A faithful Christian should fast for those who need help.

Now a lot of people read verse one, stop there, and decide that all judging is wrong. But not all judging is wrong. In fact, 1 Corinthians 5:12-13 says:


So all judging is not wrong. We are to judge unrepentant blatant sexual immorality within the church. We are to judge those inside the church according to the Scriptures, and with regard to sin and to lies and to false teachings and to false teachers and hypocrisy, etc. All throughout the New Testament we are taught to make judgements about all sorts of things and people and doctrines and forms of religion, etc. And we are given many instructions in what we are to do with regard to those situations, too.

And in the last devotion titled, “Restore in a Spirit of Gentleness,” we are encouraged to make a judgment about someone who is caught in a sin and in order to restore that person back to proper working condition, spiritually speaking (Galatians 6:1-5). And in another passage we are encouraged that, if anyone among us (the church) wanders from the faith and someone brings him back (into proper relationship with the Lord), whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death (James 5:19-20).

And then we read in John 7:24: “Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.” And we read this in Jude 1:22-23: “And have mercy on some, who are doubting; save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.” And in order to have mercy and to save people and to snatch them out of the fire it involves us making judgments with regard to their spiritual condition. Otherwise, what are we saving and snatching them from?

And then we read this in Romans 2:3: “Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?” And we read this in 2 Corinthians 10:12: “Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.” So, what issues are being dealt with here?

What I see here is that the Bible teaches us not to judge falsely, to not judge hypocritically, and to not judge others by ourselves, presuming that they are like us and therefore their motivations for doing what they do are the same as ours. And we are not to judge by appearances, for we may have the wrong impression by appearances alone, either in favor of a person or in disfavor of them. So we are to be fair in all our judgments. And we should not judge people without even hearing their side of the story.

Also we should not judge others by human standards and by cultural or religious or family traditions and practices, i.e. we should not judge them by what we do and by what we have been taught to do or not to do if it is something of the flesh and of culture and religion that is man-made religion. We should also not judge by hate and prejudice nor by upbringing. But all judging must be biblical, and it needs to be done in love, always with the goal to love other humans as Jesus loved us and died to set us free from sin.

Galatians 6:1-5; James 5:19-20; 1 Corinthians 5:1-13; Matthew 7:1-5; John 7:24,51; John 8:15-16; Romans 2:3; 2 Corinthians 10:12; Jude 1:22-23

So, it isn’t that we are not to make judgments at all, but that we are to make just and kind and loving and honest judgments for the good of other people. And so we have this example in today’s passage which scolds the person who makes judgments against someone who has a minor fault, and perhaps only one offense ever, but while he (or she) has a humongous offense against God going on within his own heart, mind, and actions, which is deliberate and habitual and premeditated and harmful to others.

So this, in particular, is addressing the issue of hypocritical judging, which was also addressed in Romans 2:1-5. So, all judging is not wrong. What is wrong is hypocritical, false, unfair, unjust, prejudicial, hateful, spiteful, and lying judgments which are based on the flesh of humans and on their own thinking and reasoning and practices and culture and traditions, and on their own character and way of doing things, and not on the word of God, and not out of a heart of love and genuine heartfelt concern for them.

So, when you must judge, make certain that your judgment is fair, honest, loving, kind, merciful, compassionate, helpful, and biblically founded, even if you must exercise tough love and speak the truth in love to others who may not want to hear it or accept it. And judge rightly, not from the flesh. First take the log out of your own eye, then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s (or sister’s) eye, i.e. first make certain you are not engaged in sinful behaviors before you try to correct others’ mistakes.

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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I was hoping that once enough people realized the unprecedented numbers of rapes of women and child sex trafficking that enough Americans would stand up to the Biden administration border policies. When that didn't happen I, and many others, have tried to emphasize that the crime problem will spread throughout the country. The cartels have made big money from trafficking, the Biden administration facilitated by not DNA checking all kids to make sure they were with a relative and sending the children to a location of their choice. With very open borders, when MS-13 loses a member due to the U.S. government arresting and prosecuting and jailing that member, an expensive task, now ten more recruits can be sent to take his place. With big money comes bribery, that's what happened in Mexico, the cartels expanded into almost every walk of life. You can bet the money will flow to U.S. politicians and judges and our young people who want to make a fast buck.

Sadly, we live in a “Christian” culture here in America where this is not only not being put into practice, as a general rule, but where it is being frowned upon and called “judgmental” and “legalistic” and “intolerant,” etc. For the big push right now is to say only what is positive and what feels good and what makes other people feel good, even to those who are living in gross immorality against the Lord and against their spouses. And so we are told to “stay in your own lane,” which means to “mind your own business.”

But this word “restore” means to “bring into its proper condition,” to “adjust to be in good working order.” It is a medical term used for “setting dislocated limbs.” And how do they do that? They'll carefully push and pull on the dislocated joint to move it back into alignment. So this is not painless. But the most important treatment for a dislocation is putting your joint back in its correct place. And that is the entire object of restoring a Christian who has fallen back into sin back to being in good working order spiritually.

And, according to 1 Corinthians 5, this applies, as well, to those who call themselves Christians and who are those who are part of the gatherings of the church (or of what is falsely being called “church”). Church discipline must be exercised in such cases for the sole purpose to bring the person who is living in sin, particularly in sexual immorality, back to (or to for the first time), proper spiritual working order that should be for the one who professes the name of Jesus and who claims heaven as his eternal destiny.

Now the same discipline would not be required of a Christian who fell back into sin but then repented, in truth, and returned to walking in fellowship with the Lord, as would be applied to the professing Christian who is living in deliberate and habitual sin (including sexual immorality), and is part of the gatherings of the church, but who has not repented, in truth, but who is continuing in his sinful practices. But to put a bone out of joint back into place is not generally a quick and easy fix. And it is not without pain.

Now those who are to be like the doctor putting the joint back in place are those who are spiritual, i.e. those who are walking in obedience to the Lord, in practice, and who are living godly and holy and morally pure and upright lives in the power of God. They should not be the spiritually immature, and especially they should not be those who barely have escaped sin’s deceitfulness themselves and who may be tempted to return to that sin if they are trying to help a brother or a sister in Christ to be restored.

And those who are the ones to help restore a fallen Christian back to his proper working order as a child of God are to do so with gentleness (meekness, humility). But meekness is not weakness, and so it is not so gentle that it does not truly help the fallen one to come back into proper working order spiritually. For Jesus was meek but he was not weak in calling sin what it is and in telling us what we need to do about it, and in warning us of the consequences if we remain in that sin and do not turn and follow him.

So, another term for this gentleness (meekness) is “gentle-force.” And I picture a doctor trying to put a dislocated limb back into place using such “gentle-force,” too. So it is not painless, and there is force involved, but it is a force accompanied with humility and compassion, but not so much compassion that you are afraid to do what is necessary to get that bone out of joint back in its proper working order. Can you picture this with me? If we are too soft on sin, the fallen one may continue in his sin without change.

So, this involves what we call “tough love.” It is definitely love, for it has the best in mind for the person being helped, but it is not afraid to cause more pain in order to correct the problem and to restore the fallen one back to proper working order, spiritually speaking. So this is also what it means to speak the truth in love to one another which is what we are commanded to do in the Scriptures, and to exhort one another, so that none of us are led astray, and so none of us are hardened by sin, but so we follow Jesus.

And going right along with all of that is that we are to bear one another’s burdens, and this does not mean to placate sin or to give the addict a pass, but it means to feel deeply and to express deeply our love and our concern for those who are still living in deliberate and habitual sin, or who have fallen back into sin, and we are to care enough about them to pray for them and to speak the truth in love to them, and to do what is necessary to get them in proper working condition, spiritually, because we care deeply about them.

[Matt 5:13-16; Matt 28:18-20; Jn 4:31-38; Jn 13:13-17; Jn 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:14-18; Acts 26:18; Rom 10:14-15; Rom 12:1-8; Rom 15:14; 1 Co 12:1-31; 1 Co 14:1-5; Eph 4:1-16; Eph 5:17-27; Php 2:1-8; Col 3:16; Heb 3:13; Heb 10:23-25; 1 Pet 2:9,21; 1 Jn 2:6]

But we must all test ourselves and examine our own hearts and motives and processes to make certain that we are in line with the word of God and that we have a fair and honest assessment of our own lives and how we are living so that we are not being hypocritical, and so that we do not try to take the speck out of someone else’s eye while we have a log in our own that needs to be removed first. For we are not to think of ourselves as something if we are nothing. So we should first judge our own hearts.

And no matter the outcome, whether the person we speak to – who we are trying to help get back in (or in for the first time) proper spiritual working order – accepts our help or rejects it, we can rest assured that if we followed the counsel of the Lord and the truth of what the Scriptures teach that we have fulfilled our biblical responsibility to a brother or to a sister in Christ. And then we need to place that individual in the hands of the Lord and trust the Lord to work in his or her heart.

Now, several times lately the Lord has put in my mind this secular song which I believe I am to see more in a spiritual light than what the author intended. And I am to replace “Sun” with “Son” and trust the Lord that everything is going to be alright, even if it doesn’t look that way right now. And that doesn’t mean that all is going to be good and that evil is going to disappear. In fact, it is going to get much worse. But, regardless of what is happening all around me, I need to hear the Lord say, “It’s alright.”

Here Comes the Sun

By George Harrison

Here comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's alright

Little darlin', it's been a long, cold, lonely winter
Little darlin', it feels like years since it's been here
Little darlin', the smile's returning to their faces
Little darlin', it seems like years since it's been here
Little darlin', I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darlin', it seems like years since it's been clear

Here comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's alright

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I have been following Jesus for just over a year now. I am very very new to this. Obviously I am working constantly to get sins under control. I see the Lord helping me in so many areas, Swearing, Using his name in vain, self control, anger, etc. There is change, and I am very happy and thankful for that. But then theres lust. I cannot drop it. No matter how hard I try I fall. Every single time. I can go into it saying "Bring it satan, I got the Lord with me" and I will still fall. It doesnt matter how determined I am. I have been doing this all my life so naturally I probably have a bit of an addiction going on. But im tired of failing God. Im tired of willful sin. Somebody help. I am willing to fight like heck, I just need to know where to start.

Using doubles , actors , masks etc.
The first half of this vid is Riccardo bosi explaining how they intend to wake up the normies and the second half is an American guy mainly talking about the US.

Both are letting us know that what we are seeing is simply theatre being played out , and all in the hope of waking people up.
Bosi says there are people out there who will never wake up no matter what , except when they see their bank account at 0. Now that has got to be concerning...

Well we all know that 2024 is going to be one hell of a year , with the black hats going all out to try and stop Trump , so lets all hope this plays out well.
And if it doesn't , oh well maybe we will go into a full on Mad Max scenario. There are no guarantees in this war , which is why they are trying to wake people up , the more people who are awake the more chance we have of standing up to the bad guys.

Riccardo Bosi - Where are we at with the normies - GAME THEORY MILITARY OPERATIONS - PATIENCE NCSWIC

King Saul had a toxic personality who had erratic mood swings especially when it came to how he treated David.
To elaborate, at certain times he would be nice to King David, and other times, he would become cruel. For example, 1 Samuel 19:7-10 & 1 Samuel 24:8-22 are biblical passages that show how King Saul's treatment of David was erratic.
Therefore, King Saul's reconciliations with David ultimately failed because of King Saul own actions.

Finally, in 1 Samuel 26:20-25 bible passage, there is another chance for King Saul to reconcile with David. The 1 Samuel 26:21 verse quotes Saul request to David to return which is an attempt to reconcile. However, David knows from his past experience that King Saul will go back to treating David badly again. Therefore, in in 1 Samuel 26:20-25, David ultimately quietly and subtly just avoids having any sort of relationship with King Saul. Essentially, David decides to Avoid having a relationship with a toxic personality like King Saul.

David experiences with a toxic personality like King Saul, and David ultimate decision to end his relationship with King Saul should serve as a good example for us Christians. In other words, David does Not take revenge by vengefully attacking King Saul due to his poor treatment of David Instead, David wisely (Matthew 5:39) turns the other cheek by just deciding to end his relationship with King Saul by avoiding him.

Elections will soon be a quaint relic of the past, says globalist Klaus Schwab, who points to AI as the coming King of Democracy.

World Economic Forum founder and chairman Klaus Schwab showed his true Nazi colors today at Davos, saying that nations will soon no longer need to bother holding “elections” because voters could easily be replaced by artificial intelligence.
AI is more than capable of choosing a nation’s leaders, he said.
Schwab made the bone-chilling comments during a WEF interview with Google co-founder Sergey Brin, which was posted to X by Ezra Levant of Rebel News.

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Not too long ago a kid got accused of being a racist for wearing a native American headdress and painting his face half red and black during a sports event. After backlash from sane people and the threat of a lawsuit, the sport media updated its story in an attempt to somewhat (insincerely) apologise. Now another kid got the same treatment for wearing black face-paint in his school's sport event. He was suspended for 2 days and banned from all other sporting events by the school. Now the parents are threating legal lawsuit.

Why are adults in America so much more moronic than kids nowadays? The kid knew it. He was doing in the sprit of sports. The adults on the other hand were punishing him in the spirit of political correctness. One look at the picture and you would know it's a sporting thing. Athletes wear them all the time. It takes people but a few seconds to search this on the internet. Yet educators can't discern the difference? But IMHO it's not that they couldn't but rather they wouldn't.

All this is happening on a more frequent basis due to the social environment fostered by prolong indoctrination of (2 decades long) political ideology. A spectrum of political ideology that indoctrinated people to be hypersensitive to anything racial (rightly or wrongly). To a hammer everything looks like a nail.

Truth no longer matters as long as there is outrage to be had and someone's feeling trumps the liberty of others.

There is no return to the Old Covenant people when Christ returns. Christ mediates over the people of the New Covenant, which affirms Revelation pertains to the Church, not the Old Covenant people. The contradictions of futurism continue in their view of Christ’s parables when Ice writes,


Ice, like all futurists, sees the scattering of Israel as undetermined; God did not predestine Israel’s response at the first advent. God did not foresee the Church in theological libertarianism. As a result, all apocalyptic prophecy pertains to Israel, not the Church in futurism and preterism. Even so, all the judgments in Revelation are by Christ; he ministers the New Covenant upon the Church, not the Old. Christ is not a Levite. The judgment between the good seed sown in the world and the tares is under the New Covenant. Revelation’s seven churches in Asia Minor vindicate Christ as judge over the Church. How could the good seeds be saved except by Christ in this Age?

The OT prophecies about Christ’s wounding and his return to gather Israel predicted our age between two advents. Ice’s view is unsustainable considering the numerous Old and NT passages about Christ’s wounding and Israel’s scattering, demonstrating divine foreknowledge that most of Israel would reject Christ as Zechariah prophesied. God’s prophets prophesied, and “it came to pass” (Deuteronomy 18:22). Ice preaches the sowing represents “two advents—His first and second comings,” but also teaches about a secret return in which hundreds of thousands of people disappear according to futurism. That’s three advents, not two! How is Christ’s return a secret when hundreds of thousands disappear? Ice also sees a third type of person when there are but two in the parable: the tares and the good seeds form “the kingdom of God.” The good seeds are harvested into the barn in the end. The saints are obviously “the good seeds,” and the tares are the lost. There is no third distinction in the parable.

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[1] Thomas Ice, "Consistent Biblical Futurism (Part 4)," Pre-Trib Research Center, Consistent Biblical Futurism (Part 4) - by Thomas Ice - The Pre-Trib Research Center

What makes it easier to follow God’s word is that God wants what best for me since he loves more than my family or friends can ever do.

Is that’s a good mindset to have as a Christian?

Pray that Jesus Christ's & His Gospel prevails over inter-religious inter-ethnic inter-ethnoreligious tensions, conflicts & rivalries in India:

Satanic Witchcraft My friend is hooked on this stuff.What do I do? They are dabbling.

Ron DeSantis Ends Campaign: "A Majority Of Republican Primary Voters Want To Give Donald Trump Another Chance"

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his presidential campaign and endorsed former President Trump in this video posted Sunday afternoon on Twitter, two days before the New Hampshire primary. "It's clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance," DeSantis said. "They watched his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance and they see Democrats using lawfare to this day to attack him." "While I have had disagreements with Donald Trump, such as on the coronavirus pandemic and his elevation of Anthony Fauci, Trump is superior to the current incumbent, Joe Biden," he said. "I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee, I will honor that pledge. He gets my endorsement because we can't go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents."

Full text of his speech is available at the link.

Hello all,

Recently as I've learned more theological concepts and ways of thought, I've come to the realization that my church embraces a biblical theology that prioritizes the gospel above all else. Now that's obviously not a bad thing, but what I mean is that everything stems around Jesus saying after his resurrection that everything in the old testament was talking about Him. This results in every single sermon, and every single sermon series having the main point being making a Christ connection. The preacher will spend 40 minutes explaining how any given passage points to Christ. Nothing else will be gleaned from said passage. So take the fall in the garden for instance. Instead of touching on temptation and how to deal with it, or how a marriage structure aught to work, you're only going to see how this passage calls for Christ, and points forward to Him. In fact people in the church tend to dislike pastors or be wary of preaching that isn't like this.

I'm curious what people's reactions are to this. Do you think this is a good thing? Is this healthy?

The Bible has a lot to say about righteousness by faith, including amongst others, Romans 3:21-22.

I'll admit that for years I struggled with sin, less so nowadays, mainly in my thought life. I was always baffled by 1 John 3:9, which stated that a believer cannot sin if he has been born again:

Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
1 John 3:9

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Scripture is innerant, so I must be at fault here. I got fed up with a church I was attending, as I felt the pastor was legalistic and spoke about not sinning more than righteosness by faith. So, I got into the grace movement led by ministers such as Joseph Prince. It made me feel better about myself and less guilty. But I still felt spiritually dry and it did nothing to stop me from sinning. After several years, I realised I had backslidden. Whilst I had clung to the belief that I was righteous by faith, I realised I was not living the godly life I had been called to. It's as if there's a distinction between righteousness (right standing with God) and godliness (living a life that pleases God).

After years of backsliding, I was brought to repentence through chastisement. But I'm still left wondering how to reconcile the differences between righteouness and godliness; how can our faith manifest itself in a life that pleases God? It's not always as simple as just wanting to live a godly life and following a list of rules, which is the law. This is especially the case, I believe, with thoughts and spoken words. James 3:8 says, "But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison."

We can be righteous by faith - can we also be godly by faith?

It is impossible to argue against Christ’s two advents at this late date. Christ is wounded, and Israel is scattered at the first advent and gathered into the barn upon his future return, confirming premillennialism and historicism. In an article titled Consistent Biblical Futurism Thomas Ice holds such contradictions when he writes,


Like all futurists, Ice fails to recognize that this age was prophesied and is the source of Christ’s parables. In analyzing preterism, we’ve given ample evidence Christ came to punish the shepherds and scatter the sheep, not to restore the kingdom of Israel. The seventy weeks in Daniel 9:24 are determined as an example of regarding events near but distant in cryptic language; even so, they have a determined end at the first advent and not beyond.

Futurists assert the seventy weeks are protracted because the “purpose” hasn’t been fulfilled. The purpose was to “finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy” (Daniel 9:24). The problem with the futurists’ imagination is that, as a whole, the Jewish people were never ordained to accept the Messiah, as we’ve already witnessed concerning the prophesied rejection of the cornerstone and the scattering of the sheep in the OT. In Romans 9:6, Paul stated, “For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel”. Paul means that only the elect are predestined to accept Christ, also affirmed in Romans 11. As the scripture declares, “many are called, but few are chosen” (Matthew 20:16, 22:14). The point is that at any specific time in history, not all people descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are saved. The tares grow alongside the good seeds. Only a chosen few, the elect, were preserved at the first advent. And with that chosen few, the purposes of the seventy weeks were fulfilled. When Christ remitted sin at the cross, all the transgressions of the elect were forgiven and ended in Christ. Christ made a complete reconciliation for the iniquity of the elect, which doesn’t have to be repeated when he returns. Christ established everlasting righteousness for the elect, which doesn’t have to be duplicated when he returns. Christ’s redemption sealed the prophecy and anointed the heavenly sanctuary when he ascended to the Father’s right hand, which doesn’t have to be accomplished again upon his return. Christ fully accomplished the purposes of the seventy weeks at the first advent.

The futurist dogmas expose free will or theological libertarianism. They take Paul’s declaration that “all Israel shall be saved” when the fullness of the Gentiles is accomplished in Romans 11:25-26 as if God compels or exerts His influence over the people descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at Christ’s return. But what prevented Him from making them accept Christ at the first advent? What they are asserting is theological libertarianism at the first advent and determinism at the second; it can’t be both. The prophecies that Christ would come to punish the shepherds and scatter the sheep vindicate theological determinism and destroy the futurist and preterist dogmas based on libertarianism. The seventy weeks have a determined end at the first advent and not beyond.

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[1] Thomas Ice, "Consistent Biblical Futurism (Part 4)," Pre-Trib Research Center, Consistent Biblical Futurism (Part 4) - by Thomas Ice - The Pre-Trib Research Center

Peace in Christ.

Joshua was a “type” for Jesus Christ.

With Jesus/Joshua (His manifest eternal life in this mortal body), we will also go unto the promise “land”….that is, to inherit this earth. We are to be rulers with Him in the age to come.

With Him, we will continue to live in this earth to see this (to inherit this earth) just as Caleb and Joshua did with the Promised Land while the unbelievers of Israel died off in the desert.

Deu 31:7
(7) And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land (earth) which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.

Caleb (meaning “faithful, whole-hearted”) was kept alive by the LORD….and so will we also by our faith in the name of Jesus Christ whose eternal life shall be made manifest in our mortal bodies in the here-and-now (in this present evil age) to keep us alive unto the coming age where we shall inherit this earth (the gospel/good news of the Kingdom).

This is not about “dying and going to Heaven”.

All of those who are perishing (mortally dying) have been deceived by false prophets and do not understand the true good news (gospel) of our Lord Jesus Christ for the here-and-now. They perish in the wilderness so to speak.

Jos 14:10-11 KJV
(10) And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

Caleb and Joshua continued to live on this earth to inherit the promised land while the unbelievers died in the wilderness and did not reach that destination.

Caleb and Joshua had “eternal life” in a sense as they were kept alive by the LORD to inherit the promised land. We also shall be preserved in this earth with the manifest eternal life of Jesus keeping us alive until we inherit the earth.

Num 26:65 KJV
(65) For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Num 14:24 KJV
(24) But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

Those who are dying have not truly believed. They have "believed" in vain.

Heb 3:17-19 KJV
(17) But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
(18) And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
(19) So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

The ends of the “world”….that is, AGE…are come upon us…so let us heed the warnings of what the people did in the wilderness (and died there) and not follow them. They are examples to us of what not to do so that we may continue to live here.

1Co 10:11-12 KJV
(11) Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
(12) Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

For we are to be delivered (plucked out) from this present evil age (in this “desert”) that we are currently living in by God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. “world” = “age”.

The 2 ages overlap as we shall have the eternal life of the next age to come NOW in Jesus Christ so that we may live on this earth until all of the kingdoms of this world become His…of which we become rulers of this earth with Him.

Gal 1:3-4
(3) Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
(4) Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world (AGE), according to the will of God and our Father:

We are NOT to be taken out of this world but rather to be kept from the evil of this present evil age.

Joh 17:14-16 KJV
(14) I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
(15) I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
(16) They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Our Savior Jesus Christ has rendered death idle and has brought life and immortality to light through the good news.

2Ti 1:9-10 KJV
(9) Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
(10) But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

Whosoever believes INTO Him (as His immortal life shall be made manifest in our mortal flesh) should not perish (mortally die from this earth) but have “eternal life”….the eternal life of the age to come to be had NOW in this present evil age. “eternal” = age lasting.

Joh 3:15-17 KJV
(15) That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
(16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
(17) For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Through faith in His name, He makes our “man” (our mortal body) strong in “perfect soundness” so that we may live.

Act 3:16 KJV
(16) And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

Note the lame beggar that was miraculously healed was “above 40 years old”. This is not just a trivial detail.

Act 4:21-22 KJV
(21) So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
(22) For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.

This detail of his age points back to Caleb who was also 40 years old in the desert and was made strong even until age 85 so that he could live in the desert until he could dwell in that promised land. He was kept alive for 45 years while in the desert.

Jos 14:10-11
(10) And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five (45) years , even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five (85) years old.
(11) As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.

But be aware of the false prophets among us. They lead us astray and overthrow faith so that we do not believe INTO Jesus. We are then destroyed with them from this earth. We perish along with them.

They deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jud 1:4-5 KJV
(4) For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
(5) I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

They deny the Holy One and the Just….the true Lord Jesus…and many desire “another jesus” that the false prophets are preaching (their “jesus” Barabbas…the preaching of the “son” of their church fathers).

Act 3:14-15 KJV
(14) But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;

The false prophets and their followers “kill the Prince of life” as the eternal life of Jesus is not being made manifest in the mortal flesh of those they are deceiving. His life is being aborted from this earth…. from being made manifest in the mortal flesh of those who are being deceived by them.

(15) And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

We and our “rulers” do it through ignorance. We do not have the true gospel of Jesus Christ being preached to us.

Act 3:16-17 KJV
(16) And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
(17) And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

The “princes of this age”….the church rulers…are in ignorance. If they knew what they were doing, they would not be currently crucifying the Lord of glory whom God has already raised from the dead. They do not know the true good news of Jesus Christ who brings our mortal bodies immortality in this earth in the here-and-now.

1Co 2:7-8 KJV
(7) But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
(8) Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things (such as death) are passed away. There shall be no more death. As He lives, we shall live in this earth.

2Co 5:17-18 KJV
(17) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
(18) And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Rev 21:4-5 KJV
(4) And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
(5) And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

Do Americans want an authoritarion government? Just last night, Trump reminded voters again that he admires the likes of Viktor Orban:

During a Saturday night rally, former president Donald Trump reiterated his praise for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has amassed functionally autocratic power by changing his country’s constitution and controlling the media. “It’s nice to have a strong man leading your country,”

The Democracy Project released a report last week summarizing Trump's plans to consolidate power in a 2nd term:


“As damaging as Trump’s first term was to American systems of constitutional government, culminating in his efforts to overturn an election and violently halt the counting of electoral votes by Congress, what he has promised in his own words to do if returned to office would be even more destructive to our Republic.”

Trump has already told us repeatedly what he plans to do, the authors write, but this time, he has the backing of “groups working to support those promises in preparation for a second Trump term.”

• Pardons to License Lawbreaking: During Trump’s first term, he discovered that he could leverage the pardon power to induce witnesses against him into silence. In a second term, he has indicated he would further abuse pardons to incite political violence, incentivize lawbreaking for his benefit, and render himself above the law.
• Directing Investigations Against Critics and Rivals: Retribution is the dominant theme of Trump’s 2024 campaign, and his allies are making plans to eliminate the Department of Justice’s traditional prosecutorial independence to give Trump greater personal control to direct law enforcement against his perceived opponents and insulate himself from accountability.
• Regulatory Retaliation: In addition to steering prosecutorial discretion via the Department of Justice, Trump has vowed to consolidate and wield federal regulatory power to reward political loyalty and punish his critics, particularly those associated with the media. There are numerous reports of this regulatory retaliation happening during Trump’s first term, and plans for a second include ways of removing those obstacles that limited opportunities for more.
• Federal Law Enforcement Overreach: Trump’s declaration that immigration is “poisoning the blood of our country” is a grim foreshadowing of how he will invoke the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime provision dating back to 1798. Once Trump has that power, he has also expressed his will to expand the footprint of federal law enforcement to police cities and shut down lawful protests.
• Domestic Deployment of the Military: A central hallmark of American democracy is that the U.S. military not be used against American citizens. But Trump plans to abuse the Insurrection Act to order military force to quash dissent and target vulnerable communities.

read the entire report here:

Hey, something interesting- an Iranian woman married into my family and I was curious about her country so I started watching YouTube videos of her country. If you watch YouTube videos on Iran you will see this, the country is so evil you can see it just watching the videos, something about the YouTube videos of Iran is disturbing! The whole country is now under the control of the enemy, there is so much darkness there you can see it! The atmosphere there is very grim! However if you watch these videos you will see this as well, almost none of iranian women are wearing the hijab (muslim head scarf) any more, almost not a soul! Things could start to turn around in that country in short order, they are ditching the hijab and burqa en-masse, lslam may start to lose it's grip on the country!

HCR reports:

Last night at a rally in New Hampshire, former president Trump repeatedly confused former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, who is running against him for the Republican presidential nomination, with Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the former speaker of the House.

“By the way, they never report the crowd on January 6th,” Trump told the audience. “You know, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, you know they, do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it. All of it because of lots of things, like Nikki Haley is in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people. Soldiers, National Guards, whatever they want. They turned it down.”

Observers have been saying for a while now that once Trump had to start appearing in public, his apparent cognitive decline would surprise those who haven’t been paying attention.

That certainly seemed to be true on Wednesday, January 17, when he told a New Hampshire audience: “We’re…going to place strong protections to stop banks and regulators from trying to debank you from your—you know, your political beliefs, what they do. They want to debank you, and we’re going to debank—think of this. They want to take away your rights. They want to take away your country. The things they’re doing. All electric cars.”

You can't argue with logic like that!

1. COLD OR HOT ANGER

• He added this article: The original Hebrew name of God re-discovered in 1,000 Bible manuscripts

• When I think about Daniel he tells us to trust only God!

• He kept faithful whatever happened!

• And he maintained his faithfulness in God!

• He did his job! And he was always in a hurry! That's why he was above the others in a foreign country!

• He didn't do it for him!

• Otherwise he would have been in trouble! And he didn't let others take him away from God!

• Men like Job, Samuel and Daniel spoke with the same voice to pray to God and to do his will!

• If they were living today they would be ashamed of men!

• And they would keep serving God whatever happens!

• When I think about Paul he also tells us to trust only God!

• I could say the same like in the case of Job, Samuel and daniel!

• But he also encourages us to serve God and do our best to help others to get to know the Bible and God's message!

• It is the best way to prepare for the future and for God's kingdom!

• It won't be a part-time job but a full -time job!

• And there won't be any other option!

• When I think about prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah I see men who told men of their time that God was going to destroy them!

• Destroy their way of life!

• They would lose everything they had!

• They were not afraid!

• But those men didn't care!

• And they lost everything!

• They just had to listen and make big changes in their lives!

• They had lost everything they were told!

• They thought it would never occur!

• And time passed!

• And the destruction happened!

• And everything that was told happened!

• And Now?

• Who listens to God's message?

• Isaiah = DESTRUCTION!

• Jeremiah = DESTRUCTION!

• Daniel = RECONSTRUCTION AND DESTRUCTION!

• Samuel = human kings replace God as king of Israel more problems for Israel!

• Next step = God's kingdom = DESTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION!

• Anything else to add?

• Will you get your pass for the promised land?

• The Hebews failed except two men: Joshua and Caleb!

• Think about that!

• They never understood anything!

• They didn't get ready!

• They were stubborn!

• So is mankind!

• Will you get ready?

• Or do you think you can get your pass for nothing?

• I see normal men who became men of action because they serve God faithfully!

• And their examples encourage us to take action!

• I can think of Samuel!

• He became a servant of God right at the beginning because of his mother!

• And he became jealous for God because the Israelites rejected God as their king!

• Instead they wanted a human king!

• And he stayed faithful as a high priest and as a judge before Israel!

• And he would do it all his life!

• I can think of Daniel!

• We are only told that he went to Babylon when he was a young man!

• But he kept faithful and he didn't let himself be influenced by Babylonian traditions!

• On the contrary, he kept strictly what he was taught!

• And he did everything to not only maintain his relationship to God but to improve it!

• In fact, he tells us that it is not possible to maintain a good relationship to God if we don't improve it!

• That's why it is necessary to study the Bible daily and speak about what we learn to others!

• And in fact, there was no one like him in Babylon!

• He had more knowledge and wisdom than anyone in babylon!

• And God was with him in everything he did!

• I can think of Job!

• He was always proud of his relationship to God!

• He was always proud of doing his best to do what was right!

• And he tells us to feel the same!

• He knew something was wrong!

• And he didn't know why!

• But his relationship to God was his compass!

• And nobody could break it!

• Not even the devil!

• When I think of Moses I have incredible images in mind!

• He was educated as a prince of Egypt!

• But he received a good education from his mother as a child!

• He chose his own people, not the Egyptians!

• And he had to flee and abandon everything behind him!

• And he became a shepherd!

• And God trained him when he was a shepherd living a simple life!

• And he chose him to free his people from Egypt!

• But he didn't think he was able to do it!

• And he was not good at speaking in front of others!

• So God told Aaron to go with him!

• And he became the leader of the Israelites! And he had to bear their rebellious nature!

• And they rebelled all the time!

• And he saved them twice from extermination!

• And he rescued them many times!

• But they died in the desert!

• And he couldn't get into the promised land!

• Because of one mistake!

• But a big one!

• And it was because of the Israelites!

• Thus we have a lot to learn about him!

• We must never think that our relationship to God is good enough!

• Not at all!

• We must keep strengthening it!

• Cold or hot anger?

• When Adam and Eve opposed God they lost many things and died!

• It wasn't any anger from God!

• It was only the price to pay for disobedience!

• A way to maintain the balance!

• Cold or hot anger?

• Cain became jealous of his brother Abel because God looked with favor on Abel but not on him!

• And Cain grew hot with anger!

• And God told him if he changed his attitude God could restore him to his favor!

• But instead of listening to God he killed his brother!

• So God cursed him and he was banished!

• And God prevented Cain from being killed!

• Once again no anger at all against Cain from God!

• Just God's justice or a just balance!

• Nothing more!

I am having a really weird thing happen. Certain thoughts will trigger a very sharp "Prick" somewhere on my body. It feels like ive been stung. Something in my head tells me this prick means whatever I was thinking about is false and it is God letting me know its false. The issue is, these things are ACCURATE and are always right. Even when im not thinking about them, if "God" doesn't like something I think about, ill get one. And, I gotta admit they are starting to scare me.

Has anyone else experienced this? Could this be from God?

These stuffed animals are sooooo adorable. But even though I want to order one, I notice they have alchemy signs on them. I like the mental health selection, plushie fruitfuls, and the latte lapins. However, take a look at them. Do they seem demonic to you? I don’t want to invite bad spirits into my house or go to hell. Can you give me your opinion please? Safe to buy?

Now the very specific context of this passage of Scripture is dealing with the issue of the Judaizers trying to convince the believers in Jesus Christ that they still had to (or that they newly had to) hold on to some of the Old Covenant liturgical and ceremonial and dietary laws and restrictions, including the command of God to the Israelites for circumcision (of males only, I presume). So what Paul was reminding them of is that in Jesus’ death and resurrection they were set free from those Old Covenant liturgical and ceremonial laws and customs. They were no longer under that law.

Now we still have Judaizers among us today who are still trying to convince Christians that they need to be more like Jews and that it would enhance their relationships with the Lord if they would follow some of those Old Covenant liturgical and ceremonial laws. And there are many Christians who are being captivated by what these Judaizers are teaching them, and so they are adding on to their faith these Jewish religious customs and ceremonies that do nothing at all to enhance their relationships with the Lord, but can serve, in truth, as a distraction from what God is calling them to do.

So, in context, the freedom they were called to was freedom from having to keep all those Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, and dietary laws and restrictions, including the requirement for circumcision. But as we will see as we continue to read in this passage of Scripture, this is not to be regarded as freedom from God’s moral laws, nor as complete freedom from having to obey God’s commandments to us under the New Covenant, which is what many are teaching these days, that we are free from having to obey the Lord. But he did not make us lawless.

In fact, in the Scriptures we read that our Lord died on that cross to deliver us from our slavery to sin so that we will walk in obedience to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. And we have many commands of God written down for us in the New Testament, under the New Covenant, that we are required of God to obey, in his power and strength. And we read under the New Covenant that if sin is what we obey, and not obedience to our Lord, and not righteousness, that we do not have eternal life with God, regardless of what faith we profess with our lips.

So, whether the issue is one of legalism, which is adding on to the commands of the Lord what he does not command, or whether it is liberalism (or libertinism) which removes from and which alters the commands of our Lord under the New Covenant to give people permission to keep living in sin, both are wrong. Both are contrary to the teachings of the Scriptures taught in context. For both are of the flesh of man (humans) and are not of God, not of his word. But the truth lies somewhere in between these two extremes. “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

For this word “love” is not based in human emotion. It is not based in what other people do for us or how they treat us. And it is not based in legalistic requirements not found in the Scriptures (under the New Covenant), and it is not based in this idea that we can sin as much as we want and still go to heaven. For this word “love” means, for the believer in Christ, to live through Christ, to embrace God’s will, to choose his choices, and to obey them in his power. And it means to prefer what God prefers which is what is holy, godly, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord.

So if we love our neighbors (all people) with this kind of love, we are not going to sin against them deliberately and habitually and premeditatedly. We are not going to lie to them and cheat on them and steal from them and slander them and hate them and be malicious towards them and to commit adultery against them (against spouses). But we are going to be kind and thoughtful and pure and righteous in how we treat them. And so we will not withhold the truth from them that they need to hear, either, in order to have them like us and not think evil against us.

So, even if we are set free from legalistic requirements, we are not to use that freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. For Jesus died to free us from our slavery (addiction) to sin so that we will obey him and live holy lives pleasing to him. Thus, our salvation from sin is not just forgiveness of sins and the hope of heaven when we die. Our salvation is freedom from our bondage to sin so that we will now walk in obedience to our Lord in holy living. Thus sin will no longer be our practice, but our practice will be to obey our Lord and to live for him and to do his will.

So don’t buy into the lies which tell you that you are free from having to obey our Lord’s commands under the New Covenant, or that you are free to sin without guilt and without punishment now. For Jesus said that not everyone who says to him, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING the will of God the Father. And he said that if we want to come after him that we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our lives of sin and if we do not deny self, die daily to sin, and obey our Lord, heaven is not our home.

[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 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-24; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-11; 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]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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