The Reasonings of God
(Part 1)
Come Now, and
Let Us Reason Together,
Saith the LORD:
Though your sins
Be as scarlet,
They shall be as
White as Snow;
Though they
Be red like crimson,
They shall be
as wool . . .
Written Circa 700 BC
~Isaiah 1:18~
[KJV]
[Day One]
Who can make your sins
“White as Snow?”
Only one person can wash away your sins,
making them white as snow.
Who will take the time to sit down and
“Reason with God?”
Only the one who wants
his sins white as snow.
Who can rightfully enter into the
Reasonings of God?
Only the one who possesseth a humble spirit,
The one who hath received a teachable mind,
The one with a contrite heart,
He will never be rejected by God,
but the proud,
God knows from afar.
Though the LORD be high,
yet hath he respect unto the lowly:
but the proud he knoweth afar off.
Psalms 138:6
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:
a broken and a contrite heart,
O God, thou wilt not despise.
Psalms 51:17
The LORD is nigh [near] unto them
that are of a broken heart;
and [He] saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Psalms 34:18
For thus saith the high and lofty One
that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy;
I dwell in the high and holy place,
with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble,
and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Isaiah 57:15
From the above verses …
Can we confirm that God says clearly that God will draw near to the humble?
If these verses make sense to you, count your blessings. It is the God of heaven who has given you a mind to know Him, His Word, and His Ways.
God is giving “us” (“us” = those who want to learn) His Open Invitation to “Come Now.” This is extraordinary. The God of Creation is Calling from Heaven, inviting every man, woman and child, to have a personal session of counsel with Him individually. And the stated goal is this: “To Make Your Sins as White as Snow.”
And the general stated requirements is that you do so:
- Now.
- With a humble heart, a teachable mind, and a contrite spirit, (broken and pierced heart, mind, and soul) which God will never despise.
If you are not exactly sure what these verses mean or how they actually apply to your very own life in this day, in this hour, count your blessings, we are going to dive into this subject in the next section (Day Two). May God bless, refresh, and eternally establish your sound understanding of these immortal and unbreakable principles in His Word (set forth through His Own Definitions, and through His Own Eternal and Trustworthy Perspective).
If your heart is proud, and your mind is hardened against the Reasonings of God: Now is your opportunity, to change that internal reality. Now is the time to see your life through a different lens. Now is the chance to step into a new and never ending, never changing reality, one that will be with you now, and into eternity.
The choice is a free one. It will not cost you one penny. The real things in life are given freely, without money, and without price. (Isaiah 55:1-7)
[End of Day One]
[End of Day One]
Optional Supplemental Study Recommendations:
- Read Isiah 1 (whole chapter)
- Meditate on the Spiritual War, between God and his servants (Jesus being the Prime Example), and The Devil and his servants, by reading John 8.
- Memorize: Isaiah 1:18
Some Additional Notes:
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Hope that makes sense. It is a useful tool for your own further study. Please don’t take anything we write here as the final Word. Study each point. Make your own decision. We are called to wrestle through biblical issues to make us strong in Spirit and Truth. We may make strong statements here, but they are not all the Word of God. Trust in God’s Word and not man’s. Test every man’s word, against the Word of God and you will be kept safe.
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Most the points are short and hopefully self explanatory. They should stand alone by themselves, even as they contribute to and build the message as a whole.
As you read, you should notice a progression of depth, and breadth, this is by design. That is something you simply cannot do when sharing a short article. And Yes, there will be repetition, this is also by design. Repetition is the Mother of learning.
May this website be of good service to you, assisting you in investigating “the Whole Counsel of God.”
[Day Two]
The Difference Between
The Proud vs. The Humble
The Holy One (God) treats these two different types of people differently.
Should that be a surprise?
No. Of course not. If you have ever raised or carefully observed children, you know that the strong willed child needs a strong hand when being trained to go in the right direction, so that when he is old he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6)
The compliant child needs a firm but gentler hand. She could be wounded and may become fearful by the same strong hand. She will respond best to a caring compassionate and gentle hand. Where the strong willed child may likely flat out ignore a gentle hand, and possibly even despise it.
The Gospel of God (the good news) also treats different individuals differently:
It gives Law to the Proud, and Grace to the Humble. This picture will become clearer later. This is the Big Picture we will need to grasp in order to Walk with God and to become fruitful workers in His Vineyard. It will deepen your appreciation of God’s Ways and His Wisdom.
[Day Three]
Has your heart been pierced?
That may seem like a funny question, but it is quite relevant to the topic at hand.
The Word of God sees the human heart.
God identifies your heart as either hardened or tender.
God likens your heart to the soil of the earth. Different soils need to be treated differently. That only makes sense, Right?
Hard soil needs to be pierced. It needs to be broken up. It needs a sharp steel plow and a yoke of powerful oxen to break through the hardened soil, to break up the fallow ground, to finally make it useful to the farmer, so that it can receive the seed to be planted in the soil.
If you sow any seed on hardened ground, it will lay on top of the soil and be eaten by the birds of the air.
Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
And when he sowed,
some seeds fell by the way side [the hardened soil],
and the fowls [birds] came
and devoured them up.
Matthew 13:3-4
Mark this Down:
The fowls (or birds of the air), in the parables of Jesus regularly are referring to demonic spirits, or devils. They come to devour the Good Seed which God has sown through his servants, which is the Word of God.
[Day Four]
Demons/Devils are Thieves
The demons steal “The Word” from the one who would receive it, and then replace it with their own seeds (words or “lies”). Their words (agree with their mindset, including blasphemy), and all their lies are used to trap and enslave their victims into sin, to think and do every kind of unrighteousness. And think it is fun and cool. (Like putting others down, while lifting themselves up.)
If you’ve ever confronted a demon,
you will know this:
Devils are proud and hard hearted, deeply deceived themselves, and deeply insecure. They follow the mindset of their master.
But this is interesting: Devil’s are required by God, to obey the commands of his servants (including humans), in the name of Christ. This proves who is their ultimate authority.
“… Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.” ~Luke 10:17 (KJV)
The Devil is arguably the proudest, most arrogant, most deceitful, most corrupt, greatest thief and liar, the most perverse and murderous being in the universe.
All Satan’s servants walk in his footsteps (both demons and humans), and emulate his mindset (walking in agreement with him) each according to their different levels of lust, greed, selfishness, evil, intimidation, deception, and murderous intent.
And yet, the believer has authority over all of them, to expose and destroy their works, through the Word of God.
“Can two walk together,
except they be agreed?”
Amos 3:3 (KJV)
The answer to that question should be simple. No.
Two cannot walk together except they be agreed. Therefore, when we walk with devils, we walk in agreement with their mindset. How ugly is that?
[Day Five]
Devil’s cannot reproduce physically
… but they can reproduce Spiritually.
They do that by infecting the lives of their victims with their own thoughts and their own ways. They like to infiltrate and populate the lives of the Children of the World (men, women, and children who are unprotected by the Word of God). They reproduce their thoughts and their ways to the point that these men, women, and children of the World become like them.
They become shaped into their image–full of their thoughts and their ways, and they, in turn, strongly influence others to become like them. Such is the way of the world and those who follow the leaders of the world.
What is wrong with that?
Nothing, if the influence is good. But here’s a simple example:
Demon’s convince untrained and unprotected teenagers it is cool to drink a bunch of toxic alcohol (which is literally poison in the body); then to vomit up it upon themselves. And then to have sex with a person you don’t know, don’t care about, and don’t want to see in the morning, or even want to look at. Yet, you have impregnated that person with another eternal person made in the image of God. A child was conceived in your drunken delusion, but you feel no remorse, and take no responsibility for your actions, because you have this ignorant excuse: “Everybody is Doing it!”
On top of that, you get an incurable sexually transmitted disease. On top of that, chances are high that in nine months, or sooner, you will likely have contributed to the murder of one of God’s Holy Children, One who sees the face of His Holy Angels (Matthew 18:10-11). And you call this your idea of fun? And many ignorant souls believe this is fun and “cool” for the rest of their lives.
“Party on!”
Where does one ever get such a perverse idea?
I only know of one such place, and from one such a person, who would teach and train people to enter into one such an ignorant and demonically evil lifestyle.
The icing on the cake? They have the nerve to call this fun, or good, or desirable in any way. Only one person would advise and promote such behavior as acceptable.
Only one person who has no depth of character, nor sense of personal, nor social honor, and has no concept of personal responsibility, nor commitment to be kind, loving, honest, truthful, or upright in any moral kind of wholistic life paradigm. Who would teach such activities as being fun? Only One Person.
John 10:10 (KJV)
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
As you can see the Word of God is not unclear, and has no deception about what the evil one is about, and why he wants his thoughts and his ways to be reproduced in the lives of those who will follow him, who will be made into his image. He wants their final destruction. Thankfully, Jesus came to destroy the devil’s work. (I John 3:8)
These same devils can also reproduce their proud thoughts and proud ways into the mindsets of the children of God: to any and all who have not protected themselves by Not Entering into the Reasonings of God. That is a scary thought.
Therefore, it is the duty, and imperative responsibility for every child of God to be fully trained and discipled in learning the Word of God (not the word of a preacher, not the word of an evangelist, not the word of a university professor, not the word of a self-help guru, but the very Word of God.)
Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God.
Matthew 4:4 (KJV)
Those who follow the above earnest directive will always remain protected, but every stray sheep who wanders from God’s Word, to the degree that they wander, will be the degree that they will remain unprotected, and vulnerable to enemy attack.
The Word of God proclaims this is the state of affairs in the large majority of people on the earth (of those who have not been pierced by the word of God), they have wandered away from God’s Word.
The Word of God proclaims this mindset comes from “the wide road” that leads us to destruction. Anyone following the wide road is actually following the Leader of the people and demons who are also in agreement following the wide road:
Matthew 7:13-14 (KJV)
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate [narrow gate]: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait [narrow] is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Did you catch that? This statement is most alarming. Millions and Billions of people are walking the wide road. How many do you know are truly, daily, hourly, following the narrow road? Few there be that find it!
In other words, many are hounded by the hounds of hell, though they know it not, because they walk in agreement with them.
If that is not a scary thought,
I don’t know what is.
And that is actually the plan of the enemy, to keep them unprotected from the Word of God, walking in agreement with the devil’s of hell.
People think it only natural that they should reject the Word of God (it feels natural, good, and right to them). It feels best to disregard God’s Word and blaspheme his name, mock his Word, scoff at his servants, and hate his Law.
Note: Even though many proclaim, they don’t even believe in God, yet they still blaspheme His Name. Why is that?
[Day Six]
How does Blasphemy even make sense?
Unbelievers blaspheming God’s Name would make no sense at all, apart from understanding that this is coming from the mindset of the number one blasphemer himself, the Lord and Ruler over all the demons (and all those humans who walk in agreement with him, who willingly carry his image into the world): Satan himself.
Those who walk in agreement with the kingdom of darkness, share the mindset of that darkness. And they prove it by the words they use, everyday, sometimes every hour of the day. (How many people do you know that are like that? Can you picture their faces before you right now?)
Think about that …
Have you ever used God’s Name in Vain?
If you have that is a devastating symptom of an even greater problem that needs to be addressed, and will be addressed as you continue reading.
Those who blaspheme God’s Name, share the verbiage, the attitudes, the language and the vocabulary of that evil mindset.
One of the clearest indicators of that mindset is the spirit of blasphemy.
[Day Seven]
Where does evil verbiage come from?
It comes from the heart. How did it get there? Through walking in agreement with the darkness.
Matthew 12:34-37 (KJV)
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
God’s blasphemers cannot be bothered with honoring God’s Rules or God’s Ways, God’s Word or God’s Name that was designed to protect them. Why? Because they are too busy walking in agreement with the Evil One. How sad it that? How wrong is that?
How detrimental will that be in your life right now? How unbelievably destructive will in be in your eternal future?
The fact that you use God’s Holy Name as a curse word, is proof that your heart has been impregnated with the demon seed (the lies, attitude and mindset of the devil). Those who walk in darkness listen to the enemy’s voice. And after listening to his voice, a person will demonstrate it by his actions. He will follow in his footsteps. He will obey his counsel, and follow his direction. The proof? It comes right out of his own mouth.
You can easily identify this by the curses a person speaks. and the attitudes one holds in his conversation. What one speaks, will quickly identify what fills his mind.
If the seeds of darkness have taken root, they will grow up like noxious weeds. These seeds are flourishing and reproducing, all over the world, all around us, and inside of us. Just exactly as God’s Word so accurately proclaims.
How can we know the demon seeds have sprouted, taken root, and grown up into our lives, our mindsets, our behaviors? By the words that come out of our mouths.
The evil fruits are easy to spot if you have entered into the Reasonings of God, you can spot them in a New York minute:
The actions (sins), the attitudes (mocking, scoffing), the bondages (addictions), are all perfectly laid out and identified in the Word of God. But only one with a humble and pierced heart will have the eyes to see this. (Do you see this?)
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- To the depth you have humbled yourself and submitted yourself to the Word and Kingdom of God, that will be the degree you will have discernment, understanding, knowledge, and wisdom from above.
- To the degree you have embraced the teachings of man and devils (who resolutely reject the Word of God), to that degree you will walk in deception, compromise, corruption, evil, disobedience, sin, decadence, selfishness, and will not carry the light of God in its full brightness, nor will you carry out the fruitful works that God has commanded his followers to produce and reproduce over and over and over. Even one sin will dramatically hinder, if not fully block your ways, and your words, and your fruits and your works in God.
This is just the simple truth of the matter.
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- No Sin = abundant faith, power, and fruit. (Soil that produces an abundant harvest, some 100, 60, 30 times what was sown. ~Matthew 13:23)
- One sin = greatly diminishes if not fully blocks our ability to perform the works of God. Double mindedness, excuses, self justifications, lies, duplicity, enter in to the empty space that was dedicated to the joy of obeying Jesus and doing the Will of the Father, from the heart. (“He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.”
~Matthew 13:22) - Multiple sins = seriously compromised seed, destroys integrity, opens the door to multiple deceptions, multiple character flaws, and all kinds of foolishness and false spirituality, false worship, false fellowship, evil decadence, hypocrisy, and much worse. “If your eye be bad, your whole body will be filled with darkness. And how great will that darkness be.”
Romans 6:20-22 (KJV)
20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Can you see that everything that comes our of the mouth, comes from the heart which is either based in sin, or in righteousness? There is little middle ground.
[End of Week One]
[Day Eight]
How do I:
“Walk in Darkness”?
… and in worldliness, and vanity, and carnal pleasure, and not have it affect my spiritual walk and fruitfulness? (Answer: You can’t. Even the smallest compromise will affect your fruitfulness in the Kingdom of God.)
“For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection …” Romans 6:5 (KJV)
- When I reject his death in my life personally, I at the same time reject his life.
The closer a man walks in agreement with darkness, the harder will be his heart to the Light of God. That only makes sense, right?
Those who abide in darkness, will not plug into the Light of God (God’s Holy Word, even if they go to church). They cannot receive God’s Holy Seed and have no hunger to do His Works, because they are consumed with themselves. Their own mouths will proclaim this as soon as they start talking about themselves. If you have a pierced heart and an alert mind, you will see this immediately. Many are not aware of the reason, because they have refused to enter into the Reasonings of God.
“Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.”
Romans 6:6 (KJV)
If they had entered into the reasonings of God, they would know immediately why they were not interested in the light of God, and why they prefer the darkness of the world below, above the light of Heaven Above.
They also cannot tell you why they carry this spirit of antagonism and animosity towards God’s Holy Word, because they do not know.
It is like a knee jerk reaction, blasphemers just have to blaspheme God’s Word and His Name. That is what they do. They can’t help themselves. This will be true for anyone walking in agreement with devils (whether they realize it or not). And the vast majority have no clue where their thoughts, attitudes, feelings, and behaviors are coming from. They are completely deceived thinking they conjured up their blasphemous ideas, values, words, anger, animosity, antagonism, and mocking attitudes all on their own. That really doesn’t make sense. And where did their friends get all the same stuff–all on their own? I don’t think so.
The truth be told they were fed these things by the servants of hell from childhood, and the older they get the harder their heart becomes and the greater and more permanent the damage becomes.
[Day Nine]
Have you ever noticed?
Scoffers feel safe scoffing at and mocking the Word of God. Why is that? It just feels natural to them. I suppose that is why the Word of God calls them scoffers. Because their loyalties are turned upside down from heaven to hell, so are their values turned upside down. What God says is evil, the scoffer says is “good.” What God says is good, the mocker says is “bad.” And the animosity just comes freely to them. They just feel safe and comfortable while walking in agreement with the devil, the deceiver. How twisted is that?
Believe it or not, this incredibly sticky and evil antagonism sticks itself to most people (everyone not protected by God’s Word). This perverse animosity has been brewed up in the pits of evil and hell. It has been carefully crafted, and ingeniously designed to shield the unbeliever from the Word of God. This plan has been effective for centuries, except where the people have prepared their hearts (to become humble and pierced) in order to receive the Word of God.
[Day Ten]
How do I stop
“Walking in Darkness”?
“For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection …” Romans 6:5 (KJV)
- When I accept his death in my life personally, at the same time I accept his life.
The closer a man walks in agreement with God’s Kingdom of Light, the more tender his heart will become, and the Greater the Light of God will shine through Him. That only makes sense, right?
[Day Eleven]
How does the Church
“Walk in Darkness”?
For several centuries officially established Government regulated Churches throughout Europe, made it illegal to have the Word of God written or printed in the language of the common people (in both Catholic and Protestant Churches).
Multitudes of Believers have been burned at the stake, tortured, imprisoned, and worse, for writing, translating, printing, transporting, or even owning the Word of God in their own language. This has happened in Both Protestant Churches and Catholic Churches and their countries. The fight against God’s Word is in every country of the world.
Also note: that both Protestant and Catholic officials have ordered the slaughter of believers living in villages practicing their religion according to their own conscience and belief, because they felt threatened by these people giving their first and foremost loyalty and priority to Jesus, than to their local governments.
Have you ever noticed:
When a men feels threatened,
He acts like a devil?
Modern Church Politics are based on the same paradigm as the Protestant Church and the Catholic Churches run by political officials inside and outside the church.
Mark this Down: Modern church government is based on the same system used during Protestant Reformation (The Clergy vs. The Laity) which was based on the same system used in the Catholic system of Church Government, which officially departed from the true model of Church Government 16 centuries ago. The pure and powerful life of the Early Church, has been corrupted ever since the fourth century A.D., under Constantine the true corrupter of the Church, by basing her government on man centered politics, as it is to this day.
If you want to know why the church is corrupt, you can begin by investigating Church History, and the evils done through corrupt politicians who used the church for their perverse political agendas (as they are doing so today). These evil cohorts were being driven by a much more devious and malicious fiend.
If anyone is not protected by the Law of God, they will quickly fall prey to these enemies.
This happened in America when “they” threw the Word of God out of public school education, and opened the door for every demon of lust, greed, perversion, violence, addiction, and spirit of confusion to enter into the American School System.
The result: Today men and women can enter the Military and get a free sex change on government funding, because they no longer believe they are who God made them to be. They believe to be happy, they have to be sexually changed into somebody different than they are.
And the devils are cajoling and celebrating over every twisted, deceived, and confused one of them. These are the poster children of Hell’s Delusions. And our generation has made this possible. This is all happening right before our very eyes, but the majority of the population is completely blind and ignorant to what is happening.
Now guess how many of these people have been raised on the Word of God, and have a true understanding of who they are?
What Causes Morality to Plummet?
Since our departure from God’s Word as a society, our morality has plummeted, our crime and evil have sky rocketed, across all levels of society. Today, the spirit of confusion is so great that a child cannot even know or understand whether he is male or female? And our public school teachers are encouraging and infecting our youth with these ideas, paid for by our own tax dollars. How twisted is that? And the demons of hell are all laughing out loud at America. They know exactly what they are doing. And they are using deceived and demonic people to accomplish their goals.
And Yes. God is allowing men’s hearts to be revealed for what they really are.
[Don’t believe this? Check out the facts. These statistics don’t lie. They tell the very story in sheer numbers, that is being declared here.]
God sowed the seed of His Word into the American Population and God greatly blessed the American People for many generations, but modern American Culture has rejected the Word of God, and has replaced it with the Word of Man (the teachings, mindsets, values, attitudes, and lifestyles that Satan has sown in our society). As a result, America as a Nation is under the Curse and Wrath of God. And she is increasing her guilt and shame, her evil and lusts, her impurity and her uncleanness has become her downfall.
In other words, the Word of God has been stolen from the children of America, and Americans are paying a heavy price for it. This is what happens to any culture or people who reject the Word of God.
This interpretation comes directly from Jesus himself:
Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom,
and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one,
and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart.
This is he which received seed by the way [road] side…
Matthew 13:18-19
[Day Twelve]
America no longer has a pierced Heart
How can you tell? She no longer obeys the Word of God.
In other words, The proud man (aka, government officials and hacks who make public policy, and the evil men who fund them, and promote wicked social programing and block mental health and healing from God’s Word) hath no room in his heart or mindset, for the reasonings of God, because his heart and mind have not been pierced by the Word of God (aka, “the sword of the Spirit”; Hebrews 4:12; Ephesians 6:17).
Therefore, he continues to have a hard heart (as opposed to a broken heart, a pierced heart). He also has a proud mind (as opposed to a humble one), and also a rebellious spirit (as opposed to a contrite spirit).
The result is his iniquities increase. Many top leaders and top officials, and top tear businessmen who are the movers and shakers in this world are pedophiles, occultists, and worse. Their stated goal is to reduce the population of the earth to under 1 billion people, through their own perverted programs. Eliminating people as they see fit.
These qualities and predispositions will keep the proud man unteachable in the Ways of God, and far from the Word of God, as a result, he will be bound to the darkness that clings to him.
For this reason, he shall exalt his own thoughts above those of God. Where did he get this mindset? From the Evil One.
Therefore, this explains how an unbeliever in God would speak blasphemy about the name of God, even when he proclaims he doesn’t even believe in God.
[Day Thirteen]
Why does the Proud man have no room in all of his thoughts for God?
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance,
will not seek after God:
God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalms 10:4
In other words, “the proud” (aka “the wicked”) man has made no room in his thoughts for God, nor for the Reasonings of God, nor for the Counsel of God, nor especially for the Law of God.
The proud man is not concerned about eternity, his primary focus is servicing his pleasures and his fancies to the maximum, right here, right now (aka “Living Life to the Fullest”–more on that later).
Where does this mindset come from?
Answer: Downunder. (And not Australia.)
How can two people, born in the same home, have such polar opposite ideas about God, His Kingdom, His Honor, His Life, and His Work?
[Day Fourteen]
The Difference between Condemnation and Conviction
[A quick study comparing Abel to Cain]
Conviction: The Heart of ABEL
One man will position himself to live under the spirit of Conviction.
The man with a pierced heart will be able to come under the conviction of God. Due to the brokenness of his soil, the seed in the Word of God can penetrate his heart.
That is, every area of his heart that has been broken up and prepared by the Man, to receive the seed of the word of the Lord.
Any area of a man’s heart, that he holds back from God, will remain like unplowed ground, and not be able to receive the word of God. This leaves a man open to many deceptions.
The seed of the word of God, will only be able to work in Ground that has been broken up. Wherever the ground is hard and dry, the seed of God will not be able to do its perfect work.
Whenever the heart is open before God, the word of God is able to convict a man of his wrong doings, (and to lead him into his Right Doings). It can cause him to feel remorse and to repent. It can guide him in the right way, overcoming sin, lies, and deception. Conviction will quickly identify malevolence, maliciousness, lasciviousness, and worse. A man who is training his heart, mind, body, will, and spirit to do the Will of God from the heart, will be blessed in what He does.
The seed or word empowered by the Voice and Spirit of God can and will teach a man:
- How to love his neighbor,
- How to even love his enemy (which otherwise would be impossible to do without the power in the Love provided in the Word and Spirit of God).,
- How to overcome the Evil One,
- How to destroy the devil’s works,
- How to bind the strongman,
- How to plunder his house,
- How to put on the full armor of God,
- How to pull down ENEMY strongholds with God’s spiritual armory of weapons.
Because of a man’s humble spirit of repentance and conviction, he himself will turn away from evil, and choose to do what is right in the sight of God. No one will be able to force or coerce him.
Like Abel: he will make his choices out of his own free will. And he will be blessed for his own personal righteous decisions.
Wash you, [wash yourself]
Make you clean [make yourself clean];
Put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes;
Cease to do evil; [stop choosing evil]
Learn to do well; [educate yourself in God’s word]
Seek judgment, [understand righteous judgment]
Relieve the oppressed, [this is what God commands]
Judge the fatherless, [help the fatherless orphans]
Plead for the widow. [Support and assist the widow]
~Isaiah 1:16-17 (KJV)
The New Testament teaches:
James 1:27 (KJV)
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
When a man has entered into a Blood Covenant Relationship with God, he comes under the Conviction of God, because he has opened his heart to God. Since he has entered into a Blood Covenant Relationship with God, he has given God permission to correct and redirect his wayward selfish ways, by daily speaking to him through his conscience.
In other words, the humble man with a contrite spirit has already invited God to convict him of his wrong doings, to guide him in the Way that is Right, and to turn him around when he veers off the “straight and narrow,” the “holy and blessed,” perfect and true, Path of God.
Abel, the second son of Adam, (the brother of Cain) was a perfect example of a true Blood Covenant worshipper of God. A man who had his heart pierced by the Word of God, and made his ways, and Life acceptable to God, and God blessed, and accepted and enriched Abel’s life.
Abel lived under the convictions of God and thereby avoided evil–especially the evil his brother Cain fell into.
As a result, Abel became a prophet of God who lived by the spirit of God, and the truth of God, through a pure conscience. His brother Cain did not live this way.
Abel became the first martyr in human history for his faith. His blood was spilt on the ground by the spirit of jealousy, and murder, and a wicked hatefilled religious spirit, that entered into Cain, and began controlling Cain’s thoughts feelings, emotions, and will.
THAT SAME SPIRIT HAS BEEN WORKING
IN MANKIND SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING.
That stronghold in Cain created a hardened heart, and a blockade, an impenetrable spiritual wall around Cain’s mind, so that he could not even pay attention to the Reasonings of God, even after God went and spoke directly to Cain. (Read God’s Testimony for yourself: Genesis 4:1-8, especially pay careful attention to verse 7.)
How many people do you know that have the same spiritual blockade around their own minds? You can easily tell by their hostility to the Word of God, the Gospel Message, and anything to do with the Spirit of God challenging them to enter into the Reasonings of God.
These people live not under the free control of the Spirit, but under the vicious control the Flesh. And to be honest they are not only a danger to others, they are a danger unto themselves. I know. [I was one of them, not too long ago.]
Now, lets meet the poster child for the one who does not have a pierced and humble, contrite and broken, receptive and tender heart to the Word of God.
[Day Fifteen]
Condemnation: The Heart of CAIN
Another man will position himself to live under the spirit of condemnation.
This is a man who lives without a pierced heart. He has a hard heart, a forehead of flint, and a neck of steel. He wants to follow his own direction. Go his own way.
He is not able to receive the thoughts of God, nor any of the Words of God that counter his own personal plans and pleasures. This man may even be religious, but without a pierced heart he is without the light of God or the Spirit of God directing him.
This is the man who will come quickly under condemnation, and will run from God’s Law as fast as he can. Like a thief running away from a policeman as fast as he can.
Mark this down: The Law is only condemning to those who refuse to obey it. The word transgression means to walk or cross over the line, to transgress the given boundary.
God has given us many healthy set boundaries that are not to be transgressed. When a man willingly and rebelliously decides to transgress a law or boundary that God has set for the goodness, virtue, protection, provision, and happiness of his children, that man sets himself up to be under the condemnation of God.
A Side Note: God is not just interested in satisfying the selfish pleasures of a few, (who want to lord it over the many) to the detriment of ALL. In fact, His life and example is based on the exact opposite. God is fully invested into fulfillment of ALL His blessed and precious children (showing no favoritism, no impartiality, not ever. And God himself lives under the same Law that He has applied to Us. It is the same laws today, that will be established for Eternity. Once you grasp this it will change the way you think and behave, and in the way you honor yourself, others, and most importantly, how you honor God and His Word.
How should the Law affect our Conscience?
A simple example: If the law says to drive 15 miles an hour in front of the loading zone for the Institute for Blind Children, and you drive through at 50 miles an hour. You have transgressed the law. You have crossed over an invisible line. You have put yourself and blind children at risk of danger that the law was designed to protect.
In other words: You have lifted up your selfish interest above the interests and safety of others. You have become arrogant, as well as, dangerous to self and others. You have set yourself up for failure, and you could likely cause the death or severe injury of an innocent blind child. As a result, You have condemned yourself. You have placed yourself under condemnation, that will be marked down in your eternal account with God. You will be cursed for your unrighteous behavior.
This was the attitude, mindset, behavior, and judgment of Cain when God came to him to warn him of the perilous danger Cain was in. [This is the same mindset of an addicted homosexual {or heterosexual} with the AIDS virus, more on this later.]
Due to a spirit of jealousy working evil in the core of Cain’s heart, Cain was walking in agreement with the Devil. Cain did not offer an acceptable offering to God, due to the pride of his own heart, and because he was rejected by God, and his brother was accepted by God, jealousy and anger filled the heart of Cain. As a result that anger boiled over and developed into a spirit of rage and murder, which would not be denied.
James 1:13-15 (KJV)
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
This was the way and pattern of Cain, the first murderer in the History of the World. Because he chose to reject living under the Spirit of Conviction, he came to live under the Spirit of Condemnation.
Read the whole story for yourself: Genesis 4:1-15.
[Day Sixteen]
Bending your will to the will of God
If you have a pierced heart: when you read the 15 mph sign correctly, you will immediately and accurately, understand and discern the reason for the law. You will quickly comply and slow down to 15 miles per hour or less, knowing that blind children’s lives are at risk. Now you can see them walking to and fro from their parent’s vehicles to their various classrooms. And you will have joy in your heart that you saw the sign and paid attention to the message, and did what your inner conscience convicted you to do. You will feel the delight of God due to your obedience, and enjoy the sense of acceptance and his approval of your righteous decision.
You will have convicted yourself. You have willingly received the conviction to do the right thing by the law, and by your very own conscience. You have placed yourself under conviction, and have stayed within the righteous values of the Law, and your commendation (and not condemnation) will come from God, and you will be blessed by your righteous behavior.
[Day Seventeen]
Who will seek God?
Who learn God’s ways?
Only the one who wants to be near to God.
Who will seek God the HeavenlyFather of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The God of Moses, David, and Daniel, the God of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the God of Abel, Noah, and Elijah? The God who created the heavens and the earth, and everything in them?
Only he who wants to have clean hands and a pure heart.
Psalms 24:1, 3-5 (KJV)
1 The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof;
the world, and they that dwell therein.
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD?
or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that hath clean hands,
and a pure heart;
who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity,
nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD,
and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
These things we are talking about are holy and sacred things. They are beyond words to describe. They are experienced by those who walk in a continual the Blood Covenant Relationship with the Holy God of Heaven.
If someone does not understand these things, it is no wonder. If they mock, scoff, lambaste, deride and shame the precious things of God, it is no wonder. Clearly their hearts are owned, controlled, and animated by another. And you will hear the thoughts, words, feelings, attitudes, and see the living evidence of all of the above very quickly if you just poke the tiger.
[Day Eighteen]
Studying the Law of God
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. 2 Timothy 2:15-16 (KJV)
When a man studies the Law of God, he learns much about God’s protection, God’s provision, and God’s intention to bless his children, not only in the short term, but also most importantly, in the long term, from one generation to the next, and into all of eternity. (Leviticus 26:3–13, Deuteronomy 28:1-14)
God’s Law operates on a simple two step, powerful, and effective training plan: 1) Blessings for Obedience. 2) Curses (Punishments and Judgments) for Disobedience.
It is the same plan of action used by every Good Father, who will take the time to train up a child in the way he should go, so that when he is old he will not depart from it.
The Truth be Told: it is God’s intention to bless every generation of God’s Children, forever, and ever, and ever, and ever. He has designed His laws to endure unto eternity.
The only problem is He cannot Bless Disobedience. He cannot bless or condone Evil. That would make Him Evil.
Studying God’s Law allows us to enter into the Reasonings of God. This teaches us to discern good from evil, wickedness from righteousness, folly from wisdom, truth from error. These teach us to reject lust, greed, and selfishness, and to pursue purity, generosity, and selflessness, and these lead us into God’s Holiness.
[Day Nineteen]
What can the Law of God do for us?
Blessed are they which do hunger
and thirst after righteousness:
for they shall be filled.
Matthew 5:6 (KJV)
For the hungry soul that desires to walk and live near to God, the Law of God is a light onto his path, and a lamp along his way (Psalms 119:105).
Psalms 19:7-14 (KJV)
7 The law of the LORD is perfect,
converting the soul:
The testimony of the LORD is sure,
making wise the simple.
8 The statutes of the LORD are right,
rejoicing the heart:
The commandment of the LORD is pure,
enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is clean,
enduring for ever:
The judgments of the LORD are true
and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold,
yea, than much fine gold:
sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned:
and in keeping of them there is great reward.
12 Who can understand his errors?
cleanse thou me from secret faults.
13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins;
let them not have dominion over me:
then shall I be upright,
and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth,
and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight,
O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
[Day Twenty]
Know anyone with a hard heart?
Do you know anyone who has rejected the word of God, and replaced it with the word of man?
If you do, you know someone with a hard heart. Do you know someone who has not had their spiritual “ground” plowed by the sharp and piercing word of God?
Do you know anyone in your family that would fit this description? Any one of your friends? (Do you yourself fit this description?)
If so, they are in a kind of trouble that is almost impossible to correct. Remember Cain, and his situation? God himself spoke directly to Cain. And Cain rejected God himself.
It would seem that even wild horses could not deter Cain from his chosen path. Neither can they deter the modern sinner, or even the modern church goer, who is not a doer of the word, but a hearer only. (We will get to the “hearer only” in a minute.)
Want to meet a modern day Cain, a teenage driver filled with Road Rage? (Thislinkis a YouTube video)
Cain, and this teenager, wanted to go their own way, which was in fact, the devil’s plan for their life. When a man, or a teenager insulates himself away from the Word of God, he harms himself in ways, that cannot be comprehended apart from the Law of God.
Honestly, such a person as Cain, and this Teenager, is almost (except for a miracle) beyond help. That is why it is so important to pray for your friends and family.
Their problem is so serious that it cannot be addressed, through normal conversation, nor can it be remedied. Why? Because they have no room in their thoughts for God.
Only God has the remedy for their sickness. His Word is the only cure. But when we reject Him, we, at the same time reject the only remedy, the only cure, the only solution to our eternal damnation problem.
[Day Twenty-One]
Our Terminal Disease
Your terminal eternal disease, only He can cure.
But if your reject Him and His Law, you block the only eternal help that can or will ever be offered to you.
He is the only one who can cure your eternal terminal disease. In other words, Death. Therefore, when you reject his offer to make your sins as white as snow, and to lead you into His LIFE, you put yourself in the position of being “up a creek without a paddle,” so to speak.
You put yourself in the position of condemning yourself before the law of God; Before the court rooms of heaven; Before all the standards of eternity, you stand condemned.
John 3:18-20 (KJV)
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Please Note: No disease, not even your terminal disease is too difficult for God to handle, but what he requires of you is that you put your trust and your faith in him (and remove your trust and faith in the Evil One), God can only do what you believe him for.
Without a tender, softened, pierced, and broken heart, the word of God cannot enter into the life of a man, nor can it bring his restoration, nor his exaltation.
It is the work of God, to bring every man up to God’s level of joy, peace, truth, righteousness, holiness, power, authority, and heavenly grace. But the man with an un-pierced heart will avoid all of this like the plague. He will run away from all of this like a man running away from a fire.
[Day Twenty-Two]
The proud man needs God
but doesn’t know it
The stubborn pride of the proud man has not been broken.
His know it all attitude is still intact.
It is still the driving force of his life. His own lofty opinions rule over his own mind. He sets himself up as the highest authority in his own life.
His self centered focus bars him from considering others (including God) as honorable and worthy of the due respect that heaven requires. All these factors keep him far from the counsel and reasonings of God.
The Proud Man (the wicked man) values his own wisdom above the Wisdom of the Holy One.
Yet, the foolishness of God is wiser than all the wisdom of all men combined, and the weakness of God is stronger than all the strength of all men combined.
[Day Twenty-Three]
Have you been humbled
by the thoughts of God?
Has your heart been expanded beyond your proud and selfish nature by the reasonings of God?
15 For thus saith the high and lofty One
that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy;
“I dwell in the high and holy place,
with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble,
and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.”
Isaiah 57:15
Do you know how to properly use the Name that is Holy?
Have you ever sat down and “Reasoned with God” about how to make your sins as white as Snow? Maybe now is a good time to start.
What harm can come to you from entering the Door of Humility? What disaster can befall you from receiving a Teachable Spirit?
What dark demon of (blank___) will be cast out of you, by entering into the Counsel of God?
One can never tell, until he walks through the Door of Humility and receives a heart of teachability, from the Holy One on High.
If your heart has been pierced you will know it by the contrition of your own countenance and your desire to learn and know more of God’s Word.
And your conviction to never again use the Name of God in vain, nor to blaspheme his name.
If your heart is proud and un-pierced, you will know it by your disregard, and disinterest in the Word of God and your continuing deliberate ignorance to the Judgments of God, and the reasonings of God.
Are you willing to enter into the greatest adventure of a lifetime? If not, you can be. All it takes is a simple shift of priorities, a simple shift of loyalties.
[Day Twenty-Four]
A simple shift in identity
You can step onto the Road of Salvation that will indeed never end.
You can begin a journey that will expand into eternity. You can enjoy a hope that will never fade, that will indeed overcome every trouble, overcome every pain, overcome every fear, even and especially the fear of death.
Your Road of Salvation will indeed teach you how to overcome darkness, overcome foolishness, overcome selfishness, overcome greed, overcome lust, overcome gossip, and slander, and prejudice, jealousy, doubt, worry, abuse, poverty, insecurity, double-mindedness, instability, and every power of peer pressure.
You will literally learn how to overcome every single lie ever told to you, and also how to overcome every addiction, every disgraceful habit, and every unclean: thought, word and deed.
On the Road to Salvation: You will literally unburden yourself from the Heavy Load of Sin (and Hell) on your back.
That in itself will help free you from the spirit of pride, arrogance, self-exultation, as well as, complacency, laziness, compromise, fruitless living, and great distractions designed to keep you as a slave to self.
(Read about a man who got rid of his heavy burden of Sin, for Free: Pilgrim’s Progress, for centuries this book was the 2nd most read, most printed and popular Book in the world. Written circa 1650’s.)
[Day Twenty-Five]
Do you know who or what is actually guiding your life?
The One guiding you on the Road of Salvation will personally show you: How to be forgiven for every wrongful thought, wrongful accusation, hurtful and spiteful evil deed, and every selfish, and defiling wicked pursuit, including every lying deception—That is only part of what you stand to gain or lose by entering into, or rejecting (or simply ignoring) the Counsel of God (a.k.a. the reasonings of God.)
Do you know what strongholds
confront you?
This is a vitally important question to address. You cannot fight an enemy you cannot see.
If your eyes have been blinded, your mind has been ignorant for a decade or longer, the enemy has been well hidden in your life, and is not going to easily reveal his presence, as soon as he learns your motive is to get rid of Him.
And some devils are exceptionally stubborn (especially lust and greed). You will quickly discover this when reading the Gospels. Some demons and devils only come out of a man by prayer and fasting.
If you have walked in agreement in word, thought, attitude, deed, habit, or addiction with the Ruler of this evil age, then it is a given that you have already received and possessed the Anti-knowledge of God.
If you have believed any of his lies, arguments, and any of the reasonings of man against God, you will have some strong mental strongholds to overcome. This is to be expected.
But if you let God guide you through his spirit of HUMILITY, you can and will overcome every stronghold, every obstacle, every trial, every test, and every direct attack upon your faith.
The choice is entirely yours. The path lies in front of you. You can turn to the right, or to the left. There is no pressure. No emotional salesmanship. No false fairy tale ending.
Which ever road you take, it will cost you your life. That much is a given.
But don’t you want to know for sure what lies at the end of both roads? Doesn’t it make clear sense to investigate the road upon which you are walking and where that road is leading you, and what you will find at the final destination on that Road?
The Word of God is a gift from Heaven to Earth, from God to man, from LOVE to NEED, from His Abundance for Our Lack. Not to receive it is pure ignorance on our part.
Matthew 10:39-42 (KJV)
He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
40 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
41 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. 42 And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
Matthew 16:26 (KJV)
26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?.
If you don’t know with 100% accuracy what lies at the end of the Door of Humility, walking on the Road of Salvation … Is not now a good time to find out? Is not now a good Time to investigate the whole matter from beginning to ending?
[Day Twenty-Six]
A thorough salvation requires a thorough investigation
I would dare say, it is no foolish thing to know and receive the Reasonings of God on these matters. To investigate the One who knows the end from the beginning, is no foolish endeavor.
Even if for purely selfish reasons, it would be wisdom to enter into the Counsel of God, the Reasonings of God, the call of God to hear with your own mind and your own heart the Solutions of God to the problems of mankind, Yes?
Chances are high that you have heard and received and internalized the opinions of man, and that the seeds of man (and of the devil) have already been planted deep into your soul.
(I know this because the same lies were planted in my life deeply and inconspicuously, until the light of God shown upon them and exposed them.)
[Day Twenty-Seven]
Test and See: Is the Light of God in you?
[Hang in there. This section is a little longer than most, but it is a critical one to read through to the end, and consider the outcomes of both the blessings and curses involved. If you are tired or worn out. Take a break and come back to this section fresh and rejuvenated. This portion is requiring you to offer something of yourself–Your Honesty. It will produce the fruit of it is designed to produce, only if you meet the condition of being honest with yourself and God. You may be suprised but this is actually a rare quality even (and maybe especially) among christians.]
Do you want to know how you can immediately tell, and know if bad seed has been planted and bad fruits have been growing from those evil seeds in your life?
Here is a simple TEST: If you are anything like me, your answers to the below questions will be exactly the same as mine.
Can you be honest with yourself? Can you be honest before God? Can you honestly answer the following questions with a spirit of truth and honesty?
If you can: you will take the first step towards your own perfect salvation. For without absolute pure and trustworthy honesty, there can be no true salvation.
Proverbs 20:6-7 (KJV)
6 Most men will proclaim
every one his own goodness:
but a faithful man who can find?
Test Question #1: Have you ever used the Lord’s Name in Vain?
If you have blasphemed the Name of God, even once? then you can be sure the seeds of the evil one have been planted in your soul, otherwise, for what reason would you choose to blaspheme God’s name? What possible personal benefit could you receive from such an evil, wicked, and defiling transgression?
What possible reason could there be to commit such a heinous crime against the Holy One of Heaven to even defile His Name, who has done you no wrong?
Think about that for a minute…
What do you call someone who blasphemes God’s Holy name?
Answer: A Blasphemer. It is a very serious crime.
So what are you? A blasphemer.
[Day Twenty-Eight]
Test Question #2: Have you ever told a lie to your parent, to your teacher, to your friend, to your boss, to your child, to your classmates, to your spouse? How many lies have your told? Too many to count?
What do you call someone who tells lies? Answer: A liar.
So what are you? A liar? No. You are a lying, blasphemer.
Now, this next question will reveal much about the nature and influence of heaven or hell touching your life. Once we realize what is really happening, then we can really evaluate our lives in the Light of Heaven. But as long as we refuse to see things from God’s Perspective (refuse to have our hearts pierce, our hardened soil broken up) and therefore we refuse to Judge ourselves from God’s Eternal Light, we will condemn ourselves to walk in the Darkness, and be slaves to our own ignorance.
The whole purpose of God’s Word is to Free us from such a Dark World, but if we reject His Word, we reject our right and our privilege to overcome the Darkness and to defeat our enemy, the one who hates us and wants to drag us to Hell, to share in his eternal punishment.
Is that not crazy?
Is that not the true definition of insanity?
When we reject the one who loves us and proved it by becoming a holy and pure sacrifice and did everything in his power to prove his love to us: Are we not out of our minds?
To add insult to injury, we join forces with God’s eternally sworn enemy, who has diabolically planned to twist our hearts and minds to hate God, and despise his Word, yet to feel great around Satan and all of his evil demons that have one stated Goal: to kill us, steal from us, and literally destroy us for all of eternity.
If that is not a perfect plan for insanity,
I don’t know what is.
Not only does Satan want to destroy you, he wants to destroy everyone in your life, and use them to destroy one another. He wants to especially destroy the Gift of God, that was given to you to enjoy one of God’s greatest gifts–the power to bring beautiful replicas of yourself and your Lover into this world. Why? So that they can be shown how to Love God and learn how to obey God to enjoy all of His Heavenly Blessings.
But instead, your child is likely to be 1) aborted. 2) abandoned. 3) abused. 4) perverted. 5) corrupted. 6) trained to become twice as much the son of hell as you were. 7) and in the end: will be sent to hell, because you followed the evil one and hardened your heart against the Kingdom of God, and he is following in your footsteps. [That is the majority rules plan.]
[Please note: I have used the pronoun “you” in the generic form. Obviously, I have no idea what everyone has done who is reading this text. But if the numbers game is on, it is a pretty good bet many if not the majority have possibly, both received and performed all six of the seven items is the list above, and are setting themselves up for the seventh to happen any day now. That is if they are traveling on the wide road of destruction that so many are. That is a given].
The stated purpose of this text is to hopefully convince a few souls, to not continue down that road. This message is for both the average church goer, and for the rabid sinner. They both are walking down a perilously slippery slope that will slide right into the lake of fire at the bottom of that slope.
This is something I pray that every reader here will avoid, by receiving a pierced heart and by following the path of Abel. Making their hearts and lives sensitive to the convicting power of God to arrest the conscience, and turn it around to follow the plan of God, and superseding the plan of Satan for their lives.
[Day Twenty-Nine]
Question #3: Have you ever looked with lust at another person?
Typically, the answer here is: “Sure everybody has!”
[Then you can ask: have you ever had sex before marriage? And the answer is usually the same, but with less enthusiasm.]
So that is supposed to justify it. Since everybody is doing it. It must be ok? Right? Majority Rules???
How did that work out for the majority in the Day of Noah? Or for the majority in the day of Sodom and Gomorrah?
Mark this down: These two events are just a foreshadowing taste of what is coming in the future. These were physical judgments of a future spiritual reality. Anyone who will truthfully examine this will dramatically transform and influence their mind for the things of Heaven, above and beyond the things of the earth.
To be perfectly honest: for those who live under the Lord of Sexual Perversion (ADULTERY: and every form of sexual deviancy)–That is a terrible way to think or live. Not everybody needs to get HIV/AIDS, STD’s, Syphilis, or live under the slavery of a sexual perversion or addiction. That is a horrible choice. You live the lifestyle you get the disease! It’s pretty much a given.
When you Look with perverted Lust upon another Child of God (who is called to be a virgin up until marriage, and then a faithful loving partner, all the days of her life), then you reign down God’s judgment upon you mind, your will, your emotions, your desires, your cravings, addictions, and proclivities. The choice to be a walking virus among God’s Holy People is an awful way to live. And it won’t be tolerated in heaven.
The danger of getting the disease (AIDS or something worse) should be a deterrent. It should sober up your thinking and actions. But millions have died from the disease and carelessly and thoughtlessly infected millions of others. (more than 36 million people have diedof HIV since the start of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.)
These people drove their vehicles 70 mph hour through the Institute for the Blind. They put innocent lives into jeopardy. (They infected many innocent children.) Why? Because they refused the warnings of God. They rejected God’s Law. They put all their trust in Satan’s lies. Had they accepted God’s Warnings, and received the protection of God’s Law, they would not have needed to die a miserable and premature death, nor would they have willingly and defiantly spread a virus of death to the others that they claimed to care about. What a lie!
So the truth is: No, not everybody is looking at others with lust. And no. Not everybody is dressing to accentuate and promote their personal sex appeal, to entice others to fantasize with their minds, and cause others to stumble in their desires, to want others to lust after them. And No, not every body is undressing others in their perverted imaginations.
But the reality is: Yes, many are. Probably most. But does that make it right? I don’t think so.
Yes. The majority could ignore the 15 mph loading zone law in front of schools. And many do, but that doesn’t make it right. That in no ways justifies the wrong being done. Just because others do it too.
That is the most ignorant answer we can offer. And we must change our attitude and change our perspective and our perception, from our own sin-filled mindset, to the mindset of the Holy One of God. If we want to have our sins made white as snow.
(Please Note: I am not pointing the finger here, for I have done the same, I am just stating the facts. We must remove our ignorance, if we desire to make any headway into the Kingdom of God.)
[Day Thirty]
Admitting and Owning Our Sin
So if you have looked with lust on another person. Jesus says, you have already committed adultery with that person in your heart.
Then Jesus has this to say to that. If your right eye causes you to sin, it is better to pluck it out and have only one eye, than to have two eyes and to enter into the Lake of Fire for eternity. Then, if your right hand causes you to sin cut it off. And if your foot causes you to chase after sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life [heaven] with 1 eye, 1 foot, and 1 hand, than to be sent into to hell with both.
And no. Jesus was not kidding. Jesus was not allegorizing. Jesus was speaking plainly. His comparison was a literal, factual. His judgment was analytical of which is better, and which is worse. In other words: ADULTERY is a serious crime. If you are tempted to commit adultery with your eyes, masterubate with your hand, and chase mini skirts with your feet, it would be better to pluck out your eye, cut off your hand, and saw off your foot, and enter into heaven, than enter into hell.
Know this: ADULTERY in Jesus day carried the death sentence (See John 8:1-11). It was a crime punishable by stoning. The reason for the punishment was to protect the marriage, protect the family, protect the children, and to protect the community, in which the people raised their children to become disciples of God’s Love, not objects of evil lust.
That is why the whole community was commanded to go out and throw stones against the adulterer, who was sent by the devil into their midst to bring his destruction into their community. Therefore the whole community is commanded to throw a stone so that the whole community would learn the lesson that adultery destroys life.
Does ADULTERY destroy life? Yes it does. Let’s examine the evidence. Adultery is bent on serving the personal pleasure of the adulterer. In essence, the adulterer is using the adulteress to masturbate. And cares no more for the person than he cares for the tools of masturbation.
ADULTERY, has no concern for others involved, not for the best interests of the spouse, nor the partner of the spouse, nor the family of the spouse, that the adulterer is usurping, literally injecting evil into the marriage of another.
The adulterer cares nothing for the fruit of the act of intercourse, which is the very virtue and purpose and ultimate goal of sexual intercourse. The Fruit of a Man and a Woman coming together is The Fruit of is the womb–a beautiful child being brought into the World.
Of course, God designed Sex, and God gave it as a gift to mankind to steward this precious Gift of God.
But of Course, Satan will do everything in his power to persuade a man to become perverted and deny God’s Plan, God’s Purpose, God’s Design, and also to ignore and deny that God will punish those who misuse His Express Gifts to Bring Beautiful Children into the World, but rather choose to destroy them.
The Fact is men are cursed with diseases and plagues sent by God to Protect the Gift of Sex, STD’s are attacking the immoral man everyday. HIV/AIDS, now MONKEYPOX. SYPHILIS, and many more can rot the men from the inside out, but even in epidemic proportions men refuse to stop, listen, consider, or even hear the REASONINGS OF GOD on the subject of sex.
Apparently, men who follow Satan are incredibly stubborn, their perverse and demonically inspired to desire to sin against God’s Law, seem to know no boundary, no matter what consequences they will have to face.
Thus instead of men walking in the ordinance and powerful protection of God, following the commandments to remain morally pure and clean, and a virgin until marriage–what do they do?
They do everything but obey God.
What is the result? And who is paying the price for their disobedience to God? What is the Cost?
In America alone there have been 50,000,000 plus babies aborted by their mothers in government sponsored, government funded, government protected abortion slaughter house mills, where they used to grind up perfectly healthy babies, in industrial garbage disposals, and flush them into the sewer. Now, they carve up the bodies and sell their body parts. It is a gruesome business, but apparently, very lucrative.
Now doctors and businessmen, make copious amounts of money killing babies. Of course, we know 50 million, is more than 8 times the amount of Jews killed by Hitler, but the same men that condemn Hitler and Nazi Germany, kill babies without a second thought. These babies are being butchered in every large city in America. And men feel they are getting away “Scot-Free”.
But one thing you will discover about God is that He Will Judge those engaged in killing the innocent. And there will be hell to pay.
[Day Thirty-One]
Dire Consequences
But still due to the hardness of heart, many rebel even in spite of every dire consequence, and the spiritual reality they every man will stand before God and Give a Full Accounting of What He did with God’s Gifts. And when they have to face the fact that they directly influence and promoted the killing of multiple innocent babies, they will shortly feel the Wrath of God, for their transgressions.
Please Note: The Abortion Mill industry has been around since before the Flood and after. Men have worshiped evil perverted fertility God’s and Goddesses, having orgies in their temples, and the result has always been the same, an larger amount of unwanted babies. So the Demons running the Demonic worship instituted and official-ized the demonic invention of the heinous practice of “Wicked Child Sacrifice to their Demon Idol: Chemosh, Milcom, Mollech, Baal, Ashtoreh, Astarte, and 100’s of others).
Our modern day version of worship and sacrifice to these same gods in the white rooms of unplanned parenthood, where the child is murdered discreetly in the mother’s own womb, making it a tomb–is nothing new, it is an age old invention.
By entering the Reasonings of God you will quickly see: The Jewish people understood the Law of God. They knew that adultery was a destroyer of families, and homes, and lives, and communities for generations.
The Jews clearly understood what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah, where Lust ruled and reigned, it defiled, twisted and perverted whole communities, and whole cities–everyone was doing it. (God could not find five righteous men and all of Sodom, nor in all of Gomorrah!)
Sodom and Gomorrah received the Fire and Sulphur (Brimstone) of God as a judgment and warning to the rest of the World.
Mark this down: These are the same elements that will be present in the lake of fire. This judgment was a tiny foretaste of the judgments to come. And many did take warning for many centuries, but eventually men are persuaded to return to their old evil sins, just as dogs return and eat their own vomit.
Sodom and Gomorrah and their environs were burned so powerfully, and scarred so deeply, that today their remains are the lowest elevation on the face of the Earth, some 1400 feet below Sea Level. When God wants to make a statement, and wants to leave us a permanent warning, and a marker we cannot easily forget, He does it openly so that ALL can see it, and take warning.
We emphasized both adultery and homosexuality as sins that God will judge. He is no respecter of persons. You do the crime, you do the time, and you pay the fine.
[Day Thirty-Two]
The Heart of Man
is Deceitful
But the heart of man is deceitful, he thinks in his heart what he is doing is “ok”. He justifies his evil actions, even though his conscience tells him, “it is wrong.”
Even though all the evidence points to the destruction of those who do such things. He even denies the evidence of the destructive path that harms others.
The bisexual adulterer will infect whole families injecting evil into their midst, passing on HIV to the Husband, then the Husband to the Wife, and then to the Children. And then justify it by saying, “everybody is doing it. So it must be ok!”
And the Evil Adulterer goes on to the next family and does the same things, because the next family is also not protected by the Word of God, any more than the previous family.
Often times it is a corrupt, wicked and evil employer, or official government official, or even an evil religious leader and pervert who forcing the ADULTERY (and every form of sexual perversion), and infecting whole families, and getting away with it, because the people are afraid to speak out. Especially, if the man is involved in the Mafia, or the KGB, or the _____ liberation army (fill in the blank).
When the heart of the sinner is hardened: “to do his own thing” there may be no limit to the damage he can do, because he doesn’t listen to his conscience, and he develops ulcers.
Why? Because he justifies his evil behavior, “because everyone is doing it.”
Jeremiah 17:9-10 (KJV)
The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked:
Who can know it?
I the LORD search the heart,
I try the reins,
even to give every man according to his ways,
and according to the fruit of his doings.
The Jews understood what happened before the Flood. They clearly saw how lustruled and reigned and caused the Earth to be filled with such evil, that in order to save mankind, God indeed, needed to cleanse the entire human race from sin and damnation.
It was a horrible and awful decision to have to make, and all mankind, the great majority forced God’s hand.
The evil of lust is no small thing. It is a malicious viral sickness that can destroy even the most faithful of God’s servants. (See the life of King David, and see how lust destroyed his whole family for many generations, infecting him and his sons to a terrible degree.)
King David knew better. He had the Law of God. He knew what he was doing was absolutely wrong. Absolutely, unconscionable, without justice, completely wicked, but David caved into his sin anyways. And that sin directly affected the premature evil death of one of his most faithful and loyal friends Uriah, and the death of four of David’s own sons. Two of them being killed by their own brothers, one being killed by his commanding officer, and one being killed by God himself.
So to answer: “Sure everybody has!” exposes the vast ignorance of the person answering the question. That answer, is no answer. It is valueless, and useless. And it condemns the one who flippantly ignores one of God’s Greatest and most precious, and most holy Commandments designed to protect the Family and every child born into His Family for all of eternity. God’s Laws are not to be broken. Every transgression will have it’s due reward. And every sin will be paid back in full, on the day we have to give an accounting of everything we did with the blessings that God gave to us.
[Day Thirty-Three]
What are my wages?
If I use the Gift of Sex, not to Create an Eternal Family that would bring Glory to God forever and ever, but instead use the Gift of Sex to destroy innocent children, and walk in utter defiant ignorance to the Law of God, and condemned it whenever possible. I will receive the wages due to me. The Wages I have earned. The wages that have been stored upon into my heavenly accounting record books. Every sin. Every breaking of God’s Commandments are being stored in an eternally protected, eternally accurately, and eternally binding record keeping system, that will pay out my wages in due time. I have God’s Guarantee on that. And my wages will have earned me Death:
23 For the wages of sin is death;
Romans 6:23 (KJV)
[Again, I am not pointing the finger, I have been that guy, if fully deserve the Wrath of God, I fully earned my wages of Death, but God had mercy on me, and I humbled my heart and mind before him. I was pierced by the Law of God. I no longer desire to live under the Wrath of Almighty God. Therefore I choose to no longer be a Moron, and to stay ignorant of the evil I had done. I came to God. He cleansed my sin. I took my feet off the slippery slope that was sliding down to hell. Together we have worked and I have learned how to place my life on a firm foundation, so that I could build a home that would endure forever. And now I labor every day to build upon that Rock solid Foundation that will never be shaken, nor never be moved. (But that is getting ahead of the story.)
So, here is what happens when I look lustfully at another person. Just so we are clear on this account.
- I show myself completely ignorant to the Law of God.
- I enter into an agreement with the enemy, that it is ok to look at another person created in the Holy Image of God, as an object to use for my own pleasure to lust after as a fantasy, as a idol, as a means to satisfy my own delusion, my own idolatry and vain imagination, my own mental pornography, my own wicked desires that would be unleashed in real time, if I could only do so.
- I disregard the fact that God made that other person for His Glory, His Majesty, His Holiness, His Purity, and His Perfection.
- I disregard my obligation to treat every person I meet with a perspective that they are a potential eternal holy brother or sister in Christ for all of eternity.
- I disregard the fact the person I am Lusting after is God’s Child–and anything I think, imagine in my heart, do, or say against that child, I am doing against God himself. And it would be better for me if I hung a stone around my neck and threw myself into the sea, than it would be to make a child of God to sin. (Mt. 18:6-10)
- I disregard the fact that that child also has an earthly father, and I am dishonoring him, and his whole family, his Brothers and his sisters, uncles and aunts, nieces and nephews–by lusting after his child.
- I also disregard, that God designed that person to be a holy and pure virgin, until he or she was to be married into God’s Family, to become the holy and pure partner of another holy and pure child of God entering into a blood covenant of holy matrimony, with the special blessing of be able to reproduce holy and pure, innocent and beautiful blessed children in the image, likeness, mindset, and calling of God, uncorrupted by the world.
- In other words, I have condemned myself for my ignorance of God’s laws, God’s Ways, God’s Wisdom, and following after the ways of men and devils.
- I have justified my own sin, and justified my own self righteousness, by simply saying, “Yeah, but everybody is doing it.”
- As a result, I have earned the righteous indignation of God, and the Wrath of God abides on me. Even if I don’t know it. His judgment can come swiftly.
Once we crack the Door open and begin to allow the Light of God to shine upon our world and its deeds–especially on how it relates to sex, entertainment, music, movies, etc. We should begin to see things in a much different light that before we cracked the Door open.
[Day Thirty-Four]
How does your Body
get filled with Light?
Jesus said,
“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single [good, pure, rightly directed, seeing the truth], thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil [spiritually blind, corrupted, perverted, engulfed in sin], thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! ”
~ Matthew 6:22-23 (KJV)
Do You See This?
Now in light of what we have just uncovered, let’s answer the question about adultery, personally, humbly and truthfully.
Again we are asking and answering Question #3:
Have you ever committed spiritual or physical adultery or both? (with the same sex or the opposite sex, or both).
[Please note: Adulteryis often used in the Bible as a “catch all phrase” it can include every form of sexual sin, sexual immorality, and sexual perversion, including fornication, masturbation, pornography, sexual idolatry, adultery, orgies, bisexual, homosexual, and every other form of perversion, some too evil to mention here.]
What do you call someone who commits adultery?
Answer: An adulterer.
So what are you? An adulterer? No. You are a lying, blaspheming, adulterer at heart. (If you have broken these three laws.)
That is not me telling you. That is you telling you. If you have admitted to the crime, you have openly confessed and told yourself the truth, maybe for the first time. You told yourself the Truth. Imagine that.
If you have told yourself the truth, and you now have to be accountable to the truth you have told yourself. Please answer this next question, honestly, and truthfully:
Will you be innocent or guilty?
On the day of judgment when you have to stand before a Holy God? The God of Heaven who can show no partiality to you, because He is bound by the righteousness in the Law, to give you exactly (and everyone else exactly) what you have earned.
Will you be innocent or guilty if God judges you by the 10 commandments? (We have looked at only three, but if you have only broken one of the commandments, you will be guilty before the Law of God.)
Now, do you understand if God gives you justice, what will you receive?
[You deserve the law of God to be applied to your life, on the day you have to stand before God.]
So … Will you be innocent or guilty?
If you say, “GUILTY.” Does that concern you?
Many people will say, “I guess I would be guilty.” But asked if that concerns them, they would often say, “No.”
Then they may say, “My God loves me, and accepts me as I am.”
This response shows the lack of understanding of the God of Righteousness, Holiness, Purity and Perfection.
He is bound by his own Righteousness to judge everyone according to the exact same standard, according to what they have done. And to judgment you by the very same standard and to give you exactly what you have earned.
If He does not do so, he is not just. If he is not just, then he cannot be a God of Justice. Then we should not be putting our trust in Him.
[Day Thirty-five]
Will God pay you
what He owes you?
Yes. Truly. God “will repay each person according to what he has done.”
Romans 2:6-11 (KJV)
6 [God] will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, [He will give] eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [He will give …] indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: 11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
[Day Thirty-Six]
If God does not keep His Word on this subject: How can we trust Him to keep His Word on any subject?
Revelation 22:12-15 (KJV)
12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have [the] right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers [adulterer = sexually immoral, both gay and straight], and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Are you excited to receive from God everything he owes you according to your work?
Have you labored diligently in the Work of the Lord? or have you gone your own way? Only time will truly tell what God owes you, but if you have not labored in genuinely building up the Kingdom of God: What rewards do you expect to receive from God?
On the other hand: If you have labored and worked for the flesh, the world, and the devils, living selfishly, living without regard to your high calling in God. Living without getting your sins white as snow. Without helping others to get their sins white as snow. Living without a Testimony of Gratitude to God for transforming your heart from being perverted to becoming HOLY? Living without the knowledge of God, the Counsel of God, the Presence and Power of God? Living without the purity, and holiness of God (without holiness, no one will see the Lord), living without submitting your life and plans to the Holy Spirit, so he can fill you will his incredible Wisdom, Maturity, Power and Grace?
If all these elements of faith, and the working of the powerful Spirit in the Kingdom of God, are missing from your life, and no righteous fruit was born unto eternity … What can God give you on the day you stand before Him?
These are the kinds of Questions we need to be asking ourselves and our families, friends, and members of our church–TODAY. We need sobering thoughts and provoking life enriching Truth. We need our eyes to be single, so that our whole bodies will be full of Light! We need to see God’s Commandments in the Light of Eternity. We need to have a pierced heart that can Reason with God, and so that He can open the Scriptures to Us.
The God of Heaven has incredibly High Standards of Living. Higher than we can imagine.
Gratefully we actually meet and exceed God’s incredibly high standards, through the Blood Covenant of God. And through that ancient Covenant which is Fully Embodied in the New Covenant, we begin to be transformed into His Likeness and His Image by walking according to His Holy Covenant.
[Day Thirty-seven]
What happens when
we reject God’s Covenant?
This is no small matter.
If we have chosen not to Reason with God, not to hear his story, not to learn His Testimony, which is written in blood, it is so serious. Then what will become of us? God blood spattered road to Calvary is the only way of Salvation from our sins. There is no one else on the face of the earth who has paid for your sins in full. Only one person who came into the World as Sinless, and stayed Sinless his entire stay here, and died sinless on the Cross. Only One Man, can take on the penalty for your sin.
That is one reason why the Blood Covenant of God is so powerful, and so important to understand and to live within. It is the only way to become righteous before the Holy God of Heaven. Outside of that Covenant we are all helpless, hopeless, and condemned forever. Inside that Covenant we are safe, secure, protected, and accepted all together.
The only way to get to God, and to meet his incredibly high standards is by going through the narrow gate, and accepting all of God’s provisions and protections. In such a relationship their is an eternal exchange that must happen, which in itself will create an eternal and unbreakable bound between the God and Man–through the Blood of Christ.
Outside of the covenant, God is bound by the Law of God to pay you your wages, to pay you for exactly what you have earned.
Romans 6:20-23 (KJV)
20 For when ye were the servants of sin,
ye were free from righteousness.
21 What fruit had ye then in those things
whereof ye are now ashamed?
for the end of those things is death.
22 But now being made free from sin,
and become servants to God,
ye have your fruit unto holiness,
and the end everlasting life.
23 For the wages of sin is death;
but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
[Day Thirty-Eight]
Only 3 of 10 commandments
So far we have only looked at three of God’s 10 Commandments. And the chances are good if you are like me, you have broken all 10 of them (in spirit, if not in the physical), and continue to break his commandments on a daily basis.
If God were to judge you according to the 3 commandments we have looked at: Would you be innocent or guilty?
If you are guilty, you would be guilty. There will be no partiality on the Day of Judgment. If you are guilty, you will suffer the consequences of your guilt, if you have not gotten your sins made while as snow.
The purpose of looking intensely at the 10 Commandments of God, is so that we can see ourselves from God’s Perspective and use that Wisdom to plan accordingly.
The Pure Law of God, just goes to prove how deep the darkness is inside of us if we have not been cleansed of our sins.
If you have not been cleansed of your sins, you will have much trouble understanding and following the works and the ways of the Kingdom of God.
That also means you will have a number of strongholds set up inside of you that will take effort and warfare to overcome. These strongholds will need to be identified, renounced, and broken off of you–If you are wanting to walk with God. (Chances are good that any single sin, will dramatically hinder if not outright block your desire and ability to walk with God.
[Day Thirty-Nine]
Who has thoroughly
investigated this?
From my experience, I find that It is a rare thing that a man has fully investigated the Whole Counsel of God, and entered into a truly powerful, truly pure, truly dedicated righteous and faithful, loyal and loving walk with God.
Even though the walk is entirely Free. It is entirely Open. And entirely Available to anyone who would come.
Matthew 11:28-30 (KJV)
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
That in itself is strange, isn’t it? God offers himself Freely: 1) His Knowledge. 2) His Wisdom. 3) His Insight. 4) His Power and Grace to Perform Incredible Work. 5) His Life Changing Experience. 6) His Time. 7) His Amazing: Character, Nature, Virtue, and Kindness.
In short, God offers the best wisest and most enduring and endearing relationship any person could possibly ever offer.
And God does not charge one penny, nor one dollar, to teach us his Powerful Wisdom, so that we can teach others around us. And He does it all for free. The only request he makes of us, is that after we have fully received of his greatness, and his majesty, that we teach others, and we give it away for free!
Everywhere else you go people are charging 100’s, and even 1,000’s of dollars to have a class, or take a course with some such specialist, or some alleged guru or expert. And this expert, often has based his knowledge on false assumptions, and false conceptions that will not endure the test of time, and will actually leave the person worse off than if they never took his course. Such is modern education.
The same is true for modern medications. I saw an advertisement yesterday at a friends home (I don’t have a television) for a kidney drug, that was supposed to help the patient (the victim), then it listed all the possible side effects, that were worse that cure. Then it told the patient to: “Ask your doctor if this medication is right for you?” There is something extremely wrong with that whole advertisement from the beginning to the ending.
Compare these two:
- When God heals someone. He heals them body, soul, mind, and spirit. He puts the insane and demon possessed back “in their right” and “cures the disease” the demon brought on the person in an instant. And God’s Healing is for free.
- When God educates a man, his education is certified Good for Now, and Perfect for Eternity. No unlearning or relearning necessary. And God’s Teaching is for free.
Yes, men will mock and scoff, at God’s Free Healing and Free Education, but what do you expect, how else are they going to cover up their own faulty, twisted, confused, and ineffective expensive medicine and demonic education?
You can have an entire lifetime of better than University level coursework, with the One who created those professors who charge 1,000’s for their speaking engagements. And all His course work is for free, and guaranteed True, and guaranteed Good for your entire lifetime, and into Eternity.
Isaiah 55:1-3 (KJV)
1 Ho, every one that thirsteth,
come ye to the waters,
and he that hath no money;
come ye, buy, and eat;
yea, come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
2 Wherefore do ye spend money
for that which is not bread?
and your labour for that which satisfieth not?
hearken diligently unto me,
and eat ye that which is good,
and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
3 Incline your ear, and come unto me:
hear, and your soul shall live;
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
even the sure mercies of David.
[Day Fourty]
Men are smarter than God
Men continue to choose the Word of Men, over the Word of God. They believe man’s word is wiser and better informed than the Word of the One who created the man in the first place.
Isaiah 29:15-16 (KJV)
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide
their counsel from the LORD,
and their works are in the dark,
and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down
shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay:
for shall the work say of him that made it,
He made me not?
or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it,
He had no understanding? [that’s like the painting saying to the painter, you idiot, why did you paint me like this?]
Sadly, this mindset is the University Mindset. It foments ignorance and darkness, and swings wide the door of evil to come in and corrupt every student on campus. Very few escape unscathed.
The Counsel of God, in the Blood Covenant of God will explain exactly why that is such a strange phenomena: The Creature Telling the Creator what is wrong. It will tell us, Why people reject what is good, and embrace what is evil. Once you investigate it it will become abundantly clear.
[Day Fourty-One]
It takes Time & Effort
to Reason with God
One main hindrance a man will encounter in entering into the Reasonings of God is the problem of time. Have you noticed: this is not a short 3 point, easily marketed message? If you want to be thorough or even scratch the surface it takes time to read, study, and write down all that you are learning.
It takes time and effort to learn and know the thoughts of God. One must make it a priority. Without clear effort, it will never come to be (even with good intentions). For example, how can a man know the counsel of God without taking the time to read GOD’S COUNSEL? A man will not succeed in his attempt to grasp The Reasonings of God, without making the effort necessary.
It is no different than learning the alphabet, or learning a new language. The one who doesn’t want to learn to read will not make the effort to learn the foreign symbols on the page. It takes effort to learn and grow, but human laziness is no excuse.
The truth is you have ALL the time you need, but you must seize the opportunity. You must overcome your excuses. You must challenge every lie you have ever believed.
[Day Fourty-Two]
Will you clear your entertainment schedule to make room for God?
In humility, this is a simple decision. In pride, it is a complex and next to impossible decision–because the man of pride is a slave to his habits and his lifestyle addictions.
[Will you: Turn off the TV, turn off the Video Games, turn off the Social Media, turn off the sporting events, the sit-coms, the stimulating action/adventure movies, the endless shopping advertisements, magazine articles, newspaper stories, stock market reports, and every other inconsequential and non-eternal distraction.]
Will you give yourself unhindered, unfettered time with God?
Somewhere in your schedule you must make room for the uninterrupted counsel of God and prayer. For the Study of His Word, and the Learning of His Ways. Typically, for many, the best times are the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night.
And Yes, it is a sacrifice. And No. It will not happen by itself. But, Yes, it will be worth it in the long run. And Yes. It will change your life as you know it forever. And yes, the Word of God will mess with your head, mess with your heart, and challenge your spirit, in ways only God can explain.
[Day Fourty-Three]
Have you shared your experience?
If you have experienced the blessing of having your sins be made White as Snow: Have you successfully shared that experience with others? Are you still doing it?
If no, why not? Do you not want that experience to grow? (It grows when you share it.) It was never meant to be a solo event. Someone likely shared the good news with you, and you are in kind called to share the good news with others.
And if you really received the cleansing of your soul, how can you not share that singularly most important event in your life with others?
- If yes, did your friend learn: How to reason with God? How to become clean from the inside out? How to have a pierced and humble heart before God? How to come into God’s Presence? How to abide in God’s Promises? How to Trust in God’s Word? How to receive answers to prayers? How to enjoy God’s Family? How to be a faithful witness of God’s Character and His Nature? How to identify and overcome Enemy Lies? How to overcome the temptations to Sin? And, How to Store up Eternal Treasures in Heaven, all the while, “learning to Love God with all your Heart? ” “To love your neighbor as yourself?” “To love your enemies, and do good to those who hate you?”
- Yes, the learning curve for coming into God’s Heavenly Kingdom is somewhat lengthy. In fact, it is infinite. That is why we need to be there for our friends who are just beginning to learn the basics of entering into a Blood Covenant relationship with God. In such a covenant there are incredible benefits, but there are also deep, eternal, and unbreakable commitments, as in any heavenly covenant—and like the covenant of marriage it’s a two-way street.
[Day Fourty-Four]
Have you become a disciple of Christ?
A Disciple is a student of Jesus: He is one who listens to his word, and becomes a doer of his word. He is fruitful, because he makes the priorities of Jesus, his own priorities as well.
As a result, he becomes a disciple that makes disciples, that make disciples, that make disciples, that in-turn make disciples.
In other words, he is a sower of good seed. (Matthew 13:1-43) And he will reap a harvest at the end of the age. And he will enter into glory with great joy, and great rejoicing, and a heart full of gratitude and grace. He will leave a legacy of God’s Power, God’s Love, and God’s Salvation behind him that will indeed change the world, one soul at a time.
This is the commission of Jesus to anyone that would follow in his footsteps, anyone that would become a doer of His word. (See James 1:23, that should be easy to remember, James 1-2-3)
James 1:22-25 (KJV)
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
[Day Fourty-Five]
Are you a successful Disciple Maker?
In others words: Does your friend know how to see God?How to seek God? How to reason with God? How to walk with God in agreement? Does he know how to break all former agreements with the Devil? Does he know how to recognize the Devil’s influence all around him, and how to put a stop to it, how to become salt and light in a deceived world? Even more importantly, do you know how?
[Day Fourty-Six]
Do You See Him?
If you can see Him, then you can follow him, with your eyes open and your faith enlarged, then you will be able to know and comprehend Him. You will begin to understand why he does the things he does; and says the things He says.
You will begin to comprehend His Reasonings.
As a result of your own journey of Learning, as a disciplined and diligent student, studying yourself to be approved (2 Timothy 2:15) you will be able to teach others how to see him from inside of His Word, the same way you learned how.
As a result, you will become a disciple maker. One who becomes a true disciple, who makes disciples, who makes disciples, until the entire population has heard God’s Good News (or you have died trying).
[Day Fourty-Seven]
Preparing for His Return
Soon Jesus is going to be ready to return to Earth, to step into the Role of a Sovereign King over all the peoples of the Earth–this is what the Jewish People are waiting for! That Kingdom will reign for 1,000 years.
Then He will be declared in Spirit and in Truth, the King over all Kings, and the Lord over all Lords. And he will incarcerate the Devil, for 1,000 years.
Then, after the 1,000 year period, the devil will be let out of prison for a short season, and he will be given one final opportunity to deceive the nations, and he will.
Revelation 20:1-3 (KJV)
1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
And this is how it is going to end. You have God’s Testimony on this subject!
Revelation 20:7-10 (KJV) 7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. 10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
[Day Fourty-Eight]
Why do we make disciples?
The more disciples we make, that know, hear, understand and see God, the more people will escape the eternal torment assigned to the devil and his angels and everyone who decided to walk in agreement with the devil.
MARK THIS DOWN: You don’t even have to believe in the devil, to walk in agreement with the Devil. You just have to do the things the devil wants done to be in agreement with Him. Your covenant of agreement is sealed, by your own thoughts, words, actions, addictions, and all the lies you believed keep you walking in agreement the Devil. And yes. You can be an atheist, and still be walking in perfect step with the Devil (even if you don’t intellectually believe in Him).
Our great commission from Jesus is to make Disciples, who are able to teach all the commandments of God. (Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 16:14-20)
Remember this: The more disciples we make the more treasure we store up unto Heaven. Our heavenly relationships with others that we create here on Earth are the only things that we can take into Heaven. Every earthly relationship than was not brought over the line of Salvation, will be eternally lost forever.
The more disciples we make the greater the blessing we can experience here on the earth, for every disciple is a blessing to the earth, and brings the power of God into every situation in order to overcome all the power of the evil one.
But every false convert is a curse upon the earth, just as every unbeliever, living in unbelief and rebellion to God creates a curse upon the earth.
[Day Fourty-Nine]
We have but a little time to work
Jesus culminated and completed his entire life’s work on the Cross of Calvary (Golgotha in Hebrew), and then he passed on his baton to us to run with it for a little while, so that we also could store up treasures in heaven and be ready for his Glorious Coming.
[For more about the passing of the baton check out: the “why no more miracles? article]
Like the five wise virgins with their lamps overflowing with oil, (Matthew 25:1-5) shining brightly in the darkness, so are we called to shine in the darkness. (Oil is a symbol of the Holy Ghost, aka, the Holy Spirit.)
John 12:44-50 (KJV) 44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. 45
And he that seeth me,
seeth him that sent me.*
[Do you see Him?]
46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. 47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. 49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
[Day Fifty]
Are you a disciple by faith?
Obviously today we don’t see Jesus physically, we see him by Faith. After Thomas put his fingers in the holes of Jesus hands and side, he was admonished by Jesus:
John 20:27-29 (KJV) 27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. 28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. 29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
Today … If you can’t see Him by Faith? How can you follow Him? How can you know Him? How can you Hear His Voice? How can you reason with Him from His Word? “My Sheep hear My Voice, I know them, and they follow me.” (John 10:25-31)
True faith comes from reading, knowing, and doing his word. True faith is not a feeling. It is not an emotion. It is not a spiritual high. True faith is simply agreeing with God’s word, making it the top priority of your life, and doing what he said to do. As a result of obedience, the worshiper becomes a doer of the word, through diligence, through habit, and through perseverance.
These are not emotionally driven processes, they are issues that reside deep inside The Will of the man. Do you will to do The Will of God? Then you will do it.
Do you not will to do The Will of God? Then you will not do it. It is as simple as that.
[Day Fifty-One]
Knowing God is Seeing Him by faith
How can you walk with Him in His Truth, if you neither see him, nor hear him?
If you know not … His Love? His Forgiveness? His Cleanness? His confidence? His Power? His Wholeness? His mental and emotional stability? His Purity? and His Grace?
If you don’t see him, and don’t know him, how can you walk in agreement with him? Or do what he says? Or know what He wants? How could you be a part of His Team? His Family? His Kingdom?
Would that not be impossible? According to my reckoning it would be, and that agrees with the scriptures as well. (See John 15:1, and learn how one is able to bear the Fruit of the Vine of God, and why one is not able to bear the Fruit of God.)
One of the worst things a person can do: is to claim that he knows, and sees, and follows Jesus (that is the fundamental claim of “being a Christian,” a Christ Follower, a little-christ), but in fact, his actions, his lifestyle, his deeds, and the fruit of his life declare the opposite. And it’s not hard to see when someone isn’t living in the Message of the Messiah. The indictment to that person will be “Woe to you Hypocrites!” (See Matthew 23:13 to Matthew 23:23).
You can tell a tree by it’s Fruit.
(Luke 6:44; Matthew 7:15-23; 12:33)
[Day Fifty-Two]
The Difference between
True and False Converts
You believe In God … Good
You do well!
But is that sufficient?
Is it possible that believing all by itself is not sufficient?
James said:
“Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.”
Apparently humans are not the only ones who believe in God. Angels believe in God, and sometimes I wonder how many in the animal kingdom know and believe in God? (Balaam’s Donkey believed and obeyed God, and even spoke for God. Numbers 22:21-35)
But the kicker is that: Demons and Devils also believe in God. They know he exists. They have no doubt about that fact. But does their belief in God, conform their character and will to do the works of God?
No.
Demons do not benefit from their belief, nor do they have any real love for God, nor does their belief draw them into obedient fellowship with God, nor does it teach them to make disciples who will faithfully follow after God.
Many humans who believe in one God, have much the same belief systems as demons, so neither do they benefit from their beliefs.
[Day Fifty-Three]
The Difference between Going to Church and Being a Disciple
For many false converts, “being a Christian” means: Going to Church.
Sadly, nothing could be further from the truth, because simply going to church doesn’t make someone a doer of the Word.
Here is a dumb saying, but its Truism makes a good point:
“Going to Church doesn’t make you a christian, anymore than going to McDonalds makes you a hamburger.”
Becoming a member of a church organization is not the same as Being a Member of the Eternal Body of Christ. Going into a church building, signing a confession, becoming a member, and then sitting in a pew for the next 60 years of your life, is not the same as walking with the Living King of Heaven–Jesus Christ, day by day, moment by moment.
There is no magic formula, no mysterious secret for being a disciple. It simply comes down to “Doing the Word” seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
No Sunday idol worshipping “fake” believer, who does not live 100% for the Kingdom of God is worthy of the Blood Sacrifice of God. In other words, Jesus didn’t leave heaven, come to earth, to suffer and hang on the cross, then go to hell, and rob Hades and Hell of their Keys, then come back to life, and then return to heaven, sitting on the right hand of God, so that you and I could go to church and attend a false Sunday Worship Service.
That is the false conception of modern christianity. It equates fellowship with Christ to joining a club. Jesus never said, “Join my Club and be happy.” Jesus said, “Follow me and I will make you a fisher of men.” “Pick up your Cross and Follow me,” or “be not worthy of me.”
If Jesus does not have all of my heart, devotion, obedience; All of my mind, will, and emotions; 24 hours a day; How can he have all of me? And How can I have all of Him?
How have I obeyed the first commandment to love God with all my heart, mind, and strength? In the blood covenant of God I am called to give everything I have of mine to Jesus, and in exchange Jesus gives everything HE has to me. And since He has far more than I, I am the great beneficiary, and he is the great benefactor.
That is the essence of the Blood Covenant Agreement: all of me for all of him, all of him for all of me. In the exchange I give Jesus all my sins, all my iniquities, all my wickedness, all my selfishness, all my foolishness, and depravity, as well as, all my worldly entertainment. In exchange he gives me all of His Wisdom and Virtue; All His selflessness and righteousness; All His moral perfection and sinless nature.
Together we bury my “old man” at the foot of the Cross on the Hill of Golgotha, the same place where Christ died.
Because of my evil life: I know I deserved to die upon that Cross. Instead, He died for me. He took my punishment that I deserved. Then He gave me his place of Glory, Honor, Majesty, Acceptance and Holiness before His Father, that I did not deserve, nor could I have ever earned. It was a free gift that I could never repay.
The only thing he asks of me, is that I follow him, from that day forward. He promises to lead me into good things, if I will but obey him in every detail and every aspect of my Life.
When I say yes, to His Invitation, I put myself and my entire life under a willing and freeing obligation: To indeed follow him, and become a fisher of men.
Again. He being Perfect, died in my place. I should have died. I deserved to die. And in my death I should have been punished for eternity, just as the devil will be punished. I did the same things the devil did. I walked in the same ways as the devil walked. I earned my wages of punishment, sin, and death, but God the Father provided a way of Escape.
He provided a lamb of sacrifice. His Lamb. His holy and perfect Son came to give his life as a ransom for many.
If I choose, by my own freewill to enter into the eternally binding Blood Covenant of God, I will renounce and put down (putting to death) all my own old ways of sin, depravity, and all my evil, selfish doings. And I will also pick up my Cross, and I will confess His Name, and Follow in His Footsteps as He will choose to Lead me from that day forward.
But here comes the Huge deception: which is viral in the modern church and has been so throughout false church history.
If I renounce my old life, and name Jesus Christ as my new LORD (so I no longer serve the flesh, the devil, the world, or Mammon), but then I do not obey Christ as LORD, I am no longer a true follower of Christ, I am a false convert: A tare (weed) in the wheat; A foolish virgin; an unfruitful soil; a fruitless and dead withered vine branch; an unfaithful and disobedient soldier in his army, and many lives will be lost because of my disobedience.
If I am not a fisher of men, a harvester of souls, a laborer in God’s Vineyard, but in fact I am a lazy servant indulging myself in the delights of this world without telling others about how to get their sins washed white as snow, I am not a “born again” servant of the Man, Christ Jesus. I am a “born of the flesh” hypocrite in full bloom of my own making.
If I am worried about all the things in the world, if I am distracted in doing all kinds of worldly obligations, and as a result: I have no time, no energy, no effort, no labor, no prayer, no souls of salvation to share the Word of Life and make sure their pathway to heaven–How am I a wise and faithful servant of Christ?
If I am not a destroyer of Satan’s Works, but in reality a participant in his carnal, selfish, wicked distractions, works and entertainments. What will be my wages on the day of God’s Holy Judgement?
Ans a result of my false concept of salvation that doesn’t include instant obedience to the Word of my Master, to follow in the Ways of my Lord, and to do the will of My Father who is in Heaven, becoming a faithful and skilled fisher of men, I can easily become a distracted lukewarm believer that He will spit out of his mouth. I trust … that will be an altogether unpleasant experience that the pierced heart, and the contrite spirit will seek to avoid, with all his heart, mind, soul, and spirit.
[Day Fifty-Four]
To Obey is Better
than Sacrifice
The Obedience to the Leading of God is a critical issue.
An unbroken, un-pierced heart, will not be able to comprehend this subject.
But to the contrite soul, this topic is monumental.
Man is called to follow God in the leading of the Spirit, but due to his carnal nature of rebellion he is likely to miss his call when the King of Heaven comes knocking at his door.
Case in point:
The believer just feels like watching a movie one night.
It wasn’t a particularly bad movie as movies go, “it had some good content,” the believer says to justify his actions.
But in reality the movie was a huge and wicked distraction. The man was called of God to pray for the salvation of his family member. It was a critical time in this person’s life. He was in the valley of decision, and he could have made a right choice or a wrong choice that would affect his eternity.
As it turned out, the family member made the wrong choice and died in a drunken car accident, that killed two other people.
As it turned turned out, the believer also made the wrong choice, instead of entering into the place of spiritual warfare in prayer and intercession for his brother, he spent the night watching mindless and fruitless TV. The next day, the believer gets the phone call. He is full of remorse. In that remorse, he makes a vow to visit the family of the deceased, but that vow can never replace his call to obey.
To Obey is Better
than Sacrifice.
Because he was tired, a soldier failed to obey the critical orders his commanding officer, as a result many souls perished in a flash. No amount of future sacrifice can make up for the loss of life on the field that due to his disobedience.
Even living an entire lifetime of regret and shame cannot change the outcome of his thoughtless, careless, selfish disobedience.
To Obey is Better
than Sacrifice.
[Day Fifty-Five]
A Sobering Thought
How can I know that I have truly accepted Jesus as my Savior. That I truly believe in Him. That I have truly trusted in Christ to save me from my sins?
How can I know that I have truly been granted eternal life?
The test of the believe is in the fruit of his life? What kind of fruit is the believer bearing?
- Good fruit in the Salvation of his Life and the others around him, is proof of his genuine and authentic faith in Christ.
- Bad Fruit in the Degradation of his Life, (perpetual sin and perpetual disobedience to Christ, and the negative affect of his walk in away from Christ, is proof of his inauthentic faith in Christ.
What happens to the sinner who chooses to remain in his sins?
What is the sign that he is not following after Christ?
In other words, if Jesus has not saved me from my sins? How can he save me from going to hell, the very place my sins are going? If I am not saved from my sins, how will going to church be of any benefit to me?
If the message at church is: “God loves you as you are, and you don’t need to give up your sins,” “or they don’t preach a message strong enough to separate you from you sins, your future is doomed.
Your church is teaching false doctrines and making false disciples, and setting up its people for the a hellish nightmare experience that is going to last for eternity.
Unless the message in your Church is strong, and the Word of God is being proclaimed, so that men can become pierced, broken, convicted, and condemned in their wicked deeds, so that they may be rescued and transformed. Everyone attending that church is in danger.
If sin is being coddled, if it is being shielded, if it is being embraced, or allowed in any way, then that church is not a place to become a true and faithful convert, or disciple of Christ.
If that church is not powerfully teaching you how to become an effective and diligent “Fisher of Men” what are they teaching you, and what are you believing in?
That church is not teaching you how to become a disciple that makes disciples, teaching you, and leading you (bt example and focused training), mentoring you and disciplining you to become a fruitful worker in the LORD’S VINEYARD, by those in the church who are skilled “Fishers of Men” … if you are not being trained how to become a excellent and skilled laborer in the Great Harvest of God–flee that Church and find one that will lead you in the Ways of God.
If any person wants to become a disciple, he must become a doer of the Word.
[Day Fifty-Six]
The False Concept of Church (part 1)
It can be argued : it is far more important that you become a doer of the Word at home, at school, at work, in your free time, at rest, in the morning and evening, in your entertainment (turning off all worldly entertainment and doing the Will of God in place of it), than it is to be a doer of the Word at Church.
BTW–What entertainment does a doer of the Word need? If you are a doer of the Word, bringing men and women out of darkness, into Light. Training them to destroy the works of the devil. Demonstrating to them the Mighty Miracle Working Power of God, getting your prayers answered for healing, deliverance, salvation, and the Presence of God?
How can that compare to going to a totally fake worldly movie full of carnal lies, deceptions, pot shots at God and his word, and the unclean spirits of Hollywood?
[Day Fifty-Seven]
Training for Warriors
Church is meant to be a place to gather for training in the Word of God, the rest of the week is your practice time. Where you put into practice everything you studied at church.
If I am not practicing my faith at home, at work, and in the world around me, I am not a true disciple of Christ, and the Word of God would identify me as a hypocrite: one who says one thing but does another. One who appears one way, (to be a follower of Christ) but if in fact I was only acting, I will receive from God a worse punishment than the average sinner.
Luke 12:46-48 (KJV)
46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47 And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
In other words, God’s actions will speak even louder than his words, because our actions will speak louder than our words.
Today, in church we may have many excuses and justifications for not making God’s priorities our highest priorities.
But on the day we stand before God, those excuses and self justifications will burn like acid in our throats.
The bottomline:
If I am not a doer of the Word (every day),
I am not a true disciple of Christ.
If I my religion is based on going to church to serve God one day a week, my religion is idolatry, and it is not worthy of Christ Blood Bought Covenant of Love and Sacrifice that Jesus paid such a high price to purchase us back from the kingdom of Darkness, and redeem us into the Kingdom of Light forever.
[Day Fifty-Eight]
Church and Seminary
I could have a 10 year seminary doctorate degree.
I could be trained in Church Theology, Hermeneutics, Greek and Hebrew, Church History, Church Philosophy. I could exegete the Word accurately, and still not be a doer of the Word.
I could be trained in how to lead a Bible Study. How to lead a prayer group. How to lead a missionary team. How to do medical missions. How to run a christian daycare, kindergarten, preschool, elementary, middle or high school, but if I am still not a doer of the Word, I am nothing.
I could have been saved, baptized, and filled with the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues. I could have been the pastor of a church for 30 years. I could have taught Greek and Hebrew as a Seminary Professor, but if I am not a doer of the Word, I am not a true disciple of Christ. And my supposed ticket to heaven will be invalid.
Matthew 7:21-23 (KJV)
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you:depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
In other words, if we do not do the will of God by becoming doers of the Word, and occupy our time, our resources and our efforts to Doing the WILL of the Father, we will be doing something else. That only makes sense, right?
[Day Fifty-Nine]
It truly is that simple
If I am not a doer of the word, a disciple that makes disciples, that makes disciples, that makes disciples.
If I don’t care to share how my sins became white as snow, I must not really care about that experience. It must not have meant that much to me. And as such, it really didn’t change my life, which draws into question, did I believe and did I receive the real thing or some false artificial alternate thing. Did I receive another Gospel, did I receive another spirit? If I am not making disciples who have been convicted of their sins, and are deeply committed to the Work of God as I am …
How can I be a disciple of Christ?
Will not a true disciplined learner and doer of his word, do the things Jesus did?
Did he not pass the baton onto us? Did Jesus not give us “the great commission” to go and make disciples of all nations? Are we not to go and take his message into all the world and make disciples, “teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you”?
If I am not about my Father’s Business: if I am not an active hard working laborer in my Father’s Vineyard, if I am not actively and diligently gathering fruit, in the field that is ripe for harvest, if I am not letting my lamp burn brightly … what am I doing?
[Day Sixty]
How can I be sure
I am following Christ?
If I am not a “doer of the word”, a disciple that makes disciples, that makes disciples: Chances are good, I maybe a false convert. I may be deceived believer, or a lazy and/or disobedient (wicked) servant, which is not a good title to carry around, and it may come to a perilous end, if I do not wake up and make a radical change in my priorities, and in my life pursuits.
If you do a careful study of God’s Word, it is clear: God is seriously concerned how every follower of his spends his time and his money, and his skills and resources–AND HOW HE SPENDS HIS LABOR.
Is it to build up the Kingdom of God, or is it to advance the kingdom of self?
[Day Sixty-One]
Is Your Church filled with False Converts?
This is no surprise to the true disciple of Christ (they know for certain), that there are many two-faced, hypocritical so-called Christians walking around in churches. But this very idea seems to offend many unbelievers who use this as a deliberate excuse not to believe in God, nor to follow God, nor to read his Word, nor to obey His Commandments. And of course this is the enemy’s plan, and “excuse makers” generally fall right into it.
Notice I said, “deliberate excuse.” The un-pierced soul is looking for any and every excuse he can lay his hands on to not enter into the reasonings of God.
(I know. I did it too.)
The unconverted soul still wants to look good on the outside, but his soul is filled with carnal delights and carnal pursuits on the inside.
God says, it is not what is on the outside that counts, but what is on the inside, that is what really counts.
[Day Sixty-Two]
Is your Your Church Run by false converts?
Now we are getting to a serious topic. This could really tread on some peoples toes, but it needs to be exposed.
If a church is full of false Sunday Idol worshipping, entertainment based, hearer only Christians, who have not been pierced by the Word of God … guess what, someone is leading them in that direction. The Word calls the leaders “the Shepherds of the Sheep” if they are not feeding the Sheep on the Word of Faith that will convert the soul, and make every day doers of the Word, chances are good they have not been converted either.
Like attracts like. Birds of a feather flock together, and so do false converts, and their false leaders–and they love it so.
Jeremiah 5:31 (KJV) The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means [they rule by their own authority, not God’s, they rule by the flesh, and not by the Spirit of God]; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
If the sheep are false converts, that says a lot about the shepherd’s also predictably being false converts.
Many churches have dynamic speakers: teaching bible studies, leading worship, leading youth ministries, teaching Sunday school, and preaching from the pulpit–but who themselves are not doers of the Word.
Typically, these false shepherds really don’t care for or care about the sheep at all. (John 10:12–13). In fact, instead of feeding the sheep, they feed off the sheep.
They are there to promote themselves. Promote their books. Promote their ideas. Promote their teaching and preaching ministry. Promote their philosophies, and to gather followers after themselves, to get people to become like them (as opposed to becoming like Christ, by taking up their cross and following Christ). These shepherds or leaders are to be avoided like the plague.
The truth be told many churches, seminaries, missions, and church boards are run by agnostics, occult leaders, practical atheists, and even Satanists, or worse normal everyday BUSINESSMEN, who are idol worshippers, who are serving Mammon, and not Christ. Of course, this fits into Satan’s plan perfectly.
As a rule, you can just ask yourself the question, is this church leadership in it for the benefit of the sheep, or the benefit of the shepherd(s)?
If the Shepherd(s) are making money off the Gospel (not living in a modest, non-luxurious lifestyle), you can accurately predict and generally prove— they are in it for themselves (and for the money), no matter what their website says, no matter what their doctrinal statement says.
If they hire their children and to work in the ministry, paying them to so-called, serve Christ. That’s a strong indicator. If they have more than one house: More than one nice car, wear designer clothes, maintain designer hairstyles, designer shoes, eat expensive gourmet meals, drink expensive wines, if they are on TV, or want to be, you don’t have to learn much more about them. You should do best to avoid them.
[Day Sixty-Three]
Are Satanists in the Church translating your Bible?
Did you know the Word of God is under attack from every angle possible, and it has been for centuries, even and especially now from within the Church?
Satan has left no stone uncovered. He has hired and promoted certain people to make it their life’s goal to corrupt the Word of God, both from outside the church, and also from inside the church, even the modern Bible many people believe is the Word of God is corrupted and has been intentionally twisted, deleted, and added to against the strict indictment of God.
Did you know that the two promoters, Westcott and Hort, of the so-called “Oldest and most reliable Manuscripts” were both occultists: Members of occult groups. And so are some of the modern translators of the many modern bible versions, some are occultists, and that some are homosexuals in charge of translating the scriptures, that are using the Westcott and Hort Manuscripts, to create our modern Bible Translations.
This would almost be funny and comical if it wasn’t true. Satan can now use the Bible to attack Jesus.
These people are weeds planted by the enemy, in the midst of the field of wheat. They are growing strong and hardy weeds, but they have no fruit. That is how you can tell who and what they are, and who and what is running the church you are going to?
Reading your Bible will make this very clear (that is if it is not a corrupted modern translation version using the Westcott and Hort translations).
[Day Sixty-Four]
Can you guess the motivation behind modern translations?
Here’s a hint it is not to better care for the sheep, again it is another way to feed off the sheep. If you guessed money, you would be right. Every new translation gets copyright infringement payments in multiple millions of dollars, selling multiple millions of Bibles. Each school, each church, each denomination, each seminary promoting their own favorite version, and yes kickbacks are a part of the deal… Is Satan’s plan working? How many modern bible translations are there? Which one is uncorrupted? Which ones cause confusion, doubt, fear, false doctrine, and dilute the Word of God? This is a study each believer needs to do for himself.
I personally, collected several sources to help a seeker get started, in the King James vs. Modern Translation series (1-5). They are short to the point, and only scratching the surface of several quite alarming facts about fake and fraudulent Bible Translations and their translators. It is an eye opening study.
[Day Sixty-Five]
Puffed up Peddlers of
God’s Word vs Holy Servants
Jesus had this to say about the character of a godly leader:
And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. ~Mark 9:35
From my personal experience, the leaders I regularly come across are often wanting others to serve them. They get paid to go to church, so they are the professionals, but they want everyone in the body to volunteer their time and serve them, in “their” ministry. This seems unbalanced somehow.
In the early church pastors were not hired. Being a pastor and shepherd of the sheep was not a paid position. It was a volunteer position. And it was not sanctified by a local seminary. The Body clearly recognized the call, and the authority, and the purity and powerful witness, on a leader, and gave him room to grow and develop his talent and calling, as a part of a family of believers. Never did the early church look to one leader to bring the word of God, the entire church was filled with men who were able to speak the Gospel powerfully and effectively in an instant, and able to give testimony, correction, and training in righteousness at the drop of a hat. They didn’t need a whole week to prepare a sermon locked away in their study, away from the flock of Christ–that is a modern day fallacious practice, and is detrimental to the Body of Christ.
It comes from the practices and beliefs of the Nicolaitans. (more on this later.)
[Day Sixty-Six]
The Early church was a family,
not a business.
In the early church, the Whole Body trusted God for the finances and needs of the whole community–like a large extended and diverse family. Everyone shared equally. And each person contributed according to their means, being directed by the Holy Spirit of God, not manipulated by the greed and covetousness of man.
Acts 2:44-45 (KJV)
44 And all that believed were together, and had all things common; 45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
The leaders were not trying to use the Church to gain money to buy personal property, and materials things like cars, houses, apartments, beach and lake front properties, mobile homes, private planes, Rolls Royce’s, jets, and the like. Neither did they fund their designer fashion clothes, their gourmet dinner palettes, nor their wine collection, nor their manicure, pedicure, and fashion hairs style expenses from the churches funds, nor pump the body (audience) for money for their fine jewelry and so on–that would have been pure demonic sacrilege.
And it should be sacrilege today. Can you imagine Peter, Paul, John, James, or Jesus wearing Gucci shoes? Gold? Wearing designer fashions? and makeup? Going to a sun tan saloon?
Of course, these are all reasons, and causes for men to stumble over God’s Word. And that is the enemy’s plan. And it is working, but only on those who do not have a pierced heart.
The garbage in the false church, just motivates the true believer and genuine disciple to work that much harder, that much more dedicated, and delirious to be a living example of the Holy Word of God and a powerful witness of the Son of God. That is our calling as true disciples of a Glorious and Heavenly Kingdom that has only come in part, and is received by faith, and seen by faith, and experienced by faith.
But take your spiritual eyes of Jesus, and exit the Blood Covenant of God for just a minute, and you may stumble hard concerning the abominations that are happening all around you and even in the church at large.
[Day Sixty-Seven]
The Modern Church is run like a business
If your church is making disciples, who make disciples, who make disciples, (and doing so with no grandiose budget or heavy handed man made program), and are maturing their disciples into the image and likeness and maturity of Christ, and building righteous and pure and holy and loving and enduring relationships in Christ, who is the head of the church, count your many blessings, because your church is actually doing the work of God (without man made videos, multimedia, programs, buildings, mortgages, heavy staff salaries, expensive coffee bars, and all the modern day church ego facilities), these gospel based churches are few and far between.
The Modern American church is run on a business model. IT is based on a cash flow basis. It is submitted to the State. IT holds legally binding contracts with the US government, who is head over the church. The Church is run by a board of trustees, as a corporation is run. Decisions are not made by faith, but by finances, and God’s calls that Idolatry.
God is the head of the True Church, not man, not man’s idolatrous ways, not man’s idolatrous worship.
Both the Catholic and the Protestant, both Denominational and non-denominational organized churches run on hierachies of human government, with CEO’s at the top and janitors at the bottom, each getting a paycheck and a piece of the church paycheck pie (Those at the top of the food chain get a bigger peice of the pie, often for doing far less work.)
They are all following the worldly model created by Mammon. So who are they serving? Who is the head of the modern day money based church? Who is the father of the business based church?
If you understand this, you can see why the divorce right inside the modern church as equal to that of the society around it. You can see that the sickness rate in the church is the same as the society that is around it.
If you understand this, you will see why the teenage rebellion rate among churched children is higher than ever. It is estimated that more than 80+ percent of modern day church children who leave home (especially for college), also leave the church, never return to it.
If you understand this, you can see why the pornography rate among pastors is not so different than the pornography rate among the society around it.
Can you see this is the standard model with the same standard maladies for the vast majority of money based churches in America today? It is the 501c3 church, which is just another arm of the government reaching into the work of God, and re-directing it, instead of Christ himself. Ask yourself this question:
How can that be a true Church of God?
[Day Sixty-Eight]
If Christ is not the head of the Church …. who is?
That’s a pretty scary question: Who will be bold enough to answer it: Plainly, Clearly, Accurately, and without equivocation?
If Christ is not running the Church of Christ, then who else would be or could be running the Church?
To answer that question we have already breached the subject of idolatry in the Church, and we have already breached the subject of men serving Mammon and not God.
So let’s combine those two concepts and come up with a person who promotes idolatry and the worship of Mammon.
[Day Sixty-Nine]
In fact, who is Mammon?
There is some speculation in answering this question. We don’t have any real strong anchor points to nail the person of Mammon down about his background or origin.
What we can say is this: Mammon is a demon lord presiding over the arena of money and everything connected to the worship and idolatry of money: Greed, Wealth, Materialism, Prosperity, Riches, Extravagant Luxury, Fashion, and the like. This ruling demon has quite a bit of power and position, pull and sway in the kingdom of Darkness. He is one of the very few demons Jesus refers to by name, in the following passage:
Matthew 6:22-25 (KJV) The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.
In other words: Mammon is a Master. He is a Lord, a ruler, a director, who wants and needs to be served. Mammon is obviously not like God. He is Evil, he requires his subjects to worship him, to bow down to do his will. To promote his agenda. And he works in conjunction and in with all the other master demons and lords in the kingdom of darkness.
[Demon Lords Named by Jesus: Apollyon/Abaddon, Beelzebub, Belial, Legion, Mammon, Satan (and his many titles). I can’t think of any other Demon Lords Jesus named or others used by their personal names in the New Testament. In the Old Testament, every pagan nation followed their own demon lord(s).]
[Day Seventy]
Do you ever yourself struggle with the spirit of Mammon?
I know Mammon has a big pull on myself and my family. It keeps many from knowing God and sharing God’s message freely.
Mammon creates divisions among men, the have’s and have not’s. The wealthy and the poor. The powerful and the exploited. The arrogant and the humble. The self confident, and the God confident.
Mammon creates debts and dissatisfaction. It creates fake finances. It can wipe out your life savings in a heartbeat: from the rise and fall of stock markets, and the gambling on it. It creates jealousy and peer pressure, the need to keep up with the Jones’s. It creates ever changing fashions that need to be kept up. Dumping whole wardrobes every new season, and adopting every new fad, and dumping every old one. It creates competition, anger, frustration, lust, greed, consumerism, dissension, arguments, strife, discord, prejudice, distrust, and the excuse and the need to lie and steal and cheat.
[Day Seventy-One]
Is Mammon in your Church?
Now imagine if Christ is not the head of your church and congregation, but Mammon is … what might be some of the visible results?
The pastor, the leadership, and the people will be normal, regular, social status people. Right? Outwardly they will look pretty much like the worldly people all around them. They will wear the same styles, sport many of the same logos and brand names. No big deal right?
That all depends.
What is on the inside? Churches often base their memberships around programs. The programs are set up for a high volume of people, with an entertainment focus. They are planned out months in advance. They are paid for by the income they will generate. Everybody needs to be entertained: Videos, Videos, Videos. Big screens in every church room. Infants. Babies. Toddlers. Preschool. Elementary School, High School, College Career Groups, Young Adults, Young Marrieds. Middle Age Singles, etc. Everyone who comes into the church gets a video.
Then they just talk about and mimic what was said in the video.
[Day Seventy-Two]
The Feel God Message
Everyone gets to interact with others shortly after the video, so Everyone gets to feel good about themselves. Or at least try to feel good. And others will try to help them feel good about themselves.
That apparently seems to be the gospel of the modern church: 1) to feel good about oneself, and 2) be nice to other people.
That is the opposite of the early church’s ministry to preach the gospel to : 1) convict sinners of their sins. 2) drive them to their knees in the confession and repentance of sins.
The problem today: everyone is focused on self and on feeling better about themselves.
Dear Friends, this is not the Gospel of Christ. The modern church message message is directly opposed to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Message of the Gospel is not focused on feeling good about yourself. It is all about Doing the Will of the Father with all your heart, mind, will, and strength. By doing so, you will not only feel good about yourself, but your will have deep, pure, righteous fellowship with the Holy Spirit of God, and see his many wonders and mighty works in the lives of those around you who welcome the presence of God into their Midst.
Jesus said,
Matthew 10:34-39 (KJV) 34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
[Can you see how different Jesus’s Pure Gospel is to the Modern “Feel Good” Gospel. They are nothing alike.]
35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. 39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
How many people preach, teach, follow, and practice this message above in your modern day church?
Dare we guess. Not many? If this is spoken of, it will likely be white washed over.
Imagine trying to match a feel good program for all levels and categories of people that teaches the above message: “unless you lose your life for Jesus’ sake, you will never find life in him.”
That would give your modern Christian Marketing companies a nightmare heart attack.
“Unless you lay down your life for God (lose your life), you will never enter into his kingdom.”
How many board of directors would disallow this message being preached in their churches?
How would you create a program that would teach this lesson in depth in a modern church? Who would attend it?
You would probably lose the bulk of your congregation.
Many modern churches have agreements between the hired pastor, (who is the servant of the board first, who pays his salary, then a servant to the government, a servant to his family, his seminary, his bible translation, his worship committee, and somewhere down the line he is a servant and representative of Christ) and the church board will tell the pastor what can and cannot teach.
Our modern day churches are very similar to the government run, Three Self Church in Communist China. True churches in America would be similar to the underground church which is persecuted by both the government and the modern compromised church.
In other words, modern church pastors (in both America and China) are not allowed to be led by the Spirit of God to Preach what the Holy Spirit of God is convicting them to preach. They must only preach and teach what the Board of Trustees, and the Government allows–thus eliminating the Spirit of Conviction from the Body of Christ. If you asked me, I would call this a truly compromised church, a church run by Mammon, and not run by the Victorious, Life Transforming, Spirit of the Risen Christ.
Modern people come into new groups and new ministries, to learn something new, to gain new experiences “to find themselves.”
But, Jesus is teaching his disciples to lose themselves.
Modern churches are always cooking up something new to teach, something provocative, something inspirational, something entertaining.
But, Jesus is teaching an old way, an ancient way, a blood sacrifice way, the way of the Blood Covenant of God, ending and ultimately completing His work at the Cross of Christ. There is nothing really new about it, except that He is the full fulfillment to the Blood Covenant, and we are his inheritors of this sacred, ancient, and powerful covenant.
“Come let us reason together, saith the Lord.”
[Day Seventy-Three]
Why is the modern church
so powerless?
Jesus’ message and ordained commission, has given the Church the Power and and Authority and the resources to change the World from the inside out one soul at a time.
But the modern church is powerless to change the world because it wants to be like the world, and it is run by the un-contended leader of the world, Mammon. Maybe that is why it has no real power over the world, because it has joined forces with the world and it has actually become subject unto the world. The modern church has become an underling and a hireling to the world of Mammon.
The early church transformed the entire social and spiritual fabric of the world in one generation that radically impacted the last 20 centuries of human history while having very little money and very little natural resources to do the job (no printing press, no radio, no telephone, no reliable maps, poor roads, poor directions, no railroad, no access to libraries, very little access to books, no cars, no buses, no jet planes, no computers, no internet, no videos, no televisions. How did they do it? The walked from town to town. The met people where they lived. The stayed with them, and stayed among them while preaching and living the most powerful life transforming message in the World. And the Holy Spirit confirmed the Word with signs and wonders following.
Again, How did the early church change the landscape of the entire world in such a short time with so little resources? They had the word of God, and they had their 2 feet. And they had the Spirit of God going with them. That is all they needed to transform the society and world they lived in.
They had it in their heart to labor hard to reach every single available soul within their reach. They felt that was the least they could do to show their gratitude to God for sending his one and only son to die in their place and take on the punishment they deserved. They took their responsibility seriously, and the invested themselves into the work and labor of the great harvest of God.
They received the promise from above, because they entered into the Reasonings of God, and were convinced of His Wisdom and Will.
[Day Seventy-Four]
What’s the Difference between the Modern and the Early Church?
The big difference between modern church and the early church: They had the Holy Spirit of God leading and guiding them. That is the missing ingredient of the modern church.
The modern churches are led by men, the early church was led by God himself through the Holy Spirit he sent to guide them.
If the Holy Spirit is Living and Guiding a church today, we will expect to see the same signs of salvation, deliverance, healing, and Grace that was manifest in the Early Church. We will expect to also see the same charity, chastity (modesty), humility, gentleness, patience, generosity, intimacy, purity, righteous Love and Loyalty that we see in the early Church.
If the presence of God living inside of every member of the Body of Christ, how could we not see his power, his glory, his righteousness, his majesty, his holiness, his purity, and his truth–witnessed in the Church.
These things are far more enriching, captivating, enduring, and life transforming than a video driven ministry, based on a feel good philosophy, in the modern Lukewarm church.
The modern church possesses more resources, more time, more freedoms, and more money than ever before to do the work of God, but it has slipped and backslid over and over, and has not impacted this generation hardly at all. And much, if not most, of its impact has been negative. Why is that?
Maybe because Mammon is the Master of the Church, as he is the master of the leaders of the church, as well as the master of the followers of the church. He is the ruler over the Board deacons on the church board, and the elder board, and all the employees of the Church: the pastor and his staff. Such is the state of the modern church.
What will happen to the Church that is selfish, self focused, self-satisfied, carnal, materialistic, rich, and lukewarm? Yet, not in an obedient relationship with the Head of Church, Jesus Christ, nor following the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and is therefore not bearing the Fruit of the Kingdom of God?
Does that describe any Church you know of? Any church you have been to? Any church where you have been on the leadership Team? Any church where you have been the head Pastor? If so, is it still that way?
[Day Seventy-Five]
What did Jesus himself say
to the Lukewarm Church?
Revelation 3:14-22 (KJV)
These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness [That is Jesus], [the one from] the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would [wish/want] thou wert [would be] cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t know what it means that Jesus will spew me out of his mouth, and I don’t want to know, at least not firsthand. But it appears many will have this experience who had deceived themselves into believing they were all “A” OK with God, when they were not.
But this am I completely sure and secure in: If I become a doer of God’s Word (and not a hearer only), and in so doing I become a disciple that makes disciples, that make disciples, that make disciples, that bear much fruit, then I will become so busy, and prosperous in the Word of God, that I will not have time to worry about being lukewarm or carnal, or selfish, or materially rich, wretched, blind, or naked.
Just Keep me O Lord, abiding in your Word, that I may bear much fruit. (John 15:1-5) That is what we will be looking at in Part 2 more fully.
That concludes Part 1, of The Reasonings of God, if you would like to continue to Part 2, please click here.
Excerpt from Part 2:
“When you choose to fully enter into the Room of the “Reasonings of God”, you will soon realize you are entering into an ancient Blood Covenant Worldview that is quite different from any modern paradigm.”
“The first thing you will notice is that there is no negotiating table. There are no lawyers present. The commitment of both parties is ALL or Nothing. Once you hear the terms of the Covenant you are either all in or all out. There is no middle ground… And it is not wise to walk away from covenant meeting with God Almighty with nothing …”