Thursday, May 19, 2022

Cleansing if From the Inside

We cleanse ourselves by asking the Holy Spirit to change what needs changing in us. Changing ourselves is only a veneer that does not endure.
Lasting character change only happens when the Holy Spirit removes from our hearts that which does not please Him. The problem is only fixed away when it is no longer in our hearts.
James 4:7-9 "7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.…"

"Being" and "Looking Like" are Two Different Things

"Being" and "looking like" are two different things!
Do we want to try real hard to act like a kind person? Or do you want to be a kind person?
When we work at being a kind person we are acting according to the flesh in our own power to be something on the outside that we are not on the inside.
In order to really "be" a kind person we must ask the Holy Spirit to change us into one, if He does this we don't have to try, it will come naturally out of the flow of the Holy Spirit. We will be kind without having to think about it.
Proverbs 4:23
"Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life."
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."
Instead of trying real hard to be what we think God wants or others expect, we ought to be praying for Christ to make us the person He wants us to be.
Attempting to be kind on the outside without a heart change on the inside would be like painting a house full of rotten boards, the outside looks good for a while but the boards are rotten and will crumble eventually.
Do we want to look like a kind person or do we want to actually be a kind person?
1 Corinthians 13:4–8a "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth."
The key to this verse is that "Love is" not that "love looks like." What flows out of us naturally without effort is the real us.
When we understand that our character must be changed by the Holy Spirit we will stop pretending and become that which God wants us to be, authentically holy.
1 Peter 1:15-16
"15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 since it is written, “You shall BE holy, for I am holy.”
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Saturday, May 14, 2022

Negating the Word of God by Human Traditions

Calvinism is just that, from "Calvin" not from God and it is irrational not to mention blasphemous!!!!
The God of justice would never send someone to hell for not choosing if they were never allowed the choice to start with.
Psalm 11:7
7 For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness;
The upright will see His face."
No one is righteous of themselves, they must trust Christ become born again and then Christ's righteousness is accounted to the one He indwells.
Christ would never have said; 1 Timothy 2:3-5 "……3 This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,"
Calvin is not the mediator between God and man, and neither is any other man. Only Jesus Christ is the mediator and He said His desire was that ALL men become saved. He gives everyone every chance to choose Him, knowing that many will not.
Jesus Christ knew that all of Jerusalem would not accept Him so He wept that they would not. It is not God's pleasure that people perish in hell, how could it be when He gave Himself to be brutally beaten and hung on a cross to save the others.
Luke 19:41-44
Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem
41 And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, 42 saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side 44 and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
Israel did not receive their Messiah when He came, so He sent His prophets to the Gentiles. Now that the time of the Gentiles is almost finished, God will turn His attention back to Israel to once again evangelize them. One-third will trust Christ in the tribulation that is coming and two-thirds will perish. Israel will be the only nation on earth entirely trusting in Christ.
To bring us back to Calvinism, Calvin denied God's Israel and attempted to make the new Israel the church, a terrible lie from the devil.
Isaiah 54:7
"For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion, I will bring you back."
God is not only going to bring Israel back to Himself, He is going to do amazing miracles on her behalf. Then He will defeat all her enemies.
The stars would have to fall from the heavens before God would abandon Israel.
This is what God says to Israel:
"Isaiah 54:10
Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.'"
Calvinism is the devil's way of negating all the promises of God to Israel and inculcating pride into the hearts of arrogant people to believe God has taken away the promises to Isreal and given them to their church, not God's church, but their idea of their church. It is Catholicism plain and simple.
Calvin was a former Catholic who left the church only to take devilish doctrines from the Catholic church with him to the Protestant church.
He brought with him to Protestantism, the clergy and laity class which is unbiblical, infant Baptism as well as angst and hatred toward the Jewish people. If anyone uses his name to describe themselves they have a monstrous idol full of terrible doctrine and even heresy.
Calvin brought the false doctrine of false sovereignty of God, one that negates God's justice, His love and kindness in giving every person a choice to follow Him or not. God is sovereign, He has full control of everything but this does not mean He does not give choices.
Joshua 24:14-15
Choose Whom You Will Serve
14 “Now, therefore, fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
James 1:14-15
(14) But each one is tempted when he is drawn away BY HIS OWN DESIRES and enticed. (15) Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
If anyone has chosen Calvinism as their religion of choice I say to you "repent" and obey the scriptures, asking the Holy Spirit to expunge from their heart any false doctrine that men have taught them. "Let God be true and every man a liar," God says this!!!
If we trust in any man we have an idol. If we elevate any man above another man we have an idol. We can honor and respect others but we must never place them equal to God or in the place of God.
1 Thessalonians 5:21
"21 but test everything; hold fast what is good."
Next time someone comes to you and says; "Calvin says", stop them and say something like; "I will not hear from Calvin, I will only hear from Christ."
Mark 7:13 "13 Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”
Clergy/Laity classes....nullifies God's Word
1. Infant Baptism....nullifies God's Word.
2. Women Leading in the church...nullifies God's Word.
3. Calvinism (named after a man)...nullifies God's Word.
4. Armenianism (names after a man)...nullifies God's Word.
5. All the holidays purporting to be Christian... nullifies God's Word.
6. Politicizing the church...nullifies God's Word.
7. False gospel of prosperity....nullifeis God's Word.
8. False teaching of forgiveness without repentance.....nullifies God's Word.
9. One man pastor system....nullifies God's Word.
10. Rules about days to worship or food to eat.....nullifies God's Word.
11. Leadership that is dictatorial over the congregation...nullifies God's Word.
12. Friendship evangelism....nulllifies God's Word.
13. Worship teams in church gatherings....nullifies God's Word.
14. Lord's Supper once a month...nullifies God's Word.
15. Using man's techniques rather than the leading of the Holy Spirit in evangelism or any other work in the body....nullifies God's Word.
16. Psychological training from seculars used in the church has......nullified God's Word.
There are many more unscriptural things the modern church does that nullify the Word of God. The church has replaced instruction from the Bible with ungodly and hedonistic philosophies and is convinced they are right. When challenged to test the doctrines and read the word the people become angry and exclude those who want to get back to the Bible for their encouragement to obey God.
The church as a whole needs to repent!!!!! It's no wonder families are destroyed, if the families don't agree with the church the children follow the false church system rather than the teachings from God.

Monday, May 9, 2022

Ragingly Insane Times

We are living in times when people are worried about everything all the time. Hypersensitive to the slightest innocuous words, making mountains where there are no mountains, angry at nothing worthy of anger. It is the devil's whispers in the ears of those who do not recognize his evil manipulations, that brings all these worthless and destructive feelings.
Arrogance leads people to feel hurt merely for not being seen as special by others. These people are in bondage to their own pride, clamoring irrationally to be superior to others they define their own lives by whether or not others elevate them.
There is no greater bondage than pride that leads to the same fate as the devil. He was thrown out of heaven for wanting to be superior to God. Those who desire to be superior to others can never be happy, they live in a world of continual hurt of their own making.
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. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests but also to the interests of others.…
Joy and peace come to those who think about themselves less than they think of others. When we act in kindness and love no matter what others are doing we will be the most joyful and peaceful of all people."
When we seek to understand others we can develop a lasting, deep and meaningful relationship that lasts for eternity. A competitive spirit destroys any possibility of closeness.
Philippians 1:27
"Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;"
Our purpose in life is not to build up for ourselves praises from others, our purpose in life is to glorify God and edify the brothers and sisters so that they too might walk more closely with Christ.