Peace in Christ.

The false prophet comes up out of the earth….that is, he is earthly-minded. (There are MANY false prophets…but it only takes one to deceive you.)

He serves in the capacity of the first beast of Revelation 13….the “another jesus” the antichrist.

His presence (Greek: parousia = presence) in the man-based churches is in accordance with the working of Satan. He...the false prophets... is already there...and they are MANY. They are taking down MANY to their graves. They are perishing under the false prophets.

2Th 2:8-10
(8) And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
(9) Even him, whose coming (Greek: parousia - PRESENCE) is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
(10) And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

He is only concerned about earthly things: what to eat, what to drink, what to wear. This is his motivation for “preaching” as they “preach themselves” and not the Lord Jesus Christ. They serve for their own belly….earthly things.

Rev 13:11-12 KJV
(11) And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

Rather than preaching the “Lamb slain”…dying to the sin, they remove the keeping of His daily sacrifice (the deadly wound was healed) from the lives of those who are being led astray by them.

They do not die to the sin but end up serving it instead and so the cross of Christ has been neutralized in those who are being deceived by them. The “deadly wound” is healed as they no longer keep the daily sacrifice of the Lord….the Lamb slain…the dying to the sin. They are enemies of the cross of Christ.

(12) And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

The false prophet has 2 horns like a lamb.

He has the form of godliness but denies the power thereof as he speaks as a “dragon” in his “preaching” of falsehoods….which denies the manifestation of the life of Jesus in our mortal flesh through the keeping of His daily sacrifice. The false prophets who are mortally perishing away to the grave are enemies of the cross of Christ.

The false prophet is a deceiver…and his preaching is of the antichrist (the first beast of Rev 13…the “another jesus”… that he is preaching through the spirit of error.)

The “another jesus” that he is presenting to you in his “preaching” is an “antichrist” and not the true Christ as he is not preaching the doctrine of Christ to you. He is not preaching that Jesus Christ IS COMING NOW in our mortal flesh.

2Jn 1:7 KJV
(7) For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

They do not bring this teaching of THE Christ. We must not receive them. Do not bid them "god speed"...that is, REJOICE...as they are rejoicing in this terrible situation as they are getting their earthly needs met in the deception of His people.

2Jn 1:9-10 KJV
(9) Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
(10) If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:

He is an enemy of the cross of Christ.

The cross of Christ has no effect upon the lives of those who he is deceiving….and so they mortally perish from this earth rather than receiving an age-lasting life which could be had by the keeping of His daily sacrifice….always keeping the dying of the Lord in our mortal bodies so that His life is made manifest in our mortal flesh. The "deadly wound" is healed as the daily sacrifice is removed from being kept and the sin is served which leads to mortal death.

2Co 4:10-11 KJV
(10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
(11) For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

The false prophet have a form of godliness but denies its power. The false prophet leads many into “captivity”…into the bondage of sin through the keeping and serving of church handwritings of dogmas….such as a “statement of faith” which is by definition a handwriting of dogmas (dogma = what one believes is true).

They judge others using their church handwritings of dogmas as a basis for. They judge others according to their own standard that they have thought was true…and they do this supposedly in the name/authority of God. This is serving THE sin that leads to our mortal death. The "daily sacrifice" is not being kept then and we die for the wages of THE Sin is the death.

2Ti 3:5-6 KJV
(5) Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
(6) For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

The false prophet leads many into captivity…yet they are captives of sin themselves. They are captives of decay. Those who “kill with the sword” are judging others. Do not judge, lest you be judged.

Rev 13:10 KJV
(10) He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

They mortally perish as they deny the power of God that keeps us alive by the keeping of the Lord’s daily sacrifice. The preaching of the cross if foolishness in those who are perishing…mortally perishing away to the grave. They have the form of godliness but deny its power. Their flesh is not being saved as they perish away in their mortal bodies to the grave.

1Co 1:18 KJV
(18) For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

The false prophet’s end is destruction….mortal destruction…as they serve their for their own belly…their “god.”

They come up out of the earth = they only mind earthly things.

They speak as a dragon….as they are enemies of the cross of Christ by their preaching of falsehoods that lead many away from the path that leads to His life being made manifest in the mortal flesh of those they are deceiving. The cross of Christ becomes of no effect upon the multitudes that they are deceiving with their words.

Php 3:18-19 KJV
(18) (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
(19) Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

This serving for their own belly….their “god”….blinds their minds to the truth of the gospel….to the gospel of the glory of Christ. They have no understanding of it. Like the serpent, they go upon their “belly” as they mind only earthly things.

His life is supposed to manifest in our mortal flesh…and when He appears there, we appear with Him in glory towards the people of the outside world. We shine His light towards them.

Yet, the truth of the gospel is not illuminating them at all…and so those they are “preaching” to do not have understanding of the gospel. The gospel is hid to those who are “lost”…that is, PERISHING away to the grave. Their mortal flesh is not being saved.

They are all in darkness…and all that sit together with them are in darkness and are not shining His light towards anyone of the outside world. If we are sitting in the man-based churches, we are not shining the light of Christ towards anyone…nor does the glory of God appear over us.

2Co 4:3-5
(3) But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost (PERISHING):
(4) In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
(5) For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

We must “awake” from our sleep and “arise” OUT of the dead ones….OUT of the dead man-based churches where His life is not being made manifest. Christ will then give us light so that we may shine to those people of the outside world who are sitting in great darkness (as the man-based churches are not shining His light at all.) We shall then be the light of the world in Him.

Eph 5:14
(14) Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from (OUT) the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

These false prophets are “dreamers” who defile our mortal flesh when we sit together with them in their churches. We are unclean when we keep company with them.

Jud 1:8
(8) Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

We must not “give ourselves over to fornication”….to sit together with them who defile our mortal flesh (going after strange flesh) or we are destroyed along with them as their “end is destruction.” Their end becomes our end as well. We are then under the wrath of God for the wrath of God (the “fire”) comes upon the children of disobedience. Our mortal bodies perish along with them for their judgment does not linger.

This is a present reality as they are all mortally dying under His wrath when they should have an age-lasting life if they had understood the gospel of Truth and have kept His daily sacrifice.

Jud 1:7 KJV
(7) Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

For their (the false prophets) judgment does not linger and their damnation sleeps not. It is active as they mortally perish from this earth and are taking many who are being deceived by them down with them to the grave.

2Pe 2:3 KJV
(3) And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

They are “dreamers”…as Daniel saw the natural brute beasts in a “dream” in the night visions. They are natural “brute beasts” as the bear as they “devour much flesh”…those they are deceiving. They defile our mortal flesh.

The bear had 3 ribs in its mouth…between the teeth of it.

Dan 7:5 KJV
(5) And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

The 3 ribs are 3 men that they follow after in their appetite: Cain, Balaam and Korah.

Jud 1:11 KJV
(11) Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

Reminds me of this T-shirt.

a hotdog no (remember a hotdog does not HAVE to be in a bun.)

Prayers for the conversion of Canada. Amen.

Prayers for the radical conversion of Spain.

prodromos said:

Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

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Amen!

Always in His Presence said:

I’ll help

• Republican Party (RNC) Favorability: According to RealClearPolling, the Republican Party has a favorability rating of 42.3%, with 54.4% unfavorable, resulting in a net favorability of -12.1%. Posts on X suggest a slightly higher approval rating for Republicans at around 43%.

• Democratic Party (DNC) Favorability: RealClearPolling reports the Democratic Party’s favorability at 36.3%, with 59.3% unfavorable, yielding a net favorability of -23.0%

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What it shows is that even Democrats think Republicans are doing a better job than the DNC. Lol!

Happiness is a perplexingly difficult quality to secure. This is surprising, since happiness is the fundamental thing we all seek. Aristotle argued that happiness (eudaimonia) is the ultimate goal of human life—not happiness as a fleeting emotional experience, but as a state of human flourishing that comes from striving to fulfill one’s human potential. St. Augustine taught that all human actions are inherently ordered towards happiness—even wicked deeds are done in the mistaken belief that they will, in some sense, make us happier.

But if happiness is so integral to human existence, why do so many people struggle to attain it? Why is society so filled with people struggling with sadness, despair, depression, nihilism, despair, and apathy? Why do so many at every stage of life deal with existential emptiness about the meaning and purpose of their lives? If happiness is what life is all about, it seems that something must be drastically wrong.

I, too, struggled with these problems for many years until I discovered a very simple remedy in plain sight, somewhere I had overlooked for a long time—the Sermon on the Mount.

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What Moses was commanded to teach to the ancient Hebrews is not identical to the written words that he recorded in the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament). The Jews also believed that he received oral tradition on Mt. Sinai, when he received the Ten Commandments. The mainstream pharisaic tradition passed into early Christianity, since St. Paul called himself a Pharisee twice, after his conversion to Christianity (Acts 23:6; 26:5), and Jesus opposed the doctrine of the Sadducees, but not that of the Pharisees (Mt 23:2). The Pharisees adhered to oral tradition and the Sadducees rejected it.

Scripture indicates such an oral Torah, not — in its specifics — recorded in the written Torah. The 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia (“Oral Law”) provides some examples:

It appears from the other books of the Old Testament also that certain traditional laws were considered to have been given by God, although they are not mentioned in the Pentateuch. Jeremiah says to the people (Jer. 17: 21-22): “Bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.” In the Pentateuch, on the other hand, there is only the interdiction against work in general (Ex. 20:9-11); nor is it stated anywhere in the Torah that no burdens shall be carried on the Sabbath, while Jeremiah says that the bearing of burdens, as well as all other work, was forbidden to the fathers. It is clear, furthermore, from Amos 8:5, that no business was done on the Sabbath, and in Neh. 10:30-32 this prohibition, like the interdiction against intermarrying with the heathen, is designated as a commandment of God, although only the latter is found in the Pentateuch (Deut. 7:3), while there is no reference to the former. Since the interdictions against carrying burdens and doing business on the Sabbath were regarded as divine laws, although not mentioned in the Pentateuch, it is inferred that there was also a second code.

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God made this requirement, that He “commanded” the ancient Hebrews in oral tradition, binding, under pain of Jerusalem being destroyed:

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fide said:

Ah - I guess I missed that... sorry.

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No problem. It's just part of discussion.

Ninth Sunday After Pentecost propers & commentary (EF)

Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's Instruction on the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (EF)

boughtwithaprice said:

I have recently been confronted with my lack of thought, which is termed stupidity in the following video. Yes, I admit that I was stupid. I have repented and decided to confront uncomfortable thoughts and learn what I do not know

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There is a pecking order in humanity

When I was a young teenager a bunch of us would get hired to pack live turkeys into semi's to be hauled off to market. Catching the first one was difficult. It took several of us with burlap sacks to keep from getting slashed by their feet to corner a single bird and capture it.

However, once caught, that bird would be grabbed by the feet and its chest laid on the ground and THEN the magical pecking order transpired. The other birds would instantly be compelled to come a peck it's head. They could not help themselves. And as they pressed into peck that downed turkeys head, it didn't matter if we were standing there either, ready to reach in and grab them by the legs and cart them off to the semi cages. They would press in so tightly they couldn't get out. Didn't even try.

It was a sight to behold. An entire field of 100-200 THOUSAND turkeys could be cleared out by a single downed bird.

The PECKING ORDER.

In humanity this principle also applies. How so? In churches for example, people will gather up and condemn their neighbors to burn alive forever whilst pressing in to justify themselves. Strange, ain't it? Those so called condemned are no different than the condemners.

Here's an unpleasant truth that no believer likes to hear, even less accept.

The heart is deceitful above "all things" and desperately wicked. Jer. 17:9

That's right! As you look out upon everything that you can see in the night sky, ALL of creation, seen and unseen, the most deceitful thing that exists in ALL of that thumps away in your own figurative CHEST.

Kathump, kathump, kathump. Just like those turkeys, come to thump on your head. You have to cut off the tip of the top beaks of all those turkeys or they never cease harming each others with their sharp beaks in combo. Disfigure them so they stop killing as many. But some are killed in the collective kathump's everyday they are in the fields. Especially when they put their heads down to FEED. Bang!!! Get out of the way! My turn!

How much more vile is humanity in this regard? The "poison tongue, like a serpent's fangs, the poison of asp's is under our lips.

Now, the coup de grace is this. IF we, in our own heart, have the most deceit above all things, are we even more deceitful than, oh, say, SATAN for example?

OR because of?

Jesus says, because of: Mark 4:15 is real, and none of us are "just me" between our own 2 ears, or tongues, or teeth

Skipper80 said:

Should Christians condemn people to Hell?

After answering, explain why

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Never. And Yes.

In scripture there is no such creature as a sole individual. There is the person, and there is the tempter or his own within all of us.

So, both never and yes are both completely TRUE and ACCURATE

One will be saved

One won't be saved

Who is who should be clear enough

Under the Old Covenant God had with his people Israel (Jews only), the city of God was a physical place, the city of Jerusalem, the Holy City of God. But under the New Covenant God has with his people Israel (Jew and Gentile who believe in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives), the city of God is the church, the universal body of believers in Jesus Christ who have died with Christ to sin and been raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness.

[Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19; John 8:18-19,38-47; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:6; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13;1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9]

We the people of God are the church, not the building called “church,” and not a church denomination, and not an incorporation (merger, partnership) under the state (the world, the government) called “church.” We are not bound by physical location nor by day of the week nor the hour of the day, for we are in locations all across the world. For the church is not a place you go to, but the church does go to places where they should gather together for Bible study, prayer, fellowship, communion, and ministry to one another.

And if our gatherings are gatherings of the biblical body of Christ, for the purposes God has designed for his church, taught us in the Scriptures, then God is in our midst. And Jesus Christ is the head of the church, and he is the one that the church is truly following in obedience to his commands. He is our only shepherd who we are following, and not these false shepherds of the people who are teaching them lies and who have turned their gatherings into places of business to be marketed to the ungodly of the world.

But so much of what is called “church” today is not the biblical body of Christ gathering together wherever we can for mutual encouragement in Christ, in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. So many of these gatherings do not provide a time and space for the body of Christ to minister to one another, utilizing the spiritual gifts given to them of the Spirit to help one another to walk worthy of God in daily fellowship with him, to help one another to not obey sin, and to warn against false teachings.

So much of what is referred to as “church” are these incorporations under the state, which are merged and partnered with the ungodly, which God forbids, and which he instructs us to depart from in order to be in right relationship with him. And they are marketing their “church” to the world, and so they are using marketing and worldly means and methods to attract the world to their gatherings. And so it appears that most of them are not teaching repentance and obedience to God as part of faith which saves.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2-3; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

So, we who believe in Jesus need to learn to distinguish between these incorporations of man called “church” and the biblical body of Christ, His church, for they are not one and the same. And then we need to be following Christ and his teachings and doing what he has called us to do as his followers in ministering God’s love and grace to one another, and in helping one another to obey God and to forsake sin and to live for the Lord in doing his will and purpose for our lives and for his church, his body.

[Acts 2:42-47; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:15-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20]

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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The Holy Dwelling Place
An Original Work / August 10, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

FaithT said:

Oh please……

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If you read on - this was all sarcasm. Be careful of Poe's law.

Michie said:

The Belgian artist’s works will hang in place of “The Last Supper” and “The People of Israel in the Desert” while the masterpieces undergo restoration​

The Belgian artist Luc Tuymans has created two major new works for the altar of a 16th-century church on a Venetian island. Tuymans's paintings, entitled Heat and Musicians (2025), go on show in the Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore next month, across from St Mark’s Square.

Tuymans’s works replace a pair of canvases by the 16th-century artist Jacopo Tintoretto—The Last Supper and The People of Israel in the Desert—which will undergo restoration funded by the Save Venice conservation charity.

“My paintings—Heat, and Musicians (both 2025)—aren't installed in a museum; rather they are installed at the centre of a space of worship, where people regularly attend services,” Tuymans says. “This situation provides a completely different assessment of how an artwork is to be perceived, and responded to.

“How the paintings engage with the architecture of the space is also important. My work is wholly integrated into the Palladian basilica, not placed next to it, or around it, like previous installations before—Anish Kapoor, Berlinde Der Bruyckere.”

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Left at the altar: Luc Tuymans's paintings to replace Tintoretto works at Venetian church

The Belgian artist’s works will hang in place of “The Last Supper” and “The People of Israel in the Desert” while the masterpieces undergo restoration

www.theartnewspaper.com

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I wish they had placed replicas of the works in question or other traditional iconography of the Byzantine-influenced style that characterizes the beautiful churches of Venice.

ViaCrucis said:

Arianism taught that Jesus was Divine, but a lesser Divinity than God the Father.

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That said, it is widely believed Arius was influenced by the proto-Unitarian views of Paul of Samosata and Lucian of Antioch.

In Revelation 12:10 we read about “the accuser of our brethren,” “he who accuses them before our God day and night.” And this is speaking of Satan. A good example of this is when Satan asked God for permission to inflict the Lord’s servant Job, and God allowed it, but with limitations. And then there was how Satan and his servants went after Jesus continuously, with the full intention to try to find a reason to accuse him of wrong, and while falsely accusing him of character and deeds which were not his to possess.

Well, if we are following Jesus Christ with our lives, Satan is going to be after us, too, especially if we are having an impact on other people’s lives for the sake of the gospel, and for the sake of the salvation of human lives from their slavery to sin. And he will devise all sorts of ways to try to break us and to try to trip us up or to accuse us falsely of what we did not do, or of wrong intentions. And he can whisper these false accusations and his taunts in our minds to try to make us afraid in hopes we will run away and give up.

He may attack us through sleepless nights, or broken sleep patterns to where we do not get continuous and restful sleep, and so our emotions may be weaker, because we are tired. Or we may be subject to catching a virus, because our body is weak. Or he may torment us in our minds, trying to accuse us of all sorts of wrong attitudes and intentions, when our intentions were good, and so were our attitudes. But there is a reason why the Scriptures call him “the accuser of the brethren,” i.e. of Christ’s followers.

And the Bible also teaches us that Satan disguises himself as an angel of light, and his servants disguise themselves as servants of righteousness (2 Corinthians 11:14-15). So, Satan may try to mimic the Holy Spirit’s voice speaking to us in our spirits, but speaking lies, instead of truth. And the lies may not be obvious lies which we can immediately discern, for he may even use the Scriptures and Christian songs to try to make him sound like God is speaking to us, but to try to stir up stress and confusion within our spirits.

Now there are people who profess faith in Jesus Christ who are deliberately and habitually sinning against God and against other humans, without conscience or care as to what damage they might do to others. Even though they know that what they are doing is wrong, and that it is hurting other humans, still they do what is evil, and they do not do what is good in the eyes of God, for they are living under the control of Satan, and not under God’s divine authority, will, and purpose. They sin with full knowledge.

And some of them will deliberately and willfully misinterpret God’s voice, or they will knowingly accuse Satan of trying to convict them of sin, and they will create their own god in their own minds who does not convict them of sin, and who does not call them to repentance. And so they may accuse God’s convicting voice as being of Satan while they willfully yield to the voice of the devil. And thus Satan may use them against the Lord’s servants to try to accuse the Lord’s servants of being of Satan, which was done to Jesus.

So, this is why the Scriptures teach that we must test the spirits to see which ones are of God, for God is not going to be the only voice we hear. We are going to hear the voice of Satan, and of the world, and of the flesh trying to break us down in order to make us afraid, in order to try to discourage us from following the Lord with our lives, and being his servants. And this is where we need to test our own hearts, too, to make certain that we are not buying into the lies, but that we are following the truth of God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

My Sheep

Based off John 10:1-30 NIV
An Original Work / June 24, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

My sheep hear me. They know me.
They listen to my voice and obey.
I call them and lead them.
They know my voice, so they follow me.
They will never follow strangers.
They will run away from them.
The voice of a stranger they know not;
They do not follow him.

So, I tell you the truth that
I am the gate, so you enter in.
Whoever does enter
Will find forgiveness and will be saved.
Nonetheless whoever enters
Not by the gate; other way,
He is the thief and a robber.
Listen not, the sheep to him.

Oh, I am the Good Shepherd,
Who laid his own life down for the sheep.
I know them. They know me.
They will live with me eternally.
The thief only comes to steal and
Kill and to destroy the church.
I have come to give you life that
You may have it to the full…

They know my voice, so they follow me.

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An Original Work / August 10, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

BPPLEE said:

If it's secret why do we know about it?

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I didn’t write the news article, which is why we both agree that “secretly” was the wrong choice of word.

Paidiske said:

Steve, you are in the Anglican forum; this is not the place for you to make arguments against Anglican ecclesiology or practice.

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Oh ok I thought it was also about the Catholics and how they compare to the Anglicans. The OP I think is questioning the Anglicans ie.

How is Old Catholic different from Anglican? I've come to the conclusion I'm just not Protestant, and I don't think I could join the Anglican Communion.

This invites arguements re Protestants, Anglicans as opposed to Catholics.

I think the US is going to have a lot of problems with these militia groups down the track.

We've got neo-Nazis in Australia but they're not as heavily armed as the US variety.