Learning to fly in the Spirit, by Instrument Flight Rules (IFR)
We are told in the Bible that God’s ways and thoughts are not ours, but as high as the heavens are above, so are God’s ways and thoughts above ours (Isa 55:8-9)
Jesus also promised that He would send the Comforter (the Holy Spirit) to come along side of us and Teach us, to be our Paraclete, and our Guide in life.
The only problem is if we are going to be used by God, we are going to have to learn to operate from a completely different paradigm from what we are used to in the world, from the way we have been conditioned and trained by the world.
If we are to follow Jesus, then it is we who must change, for truly God’s ways are NOT ours!
The Holy Bible and the promises in that book now become our instruments that we must learn to fly by.
We no longer fly as the world does, by sight sense evidence, in how we feel or think in the natural; but rather we now must learn to fly by faith, according to what God’s Word says!
We Inherited Power By Keith Butler
“And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power” (Eph. 1:19).
We have power. I’m talking about the strength that progressively increases. I’m talking about that vigor, that dominion, and that manifested power that can be seen. This is all part of the inheritance of the saints.
You inherit all this, “…and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us who believe….” This inheritance belongs to believers. An inheritance is something you don’t earn; it’s something that was left to you.
When Jesus died on the cross, He left you some power, some anointing, some blessings, and some ability.
Jesus understood that when it was time for Him to leave the earth, believers would need weapons that were beyond their thinking and speaking ability, and beyond their natural education, or they were not going to be able to get the job done.
So He said that He would not leave us comfortless. “I will send you another comforter, and he will teach you all things and remind you of what I said unto you.” He is the Holy Ghost. And the Holy Ghost is active, energizing, and effective. He is the power, He is the might, and He performs where you can see it.
Now verse nineteen tells us this power works “according to the working of his mighty power.” Now the word “mighty” here means force—His force. His ability. In other words, God wants us to increase in His dominion and in the manifested power of His force and His ability.
Now notice the term force. That’s a fighting term. I’m not talking about the Air Force. I’m talking about a Holy Force. There is a Holy Force that is better than the Air Force. We have His mighty working power—the Holy Force working in us.
Jesus knew we would need power to defeat the enemy. He knew we would need power to perform miracles when necessary, to have supernatural strength when necessary, and to be able to flow and function when everything else was going contrary, so He prayed the Father to send us the Holy Ghost.
So walk in the inheritance that was given to you—it’s the power of the Holy Ghost. Selah and Amen
Scripture References: John 14:16-18,26; 1 Peter 2:5,9
4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
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God promises rivers of Living Waters would flow forth from our life, through the power of the Holy Spirit, as His disciples, as we commit our way to Him, follow Him, and allow Him to flow through us.
Our God river will flow through us to places that are unknown to us, and others will benefit also, who are unknown to us.
Our part is to believe, to trust, and obey.
(What follows below is from Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest)
“A river is victoriously persistent, overcoming all barriers. For a while it goes steadily on its course, but then comes to an obstacle. And for a while it is blocked, yet it soon makes a pathway around the obstacle.
Or a river will drop out of sight for miles, only later to emerge again even broader and greater than ever.
Do you see God using the lives of others, but an obstacle has come into your life and you do not seem to be of any use to God?
Then keep paying attention to the Source, and God will either take you around the obstacle or remove it.
The river of life that comes forth from the Spirit of God overcomes all obstacles.
Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty.
The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.
Never allow anything to come between you and Jesus Christ— not emotion nor experience— nothing must keep you from the one great sovereign Source.” Selah & Amen
Our only lawful (de jure) form of government in the united states of America, as per our founding fathers and our U.S. Constitution, is a Republic.
That being said, then why do our politicians, our presidents, and the media always refer to us as being a Democracy?
The word “Democracy” is NOT found anywhere in our U.S. Constitution, nor our Declaration of Independence, nor our Bill of Rights… check it out!
Don’t you ever wonder what is wrong with our government today, and why our politicians aren’t listening anymore to what We the People want?
They seem to be on their own track doing their own thing… and the truth is, most of them (at least among those who hold the power in Washington DC), they are on a different track!
The truth is there is something very wrong with this whole system, as it currently is, and the fact is we the people of these united states of America are in serious trouble, because the people who pull the strings over our government, our politics, and our media, are lying to us and are perpetrating the largest fraud ever on the American people.
What you don’t know and what you aren’t being told is that there is a very small, but very wealthy and powerful elitist group of people, most of whom are not even American citizens, who are the true puppet masters of our political system, the FED, and the media, who are vying to take over our nation and also the world, and establish for themselves what they call the “New World Order.”
Christian Falcon is an ordained minister and preacher of the Gospel of Christ. He travels across country and globe to preach the Truth about God and His kingdom to the broken, the afflicted, and the lost. Now Head Pastor of Iglesia Cristiana Del Norte.
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Pay attention, and please listen to the attached audio file (below) and find out what you don’t know…
In what has not been taught to you in school, nor is it being revealed through any of our public media outlets, in that there is an agenda afoot
that is fast robbing us ALL of our liberty, and the very future of our children and of all future generation in our country, unless we make some changes!
(running length approximately 64 minutes)
As the Bible says:
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.“
(Hosea 4:6)
I don’t know about you, but for as long as I can remember, for my entire adult life anyway, for as long as I have been following the news as it relates to the political operations of our government in Washington DC (the District of Columbia), and certainly for as long as I have been old enough to vote, I have often wondered at and have viewed the goings on in Washington DC in amazement (as I am sure most of you have done also) in what I now understand is the operation a de facto—meaning unlawful according to our United States Constitution—UNITED STATES CORPORATION, which has replaced our lawful (de jure) Constitutional Republic, ever since 1871. .
Truly, in the secret agendas of the political power bosses who oversee and control the agendas of both political parties here in the in our country, through their corporate seat of power and power base in Washington DC (which said politicians, many of whom, are themselves controlled by a privately held corporation, visa vi the International Globalist Banking Cartel that both owns and controls the Federal Reserve) subsequent to the perverted and dishonest politics of these people, our nation today is fast spiraling out of control to our financial and economic ruin, thanks to this Globalist agenda, which former President George H.W. Bush once termed in 1991 as the “New World Order.”
What we don’t know and what we are not being told is robbing us and our children of our very freedom and our constitutional rights, many of which under this de facto U.S. CORPORATION have become privileges, which the UNITED STATES CORPORATION can and are taking away from us at will, as so many of our Constitutional rights are slowly being stripped away from us and are being eroded little by little each year, and mind you this has been going on now for well over 150 years.
Since most of us, including our parents, our grandparents, and our great grandparents before them, have known nothing else, and since we have for several generation now, grown up under this de facto system, most have never even questioned it; but folks this has got to change, because we are fast approaching the point of no return, where either “We the People” take back our government and restore our only lawful (de jure) Constitutional Government (as it was originally intended by our founding fathers), because if we don’t, we are about to be swallowed up in George H.W. Bush’s “New World Order,” otherwise known as a One World Government, which will ultimately be a totalitarian and dictatorial government, that will be ruled by the these very same Globalist International Bankers, along with those politicians and people who have been bought and paid for by them, and please note also that these same International Bankers also today both own and control our Federal Reserve Bank, and they have done so ever since 1913!
Understand this also that this is not a partisan issue at all; in fact under our two-party system, partisan politics aside, when it comes to pushing this de facto UNITED STATES CORPORATION towards the formation of a “New World Order,” and the ultimate disillusion of our sovereignty as a nation, and our being absorbed along with the rest of the world into a One World Government, both parties (Democrat and Republican alike) in terms of the leadership of both parties… of those who set the agendas and platforms of those parties… they are both on the same page when it comes to this “New World Order.”
If you want to know why Congress is so out of tune and out of touch with the will of most of the American people today, and why our nation is being driven to hell in a hand basket and why policies and laws are being passed today against the will of most of the American people, and why we are now on the verge of defaulting as a nation, the reason is these politicians (Democrats and Republicans alike) in this de facto Congress are operating as Corporate officers for the UNITED STATES CORPORATION, and as such their first order of priority (as it is with any corporation) is not to the American people, but rather it is to the stock holders of that said corporation, which in this case is the de facto U.S. CORPORATION, and the stock holders include a network of about five or more families, that are controlled by the Rothschild’s International Banking Cartel, which also control a network of secret societies, fraternal orders, and various other nefarious organizations… such as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Tri-lateral Commission, the Bilderburgers, Skull and Bones Society, and etc, etc, whose ultimate goal is to establish a One World Government and a One World Monetary system, where this elitist group of people, who virtually control the politics, the media, and the economics in our country today, and also in the world, who (if their plan succeeds) will rule as our masters and we will become their slaves!
Folks, need I remind you that this freedom and our liberty as a free people, that so many today are taking for granted, that it did not come without a huge cost in the lives, the blood, the sweat, and tears of so many men and women, who have, not only in the past, but are still today literally laying down their lives in order to preserve and protect our freedom?
We owe it to them and more importantly we owe it to our children and all future generations that we not allow this evil “One World Order” agenda and the corrupt polices of a relatively small group of people to succeed in subverting our nation.
Check for yourselves and do your own homework to see whether the things that have been said in this blog post be true or not, and having done so come and join with us, in the Republic for the united states of America, and let’s take back our government and separate ourselves from this corrupt and dishonest political system.
For more information on this “One World Government,” which comes via this so called “New World Order,” and the “Antichrist who will rule over it, please look to the Book of Revelation, in the Holy Bible.
Rev 13:11-18
The Beast from the Earth
11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. 12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceives those* who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.
15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or* the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.
In summary:
Here’s the History you were never taught:
Did you know that the United States exists in two forms?
Fact #1: The original United States that was in operation until 1860; a collection of sovereign Republics in the union. Under the original Constitution the States controlled the Federal Government; the Federal Government did not control the States and had very little authority.
Fact #2: The original United States has been usurped by a separate and different UNITED STATES formed in 1871, which only controls the District of Columbia and its territories, and which is actually a corporation (the UNITED STATES CORPORATION) that acts as our current government. The United States Corporation operates under Corporate/Commercial/Public Law rather than Common/Private Law.
The original Constitution was never removed; it has simply been dormant since 1871. It is still intact to this day.
This fact was made clear by Supreme Court Justice Marshall Harlan (Downes v. Bidwell, 182, U.S. 244 1901) by giving the following dissenting opinion: “Two national governments exist; one to be maintained under the Constitution, with all its restrictions; the other to be maintained by Congress outside and Independently of that Instrument.”
Fact #3: The reinhabited Republic has reclaimed the De Jure (a legal term meaning in original and legal form) institutions of government of the 50 State Republics in order to restore Common Law that represents the voice of the people and ends Corporate Law that ignores the voice of the people while operating under Maritime/Admiralty/International Law. This occurred when warrants were delivered to all 50 Governors on March 30, 2010.
Note: The rewritten Constitution of the UNITED STATES CORPORATION bypasses the original Constitution for the United States of America, which explains why our Congressmen and Senators don’t abide by it, and the President can write Executive Orders to do whatever he/she wants.
Corporate laws completely strip sovereigns of their God given unalienable rights.
Corporate/Commercial/Public Law is not sovereign (private), as it is an agreement between two or more parties under contract.
Common Law (which sovereigns operate under) is not Commercial Law; it is personal and private.
To understand this document, you need to understand some basic terms.
De Jure – Existing by right or according to law; original, lawful. Common Law operates under De Jure terms.
De Facto – In practice but not necessarily ordained by law; in fact, in reality. Corporate Law operates under De Facto terms.
Sovereign – A real person. Sovereigns can own property while Citizens/Subjects cannot. According to the original Constitution, all government comes from the Sovereign Individual. Without the Sovereign Individual, there is no government.
You need to understand that under the present De Facto (which is illegal Constitutionally) CORPORATE government, we as U.S. Citizens, have been made Subjects of – A corporate fictitious entity that merely represents the real person.
It acts as a “strawman.” [To call oneself a “sovereign citizen” or “sovereign subject” is an oxymoron, since “sovereign” and “citizen/subject” are mutually exclusive of each other.]
When asked if you are a “U.S. Citizen” on corporate legal documents, if you check “yes,” you agree to the terms of Corporate Law and unknowingly relinquish your sovereign status and transfer all of your rights to the UNITED STATES CORPORATION since you are now under contract.
A Corporation is – A non-human, fictitious entity. Corporate fictitious entities are denoted in all caps. This includes the names of Citizens/Subjects. Note also, your fictitious “strawman” entity is addressed in all caps, i.e. JOHN SMITH, rather than John Smith.
Under Common Law – meaning under God’s law, as guaranteed by our U.S. Constitution, and as prescribed by the system of De Jure Juries (Proper and legal) apply to sovereigns in disputes. In Common Law, contracts must be entered into knowingly, voluntarily, and intentionally.
Admiralty/Maritime Law/International Law – The King’s law. Deals with criminal acts that only apply to international contracts.
Under this law, the people are no longer sovereign. The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) that the United States practices is based on Admiralty Law.
Under the UCC, contracts do not have to be entered into knowingly. Simple agreements can be binding, and as long as you exercise the benefits of that “agreement,” you must meet the obligations associated with those benefits. If you accept the benefit offered by the government, then you MUST follow, to the letter, each and every statute involved with that benefit.
That “benefit” is the Federal Reserve Notes (U.S. dollars). By paying for things with U.S. dollars you are unknowingly giving up all of your Constitutional rights and are legally obligated to follow all of the UCC statues. But you were NEVER told this.
Lawful – A term used in Common Law.
Legal – A term used in the UCC which applies to Corporate Law.
HOW THE CONSTITUTION WAS USURPED BY THE CORPORATION
(note by Panama Legal: These are the basic premises adhered to by the people in the movement and the people in the Sovereign movement. The Government is a Corporation actually functioning as the Federal Government. Thus it does not have to follow the constitution.
Also it does not matter if Obama is not a natural born citizen since it is a corporation he is the head of.
The corporation gets the permission of the people to reign over them by deceit. This is done by wording in the Birth Certificates, Social Security Cards, driving Licenses, IRS forms, Marriage Licenses and other documents.
They always refer to the “person” in all capital letters. This means the name represents a corporate entity. This is how the corporation courts get jurisdiction over you. Their courts do not fly the “reaL” American flag. They use the military or admiralty flag.
What the theory is goes like this: when you enter a US Courtroom there is a military or admiralty flag flying. The US Military does not have the protection of the U.S. Constitution; neither does this apply to admiralty laws with ships at sea.
When you enter a court room and cross through that little wooden gate they have and go to the area where the plaintiff (prosecutor) and defendant sit along with judge, court reporter, you are entering a “ship” or a foreign country as evidenced by the admiralty or military flag flying thus the constitution has no applicability and you are under equity law not common law.
The flaw with their scheme is that there is no full disclosure to the people about any of this. This is brief over simplified synopsis of the scam run by the federal corporation. End of our comment.)
In 1788 (January 1), The United States was officially bankrupt.
In 1790 (August 4), Article One of the U.S. Statues at Large, pages 138-178, abolished the States of the Republic and created Federal Districts.
In the same year, the former States of the Republic reorganized as Corporations and their legislatures wrote new State Constitutions, absent defined boundaries, which they presented to the people of each state for a vote…the new State Constitutions fraudulently made the people “Citizens” of the new Corporate States. A Citizen is also defined as a “corporate fiction.”
In 1845, Congress passed legislation that would ultimately allow Common Law to be usurped by Admiralty Law. See www.barefootsworld.net/admiralty.html for an explanation of this change.
The yellow fringe placed at the bottom of court flags shows this is still true. Before 1845, Americans were considered sovereign individuals who governed themselves under Common Law.
Fact: In 1860 – Congress was adjourned Sine Die – Lincoln could not legally reconvene Congress.
Fact: In 1861, President Lincoln declared a National Emergency and Martial Law, which gave the President unprecedented powers and removed it from the other branches. This has NEVER been reversed.
Fact: In 1863, the Lieber Code was established taking away your property and your rights.
Fact: From 1864-1867, Several Reconstruction Acts were passed forcing the states to ratify the 14th Amendment, which made everyone slaves (or chattel/guarantors to back up loans granted by International Private Bankers).
Fact: In 1865, the capital was moved to Washington, D.C., a separate country – not a part of the United States of America.
Fact: In 1871, The United States became a Corporation with a new constitution and a new corporate government, and the original constitutional government was vacated to become dormant, but it was never terminated.
The new constitution had to be ratified by the people according to the original constitution, but it never was. The whole process occurred behind closed doors. The people are the source of financing for this new government. (In other words we are now chattel and our tax monies are – in fact according to The Grace Report, commissioned by former President Ronald Reagan.
In this Grace Report we learn that 100% of all the Internal Revenue Income Taxes that are collected each year by the IRS (which is a privately held collection service for the Federal Reserve, which is also privately owned and operated by International Bankers) that 100% goes just to pay off our national dept, and zero dollars goes to run our government. In other words our tax dollars is in payment for them to tell us how to operate our own money and our monetary policies, and there is absolutely no accountability whatsoever to We The People!
Fact: In 1917, the Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA) was passed. This insightful video from [link to movielocker.com/4084)] states the following: “This act was implemented to deal with the countries we were at war with during World War I.
It gave the President and the Alien Property Custodian the right to seize the assets of the people included in this act and if they wanted to do business in this country they could apply for a license to do so.
By 1921, the Federal Reserve Bank (the trustee for the Alien Property Custodian) held over $700,000,000 in trust.” Understand that this trust was based on our assets, not theirs.
Fact: In 1933, 48 Stat 1, of the TWEA was amended to include the United States Person because they wanted to take our gold away.
Executive Order 6102 was created to make it illegal for a U.S. Citizen to own gold. In order for the Government to take our gold away and violate our Constitutional rights, we were reclassified as ENEMY COMBATANTS.”
Fact: In 1933, there was a second United States bankruptcy.
In the first bankruptcy (1788) the United States collateralized all public lands.
In the 1933 bankruptcy, the U.S. government collateralized the private lands of the people (a lien) – they borrowed money against our private lands. They were then mortgaged. That is why we pay property taxes.
From a speech in Congress in The Bankruptcy of the United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993, Vol. 33, page H-1303, Speaker Representative James Trafficant Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House states:
“…It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 – Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.
The receivers of the United States Bankruptcy are the International Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War Powers. With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the United States. This new form of government is known as a Democracy, being an established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America. This act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955 reads in part: “The U.S. Secretary of Treasury receives no compensation for representing the United States…
Prior to 1913, most Americans owned clear, allodial title to property, free and clear of any liens of mortgages until the Federal Reserve Act (1913) “Hypothecated” all property within the Federal United States to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, in which the Trustees (stockholders) held legal title. The U.S. Citizen (tenant, franchisee) was registered as a “beneficiary” of the trust via his/her birth certificate. In 1933, the Federal United States hypothecated all of the present and future properties, assets, and labor of their “subjects,” the 14th Amendment U.S. Citizen to the Federal Reserve System. In return, the Federal Reserve System agreed to extend the federal United States Corporation all of the credit “money substitute” it needed.
Like any debtor, the Federal United States government had to assign collateral and security to their creditors as a condition of the loan. Since the Federal United States didn’t have any assets, they assigned the private property of their “economic slaves,” the U.S. Citizens, as collateral against the federal debt. They also pledged the unincorporated federal territories, national parks, forests, birth certificates, and nonprofit organizations as collateral against the federal debt. All has already been transferred as payment to the international bankers.
Unwittingly, America has returned to its pre-American Revolution feudal roots whereby all land is held by a sovereign and the common people had no rights to hold allodial title to property. Once again, We the People are the tenants and sharecroppers renting our own property from a Sovereign in the guise of the Federal Reserve Bank. We the People have exchanged one master for another.”
Fact: In 1944, Washington D.C. was deeded to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the Breton Woods Agreement.
The IMF is made up of wealthy people (a private International Banking Cartel that is wholly owned and operated by the Rothschild family) that own most of the banking industries of the world.
It is an organized group of bankers that have taken control of most governments of the world so the bankers run the world.
Congress, the IRS, and the President work for the IMF.
The IRS is not a U.S. government agency. It is an agency of the IMF. (Diversified Metal Products v. IRS et al. CV-93-405E-EJE U.S.D.C.D.I., Public Law 94-564, Senate Report 94-1148 pg. 5967, Reorganization Plan No. 26, Public Law 102-391.)
HOW CAN WE REPAIR OUR COUNTRY RIGHT NOW?
“The Supreme Court has said the De Jure Government offices still exist but the people have failed to occupy them.
Remember Downs v. Bidwell and the dissenting opinion of Justice Marshall Harlan? He said that two national governments exist; one to be maintained under the Constitution, with all its restrictions. This is one that We the people need to force our elected public officials to occupy – De Jure rule.
We need to change that by organizing Grand Juries and putting our officials back under De jure rule and out of the Corporate (or Military) Rule that they are currently operating under.
Our elected officials will then have to operate under the limits of their Oath of office to uphold the U.S. and State Constitutions, circa 1860. When they violate the Oath it’s a capital crime.
The reason we go back to 1860 is because that is the last time we had lawful laws in this country.
Where do the people get their power to convene a Grand Jury? The Magna Carta, 1215.
Our Founding Fathers looked back to history for precedent when they decided they wanted to change their government. What they found was the Magna Carta Liberatum, the Great Charter of Freedoms. It set a precedent that changed the face of England forever, by establishing that the King was not above the law.
King John of England signed the Magna Carta after immense pressure from the Church and his barons (the people). The King often lived above the law, violating both Feudal and Common Law, and was heavily criticized for his foreign policy and actions in England. The Barons, with the support of the Church, pressured King John to spell out a list of their rights and guarantee that those rights would be enforced. The Barons provided a draft, and after some negotiation, King John put his seal to the Magna Carta in Runnymede, in June of 1215.
Section 61 set rules for establishing the Grand Jury. It states: Since we have granted all these things for God, for the better ordering of our kingdom, and to allay the discord that has arisen between us and our barons (people), and since we desire that they shall be enjoyed in their entirety, with lasting strength, forever, we give and grant to the barons the following security: The barons shall elect twenty-five of their number to keep, and cause to be observed with all their might, the peace and liberties granted and confirmed to them by this charter. If we, our chief justice, our officials, or any of our servants offend in any respect against any man, or transgress any of the articles of the peace or of this security, and the offense is made known to four of the said twenty-five barons, they shall come to us.”
We are definitely living in the “Last Days,” spoken of in the Bible, that will see the return of Jesus (whose lawful name in Hebrew is: Yahoshua—Saviour), who is the Christ (in Hebrew: d’Hamachiah—the anointed one, Messiah) to earth.
Matt 25:32-34
32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.
As you can read in the above verses of scripture, the Bible says that in the last days God will separate the sheep nations from the goat nations, and I for one do not believe that the united states of America has to be included on that list of rebellious rogue “goat” nations, who are fighting against God, not as long as we have Christian Americans and Americans who are not Christian, who love our country, and are willing to preserve and protect our Constitution and our Republic.
As Christians, we need to understand that we are God’s occupational force in the earth, and it is our job (as covenant members of God’s church) to represent Truth in the earth (who in actuality is a person – and His name in Hebrew is Yahoshuwah—Saviour; and it is also our job to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God; to disciple all nations; and also to resist the Antichrist spirit that is in the world!
So as Believers, who are also members of God’s covenant family, let us pray as per 2nd Chronicles 7:14, that says:
“If My people who are called by My name (God speaking) will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
For truly our nation has been founded, as it is still printed on our money the last time I checked, “As One Nation Under God,” and it is impossible for any honest person to separate the role that faith in God has had in the formation of our Republic in 1776, and it will be equally necessary for us today to rely on and look to Almighty God, as did our founding fathers, as we seek to take back our nation and reestablish our proper and lawful (de jure) Constitutional Republic to its rightful position, as the only lawful form of government that we have.
There are so many who will hear this message who may doubt its validity; but the Bible says God is the same yesterday, today, and forever… and we can know from all the examples given in scripture that truly He is a Supernatural, Miracle Working God, who can do ALL things (as Jesus said) for those who believe!!!
Do you believe?
In this message John Paul Jackson shares an experience which he had, where he was taken back 3,500 years in the past, to the time of King Saul and David, just before David assumed the throne.
Listen to Michelle Krubeck’s testimony of her miraculous encounter.
The Bible says there are guardian angels on assignment for all of God’s covenant children. I know because I am alive myself due to an intervention of an angel, when I was almost killed in an auto accident, when I was 19 years old.
In this account, given by Michelle Krubreck, you will hear an amazing testimony of her experienced where there was a miraculous intervention of God that saved her life and that of her two daughters and their friend, who were passengers in her car.
Joe was servant, a good friend, and Christian Brother…
and we miss you!!!
(The center photo of Joe was one of the last photos that was taken of Joe by yours truly, at Denny’s Restaurant, sometime in the wee hours of Sunday morning, following one recent Saturday evening service)
Joe was the head usher at El Saddai and was one of the most giving people I think I have ever known; and I would even go as far as to say there should be a picture of him in the dictionary next to the word servant.
In fact Pastor Charles would always say of Joe that it always took at least five ushers to replace him every time he was away.
Joe’s graduation to heaven took place this past Sunday (April 10th), and it came as a complete shock to all of us who knew him and loved him.
He truly will be sorely missed by all his friends and church family!
Joe is survived by his lovely wife, Lucille, their four daughters, three son-in-laws, and four grandchildren.
A memorial service, to celebrate Joe’s life, will be held at El Shaddai this next Saturday (April 16th) at 11 AM.
And the Lord says, regarding you and your destiny:
Ps 139:16
16 You (God) saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your book!
So what is the Kingdom of Heaven like?
Matt 22:1-14
1 Jesus also told them other parables. He said:
2 “The Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a king who prepared a great wedding feast for his son. 3 When the banquet was ready, he sent his servants to notify those who were invited. But they all refused to come!
4 “So he sent other servants to tell them, ‘The feast has been prepared. The bulls and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!’
5 But the guests he had invited ignored them and went their own way, one to his farm, another to his business. 6 Others seized his messengers and insulted them and killed them.
7 “The king was furious, and he sent out his army to destroy the murderers and burn their town. 8 And he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, and the guests I invited aren’t worthy of the honor.
9 Now go out to the street corners and invite everyone you see.’ 10 So the servants brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike, and the banquet hall was filled with guests.
11 “But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who wasn’t wearing the proper clothes for a wedding.
12 ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how is it that you are here without wedding clothes?’ But the man had no reply.
13 Then the king said to his aides, ‘Bind his hands and feet and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
14 “For many are called, but few are chosen.”
Our part is to trust Him and to obey…
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” (Proverbs 3:5)
Thus says the Lord, Your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way you should go.” (Isaiah 48:17)
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way should go; I will guide you with My eye.” (Psalm 32:8)
“For this is God, our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even to death.” (Psalm 48:14)
“The Lord will guide you continually …” (Isaiah 58:11)
It has been said that all of life is but a stage, and I think as we examine the above Bible verses, and other scriptures in the Bible as well, I think that statement has more truth in it than most would recognize.
The truth is, as we understand the Bible, the script of ALL our lives has already been purposed in the mind of our Creator, as God because He is the creator of time and space, and all things in it, He dwells and exists outside of our time and space continuum (which is the dimension that we live in).
God dwells in a place called eternity; and consequently having wound the universe up and set it all in motion, infinitely more precise than any Swiss Watch, and owed to the fact that God, in Yeshua (Jesus) is both the Alpha and Omega (the beginning and end) of His creation, He (God) has started literally at the end of time, and from there He backed up to the beginning, and has predestined and purposed every detail that was to exist in between, from start to finish; and for each of us, who are of the seed of Adam, to us God has given a perfect destiny, that we can either choose to follow or not!
Here is where it all began, when the eternal God and Creator of all things first created and then entered into time and space:
Gen 1:1
1 In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth.
So what exactly was God’s purpose in all of this, that even the Bible says the angels in Heaven bend over in amazement and in awe at what God is doing with the sons and daughters of Adam.
Rom 8:29-30
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
Eph 1:3-6
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
Eph 1:9-14
9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, 10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both* which are in heaven and which are on earth — in Him. 11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 12 that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.
13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who* is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
The only caveat, or self imposed limitation, as it were, that God required in His immense and grand plan was to give free will to the crowning jewel of all His creation (Adam), whom again the Bible says was created in the image of God, and after His likeness; and it goes on to say that we even are His “offspring.”
God gave to Adam a free will to choose for himself, whether to follow, to obey, and to cooperate and work with his Creator, in partnership with Him, as his Abba Father and God; or whether to follow His own path, which is what the nature of sin is, as it is defined in the Bible!
In Hebrew the word for sin is:
OT:2403 – ha*F*j^ chatta’ah (khat-taw-aw’); or chatta’th (khat-tawth’); from OT:2398; an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender, coming from (OT:2398) af*j* chata’ (khaw-taw’); a primitive root; properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn.
In Creek the word is:
NT:266 – a(marti/a hamartia (ham-ar-tee’-ah); from NT:264; a sin (properly abstract), which comes from NT:264) a(marta/nw hamartano (ham-ar-tan’-o); perhaps from NT:1 (as a negative particle) and the base of NT:3313; properly, to miss the mark (and so not share in the prize), i.e. (figuratively) to err, especially (morally) to sin.
In both Hebrew and Greek the word basically means to miss the mark (of God’s requirements).
God the Father did not want tom-a-ton robots as His offspring, who had no choice but to follow and obey Him, so He gave to Adam and to his descendants the ability to choose; but mind you, we also can learn from the Bible that it was always in the purpose of God to ultimately become one with His creation, with these sons and daughters of Adam; and the way He would do this was through the life, earthly ministry, and propitious work and sacrifice (on Calvary’s cross) of His only begotten Son, Yeshua Ha’Mashiach (Jesus, the Christ—Anointed One), who is the Jewish Messiah.
It is this same Yeshua (Jesus—Saviour), who was the Seed of Abraham that God promised would be a blessing to all the nations of the world, who is Himself God incarnate (meaning God in the flesh)!
Gen 18:18
18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 22:15-18
15 Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, 16 and said:”By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son — 17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. 18 In your Seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
Who is this Seed of Abraham that was promised to be a blessing to ALL the world?
Isa 9:6
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
As it happened, our original parents (Adam and Eve) blew it, when they failed to heed the command of God and disobeyed Him; that happened when they eat of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden (a fruit called “The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil“), after which He promised that they would surely die.
The first death was spiritually, and it happened immediately, in that the moment Adam and Eve choose to go their own way and disobey God, what God promised happened, as they were instantly cut off from the Source of their life, in that the connection between God and man was now broken.
Physical death was also a consequence of this estrangement and separation from God, howbeit the physical death, for Adam and Eve and for their children, did not happen for many years later, and that was because God had barred Adam and Eve from eating from the “Tree of Life;” and so eventually the tent of their human (physical) bodies, minus being able to eat from this “Tree of Life,” eventually it wore out and died… and went back to the dust of the earth, from whence it came… but their spirits lived on!
This was all a part of God’s plan, for He in His foreknowledge already knew that this would happen, and that Adam and Eve would disobey Him; and so God, in His great love for His offspring (His lost children), He had already ordained and had provided for them a way back home; that they may have their sins forgiven; and that the penalty for their sin of disobedience (which was death) would be paid by the One (the only One) who knew no sin, who is Jesus Christ; in order that Adam and his descendents might be restored back into fellowship and relationship with God, who is now our Abba Father once again, as we who are born-again are now become members of His eternal family.
The way this was to happen was through faith in Jesus Christ, through something called “The Gospel” (Good News) message, which is spelled out in the following verses of scripture:
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”
Here is the story of Yeshua (Jesus), and His propose for coming to earth, as it was explained to us in the Old Testament, by the Prophet Isaiah:
Isa 53:1-6
53 Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
and by His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
So the choice is really very simple, simple enough in fact that a child can understand it.
For those who will heed the call of God on their lives, who of their own free will and volition will surrender their own will, who will die to self, and will pick up their cross (which is a symbol of our death to self); who by faith obey and follow the teachings of Jesus, as found in His Word (the Holy Bible); who receive Him (Jesus) not only as Saviour, but also who make Him Lord over their lives; who also by faith surrender and obey the leading of the Holy Spirit; to those chosen few, to them God has ordained that they, those who are called Born-again Christians, that we should live with Him and rein (rule) with Him forever!
However, clearly as the Bible teaches, the only time and the only chance for any of us to get right with God, to be forgiven of our sins, and be restored back into His eternal family, is sometime in the period between when we are first born into this world, at our physical birth, and when we depart it, in our death.
Just know that as per what the Bible says on this subject, there are no exception to this rule; as there are also no opportunities for anyone to get right with God after they die!
So that means that the window of opportunity, for each person that is still alive, grows narrower and narrower with the passing of each day… and since no man or woman knows the day of their own death, it behooves all of us to pay attention to this message that God is trying to communicate with us!
This is what God, through Jesus Christ, requires of ALL men and women; and being that He is both Creator and God, as certainly we did not create ourselves, He certainly has every right to demand and require of us whatever He wants… we just need to pay attention and obey.
Mark 8:34-38
34 Then (Jesus), calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said:
“If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me.
35 If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it.
36 And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?*
37 Is anything worth more than your soul?
38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my message in these adulterous and sinful days, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
Mind you that this of which I am speaking here is without a doubt the most important decision any of us will ever make in our lifetime, in whether we will follow and obey what Jesus says, and be Born-again (as per Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus, as we just read in John chapter 3—see above); or whether we will choose to go out into eternity, after we die, without the benefit of a Saviour, having rejected God’s grace; and then each person will be responsible and have to answer to God for their our own sins, after having rejected the only name under heaven, whereby they could be saved… and that is through faith in Jesus Christ!
This is an illustration that God once showed me, in how the stage of this world has been positioned, as though all of mankind were sitting in a room; and someone came into that room and constructed a door, and then they placed over that door a sign stating, “In Case of Fire, this is the ONLY EXIT!”
There were others that came into that same room later, and they posted other signs, saying “This one is the only EXIT,” but unbeknownst to the people, save for the first EXIT that was posted, all the others were only dead ends; and yet since most who were in the room smelled no smoke and saw no fire, the majority of people in the room paid no attention whatsoever to any of the signs that were posted, nor to their message (the warnings) that was given; and truly that is the condition of most people in the world today.
It is God who gave us our life, and with it He also gave to us the right and will to choose how we would spend it.
The Bible tells us that it is God’s desire that we would choose of our own free will and volition to spend our lives on Him, in His service; but He does not force that decision on any man!
Consequently, for those who live their lives only for themselves (to please only themselves), according to what they think is right, by earthly standards; of men and women who have also chosen to go their own path apart from God, just as the Prophet Isaiah said, living their lives their way, without consideration for God, in what He wants and expects of us (as we can read in His Word), these are people who live their lives as Frank Sinatra once sang in a song, as he said “I did it my way;” to these people who pursue only mammon (the world system) and what it offers, in the way of fame, glory, earthly riches and power, to these people, this is what the Bible says that their destiny will be:
Luke 12:16-21
16 Then he (Jesus) told them a story: “A rich man had a fertile farm that produced fine crops. 17 He said to himself, ‘What should I do? I don’t have room for all my crops.’
18 Then he said, ‘I know! I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones. Then I’ll have room enough to store all my wheat and other goods.
19 And I’ll sit back and say to myself, “My friend, you have enough stored away for years to come. Now take it easy! Eat, drink, and be merry!”‘
20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get everything you worked for?’
21 “Yes, a person is a fool to store up earthly wealth but not have a rich relationship with God.”
You know these things of which I speak, regarding our eternal destiny and our eternal salvation, they are very serious indeed; and yet so many there are today and also in the past, in fact the majority of the world’s population (past, present, and future—even as it has been predicted in the Bible), having already been deceived by Satan and the lure of earthly riches (including the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life), most of these people who are living today are completely oblivious to God’s warning and they could even care less about His offer for reconciliation.
How sad that is, but it is only for a time; as eventually ALL men and women will one day be faced with this truth, of who Jesus Christ is; having either responded and obeyed the calling of God on their life, or having rejected it.
And this is what Jesus told us about what happens after death, in this account that He gave to His disciples, where He actual described an actual account, that happened prior to the resurrection of Jesus from the dead; where there were two compartments in the bowels of the earth; one was called “Abraham’s Bosom,” which was a place where the Old Testament saints went to await the coming Messiah and His sacrifice; and the other was called “Hades,” which was the place of the dead, also called the “Lake of Fire,” and still is until this day.
Luke 16:19-31
19 Jesus said, “There was a certain rich man who was splendidly clothed in purple and fine linen and who lived each day in luxury. 20 At his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus who was covered with sores.
21 As Lazarus lay there longing for scraps from the rich man’s table, the dogs would come and lick his open sores.
22 “Finally, the poor man died and was carried by the angels to be with Abraham.* The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and his soul went to the place of the dead.* There, in torment, he saw Abraham in the far distance with Lazarus at his side.
24 “The rich man shouted, ‘Father Abraham, have some pity! Send Lazarus over here to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. I am in anguish in these flames.’
25 “But Abraham said to him, ‘Son, remember that during your lifetime you had everything you wanted, and Lazarus had nothing. So now he is here being comforted, and you are in anguish. 26 And besides, there is a great chasm separating us. No one can cross over to you from here, and no one can cross over to us from there.’
27 “Then the rich man said, ‘Please, Father Abraham, at least send him to my father’s home. 28 For I have five brothers, and I want him to warn them so they don’t end up in this place of torment.’
29 “But Abraham said, ‘Moses and the prophets have warned them. Your brothers can read what they wrote.’
30 “The rich man replied, ‘No, Father Abraham! But if someone is sent to them from the dead, then they will repent of their sins and turn to God.’
31 “But Abraham said, ‘If they won’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they won’t listen even if someone rises from the dead.'”
These verses of scripture prove that we ALL become Believers in God’s plan for salvation eventually, even those who are in Hades (in flames of torment), at least that was true of this man, as he obviously was still concerned for his five brothers, who were still alive!
The Old Testament saints, after the resurrection, the Bible says that their spirits were taken to Heaven with Jesus, as the Bible says that “He led captivity captive.”
Eph 4:8
8 Wherefore he said, When he (Jesus) ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
And the report of the Bible goes on to say, regarding some other things that happened on that day, after the crucifixion of Christ had taken place, just after He died:
Matt 27:50-53
50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.
51 Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split,
52 and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
Imagine that, I bet you that got people’s attention, not to mention the earthquake, along with the wind, storm, and thunder; and also the solar eclipse that just happened to happen at that very same time, that caused it to become dark in the middle of the day!
Another very important point can be learned from the Bible, and that is God can take an ordinary flesh and blood man, who is totally surrendered to Him, and do some amazing things.
Jesus our older brother, who is called in the Bible “The Last Adam” is our model for all of mankind, as He walked with God as a mere man, in flesh and blood, as Adam did before the fall, with the only difference being He (Jesus) did not have our sin nature; and thus that is why He had to be born of a virgin; or else he would also have the blood of Adam in his veins, and therefore would have had that same nature.
As the Bible says of Jesus, in that though He was tempted in all manners and ways, as any other man, He was nevertheless without sin.
The Bible also says of Jesus that He ONLY did what He sees the Father do; and that He ONLY spoke what He heard the Father speak; and so in other words, Jesus never took any rabbit trails on His own, to do His own thing, but He was in perfect sync and harmony with the will and purposes of God from day one… and to do otherwise (as I have pointed out before) is what sin is all about!
As we study the lives of the characters in the Bible we can also learn some very important things; for instance God took a simple man, a humble man by the name of Saul, and He made him the first king of Israel.
While Saul remained humble in his own eyes, God could use him; but when he became puffed up in pride, as he made the mistake of believing he was somehow more important, becoming cocky in his own thinking, he began to stray away from the commands of God, and he got himself in trouble; and the Bible says that God sent to Saul a tormenting spirit, as a result; and then God removed his kingship and gave it to another… King David!
Again God takes a simple flesh and blood human being, who was the least of his father’s other sons, and the youngest; and when the Prophet was looking for the next King of Israel and asked to see all of Jesse’s sons, David wasn’t even considered, and was left out in the fields.
So God took one little boy, whom the world and even his own family considered of little importance, and David became God’s choice for the next King of Israel.
Now David was also not without his faults, but whereas King Saul would make excuses and would seek to defend his disobedience before God, David on the other hand would pan cake before God, and bowed himself in repentance.
This is what makes the difference, and this is also what God is looking for in each of His born-again children; does doesn’t need our perfection and we don’t have to be perfect, as Jesus was, His propitious sacrifice on the cross took care of that; but what God does expect is sincere and honest heartfelt effort, that is evident in a heart that is all about pleasing and following after God, in love. King David had such a heart after God.
The alternative is to be brushed aside, and considered of no more use to God, as happened with King Saul. There are also other people in secular history, as well as other characters in the Bible, whose lives we can study, where I believe we find this to be true.
All good things comes from God in Heaven above, and regardless of who we are looking at, God can take any person, even those who don’t know Him and have rejected Him, and God can nevertheless use them for His purposes and for His glory; but I would wager to say only those who have never known God, who have never tasted of His goodness, only these sorts of people would ever do such a thing!
For me, to my way of thinking (knowing myself as I do), being the absolute worst person I know (as even the Apostle Paul said of himself, I’m just very thankful and glad that I have the promise of God (given in Philippines 1:6) that God will never give up on me, and that He will complete the work that He has begun in me… and also in you too, if you will surrender and follow Him.
So what are we to do, as we all will inevitably do, sooner or later, when we blow it and we take our little rabbit trails, going contra wise against God’s pattern?
It is important for me to say here that Christians are NOT perfect, not by any stretch of the imagination, we are just forgiven, and we are forgiven ONLY because we have a Saviour who took to Himself the punishment that was owed to us; and the truth is, everyone who is on this pilgrimage, called life, will many times make mistakes along the way, from time to time (and I am sure I do more than most); but this is God’s answer to that problem… Jesus Christ.
The difference between Christians and those who are not, Christians know that they are not worthy, and that they are only saved by grace (the unmerited favor of God); whereas there are many in the world, who as yet have yet to meet God, who would argue that there isn’t any such thing as sin; and if they do admit such a thing, then there are many who don’t consider themselves to be one of them.
Consequently there are basically two conditions of man in the world… the Saved and the Unsaved!
Here is what the Bible has to say about that condition, and the provision He has proved for us, who are Saved, to be forgiven and lose our position with Him… not ever!
1 John 1:6-10
6 If we claim that we experience a shared life with him (Jesus) and continue to stumble around in the dark, we’re obviously lying through our teeth — we’re not living what we claim.
7 But if we walk in the light, God himself being the light, we also experience a shared life with one another, as the sacrificed blood of Jesus, God’s Son, purges all our sin.
8 If we claim that we’re free of sin, we’re only fooling ourselves. A claim like that is errant nonsense.
9 On the other hand, if we admit our sins — make a clean breast of them — he won’t let us down; he’ll be true to himself.
He’ll forgive us of our sins and purge us of all wrongdoing.
10 If we claim that we’ve never sinned, we out-and-out contradict God — make a liar out of him.
A claim like that only shows off our ignorance of God. (from THE MESSAGE Bible)
Saint Augustine once put it this way, folks, and I agree with him totally that, “It is impossible for any man or woman to truly know God and not love Him; and it is equally impossible for anyone to love Him and not want to serve Him.”
And Jesus Himself said that “He came that we may have life, and have it more abundantly!”
This abundant life is something for which ALL of mankind is searching for, though most are looking in all the wrong places; and the truth is nothing but Jesus (who made us and is our Creator) will fill the heart of man, and satisfy us… houses won’t satisfy us, relationships with people (even our family) won’t satisfy, money won’t, and power won’t… ONLY Jesus Christ!
Check it out:
John 1:1-5
1 Before anything else existed, there was Christ, with God. He has always been alive and is himself God.
3 He (Christ) created everything there is—and nothing exists that he didn’t make.
4 Eternal life is in him, and this life gives light to all mankind. 5 His life is the light that shines through the darkness-and the darkness can never extinguish it.
The fact is, God has seen to it that nothing will ever truly satisfy the heart of man, except for the one who created him; and so if you really and truly want to find the abundant life, and if you want to find out what your destiny and purpose in life is, then you will of necessity have to go to the manufacturer, your Creator, Jesus Christ, because He is the one who made you, and who gave you your life!
No person in their right mind would ever turn away and reject this gift of salvation and reconciliation, that is being offered by God; but the Bible says that the enemy of man’s soul, who is the Devil, has blinded the eyes of many of Adam’s children, who are in the world; and this will remain true until the light is turned on for them to see.
Therein is our mission, as Christians, to reach out and bring as many as we can, along with us, as though snatched from the very fires of hell, and therefore see this message of the Kingdom of Heaven spread throughout the world!
All who would reject that message, the Bible says they will die without the benefit of a Saviour; and so it is my prayer, if you are reading this and you have yet to make that decision to follow Christ, and to accept Him as your personal Lord and Saviour, that you will do so in this moment… for the next moment is promised to no man!!!
Jesus Christ… DON’T LEAVE HOME WITH OUT HIM and by all means… DON’T GET CAUGHT DEAD WITHOUT HIM EITHER!
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