Every teacher of the believer must be tested, questioned, and vetted according to the Worf of God. We know that no one is perfect only Christ and He lives in the Believer.
No one can teach us better that Jesus Christ Himself.
Never allow anyone to tell you that you cannot understand the Bible and that you must be led by another human being. Pastors and teachers are there to teach but not to act as though they have superior knowledge. They are not better than the Holy Spirit. All born again believers must evaluate every teacher to see if he speaks the truth according to the Bible.
If a teacher does not speak truth then he is to be corrected, if he will not listen then he is to be ignored.
1 Corinthians s14:38-40
"38 But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant (ignored).
Isaiah 11:2
The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him--the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
John 14:17
the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
John 14:25-26 "
…25 All this I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you. "
John 16:13-14 "13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"
May all we believe be filtered through the word of God and no meanings changed to fit our desires or the culture.
Deuteronomy 4:2 "2 You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you."
Deuteronomy 12:42 "32 “Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it."
Revelation 22:18 "18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book;"
It is very serious to snatch out of context scripture and replace it with lies to make it say what God never said, to make it acceptable to your human thinking or the culture around you.
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Friday, August 14, 2020
Choose Christ or the World, You cannot have Both
Someone sent me a dirty joke in a text as though she thought I would laugh at it. She does not know me at all or she would know I am not pleased with dirty jokes.
I sent the message back to her that I will look to God for my wisdom rather than through dirty jokes. I have not heard from her since. Sadly this was a person who would consider themselves a Christian and attends church regularly.
These narcissists think they know someone based on their own idea of life not on the character of the other person. They think we are just like them and when they find out we are not then we are the enemy.
Galatians 4:16-17 "16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? 17 Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.…"
When the narcissist discover we are different from what they thought we were, they are confused and choose to retain their false idea of us. These people treat us as though we are worse than they in some way to elevate their own special illusion of themselves.
When we see this happening the best response is a short one as led by the Holy Spirit and to remove ourselves. We are living in a crude world now in which even the media does not sensor their language or news stories to protect the sensibilities of the hearers.
Many Christians today take on the crude ways and language of the world so as not to be ignored or minimized as a person.
Very few people care anymore about the impact of their actions or words. If they want to do or say something they do it and then become angry if called out to clean up their language. Now, I am not talking about unbelievers, we expect the world to be crude, I am talking about those who call themselves Christian who think talking and acting like the world somehow makes them more influential with the world.
Proverbs 4:24
"Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you."
We are not called to be like the world to win them, just the opposite, we are called to be a representation of the character of Christ.
Let's be honest, the only reason a "Christian" wants to act like the world is not to win them, but rather to be loved by the world. The excuse to "be like the world to win them" is a lie and patently against the Word of God.
1 John 2:15-17
"Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever."
God never told us to be careful not to offend, that lie comes from the devil. The devil wants to ruin our testimony by demonstrating we can be as crude as the unbeliever and still be a Christian. This is cultural Christianity at its worst.
When a crude "Christian" is called out for their language and becomes angry over it then we see the rebellious heart of that person. Their anger at rebuke is on them not on us.
There is another lie the secular are promoting, that is that if someone becomes angry someone else must have made them that way. The truth is that every person who becomes angry chooses to do it to manipulate and intimidate others because of their own guilt over sin.
The only anger a born again believer should experience is when someone blasphemes God, then we defend His honor not our own.
Christianity in our time has been watered down, maligned and coaxed into false mantras in order to preserve friendships with the world.
James 4:4
"You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."
Many teachings and rules in the modern church are not from God but from psychology. They do not reflect the heart of God nor do they match pitch with the Bible. We should reject ideas and teachings that are counter to the Word of God. In order to do this, we must be determined to make Christ first in our lives above anything and anyone else.
I sent the message back to her that I will look to God for my wisdom rather than through dirty jokes. I have not heard from her since. Sadly this was a person who would consider themselves a Christian and attends church regularly.
These narcissists think they know someone based on their own idea of life not on the character of the other person. They think we are just like them and when they find out we are not then we are the enemy.
Galatians 4:16-17 "16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? 17 Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.…"
When the narcissist discover we are different from what they thought we were, they are confused and choose to retain their false idea of us. These people treat us as though we are worse than they in some way to elevate their own special illusion of themselves.
When we see this happening the best response is a short one as led by the Holy Spirit and to remove ourselves. We are living in a crude world now in which even the media does not sensor their language or news stories to protect the sensibilities of the hearers.
Many Christians today take on the crude ways and language of the world so as not to be ignored or minimized as a person.
Very few people care anymore about the impact of their actions or words. If they want to do or say something they do it and then become angry if called out to clean up their language. Now, I am not talking about unbelievers, we expect the world to be crude, I am talking about those who call themselves Christian who think talking and acting like the world somehow makes them more influential with the world.
Proverbs 4:24
"Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you."
We are not called to be like the world to win them, just the opposite, we are called to be a representation of the character of Christ.
Let's be honest, the only reason a "Christian" wants to act like the world is not to win them, but rather to be loved by the world. The excuse to "be like the world to win them" is a lie and patently against the Word of God.
1 John 2:15-17
"Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever."
God never told us to be careful not to offend, that lie comes from the devil. The devil wants to ruin our testimony by demonstrating we can be as crude as the unbeliever and still be a Christian. This is cultural Christianity at its worst.
When a crude "Christian" is called out for their language and becomes angry over it then we see the rebellious heart of that person. Their anger at rebuke is on them not on us.
There is another lie the secular are promoting, that is that if someone becomes angry someone else must have made them that way. The truth is that every person who becomes angry chooses to do it to manipulate and intimidate others because of their own guilt over sin.
The only anger a born again believer should experience is when someone blasphemes God, then we defend His honor not our own.
Christianity in our time has been watered down, maligned and coaxed into false mantras in order to preserve friendships with the world.
James 4:4
"You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."
Many teachings and rules in the modern church are not from God but from psychology. They do not reflect the heart of God nor do they match pitch with the Bible. We should reject ideas and teachings that are counter to the Word of God. In order to do this, we must be determined to make Christ first in our lives above anything and anyone else.
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Time to Think About Eternity
Today is the day to become born again. NO!! I don't mean to decide you are going to join a local church. Joining a church gathering or calling yourselves a Christian will not save anyone from hell.
When someone realizes they are a sinner on their way to hell they have a choice to continue being lost and remain in sin or to ask for Christ to change them into a new creation.
When a person confesses that they are sinners without hope knowing that Christ is the only way to be saved from their sin and from hell, then they can become born again.
Christ will not change anyone into a new creation who doesn't believe they are a sinner or that they are incapable of being a good person. One must admit their lostness and their depravity having a desire for Christ to change them in order to be saved.
When a person has confessed that they are a lost sinner in need of Christ and desire to be saved from sin and hell, then the Holy Spirit of Christ will come to live in them, changing their nature entirely.
A born again believer no longer tries real hard to be better, their very nature has been changed into the nature of Christ when they are born again. All that is needed is to believe that Christ paid the price for your sin and He does all the rest in you.
He saves you, He cleanses you and He takes you home to be with Him when you die or are snatched away in the rapture.
Ephesians 2:10 "10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
2 Corinthians 5:16-18 "…16 So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:…"
If you want to go to heaven then you must be born again, it is your choice.
John 3:1-15
"1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;
2 this man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4 Nicodemus *said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?”
5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
9 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can these things be?”
10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things?
11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.
12 If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13 No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man.
14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;
15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life."
When someone realizes they are a sinner on their way to hell they have a choice to continue being lost and remain in sin or to ask for Christ to change them into a new creation.
When a person confesses that they are sinners without hope knowing that Christ is the only way to be saved from their sin and from hell, then they can become born again.
Christ will not change anyone into a new creation who doesn't believe they are a sinner or that they are incapable of being a good person. One must admit their lostness and their depravity having a desire for Christ to change them in order to be saved.
When a person has confessed that they are a lost sinner in need of Christ and desire to be saved from sin and hell, then the Holy Spirit of Christ will come to live in them, changing their nature entirely.
A born again believer no longer tries real hard to be better, their very nature has been changed into the nature of Christ when they are born again. All that is needed is to believe that Christ paid the price for your sin and He does all the rest in you.
He saves you, He cleanses you and He takes you home to be with Him when you die or are snatched away in the rapture.
Ephesians 2:10 "10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
2 Corinthians 5:16-18 "…16 So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:…"
If you want to go to heaven then you must be born again, it is your choice.
John 3:1-15
"1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;
2 this man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4 Nicodemus *said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?”
5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
9 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can these things be?”
10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things?
11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.
12 If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13 No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man.
14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;
15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life."
One Crime Does Not Cancel Another
If a criminal dies during the commission of a crime by the hand of an out of control officer, then there are two criminals instead of one. The first criminal who was being arrested and then the officer who disobeyed his authorities in the capture of the first criminal.
Did we get this!!!!!! An officer who goes bad and does wrong does not cancel out the fact that the criminal being arrested was lawless, he still remains a criminal. There are two criminals, the perp and the officer.
Celebrating the life of a criminal simply because he died in the commission of a crime makes absolutely no sense at all.
Sorry if this offends those who love people more than God. Who love to protect those who are lawless.
1 John 3:4
"Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness."
When the culture pays more attention to protecting the criminals than they do the victims of criminals, something is desperately wrong.
Celebrating the death of a man who is caught in the commission of a crime is forgetting entirely the victims. The people who were robbed are nothing to those who protect and celebrate the criminals.
Why is the public not coming alongside the victims? The victims deserve the care and attention not the cirminal.
This culture has fulfilled the passage about the last days that say everything will be opposite and upsidedown.
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.…"
2 Timothy 4:3
"For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,"
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
We Shall Be Like Him
Narcissists are people who are terrified of others who are not like them.
Often in families, we see a dysfunctional dynamic that requires everyone to be exactly like the dominant ones in the family. This is the reason the narcissists will rage when the scapegoat will not think the same way they think.
This is also the reason the born again believer is chosen to be the scapegoat. Even cliques in churches will have scapegoats who are not allowed to be a part of their clique.
Those who love the Lord Jesus Christ with all their heart and desire to seek Him for everything will not be a part of the clique because the clique relies heavily on social and cultural standards more than on Christ.
Born again believers will always be on the outside of cultural Christianity. The wonderful thing is that born again believers are brothers and sisters with one another. When someone is born again another born again believer can sense that deep connection brought about by Christ living in each of them.
1 John 3:1-2
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will have not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see him as he is."
Often in families, we see a dysfunctional dynamic that requires everyone to be exactly like the dominant ones in the family. This is the reason the narcissists will rage when the scapegoat will not think the same way they think.
This is also the reason the born again believer is chosen to be the scapegoat. Even cliques in churches will have scapegoats who are not allowed to be a part of their clique.
Those who love the Lord Jesus Christ with all their heart and desire to seek Him for everything will not be a part of the clique because the clique relies heavily on social and cultural standards more than on Christ.
Born again believers will always be on the outside of cultural Christianity. The wonderful thing is that born again believers are brothers and sisters with one another. When someone is born again another born again believer can sense that deep connection brought about by Christ living in each of them.
1 John 3:1-2
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will have not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see him as he is."
Monday, August 10, 2020
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