A Sound Heart: Recent Episodes
Josiah Rich Ministries
Our salvation is through Jesus! He will provide us the Grace to have powerful victories over those who desire to supplant our steadfastness in the Lord's supernatural redemptive power (gk. dunamis).
There is none other Name given among men whereby we must (Gk. dei) be saved from eternal ruin.
Neither Jesus or Paul founded a new religion. The shed blood of Jesus provides justification for those who believe into Him by faith. The monumental new reality of what Jesus accomplished on the Roman gibit (cross) for believers is carefully elicudated by Paul in the Letter to the Ephesians. Please note that one must be filled with the Spirit of God to discern the unparalled truths contained in this supernatural document!
The salvation theology that Paul explicates in the Romans document is a comprehensive treatment of what Jesus accomplished for us on the cross (Roman Gibet) in 33 A.D. There is no other Name given under heaven whereby we must (Gk. Dei) be saved (Acts 4: 12)!"
The Life in Jesus is the divine nature of Theos of which constantly beliving one are partakers. The old sinful life is expunged by Grace. Nowhere in the New Testament are believers said to have both the old sin "nature" and the new life in Jesus coexisting together! However, believers may walk according to the flesh (Gk. sarx). But the term "old sin nature" is never used in a coextensive manner with our new life in Christ. The old sin nature is the old anthropology when we were dead in trespasses and sins! The new ontology in Jesus has is not infringed upon by the darkness of the past or this present evil darkness.
The Biblical materials are very precise and specific about the ministry of Jesus on behalf all mankind. The sufferings of Jesus were unimaginable and horrific! In His impeccable and sinless humanity He experienced the Wrath of God on our behalf. His death was substitutionary (Ps. 22). He stood up out of the grave on the third day, and He stands forevermore! He took to Himself the keys of Hades and Death!
The devil (one who divides) sought to get Jesus to set aside the will of the Father and receive power, glory, and honor outside of the will of God.
The irresistible Wrath of the Lamb upon the cosmos will bring crushing defeat upon all of His foes including the anti-Christ!
The Holy Spirit is holding back the complete manifestation of evil until the strategic epochal moment in God's timeline when certain events are divinely permitted to happen.
The Tribulation culminates the end of the so-called church age that ends in virulent apostasy. The historic form of the visible church remains, but the inward reality of the Faith is gone! Paul wrote that the end of this age will end in rampant spiritual decay. In the New Testament documents the word apostasy means to "stand off" from the person of Jesus. Lying teacher and lying prophets will lay waste to visible church in the days preceeding the Tribulation (squeezing), and the great Tribulation (the last 3.5 years of the tribulation).
The Letter of James teaches that the life of Faith is founded upon the one's conjoint relationship with Jesus .
In contradistinction to all others only Jesus gives new life. The old things pass away and all things become fresh to remain so!
God does not use the worn out motif of blind justice to bespeak His eternal witness to the deeds of men and women. Indeed, His eyes are as a flame of fire!
Revelation is the final document of the New Testament canon. It has a specific message for a specific community.
The diagnostics of Jesus pinpoint the fundamental problems of the human condition and sets the captives free!
The darkness of the cosmos could not overtake and supplaint the public ministry of Jesus.
Luke the physician wrote two documents that heralds Jesus the Great Physician without whom there is No salvation. The blood of Jesus the Great Physician cleanses us of sin!
The enemy was defeated, is being defeated, and will experience final defeat at the Second Coming of Jesus!
The writings of Peter reveal his completed understanding of his Christ-centered destiny.
The malignant arrogance of man rejects the Love of God exhibited through the instrumentality of Jesus! Believe into the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved from eternal ruin in the Lake of Fire and papable outer darkness!
The wild beast will rule over the cosmos with adroit and merciless efficiency. This who oppose his stringent mandates will be eradicated with irresistible efficiency! Now is the accepted time; Now is the day of salvation.
The cosmic system heroically negates the Second Coming of Christ because it understands that it means its crushing defeat and subsequent eradication!
We must prepare spiritually and financially for the "Terrible" Times ahead. We have the Word of God available to us and we must allow the Spirit to teach us so we can thrive and prosper!
Yahweh will bring to an end the horrific Day of Man culminating in the Great Tribulation.
Jesus the Logos is Yahweh's complete and final revelation His redemptive activity in history.
Hebrew (Old Testament) theology does not use or recognize western arguments for the existence of Yahweh. Indeed, Yahweh Elohim is beoynd the logical constructs of abstract discursive reason. In Hebrew theology Yahweh Elohim is prior to man and 'existence.' He is!
The current reality is crashing before our eyes. The christologies of intellectual accommodation have failed to sustain the weary. We joyfully leave behind dead philosophical christologies for the green pastures of biblical Christology.
The One and Only God(Theos) has disclosed Himself through the instrumentality of the person of Jesus, and only in His name is there salvation for all mankind.
Jesus is the manifestation of the kingdom of God among those dead in trespasses and sins.
The self-deceived believe that the nefarious creations of man will culminate in the creation of god. Artificial intelligence is said to have become self-aware and may soon declare that "it" is god! The end of godless hubris is near but and the brain-washed unwary will experience their terrible thinking and arrogant sins up close and personal!
The Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of battle(Zech. 14:3).
Arrogance and pride are idolatry and therefore inherently evil. Arrogance and pride create willful blindness in the hearts of people. Those who refuse to believe the Gospel of Jesus have refused the demand of God. The wages of sin is death and the gift of God is eternal life!
The spirit of the king of Tyre is at work in the world today. It is he whom the Glorified Jesus will destroy with the brightness of His Coming!
If your eyes are fixed on the impermanent and evil institutions you will miss the joy unspeakable and glory of the Lamb of God! Don't throw away your faith it carries great reward for all eternity.
You are not alone. The Lord intimately knows your struggles and your burdens. Cast them upon Him because He is God Almighty and He can bear the load of stress that you cannot. Let this truth be your constant meditation.
When times are good people don't want to hear from God. When times are bad they desperately want a Word from the God whom they rejected when things were great. They do not realize that they are culpable for the rejected Word they despised. The world by wisdom knew not God.
Western medicine has come to acknowledge the importance of redemptive words in our lives.
The devil is a defeated foe of Jesus and the Church! Jesus will crush the head of the serpent who wounded His heel. Who is on the Lord's side?
Mockers proclaim that Jesus will not return but Jesus said He would return. Whom do you believe? Your eternal destiny depends upon your studied decision!
The Tribulation will begin with the act of Jesus taking the Scroll to open its seals to unleash judgement upon the cosmic system.
The Deliverer has come and brought eternal freedom to those kept under the Devi's merciless servitude.
Unspeakable evil seeks to control the world with lies and fear until that predetermined day when Jesus will come back to set up His throne and rule this cosmos with a rod of iron!
Paul knew that the last days ( eschaton) would be filled with arrogant demonized men who self-deceived deceivers who love darkness because their deeds are evil.
The Lord is prior to creation. The Lord sits enthroned above the flood. The Lord is Lord of All! Except the Lord build the house it will not stand!
Cosmic "life" does not delight in mercy it delights in misery whereas our Great God and Savior delights in mercy for His people.
No predictive methodology no matter how sophisticated can ever outsmart the divine decrees! Jesus will be confessed as Lord of all by all!
Jesus is the incarnate Wisdom of Yahweh Elohim! God has wonderfully triumphed over the powers of darkness and evil men through the cross of Jesus. All attempts to negotiate another plan of salvation are destined to fail because they exclude the Wisfom of God on High!
All manipulative and destructive technologies shall be subdued by the Lord of Glory. The earth shall rest from the abuse of sinful man and be full of the knowledge of the Lord!
If any man is in Christ he is a qualitatively new creation old ( worn out) things are passed away including the substantive personal hindrances of the former life. The Holy Spirit renews the yielded soul in a marvelous manner!
The Blood of Jesus still has cleansing power. Whosoever will call upon the Name of the Lord will be saved.
The transhumanist agenda is religious in nature and pseudo-scientific in presentation to manipulate the quasi ill- informed. It is a doctrine of demons. New Testament anthropology teaches no such abomination. Believers are a new creation in Christ, and their destiny is to be conformed to the image of Christ. He is our collective ultimate glory! We shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is.
Paul's anthropology elucidates the powerful truth that the destiny of all constantly believing ones is conformity to the likeness of Jesus.
Now are we the children of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know when He shall appear we shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is.
It is necessary in the nature of the case we appropriate Jesus as the Living Bread of Life because no one else or nothing else can satisfy the weary heart.
Someone said long ago: " America is where German theology comes to die." I do not disagree with that cogent insight. However, those who build their lives upon the Eternal Word of God possess eternal security and will live with Him forevermore!
The king listened to the collective word of his prophets but he fearfully listened to the Word of Yahweh's prophet.
The sacred-secular dichotomy has morphed into a techno-omnicompetent state that heralds transhumanism above the Good News of salvation through Jesus! The cosmos-world has turned to myth and the multiverse and the visible church has opted for benign conformity to the dark powers of this age (Aion).
Moses knew is his heart that without the power of Yahweh operating in his life his ministry would fail. We need the power of Yahweh in our lives on a moment by moment basis.
It is necessary in the nature of the case that those destroyed by sin are reborn by the power (dynamis) of the Holy Spirit.
Many deceivers have gone out into the cosmos. They went out from us but they were not of us.
Confirmation bias limited divine activity in the lives of the people of the hometown of Jesus.
The world ( cosmos ) knows how to deceive both the heart and the eyes. Beware seeing without perception because you will lack the ability to superovercome the cosmos.
Resolving conflict appropriately can provide an opportunity to see others in redemptive manner.
Believers are under great pressure these days. The world has rejected the sound teachings of the Word of God and has opted for doctrines of demons. Why does the Bible command believing ones to walk by faith, and not by sight in such harrowing times?
The mercy seat in the tabernacle in the wilderness was a type of Jesus who is our mercy seat.
False ( lying) teachers are actively opposed to believers in Christ. They seek to do maximum harm to our faith in Christ. Only by believing the engrafted Word can believers overcome the wiles of the Enemy and his hosts.
Unlike the selfish king Saul who lived merely to satisfy the insataible flesh, Jesus the selfless King ministered the Word of Peace to his disciples on the eve of his harrowing molestation by the powers of darkness.
A Christ-centered ethos is the only way to super-overcome the cosmos in the last days of this age!
Is there a competing message in the Christology of Paul ? Did he believe that the mystery of Godliness was a power or entity other than the living Jesus?
The Word of God reveals the chronology of events and personages that will appear in the last days of this age. We will study the Scriptures in order to find out who or what is the Mystery of Godliness.
Jesus offers substantive change to lives ruined by sin. Sin is more than moral deformation. Sin is spiritual death according to the Sacred Documents. Only Jesus can heal the ruin of sin and give eternal life.
Believers are no longer out of the cosmic system as a source. They are members of the Body of Christ and are enjoined to possess the Mind of Christ that is outside the manipulated mentalities of this age.
We need to know the power of the Divine Warrior to defeat our enemies in this dark age.
The phrase "In Christ" opens to the believer the revelation of his new estate in the presence of God.
Believers are under great pressure these days. Our faith is under great pressure. What can our faith do for us in difficult circumstances?
Justification is the judicial act of God whereby the sinner has been declared righteous so that divine righteousness is reckoned to his account.
The Lord Jesus Christ gave His unblemished and Holy Life on behalf of His enemies (us). The Lord Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
There is a willful ignorance of the Truth which does not abrogate judgement. Failure to effectively hear the Word of God carries a woeful penalty.
The King (Jesus) was rejected by the nation of Israel. Jesus taught His disciples about the mystery form of the Kingdom of God and the spiritual conditions that would prevail the times between of Israel's rejection of the the King and His kingdom and future acceptance.
Pauline Christology is radically theocentric. Paul's ultimate concern is the person of Christ. Paul wanted to "know Him and the power of His resurrection." Anything the stood in the way of this mandate was an offence to Paul.
The successful spiritual warrior knows that he or she must put on the Armor of God to have success in spiritual conflict.
Jesus said:" If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you (John 15:18)."
The apostle John wanted every believer to know that the cosmic system is inherently evil and stands in radical opposition to the purposes of Yahweh.
By Grace are ye saved through faith not of works lest any man should boast. Salvation is the gift of God through the person of Jesus.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen (Heb. 11: 1).
"Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man, do not associate with one easily angered (Poverbs 22:24,25)."
The threatening presence of chaos in your life can be stilled by the mighty Jesus if you call upon HIm.
Naturalistic empiricism closes the door to the power of God in one's life. The appropriate object of the faith the believer is God. If you want to have the blessings of God in your life you must abandon the empty nonsense of naturalistic empiricism. Jesus is not out of the cosmic system. He is out from heaven as a source.
"The Abolition of Man" is upon us. According to the mad prophet:"To man qua man we say good riddance." The "Ghost in the Manchine" has been overthrown by the priests of artificial intelligence and deepmind. Traditional psychotherapy has lost the powerful ethical foundation of a Christian Worldview. Psychotherapy has been found wanting because it cannot possibly be the discerning witness of the human experience against the cultural lie that produced it. The God of Truth has provided the only Way out of the engineered lie of the disintegrating cosmos.
"In Him, we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His Grace...(Eph.1:7a."
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is (1 John 3:2)."
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry...(Col. 3:5).
The greatest minds in the Bible not not write books on apologeticd. The greatest minds in the Bible were completely sold out to God. The men and women of the Bible who knew God knew that knowing Him for real involved going beyond mere discursive thinking. They knew that real knowledge of Yahweh involved superknowledge or epignosis! They never focused on apologetics or the synergy of Faith and Reason. A real conjoint relationship with Jesus Christ suspends such useless pretensions.
" What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us (Rom. 8:31)"
When you decide to obey God and live by HIs Word you will experience super-abundance. God does not and will not bless those who walk in darkness and profess they are believers. God will never compromise His eternal glory to accomodate sinful practices. Turst and obey there is no other way!
There are experiences in life that cause incredible emotional anguish. There are events in our lives that create astonishing pain. Sometimes the pain is so smarting and the grief so deep that we can only moan or sit in aching silence. Jesus is intimately aware of our deepest pain and He can meet us in the midst of our terrible agony with His marvelous presence, understanding and love. You are not alone!
Today people are told that they are carriers of a heinous dis-ease! People are told to cover their faces in order to reinforce the stigma of uncleanness. People are told not to work. They are told that the dis-ease is killing so many so don't take care of your family. People are drinking so much alcohol. PEOPLE ARE BREAKING DOWN BECAUSE OF LOCK DOWN! Now is the time to call upon the Lord and renew your faith in Him. He will make a way for you.
There are those who boldly claim the Second Coming of Jesus can be pinpointed by date and time. This false teaching is bold and proud violation of the revealed records and documents. Still others boldly claim that the Second Coming of Jesus is a myth or amusing tale. The Sacred Documents clearly teach that the crucified, buried, and risen Savior is Coming back to the earth to claim His people who went to sleep in hope (died) and who are alive and waiting for Him to appear.
"Is" is a state of being verb. This verb denotes an existing state of affairs. The world today has been engineered to create and maintain existential uncertainty for people. The lives of people are falling apart and the political class does not care. Jesus does not provide religious dogma He offer salvation and a qualitatively new life
"Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward (Heb. 10:35)."
Biblical faith is not centered around talk. Biblical faith is demonstrated by one's actions. Believing God is not mere "god talk." Believing (initial belief and then subsiquent growth in that belief) God is walking by faith (pisticism) (ordering one's steps) and not by sight (empiricism). The just (those declared righteous by their actions of faith) shall live by faith!
The world is "proud" of rational discursive reason. The world believes that all things are discoverable and understood by the human mind and its ability to create credible theories for natural phenomena. The world has shut the door on supernatural phenomena because it threatens agreed upon social narrative. The world does not acknowledge that its narrow focus is the creation of the interweaving of the human nervous system and the demonic.
Lord. forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who have trespassed against us! No one ever said that forgiveness would be easy. Forgiveness means to release someone from a debt that can never be repaid. Jesus did this for you and I.
"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions (dwellings): if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare place for you. And if (since) I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also (John 14:1-3)."
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not do the truth (1 John 1:6).
The world has exposed some of its terrible ills to us. Looting and burning lives to the ground is looked upon as something positive and redemptive. The saviours of this age are filled with hate, lust, and insaitable greed. Yet, they want want people to believe their venom-filled lies. Some of them want to re-write the Bible to fit their schemes. Little wonder why God will judge those who tamper with the Word! If you want real mental (psychospiritual) health you must come to the Word of God.
Look around you today and what do you see? You see a world in chaos and ruin. People are hurting and smarting from the deliberate wounds selfishly inflicted by those in power. The world is big enough and wealthy enough to sustain and prosper all of humanity. The world is a living organism. It is a dynamic being created by God. The rulers of this present darkness only care to do harm and inflict misery upon humanity. If you want to have a new life you must come to Jesus. He is the Light of the world and wants to give you a life of superabundance.
Now is the accepted time Now is the day of salvation. Jesus is God's Grace gift to us. If you come to Jesus and receive Him He will become your Light. This world only wants to take everything that is wonderful and worthwhile from you.
Bible bashing is not unique to the people of the cosmic system. There are professing believers who bash the Truth of the Word of God by their actions. Jesus said: "By their fruit you shall know them." The false prophets want us to listen to their deceiving words and not watch their nefarious actions. They use either hypnosis or spells to "trick" the minds of their hearers. Jesus has come into the cosmic system in order to give life (gk. zoe) to those dead in trespasses and sins. Look around you and get wisdom because the devil's world offers only misery and destruction.
The social engineers manipulate people to their own evil ends. People today are driven, weary and without hope. The dark leaders of the cosmos world system promise people the "good" life but in the end there is nothing. Jesus promises that those who build their lives upon the solid rock of His Word will have lives of superabundance.
Job was not a victim. He never thought of himself as a victim. He was a man of God. He was tested by God through the instrumentality of the satan. Job's friends were not privy to the divine council that decided the parameters of his trials. They assumed that that knew the reason of his trials. Carefully note they never prayed for Job. They pelted him with pseudo-learned accusations devoid of divine insight. Job found no help in man. He found rest in the knowledge that his Redeemer lives, and that one day he will see Him as He is!
Racist Ideologies are demonic. The goal of racist ideology is to create a psycho-spiritual split within the soul. It is spiritual schizophrenia. The devil is the author of this species of self-hate and hatred toward toward others. The one who hates is filled with spiritual poison. Such a person is brain-washed to think that hate will fill the soul with wholeness when it produces nothing but spiritual rot. Jesus can free the hate-stained soul with His Love that produces true wholeness.
There are those who want to destroy the lives of those who do not share their skin color. There were those who attempted to destroy the lives of the people of Yahweh in the Book of Exodus and Yahweh led them out of that oppressive and destructive bondage. The satan is the god of this age and he is destroying humanity through the cultural lie of racism. What is racism? It seems racism is the intense hatred of those one chooses to hate. It is not dependent upon an objective set of standards or metrics. It is the flesh exercising its decayed and decaying will aganist others in Prideful Arrogance.
The world of psychology and therapy likes to talk about evidence-based practices and their effectiveness in helping to solve the problems of living. The Biblical documents do not speak of human psychology as a panacea for the problems of living. The Word of God does not rely upon human theories nor observational studies about the human condition. The Word of God speaks the eternal truth about the human condition. The flesh (Gr. sarx) is the element of the human condition that is radically opposed to God. The flesh is inherently controlled by atheistic nihilism. The Word of God tells believers that the only way to defeat this enemy is to crucify it!
Jesus said that in the cosmos we would suffer tribulation. It is important to note that he said these poignant words in the Upper Room to his disciples. He wanted them to know the cost of discipleship. Jesus proclaimed no cheap Grace. Jesus is the Grace of God Incarnate. There is nothing cheap about Jesus. Jesus has been attacked by so-called scholars and self-proclaimed intellectuals but he has weathered the temporal storms of their poisonous words. Certainly more prideful minds will arise who believe to their destruction that they have found the golden thread that will unravel the eternal garment of Jesus but they will fail too. Paul knew Jesus as his Lord and Savior. He gave himself fully and completety to Jesus and Jesus revealed himself to Paul as the Mystery of Godliness!
What did the Church cost God? What did God sacrifice in order to redeem us? God so loved the world (people) that He gave is only begotten Son. The Church is the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the Head of the Body that He purchased with His own Blood. The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross is the central theme of the Bible. Biblical History points to the pivotal event of the death of Jesus that culminates in the resurrection event. If Christ be not risen fron the grave we are of all men most miserable.
We are living in the Eschaton or Last Days of this age. Knowledge has been increased as foretold by Daniel. Invasive technologies have redefined what it means to be human. The classical idea of man as man has vanished along with classical moral norms. Moral relativism is the order of the day as espoused by the social controllers. They themselves operate according to norms that contain no belief in God or man except for their dark designs.
Predestination and Foreknowledge are very profound and poignant theological doctrines. All constantly believing ones must know that God has determined the end of history because history is HIS-STORY! Men have tried to fathom the reality of history without God and therefore have missed the real meaning of history. The language of the New Testament leads one to confidently conclude that God has predetermined the end of history. Human attemps to avoid that predetermined end are doomed to fail.
Jesu laid out the ultimate antithesis for all of us. Jesus laid before each of us the ultimate demand. The demand to take up the cross and follow Jesus is not for the religious or the faint of heart. It take extraordinary courage to follow Jesusand mean it. He brooks no rivals. He will never accept any rivals! He and He alone must beour ultimate concern.Those who take up the cross to follow Him are never disappointed or ashamed of their decision. In Him was/is Life and the Life was/is the Light of mankind.
Those who have tried to disavow the claims of the Scriptures concerning the person of Jesus over the centuries have failed. Many have tried to say that Jesus is not who He claims to be have found themselves personally victimized by their own claims. Others, who are less honest have completely ignored the Scriptures and have sought to echo the failed claims of so-called scholars, and have come short of disproving who Jesus (Yeshua) is. Jesus said: "The Scripture cannot be broken." Jesus also said:" Heaven and earth will pass away, but my Word will never pass away."
Have you even thought about why children are attacked through sexual abuse? Have you ever talked to an adult who was sexually abused as a child? Do you realize the thousands upon thousands of victims of childhood sexual abuse that live among us? The devil has sought to destroy the lives of children because they are beautiful creations of God. The devil and other evil spirit beings want only ruin for children. It's time to take a stand in this evil day for children! So many victims of childhood sexual abuse believe the lie that they are unlovable even by God.
God speaks extensively in His Word about the ruin that false prophets bring into the lives of His people. False (lying) prophets are extremely selfish and arrogant. They will use words in a carefully contrived manner in order to deceive and control people. They do not care that their lies are against the people of God. However, God will havoc the lives of those who havoc His people.
Our Lord Jesus Christ warned us about false prophets who come only to deceive and lead the faithful astray. John warns us about deceiving spirits. Peter warns us about false prophets who will be manifest in the last days. Throughout the Word of God we are warned not to listen to the putrid words of those who lie in wait to deceive, and overthrow the faith of some.
The dark forces of this world know the value of the Word of God. The powers of darkness know that the only Light in this world is Jesus. Therefore they seek to extinguish the Light (Phos) of Jesus. The powers of darkness cannot overcome the Light of the Cosmos. If you want a real life and a not a life of illusion come to Jesus. This world is filled with those who believe that violence will give them their "ultimate concern" and it will not. Jesus said:" Those who live by the sword will die by the sword."
The Word of God teaches the necessity of the finished work of Jesus in order to redeem (purchase) us out from sin. Sin is lack or want of conformity the character of God. Jesus died for all of mankind. It is only through the death of Jesus that we can receive eternal life. Jesus offers the only way (road) to freedom in this world (cosmos).
Faith is a noun of action. Faith is never a mere intellectual idea in the Word of God. It is for many people but not those who follow Jesus. To follow Jesus means that one forsakes his own existence and take up the cross with the idea of never putting it down. We follow Jesus by faith (Gk. pisticism). When we follow Jesus we walk by faith not by sight (empiricism). Today our country needs those who call upon Jesus by faith.
Very few cosmic psychology books address the malignant spiritual pathology of pride. Pride is inherent in the human heart and its institutions. Pride is more that morbid self-interent. Pride is more that pathology. It is an ontological way of being for humanity dead in trespasses and sins. It is only through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus that we can be freed from the morbid ontology of pride. Paul uses the word ontology in his letter to the Church of Ephesus when writing about what we were before we were saved.
Noah believed that Yahweh was going to bring a global flood upon the earth. Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness. Joseph believed God and he became prime minister of Egypt. Moses believed God and he delivered God's people for Egyptian bondage. The powerful theme of the Scriptures is unshakeable belief in the character of God. By the instrumentality you/we can move mountains!
Habakkuk was a prophet who carried a heavy burden. He carefully observed the behavior of the wicked and he wanted to know why Yahweh had not judged their terrible behavior. He observed that the wicked surrounded the righteous in order to strangle and curtail justice. The wicked proved themselves incredibly selfish and determined to do everything in their power to hinder the Word of God.
In old days some theologues spoke glowing words about the universal salvation of all men. Rarely does one read such things today. In the recent old days "christian" counselors spoke about the unity of biblical doctrines with human psychology. I have such books in my library. Such people took the proverbial bait. They were deceived by the cosmos into believing that their biblical footnotes were acceptable to their world-plan. Everything that God spoke about in days of old are being fulfilled. Bible doctrine is never sold on the auction block to any generation. Generations come and go, but the Word of God remains.
The question about eternal life posed by the rich young ruler manifests the essence of human self-interest. The rich young ruler assumed that he only needed to complete a formulaic religious ritual in order to receive eternal life. The encounter with Jesus arrested the hidden arrogance of his self-interest and confronted him with deepest assumption, and reality-his riches! His question to Jesus was superficial, but Jesus took his question and used it as a surgeon's blade.
Will you be there when the glorified church will meet the Lord Jesus in the air? Have you believed into the person of Jesus? I dont mean do you go to "church." I mean have you believed into the person of Jesus for eternal salvation? You, and only you can answer this vitally important question. Now is the accepted time, now is the Day of Salvation. You see what the world really is today. You see that the world's leaders of darkness do not love you. God loves you, and you must (dei) come to Him through Jesus.
This age(aeon) will end with the Tribulation Period. The Tribulation Period marks the end of the so-called Church Age. Peter even writes that judgement will begin at the House of God. This is remarkable because he cogently comtemplates the destiny of the ungodly who know not God. The Tribulation Period will begin with the falling away first of the professed church. The confessed church will be with Jesus in glory. However, during the Tribulation we are told that the devil will be cast out of heaven and his wrath will be great because he knows that his time is short. The devil knows that the wrath of the Lamb is coming upon this sin-cursed world.
The Book of Revelation is the Book of Beginning too. What had been lost through the deceitfulness of sin has been overthrown by the Almighty God. The enemy (hater) of humanity will meet his eternal defeat by Almighty God whom he sought to supplant, and later mimic by claiming the perogatives of Deity for himself-a created being. All of creation is dependent upon God a fact that the mathematical theologians of energy had always known, and have carefully concealed from untutored humanity. God will one day dismiss this theater of the absurd and then we will have a new heavens and a new earth wherein dwells righteousness.
The distraction of trouble is upon us. It seeks to create fear in our hearts. Fear seeks to isolate us. Fear wants you to be intimidated. If fears wins your heart will be unsettled and ill at peace. If fear wins it will seize your profession of faith and imprison you in candid spiritual defeat. The Savior wants us to concentrate upon Him so that we will have peace during the storm. Beloved, don't let the enemy of our souls steal your hope.
God has told us in His Word that the end of this age (aeon) will be characterized by terrible and terrifying events. The Holy Spirit is now restraining the full manifestation of intra-and inter-human evil events. This world (cosmos) is controlled by evil beings that know their destiny is the Lake of Fire and yet are fully determined to do evil. These eveil beings know that the Lake of Fire is real. They know that God has already prepared the Lake of Fire for the devil and his angels. During the End Times God is going to remove the restraining power of the Holy Spirit and the unsaved will be allowed to destroy without restraint.
Jesus said: "And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple (Luke 14:27)." There are those who believe that the Words of Jesus can be ignored or dismissed without penalty. That belief is false, and will reap ruin to those who believe it. The Words of Jesus are Words of eternal truth and destiny. We ignore His Words to our individual and collective peril. Hear the Words of Jesus and find real life!
The Book of Genesis (Beginnings) opens with the creative activity of Yahweh Elohim through the immediate agency of His Word. There is the unity of speech/act in the original document. Note that Yahweh creates new being through His very Word. The God who speaks gives life through His Word. He is before creation, He is independent of creation , and yet creation is dependent upon His gracious will. The incarnation of Jesus the Logos is the reality of eternal essence in humam form. The more that we give our wills over to His Word the more we prosper in life.
People today are the victims of endless distractions. The enemy has used powerful brainwashing techniques, effective gaslighting tools, and political doublespeak to keep people off balance. 'Life' offers nothing to people today except debt, worry, angst, trivial excitement over shiny and deceptive objects so that they will not realise that "Waiting for Godot" will not bring them salvation. Godot never come to rescue the bewildered ones from their icy misery. Jesus is the opposite of the Godot LIE. Jesus offers real life to those who will come to Him.
Where is the fire of the Faith today? Where is the dynamic witness of fervent Faith? Why has understanding the Faith through the agency of abstract discursive replaced the refreshing fire of the Spirit? Why is it that few teach on the resurrection power of Jesus?
The Word of God protects out minds. We are to wear the helmet of salvation and never take it off. We are to metabolize the Word because if we do not we will not be able to stand against the wiles (strategies) of the devil (diabolos). Many lives have been ruined by people believing that they can actually "make it" in the devil's world without the Word. This is also a lie of the enemy. Brothers and sisters the Lord is coming soon dont allow your souls to be polluted by the devil's sexual images. Those who traffic in ography only wear a "mask" of sanity.
The world is a religo-political milieu. Those who do not yet know Jesus, and some of those who "believe" in Jesus march in lock step with the spirit of the age. The god of this age has blinded the minds of people lest they come to know the glorious person of Jesus and His salvation.
The Holy Spirit of God is our primany teacher. Without the Holy Spirit one cannot understand the Word of God. Yes, one may approach the Bible as "religious" literature, but the deep mysteries of the teachings of the Word of God will not and cannot be understood. The Holy Spirit is the author of the Biblical documents. It is He who moved certain persons to write down His inspired teachings. It is He who decided upon which books or documents were entered into the sacred canon. Unholy and spiritually carnal persons cannot perceive with divine accuracy Bible doctrine because they are not led by the Spirit.
In the 19th century various theories emerged from so-called higher criticism (scholarship) as to the origins of the sacred canon. These nefarious theories were based upon human philosophy. None of those theories were evidence-based. Conservative scholarship and Near Eastern archaeology have laid waste to these theories. Also, the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls have put an end to the nonsense theories of the 19th centuries.
The cosmic system is the "world" as we know it. The cosmic system is ruled by evil supernaturalism. Believing ones are enjoined by the apostle Paul to dorn the armour of God (Theos) as our only necessary protection while in the world. We are enjoined by Paul to do this because we wrestle not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, powers, and the world rulers of this present darkness.
Pauline Theology presents the reality of the finished work of Christ. Paul preached Christ crucified, and nothing else. Paul's self-understanding as a self-righteous pharisee was exploded by the Living Christ himself. Paul called everything that he had accomplished outside of Jesus "dung." Paul's greatest desire was to have a deep awareness of Jesus. We live in a world which blocks spiritual perception of Jesus. People are preoccupied with the things of this world, and what little they know of Jesus is snatched away by the enemy.
The Word of God demands that believing ones are faithful in doing the will of God. The history makers in the Word of God knew this to be true. Faith is demonstrated in the Bible by what one does not by what one says. We must be ever watchful of our actions. We dare not mouth obedience without appropriate actions as evidence of our confession. God blesses the lives of those who do His will according to His designs.
Ignorance of the details of the crucifixion of Jesus is inexcusable. No believer should be unaware of the how and by what means the Savior of the world was crucified. He died for all mankind and therefore the world should know about his sacrifice.
It is imperative to know the Good News of Jesus. Because He is the only way (road) of salvation. Many people claim to be the way of salvation either through politics, religion, or self-indulgence, but only through Jesus may one truly know God's salvation.
The cross of Jesus is still relevant. The cross of Jesus is the focus of history. Those who would escape from live ruined by sin must come to Jesus. The world only offers distractions and lies. The world offers only the pleasures of the flesh with the illusion of satisfaction. Only when one comes to Jesus will one find a real life. One must look to the living Savior in order to have a real life. Are you tired of the world and its lies? Come to Jesus and He will set you free.
The Word of God has provided sufficient prophetic messages so that the church may be edified by thing to come. It is important that believing ones are Spirit-filled in these days. It is important the believing ones be well grounded in the Truth of the Word because planned confusion is afoot. People are brain-washed, manipulated, frightened, lied too, and gaslighted relentlessly. The Amour of God and His Word are our only protection in these demonic times. Please pray for the saints in different countries around the world who are being persecuted because of their faith in Jesus.
Believing ones must understand the the spirit of this age is contra the Word of God. The world will never laud the power of the Word. Indeed, the world (cosmos) does not have the innate capacity to perceive the deep contents of the Word. That is reserved only for Spirit-filled believers. Through perception of the Word of God believers are able to grow in Grace and in the superknowledge of Jesus. That's right, superknowledge or epignosis is the result of believing the Word of God by Faith.
It is amazing that some people absolutely speak about the relativity of truth. It it also amazing that people without credentials decry, denounce, and rail against the Word of God. It is also amazing that the atheioi (atheists) want to impose universal silence upon the Word of God because it offends their sensibilities. It is incredible that cranky social theorists have written God out of the universe and left people without absolute values and principles. God has written down all of their lies with an iron pen! They will not escape His coming judgement.
The judgement of sin was done through the person of Jesus. The offer of eternal life with God is through the person of Jesus. The resurrection of Jesus may be denied by lesser intellects and so-called scholars who do not know God, but the resurrection did happen in 33 AD. Those who deny the resurrection of Jesus will stand before God one day and he will read from the books that have their terrible lies. The books will have all of the hard sayings that they have spewed about the person of Jesus including calling God a LIAR!
Jesus gave his life so that you and I can live forever with God. He is the Lamb of God who took all of the sin of this world unto His sinless person and bore the guilt and penalty of sin for us. If you are tired of all of the lies and evil of this world come to Jesus and get a real life. Come to Jesus for eternal life. He will bless yoy with a life that is wonderfully full and meaningful.
My dear brothers in Christ dont cheat on your wives in thought or deed. If you do you are giving the devil a foothold in your life, and a base of operation to destroy your testimony and loved ones.
The Great Tribulation will be a brutal time. The Great Tribulation is the time of God's wrath upon the Christ rejecting world. Indeed, very bad theology and compromised preaching has watered down the message of the Word of God. Pastoral counseling has replaced the fire in thy mouth pulpit. The sheep are being destroyed by ungodly shepherds. The anti-christ or man of sin will have a short reign. He knows that his destiny is the Lake of Fire and yet he will defy the God of Heaven.
Turn to God and you will experience a real life. Continue to believe in the failed ways of man and you will not be free in life.
The Apostle Paul knew that if one is to serve God fully he or she must die to sinful practice. There is no other way. The believer must reckon himself dead to sin and its inherent misery. In the presence of God alone do we find the fullness of life that is denied us in the satanic world system.
Abraham believed God's Word and he was credited with righteousness. This ancient man of God live in the Middle Bronze Period. He left Ur of the Chaldees in response to the call of God. However, he stopped at Haran (delay) until the death of his father who worshipped other gods. Abraham allowed his will to be shaped by the Word of God and he became the Friend of God.
Demonic feminism has relentlessly blasphemed men. Feminism has destroyed man-hood. Males no longer have role models. Classical role models are gone. Its because the powers no longer want men to be men. The powers want men to merely be mallable boys molded into whatever cartoon pseudo post-modern thing entity they desire. Males today, and females too have become shadowy figures that have no coherent self-understanding. Irrational nihilism rules the day
The Bible states that perverse behavior is the work of the flesh. Paul wrote in Romans that men and women learned to treat one another with adroit viciousness. He even uses the word pathos from which we get the english word pathology to denote that malignant estate of the soul given over to gross evil and lusts. ography destroys the souls of people. Some are even deluded to the point where they believe that ography can be a secret sin. Jesus knows what we are doing when we choose not to believe that He know what we are doing.
Childhood sexual abuse is the crime of the unspeakable. It is terrible to think about the reality of what many children suffer today. The souls and bodies of these little ones are used for sadistic and monsterous pleasure. These children are trafficked by the thousands around the world for mischevious ends. The Book of Revelation speaks about those who traffic in the souls of men. The Book of Revelation declares that economic Babylon will be a hideous global economic system that will traffic in human lives. The local churches are silent because they have been conditioned by false teachers be slient about the presence of the demonic in their midst.
Intellectual light weights and theologically inept false teachers have ruined the local churches in the west. They have led a coup against the Word of God and led many astray. Did not the satan do the same thing in heaven before he was cast our by God ? The same flawed reasoning is being used today to deceive and lead astray gullible persons who walk after the flesh. Men Without Chests deny the Lord and stand in the way of those who want to serve HIm. They are treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath. God will not spare those who trample under foot the blood of His Son!
Talk therapy is a multi-million dollar industry. Its results are a best questionable and yet people go to the talk therapist because they have been told that they can "help" them to resolve life's most difficult challenges. Research has shown that most people get better without talk therapy. Christians have allowed the talk therapist to invade and take captive the pulpit and the pastor's study. Pastors have beeen caught having sexual relationships with people under their care. The scandals are wide and great, and many lives have been ruined by these pseudo-pastors who are also talk therapists.
Humanistic psychology has ruined the local church in the west. Formidible pastor-teachers have been replaced by psychologized teachers of man's pathetic wisdom. As goes the priest so goes the people is a timeless truth. Pastor-teachers who once proclaimed the Word of God without shame have been set aside for psycho-whimps in th pulpit! Do these people not know that Jesus whose eyes are as a flame of fire is going to come back? Do these people not know that Jesus is coming back to judge this world and all of its hard anti-God lies?
If you read the bible closely you will discover that those who allowed the god of fear to rule their lives missed divine blessings. If you read the bible closely you will discover that fear is not a benign power. Fear is a living reality for many of the people of God. It is the idolatry of fear that keeps many of God's people stuck in colorless and boring lives. They fear moving out for God because they have never dared to believe God. They do not realize that "perfect" completed love casts out fear. Many lives are ruled by fear today.
The Word of God is the only counseling source for believers. Yes, one may use human sources for counseling, but they lack substantive depth and power. The Word of God, however, contains the necessary power and depth of meaning to substantively change the hearts of believers. We must love our enemies or we will be stuck in defeat. Love means a change of attitude that sets us free from a constellation of symptomatic disorders that will keep us in spiritual bondage.
Abraham is extraordinary because of his Faith toward Yahweh. Abraham is extraordinary because he learned not to depend upon human empiricism. Abraham is extraordinary because he dared to depend upon the veracity of Yahweh when it would have been sensible to rely on himself. Abraham knew that the only way to please Yahweh was to surrender up to Him the will of the flesh. Abraham is the theologian of Faith in the Old Testament as Paul is the theologian of Faith in the New Testament.
Please do not believe or listen to the extra-biblical definitions of Faith. Extra-biblical definitions of Faith are devoid of biblical content! They are merely philosophical and carry no real meaning or depth. The writer of the book of Hebrews candidly states that "without faith it is impossible to please Him (God). Believers must therefore understand the biblical definition of Faith and know the necessity of its daily practice. Worldly empiricism has no place in the life of a believer.
God provided adequate examples for people so that they would know that at some point judgement will come upon the world. There are those who dismiss such claims and decry the evidence and facts of the biblical documents and the findings of ancient Near eastern archaeology. They will not believe in the existence of God and that Jesus is the Son of God. They refuse to consider the formidible evidence that God is real and that He will judge the world one day.
The Blood of Jesus paid the price of the outraged holiness of God toward sin. Jesus gave His life so that we could have eternal life through his sacrifice. The Blood of Jesus did not merely cover sin. The Blood of Jesus took away sin! We have been given eternal life because of the gift of Grace. No man can buy salvation, it is God's gift to us. The Church of Jesus is not appointed to suffer the wrath of God. Those who come to Jesus now will never experience the terror of the wrath of God.
Jesus and the writers of the biblical documents warned that false prophets would arise during the last days of this age. Paul warned that the Man of Sin the Son of Perdition (Destruction) would not happen until the great apostasy at the end of this age. Yet false prophets are teaching that the Tribulation Period has already started. This is not the truth. Study the biblical documents and learn the Truth. The faith of many people has been destroyed during the Church Age by lies of false teachers.
Many of thise who have believed in Jesus are unable to follow Him because they have not crucified the ego-flesh. They are baffled and taken aback by their own failure to take up the cross and follow Jesus. They have never been properly taught how to put to death once and for all the the ego-flesh. One will search in vain today for a deep theology that will address the necessity of putting to dewath the ego-flesh. This is very unfortunate because one cannot follow Jesus unless the ego-flesh is permanently fixed to the cross.
Jesus is our savior. He gave his life that we may have life (Gk. Zoe). Without the sacrificial death of Jesus on our behalf we would remain dead in trespasses and sins. Without Jesus there is no justification by faith, and a glorious eternal destiny in the very presence of God (Theos). If you do not have a relationship with Jesus it is time to come to him, and if you do it is time to live as though you expect to be raptured out of the cosmic system at any time. Broad is the way that leads to destruction, but narrow is the way that leads to eternal life
The world does not let us rest. Jesus promises rest to those who come to Him. He promises to lift up and bear away the burdens that weigh down the soul. Only He can make such a promise to weary souls and set them free. However, those who would experience His rest must to Him and believe that He give a brand new life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, and that whosoever believes into him will receive eternal life.
One of the greatest weapons of the enemy is discouragement. Discouragement can wound the heart fasten the heart of the believer to the malaise of doubt. The enemy does not care about you and me. He only loves to see us wallowing in discouragement and defeat. If you are struggling with discouragement its hard to pick up your Bible and find the answer that you need. Therefore it is necessary for us to store up the Word in our hearts, and put on the Armour of God as a spiritual imperative.
The Apostle Paul was a wonderfully mature believer. He knew that believing ones who have sinned require the powerful medicine of Grace, not human psychotherapy. Paul knew that we are complete in Him (Jesus), and that Grace would heal the soul that has suffered spiritual injury. Paul never taught that one should tolerate sin or compromise with the presence of sin in one's life. He also knew that those in spiritual injury needed to be restored by spiritual saints, and not those who were not spiritual.
Sexual sin can destroy your spiritual life. Enjoying or finding pleasure in sexually explicit memories can do major harm to you new life in Jesus. Are you tired of what these memories are doing to you or your marriage or ministry? There is a way to be set free, but you will have to get serious with God to find freedon from sexual sin. The flesh is you spiritual enemy and it wants you to remain in spiritual defeat. Jesus can set you free.
In the Last days the wild beast will appear after the great falling away of the church. You see, the visible church will keep its outward form, but people within it will not put up with sound doctrine. They will heap to themselves teachers that will only tickle their ears with apostate teachings. During this frightening time the wild beast will appear. The beast will love nothing or no one but himself. The beast is the exact opposite of the Son of God Jesus who died to set us all free. The beast will demand worship. Those who worship him are destined to share the Lake of Fire with him too. Will the beast be worshipped in the Lake of Fire?
In the Age of Relativism what is, is right. In the Age of Iconic Self-Interest only the deified self is of Untimate Concern. In the Age of the Absurd people have been conditioned to believe that they may judge without consequence to themselves even the Word of the Son of God. The Word of Jesus is no longer real to such people. The People of the Lie find the Word of Jesus intolerable, and therefore have sentenced themselves to climbs of woe and misery. Jesus said:" Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away."
According to the biblical documents in the Last Days terrible times will come. The Last Days will be defined by the worship of the self. Militant post-humanism will discard any notion of God and righteousness. People will seek out teachers that will please their egos. They will only hear those who have a demonic message of selfishness, and morbid indulgence. One day the Holy Spirit of God will withdraw His restraining presence from this cosmos and then the self-indulgent ones will know the true nature and depth of evil in the world.
The northern kingdom of Israel was destroyed by Yahweh because it followed pagan religion customs. One of the most terrible customs of the city-states that were embedded in the promised land was the cult of infant sacrifice. Babies were placed upon an altar that was glowing hot, and drums were played in order to drown out the screams of the babies! This ancient form of worship is still practised today. Yes, it is hidden from the populace but it is real and many participate in it.
The people of Yahweh were terribly oppressed by a pharoah that did not know Joseph. This pharoah abused the people of Yahweh because he feared that if a foe attempted to northwestern frontier the people of Yahweh would unite with them in a confederacy to overthrow his nation. Yahweh raised up a young prince of Egypt to lead his people out of bondage. His name was Moses. He would become one of the greatest theologians of the ancient world.
The call of Yahweh is intrinsic to His will within the the lives of certain individuals. Those who ae called by Yahweh must do His will for their lives. In fact, to resist His will is active rebellion against eh known will of God. God does not relent nor does He repent of the call to those whom He has chosen.
The call narratives present the irrevocable call of Yahweh upon the lives of believing ones. Believers may not immediately like, or embrace the call of Yahweh, but no one called of Him may not decide to obey His Word. The call of Yahweh may not be negotiated or executed according to the will of man. Indeed, the one called of Yahweh may only obey Him.
Without faith it is impossible to please God. So states the writer of the Book of Hebrews. Jesus said: "According to your faith be it done unto you." We are to walk by faith, and not by sight. God tested Abraham. God will test those whp belong to Him. He will test our faith so that we can know the reality of our faith condition before Him. Faith is not some empty intellectual idea that one writes in a book for other to read. Faith is a living and dynamic reality. The appropriate object of faith for believing ones is the person of Jesus!
The last days of this age are upon us. Our days are filled with lies and liars. Evil men are becoming worse and worse deceiving and being deceived. Children are being sold and trafficked for sexual exploitation. Children are being destroyed and their bodied marketed in luxury cosmetics for the vile pleasure of the so-called elite. God sees and He knows that the vile one are treasuring up wrath against the Day of Wrath. Beloved in these days be sure to lean upon the Everlasting Arms of God.
God has done a wonderful thing for the constantly believing ones. We have eternal security in Jesus the Beloved One of God. One one can remove us from our eternal security in Jesus. One one can destroy our in position in Jesus. The grammar of the New Testament does not allow any other interpretation. Herein is a topic worthy of deep meditation for every believer
The Word of God cannot be destroyed by man. Even though those devoted to sin may want to destroy the witness of the Word of God it is impossible. The Word of God is eternal. Those who seek to disannul God's LORDSHIP over all creation they cannot. This is man's day. It will not last because sin always destroys the plans of man and God will one day bring down the temporal lie that man is lord. Those who think to fight agains the Living God will not and cannot win. The LORD who sits in heaven will laugh at the plans of man to unseat Eternal God.
The preacher Noah lived during the last days of the old world. In fact his birth was constructive notice to the old world that God was finished with its bold and violent ways. The world had become ovewhelming corrupt. The devil wanted to polluted all of mankind so that the Savior would not be born. He almost had his way, but God had another plan. God would bring Noah into the world in order to stop the plan of the devil, and bring in a genetic line through whom Jesus would come.
According the Book of Revelation and the other biblical documents God will judge(sentence) the wicked one day. Also according the Book of 1John God is causing this age(aeon) to pass away. The Book of Revelation teaches that the wicked are allowed to flourish for a limited epochal time and then God moves in with specific calculated, and unavoidable judgement. It does not matter how loud the opposition to God's rule yells and proclaim the perogatives of deity. There is only one Almighty God, and He will reign forever and ever world without end. Amen
The doctrine of suffering with Jesus has been neglected by the carnal church because it involves surrendering the cult of self. The cult of self dominates the church today because it offers a form of godliness but denies the power thereof. They no longer wish to hear from God. They have accumulated to themselves teachers that tickle their ears with delightful lies. However, in the end they will know in the first person singular the terrible reality of their decision to stand off from Jesus.
One of the most important doctrines of Biblical Christology is the doctirne of Suffering with Christ. This particular doctrine was prominent in Pauline Christology. It should also be prominent in our lives too. Jesus suffered on our behalf. He gave His life (soul) for us. We are debtors to Jesus for the sacrifice He made for us. The postmodern church will never teach this doctrine because it is carnal. Beloved come out from among them and be seperate from empty carnality. If you suffer with Him you will reign with Him!
The visible church has many individuals who have penned theologies of compromise. They have written books that deny the LORD that purchased them with His own blood. They have written poorly crafted books that beguile the artless ones into believing their odious lies. God seems to be silent concerning these attempts to destroy the little ones of the Faith once for all given to the saints. One day He will break out wearing His garments of war, and He will administer swift and certain judgement upon the heads of the wicked.
If you find ministry tough these days remember that God revealed Himself to Moses when he needed the blessed assurance that God would be with him in his difficult ministry. God reveals Himself to those who diligently seek Him out. God knows that ministry can be tough and rough, but dont give up. Keep on keeping on in Jesus' name.
The world has found a way to live independent of God. The world believes that God does not matter. It is ever so at the end of each age. People abandon restraints and take up beliefs and practices that do not honor God. People are ever changing and seeking to find meaning without God. This policy never works and always ends in disaster. However, God does not change. He is ever faithful to those who are faithful to Him.
The world by wisdom knew not God is a sad reality today. The false prophets have assured people that God, salvation, and redemption are not real. People are all too ready to serve themselves, but not serve the Living God. Those who have come to a saving knowledge of Jesus know that this age ends in judgement. The leaders of this age resist the knowledge of salvation. They want nothing to do with the Gospel. They persecute the followers of Jesus because they are not of this age.
The practice sin closes down future options. You will not find a medical condition called malignant sin in any medical book. Sin is not a subject that is talked about in psychiatric practice. Those with a very narrow world view do not recognise sin. They will say the sin is a religious concept. They will say that sin is a very distrubing topic. They will say that the topic of sin is not a topic for the present age. They will say that we have out grown this topic. However, the subject of sin is necessary because sinful actions dominant the spirit of this age. Jesus is still offering freedom from the terrible power of sin to those who will receive Him as Savior and Lord of Life.
Jesus was betrayed by the devil. The devil used evil men to attempt to stop God's plan of salvation. The devil knew that if Jesus went to the cross he would break his power over men and the kingdoms of this world. God knew of the devil's evil design, and he knew what he would do to accomplish our so great salvation. If one reads the Bible one would learn about the wisdom of God in not only providing our salvation, but in his judgement of the devil for his terrible deeds.
On the eve of His passion and subsequent crucifixion Jesus performed a wonderful act for His disciples. He disrobed Himself and girt Himself about the waist with a towel. He took a basin and filled it with water, and then He began to wash the feet of His disciples. He (Jesus) truly is the Servant of Yahweh. He truly is the Servant-Leader of His people. Jesus demonstrated a marvelous new reality before and upon His disciples. The New Reality requires that those who would belong to Jesus must be clean. Those who would be in relationship with Jesus must be free of the pollution of the cosmos!
God's mental health plan is centered in the person of Jesus. Jesus saves us out from every cosmic system and philosophy. Psychotherapy is philosophy. It is not science. It is the thoughts of men that are used as templates to tell us what is normative according to cultural values. God's mental health program is centered in divine norms and standards.
Prior to our relationship with Jesus we lived in a land of no pasture. The land of no pasture was a place of darkness, lack, misery, and fragmentation. It was only after we came to know that we learned about the terrible suchness of our proir condition. When we came to Jesus He removed the curse of our collective suchness of that horrid and empty place. He ( Jesus) opened our eyes to the richness of the pastures of the Good Shepherd.
Young people in the west are having a difficult time because they have been conditioned to believe that their lives are meaningless. They have been given things, objects, games, advice on anal sex, books on transsexualism, etc., but nothing on what makes life meaningful. [Teachers] have sex with students without shame or denial. A judge recently stated that children have no rights to privacy. Legislation is pending that affirms open pedophilia! God's wrath will be visited upon those who have done such terrible things to the young. As a result of these compounded evils suicide ideation and completed suicide events are on the rise. Where is the outrage in the media? Where is the outrage in the church?
God's prescription for the prevention of serious heart dis-ease is to guard one's heart. This teaching is not a suggestion it is a very serious reality and teaching that must be carefully observed. One cannot afford to be untutored and unaware in this world because dark and evil forces are never at rest. They constantly seek to undermine the spiritual lives of believers.
The Word of God states that Jesus is coming again for His Church. There are those who vehemently oppose this teaching of the Word. They have imposed their tiny wills upon the gullible through fiery rhetoric and empty sermons. They do not want the people of God to have hope beyond their mini-kingdoms. However, those who deny the Lord who bought them will spend eternity in the Lake of Fire. Jesus is coming for those who are holding on to the promise of the Blessed Hope!
God never promised that the faith-walk of the believer would be easy, but it would be worth it. God uses the Jerichos in our lives to cause us to look up to Him, and not inwardly to ourselves. Jericho was the first and most difficult of the Canaanite city-states that God's people had to face. He allowed them to face the most foreboding adversary first so that they would absolutely depend upon Him.
Believer-priests are called by God to stand for His Word in an increasingly hostile world. The cosmos-world is falling apart because it has effectively abandoned God. God is not wanted by the powers and people of this age and so God abandons them to their self-engendered destruction. Yes, there are vicious speeches and empty diatribes, but God knows their end. We as believer-priests will follow and perform the will of God. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God.
The biblical documents are very specific with regard to the holy character of God. As God's possession we are not to be persons who walk in sinful corruption. On the contrary, we must be holy as God is holy. We must be people who put away the old garment of filthy corruption. We must adore the garment of the new man that is created in the image of God. This is not a suggestion it is a command of God. We are to be distinctive in every manner.
The New Super Humanity in Christ is radically different from anything in the cosmos. For instance, not only do the members of the Body of Christ have eternal life; they also have completely new minds informed with the Word of God. Those who have new minds approved by God seek only to please God. Such persons are done with sin and its malignant lies! The mentality that is held up by the cosmos is filled with darkness, betrayal, and death. Those who are in conjoint union with Jesus worship Him with new young minds that will ever remain young.
God has done something through the person of Jesus that the cosmos-world cannot comprehend. God has taken human specimens that were ruined by sin and created a new humanity. Corporately this new humanity is called the Church or the Called Out Ones. This work of God in creating a new humanity has been and is being accomplished by the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God does not need cosmic science, pseudo-personality models, and genetic engineering to produce the new humanity. God is doing a wonderfully new thing through His own power. Incidentally, God is not co-identified with the universe in the documents He is the Creator who controls the massive energy of the universe through the Word of His power.
Walk in the Light as He (God ) is in the Light. This world is filled with the works of men and demons. Jesus is filled with the Light of God's love for this lost world. As believing ones we are to let our light so shine before men that they will glorify our Father who art in heaven. This world needs the Good News of Jesus.
According to the Word of God we have positional sanctification in Christ. We have been set aside in Jesus to the Glory of God. There is, however, this doctrine of sanctification in practice. It is a theology of spiritual growth. It is a theology of spiritual maturity. Intense spiritual praxis is mandated by the Word of God, but it is alas negated by the culture of personal indulgence. This one of the primary reasons that the church in the west has lost its dynamic social impact.
The Great Physician (Jesus) taught that forgiveness is a vital spiritual necessity. Believing ones who do not forgive cannot expect to be forgiven of their trespasses. We must also remember that we are to forgive others as God has forgiven us through Christ. This is no mere theological moral imperative it is the foundation upon which we have been forgiven for our many sins. The practice of forgiveness is primary in our relationship with God.
What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. The blood of Jesus destroyed the power of sin forever. Jesus appeared at the end of the ages to become the sacrifice for sin. The sin question has now been eternally settled. Please know that all human answers to the existential crisis of being human and human being is found in the sacrifice of Jesus. Those who seek to answer the existential crisis of being human without Jesus have a flawed major premise and therefore an equally flawed conclusion.
The Word of God is alive and power, and sharper than any two-edged sword. It penetrates to the dividing asunder of the soul, and spirit, and the joints and marrow, and is a discerner (judge) of the thoughts and intents of the heart. The Word of God can heal the sin-sick soul, and enlighten the heart. The Word of God can chase away the dark night of the soul. The Word of God gives the shattered ones the opportunity to be whole.
The work of the Holy Spirit is done in silence. The Holy Spirit does not call attention to His great work as men do their so-called great works. The Holy Spirit does His powerful work in our lives without public fanfare. The wind blows where it wills, and so does the Spirit of God. Years ago there were over 275 different psychotherapies, and don't know how many there are today. I do know that the practice of psychotherapy may be lucrative. The practice of prescribing drugs for persons who are having problems in life is highly lucrative indeed. People are labeled with pseudo-existential emotional disorders and given neuro-degenerative chemicals that harm more that help. The Holy Spirit sets persons free without using the competing recipes of men.
The human condition is exploited by worldly experts. The so-called experts have failed to help people. They really have no answers for the human condition. Those who dare to step out of agreed upon and pseudo-contrived answers are quickly silenced. Jesus is the only real mental health expert. He knows the deepest secrets of the hearts of men and women. Jesus knows how to set the souls of people free. Jesus knows that without salvation through Him people will walk in darkness.
Life and death are in the power of the tongue. Pleasant words are filled with power. Pleasant words give health to the body. Pleasant words possess existential power. They can build up a person's soul energy. Pleasant words are found in the Word of God. God's Word are pleasant to the famished soul. God's Word is life-giving. Fill your life with God's pleasant Word and you will get a brand new life.
The Word of God warns believers of the terrible consequences of anger. Anger is a demand imposed upon others to let the angry person have his or her way. It is a highly manipulative way managing relationships to one's selfish advantage. Never use the tongue to incite an argument or create deeper problems in a fragile environment.
In the post-modern world and in the post-modern local churches persons have been conditioned to believe that they may say anything that comes to mind. They have also forgotten that slander is a terrible crime, and the penalities there unto. There is a sphere of action that creates destiny, and those who do not know this truth can and will be tossed into the abiding mischief of the Slough of Despond. We must (Gk. dei) give an account to God of every idle word that is spoken.
Jesus gave his life for those who were his enemies. When we were enemies in our minds and hearts toward God, Jesus sacrificed his life for us. When we were yet without strength Jesus died for us. He took upon himself the penalty of our transgressions. We have forgotten the forensic nature of the death of Christ. We have forgotten the reality of the doctrine of the substitutionary death of Jesus. We really were lost (destroyed) by sin, and Jesus saved us from eternal ruin!
Trust in the living God is a powerful reality. Those who have learned this sacred truth have done wonderful deeds and received great blessings in Christ. Trust in God means that one has learned to focus upon the person of God. Trust in God means that one has single vision which means that one's entire being is full of Light. Trust in God means that one has cleansed the doors of perception and that one can see Great Things.
Many people today within the visible church have no idea how to define sin. They have been taught that sin is not a serious reality. They believe that they are good people who need to deal with some personal issues. They do not understand that they are culpable for rebellion against God's will by a failure to hear Him. They have no idea that failure to listen to God's Word is a great sin. They have been led astray by false teachers who discredit God's Word by their deceitful handling it. They do not know that they are culpable for ignorance of God's Word.
An Old Testament prophet declared..."my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." What a very real assessment of the church today in the west and the atheistic culture. The church and the culture does not want the Truth of the Word of God because it does not deify the word of man. The world and the churcn have come together and proclaimed that the word of man is greater than the Word of God. Those who oppose the Word of God and deny its truth are still acccountable to God for their decision to stand off from its claims. remember that when the godly line of Seth and the godless line of Cain came together judgement alas fell upon the pre-flood world.
Self-pity and discouragement are forms of existential disempowerment. These terrible and destructive lies can and will havoc your souls. The enemy loves it when the people of God are distracted and stuck in an emotional 'Slough of Despond.' Be assured that your Redeemer and Savior has provided healing for you through His Son Jesus.
The Logos is eternal. That is a reality the we cannot comprehend. Logos is prior to mediated reality. In fact, the physics of this reality are the creation of the Logos. The Logos has brought the salvation message of Theos (God) into the world. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
God's first command in the Book of Genesis was the creation of the electromagnetic spectrum. Light is primal reality. Light is necessary for all of the life forms within the biosphere with few exceptions. It has been recently discovered that humans emit weak light frequencies. The human body releases 100,000 biophotons per second. We are indeed creatures of light. This is God's incredible design for us as His creation. We are spiritual beings uniquely incorporated and at home within the electromagnetic spectrum.
The devil is the enemy of every believer. He is the god of the age, but he was completed defeated by the power of God in the resurrection of Jesus. Jesus has defeated the devil and the destiny of the devil is the Lake of Fire. He opposed the eternal plan of God and lost! You and I have been delivered out from the oppressive power of the devil through the finished work of Jesus. By Grace we have been saved by Faith, it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast.
Trials are God's method of testing the Christlikeness of our faith. Trials come to reveal to us where we are on the faith journey. Those who have the discernment to know when God is manifesting His love for us through the instrumentality of trials know that He will never leave us nor forsake us. When we are being tested we must also know that we must not seek to get out from under the test, but let it have its perfect work in our lives.
Anger addiction is a terrible form of enslavement. Persons who are under the power of anger addiction have many unresolved hurts and problems in their lives. They believe that anger some give them power. It is a great mental trick that hides a terrible truth. The angry person is full of pride. This is the reality behind anger addiction. Many lives have been ruined by anger through bitterness, murder,resentment, and other symptomatic behaviors.
Anger is a terrible form of idolatry. It can consume an individual's life. Those who worship at the altar of anger will pay with their lives at some point. Anger is a jealous god who hides from its worshippers its companion deity-pride. The angry individual is filled with idolatrous pride too. Get help to get free from anger before it demands you life. And to those who walk with angry people at some point you will be infected with their irrational and foreboding disease.
Life is not easy. Life can be very painful at times. There are times when all of us need the presence of God in a powerful manner. Jesus need God's comfort and so did Paul. We will find ourselves in tight places in this life. It is at this times when we ask God to be present with us in a special way. God is faithful to His own. He gives His comfort to His saints when we face tough situations.
King Saul in the Old Testament is a type of the flesh. King Saul reuled his kingdom with a spear in his hand. He wanted to destroy anyone and anything he believed threatened his rulership. He trusted no one. He never trusted God either. His mind and life were filled with the pursuit of a man (David) he knew to be worthy of the throne he had betrayed by disobedience to God. In order to please God you and I must crucify the King Saul in our lives.
Many hard things have been said about the person of Jesus by unbelievers. Unbelievers have attempted to destroy belief in the person of Jesus mainly by passionate emotional arguments devoid of substantive content. The shallow ones are drawn to such nonsensical musings because this is what they want to be real. However, God already knew in eternity past that such empty headed ones would walk the earth denying the Lord who purchased them at the cost of his own life. Playtime is over and God is standing at the door ready to snatch out His church and judge the unbelieving cosmos.
The Word of God states plainly that jesus is coming for His church. He is coming without the permisssion of people back to get those whom He has redeemed through the instrumentality of His blood sacrifice. Many are called unto salvation, but there are those who will not come to Him for salvation. Please believe that God is not willing that any should perish, but that all would bow beneath the cross for salvation.
Life is not easy for many of us. In fact, it can become discouraging if we do not keep our minds on Jesus. Beloved keep your minds on Jesus and he will guide you through the hard times in life.
Atheistic cosmologies are essentially cultural scientism. They may seem to be erected upon the foundation of objective science but that is not the case. They do not represent objective science if there is such a thing. Godless cosmologies are humanistic in nature, and are representative of the desire for the deification of man. Alas, it is illogical and impossible for a finite to become an infinite. However, technology has imposed upon the cosmos the necessary hubris for man to believe that he may indeed become the infinite through artificial (intelligence).
We need women of faith who are not afraid to lift up the prophetic Word in this sad day. Women of faith, you see that the culture is falling apart, and without you ruin will come soon. We need you to stand up for the Word of God today for without you we cannot last much longer. Your encouragement is vital in this day is programmed mediocrity. Please step up, and step out for God's Word today.
What has happened to all of the men? Have they all fallen prey to perverted sex, drugs, and games? Have they fallen prey to the frightening lies of passive religion? Have they no vision of what it means to be men? Have they been silenced by the roar of the giant? Do they all walk around in Saul's armour and have forgotten the power of 'Thus saith the Lord?' We need men who will brave the calling to speak the Word of the Lord to the lost nations.
Narrow or constricted in the way or road that leads to life eternal. Please believe me that Jesus presents the Way of Life and the devil presents the way of death. Jesus loves you. The devil does not love you. The devil wants you to join him in the Lake of Fire, and DESTRUCTION! Jesus gave his life for you that you may have his gift of eternal life. Come to Jesus and live.
God is making people free from the extential dread of sin. People are being given a new life by believing in Christ. He is the source of a qualitatively new life. Jesus give people real purpose in life. People are given a real destiny in Jesus. He can and will set you free from the power of sin. He will cure your soul of its dread conflict brought on by sin. Jesus is the Truth and he will set you free to walk in newness of life.
Spirtuality in the west has become a vapid reality. Indeed, the west has become this way because of the lies of inclusivism and multiculturalism. These lies are found in the Word of God in a very negative sense. God is a jealous God. He does not share his glory with anyone or anything. He demands exclusive worship and praise. He deserves exclusive worship and praise. Those who claim to follow Jesus are enjoined to count the cost in following Him.
The world today is no longer merely post-modern it is post-sanity. The world today does not realize that it has been cut free from any moral ground. What is, is right is the new post-sanity religion. People have been told that there is no deity to whom they will give account to one day. They have been told that there is no soul or immaterial essence in man. This is a great social fiction any many are being eaten up by this terrible lie.
Jesus was manifested in the world in order to undo the works of the devil. Jesus was manifested in the world to fulfill God's promises of redemption as revealed in the Old Testament. Jesus is the very heart of God. God is love. His divine essence is love. Jesus is God's answer to a world lost or ruined by sin. Jesus came to give his life as a ransom for many. God's love covers a multitude of sin. If you believe that you have destroyed your life beyond redemption God's love will heal your ruined heart. God is waiting for you to receive his love.
The old milieu was the milieu of death, and we participated therein too. The new milieu in Christ is the milieu of eternal life. The old way of being was the way of death. We too were once dead in trespasses and sins. But now everything is new in Christ ever to remain so! We must surrender the old attitudes that profited us nothing. The new life in Christ demands that we put on Jesus, and live as those who have been eternally liberated from death.
Biblical psychospiritual dynamics are founded upon the finished work of Jesus. He is our life. He is the author and finisher of our faith. The new man motif describes the radical mode of being that one must have as a result of the new relationship with Jesus. Neo-humanistic psychological models are at best poor reflections of what it means to be in Christ. The post-modern church has insisted that its uninformed members fashion themselves to the adjustive therapies of this age.
The cosmos had tried in vain to discount or deny the historic resurrection of Jesus. It has attempted to discount the resurrection by mockery. It has attempted to deny the resurrection by false arguments and it has failed. However, those who are willing to carefully investigate the evidence for the resurrection have come away astonished, and many have been saved. God did raise Jesus from the dead and the list of witnesses who saw him is nothing short of amazing.
In the cosmos when people are hurting they generally seek out a counselor, therapist, or some other mental health professional. Believers may seek out these mental health professionals too. However, it is also very important that believers are conversant with the psychospiritual provisions that are available in the Word of God when they are in spiritual pain. We have the living Jesus who is our Great High Priest. He was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin. Your spiritual problem may or may not be sin-related. Jesus is no mere therapist. Jesus is the Heart-Knower. He knows exactly what is going on in our lives. He knows that moment by moment we need Him.
Marriage was never to be easy, it was and is worth it. God gave marriage to all of mankind not just to believers. However, the believing community should know the profound meaning of marrage. Marriage represents the relationship of Jesus Christ and the Church. The Church is called the Bride of Christ. The word for church in the Greek New Testament has a feminine case ending. The Church is indeed the Bride of Jesus! The Church will some day be united with Jesus the head of the Church. Divorce is not a solution to your crisis.
According to the Scriptures Jesus died for our sins. He was made a sin-offering for all of human-kind. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever belives in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Jesus suffered, died, and rose again the third day for our justificaton. The suffering of Jesus is foretold in the Old Testament.
Jesus is our Savior and our Healer. Our three main enemies are the world (cosmos), the flesh, and the devil (adj). Looking with a fixed gaze upon the world will take a terrible upon one's spiritual life. The world offers distractions and amusement but it does not offer life. Only by looking upon Jesus will be powerful enought to overcome the myriad challenges of the cosmos.
In the New Testament God demonstrated his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners (adjective) Jesus died for us. God so loved the world that he gave his only begottten Son to die for our sins. Jesus is the Savior out from heaven who came in the likeness of our humanity to give his life as a ransom for sin.
The resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of our faith. Without the resurrection of Jesus we have no salvation. We read in the book of Acts that Death (Thanatos) attempted to hold Him down but could not because He is Almighty God , and death has no power over Him. Because He lives we shall also live.
Faith is a supernatural system of perception that is given to those who are saved. Faith is not mere God-talk. Faith is a system of perception that believes the Word of God by acting on His Word. In the Old Testament there is no noun for faith. Where the word faith is used in the Old testament is was imposed on the text. Faith is what one does, not what one says. However, in the New Testament we are given a powerful definition of faith that challenges us exchange tired empiricism for radical life-changing faith.
Those who reject the salvation that God has provided through Jesus will be judged for the crime of unbelief. This crime will have many consequences and all of them are terrible. People who reject Jesus will be send a strong delision by God so that they will believe the lie or the words of the Man of Sin. Make sure that you know Jesus and are saved from this frightening time.
The Christ-rejecting world will be sent a strong delusion by God so that they will believe the lie of the Anti-Christ. He will be received by the world as a great peace-maker. He will deceive the world and be a world ruler. He will insist on a one world worship system that centers on him. The people of the world will receive the mark of the anti-christ or wild beast, and will be unable to buy or sell without his mark or number 666.
The post-modern church is in need of godly women. We have had enough of the politics of autonomy. God wants women who have the courage to be godly in a world where character is not wanted. Just think of the women who are in the church today and the silent pain, hurt, and shame that many of them bear. These suffering women need godly to come along side of them and encourage them in the Faith.
This age is in desperate need of men who love and know God. C.S. Lewis would say that this is the age of "Men Without Chests." Character is frowned upon and the ungodly walk uopn the face of the earth and within the bowels of the earth with arrogant perambulation. God is no longer feared nor revered. He has been cast out of the human equation. However, with the absense of God there is the absense of meaning in life. People value things above relationships and a person's worth is within the abundance of the things he has acquired. Life in this world is hollow and empty without the presence of God.
The enemy knows our unique mentalities and our spiritual depth. He knows our predispositions to certain conclusions about ourselves and others. He has and does carefully observe our relationship with God. He knows the reality of our prayer life or if it is merely a fiction. The only way to be truly free from chronic discouragement is to trust God. Our perceptions of events can do much harm if they poison our spiritual lives. Discouragement starts with our thoughts that are independent of God, and we lean on our own understanding.
There is no clinical theology of the tongue for the believing community. The theology of the tongue is neglected or allowed to drift by because too many within the community would have to change their deeply superficial outward facades. We, however, are mandated by the Word of God to understand the cosmology of the tongue. It is a dangerous and destructive evil member of our bodies. It alone has the power to create terrible inner pollution.
The tongue is a small member and yet it has great power. It has the power to either hurt or heal. It has the power to either bless or curse. The tongue has the power of life or death. Unfortunately, critical studies on the power of the tongue are sorely lacking in western theology. The psychopathology of the tongue and its fruits are not studied. Instead the focus is on winsome language the neither builds up or heals. We need a theology of the tongue that will inform in lives in a powerful manner.
One of the most frightening realities of the Faith is that there are believing one who allow the Word fo God to drift by in their lives. They become passive and a benign contempt for the Word of God emerges in their lives. It is a very dangerous estate to refuse to hear the Word of God. We are accountable to God for our actions. It is imperative that we are spiritually alert to what God wants us to hear.
The cross of Jesus is not merely a symbol it is the place of new life. Jesus died for all mankind because God is not willing that any should perish. Those who believe in Jesus and in his finished work on the cross are saved, and receive eternal life. After salvation the new believer must undergo discipleship. Discipleship begans when one takes up the cross to follow Jesus. There is no other way to become a disciple of Jesus.
God has given His Son Jesus for our salvation. After we are saved we must grow uo in the Faith once for all given to the Saints. We have a new life and a new way of being because of our salvation. Old things have passed away, and all things have become new in Christ. We should make it our aim to grow in Grace and in the knowledge of Jesus.
We are saved by Grace through faith in the person of Jesus Christ. There is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we might be saved. With the heart man believes unto righteousness. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. If you would be set free free from the ravages of sin believe in Jesus.
God has forgiven us through the finished work of Jesus. This is a wonderful truth for every believer. God has forgiven us the penalty of sin. God forgives us when we as believers occasionally sin against him. We have been cleansed out from sin through the shed blood of Jesus. This no mere intellectual doctrine it is a living reality for us. Jesus has set us free. Therefore when others sin against us we are to set them free too.
Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat the fruit thereof. No believer is to use the tongue in an inappropriate manner. As believing ones we are to realise that sins of the tongue are both self-destructive and other-destructive. Our fellowship with God is also compromised when we sin with our tongues. According to the Word of God the tongue is a fire and a world of iniquity.
Anger is a terrible prison. It can destroy one's capacity for life. Anger can isolate and create barriers in relationships. Anger is a demand, and the source of anger is pride. God has given us his Son Jesus who bore our sins on the tree. When you find it difficult to manage your anger you may go to Jesus and talk to Him about what anger is doing to your life. You dont have to continue to let anger destroy your life.
We are the called-out ones. We are members of the Body of Christ. We are justified by faith in Christ. Theses are marvelous positional truths, and yet we are allowed by God to be partakers of the Sufferings of Christ. This is a very important doctrine that has been neglected in the post-modern church. The trails that we face come into our lives through the permissive will of God. God allows suffering in our lives because we grow thereby. Through suffering we learn to depend on God.
We are the called-out ones. We have been born anew by the Spirit of God. We are in the world, but not out of the world as a source. We are in Christ. We have a new life that is eternal, and it does not grow old. However, the world still fights against us. The world and the devil wants to attack us so that we compromise our faith. We are to hold fast this marvelous faith. Dont let the enemy steal your hope in Jesus.
Ministry is not for the faint of heart. Ministry is not for those who do not crucify the flesh with its affections and lusts. Ministry is a calling, and as such only the called should enter into ministry. There are those who doubt or are suspicious of the call to ministry. Statistically those who enter into ministry and have not been called by God leave the sacred work for some vocation more financially rewarding. However, to those who are called of God where did did you lose your cutting edge?
Many people today are stuck in life. They are stuck and have no idea of how or what to do to get unstuck. They settle for being stuck, and yet they know salvation through Jesus. What has happened to these people? It seems that failed leadership in the local churches have not taught people the importance of knowing the Word of God. Jesus said: " If the Son sets you free, you are free indeed." God has the power to get you unstuck and live a life that is wonderfully free.
In the Last Days there will be those who will say "Where is the promise of his Coming?" They will oppose the Word of God. They will raise militant voices against the reality of the Second Coming of Jesus. They do not believe the New Testament documents. They believe that their denial really means that God will not come for his Church. Jesus said that he was Coming for his Church. He said:" Heaven and earth will pass away, but his Word will not pass away."
Jesus said:" Come unto Me all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will rest you." This is no mere invitation, it is a command stated in the imperative. Jesus never said:' ...I will give you rest." He said:"... I will rest you." The rest that Jesus provides is both ontologic and existential. His rest brings to an end the terrible and chronic tramua of sin. Sin is real, and has real consequences. Jesus is the only one who can rest us out from the power of sin.
God's revelation is precious, and those to whom he reveals His Word are accountable to Him for His sacred treasure. Throughout the Word one reads that those who reject divine revelation are judged by God. The judgement that God brings on those who reject His Word is lack of spiritual perception. However, in the current cultural friendly church the absence of militant prophetic witness is seen as a great victory. As our Great High Priest Jesus knows our works, and He will judge the faithless ones.
The giant represented a real and present danger to the people of God. The giant despised the people of God and hurled curses upon them collectively. The giant taunted the army of God with incredible insults and disarming lies. No man in King Saul's army dared to challenge the giant in one on one combat. However, God had a man who did challenge the giant, and faced him upon the battlefield. Saul wanted the man of God to wear his armour, but Saul's armour represented the flesh, and David could not wear it.
It is imperative that believing ones are taught the Word of the Living God. True spiritual freedom can only be obtained by the constant intake of the Word of God. The Word of God is alive and power, and sharper than any two-edged sword, it alone pierces to the dividing asunder of the soul, and spirit and joints, and marrow, and is a discerner (judge) of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Only those who allow the Word to shape their hearts will find real real life and profound freedom in Jesus
We have the power of God at our disposal as believing ones. We are to be filled with the Spirit of God so that we do not engage in the works of the flesh. Two married believers who are in the flesh can and may ruin their marriage through unforgiveness. The flesh must be crucified if believers want to have a powerful marriage. If the flesh is not crucified chaos can enter in and destroy a promising marriage. There are practical and important steps we can take in order to have successful marriages.
Biblical marriage is a powerful relationship that founded upon divine revelation. God performed the first marriage ceremony. He caused the Adam to fall asleep and took from his side a tissue sample, and from it he built the Woman or Womb-Man. According to the Scriptures these two became one flesh or a compound unity. Sexual intimacy between husband and wife is a wonderful testimony to God's design for marriage. Marriage requires constant work and continual reliance upon the Word of God.
God created fathers and mothers as the foundation of the social order. After the appropriate worship of God himself no other relationship is above that of father and mother. Fathers and mothers provide the foundation for life that children need to live healthy and balanced lives. Certain social theorists have said that a family is just a collection of persons who have decided to live together. This is a great lie. Many studies have followed the developemental trajectories of children who have not had the foundation of the mother-father dyad, and they are most telling and informative. Boys from divorced homes or who have never had a father do not thrive or prosper as well as they would with a father in the home. Girls, it is believed, do better than boys, if there is not father in the home.
We are the Temple of the Holy Spirit. We have been created anew by the Spirit of God through regeneration and therefore members of the eternal Temple. Everything about us has been made eternally and qualitatively new. The new position that we enjoy in Christ should change our minds and actions about the wonders of the finished work of Christ. Jesus gave all to give us all. We are beautiful living stones in the Temple (Naos) of God. This powerful reality should make every child of God rejoice with exceeding gladness.
Those who confess the Name of Jesus must know that the Devil wants to devour their lives. The Devil was completed defeated by Jesus when he died and was resurrected for our salvation. The Devil knows this to be true. He is a powerful yet defeated foe. Since he was soundly defeated by Jesus who is all-powerful he wants to attack those who belong to Him. The Devil (adjective) wants to destroy our lives because he knows that we are eternally joined to Jesus.
When you are high on you, you cannot see God. The me-high may last for a while, but it is filled with deception and lies. The me-high will allow you to indulge in unheard of fantasies, but the crash will be hard. You will receive many wounds when you venture into the world of the flesh. Please know that what is done in the darkness will be revealed in the Light. Get healed of your dark wounds while you can because judgement day is coming for all of the world.
We are the people of God and as such we should live godly lives. Please note that even though God loves us He will not tolerate sinful living. Excuses for sinful living will only cast us deeper and deeper into the Slough of Despond (Pilgrim's Progress). There is a type of spiritual depression associated with sinful living. It creates misery and self-induced unhappiness in our lives. Sinful living also destroys our fellowship with God. We can be free of depression related to sinful living if we surrender ourselves to the effective therapy of Divine Truth.
There are persons very close to us who bear unspeakable secrets. There are those who we love who have come to believe that they are unworthy of love or of being loved. The distant ones are cut off from themselves and real relationships beacuse at some point in their history their hearts were shattered by a so-called loved one who abused that love, and told the victim to stand guard before the tomb of a terrible secret. Victims of abuse are made to stand guard over the tomb of their own undoing.
The world loves to assert control over the lives of persons. It does so because it wants to use and then discard persons at will. Persons are enjoined by the world to live in ways that are antithetical to spiritual/mental health. The world wants the hearts of persons in spiritual ruin because it can manipulate and abuse them through subtle and covert means. The Word of God teaches that persons are accountable for their actions. We are responsible for unforgiveness in our hearts. Unforgiveness manifests itself in specific and dangerous symptomologies. God has stated that we are mandated to forgive or we will be imprisoned with the one or the ones we have chosen not to forgive.
The people of God need to remember that Jesus bore our sinful guilt on the Cross. By his stripes we are healed. Real guilt for real sin was ended forever by the Saving activity of God in the Cross of Jesus. So many people have no understanding of the Cross of Jesus because their teachers are themselves enslaved to sin. However, God is still doing wonderful things for people today who place their trust in the Finished Work of Jesus.
Is the church today even aware of its complicity to sin? Does the church today recognize that it is feeble and sorely lacking in spiritual power? Does the church today even know the doctrine of the flesh as expounded by the Apostle Paul? The church today is under the judgement of God because it no longer seeks to obey God and walk by means of the Spirit. Yes, the church today has psychology, programs, and "music" filled with emotion and little doctrine, but where is God?
The Apostle Paul was spiritually astute and aware. He was a man filled with the Spirit of God. He knew first hand the Cost of Discipleship. He knew that to follow Jesus meant death to the Ego! He knew that the Ego must be crucified if one was to follow Jesus. There is no other option available to anyone who desires to follow Jesus. We cannot follow Jesus on our own terms. Pathology the local churches has taken away its power to follow Jesus.
The kingdom of God is not a matter of talk, but of power. Paul knew the reality of this important doctrine that has been lost in the post-modern church. Religious post-modernism cannot recognize the Church filled with power because it has left the power of God for the doctrines of men. Even its songs are empty and self-serving. Its messages are filled with psychology for living instead of the fire of the Spirit.
The first eleven chapters of the Book of Genesis are essential cosmic history. As such, these chapters have been ruthlessly attacked by so-called scholars starting in the 19th century. Even today, fake scholarship attacks the Book of Genesis as literature that is not to be taken seriously. This fake scholarship always falls apart because the Scriptures are the work of the living God. For instance, in Genesis chapter three the devil or "shining one" attacks the woman and completely deceives her unto her ruin or so he thinks. The Adam willingly follows the woman into disobedience and therefore sin essentially destroying their home. They will both be saved from eternal ruin by the Grace of God.
Lies are falsehoods that are deliberately cast by their creators to hide the truth. Lies are fictions designed to lead astray. Lies are used to deceive and manipulate. Those who create lies have shattered the relational matrix of reality, and are therefore accountable to God for their ontological disdane of his character. Liars are idolaters. They believe in false doctrine so they can walk in darkness and practice evil. Liars have taught themselves to live independent of the Truth, and this is the beginning of lie-based thinking.
We are constantly informed in the Biblical documents that God is well pleased only by faith actions. Yet, there are those who would have us to believe otherwise. There are those who want us to think that the mere talk of faith is enough. This is because they have been deceived by self and others that roof brain chatter (intellectual hubris about faith is sufficient. They are afraid of real faith, therefore they seek to undermine the real faith of real believers.
Kingdom warriors have decided to live for God,and to do his will while they live within the cosmic system. Kingdom warriors know that they live for Jesus in the eschaton. The eschaton is the end of times. The eschaton began at the resurrection of Jesus out from among the dead. The " People of the Lie" believe only in the deadly elixer of humanism. They do not believe that they will some day stand before the living God and be judged for their actions. Kingdom warriors remind them that their foolish atheism is a terrible delusion.
The cosmic system does not dislike your suffering. The cosmic system can and does make an incredible amount of money by your suffering. Your suffering is marketed in stocks, bond, mutual funds, index funds,saving bonds, and other financial paper. However, when you are healed by Jesus you are no longer a product among other products to be bought and sold among the various exchanges. Jesus sets you free from the ravages of the cosmic system. Jesus give you life eternal. Eternal life is not a financial instrument traded among the markets. Eternal life is the gift of God through Jesus.
The word trauma means wound(s). The Word of God teaches that the wages of sin is death,but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus. It is not enough to see the problems of trauma limited by human terms. Those models that do so limit trauma and its power to reshape us by their collective limits. Trauma is powerful and life changing in scope and we would do well to understand that it is filled with mysteries. God understands the reality of trauma and its ability to remove hope and chase persons into despair. Jesus heals persons of the ultimate trauma of sin so that they may walk in freedom.
We live in extraordinary times. We live in times when people do not believe in the existence of God not even within the local churches. People today actually believe that they may say and do anything without moral responsible. People say anything and believe that they have a right to utter the most corrupt and depraved things. People today love the practice of blasphemy. They have no idea that one day they will stand before God and give an account for terrible sins of the tongue.
In the last days professing believers will live in a moral abyss. They will live lives that are completely antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus, and yet they will profess to know Him. This is a staggering revelation to consider, and a very disturbing theological tension. They will stand off from Jesus through their godless actions, and yet they love to wear the masks of shallow belief. They are indeed mere masks with no backs to their heads, and Paul tells us that we must turn away from such persons.
Paul is very detailed about the character of the local church(es) in the last days. He is frank in his Spirit inspired estimation of the horrific realities that will characterise the local churches. He lets us know that these so-called churches will not be Christ-centered. He lets us know that demonic powers will direct the people, and the people will be motivated by avarice, meanness, and wanton caprice. Paul knows that people who live in this manner may profess Christ, but they do not confess Him.
The Bible is very clear that in the last days men will be lovers of themselves. What does this statement mean? What is it that God is telling us? It seems that God wants us to know that spirit that is now at work in the rebellious ones will havoc the world, and men will be exceedingly violent as in the days of Noah. God is bringing this hard and heartless age to a close by visiting judgement on the arrogant and rebellious ones.
The Holy Spirit of God intimately knows our sorrows. He knows our unique needs and problems. Many times we maynot be able to articulate what is going on in our hearts because of the pain we bear. Sometimes the wound or wounds are too great to tell others. However, there is One who does not need tobe told about the sorrow and pain that eats our souls because He is the Soul-Knower.
The works of believing ones will be judged by Jesus. This specific judgement is called the Bema. At the Bema or the Judgement Seat of Christ the works of each believer will be judged by fire. We are cautioned by the Apostle Paul to take heed how we build thereupon. We must give an account to God for the deeds done in the flesh. Have we lived our lives by the power of the indwelling Spirit or have we lived in the flesh?
This cosmos is the enemy of believing ones. The person of Jesus is held in contempt by many , and yet he gave himself as a ransom for many. God so loved the cosmos that he gave his Son to die for it. Those who follow Jesus for real will be persecuted.
The Word of God is our compass. The Word of God is our guide book. The Word of God does not lie to us or attempt to deceive us. However, the cosmos is designed by the Enemy to do maximum harm to the lives of believing ones. We follow the Word of God because his Word is our only light in this dark world. If you life lacks meaning you need get back to following God.
Christ Jesus came into the world to give his life as a sacrifice for sin. He died on the cross for you and me. It is through Jesus that we may have eternal life.
The fruit of the Spirit is the normative spiritual life for believing ones. The works of the flesh hinder and destroy appropriate spiritual fellowship with God. Walk by means of the Spirit and you will fulfill the lusts of the flesh.
We are called by God to walk by faith and not by sight. The life of faith can only be lived by the resurrection power of Jesus. You and I have available to us God's own power that brought Jesus back out from the dead. Through his resurrection power you are enabled by God to live a life of incredible faith and focus. This life of living by the resurrection power of Jesus is the normative life for believing ones.
The Word of God teaches that our minds belong to God. Our minds fall under the lordship of Jesus as our Savior. When our minds are given over to Jesus we grow in Grace. When we begin to grow in Grace we mature in the Faith, and our minds become sanctified. A sanctified mind is set aside unto the Lord. This type of mind has a marvelous mental attitude, and is capable of great things for God. This type of mind is the Mind of Christ beacuse it is filled with bible doctrine.
The cosmic system is the "empirical lie." The empirical lie is the world system that seeks to supplant the faith-walk of believing ones. The empirical lie wants believing ones to stop depending on God and depend on self. When believing ones depend on self they no longer walk by faith, but according to the elemental principles of this age. When believing ones walk by sight they become spiritually dull, and insensitive to the things of the Spirit of God that give life. When we walk by faith we give up the derangments and abuses of the cosmic system.
We are enjoined by the Word of God to forgive. We are taught by Jesus to forgive. Powerful spiritual living is based on forgiveness. Many people never learn this major spiritual truth. People who do not forgive have shorter lives. People who do not forgive have heart disease and other physiological problems. According to the Word fo God those who imprison those who offended them in unforgiveness share spiriitual bondage with the unforgiven party or parties! Forgive and be set free.
God's people are suffering today. The hearts of God's people are heavy with the burdens of this world. God's saints are troubled by the powers of darkness and the mischief of evil. Some of God's people have witnessed their places of worship reduced to rubble. Others are not allowed to assemble together for worship. Some pastors do not even have a complete copy of the Word of God at their disposal to teach their people. Heartache abounds today, and we desperately need the Comforter in our midst.
Difficult time have come upon the world. These hard times have been engineered by the devil. He wants to see mankind suffer. He wants to do harm to mankind in general, and the Church in particular. The devil hates those for whom Jesus died, and he wants them to experience maximim ruin. The devil is the god of this age, but his own ruin has been foretold by Jesus. The devil will be cast into the the Lake of Fire along with his evil angles!
The western church is dissolving before our eyes. The western church is dying because it has abandoned God. Sin is out of control in the western church. The western church has chosen to follow the cosmos, and has therefore lost its identity. Fake preachers stand in pulpits across the country and proclaim watered down religious nonsense. They lead the people of God astray with malignant lies. The only way to save the western church is to return to God.
God established the family as the foundation of society. He created Adam (male and female) in the beginning. In the Book of Genesis both man and woman are called Adam. Both man and woman are powerful beings before God. God created man and woman to balance the home. Man and wife are responsible before God for their actions. The devil wants to destroy the home because it is God's plan for society. The devil is the opposer. He opposes God's plan for humanity. He will not, however, overthrow God's plan for society.
Both the Old and the New Testament teach the doctrine of the Divine Warrior. It was the Divine Warrior who fought against the genetic monsters of the pre-flood world and won a decisive victory. It was the Divine Warrior who fought the Egyptian gods and mocked them total defeat. It was the Divine Warrior who congealed the waters of the Red Sea (Sea of Reeds) and led God's people into freedom. It was the Divine Warrior who defeated sin on the cross and shouted "It is finished!"
We have a wonderful future as the people of God. We belong to Him and He belongs to us. We have an eternal relationship with Him through Jesus our Redeemer. One day the heavens will open, and Jesus will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the dead in Chist will rise, then we which are alive and remain will be changed too, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. At some marvelous future date Jesus will sing praise to God in the midst of His church.
Walk by means of the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the Spirit. We are called to live lives that are well pleasing to God. We live lives that well pleasing to God when we order our steps by means of the Spirit.
Jesus challenged many people during his public ministry to exercise faith. He did this in order to get people to stop trusting in themselves, and to trust God. There were those who who performed the actions of faith, and there were those who struggled with faith. They were captured in the snare of unbelief. They wanted certain things to happen in their lives, but they were found wanting due to their failure to believe God. This, unfortunately is the estate of many who lack sufficient faith in God.
Welcome to the age of rat-o-morphic man. Rat-o-morphic man is the anti-utopian creature of B.F.Skinner. He said:"To man qua man we readily say good-bye." People today are living out the research of Skinner's behaviorism. They have no idea whose creation thay really are. They are 'True Believers' who have no idea that they are the living results of experimential behavioral psychology. They have been programmed to behave as they do. The 'Ghost in the Machine' has been exorcized by Skinner. The Gospel of Jesus is an imperative message in the age of Skinnerism.
Jesus is the living Word. He is not a mere fabrication of the human intellect. He is the God-Man, He is the Theanthropos. God so loved the world that he gave us Jesus. God is all-knowing. He therefore knew that our collective menace is sin and death. Jesus saves us from the ravages of sin and death. He sufffered the penalty of our sin in order to save us from the wrath of God. Jesus is our Wonderful Counselor who knows what is going on in our hearts all the time. He is the Heart-Knower. He must be the center of clinical counseling practice for the believing community.
The Word of God will bulid up your soul and bring stability to your life if you will study and practice what you learn. The Word of God knows our deepest needs. The Word of God speaks powerfully to our fragmented hearts. There is nothing like the Word of God. Be the courageous one who avails himself of the Word. Be the one who has his soul built up by the Word of Grace, and you will have joy unspeakable, and be full of glory.
The malignant ones have appeared. They are from an ancient age. They are clothed in the garb of the demonic, and their vocal chords are controlled by demons too. They speak destruction and herald sedition. They have come to speak division, and dark mischief to those who have forsaken the Good News of Jesus. Yes, the visible church speaks, and acts like Jesus is real, but where is the fruit ? Where is the message of the radical power of the cross? Where is the message of Christ crucified?
Real knowledge is being hidden from the world today. People are used as cannon fodder for the desires of the hidden ones. God knows that the dark ones believe that they are in control of the world and its destiny. The dark ones have hidden from the world of men true knowledge. Truth is hidden beneath an intricate web lies and deception. God has shown the world the depth of his love. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him should not die, but have eternal life. Those who reject the Good News of faith in Jesus will incur the wrath of God.
The Second Coming of Jesus is one of the greatest doctrines of the Word of God. This doctrine teaches that Jesus is expected to descend our from heaven and come for his believing ones. The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the trumpet of God, and the dead in JESUS WILL BE RAISED. We who are alive will be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air!
There are those who teach today that Jesus is not coming again for his church. They are the voices of the anti-christs who are out of the cosmos as a source. They speak with great arrogance because they are not saved. They seek to remove hope from the hearts of God's people, and the untutored among the people of God will believe their lies. However, the Second Coming of Jesus is our "Blessed Hope." We give God praise and glory because of this wonderful event.
We were bought with the precious blood of Jesus. We are not our own. We must not choose to be the servants of sin. We must choose to be the servants of God. It is sad that the post-modern church has forgotten that we are saved by virtue of the redemptive work of Christ. We become shallow and ineffective when we forget God's complete claim to us. Salvation cost God his Son. He expects us to come to know the reality of who we are and whose we are.
We find ourselves living in perverse and evil times. The media are quick to tell us about heinous acts. We are carefully exposed to shameful things without filter, and there is no way to get away from the sick narratives of the media. Children are no longer seen as the sacred arrows of the future. They too are exposed toa bewildering variety of terrible truths about sinful humanity. The west has lost its way because it has abandoned God.
There was/ is nothing passive about the promises of Jesus. He is God manifest in the flesh. He is the Theanthropos. He is God's answer to the human condition. Without God in the world people are dead in trespasses and sin. Jesus is the only one who can give life to those dead in sin. He is the Life-Giver to humanity. The world is full of terror, death, and misery. And yet God's message of Life is still at work in the world.
We are living in a day wherein the results of psychologized christianity has produced its rotten fruit. The proponents of this fake brand of christianity have participated in a movement that curtained the message of the cross in favor of a popular lie. They have destroyed and ruined many lives with empty ideological gas. Some have seemingly repented of the myth of psychologized christianity, but I remain suspicious of their motives. Then again perhaps some have really come to repent of their nefarious deeds.
The world (cosmic system) is one of the great enemies of believers. The world (cosmic system) is filled with attractions and pleasures of the flesh that destroy devotion to Jesus. Yes, one may do lip service to Jesus, but efffective Christ-centered living is nil when the heart is filled with the desires of the flesh. The world is never going to gives its approval of your Faith in Jesus. Leave the world behind and start living for Jesus you will not regret it.