'He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace."
Proverbs 10:12 KJV
"Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins."
LOVE
THY NEIGHBOR!
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Love is the first fruit of the Spirit of Christ in every Born-again Believer
Proverbs 11:12 KJV
'He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace."
Proverbs 10:12 KJV
"Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins."
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR!
'He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace."
Proverbs 10:12 KJV
"Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins."
LOVE
THY NEIGHBOR!
What if we were to lose everything?
Thomas Edison lost everything in a fire. All his research and the building it was in, and yet he still was able to say this:
"There is great value in disaster; all our mistakes are burned up, thank God we can start all over again."
How many of us could have this perspective if we were to lose everything?
"There is great value in disaster; all our mistakes are burned up, thank God we can start all over again."
How many of us could have this perspective if we were to lose everything?
Saturday, November 29, 2025
The Holy Spirit Leads Us into All Truth
The day I learned that it was the Holy Spirit Who leads me into all truth was the day I began evaluating everything anyone said with the Word of God.
John 16:14 "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."
Notice when it is the Holy Spirit Who speaks to us, what we say and do will glorify God. When man gets the glory, it is usually the flesh from which he speaks.
1 Corinthians 2:10-13 "But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us."
When someone uses frequently the phrase "only God knows the heart" to justify intimidating someone into "not judging" you can be sure they do not understand the concept that the Holy Spirit knows the heart and He communicates to us.
I also notice that the mantra "don't judge" only comes when we judge sin. Most people who say "don't judge" are those who judge people to be good all the time without reservaiton. If we are not to judge a person's character then we shouldn't judge them as good either, based on the humanistic logic that "only God knows the heart."
We are able to discern attitudes, actions and words, we are not able to know who goes to heaven or hell because we don't know if someone is authentically born again or a faker. The couterfeit can look as good as the real thing.
Matthew 12:29-30 "…29‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them. 30Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”
There are many who will hear those terrible words, "I never knew you."
Matthew 7:21-23 "21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
It would not be possible to "judge righteous judgment" except by the Holy Spirit and the Word of God.
John 7:24 "24 Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”
John 16:14 "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."
Notice when it is the Holy Spirit Who speaks to us, what we say and do will glorify God. When man gets the glory, it is usually the flesh from which he speaks.
1 Corinthians 2:10-13 "But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us."
When someone uses frequently the phrase "only God knows the heart" to justify intimidating someone into "not judging" you can be sure they do not understand the concept that the Holy Spirit knows the heart and He communicates to us.
I also notice that the mantra "don't judge" only comes when we judge sin. Most people who say "don't judge" are those who judge people to be good all the time without reservaiton. If we are not to judge a person's character then we shouldn't judge them as good either, based on the humanistic logic that "only God knows the heart."
We are able to discern attitudes, actions and words, we are not able to know who goes to heaven or hell because we don't know if someone is authentically born again or a faker. The couterfeit can look as good as the real thing.
Matthew 12:29-30 "…29‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them. 30Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”
There are many who will hear those terrible words, "I never knew you."
Matthew 7:21-23 "21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
It would not be possible to "judge righteous judgment" except by the Holy Spirit and the Word of God.
John 7:24 "24 Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly.”
Friday, November 28, 2025
Looking Up More Than Before
Heaven is a good fit for me; this earth is not! Waiting for Christ to come for us!!!
So much is wrong in the world, families, and church gatherings that there is a sense of wanting to get out of this world.
There is not one thing in this world I will miss when God takes me to my real home!
So much is wrong in the world, families, and church gatherings that there is a sense of wanting to get out of this world.
There is not one thing in this world I will miss when God takes me to my real home!
Narcissistic Cultures Dominate the World
When I was growing up, there were times when I wanted to discuss things with family or friends, but I was met with resistance to discussion. There was a sense that any dialogue would automatically lead to fights and arguments. The one who wanted to have a conversation was the one who was a troublemaker.
I thought it was just me, that something was wrong with me, that no one wanted to iron out difficulties or understand why things were said and done.
Over the years, I began to realise this was not about me at all, but the cultural training that nearly everyone went through. The general sense of things was that everyone only spoke happy things and usually about themselves, to "keep the peace." In other words, there was no peace unless everyone was schmoozing up to everyone else.
This morning, as I was listening to a news cast on the radio, the commentator mentioned the culture in Thanksgiving gatherings. He said that the average family gathering had two arguments and at least one person walking out because of the quarrels. In the state of Oregon, the most irrational and liberal state of all, it had double the arguments and double the people walking out.
SO!!!!! Why do families get together on the holidays at all? My guess is that everyone gets together for the most part to boast and impress others, not because they have a deep abiding love for anyone.
In a narcissistic culture, everything is done to impress, and when this does not work, there is fighting. One person has to appear special and superior to the others, and sadly, in a narcissistic culture, the others are all doing the same thing, talking and appearing to be listening, but with little or no interest in the other person.
Judges 21:25 " 25 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes."
2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 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."
In our modern day, when the seminaries know that people don't listen unless the discussion is about them, they have developed a humanistic approach to the gospel in which they shmooze people, attempting to get them to hear the gospel.
Sadly, this approach leads to the preachers becoming like the ones they are desiring to reach instead of influencing those they massage with flattery.
Romans 16:18 "18 For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive."
1 Thessalonians 2:5 "5 For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed — God is witness."
Luke 17:33 "33 Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it."
If we have to have tricks to entice someone to listen to us then it is not really in their heart. Those who respond to the gospel must want to hear to be influenced.
We are living in the 2 Timothy 3 days, when people are generally so arrogant that they cannot hear, no matter what scheme we use to make them listen.
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."
My question would be why do families continue to attend gatherings where people fight?
Believers have the option of not attending gatherings in which family members act like enemies.
2 Corinthians 6:17 "17 Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord. “And do not touch what is unclean;
And I will welcome you."
To bring to a gathering an unsaved person where the people are all Christians and do not fight would be better than for one Christian to attend a full gathering of heathens.
2 Corinthians 6:17 "17 Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,"
1 Corinthians 15:33 "Do not be deceived: 'Bad company corrupts good morals.”
We have seen a dramatic decline in the stability of the family in the past two generations because of the dynamic of promoting self-esteem that has morally, spiritually and emotionally bankrupted the human soul.
People are hypersensitive to criticism, which is why we see so many elderly people who have attended church gatherings all their life but bear little resemblance to the Spirit-filled person who lives all the fruit of the Spirit.
Most Christians today look exactly like the world, with a few sins they won't do for appearances' sake, but violate more of the scriptures than they obey, thinking they are wildly good without flaws.
Modern Christianity reflects the heart of most church attendees today, superficial, unproductive with the gospel and leaning more toward social clubs that entertain.
We live in a day much like the days of Noah when everyone did what was right in their own eyes and no one would listen. Only eight people were on that ark when God closed the door and there were many relatives in the flooding waters below who heard the words of Noah but resisted him and God.
1 Peter 3:20 "who once were disobedient when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water."
We have lived all our lives in this culture of narcissism, we have a hard time wrapping our heads around the idea that it is just like the days of Noah. When something is familiar to us, it seems safe, but in reality is a train wreck.
We must pray for people as led by the Holy Spirit, but it is dangerous to remain constant companions with those who have rejected Christ.
God commands us to gather with one another, which every way we choose and how often we choose, as well as the command to distance ourselves from unsaved family.
I thought it was just me, that something was wrong with me, that no one wanted to iron out difficulties or understand why things were said and done.
Over the years, I began to realise this was not about me at all, but the cultural training that nearly everyone went through. The general sense of things was that everyone only spoke happy things and usually about themselves, to "keep the peace." In other words, there was no peace unless everyone was schmoozing up to everyone else.
This morning, as I was listening to a news cast on the radio, the commentator mentioned the culture in Thanksgiving gatherings. He said that the average family gathering had two arguments and at least one person walking out because of the quarrels. In the state of Oregon, the most irrational and liberal state of all, it had double the arguments and double the people walking out.
SO!!!!! Why do families get together on the holidays at all? My guess is that everyone gets together for the most part to boast and impress others, not because they have a deep abiding love for anyone.
In a narcissistic culture, everything is done to impress, and when this does not work, there is fighting. One person has to appear special and superior to the others, and sadly, in a narcissistic culture, the others are all doing the same thing, talking and appearing to be listening, but with little or no interest in the other person.
Judges 21:25 " 25 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes."
2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 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."
In our modern day, when the seminaries know that people don't listen unless the discussion is about them, they have developed a humanistic approach to the gospel in which they shmooze people, attempting to get them to hear the gospel.
Sadly, this approach leads to the preachers becoming like the ones they are desiring to reach instead of influencing those they massage with flattery.
Romans 16:18 "18 For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive."
1 Thessalonians 2:5 "5 For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed — God is witness."
Luke 17:33 "33 Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it."
If we have to have tricks to entice someone to listen to us then it is not really in their heart. Those who respond to the gospel must want to hear to be influenced.
We are living in the 2 Timothy 3 days, when people are generally so arrogant that they cannot hear, no matter what scheme we use to make them listen.
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."
My question would be why do families continue to attend gatherings where people fight?
Believers have the option of not attending gatherings in which family members act like enemies.
2 Corinthians 6:17 "17 Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord. “And do not touch what is unclean;
And I will welcome you."
To bring to a gathering an unsaved person where the people are all Christians and do not fight would be better than for one Christian to attend a full gathering of heathens.
2 Corinthians 6:17 "17 Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,"
1 Corinthians 15:33 "Do not be deceived: 'Bad company corrupts good morals.”
We have seen a dramatic decline in the stability of the family in the past two generations because of the dynamic of promoting self-esteem that has morally, spiritually and emotionally bankrupted the human soul.
People are hypersensitive to criticism, which is why we see so many elderly people who have attended church gatherings all their life but bear little resemblance to the Spirit-filled person who lives all the fruit of the Spirit.
Most Christians today look exactly like the world, with a few sins they won't do for appearances' sake, but violate more of the scriptures than they obey, thinking they are wildly good without flaws.
Modern Christianity reflects the heart of most church attendees today, superficial, unproductive with the gospel and leaning more toward social clubs that entertain.
We live in a day much like the days of Noah when everyone did what was right in their own eyes and no one would listen. Only eight people were on that ark when God closed the door and there were many relatives in the flooding waters below who heard the words of Noah but resisted him and God.
1 Peter 3:20 "who once were disobedient when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water."
We have lived all our lives in this culture of narcissism, we have a hard time wrapping our heads around the idea that it is just like the days of Noah. When something is familiar to us, it seems safe, but in reality is a train wreck.
We must pray for people as led by the Holy Spirit, but it is dangerous to remain constant companions with those who have rejected Christ.
God commands us to gather with one another, which every way we choose and how often we choose, as well as the command to distance ourselves from unsaved family.
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