God’s Word Unfiltered: Recent Episodes
Brother Bob
I will be sharing Bible based church doctrinal teachings that are pretty much ignored by the Churches these days. I will be sharing God’s Word unfiltered. No spiritual addendums. No spiritual engineering. God’s Truths for God’s people right out of God’s Word!
Understanding and accepting the FREE GIFT of salvation WILL result in an initial change. A brand-new Believer WILL experience joy, gratefulness, reverence, enlightenment, peace etc. at their conversion. However, the Scriptures are clear that true born again, blood-bought, eternally saved Believers can and do (for numerous sinful reasons) allow themselves to get biblically apathetic and unrepentantly sinful! But make no mistake. IF they are truly saved they need never worry losing or ‘throwing away’ their eternal salvation so long as they don’t openly and publicly renounce their (believing) faith in Christ!
Nowhere in the Church Epistles do any of the writers question the salvation of the Believers they’re writing TO and ABOUT because of how ungodly they were living their lives! The ONLY people who are judged (about their salvation) are those Believers who chose (for whatever foolish reasons) to decide that their initial faith in Christ alone (for their salvation) wasn’t sufficient to save them… so they added a ‘work’ to their gospel (which ‘cut them off’ from Christ! (Like some of the Galatian Believers.)
I know what I’m going to say next will ‘shock’ many Believers! HOW a blood bought, eternally saved, Spirit indwelt Believer lives their earthly life has no bearing on their eternal salvation from hell! However, HOW a Believer lives their earthly life has everything to do with what their next life will be like!! One of the biggest biblical ‘mistakes’ that many born-again Believers make is to ‘determine’ or ‘question’ IF a person (who claims to be saved) is really saved because of HOW they’re living their earthly lives. The only ‘biblical grounds’ for questioning someone’s salvation is by asking them WHAT ‘gospel’ they believe in. I am afraid that there are MANY in the Church of the Living God who (although they claim to be saved) were never saved in the first place because they believed in a false ‘gospel’ for their salvation.
Your true friend in Christ,
Brother Bob
Oh how 'deeply' and 'profoundly' our Heavenly Father and our savior must love people! Now that I am a born-again Believer in Christ…I can understand the need for Christ’s death, knowing that the only hope for sinful humans to ever be saved (from the penalty of their sins) is the blood of Christ!
However, even as a born-again Believer, I can’t fully understand the depths of HIS love for sinners who would choose to reject Him and His Son! The trinity of Yahweh doesn’t need sinful humans (forgiven or otherwise) in their lives in order to be complete or have a purpose for existing! In other words, Yahweh doesn't 'need' any of us (saved or unsaved) in order to have a purpose in life! He's the Self-sufficient One!
Now, being that I am an eternally saved, Spirit-indwelt, 'sinner saved by grace' child of Yahweh I ‘understand’ the need for the pain and suffering that the Father ‘put’ HIS only Son thru. I 'get' that only the blood of Christ can ‘cover’ (i.e. wash away) my sins! However, what is ‘hard’ for me to truly ‘grasp’ is WHY Yeshua Christ would go thru all of that pain and suffering for people whom HE KNEW would reject HIS sacrifice at Calvary!
Well, the Scriptures tell us Why Yeshua Christ chose to go thru all that pain and suffering! It says in Hebrews chapter twelve…“FOR THE JOY SET BEFORE HIM…HE ENDURED THE CROSS’! That means that ‘looking past’ the pain and suffering...AND looking past HIS temporary 'separation' from the Father (when HE 'took on' our sins)...AND looking past all those who would reject HIS love expressed at Calvary…Yeshua Christ ‘saw’ that there would be a FEW who would believe in HIS sacrifice for their sins and gratefully accept His free gift of life! And those few who truly understood and believed what the savior did for them...brought joy to the heart and mind of both the Father and the Son! WOW! What amazing love!
Brother Bob
It’s GREAT that you love the LORD because of what He DID (to save you) and because of what He’s DOING right now in your life to bless you!! And those ‘feel-good emotional vibes (that you have for the LORD) are a good thing. Amen! And speaking from experience…I KNOW that any Believer who has a deep, heart-felt appreciation for what Yeshua Christ did to save them from hell will ‘move them’ or ‘motivate them’ to want to serve Him. (And that too IS a good thing.) However, DON’T make your your heart-felt obedience to God’s Word become part of what you believe is necessary for your salvation. Believing that Christ died to save you from hell…and serving the Lord are two separate things! Way too many people in the Church will say that saving faith is thru Christ alone… and then turn around and ‘attach’ what they’re doing for Christ (i.e. striving to walk righteously and godly) as part of what’s required to be saved.
Brethren, a person’s salvation CANNOT BE both FREE and NOT FREE at the same time! And salvation definitely is NOT a GIFT from the LORD (received thru faith in Christ)…IF someone MUST DO STUFF (besides believe in Christ) in order to MAINTAIN or PRESERVE their salvation. Now I will be honest with you…I believe that the person who believes they are saved by faith in Christ AND by striving to maintain a godly walk…or by faith in Christ PLUS being faithful to keep some church sacrament…or by faith in Christ PLUS making sure that you make the savior the lord and master of your life is NOT saved at all! The people who believe that they have to DO STUFF plus believe in Christ believe that it is both what they did and Christ did that saves them! The Heavenly Father would never, ever ‘accept’ someone as being saved IF their ‘faith’ is in thinking that they needed to (somehow) “help” Christ get them saved by what they do!
Our Heavenly Father and our savior WANT and GET 100% of the glory and honor and credit for sinful creatures like us to even ponder being freely forgiven (i.e., saved) from all the sins we have committed in our lives! Each and every human ever born deserves to spend their eternity (in hell) paying for all the crimes (i.e., sins) they have committed against the Creator! And I promise you, being that all humans are disgusting, dirty sinners (in Yahweh’s eyes) that just the thought of any human believing they can ‘add’ their works to what Christ already did must make the Lord sick to His stomach! Yahweh All-Mighty ‘detests’ and rejects ANY human attempt to make it seem like that what HIS Son went thru at Calvary (to pay for mankind’s sins) was not powerful enough to save people!
Brother Bob
There is a ‘gospel smorgasbord’ going on in the born-again churches these days! Many born-again churches are ‘open’ to allowing whatever ‘flavor’ ‘gospel’ you like…so long as you occasionally mention the savior’s name when you speak of your salvation!
Let’s see…there’s the “Lordship” ‘gospel’ which demands that in order for a person to be saved they must not only believe that Yeshua Christ is the only way…a person must also make the savior or the Father or the Holy Spirit (I’m NOT to sure which one it is) LORD and MASTER of everything you do!
Then there is the ‘assist gospel’! This ‘gospel’ teaches people that they must not only trust that Yeshua Christ paid for their sins…a person must walk a righteous walk in order to ‘assist’ Christ in helping to get them saved!
Then there is the ‘strings attached gospel’ which teaches that once a person trusts Christ as their savior…they must ‘behave’ (in a certain way) in order to maintain their salvation.
Then there is the ‘didn’t you feel it gospel’! This ‘gospel’ teaches people to simply ask Yeshua into your heart…and IF you get saved you will ‘sense’ or ‘feel’ a ‘salvation experience.’
Then there is the ‘cliché’ gospels.’ These types of ‘gospels’ sound really nice on the surface (I.E., accept Jesus into your heart, walk the aisle for Christ, surrender your heart to the LORD), but they do not get anyone saved because an explanation of what the true gospel of Christ is never shared with these people.
Sadly, many people who profess to be saved ‘believe’ these false ‘smorgasbord gospels’ without realizing that what they ‘believe’ (will save them) has nothing to do with understanding and accepting Christ alone for their salvation!
Always speaking the Truth (in agope) love,
Brother Bob
I’ve been a faithful Gospel sharing Believer for over 40 years. I can count on two hands the number of born-again Christians that I have ever met out in public who tried to give me a Bible tract…let alone tried to share the Gospel of Christ with me! I’ll be honest. I’ve had a lot more Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses try to share their faith with me than born-again Believers!
So where are all the born-again Believers ‘hiding out’ these days? I know the places where you’re ‘hiding out’! Many of you are ‘hiding out’ in the safe, comfy confines of your local place of worship! You tell others (in your Church) that you ‘love the Lord so much.’ So why aren’t you going out and sharing the ‘love story’ of His Son? Brethren, we’re living in a dying world that desperately needs some eternal hope? I know that some of you sooth your conscience (about not going out and sharing the Gospel) when you send a monthly stipends to that missionary family over in Papua New Guinea or Kazakhstan. You’ve convinced yourself that doing that should please the Lord. P.S. IF that’s the only ‘evangelism’ that you’re doing…it won’t please Him!
And I also know that many of you blood-bought, born-again Believers are ‘hiding out’ in plain sight…up to your eyeballs in the ways and pleasures of this world. I wonder how many people around you even know that you’re a Believer? Now I get it! It’s a ‘little scary’ to think about ‘coming out of the closet’ and ‘exposing’ your beliefs to the world! Especially after you’ve been ‘hiding in that closet’ for so many years. Because you’re ‘thinking’ with your emotional fleshly ‘pea-brain’…when it comes to deciding about ‘stepping out’ and publicly sharing your faith you find yourself afraid of what people might say…or worse yet…what they might even think about you!!! (Said sarcastically!) Are you kidding me! The Creator God of the universe came down to planet earth…took on a human form…so that HE could suffer and die to save your ‘sorry ass’ from hell…and you’re worried about someone shaming or embarrassing you if you share the message of Christ with them! Good thing your savior wasn’t worried about that on His way to Calvary! Yeshua Christ warned His Followers…”IF any of you are ashamed of ME or MY Word…My Heavenly Father and I will be ashamed of you at the Judgment Seat! Brethren…there’s only two people who don’t want you sharing the message of Christ with the unsaved! Satan and you’re carnal, selfish flesh!
Brethren, this world isn’t ‘going down the toilet’ spiritually because of the perversions, immoralities and debaucheries the secular world is wallowing in. These immoral, wicked things have been around since the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. And it’s a fact that these evil, immoral behaviors have become more ‘in your face’ (i.e. openly prevalent) in recent years. And I believe that’s because born-again Believers are not doing their ‘job’ and going out (by the millions) and sharing the free gift Gospel of Christ with the unsaved face-to-face! Getting saved (i.e. getting born-again by putting your faith in Yeshua Christ as your eternal savior) is the only thing that can ‘change a heart of stone’!
Acts 8:3 But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and dragging off men and women, he would put them in prison!
So…did this discourage the Believers from GOING OUT? NOT AT ALL!
Acts 8.4 Therefore, those who had been scattered went about preaching the Word.
Saints…IF you truly are born-again…and IF you truly appreciate what Yeshua Christ did to save your sorry butt from hell…than you know that Yeshua Christ IS the only Way (to salvation.) Shame on you IF you’re too afraid or so uncaring that you have no desire to share the 'love story of Christ' with those who are headed to hell!
Brother Bob
I’ve been a faithful Gospel sharing Believer for over 40 years. I can count on one hand the number of born-again Christians I have ever met out in public who tried to even give me a Bible tract…let alone try to share the Gospel with me! Isn’t that a shame! What a sad testimony about the evangelism concerns of the American born-again Church! In forty years of being saved I should have come across hundreds if not thousands of born-again Believers (in public places) trying to at least give me a Bible Tract! The words of the savior to His Followers was GO OUT IN THE WORLD and share the Gospel with the unsaved. Unfortunately, that clear cut command has ‘evolved into’ STAY IN the nice warm, comfy, safe confines of your local Church and preach the Gospel to the sheep at some inadequate revival meeting a couple times a year!
Brethren, Believers are called to be ambassadors for Christ. That means were called to be public spokespeople for our savior! Secular ambassadors don’t ‘hide out’ in their basements! Secular American ambassadors go to foreign countries and speak well of…and build up their home country. Secular ambassadors go out of their way to boldly and proudly profess the blessings and goodness of their home country….encouraging foreign countries to be part of the American dream! Well, that’s what Christian ambassadors should do with the unsaved…as they speak well of and build up their savior! The unsaved need to be ‘persuaded’ (thru love, reason and logic) that Yeshua is a ‘country’ that they should want to be part of! Unfortunately, that’s only going to happen IF the Believer is willing to ‘open their mouth for Christ!’
Church, our Heavenly Father put the responsibility of sharing the love story of His Son on us! Our Father didn’t give this responsibility to angels. He didn’t just give this responsibility to gifted evangelists! And our Heavenly Father most definitely never, ever expected that the only person in a born-again Church to be sharing the Gospel is the pastor. What has happened in today’s born-again Church is that much of the Believer’s responsibility for GOING OUT INTO THE WORLD and preaching the Gospel to the lost has been ‘delegated’ to some far away missionary…or some unbiblical ‘traveling evangelist’ (who shows up once a year) and preaches to the choir!
I say shame on any born-again Believer who ‘hogs’ the ‘love of Christ’ all to themselves! Shame on the cowardly born-again Believer who knows that the people at their place of employment are headed to hell…and they still don’t say a word! Shame on the Believer who doesn’t even know IF the people they meet regularly at: the neighborhood grocery store, or gas station, or dentist office or local downtown farmer’s market etc. are saved or not! Shame on the born-again Believer who doesn’t share his or her faith because they’re fearful of what the unsaved might think of them!
Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we Believers are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race Yahweh has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Yeshua, the champion of the faith who completed the race. Because of the joy awaiting Him, He endured the cross, DISREGARDING the public SHAME it brought on Him!
Church…our savior is not asking us to ‘hang on a cross’ for Him…although we should be willing to die for Him. He’s simply asking us to care enough about what He did to save our sorry butts from hell...that we would WANT TO to GO OUT and tell others how much He loves them too!
Brother Bob
GO OUT IN TO THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL!
Yeshua Christ commanded His Followers to go out into the world and preach the gospel! Those are pretty easy to understand instructions aren’t they? GO OUT INTO THE WORLD AND PREACH THE MESSAGE OF MY SON! A Believer doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what that means! Now, Yeshua Christ did NOT say…STAY IN your churches and preach the Gospel! He didn’t say, stay in the nice, warm comfy confines of your church…and preach the gospel (over and over again) (to those people who are already saved! He didn’t say ‘hire’ or ‘pay’ a traveling evangelist (whatever that is) to come and preach to the choir! (SIDE NOTE: I’m NOT saying is ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ to do evangelism in your church…occasionally! It’s is wrong IF the only evangelism ministry that the born-again people in a Bible Church do…is inside their church!)
Brethren, most Believers (including Church leaders) in the Church of the Living God have failed miserably at obeying Yeshua Christ’s command to GO OUT INTO THE WORLD (I.E. into the public ‘marketplaces of your neighborhood’…or the ‘highways and byways’ of your life…or at your place of employment and share the message of salvation with a dying world. Sadly, most Believers today have no desire to go out! They’re too afraid or too ashamed or too comfortable!
Now…even as a born-again Believer who loves the Lord…my sinful flesh says to itself; self, so what if the people in this world die! This wicked world is loaded with evil, rebellious sinners who choose to live a life of hedonistic debauchery! They don’t ‘deserve’ to know what Yeshua Christ did for them! But then my spirit reminds me that I too was once lived in that darkened world of never ending hopelessness and deception. Brethren, it was hearing and understanding the message of the Cross which changed my life. But sadly, in these End Time Church days of cowardly, timid, biblically apathetic Believers…there are a lot of unsaved people living in darkness who are not hearing that message of hope from Yahweh’s people!
There’s not one example of the Lord commanding Believers to bring the lost into your churches so you can share Christ with them. Now again…I am not saying that it’s wrong to invite unsaved people to your churches. What I’m saying is that IF that is the “soul” way the Believers in your church try to reach the lost…that’s mediocre evangelism!
Brethren, our Heavenly Father put the responsibility of sharing the love story of His Son on us who are saved! And after all that Yeshua Christ went thru to save our sorry butts from hell…we should need no other motivation do as He commands and GO OUT INTO THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE LOST!
SIDE NOTE: Please! Please! Please! Don’t listen to the fool (i.e. biblical coward) who tells you that Believers should only witness to someone they can also disciple! That’s a doctrine Satan loves! If you want to read an amazing story how ONE GUY (simply handing out Bible tracts) ‘changed’ the lives of thousands of unsaved people…do a Google search on the name FRANK JENNER! Frank never discipled one soul. And yet his faithfulness in doing something as simple has giving someone a Bible tract…changed the world in ways you can’t even imagine! Please look up his name! By simply being faithful in handing a single Gospel Bible tract to the unsaved who crossed his path...Frank played a part in leading thousands to Christ!
Brother Bob
Yeshua Christ commanded His Followers to go out into the world and preach the gospel! Those are pretty easy to understand instructions aren’t they? GO OUT INTO THE WORLD AND PREACH THE MESSAGE OF MY SON! A Believer doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what that means! Now, Yeshua Christ did NOT say…STAY IN your churches and preach the Gospel! He didn’t say, stay in the nice, warm comfy confines of your church…and preach the gospel (over and over again) (to those people who are already saved! He didn’t say ‘hire’ or ‘pay’ a traveling evangelist (whatever that is) to come and preach to the choir! (SIDE NOTE: I’m NOT saying is ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ to do evangelism in your church…occasionally! It’s is wrong IF the only evangelism ministry that the born-again people in a Bible Church do…is inside their church!) Brethren, most Believers (including Church leaders) in the Church of the Living God have failed miserably at obeying Yeshua Christ’s command to GO OUT INTO THE WORLD (I.E. into the public ‘marketplaces of your neighborhood’…or the ‘highways and byways’ of your life…or at your place of employment and share the message of salvation with a dying world. Sadly, most Believers today have no desire to go out! They’re too afraid or too ashamed or too comfortable! Now…even as a born-again Believer who loves the Lord…my sinful flesh says to itself; self, so what if the people in this world die! This wicked world is loaded with evil, rebellious sinners who choose to live a life of hedonistic debauchery! They don’t ‘deserve’ to know what Yeshua Christ did for them! But then my spirit reminds me that I too was once lived in that darkened world of never ending hopelessness and deception. Brethren, it was hearing and understanding the message of the Cross which changed my life. But sadly, in these End Time Church days of cowardly, timid, biblically apathetic Believers…there are a lot of unsaved people living in darkness who are not hearing that message of hope from Yahweh’s people!
There’s not one example of the Lord commanding Believers to bring the lost into your churches so you can share Christ with them. Now again…I am not saying that it’s wrong to invite unsaved people to your churches. What I’m saying is that IF that is the “soul” way the Believers in your church try to reach the lost…that’s mediocre evangelism! Brethren, our Heavenly Father put the responsibility of sharing the love story of His Son on us who are saved! And after all that Yeshua Christ went thru to save our sorry butts from hell…we should need no other motivation do as He commands and GO OUT INTO THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE LOST! SIDE NOTE: Please! Please! Please! Don’t listen to the fool (i.e. biblical coward) who tells you that Believers should only witness to someone they can also disciple! That’s a doctrine Satan loves! If you want to read an amazing story how ONE GUY (simply handing out Bible tracts) ‘changed’ the lives of thousands of unsaved people…do a Google search on the name FRANK JENNER! Frank never discipled one soul. And yet his faithfulness in doing something as simple has giving someone a Bible tract…changed the world in ways you can’t even imagine!
2 Corinthians 5:17-20 Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! And all of this is a gift from Yahweh, who brought us back to Himself through Christ. And our Father has given us the task of reconciling unsaved people to Himself. For Yahweh was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And our Heavenly Father gave His born-again, eternally saved children this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are (supposed to be) Christ’s ambassadors; Yahweh is making His appeal (to the unsaved) through us. We speak for Christ when we plead (to the unsaved), “Come back to God thru His Son!”
Brother Bob
The sad thing with most Believers these days is that they just don’t see the daily spiritual…and the eternal consequential importance of learning and then obeying those Laws that Yahweh has established for His Church. Brethren, I’m not just talking about the ten commandments! I’m talking about all those DO and DO NOT (and implied DO and DO NOT) commandments/laws that we see in the Church Epistles. Brethren, our Heavenly Father has literally given born-again church-age Believers hundreds of DO and DO NOT (and implied DO and DO NOT) commandments in His Church Epistles! I wonder what percentage of saved people even care about learning and then obeying their Heavenly Father’s Laws? I know from what I see and hear out there in Christendom…the percentage is very low! At a bare minimum all born-again Believers should at least have the spiritual desire to be want to be obedient to all those commandments that the Lord has established for His Church!
Yeshua Christ told His Followers. I don’t care IF you simply tell Me that you love Me! I want you to show ME that you love Me. And you show Me that you truly do love Me…by keeping My commandments! Brethren, you don’t need to be a Bible Scholar to discern what Christ is saying! There are a lot of born-again, Spirit indwelt Believers these days simply giving the Lord ‘lip service’ love. Their ‘worship time’ is all about ‘feeding’ their emotions. There’s way too much (emotional) spirit…and very little biblical Truth! Even today’s ‘worship’ songs are laden with ‘easy-peasy’ ‘touch your heart’ words…and not sound biblical doctrines!
Brethren, the Good Lord doesn’t care one iota about what we Believers wish biblical Truth was. And the Good Lord could care less about what we Believers think or hope biblical Truth is. Either we know His biblical Truths or we don’t! And if we don’t know His Word…then we should not speak as though we do! Our Heavenly Father is also NOT okay with Believers being okay with accepting or tolerating various views or opinions about the same doctrines! There are hundreds of unbiblical, man-made doctrines being used by Believers in the Church as though they came right from the mouth of God! Brethren, sincerity that is not coupled with biblical Truth is simply just another form of religious gibberish! Our Heavenly Father expects His people to grow up spiritually and ‘get off’ the ‘mommy’s milk’ of His Word and start learning the ‘meat and potatoes’ of His written Word!
Brethren…our Heavenly Father delights in hearing His people publicly proclaim the excellencies of His written Word throughout the land. He’s pleased when His people learn and then publicly proclaim that His Ways are righteous, good and holy. But sadly, we live in a time when those wonderful doctrinal Truths of Yahweh’s Word are very seldom shared in His Church…let alone proclaimed throughout the world!
Psalms 1:1-2 How blessed is the Believer who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked. Nor wander on the path of sinners. Nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But their delight is in the Law of Yahweh. And on His Law the faithful meditates day and night.
Speaking the Truth in love (because so few are),
Brother Bob
Any Church leader who teaches you that Believers are NOT under Yahweh's Laws (i.e. don't have to obey Yahweh's Laws) simply doesn't know what they're talking about. Brethren...when the Apostle Paul tells Believers that they're not under Yahweh's Laws...that statement alone IS a Law of Yahweh that Believers are under! I hope you see the irony there!
Believers have ALWAYS been 'under' Yahweh's Laws! Adam's Laws from Yahweh were to be fruitful and multiply, do not to eat from the tree of good and evil, and do not eat meat. Noah's Laws from Yahweh were to build an Ark...and when the floods over eat whatever you want to...so long as you drain out the blood from the meat you eat. Abraham's Laws from Yahweh were to leave the land of your family and go where I tell you...and start circumcising people. Now in Moses' day... Yahweh got very 'fruitful' with His Laws! He gave Moses hundreds of Laws for the People in the Nation of Israel. And Yeshua Christ Himself never taught Believers that you're no longer 'under' Yahweh's Laws. However, being that Yeshua Christ IS Yahweh the Word...He began 'altering' some of those Old Testament Laws of Moses' day. And then Yahweh's Laws were either drastically 'altered' or made obsolete completely once the Church Epistles came out.
The confusion with the term 'Believers are not under Yahweh's Law but under grace' comes when untrained, untaught Bible teachers try to use these words as the reason why Believers don't have to keep or obey God's Law (i.e. commandments) once they're saved. And for some reason many in the Church only associate the word 'Law' with Old Testament Laws. In the Scriptures...the words 'Laws' or 'Commandments' are synonymous. Yahweh gave Moses over 600 Laws/Commandments in the Old Testament that He expected His people to obey. Well, the New Testament 'tops that' because Yahweh gave the Church (i.e. born again Believers) over 800 Laws/Commandments that He expects His people to obey!
Brethren, no one has ever been eternally saved thru their faithfulness to Yahweh's Laws! Being unsaved and striving to obey Yahweh's Laws (which many unsaved religious people try to do) doesn't make you any less unsaved when you die. However, when unsaved people strive to obey Yahweh's Laws (especially His moral Laws) it does make them be better citizens. On the other hand...being faithful to Yahweh's Laws/Commandments (as an already saved, born-again Believer) 'simply' makes you a pleasing child of Yahweh! Being obedient to Yahweh's Laws doesn't make a Believer 'better saved'...or help 'keep them saved. It simply 'merits them a "Well done good and faithful servant" at the Judgment Seat of Christ!
Brother Bob
BELIEVERS ARE STILL UNDER THE LAW
In this day and age of 'easy believism' it's hard to get Spirit-indwelt, born-again Believers to understand that even though they are saved under grace…they are also most definitely 'under' God's Laws. The foolish idea that because Believers are saved by grace they do not have to obey God's Laws is ludicrous! And yet many in the Church believe that. The idea that Believers are not under Yahweh's Laws come from a misinterpretation of Romans 6.14. The Apostle Paul says in Romans 6:14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Brethren, that verse is talking about (people) trying to obey Yahweh's Laws in order to be or get or stay saved. You see, IF you believe that a person gets saved or keeps themselves saved by keeping Yahweh's New Testament Laws (i.e. commandments) then the Law(s) of Yahweh are your 'master.' (By the way…there are over 800 New Testament Church Laws in the Scriptures!) And the only way to overcome that 'master' would be by keeping all of Yahweh's (800) Laws perfectly! And you and I both know that's never going to happen!
Here's another Bible verse where the Apostle Paul speaks of the Law. 1 Timothy 1:8 But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully. Brethren, the words commandments and laws are synonymous! When Yeshua Christ told His Followers, "IF you truly love ME…you will keep My commandments." He could have just as easily said, "IF you truly love ME…you will keep MY laws'! The words commandment and law were used interchangeably all the time in the Old Testament. And in the New Testament Yahweh's commandments didn't stop being His laws just because the words commandments is used more often!
So, IF you're one of those Remnant Believers who loves to hear the Truths of Scriptures being taught…ENJOY what I'm sharing! Because I know that what I share in all my podcasts will encourage the spiritual hearts and minds of those Believers who love to learn the Truths of Scriptures!
Your true friend in Christ,
Brother Bob
So, I’ve started up my biblical journey thru the Book of the Acts of the Apostles! I strive to keep this biblical journey simple…was also having some fun! As in all my podcasts, I don’t try to teach what I don’t know.
Now, in my Bible teachings and on my podcasts I share (over and over and over again) that the Good LORD never intended that the Book of Acts be used as a doctrinal book for the Church. So that means that all you signs and wonders seeking Believers (who ‘cling’ to the words in Acts chapter two verses one thru four, believing that what was going on in those four verses is a doctrinal teaching for today’s Believers) are absolutely, one hundred percent wrong!
Now, with that said, the Book of Acts is loaded with good spiritual ‘stuff’ that can be ‘gleaned’ for teaching purposes! The Book of Acts is also a great Book to use for getting biblically ‘sidetracked’ on biblical ‘rabbit trails’! Which, if you listen to my podcasts already know that I do that quite often.
Speaking the Truth…because so few are,
Brother Bob
Progressive revelation is NOT taught in most born-again churches these days. (Sadly, a LOT OF biblical doctrine (beyond the 3rd grade level) is NOT taught in most born-again churches these days. And not only that, most Believers are never taught HOW to discern the biblical Truth that is found in t heir Bibles. Most Believers these days read their Bibles like they do a nice, sweet Hallmark card...or a Mother Goose Fairy Tale book. Progressive revelation is the process by which Yahweh 'delivers' His various or newly inspired (i.e. latest, up-to-date) teachings, instructions and commandments...over a period of time...instead of all at once.
Because the Scriptures tell me that the End Time Church (for the most part) will be loaded with MANY false (i.e. bad) teachers and MANY misled or deceived Believers (Christ's words) (as it is now)...I am not surprised or shocked by the biblical ignorance and/or the biblical apathy that I am seeing and hearing from people who profess to be saved or born-again. And I'm not surprised or shocked by the numbers of professing Believers who live their spiritual lives through their emotions instead of through their brains. However, one thing that does surprise me is the numbers of Believers who claim to love the Truths of Scriptures...and who have access to sound Bible teachings...choosing to ignore sound teachings in order to do what seems right in their own eyes!
Brother Bob
So in the first part of this first podcast I’m going to simply explain why I started doing podcasting in the first place. Then, for the rest of the podcast I’m going to do some spiritual/biblical venting!
Brethren…I’ve been searching the Scriptures for Yahweh and Yeshua’s biblical Truths for a long time. (And they are in His Word. You simply have to ‘dig’ for them!) And for many years I tried to share some of those ‘deeper Truths’ of Scriptures (that I have learned) in the various Bible churches that I have attended with whomever seemed interested. Unfortunately…most Believers are simply content to ‘believe what they believe.’ Since it wasn’t ‘working’ to ‘get’ the ‘deeper’ ‘harder’ Truths of God’s written Word out in Bible church settings…I decided to start small home Bible studies. (Over the years I have discovered that people are more willing to ‘open up’ in a home Bible study setting…then they are in a larger church setting.) I only invited those people to these studies who were genuinely interested in being taught sound biblical Truth! I can’t tell you how many Believers (over the years) would say…”Why isn’t my church leader teaching me this stuff!” Sadly, those Believers (who had learned those ‘harder’ deeper’ Truths of Scriptures (that they were never taught before) started going back to local churches…they ‘deserted’ or ‘walk away’ from the biblical Truths that they had learned (and professed to believe)…and ‘returned to the muck and mire’ (of the false or lukewarm teachings) they initially wanted to get out of!
Please listen carefully to Yeshua Christ prophecy about what the End Time Church will be like. Literal Bible verse words are underlined.)
Matthew 24:3-5, 10-11, As Yeshua was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples (I.E. APOSTLES) came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and what will be signs TO LOOK FOR IN the End Times (Church is implied)?” (Please notice that there are three questions being asked of Yeshua. And Yeshua answered and said to them (Apostles) , “See to it that no one misleads you. (Now, even though Yeshua Christ is speaking in the PRESENT TENSE (to the Apostles)…HIS words are ‘directed’ at us Believers in the End Times!) For many (false teachers) will come in My name, saying, ‘I know the way of truth,’ and will mislead many. (Par added.) Now, I interjected the words FALSE TEACHERS in this verse because ANYONE who misleads Believers IS a FALSE TEACHER!
Sadly, many of the Believers in today’s born-again churches are doing the same thing that Yahweh’s children did in the Old Testament. And that is…ignoring the HIS commandments and doing what seems right in their own eyes! Many Believers no longer DO the DO’S and DON’T do the DON’TS of the Church Epistles!
Philippians 2:19-21 If the Lord Yeshua is willing, I hope to send Timothy to you soon for a visit. Then he can cheer me up by telling me how you are getting along. I have no other reliable Believers like Timothy, who genuinely cares about your welfare. All the other Believers care more about their own interests…not for what matters to Yeshua Christ.
Speaking the Truth (in biblical love) (because so few are),
Brother Bob
It's NOT that most of you signs and wonders seeking Believers aren't sincere. The 'issue' is that your sincerity is NOT coupled with ACCURATE (i.e. up to date) biblical Truth! And that’s because you sign gift seeking Believers are not understanding HOW Yahweh’s PROGRESSIVE REVELATION works! You're striving to 'get' a sign gift that the Scriptures teach is no longer being manifested.
Progressive revelation is the theological (i.e. biblical) concept which states that Yahweh has revealed His will, plan, and nature to humanity gradually over time, rather than all at once. Simplified this means that those Believers born after the completion of the Scriptures ‘know’ much more about Yahweh’s will and plans for Believers than the Believers in Noah, Abraham or Moses’ days did. Today’s Church Age Believers simply have a fuller understanding of Truth (because of the completed New Testament Church Epistles) compared to an Old Testament Believer. And this process of progressive revelation not only reveals new Truths from Yahweh. These newly revealed Truths show us which (Old Testament or even (some) New Testament) Truths of Yahweh have become obsolete! It’s sad that a lot of professing Believers can’t discern that many of Truths of Yahweh (usually in the Old Testament) are no longer the Truths that a Believer should obey! Here are just some Old Testament examples of what I mean.
Leviticus 23:26-31 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “On exactly the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble your souls and present an offering by fire to Yahweh. You shall not do any work on this same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before Yahweh your God. If there is any person who will not humble himself on this same day, they shall be cut off from his people. As for any person who does any work on this same day, that person I will destroy from among the people.
Deuteronomy 22:23-24 If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
Leviticus 7:27 Any person who eats ANY blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.’”
(I’m a medium rare steak guy myself!)
Here’s a ‘dicey one’ to ponder! Deuteronomy 23:1 No man who is emasculated or has his male organ cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.
WOW! Where’s the love Yahweh? (Said facetiously.)
If these were still inspired Truths of Yahweh that the LORD expected today’s Church Age Believers to obey…we would all be in trouble! In fact…IF these “Truths” of Yahweh were still commandments that the LORD expected Church Believers to obey…MOST of us would either be ‘booted out’ of our churches…or be dead!
Brethren, the LORD means what HE says…and says what HE means…but sometimes WHAT He initially said gets changed to something else (i.e. NEW and different.) I’ll explain in more detail in the podcast.
Speaking the (biblical) Truth in (real) love,
Brother Bob
Brethren…our Heavenly Father IS a good and loving Father…with those children of His who DO as He commands! Somewhere in the not too distant past…the ‘powers to be’ in the Christian Church ‘twisted’ and/or ignored what the Scriptures say about Yahweh being a holy and just…and have turned Him into a ‘candy-man’ God who freely and unconditionally ‘hands out’ all of His blessings…just because He can!
Brethren…our Heavenly Father and our Savior say what they mean…and mean what they say! So, those Bible teachers who ignore the biblical qualifying factors for Yahweh’s promises are going to face some serious (i.e. bad) consequences at the Judgment Seat of Christ! By ‘cherry-picking’ Bible verses Bible teachers can come up with all kinds of soft and chewy, sweet sounding fairytale (i.e. false) sermons about how their God is always good…or always loving…or always forgiving etc. in order to make the (biblically dumb) sheep in the pews feel good about their lackadaisical (i.e. lukewarm) attitudes about what the Scriptures really teach! You see, IF spineless Church ‘leaders’ can convince their sheep that their Heavenly Father IS ALWAYS good, kind, loving and gracious (He’s NOT!) towards them…regardless of how the Believer is living their earthly life…these feckless church leaders know that the sheep will return week after week to fill the church coffers.
When our Heavenly Father says IF you DO as I SAY…THEN I will DO as I promise He means just that! And to believe otherwise means that you’re either biblically ignorant or willfully stupid. P.S. Now the Spirit of Yahweh can help those Believers who are biblically ignorant learn that God’s biblical promises for His children are conditional. He cannot help those Believers who choose to be willfully stupid!
Isaiah 48:18 “If only My children had paid attention to My commandments! Then their well-being would have been like a river, and their righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Speaking the Truth (i.e. telling it like it (really) is, because so few are,
Brother Bob
Sadly, a lot of Believers these days are living their spiritual lives in an imaginary, ‘feely,’ make-believe world…believing that everything is ‘good’ between them and their Heavenly Father and their savior! Brethren, unless you’re a brand new child of Yahweh (someone who’s still excited about their ‘new-found’ faith in Christ (and who has no idea what a biblical truth is yet)) you’re kidding yourself if you think that everything is ‘good’ between you and your Heavenly Father and your savior…just because you ‘feel’ (like) it is!
From the beginning of the Scriptures until the very end…the only time Believers ‘found’ themselves in a ‘good’ (living) relationship with their Heavenly Father was when they were doing as HE commanded! Eve thought it was okay to eat the forbidden ‘fruit’…because it was pleasing to her eyes! Lot’s wife thought I’ll take one look back…and then I’ll do as the Lord commanded. Moses and Aaron decided to take matters into their own hands…instead of obeying Yahweh! And both of them had their ministries ‘cut short’! Uzzah believed it was better to keep the Ark from failing then it was to obey Yahweh…and he died for making a decision that seemed right in his own eyes! And Solomon! Dear Brother Solomon! Your father David warned you that IF you chose to forsake the Lord’s commandments…HE (Yahweh) would forsake you forever! Besides Yeshua, Solomon was the wisest and smartest human who ever existed…and yet he not only ignored Yahweh’s commandments…he ‘promoted’ and ‘elevated’ the pagan religious practices that his pagan wives brought into his life! (By the way, as ‘punishment’ for Solomon’s sins…his future Millennial and New Earth ‘kingship’ (reward) was stripped from him by Yahweh!) Brethren…I could go ON and ON and ON with biblical stories of Yahweh’s people choosing to do just the opposite of what HE commanded! And let’s group the Apostle Peter in with those Believers who chose to do (on numerous occasions) what seemed to be the right thing to do…and it wasn’t!
Brethren…you really need to ‘wrap your head around the biblical fact’ that unless you're a 'baby' Believer (who doesn't know any better) anytime Believers chose to do what seems right in their own eyes (regardless of how sincere they are…or how ‘good’ it feels) they are in sin! God’s people need to understand that at the Judgment Seat of Christ it is not going to matter one iota (to the savior) that you had good intentions for choosing to disobey God’s instructions for His Church! It is not going to matter one iota (to the savior, at the Judgment Seat of Christ) that you ignored the Truths of Scriptures…and instead simply chose to believe what your church leaders told you Truth was! I promise you Brethren, unless you are a brand-new Believer (who doesn’t know any better) the Judgment Seat of Christ will not go well for the born-again child of Yahweh who chooses to try ‘build’ on the Foundation of Christ using beliefs that seem right in their own eyes!
Brethren, it pleases our Heavenly Father when His children learn, obey and guard the Truths of His written Word that He has given His Church! That means you need to set aside some serious time for studying the Bible. As you’ll hear in this podcast series…a Believer does NOT have to be a Bible Scholar to read and understand most of the teachings, instructions and commandments found in the Church Epistles. And I promise you that IF you get serious about ‘getting off’ the ‘mommy’s milk’ of Scriptures…the Holy Spirit WILL guide and enlighten you to the ‘deeper’ Truths of Scriptures! Jeremiah 33:3 ‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
Speaking the Truth in love (because so few are)
Brother Bob
Sadly, we live in a time when most Believers could NOT explain SIX essential biblical doctrines of the Church Epistles…even IF their life depended on it! Oh, there are a lot of Believers ‘doing church’…but very few are ‘doing church’ as their Heavenly Father has commanded them. Yeshua Christ warned the Believers of the Sardis Bible church that they had a name on the marquee (outside their church) which made them sound alive (i.e. biblical)…but they were spiritually dead! WOW! Those are ‘tough love words’ from the savior! Unfortunately, because so many of Yahweh’s children are biblically ignorant…they don’t ‘get’ what Yeshua means by His Words.
Proverbs 2:1-5 My son, if you will receive my words and treasure my commandments within you; Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding; For if you cry for discernment; Lift your voice for understanding; If you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures; Then you will discern the fear of Yahweh and discover the knowledge of God.
Brethren, reading the Scriptures is NOT the same thing as discerning the Scriptures. This world is full of church leaders, Bible ‘teachers’ and Christian social media ‘influencers’ spewing all kinds of biblical ½ truths (½ truth are always a lie!) or phony or misguided promises (from supposedly the Lord) that aren’t qualified! And that’s because a lot of born-again, Spirit indwelt Believers simply don’t know what they’re talking about! Again…listen to these (Church) End Time Words of Christ (when He was asked what the End Time Church would look like.) These warning words are the first things that Christ shares when He’s asked what the End Time will look like. Matthew 24:4-5 See to it that no one misleads you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. Of all the things that the savior could have shared first…He shares these sobering words with His closest Followers! Again, because so many Believers don’t discern their Scriptures very well…they totally miss what their savior shares in Matthew chapter 24!
Saints, it takes more than simply being saved to discern the Truths of Scriptures. Jeremiah 33:3 Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things which you do not know.’
Speaking the (real) Truth in love (because so few are),
Brother Bob
Sadly, we live in a time when most Believers could NOT explain SIX essential biblical doctrines of the Church Epistles IF their life depended on it! Oh, there are a lot of Believers ‘doing church’…but very few are ‘doing church’ as their Heavenly Father has commanded them. Yeshua Christ warned the Believers of the Sardis Bible church that they had a name on the marquee outside their church which made them sound biblical…but they were spiritually dead! WOW! Those are ‘tough love words’ from the savior! Unfortunately, because so many of Yahweh’s children are biblically ignorant…they don’t ‘get’ what Yeshua means by His Words.
Proverbs 2:1-5 My son, if you will receive my words and treasure my commandments within you; Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding; For if you cry for discernment; Lift your voice for understanding; If you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures; Then you will discern the fear of Yahweh and discover the knowledge of God.
Brethren, reading the Scriptures is NOT the same thing as discerning the Scriptures. This world is full of church leaders, Bible ‘teachers’ and Christian social media ‘influencers’ spewing all kinds of biblical ½ truths (½ truth are always a lie!) or phony or misguided promises (from supposedly the Lord) that aren’t qualified! And that’s because a lot of born-again, Spirit indwelt Believers simply don’t know what they’re talking about! Again…listen to these (Church) End Time Words of Christ (when He was asked what the End Time Church would look like.) These warning words are the first things that Christ shares when He’s asked what the End Time will look like. Matthew 24:4-5 See to it that no one misleads you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. Of all the things that the savior could have shared first…He shares these sobering words with His closest Followers! Again, because so many Believers don’t discern their Scriptures very well…they totally miss what their savior shares in Matthew chapter 24!
Saints, it takes more than simply being saved to discern the Truths of Scriptures. Jeremiah 33:3 Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
Speaking the Truth in love (because so few are,
Brother Bob
Here’s the definition of the word discernment. Having discernment means having the ability to be able to understand, judge, and distinguish things clearly, especially when things are not obvious or straightforward. Unfortunately…because biblical discernment is lacking ‘big time’ in the born-again churches these days…a lot of Believers don’t know what they don’t know about the Truths of Scriptures. Oh…these Believers will give you lots of opinions about they think the Truths of Yahweh’s written Word are. (You’ll witness this at most “Bible studies” these days.) Believers without discernment will share all kinds of beliefs that they have…without really knowing where it is in the Scriptures those beliefs come from. And when ‘challenged’ to ‘defend’ why it is they believe what they believe…most Believers simply get irritated or get that ‘deer in the headlights’ look on their faces. I couldn’t tell you how many Believers I’ve met over the years who simply tell me that they believe what their shepherds tell them!
I’ve been a serious ‘student’ of the Scriptures for over 40 years. Now, even with that said, I don’t claim to know it all. However…I have learned ‘a thing or two’ about biblical Truth in those 40 plus years of studying the Scriptures. I can hear it already. Brother Bob is claiming to have learned the Truths of Scriptures thru his own human logic. I never said that! I know quite well that IF it wasn’t for the Spirit of Yahweh faithfully ‘helping’ me ‘see’ the complex diversities of the written Word…I too would be as biblically ignorant as many of today’s Believers are. Now, even with that said…make no mistake the Spirit of Yahweh ‘revealed’ the Truths of His written Word to me because I was seriously seeking to know (i.e. DISCERN) biblical Truth! The Spirit of Yahweh not only ‘reveals’ the Truths of His written Word to Believers who genuinely seek to know them…He also gives the Believer the ability to DISCERN what the ‘hidden meaning’ of the Scriptures are.
Hebrews 3:7-13 That is why the Holy Spirit says, “Today when you hear HIS voice, don’t harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled, when they tested ME in the wilderness. There your ancestors tested and tried MY patience, even though they saw MY miracles for forty years. So I was angry with them, and I said, ‘Their hearts always turn away from ME. They refuse to do what I tell them.’ So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter MY place of rest.’” Be careful then, dear Brothers and Sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living Lord. You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God.
Lord knows that I’m consistently trying to ‘warn’ Believers about the earthly and eternal consequences of having (and dying with) a calloused, unteachable heart!
Brother Bob
The Title of this podcast says all that I need to say about the contents of Part Two in this series.
Now, let me say right up front that I know without a shadow of a doubt that the free gift of eternal life (that the Lord gives to all who truly believe the gospel of Christ) is absolutely, 100%, totally free! It’s free! free! free! Romans 6.23 the wages (or consequences) of sin is death…however, the gift of eternal life IS FREE! FREE means that a saved person’s eternal salvation is NOT determined or maintained by how ‘well’ that person ‘behaves’ (after they get saved!) And since a person’s eternal salvation IS FREE…it won’t fade away because they’re not living up to a certain moral standard! Yeshua Christ’s promise of a Free Gift of eternal life DIDN’T come with the stipulation that a person’s must strive to stop sinning OR make Christ the Lord of their life in order to BE or GET or STAY saved! Truly saved people received the Gift of eternal life the NANO-SECOND they believed the Gospel!
The FREE GIFT of eternal life is NOT ‘doled out’ AFTER a born-again person spends a few years on the mission field, or after spending 6 months in a discipleship class or after attending Seminary school! And I know that the Bible teaches that a person’s eternal salvation is NOT determined by HOW WELL they ‘behave’ because then a person would be saved by faith in Christ PLUS good works…which is contrary to what the Scriptures teach! Now, since salvation is a free gift that the Lord (freely offered to all who believe the Free Gift Gospel of Christ)…that means that no one receives OR KEEPS their free gift of eternal salvation ‘persevered’ by faith in Christ plus maintaining a righteous walk! Those who believe they need to ‘maintain’ a righteous walk of holiness (in order to keep them self saved), are basically (and foolishly) believing that they need to ‘help’ Christ with their salvation process! Since the Bible is crystal clear that FREE GIFT of eternal salvation comes thru faith in Christ plus nothing…you need to answer this question! How would a Believer ‘lose’ or ‘forfeit’ their eternal salvation for being bad….when they never received their free gift of salvation for being good in the first place! How can a Believer lose what they never deserved to begin with?
Brethren, there are a lot of Believers in the Church who sincerely but foolishly believe that if a true, blood-bought, eternally saved child of God is not maintaining a certain standard of morality or decency or obedience…they will lose their salvation! Again I ask! How can a Believer lose (for being bad) something that they didn’t (initially) get in the first place for being good? In fact…IF you believe that a saved person can forfeit or ‘lose’ their eternal salvation if they die living a carnal life…you’re most likely not saved yourself because you are believing in a ‘good works’ plus Christ Gospel! (Which is a false Gospel!) Again…is the free gift of eternal life really free…or does a Believer have to maintain a certain walk to keep it? Is it possible for the FREE GIFT of eternal life to be both FREE and NOT free at the same time? NO! When a person thinks that they need to ‘help’ Christ keep them saved thru righteous or holy living…their ‘saving faith’ is not in Christ alone. And no one is eternally saved unless their faith is in Christ alone! Behold I, Paul, say to you that if any Believer receives circumcision, (believing that it will help saved them) Christ will be of no benefit to you (i.e. you’re no longer saved!) And I testify again to every person who receives circumcision (believing that it will help saved them), is under obligation to keep the whole Law. Anyone you believes they need to DO STUFF (plus believe in the Free Gift Gospel of Christ) (in order to maintain their salvation) have been severed (i.e. CUT OFF) from (salvation thru) Christ! ANY of you who are seeking to be justified by law (i.e. good works); you have fallen from saving grace (i.e. you who choose to do that are no longer saved.)
I know that A LOT of you have NEVER EVEN BEEN TAUGHT that Yahweh and Yeshua's NAMES were removed from original inspired Scriptures! For the first ten years of my life as a born-again Believer I too was NEVER taught! For those ten years I ignorantly went along with the Christian 'flow' not knowing that as I read my Bible...I was using SUBSTITUTED (i.e. added) title/names for my Heavenly Father and my savior! And then (I believe that) the Spirit of Yahweh 'revealed' to me the ONE TRUE BIBLICAL NAMES of my Heavenly Father and my savior! (YES! Our Heavenly Father and our savior DO HAVE biblical names. The problem is...they're NO LONGER in the Bible! Yes! You heard me right! That's absolutely asinine! Anyways, I'm getting ahead of myself! All I know is that WHEN I DID find out that my Heavenly Father and my Savior HAVE biblical NAMES...I was both shocked (that none of my Church 'leaders' had ever taught me that....AND ANGRY...that I had 'allowed' myself to be deceived about such a serious biblical matter!
So in this podcast I'll explain HOW and WHY those holy and sacred NAMES (Yahweh and Yeshua) were literally 'removed' from the written Word! I pray that your desire to know biblical Truth...is stronger than your pride!
Brother Bob
It’s sad how much Believer’s don’t know about the Truths of Scriptures. I definitely don’t claim to be the ‘sharpest (spiritual) tool in the shed!’ But after seriously seeking to know the Truths of Scriptures (for over 40 years), the Spirit of Yahweh has ‘revealed’ a thing or two to me! Unfortunately, most Believers I meet seem to be more interested in what the Christian ‘crowd’ believes, or what feels right, than what the Scriptures itself teaches is right!
Now…there are some areas in the Scriptures where Believers (in the Spirit of unity) can agree to disagree! However…the One true names of our Heavenly Father and our savior is not one of those areas! Oh, we can ‘debate’ whether the savior’s biblical name is YESHUA or YOUSHUA. However, there is NOT a shadow of any doubt that our savior’s biblical name has never been IESOUS or JESUS! And we can ‘debate’ the correct way to pronounce our Heavenly Father’s biblical name YHWH! But again… there is NOT a shadow of any doubt that our Heavenly Father’s biblical name has never been Lord!
Brethren, we were duped! Over the past 2000 years, some sanctimonious (and really, really biblically dumb people) decided that they knew better than Yahweh…and made the decision to remove Yahweh’s One true biblical name from the Old Testament Scriptures…and substitute His name with a title! Yeah, you heard me right! (I have more details on this ‘corruption journey’ in the podcast.) And even during the Church Age…some sanctimonious (and really, really biblically dumb people) decided that they knew better than Yahweh and decided to remove His One true name from the New Testament Scriptures (and also substitute the title Lord) in it’s place. These same sanctimonious (but really, really biblically dumb people) decided to ‘change’ the unchangeable (and untranslatable) name of the savior (Yeshua) to ‘nothing-burger’ man-made names!
And what’s really sad…is that this went on ‘right under the noses’ of born-again, Spirit indwelt Believers! I know that when the Truths of Yahweh and Yeshua’s true biblical names was ‘revealed’ to me (by the Spirit of Yahweh)…my first reaction was shock! But another reaction was anger! I was pissed off big time knowing that I had been lied to by people I considered to be my spiritual leaders! I was angry that supposedly wise Bible Scholars like Strong’s and Vine’s didn’t have the ‘stones’ to teach Believers the Truths about how people had ‘corrupted’ the true biblical names of our Heavenly Father and our savior! Brethren, our Heavenly Father and our savior’s true biblical names are known! Let’s just use them instead of using the ‘whatever’ ‘names’ or titles that men have substituted for YAHWEH and YESHUA!
Sharing the Truth because so few are,
Brother Bob
As Yeshua Christ gives us the (true) story of Lazarus and the Rich Man…HE IS revealing some newly inspired (i.e. never before heard) biblical Truths. Until Christ shares this story of the Rich Man and the Poor Man, no one really knew what went on in the Old Testament place for the dead known as Sheol or the Pit! Well, the “mysteries” of Sheol (which is Hades in the New Testament) are about to be ‘exposed’ by the savior.
Now sadly, because most born-again Believers have ‘lost’ the ability to biblically discern the ‘different’ ‘layers’ of biblical Truths and sound spiritual information that the Lord has ‘hidden’ in the sentences (i.e. words) that they read in their Bibles…most Believers don’t have a clue that there is much more “hidden’ biblical information in those sentences (i.e. words) that they logically read and comprehend in their daily Bible readings! Now, although the Bible IS a Book that can be logically read and then be logically comprehended. There is another ‘aspect’ of the Scriptures that most Believers don’t ‘see.’ And that’s ‘seeing’ the ‘deeper’ spiritual Truths of Yahweh’s written Word (‘hidden’ in the words that you read in a Bible verse.) Our Heavenly Father only ‘reveals’ those ‘hidden’ Truths of His written Word to those Believers who are genuinely seeking to ‘go deeper’ than just what they logically comprehend as they read their Bibles. Names like: A.W. Tozer, Tony Evans, John MacArthur, and Adrian Rodgers come to mind when I think of men ‘gifted’ to discern (and explain) the ‘deeper Truths’ of Yahweh’s written Word to Believers!
Brethren…we get ‘one life’ to share the free salvation message of Christ with the unsaved. And I promise you according to all that I know about the Truths of Scriptures that IF you are truly saved (i.e. born-again)…and haven’t been sharing the free gift Gospel of Christ with the unsaved around you (you will still be saved from hell when you die!) But for all eternity, you’ll have sorrow and regret for all those unsaved people you knew (who are now in hell) who you never shared the Gospel with!
Unfortunately, the Rich Man found out too late that hell was a real place! (I wonder IF anyone ever shared with him?) However, to the Rich Man’s credit, (once he dropped into hell) he cared so much about his unsaved family that he begged Abraham to please send Lazarus (back up) to his family to warn them that hell is a real place! To which Abraham ‘harshly’ replied, “No! They need to get saved by reading and believing the Truths of Scriptures!
Speaking the Truth in love,
Brother Bob
As Yeshua Christ gives us the (true) story of Lazarus and the Rich Man…HE IS revealing some newly inspired (i.e. never before heard) biblical Truths. You see, until Christ shares this story of the Rich Man and the Poor Man, no one really knew what went on in the Old Testament place for the dead known as Sheol or the Pit! Well, the “mystery” of Sheol is about to be ‘exposed’ by the savior.
Now sadly, because most born-again Believers have ‘lost’ the ability to biblically discern the ‘different’ ‘layers’ of biblical Truths and sound spiritual information that the Lord has ‘hidden’ in the sentences (i.e. words) that they read in their Bibles…most Believers don’t have a clue that there is much more “hidden’ biblical information in those sentences (i.e. words) that they logically read and comprehend in their daily Bible readings! Now, although the Bible IS a Book that can be logically read and then be logically comprehended. There is another ‘aspect’ of the Scriptures that most Believers don’t ‘see.’ And that’s ‘seeing’ the ‘deeper’ spiritual Truths of Yahweh’s written Word (‘hidden in the words’ that you read in a Bible verse), that He only ‘reveals’ to those Believers who are genuinely seeking to ‘go deeper’ (than just the ‘surface’ of a Bible verse.) Names like: A.W. Tozer, Tony Evans, John MacArthur, and Adrian Rodgers come to mind when I think of men ‘gifted’ to discern (and explain) the ‘deeper Truths of Yahweh’s written Word!
Brethren, IF your only ‘understanding’ of the Truths of Yahweh’s written Word come from what you ‘read’ ‘on the surface’ of a Bible verse…you’re missing out on a lot of what the Scriptures ‘say’ ‘within’ the words of a Bible verse! A Believer whom the Lord has ‘revealed ‘ the ‘deeper Truths’ of His written Word to…should be able to spend hours sharing the Truths of Yahweh ‘hidden’ in a stories like: the Rich man and the Poor Man, Lazarus and the Tomb….or in the Parable of the Talents.
IMPORTANT SIDE NOTE: Don’t be deceived or duped by the unbiblical or inaccurate, emotionally driven ‘teachings’ of the signs and wonders seeking Believers out there in the Church! They’re going to share a lot of unbiblical ‘feely’ ‘stuff’ that SEEMS RIGHT or FEELS RIGHT (i.e. sounds pious and holy) (when it’s not!)…not having a clue about what they speak!
Speaking the Truth in love,
Brother Bob
Brethren, in this podcast series I’m simply giving you (what I believe to be) some ‘hidden’ biblical Truths of Scriptures. You don’t have to believe what I’m sharing (about Yeshua Christ’s soul and spirit going to hell to pay off mankind’s hell sin debt) to BE or GET saved! What I’m doing in this podcast series is similar to when I try to teach the Brethren the truths about pagan origins of Christmass or Easter, and the reason behind WHY the man-made ‘names’ of God and the savior is in our Bibles these days. Or when I did a podcast explaining why I KNOW that it was only the twelve Apostles who were together on the Day of Pentecost (when the supernatural manifestation of the Spirit of Yahweh took place.)
All Believers are called to be a DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH (i.e. defenders of the Truths of Scriptures.) I don’t know about you…but I take that responsibility seriously! So, in light of that…I KNOW that the Good Lord wants me to share ALL His biblical Truths (and truths in general) with His sheep. (Sadly, very few of Yahweh’s ‘shepherds’ these days are true defenders of the one True faith handed down to all in the Scriptures. And I believe that’s because very few of Yahweh’s ‘shepherds’ really know their Scriptures very well.
For me personally, when I realized that not only did my savior suffer miserably before He finally died on the cross…He then went to hell (for three days and three nights) to ‘complete’ His sacrifice for mankind’s sins…my appreciation for what He did to save my sorry butt from hell was magnified!
Speaking the Truth in love (because so few are),
Brother Bob
Listen to my podcasts at: God’s Word Unfiltered
Most born-again Believers don’t ‘see’ that the Scriptures clearly imply that our Lord and Savior Yeshua Christ suffered TWICE for mankind’s sins. His physical (i.e. body) death at Calvary “paid for” the physical consequences of mankind’s sins. But once HIS physical body died…HIS soul and spirit went to hell (for three days and three nights) to ‘pay off’ the hell sin debt that ALL humans ‘owe’ a holy and just God!
Matthew 12:38-40 At this some of the Torah-teachers said, "Rabbi, we want to see a miraculous sign from you." He replied, "A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign? No! None will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Yonah. For just as Yonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea-monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the depths of the earth.
The Bible teaches that the PHYSICAL death of Christ (i.e. His blood sacrifice at Calvary) ‘removes’ or washes away a Believer’s physical (i.e. fleshly) sins as they confess and repent! WHAT Yeshua Christ did a Calvary DIDN’T ‘remove’ the hell debt consequences (for our sins) (that our soul and spirit deserves to ‘pay for’ in Hades?) That’s WHY Yeshua Christ’s (INVISIBLE) SOUL/SPIRIT HAD TO GO TO HELL! Yeshua’s PHYSICAL death (I.e. sacrifice) at Calvary was a ‘partial’ payment for mankind’s sins! Christ ‘completed’ mankind’s sacrifice for sins by going to hell and paying off the hell sin debt that ALL humans ‘owe’ a holy and just God!
Acts 2:24-27, 29-32 But Yahweh has raised HIM up and freed HIM from the suffering of death; it was impossible that death could keep its hold on HIM. For David says this about HIM (i.e. the Messiah): 'I saw ADONAI always before ME, for HE is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken. For this reason, MY heart was glad; and MY tongue rejoiced; and now MY body too will live on in the certain hope that YOU will not abandon ME to Sheol. (Peter speaking to Jews) "Brothers, I know I can say to you frankly that the patriarch David died and was buried—his tomb is with us to this day. Therefore, since he was a prophet and knew that Yahweh had sworn an oath to him that one of his descendants would sit on his throne, David was speaking in advance about the resurrection of the Messiah, that it was HE who was not abandoned in Sheol and whose flesh did not see decay. Yahweh raised up this Yeshua! And we are all witnesses of it!
Yes! the Bible clearly implies that Yeshua Christ suffered TWICE for our sins! Once on the cross…and once in hell! Yeshua Christ completely PAID OFF our hell sin debt when we got saved…but all those PHYSICAL sins that we commit AFTER we get saved are ‘removed; (i.e. washed clean by the Blood of Christ) as we confess and repent of the sin we just committed!
Now…IF you listen to the podcast series on this topic you’ll hear me say (repeatedly) that I am NOT telling you that UNLESS you believe what I’m sharing (on this topic) you can’t be saved! I know Brothers and Sisters in Christ who don’t believe (for foolish, emotional reasons) that the soul and spirit of Yeshua Christ went to hell! Oh well! We’ll let the Lord sort that out at the Judgment Seat. P.S. I believe that a lot of our so-called biblical beliefs are going to be ‘corrected’ at the Judgment Seat of Christ!
Brother Bob
So this is the final podcast in a four-part series where I expose the unbiblical errors of Calvinism! As I share in ALL MY podcasts…a Believer doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist or Bible scholar to hear and understand the simple Truths of Scriptures that I share. AND YET…as I look out into the world at the born-again Church…I SEE (i.e. HEAR and READ) a LOT of very pious sounding but totally unbiblical BS (i.e. biblical stupidity) being ‘passed off’ as being ‘of the LORD’!
I have never claimed to have all the answers…but after 40 years of seriously studying the written Word of Yahweh…and NOT just casually reading thru the Word of Yahweh…I have learned much! So, when I do ANY podcasts…not just this one exposing the errors of Calvinism…I AM NOT determining my ‘biblical positions’ based on what SEEMS or FEELS right. But rather on what I believe is LOGICALLY and TRUTHFULLY right…according to Yahweh’s written Word. I’ll be honest…I am shocked by the number of Believers whom I have talked to who do not have BIBLICAL convictions. BUT rather spiritual convictions based on what seems right (i.e. feels right) to them! And that’s definitely the case with Calvinists! There is absolutely nothing biblically true about the TUILP doctrines of Calvinists…and yet thousands of professing born-again Believers have allowed themselves to ‘fall prey’ to the idiotic doctrines of Calvinism!
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ…I KNOW (from the obvious biblical apathy and biblical ignorance) that I see (i.e. HEAR and READ) in many of today’s born-again Believers, that the Church is in the End Times! (Side Note: Yeshua Christ and the Apostle Paul clearly tell us in the Scriptures that this is what the End Time ‘fallen away’ (from biblical Truth) Church will be like!) So, with that said, PLEASE!...PLEASE!...PLEASE! 'TURN OFF' your ‘emotion button’ and go listen to my podcasts (with an honest and teachable mind) at God’s Word Unfiltered. P.S. If you choose to listen to my podcasts…please ‘leave your heart’ on the Hallmark movie site. Don’t ‘bring your feelings’ into a Bible study situation.) If you have BIBLICAL ‘aught’ with what I say…please email me at brobob4him@gmail.com. But don’t waste my time (and your time) emailing me IF all you have to ‘offer me’ is something in regard to how much you don’t ‘like’ WHAT I say or HOW is say it!
Your true friend in Christ, Brother Bob
In Part three of this series about exposing the unbiblical errors of Calvinism I focused on the letter “L” (in the Calvinistic TULIP acronym); which stands for: LIMITED ATONEMENT OR…to simply that ‘fancy’ phrase LIMITED ATONEMENT literally means (to a diehard Calvinist) that Yeshua Christ did NOT die for everyone. He only died for those (very few) who His Father predetermined (i.e. picked ahead of time) would be saved! I KNOW! It’s NUTS! The more I study the Calvinistic beliefs…the more I’m convinced their doctrines come right out of the pits of hell themselves!
Well…here are three…easy to understand (unless you’re a ‘blinded’ Calvinist) Bible verses which totally contradict the blasphemous concept of LIMITED ATONEMENT!
I John 2:2, "Yeshua Christ is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world ."
1 Timothy 2: 5-6 "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Yeshua Christ; Who gave himself a ransom for all
John 3:16-17 For Yahweh so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For YAHWEH did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
I could share many more Bible verses which 'expose' the Calvinism doctrine of LIMITED ATONEMENT for what it is. (A deceptive lie!) But I won’t! If your spiritual mind and heart are so hard-hearted that you can’t see the obvious errors of the doctrines of Calvinism…you are definitely ‘caught up’ in a dark ‘light!
Your true friend in Christ,
Brother Bob
Brother Bob…What do you mean I’m responsible for my walk with Christ? Sadly, many Believers in the Church today have been duped into believing that either the Spirit of Yahweh or Yeshua Christ Himself are totally responsible for their spiritual walk! A lot of born-again Believers are foolishly told that IF their faith is strong enough…they can simply ‘sit back’…’put their feet up’ and watch the savior or the Holy Spirit ‘fight’ all their spiritual battles for them! Here are just a FEW of the hundreds of Bible verses which clearly show that the born-again, Spirit-indwelt, blood-bought children of Yahweh…and NOT the Spirit of Yahweh…are accountable for ‘walking the talk’!
Luke 13:24 --- “Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many will try to enter but will fail.
Romans 12:11 Never be lazy; but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically.
1 Corinthians 3:8 The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work.
Philippians 2:12 Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear.
1 Timothy 4:10 This is why we work hard and continue to struggle, for our hope is in the living God, who is the Savior of all people and particularly of all believers.
1 Timothy 5:17 Elders who do their work well should be respected and paid well, especially those who work hard at both preaching and teaching.
2 Timothy 2:15 Work hard so you can present yourself to God and receive his approval. Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly explains the word of truth.
Hebrews 2:1,3 So we must listen very carefully to the Truths that we have heard, or we may drift away from it. So what makes us think we can escape if we ignore this great salvation that was first announced by the Lord Yeshua himself and then delivered to us by those who heard him speak?
Hebrews 4:6,11 So God’s rest is there for people to enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they disobeyed God. So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.
2 Peter 1:10-11 So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. Do these things, and you will never fall away. IF you work hard at doing these things…then Yahweh will give you a grand entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Yeshua Christ.
Church, the idea that the Holy Spirit is ‘responsible,’ or worse yet is the One, who does all this stuff above for Believers is ludicrous! Any words of ‘honor’ or ‘praise’ (from Yeshua Christ) (at the Judgment Seat of Christ) for a ‘job well done’…will be empty words IF we’re not the ones deserving of those words of honor or praise! If it isn’t the Believer who plays a major role in ‘fighting the good fight’…then the whole Judgment Seat of Christ reward system is a farce! I don’t know about you…but I don’t want to take credit (i.e. get rewarded) ‘for a job well done’…IF I wasn’t the one choosing to strive to try and please my savior and my Heavenly Father! I want it to be me and not the Spirit of Yahweh who ‘earned’ the praises of my savior!
Speaking the Truth in love,
Brother Bob
I’m a born-again Believer who sincerely and genuinely strives to defend what I believe to be the Truths of Scriptures. I believe that the doctrines of Calvinism have very little to do with the Truths of Scriptures (even though Calvinists say otherwise!) So, in spite of what the Calvinists say about their doctrines being biblical...I know they're not. So I 'look at' Calvinistic doctrines as being deceptive and dark 'enemies' of biblical Truth...which need to be 'rooted out' of the Church. Now I know that many Calvinists sincerely believe that their Calvinistic beliefs are biblical. But so do the Mormons, JW’S, and today’s emotionally driven, experiential signs and wonder seeking Pentecostals. All of who I know have beliefs that are either unbiblical…or (un)biblically inaccurate.
Now, I don’t hate Calvinists. However, I do ‘hate’ their Calvinistic doctrines! (Just as I don’t hate Catholics. I hate their man-made doctrines.) Most Calvinists don’t even realize how unloving they are. Their doctrines have not only ‘turned’ the God of the Scriptures into an unloving God…they have ‘turned’ Yahweh into a liar. Every Bible version on planet earth includes words like these: John 3.16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
One of the beliefs of Calvinism is that the only people who get saved are those people who Yahweh picks for salvation! That belief makes Yahweh out to be a liar! Because this Calvinistic doctrine teaches that Yahweh doesn’t love the whole world...even though the Bible verse above says differently! And IF Yahweh only loves those who He ‘picks’ for salvation...Yahweh lied when He gave the world that Bible verse above! Another reason why this Calvinist belief (that the only people who get saved are the people Yahweh picks for salvation) makes Yahweh out to be a liar is the fact that the verse about tells us that Yahweh made His Son available to the whole world! And yet, the Calvinistic belief above teaches that Yahweh only made His Son available to a few! And finally…the last reason why this Calvinistic belief (that the only people who get saved are the people Yahweh picks for salvation) makes Yahweh out to be a liar is that in John 3.16 above, Yahweh declares that whoever believes is given the opportunity to believe in His Son (for salvation.)
Brethren, this Calvinistic belief that I just shared above is just one of the unloving, unkind, deceptive, and biblically inaccurate doctrines of Calvinism! There are many more. If you’re genuinely concerned about WHY the doctrines of Calvinism are biblically wrong…please listen to this podcast series. IF you’re a die-hard Calvinist who not willing to be corrected…I believe you’re living in a ‘dark’ ‘light’... and you probably don’t even know it! Matthew 6:22-23 The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
It’s one thing to have strong biblical convictions based on the Word of God! It’s another thing altogether when your ‘convictions’ come from sources outsight the LIGHT of the Truth of Scriptures! If your faith is in the doctrines of John Calvin…you’re in a really ‘dark place’! And IF you believe in a sacramental ‘Gospel’ (which is really not the Gospel of Christ at all)…you’re not even saved!
Speaking the Truth in love,
Brother Bob
One wouldn't think this would be a 'questionable' doctrine in the Church of the Living God. But it is...for some. Brethren, there are Believers in the Church who sincerely believe that EVEN IF a person (who) USED TO profess to be born-again, (but who now) chooses to openly and publicly renounce (i.e. reject) Yeshua Christ as their savior...they would still be eternally saved because they USED TO believe in the Gospel of Christ! No! I'm not making that up! Now to be fair, there are ways to convince yourself (misusing) the Scriptures that a USED TO BE Believer...who's now an Unbeliever...will still be saved from hell when they die. However...IF you listened to part one of this series I explained the biblical meanings for the English words: believe, believing, believed and believer...and they all come from ONE Greek word PISTUEO. And that Greek word has nothing to do with USED TO BE a Believer.
DEFINITIONS OF BELIEVING
STRONG'S SAYS.... BELIEVE, BELIEVES, BELIEVING BELIEVED in the Greek means to have a mental persuasion by implication, to entrust (especially one's spiritual well-being to Christ): — believe(-r), commit (to trust), be committed unto 1, be put in trust with 1, commit to one's trust. 1a; to think it to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in of the thing believed; to credit, have confidence; mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith
VINE'S SAYS to believe,” also “to be persuaded of,” and hence, “to place confidence in, to trust,” signifies, in this sense of the word, reliance upon, not mere credence (i.e. not merely something you believed in the past.)
So in other words, the general definition of BELIEVE, BELIEVES, BELIEVING and BELIEVED clearly implies CONTINUING TO BELIEVE!
IT’S BIBLICALLY LOGICAL THAT IF A PERSON NO LONGER BELIEVESWHAT THEY NEED TO BELIEVE in order to be SAVED…THEY’RE NO LONGER A BELIEVER!
It's important to note that in the New Testament, "pisteuó" carries a richer meaning than simply intellectually believing at some point in time. The word implies deep trust and continued reliance. Hence, IF you stop believing you are no longer a believer. In John 6:47 you see: “Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who believes has eternal life.” This verse both make it clear that you have to BE A believer in order to have eternal life. In English the word “believe” is a friendly word. The big question is what does it really mean to believe in Him. As I said before, every time you see the words believe, believing, believed and believes (in the New Testament) they come from the Greek word pisteuo, which means so much more than just believing something in your head. It means “believe in, to entrust, to rely on, to cling to.”
Brother Bob
I’m a born-again Believer who sincerely and genuinely strives to defend what I believe to be the Truths of Scriptures. I believe that the doctrines of Calvinism have very little to do with the Truths of Scriptures (even though Calvinists say otherwise!) So, in spite of what the Calvinists say about their doctrines being biblical...I know they're not. So I 'look at' Calvinistic doctrines as being deceptive and dark 'enemies' of biblical Truth...which need to be 'rooted out' of the Church. Now I know that many Calvinists sincerely believe that their Calvinistic beliefs are biblical. But so do the Mormons, JW’S, and today’s emotionally driven, experiential signs and wonder seeking Pentecostals. All of who I know have beliefs that are either unbiblical…or (un)biblically inaccurate.
Now, I don’t hate Calvinists. However, I do ‘hate’ their Calvinistic doctrines! (Just as I don’t hate Catholics. I hate their man-made doctrines.) Most Calvinists don’t even realize how unloving they are. Their doctrines have not only ‘turned’ the God of the Scriptures into an unloving God…they have ‘turned’ Yahweh into a liar. Every Bible version on planet earth includes words like these: John 3.16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
One of the beliefs of Calvinism is that the only people who get saved are those people who Yahweh picks for salvation! That belief makes Yahweh out to be a liar! Because this Calvinistic doctrine teaches that Yahweh doesn’t love the whole world...even though the Bible verse above says differently! And IF Yahweh only loves those who He ‘picks’ for salvation...Yahweh lied when He gave the world that Bible verse above! Another reason why this Calvinist belief (that the only people who get saved are the people Yahweh picks for salvation) makes Yahweh out to be a liar is the fact that the verse about tells us that Yahweh made His Son available to the whole world! And yet, the Calvinistic belief above teaches that Yahweh only made His Son available to a few! And finally…the last reason why this Calvinistic belief (that the only people who get saved are the people Yahweh picks for salvation) makes Yahweh out to be a liar is that in John 3.16 above, Yahweh declares that whoever believes is given the opportunity to believe in His Son (for salvation.)
Brethren, this Calvinistic belief that I just shared above is just one of the unloving, unkind, deceptive, and biblically inaccurate doctrines of Calvinism! There are many more. If you’re genuinely concerned about WHY the doctrines of Calvinism are biblically wrong…please listen to this podcast series. IF you’re a die-hard Calvinist who not willing to be corrected…I believe you’re living in a ‘dark’ ‘light’... and you probably don’t even know it! Matthew 6:22-23 The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
It’s one thing to have strong biblical convictions based on the Word of God! It’s another thing altogether when your ‘convictions’ come from sources outsight the LIGHT of the Truth of Scriptures! If your faith is in the doctrines of John Calvin…you’re in a really ‘dark place’!
Brother Bob
I was going to title this: You Must Be a Believer in order to Be a Believer...but I thought that title was too arrogant!
When I use the term Believer (Capitol B; noun title)…I’m speaking of someone who I would consider to be a true, blood-bought, eternally saved, born-again child of Yahweh. I consider a true Believer to be someone who believes that the blood of Yeshua Christ is the only thing which can ‘wash away’ sins. I’m quite aware that there are many unbelievers (in religions all over this planet) who say they ‘believe’ in Yeshua Christ…who really don’t! Many of these unbelievers say that they believe that Christ died for their sins! But then ‘reveal’ that they don’t really believe that Christ and Christ alone saves them…when they tell you that their ‘saving faith’ involves believing in Christ PLUS doing good works and/or doing church sacraments!
Now maybe it’s just me…but I’m pretty sure that the Bible teaches that in order for someone to BE a blood-bought, born-again, eternally saved child of Yahweh…they must BE a Believer; and not someone dreaming of beinga Believer…or hoping to be a Believer…or planning on becoming a Believer…or even used to be a Believer! Again. Maybe it’s just me! I would consider anyone who openly chooses to REJECT or RENOUNCE Yeshua Christ as their savior to be an unbeliever!
Of course someone MUST (presently) BE a believer (in the FREE GIFT/NO WORKS Gospel of Yeshua Christ) in order to be eternally saved child of Yahweh. Now, I’m doing this podcast series because there are die-hard, born-again, once-saved, always-saved Believers in the Church who actually believe that if someone (who once claimed to be born-again) openly and publicly renounces and rejects their belief that Yeshua Christ is their savior, they’ll still be eternally saved from hell…because they used to be a Believer! Yeah, you heard me right! These die-hard OSAS Christians believe that if a person (who used to be a born-again Believer)…now openly rejects the ‘written in stone’ biblical Truth that Yeshua Christ is the only way (to heaven)…they’re still going to be saved from hell because they used to be a Believer! You just can’t make this stuff up! Now, in the end, it’s the Lord Himself who decides who’s saved and who’s not saved. However, I ‘feel’ pretty confident to say that (in the Church Age) the Bible teaches that a person must die believing that Yeshua Christ is the only way to heaven!
Speaking the Truth in love,
Brother Bob
Brethren, in this Parable of the Prodigal Son we read about a young son (i.e. Believer) who chooses to run away from the responsibilities that his father (i.e. the Lord) had for him to do. And not only that…when this self-centered, rebellious younger son decided to ‘desert’ his father…he left, selfishly taking a share of the family’s wealth with him. Now, once this rebellious son squandered all his money on licentious living…he realized that he needed to figure out a way to make (more) money (for food)…because he was starving to death! But even after he found a ‘job’ (feeding pigs)…he found out that because there was a great famine in the land…food was not that easy to come by. So out of desperation…he decided to ‘crawl back’ to his father’s house…and beg his father for forgiveness…knowing that even his father’s hired hands ate well!
Most times suffering is a great way to get ‘right’ with the Lord. That is IF the suffering is the result of unrepentant sin. In the story of the Prodigal Son the father didn’t ‘chase after’ his rebellious son as he was running away! I believe the father knew that his rebellious son needed to go thru some ‘tough times’ in order to appreciate what he had left behind. King David thanked the Lord for disciplining him because he believed it kept him from going carnal.
Church, please listen up! A faithful, church-going born-again child of God can be seen (by the Lord) to be a 'wandering from the faith' child...like the Prodigal Son. That’s because a Believer can be doing all kinds of ‘church stuff’…and be listening to all kinds of professing ‘Bible teachers’…and be filling their heads with Christian music…and still be seen by the Lord to be a ‘wandering’ child…’dead’ to the faith! I shared this next thought in my podcast. But it’s important so I’m going to repeat it.
Scriptures imply that the Church of Sardis had a large marquee outside their place that read: HOME OF SARDIS BIBLE CHURCH. And yet, the Lord said that the Believers inside that big, beautiful church were biblically ‘dead’! Not spiritually ‘dead.’ (They were doing lots of spiritual stuff!) Yeshua considered them to be biblically ‘dead.’ How could that be? There were Believers inside the place where they met! And the place they met was called a Bible Church! And the Believers inside the Bible Church of Sardis were faithful church-goers! So, what was the Lord’s issue with these Believers? They had ‘left’ (i.e. deserted) their first love…which should have been following the biblical Ways of their Father! The ‘faithful’ church-going Believers in the Bible Church of Sardis had ‘wandered away' from doing the things which pleased their Heavenly Father. They were instead doing those ‘church things’ which pleased the Brethren. Or pleased self. Now, IF you don’t believe that can happen to born-again Believers (who are faithfully attending a born-again church) you’re deceived! Listen to these sad words of Christ about the Bible Church of Laodicea. Revelation 3:15-16, 20 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you Believers were cold or hot. So because you Believers are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any Believer hears My voice and opens the door, I will come to them and I will dine with them, and they with Me. These sad words of Yeshua Christ go right along with what He said in John 14:23-24 Yeshua replied, “Those Believers who love Me will do what I say. (AND IF they do what I say)…My Father will love them, and (AND IF they do what I say) THEN WE will come and make our home with each of them. Any Believer who doesn’t love ME (even though they say they love ME) will show ME that they don’t really love ME by NOT obeying My Word. (Par added but clearly implied)
Brother Bob
One of the most beautiful love stories in the Bible is found in the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Now, in this first (of two) podcasts I’ve only given you ½ the love story. P.S. Part two will ‘reveal’ that the father’s unconditional love for his son existed...whether his son was behaving righteously or unrighteously! (More on this thought in part two.)
Listen to me carefully! It’s important that Believers GRASP that even though their Heavenly Father loves His children dearly…HE will not ‘chase after them’ IF they choose wrong over right. The father in the Parable of the Prodigal Son (much like our Heavenly father) never stopped loving his son when he was ‘up to his eyeballs’ in sin. But God’s character is such that HE will not ‘run’ and ‘rescue’ His children from their sinful ways! Now, the sin of the Prodigal Son started long before he got involved in sexual immorality and other licentious sins. The sins of the son started in his heart and mind while he was still at home with his father. Unfortunately, instead of ‘dealing with’ his selfish, sinful thoughts…the son allowed the sin thoughts to linger. And once that happened...the son’s sinful flesh ‘got control’ of his actions!
You see…the father’s unconditional love for his son didn’t mean that he was going to ‘over-look’ or ‘ignore’ his rebellious son’s sinful behaviors! And that’s because true (biblical type) love is expressed by doing what’s best for someone…even IF that someone doesn’t receive it! Now the father could have chased after his son (as he was leaving) and beg and pleaded with him to not leave. But that’s NOT God’s way! The Lord believes that most times…what’s ‘best’ for His thick-skulled, rebellious, wayward, obstinate children is to go thru a little pain and suffering. That seems to ‘refresh’ their brains on how well they had it before they got selfish and whiny!
Psalms 119:66-67,71 Teach me good discernment and knowledge, for I believe in Your commandments. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your Word. It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn Your Statutes.
Speaking the Truth (in love) because so few are these days,
Brother Bob
I truly believe that a lot of born-again Believers have deceived themselves into foolishly believing that the born-again Church(es) (all over the world) are going to be 'on fire for Christ' and all 'powered-up' in the End Times! This self-deception has in turn foolishly convinced many of God's people that the Lord Himself will 'rapture' all of His children out of here (before the End Time Tribulation Period judgments start) simply because HE is so pleased with them! My friend, Yeshua Christ wondered IF HE was going to find ANY (biblically) faithful Believers when He returns! I personally believe that the Lord 'removes' the Church NOT because they were being so useful...but rather because it had become useless!
Brother Bob
I believe that many of today's born-again Believers expect the Holy Spirit to do more (for them or thru them) than what the Scriptures tell us He will do. Many Believers today expect the Holy Spirit to do those things that their Heavenly Father expects them to do. These days, a lot of Believers will tell you that they need to 'feel or experience' the 'presence of the Lord' (whatever that means) before they'll believe that the Lord is 'with them' or 'near them' (again, whatever that means!)
Brethren, God-honoring faith is based on things NOT seen...and NOT on things we 'feel' or 'experience'! It's easy to 'believe' when you can physically touch the scars from the savior's wounds. In today's overly emotional, experientially driven Church environment, way too many of Yahweh's people believe that the Lord is 'with them' or 'for them'...because (to them) it feels like He is.
The Good Lord gave today's Church Age Believers a supernatural indwelling of the Holy Spirit to guide and enlighten them...IF THEY GENUINELY STRIVE TO LEARN and UNDERSTAND the Truths of Yahweh's written Word. It's biblically clear that blood-bought, born-again, eternally saved Believers CAN (if they so choose to) completely 'SHUT DOWN' (i.e. 'turn off' the 'work' or 'power' of) the Spirit of Yahweh who indwells them!
Brethren, our Heavenly Father didn't give Believers the Holy Spirit so that HE could then DO (for Believers) those Truths of Scriptures that HE helped Believers to learn and understand! It's NOT the Holy Spirit 'job' to supernaturally 'overwhelm' a Believer and then DO (i.e. keep or obey) Yahweh's commandments for them! All of God's people are expected to CHOOSE to OBEY those Truths of Scriptures that the Spirit of Yahweh has 'helped' them 'see' and understand!
A MAIN THEME (for Believers) thruout the Scriptures (from our Heavenly Father) is: HAVE YOU DONE AS I COMMANDED? If Believers were NOT capable of DOING AS HE COMMANDED...the Lord would NEVER hold them accountable when they DON'T do as HE commanded! Now, (for the millionth time) DOES the Holy Spirit 'play' an essential 'role' in every Believers life? Yes and no! Yes, IF the Believer is genuinely seeking to LEARN and KNOW and UNDERSTAND the Truths of Yahweh's written Word. No, IF the Believer doesn't put any effort into trying to learn God's written Word! No, IF the Believer expects the Holy Spirit to do everything for them! The Good Lord never intended the Holy Spirit to be used like a "TYME MACHINE"...doling out 'stuff' at the push of a button!
Brother Bob
I believe that far too many born-again Believers today are trying to ‘push’ way too much of their God-given biblical responsibilities onto the Holy Spirit. A lot of Believers ignorantly believe that it’s entirely (and always) the Holy Spirit’s responsibility to take the Truths of Scriptures; ‘chop it up into little pieces;’ then turn it into a puree mixture (like baby food); and ‘feed it’ to them at the proper temperature!! Brethren, the Judgement Seat of Christ is NOT at all about HOW WELL the Holy Spirit ‘prepared your spiritual food’ and then ‘fed it’ born-again Believers! The Judgement Seat of Christ is entirely about HOW WELL the born-again Believer ‘prepared’ and then ‘digested’ and absorbed the Truths of Scriptures!!! I promise you that there will NOT be ONE SINGLE Believer at the Judgment Seat of Christ who will be allowed to blame the Holy Spirit for the fact that they died a worldly-loving, worldly-minded Believer. There will NOT be ONE SINGLE Believer who will be allowed to blame the Holy Spirit for the fact that they died a biblically ignorant child of God! Believers won't be allowed to 'blame' the Holy Spirit they were cowardly and fearful when it came to sharing their faith in public!
Hebrews 5:11-14 There is much more we would like to say to you Believers, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen. You have been Believers so long now that by now you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about Yahweh’s Word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right. Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.
2 Timothy 2:15 Work hard (at learning Yahweh’s written Word)…so you can present yourself to the Lord and receive his approval. (At the Judgment Seat of Christ!) Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed; one who correctly explains the Word of Truth. (par added)
Now…for the millionth time! YES…the Holy Spirit has an essential ‘role’ in enlightening and guiding those Believers who strive to walk in a manner which pleases their Heavenly Father. However…it’s NOT the Holy Spirit ‘job’ to ‘baby-sit’ Believers 5, 10, 15 and 20 years after they got saved!
2 Peter 1:10 Therefore, Brother and Sisters in Christ, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble (i.e. fall away);
Your true friend in Christ,
Brother Bob
It's been awhile...but I'm back! Part Twenty is simply a continuation of the podcast series "A JOURNEY THRU THE BOOK OF THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES." Enjoy!
Brother Bob
This podcast begins to go thru Saul's (Paul's) experiences (in Acts chapter nine) has he meets (rather dramatically) his prophesied messianic savior 'face to face'!
Because of what I read on most professing Believer’s online posting sites these days…and because of what I read and hear many professing Believers share on online Bible sermon or teaching sites, I know that many born-again Believers are truly biblically ignorant. And the consequences for that biblical ignorance is the obvious evidence which shows that many of God’s people have ‘wandered away’ from anything beyond the basic Truths of Scriptures. It’s clear to me (a guy who calls them as he sees them) that many professing Believers (which includes church leaders) simply don’t know their Scriptures very well. Now, it’s ‘easy’ for me to see that because I know my Scriptures fairly well! Sadly, many of you don’t…so you ‘won’t’ see what I see!
Brethren, I’m not sharing what I just shared to boast or brag about how biblically smart or wise I am. I’m simply stating a fact! I don’t claim to be a Bible scholar! And although many of you accuse me of being a ‘know it all’…that’s your view and not mine! I’m simply a guy who has always loved Truth. And because my Heavenly Father knows that I diligently seek to know His biblical Truths…He (thru the Spirit of Yahweh) has revealed many of His Truths to me over the years. Now, before any of you think that I share that out of pride believing that I’m much smarter than most of you…hear me out! The Truths of the Scriptures that I have learned or that have been revealed to me…ARE NOT THAT DIFFICULT TO FIGURE OUT! (If you study the same Book for over forty years you’re bound to learn a thing or two in that Book!) After forty plus years of sharing what I believe to be basic Truths of Scriptures…I have yet to have ONE SINGLE Believer refute what I believe using ‘biblical’ beliefs! Every single Believer who has ever had the ‘stones’ to personal ‘reject’ the Truths of Scriptures that I share, has done so using beliefs that come from their heart (i.e. their feelings) and not their head (i.e. brains.) Again, here are Yeshua Christ own words about what the condition of the End Time Church WILL be like. Matthew 24:3-5, 9-11 What sign will signal Your return and the end of the (Church) age?” Yeshua told His disciples, “Don’t let anyone mislead you (Believers), for many (false teachers) will come in MY name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah (or I know the Way).’ These false teachers WILL DECEIVE MANY (Believers). Then you (faithful Believers) will be arrested, persecuted, and killed. You (faithful Believers) will be hated all over the world because you (faithful Believers) are MY Followers. And many (other Believers) will fall away from ME and betray and hate each other. And MANY FALSE PROPHETS will appear AND WILL DECEIVE MANY. Behold…I have told YOU (Believers) in advance! (par added)
So, do you believe your savior’s End Time warning words? Or are you instead going to keep listening to the false teachers who are leading you astray? Are you going to choose to be one of the few…or part of the many? Are you going to ‘step up’ and do as the Scriptures teach…and not worry about the BS you’ll have to put up with? Or are you going to continue to ‘fall in line’ with all the other Christian ‘lemmings’ who are headed for a fall?
Philippians 2:19-21 But I hope in the Lord Yeshua to send Timothy to you shortly, so that I also may be encouraged when I learn of your condition. For I have no other workers in the Church with the same kindred spirit (as Timothy) who will genuinely be concerned for your welfare. For all the other Believers (whom I have ministered with) put their own interests before those of Yeshua Christ. (par added but implied)
Speaking the Truth in love because so few are these days,
Brother Bob
All those initially 'redeemed by the Blood' Believers who came out of Egypt weren't 'spared' or kept from their Heavenly Father's judgments...once they became whiny, rebellious, disobedient children! And many times in the Old Testament Yahweh used Gentile rulers to punish His rebellious, disobedient children. So, why would Yahweh spare or keep His (mostly) lukewarm, worldly minded, worldly loving, biblically apathetic and/or biblically ignorant Church Age children from having to go thru the judgments of the 7-year Tribulation Period? (I hope you're not so biblically dull that you've allowed yourself to be convinced that just because you're a 'member' of the Body of Christ...you get exempt from your Father's judgements! Ananias and Sapphira don’t believe that!) Why would Yahweh 'rescue' His worldly-loving, disobedient born-again people from the judgments (i.e. earthly punishments) (coming soon to planet earth) that they deserve? Why would Yahweh ‘rescue’ HIS people…when they DON’T do as HIS Word says? He surely is not going to ‘rescue’ them simply because they got born-again at some point in their life? Are today's worldly loving, biblically apathetic and/or biblically ignorant New Testament Believers seen (by Yahweh) as being any less rebellious and disobedient than all those Old Testament children of HIS who were punished unto death while wandering around in the desert for 40 years? As HE always does...Yahweh will 'rescue' those children of HIS He deems faithful! (Out of all those (probably) millions of Believers who ‘saved’ out of Egypt…only two adults…Joshua and Caleb (were faithful enough to be spared from God’s wrath) and make it into the Promised Land!) Yahweh doesn’t 'rescue' His children from physical judgment...simply because they are His children! Again…Ananias and Sapphira found that out too late!
Revelation 3:8, 10-12 , “I know all the things you faithful Believers (in the small but faithful Church of Philadelphia) do, and I have opened a door for you that no one can close. You have little strength, yet you obeyed MY Word and did not deny ME. “Because you have obeyed MY command to persevere, I will protect you from the great time of testing that will come upon the whole world to test those who belong to this world. I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take away your crown (i.e. stay faithful or you will ‘lose’ rewards.) All those Believers who are (found to be) overcomers(at the Judgment Seat of Christ)…will become pillars in the Temple of Yahweh, (which is INSIDE the Millennial Reward City of Jerusalem during the 1000 year Millennial Kingdom period)…and they will never have to leave it. And I will write on them the name of my Father, and they will be citizens in the city of Yahweh—the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven from my Father. And I will also write on them MY new name. (Par added)
Speaking the Truth in love…and not meaningless, fluffy, kissy-huggy, ‘empty’ love words,
Brother Bob
For the most part, Western Civilization...a civilization made up at one time of mostly God-honoring, Bible promoting, God-fearing people...have gone secular and/or returned to it's pagan roots. A once God-fearing America is no longer the most powerful, God-honoring nation in the world! The most powerful nation today is anti-God communist China. The most evil and rebellious nations today (in God's eyes) are NOT those nations run by true Followers of the Koran! It's those Christian nations who turned away from the God of the Bible and the Truths of HIS Word...a God and Truths they once willing to die for!
I believe America (once a bastion of biblical laws and principles) is going the way of Rome. She is dying from within! I believe that the Lord is using today's evil, vile, wicked, Christian hating political leaders to judge America! The secular and/or fake religious people now running America have 'kicked' the God of the Bible and His Truths out onto the curb! And I promise you that 'America' (the nation and the people in her) will suffer for choosing to do that! I believe that America the nation will be soon be judged for choosing to walk away from the righteous ways of Yahweh. Ways they once clearly knew! And once America 'goes down'...the evil Prince of darkness (who will be empowering the Beast and his evil empire) will come for nation of Israel (to judge and purify her as Yahweh promised)...and for any faithful Yeshua Believers who refuse to take the Mark of the Beast!
Brethren...righteous politicians will not be able to undo the vile and evil immorality and political corruption that permeates all aspects of America! It's evil talons are too deep into our culture to be removed. Wicked, evil, vile behaviors that would have sent people to prison just a few short years ago are now not only tolerated, they're promoted! Babies are being butchered in the womb! Little children are being encouraged by 'adults' to mutilate themselves! Nearly every form of sexual immorality is 'legal' in America. And some forms of sexual immorality are even being 'blessed' by the Church! One of of four Americans (including Church people) are on a psychiatric (poison) 'pill'...which is used to 'mask' sin issues!
Believers can pray till the cows come home...but the Great I Am is NOT going to hold back HIS righteous judgment on America, Israel...and on this world! All these things I shared are why the words of Christ in Matthew chapter twenty-four are so important! Because very soon a smooth-talking, intelligent, wise and powerful MAN is going to be 'displayed' in the world as mankind's last hope! This MAN is going to initially be accepted as the best and only hope for a world 'dying' from economic, social and spiritual chaos! And this MAN will initially be great for this world. He will bring peace! He will bring prosperity! But the 'good' that this MAN is doing is all a ruse! All the things that this MAN does simply lead up to His final goal...destroy the Nation of Israel and all Jews. And along the ways this MAN is hoping to hunt down and murder Yeshua Believers! Yes...this MAN will bring temporary hope to this world! That is until this MAN becomes a Satan indwelt agent of evilness, hatred and revenge!
So saints...you need to know your Scriptures! Born again Believers need to use their brains and not their hearts as they 'dig into' what Yahweh's Words warn us about the End Times and the 7-year Tribulation Period! If you chose not to do that...Yeshua Christ warned Believers...that they too will be duped by this MAN of lawlessness! The only true hope for today's wickedly vile sin-cursed world, and biblically failing Church is the return of Yeshua Christ. But Brethren...I promise you that Christ is not coming until after a lot of bad stuff happens in this world!
Brother Bob
Sadly, a lot of Believers these days are living their spiritual lives in an imaginary, ‘feely,’ make-believe world…believing that everything is ‘good’ between them and their Heavenly Father and their savior! Brethren, unless you’re a brand new child of Yahweh (someone who’s still excited about their ‘new-found’ faith in Christ (and who has no idea what a biblical truth is yet)) you’re kidding yourself if you think that everything is ‘good’ between you and your Heavenly Father and your savior…just because you think or ‘feel’ (like) it is!
From the beginning of the Scriptures until the very end…the only time Believers ‘found’ themselves in a ‘good’ (living) relationship with their Heavenly Father was when they were doing as HE commanded! Eve thought it was okay to eat the forbidden ‘fruit’…because it was pleasing to her eyes! Thanks a lot Eve! You had one simple commandment to keep! If you (and you’re idiot husband) had just obeyed that one simple commandment…I get to send my life in a sinless, paradise environment, chasing after my naked (and perfectly beautiful wife) 24/7! Lot’s wife thought I’ll take one look back…and then I’ll do as the Lord commanded. She died for making that stupid decision! Moses and Aaron decided to take matters into their own hands…instead of obeying Yahweh! And both of them had their ministries ‘cut short’! Uzzah believed it was better to keep the Ark from failing then it was to obey Yahweh…and he died for making a decision that seemed right in his own eyes! And Solomon! Oh Solomon! Your father David warned you that IF you chose to forsake the Lord’s commandments…HE (Yahweh) would forsake you forever! Forever is a long time! Besides Yeshua Christ, Solomon was the wisest and smartest human who ever existed…and yet Solomon not only ignored Yahweh’s commandments…he ‘promoted’ and ‘elevated’ the pagan religious practices that his pagan wives brought into his life! (By the way, Solomon’s future Millennial and New Earth ‘kingship’ was stripped from him by Yahweh!) Brethren…I could go ON and ON and ON with biblical stories of Yahweh’s people choosing to do just the opposite of what HE commanded! And let’s group the Apostle Peter in with those Believers who chose to do (on numerous occasions for Peter) what seemed right in their own (fleshly) eyes!
Brethren…you really need to ‘wrap your head around the biblical fact’ that anytime Believers chose to do what seems right in their own eyes (regardless of how sincere they are…or how ‘good’ it feels) they are in sin! God’s people need to understand that at the Judgment Seat of Christ it is not going to matter one iota (to the savior) that you had good intentions for choosing to disobey God’s written Words for His Church! It is not going to matter one iota (to the savior, at the Judgment Seat of Christ) that you ignored the Truths of Scriptures…and instead simply chose to believe what your church leaders told you Truth was! It is not going to matter one iota (to the savior, at the Judgment Seat of Christ) that believed that you were doing the right things because it ‘felt right’ or seemed right! I promise you Brethren, unless you are a brand-new Believer who doesn’t know any better…the Judgment Seat of Christ will not go well for each and every born-again child of Yahweh who chose (for many years) to continue to ‘build’ on the Foundation of Christ using hay and straw!
Speaking the Truth in love (because so few are)
Brother Bob
THE IGNORANCE OF CHRISTIANS TODAY
This past week, I’ve had the agony of witnessing two Christians passionately speak about their supposed BIBLICAL beliefs. Neither of them know what they were taking about! And over the past 30 years I have seen this scenario 'play out' hundreds of times! It’s devastating to see so much biblical ignorance in MANY of today’s Christians…including pastors.
I am passionate about the Truths taught in the Bible. Now I understand that in many things, we may not agree, even though we are all reading the same word of God. (P.S. When we disagree on a doctrinal Truth…either we’re ALL wrong…or just one of us is right! The Truths of Scriptures do NOT come with multiple choice options.) However, there are certain things that are taught in the Bible that anyone who has the ability to read should be able to know. But sadly, in these days of vast amounts of biblical ignorance…even many of the most basic, easy to understand Truths of Scriptures are NOT agreed upon by most Christians.
Hebrews 5:11-14 There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen. 12 You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. 13 For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right. 14 Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.
And my spirit is vexed when I see so much ignorance in the faith. Again, I am the first one to say we must read our Bibles and be Bereans, searching out what is true. And contrary to what many of my charismatic signs and wonders Brothers and Sisters believe…I wholeheartedly agree that there is NO mystical, supernatural gift of osmosis (which delivers the Truths of Scriptures to the mind of Believers who do NOT study their Bibles!)
Now…when I speak about biblical ignorance, I am not speaking of people who are teaching something different because they have gained (thru their studies (by the Holy Spirit)) some new insight into a Biblical passage…and see things from a different angle, resulting in a different way of thinking. (I truly appreciate ANY Believer who has BIBLICAL convictions! Now…that doesn’t necessarily make them right. But they’re in a much better place than ALL those Believers out there in the Church who are ‘deciding’ what biblical ‘truth’ is based on their feelings!)
Unfortunately, in today’s Church there are MANY who blatantly use Bible passages out of context, avoid verses that say the exact opposite of their beliefs, and EISEGETE the bible text to make their own (incorrect) points. This group is different from those Believers who teach stupid things simply because they are biblically stupid. And I’m afraid the latter type is ‘running’ the churches these days!
SIDE NOTE: EISEGETE is a FANCY LAWYER WORD which means…the process of interpreting text in such a way as to introduce one's own presuppositions, agendas, or biases. It is commonly referred to as reading into the text. It is this practice which ‘allows’ people to ‘use’ the Scriptures to teach pretty much whatever it is they the flock to hear!
EISEGESIS is best understood when contrasted with EXEGESIS. EXEGESIS is drawing out a text's meaning in accordance with the author's context and discoverable meaning…like learning the meaning of Greek words in order to ‘find’ the Truths of the original writers of Scriptures! EISEGESIS is when a reader imposes their interpretation of the text. Thus EXEGESIS tends to be objective; and EISEGESIS, highly subjective.
Speaking the Truth in Love,
Brother Bob
For the most part, both the Church (which literally IS the people) and church leaders (which are the people who 'run' and 'manage' the people)...IS a biblical mess! If you listen to just some of the Christian surveys (that I used in this podcast series), you too we 'see' how far professing Believers have 'drifted away' from the sound teachings, beliefs, instructions, and commandments that the Lord has given His Church! (I could have given you MANY more statistics from legitimate Christian organizations that all show the same (terrible) biblical condition of today's Church!) In the Old Testament the Believers had 'lost' (i.e. forgotten about) Yahweh's written Word! And guess what...they didn't 'discover' the 'lost' Word of Yahweh in a cave or in another country! They 'found it' in the House of the Lord! I am afraid that even though many Believers carry their Bibles INTO the House of the Lord in the Church Age...they have 'lost' the importance of learning, obeying, and defending the Truths of Yahweh...even as they sit in the House of the Lord!
Now, IF you are a Believer who lives their biblical life thru their feelings...you're going to instantly reject what I just said. IF you're a born-again Believer and you're going to reject what I just shared (about the lousy biblical condition of the End Time Church (including church leaders) (because your pastor told you to reject what I'm sharing...you are one of those misled Believers who allowed a 'false teacher' to lead you astray from the Truths of Scriptures! And finally, IF you're a born-again Believer and you choose to reject what I share in my podcasts because you don't believe I'm being biblical...you're a biblically ignorant Believer who doesn't know what they're talking about!
Today's biblical apathy and biblical ignorance amongst most of God's people IS obvious to anyone who knows their Scriptures! Less than 5% of professing Spirit indwelt, Spirit led born-again Believers believe they know enough about the Scriptures to teach others! This is a serious matter saints!
Hebrews 5:11 - 6:2 Brethren, there is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you Believers are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen. You have been Believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you Believers need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. For and Believer who lives only on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right. Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.
So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don’t need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God. You don’t need further instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. (OR DO YOU?) (par added)
Brethren, A LOT OF Believers in the House of Yahweh are choosing to linger at about the 2nd grade biblically. Lousy shepherds has a lot to do with this. However, ALL of God's children should be choosing to WALK in a manner which pleases their savior...and not their shepherds!
Speaking the Truth in love,
Brother Bob
For the most part the Believers in the Church today are a biblical mess! This would include church leaders as well the sheep sitting in the pews! The unbiblical garbage that’s being passed around as God’s Truths is staggering! Go in any Christian Bookstore these days and check out the titles of the so-called Christian books. (These books are where the beliefs of professing Believers are openly exposed for all to see.) And as you glance thru these books…you will find ‘Christian’ books which will ‘justify’ and ‘satisfy’ whatever it is a Believer wants to do! And these days, regardless of whatever unbiblical spiritual belief you may have...it doesn't take long to search online media sites and find people preaching the things which tickle your ear and please your heart!
Now, this posting (and the biblical info in my podcast series) isn’t Brother Bob expressing his mean-spirited, hard-ass opinions. The ‘ugly’ biblical condition of today’s Church IS an obvious fact…to those Believers who truly know their Scriptures. And do you know what? The biblically ignorant condition that the Church ‘finds’ itself in…IS right where Yeshua Christ said it would be in the End Times! Christ’s Apostles asked Him what will the End Times be like. To which Christ replied… Matthew 24:3-5 what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” And Yeshua answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads YOU. For MANY will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ AND WILL MISLEAD MANY. Yeshua Christ is literally PROPHETICALLY fore-telling the Believers (who will be around in the End Times) to be on your guard…see to it THAT YOU are NOT misled because there WILL BE (not might be or could be) BUT WILL BE MANY (not a few but many) false teachers in the End Times…and MANY (not a few but many) misled or deceived Believers in the Church. Christ’s warning above…see to it that YOU are NOT misled is clearly directed at Believers. Again, the YOU who Christ speaks about IS YOU Believers. UNBELIEVERS can’t be misled. They are already misled! UNBELIEVERS can’t fall away (from the faith) because they never ‘had’ the true faith (to fall away from) to begin with! Here are some more FALLING AWAY/FALSE TEACHERS warning verses from Yeshua Christ! Matthew 24:10-11 At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another. Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.Brethren, you need to stop listening to the spiritual but unbiblical BS your church leaders are teaching you. You need to stop letting your feelings dictate what you think biblical Truth should be…and start accepting what the Scriptures literally say biblical Truth is! If you don’t do that…you’re going to ‘fall’ for the lies of the false teachers in the Church. (Again, IF you don't know your Scriptures very well...HOW will you ever know IF someone is teaching you biblical Truth...or deceiving you?
Again Christ’s words…For MANY (false teachers) will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ (or I know the Way) AND WILL MISLEAD MANY. P.S. There are two kinds of false teachers ‘active’ in the Church today. There are those false teachers who willfully and purposefully introduce unbiblical doctrines into the Church. (And if you don’t believe that can happen…then you are truly biblically ignorant...and very naïve!) The other kind of false teacher in the Church today is the Believer who is allowed to teach other Believers…even though he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Speaking the Truth in love,
Brother Bob
P.S. I glad to see and hear some well-known, biblically wise Christian leaders of the land finally starting to teach and preach (as I have been saying for 40 years) that the Bible says that the End Time Church will be an unbiblical mess!
There's a biblical war going on in the world...and in the Church...and most Believers are not even aware of it. Satan and his minions are working full time to try to get the religious and spiritual ways of this world to replace the Truths of Scriptures. And he is having much success. If that were not the case...then why is it that Satan and his minions have managed to 'remove' both our Heavenly Father and His Son's biblical names from the Bible? The biblical name of our Father (YAHWEH) was IN the original Hebrew Scriptures over 6800 times! Now, it's not even in their ONE TIME! It's been replaced with a title (word) LORD. So I ask you. Who do you think would be so arrogant and prideful that they would have NO PROBLEM corrupting the Scriptures to the point of getting God's biblical name removed from the Bible? Yeah! Satan! The same guy who's got most born-again Believers using an unbiblical, made-up name for their savior!
Many of the Christian teachings and practices that are going on in the Church today have little to nothing to do with biblical Truths! A lot of Believers these days have allowed themselves to become a very biblically ignorant people. And being that so many of them don't know their Scriptures very well...even if a lot more Believers were made aware of the biblical war going on to distort, twist and alter the Truths of the Bible, they wouldn't even know which church teachings today are biblical Truth or man made religious gibberish!
Brethren, it's NOT ENOUGH to simply tell the Lord that you love HIM! Both our Heavenly Father and our savior demand that Believers SHOW THEM that we love them by learning, obeying and defending the Truths of Scriptures!
Listen to these words of Yeshua Christ!
John 14:21,24 The Believer who has My commandments and GUARDS and PROTECTS THEM is the Believer who REALLY loves Me... The Believer who does not love Me, WILL BE the Believer who DOES NOT GUARD and PROTECT My words.
(The English word KEEP in this verse is actually the Greek word TELEO which means to guard and protect.)
You see saints...IF you want to hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant" (at the Judgment Seat) it's NOT enough to simply BE born-again!
And IF you want to hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant" (at the Judgment Seat) it's NOT enough to simply TELL the Lord that you love HIM!
And IF you want to hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant" (at the Judgment Seat) it's NOT enough to simply be a faithful church goer!
The kind of 'love' that both our Heavenly Father and our savior are looking for is type of love that's revealed thru one's obedience and dedication to defending the written Word. Yeshua Christ told His Followers...Don't tell ME that you love ME! Show ME that you love ME by obeying and defending the Truths of MY written Word.
Speaking the Truth in love,
Brother Bob
Sadly, many in the Church of the Living God really don't realize how much Satan and his minions have already 'altered' (i.e. tweaked and twisted) the original Truths of Scriptures! Now granted...not all of the compromises in today's Scriptures can or should be 'put' on Satan. A lot of the blame for Yahweh's written Word being corrupted is the result of biblically lazy and/or biblically ignorant (supposed) Bible scholars being 'recognized' and 'accepted' as being people who know what they're talking about...rather than being people who are 'challenged' to prove that what they say is biblical Truth!
Brethren...I can never say my next words enough! Yeshua Christ Himself told His Followers (over and over and over again in the Gospels) that the End Time Church WILL (not might) BUT WILL BE loaded with false teachers...AND misled Believers! Christ words not mine! Mark 13:4-6 Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when the End Time things begin to be fulfilled?” And Yeshua began to say to them, “See to it that no one misleads YOU (i.e. YOU BELIEVERS). Many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He!’ (or I AM THE WAY) and will mislead many. (par added.)
Now, when I say false teachers...I'm NOT only talking about the evil and treacherous kinds of false teachers who PURPOSELY try to lead Yahweh's people astray! False teachers can also be those Bible teachers who KNOW LITTLE about the Truths of Yahweh's written Word...but teach others as though they do!
Brethren, Satan and his minions truly have caused much havoc, deception and confusion in the Church of the Living God by twisting and adding to the Scriptures. But so have all the people in the Church, who, because they don't know their Scriptures very well...and 'allow' biblical additions and subtractions to happen.
So again, as you listen to this two part series about the schemes of the devil...picture Satan and his large evil force of millions getting together for a large "FORCES OF DARKNESS" seminar with Satan being the keynote speaker!
Brother Bob
I know this 'journey' thru the Book of the Acts of the Apostles is taking a long time. But that's okay! There's a lot of great spiritual and biblical insight in that Book! And anyways...I'm NOT going anywhere until the Lord returns. So enjoy! And please take the time to listen to my other podcasts AT: God's Word Unfiltered! IF you are genuinely interested in biblical Truth...those podcasts will both bless and encourage you!
Brother Bob
I see it or hear it all the time on Christian sites...beautiful and encouraging promises from the Lord from the Scriptures...WITHOUT THE QUALIFYING CONDITIONAL REQUIREMENT that comes with those beautiful and encouraging words! Brethren, our Heavenly Father ALWAYS put a conditional requirement on HIS promises or blessings! Way too many people in the Church have tried to 'turn' the holy and just God of Scriptures into a 'Candy-Man' God who they believe simply hands out all HIS 'goodies' because HE can! From the beginning of the Scriptures until the very end God All-Mighty has always been about DOING AS HE SAYS IF YOU WANT HIM TO DO AS HE HAS PROMISED!
I once again want to reiterate that the Good Lord NEVER intended the Book of the Acts of the Apostles to be a doctrinal book for HIS Church! Yes, there is much that born-again Believers can 'glean' from the Book of Acts. But be warned! If you are in a church that 'pushes' or even encourages the sheep to 'acquire' (i.e. seek after) those Holy Spirit signs and wonders gifts (that those FIRST (Jewish) Yeshua Believers manifested) you are being misled! Born-again Believers today in the Church need to WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY WHAT THEY (want to) SEE! Brethren, it doesn't take much faith to "SEE" and the believe! Yeshua Christ told Doubting Thomas, (only after believing because HE SAW), blessed are those Believers who don't see but still believe!
Brother Bob
(I have the entire opening remarks posting for this podcast on Facebook)
Oh how our Heavenly Father and our savior must love people! Being that I am a born-again Believer in Christ…I can ‘understand’ the need for Christ’s death…IF any human has any hope of ever being saved! However, even as a born-again child of Yahweh, I can’t fully understand the depths of HIS love and HIS Son’s love for sinners! The trinity of Yahweh doesn’t need sinful humans (forgiven or otherwise) in their lives in order to be complete or have a purpose for existing! And being that I am an eternally saved child of Yahweh…I ‘understand’ the need for the pain and suffering the Father ‘put’ HIS only Son thru in order to ‘cover’ my sins! However, what is ‘hard’ for me to truly ‘grasp’ is WHY Yeshua Christ would go thru all of that pain and suffering for people who HE KNEW would reject HIS sacrifice at Calvary! The Scriptures tell us that “FOR THE JOY SET BEFORE HIM…HE ENDURED THE CROSS’! That means that ‘looking past’ the pain and suffering, and looking past all those who would reject HIS love…Yeshua Christ (and HIS Father) ‘saw’ that there would be a FEW who would believe in HIS sacrifice for their sins! And those ‘few’ brought a joy to the Father and the Son’s eyes! WOW! What amazing love!
Most Believers are not taught that Yeshua Christ went thru more than just physical pain and suffering leading up to HIS death on the cross. Our loving savior’s spiritual body also went thru much suffering when (after HIS physical body died), HIS spirit/soul body descended to hell to ‘complete’ the ‘payment’ for mankind’s sins! Yes, you heard me right! While Yeshua Christ’s physical body was dead in the grave…HIS soul/spirit body went to hell to complete the hell sin debt ‘payment’ that all humans ‘owed (to’) a holy and just GOD! You see, it wasn’t enough for Christ to ‘pay’ the physical consequences of mankind’s sinning against Yahweh. Yahweh ‘demanded’ that the ‘hell debt consequences’ (i.e. spiritual body consequences) for mankind’s sins also needed to be paid for! The ‘wages of sin is death’ doesn’t just apply to our physical bodies! It also applies to our spiritual bodies! In other words, being that ALL humans are sinners…we all deserve an eternal punishment (of both our physical and spiritual bodies because of our sins. Yes, like the Rich Man who woke up in hell (in his spiritual ‘body’) being in agony in the flames…a human’s soul/spirit ‘body’ is also worthy of death (because of sin)!
Speaking the Truth in love,
Brother Bob
I believe that a lot of Believers today in the Church Age kind of picture their Heavenly Father as looking pretty much like the BIG OL’ JOLLY Ho! Ho! Ho! St. Nick guy himself! You know, someone with a long flowing white beard; rosy bright red cheeks; someone having a BIG, WARM smile on HIS face 24/7! I believe that some Believers imagine our Heavenly Father sitting on HIS throne…tossing out HIS free blessings (i.e. presents) to HIS children…just because they are HIS children!! Way too many Believers have this naive belief that simply because they are children of Yahweh…every good thing that their Heavenly Father has will be theirs someday…simply because HE is their Father (i.e. they’re His children!) Well, if you do think like that, you need to ‘wake yourself up’ from your “Willy-Wonka’ dream world! And then, let your ‘mind think back’ to the time when...except for eight people, that loving and compassionate Creator God purposely drowned all humans on the planet in a flood that He orchestrated! And then think back to the time when that same kind and merciful God got so angry with HIS people whom He had rescued out of Egypt that HE punished and eventually murdered millions of them…because of their whining and grumbling! (A people whom HE had initially rescued out of Egypt because of all the suffering they were going thru! I’d called that ironic!) And think back how time after time this loving, compassionate God sent pagan armies against HIS own people for the purpose of punishing them! And recall…that there was no ‘sign’ of Yahweh’s grace and lovingkindness when HE literally ‘had’ the Nation of Israel wiped off the map! A lot of Believer’s need to stop listening to those false teachers who mislead you with ‘kind and gentle’ words like: Our Heavenly Father is all about LOVE and GRACE and PEACE! Brethren, the Judgment Seat of Christ is a personal ‘event’ that’s ‘all about’ the born-again Believer! The born-again Believer is the one in the ‘spotlight’! (Now of course being that Yeshua Christ is God…HE already knows IF we DID or DIDN’T DO (it)! HE already knows WHAT (it was) we DID or DIDN’T DO! And HE already knows WHY we DID or DIDN’T DO (it.)) Yeshua Christ has already ‘determined’ WHAT the born-again Believer has done to either honor or dishonor Him, His Father, and the Holy Spirit. P.S. Remember, our sinful flesh will be gone. YEAH! We’ll have sinless, glorified bodies! YEAH! AGAIN. Which means that our sinful flesh (i.e. our sinful emotions and corrupted beliefs) will be gone. So when our savior asks us to tell HIM WHAT we believed biblical Truth to be…and WHY we did what we did. The only words that will come out of our mouths will be words which flow from a sinless but sincere mind. A mind that (now) only knows (to speak) whatever we believed the (real) Truths of Scriptures to be before we died! And those words can either favor us or shame us! And when asked WHY we did what we did (as a Believer), once again the words that out of our mouths will ‘flow’ from a new mind and a heart. A heart that is pure and sincere! The truth on WHY we did what we did (as a Believer) will be honest. Which means the words we speak can be either righteous…or shameful!
Speaking the Truth in (agapao) love, because so few are,
Brother Bob
Deuteronomy 8:6 --- Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
Now I know that I have already touched on this topic of having a healthy trembling fear of the Lord in past teachings and podcasts. But I sincerely believe that the Church really needs to hear more on this topic! Many of God’s people have gotten biblical ‘lazy’ and spiritually ‘soft’! And many of God’s people have allowed themselves to believe the lie that says because our Heavenly Father just llllooovvveesss His children sssooo much (kissy, kissy)…He would never, ever do anything to ‘harm’ them! P.S. I know that Ananias and Sapphira no longer believe that!
So I emphasized the point about the lack of good, solid, spiritually deep teachings about Believers needing a healthy trembling and reverent fear of the Lord in part fifteen of a biblical journey thru the Book of the Acts of the Apostles.
Psalms 25:14 ---- The secrets of the LORD are for those who fear Him and to those He will make know His covenants.
Now, I have been saying for years that I believe that the Lord has put ‘a touch of’ the prophet Jeremiah or Isaiah in me. So that means that many times our Heavenly father is going to have me tell the Church what they need to hear…and not what they want to hear! (So stop being so whiny about what I share! Being ‘whiny’ ‘exposes’ your lack of concern for biblical Truth.) Now, I will balance out my views about what I believe the Scriptures say about our holy and just Heavenly Father being a God to ‘trembly’ fear…with the fact that this same holy and just God can also be kind and compassionate! I said can be kind and compassionate! The Lord is not kind and compassionate to His children just because they are His children! That kind of ‘feely’ spiritual thinking comes from all those biblically ignorant Believers who are living their Christian lives in some imaginary spiritual La-La-Land! The Bible tells us (over and over and over again) that the Lord is kind and compassionate to those children of His who ‘fear Him’ enough to honor Him with their undivided attention!
Psalms 33:18 ---- Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, On those who hope for His lovingkindness…
Seems oxymoronic to speak of fear and lovingkindness in the same verse! But you need to understand that the Lord is pleased when His people fear Him…with both a reverent fear and a trembling fear! And the Great I AM is worthy of both types of fear!
Psalms 103:17 ----- But the lovingkindness of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children’s children…
So again, contrary to what many of you are taught, the Lord is not kind and compassionate to His children simply because they are His children! God’s kindness and compassion are conditional! Just as our Father’s goodness and peace are conditional.
Psalms 103:13 ---- Just as a father has compassion on His children, Yahweh has compassion on those who fear Him.
Psalms 103:11 ----- For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him.
The word fear in all these verses is the Hebrew word for trembling, shaking in your boots fear!
Here is a great New Testament verse about trembling fear!
2 Corinthians 7:1 ----- Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
I am limited to the size of what on can put here. So, I have to stop here. However, I will have this entire message posted on my Facebook site.
Speaking the Truth in AGAPAO love because so few are,
Brother Bob
Hello Brethren! Sorry for the delay. However...the Good Lord has blessed me with numerous ministry endeavors. So, because I work a secular (part time) job...while still being involved in numerous other Bible 'outreach' ministries...my time is limited. But it's all good! ("Shame" on you 'full time' 'shepherds' (whose only 'job' is to honor your 'Father' by 'bringing His sheep ALL the Truths of Scriptures...whether thru teaching, preaching or counseling.)
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ---- All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. (IF God's people obey it) It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. Our Heavenly Father uses it to prepare and equip His people to do every good work. (Par added)
Dear Brothers and Sister in and for Christ,
The entire message about this topic of God’s goodness being conditional is in the podcast. However, I am ‘limited’ on how much space I have for introductory words on my podcast sight server so I only have part of that message here. I will post the entirety of this Bartimaeus written response on Facebook
This started out as a ‘simple’ Bartimaeus response posting. But then the Lord ‘told me’ that He had much more for me to say to His people. So Friday night, I was literally up most of the night and into the wee hours of the morning…typing out (as fast as I could) words or thoughts that I believe the Spirit of the Living God gave me. All of the stuff that you’re about to read ‘came to me’ in a couple hours. There’s no plagiarism in these words. The words in this message didn’t come from some past sermons or messages that I never get a chance to share with God’s people.
BARTIMAEUS REBUTTAL PART
I believe that Yeshua Christ didn’t heal Bartimaeus just because our Heavenly Father is good. Brethren, our Heavenly Father is always good! Yahweh is good even when He doesn’t heal or rescue His children from serious troubles or persecutions! (Sad thing is, emotionally driven Believers usually only see the ‘goodness’ of our Father or His Son (at work) when they ‘see’ (i.e. touch or feel) God healing or feeding His people! Most experiential living Believers only ‘see’ the goodness of Yahweh and Yeshua when they ‘see’ them doing something that looks like a ‘kind’ or ‘caring’ act! Brethren, the goodness of Yahweh is a permanent attribute of His! The goodness of Yahweh was there when Adam and Eve ‘sinned their way out of paradise’! The goodness of Yahweh was there for 120 years as Noah built that Ark. The goodness of Yahweh was there when all those people died in the flood waters. The goodness of Yahweh was there with Joseph when he was thrown into prison for doing the right thing…and when John the Baptist had His head chopped off. The goodness of Yahweh was right there while Herod had all those innocent two-year old (and younger) baby boys murdered. Our Heavenly Father’s goodness was right there when we read about the times in the Book of Acts when those first Believers were either persecuted or died for the faith. Our Father’s goodness was there every time a child of His was martyred by being burnt alive on a stake! The goodness of a loving Father is right there when His children die of cancer or are killed by a drunk driver. The goodness of Yahweh was even there as He watched His only Son suffer and die at Calvary! The GOODNESS of God was being glorified regardless of the scenarios that I just mentioned above (and by hundreds of more like them that I didn’t mention) because thru scenarios like these…Yahweh is or was either glorified by the fulfilment of a His prophetic words…or by a display of his power, majesty, and authority!
So, pastor T, don’t just ‘see’ the goodness of Yahweh in something, that on the surface, seems to turn out for the betterment of a person. Psalms 116:15 ----Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His godly ones. (This verse is a good example to use when teaching Believers that there’s more (spiritual) ‘depth’ (i.e. meanings) (to some Bible verses) than what we simply read and comprehend intellectually.) The Scriptures tell us that it was Bartimaeus’ faith that got him healed. Bartimaeus wasn’t healed in a spiritual vacuum!
Matthew 13:57-58 ---- But Yeshua said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.” And He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.
Psalms 31:19 --- How great is Your goodness. Which You have stored up for those who fear You. Which You have wrought for those who take refuge in You!
Psalms 118:4 ---- Oh let those who fear Yahweh say, “His goodness is everlasting.”
Brother Bob
GOD’S TRUTHS! EVERYONE THINKS THEY ‘GOT EM’ FIGURED OUT!
You want to talk about spiritual confusion! Many Believers in the Church are absolutely confident that the Scriptures command them to ‘pursue’ signs and wonders. But many Believers also says the Bible clearly teaches that the signs and wonders show is over! Many Believers in the Church believe that the Scriptures command Believers to seek to speak in a tongue. But many others know that tongue gift is not for today’s Church!
Some Believers in the Church say that the Bible teaches that the Lord still ‘hands out’ the Holy Spirit’s Apostolic-like supernatural signs and wonders gift in every Church. But many other Believers ‘look out’ there church windows…or even inside the walls of their churches and say, “Nothing supernaturally miraculous like that going on anywhere outside my church windows…or even in my Church.” Some in the Church believe that the Bible teaches that drinking alcohol is a sin. But many other Believers know that the Bible does not teach that drinking alcohol is a sin! A lot of Believers are absolutely certain that the Bible teaches that all Believers will be raptured ‘outa here’ before the 7-year Tribulation. But then a lot of other Believers believe that the Bible teaches that those Pre-rapture Believers are absolutely wrong! A lot of Believers know that the New Testament Scriptures teach that the Old Testament practice of tithing is not for the Church Age. But a lot of Believers believe that the Bible teaches that those Believers are wrong! Then there are those Believers who adamantly ‘push’ a supposed biblical teaching that ‘encourages’ Believers to get more than one indwelling of the Holy Spirit. There are many more Believers who know that their believe is not only not biblical…it’s kind of weird and creepy! (And I agree with that!) How bout this one! There are actually quite a few Believers in the Church of the Living God who sincerely believe that the Bible teaches that no one chooses to get saved by believing in the Gospel of Christ! Yeah! You heard me right! These sincerely deceived, born-again Believers believe that the Bible clearly teaches that God ‘picks’ who He wants to go to heaven. These crazy Calvinists sincerely believe that the Bible teaches that Yahweh God ‘zaps’ (those He picks) with faith so that they can believe the Gospel! (Which means that He also ‘picks’ those who He wants to go to hell! (Doesn’t sound like a very loving God to me!) Fortunately, many in the Church realize this Calvinistic doctrine is not only unbiblical…it’s evil! (Brethren, this is why the Lord has called His people to contend for the TRUE faith of the Scriptures! Lord knows that there is a lot of biblical compromise and false teachings ‘floating around’ in His Church! And only those children of His who truly know their Scriptures can ‘defend against’ these bad doctrines!) I could go ON and ON and ON with Believer’s ‘opposing’ views of what they absolutely believe biblical Truth is!
(I'll have the rest of this posting on my Facebook page.)
2 Timothy 2:15 --- Work hard so you can present yourself to God and receive His approval. Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly explains the Word of Truth.
Speaking the Truth in love because so few are,
Brother Bob
Brethren…God’s people need to ‘figure out’, or at a minimum be trying to ‘figure out’ the Truths of Scriptures (that are applicable for the Church!) We only ‘get’ one (earthly) life’ to do that. And none of us know how long our earthly life will last! I personally believe that once Believers ‘get to the other side’, there will no longer be any ‘opportunities’ to be more faithful, or to be more obedient or to do those things (for Yeshua Christ) that we wished we had done while we were still living on planet earth!
Our Heavenly Father and Yeshua Christ is a God of Truth. The meaning of the words in the Scriptures is important to the Lord! Just as the meaning (i.e. comprehension) of words put together in a Bible verse…or a Bible teaching are! I just don’t understand how so many people, whose lives were supernaturally changed by believing the loving, life-changing Words of the Gospel of Yeshua Christ…can so easily ‘ignore’, or worse yet, not want to learn, the rest of the life-changing Words of God found in the Scriptures! It’s bewildering how so many people can openly profess to ‘love the Lord’ with all their heart…and then ‘turn their backs’ on all those New Testament Church Epistle teachings, instructions, and commandments! It’s sad to ‘see’ so many of God’s children ignore what the Scriptures teach…to do what seems (to be) right in their own eyes! It’s 'doubly sad' to ‘see’ so many Believers choose to ‘go along with’ the beliefs of their ‘shepherds’ or church ‘buddies’…simply because they 'just want to get along’ with them! Brethren, fathers, mothers, moms, dads, sisters, brothers, children, relatives, friends, church leaders etc. are NOT even close to being more important than knowing and obeying the Truths of Scriptures! Yeshua Christ was blunt and hard when He told His Followers (i.e. Believers) that He did not come to bring peace but rather division to the home!
A lot more of God’s people need to get much more serious about learning and then obeying those Bible Truths (that are applicable for the Church Age!) Are even aware that nearly every place in the New Testament Church Epistles where the writers tell Believers TO DO THIS…or DON’T DO THAT (or even implies to DO THIS or DON’T DO that) it’s a commandment from the Lord? And to ignore those commandments is NOT ONLY sinful…it shows the Lord that you don’t really love Him…even though your lips may ‘say’ that you do! Yeshua Christ asked this question (of His Followers.) WHY do you bother calling Me your Lord…IF you are not going to do as I say?
John 14:21, 23-24 ---- (Yeshua Christ is speaking) Those Believers who accept My commandments and obey them are the ones who love Me. And because you show Me that you love Me thru your obedience to My Word, My Father will also love you. And those Believers who show Me that you love Me thru your obedience to My Word, I will also love you, and reveal Myself to each of you.” Yeshua replied, “All of you Believers who really love Me, will do what I say. And if you do as I say…My Father will also love you, and We will come and make Our home with each of you. 24 Now, any Believer who doesn’t love Me will not obey Me. And remember, My words are not My own. What I am telling you is from the Father who sent Me.
Now I know that Yeshua Christ is speaking about and to true Believers in these verses. So I took the liberty to replace some of the pronouns with nouns. And I added the implied thought in the sentences. So, you might be asking, “How do you know that Yeshua Christ is speaking about and to Believers Brother Bob’? The answer to that question is simple to figure out. Neither Yeshua Christ nor the Heavenly Father make their abode with (i.e. make a home in, come fellowship and reside in) Unbelievers…whether they obey God’s commandments or not!
Brother Bob
Speaking the Truth (which is real love) because so few are
As I take you on this biblical journey thru the Book of the Acts of the Apostles, I am aware that I am sharing biblical Truths with you that you most likely have never been taught before…or worse yet, someone did share them with you in the past, but you ignored what they had to share! Now unfortunately…because I am sharing the Truths of God’s written Word thru podcasts, I do not get the opportunity to go over those ‘new’ biblical Truths with you personally (i.e. face to face)…even though I would like to. Now, I do quite often leave my contact email address with you on those podcasts in case you would like to have further discussions or clarifications on what I shared on my podcast site. And praise the Lord, some of you have taken the opportunity to contact me at which point we were able to go over what you didn’t understand when you first heard it shared on my podcasts!
As I share quite often…I have been studying the Truths of Scriptures for a long, long, long, long time! (Boy, am I getting old!) And as I also share quite often on my podcasts, I do not claim to know everything that there is know about the Truths of Scriptures. However, I have learned much in forty plus years of seriously looking into the Truths of God’s written Word. And not just the Truths of Scriptures. All truths in general. I could give you numerous examples of historical, grammatical, or archeological truths that I have learned (over the years) which ‘helped’ to establish the Truths of Scriptures. The best example of that was when I learned the historical reasons why most English Bibles have the fake name Jesus in them.
We live in a time when a lot of God’s people just don’t see the need to diligently study their Bibles. A lot of God’s people foolishly ‘decide’ what biblical ‘truth’ is based on what seems right or feels right to them. Isn’t that sad? We have a whole bunch of Believers in the Church of the Living God who have decided that either they are wiser than God…or that they have ‘words’ that are more ‘powerful’ than God All-Mighty’s Words!
A lot of God’s people don’t have ‘spiritual fires in their bellies’ to want to learn everything they can about the Truths of Scriptures. Oh, the Church has lots of Believers in it who ‘accept’ the basic third grader knowledge of the Truths of Scriptures. But they start to ‘sink’ biblically when they are challenged with biblical Truths any ‘deeper’ than their ankles or knees! Also, the Church is loaded with God’s people ‘playing’ church. But very few of those Believers are ‘doing church’ according to God’s biblical instructions and teachings (i.e. commandments!) I just wonder how many true born-again Believers even realize that all those DO’S and DO NOT’S that are found in the New Testament Church Epistles are commandments from the Lord?
In the Bible Yeshua Christ taught us that those Believers who accept My commandments and then obey them are the ones who really show Me that they love Me. Christ goes on to say that those Believers who show Me that they love Me (by being obedient to My commandments) will be loved by My Father. And those Believers who accept and obey My commandments will be loved by Me…and I will reveal myself to each of them.
Church, you can't 'love on God' with knowing and then doing as He says. And you can't know and do what He says...unless you know the Truths of Scriptures! There are no commandments, teachings or instructions (from the Lord) found 'outside' of Scriptures! And until you know at least some Truths from God's written Word...there is no way for you to know if you are doing as He says!
A true friend in Christ, Brother Bob
Speaking the Truth in love because so few are!
So, here’s part eleven of my podcast series called A Biblical Journey thru the Book of Acts. I finished part eleven with the completion of Acts chapter two. (I know what you’re thinking! He finally got thru chapter two! I get it! I talk a lot!) If you have been following along in this series thru the Book of Acts you have learned many new biblical Truths. And that’s a ‘good thing’! Lord willing this biblical train that we’re all on will eventually end at the last chapter in the Book of Acts. However, that’s a long way off…and there are a lot of ‘stops’ before the ‘train’ pulls into the ‘final station’!
So, as I share quite often…IF you plan to listen to this Book of Acts series…have your Bibles open, and a pen and notebook close by. And if you’re just ‘getting onboard’ this biblical journey…there’s still much to learn. With that said, let me encourage you. IF you plan on ‘getting onboard the biblical train’ (that’s taking us on this ‘journey’ thru the Book of Acts…‘arrive’ at the ‘train station’ with a teachable spirit. Don’t show up with your ‘teeth clenched’ and your ‘feet dug in,’ having no desire to learn biblical Truth.
Leave all your pre-conceived beliefs at home. Get on board this biblical train with the intention of seeing and hearing new things that you have never seen or heard about before! Brethren…I don’t claim to know it all. However, after 40 plus years of genuinely seeking, striving after, and learning the Truths of Scriptures, the Holy Spirit has shown me a lot! And I am more than willing to share those ‘deeper’ or ‘hidden’ Truths of God’s Word with you because the Lord knows that most of His ‘shepherds’ stopped doing that a long time ago!
Your true and faithful friend in Christ, Brother Bob
Speaking the Truth in love because so few are these days
If you’re one of those born-again Believers who is frustrated by the lack of sound biblical teaching that you are getting…and by the lack of authority and power you’re seeing (i.e. hearing) in your Church leaders as they ‘teach’ you God’s Word…you’ve come to the right spot. I promise you that IF you love biblical Truth…and are always eager and open to NEW biblical Truths (that means being teachable...not naïve)…the podcasts at God’s Word Unfiltered should be the ones that you’re listening to! I DON’T claim to know ALL the biblical Truths of Scriptures for the Church…BUT…I DO know a lot of them! If you like having your 'ears tickled'...well then continue listening to the Joel Osteen or Mike Warner podcasts!
Sadly, over the years I have had numerous Christians tell me (once they hear me teach at a Bible study or simply share biblical Truths with them), WHY isn’t this stuff that you’re teaching us, or telling me being taught to us by our Church ‘leaders’! My answers are always the same: The FIRST reason that a LOT OF the ‘shepherds’ who are ‘running’ born-again churches these days are NOT teaching sound doctrine to the sheep is because they are hireling shepherds…and NOT God-honoring, ‘dedicated to the Truths of Scriptures no matter what the cost’ type shepherds! These shepherd hirelings are doing what they doing for ONE or TWO or ALL of these reasons; pride, power, prestige, to please church buddies and/or family members or money!
The SECOND reason that a LOT OF ‘shepherds’ no longer teach a LOT OF (even) the basic Truths of Scriptures to the sheep is because they are cowardly (i.e. spineless) ‘shepherds’! These weak-willed ‘shepherds’ KNOW that IF they started teaching the sheep ALL the basic commandments that the Lord has given His Church…their sheep would ‘flee’ like rats deserting a sinking ship! These types of ‘shepherds’ are more concerned about not offending the sheep than they are about not offending the Lord. These types of ‘shepherds’ are literally afraid to go against the unbiblical denominational doctrines that their church organization…or church ‘buddies’ are affiliated with.
Your true friend in Christ, Brother Bob
Speaking the Truth in love (which means teaching you what you need to hear and NOT what you want to hear)...because so few are these days
IF you listen to these podcasts to learn biblical Truth...God will bless you! If you listen to these podcasts with the goal of picking apart every mistake that you think that I make...AND THAT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD OR RIGHTEOUS...then you've 'received' your 'reward' on earth! The Truths of God's written Word are both 'shallow' (i.e. easy to see) and 'deep' (i.e. hard to see) (unless you're looking very closely for them!) I know that many of you don't easily accept what I share in these podcasts. And I also know the 'reason' for that. Many of you 'struggle' with understanding what I share because your Church 'leaders' are doing a lousy job of teaching you most of the 'deeper' Truths of Scriptures. Oh well! My hands are clean! If you love biblical Truth...you will enjoy these podcasts! On the other hand...IF you 'determine' biblical Truth by what feels or seems right (in your own eyes) my podcasts are simply going to piss you off! You want 'easy listening believism'...go listen to the Joel Osteen or Rick Warren podcasts!
THE DECEITFUL HEART
Jeremiah 17:9-10 ---- “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?
We hear and read of romantic things that supposedly flow from our ‘hearts’. And as nice as that sounds, from that same ‘heart’ flow thoughts of hatred, revenge and bitterness! From the same ‘heart’ which the words I LOVE YOU ‘flow from’…also comes the words I HATE YOU SO MUCH! Now, IF you listen to my podcast you will hear me tell you that the only thing that ‘flows’ in and out of our human hearts is blood! None of those romantic and/or evil thoughts or actions come from our hearts! They all come from either our spiritual minds or are sinful flesh. In the Bible, the word ‘heart’ is metaphorical for the inner, invisible spiritual and fleshy part of our triune body. Which is all run by our minds. This inner, spiritual/fleshy invisible part of our body is where are feelings, logic and behaviors come from. Our physical hearts have nothing to do with ‘producing’ our spiritual and fleshly thoughts or emotions. All of our spiritual and/or fleshly thoughts, behaviors and emotions ‘flow’ from our minds…not our hearts!
So in the Bible, when the word heart is used it is referring to our inner spiritual and/or fleshly thoughts or feelings….which again all come from our minds! So with that said…do you know WHY Eve was lead astray? She listened to her heart (i.e. her feelings) instead of her brain as the serpent was talking to her? Do you know WHY Aaron got involved with idol worship? He listened to his feelings instead of His head when the rebellious Israelites started pressuring him!! Again, the Bible says that the human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Do you know what kept Moses from entering the Promised Land! His angry feelings! Moses definitely wasn’t using his brain when he chose to strike God! So, why did David molest Bathsheba? He ‘listened’ to a lust feeling that he was having. Take King Solomon. Supposedly the wisest man (besides Christ) who ever walked this planet totally fell apart biblically as he got older! And what happened to the great mind of the intellectually wise Solomon? He too ‘ignored’ what his brain was telling him…and allowed his love/lust feelings (for all his foreign wives) (that he should not have had in the first place) to totally ‘take him away from’ doing the righteous things of the Lord! Why was the Apostle Peter always sticking his spiritual foot in his mouth? After all, wasn’t it Peter’s sincere ‘heart’ that was telling him to say the things that he said to Yeshua? Well, Peter kept ‘failing’ spiritually because he was ‘thinking’ with his emotions and not his logical spiritual brains!
The Good and Gracious Lord told the Jews, “I set before you laws, commandments and teachings which either ‘lead to’ to life or death”! God then goes on to say, “Choose to ones that lead to life!” Sadly, IF you know your OT Scriptures…most Jews chose the commandments, laws and teachings that led to death! Now why would anyone…saved or otherwise…doing something as stupid as that? Well, it happened because they ‘listened to’ their fleshly feelings…and choose to do what felt good, or looked good, or ‘tasted good’ or even seemed good…instead of doing what they knew the Lord wanted them to do! Even what happened to Yeshua Christ happened because Jewish people…who should have known better…listened to their hearts (i.e. feelings) instead of their brains!
Again, for the millionth time…emotions can be a good thing…IF they are ‘kept in check’ with self-control and 'balanced out' with a faithful obedience to the Truths of Scriptures!
Speaking the Truth in love because so few are,
Brother Bob
I start to get into the biblical teaching that the newly spiritually revived (i.e. Spirit-indwelt) Peter shares with a large group of Jewish worshippers in Jerusalem for the Feast of Weeks celebration. If you now somethings about the teaching that Peter shares (in Acts chapter two) with the Jews who had come to Jerusalem to participate (i.e. worship) the Lord (at the Feast of Weeks), then you already know that using kind and gentle words was definitely NOT how Peter reached out to these Jews. Sadly, we live in a time when many of our church leaders emphasize the necessity of always being kind, gracious and compassionate (to unsaved people...or even saved people) when sharing biblical Truth with them! Yeah, that tactic sounds all nice and mushy...but it's not biblical. Oh, there are times when we need to be kind and compassionate. But I believe more often than not...Believers need to emphasize the seriousness of sin when reaching out to lost people! I know that Yeshua Christ never put His arms around His Followers (when they screwed up spiritually) and said... "Hey, that's alright!" "We all make mistakes!"
Speaking the Truth in love because so few are, Brother Bob
In part seven of my podcast series thru the Book of Acts I've given you some sound biblical Truths that you're either going to enjoy or 'run' from! You're either going to accept them (as the Devout Jews did when Peter taught them)...or 'accuse me' of 'being drunk'...as the unteachable Jews (who heard the Apostles speak) were. If you're a TRUE lover of biblical Truths...you'll be blessed by the things that I share in my podcasts. On the other hand, if you're simply a 'lover' of what you want the Truths of God to be...you won't like what I share in this series.
So here you go with Part Six of A Journey thru the Book of Acts
Brethren…these first two chapters in the Book of Acts will ‘separate’ the Believers who know their Word…and those who think they know their Word but don’t! A lot of sincere Believers get ‘caught up’ in the false teaching that says that what went on in Acts chapter two verses two thru four is for today’s Church Age. Now, I might not be the sharpest tool in the shed…but after 40 years of being a Believer, and never, ever witnessing, seeing you tubes videos or even reading about the events of Acts chapter two happening anywhere on planet earth these days…all it took was a little common sense to ‘see’ that those supernatural early Book of Acts events are not for today’s Church people!
Now…IF you have ‘dug your claws in deep’ on your belief that the signs and wonders gifts of Peter and Paul’s early lives as Apostles are still for today…it’s going to take much more than some sound words from Brother Bob to change your mind. On the other hand…IF you are a teachable Believer…and love biblical Truth, I promise you that you will enjoy the biblical journey that I’m taking Believers on thru the Book of the Acts of the Apostles!
Speaking the Truth in love because so few are,
Brother Bob
Here’s part Five of A Journey Thru the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. IF you truly desire to know the Truths of Scriptures (especially in light of how they relate to the Church Age), I believe that you’ll be both encouraged and enlightened by all my podcasts, and not just the podcasts associated with this series!
Now remember…as you go on this biblical journey with me I encourage you to ‘change’ all the PRONOUNS to their PROPER NOUNS in the Bible verses. Doing that will most definitely help you understand who’s who in the first two chapters of the Book of Acts. Also, as you listen to my podcasts…please ‘shut down’ your emotions. You MUST listen to these podcasts with your spirit and your brain! P.S. Brethren, I hope you understand that if you and I have opposing views (on the ‘same’ doctrines) we both can’t be right! I’m more than willing to face my savior (at the Judgment Seat of Christ) with my biblical views. Are you?
Brother Bob,
Speaking the Truth because so few are!
This is part four of my biblical journey thru the Book of Acts. For those of you who love biblical Truth…enjoy! Sadly…a lot of you are NOT being taught many of the biblical Truths that I share with you in these podcasts! So please don’t disagree with what I share simply because your church ‘buddies’ or even your ‘shepherds’ are telling you that what I am sharing is not biblical. Take what I share with you in these podcasts to the Lord. If you genuinely seek after God’s Truths…He promises to reveal them to you!
Speaking the Truth in love because so few are, Brother Bob
So here I go! After telling you (for TWO podcasts) about taking you on a journey thru the Book of Acts, here in part three, I’m actually going to get you into the Book of Acts!
Sadly, MOST of God’s shepherds these days are NOT teaching you a lot of the biblical Truths (of Scriptures) that I share with you in all my podcasts! Well…that’s going to be the same scenario as we JOURNEY THRU the Book of Acts! You’re going to hear stuff that very few Bible teachers are teaching you. And I believe the reasons for that are numerous. However, I believe the TWO main reasons for this occurring is that there are a lot of biblically stupid people running the churches…and there are a lot of biblically compromised church leaders!
Brethren…please DON’T assume that just because a LOT of Church Believers agree about a teaching or doctrine that they MUST BE RIGHT! And proof of that is the fact that MOST born-again, blood-bought Believers believe the lie that their savior’s name is Jesus! Brethren…don’t let your emotions ‘convince you’ that just because there are only a few Believers who teach a specific biblical Truth that they are wrong! You’re going to hear me share stuff that no one has ever taught you. You are going to hear me share what SHOULD BE obvious biblical Truths that are shared in ALL churches…but is not!
Now unfortunately…I just cant answer all the emails I receive. So as we go on this biblical journey thru the Book of Acts have your Bible’s opened…with a pen and a notebook handy. I promise you that IF you pay attention to WHAT I share in these podcasts it WILL both encourage and enlighten your souls!
Your true friend IN and FOR Christ, Brother Bob
Speaking the Truth in love because so few are these days!
This is PART TWO (of my podcast series about the Book of the Acts of the Apostles.) Now IF you know me…then you know that I can’t just JUMP INTO a podcast topic or teaching without EXPOUNDING! I’ll be the first to admit that I talk a lot! Well, that’s what I do! So, in this podcast I’ll be doing a PRIMER on what goes on BEFORE the Book of Acts starts up!
Again...for the hundredth time, a LOT OF YOU are just NOT going to be taught a lot of the biblical Truths that I share with you in these podcasts! So, don't the 'peer pressure' of your church 'buddies' sway you from looking into what I share in these podcasts. I promise you that the TRTUH IS out there. Unfortunately, there are NOT many in the Church who are really interested in 'digging deep' to find them!
Brother Bob,
Speaking the Truth because so few are!
So are you interested in going on a biblical journey! Well, IF you are, I will be doing a podcast series on the Book of the Acts of the Apostles (that was the original name for the Book of Acts!) My main goal for doing this podcast series on the Book of Acts is to get the simple Truths of Scriptures (found in the Book of Acts) to God’s people. My ‘secondary’ goal is to get all you spiritually sincere but biblical ignorant sings and wonders seeking Believers to ‘see’ that if you’re truly seeking to ‘find’ biblical Truth…I believe that you’re spiritual journey is heading in the wrong direction!
Brethren, I can’t say it enough! We all can’t be right about what we believe biblical Truth to be. Our God is NOT a God of confusion! Which means that His biblical Truths do not come with multiple choice options! Another thing that I can’t say enough is that ‘majority rule’ does not determine biblical Truth! Just because a lot of Believers believe something to be biblically true…that does not mean they believe the Truth! Yeshua Christ’s said that in the End Time Church there will be many false teachers in the Church…which will result in many Believers being misled!
I’ll be honest! I’m ‘baffled’ by the number of professing Bible Believers who foolishly ‘chase after’ signs and wonders gifts…even though they’re not out there! I don’t know how many more times I need to state the obvious when I tell the signs and wonders seeking Brothers and Sisters to ‘look around’ and take note that there is NOT ONE SINGLE Believer (on the entire planet, let alone in America) consistently and openly and publicly doing the amazingly wonderful miracles that those first Apostles did! My dear but emotionally deceived Pentecostal friends…you need to be not just biblically smarter, but intellectually smarter than this! If there was JUST ONE PERSON on planet earth doing what Peter or Paul did…they would not only have thousands of people flocking to see them…there would be millions of Tiktok or Instagram videos of those miraculous events!
Speaking the Truth in love because so few are,
Brother Bob
We live in a time when many of God’s people aren’t open to being taught the Truths of Scriptures. Most of God’s people simply don’t want to have someone come along and teach them a better or different way! (I many times wonder if God's people even know that a biblical Truth of God does not come with multiple choice options?) Most of God’s people are content believing whatever it is they believe…regardless of the biblical facts put before them. I once gave a couple of pastors (who openly professed to love biblical Truth) some undisputable, simple to comprehend facts about what went on (in Acts chapter two) on the Day of Pentecost. And they didn’t want anything to do with that information because it totally exposed their silly, emotionally driven signs and wonders seeking journey that they've chosen to put themselves on! Isn’t that sad! Some absolute biblical Truth of God's written Word was placed before these two 'lovers of Truth', and they either ignored it, or rejected it! Sadly, that unteachable spirit is prevalent with many in the Church these days! For the most part…God’s people today (just like the Old Testament Believers of Jeremiah and Nehemiah’s days)…reject the Truths of God in order to do what seems (i.e. 'feels') right in their own eyes!
Isaiah 48:17-18 --- This is what the LORD says—your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is good for you and leads you along the paths you should follow. If only you had listened to My teachings! Then you would have had peace flowing like a gentle river and righteousness rolling over you like waves in the sea.
Oh well! My hands are clean!
Speaking the Truth in love because so few are,
Brother Bob
Hello Brethren! I know that many of you are NOT going 'get' and/or accept what I share in this podcast series about biblical Truth. And that's too bad because a lot of you are 'missing out' on learning some of the basic Truths of God's written Word. What's really sad is that a lot of you are 'missing out' on learning these biblical Truths simply because you have an unteachable spirit...or are more faithful to a spouse or your church 'buddies' than you are to God's Word! Oh well...my hands are clean!
The Church of the Living God is in a biblical 'mess'! Thousands of professing Bible believing denominations...and each with their own view on what God's Truths are for His Church. It must break God's heart to see so many of His children being so easily misled by biblically ignorant...or biblically 'compromised' 'shepherds'! Again, as I share quite often in my podcasts...Yeshua Christ clearly told us in the Scriptures that the End Time Church will not be some 'shining example' of biblical faithfulness and righteousness. In fact, if you truly know your Scriptures...then you already know that Christ warned us that IN the End Time Church there will be lots of false teachers ...and lots of Believers who are deceived by all these false teachers. Hey, don't get mad at me for simply repeating Christ's own words!
Matthew 24:3-5, 9-11 .... the disciples came to Yeshua privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” And Yeshua answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many....Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name. At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another. Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.
Brethren, we live in a time when God's biblical 'Truths' have become whatever you make them to be. We live in a time when you can pretty much 'pick a Church' that teaches what ever you like. It shouldn't be that way! Most of the Truths of Scriptures are not that hard to figure out. Unfortunately, Satan has 'blinded' the 'eyes' of many in the Church. And as a result, a lot of God's people are 'finding it' very difficult to even understand the basic Truths of God's written Word!
Speaking the Truth in love...because so few are,
Brother Bob
There are a lot of biblical UNTRUTHS today in the Church that are being ‘passed off’ as bible TRUTHS. Now, when I say that, I do not mean that there are a lot of people in the Church who willfully teach and preach biblical lies…although there are some like that in the Church! I’m talking about all the biblical UNTRUTHS that are being shared by sincere but biblically ignorant Believers! Brethren, we can’t all be right! And what I would say to you (who realized that I was right, and you were wrong (about just one doctrine)) IS…how many other doctrines or beliefs are you wrong about?
It's frustrating to see so many sincere but biblically ignorant children of God ‘waste’ their time and energies believing biblical stuff that is obviously NOT for today’s Church Age! What’s really sad, is that these same Believers (who don’t see the obvious errors of their unbiblical views on what basic Bible Truths are…foolishly believe that the Holy Spirit is also revealing to them some of the ‘deeper’ Truths of Scriptures!
Brethren…If it’s the Truth of Scriptures that you’re after…then I’m your guy! If you simply want to have your ‘ears tickled’…or choose to listen to someone teach and preach those biblical words that agree with your views…then don’t bother listening to my podcasts because my biblical views will are going to ‘upset’ your ‘spiritual apple cart’!
Brethren…there are two ways to be fooled as a Christian. One way is to believe what isn't true; the other way is to refuse to believe what is true.
Speaking the Truth in love…because so few are,
Your true friend in and for Yeshua Christ , Brother Bob
Hello Brethren! For Part Three of this podcast series I'm going to simply POST something written by an EX-signs and wonders seeking Believer. Even though I have been around the spiritual 'weirdness' (that signs and wonders seeking Believers 'manifest') I have always been too biblically grounded to 'fall' for the lunacy I see (and hear and read about.) So, for part three in this series I simply believed the best thing to do was to POST an EX-signs and wonders seeking Believer's own words on why he left that movement! So, I'll POSTING his words on the Facebook site where my podcasts are sent! Enjoy!
Speaking the Truth in love...because so few are these days, Brother Bob
Now, ultimately, each and every Believer must decide in their own mind IF what they believe is biblically correct. Please notice that I did not ‘put’ the emphasis on our hearts for deciding what is or what is not biblically correct. Sadly though, a lot of Believers (and not just signs and wonders seeking Believers) are basing nearly all their biblical beliefs on what seems right…or on what someone told them was biblically right!
Now, to prove my point (that most signs and wonders seeking Believer’s ‘biblical’ views come from their hearts (i.e. their feelings)…all one has to do is ‘look out their church or house windows’ (i.e. look out into the Christian realms) and see if they ‘see’ just one single person doing the mighty supernatural miraculous works that people like Peter or Paul did. Now in all reality…IF the Holy Spirit’s signs and wonders gifts were truly manifesting…there wouldn’t be just one or two Believers exhibiting them…but hundreds of thousands of Believers exhibiting them! Come on Saints! You really need to be biblically smarter than this! Only those Believers with either very ‘darkened spiritual minds’ or who are ‘blinded’ by pride would disagree with what I just said!
Speaking the Truth in love…because so few of us still are, Brother Bob
The Church is in a biblical mess! Not a spiritual mess. A biblical mess! There's all kinds of spiritual stuff going on in churches these days. Unfortunately, most of it's being done while ignoring the Truths of Scriptures that the Good Lord gave us for His Church. There are hundreds of various denominations out there in Christendom...with hundreds of various differing (supposed) biblical beliefs about the same doctrines. Sadly, a lot of Believers don't really seem to be interested in learning the real Truths of Scriptures (that the Lord has given us for His Church.) (Yes, there are specific commandments, teachings and instructions in the Bible that are just for the Church!) Then there's that group of Believers (sincere as though they may be) who have completely 'gone way off the biblical rails'...foolishly, 'chasing after' spiritual stuff (that God doesn't want them chasing after), hoping to 'feel' or 'taste' or 'see' (i.e. experience) what 'faith' feels like. Brethren, it doesn't take much 'faith' to 'believe'...after you see or experience things! It's not faith that's at work when you allow yourself to get all caught up in some emotionally fueled event you attend or get involved in! Brethren, one's faith is not made stronger if it's dependent on feeling or experiencing stuff! True, God-honoring faith is a faith based on NOT what we see or experience...but on that which just believes because the Good Lord tells us (in His written Word) that it is so.
Now, I know that most of you signs and wonders seeking Believers have 'good' intentions. However, you all know what where the 'road of good intentions' leads to. You sincere but foolish Brothers and Sisters in Christ need to realize that our Heavenly Father doesn't care squat what we thing Truth is. Our Heavenly Father also doesn't 'give a rip' if we're sincere...if that sincerity is not coupled with biblical Truth. Now, I know that some of you signs and wonders seeking Believers genuinely think you're following biblical 'protocol' when 'chasing after' these signs and wonders. Well, after the Holy Spirit...the next best 'tool' that God's people have to know IF they're on the right biblical path is our brains! Look out you're church windows! Do you see thousands upon thousands of (not only) Believers who have these (supposed) signs and wonders gifts healing thousands upon thousands of people? When is the last time you watched a live streaming video of a really dead person being brought back to life? Brethren, you need to be biblically smarter than this! You don't need the Holy Spirit to 'guide you' to smartville! Common sense alone should 'reveal' to you that you're on the wrong biblical path!
Speaking the Truth in love because I genuinely care about defending God's Truth...and restoring God's 'wayward' children!
I KNOW! I KNOW! The title for this series is a bit long! I couldn't come up with a better way to explain what I'm trying to accomplish (in this series) without having a LONG title. Sorry...I think! Anyways, the Bible's Kingdom teachings (and how they relate to Church Age Believers) is really not that hard to 'see' and understand...IF you truly are a 'lover of biblical Truth'...AND...IF you have the ability to 'breakdown', comprehend, and discern what you're listening to.
Brethren, IF you want the best of the best that the Lord has for you in His Kingdoms (in the next life)...then you best be making sure that you're striving to DO those things which please Our Heavenly Father. Because, as I've shown you in this Kingdom series...it takes MUCH MORE than simply being a blood-bought, born-again, eternally saved child of God to hear... "Well done, good and faithful servant" at the Judgement Seat of Christ! Brethren...getting eternally saved was EASY! Yeshua Christ 'did' all the 'hard stuff'! On the other hand...IF you want to receive special (future) Kingdom blessings, honors, rewards or responsibilities you're going to have to 'earn them'! Now I know that what I said that 'drives' a lot of Pentecostal-like Believers 'crazy'! But the biblical fact is that EVERY (future) Kingdom reward or special Kingdom responsibility that a Believer receives...they received because they deserved it! The Good Lord doesn't reward His unfaithful children! What father would? And it's NOT just about being a faithful child of God. (There's a lot of Believers who are faithful at doing 'churchy stuff'.) If you want Yeshua Christ to find you faithful (at the Judgment Seat of Christ) then you're going to have to be faithful to the Truths (i.e. commandments and teachings of the Lord) for His Church! Our Heavenly Father didn't give us all those CHURCH instructions, commandments and teachings hoping that we would ignore them!
Church, I promise you that I'm NOT trying to deceive or mislead you. What I share in all my podcasts IS/ARE the Truths of Scriptures. I have no 'ulterior motive' for sharing this Kingdom series about what I believe the Bible clearly shows about God's (future) Millennial and New Earth Kingdoms will be like, and how they relate to Church Age Believers. I am quite aware that there IS a stricter judgment for ANY Believer who ADDS TO or TAKES AWAY FROM Truths of God's written Word when they teach or preach! So I take my walk with the Lord...and my biblical 'talks' (to others) very seriously! And since I clearly recognize that I AM STILL a 'sinner saved by grace' (and will be until I go home) who quite easily (occasionally) stumbles in sin (as the Scriptures teach))...I 'freely admit' that I am a 'work in progress'! However...even with that said, I also KNOW WHAT I KNOW to be biblical Truth...or I wouldn't teach it as though it was. The Good Lord promises to reveal the (many times hidden) Truths of His written Word to those genuinely seek to know them. Well, I 'signed up' for that 'biblical journey' to find the Truths of Scriptures many years ago. And I have been seeking after His Truths ever since.
Brother Bob
What I’ve shared in these Kingdom podcasts should be very easy to understand…and accept! However, I am afraid that there will be many of you who, (for numerous ‘bad’ reasons), will simply choose to IGNORE ALL the Truths that I share in my podcasts! Brethren, forever is a real long time…to get something wrong! When you ‘step’ into eternity you bring no more or no less biblical wisdom than what you had before you died. And I personally believe that each and every Believer is going ‘carry’ what biblical knowledge they had with them until the end of time. There will be no chances to ‘do’ ‘make up tests’ in eternity! There will be no Bible studies in eternity. You die and move on with what you know. So, you better make sure that what you believe you know (about biblical Truth) is right before you meet your Maker because your ‘place’ in God’s Kingdoms in eternity will be determined by how well you do at the Judgment Seat of Christ!
I know that some of you will ignore what I share because you’re listening to the ‘counsel’ of your Church leaders or church buddies…or worse yet, UNSAVED family members who, even though they can’t refute what I am sharing…tell you to not listen to what I share in my podcasts simply because they DON’T LIKE WHAT they hear! And then there will be those Believers who (because of pride) will refuse to ‘accept’ what I share in my podcasts because that would mean they would have to admit they’re (presently) wrong about their ‘biblical’ beliefs! And then there are those Believers who are simply unteachable! These types of Believers foolishly believe that they have the Truths of Scriptures ALL ‘figured out’…and couldn’t possibly be wrong!
Brethren, I’m not doing these podcasts for selfish or pious reasons! I’m sharing the Truths of Scriptures with God’s people hoping to reach the faithful Believers; those Believers who love the Truths of Scriptures and are always ‘eager’ to know more!
Brother Bob
So, this is PART THREE of my Kingdom Podcast series where I connect the Bible’s Kingdom teachings with Christ’s Parables and show how they relate to Church Age Believers.
If you’re a Brother or Sister in Christ who loves ‘seeking after’ and learning biblical Truths, than you already know (that for the most part) the leaders and teaches at most born-again Churches are in a spiritual ‘nose-dive!” Very few Christian leaders these days have anything beyond a third-grade knowledge and understanding of biblical Truth! (It should obvious that the Church of the Living God has ‘gone off the biblical Truth rails!’ There are literally hundreds of various Christian denominations out there in Christendom. That, in and of itself, reveals how biblically ‘fractured’ the Churches are!)
IF you’re a Brother or Sister who enjoys the Truths of Scriptures…and enjoys learning new biblical Truths (which there are a lot of) you will love this Kingdom Podcast series that I’m doing.
Church people! Many of you are being ‘duped’ by false teachings! Many of you are being led astray by the ½ ‘Truths’ your church leaders share with you. To me it’s obvious! Either God’s shepherds are leading you astray because of their ignorance of biblical Truth. Or they’re leading you astray for power, prestige and economical reasons! When was the last time your shepherds even tried to teach you (with authority and knowledge) those New Testament Epistle commandments that the Lord has established for His Church?
I share all this saints because NOT ONLY WILL there be (not might be) BUT WILL BE some very (bad) Judgement Seat of Christ ‘consequences’ for all those Church ‘leaders’ who ‘lead’ God’s people astray (for whatever reasons.) You children of God who have ‘allowed’ your Church ‘leaders’ to mislead you will also be held accountable! Our Heavenly Father expects His children to KNOW His Word. Our Heavenly Father expects His children to be able to KNOW and then DEFEND His Truths! Our Heavenly Father expects His children (in the Church Age) to OBEY all those commandments that He has put into the Church Epistles! At the Judgment Seat of Christ (which IS a reward judgment) each and every one of us are going to give a FACE-TO-FACE account to Yeshua, for all those biblical Truths we ignored…and all those biblical Truths we got right!
2 Corinthians 5:9-10 ---- So whether we Believers are here in this body or away from this body, our goal is to please the Lord. For all Believers must stand before Christ to be judged. Each Believer will receive whatever we deserve for the good or bad we have done while in this earthly body.
Brethren, I can't over-emphasize this enough! The 'next life' for God's blood-bought, eternally saved, children of God will NOT go well...IF Yeshua Christ finds you to be an unfaithful Believer (at the Judgement Seat!) Now, it won't be as bad as being in hell! But considering that you can be a saved Believer living in paradise...who can still spend their eternity in sorrow and regret (as Christ shared) (because you were found unfaithful)...you'd better make sure you're walking the talk according to the Truths of Scriptures!
Brethren, you’re NEVER going to SEE or ACCEPT HOW God’s Kingdom teachings ‘relate to’ Church Age Believers IF you’re not teachable! Now, the Good Lord doesn't expect His children to be gullible...but He does expect Believers to ALWAYS be teachable. I believe that I made the Biblical Truths that I shared in PART ONE about this Kingdom topic so easy to understand that IF you did NOT understand them you are either unsaved, or have hardened your heart! Now, I don’t share that to be mean…but a Believer doesn’t have to be a Bible ‘Scholar’ to ‘see’ and understand the biblical Truths that I’m sharing in this Kingdom series.
Listen, ALL of God’s people (with differing views on the same doctrines) can’t be right! Do you at least accept that statement? I am afraid we live in a time when many of God’s people believe that the Lord is ‘okay’ with His children of various views and opinions on His biblical Truths. Not so! When it comes to a biblical doctrine…either we’re ALL wrong (about what we think a biblical Truth is…or one of us is right! We can’t all be right!
Listen, true biblical discernment is NOT the ability to ‘see’ the differences between a belief that is obviously biblically correct and one that is obviously biblically incorrect. If you have true biblical discernment…you will have the ability to ‘see’ things that are almost biblically correct!
Brother Bob
Dear Brother and Sisters in Christ,
I believe that this next podcast series about connecting Christ’s Kingdom teachings to His Parables are some of the most important podcasts that I have ever done. (And I have done hundreds of these!) If you REALLY LOVE BIBLE Truth…you WILL enjoy this series. Sadly…I KNOW that MOST of you are NOT being taught correctly…IF AT ALL…HOW the Bible’s Kingdom teachings and Parables relate to Church Age Believers. So IF you choose to listen to this podcast series…please do SLOWLY and REPEATEDLY! Have your Bibles and spiritual minds open. I would encourage you to ‘talk’ to the Lord about WHAT Brother Bob is teaching. God promises to reveal the deeper Truths of His written Word to those who genuinely seek to know them! If you listen to this podcast series with a genuinely humble and teachable spirit…I promise you that the Kingdom Truths that I share in this series will open your spiritual eyes to biblical Truths you have never heard before!
Now I know that many Believers are ‘under’ the ‘authority’ of ‘shepherds’ who just DON’T KNOW their Scriptures very well. So, IF you have a ‘shepherd’ who is ‘encouraging you’ to NOT listen to my podcasts…I fear for your spiritual well-being. Unless you’re a legitimate ‘baby Believer’ NO ONE should be ‘afraid’ or ‘ordered’ to NOT listen to what another Brother or Sister in the Lord is trying to teach you. Yes, there are a lot of biblical ‘wackos’ out there in Christendom…who foolishly try to pass themselves as “men of God”…but the words that come out their mouths proves otherwise!
Church, forever IS a really long time! And I promise you that ‘hidden in plain sight’ (in God’s written Word) are these amazing Kingdom teachings that show God’s people all the possible special Kingdom blessings, rewards and responsibilities that the blood-bought, born-again, eternally saved child of God can receive IF the Lord judges them to have been a faithful Believer (in their earthly life!) I promise you that! I also promise you that only those Believers whom Christ deems faithful, diligent and trustworthy, will receive these Kingdom rewards. There are NO ‘participation trophies’ (handed out at the Judgment Seat of Christ) to those children of God who were ‘simply’ ‘content’ to be a saved child of God…and who did NOT live (their earthly life) AS though they were a child of God!
Brethren, I was "waylaid' by the Lord! Now, I'm not complaining! After all...He IS the 'boss'! I began this Kingdom Parable podcast series believing that I could (simply) go thru the Parables and explain to God's people their 'connection' to God's biblical Kingdom teachings....BUT THEN...the Spirit of the Living God 'told me' (plain as day) that I needed to (once again) go thru and explain how God's eternal salvation, and the Judgment Seat of Christ, and Kingdom Reward system 'works' for a true, blood-bought, born-again, eternally saved child of God AS I WAS GOING THRU the Parables! So, gird up! Get your Bible outs! Turn off your 'emotion button'! And put some earplugs in IF you have a Church 'leader' or fellow Believer telling you that what I'm sharing isn't biblical! Saints, you're just not going to be taught much of what I'll be sharing with you in this Kingdom/Parable Podcast series! And IF you've already listened to some of my other podcasts...then you're hearing lots of biblical Truths that you're just not be taught!
There are many important aspects of God's Kingdom teachings that God's people need to grasp IF they're going to understand HOW God's/Christ's Kingdom teachings relate to Church Age Believers. However, there are TWO IMPORTANT biblical points that you'll need to 'accept' before God's/Christ's Kingdom teachings will make sense to you. (I will expound on these and many other points during these podcasts!)
POINT ONE: No one gets or stays or maintains their eternally saved thru their 'good works"! (Lordship salvation sounds all nice and pious...but it's NOT biblical! No one who is truly saved or born-again gets 'unsaved' because they're NOT living up to a certain biblical moral standard. Brethren, NO ONE (initially) received the FREE GIFT of eternal salvation for being good! So HOW can someone 'lose' or 'forfeit' this FREE GIFT for being 'bad'? Now, even with that said...I DO believe that the Bible teaches that a person can truly get eternally saved (i.e. get born-again)...and end up 'forfeiting' or 'throwing away' their eternal salvation. However, that will only happen IF that once professing to be born again Believer OPENLY (i.e. publicly) RENOUNCES (i.e. rejects) the savior they say they once believed in.
POINT TWO: HOW a person (who professes to be born-again or saved and who knows the true FREE GIFT of salvation of Yeshua Christ) lives their earthly life has no bearing on IF they're truly saved or not! So this means that God's people need to STOP (assuming) that (other) people are NOT saved or born-again because they don't like what they're teaching or how their living their spiritual lives! (God will sort it all out in the end!)
Brethren, every promise from the Lord (for His children) comes with this 'simple' stipulation: God says IF you DO as I say...then I WILL DO as I promise!
Hello Brethren! I'm about to start a podcast series on the parables that Christ shared with His Followers. Sadly, there is much confusion with Believers on just WHO Yeshua Christ is speaking TO and or ABOUT in many of His parables....with a 'tiny' addendum on all the false prophesying I see and hear going on these days.
A little biblical discernment makes it quite obvious that anytime Christ teaches that a person or persons MUST DO this or that good work to get into God's Kingdom...that Christ is speaking to Believers. And WHY DO I KNOW that? I know that because NO ONE gets 'saved' by DOING good works! A major reason WHY so many Believers are 'confused' about these parables is that they don't understand that when Yeshua Christ tells His Followers that DOING (what the Lord believes is) GOOD WORKS (is the way inside the 'walls' of God's Heavenly and Millennial Kingdoms)...Christ is NOT speaking about salvation but rewards!
Brethren...I KNOW that many of you are NEVER taught HOW a blood-bought, born-again Believer gets inside the 'walls' of God's Heavenly and/or Millennial Kingdoms! Well, I promise you with every born-again breath that I have that a Believer is NOT chosen to live and serve and rule inside the 'walls' of God's Kingdoms simply because they're a child of God! Any and ALL Believers MUST EARN the right to live and serve in God's Heavenly and/or Millennial Kingdoms! Now praise God that it will be the Lord Himself who decides HOW faithful...or UNFAITHFUL a Believer lived their earthly life! But make no mistake! In eternity...there are NO 'participation trophies' handed out for Believers simply because they were in the Family of God!
2 Corinthians 5:9-10 ---- So whether we Believers are here in this body or away from this body, our goal is to please him. For ALL Believers must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in this earthly body. (See, NO 'participation trophies'!)
If, at the Judgment Seat of Christ (which IS a rewards judgment and NOT a salvation judgement) a Believer HEARS (from Christ), "Well done, good and faithful servant" then they WILL be rewarded for their faithfulness by being allowed to live and serve and dine, and even be part of the wedding feast that will all be going on inside the 'walls' of God's Kingdom! But as I will explain in this podcast series...there WILL BE blood-bought, born-again Believers (at the REWARD Judgment Seat of Christ) who will NOT hear WELL DONE...but who will instead hear; "You wicked, lazy servant"! "Get out of My sight"! At which time Yeshua Christ BANISHES this born-again, eternally saved child of God from EVER living, serving, dining...and from being part of the Wedding that goes on inside the walls of God's Heavenly, 1000-year Millennial and New Heavens and Earth Kingdoms! Yes, this UNFAITHFUL Believer WILL BE saved from hell...just barely...but for all eternity those Believers whom the Lord deemed UNFAITHFUL will be living outside the walls of God's kingdom....WHERE...(as Christ said...there will be WEEPING and GNASHING of Teeth!
Sadly, because so many Believers have 'lost' the ability to discern biblical Truth...they are 'allowing' themselves to be led astray from the REAL Truths of Scriptures by 'accepting' 'bits and pieces' of Bible verses as though they were a whole Truth of God! Brethren, teaching or posting 1/2 'Truths' of Bible verses makes you a deceiver! And even if you 'line up' one 1/2 "Truths' after another (in a sermon, Bible teaching or worship song) all those 1/2 'Truths' still add up to one big lie! And those of you who are using or teaching 1/2 'Truths' of Scriptures are either willfully or ignorantly leading God's people astray! If you are doing this...(regardless if you're trying to be sincere and/or encouraging) you are just as evil as the false teachers who purposely try to lead God's people astray!
All the time I see people posting parts of a God Promise Verse. Not understanding that when you do this you are 'making' the Lord out to be someone He is not! Quite often, many of the songs Believers use to 'worship' the Lord are laden with 1/2 'Truths.' Brethren...no matter how 'sweet' and 'pious sounding' your worship song might be...the Good Lord is never pleased with words of praise laden with 1/2 'Truths'! Remember...God MUST BE worshiped in spirit and Truth!
I've been a Believer for over 40 years, and I can count on one hand the number of times I have heard a Bible teacher (whether it be a pastor or simply a layman doing a Bible study) QUALIFY the Bible verse promise that they are reading! Brethren, God has ALWAYS told His people....IF YOU DO AS I SAY, THEN I WILL DO AS I PROMISE! Contrary to what many of you teach and or believe our Heavenly Father does NOT fulfill His promises (for His children)...just because they are His children!
Deuteronomy 28:9 ---- IF you obey the commands of the LORD your God and walk in His ways, THEN the LORD will establish you as His holy people as He promised He would do.
Those of you who choose to teach God's Word must be careful to QUALIFY (i.e. explain) WHY a Believer does or does not receive God's promises! Because when you choose not to do that...you are either adding to...or taking away from the Truths of God's Word. And I promise you that IF you willfully or ignorantly do that...the Judgment Seat of Christ will NOT go well for you!
Brethren, no one get's eternally saved (from hell) by selling their 'stuff' and giving to the poor! No one get's eternally saved (from hell) by choosing to serve Yeshua Christ!
No one becomes a blood-bought, born-again, eternally saved child of God by denouncing the things and the ways of this world! No one get's eternally saved (from hell) BY ANY GOOD WORKS! No one can pile up treasures in heaven...unless they are already saved! However...DOING biblically righteous things like this...IF you already are a Believer in Yeshua Christ...will earn the Believer special Kingdom rewards, responsibilities and privileges in God's kingdom realm! Brethren, eternal salvation is FREELY GIVEN...and then received by faith (i.e. belief), apart from ANY good works! On the other hand! IF one IS truly a born-again Believer...the ONLY WAY to get into God's special, honorary Kingdom places (in the next life) is by DOING those good works which please the Father!
1 Timothy 6:17-19 --- Teach those Believers who are rich in this world (which is MOST American Christians) not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which is so unreliable. Their trust should be in God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment. Tell them to use their money to do good. They should be rich in good works and generous to those in need, always being ready to share with others. By doing this they will be storing up their treasure as a good foundation for the future so that they may experience true life. (par. added.)
A lot of professing Believers in the Church of the Living God still aren't 'getting' that God's FREE GIFT of Eternal Salvation (offered freely) to ALL who believe the Gospel of Christ IS FREE! Many sincere but biblically ignorant Believers in the Church still have this concept in their mind that ONCE a person truly gets born-again...they need to 'maintain' or 'preserve' their free gift of eternal salvation by living up to a certain moral standard! Now, it's a good thing for a Believer to try to live up to a moral standard that's pleasing to the Lord...BUT...it's NOT a 'good thing' to tell a Believer that they need to maintain a certain moral standard IF they want to stay saved! That my friends IS a WORKS GOSPEL that doesn't save anyone!
In this podcast series, I'm trying to get God's people to understand that when a person (found mostly in the Gospels) is ASKING WHAT they need to do... to 'inherit' or 'get into' God's kingdoms (God's (Heavenly and Millennial kingdoms is implied)...they are NOT asking these questions seeking to know WHAT it takes to get eternally saved! They are asking these questions seeking to know WHAT IT TAKES to have a 'better' (than normal) eternal life while living in God's kingdom in the next life! Yes, you heard me right! The Bible is crystal clear! Not all born-again, blood-bought, eternally saved children of God are going to be seen the same to the Lord! There will be children of God in God's Heavenly Kingdom whom the Lord IS pleased with (because He deemed them FAITHFUL in their walk)... and there will be children that God's displeased with (because He deemed them UNFAITHFUL in their walk! In fact, there will be eternally saved children of God whom the Lord is SO DISPLEASED with...that they will not even be allowed into God's Heavenly and Millennial Kingdom areas!
Brethren, contrary to what many of you are taught...the Good Lord does NOT reward all His children the same in eternity. Contrary to what many of you are taught, (in eternity) the Good Lord doesn't 'see' His children all the same way. The Bible clearly teaches that the more faithful the Lord finds you (at the Judgment Seat of Christ)...the more Kingdom rewards, responsibilities and accolades you'll receive in the next life! It's that simple! God tells us in the Scriptures that His children have a choice to make: Serve Him now in this life...and you'll suffer loss of stuff and friends. However, IF you choose to do that...(i.e. give it up for God in this life) (in eternity) you WILL 'get back' far more than what you gave up in this life. If the Lord finds you faithful...you will receive special Kingdom rewards and honors in the next life! ON THE OTHER HAND: If you're a Believer living in this world for your self and for the things which bring you worldly pleasure in this life...YOU WILL suffer loss of special kingdom rewards, blessings and honors in the next life! ALL that fleshly 'stuff' that you so tightly 'hung on to' (while alive on planet earth)...and which now costs you dearly in eternity...will be a regret you have forevermore!
Brother Bob
I hear it all the time. Pastors, Bible teachers and Believers on social media sites promising God's people the their Heavenly Father has all kinds of earthly blessings and promises; and all kinds of heavenly kingdom rewards and responsibilities that He wants to freely (i.e. unconditionally) give them...simply because they're His children! At its least...that concept is a biblical 1/2 Truth. (And we all know that a 1/2 Truth is a lie!) Yes, there ARE some amazingly wonderful blessings and promises and rewards that the Father wants to bestow on His children. However...these things are not free! They're earned! They're earned thru faithfulness. And not just faithfulness! Faithfulness to the Truths of Scriptures (that the Lord has established for His Church Age children!)
Brethren, the Good Lord has always told His people...IF you DO as I say...THEN I will DO as I promised! The only unconditional (i.e. free) blessing that a Believer ever received (from the Lord) was the FREE GIFT of eternal salvation! Every other promise or blessing or reward (that the Good Lord 'offers' His children) comes with the stipulation that they must obey those commandments and teachings that He has given for the Church!
The Judgment Seat of Christ IS a rewards judgment...and NOT a salvation judgment! Anyone who is at the Judgment Seat of Christ WILL BE eternally saved from hell! However...the Bible clearly shows...time after time...that simply being eternally saved (from hell) does NOT mean that the Believer's next life is going to be everything it could be! 1 Corinthians chapter three clearly shows that there WILL BE blood-bought, born-again, eternally saved Believers (at the Judgment Seat of Christ) who Yeshua Christ 'finds' to have done NO good works...who are still saved (from hell) by the 'skin of their teeth!" These unfaithful Believers will hear... "You wicked, lazy slave (i.e. Believer). At which point Yeshua Christ will rebuke these worthless Believers (who loved the world and the ways of the world more than they did the things of the Father). Yeshua Christ will tell these unfaithful Believers that they will have no part in serving (Him) in either His Heavenly or Millennial Kingdoms! Yeshua Christ even taught that some Believers will be judged to be SO UNFAITHFUL...that in eternity... they will not even be allowed to 'live' inside the walls of God's Heavenly or Millennial kingdoms!
On the other hand...those Believers who hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant" (from the Lord) will be rewarded with special Kingdom rewards and Kingdom responsibilities! And those Believers whom the Lord deems faithful...will receive special kingdom rewards and responsibilities because they've earned them!
Brethren, God keeps His promises! So long as we humbly, and sincerely and repentantly and FAITHFULLY DO as He has commanded! God's 'rest' for Church Age Believers happens in His Heavenly and Millennial kingdoms! If a Believer is found to be unfaithful (at the Judgment Seat of Christ...they will NOT enter God's 'resting place' in eternity!
Hebrews 3:12 (Written TO and FOR Believers)
Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief (i.e. unfaithfulness).
Hebrews 4.1 --- Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.
Exodus 18:23 ---- If you do this thing and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will go to their place in peace.”
Speaking the Truth in Love! Those words used to mean something significant and substantial to Bible Believers! The thought of being confronted (with Truth of Scriptures) used to be enough to 'put' the 'fear of God' in people...which in turn 'moved people' to get 'right' with the Lord! Not today! Today those same life-altering words have 'morphed' into meaning; speak 'soft and gentle' (words (to Believers)) because after all...you don't want to offend them...even IF it IS God's Word!
God knows that the Churches of the Living God need more shepherds who are going to command...not just teach or suggest...BUT COMMAND that God's people BETTER OBEY the Lord, or else there ARE going to be some very BAD Judgment Seat of Christ consequences! God knows that His people don't need more spiritual pampering! Far too many are already living their spiritual lives like thin-skinned, butterball, 'snowflakes'!
A LOT OF God's shepherds need to 'grow a pair'! A lot of God's church 'leaders' need to stop 'leading' and go back to the beginning and RE-LEARN the Truths of Scriptures...and then RE-TEACH them with authority as one who really knows what he's teaching is biblical Truth...and NOT spiritual suggestions!
Brethren, regardless of what many of today 'wise' Bible teachers try telling you...true biblical love is telling/teaching God's people what they need to hear...and NOT what makes them feel good about themselves or their lukewarm, lackadaisical spiritual lifestyles!
I could give you MANY examples of TOUGH LOVE in the Bible. Here's just one example from Yeshua Christ Himself! (SIDE NOTE: Christ is speaking to His Followers Which is supposed to be us! These words of Christ are NOT directed at LOST people!
Matthew 10:32-39 ---- Every (Believer) who acknowledges Me publicly here on earth, I will also acknowledge before My Father in heaven. But every (Believer) who denies Me here on earth, I will also deny before My Father in heaven. “Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring peace, but a sword. ‘I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. Your enemies will be right in your own household!’ “If you love your father or mother more than you love Me, you are not worthy of Me; or if you love your son or daughter more than Me, you are not worthy of Me. If you refuse to take up your cross and follow Me, you are not worthy of Me. If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for Me, you will find it.
John 14:23-24 ---- If any (Believer) loves Me, they will keep My word; and My Father will love them, and We will come to them and make Our abode with them. He or she who does not love Me does not keep My words;
Shepherds, start teaching your sheep what they NEED to hear! Quit 'avoiding' teaching the 'tough love' words of Scriptures because you're 'afraid' you'll offend the sheep! Show the sheep that you truly love them MORE than your career, your family members, and your church and/or denominational 'buddies' BY SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE!
Speaking the Truth in love is a 'tough' love! That concept is actually effectual...IF it's done biblically! And just for the record...'tough' biblical love is very seldom expressed thru kissy-huggy, soft and gentle words! Oh, there is a place for 'soft and fluffy' words....IF you're a 'baby' Believer! However, if you're 5, 10, 20 years in the Lord and still 'whine' or 'pout' when you hear 'hard-hitting' biblical Truths being used...I would encourage you 'spit out' the 'nookie' and grow up because I promise you, that 'thin-skinned' baby-like behavior, will NOT go over well at the Judgment Seat of Christ! I believe that because so many of today's Believers are 'loving the world' more than they're loving and living the Truths of Scriptures...the last thing God's people need is more spiritual pampering!
Many in the Church of the Living God just don't get it! They just don't see the urgency of learning, then obeying, and then defending the Truths of Scriptures that the Lord has established for His Church! And there are many Truths in the Bible that are applicable for today's Church Age! Sadly, biblical ignorance has 'allowed' many biblical untruths to 'grow roots' in the Church these days. Today's born-again churches are rampant with unbiblical teachings being 'passed off' as 'words from the Lord! Church people can pretty much 'spew out' any belief they want to...just so long as they profess it to be 'from the Lord'...or a 'word from the Spirit'!
Brethren, the one thing that's supposed to 'separate' the (true) Church of the Living God from all other religions in this world IS TRUTH! And yet, even those all these people professing to be indwelt with the Holy Spirit...doctrinal chaos runs rampant in today's churches! There's very little unity (in the Church) around doctrinal Truths! And yet there should be. After all, a doctrinal Truth does not come with multiple choice options! Brethren, there's a 'spiritual war' going on (big time) right in the Church of the Living God! And as I see it...Satan is having an easy time getting God's own people (a people who in large numbers are biblically ignorant of God's Truths), to come up with all kinds of crazy and silly unbiblical teachings...and then passing them off as biblical Truth!
Here's some 'tough love' Truths!
1. Yeshua Christ tells us that lukewarm, apathetic, worldly-loving Believers make God so 'sick' (to His stomach) that He wants to vomit!
2. Christ also told His Followers that IF any of you love 'stuff' outside of Scriptures (like family, friends, jobs, even your own life) more than the Truths of Scriptures...you're not 'worthy' to call yourself a Believer!
3. Yeshua Christ also told His Followers (i.e. Believers) that if you're ashamed of Me and My Words...I WILL be ashamed of you in the next life!
4. Yeshua Christ told us that IF we're being faithful...the world is going to hate you! (So, how many people 'hate you' because of your stand on biblical Truths? How many of you're unsaved family and friends 'despise' you because you're always 'talking Scriptures' with them?
How many in the Church 'avoid' you because they too don't want to have to listen to all your "Bible talk'? You know, the Jewish people 'loved' Christ when He fed and healed them. But most 'turned on Him' (like a rabid dog) when He started teaching them the Truth!
Tough love is good IF it's received! Tough love (if received) will move us out of our spiritually lazy, 'comfort zone'...and 'move us' to get serious about our faith and get 'busy' doing the Father's 'business.' Brethren...it's IMPOSSIBLE to worship the Lord without spirit and truth!
I've been a serious-minded (that means that I'm in my right mind) Bible DOER...and not just a Bible 'talker' for over 40 years! I have been striving to walk with the Lord (according to His Word) (not perfectly but persistently) for all those 40-plus years. I find it numb-minding to see (i.e. talk to or listen to) so many of God's people not really interested in knowing (i.e. receiving) the Truths of Scriptures! It's shocking to see so many Believers diligently (but blindly) adhere to (and push and promote) teachings that are just not biblically true. And what's doubly shocking, is that time after time, I find that most of these biblically 'drifting' Believers aren't even interested in accepting biblical Truths when they are shared with them!
This series topic is primarily about the sins which so easily entangle God's people. And what I just shared (about many of God's people being unteachable and unbiblical (in their walk) is a way for a Believer to be entangled in sin...and not really see it!
Brethren, it's not just a sin to ignore God's biblical Truths for the Church Age. It's just as much a sin to teach and profess things to be 'of the Lord' when they're not, regardless if you're sincere or not!
For the most part, the people in the Church of the Living God are a biblical 'mess'! Most of God's children don't know anything beyond maybe a 2nd or 3rd grade spiritual level! And many of those Believers who say that they're zealous for the things of the Lord...are 'far' from the Lord because they live their spiritual lives thru their feelings and/or their fleshly minds.
It one thing to know (and accept) that you're a child of God who easily get entangles in sin. But it's a much more 'difficult' thing to be entangled in sin...and not even see it! I would love to spend just one day with the Believer who (foolishly) thinks that they 'got' 'victory' over their sinful flesh when they got born-again!
Brother Bob, a sinner saved by grace!
The sin which so easily entangles us! It's not really complicated stuff to understand...IF you're paying attention (as you listen to my podcasts)...and are following along in your Bibles! And as I say quite often...IF you truly desire to learn the Truths of Scriptures...you need to 'shut off' your 'emotion button' and listen to what I share on these podcasts using your God created mind.
I believe that the SIN WORD is NOT used often enough in the Churches these days. I also believe that those 'little sins' (like gluttony, gossip, favoritism and grumbling, etc., are very often ignored when teachers speak about the 'big sins' (like adultery, drunkenness and homosexuality.)
I believe that some seriously bad Judgment Seat of Christ consequences are going to happen to those Believers who didn't even trying to get serious (in their earthly life) about studying, learning and then obeying God's commandments for the Church Age! (Which IS a sin by the way!)
Brethren, we already have enough of our own inner, personal sin struggles to deal with. Don't compound that sin problem in your life by choosing to ignore God's teachings, instructions and commandments! (Which is also a sin!) And just so you're aware of it...ALL sins are crimes against God! So, next time you start to get a 'big spiritual head' thinking that you're not doing too bad spiritually (because you're not committing adultery or murder)...just remember the Good Lord 'took Ananias and Sapphira home' simply for lying!
I know that there are many Believers in the Church who get discouraged by how easily they give into sin. Well, I'm here to tell you to that's a 'normal' part of this earthly life! (And anyone who tells you any differently IS a liar!) Contrary to what many of you are foolishly taught...there is NO mystical, supernatural 'movement of the Holy Spirit' (this side of heaven), that's going to 'deliver' ANY Believer from their fleshly sin struggles! As the Bible says, we were conceived in sin...and this earthly body will have to live with that sin nature until we get to heaven, where we'll get a new, sinless (Yay!), glorified body!
It must break God's heart to see so many Believers (who have been misled) foolishly going up to some church-invented 'Altar call' (some for years on end), because they have been taught that God will 'remove' their sin struggles...IF they have enough faith...or IF they get this imaginary, man-made concept of a second or third or fourth 'baptism of the Spirit'...or IF they would speak in a tongue! I promise you that the Judgment Seat of Christ will NOT go well for all you shepherds who push these unbiblical, emotionally-driven doctrines on your sheep!
Brethren, part of our spiritual journey (with Christ) involves us having to spend our lifetime not only dealing with the wicked ways of this world...but with the wicked ways of our flesh! But what should be encouraging to us all is the fact that our Heavenly Father knows quite well that His children ARE sinners...and WILL sin...until He calls us home! With that said though...He still expects His children to strive (in spite of our rotten sin nature...and in spite of the wicked temptations of this world) to walk in a manner which pleases Him! So praise God that we have a High Priest who can 'relate' to our sin struggles! Praise God we have a savior who will NOT mock or reject us when we stumble in sin! And praise God, that so long as we DON'T unrepentantly WALLOW IN our sin(s)...we can humbly and repentantly approach the Throne of Grace (over and over and over again), where our crimson red sins will be washed as white as snow!
I'm going to do a podcast series built around Hebrews 12.1 ----Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us... As I primarily focus on the words, "the encumbrances and sins which so easily entangle us."
I know that there are many Believers in (especially in) the Pentecostal-like, emotionally-led, signs and wonders seeking churches that really struggle with the fact that they are continuing struggling with...or constantly and/or easily 'giving into' their sin thoughts and actions! If you're one of those Believers who is discouraged and perplexed by how easily you allow sin to cause you to stumble...this podcast series will be both an encouragement and enlightening for you! If you listen to this podcast series...you will be blessed to realize that ALL of God's blood-bought, born-again children (who are honest with you)...go thru the same sin struggles that you go thru!
I promise you Brethren that IF you listen to the biblical Truths that I share in ALL my podcasts...the Truth will make you free! And in the case of this podcast series, the Truths of Scriptures will 'free you' from the unbiblical (and idiotic) concepts that making 'altar calls' or getting a second or third or fourth, etc. 'baptism of the Spirit' will some how 'deliver' you from Truths of Scriptures which say...THE SINS WHICH EASILY ENTANGLE US!
All that really matters to me is that the Good Lord knows that I tried! I tried over and over and over again to get God's people to 'see' the importance of knowing God's kingdom teachings for His Church. And like the Apostle Paul my 'hands are clean'. I have not shied away from trying to give God's people the Truths of Scriptures...so help me God. One would think, especially in light of their eternal significance, that biblically understanding the basics of how the Lord's Heavenly, Millennial and New Earth Kingdoms will be operate and function would be common knowledge for God's Spirit indwelt people...AND YET...very few in the Church understand that! Now, that's NOT surprising to me, because after spending 40 plus years with God's people (from all over this country and this world)...I find very few Believers who know much more than the basic Truths of the Bible.
Now, I was encouraged to see that over 1500 people 'tapped into' my podcasts on "How the Kingdom teachings of God relate to Church age Believers!" So, that was encouraging!
Yeshua Christ believed God's New Testament Kingdom teachings were SO IMPORTANT (for the future Church Believers) that He spent His last (40) days on earth 'hammering home' these teachings with His Apostles!
Acts 1:3b ---- Yeshua appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.
Brethren, we get ONE 'earthly' lifetime to get the Truths of Scriptures figured out. So we best get it right. Or at least a lot of it right! There is NO WAY that Yeshua Christ is going to give any Believer (who didn't study for the (judgment) 'test') a passing grade! Yeshua Christ said that MANY (will call out to Him...expecting to hear good news) (at the Judgment Seat of Christ...only to hear..."Get away from ME all you children of God who did NOT obey the Truths of Scriptures"!
It's 'easy' to become an eternally saved, blood-bought, born-again child of God! It's SO EASY that it's FREE EASY! On the other hand...being seen by the Lord as being a FAITHFUL Believer (at the Judgment Seat of Christ) takes diligence (to find the Truth)...dedication (to obey the Truths) and persistence (to not grow weary of doing good!)
Acts 14:21-22 ---- After preaching the Good News in Derbe and making many disciples, Paul and Barnabas returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch of Pisidia, where they strengthened the Believers. They encouraged them to continue in the faith, reminding them that we must suffer many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God. (Nothing 'free' or 'easy' about this journey Brethren!)
It's sad that so many in the Churches of the Living God are more interested in 'chasing after' signs and wonders...than they are about 'chasing after' God's biblical Truths for His Church! And what's doubly sad is that even when Believers DO get the opportunity to 'find' biblical Truth...like in these podcasts...they ignore God's Truths like a plague! They would rather please their family members, church buddies or denominational friends...than admit that their (past) beliefs were wrong!
Listen to me Brethren. I know that many of you think I'm being arrogant or prideful (when I say the things I say.) Well, from your side of the emotional spiritual fence, that's what it does look like. However, IF you were on my side of the spiritual fence you would consider me fearless and faithful! It's very simple to 'show' numerous ways that many of God's shepherds have become biblically dull! But here's a real obvious way! I look out my window and see very few Shepherds who have the spiritual discernment...and/or spiritual 'stones'...to tell Christian parents that it's a SIN to have their children bound together with (i.e. yoked together with) today's anti-God, wickedly immoral, hedonistic government 'schools'! (I use the term 'school' very loosely!) It's definitely NOT pleasing the Lord to have those sweet, innocent children being abused and used and eventual spiritually 'destroyed' in the "enemies camp!' The Bible says woe unto anyone (which includes you spineless shepherds and worldly Christian parents) who 'cause' these little ones to stumble! And any Believer who's personally involved with causing these little ones to stumble will have a very difficult time at the Judgment Seat of Christ! If you need a little more of the 'fear of the Lord' in what I'm talking about...Yeshua Christ warned that if you're one of those people involved causing these little ones to stumble...it would be better that you were dead and thrown into the sea then face Me at the Judgment Seat!
Brethren, I really encourage you to listen to these podcasts about how God's Kingdoms teachings relate to Church Believers. If you truly desire to hear; "Well done, good and faithful servant" at the judgment seat...you must be doing those biblical things that the Lord asks His children to do. And STOP doing those things that seems right in your own eyes! Have a faith based on what you know the Truths of Scriptures to be. STOP believing what you're told to believe, and start thinking for yourself!
Matthew 5:19 ---- Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of God's commandments and teaches others to also set aside even the least of My commandments...they will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches even the least of My commandments will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Sadly, most of today's Believers don't even know that there are numerous New Testament Kingdom of God teachings written specifically for the born-again Church Believers! Most of God's born-again people don't know that the Bible has 'hidden in plain sight' Kingdom reward teachings and instructions for today's Church Believers! And doubly sad is the fact that most of God's born-again, blood-bought, eternally saved children foolishly believe that ALL of God's children are going to receive 'equal slices' of God's 'Kingdom pie in the sky'! Brethren, I do these podcasts for numerous reasons. One of the main reasons is to try to "wake up' the Believers who are spiritually 'asleep behind the wheel'... 'driving thru life' simply following the person in front of them!
Yeshua Christ wrote these words to God's blood-bought, eternally saved (from hell) people: Matthew 7:21-23 --- “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. On (the) judgment day (of Christ is implied) many (Believers) will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’ But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’ (Italicized words were added)
Now I know that biblically ignorant Believers are going to say that Yeshua Christ NEVER KNEW these people...so they MUST BE unsaved. Brethren...you need to be smarter than this. The word (never) KNEW (in the Greek) means to never know intimately...like the Believers carnal, lukewarm Believers at the "Bible" Church in Laodicea! Revelation 3:15-17, 21 ---- “I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth! .... “Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.
I know that many of you are NEVER going to accept that Yeshua Christ is speaking TO and ABOUT unfaithful (to God's written Word) Believers! Just remember...the Judgment Seat of Christ IS a rewards judgment...and NOT a salvation judgment!
Luke 13:23-24 --- Yeshua Christ replied, “Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many will try to enter but will fail.
Brethren, NO ONE 'works hard' to get born-again or get saved! Christ did ALL the 'hard work' needed for salvation to happen. Eternal salvation IS a 100% totally FREE GIFT from the Lord that comes thru faith in Christ...and NOT from faith PLUS hard works! So obviously, Yeshua Christ is speaking about something different than salvation! He is speaking about what it takes to step into eternity...and hear, "Well done good and faithful servant...enter the Kingdom that My Father has prepared for His faithful children!
Acts 14:21-22 ---- After preaching the Good News in Derbe and making many disciples, Paul and Barnabas returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch of Pisidia, where they strengthened the Believers. They encouraged them to continue in the faith, reminding them that Believer must suffer many hardships IF THEY DESIRE TO enter the Kingdom of God.
Many of God's people just don't get it! Most Believers just don't see the biblical kingdom 'connection' that clearly shows that how they live their Christian lives in this live...will absolutely determine how they will live their lives in eternity! The Judgment Seat of Christ will be a serious (bad serious) time for many of God's people! And that's because so many of God's people are living their spiritual lives in a spiritual LA-LA-Land thinking that it's not as important to KNOW and OBEY the Truths of Scriptures...as it is to KNOW God! Do you understand how moronic that statement is? How on God's green earth are you going to 'know God' IF you don't know WHO and WHAT and WHY God is? It's absolutely ridiculous to think that you can please the Father...without knowing the Father's biblical Truths! How are you going to know IF you even are 'listening' to the God of the Bible IF you don't know your Scriptures?
I promise you, with every ounce of biblical faith that I have...that the Judgment Seat of
Christ will not go well for all those children of God who deemed it was more important to obey their denominational doctrines...or...do what seemed right in their own eyes (regardless of how sincere they were)...then it was to KNOW and then OBEY the Truths of Scriptures that the Lord has established for His Church! I can't emphasize this next thought enough! The more faithful you are to the Truths of Scriptures...the better your kingdom life will be! Those who the Lord deems faithful (at the Judgment Seat of Christ) will be seen as being faithful because of their faithfulness to the Truths of Scriptures. Our Heavenly Father knows that His children are not going to live perfectly righteous lives! However...He IS expecting His children to choose to strive to live victorious, overcoming lives! Brethren...our biggest 'enemy' today is our flesh! And if we can stand in the presence of Yeshua Christ believing that we sincerely and genuinely have 'fought the good fight'...'finished the course'...and 'kept the faith'...we will hear well done good and faithful servant at the Judgment Seat of Christ...and as the Apostle Peter said, IF Believers WALK the TALK....then God will give them a grand entrance into His eternal kingdoms!
Acts 14:21-22 ---- After preaching the Good News in Derbe and making many disciples, Paul and Barnabas returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch of Pisidia, where they strengthened the Believers. They encouraged them to continue in the faith, reminding them that we must suffer many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God.
Simply BEING born-again...or even being 'church busy' is NOT going to get you a "Well done good and faithful servant" when you face your savior in eternity!
Sadly, many in the Church of the Living God foolishly believe that everyone who ever truly got born-again (i.e. eternally saved from hell by faith in Yeshua Christ) are ALL going to receive the 'equal shares' of whatever eternal kingdom rewards, blessings and honors the Lord has waiting for His children...simply because they are His children! If you believe that...you have been lied to! The Good Lord has ALWAYS been about rewarding and blessing those children of His who He deems faithful. And being found faithful...means to be found faithful according to the Truths of Scriptures!
Listen to me carefully! God's eternally saved, blood-bought, born-again children are NOT going to be found faithful (at the Judgment Seat of Christ) simply because they eternally saved! I will expound on this in future podcasts. But for now you need to realize that there will be eternally saved, born-again Believers (who meant well...and who were sincere) who will NOT hear well done good and faithful servant at their judgment because they were NOT faithful in DOING as the Bible commands!
Matthew 7:21-23 ---- “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’ But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’
These are Believers that Yeshua Christ is speaking of! These are NOT 'wanna-be' Believers! Or 'pretend' Believers! These were true, blood-bought, born-again, eternally saved children of God who were 'doing' "STUFF" that God had NOT commanded them to do! (Like today's signs and wonders seeking Believers) When Yeshua Christ says He NEVER KNEW them the word KNEW there means to PERCEIVE or RECOGNIZE. So in other words...Yeshua Christ will NOT perceive or recognize these Believers are being faithful...because they did NOT walk (faithfully) according to the teachings or instructions for Church Age Believers! Remember, these people (i.e. Believers) are at the Judgment Seat of Christ! And that judgment is a rewards judgment...NOT a salvation judgment!
So, WHAT are the eternal consequences for these disobedient Believers? Loss of kingdom rewards and blessings! Just as it will be for ANY blood-bought, born-again eternally saved child of God who chooses to live their earthly life for the passing pleasures of sin!
Ephesians 5:1-5 ---- Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God. Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you Believers. Such sins have no place among God’s people. Obscene stories, foolish talk, and coarse jokes—these are not for you. Instead, let there be thankfulness to God. You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person (i.e. Believer) will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world.
It would be REDUNDANT (and stupid) for the Apostle Paul to be WARNING Believers what is going to happen to UNBELIEVERS IF they sin! Paul is speaking TO Believers. And WHAT he is sharing is FOR Believers! And 'not inheriting the kingdom' is NOT speaking of losing one's eternal salvation...but rather losing one's kingdom rewards, blessing and honors in the next life!
I've been a serious minded Bible believer (and studier) for over 40 years! I might not be the sharpest spiritual tool in the shed...but I'm far from the dullest! Over the past 40 years I have LEARNED much about the Truths of Scriptures. And I know that I have LEARNED many Truths of Scriptures because the Lord 'saw' my desire to know them. Now, I purposely emphasized the words LEARNED because that IS an essential part of having the Lord REVEAL His Truths to someone. Brethren...contrary to what most emotionally and experiential driven Believers teach you...the Truths of Scriptures are NOT supernaturally revealed to a Believer simply because they have the Holy Spirit residing in them! (Or because they make an 'altar call' and get a (supposed) second or third, etc. Holy Spirit 'zapping'!) I promise you that IF you genuinely seek to LEARN the Truths of Scriptures...and then IF you diligently begin to look for God's Truths (as you seriously study and ponder and meditate on the things of God's written Word)...using your God-Created brain...the Holy Spirit will be right there 'with you'...enlightening and guiding you thru the Truth Treasures of Scriptures!
Proverbs 2:1-6 --- My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding —indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding...
The Scriptures put the onus of KNOWING (i.e. reading, studying and learning) the Truths of Scriptures on the Believer. You won't find one spot in the Bible where the Holy Spirit gets 'blamed' for the biblical ignorance, or false teachings of a Believer! If the Good Lord didn't think it was possible for a child of His to 'grow in' (the knowledge of) the Truths of Scriptures (using their God-created brain and their knowledge of various truths (i.e. biblical Truths, historical truths, archeological truths, grammatical truths, etc. etc.)...there's NO WAY He would REBUKE them when they don't get it right!!
Hebrews 5:11-14 ---- We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish that which is good from that which is wrong.
Matthew 24:3-5 --- As Yeshua was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” And Yeshua answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ (or I am the way) and will mislead many.
That leaves me out because MOST (i.e. many) in the Church of the Living God refuse to listen to what I have to say! I promise you...today's Mega-churches are loaded with false teachers! Yeshua Christ said there will be MANY false teachers...and the result will be that MANY will be misled! His words not mine!
It's sad to hear so many Spirit indwelt Believers being so biblically ignorant about even some of the basic Truths of God's written Word. Any true born-again Believer who has even a 'decent' understanding of the sound doctrines of God's written Word (for His Church) sees for themselves that there is a lot un (Bible) smart, un (Bible) wise Believers out there in Christendom. I'm not saying that to boast! It's an obvious fact. Now, the Lord knows that I know that I am far from being the 'sharpest spiritual tool in the (Bible) shed'! AND YET, even at my spiritual 'level'...I am biblically 'sharp enough' to know many of the Truths of God's written Word.
I see and hear the near total lack of biblical discernment whenever I talk directly to, or listen to Bible teachers. Oh, there is a Remnant out there who get it! However, they are far and few between! Many Believers in the Church of the Living God just don't know how to use their brains to figure out the Truths of God's written Word. And sadly...IF it wasn't for the 'minced up, pureed' spiritual baby food that these baby Believers get 'fed' (with a baby bottle) on Sunday mornings...the Believers would be 'dropping like flies' from total spiritual starvation!
I was going to title this two part podcast...IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN...but I knew the 'snowflake' Believers would 'freak out' and accuse me of being mean-spirited! Okay! Okay! Okay! I get it! That's why I didn't do that! Brethren, a vast majority of God's people are no longer using their God-created brains to search out the Truths of God's written Word. These emotionally driven Believers would rather 'experience' God than know God! These emotionally driven Believers would more quickly 'accept' some strange spiritual words that they got in a weird dream (most likely from eating food to late at night)...then obey the obvious biblical Truths in God's written Word! These emotionally led Believers are happy being told WHAT to believe...and NOT HOW to study and learn the Truths of Scriptures so that they can believe a Truth for themselves! The Church is in a biblical mess! Most Believers are content with 'sensing' the 'presence of God'...rather than learning exactly what the will of God is for their life thru the studying and learning of His written Word for the Church.
Hebrews 5:11-14 --- We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you Believers because you no longer try to understand. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s Word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
Brethren, you need to 'toss' the spiritual 'nookies' and get into the 'meat and potatoes' of your Heavenly Father's Word. Tough times are a comin' for the sincere and faithful Believers! And I promise you that you don't want to step into eternity (and face your savior at the Judgment Seat) with a spiritual 'nookie' in your mouth!
Brethren, I hear from some (not many but some) disgruntled Believers who simply refuse to accept the Truths of Scriptures that I share with them! And that's too bad! These spiritual 'whiners' are losing out on the opportunity to learn biblical Truths that very few will teach them! Oh well...you've heard the idiom...you can take a horse to the water but you can't make him drink!
So, what I have decided to do in this podcast is to share some of the simple and deeper Truths of Scriptures that the Lord has revealed to me over the years. It's a pretty big list! So, here I go! I'll you show mine...and then you can show me yours! P.S. I received ALL this information from the Spirit of the Living God...and I only received ONE indwelling of the Spirit in my life. And that happened when I got born-again 40 plus years ago! You see, I choose to allow the Holy Spirit to control (i.e. fill) my life! (Well, most of the time! I am a sinner!) He's not a spiritual 'enforcer'! He's not a doer! He's a helper!
This is my follow-up podcast explaining how a Believer's positional and progressive sanctification processes work. Again, you're not going to find the words positional and progressive in the Bible. (You won't also find the words TRINITY or BIBLE in the Bible!) But those two words...just like the two sanctification processes for Believers are clearly implied in God's written Word.
Brethren, I don't share these podcasts 'hoping' to give God's people another 'option' on what I believe biblical Truth to be. I share what I believe to be the Truths of God's written Word in my podcasts! I don't share my opinions! My opinions mean nothing to the Lord! My Heavenly Father wants me to share the TRUTHS of Scriptures! And NOT those things I HOPE or WISH or THINK are His Truths!
I'll have more on WHY I know I'm teaching you the Truths of God (when I say they are) in my next podcast!
2 Timothy 2:2 ---- Now teach these Truths to other trustworthy people who will be able to pass them on to others.
I'm trying to reach the Remnant Believer who loves the Lord AND the Truths of His written Word more than family, friends and even life itself!
Hello Brethren! This will be part one of a two part podcast explaining the differences between a Believer's POSITIONAL sanctification...and their PROGRESSIVE sanctification! Understanding the differences is important...IF you care about biblical Truth! Way to many Believers live in a type of spiritual LA-LA Land...naively believing that their next life is going to be everything and anything that they could imagine...simply because the were born-again (at some time in their earthly life!) Way to many Believers foolishly believe that because they have the title...CHILD OF GOD...life can't be anything but wonderful in eternity! Well, I'm here to tell you...that IF you believe that...someone deceived you...or you deceived yourself! Brethren, the Good Lord's NOT simply looking to 'adding' more children to the Family. He desires to have faithful, dedicated, obedient, diligent, Truth-loving children added to His Family! So, If you are one of those Believers who foolishly believe that everything is 'good' between you and your Heavenly Father...simply because you got born-again or 'saved' (sometime in the past)...'buckle up'! These podcasts are going to be biblically 'bumpy'!
Does truth matter to you? Or, are you content with what seems right? You are aware that a 1/2 truth plus a 1/2 truth does NOT make for a truth aren't you? As a Believer of Yeshua Christ are you more concerned about obeying His Truths...or your own truths? Do you seek and search for God's Truths? Or, do you avoid seeking and searching for God's Truths knowing that IF you know them you will have to change?
Brethren, the ONLY WAY to keep yourself from getting caught up in your 'feelings' about WHAT God's Truths are, is to TURN OFF your inner emotion button (when you read and study God's written Word)...and PUT ON your biblical thinking cap and use your God created BRAIN to seriously and diligently SEARCH (God's written Word) for God's Truths as you would for a lost smart-phone or lost car keys or a lost child! You need not be concerned about asking the Holy Spirit to enlighten and /or guide you as you're sincerely and diligently seeking God's Truths...because He's already there! He sees your seeking heart and mind! And He's eager to get you started on your biblical journeys, as you and Him 'discover' the Truths of God's written Word!
Jeremiah 33:3 ---- ‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
Brethren, truth is not something that we inherit! And knowing truth is not something that we 'catch' like the flu or a cold. In order to learn truth, we must seek for it. And not only 'seek' for it...but know it to be real truth when we 'discover' it. The Lord knows that His Church is loaded with His people sharing and teaching stuff that they believe are biblical Truths...when they're not! Unfortunately, only those children of His who truly know Him and His Scriptures well will notice this deception going on!
Acts 20:25-31 ---- “And now I know that none of you to whom I have preached the Kingdom will ever see me again. I declare today that I have been faithful. If anyone suffers eternal death, it’s not my fault, for I didn’t shrink from declaring all that God wants you to know. “So guard yourselves and God’s people. Feed and shepherd God’s flock—his church, purchased with his own blood—over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as leaders. I know that false teachers, like vicious wolves, will come in among you after I leave, not sparing the flock. Even some men from your own group will rise up and distort the truth in order to draw a following. So keep alert!
2 Peter 2:1-3 --- But there were also false prophets in Israel, just as there will be false teachers among you Believers. These false teachers will cleverly teach destructive heresies and even deny the Master who bought them. In this way, they will bring sudden destruction on themselves. Many will follow their evil teaching and shameful immorality. And because of these false teachers, the way of truth will be slandered. In their greed they will make up clever lies to get hold of your money.
DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH BIBLICAL AND INTELLECTUAL DISCERNMENT TO KNOW and UNDERSTAND THAT GOD'S TRUTHS CAN BECOME UNTRUTHS?
Now, did that QUESTION SOUND BLASPHEMUS to you...OR...did you immediately respond to that QUESTION by thinking to yourself...DUH! NO KIDDING Brother Bob!
Now, after being around born-again Believers for over 40 years…I KNOW that MOST Believers in the Church today would need to have THE ANSWER to the question that I asked EXPLAINED to them.
And that’s okay! Not all of God’s people were created with analytical minds. This is WHY the Lord established ‘gifted’ teachers in the Church!
However….there are also QUITE A FEW Believers who would need to have THE ANSWER to my question explained to them…OVER and OVER and OVER again…and they still wouldn’t “get it.”
And that’s because understanding Truth…including God’s Truths…is NOT that ‘cut and dry’! And what complicates the task of getting many of God’s people to understand biblical Truths is that a LOT OF Believers use their HEART instead of their HEAD for determining Truth!
Brethren, we can’t all right! Just as we can’t ALL be wrong! (IF we’re ALL wrong…then the Holy Spirit has definitely ‘left town’! Some of us have a lot of the Truths of Scriptures ‘figured out’! (And that was the result of a Believer diligently seeking to learn God’s Truths…which in turn results in the Holy Spirit enlightening us!) But sadly, in this day and age where Believers accept a ‘Truth’ or ‘Truths’ because of what the ‘majority say’, MANY of God’s people are being led astray!
Matthew 24:3-5, 11, 23-24, --- Yeshua Christ was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” And Yeshua answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many……Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many…..IF anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe him. 24 For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
This podcast is a 'gentle' rebuke for all you Believers who sincerely believe that there were 120 Believers all 'huddled' together on the Day of Pentecost (in Acts 2.1). Listen, the Truths of God's written Word are right there for ALL to read and learn. (Sadly, after 40 years of being a Believer I see unsaved people who have with a better understanding of many of the Truths of Scriptures than God's own people do!) Unfortunately, a LOT of Believers...like Lemmings headed for the cliff...simply believe what they believe because someone told them to believe it! Isn't that sad? And what's 'doubly sad' its that these same biblically ignorant Believers will zealously 'hang on to' a doctrine that's not biblical...and 'shun' the real Truth of Scriptures when it comes their way.
2 Timothy 4:1-4 --- I solemnly urge you Timothy, in the presence of God and Yeshua Christ, who will someday judge the living and the dead when he comes to set up his Kingdom: Preach the word of God. Be prepared, whether the time is favorable or not. Patiently correct, rebuke, and encourage your people with good teaching.
For a time is coming when (God's) people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject the truth and chase after myths. (par added)
Brethren, this written TO and FOR Believers. And HOW do I know that? I know that because Yeshua Christ is the judge at the Judgment Seat of Christ. and the Judgment Seat of Christ is a reward judgment...and NOT a salvation judgment!
Here's another example of a Believer judgment.
John 5:25-29 ---- And I assure you that the time is coming, indeed it’s here now, when the dead will hear my voice—the voice of the Son of God. And those who listen will live. The Father has life in himself, and he has granted that same life-giving power to his Son. And he has given him authority to judge everyone because he is the Son of Man. Don’t be so surprised! Indeed, the time is coming when all the dead in their graves will hear the voice of God’s Son, and they will rise again. Those who have done good will rise to experience eternal life, and those who have continued in evil will rise to experience judgment.
And HOW do I know this is a Believer judgment? Well, NO ONE, absolutely NO ONE experiences or receives eternal salvation for being good! This is a reward judgment! The faithful Believer hears, WELL DONE GOOD and FAITHFUL servant...while the worldly, lukewarm, disobedient (to God's written Word) hears...Get them away from ME, they were wicked lazy slaves!
Brethren, you don't have to be a Bible Scholar to 'figure out' that the sign gifts of the Holy Spirit have ended. If you would 'take off' your 'denominational blinders' and simply 'look out' your church window it would be obvious that those amazing signs and wonders gifts...that the Lord was using as the Church was being 'formed'...are over! A Believer does NOT even have to know the correct Greek meanings of the words...(when) the perfect comes...to verify that God had chosen to stop doing those Holy Spirit signs and wonders gifts. Common sense alone should 'reveal' that to you! And yet, emotionally deceived Believers desperately 'hang on to' their 'signs and wonders' dreams even though those super-amazing 'raising people from the dead' or 'getting brand new revelation from the Lord signs and wonders gifts are nowhere to be found! Come on man! God's people need to be smarter and wiser than this!
In this podcast I am going to have some fun sharing an ad-libbed version of the story of Noah. Cumulating with an emphasis on the importance of God's people being dedicated to 'rescuing' LOST people who are 'drowning' in their sins So enjoy! P.S. Don't forget to go online and look up the story of Frank Jenner. Sadly, a lot of God's people won't go there because Frank's amazing but simple Bible tract evangelism ministry (that changed the lives of thousands of Unbelievers) goes against the narrative of those over-spiritual, experiential Believers who refuse to accept the fact that a Believer (can choose to simply hand out Bible tracts) and 'lead' someone to salvation!!!
Imperatives! A 'fancy' word for commands from the Lord. And there are hundreds of those imperatives in the New Testament Scriptures that our Heavenly Father expects us to obey! Sad thing is...many in the Church just don't see the need...or worse yet, choose not to obey many of God's imperatives because they just don't seem that important to them! Listen Brethren, Yeshua Christ was quite clear when He said, "Anyone who chooses NOT TO obey My commandments, doesn't really love Me." Now, I wonder IF you're aware that ALL those New Testament Church Epistle commandments (i.e. imperatives) ARE God's commands for Church people? It wasn't just the commandments that Yahweh gave Moses which were God's commandments! And it wasn't just the words that Christ spoke during His ministry days that were commandments of the Lord! Saints, IF you want to hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant", then you're going to have to make up your mind to try to obey ALL those New Testament imperatives that God has 'passed down' to His Church people...regardless of how you feel about it!
I believe that way too many of God's people have 'biblical' convictions based on what feels or seems right...instead of on knowing what the Bible teaches! Brethren, quit letting people tell you WHAT to think...instead of HOW to think (for yourself!) Brethren, quit seeking after 'ear tickler' shepherds! And repent of your desire to be a 'pampered' child of God. Get off 'mommy's milk' (of the Word), and start digging into the 'meat and potatoes' (of the Word.) At the Judgment Seat of Christ you are going to be held accountable for what you know or don't know about the Truths of Scriptures!!!
Christian ladies, this podcast is simply a little reminder of how your Heavenly Father desires you to live your Christian lives. He knows that there is a lot of pressure put on you to accept today's, "I am woman hear me roar" philosophy. However, quiet and gentle, and "I am woman here me roar" are oxymoronic! I am quite aware that many of you Christian women (for whatever reasons) are married to real spiritual slugs! Well God knows that too. However, that does not change what your ministry is. Ladies, you have to decide. Are you going to 'cave' to the pressures of this world's women philosophies...OR...are you going to DO as your Heavenly Father asks?
1 Peter 3:1-5 --- In the same way, you wives must accept the authority of your husbands. Then, even if some refuse to obey the Good News of God, your godly lives will speak to them without any words. They will be won over by observing your pure and reverent lives. Don’t (just) be concerned about the outward beauty of fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes. You should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God. This is how the holy women of old made themselves beautiful. They put their trust in God and accepted the authority of their husbands.
It's obvious to the faithful Believers that the world around us is getting more and more wicked and immoral. It's also obvious to the faithful Believers that many of God's people have wandered away from those sound doctrines and commandments that the Lord has given to His Church! And sadly, though both of these scenarios are bad...what's happening out there in the world...and in the Church...are exactly what Yeshua Christ said would happen in the End Times! I share this podcast for the 'soul' purpose of encouraging the Remnant Believers to NOT grow weary of doing; keep saying those biblically righteous things that the world...and even the Church...don't want to hear! I share this podcast to enlighten and encourage the faithful Believers with the fact that our Heavenly Father is not caught 'off guard' by the wicked and immoral things going on in the world. Nor by the falling away of His Church! Brethren, it was NOT God's plan and purpose that this world become so evil and immoral! Just as it was NOT God's plan and purpose for so many in His Church to fall away from the true faith of the Scriptures! And even though the Lord takes no pleasure in the death of wicked or unrighteous people...He will only tolerate unrepentant sinful behaviors (in the Church or out of the Church) just so long, and then He WILL bring the spiritual hammer of judgment down! I believe that we're very near that time of world-wide judgment! So Brethren, even though the world...and many in the Church aren't listening...stay true to God's Truths! Don't grow weary of doing and saying those things that please our Father! It won't be long before God's JUSTICE, RIGHTEOUSNESS and HOLINESS are once again established on planet earth. And when that happens...God's ways will be the Law of the land! In the meantime...please, please, please don't grow weary of doing good!!!
2 Timothy 4:3-4 --- For a time is coming when Believers will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject the truth and chase after myths.
Matthew 24 --- Later, Yeshua Christ sat on the Mount of Olives. His disciples came to him privately and said, “Tell us, when will all this happen? What sign will signal your return and the end of the world?” Yeshua told them, “Don’t let anyone mislead you, for many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah.’ They will deceive many. .....Then you will be arrested, persecuted, and killed. You will be hated all over the world because you are my followers. And many will turn away from Me and betray and hate each other. Many false prophets will appear and will deceive many people. Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved..... You also must be ready all the time, for the Son of Man will come when least expected. And I wonder when I do come IF I will find any Believers being faithful?
Brethren, only people who are truly saved can fall away from the faith! Unbelievers never had the (true) faith to fall away from in the first place! Unbelievers are already 'misled'! Unbelievers cannot turn away from Christ! These warning verses are written TO and FOR God's people!
Brethren, the Churches are full of faithful people, faithfully teaching and faithfully doing church stuff. Problem is...there are very few faithful Believers in those Churches who are faithfully teaching and doing what the Bible commands God's people to teach and do! Oh, there are some shepherds out there who randomly cherry-pick some of God's biblical Truths. However, by far, most of God's commandments and teachings for His Church people are either faithfully ignored...or faithfully they're glossed over and excused away like they're really not relevant for today! Now again, faithfulness is rampant in the Churches! However, it's not the kind of biblical faithfulness that pleases our Heavenly Father! Brethren, you really need to understand that there is NO WAY we can please our Lord with our faithfulness...IF those things we are being faithful with do not line up with Scriptures! IF you want to be seen as being faithful by our Heavenly Father...you're going to have to choose to DO the DO'S...and DON'T do the DON'TS!!!!
Sadly, the churches are loaded with Believers who not only run their entire spiritual lives thru their feelings...they also use their emotions for determining what they feel biblical Truth should be! There are a lot of sincere but foolish born-again children of God who are NOT teaching and preaching stuff because they know it to be biblical...but rather because it seems right in their own eyes! And that's a 'scary place' for a child of God to be because they're basically making themselves out to be 'wiser' and to have more authority than the Great I AM who gave us those Truths He wanted His children to obey in the first place! There are warnings in the Scriptures for those people who choose to ADD TO or TAKE WAY FROM the already established biblical Truths of Scriptures! And I pity the fool who has to look into the eyes of their holy and just Heavenly Father (in eternity), and try to explain to Him why they felt that their unbiblical ways were better than His sacred and perfect ways!!!
I believe that a lot of Believers are being duped into a false sense of spiritual peace believing that they can simply "grab" a Bible verse promise out of the Scriptures and 'apply' to their lives...regardless of how they're living their spiritual life! Brethren, biblical promises of God that are directed at His faithful children...are not promises intended for His unfaithful children! Now, it's God's desire that all His children would strive to walk in a manner which pleases Him...so that He could do for all His children as He promised. Unfortunately, many of His children are NOT doing as the Lord commands them...which in turn keeps the Lord from fulfilling His promises to them!
Brethren, it's a real simply spiritual formula! From the beginning of the Scriptures unto the end of Scriptures the Lord ALWAYS tells His people: IF you DO as I say...then I will do as I promise!!!
Just picture it! Our savior God Yeshua Christ is suffering tremendously as He was hanging on those spikes (paying for mankind's sins) and yet, in spite of all His pain and suffering...one of the thoughts of His mind at that time WAS JOY. He saw JOY realizing that even though many would reject His sacrifice...there would quite a few who would appreciate and freely and compassionately accept His payment for their sins! And in doing so, they would become a delight to the eyes of the Heavenly Father!!
This is part two of two part podcast about WHY God's children need to be sin-cleansed AFTER they get born again...and HOW they get sin-cleansed. Brethren, God-honoring Christianity involves much more than simply BEING a born-again, eternally saved, blood-bought child of God! Our Heavenly Father knows that He has 'adopted' 'corrupted' children! He knows that His children will not always obey Him! In fact, He knows that many times His children will choose to be outright rebellious...and DO the very things He tells them not to do. And yet, in spite of us...He allows a way for His disobedient children to 'make it right' with Him thru confession and repentance. Praise God that we have a savior who understands and can relate to our sin struggles! However Brethren, don't abuse God's mercy and grace because the WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH has much application today as it did in Peter and Paul's days. I know that Ananias and Sapphira believe that!
This is part one of a two part podcast on WHY Believers need to be sin-cleansed...and HOW Believers get or stay sin-cleansed. Sadly, there is much confusion in the Church about what happens to a Believer's sins when they get born again. Some say...when I got born again ALL my sins (in God's eyes) were as far as the East is from the West. (That's their way way of saying that every sin that a Believer commits AS A CHILD OF GOD is NO LONGER seen by the Lord. To which I say...I know that Ananias and Sapphira didn't believe that!) Others will say...since every sin that a NEW born-again child of God has, is or will commit (i.e. past, present and future) IS eternally forgiven when a person gets born-again...the Good Lord will never judge His children for sinning! (To which I say...I know that the carnal Corinthian Believers who were wallowing in the unrepentant sins of drunkenness and gluttony didn't believe that!)
1 Corinthians 11:20-21, 27-30 --- Therefore when some of you (Believers) meet together, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper, for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk! Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly. For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.
Brethren, If our Heavenly Father forgives ALL the SINS of His children (past, present and future) when they get born again (which He doesn't do)...then Ananias, Sapphira and those unrepentant Believers in the Corinthian Church would NOT HAVE been punished for sinning!
Brethren, contrary to what many of you are taught...the Bible does NOT teach God's people that when they get saved (i.e. born-again) they will be (if they believe it hard enough) be 'delivered' from their sinful struggles in the flesh! There is also nothing in the Scriptures teaches God's people that there is an 'easy way out' of having to dealing with their desire to sin. And there is most definitely not a teaching in the Scriptures which teaches God's people that the Lord will give them complete and utter 'victories' over their sin...IF they simply ask Him to do that! Part of our 'commission' (as Believers) is to choose to fight against (i.e. resist) our sinful flesh's desire to sin. Brethren, our Heavenly Father KNOWS that we are going to sin. He is NOT shocked or surprised when we sin. However, He still expects us to resist our sinful desires. And when we stumble or even wallow in sin (which any Believer is capable of doing)...our Heavenly Father commands that we 'deal' with our sin thru confess, repentance and the always powerful sin-cleansing power of Christ's blood!
Even at the end of a life full of spiritual victories and fleshly defeats...the Apostle Paul was able to say...I FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT....I RAN THE RACE ACCORDING TO GOD'S RULES....I FINISHED THE COURSE ...and I did all these in a manner which pleased the Lord!
I believe that way too many Believers think that 'loving on the Lord' is all about their feelings! I believe that those Believers who live their spiritual lives solely thru their emotions foolishly belief that just because they have these warm, mushy, kissy-huggy feelings for God...He (God) must have the same warm, mushy feelings for them! There are a lot of Believers who have 'deceived' themselves into thinking that they're 'right with God' because they feel good about how they feel about God. (Did you notice all the feely words?) Brethren, it's good to 'love on the Lord' with our hearts...so long as it's not only our hearts that are 'loving on Him'! When Yeshua Christ was ministering, He always told His Followers to PROVE that they loved Him (and the Father) by being obedient to My Word...and NOT by simply be telling Me that you love ME! 'Loving on the Lord'...the way He commands us to 'love on Him' means that we must worship Him using spirit (i.e. emotions) and (biblical) Truth! One with out the other is simply 1/2 hearted love!
I know the title of this podcast topic alone is going to 'drive' most 'feely' (i.e. emotionally led) Believers 'over the edge'! Many of God's people (foolishly) think that it's selfish or arrogant to think about the rewards that are available for faithful Believers! A lot of Believers sanctimoniously cry out... "It's NOT righteous to seek after rewards!" Well if that was true...and it's NOT...then Yeshua Christ might be a teacher of unrighteousness because He commanded God's people to STORE UP treasures (i.e. those biblical things that please the Father) in heaven! I believe that IF more of God's people were LESS concerned about hanging onto their earthly stuff...and more concerned about DOING those (heavenly) things that please the Father...both the Church...and this world would be in a much 'better place' then they are in now!
A lost person's initial eternal salvation (from hell) IS freely given IF they truly understand and believe the Gospel of Christ. Once a person becomes a born-again Believer...the free gift of eternal life is a guaranteed, FOREVER LIFE (out of hell)...UNLESS they (for whatever sinful or foolish reasons) choose to renounce their faith (later on in life!) (Which does happen!)
On the other hand, the New Testament clearly shows that there is another (type of) eternal life (or 'better' or more pleasing type of eternal life) (that Believers can get)...and this special eternal life is not free! It's an earned or merited eternal life that comes about thru a Believer's faithful walk of obedience. This 'special' or 'better' eternal life is rewarded to those children of God whom the Lord deems faithful at the Judgment Seat of Christ. If you know anything about the Scriptures...then you know that the Lord has always specially blessed those children of His He deems faithful...and disciplined or even punished those children of His He considered rebellious! I believe that a similar type of 'judgment' (of Church Age Believers) will take place at the Judgment Seat of Christ. It's there where Believers will either hear...WELL DONE, GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT.....OR....DEPART FROM ME YOU WICKED, LAZY SLAVE! Now, the Judgment Seat of Christ is NOT a salvation judgment...it's a rewards judgment. No one at this judgment is condemned to hell! However, as the Scriptures clearly show, there will be faithful Believers there who will receive kingdom rewards that they merited, who will receive a 'better' (i.e. more pleasing) resurrection! Then there will be those unfaithful Believers there, who will be saved (from hell) by the 'skin of their teeth', who Christ calls wicked, lazy slaves!!
John 5:28-29 ---- Don’t be so surprised! Indeed, the time is coming when all the dead in their graves will hear the voice of God’s Son, and they will rise again. Those who have done good will rise to experience eternal life, and those who have continued in evil will rise to experience judgment.
Now, since we KNOW that NO ONE gets the free gift of eternal life (when they get born-again) by DOING or MAINTAINING good works (in order to either get or stay saved!) So, these words in John 5.29 clearly show that there is a 'better' resurrection for those whom the Lord deems faithful!
I've decided to do some 'short' Bible Blurb Podcasts. These Bible Blurbs will be 5 to 10 minute long and will involve long ranging Bible topics.
This 1st Bible Blurb asks these questions:
IS the FREE GIFT of SALVATION really FREE (as the Bible teaches)...OR...is it only 'free' IF the born-again Believer 'maintains' it (as many Believers teach)?
Well, since we know that a Believer's eternal salvation (from hell) IS absolutely and totally 100% FREE...that means that NO ONE receives salvation for being good! Which also means that a Believer CANNOT 'lose' or 'forfeit' their eternal salvation for being 'bad'? Brethren, either eternal salvation IS either FREE (as the Bible clearly teaches (which means that God IS a liar), or it's NOT FREE (which some people teach!) Most Believers KNOW that God cannot lie...so it must be deceived people who are wrong when they believe that the FREE GIFT of eternal life comes thru faith in the Gospel of Christ PLUS "maintaining' a certain walk of holiness!!! (Which makes this gospel a works gospel!) Now, I do believe that the Bible teaches that a once professing, born-again Believer CAN choose to RENOUNCE their saving faith in Christ. In which case the Good Lord has NO obligation to save them from their sins.
And here's a little 'mystery tidbit' for my next Bible Blurb. I do believe that the Bible clearly teaches that an eternally saved, blood-bought, born-again child of God CAN forfeit or lose their 'ETERNAL LIFE'! However, that's NOT the same thing as losing or forfeiting one's eternal salvation (from hell!) AHH! The games afoot! Stay tuned for my podcast on Believers forfeiting their Eternal life!
Brethren, you really need to stop listening to those biblically ignorant people who try telling you that ALL the GOOD WORKS (i.e. good things) that every Believer does are like dirty, filthy, smelly rages in God's eyes! Now, CAN the 'good work' that some Believers do be disgusting in God's eyes? Absolutely! The 'good works' that are done for selfish reasons...like choosing to be a church pastor (which is a good thing to do); for the wrong reasons (i.e. power, prestige or money) (which makes that good work disgusting in God's eyes!) However, the Scriptures are loaded with Bible verses telling God's people that DOING GOOD WORKS...(for righteous reasons) IS a GOOD THING (and NOT a bad thing) to DO! Ephesians 2:10 --- For we are God’s handiwork, created in Yeshua Christ to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. That ONE VERSE is simply ONE of over 50 other Bibles verses that clearly show the Lord IS PLEASED when His children DO those good works that are pleasing in His sight! Now, I know that I am NOT the sharpest tool in the shed...BUT...even for me it's pretty easy to understand that IF the Lord didn't think that we could DO GOOD WORKS which please Him...HE WOULDN'T ASK US TO!!!
Colossians 1:10 ---- so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God!
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ---- All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man (or woman) of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
And Brethren...you really need to stop listen to those sanctimonious, pious sounding false teachers who tell you that even IF you DO a GOOD WORK...it's NOT you who are (choosing to) do it...but the Holy Spirit!!! Now I hear a LOT of biblically stupid things come out of the mouths of professing Believers...however, that concept 'ranks' right there as one of the dumbest things I have ever heard! The ENTIRE reward system in the Bible is based on God's children choosing (in and of themselves) TO DO those things (i.e. good works) that please our Heavenly Father! Now, our main 'motivation' for doing those things which please our Heavenly Father should not be because we can get something for doing that! HOWEVER...there is nothing wrong with knowing that IF I DO those things that please my Heavenly Father with a good and sincere heart, that it blesses His heart so much...that He's willing to reward me for doing them! God's rewards are simply the 'perks' of 'loving on God' the way He wants to be 'loved on'! So, don't let biblically ignorant people deprive you of the joy and honor you receive (in your heart and mind) for genuinely choosing to DO those good works that please the God who suffered and died to save your sorry butt from hell!
Psalms 69:30-31 --- I will praise God’s name with singing, and I will honor him with thanksgiving. For this will please the LORD more than sacrificing cattle, more than presenting a bull with its horns and hooves.
There are numerous situations going on in the Churches of the Living God which clearly reveal (to the Believers who know their Scriptures), that many of the people in the Church are spiritually unwise, biblically ignorant or simply (as is the case for the leaders) biblically spineless !
The simple fact that hundreds of thousands...if not millions of Believers of Believers can't 'see' how biblically sinful it is to have their sweet innocent children in today's vile, evil, dark, anti-God (of the Bible) Marxist, government 'schools' (I use the term school very loosely!) verifies to any Believer with more biblical discernment than a fish...that many of God's 'shepherds' (I use the term shepherds loosely!) have 'sold their soul' for either financial gain or the prestige of popularity!!!
Now, I don't claim to know it all...however...because I have been genuinely seeking after biblical Truth for many years...much biblical Truth has been revealed to me! Sadly, it's not just biblical Truth that many of God's people aren't understanding. Even historical or grammatical truths (truths which help a Believer better understand biblical Truth) are lacking in God's people BIG TIME! Way too many Christians are living their spiritual lives thru their emotional experiences...rather than what they need to intellectually learn thru seriously studying their Scriptures!!!
Contrary to what many of might believe or are being taught...a person does NOT have to be a Bible Scholar to figure out what biblical commandments and teachings the Lord wants His children to obey! Brethren, maybe you were NOT aware that every place in the Church Epistles (which were written TO and FOR Believers) where you find the words DO and DO NOT DO (being used as a MAIN VERB) the meaning of DO and DO NOT involve carrying out, performing, fixing, or providing (i.e. OBEYING) what is being expressed in the completed sentence! Here are some examples of what I mean.
Romans 6:12 ---- Therefore DO NOT let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
1 Corinthians 11:24 ---- and when Christ had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; DO this in remembrance of Me.”
Both of these verses above ARE IMPERATIVES! A biblical imperative IS a COMMAND from the Lord. That means that every place in the Bible (and especially in the Church Epistles) where we read a Bible verse where God's people are told to DO or NOT DO something...that IS a COMMANDMENT from the Lord! And to DISOBEY that imperative (i.e. command or directive from the Lord IS SIN!)
Now, many times in the Scriptures you will NOT find the EXACT words DO or DO NOT in a Bible verse written as an IMPERATIVE...but, IF the CONTEXT of that verse clearly shows that what's written in that verse is a command from the Lord He expects His children to OBEY HIM...or they are in sin!!! Below is an example of what I mean.
Colossians 3:2 ---- Set your mind on the things above...
Brethren...setting our minds on the things above IS an imperative (i.e. command from the Lord!) And once again, to disobey that imperative IS SIN!
There are hundreds of New Testament IMPERATIVES (i.e. commands from the Lord) that our Heavenly Father EXPECTS His children to strive to learn and then obey!
Christ said in Matthew 5:19 ---- IF a Believer (implied) ignores the least of My commandments (i.e. imperatives) and teaches other Believers to do the same thing, then they will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But those Believers who obey God’s laws (i.e. imperatives) and teach them (to others) will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Brethren, disobedience to God's Church commandments (i.e. imperatives) will NOT send you to hell...BUT...you'll definitely not receive the Kingdom rewards and blessings that our Heavenly Father is going to give to His faithful children!
I believe that there is much confusion in the Church about just HOW FREE the FREE GIFT Gospel of Christ is? There are Believers who might think (in their heads) that salvation IS FREE...who then turn around and profess (with their lips) that in order for a Believer to 'stay' saved they must (somehow) 'maintain' or 'preserve' their salvation by living in a way that (they think) would be pleasing to the Lord! This concept is absolutely unbiblical!
There are also people in the Church who believe that eternal salvation is only free so long as the one who gets the FREE GIFT of eternal life doesn't go carnal or fall way!
This concept is also absolutely unbiblical!
And then there are those people in the Church who (foolishly) believe (i.e. judge) that IF a person is NOT living up to a certain 'moral standard', that they were probably not saved in the first place! This concept is absolutely unbiblical!
Brethren, a true, blood-bought, eternally saved child of God does NOT get born-again (i.e. eternally saved) by faith in the FREE GIFT Gospel of Christ plus promising to stay faithful. If a Believer goes carnal, they don't stop being an eternally saved child of God (because they weren't eternally saved by being good in the first place)..they simply become a DISPLEASING child of God! How can you "lose" (for being bad) something that you did NOT get (for being good) to begin with? The Bible clearly teaches (over and over again) that the FREE GIFT Gospel of Christ is absolutely, totally 100% FREE. Getting and staying born-again is NOT determined by how faithful (or unfaithful) a Believer is! Free means free! And anyone who believes that a person MUST maintain some kind of Christian walk or godly behavior (in order to stay saved) IS preaching a works gospel! God offers the FREE GIFT of eternal life (to ALL who believe the Gospel of Christ) with NO 'strings attached'! If a true, born-again, blood-bought, eternally saved child of God goes carnal...they will suffer 'loss' (at the Judgment Seat of Christ...which is a reward judgment)...and NOT their eternal salvation!
Does God mean FREE when He says the FREE GIFT of eternal life...OR...was the Lord lying when He told us that salvation IS 100% totally free?
Obviously God is NOT a liar! That means that any of you who don't believe that salvation is a 100% totally free (apart from any good works or our righteous walk), are pushing a false gospel! Free means free. And NOT free IF we don't walk a certain way! And eternal life means forever life...and not temporary life! Being an eternally saved born-again, blood-bought child of God...and walking in a manner which pleases the Lord are two different things!
There are actually Believers in the Church of the Living God who are openly teaching and preaching that ANY GOOD WORKS that a Believer does are disgusting in the eyes of God! I don't know what Bible these fools are reading...but I can promise you that IF they're actually reading a 'real' Bible...they're definitely only 'cutting and pasting' those verse sections that agree with their false teaching! You see Brethren, a 1/2 Truth plus a 1/2 Truth equals a lie....and not a whole Truth! Kindergarten Christianity at the basic 1.0 level tells us that the Lord saved us to DO GOOD WORKS! Why Oh Why Oh Why would the Good Lord save us (and keep us here on planet earth) so that we could DO GOOD WORKS...only to tell us that ANY GOOD WORKS we do are disgusting in His eyes!!!
The idiotic teachings of people who believe that ANY Believer's GOOD WORKS are as 'dirty rags' in God's eyes is what comes out of the mouths of people (sincere or otherwise) who try to teach biblical Truth without taking in the whole counsel of God's written Word! This is why it's important for those Believers who truly love Truth...to study, learn and know your Scriptures! Brethren, the only way to separate pious sounding, false Bible teachers from men and women of God to DO teach sound doctrine is to KNOW your Scriptures. Know your Scriptures inside and out...backwards and forwards...and even side to side, and you too will hear these supposed speakers of God's written Truths for what they really are...biblical ignorant, pious sounding wafts of hot air!
Many in the Church have been deceived (by biblically ignorant Bible teachers) who teach them that God's people need not fear the Lord! These false teachers have led the sheep astray teaching them that their faith in the Gospel of Christ has eliminated any need to fear God! God is love they teach...and because of that...God's people need no longer fear the Lord!!! Well guess what? They're deceiving you! There are over 100 Bible that speak specifically about the importance of God's people fearing Him...many in the New Testament teachings! And the word for fear that's used in these verses IS a TREMBLING, 'shaking in your boots' type of fear! Again, this type of fear should NOT be our PRIMARY 'motivation' for serving our Lord! But it should be a 'motivator' because sometimes even blood-bought, born-again, Spirit indwelt children of God need the 'sin' scared out of them!
Acts 5:5 ---- As soon as Ananias heard these words, he fell to the floor and died. Everyone who heard about it was terrified. Acts 5:10-11 Instantly, Sapphira fell to the floor and died. When the young men came in and saw that she was dead, they carried her out and buried her beside her husband. Great fear gripped the entire church and everyone else who heard what had happened.
YEP! Dying prematurely (because of sin) should put a healthy fear of the Lord on our hearts and minds! So, with that said...I suggest that you find out WHAT your Heavenly Father considers SIN for a Church Age Believer! 1 Timothy 5:24 ---- Remember, the sins of some people are obvious, leading them to certain judgment. But there are others whose sins will not be revealed until later.
Learn your Scriptures Brethren...before it's too late!
This is a re-broadcast of a slightly edited podcast I did a while back. Since I have so many new listeners I thought it would be good to introduce myself. If you're a Believer who truly loves to have the Truths of God's written Word spoken to you with conviction and authority...you're at the right podcast site. There will be no ear-tickling messages or silly, empty rambling 'prophetic' thoughts shared on this podcast site. If you desire to be 'pampered' by God's 1/2 Truths....you'll have to drift over to the Joel Osteen podcast site.
So, here's the final podcast on the Bible's kingdom teachings (and how they relate to the Church!) You're probably thinking HOORAY! I wouldn't blame you for thinking that way! Five podcasts (on one topic) are a lot! IF you have listened to the previous podcasts on this kingdom topic...then you've already realized that I was right when I told you that you have probably never been taught what I am sharing with you about what the Bible says about God's future kingdoms (and how they relate to the Church!) If you continue to listen to my podcasts you're going to HEAR that there are a LOT OF Bible Truths (and truths in general) that your Church leaders are not teaching you! Sorry, that's simply a sign of the biblically 'dead' End Time Church! Again Saints, these kingdom teaching are important! IF you are understanding what I'm trying to share with you...it will clarify a lot of the 'confusing' kingdom teachings of Christ and of the Church Epistles!
Brethren, I'm going to try to 'open' your spiritual and biblical ears and eyes to one of the most amazing 'hidden in plain sight' teachings of the Scriptures. In these next 3, or 4 or 5 podcasts I want to 'tie-together' what the Bible says about the Kingdom teachings of God...and HOW they relate to the Church. As you listen to these kingdom podcasts....please have your Bible, a notebook and a pen handy! You will need all three IF you're hoping to catch on to what I am sharing. Now, it's MOST LIKELY that you have never been taught what I am sharing with you about what the Bible says about God's future kingdoms (and how they relate to the Church)...like a lot of Bible stuff that I share with you on my podcasts! So, as you listen to these kingdom podcasts make sure your Bible is in front of you. Because IF you simply listen to what I share...and aren't following along in the Bible...you're going to picture me as one of the WACKO Christians who sits around his house all day wearing an aluminum foil hat! LOL!
Saints, these kingdom teaching are important! Understanding them will clarify a lot of the 'confusing' kingdom teachings of Christ and of the Church Epistles!
Brethren, I'm going to try to 'open' your spiritual and biblical ears and eyes to one of the most amazing 'hidden in plain sight' teachings of the Scriptures. In these next 3, or 4 or 5 podcasts I want to 'tie-together' what the Bible says about the Kingdom teachings of God...and HOW they relate to the Church. As you listen to these kingdom podcasts....please have your Bible, a notebook and a pen handy! You will need all three IF you're hoping to catch on to what I am sharing. Now, it's MOST LIKELY that you have never been taught what I am sharing with you about what the Bible says about God's future kingdoms (and how they relate to the Church)...like a lot of Bible stuff that I share with you on my podcasts! So, as you listen to these kingdom podcasts make sure your Bible is in front of you. Because IF you simply listen to what I share...and aren't following along in the Bible...you're going to picture me as one of the WACKO Christians who sits around his house all day wearing an aluminum foil hat! LOL!
Saints, these kingdom teaching are important! Understanding them will clarify a lot of the 'confusing' kingdom teachings of Christ and of the Church Epistles!
Brethren, I'm going to try to 'open' your spiritual and biblical ears and eyes to one of the most amazing 'hidden in plain sight' teachings of the Scriptures. In these next 3, or 4 or 5 podcasts I want to 'tie-together' what the Bible says about the Kingdom teachings of God...and HOW they relate to the Church. As you listen to these kingdom podcasts....please have your Bible, a notebook and a pen handy! You will need all three IF you're hoping to catch on to what I am sharing. Now, it's MOST LIKELY that you have never been taught what I am sharing with you about what the Bible says about God's future kingdoms (and how they relate to the Church)...like a lot of Bible stuff that I share with you on my podcasts! So, as you listen to these kingdom podcasts make sure your Bible is in front of you. Because IF you simply listen to what I share...and aren't following along in the Bible...you're going to picture me as one of the WACKO Christians who sits around his house all day wearing an aluminum foil hat! LOL!
Saints, these kingdom teaching are important! Understanding them will clarify a lot of the 'confusing' kingdom teachings of Christ and of the Church Epistles!
Those words...and you shall call His name Yeshua...come right from the Throne room of the Great I Am! (You may be hearing for the first time in your life that the angel of the Lord did NOT tell Joseph to call Mary's child Jesus!) Brethren, when our Lord gives us the name that He wants used for His Son...which is Yeshua...we unholy, corrupt, sin-cursed humans has no right to change it! Please listen to me! The made-up name Jesus is NOT even a close translation of the Hebrew name Yeshua. (In fact, there is NO way to translate the Hebrew name Yeshua to the English name Jesus!) And the name Jesus is NOT even a close transliteration of the Hebrew name Yeshua! (Please listen to my podcast where I explain these things in more detail!) Brethren, the name Jesus IS a nothing-burger! There is NO savior in the heavens named Jesus! It's sad that the Church of the Living God...loaded with all these people who profess to be getting their biblical insight and wisdom right from the Holy Spirit Himself...aren't aware that they're calling their savior by a name that's NOT His! Brethren, please listen to me! I find it spiritually dark, that the Church of the Living God has managed to keep the Hebrew name of the Prince of Darkness...SATAN...'pure'...while totally eliminating the holy and sacred Hebrew name that the Father gave us for His Son...which IS Yeshua!
Brethren, I'm going to try to 'open' your spiritual and biblical ears and eyes to one of the most amazing 'hidden in plain sight' teachings of the Scriptures. In these next 3, or 4 or 5 podcasts I want to 'tie-together' what the Bible says about the Kingdom teachings of God...and HOW they relate to the Church. As you listen to these kingdom podcasts....please have your Bible, a notebook and a pen handy! You will need all three IF you're hoping to catch on to what I am sharing. Now, it's MOST LIKELY that you have never been taught what I am sharing with you about what the Bible says about God's future kingdoms (and how they relate to the Church)...like a lot of Bible stuff that I share with you on my podcasts! So, as you listen to these kingdom podcasts make sure your Bible is in front of you. Because IF you simply listen to what I share...and aren't following along in the Bible...you're going to picture me as one of the WACKO Christians who sits around his house all day wearing an aluminum foil hat! LOL!
Saints, these kingdom teaching are important! Understanding them will clarify a lot of the 'confusing' kingdom teachings of Christ and of the Church Epistles!
Part two (of me) JUST SAYING is simply a completion of me sharing some pretty basic biblical Truths and biblically discerning Truths that most in the Church of the Living God need to hear!
The Remnant out there in Christendom 'GET' what I am sharing. I have thousands of listeners who tell me that they not only truly enjoy WHAT I am sharing...but HOW I share it! You know I have done over 100 of these podcasts and the ONLY people who have 'issues' with these podcasts are those 'snowflake' or 'judgmental' Believers who accuse me of being too 'edgy'. I get it! There is a whole-generation of PEW-PAMPERED Believers in the American churches these days! And IF they are 'pushed' a tiny bit out of their comfy church confines (by the DOUBLE-EDGED Sword of God's written Word) they 'run home to mommy' and complain that Brother Bob was being a bully!
Brethren, as I share quite often...you MUST 'turn off' your emotion button IF you truly want to be blessed by what I share in these podcasts! I'm NOT doing this podcasts for the unsaved. I'm NOT doing these podcasts to make friends! My podcasts are mostly directly at the 'spineless' shepherds who are too intimidated to teach the whole counsel of God's written Word to their sheep...or the 'older in the Lord' Believer who has 'sold his or her soul' to their wives, husbands, family members, job (i.e. monies) or church 'buddies!
This is a podcast that explains why it's important to explain the Gospel of Christ to lost people when we witness to them! Brethren, this world is loaded with churches full of people who KNOW the WORDS of the Gospel of Christ...who don't understand what those Gospel words mean! In these days of 10,000 (so-called "Christian" denominations...it's not enough to simply preach the Gospel of Christ (i.e. His death, burial and resurrection) to a people who already have head knowledge about the Gospel!
These next two podcasts are simply about stuff that I believe the Lord wants the Church to hear! If you love the Truth of Scriptures...you'll enjoy these two podcasts! If WHAT I share 'offends' or 'irritates' you... getting over yourself! Your Christian life should be about knowing Him and His Truths! Christ was clear! Believers CANNOT worship the Lord righteously unless they do it thru Spirit and Truth!
Brethren, I don't claim to have all the answers for all the questions pertaining to biblical Truth. However...after 40 plus years of seriously reading, studying and meditating on the Truths of Scriptures...the Spirit of the Living God has revealed much to me. And not just to me! He reveals Truths to ANYONE who diligently, and genuinely seeks to know them!
Brethren, are you listening to what's being passed off as 'words from the Lord' out there in the Christendom these days. Now, there has always been false prophets in and around the Church. However, these days the false prophets outnumber the biblically faithful men and women of God 100 to 1! The social network realms are laden with religious babblers making all kinds of phony promises or predictions! These phony prophets are promising (whoever happens onto their site) stuff (from the God) that even Moses himself would have a 'hard time' delivering on!!! Christ warned His Followers that there WILL BE MANY false prophets leading MANY people (which would include biblically ignorant Believers) astray! Christ's words, not Bob's! These days in most churches anyone can rattle off whatever idiotic religious gibberish they want to...so long as they openly state that what they're sharing is a 'word from the Lord' or 'something that God put on their heart to share' and no one says a word against them or their foolish, empty religious babblings!
Saints, God's people are commanded to test the spirits! Problem is...when you don't know your Scriptures very well, you don't know what it takes to pass a sound, Bible teaching test!
Pleasing the Lord. It's not really that difficult to do...IF you're serious about your walk of faith! 1 John 5:3 ---- Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome.
Our Heavenly Father does NOT demand that His child live a perfect faithful life in order to please Him! He knows that we have sin 'issues.' He knows that in this life we are never going to give Him 100 % of our heart and mind...100% of the time. Our Heavenly Fathers knows that His sin-cursed children are going to 'let Him down.' Knowing all of that, He simply desires that His children live a sincere and Truthful faithful life...dealing with our short-comings thru repentance and perseverance. However, in spite of our sin-cursed short-comings...He still expects us to WALK in a manner which pleases Him. And we can do that with a genuine, humble walk of perseverance and repentance. Today's Church age Believer's responsibility to faithfully walk in obedience to God's Word is not much different than it was for the Believers of the Old Testament. Which was "choose this day whom you're going to serve." God told His people in the Old Testament to choose which 'side' you want to be on. He told them, IF you choose to be on My 'side' (by knowing and obeying My Word), life will go well for you. However, IF you choose to disobey...I promise you that it will NOT go well. (P.S. Those consequences are the result of either pleasing or not pleasing the Lord!) Seems like a no-brainer choice to make doesn't it? And yet, many times God's children in the Old Testament made the wrong choice! Unfortunately, for the most part, today's Believers are also choosing to make the wrong choices. Many of God's children have 'wandered away' from the doctrinal Truths that God has given His Church. And they are instead doing what seems right in their own eyes!
Saints, it's impossible to please the Lord without striving to be obedient to those commandments and teachings that the Lord has handed down for the Church. And no matter how sincere you are...or no matter how good you feel about what you're doing for the Lord...IF you're NOT worshipping Him in SPIRIT and TRUTH, you cannot please Him!
John 14:21 ----Those who accept My commandments and obey them are the ones who love Me. And because they love Me, My Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them.”
Brethren, without true biblical faith it's impossible to please God! All that 'churchy stuff' (that's not Bible based) is simply religiosity. We have to DO as the Good Book says...or our 'works' will be 'burnt up' at the Judgment Seat of Christ.
The churches are full of people who profess to believe in the Gospel of Christ...who don't have a clue where they're going when they die! How can that be? Well, it's because many true, eternally saved (by the Blood) born-again Believers have stopped explaining the message of the Cross to those around them. Way too many people are being 'accepted' as true Believers simply because they can REPEAT THE WORDS of the Gospel. (I speak from experience being that I once was a lost Catholic who KNEW the words of the Gospel of Christ!)
Brethren, KNOWING the (words of) the Gospel of Christ is NOT the same thing as understanding the Gospel of Christ. The next time you get up the boldness to share your faith with someone...ask them these questions. (P.S. 99% of the people you share with will tell you they're a Christian. Don't believe them without asking them some questions.
1. Ask the person you're sharing with...what KIND OF Christian are you?
By asking them this question you're going to find out IF they are truly born-again...or simply a religious "Christian."
2. Once you find out that they're a lost religious "Christian"...ask them IF they know were they're going when they die?
However they answer you will reveal to the 'route' you need to take as you EXPLAIN the Gospel of Christ to them.
Sadly, a lot of Believers have 'lost their way' when it comes to knowing anything beyond the basic Truths of Scriptures. A lot of God's people have made the personal choice NOT to be diligent students of the Scriptures...and instead are choosing to believe what they're told to believe. I put a lot of blame for this on the shepherds and Bible teachers. These supposed men of God are NOT teaching God's people HOW to think...but what to think! For the most part, true line-by-line Bible teachings have 'vanished.' They have been replaced by Bible teachers who 'cherry-pick' the 'milk' of God's Word (week after week)...or by Wednesday night Bible 'study' 'free for alls'; where everyone in the pews gets to share their views and opinions (about they think) a verse means. Which means that no actually is taught biblical Truth. Which means that no one leaves the study being any smarter then they were when they first came in. It's very hard to find men of God who teach with biblical authority as they rightly divide (and teach) the absolute Truths of God's Word to the sheep.
Brethren, contrary to what many Believers think or are taught...God's people don't learn the Truths of God's written Word thru some dream or vision that they had in the middle of the night. And there is NO 'sprinkling' of biblical glitter-dust onto the heads of God's people while they sleep...that penetrates (thru the process of osmosis) the minds of God's people, making them biblically smarter in the morning! Now, I say these things facetiously. But sadly, there are some in the Church who genuinely believe that's how the Lord reveals the Truths of His Word to His people!
Saints, the Lord gave us His written Word on about a 10th grade learning level for a reason. He made it 'easy' for us to learn it...IF we choose to! Sadly, many in the Church would rather believe what they're told to believe...instead of what they've learned (to believe.) Just like the world...we have a whole generation of Believers who are told WHAT to think, instead of HOW to think (for themselves.) 2 Timothy 2:15 --- Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the Word of Truth.
I know, I know...Lord Salvation sounds all pious and righteous. To many Believers it just seems like this is the type of salvation one needs to have in order to please a Holy and JUST God! Well Brethren...it would be...IF lost people needed to please the Lord in order to be eternally saved. However, they don't! It was Christ's sacrifice for mankind's sins which appeased (i.e. satisfied) the Father's requirement for removing sins. Brethren, eternal salvation is an absolutely, totally, 100% free gift from the Father to the world! Paid for by the sacrifice of His Son. And the only stipulation that the Lord puts on lost people IF they want to receive this free gift of eternal life is to belief that Christ paid the complete and final price for their sins! Brethren, faithfully serving the Lord is an absolute essential IF a born-again, eternally saved, blood-bought child of God desires to hear WELL DONE GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT! However, serving the Lord faithfully or unfaithfully...has got nothing to do with a person receiving the free gift of eternal life. How can an eternally saved, blood-bought, born-again child of God forfeit or 'lose' their eternal salvation (from hell) for being 'bad' (i.e. disobedient), given the fact that they never received it for being good in the first place?
Sorry Brethren, I got a little 'long-winded' on part five. I needed to finish this topic up. So I'm 'blessing you' with a whole hour of Brother Bob's biblical thoughts and teachings. Again, IF you truly want to see the Truths of God's written Word...you're going to have to 'turn off' your emotion button and start using your God-created 'brain-power' to discern IF what I'm sharing with you is biblically true or not. Now, there are quite a few other Believers out there in Christendom trying to get the sheep to understand the importance of seeing (and then believing) the Kingdom teachings of God, that are 'hidden' in plain sight throughout the Scriptures. Unfortunately, there are also a lot of Believers out there in Christendom these days who would rather live in spiritual LA-LA land (doing what seems right in their own eyes), instead of simply choosing to learn and then obey the decrees and teachings of their King.
Yeshua Christ replied, “Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many (blood-bought, eternally saved, born-again Believers) will try to enter but will fail. When the Master of the house has locked the door, it will be too late. You will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Lord, open the door for us!’ But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’ Then you will say, ‘But we ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’ And the Master will reply, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you or where you come from. Get away from me, all you children of Mine who did NOT do as I commanded.’
Revelation 3:1-5 ---- Write this letter to the angel of the Sardis Bible Church. “I know all the things you Believers do, and that you saved people have a reputation for being spiritually alive—but you are spiritually dead. Wake up! Strengthen what little remains, for even what is left is almost dead. I find that your actions do not meet the requirements of my God. Go back to what you heard and believed at first; hold to it firmly. Repent and turn to me again. If you don’t wake up, I will come to you suddenly, as unexpected as a thief. “Yet there are some Believers in the church in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes thru lawless disobedience. They will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. All who are victorious will be clothed in white. I will never erase their names from the Book of Life, but I will announce before my Father and his angels that they are mine.
Matthew 10:32-33 ---- “Therefore every Believer who confesses Me before men, I will also confess them before My Father who is in heaven. But any Believer who denies Me before men, I will also deny them before My Father who is in heaven.
Many of God's people need to 'wake up' from their spiritual stupor and get back to DOING as our King has commanded! This isn't rocket science stuff Brethren! P.S. And doing those things that please the King doesn't mean desiring to babble in a tongue, desire 'visions in the night', or 'chase after' signs and wonders! It means to LEARN and then OBEY those commandments and decrees that the King has handed down to His people thru His Church Epistles. My God, do you realize how biblically ignorant a child of God has to be...to NOT realize that IF they do NOT obey the commandments and teachings of the King, they will not be blessed in eternity? Believers are not going to here WELL DONE GOOD and FAITHFUL SERVANT simply because they're born-again! Remember, Believers today are commanded to WALK BY FAITH...and NOT by sight. Those same Scriptures also tell us that it IS IMPOSSIBLE to please the King unless we WALK BY FAITH (and NOT by what we hope or wish would happen.)
Brethren, you need to realize that the GREAT I AM is the KING of all kings. He rules and reigns over vast supernatural and natural realms...which includes supernatural and natural BEINGS! Our King is far above ALL other kings and gods! And amazingly, the GREAT I AM…King of all kings, CREATOR of ALL things…has allowed a way for us PUNY, WHINY, GRUMBLY, REBELLIOUS human beings to be part of HIS KINGDOM REALM! That starts by US becoming a SUBJECT or SERVANT in HIS KINGDOM by accepting HIS ONLY SON as our savior! However, SIMPLY BECOMING a SUBJECT or SERVANT (of God) does NOT MERIT or EARN US special rewards, blessings and honors in God’s Kingdoms. Becoming a spiritual child of God (thru faith in Christ) SIMPLY QUALIFIES US (i.e. ALLOWS US) the OPPORTUNITY TO DO those things that please the KING! IF we…as supernaturally adopted servants of the KING are found (by the King) TO BE SINCERELY FAITHFUL (to our KING’S commandments and LAWS) HE (the KING) WILL bestow on us SPECIAL KINGDOM rewards, honors and privileges! HOWEVER, IF our KING finds that we have NOT served HIM faithfully (according to His LAWS and COMMANDMENTS), HE being a JUST and RIGHTEOUS KING will NOT HONOR US as a faithful servant of His; which means that we will NOT receive ANY special KINGDOM rewards, blessings and privileges) and might in fact even be BOOTED OUT of the (future) Millennial or New Earth Kingdoms of our King. Now, being booted out of the King' kingdom does NOT mean that we're sent to hell! (Remember, unless we RENOUNCE the savior we once professed...the FREE GIFT of ETERNAL LIFE is forevermore...regardless of how faithful we served our King!) So, those children of the King who were deemed unfaithful...will still spend their eternal life in paradise...but they will be banished from living and serving in the Kingdom of their God and savior forevermore! And these children of God deemed unfaithful (by the King) will spend their eternity regretting that when they had the opportunity to serve their King....they chose rather to serve themselves, and ignored the Laws and Commandments of the King who suffered and died to save their sorry butts from hell!
This one is a 'little' long-winded. Sorry! There is a LOT OF STUFF about God's future Millennial and New Earth Kingdoms in the Scriptures that I need to cover. In part three I reiterate quite a bit of stuff...with the hope that the Kingdom Teaching in the Scriptures will be easier for you to discern. It's important Brethren to 'see' and then understand the Bible's Kingdom teachings. The Truths of the Bible's Kingdom teachings will better help you understand the necessity (and importance) of striving to WALK in a manner worthy of the God (i.e. King), who suffered and died to 'free us' from hell. In part four I'll go into more detail about WHAT the future Millennial and New Earth Kingdoms will be like.
Here you go! A little more detail on the kingdom teaching of the Scriptures. I know that much of what I share is repetition...but like Peter said...IF it's God's written Word being repeated...that's a good thing!
Brethren, the kingdom teaching that scattered throughout the Scriptures comes through an obvious understanding and acceptance of the conditional IF and THEN words found throughout the Bible. All you Believers who believe in easy believism...this teaching IS for you. And for all you Believers who think a eternally saved child of God will 'lose' or 'forfeit' their FREE GIFT of Eternal Life IF they're NOT living for Christ...this teaching is for you.
Brethren, the FREE GIFT of Eternal Life CANNOT be both FREE and NOT FREE at the same time. And the FREE GIFT of eternal life definitely is NOT FREE if a Believer is expected to stay faithful to the Lord (as some believe) until they die. And the kingdom teaching in the Scriptures is the 'answer' for both of those views.
I'm going to do a four part podcast on the 'hidden in plain sight' Kingdom teaching that's found in the Scriptures. Now, it's going to take a while to put this kingdom message together...so be patient. There are biblical doctrines that need to be explained and qualified before I 'bring on' the 'hidden' Kingdom doctrines scattered throughout the Scriptures. However, IF you're truly interested in learning some of the 'deeper' Truths of God's written Word...the Kingdom teaching is a wonderful doctrine to grasp and understand. Brethren, seeing and understanding God's Kingdom teachings will make it much easier to understand how the Judgment Seat of Christ 'works' for (or against) born-again Believers. One more thing. If you can grasp that for a Believer to NOT inherit the things of God's Kingdom, (i.e. receive rewards, honors, special responsibilities, even being allowed to live in the Kingdom), does NOT mean that they are forfeiting or losing their (eternal) salvation...you're closer to understanding the Kingdom teaching then you thought. Getting into God's Kingdom, along with receiving special Kingdom rewards and privileges are things a Believers earns or merits for being faithful. On the other hand...getting initially born-again and receiving the FREE GIFT of eternal life comes thru faith alone...and NOT thru faith plus promising to be faithful! You need to understand that being found to be born-again (at the Judgment Seat of Christ) is NOT the same thing as being found faithful.
I believe way too many of God's people are living their Christian lives solely thru their feelings. There are a lot of Believers 'deciding' what God's 'truths' by what feels or seems right (in their own eyes) instead of thru what the Scripture's teach are God's truths. There are also a lot of Believers in the Church who have decided in their hearts (without using their minds), that they're going to believe what they believe regardless of what the Scriptures say...or what others try to teach them! Way too many of God's people are trying to live their spiritual lives thru 'feely-good' spiritual experiences...instead of thru a sound faith based on biblical Truths. Yes, there are a lot of Believers in the Church who are absolutely striving to worship the Lord in the spirit. But unfortunately, many of those same Believers don't have a clue what most of the basic doctrinal Truths (i.e. commandments of God) are for the Church. Remember, the Bible tells Believers that we must sincerely worship our Heavenly Father in spirit and in Truth. Worshiping any other way is simply religious lip-service! Christ asked His Followers, "Why do you call Me Lord...and then NOT do as I say?"
Sadly, many in the Church have convinced themselves that simply BEING a child of God is the only important aspect of their Christian lives. It's NOT! The Scriptures are loaded with examples of children of God who were not spared from being disciplined, or punished or even killed...simply because they WERE children of God. Fact of the matter is...there IS MUCH MORE accountability for a Believer (to the Lord at the judgement seat) than for any unbeliever! Unbelievers are condemned regardless of how they live their lives. On the other hand...God's children are disciplined and/or punished because of HOW they did or did NOT live their lives.
Brethren, many Believers are just NOT being taught the possible serious (i.e. bad) eternal consequences of NOT obeying God's numerous commandments for the Church! Many Believers are NOT being taught that there WILL BE Believers who Christ calls wicked, lazy servants at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Many of you Believers are NOT being taught that God's Heavenly rewards, blessings and honors are only bestowed on those children of God whom the Lord deems faithful (to His written Word)...and NOT on those children of His who were simply born-again at some point in their lives!
Brethren, being a faithful church goer IS a good thing...but it's NOT nearly enough! Being a worshipper of God thru music IS a good thing...but it's NOT nearly enough! If God's people are NOT striving to be DOERS of all those New Testament Church commandments (that our Heavenly Father has given us) then we are deceiving ourselves!
John 14:23-24 ----Christ answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words;
Matthew 5:19 -----So if you ignore the least commandment and teach others to do the same, you will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But anyone who obeys God’s laws and teaches them will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
At the Judgement Seat of Christ...our place, position and rewards in God's Heavenly Kingdom will NOT determined by the fact that we started a new life in Christ...but rather HOW we finished our life in Christ!
Easy Believism! It's a doctrine that is rampant in most churches these days. This doctrine teaches that in eternity, all that's going to matter to our Heavenly Father is IF we got born-again sometime in our lives. This doctrine foolishly teaches God's children that it doesn't really matter HOW you live your earthly life...because, after all, in eternity, the Lord is going to wipe away every tear (of His children)..and overlook all their unfaithfulness...and run to them with open arms when they step into heaven! Yeah, all that stuff sounds good...but it's NOT biblically true! The Scriptures WARN God's children that some of them are going to step into eternity...and find it to be a terrifying event because they loved the world and the ways of the world more than they did God's ways! Some of God's children are going to be shamed when they stand in the presence of their savior as He rebukes them for being wicked, lazy Believers! Some children of God are going to be 'kicked out of' God's Heavenly Kingdom because of their unrepentant earthly lifestyles. And some of God's children are going to be 'saved' (from hell) by the 'skin of their teeth'...because they truly believed the Gospel of Christ...but did no good works for the Lord! Christ Himself said that some of God's children are going to spend their eternity in a place He called...THE OUTER DARKNESS! A dark and gloomy place where some children of God will spend their eternity in sorrow and regret...without ever getting a chance to enjoy the Light and the Joy and the fellowship of the Lord.
Brethren, IF you find yourself on this straight and wide spiritual road of 'easy believism'...repent. Get back in the trenches of fighting for and defending God's written Word! Start serving Him in the ONLY way that pleases Him...which is according to the Truths of His written Word for the Church.
John 14:23-24 ---Yeshua answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words;
I have been a Believer for over 40 years. I have talked to thousands of Christians and hundreds of pastors in those 40 years, and I find very few in the Church who are really 'desperate' for the Truths of God's written Word intended for His Church.
Over the years I've heard Believers who profess to be desperate for God's love, share beautiful worship songs, with no real serious intent on keeping the promises that they sing (to the Lord) in those songs.
Over the years I have attended numerous Bible 'studies'; but sadly, I can count on one hand the number of men who were leading these studies who knew their Scriptures. I've seen or heard the testimonies of hundreds of Believers who go to the altar and pledge their undying love and devotion for their savior...who stay at the same spiritual level year after year after year.
Over the years I have honestly and openly (out of biblical love) shared biblical Truths with genuinely sincere but misled pastors (who claimed to love the Word of God but who were teaching doctrines that were clearly not biblical and/or clearly not for the Church age.) I did that hoping that they would 'set aside' their emotional denominational beliefs, and/or 'set aside' the false teachings of their church 'buddies'...and choose instead to follow the Truths of God's written Word. None have ever gotten back to me.
Brethren, IF you claim to be 'desperate' for the Lord...and yet are not desperate for the Truths of His written Word, you are deceiving yourself. James 1:22 ---- But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.
If you sing beautiful worship songs to God because you are 'desperate' for His love...and yet either don't know or are not faithful to the commandments for the Church that are found in the Scriptures...you are giving the Lord 'lip service' worship.
Matthew 15:8-9 ---- “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules. ’
And finally, if you're a shepherd who claims to love the Lord and the Word of God with all your heart and soul...and yet avoid teaching the sound doctrines of God's Word that the sheep so desperately need...you're both a coward...and a false teacher.
Jeremiah 12:10 ---- “Many shepherds have ruined My vineyard, They have trampled down My field; They have made My pleasant field a desolate wilderness.
Church, every born-again Believer is commanded to worship the Lord thru their spirit using the Truths of God's written Word. No matter how desperate you claim to be for the Lord...you can only 'reach Him' IF you seek Him thru the spirit using the Truths of His written Word.
I have been a Believer for over 40 years and I can still vividly recall the very first day (night) that I became a new creation in Christ! That first night that I accepted Christ as my savior was amazing and emotional! It was a 4 month spiritual journey between me and the Holy Spirit to get to this conversion point in time. When I woke up the next morning I KNEW I was different. Not just emotionally different. I was literally spiritually and physically different. My mind and my heart were changed when I got born-again. Now again, I did NOT wake up the next morning perfectly changed...but nevertheless...I knew that I had been changed. As a brand new Believer in Christ the Holy Spirit immediately began convicting me of things that I KNEW that I was doing that were NOT righteous. I woke up that first morning as a new creation in Christ knowing that I needed to share the Gospel of Christ with my unsaved friends and family. I immediately started to read my Bible. A Book that just a few months prior to my conversion I could care less about! As a new Believer in Christ I did NOT know any other Believers. I didn't even know what a Bible Christian was until months after I was saved. Anyways...I could go on and on and on with the spiritual and physical changes that took place in my life (thru the power of the Holy Spirit), simply because I truly got saved and was a new creature in Christ! So, where are you at with the Lord these days? If you profess to be born-again...how are those spiritual and physical changes going in your life? Are there continual changes in your life as a Believer? Are you sure you are a true, blood-bought Believer? Please listen to the podcast. If you are NOT seeing continual, constant changes in your spiritual thought processes and spiritual priorities...maybe you're missing or not understanding a piece of the salvation puzzle in the Gospel of Christ? Please listen to this podcast. If you're struggling with your salvation...it will help you better understand how the new creation in Christ works.
This is a podcast explaining the spiritual applications in the parable about the master and His three servants!
If you are a Believer who is serious-minded about studying and learning the Truths of Scriptures...then you already know that most Believers around only have a simple understanding of basic Bible Truths. It just seems to me that very few Believers are really serious and dedicated to learning God's Truths. Oh, a lot of Believers will say that they love their Scriptures...and yet very few actually know them. There doesn't seem to be a 'spiritual fire' in the bellies of most Believers to study and learn God's Truths. Now I know that are numerous reasons for this lackadaisical attitude about learning the Truths of God's written Word. However, whatever the reasons are...they are not good reasons! We live in a time when Bibles and and Bible study books are plentiful...and yet...most Believers are content living their Christian lives feeding off the milk of the Word...instead of the meat and potatoes.
This is a RE-DO of one of my podcast from last year on the topic of the importance of learning the TRUTHS of God's written Word. I did a little 'tweeking' on the podcast topic. If you love truth...especially God's Truths...you will enjoy these podcasts.
Now, I am NOT making a claim to having a 'handle' on ALL the Truths of God's written Word...HOWEVER...I do know a LOT of God's Truths. That's because I have been a serious student of God's written Word for over 40 years. (Anyone who studies a topic or idea for 40 years will just naturally a lot about that topic or idea!) Sadly, I know that a lot of Believers out there in Christendom are not being taught many of the Truths of God's Word these days. Now, one reason for that is that many of God's people are spiritually 'comfortable' living their Christian lives 'feeding off' the 'milk' of God's Word week after week...month after month...and year after year. Another reason why so many of God's people are ignorant of many of the Truths of God's Word is because their shepherds don't know their Scriptures very well themselves! You see, KNOWING and then TEACHING ALL OF the Truths of God's Word for the Church...requires a man of God to love the Lord and His Word more than life itself!
2 Timothy 4:1-5 ---- I solemnly urge you Timothy, in the presence of God and Yeshua Christ, (who will someday judge the living and the dead when he comes to set up his Kingdom: To preach the word of God. Be prepared, whether the time is favorable or not. Patiently correct, rebuke, and encourage your people with good teaching. For a time is coming when God's people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject the truth and chase after myths. But you should keep a clear mind in every situation. Don’t be afraid of suffering for the Lord. Work at telling others the Good News, and fully carry out the ministry God has given you.
For the most part the Church of God is in a nonbiblical spiritual mess! There is a lot of 'church' stuff going on...and yet, there is not much biblical Truth being taught. At least, nothing much beyond the third-grade thinking and processing level. This is not a new 'problem' with God's people. In the Old Testament the Lord quite often had to discipline His children for refusing to learn His commandments...and then to do as He said. And for the most part...today's Church is doing the same thing. Many Believers today just do NOT know their Scriptures very well. And because of that, there is a lot of false teachings (i.e. 1/2 truths and non-church age doctrines) flowing from the pulpits and the pews these days. It seems to me that many of God's people today are content believing whatever seems right in their own eyes....AND/OR...believing whatever makes them 'feel good' about their 'relationship' with God. And sadly, all this non-biblical, self-centeredness has caused many Believers to 'drift away' from the sound doctrines of God's written Word for the Church.
If you are a first time listener...welcome to God's Word Unfiltered! I have been blessed by being able to do 75 of these podcasts so far! And praise the Lord I'm picking up listeners from all over the world!
If you enjoy hearing ALL the Truths of God's written Word...you'll enjoy these podcasts!
If you enjoy hearing ALL the doctrines for God's Church people shared...you will enjoy these podcasts!
If you enjoy hearing a man of God expose the false teachings (i.e. fake news) that's going on in many churches today...you will enjoy these podcasts!
If you enjoy the spiritual benefits of having the double-edged (sword) of God's written Word 'cut' your spirit and soul...you'll enjoy these podcasts!
If you enjoy hearing a Believer boldly sharing the Truths of God's written Word...you will enjoy these podcasts!
If you are encouraged when you hear a faithful man of God tell God's people what they need to hear...and not what they want to hear...you will enjoy these podcasts!
For the rest of you...go listen to Joel Osteen's podcasts! I'm sure he's got the milk all warmed up for you!
Trust me when I say that once you start to listen to these podcasts it will be quite obvious that I am NOT a man-pleaser...or an 'ear tickler.'
For numerous reasons I've decided to do a DO-OVER of my 75 podcasts. And I'm starting right here, right now, with what was originally my very first podcast. I've learned some things along the way as I've traveled thru 'podcast land.' I've also heard some things on my podcasts that I wanted to 'tweek.' So, let the 'tweeking" begin! And may the Lord get the glory for the wisdom and boldness that He has given me which enable me to 'speak the Truth in love.'
Brother Bob
Sadly, many in the Church are foolishly (and ignorantly) taught that there is nothing that they can personally choose to do (in their own minds and in their own strength) which will please the Lord! That idea is not only idiotic it's moronic! From the beginning of the Scriptures until the very end we read of example after example of God holding HIS CHILDREN accountable for their behaviors! From the beginning of the Scriptures until the very end we read of example after example of God holding HIS CHILDREN accountable for choosing to either do good (i.e. righteous) things of the Lord... or for choosing to do bad (i.e. unrighteous) things that the Lord did not want them to do! The ridiculous idea that God's people do not have the ability to choose to do those things which please our Heavenly Father is so absurd...it's almost laughable! The Lord would not have punished Adam and Eve IF it was not their decision to disobey Him! God would not have punished all those Believers who died in the desert...IF it was not their decision to disobey Him! The Nation of Israel would not have been 'cut off' from the Lord IF it was not their choice to reject their Messiah! I could go on and on and on with examples of God punishing or disciplining His children because THEY CHOSE (for whatever sinful reasons) to disobey God's simple commandments! The Great I Am never blamed the Holy Spirit, or Christ or the Apostle Paul or Peter for sinful choices His children made!
Yeshua Christ said that IF I am NOT a part of your spiritual life...you will NEVER accomplish those things which please the Father. What Christ was NOT saying, was that He Himself would DO everything (that was seen as righteous (by the Father)) for God's people! God as always been about His people choosing to DO those things which please Him.
1 Timothy 4:6,10,11 ----In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Christ, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound doctrine which you have been following. For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.
Prescribe and teach these things Timothy.
Ephesians 5:8-10, 14-17 ---- For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live like people of light! For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true. Carefully determine what pleases the Lord......for the light makes everything visible. This is why it is said,
“Awake, O sleeper,
rise up from the dead,
and Christ will give you light.”
Living by the Spirit’s Power
So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.
I am afraid there are many foolish Believers in the Churches these days!
Brethren, there are LOTS of reasons WHY the Lord does NOT want His children spiritually and/or legally joined together, or in a legal union, or in a binding agreement with Unbelievers!
One of the most obvious reasons is that LIGHT and DARKNESS should NOT be united together for and in any cause! Another reason is that God knows that 'bad company' always corrupts good morals. Even those Believers with the best of intentions! The ONLY THING that this world really has to 'offer' Believers is an opportunity to witness to the Lost.
Now the Good Lord is NOT commanding His children to have nothing to do with the people or all the ways of this world. To do that we would have to leave this world. Our Heavenly Father recognizes that His children have to work with or under unsaved people; live in the same areas as unsaved people; go to doctors and dentists who are Unbelievers, shop at places owned by unsaved people, etc. etc. However, our Heavenly Father DOES have serious issues when His children spiritually or legally or even physically JOIN themselves TOGETHER WITH (i.e. 'allow themselves to be hitched up together') with people of the darkness. The Bible commands that there should be NO binding or legal or agreements or contracts between Believers and Unbelievers. And IF we truly trusted our Heavenly Father...we would know that He wants us to do this for our own spiritual well-being!
Numbers 33:55-56 ----But if you fail to drive out the pagan people who live in the land, those who remain will be like splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land where you live. And I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.”
Brethren, God definitely doesn't want His children chopping off the heads of the Unbelievers around them. However, He most definitely does NOT want His children 'teaming up with' a people who do NOT know our God, and who do not agree with the ways of our God!
Sadly, many in the Church are no longer 'listening' for, or 'hearing" the Lord thru His written Word. Many of God's people are looking for a God that they can literally touch...or feel touched by. And that's because way too many Believers are trying to 'live' their spiritual lives thru their spiritual experiences...instead of thru a knowledge of God's written Word. For many Believers the "living and active" Word of God comes in a distant third...to their spiritual feelings and then their spiritual experiences.
Brethren, God's written Word is ALL we get today. And even then...Believers need to have enough spiritual discernment to know what parts of that Sacred Book are for God's people in the Church age. There's a reason why the Lord is no longer audibly speaking to the Church. And I believe that reason is that everything He has for us is already written down in the instruction Book of the Bible. I personally believe that many Believers are NOT hearing from the Lord because they stopped looking for Him thru His written Word.
Psalms 119:105 ----- Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.
Brethren, once we get to the 'other side' it's NOT going to go well simply because we were born-again at some point in our lives. All Believers will end up at the Judgment Seat of Christ to be judged for the good or bad works that we did. However, not all children of God are going to hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant" (from the Lord) at their eternal judgment. If God's people want to be honored or rewarded at the Judgment Seat of Christ, they need to be found (by the Lord) to be faithful. And not only faithful, but faithful to God's written Word! This world is loaded with Church-goers who are very faithful...they're just not very biblically faithful. In the end...it's NOT how we started out in our new life in Christ that's going to earn a Believer kingdom rewards or honors. It's how we finish our Christian life which will determine that. Our initial faith in the Gospel of Christ didn't earn us or merit us any heavenly rewards. A Believer's initial faith in the Gospel of Christ keeps them out of hell. However, our faith in the Gospel of Christ is no guarantee that we'll hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant" at our judgment. At the Judgment Seat of Christ, Believers will be rewarded or unrewarded; honored or rebuked; praised or condemned based on how well their good works hold up against the judgment fire testing by the Lion of Judah!
These next verses show the eternal benefits of being found to be a faithful Believer...and the eternal consequences of being found to be an unfaithful Believer!
Matthew 24:45-51 ---- A faithful, sensible servant is one to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his other household servants and feeding them. If the master returns and finds that the servant has done a good job, there will be a reward. I tell you the truth, the master will put that servant in charge of all he owns. But what if the servant is evil and thinks, ‘My master won’t be back for a while,’ and he begins beating the other servants, partying, and getting drunk? The master will return unannounced and unexpected, and he will cut the servant to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (There will be NO eternity spent in the "Joy of the Lord" for this carnal Believer!)
If you're a Believer who does NOT know your Scriptures very well...these three podcasts about being aware of the false prophets and false teachers in the Church are going to sound like the spiritual ramblings of some 'weird', bitter, Bible conspiracist. On the other hand, IF you are a Believer who loves the Truths of Scriptures...you'll be saying AMEN! thru-out these podcasts because you already know that I am right about what I am sharing in all my podcasts. I know that there are very few Believers left out there in Christendom who are genuinely committed and faithful to God's written Word that applicable for the Church Age. So I encourage you faithful Believers to "dig in"...but stay biblically alert... because the biblical (not the spiritual but the biblical) condition of the Church is going to keep going from bad to worse.
Matthew 24:4-5 ---- And Christ answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many.
Matthew 24:9-11 -----Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name. (Which is Yeshua and NOT Jesus!) And at that time many will fall away (Only Believers can fall away) and will betray one another and hate one another. Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many (in the Church.) (Par. added.)
Here's a question for you pre-tribulation rapture Believers. After reading the verses above (and others like them throughout the New Testament); can you again tell me WHY our Lord would want to 'rescue' His compromised, worldly, unfaithful, disobedient (to Scriptures) children out of the suffering, persecution and judgment of the Tribulation times?
False prophets and false teachers; they're everywhere in the church...and "hanging" around the church...and even occasionally 'passing thru" your church. Many are right there in front of you, standing at the lectern...disguised as shepherds, traveling evangelists, traveling prophets or church leaders. Many others stand along the 'sidelines' waiting for their opportunities to share their spiritual opinions. And they're even in the pews...openly sharing their totally unbiblical 'words form the Lord'!
Now Brethren, I am quite aware that NONE of us who teach or preach are 100% right in what we believe and teach about God's written Word. However, there are some who teach and preach who are doing a pretty darn good job of teaching and explaining God's Written Word!
But many other teachers and preachers in the Church are simply absolutely wrong about some (un)biblical doctrines that they are teaching...and/or simply avoid teaching some rather obvious Church doctrines! And they just refuse to repent!
Church, we can't all be right! And we can't all be wrong! So, if you are a Believer who loves the Lord AND His Word... and you are in a Church where you're NOT getting 'fed' the 'deeper' 'harder' things of God's written Word...and where you KNOW that you are NOT being accurately taught that sacred Truths of the Scriptures. Let me encourage you with Christ's own words.
Matthew 24:3-5, 23-25, ----- Later, Yeshua sat on the Mount of Olives. His disciples came to him privately and said, “Tell us, when will all this happen? What sign will signal your return and the end of the world?” Christ told them, “Don’t let anyone mislead you, for many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah.’ They will deceive many.
Then Christ said, if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah,’ or ‘There he is,’ don’t believe it. For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and perform great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even God’s chosen ones. See, I have warned you about this ahead of time.
Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves.
Brethren, IF you have a shepherd who cares more about learning and teaching and having his sheep obey God's commandments for the Church...then he does about power, money, peer pressure or fame...then PRAISE God! He (not she) is a very rare breed of shepherd! Pray HARD for that man! Because I'm warning you that Satan (and his minions) are slowly but surely 'neutralizing' the rest of the churches shepherds! I have been hearing the Remnant for years telling me that they just can't find shepherds who are willing to teach the whole counsel of God's Word to them.
1 John 4:1 ----Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world.
These false prophets and false teachers are functioning quite easily in today's (mostly biblically compromised) Churches. And they come in all "shapes and sizes...with all kinds of pious sounding spiritual titles!" Some of these false prophets and false teachers are simply biblically ignorant Believers who shouldn't be teaching God's Word...and yet are allowed to because they sound "wise" to people who don't know their Scriptures! These types of false prophets and false teachers are NOT purposely deceiving the sheep....they do it out of biblical ignorance. Nevertheless, these types of biblically ignorant Bible teachers are just as much a false teacher as are those false prophets and false teachers who PURPOSELY try to deceive or misguide God's people.
Like I shared in my podcast...there are over 50 references to false prophets or false teachers in the New Testament alone! And most of those references come with the WARNING: Believer....BE ON GUARD; or WATCH OUT FOR!
Brethren, you are only going to see God's hand in your spiritual suffering or persecution IF you are spiritually awake, and "tuned into" the things of God! A LOT OF Believers (who say they just love God SSSSOOOO much), turn" on the Lord when the going gets tough. Brethren, our Christian life should not be about us! We should not be 'building up our faith' on the people and the ways of this world. And we most definitely need to keep our spiritual eyes open and be 'sensitive' to the what the Lord might be trying to use us for when we suffer. I know that I have 'blown' opportunities (in the past) to be used by the Lord thru my suffering because my flesh was controlling my mind and not my spirit. And Brethren, I believe that the times are only going to get worse for God's faithful children. So, I share these podcasts on suffering to encourage the Remnant! Don't be deceived by bad teachers who will try and teach you that our Heavenly Father would never, ever let anything "bad" happen to His children....simply because He loves us too much! I know those 12 Apostles believed that the Lord loved them....and look how much they suffered!
Hello Brethren! This is PART ONE of an easy to follow two-part podcast on the "benefits" of Christian suffering! Enjoy! And a SHOUT OUT OF THANKS! to the hundreds of Remnant Believers who tell me that they enjoy my open and sincerely honesty podcasts about the Truths of Scriptures!
Nothing too deep here Brethren! I did this podcast to simply make your aware of the ways that the words BAPTIZED or BAPTISM are used in the Scriptures...that having nothing to do with getting wet! Unfortunately, because our English Bibles do such a lousy job of translating Greek or Hebrew into the English language, a LOT of biblical Truth is missed by people who simply read (and then teach) from their Bibles like it's just another library book!
Brethren, getting born-again is just the beginning of a new life in Christ. Our Heavenly Father has given us an entire Book loaded with His thoughts on HOW He wants His new children to live their spiritual lives. You see, the Lord's NOT simply looking to add new children to the family. His plan is to give His new children instructions on how He wants His children to please Him...and then demand that they obey His instructions! The problem as I see it is that a lot of the King's children are presently 'taking advantage' of their new position of 'royalty'...and are living their lives like spoiled, pampered, rebellious brats! Well, one day those children will face their King. And on that day...they will give an account for how righteously or unrighteously they lived as children of the King.
2 Corinthians 5:9-10 -----Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
Just a little more info for those of you who are interested in biblical Truth. I know that to some of you, it might seem trivial to be doing a podcast exposing the biblical deception of "Good Friday"...but too bad! I care more about God's Truths than I do about your feelings. One more thing: IF what I share with you in this podcast about the biblical deception of a "Good Friday" seems trivial or nit-picky...then you are more messed up spiritually than you know!
Just speaking the Truth in love!
The lack of interest that I see in many of God's people in using the biblical name that the Father gave His Son...and the Church...is just one more example of the Church being spiritually asleep. Satan (and his minions) (who hate God and His Son) must be grinning from one slimy, pointy ear to the other as they see so many of God's people calling God's Son by a name that is NOT His! Satan will do anything...and say anything....and use anything to get the ways and Truths of the Lord and His written Word twisted, distorted and powered down! I believe that Satan (and ignorant Believers) have managed to turn off' "the power in His name ministry"...by calling out to their savior with a name that is not His!!!
Brethren, you need to slap yourself spiritually awake and get out of your biblical lethargy!!! You need to repent of your arrogance and pride and get back to having a humble, teachable spirit...or else your judgment will not go well! Scriptures are crystal clear; we cannot worship the Lord just in the spirit! Simply feeling good about your worship time does not mean that you are worshipping righteously! Knowing the Truths of Scriptures helps all of God's people better understand HOW our Heavenly Father wants to be worshipped....and WHY we must worship Him in spirit and HIS truths!!!!
The churches are full of Believers who just do NOT know their Scriptures very well! And that is sad...because the ONLY WAY to truthfully know WHO God is, and HOW He thinks, and WHAT it takes to be seen as a pleasing Child of God...and WHAT He wants His Church to be doing is found in His written Word! A lot of Believers will tell you that they do believe that the Bible is the Word of God...and then they live their lives as though those words of God are not that important to learn....not that important to know...and for sure not that important to obey. Brethren, contrary to what some emotionally driven, sign-seeking Church leaders try teaching you, the ONLY way to truly know the Lord is thru knowing His Scriptures. Everything that the Lord reveals about His characteristics and attributes are found in the Bible. Everything about how the Lord wants His children to live their earthly lives is found in the Bible. Everything that the Lord wants His children to DO and NOT to DO is found in the Scriptures. Everything pertaining to HOW a Christian matures in the faith and becomes a steadfast overcomer, is found in the Scriptures! And yet...most of children of God couldn't quote a 1/2 dozen Bible verses...even if their lives depended on it!
There are numerous reasons WHY God's people need to KNOW their Scriptures. In part one of this two part topic I sort of bring up some of those reasons. However, in part one I spend more time giving reasons why I believe the Church is in the spiritual mess that it finds itself in. In part two...I PROMISE to give you more specific reasons on WHY it is important to KNOW (i.e. study, learn and then obey) God's written Word....and specifically those commandments that the Lord has given the Church.
I believe that many in the Church truly and sincerely believe that the HOLY and JUST God of the Old Testament Scriptures somehow become a 'soft and over-generous' "Candy-man" God in the Church age. A lot of Believers in the Church age foolishly believe that their 'sugar-daddy' God has 'softened up' and freely (i.e. unconditionally) and lavishly (i.e. unendingly) 'sprinkles' His children with all kinds of 'tasty' spiritual and earthly sweets'...simply because they are His children! As I share quite often in my podcasts there are numerous reasons for this silly and foolish type of unbiblical thinking. The most obvious reason is that the churches are full of biblically ignorant sheep. Another reason is that a godly, healthy, biblically based fear of God is nearly non-existent in the churches today. And another reason that so many sheep are 'living' their spiritually lives in an imaginary "LA LA land' world is that the churches are loaded with shepherds with no spiritual backbones, and no biblical wisdom. Self-professing 'men of the Lord', who have a very limited understanding on God's biblical Truths; and men who 'avoid' teaching the whole counsel of God's Word when they do know it, out of a fear of 'offending' the sheep! (Brethren....it takes much more than simply being born-again to please the Father!)
Hello Brethren! In this podcast I tried to emphasize the importance of looking for God's Truths that are are sometimes 'hidden' 'inside' the obvious Truth of a basic Bible verse. (I hope you understand what I just said? ) Well, if you do not understand what I just said, my podcast will explain it better.
I believe that a LOT of Believers in the Church today have stopped thinking for themselves, and are relying WAY TOO heavily on the words of others. When a Believer stops thinking...they stop getting biblically wiser! True wisdom comes thru understanding. So, if you are a Believer who has stopped thinking for yourself...that means you have no real convictions because convictions are the result of an understanding of truth. If you simply believe what you believe because someone else told you to believe it...you are NOT a thinker...you are a follower. The Bible warns God's people that in the End Times many of God's people WILL fall way from the faith. And HOW is that possible? It's because they stopped being thinkers!
A lot of Believers are NOT taught that they are responsible for producing BOTH the DEEDS (i.e. behaviors and actions) of the FLESH and the DEEDS (i.e. behaviors and actions) of the spirit (small s our spirit!) We all know that the Holy Spirit is NOT responsible for producing the deeds of the flesh that Believers CHOOSE to do. Just as the Holy Spirit is NOT responsible for producing or accomplishing the deeds of the spirit (small s) that Believers CHOOSE to do! Brethren, when Adam and Eve chose to disobey God, He cursed them with a FLESHLY sin nature which IS passed down to all humans. However, being the compassionate God that He is...He kept the inner human spirit free from the curse of sin! So the spirit of mankind (unlike the sinful flesh) has the ability to produce godly deeds and godly behaviors....and to make good and righteous choices! And not only that, the Bible implies that in the spirit of ALL men and women...SAVED or LOST...the Lord has 'planted' just enough 'Light' that humans have a basic spiritual understanding of God's moral laws in them. God's people are responsible for choosing to produce godly fruit (i.e. godly behaviors and attitudes) in their lives. The Holy Spirit is NOT a DOER...He is a Helper!
It's the question that God has been asking His children right from the start. All Adam had to do was stay away from one stinking tree in paradise....and...! (Him and I are going to have a real LLLLOOONNNGGG talk in heaven someday!)
In light of all that Christ has done for Believers...one would logically think that it would be 'easier' for them to obey their Heavenly Father's commandments. Especially since we have a spiritual Helper....unlike our Old Testament Brethren! Sadly, that is not the case. I truly believe that the main reason that many in the Church no longer seriously obey God's New Testament Church commandments is because that healthy fear of the consequences of disobeying God has been replaced with the lie that God's grace is everlasting. Brethren, the Church Epistles WARN Believers that God will NOT be mocked (i.e. ignored or taken advantage of); God's disobedient children WILL reap what they sowed in eternity at the Judgment Seat of Christ!
As I do quite often in these podcasts, I emphasize the critical importance of TRULY KNOWING WHAT God's Truths are. Lord knows His Church is loaded with people teaching 1/2 truths of His Word. (And no matter how nice a 1/2 truth might sound...a 1/2 truth is always a lie!) A lot of the 1/2 truths being taught in churches today comes from Believers teaching things out of the Scriptures that are either NOT for the Church Age....OR....simply taken out of context.
2 Timothy 2:15-18 -----Work hard so you can present yourself to God and receive his approval. Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly explains the word of truth. Avoid worthless, foolish talk that only leads to more godless behavior. This kind of talk spreads like cancer, as in the case of Hymenaeus and Philetus. They have left the path of truth, claiming that the resurrection of the dead has already occurred; in this way, they have turned some people away from the faith.
Brethren, contrary to what you have been taught...God's Truths do NOT come with multiple choice options! It is NOT OKAY to be sincere and wrong about God's Truths. (That is why a Believer should NOT be teaching God's Word IF they do NOT know their Scriptures !) Yes, we do serve a gracious God. However, He does NOT handle willfully stupid very well!
Brethren, in this podcast I am rehashing some stuff about God's Truth that I have already shared in other podcasts...repetition is a good thing....and some new thoughts about God's Truth that I believe God's people need to consider.
In part two of this podcast I will specifically focus on some obvious false or distorted church doctrines that have permeated the Church.
Here's some simple logic and spiritual reasoning about truth. It's NOT rocket science stuff Brethren. IF you love learning truth...you will enjoy this podcast and the TRUTH will MAKE you free!
Sorry....I got a little long-winded on this topic.
In this podcast I share some practical and logical Truths on WHY I believe the Bible shows that the supernatural Apostolic-like gifts (that were at work in the EARLY Church) are NO longer functioning today. I also share WHY the tongue "thing" that is going on today in a lot of SIGNS and WONDERS seeking Churches is just not being done according to the CLEAR, CRISP instructions in God's Word. Which shows me that today's tongue movement is NOT of the Lord of the Scriptures...but either of the flesh, or the lord of this world!
Sadly, because SO MANY Believers are living their spiritual lives thru their feelings...it IS very easy for them to get caught up in these FEELY GOOD, SOUNDS ALL PIOUS and RIGHTEOUS tongues deceptions! Brethren....IF a Believer is looking for spiritual experiences to strengthen their faith...they are NOT walking by faith! Just saying!
Noto much to add here. This is part two of my two part podcast on God's Grace. Enjoy.
Remember, you can contact me at brobob4him@ gmail.com
Grace! Grace! Grace! They tell us that the Christian life is all about God's grace. They tell us that God's grace will overcome our sin! They say that God's grace will see us thru every situation! And that God's grace will never end! And finally, they say that a Believer can never out-grace God's grace!
Now, all those things sound nice and 'loving'. The problem is that they are NOT biblically accurate! God's GRACE can be CONDITIONAL! (CONDITIONAL means that there IS a requirement (from the Lord) IF a Believer hopes to receive God's grace.) Here is an example of what I mean! The Scriptures tell us...over and over again....that the Lord gives grace to the HUMBLE! So, that means that the Lord does NOT give His grace to the arrogant or prideful!
ONE of the CONDITIONS (or requirements) for receiving God's grace is HUMILITY!
I know that the concept of God's grace...like the word love....is both misused and misunderstood. These two podcasts will help explain the truths of what God's grace is....and HOW God's grace works!
Sadly, there are many Believers in the Church these days who are so emotionally dependent on what they believe, or think that Truth is, that they have lost sight of the logical basic Truths of God's Word. For many Believers today, faith is all about experiences or feelings. Christ warned about a 'dark light' that Believers can be caught up in. He also warned that this 'dark light' is so deceptive that those who get deceived by it, will not even know they're in it! Being in that 'dark light' my friend IS a SCARY PLACE for any person to be...let alone a deceived Believer.
Brethren, IF you truly desire to learn and know the Truths of God's Word, you MUST "turn off' your 'emotion button' while studying your Bibles. Otherwise, you will never have a solid, steadfast faith. Emotionally led or emotionally driven Believers will always be tossed to and fro....aimlessly drifting in which ever direction the winds of their emotions takes them.
Here's part two of my podcasts on exposing fake news in the Church.
I would encourage you to listen to these podcasts with your emotion button turned OFF...and your Bible open. In these podcasts...as with all my podcasts....I speak the Truth with love.
The Lord knows that for the most part His Church has drifted a long way from sound doctrine. Yeah, there are a lot of Believers 'teaching' biblical stuff...but a lot of those teachings are biblically inaccurate. I hope you understand that there IS a BIG difference between between teaching biblical Truths....and teaching biblically Truths that are intended for the Church Age?
Just remember that a 1/2 truth plus a 1/2 truth is still absolutely wrong!
It is sad to see so many Believers so easily accepting the 'fake news' teachings that are going on in many churches these days. A lot of today's Believers are just like today's liberals, who emotionally accept lies...as though they were truths...without bothering to logically check to see IF what they believe is a lie or a truth. Sadly, spiritual discernment is just 'not happening' with most Believers today. They like their 'feely' religious beliefs.
Brethren, when a shepherd tells you that the Bible says that EVERY Believer can have a complete victory of their sin nature...that IS fake news!
When a Church leader tells you that the Bible says that the Lord WILL fight ALL the spiritual battles for His children...that too is fake news!
When a Church leader tells you that God WILL ALWAYS be there with you and for you...no matter what you are going thru, or what you are involved in as a Christian...simply because He loves you ssssooooo much...is also fake news!
And finally, when a church leader or Bible teacher tells you that the Holy Spirit WILL CAN give ALL Believers supernatural physical strength to accomplish Samson-like feats...is also fake news!
Sadly, we live in a time when way too many Believers are accepting the foolish concept that the Lord will DO IT ALL for His children! These Believers are told that they just need to 'sit-back' and enjoy the ride to paradise. Such foolish thinking. And yet, then these Believers wonder WHY the Church is in such a spiritual mess. It's NOT rocket science Brethren!
Anyone with true spiritual insight knows that for the most part today's Church is asleep biblically. Oh, there are a LOT OF Churches that are 'good' at 'playing' 'Church'....but very few Churches that are truly striving to stay true to God's commandments as they pertain to the Church.
Have you attended a Bible study lately? No one is teaching God's Truths (with authority and biblical knowledge) at these Bible studies. Most of today's Bible studies have become spiritual free-for-alls where everyone attending the study teaches (from the pews and from the pulpit) what they believe is God's Truths. The problem is...for nearly every Bible verse that brought up for discussion at these Bible studies, there are numerous views on just WHAT the verse is saying. It shouldn't be that way Brethren. If you do not know your Scriptures...you should NOT volunteer to teach the Bible. Believers are NOT being taught God's Truths....IF there are multiple opinions for what each verse could possibly mean.
Sadly, in most Churches today....even the basic Church doctrinal Truths of God's Word are ignored or avoided. And instead of sound doctrine being taught to the sheep....there is a lot of 'Bible teaching' based on what feels or seems right.
In this podcast I explain WHY I believe a LOT OF Believers in the Church are NOT growing and maturing spiritually. The podcast is self-explanatory so enjoy. And please email me IF you enjoyed or agreed with what I had to say.
Brethren, I do NOT profess to be some Bible scholar who spent years in the most prominent Bible schools learning God's word. I am a simple 'fishermen' who loves Truth. And because I have always loved the Truths of Scriptures, the Lord has graciously taken me places in His Word where very few have gone. So please enjoy or be convicted, and repent and join me on my journey thru the wonders of God's Truths!
Brethren, I really don't think many in the Church realize how much it hurts our Heavenly Father when we reject His love, in order to do our own thing! Yes, He IS a loving, gracious, forgiving Father.....to a point! When we choose to walk away from Him (by ignoring the Truths of the Bible written for the Church Age...or by simply not returning our love to Him thru obedience....He WILL walk away from His children. Now, He does NOT want to see His children doing stupid things...but He will allow us to do stupid things IF our hearts are hard towards Him. Please notice that in the story of the Prodigal Son that the father (i.e. God) did NOT run after His son, pleading with him to come back home. I know that it broke the father's heart when his rebellious son sinned. However, even though our FATHER loves us...He will not never over-ride our freewill choice to sin...BUT...He is more than willing to run to the repentant child of His and wrap His arms around them, and forgive them as though the sin they committed never happened!!!!
Unfortunately, there are MANY in the Church who believe that the next life is going to be amazing....simply because they got born again some time in the past! Brethren, being born again IS a good thing....BUT that position comes with serious responsibilities!!! Our Heavenly Father is NOT looking to simply add new children to the family of God. He desires to add children who CHOOSE to be faithful, pleasing children.
Now, I know that MOST in the Church need not fear being 'cast out' of God's Heavenly Kingdom. However, I know that there are quite a few in the Church (who I believe) need a good understanding of the fear of the Lord back in their lives in order to get back on track spiritually. So, I would encourage the faithful Believers to share this podcast with those Believers they know to be floundering or drifting away from the faith...in hopes of restoring their relationship with their LOVING...but very STRICT and HOLY Heavenly Father!!!!
I know that many of you are going to consider me a self-righteous Believer. That is NOT what I am teaching in this podcast. However, I AM telling God's people in the Church Age that they are JUST AS responsible for their spiritual walk as Believers like Noah, Abraham, Moses and Daniel were. For many unbiblical reasons...the Church has decided to put ALL the responsibility of their spiritual walk on the Holy Spirit....and NOT on themselves!!! Brethren, WE MUST CHOOSE to DO those things the Lord has commanded us to do. He would NOT have given us all those IMPERATIVES...IF He did not think that we could do them!
We MUST CHOOSE to take the things we learn in God's Word and FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT....FINISH THE COURSE....AND KEEP THE FAITH!!!! Our Heavenly Father expected His children in the Old Testament to OBEY His commandments....OR ELSE!....and they were NOT indwelt with the Holy Spirit! The New Testament Scriptures WARN US in the Church Age....HOW MUCH MORE SEVERER PUNISHMENT WILL WE WHO ARE INDWELT DESERVE...IF we choose to IGNORE God's Word!
Another consequence of having churches so full of biblically ignorant Believers is that anyone can come along and teach whatever they want to the sheep....and the sheep do NOT have a clue IF what they are teaching is biblical or not! You see, you can't confront someone for teaching biblical untruths....IF you yourself do not know what the Truths of God's Word are. I see so many parallels between today's secular liberals and many of today's Christians. Secular liberals do NOT want to know what truths of a story are. They would rather go with narrative that makes them feel good. Or worse yet, share what makes their listeners feel good....even IF it's a lie! It's the same way with many in the Church. Many in the church do NOT want to know the Truths of God's Word. They would rather hang onto those spiritual beliefs that make them feel good...then to know and accept what IS biblically right. And sadly, just like secular liberals....most in the church are not willing to accept correction. Most Believers are NOT interested in sound doctrine. And just like secular liberals, many in the church are NOT open to the facts. They are happy believing a lie! Sadly, I know of many Church leaders who have taught the Scriptures for many, many years...who have yet to teach even half of the verses in the New Testament Church Epistles! My friend, those type of Bible teachers are NOT church leaders who are properly equipping the saints!
The Lord has made it rather simple for us Brethren. Just DO those things He commands us to DO.....and DO NOT DO those things He commands us NOT to do!!! WHEW!!!! That's a tongue-twister! I just do not know WHY so many in the Church have to make this formula of DOING the DO'S and DOING the DO NOTS so complicated. Our Heavenly Father is ALWAYS pleased IF we DO those things He asks us to DO. Sadly, a lot of Believers have chosen to add their own DO'S and DO NOT'S to God's Word. That's NEVER a good thing to do....no matter how sincere you are. Church, just make up your minds to LEARN those commandments the Lord wants us to obey....and just DO them! Don't worry about what others think! Don't worry about offending people! Just be concerned about DOING those things our Heavenly Father has commanded (not asked) us to DO.....and DO them! That's what pleasing faith is all about.
Who doesn't want nice stuff? And the Great I am does HAVE lots of 'NICE STUFF' to offer to His children. Unfortunately, most of our Heavenly Father's 'NICE STUFF' comes with this "catch"....we MUST obey Him according to His Word....or we won't get the nice stuff He's offered us! As I shared in my podcast, many in the Church have tried to turn the HOLY and JUST God of Scriptures into a "Santa-Claus god"....who simply gives all the boys and girls presents because He can.
Brethren, in many ways our Heavenly Father functions just like a God-fearing earthly father SHOULD function with his children. He BLESSES his children when they obey him....and does NOT bless them when they are disobedient. The Lord has 'offered' some wonderful earthly and eternal rewards and blessings to ALL His children. However, to receive these rewards and blessings from our Father.....He MUST deem us faithful! And NOT just faithful. But faithful to His written Word.
Just a simple podcast to remind God's people that 'lovin on the Lord' involves more than our feelings. In fact, IF you are ONLY loving the Lord thru your feelings you are NOT abiding with the Lord the way He commands us to abide. Brethren, our feelings come and go. However, true Biblical obedience to God's Word is an act of faith. And without faith, it IS impossible to please the Lord. Way too many Believers have either forgotten, or have never been taught that IF they desire to worship our Heavenly Father BIBLICALLY....they MUST do it in Spirit and Truth!
Brethren, the devil does NOT care WHO or WHAT he uses in his efforts to distort or delude the Truths of God's Word. And I am afraid that these days he is having an easy time doing just that as he uses worship songs to accomplish that goal. Brethren, it IS important to understand (and believe) that the Lord MUST BE worshipped in Spirit and Truth. So that means that ALL those nice, pious sounding but unbiblically written worship songs are NOT pleasing to the Lord's ears! The Good Lord detests deceptive and misleading worship songs JUST AS MUCH as He does false Bible teachers!!!!
Sadly, I believe that many in the Church have turned their backs on their Savior's command to GO OUT INTO THE WORLD AND SHARE THE GOSPEL. Many in the Church today have passed their responsibility of witnessing to the lost onto some far-away missionaries....or worse yet, some type of 'traveling' evangelist who only witnesses to people already in the choir!
Brethren, we get one life to try to take as many people away from Satan as we can before we move onto the next life. Once we get to the next life it WILL be TOO LATE to go back and try to rescue the lost from hell's grasp!!!
The Scriptures tell us that God SO LOVED THE WORLD....that means He LOVED LOST people. All of which we were until someone showed they cared enough about us to share the love story of Christ with. Please listen to the SECOND PART of this podcast. If nothing else, it WILL put the fear of God (because of the possibilities at your upcoming judgment) back into your life!
Brethren, there is NO mystical, mysterious movement of the Holy Spirit (that needs to take place at some church revival meeting or at a Sunday morning altar call) before the Holy Spirit will work in our lives! God IS available 24/7 to the genuinely repentant and contrite (i.e. humble) people of God! Brethren, walking with the Holy Spirit simply involves God's people choosing to obey God's Word as they study and learn it! Do not be deceived into thinking that the Holy Spirit was 'released' into a room simply because of some teary-eyed sermon or because of the threat of some traveling evangelist who 'mocks' or 'ridicules' Believers for NOT coming forward AFTER his sermon!!!!!
Brethren, the Holy Spirit works hand in glove with those Believers who STUDY God's Word!
The Holy Spirit works hand in glove with those Believers who genuinely desire TO KNOW the Truths of God's Word!
And finally the Holy Spirit works hand in glove with those Believers who choose to OBEY God's Word!!!
Again, being FILLED with the Spirit does NOT involve taking some mystical, mysterious journey to some mountain top.
And finally, the Holy Spirit IS never, ever going to lead you on a path AWAY from God's biblical Truths for the Church. Test the spirits Brethren; because there are a LOT OF phony spirits working in God's Church these days!!!!
Brethren, it does not take much research to verify IF what I share in this podcast is B.S. or Truth! Sadly, as I have shared in the past, most in the Church no longer concern themselves with God's Truths. Most Believers in the Church today are happy and content with simply feeling good about what they are doing for the Lord.....even IF what they are doing is NOT biblical!!!
I have been sharing the information that I have in this podcast with the Church for over 25 years. Unfortunately, just like the Old Testament Prophets (that the Lord sent out to His people), most Believers are NOT going to listen to what I have to share with them. Oh well! My hands are clean!
There is confusion in the Church on HOW God's sovereign will actually works! Well I believe that the Scriptures clearly show that the Lord has TWO WILLS....one is His sovereign will....the other is His permissive will. I will explain the differences in this podcast!
(Now, I am NOT trying to 'put' God in a box by the things I share in my podcasts. So, when I speak of God's ways...I speak of those ways of God that can be learned thru knowing one's Scriptures. God do as He chooses....He is NOT limited by my words....HOWEVER....He is (kind of, sort of) 'limited' by His written Word. And I know that the Lord is NOT a liar! So, from my perspective...there IS one thing that I know for sure. The Good Lord will NEVER hold His children accountable for NOT doing something that He has NOT (already) given in His written Word!)
Praise the Lord for both the wisdom and the desire that IS still in my heart and mind to know and share the spiritual Truths of His Word!!!
Brethren, for the most part, I believe that God's Church people are living their Christian lives in a spiritual stupor. Most Believers do NOT know the difference between a biblical truth....and a religious tradition. Many Believers do NOT know the differences between a teaching of man...and a teaching of God! And sadly, because so many Believers are ignorant of God's Word... they do NOT even know SEE how spiritually blind they really are!
Most Believers today do NOT have a 'fire in the belly' for sound doctrines. Most Believers would rather defend what feels right to them... then defend sound doctrines. And because so many Believers ARE spiritually dull, they get offended when a fellow Believer tries to direct them off the path of darkness that they are stumbling on.
Just trying to get the Church to understand that true, born-again, blood-bought Believers in the Church Age are most definitely still 'under' God's Laws. The silly idea that because Believers are saved by grace they do not have to obey God's Laws is ludicrous....and yet, many in the Church believe that.
Again, I know that a lot of what I share is going to 'fall on' spiritually 'deaf ears'; but that's not my problem. For the rest of you who LOVE God's Word....ENJOY....I KNOW that what I share WILL encourage your hearts and minds!!!!
Malachi 3:16-18 ----- Then those who feared the LORD spoke with each other, and the LORD listened to what they said. In his presence, a scroll of remembrance was written to record the names of those who feared him and always thought about the honor of his name. “They will be my people,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. “On the day when I act in judgment, they will be my own special treasure. I will spare them as a father spares an obedient child. Then you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
Just a little addendum to my first two parts on the topic on the necessity of having a healthy fear of the Lord in our Christian walk. I truly believe that besides biblical ignorance...a LACK OF FEAR in Believers IS a big reason why God's people live lackadaisical, lukewarm Christain lives!
Love! Love! Love! I we need is love! Well, IF we lived in a perfect world that LOVE word would be relevant. However, sin has corrupted ALL of our 'loving' hearts to the point where the Lord considers are hearts wicked and evil! So, this is where the God 'fear factor' can 'help' us keep on the straight and narrow. I don't know about you....but I do NOT like the idea of being 'punished' by My Heavenly Father. So the God 'fear-factor' 'encourages' me to stay focused when I start to wander spiritually.
I believe way too many Believers in the Church do NOT understand WHAT it means to have Christian freedoms or Christian liberty. On one hand there are many in the Church who incorrectly believe that having Christian freedom or Christian liberties means that they can pretty much do whatever they want to. While on the other hand there are many in the Church who believe that being 'free in Christ' means being 'free' from those things the Lord NEVER told them NOT to do.....LIKE: NOT drinking alcohol or NOT gambling or NOT smoking. Brethren, you are NOT 'free in Christ' IF you allow yourself to be 'chained' to rules and regulations that the Lord NEVER gave you. The Lord HAS determined in His Word those things HE DEEMS SINFUL (i.e. those things we need to abstain from)! And for Believers to ADD TO or TAKE AWAY from what the Lord has already written IS NOT making one's self 'free' but 'chained' to their fleshly emotions! Christians, you need to get it into your spiritual brain that IF you choose to abstain from 'stuff' (that the Lord NEVER commanded you to abstain from) that is between you and God.....but please, please, please do not 'push' your unbiblical abstinence things on others as though they were 'from the Lord'! I am 'free' in Christ to do those things which God has NOT labeled as sinful. But even then, I am to use those Christian freedoms to glorify the Lord....which should remind us that a fruit of the Spirit IS self-control (i.e. moderation in all things.) Brethren, I encourage you to remove those unbiblical burdens and restrictions that you have 'chained' yourself to....and have tried to 'chain' others to, and instead be truly 'free in Christ' by knowing the Truths of God's Word.
John 8:31-32 ----- So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
Sorry, but I just could NOT fit in everything I wanted to share in this podcast. This is simply some logical, practical truths explaining the importance of PROPERLY (i.e. RIGHTLY) DIVIDING God's Word. Enjoy!
Brethren, the Good Lord created humans with the ability to logically grasp and understand facts. Science facts.....grammar facts....mathematical facts...historical facts and biblical facts; which all play a part in helping to better understand the Truths of Scriptures. And the concept that it IS the Holy Spirit's responsibility to teach God's children ALL THINGS pertaining to the Truths of the Scriptures is absurd!! (Now the Lord knows that I am being sarcastic (towards His children) when I ask the rhetorical question: IF it IS ONLY the Holy Spirit's job....and His job alone...to train up and teach Church going Believers ALL the Truths of God's Word He is NOT doing a very good job!) I KNOW that the Lord puts most of the responsibility for knowing His Word on His children because the Scriptures clearly show that....time after time after time. And yet, there are thousands upon thousands...if NOT millions...of professing Believers out there waiting (some for many years...with their Bibles shut and their minds closed) for some kind of FORCED supernatural spiritual enlightenment by osmosis from the Lord! It ain't gonna happen Brethren! Start getting serious about choosing to read, understand and obey the Truths of Scriptures....and THEN the Lord will supernaturally enlighten you...as needed!
I know there are a LOT of Believers in the Church who are desperate to see signs and wonders happen. Sorry Brethren, it is just NOT going to happen....unless it is FALSE end times signs and wonders. We live in a Church Age where Believers have all the completed Church revelations that the Lord intended for the Body of Christ. Those early Church Believers did NOT have this spiritual luxury. And because today's Believers have the completed Word of God, the Lord expects....NO DEMANDS....that His children WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT!!!!
Brethren, the Scriptures tells us that the Lord has given His Church everything pertaining to godliness in His written Word. The Scriptures also tell Church Believers that the written Word of God (which IS inspired by God) IS profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, (so) that the Believer may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Brethren, right there it is! Nothing in this verse tells the Believer that they NEED a tongue gift or a prophesy gift to complete their walk with the Lord.
And just to SHOW the Church that the WRITTEN WORD of GOD IS sufficient for EVERY Believer in the Church Age the Apostle Paul told his friend Timothy......2 Timothy 3:14-15 -----But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ.
Unfortunately, I had to 'jam' a lot of stuff in this Podcast. I hope and pray it makes sense.
The Church today is definitely NOT following many of the Church guidelines that were established in the New Testament Church Epistles. So, it is NOT surprising that the Church guidelines on marriage, divorce and re-marriage are also not being followed. (Those Epistles are the spiritual instructions for the Church. Those instructions have not changed simply because the society has.) God's Truths (that are applicable for the Church) ARE just as relevant today as they were 2000 years ago. So, IF you have 'issues' with what I am sharing with you out of the Scriptures... send you 'complaint' up to the Lord....and 'see' what He thinks!
Simple to understand TWO part podcast on what the Scriptures teach is the Church-Age guidelines for marriage, divorce and re-marriage for Believers.
Sadly, for the most part the supposedly Spirit led Church of God has wandered away from most of the New Testament Truths of God's that are applicable for the Church-Age. That falling away from the faith also includes falling away from the sound teachings of God's Word in the areas of marriage, divorce and re-marriage for Believers. Very few Church leaders choose NOT to enforce God's biblical standards for His people in the areas of marriage, (and especially divorce and re-marriage) because of the 'pressures' of this world. Trust me Brethren when I tell you that it will not be long before MOST....not all....but MOST Churches WILL honor and perform homosexual marriages. Just saying!!!!
Simply sharing what the Lord put on my mind to share with the Church. Now I KNOW that most in the Church will NOT want to hear what I share....but that's okay....they did NOT want to hear all the HARD stuff that Christ and Paul taught either. I am just here to share some biblical prophesy. And even though I have never met the Prophets Jeremiah, Isaiah or Ezekiel....I can relate to what they were going thru as they shared the Truths of God's Word with a people who did NOT want to hear it!
Just trying to share a little logic with the mostly emotionally driven Church! Sadly, thinking for one's self has been replaced by indoctrination in most Churches today. God's people are no longer taught HOW to think...but WHAT to think! This is one of the main reasons why the Church is in the spiritual mess that it finds itself in these days.
I believe way too many of Christians believe that the Lord wants His children "to check their brains at the door" before they get into His Word. Way too many of God's children simply refuse to accept that biblical fact that the Good Lord expects His children to use the God-created brain to LEARN biblical STUFF!
Brethren, the Holy Spirit does NOT teach GRAMMAR, MATHEMATICS, HISTORY, SCIENCE....OR A LOT of other things to God's kids! Just listen to the Podcast using your brain and you will understand what I am trying to get across.
The Podcast on this topic is pretty self-explanatory. The Lord already knows that for the most part His Church IS a spiritual mess! All these different denominations doing whatever seems right in their own eyes! Most Churches simply pick the biblical stuff they like....and ignore the stuff they do not like....and then make up the rest of their teachings as they go along.
I believe that most Shepherds are spiritual cowards! They have the authority from the Lord TO ESTABLISH MODESTY guidelines in their churches.....and yet for more worldly reasons then I want to share here, they refuse to do just that!
Now, I know that there are SOME Christian women out there in Christendom who are concerned about the LACK OF modesty they see. But even in that group there are very few who choose to follow God's biblical guidelines on HOW the Lord commands Christian women to DRESS and WHAT to wear while doing just that. 1 Timothy 2.9 IS a VERY, VERY powerful verse.....for those Christians who are seriously looking for answers on HOW and WHAT God expects Christian women to dress. Unfortunately, the WORLD has it's 'roots' so deep into today's Church that most Believers sincerely (but foolishly) believe that Bible verses like 1 Timothy 2.9 are NOT for today's Church. So, that kind of thinking means that in their eyes there ARE NO standards for modesty anymore! Isn't that a sad testimony of where the Church is at these days?
In this Podcast I am simply 'venting'! There were some things that the Lord put in my mind to share with the Brethren. So enjoy.....IF you love Truth! I will be sharing a Podcast on the lack of spiritual discernment in the Church when it comes to MODESTY in my next podcast.
A simple podcast hoping to encourage God's people to BE SPIRITUALLY FOCUSED IF they suddenly find themselves in a situation that they were NOT prepared for. Brethren, IF you are genuinely abiding with the Lord....be prepared to be sent places you had NOT planned to go to; Like a doctor's office hearing about some 'new' disease that you have just been told that you have, OR, in a court room 'fighting' an 'unfair' ticket or legal matter.
Brethren, IF you find yourself with a disease or sickness or even in a legal entanglement that is NOT your fault....your primary goal should NOT be to be focused on yourself as you go thru these things!! It seems to me that so many of God's people are so focused on living...that they are missing out on WHY they are where they are! The Good Lord might have you on this new 'journey of life' so that He can use you to reach someone with the Message of Christ....or maybe to teach you something that you can use to help others in the future! Always remember, as children of the Lord this earthly life should NOT be about us....but about glorifying the Lord. And we can't do that IF we're whining and grumbling every time life throws us a curveball!
This podcast is basically the story of a great and faithful man of God....Frank Jenner!
For 40 years Frank shared the Gospel Message of Christ with thousands...without ever seeing any results! Unbeknownst to Frank...his faithfulness IN SIMPLY HANDING OUT BIBLE TRACTS, led to thousands coming to Christ! One London Pastor was so moved by the faithfulness of Frank Jenner that he tracked Frank down just so he could share with Frank all the lives he had changed by being faithful (literally unto death) ALL THOSE YEARS without ever knowing that he was making a difference!!!
Lord, the harvest is plentiful....and the workers are very, very few! I beg you Lord to motivate your children ANY WAY that is needed, to get them off their spiritually lazy behinds and to GO OUT into the dying world and share the loving Message of Christ.....whether they think people are listening or not!!!!
I encourage you to GET your Bibles OUT as you go thru this. Take notes! Listen carefully! Most Churches are just NOT going to teach you this stuff!
Brethren, TURN OFF your EMOTIONAL FEELY heart, and START to LEARN the Truths of God's using the brain the Good Lord created you with. Ephesians 5.10 -----STRIVE to LEARN those (biblical) things which PLEASE the Lord....OR ELSE...your eternity will NOT go well!!!!
There are SO MANY children of God out there in the Church who are CLINGING (with their fingernails dug in) to spiritual stuff that is either just NOT biblical...OR a misleading distortion of PART OF a Truth of God's Word....which makes that a lie!!!
At the Judgment Seat of Christ, there will be numerous 'record keeping log books' being opened for the purpose of determining a Child of God's WORTHINESS (or UNWORTHINESS) and FAITHFULNESS (or unfaithfulness) so they can be rewarded accordingly. And ONE OF the Books which will be OPENED is the Scriptures, because the Lord is going to ASK EACH and EVERY ONE of His Followers WHY they believed WHAT they believed....AND WHERE did you find WHAT you believed in the My Word?
This is simply part 2 of a podcast where I try to biblically explain to God's people....(and not to sincere but lost religious people), that for some of them, the NEXT LIFE is NOT going to be a wonderful, joy-filled paradise life...simply because they got born-again at some point in their life!!! Being an overcomer and an abider is a conviction....and not an (occasional) preference!
It is sad that most of the men who call themselves Shepherds are NOT teaching (i.e. warning) the flock about eternal consequences of NOT getting serious about serving (i.e. abiding) with their Savior! I believe way too many Believers have deceived themselves into thinking that just so long as they are at least a dedicated Sunday morning and and a Wednesday Nite Child of God...the next life will be great. That is just not true my Christian friends! Now, I do not believe that lukewarm or part-time Believers will end up in hell! However, they most definitely will NOT be part of God's amazingly, wonderful (future) Heavenly, Millennial and New Earth paradise kingdoms because they will NOT hear, "Well done good and faithful servant" from the God who hung on spikes to save their sorry butts from hell!!!
Abiding with Christ biblically means to be striving to live for and striving to obey His Word as we walk in the leading and enlightenment of the Spirit 24/7.
This is going to be a THREE PART podcast showing what the Scriptures teach ABOUT and HOW God's children CAN CHOOSE to forfeit or (basically) 'throw away' their opportunity to spend their eternal life in the Light and the Joy and Love of the Lord in the next life. This teaching ties in with my podcast that shared the importance of God's people having a 'healthy' spiritual fear of the Lord!
Brethren, you really need to SEE and GRASP HOLD OF the biblical fact that God is NOT going to be pleased with all His children in the next life. In fact, once you accept that biblical fact, you then need to SEE and GRASP OF HOLD the biblical fact that for some of God's children, the next life could be very, very bad!
Now, IF you are a Believer who IS striving to ABIDE with your Savior ACCORDING TO THE God's commandments (and NOT just the convenient or easy commandments, but ALL those Church commandments), you need NOT fear your heavenly judgment. However, for all those Believers who are straddling the spiritual fence....and have most of their body leaning in the direction and ways of the world (and maybe have one foot or toe in the Lord's world), your judgment in eternity will NOT go well! So, make up your mind to get serious....100% serious...about serving the God who hung on spikes so you and I did not have to. I encourage you to quit trying to bring the ways of the world into your life. There is NO way to 'christianize' the immoral or the immodest or the idolatrous things of this world! So get serious about your faith...and WALK the WAY the commandments tell us to walk....because the Scriptures say that LUKEWARM Believers make the Lord sick to His stomach...and a LUKEWARM Believer will NOT hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant" at their judgment! JUST SAYING!
My podcast will explain this topic. For many years now I have noticed that the Church have tried to 'neutralized' or 'soften' the Great I AM God of the Scriptures....the Holy God of all gods.... as though He is less 'concerned' about sin (in the Church Age) as He is about relationships. Yes, we have a loving Father. However, He did NOT stop being Holy and Just simply because He became our Heavenly Father (and because we became His children.) If anything, the Scriptures teach that becoming a child of God has made us MORE accountable for sin. And yet, many leaders in the Church just refuse to teach the Church the numerous commandments handed to them in the Church Epistles! And I think a main reason for that LUKEWARM attitude by God's leaders and by Believers in the Church (about being obedient to God's commandments) is a LACK of a HEALTHY, CONSEQUENCIAL FEAR of the Lord. Just like in the world, we have a whole generation of spiritual children who grew up NOT being spanked for being disobedient. And as a result, I believe we have a whole generation of spiritually soft and spoiled children 'running' many of the Churches these days!
So you Brethren who are striving to walk in a manner worthy of your Savior ENJOY!
You get it! It IS our responsibility to CHOOSE to do those things which please the Lord... IF we want to hear, "Well Done"! in the next life. It is is our responsibility to FIGHT and RESIST our sinful flesh! It is our responsibility to SHOW our Savior that we REALLY love HIM by being obedient to His Words.
You know I hear all this ridiculous HOAKY-POAKY pious sounding religious gibberish (usually from those supposedly 'Spirit led" Believers) about how God's people are NOT even capable of CHOOSING to show Christ that they love Him! How dumb does that sound? Listen to me carefully! If my wife KNEW that I was letting someone else use their words and thoughts to write her beautiful love letters....AND THEN I SIMPLY signed my name and the words...I LOVE YOU DEAR....on the bottom of each letter.... do you really think that my wife would believe that I loved her? I do NOT think so!!! If my wife KNEW that it was someone else who was remembering to send her flowers....and I just signed the little card attached to the flowers.....YOUR LOVING HUSBAND.....do you really think that those flowers would mean anything to her? I do NOT think so. In fact, I believe that IF I let someone else show my wife that how much he loves her.... it will not belong before my wife falls in love with someone else!!! Christ said, "Do not just tell me that you love ME....show Me that you love ME by doing what I say!"
I wanted to reassure God's people that there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with STRIVING or being DILIGENT or putting some EFFORT into working for those WONDERFUL Heavenly Rewards that the the Scriptures speak of. IN FACT, the Scriptures are CRYSTAL CLEAR....IF a Believer IS diligently striving and/or persevering to SEEK AFTER and EARN those rewards that are mentioned in the Bible....they are NOT being arrogant....they are being obedient! (I know that what I just shared drives most of those pious, 'it's all about the Spirit' Believers WACKO!) Why would Christ COMMAND His people TO PILE UP TREASURES IN HEAVEN.....IF it was arrogance or selfishness to do so????? Come on all you emotionally driven Believers....think thru what I just said before you judge me!!
Listen Brethren, I want it to be me (and NOT the Spirit making me or filling in for me) as I show Christ my love and appreciation for what He did for me at Calvary BY DOING WHAT HE COMMANDS all His people to do....which is LEARN and then OBEY God's Word. And IF that 'love journey of faithfulness" (that I choose to go on with Christ) opens up the possibility for me to earn or merit rewards then Praise God! He is obviously and absolutely a rewarder of those children of His who DO AS HE COMMANDS!!!
This Podcast covers the topic of what it takes for a Believer to BE SEEN as Holy and BLAMELESS (i.e. sinless) in the eyes of a Holy and Just God.....throughout their entire Christian life. Way too many Believers in the Church are falsely taught that the permanent and eternal sanctification of a Believer is eternally 'locked in' the moment they get born-again. NOT TRUE! The Scriptures are crystal clear Brethren....it is NOT HOW a Believer starts out that matters to the Lord....it IS HOW well they finish! Getting born-again is easy! Christ did all the work for that process. NOW, walking in a manner WORTHY of the One who suffered and died for us.....THAT IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT BALL GAME!
2 Peter 3:13-14 ----- But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, BE DILIGENT to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless...
Nothing EASY believism in what Peter said above Brethren!
Enjoy! I am pondering a 3rd podcast on this topic. When I did these podcasts my goal was to simply trying to encourage those Believers who feel or think that they are not serious or genuine (in God's eyes) about their walk with their Savior because of their constant and/or continual sin struggles. Dear friend in Christ, do NOT let the pious hypocritical Believers in the Church lead you to believe that their walk is better than yours because they seem to sin less. If the Jesus-loving faithful Apostle Paul struggles with an ever present sin nature.....we all do to. And contrary to what some 'holy-roller Pentecostally like' pastors might tell you, there is NO biblical 'healing' or supernatural 'deliverance' from our sin nature. It will be with us until we get to the other side. Best way to overcome it is to continue to strive to resist it. Because even on our BESTEST DAYS walking with our Savior...that rotten flesh can rear up its ugly head without a moments notice!
This is part one on explaining how easily God's people stumble in sin. Contrary to what some in the Church teach.....simply be CALLED a Saint does NOT mean that God's people are seen by the Lord as being holy and blameless. God's people have other TITLES like: Christian, Follower, Believer, Child of the Light, etc. Simply being CALLED or having someone else CALL YOU a Christian or a Believer (NOUNS) does NOT mean that God sees you as LIVING saintly, or Christ-like....or walking as a Child of the Light!
Brethren, ALL of God's children....WILL spend ALL of their earthly life struggling with their sinful flesh.....one way or another. And the idea that the Lord will 'deliver' or 'defeat' this sin struggle for His children is silly and unbiblical. The mighty and faithful Apostle Paul tells us that even on his best day with Christ...he sins! Now, I am NOT sharing a defeatest message in this podcast. It is a realist message. Because even though the Lord KNOWS that His children will be sinners until they get to heaven (where they finally receive their sinless bodies), He expects His children to continue to grow up spiritually...to continue fighting against their sinful flesh...and to continue striving to walk in a manner which pleases Him.
A simple podcast about the how easily God's people are led astray from the sound doctrines of God's Word....by their feelings. Brethren, no matter HOW sincere or right you feel about what you are doing....IF you are NOT following the Lord's established Church instructions (that were handed down thru the Church Epistles) you are simply doing what you think is right in your own eyes! The Holy Spirit would never, ever 'lead' Believers to disobey God's commandments. And those church instructions in the Epistles ARE God's commandments for the Church age. Test the spirit that you say is 'leading' you. If it is the Holy Spirit directing your path....He will direct you to the Truths of God's Word.
We have a lot of Churches these days that are attempting to 'function' with all kinds of 'feely' spiritual vibes....that are refusing to obey God's Church instructions that He handed down in His Church Epistles. Brethren, ANY Church that is IGNORING the Lord's commandments for His Church...no matter how good they feel about what they are doing...are in sin! And the people 'in charge' of a Church like this might THINK that it is the Spirit leading them...but it is not! The Holy Spirit....who is called the Spirit of Truth....would NEVER lead God's people down a path of disobedience to God's commandments....NEVER! IF God's people want to really please the Lord they MUST do as He says....and NOT what feels right or seems right! Sincerity that is NOT coupled with biblical Truth is simply emotional religious gibberish!
In this Podcast I am going to reveal some simple truths that most Believers are not aware of....and EXPOSE some UTRUTHS that are being taught in the Church as truths. Again, IF you LISTENED to my VERY FIRST podcast I let everyone out there in PODCAST LAND know that my podcasts are NOT directed towards BABY Believers....unless you are carnal 'baby' Believer. The podcasts that I share are to ENCOURAGE the Remnant....rebuke the disobedient Believer....and SHAME those Shepherds who refuse to teach God's Word as it is written.
I know that I am NOT the answer for all that is wrong in the church. I too am a sinner saved by grace. However, when the Lord 'got' my heart and mind (back in 1980), He put a hunger in my soul for TWO things. One thing was a desire to share with the LOST. And I have shared the Gospel of Christ with thousands in 40 years. The other thing that the Lord 'planted' in my soul was a ROCK-solid conviction to stand up for and stay true to God's Word. And with the Lord's help...I believe I have run the race well together! IF YOU LOVE TRUTH...God's Truth...you will enjoy these Podcasts!
God Bless!
I will use John chapter 11 and some Greek definitions to explain WHY Jesus (really) wept when He was at Lazarus' tomb.
Hey Brethren, here is PART II of my podcast on TRUTH.
Now, I could have got real complicated with this topic...but I tried NOT to.
You asked me to try and keep it simple. So I tried because I TOO am just a simple man.
This is the first half of my two part podcast dealing with God's Truth.
This first half is my venting on the Church podcast.
I will explain...I hope....the different Greek meanings for the ONE English word LOVE that we read in the New Testament. I believe that when Church people hear the word LOVE read in the Bible , most of them envision the American definition of love....which is KISSY....KISSY.....HUGGY....HUGGY. Well Christ's definition of LOVE is DOING more than just what feels right.
This podcast emphasizes the IMPORTANCE of QUALIFYING the conditional requirements for receiving God's rewards, blessings and promises. Our Lord is NOT a Ho! Ho! Ho! Santa Claus god who passes out all His rewards, blessings and promises (to His children) .....JUST because they are His children!
My simple explanations and views why I believe that spiritual discernment is dead in most Churches.
I will be EXPOSING the lack of concern that I see in the Churches for teaching the simple to understand Church doctrines as found in the New Testament Church Epistles. I will also be EXPOSING (and explaining) the lack of spiritual discernment that I see in church people who confess to be born-again, children of God. Since this is my first one is a bit lengthy.