven.
When children disobey their parents, showing contempt for their authority, they are doing what the devil did, refusing to acknowledge the authority of God through His ordained authority on earth, the parents.
Ephesians 6:1 "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right."
There are those who think that because they are now grown, there is no longer a mandate to honor or listen to their parents. Sadly those who do not honor their parents in adulthood, do not because they never did in childhood. They hid their inner feelings of rebellion to be able to live in peace, but their heart was never submitting.
Someone else told the story of the little boy who was told to sit down in the chair, the little boy declared boldly, "I am sitting down, but on the inside I am standing up."
People do not all of a sudden change into something different because circumstances change. When we are out from under the law of our parents is when we see the real self. Those who had honor for their parents in childhood will maintain that honor even more so after adulthood.
It might be good to take a look at what honor looks like and what it is not. Honor is not necessarily sending a birthday card or gifts on the holidays, it is not attending family gatherings at the parents house, nor is it bringing cups of coffee or treats to them.
Honor is an attitude, some of those things mentioned may be an indication of honor, but often they are ritual to elevate self, rather than a sense of honor. When our activities our based on a sense of personal enjoyment or a need for acceptance, manipulation is used, to be able to show others you did something, it has little to do with honor.
Our attitude toward our parents, often is a reflection of our attitude toward God. Whatever our mental disposition toward our parents is also our disposition toward God. It is a matter of the heart condition toward authority as a whole that is an indication of our overall spiritual temperament.
When there is love and honor for our parents, no matter what they say or do, we have a deep seeded desire to love them and be loved by them. To show contempt for our parents through manipulation, intimidation and other forms of subtle disapproval toward their person, is sin and proof that we lack the honor God is talking about.
When there is a show of contempt and disrespect for parents and ultimately God, then there is an influence in the lives of our own children. Often those who have shown contempt and dishonor for their own parents or other authorities over them, will see that same contempt forming in their own children.
Those who dishonor others, through an attitude of superiority, dismissiveness and contempt, are teaching by example, fostering these things in the lives of those within their sphere of influence.
There is an old saying; "more is caught than taught." We may tell our children to honor their parents, but if they see the parents dishonoring their own grandparents, then the children are more likely to do what they see rather than what they are told. This is the reason so many children have gone bad today, the parents taught in words, but modeled in actions the opposite of what they wanted to convey to their own children. Sometimes it was a matter of one parent showing disrespect for another parent or it was one parent allowing disrespect on the part of the children toward the other parent. Whatever the case it is devilish and destructive.
God knew exactly what this looked like, He said;
Matthew 15:8 "'THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME."
Parents often are able to discern dishonor in the most subtle forms coming from their children, they know when they are being treated with contempt, the object of contempt always knows. Just as God sees the contempt in the heart, so does the parent who has discernment.
It would be good for everyone to ask for wisdom on this matter, we are experiencing more of this rebellion than ever before. 2 Timothy 3 describes what it will like in the last days. There is no excuse for believers to act like this, they can ask Christ in them to show them their own heart. Non-believers can do nothing else, they are ruled and controlled by the father of lies and have no defense against his wiles. They are completely at his mercy.
2 Timothy 3
"3 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:
2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,
4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith;
9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was."
It helps to know that God warned us about this to comfort us, the same contempt that parents often feel on the part of their children is the contempt the world shows for Christ, the rebellion the devil had against God and the attitude of superiority adult children show for their parents. It is all connected to one thing......dishonor of God Himself.
May each one honestly reflect on their own attitude, evaluating it in terms of the Word of God, not comparing ourselves with ourselves or justifying ourselves in one way or another, rather honestly seeking for God to show us who we really are in His eyes.
When we place our own things above the things of God, we are doing what the devil did when he was cast out of heaven.
When children disobey their parents, showing contempt for their authority, they are doing what the devil did, refusing to acknowledge the authority of God through His ordained authority on earth, the parents.
Ephesians 6:1 "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right."
There are those who think that because they are now grown, there is no longer a mandate to honor or listen to their parents. Sadly those who do not honor their parents in adulthood, do not because they never did in childhood. They hid their inner feelings of rebellion to be able to live in peace, but their heart was never submitting.
Someone else told the story of the little boy who was told to sit down in the chair, the little boy declared boldly, "I am sitting down, but on the inside I am standing up."
People do not all of a sudden change into something different because circumstances change. When we are out from under the law of our parents is when we see the real self. Those who had honor for their parents in childhood will maintain that honor even more so after adulthood.
It might be good to take a look at what honor looks like and what it is not. Honor is not necessarily sending a birthday card or gifts on the holidays, it is not attending family gatherings at the parents house, nor is it bringing cups of coffee or treats to them.
Honor is an attitude, some of those things mentioned may be an indication of honor, but often they are ritual to elevate self, rather than a sense of honor. When our activities our based on a sense of personal enjoyment or a need for acceptance, manipulation is used, to be able to show others you did something, it has little to do with honor.
Our attitude toward our parents, often is a reflection of our attitude toward God. Whatever our mental disposition toward our parents is also our disposition toward God. It is a matter of the heart condition toward authority as a whole that is an indication of our overall spiritual temperament.
When there is love and honor for our parents, no matter what they say or do, we have a deep seeded desire to love them and be loved by them. To show contempt for our parents through manipulation, intimidation and other forms of subtle disapproval toward their person, is sin and proof that we lack the honor God is talking about.
When there is a show of contempt and disrespect for parents and ultimately God, then there is an influence in the lives of our own children. Often those who have shown contempt and dishonor for their own parents or other authorities over them, will see that same contempt forming in their own children.
Those who dishonor others, through an attitude of superiority, dismissiveness and contempt, are teaching by example, fostering these things in the lives of those within their sphere of influence.
There is an old saying; "more is caught than taught." We may tell our children to honor their parents, but if they see the parents dishonoring their own grandparents, then the children are more likely to do what they see rather than what they are told. This is the reason so many children have gone bad today, the parents taught in words, but modeled in actions the opposite of what they wanted to convey to their own children. Sometimes it was a matter of one parent showing disrespect for another parent or it was one parent allowing disrespect on the part of the children toward the other parent. Whatever the case it is devilish and destructive.
God knew exactly what this looked like, He said;
Matthew 15:8 "'THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME."
Parents often are able to discern dishonor in the most subtle forms coming from their children, they know when they are being treated with contempt, the object of contempt always knows. Just as God sees the contempt in the heart, so does the parent who has discernment.
It would be good for everyone to ask for wisdom on this matter, we are experiencing more of this rebellion than ever before. 2 Timothy 3 describes what it will like in the last days. There is no excuse for believers to act like this, they can ask Christ in them to show them their own heart. Non-believers can do nothing else, they are ruled and controlled by the father of lies and have no defense against his wiles. They are completely at his mercy.
2 Timothy 3
"3 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:
2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,
4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith;
9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was."
It helps to know that God warned us about this to comfort us, the same contempt that parents often feel on the part of their children is the contempt the world shows for Christ, the rebellion the devil had against God and the attitude of superiority adult children show for their parents. It is all connected to one thing......dishonor of God Himself.
May each one honestly reflect on their own attitude, evaluating it in terms of the Word of God, not comparing ourselves with ourselves or justifying ourselves in one way or another, rather honestly seeking for God to show us who we really are in His eyes.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
He Will Baptize You With The Holy Spirit
Mark 1:1-8
"1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
2 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet:
“Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You, Who will prepare Your way;
3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord,
Make His paths straight.’”
4 John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
5 And all the country of Judea was going out to him, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.
6 John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist, and his diet was locusts and wild honey.
7 And he was preaching, and saying, “After me One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to stoop down and untie the thong of His sandals.
8 I baptized you with water; but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
"1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
2 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet:
“Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You, Who will prepare Your way;
3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord,
Make His paths straight.’”
4 John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
5 And all the country of Judea was going out to him, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.
6 John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist, and his diet was locusts and wild honey.
7 And he was preaching, and saying, “After me One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to stoop down and untie the thong of His sandals.
8 I baptized you with water; but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
It's Only A Shell
I recently saw a post in which someone was lamenting the fact that a cross marking the roadside place of death, had been destroyed by vandals. Personally I am not for the ritual of placing a cross at the road side. I presume it might be a warning to others to be more careful on the highway, however I fear that sometimes it is more of a remembrance of the person who died there.
Upon reflection I feel it is a little macabre, to commemorate where someone died, it seems more appropriate to honor his life not his death, unless they are a believer, then we can celebrate their home going.
1 Corinthians 15:55 ""O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING?"
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 "
13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
18 Therefore comfort one another with these words."
The world is full of meaningless rituals that produce nothing outside of good feelings temporarily. Often the Lord allows us to go through the dark valleys that we might search for Him. He is the only means by which we can derive comfort in times of deep sorrow. Playacting with ritual only scratches the surface with superficial strokes, that do not last and cannot be a catalyst to growth, perhaps even preventing it because the focus is feelings rather than depth of character.
Speaking to the grave as though the person is in it, is another worthless activity concocted by psychology to help a person to feel better. Sometimes we try to take away the sting of life for people, when all we do is pretend to make things better, when time, prayer and faith is needed to carry on.
Our culture tends to look for quick fixes and superficial frosting, only delaying the inevitable wound, that must happen for someone to begin to seek Christ.
We like to gloss over the pain, so we don't have to deal with others, instead of getting down there with them, that their pain would be borne by others.
Who was it that said; "a trial that is shared is half a trial, and a trial alone is twice the trial."?
Believers are meant to share one another's burdens.
Galatians 6:2 "Bear one another's burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ."
When we substitute speaking to a dead person for weeping with a live person, we become more solitary and less open to the body of Christ.
Romans 12:15 "Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep."
People in the grave cannot hear us, nor can those who have gone to heaven, they are gone and only their lifeless shell remains in that grave. Pretending that they are there does not make it so, denying truth has no healing power.
Doing things God's way has power, letting go, realizing that dead person is no longer with us, helps us rely more on Christ and less on the memory of someone who will no longer walk with us.
The answer: Walk so closely with Christ that when someone passes there is no longer a need to pretend they are with us. Christ is always with us when we are born again. When all others have left us, He is still with us, we must depend on Him alone.
Upon reflection I feel it is a little macabre, to commemorate where someone died, it seems more appropriate to honor his life not his death, unless they are a believer, then we can celebrate their home going.
1 Corinthians 15:55 ""O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING?"
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 "
13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
18 Therefore comfort one another with these words."
The world is full of meaningless rituals that produce nothing outside of good feelings temporarily. Often the Lord allows us to go through the dark valleys that we might search for Him. He is the only means by which we can derive comfort in times of deep sorrow. Playacting with ritual only scratches the surface with superficial strokes, that do not last and cannot be a catalyst to growth, perhaps even preventing it because the focus is feelings rather than depth of character.
Speaking to the grave as though the person is in it, is another worthless activity concocted by psychology to help a person to feel better. Sometimes we try to take away the sting of life for people, when all we do is pretend to make things better, when time, prayer and faith is needed to carry on.
Our culture tends to look for quick fixes and superficial frosting, only delaying the inevitable wound, that must happen for someone to begin to seek Christ.
We like to gloss over the pain, so we don't have to deal with others, instead of getting down there with them, that their pain would be borne by others.
Who was it that said; "a trial that is shared is half a trial, and a trial alone is twice the trial."?
Believers are meant to share one another's burdens.
Galatians 6:2 "Bear one another's burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ."
When we substitute speaking to a dead person for weeping with a live person, we become more solitary and less open to the body of Christ.
Romans 12:15 "Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep."
People in the grave cannot hear us, nor can those who have gone to heaven, they are gone and only their lifeless shell remains in that grave. Pretending that they are there does not make it so, denying truth has no healing power.
Doing things God's way has power, letting go, realizing that dead person is no longer with us, helps us rely more on Christ and less on the memory of someone who will no longer walk with us.
The answer: Walk so closely with Christ that when someone passes there is no longer a need to pretend they are with us. Christ is always with us when we are born again. When all others have left us, He is still with us, we must depend on Him alone.
Repentance for Salvation by Fred Banner
There has been much discussion lately on repentance. Many teachers like Ray Comfort and others teach that a person must repent from their sins to be saved. Iactually heard him say "stop sinning and trust Christ". This is false.
We're the sinner which includes each of us able to stop sinning or repent from specific sins then that world mean we are co-redemptive with Christ. Romans 5:8 says "while we were yet sinners. Also, if we could repent from sins for salvation then we really wouldn't need Jesus. Would we?
Let me show you a few verses that speak of the repentance required for salvation;
"And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. (Mark 1:15 KJB)". What does this verse say we are to repent from. Disbelief. Repentance is believing that Christ paid your sin debt. (1 COR 15:1-4).. It's not believing the facts about Christ but believing in your heart that He paid your sin debt in full and placing your faith in Him alone.
Here is another;
"But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance. (Acts 26:20 KJB)". Again no mention of sins for salvation. Repent and turn to God. Believe in your heart He paid your sin debt. Notice that salvation should produce a life that avoids sin or good works.
At the moment of salvation the believer is justified ( made sinless) and sanctified (made Holy). Both of these are a work of God. "And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Corinthians 6:11 KJB)".
Ray Comfort is but one that teaches the false doctrine of sin repentance for salvation or lordship salvation.
We're the sinner which includes each of us able to stop sinning or repent from specific sins then that world mean we are co-redemptive with Christ. Romans 5:8 says "while we were yet sinners. Also, if we could repent from sins for salvation then we really wouldn't need Jesus. Would we?
Let me show you a few verses that speak of the repentance required for salvation;
"And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. (Mark 1:15 KJB)". What does this verse say we are to repent from. Disbelief. Repentance is believing that Christ paid your sin debt. (1 COR 15:1-4).. It's not believing the facts about Christ but believing in your heart that He paid your sin debt in full and placing your faith in Him alone.
Here is another;
"But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance. (Acts 26:20 KJB)". Again no mention of sins for salvation. Repent and turn to God. Believe in your heart He paid your sin debt. Notice that salvation should produce a life that avoids sin or good works.
At the moment of salvation the believer is justified ( made sinless) and sanctified (made Holy). Both of these are a work of God. "And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Corinthians 6:11 KJB)".
Ray Comfort is but one that teaches the false doctrine of sin repentance for salvation or lordship salvation.
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