Thursday, November 7, 2024

Why Almost ALL Christians Today Are On Sinking Sand

This is what Jesus said in Luke chapter 6. "Whosoever cometh to me and heareth my sayings and does them, I will show you to whom he is like. He is like a man which built a house, diggeth deep, laid the foundation on a rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat the Hemetly upon that house and could not shake it for it was founded upon the rock. But he that heareth and does not is like a man without a foundation built a house upon the earth against which the stream did beat Behemoth and immediately it fell and the ruin of that house was great." 

The key here is listening to Jesus's words and then obeying them, which most Christians are not doing today. The men of old, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they heard things from the living God and then they acted in faith, leaving their towns, taking persecution, overcoming trials, leaving family members who did not believe. They were very straightforward about their faith, the God that they serve. They were unashamed. They didn't bend to the culture and when they made mistakes, they repented and they continued to go down the path of the straight and narrow that leads to life.  Today though, most Christians are not like the fathers of faith. They're not like the early apostles. Christians today don't think that they will suffer persecution. They don't think that they'll have to go through the end times tribulations. They don't think that they have to pray continually.  They don't think they have to truly repent of sin and overcome. And so their entire foundation is on the earth. It's on the sand. They believe in the Bible. They believe in the prophets.  They can quote you things that Jesus said from the scripture. But because their entire foundation is upon the sand, even though they built on it with the scripture, when the rains come down and when the stream beats vehemently upon their house, the whole operation will come tumbling down. And we see that happening today with many Christians' lives, many church organizations. We see the whole thing falling apart because Christians are no longer basing their life on obedience and true repentance. They're basing it upon their knowledge and understanding of the scripture, their church doctrines.  We need to make sure that we truly are repenting, that our faces are on the ground before God, that we become humble, and that the Lord fills us with His righteousness. That we're not thinking we're righteous because we know the Bible and because we're educated men and women, but that we are righteous because the Holy Spirit of the living God is in us and he has purged us from all uncleanliness, from all things that are evil. We need to make sure that we're separate from the world doing the will of God, then we can have the very basic foundation that Jesus wants us to have. The foundation that is on him. Is your foundation on Jesus Christ?  Are you on the solid rock? Or have you built your life on the knowledge of the Bible without true repentance, without true obedience, without righteousness, without the holiness God requires? Are you really obeying and living out your faith for the Lord Jesus Christ?

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Victory for Donald Trump: what it means for Christians

 

Victory For Donald Trump WHAT it Means for Christians

 We'll praise Jesus today, brothers and sisters in the Lord. Many of us have been watching and we see the news of that victory of Donald Trump, which is truly a blessing for Christians. It is a goal.  It is a step in the right direction for Christians. But that does not mean, and I don't think anyone thinks it means, it will be smooth sailing for the United States or for the world or more specifically for Christians who want to continue to walk forward on the straight and narrow path.

We know from what Jesus taught, from the things about the end times, such as Matthew chapter 24, that in the end times things go from bad to worse.  Christians are persecuted. There is pestilences and disasters, famines, earthquakes, and all of these things will happen. Countries will be at war with other countries.  We can expect all these things to happen, but what Jesus says is the end is not yet. The end is still to come. There are a lot of people who think that when they see all these things, the end will happen immediately.  But Jesus already told us that the end is not yet. It will not come immediately. So we have to prepare in our hearts to endure with Jesus to the very end. 

Now I want to speak about something here that many people will be upset about, but it is the truth. And this is the main thing I want to talk about because there is a physical aspect and a spiritual aspect for Christians. Praise Jesus today everyone. What I want to speak about is the wall and the eviction of the people who are ungodly. Because Donald Trump speaks about this, Jesus speaks about this, people are going to be kicked out of Jesus' kingdom and the walls, the city gates of the kingdom of heaven are so tall that no evil will get in it. Yet you have Christians letting all sorts of evil into the boundaries of their church.  They don't build a wall into their own hearts. They don't know how to evict demons. They don't know how to cast out demons.  So you have a president of the United States who speaks so much about building a wall and deporting illegal immigrants back to all of their countries, and then you suddenly have all of these people. And it's such a shame that even Christians would be offended at this because Christians should know more than anyone that you have to build walls. That's why there's a wall around the kingdom of God. 

And in our own hearts we have to build walls. We protect our own borders, you know, to our children, to our wives, and we keep things that are evil out. And if you allow things that are illegal, so to speak, into your own heart, into your own mind, through the TV, through the media, through video games, through perverted music, through friendships, through people that you consider to be your brother, your sister, even if they say that they are a Christian, it doesn't matter if you're allowing them into their life and they are leading you away from the true God.  You need to kick those people out of your life. You need to deport them out of your life. Donald Trump knows this.  It doesn't matter if you think that he is a good Christian or not. It doesn't matter what you think about him because what he's displaying in the physical realm is something we as Christians need to do in the spiritual realm. And so many Christians, so many Christians, guys, are refusing to sever themselves from the ungodly, the lawless, the sinner, because they say, we love these people.  They're people that are helping me. They're people that are, you know, my own brother and sister, my own family member, so I can't leave this ungodly church that's causing me all sorts of problems. I can't leave there. I can't secure my borders because these are people that make up my own life, my own existence. And because Christians are unwilling to divide themselves, to sever themselves from ungodly people, they're going to be numbered with the tares. Remember that in the end times, God separates the wheat from the tares, the sheep from the goat.  He separates the good seed from the bad seed. And so many Christians think that God doesn't see. They think, well, all of us are sinners. Praise the Lord. All of us are sinners, but all of us are going to be in heaven because of the Lord's blood. That is not what Jesus said.  Of course, Jesus shed his blood on Calvary. He died on the cross and resurrected. But there will be many Christians in hell because they never repented and cast out their demons.  They never overcame. Those who overcome, overcome by the blood of the Lamb, but also the word of their testimony. And they endure with Jesus Christ and they suffer persecution even to the end of the world.  And the gates of hell will not be able to destroy them and come against them. That is because Jesus is on their side and they never back down from doing what is right. They don't allow Satan into their hearts.  They don't continue to walk with mockers and those who hate God and those who blaspheme and those who commit idolatry and every sort of sin that God hates.

Christians can be pro-Trump, and there are a lot of Christians that are pro-Trump, but they're not pro-righteousness. They say, Jesus, Jesus, Holy Spirit, but they never truly repent of their own sins.  They agree that Donald Trump should put up bigger and stronger walls. They agree that he should deport all of the illegal immigrants who have gotten here illegally, not legally, but they reject that they need to repent of their own sins. So this is a huge analogy that God is giving to the Christian church today all across America that the entire world can see.  You don't need to get all fixed on thinking, well, is Trump the Antichrist? Is Trump the false prophet? No, God has allowed Trump to give you and me and all of us time to get right with God, time to pray, time to have religious liberty and freedom to preach the truth, to get our houses in order, and if you are rejecting that, you are rejecting the blessing that God has given you in this time. He is giving another opportunity, another chance for you to get right with God, a chance that we do not deserve as a nation, but because God is merciful, because He is loving, His love and His righteousness and His blessing comes on the evil, the wicked, even people that don't deserve it at all. And these people that don't deserve it, I sure hope that some of them will see the grace of God instead of spitting in His face and rejecting the words of Jesus.  I hope they cry out to the living God for salvation because all of us should know that obviously Trump is not the Savior. Jesus Christ is the Savior and He is willing to save you from your sins and give you time. He doesn't want to just call down fire from heaven to destroy men's lives.  That is what a lot of Christians hoped for, just like the apostles hoped that fire would be called down from heaven and just kill all of Jesus's opponents, to kill all those Pharisees and all those Sadducees. Jesus did not agree with that. He did not hold Peter's hand in that and agree with him, but He said, I have not come to destroy men's lives but to save them.

And the same is happening today. A lot of people wish that God would just kill America. She is fat and ugly.  She is giving herself to prostitution, you know, gay marriage, homosexuality, murder of babies. That doesn't deserve God's love, but God has even brought the rain on the good and the wicked. So don't spit in God's face.  Don't flip off God. You have this one more chance to repent of your sins, to deport evil, to cast out demons out of your own life, to get drugs and alcohol out of your life, to get pornography out. It is really a wonderful blessing that someone like Donald Trump can exhibit this example of not giving up, even though people want to sue him, even though people want to shoot him in the head, even though they want to lie about him constantly. What does he do? Even being a man in the world, he continues to push forward and not give up. And that is a wonderful example for Christians, the true Christian church, not to give up. If Christians would serve Jesus half as hard or one-tenth as hard as Donald Trump is serving the United States, Christians would be able to repent.  They'd be able to overcome sin. We need to overcome our sin problem. We need to cast out demons in Jesus' name.  We need to put on the full armor of God. We need to cast out what is evil from among us. No unrighteous thing is going to enter into the kingdom of God.  Nothing's going to pass that veil and be in the kingdom of the everlasting King without true righteousness, without true repentance, without reconciling with Jesus Christ.

We need to remember the new covenant that was Jesus who shed his blood for us, that we could put our faith in him, that he would wash over our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. It's not something that just happens in the spiritual realm or something that just happens in the future when we're in heaven.  I hear so many Christians say, you know, “all of us are sinners, but God's blood covers over us, brother, and we'll all be in heaven in bliss. And at that time he will have taken away our sins.” That's not the truth. Jesus came to sanctify us and purge us here on this earth to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. That is what all those white robes are speaking of when Jesus gives all those parables about the end times. That's what he's speaking of, the sanctification of his true church.  And those churches and those Christians that are going homosexual, that are agreeing with all this vileness of the world, that are receiving all these demons into their heart, they're refusing to put on their white robes. They're not going to make it into the wedding supper of the lamb. They're not going to be able to sit down at Jesus's table.  They're going to be kicked out. They're going to be ejected. They're going to be cast into hell. 

Remember that parable that Jesus taught that all the people come into his kingdom and then they see one guy there who doesn't have on the wedding clothes. He has on his old rags, his filthy garments. And they say to him, how did you get in here? And the man is left speechless because he thought he should be there with his dirty rags.  He thought he should be there with his pornography and his addictions and without true repentance. He thought he deserved to be in God's kingdom, that no one would kick him out. After all, huge countries for so much time have allowed all sorts of evil in and they haven't put to death crime and evil.  So shouldn't God allow evil to come into his kingdom? So in this parable that Jesus tells, this man gets in with his dirty old wicked robes, his filthy garments. And God doesn't say to him, “welcome into my kingdom with your filthy garments”, but he says, “bind him hand and foot and cast him into outer darkness”. And so the angels come and they grab this man and they cast him into the pit of hell.  And that is going to happen to many Christians who wrongly supposed they could get into heaven without true repentance, without righteousness, without evicting demons, without casting out demons. We should all let this be an analogy for us, for the Christian church, a parable for us, for the Christian church, and an encouragement for us to overcome. Because if Donald Trump in the world can set up a wall, if he can kick out the illegal immigrants who have come here illegally, then we as Christians should really stand up for our rights, stand up for our rights in the kingdom of God and take back from Satan what is ours. We should take back the purity of our heart. We should evict every sort of evil from our life, every sort of parasite that is inside us, and we should set up walls around our spiritual being, that being the wall of the Holy Spirit with the full armor of God, so that no longer will sin get into us. We need the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, the sword of the Spirit, the belt of truth, and the feet with the boots ready to bring the gospel of peace. 

But if Christians are ashamed to disassociate with sinners, if they are ashamed to touch nothing unclean, to come out from the harlot church system, if they're ashamed, God will certainly be ashamed of them. Jesus will be ashamed of you, and his angels will be ashamed of you, if you don't truly repent and start living holy and utterly for Jesus Christ. Are we a nation of people, a spiritual nation, a nation of people that belong to the kingdom of God? I'm talking spiritually.  Or are we Christians that are just excited because Donald Trump won, and because he physically has overcome these things in the world? Things aren't going to get better just because Trump won. It is a victory for Christians. It is a blessing.  It's a wonderful victory that Donald Trump won. But that doesn't mean things will be easy for you. In fact, things will get many times harder.  Jesus tells us this. We know this from Matthew chapter 24, and we know that we have to endure to the very end of our life. Will we continue to pursue Jesus? Will we overcome in our own personal life, with our wife, with our children, with our parents, in our schools, in our workplace? Will we be the light of the world, and will we be people who are rooted on the rock of Jesus Christ? Is your salvation in Jesus today? Are you living holy? Or are you like the Christians today, who are just excited that Trump won, and they think that that in itself will bring, you know, holiness? Do you think that that in itself will bring Christians to repentance? Of course it won't. You need to choose to put your faith in Jesus to overcome, to cast out demons, to cast out evil from you, and you need to choose to live holy.

I want to pray for those of you that have an ear to hear, and for those of you that want to continue the struggle for righteousness, for those of you that want to pray for the United States, for true repentance from the top all the way down, that people would give their life to Jesus Christ, that they would repent of pride, and truly be humble before the King of kings and Lord of lords. “So Lord Jesus, I pray for your true church.  I pray for my fellow brother and sister, my fellow countrymen, people that are all across the United States and across the world. I pray that we can truly put our faith in you, Jesus, and that we would watch your signs and your wonders and your miracles and the power that is in heaven. I pray that we fully put our trust in you and not in the arm of the flesh. I pray that you continue to purge us, to purify us, and to make us completely clean and in our wedding garments, that we may overcome Satan, that we may cast out demons, and that we may inherit the life that is to come, because you are in us and you are working through us. I pray that all of us separate from ungodliness, that we separate from the sinner, from the idolater, from the sorcerer, from all of those that practice evil, and that we would put on righteousness, and that we would associate no longer with dead religion, with the apostate Babylon church, that we would associate no longer with ungodliness, but that we would keep ourselves unstained from the world and partake in your new covenant where we eat your flesh daily and we drink your blood. I pray for the eyes of the blind to be open.  I know so many Christians today are spiritually blind, but I pray that the eyes of the blind would be open, and that the ears of the deaf would be opened, and that more people would come to true repentance, and this victory of Donald Trump would lead Christians to true repentance, and that they would come to life and make it into your everlasting kingdom. In your name I pray, Lord Jesus. Amen.”

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Trump Victory Doesn't Equate Christian Revival BUT...

 Well, praise Jesus today, brothers and sisters. I want to talk about this subject just for a little bit here because I think it's very important to understand. A Trump victory or a Republican victory does not equate Christian revival in the church. There have been some circulating videos on YouTube and around the Internet that a lot of people have been seeing that have this similar topic has been, spread around, and a lot of Christians, I think, believe that they shouldn't vote, or they shouldn't be involved in politics, or they shouldn't stand for things that are right in our country because of this fact. Now the simple fact is, in countries and in nations that have had little or no persecution, that doesn't mean that the church just grows. In fact, the Church of Jesus grows often most in countries and in areas that suffer Christian persecution. So if you want the Christian Church to grow, give it persecution, jail pastors, kill people, and then the Christian church grows. And so there are, these videos that make it sound as though Christians shouldn't really fight for righteousness or want someone in office who stands for Christian rights because the Christian church grows, when we suffer persecution. In other words, they would say just let Kamala, you know, let Kamala Harris be the next president. Don't bother. Even though she's gonna abort babies, even though she hates Christians, and that's quite obvious, just let her be the next president because that will allow God's judgment to come and judge false Christians and judge people because that is what America deserves anyway, and it will just make the Christian church grow. You know, years ago I thought like this myself, but it's actually very ungodly and God doesn't stand for that. When I was first coming out of the church that I was a part of, I'm ashamed to admit that I did think like this. I thought kind of like the apostles who said: well, should we just call down fire out of heaven and kill them all? Remember when the apostle said that to Jesus they were very upset that the Pharisees, were against Jesus, and they wanted to call down heaven. They wanted to call down fire from heaven. And Jesus didn't say, "yeah, go ahead. Call down fire from heaven and kill them all". But in fact, Jesus showed mercy even to his opponents, even to people that hated him. And Jesus rebuked them saying that he didn't come to destroy men's lives but to save them. And that is because God's love even comes on the hateful, the unmerciful. The rain comes both on the good and the bad. And God loves all of us even when we were still in iniquity. Jesus didn't die for us because we were good, but he died for us because he wanted to save us from our sins even when we hated him, even when we were God's enemy. This is very profound, guys. When I was first coming out of the church and the church was evil, I wanted to see God's wrath come upon the church. At that time, one of the people, one of the main leaders in the church had cancer. Praise Jesus everyone. One of the people that had cancer, they were a leader of the church. And I remember thinking, well, this is God's judgment because these leaders of the church are wicked. And the church leaders were wicked. But I, in my lack of wisdom, started saying, well, this person is going to die, of cancer. And I started talking to people in the church about how this person was gonna die of cancer. It was God's judgment. God hates iniquity. And all of, you know, all of that was my misjudgment thinking that, God was gonna give all these people cancer. He was gonna kill them all. And in reality, that did not happen even though I believed God was gonna kill this person for their wickedness due to cancer. In fact, that person, continued to live and got better. They recovered. And I, at the time, was upset because I was just convinced that God was gonna he was gonna rain hail and brimstone and just kill these people because they were supporting things that were so wicked in the church. But God gave them time to repent. It's been now, like, 10, 15 years later, and a lot of these people are still alive. They still have their choice to make on this earth for good or for evil. And it would be evil of me or ignorant of us just to say that God is gonna kill them right away before the judgment for their evil, that he is not gonna show them any mercy because they're evil and I am good. I know now that that is not the God I serve. I know now that I was in the wrong for thinking that. So bring that back to today. I'm not going to go along with these Christians that say, well, America deserves Kamala Harris, America deserves persecution. America deserves, a government that will hate its own people and put Christians to death, and it will just, you know, make the Christian church grow due to persecution. While it is true that trials and tribulations and persecutions grow the church, I don't need to hope for evil upon people so that God's people will grow. If God wants to allow persecution to come, then he can bring it by his own hand. If God wants to discipline you by cancer, or by death, or by famine, whatever the case is that's God's business. But I don't need to be praying for destruction to come on my adversary, like how the apostles were praying for, you know, lightning to come out of heaven and to destroy the Pharisees. Jesus was not for that, and he is not for people just to suffer and to die. He is for us, that our souls would be saved. We need to just start praying that, that people would be saved. And if persecution does come, if God does allow a democratic win in our country, then we need to just say praise the lord, but we will overcome no matter what trials or tribulations come our way. But we but just because that God may allow a democratic win, or just because he may allow abortion in our country or these people who are hateful, doesn't mean that we stop fighting for righteousness. And a lot of Christians just they just give up. They stop fighting for righteousness. They start praying for war. They start praying for evil. They start hoping for evil thinking as though God is on their side. And God is always on the side of the righteous, and he wants us to continue to spiritually fight and slash our swords in the way that the righteous should do it. We should continue to pray against evil. We should continue to stand up for things that are right. Stand up for the unborn. Stand against abortion. Stand against homosexuality, gay marriage, pornography. Stand against, drugs and drunkenness and wickedness, carousing. All these things should be things that we stand up against, that we vote against if we have the right and privilege to do so. And never should we just be negligent or looking the other way saying, well, our country deserves evil anyway, so I shouldn't do anything about it and take this pacifist approach and do nothing. Because Jesus wants us to be people that are always standing for the truth. So I hope that this makes sense to someone because these videos that I see that are circulating, a lot of them are just creating confusion, and a lot of Christians think that, well, if, you know, if our country is gonna have Christians grow due to persecution, then, then I will vote for whoever brings in more persecution. I'll vote for whoever kills more babies. And so then Christians themselves start praying against the will of God. It is not the will of God that anyone perish, but that all repent and come into the light of the truth. So let us as disciples of Jesus not be confused by darkness. Let us not be confused by Christians that are pointing people in the wrong direction. Let us choose to say, good is good and evil is evil and always stand on the side of the truth. So, I hope this makes sense to someone, and I hope that whether persecution comes or whether it doesn't, whatever the case is that we will continue to stand for Jesus. And whether we are in a time of peace or of war, we will, in our own hearts, continue to grow with the Lord Jesus. I hope for the sake of my own family, my own brothers and sisters, that we can live at peace with God and at peace with one another as much as it is possible. I don't hope for war in my country. I don't hope for violence, and I hope to keep things that are evil out of my country such as violent gangs, drugs, alcohol, things like Fentanyl. All these things that are wicked that are coming over the border, all these things that are destroying the economy, I pray against those things, brothers and sisters, because I love people. I have the love of Jesus in me, and I pray and hope to see my countrymen succeed and not end in hell. It goes back to what Jesus also said to his disciples, "I didn't come to end men's lives. I didn't come to destroy it, but I came to save them". A lot of Christians are totally getting Jesus wrong. They misunderstand God, all they care to see is judgment. They're like Jonah. They're pouting, they're whining, they're complaining, they're upset that that little shrub is withering up in the desert. They're ready just to curse God and go to their death because they care more about the little shrub in the desert than they care about, you know, 300,000,000 people. So are is our care and concern the same as what Jesus is care and concerned about, or is it for our own selves? Are we like the prophet Jonah who only thought about himself, who was selfish at the core? Anyways, guys, I hope this encourages someone to be on the side of the truth, to see things the way Jesus sees them, and not to be deceived by other Christians or false prophets or people that are just, getting distracted from the truth. "So, Lord Jesus, I pray for my fellow brothers and sisters that they are not distracted by the evil one, by false Christians, by pastors, by messages on the Internet. I pray that we would continue to fight for righteousness, that we could pray for the young children of America, that they would be saved and not polluted by the devil. We pray that, that people both young and old, black and white, rich and poor, wherever they are, may be saved, that they may come into your salvation, that you may offer them life, and that we may enter into your kingdom. I pray this in your name, Lord Jesus. Amen."

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Real worship isn't Contrived

 Praise Jesus this morning, brothers and sisters in the Lord. I have this word from God this morning about true worship and how it isn't contrived, but it comes out of a very real place in our hearts. But in comparison, the worship that has been fabricated in church is very control, it is very set up, and that is why outsiders, when they see Christians, don't wanna be part of that because it's boring, it's the same thing that all the false churches are doing, and it turns away people that really want to know God. It turns God into religion. When I was in church, I was terribly bored with the worship. To most Christians, worship means this 30 minutes or this 15 minutes or this hour of music. It's boiled all the way down to just a guy playing guitar or someone leading worship, they say, on the stage. And, actually, what these Christians are worshiping is themselves. They're worshiping the stage in their church and those lights and whatever they set up their stage as in church. Now coming from a place where I was going to shows and listening to music that I thought was really exciting, no church music could do that. So to call church music worship, I thought this is incredibly boring. And a lot of Christians, they literally think that worship means, music. Praise Jesus everyone. I see your messages coming in here. But true worship, as the Apostle Paul wrote, is offering your body as a living sacrifice to God, being transformed in your mind. And when we worship God, it comes out of a very natural and very real place from our hearts. What I'd compare it to is this, If you've ever been to a national park such as Yosemite or some beautiful place, maybe the Grand Canyon, no one had to tell you to marvel at how awesome the scenery was. They didn't have to say, sit and soak in this awesome view for 15 minutes and worship it. They didn't have to tell you to do that. Now, God is so awesome that even his creation looks awesome to the extent that Native Americans will worship it. People that don't know the true God will worship it because they see that it's so awesome just naturally that they think it is God. And because either they're uninformed, or they don't care to know the true God out of the very essence of their being. They worship it, they soak in how great and how awesome you know, the rocks and the trees and the mountains are and the awesome sunset in the ocean. You don't have to tell anyone that surfs in California to go enjoy the surfing. Go worship it for half an hour. You don't have to tell anyone to enjoy nature that they love because naturally, they admire it, they soak it in. Why? It comes out of this very natural place. It comes out of this place where you want to, you desire that. But the creator of all of this nature, who people are just innately worshiping, they don't worship the creator because they don't know him. The creator, they've made seem boring and lame, and that you have to be manipulated to worship for even 15 minutes in a church setting. And the elders have to tell you, shut up during this time and listen to this guy and prepare your hearts through this music that we're gonna call worship for this 30 minutes. And no one really wants to do it. And then they get upset at you because you're not worshiping God during worship time, but you're texting on your phone during the worship time. And in reality, it's because you don't really care to worship a stage. You don't really care to worship religion. You don't care to worship the artist that's not as good as the worldly artists that you've listened to.  Worship is not music. It's offering your body as a living sacrifice. And when you get to know this God, the one true God that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob also worshiped, you won't be worshiping him because someone told you to, but because he is so awesome that you will fall down on your face and give him praise. No one has to tell anyone to enjoy and bask in the beauty of the great outdoors. No one has to tell you that. Why? Why do you just sit down and enjoy the majesty of the mountains and the great outdoors? It's because it demands that from you just by its presence. And if the creator demands that from you, how much more than the creator if you knew he was? The men of old who knew God, they worshiped him not through just music, not through just a piano, worshiped him and fell down on their face before him because they knew how awesome he was. They had a real connection with God. They in one way or another had an experience with God, and they worshiped him in this very natural way because of their experience. In the same way you can experience the creation, they experience the creator. And so what I'm posing to you is maybe you have not really experienced God. You haven't really got to know who Jesus Christ is. If you are thinking that true worship is what they are doing in false religion. If it seems to you to be boring, mundane to worship God, well, maybe it is because you're worshiping a false God and that is very boring. It's boring to worship a dead God, but there is nothing boring or lame or pathetic about giving worship and praise to the one true God. He demands our praise not because it's like someone that is selfishly saying, give me your praise, I deserve it. But when you see his presence and you're confronted with his greatness, you will by your very nature fall down on your face and give him glory and honor and praise because you will know in your core that he is worthy. We need to get to know the God of creation, the God that Abraham worshiped when he saw the stars. He was not worshiping the stars. He was hearing the voice of God, and he worshiped the one true God. When those early men, when those men of old, those wise men and people, they saw God's salvation. They fell down and they worshiped the baby. How does someone worship a baby? But they worship this child knowing that he was the son of man and the son of God. They worshiped Jesus not because they were told to worship him for 15 minutes, but because they knew the love and the power of the living God. Why did Thomas that once doubted and had no to little faith in Jesus? Why did he fall down on the feet at the feet of Jesus and say, my lord and my God and worship him? It's because he knew and he had this experience that this God has resurrected my God from the dead. And he fell down in worship out of this awesomeness knowing how powerful God was to save him. We also have to have an experience with God. We have to get to know the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Get to know that Jesus is real, that he is alive, and not only is he just worthy of our praise or that he demands it, but know from the core of our being that that is what we want to do. It comes out of our very nature because God designed us to worship him, not to be worshiping just creation or people as if they are God. A lot of people go around worshiping their favorite celebrity or maybe worshiping a presidential candidate. And when they drive by in their car, they're like, oh my goodness. It was whoever. It was Biden. It was Trump. It was Obama. And they get so psyched because their favorite celebrity went by. No one had to tell them to worship or to praise or to freak out about how awesome it was that their favorite celebrity went by. Why is it not like that for Jesus? It's because you don't know who he is. If you knew who he was and that he was the creator of everything that you have falsely worshiped, then you would fall flat on your face and you would praise him and worship him not because he's just asking you to or pleading for you to, but out of your very nature because God created us, he created you and me to be people that worship God. Heaven is all about a place of worship. In heaven, everyone worships God, but not like they do in church. In church they have to force your hand to worship, they have to say: Shut up, stop texting on your phone, stop doing other things, stop being distracted, and start listening to this music, get the feeling of the bass, get the feeling of the guitar, and then lift your hands at this moment. It's very contrived. But in heaven, people worship God because he is so awesome. He's so awesome you will fall on your face and praise him and worship him. It won't make sense unless you get to know this God. Unless you get to know him, the best that you would be able to do is just bask in how awesome nature is. And that is only the canvas of what God has created. It's only his handiwork. But if you get to know the one true God, you will learn to worship him in spirit and in truth just as that woman at the well learned to worship the one true God. It's not about worshiping him in church. That's why Jesus said it's not about worshiping on this mountain or on that mountain, but it's about getting to know and worship God, the true worshipers in spirit and in truth. So are we truly worshiping God? Whether it is, through prayer, praising him, whether it is through seeing creation, giving him glory, whether it is through overcoming a certain situation in your life and you're giving God glory for that and you're worshiping him because he pulled you through a trial, a tribulation, a hardship, he he gave you the power to overcome, whether it is through music, whether it is through a revelation, whatever it is God gives you, are you worshiping him because you're acknowledging him and you're seeing and you're hearing him in your life? Or have you been blinded to the truth of how awesome God is and you're only worshiping dead religion? I encourage you to wake up to the truth. Get out of these false revivals. The Christian church today is full of false revivals. They think that they're reviving people by getting 1,000 people together and singing, what they call worship music. And they get everyone all hyped up. They get everyone all high on these songs, and they Televise it, they make it look like something great is happening and they leave there and as soon as they leave, they're still looking at pornography. They're still sleeping with the neighbor. They’re still committing, you know, adultery fornication. They're still smoking pot and living on the world. They haven't truly repented. There's been no revival of their soul. It was all an outward show. It was all a cleaning of the outside of the tomb, the sepulcher. We don't need any more sepulcher cleaning. We need to wash the inside. The inside needs to be purged, and then true revival can happen from the inside out. But all of these Christians that are throwing these huge revivals, they are worshiping music. They're worshiping leaders. They're worshiping feelings. They're worshiping in the flesh, but they're not worshiping in spirit and in truth. And if we wanna see true change, it needs to happen by us personally getting to know how great and awesome this God is. The same way Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob did. The same way doubting Thomas did, and Peter did, and all of the 12 disciples, and all of the early apostles and disciples. We need to come to really know and worship Jesus and fall at his feet, and then he can purge us and purify us and change us from the inside out, that we can be a changed man or a changed woman. And then with the renewing of our heart like the apostle Paul says, then we can really worship God in spirit and in truth. Are you a true worshiper? Do you really love Jesus Christ out of the place of your heart where you know he is an awesome God? Or have you been manipulated and controlled by the false church that has made worship into nothing more than a silly 30 minutes of playing guitar on stage and a light show? It has nothing to do with that junk. The light of the world is coming to you to save you from your sins, to purge you of iniquity, to give you a new life, to give you hope, and to show you what it really means to worship in spirit and in truth. Will you worship God with your life, or is it sufficient enough for you to be duped and blinded by dead religion? I hope this encourages someone to really put their faith in Jesus and awaken to what it means to really worship the awesome God we have. The same God that parted the Red Sea, the same God that told Noah to build an ark and saved, that group of 8 people from the sea that rose. The same God that resurrected Jesus Christ from the dead. The same God that can open the eyes and the ears of the blind and gives all his people the faith to also work miracles in his name? Are we worshiping this God together or have we been deceived by the devil of old who is constantly blinding this world, blinding Christians, making even Christians think that faith is boring? That is about religion and about serving yourself. The more that you chase after men and their ideas of what church and religion and faith are, the more you will go into blackness. But if you get alone with Jesus Christ and if you worship him in spirit and in truth, you will learn who God really is. You will learn how he cares for your soul and that you are as clay that he is molding to a new image, not the image of your old self, but the image of God that he wants you to be. He's gonna purge you of the old self and make you a vessel of honor that can worship him forever and ever because that's what heaven is about. It's about the worship of God. Are we true worshipers who will worship God in spirit and in truth, or are we blind? So, "Lord Jesus, I pray for those that have been blinded by religion, blinded by this world, blinded by false Christianity into into thinking that the devil is wonderful and that the God of all creation is boring. I pray that they can repent, that they can come into your truth and worship you in spirit and in truth and cast out demons in your name, cast out devils in your name, and that they would hold fast to their faith in you and that they would worship you out of the purity of their heart knowing that you are worthy to be worshiped, honored, and praised. I pray that we can worship you the same way that the nation of Israel worship you when they cross through the Red Sea, and they sang songs and rejoiced because they knew that you were an awesome God. We wanna fall on our faces before you and praise you and worship you and live for you, Lord, because you are the only one worthy to be worshiped and honored and praised. In your name, we pray, Lord Jesus. Amen."

Saturday, September 14, 2024

What Does it Mean to "Not Forsake the Assembly"?

Well, praise Jesus today, everyone. I wanted to speak about this idea that the Christians talk about a lot, which is don't forsake the assembly of ourselves together or don't forsake the fellowship. You have probably heard this before because it's a very popular verse for Christians to quote, especially for church attending Christians. They will always say, if you're not going to church on Sunday, then you're forsaking the fellowship and you're breaking the commandment of God because it's written in Hebrews 10 that, you know, if you're not going to church on Sunday, then you're forsaking the fellowship. Now the Bible doesn't really say exactly that, guys. 

And a big question would come down to what is an assembly? Because we can say all day long, don't give up the fellowship. But what fellowship are we speaking about? What assembly? Because that is key to what we're talking about.  If we don't, assess what an assembly is, you could call an assembly whatever you want and you could manipulate people to come to your assembly saying, “thus says the Lord”. And we know that that is just not the truth. So what is an assembly and what isn't it? So I want to read the verse first from Hebrews chapter 10. Let's just read the verse that all the Christians quote to try to make you feel guilty to go to their church, which is Hebrews 10:25. 

It says, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another so much more as ye see the day approaching. Already you can tell that we're like in the middle of a sentence, in the middle of a paragraph. We haven't even understood what we're talking about. But a lot of Christians that are trying to secure the walls of their church, don't care about context, because what they care about is manipulating you to feel bad about not going to their church. So they will just say, look, the Bible says you're forsaking the, the getting together with other Christians if you're not going to church.  So what church are we talking about? There's no clarity in that. What group are we talking about or what, you know, what assembly? They forget to define what that is. They just say you can't give it up.  So let's talk about what does it mean to assemble. So if we just read a few more verses in this same chapter of Hebrews chapter 10, it will clarify it a little bit better. So let's back up to say for example verse 22 instead of just starting in verse 25.

 It says, Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for He is faithful that promised He meaning Jesus and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works.  Okay. So far we're starting to define what this sort of fellowship should be. It should be fellowship with Jesus, people that have a pure heart. If you look at verse 21, it says, having a high priest over the house of God. We know that's Jesus Christ.  So if we're not giving up a fellowship, this fellowship should be people that are pure, holding each other to love and to good works, and having fellowship with this high priest, meaning Jesus Christ. So we're starting to get the context a little bit more just by reading like 3 verses before.

And then if you read the first after, this is verse 26, it says, for if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, therefore remained no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries. They don't quote that in church because that would scare away the Christians from paying tithe. See, it is key what we're talking about when we're talking about an assembly.  What assembly saves us, guys? Is it going to Catholic mass? No. Is it going to a Baptist church? No.  Is it going to an assembly of people that all like the Raiders or the 49ers or the Lakers? Of course not. So what assembly are we talking about? We're talking about a group of people that has in common the love of Jesus Christ. So what assembly do we not wanna give up first and foremost?  It is the fellowship of Jesus Christ. That is what we're looking at.

Now most churches and gatherings of today, they are what are called 501c3 or tax exempt, and it all revolves around the economy, politics. It all revolves around popularity, pastors who have a well standing in their community. It revolves around the politics in groups and clubs of men.  But it doesn't have to do with the spiritual kingdom of Jesus Christ. So again, if we're talking about a true assembly, are we talking about the true assembly of children that belong to Jesus? Or are we talking about an assembly of men who have designed a club that has been associated with a 501c3, a government organization? Are we talking about groups that belong to men? Because depending on which you're talking about could totally change the whole entire topic. 

So what the Christians have done today if is they've turned the Bible and Hebrews, into something that is trying to sanctify ungodly religion, and that is a problem. They're trying to manipulate and fleece the flock, which basically just means take your money and expedite the process of taking away your faith so that you can just have faith in pastors, in your church organization, that you can have faith in this corporation, and then you don't really have to be part of the true household of faith, which is spiritual. Just believe and pay tithes and go to church on Sunday and just know that by doing that, you're not giving up the fellowship. Obviously, if our eyes are open to the truth, guys, we know that this is false.

The true fellowship means fellowship of Jesus Christ first, and if your faith really is in Jesus first and if you run into another brother or sister in the Lord, then you have fellowship with them as well.  Now we know throughout the scriptures where 2 or 3 are gathered together, God is with them, whether that is in discipline, righteousness, deciding anything, where 2 or 3 are gathered together. And if they're on the side of the Holy Spirit, they are the true body of Christ. They are the church. And we're not to give up fellowship with first the Holy Spirit, with Jesus, with our father in heaven, and then with those who God has put in our life. Most likely, it is your wife if you're married, your children if you have a family, it is the people that are immediately in your life.  They are the true church and they are the ones that you shouldn't be giving up the fellowship with if you are a family or if you are married. Now if you are a unmarried person, there are still other people in your life that are significant, maybe that look up to you. No matter if you're single or married, either way, there is people that you will be influencing. And as the body of Christ, you need to be upholding what it means to first and foremost have fellowship with Jesus. This does not mean that you validate yourself as a Christian by going to a 501c3 church or paying tithes to a club, an organization of men.  This is a distinction that is very important to make because Jesus never talked about his church being a physical brick and mortar church.

But the church of today, the churches across America, across the United States, you know, across the world, have turned what Jesus meant spiritually into a physical brick and mortar and, you know, stone and wood church. And they say, unless you're going to the physical church down the road and paying your tithe physically, then you're giving up the fellowship. And that is a big fat lie from Satan.

God's true church is spiritual.  That's why Jesus says that you have to worship him. That is the true worshipers must worship God in spirit and in truth. It's not about finding a church on this mountain or on that hill, in this town or in that city, but it's about learning how to worship God in spirit and in truth. The kingdom of God does not come with signs to be observed such as man observe them. But the kingdom of God is in our midst.  That's what Jesus said. So Jesus made it very clear that following him and being part of his church was not about physical church attendance, saying that you have fellowship because you go to the synagogue, or because you go to the temple, or because you go to a Catholic mass or because you go to a Baptist church or because you call yourself Pentecostal or whatever your cup of tea is, that is not the kind of fellowship we're talking about.

True fellowship with God happens spiritually, and the true church is a spiritual entity. And the way you enter it is not by paying physical amount American dollars or whatever economy you're a part of, but it's when you pray and say, “Lord, please cleanse me of my sin. Wash me, baptize me, let me be washed clean so that I can become part of your spiritual kingdom”.  And when you become part of the spiritual kingdom, then you become part of the assembly of believers that are all across this entire earth. I am part of the true church, but I don't belong to any, organization of men. I don't belong to a Baptist church anymore. I don't pay my tithes to any organization. I know that is a big hoax.  We need, as Christians, to belong to the spiritual kingdom that your physical eyes can't see. It's not about going to your local church body or doing corporate, worship or corporate prayer as they like to say, but the true spiritual kingdom and this assembly gets together in spirit and in truth, and it happens, wherever the Spirit of God is working. So the question is, are you giving up the assembly spiritually? Or are you connected to the Spirit of God because you're denying yourself daily, you're picking up your cross daily even if you're alone, even if you're a single guy? Are you choosing to be part of this spiritual kingdom and connected in the spiritual realm to the king and his church that is all across the world?

Everything Jesus says, guys, is spiritual.  When Jesus was, talking about his kingdom come, his will be done, he was not meaning that or alluding to that you have to just get into a physical church, get your tithes into a physical church, start building up churches of men. That's why Jesus again and again said things like, not one of these stones will be standing upon another. Not one will, not be, you know, all of them will be torn down, in other words. And all the disciples marveled at that. They thought, well, when will this happen, Lord?  And over and over again, he explained that his kingdom was spiritual, and if people wanted to enter it, it had to happen in the spirit realm. This is the church that we belong to. It is, cut out without physical hands. All the kingdoms of the earth are physical, and because our eyes see physical things and our ears hear physical things, it's very easy to put all our assets in this physical realm. But what did Jesus say?  Do not store up for yourself things on this earth where moth and rust destroy, where thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart is also. So where is our heart? Where is our treasure? Is our treasure, in the physical church?  Is it in the stock market? Is it in gold? I am learning just how unstable the economy is. I'm learning just how unstable the American dollar is, the stock market. All the things that we can put our security in in this world are not very secure.  And even if they do stay secure for a time, even if the economy's doing well, you can all of a sudden get cancer. You can get into a car accident. You can run into tribulations with your marriage, with your family. There's an unlimited amount of problems that we face in this world. And so what I'm saying is we need to make sure that our assembly, that our faith, and that our fortress really is in this kingdom with Jesus Christ, not in the fortresses that are made of men, whether it's the economy, or a physical church or a physical assembly. 

So don't let this idea, that Christians always speak of, of don't give up the assembly, don't let that confuse you into thinking or guilt you into thinking that you need to be part of a local church body. This is what the Christians that are religious always are trying to press, and always they come back to this one verse in Hebrews, Hebrews 10:25. But the crazy thing is, guys, they're taking one verse that's not even a complete sentence. All they're saying is not forsaking the assembly of ourselves together. They literally stop there.  They don't read one verse before it or one verse after to see what in the world is happening with Hebrews chapter 10. But Jesus is always speaking about a spiritual assembly, a spiritual kingdom, and in fact, we are told again and again to the scriptures not to participate in the assembly of the ungodly or, or what fellowship does, Satan have or, a Christian have with the devil?

I wanna read to you one example of that, which is found in 2nd Corinthians. This is chapter 2. So it says, be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?  And what communion have light with darkness? So right there, you could say the church system and the idea that you have to go to church is false because there are a lot of Christians there that are joined in with unbelievers, people that hate Jesus. They only care about money. They are wolves in sheep's clothing, and they don't want people to come to the truth of Jesus because then their little economy crashes. So what fellowship have righteousness with unrighteousness?  Obviously, none. What communions have light with dark with darkness? Obviously, none. What concord have Christ with Belial? Or what part have he that believeth with an infidel?  And what agreement have the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God.

So again, the temple is not brick and mortar. It's not the church. It's not the Catholic church. It's not the Baptist church. You are the church, and we know this, guys. God has said, I will dwell in them, not a physical church, but in you. Even if you are alone in your room or in a prison cell and you can never ever go to a physical church again in your life. You still are the temple of God. You are the church. It's crazy how Satan is, manipulating people to think that people are not the church even though Christians say you are the church over and over again. This is crazy, guys. As God has said, I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people. This is the assembly.

And so what assembly should we not be a part of? Well look, verse 17 of Corinthians chapter 6, wherefore come out from among them, which is false churches, false believers, false assemblies, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you. What is the unclean thing? The unclean thing is dead religion, apostate churches. Those organizations that are Baptists and Catholic that are claiming to be the children of God yet are connected with the infidel, the false believer, and darkness. Come out from among them, be separate. Touch nothing unclean and I will receive you and I will be a father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty. This is the truth guys. It's right in front of our noses. We have known these things since we were little children if we've been Christians. So how is it that Satan has stolen away from us true faith, the real assembly which is, the assembling of ourselves with Jesus and those people in our life that really matter? You know, your wife, your brother, your children, your grandchildren, people that really matter in your life. Satan has stolen away from many Christians the reality of what the assembly is.

The crazy thing is a lot of pastors have forsaken the true assembly with their wife, their children, and they think that the assembly is with that group that are paying tithe. And so they spend countless hours trying to mentor their congregation, trying to get tithe to build a physical building from their congregation, raising a $1,000,000 to build a new building across the street, and meanwhile their own physical son, their own blood is, committing suicide. This happens time and time again. The pastor's son is fornicating. The pastor's son is suicidal, or just becoming atheist. And the pastor and the people in the congregation are wondering why in the world, if our pastor is such a godly man, why does his family struggle with depression, hatred, murder, lust, pornography? The reason why is because that church has forsaken the assembly of themselves together. Even though they get to church, they get to church on time every Sunday, they have forsaken the true natural family of God, which is themselves with Jesus and their own natural families. Those very natural principles that God has set up, which is the family, your own relationship with God, they have totally rejected for this false image of Jesus, this false image of a church that they have called an assembly, which actually is just a 501c3. It's an organization. It is a club of man.

Satan has been very clever to take verses like this out of the scripture, out of Hebrews 10:25 and other verses, and turn it on its head to say, you're giving up the fellowship, brother, if you're not going to church and paying tithe. The other crazy thing with this is these same churches that say you shouldn't give up the fellowship, you have to pay tithe, They're the same churches that love to, out of the other side of their mouth, say, well, we're saved by grace, not by works. We are New Testament believers. We don't believe in the works of the law. So how can they be saying that they, live in the New Testament and by grace in the blood of Jesus when they're preaching from the Old Testament ideas like tithe and church attendance and all these things? Tithing is a principle from the Old Testament, not the New Testament. Jesus never talked about tithing to be saved. In fact, Jesus talked about complete denial, taking up your cross, which means giving your whole life to God, not 10%. But these Christians like to say, oh, we don't believe in the old covenant covenant. We believe in the new. Yet then to force their members to feel guilty to pay tithe, to pay their bills to their church, they pull out these verses from the Old Testament. It's blatant hypocrisy.

If we want to be part of the true assembly and not be deceived by those fleecing the flock and these false shepherds that are hirelings, as Jesus calls them, then we need to come out and be separate and join the true assembly that worships God in spirit and in truth. I hope this makes sense to someone that has ears to hear. I have a bunch of videos on this topic if you wanna look into more of it, if it gives you any clarity. If you go to my channel, I have, some playlists on my channel specifically on the church deception, on fellowship tithing deceptions. Just go look through my playlists and you will see, that I have, like dozens of videos on this topic, but it's well addressing again and again because so many Christians think that they have to be part of a physical church in order to be true Christians, and it's simply not true.

Again and again throughout the scripture, Jesus emphasized the fact that the kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom that you don't see with your physical eyes. And again and again, Jesus emphasizes that what he says is spirit. It's spiritual. And if you want to enter his church and this true assembly, it has to happen by entering his kingdom through prayer, in spirit, and in truth.  Anyways, I wanna pray for those of you that wanna be able to hear the truth. I wanna pray for those of you that wanna be part of the true body as those in Acts were part of the true body of Christ and had everything in common. I want to read to you, from Acts chapter 2 what it says about the true church. It says, they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayer. Our fellowship, of course, has to be with Jesus. And when we speak and meet with other people that have fellowship with Jesus, we can break bread with them, we can eat together, we pray together. But it's not about religion. It's not about starting a big church or a 501c3 or a group or a club. It's about individually us meeting Jesus personally and then individually 1 on 1 sharing our testimonies with other people. And as we're seeking the kingdom of God first in our life, the Lord adds to our number each and every day.

So it says, And the fear came upon every soul and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. And all that believed were together and had all things common and sold their possessions and goods and parted them out to all men as every man had need. And they continued and they continuing daily with one accord in the temple and the breaking of bread from house to house did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people and the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

So this is how we wanna be. We can't be the 1st century church, guys. We can't say that the government should take responsibility of this. There are some Christians that think that, the government should make, communal living situations. It just won't work. When the government tries to do this, they end up stealing money from rich people, giving it to poor, and they make lazy people more lazy, and they heavily tax the rich, which is basically stealing. It ends up being totally crazy and wrong. But for this to work truly, as it worked in the 1st century, it has to be out of individuals' goodness of their heart because they love Jesus first. And if as an individual, you as a Christian love the Lord and you have a little bit extra money, then you help out another brother who's in need. Maybe one day you're praying and you realize, oh, this other brother needs a ride. So you give him a ride, or you give him food, or you help out somebody. But this should never happen out of manipulation or out of the government manipulating you or forcing more taxes. Any economy that's tried to force, this kind of doctrine has always failed. It's never worked well.

 But for the children of God, individually, if they put their faith in Jesus, then it works because out of the goodness of your heart, you love your brother, you love your wife, you love your children, you love your neighbor as yourself, and you allow them to borrow your lawnmower or you allow them to, you know, have a place to live or whatever the case is. You help one another out, and that's what the church should do. So we need to figure out how to become part of this spiritual kingdom that, that honors God with everything that we have and serve him not out of manipulation, not because a pastor is saying, you have to give 10% or you have to give 50% of your income. No. That's not what it's about. But it's about you having fellowship with God first, and then because you love the Lord, you're loving your neighbor, you're loving your brother as yourself. Then you're part of the spiritual body of Christ, and you're not giving up the fellowship. So let's pray for eyes to see, ears to hear, and people to come into the true body of Christ, that they can be led along by the gift of the Holy Spirit, by Jesus, and that they won't fall prey to false religion or manipulative spirits that are trying to manipulate people to give money to their organizations or to their group. Let's pray that people really come into the spiritual kingdom that knows Jesus and gives their time and their worship to Jesus Christ and just honors God.

“So, Lord Jesus, I pray for your true church, that true assembly that worships you in spirit and in truth. We know that it's not about worshiping you, in a corporation or in a 501c3 or a government approved situation. We know that to come into your presence happens when we are part of you spiritually, and that when we are spiritually reborn, you come into our hearts and we become the temple. We become the sanctuary. It's not about a physical meeting place, but we know that it is about worshiping you in spirit and in truth. So I pray that you can take, the shackles off people that have been bound by religion. I pray that you can take the blindfolds off of the people's eyes and the blindness that have been over people's eyes to keep them bound up in religion and in deception and all the lies of the lying shepherds. I pray their eyes could be open to the truth in these end times that we're living in, that they could come into your kingdom, that they could come into worshiping you worshiping you and knowing the true freedom there is in you, Lord Jesus. So I pray for your true church.  I pray for your true fellowship and, your true assembly. I pray they can be washed clean in your blood, filled with the power of the Holy Ghost. I pray for more people to speak in their new tongues and to demonstrate the fruit that comes from your Holy Spirit and that they could have dreams and visions that come from God, that they could have interpretations that truly come from God, not from men, and that we would just have the fruit of your Holy Spirit and your gifts in our life, that we could practice our talents that you have given us, and that we could go out and grow spiritually as men and as women, and that you would add to our number. In your name, I pray, Lord Jesus. Amen.”

 We'll continue to grow in the faith. Don't be deceived by religion. Don't be deceived by the church of today, but come into the spiritual kingdom that worships the Lord Jesus in spirit and in truth.

Monday, September 9, 2024

When Aliens (demons) are Given Rights


Well, praise Jesus today, everyone. Some time ago, President Trump, the former president, made a comment about saying that he sure hopes that the US does not find them, you know, on some planet or find them somewhere because we can know that if we did find aliens, giving our money to them also undoubtedly. Our country is quick to give money to all sorts of evil things, but we as individuals also are quick to give ourselves over to evil things if we're not careful. As soon as you give asylum to something in your heart, it becomes extremely difficult to get out. As soon as you're giving financial aid to that, you're giving your money, your time to that, it becomes very difficult to then eject those things out of your life to cast them out.

 

It's much easier to accept something in your life than to cast it out. That's why we have so many people that are demon possessed and so few people that are able to cast these demons out. One thing that maybe you have thought of before is just the severity of what it would mean if these demons started to manifest physically so that everyone could see them? You know, people talk about these UFOs and they talk about these aliens, but it's not just totally science fiction now or out of the realm to think about this. What if these demons started to manifest in a way where they were given some sort of asylum in our country?

 

They were given some sort of citizenship. Now we as Christians know that there is one specific demon for each and every sin and then they have sub demons below that. They have a whole hierarchy. So there's a demon over lust. There's then under lust, one for pornography, one for, you know, pedophilia, and all these other demons that are more and more, wicked.

 

And the lower down demons are more, mutated and evil looking, the more and more animalistic they look, the more mutated and ugly they are. And the higher they are up on the level of their hierarchy, the more beautiful they look. They look more like an archangel, they look more like an angel of light. Right? So if these demons were somehow able to manifest in the physical realm and like how Trump made a statement about, how if we were giving them money, this would be crazy because we would be giving asylum or we would be giving a place of security to a sin, to some kind of perversion, whether it is a sexual perversion, whether it is, you know, like molestation, whether it is greed, hate, whatever the demon's name is that they have changed to a different name, now we'd be securing that demon saying, you have citizenship in our country, we will give you financial aid, we will protect you. And if anyone speaks evil against you, then, they're a racist because we see you as a race and as a nation and as an individual. Guys, this doesn't have to happen physically. It's already happening spiritually. In other words, there doesn't have to be a physical manifestation of a demon and a physical government such as the United States to give, a citizenship to a demon. That may be a science fiction. Maybe that could possibly happen. I don't know. But the reality is that doesn't have to happen and it already is happening spiritually today.

 

Let me explain. If someone is a pervert, say they are a pedophile, for the longest standing time, that has been illegal. All it would take is an act of, you know, a new political bill, some pervert to be higher up, and all they'd have to do is sign it and make it illegal to speak against pedophilia, and then suddenly you can't speak up against, pedophiles. Otherwise, you're a racist. All it takes is someone, in a high political area to sanctify it, to give it, a place of, you know, an area that is secure, and then suddenly you can't speak against these sins. We're already to a point that if you speak up too much against homosexuality, transgender, you know, gay marriage, if you just speak up for what you believe in as a Christian, they're gonna cast you out. In a lot of cases, people have been thrown into jail. They’ve lost their jobs just for standing up against sin, because what is happening is these demons are becoming citizens, and so no longer are people saying, this is a demon. They're saying, this is a person that deserves immunity. They deserve equal respect. Guys, these things are demons, and our government is trying to make these demons into citizens so that you can no longer rebuke and speak evil against sin. As Christians, we have to be able to cast demons out, otherwise, we won't be inhabited by the Holy Spirit.

 

If we can't cast devils out and keep our heart clean and our mind clean and our tongue clean, then Satan will enter into us, we will be casting out the Holy Spirit from us and these demons of lust, hatred, sexual perversion, all of these things are going to enter us and we will have no ability to live righteously. This is exactly what the devil wants. The devil wants asylum. He wants a place of sanctuary in your heart. He wants to live in you and dwell in you and possess you.

 

And a lot of people including Christians are possessed by Satan today, and it's near impossible for them to cast these demons out because these demons have made themselves a personality in them. They've made themselves a living being inside these people's flesh. They can't get rid of these demons. And the governments of the world, the principalities of the world are in cahoots with the principalities of evil. And Satan is working to get his demons immunity, within the governments of the world. That is what is happening spiritually right now. I see these demons who once were hiding in the closets that were despicable enough that no one want to speak about them, and now these demons are coming out of the closet and they're looking to find citizenship. They're look to be they're looking to be called human beings. They're taking on flesh. And, when they are given citizenship and when they're given a body, it's gonna be impossible for you to speak up against sin without consequences.

 

When things like this have happened in the past, Christians have been beheaded, they've been burned at the stake, they've been killed. Guys, for being a Christian, we're looking at really serious times if we wanna continue to follow Jesus Christ and keep these demons out. And there's gonna be a huge separation between the sheep and the goats, the wheat and the tares, you know, the children of God and the children of the world. And will we be refined in this fire? Will we go through the refiner's fire and come out refined? Will we come out purged and clean? Or will we be burnt up like all the rest of the chaff in the stubble because we had no foundation to our faith? We weren't really on the rock of Jesus Christ. Remember guys, Jesus is in the fire. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego stood up for what was right. They were thrown into the fire and when Nebuchadnezzar looked into the fire, he said he said, didn't we throw 3 men in? But I see a 4th and that 4th man looks like the Son of God or the Son of the Gods. And he called Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to come out of the fire and they came out of the the the fire without smelling like fire. They had been with the Son of God. And that is what we are gonna do as Christians.

 

We are gonna go through the refiner's fire, but we know from what Jesus said in the end times, will he find faith on the earth when he returns? Most Christians lack true love because iniquity is an increasing and abounding. Few Christians are standing up for what is right. They're scared to walk the straight narrow path for what the beast will do to them. They're, they're scared of their family. They’re scared of, what’s happening politically. And most people just shut up and they stop talking because they fear the beast system. But we as disciples of Jesus are not called to be cowards or to just go hide in a corner. We're called to be lights, we're called to be fighting the good fight, we're called to engage in this war of Armageddon and to fight against these demons. Will we stand up and continue to cast these demons out even if they're given residency, even if they're given citizenship, will we continue to cast out these demons of lust, of hatred? Will we continue to have true love in us for Jesus Christ in our fellow brothers and sisters in the Lord? Or will we fall into this false sort of love that the world has that loves worldliness that says you have to love both perversion and everything else in the world in order to be a good citizen. Will we believe that kind of garbage or will we hold fast to our faith in Jesus Christ? And what we know the prophet spoke in the bible about holiness and righteousness? Will we stand up for what we believe in Jesus and live by his words, or will we fall into the trap of the devil?

 

I hope that you have your feet on the rock of Jesus Christ because everything in this world is going to be shaken. Again and again, it will be shaken. And everything will be shaken except that which is unshakable, which is the foundation, the cornerstone. So are your feet grounded on that cornerstone, or are you on the wishy-washy ground? Are you on the sand that when the waters, the floods come, everything that you built will be all washed away and all become nothing. I hope that your faith is genuine, and I hope that you really are being led by Jesus and not by, you know, what the pastors are saying, what the modern day prophets are saying. I hope that you're really being led by Jesus by the guidance of his holy spirit, such as we read in John chapter 14 through 16.

 

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

How to Hunger and Thirst for righteousness When You Don't

 A big problem we have today in our culture is a lack of men who desire holiness and righteousness. What our culture desires is entertainment. People give all their energy to their phone, to the TV, and to this sort of entertainment that just rots our brains. And at the end of the day, because all of our dopamine has been stolen out of us, we have no desire for the righteousness and holiness to get to know God or encourage our fellow brother or sister in the Lord. This is a huge problem.

Satan is robbing what is yours right out of your heart and if you don't get a hold of it and start desiring what is righteous you will have nothing left. You will have no presence of God in your life. You will have no true joy. You will have given all of your energy and all of your time to things that are completely irrelevant for your eternal destiny. You're determining your destiny right here and right now.

If you ever ask an addict if it was worth it to give their life to drugs and alcohol, they would tell you, of course not. But why do they continually do it? They have set up a pattern in their life. They've fallen into a rut, and they are addicted and they feel they have no choice. Whatever patterns we set up in our life, those we just start doing.

It is not natural for us to just hunger and thirst for righteousness. If you haven't been praying, you don't just naturally pray continually without ceasing as the Bible talks about. If you haven't been in the throne room talking with Jesus, you're not just naturally there. As men, we're not gonna just naturally wanna stand up for good just because it's easy. It's not easy.

It's not easy to take up our cross. It's not easy to make good habits. It's not easy to overcome the flesh to deny ourselves to reject evil. It's not easy just to cast out all evil thoughts and to guard our tongue and our heart, to guard our eyes and our ears, those things don't come naturally. We have to start making patterns and choosing good over evil, loving the light over darkness.

And when we do so, when we start practicing what is right, then God starts to instill in us and put in us a desire for righteousness and holiness. You may have no desire or hunger or thirst for righteousness in you right now because you are not practicing it, but you are practicing watching your phone. So you're gonna have a desire to watch more things on your phone, probably really frivolous things that don't matter. Maybe you have a desire to look at porn or other things that are wicked. And because you're practicing that, that is what's taking your energy and you're giving more and more energy to that.

That's because you're practicing that. You're feeding your flesh. No wonder you have no desire for righteousness and holiness. You're not practicing what is good, but you're practicing what is perverted and what is evil. If you desire to practice righteousness and holiness, then you will also have a hunger and thirst for righteousness.

So right now if there is something in you that desires to choose good over evil, but just a very little amount, not much at all, muster up everything you have and say, Lord, please give me more of this hunger and thirst for righteousness, so I can build my spiritual man and start putting down the flesh that I can start practicing what is good in overcoming, and start putting out and casting out these demons of evil, all these bad habits, all these bad thoughts, all the lust of the flesh, all these things that I know are bringing me to hell. If you wanna overcome in Jesus's name, you need to start praying for a hunger and thirst for righteousness. And as you practice what is good and make habits that are good, the Lord will start to build you up. You will start to desire holiness and righteousness. One small example I have of this is jogging, running, exercise.

When I didn't exercise much, I had very little desire to go on a jog with my wife. Even when I lived up in Yosemite, I lived right in the park for a while. And even though it was the great outdoors because I was out of shape and didn't like running, I didn't really wanna exercise and go on a mile jog in the valley even though it was in Yosemite, one of the most beautiful places on earth with my wife. But after I was convinced that, okay, I will do it one time even though I don't really like it. I don't hunger and thirst for this.

I just did it because my wife was wanting me to. I knew it was the right thing. I didn't wanna do it, but I knew it was good for my health. I did it and the first few times I didn't really enjoy it. I just did it because I knew it was right, but then I started to make a pattern of going on a mile jog or a 3 mile jog.

After a year or so went on, I started to crave jogging. I started to enjoy it. It became a time where I could not only just jog but I could talk with my wife on a jog, I could pray, I could think. It became something that I desired. It was a habit that I built that was a good habit.

 

And these are the sorts of things we need to build into our life if we wanna desire holiness and righteousness. You're not gonna just naturally wanna pray continually without ceasing like the Bible says. You're not gonna wanna just naturally be in the throne room of God with Jesus and him telling you all the things that you've done wrong so that then you can get better. It's painful to see yourself how you really are, but if you choose to start walking this path, if there's anything in you that desires holiness, then muster up every bit of it you have and start doing what is right and God will reward you. The spirit of God will start giving you the ability to overcome and to desire more holiness and more righteousness.

Without righteousness, no one is gonna see God. No one's gonna please him. We have to be holy and righteous, and we have to have faith. So if there is something in you that desires to go this path, the path of the righteous, say, Lord, I need a hunger. I need a thirst for righteousness. I hardly have any right now, but I want that to be built in me. I want to have a desire for the light. I want to hate the darkness. I want to have a desire for good and hate evil, and as you start praying and practicing righteousness, the Lord will build you up. He will give you more faith. He will give you a new tongue. He will give you the gift of the Holy Spirit.

I wanna pray for you right now if you are someone that is wanting to give your life to Jesus fully, that you wanna commit, that you wanna hunger and thirst for righteousness, and you just wanna overcome in Jesus's name. So Lord Jesus, I pray for those, my fellow brothers and sisters who want to hunger and thirst for righteousness that wanna overcome by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony that wanna have new life and partake in your new covenant. I pray that they would devote their life to you, that they would make habits of righteousness, that they would deny themselves daily, take up their cross, and learn to live righteously, to learn to love the light and the truth, and to hate evil and to hate darkness. We pray to be the sons and daughters of the light. In your name, I pray lord Jesus. Amen.