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Law fulfilled by Christ

Matt 5.17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven."

I get this passage thrown at me a lot by Christians who want to promote the Law of Moses as still applicable. I got it thrown at me by a Jewish guy over 10 years ago who wanted to prove that Jesus did not advocate for NT Christianity, but rather, for the Law of Moses. And I'm getting it now from Sabbath Day advocates who even deny that Sabbath Law is associated with the Law of Moses! So what is this all about?

Jesus spoke these words about the Law of Moses while Israel was still under the Law of Moses. NT Christianity says that the Church is no longer under the Law, but instead under Christ alone. We are not under the Law of Moses. We are not under Sabbath Law. So did Jesus say that the Law of Moses was irrevocable in this passage?

I would say that Jesus was indicating that there were no loopholes for the Law of Moses, that it was irrevocable as long as it was in effect. Once the agreement, or covenant, was broken, it could not be applied as an agreement any longer, obviously. But Jesus was only talking about the Law as a current covenant, and as such was irrevocable under those terms.

So did God's word fail? Did the failure of the Law as a covenant agreement with Israel fail? Well, certainly the agreement failed, but the Law had been both a curse and a hope. It was a curse because it upheld the curse of death imposed since the garden of Eden. No matter how much good Israel did, no matter the fact they were in a covenant relationship with God, they would still die.

At the same time, the word of God in the Law promised something better as a fulfillment, a way to overcome death, and a way to redeem from sin forever. As such, the Law was the hope of final redemption, even though it confirmed the curse of death. As Jesus said, the seed must go into the earth and die before it can bear fruit. Jesus had to die on our behalf so that we could join him in his death in order to be reborn through his resurrection from the dead. Jesus had to suffer death for sinners in order to forgive them and give them a 2nd chance.

So as irrevocable as the Law was, as sure as it confirmed human death, as sure as it confirmed Israel's failure to obtain final redemption, so also it was a guarantee that death would be overcome and that Israel would be saved. Jesus would die for sinners and forgive them for all the sins they committed against God. Then he could grant them his spiritual life again, this time in the form of resurrection and eternal life.

The Law did not fail. It succeeded not through its own form, but in the form of its projection of Christ, who was its object all along. The Law was a seed planted so that through the resurrection of Christ we could grow and bear fruit for eternal life. We no longer live by the Law, but we live by the life of Christ, who died for us that we might live for him.

2024 World Happiness Report


The USA is out of the top 20 for the first time in a long, long time. Why are people in other countries so much happier, generally speaking, than they are in the USA?

I Shall Speak Concerning a Nation...

"At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them." (Jeremiah 18:7-10)

"The Lord saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land." (Jeremiah 45:4)

A nation once doing good, having turned from that good, and now doing evil, shall be brought down. Yahweh the LORD shall repent of the good He said He would benefit them. Here is is not specifying Israel directly, for He says "a nation" - that is "al goi" or "on nation," as also Psalm 9:17, "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all nations that forget God" That's "Kol goyim" or all nations.

How America has delayed her repentance, when she has been called over and over to repentance by a remnant of believers who have thundered with the voice of the prophets to repent, and she has not! Instead, America has bonded with pure evil in many forms, that society is saturated with this evil, and it is taken for granted as normal. Heavy rock music that would have been considered shock music 60 years ago is now normal. Pournagraffie that was forbidden from TV even 30 years ago is now considered normal. The occult is everywhere. Sex is everywhere. Shall not the LORD of Hosts visit for this? He will surely visit, and he who thinks not shall be in for a big surprize: yea, a rude awakening!

Hear this word, and do not dismiss it as not relevant, for ALL scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable, and the things of the Prophets are indeed for our admonition and are examples for us, today, and at all times, as the Apostle Paul wrote. Hear Isaiah 1:15-21,
"And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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.
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers."

Oh, how, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird." (Revelation 18:2) Please don't try to argue that this Babylon is Rome, or Iraq, or the world system, or any other thing, because you know what? This Babylon is whatever fulfills the description given, and can be multiple things, of which the USA certainly does. Doesn't mean it's the ONLY thing, as I believe it does also involve Europe, and Rome, though not really Iraq. That Babylon was not to be rebuilt according to the scriptures.

America has left her first love of the Gospel and of the Truth. Whoever said "America is great because America is good. If America ever stops being good, it will stop being great," is right, whether or not Alexis de Tocqueville said it or wrote it. The opening text confirms it.
The Revivals and awakenings of past centuries involved weeping in contrition, sorrowing and mourning over their sins, and such outward manifestations as the closing of liquor establishments, houses of gambling, and houses of prostitution. Such just doesn't happen today. A "Revival" seems to be a bunch of dancing in a church to contemporary worship music. Where is the fruit?

Revelation 2:5, "Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent."
The candlestick is the church (Rev. 1:20), or rather, a particular church: in this case Ephesus who had left her first love. The Zeale was quenched, and beware when ones Zeale is quenched and the coales of that Zeale wax cold: That such a church become not dead as Sardis (Rev. 3:1) And, beware and be warned, Christ would come upon thee as a thief, and you not know what hour He cometh (Rev. 3:3)

1 Thessalonians 1:7-10, "And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe"

O that you be of those who believe: that TRULY believe unto righteousness, with thine heart, for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness. Don't leave out the righteousness part as many do. Consider these words from Thomas Boston (1676-1732):

"You know not the weight of the wrath of God. It is true none can have a full comprehension of it: “Who knoweth the power of thine anger?” (Psa 90:11). But all the elect of God get such a notion of it as rouses them up to fly from it; “knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade men” (2Co 5:11). And if you had tolerable apprehensions of it, it would break off your sleep and slumber, and cause you to put forth your hands to work. Did you [but] consider what “a fearful thing [it is] to fall into the hands of the living God” (Heb 10:31), and how when you fall down again into your bed of sloth, you are truly in hazard of it—it would give you such a gliff as would keep you waking.
There are three things you do not observe.

First, you do not observe what speed your ruin is making while you lie at ease; how your “judgment…lingereth not,” and thy “damnation slumbereth not” (2Pe 2:3). The avenger of blood is pursuing you, though you are not fleeing from the wrath to come. You are like a man sleeping in a leaky ship, which is drawing water every moment, and within a little it will be full and sink to the bottom of the sea if he does not awake and help it. Every hour your debt is growing: the cup of wrath is filling, and fills so much the faster as you are secure.

Secondly, you do not observe how near your destruction may be. You are like the old world, who “were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away” (Mat 24:38-39). Your spiritual lethargy and dead sleep hinders you from hearing the sound of the feet of the approaching stroke. You lie open to the most terrible surprise, to sleep the sleep of death, which you may never awake out of till in hell (Luke 12:19-20; 16:23)! And O, how sad is it for men to be past hope ere they begin to fear, to have the house falling ere they get over their bed!

The time of God’s grace is limited; a time wherein He will be found, and when not. “Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near” (Isa 55:6). Death certainly puts a period to it; but it seems to be clear that men may out-live their day of grace: “I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper”
(Luk 14:24)"
From, Danger of Delaying Repentance pgs 14,15 & 22.

Oh, Despise not prophesyings! (1 Thessalonians 5:19) The day is coming, and it will come, when the nation is utterly thrown down as God "turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly" (2 Peter 2:6) I cannot stress enough as the Holy Spirit is moving, and calling, but is also grieved at the condition of this once great nation, how the wrath of God: yea, the fierceness of His mighty wrath is so hanging over this nation presently, and over churches who call evil good and good evil, Woe unto them! (Isaiah 5:20) saying God condones abomination and the accursed things.

America shall fall before her enemies because she has taken of the accursed thing: "There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you." (Joshua 7:13) All neatly packaged with a rainbow, mocking God's holy covenant with Noah; for Ham was looking upon his own fathers nakedness, hence Canaan was cursed (Genesis 9:22-25) For there was an unlawful deed done, yet churches are affirming men becoming one flesh with other men, which is abomination and accursed, from Leviticus, to Romans 1, to Corinthians: accursed!

Such things shall bring the fiery judgment of Sodom down upon a nation, and America promotes it and declares her sin as Sodom! Isaiah 3:9, "The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves." Oh, this is a scathing message, because the wrath of the LORD burns hot against sin, and it's only his withholding hand that keeps America from flaming doom and destruction as the cities of old that perished by fire: but IT WILL COME!

Oh, do not look at America's military might, or the edge in technology she hold.

"O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness....
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD."

It's the Biblical principle of a Sovereign God dealing with the sin of a nation: a nation that knew God once, even as Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon did, or at least the leadership did, and made a decree not to speak against the God of the Hebrews: (Daniel 5:18-28 & 4:34-37) But Belshazzar committed vile sin by drinking out of the temple vessels, partying, getting drunk, and mocking God, just as they do in America today. Singin' Country songs about whiskey and God in the same line as if they're somehow compatible? MENE MENE TEKEL!

"MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting." (Daniel 5:26-27) Thus the kingdom fell. and Belshazzar slain that very night (Dan. 5:30) America is weighed in the balances and found wanting. It's only the longsuffering and mercies of God that keep the dreaded wrath from falling at any moment, and that moment may come at any time, and nuclear weapons reach the continental United States in a half hour from launch.

There may be no warning for many, and little warning for some, who then scurry for their lives and cry out, but of fear, and not true salvation. Oh, let salvation come now, and repent and turn to the LORD with all your heart, for if you wait for some day, you know not when: you know not your time, and suddenly it strikes, and it's too late, and you flame into eternity without making any concessions of thy soul: for Christ must be a part of you, and you must be abiding in Him, lest ye be consumed. Amen.
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My view on end-time prophecy symbols and Christian salvation in light of the book of Revelation

I want to share with you what I think the main symbols of Revelation mean, because I haven't really heard anyone preaching it like that. There is nothing harsh ethically or otherwise in it. Please comment on what you think, and whether you think it fits with the rest of the Bible.

Basically, I think that when it says "buy and sell" in chapter 13, it means to teach teachings that are untrue, just as in the Prophets a prophet mentioned buying wine and milk "for free" in the sense of receiving true teachings, the truth here being God -- the only uncreated being in existence, while everything is something created.

And just as for 6 days God created everything, so also all creation can be symbolized by a six, while He Himself -- by a seven -- the eternal Day for rest, the eternal Sabbath. And so, all the "created truth", can be represented by a six.

And in the end times, whoever will receive a false teaching, and believe it, would receive the spirit of faith in something created yet not true. While the true believers would continue to have the Holy Spirit of faith in things that are true (Spirit is the spirit of faith in truth).

And this is where the Revelation mentions image of the beast. Image is something worshipped. And if the image speaks, it means it's a human being, or the words of this human being, which are received by people instead of the words of Christ. These other words can't find justification in the Bible that is.

But not only the teaching of people can be something created -- our goods deeds can be too. They are after all the creations of our hands, even though they come with the help of God. And so they cannot be worshipped either, aka believed in for salvation. I.e. we do them knowing they save because of Matthew 25, yet after we worked them, we don't remember them and don't trust in them as the foolish farmer in his crop. We forget them like the right hand mustn't know what the left hand does, and we just say: we did what we had to, we are unprofitable slaves of God. The danger from these works come because they don't have eyes to see or ears to hear, and so trusting in them for salvation would seem to only make God angry -- provided God is the same God as He was in the Old Testament.

So what are we left with, is to only believe for salvation in the presence of the Holy Spirit in us, which *is* the Blood of Jesus, because the "blood of every creature is its life", yet the Spirit is Eternal Life -- "my Words are Spirit and they are Life". When our heart has the Holy Spirit, the inner, shabby, sin-nature-ridden garments of our heart are made clean. Yet if guilty conscience shipwrecks our faith, the wine of the Spirit flows out through the holes, burnt by these hot coals (a seared conscience just doesn't feel them, yet the effect on our wine sack is the same). And we become naked, and our shame can be seen -- the Wedding Garment gone. Yet, if we have not trusted in our grapes for salvation (meaning the works of Matthew 25) and haven't been lucky to go the Lord with the oil of the Spirit filling to the brim the lamp of heart, these grapes will provide the last washing of the Blood of Jesus at the Great Judgement ("the blood of grapes"). But if we do die in the Lord, we go to heaven right away, as it's written (I'm paraphrasing): they who have the Spirit of faith to the brim, because of the wine sack without holes and works of praise to the Lord, shall not come to the Judgment, but have already passed from death to life.

The new hymn "Thine the Amen, Thine the Praise"

This is one of those knee-buckling hymns when I sang it the first time on Lenten Service last Wednesday.

It was composed by Herbert Brokering (of Earth and all Stars) and text by Carl Schalk. Composed sometime in the 1980’s at Holden Village, WA during a week long summer camp. Strong tune, Strong text. Recording by the American Repertory Singers. Enjoy.

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Thine the amen
Thine the praise
alleluias
angels raise
Thine the
everlasting head
Thine the breaking
of the bread
Thine the glory
Thine the story
Thine the harvest
then the cup
Thine the vineyard
then the cup is
lifted up
lifted up.

Thine the life
eternally
Thine the promise
let there be
Thine the vision
Thine the tree
all the earth
on bended knee
Gone the nailing
gone the railing
gone the pleading
gone the cry
Gone the sighing
gone the dying
what was loss
lifted high.

Thine the truly
Thine the yes
Thine the table
we the guest
Thine the mercy
all from Thee
Thine the glory
yet to be
Then the ringing
and the singing
then the end
of all the war
Thine the living
Thine the loving
evermore
evermore.

Thine the kingdom
Thine the prize
Thine the wonder
full surprise
Thine the banquet
then the praise
then the justice
of Thy ways
Thine the glory
Thine the story
Then the welcome
to the least
Then the wonder
all increasing
at Thy feast
at Thy feast.

Thine the glory
in the night
no more dying
only light
Thine the river
Thine the tree
Then the Lamb
eternally
Then the holy
holy holy
celebration
jubilee
Thine the splendor
Thine the brightness
only Thee
only Thee.
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Tennessee Senate passes (25-6) bill banning chemtrails, goes to House

The Tennessee Senate has passed a bill targeting "chemtrails."

SB 2691/HB 2063, sponsored by Rep. Monty Fritts, R-Kingston, and Sen. Steve Southerland, R-Morristown, passed in the Senate on Monday. The bill has yet to advance in the House.

"The intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited," the bill reads.

There are six Democrats in the TN Senate. They were the nays.


Text of bill

The Southern border invasion intensifies -

A mob of 300 over run military at Southern Border


Interesting point - there didn't seem to be any woman or children, but all military age men.
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Pig kidney transplant

In a medical first, surgeons at Mass General hospital have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62 year old renal failure patient. The organ is from a genetically altered strain of pigs that is less likely to incite rejection. Pig kidneys are also very similar in size and shape to human kidneys. And they have 2 kidneys, just like us, so the donor won’t suffer any problems.

For years, animal-to-human xenotransplantation has been considered as a possible solution to a lack of human organs. The link has more details on how the genetic editing was accomplished. It will be very interesting to see how this works out.

In a First, Genetically Edited Pig Kidney Is Transplanted Into Human

Pray that Catherine, Princess of Wales, is completely healed of cancer so that she lives a Long life well into her 100s

Pray that Catherine, Princess of Wales, is completely healed of cancer so that she lives a Long life well into her 100s:

Terrorist attack in Moscow at Crocus City Hall: Multiple Fatalities Being Reported

Explosions and gunfire rocked a large venue in Moscow late on Friday after three men dressed in camouflage opened fire on a crowd and a blaze took hold of the building, the RIA Russian state news agency reported, citing its correspondent on the ground.

This story is developing


Major contradiction: John 2 versus Matthew 4

In John 1 Jesus is baptized by John the Baptist. In John 2 however, it shows Jesus attending the wedding at Galilie with his followers apparently. where he makes all that wine form water. He also says that His time has not yet come in response to His mother, but apparently he had some disciples with Him already, meaning His ministry was underway. But in Matthew 4 after Jesus was baptized it says He went into the wilderness to be tempted 40 days before commencing His ministry. So which is it? Where did Jesus go after being baptized by John the Baptist?

Seeing things like this is really starting to scare me.
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Disgusting businesses and their despicable practices

Opulence, exclusivity and cost: these qualities give a brand its luxury status and keep it in high demand among consumers.

A number of labels are willing to take extreme measures to maintain these attributes and prevent their products from ending up in the wrong hands.

Hermès, the latest brand facing scrutiny, is currently embroiled in a lawsuit filed by two customers, alleging that the fashion house imposes expensive requirements on clients to qualify for the chance to purchase one of its bags.

Burberry admitted to burning unsold goods, while H&M was intentionally destroying 12 tonnes of unsold clothing each year.

Furthermore, Richemont, the parent company of Cartier and Montblanc, disposed of £400million worth of designer watches to prevent unauthorised resale.

Hermès

Hermès is currently embroiled in a lawsuit filed by two customers who claim that the fashion house enforces costly prerequisites for clients to be eligible to purchase one of its bags.

Hermès is being accused of antitrust and unfair business practices after taking advantage of the 'unique desirability, incredible demand and low supply' of the designer bags.

The lawsuit was filed by the plaintiffs, Tina Cavalleri and Mark Glinoga, in Northern California on Tuesday.

Tina and Mark have alleged that Hermès uses the exclusive bags to boost their sales of other products - claiming that shoppers are told to develop a close relationship with their sales associate and work their way up to procuring the handbag by purchasing other items first.

The duo has accused the design house of having 'a scheme to exploit the market power' of the Birkin, by 'requiring consumers to purchase other, ancillary products from [it] before they will be given an opportunity to purchase.'

The plaintiffs accused Hermès sales associates of having the ability to 'only offer Birkin handbags' to people with the correct purchase history of other products, including shoes, belts, scarves and more.

Tina said in the complaint that she ended up spending tends of thousands of dollars, and when she asked about buying another Birkin in September 2022, the sales associate said that those bags go to 'clients who have been consistent in supporting our business.'

Burberry

Continued below.

Why is fornication a sin ?

Hi,

Is it written clearly in the bible that fornication is a sin, no doubt about this.
But the question is why is it a sin ?
If two fully grown responsible financially stable adults decide to fornicate what could go wrong ?
They say unwanted pregnancy ? Wel take birth control pill and use condom, unwanted pregnancy won't happen.
They say STD, well get tested first before being intimate.
They say if you are intimate and then decide to breakup it will hurt, well it will hurt those two people only, what if the two people are fully aware of this and still decide to do it, no pain no gain they say ? no risk no pain no reward they say ?

Br,

Give Ear to Jesus

When we are born into this world, we are born with sin natures, without God, without hope, and destined to spend eternity in hell. God loved us so much, though, that he sent his only begotten Son into the world that whoever believes in him should not perish but should have everlasting life with God. God is not willing that any of us should perish, but that all of us should come to repentance and to faith in his Son, Jesus Christ. When we repent, we turn from our lifestyles of sin, and we turn to follow Jesus Christ with our lives. We die to sin in order that we might live to righteousness – all in the power of the Spirit living within us.

Many people do not yet know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Some people profess to know him, but they never repented of their sins, and thus they were not born again, crucified with Christ to sin, that they might live to him and to righteousness. Others know him, but they are not walking with him in obedience. They have drifted from their pure devotion to their Lord, and they need to be brought back. Any of these may be living to please self, and may be caught up in wasting their lives away on what will never satisfy the deep longings of their souls. So, the encouragement here is to call on Jesus, to listen to him, to turn from your sins, and to walk in victory over sin, living to him and to his righteousness.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 15:1-11; Rom 1:18-32; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-24; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-11; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Heb 10:23-31; 1 Co 10:1-22; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

Give Ear to Jesus

An Original Work / February 16, 2016
Based off Isaiah 55


Call on your Savior.
Seek the Lord while He is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way;
Turn to the Lord.
God will have mercy.
He’ll forgive you of your sin.
He will freely pardon you
And give peace within.
Turn from your sin, follow Jesus,
Be cleansed from sin.

Give ear to Jesus.
Come to Him. Your soul will live.
Listen to Him speaking to you:
“Eat what is good.”
If you are thirsty,
Come to Jesus, drink from Him.
Drink His Spirit given to you.
Be born again.
Listen to Him. Do what He says.
Rejoice in Him.

God’s Word, eternal,
Will achieve what He desires.
He is willing none should perish,
Saved by His blood.
Share now the gospel.
Jesus died so we’d go free.
Walk in vict’ry,
Free from your sin, eternally.
Die to sin, and live to Jesus.
In Him believe.

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Who are You Following?

“If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it. Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.’
“But they say, ‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’
“Therefore thus says the Lord:
Ask among the nations,
Who has heard the like of this?
The virgin Israel
has done a very horrible thing.
Does the snow of Lebanon leave
the crags of Sirion?
Do the mountain waters run dry,
the cold flowing streams?
But my people have forgotten me;
they make offerings to false gods;
they made them stumble in their ways,
in the ancient roads,
and to walk into side roads,
not the highway,
making their land a horror,
a thing to be hissed at forever.
Everyone who passes by it is horrified
and shakes his head.
Like the east wind I will scatter them
before the enemy.
I will show them my back, not my face,
in the day of their calamity.” (Jeremiah 18:7-17 ESV)

Now, I am not going to go into the history of all of this, but I am going to share with you the message that I believe the Lord has for us today through this passage of Scripture. For when we believe in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives that is a marriage commitment to Jesus Christ. He is now our husband, and we are his bride, and he is now the authority over our heads. And now our commitment is to our relationship with him to be faithful, pure, honest, and to live to please him as our Lord and Savior.

But just like a marriage between a husband and a wife, it is a lifetime commitment, and it must be kept alive by the faithfulness of both – until death us do part. Only if we remain faithful to the Lord we will not depart from him, but we will live with him for eternity, so to the point of our death or to the point of his return when he takes his faithful bride home to be with him forever. But this requires that we remain faithful, and that our lives are committed to serving him and to doing whatever he says we are to do.

For we are not saved once and now all our sins are forgiven and now heaven is guaranteed us regardless of how we live. Like a “bank clearing,” our salvation from sin “denotes all activities from the time a commitment is made for a transaction until it is settled.” For we are saved (past), we are being saved (present active), and we will be saved (future) when Jesus Christ returns for his faithful bride and he takes us to be with him for eternity, which is when our salvation will be settled (completed).

[John 8:31-32; John 14:15,21,23-24; John 15:10; Romans 8:3-14,24; Romans 11:17-24; Romans 13:11; 1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 15:2; Galatians 5:16-21; Galatians 6:7-8; Ephesians 5:3-6; Colossians 1:21-23; 2 Timothy 2:10-13; 2 Peter 1:5-11; Hebrews 3:6,14-15; Hebrews 5:9; 1 Peter 1:5; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 2:15; 1 John 2:24-25; 1 John 3:4-10,24; 1 John 4:19-20; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 2:24; John 10:27-30, etc.]

Therefore, we must be careful that we do not take God’s word lightly and that we think we know better and that we can chart our own course and go our own way while giving him a “passing hi.” But this is what many are doing these days, not listening to the Lord, not heeding his counsel and his warnings, but walking it alone without the Lord and without his guidance and protection. For they have convinced themselves that no harm will come to them because they made some profession of faith in Jesus Christ one time.

So they have this false sense of security that God will not judge them, and that nothing will come against them, and that they will be safe in the arms of Jesus regardless of how they treat him in return. But the New Testament Scriptures do not teach that. Please read the noted Scriptures above. If we walk according to the flesh, and not according to the Spirit, and if we walk in sin, and not in obedience to our Lord, we don’t even know God, we are not in fellowship with Christ, and heaven is not our eternal destiny. Hell is!

But so many people professing faith in Jesus Christ, at least here in America, are making their own path to follow, and they are not following the ways of the Lord as defined for us in the New Testament Scriptures. They ignore what they do not want to hear and they only listen to what makes them feel good, or what agrees with how they want to live their lives. And so they ignore all the warnings to us in the Scriptures because those make them uncomfortable. So they say, “Tell us pleasant things.”

But sadly, if any of us ignore the commands of the Lord, and we decide to go our own way, and not the way he has for us to go, then we are in serious danger of judgment, especially if we know the ways of the Lord but we decide to go our own way, instead. And I am well aware that this passage in Jeremiah is from the Old Testament, but the New Testament gives us similar warnings with similar or equal consequences. For we cannot ignore God and go our own way and still have eternal life with God (Matthew 7:21-23).

Have Thine Own Way, Lord

Words by Adelaide A. Pollard, 1907
Music by George C. Stebbins, 1907


Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Thou art the potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me after Thy will,
While I am waiting, yielded and still.

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Search me and try me, Master, today!
Whiter than snow, Lord, wash me just now,
As in Thy presence humbly I bow.

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Wounded and weary, help me I pray!
Power, all power, surely is Thine!
Touch me and heal me, Savior divine!

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Hold o'er my being absolute sway.
Fill with Thy Spirit till all shall see
Christ only, always, living in me!

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"Speak to Us Smooth Things"

“Then they said, ‘Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.’
“Hear me, O Lord,
and listen to the voice of my adversaries.
Should good be repaid with evil?
Yet they have dug a pit for my life.
Remember how I stood before you
to speak good for them,
to turn away your wrath from them.” (Jeremiah 18:18-20 ESV)
“For they are a rebellious people,
lying children,
children unwilling to hear
the instruction of the Lord;
who say to the seers, ‘Do not see,’
and to the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us smooth things,
prophesy illusions,
leave the way, turn aside from the path,
let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.’” (Isaiah 30:9-11 ESV)

Times really haven’t changed all that much. What they said to the prophets of old they will say to us who speak the truth of the Scriptures to the people today. Especially in today’s world here in America, which has infiltrated the American church, at large, we are going to hear more and more people tell us to stop sharing the stuff that people don’t want to hear and to speak to the people what makes them feel good, whether or not it is the truth.

But so much of what they are sharing are Scriptures being taught outside of their appropriate context, and thus they are being applied in ways which are not biblical. For even all of God’s promises in the New Testament to his people have conditions that must be met for those promises to be fulfilled. So if we tell the people the promises, as though they apply to them, when they do not, we are lying to them, and lies are never kind, but they destroy!

But don’t be surprised if you are teaching what the Scriptures teach, in context, if you have others who profess faith in Jesus Christ oppose you and speak out against you and what you are doing. Don’t be surprised if they try to talk you out of teaching the fulness of the Scriptures and if they try to convince you to dilute and to alter the Scriptures to make them more appealing and appeasing to human flesh and to the ungodly of the world.

For so many people today who profess faith in Jesus Christ are unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord, for it makes them uncomfortable. And so they will say to those who are teaching the Scriptures, in their fulness, the same kinds of things that were said to the prophets of old. They will want us to stop speaking what is right, and they will want us to speak to them “smooth things” and “illusions” that make them feel good.

They will want us to leave the way of the truth and the way of righteousness and to teach the broad road as the road leading to heaven and to life eternal rather than us teaching the narrow (restricted) road as the only path to life with God. For they are listening to these teachers who are telling them that the truth is “negative” and the lies (half-truths) are “positive,” and that we need to be less negative (or not negative) and more (or only) positive.

But they have “negative” and “positive” flip-flopped. For it is positive to tell people the truth that they need to hear, if spoken in love, and it is negative to dilute the truth to make it less offensive to people and thus to lie to them and to give them a false hope of salvation from sin and of eternal life with God based in a deliberate half-truth (lie). Lies may feel good in this life, but they won’t feel good when Jesus says, “Depart from me, I never knew you!”

So, if we are followers of Jesus Christ, we need to keep speaking the truth of the Scriptures, in context, and not be those who alter the truth to make people feel good. Jesus never altered the truth to make people feel good about themselves. In fact, many who had followed him ceased to follow him for they found his teachings to be too hard to listen to. And most everyone called for his crucifixion, even though he had only done good to them.

So, don’t be surprised if, when you are teaching the truth, that you are not well liked, and if people pull away from you and don’t listen to you and don’t want to hear what you are saying, and if they try to convince you to change what you are teaching to make it more acceptable to human flesh. For that is how they treated the prophets of old, and that is how they treated Jesus, and that is how they treated the NT apostles. But remain faithful to God!

[Matt 5:10-12; Matt 10:16-25; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 6:22-23; Lu 21:12-19; Jn 15:1-21; Jn 16:33; Jn 17:14; Ac 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Rev 6:9-11; Rev 7:9-17; Rev 11:1-3; Rev 12:17; Rev 13:1-18; Rev 14:1-13]

All Through the Night

An Original Work / December 7, 2013
Based off Various Scriptures


Blessed are you when you’re persecuted
Because of your faith in Jesus Christ.
Blessed are you when people insult you,
And falsely say what leads folks to doubt.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is
Great in the heavens. You’re not alone.

When you are persecuted in one place,
Flee to another. God will be there.
You will be hated by all the nations
Because you testify of God’s grace.
Many will seize you and persecute you,
And put to death the foll’wers of Christ.

Yet do not fear what humans may do to you,
For I’m with you all through the night.
I tell you, love your enemies with my love,
And forgive as I forgave you.
Pray for those who do evil against you.
Rest in my love and grace from above.

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Feel afraid God wont help me

I'm so scared bc I'm not doing my fast perfectly. I didn't read much. I prayed but probably not enough. I'm doing all this on very little sleep and drinking energy drinks just so I can get up and get my kids, clean my home,make dinner and go to work.

I called my Dr's office still no luck.

I'm so afraid God won't help me. I feel I'm not someon3 he cares for and I have to twist his arm to care about som3thing major like this.

I'm afraid God will let me d*e

I'm scared b c I can't get God to care anymore than I need him too. I'm terrified b c I'm doing all I know. Idk what else to do besides scream.

I have so much going for me I don't get why I'm dealing with this now.

I wish there were help for me. I feel hopeless

Russia Preps for Large Scale Conflict with NATO

A leading war think tank has said several indicators point to Russia preparing for a large-scale conflict with Nato.

The US-based Institute for the Study of War said: “Putin’s attempts to set conditions to stabilise Russia’s economy and finances are most likely part of... preparations for a potential future large-scale conflict with NATO and not just for a protracted war in Ukraine.”

The think tank also referred to Polish president Andrzej Duda’s interview in March where he cited German research that indicates “Putin is intensifying efforts to shift Russia to a war economy with the intention of being able to attack NATO as early as 2026 or 2027”.

This morning, foiled Russia‘s largest attack on Kyiv in weeks – with the country’s air force saying all 31 missiles used in the assault had been shot down.

At least 17 people were injured in Kyiv and the surrounding area by falling debris. Schools, residential buildings and industrial facilities were also damaged, Ukrainian officials said.

The attack on Kyiv comes a day after a Russian missile hit an industrial area in Ukraine’s northern city of Kharkiv, killing five.

Ron Johnson did Russia's 'bidding' on Biden, ex-Giuliani figure Lev Parnas tells Congress.

Ron Johnson did Russia's 'bidding' on Biden, ex-Giuliani figure Lev Parnas tells Congress.​


A former associate of ex-Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday accused Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson of “doing the bidding” of Russia in his attempts to find evidence of corruption linked to the Biden family.

Lev Parnas, who worked with Giuliani to dig up damaging information in Ukraine on Joe Biden and his son Hunter in the runup to the 2020 election, mentioned the Oshkosh Republican as he described to the House Oversight Committee efforts from Donald Trump and allies to “manipulate the public” with unvetted information about the Bidens.

Parnas told the panel that Donald Trump, Giuliani and “various cohorts of individuals in government and media positions” lied to the public. He said accusations of Biden’s corruption “were untrue then, and they’re untrue now.”

“Congressman Pete Sessions, then-Congressman Devin Nunes, Sen. Ron Johnson and many others understood they were pushing a false narrative,” Parnas testified. He referenced right-wing media personalities and Fox News for using “this narrative to manipulate the public ahead of the 2020 election.”

"Sen. Ron Johnson was our guy in the Senate," Parnas said later in the hearing. "It was told to me that when we push the information, he's gonna push it in the halls of Congress."


This has been going on since Republicans took the House. It is looking more and more like a fake probe that's turning into a big joke.

Americans Fight to Get Off ‘Medical Death Row’ Over Vaccination Status


Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, represents Americans in religious freedom cases who have been turned away from hospitals because they refuse to take a vaccine for COVID-19.

“It’s disgraceful to put anyone on medical death row simply because they’re not willing to take a very controversial experimental vaccine, which is now proven to be very counterproductive,” Dacus tells “The Daily Signal” podcast in an interview conducted in February at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention here.

Some of the Pacific Justice Institute’s clients need organ transplants, he says, but “a minority of hospitals” are denying them.


“Most say no problem, you don’t have to be vaxxed, but these few out there are saying yes, you have to, and it just so happens we discovered they have contracts with Big Pharma,” Dacus says.

The lawyer argues that “more than 99% of those in the hospital with COVID-19, with serious conditions, are people who were vaxxed. The non-vaxxed are not in the hospitals, and yet [a minority of hospitals] continue to push it.”

“We’re defending people based on their sincerely held religious beliefs and convictions, and—needless to say—we’re making great progress and saving thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of jobs for brothers and sisters in Christ across the nation,” Dacus says. “There has been a more than a 13,000% increase in the number of 12- to 19-year-olds who have myocarditis, a very serious heart inflammation disease.”

Dacus cites a 2022 study from the British Medical Journal finding “net harm” caused by booster shots for young adults.

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