Rediculous legalism around hats

 

Some Christians are very concerned about the writings of the Apostle Paul in 1st Corinthians chapter 11 which speak to head coverings. They literally think that if a woman is not wearing a hat she is a disgrace and her hair should be cut off. They also think that if a man is wearing a hat he shouldn't be praying or prophesying. So how does that coexist with the fact that we should be praying continually without ceasing? Does that mean that men should never wear a hat? Do we supposed any true man of God wearing a hat cannot be lawfully praying? What about when your job requires you to wear a hat all day and you want to pray? Will God condemn you for prayin in your uniform?  Let's NOT fall to legalism as many have who have misinterpreted Paul's letters!  Remember that Paul spoke to Christians both Jews and gentiles around year 50 a.d.  During this time it would have been considered promiscuous for a woman to take off her head covering in public. Also, apparently it was a sign a man was being disrespectful if he did not take his head covering off during a public prayer meeting, demonstrating to others that he did not respect them or God. But what about TODAY? Some suppose that these writings of Paul should be applied to you and to me. But take this into consideration: When was the last time any man has lusted after a woman for not wearing a hat? Be honest.  Likely, the times you fell to lust as a man was NOT due to a woman not wearing a hat, but due to tight clothing; such things as yoga pants, tight skirts, short dresses, crop tops and other sorts of immodest clothing that women wear. These sorts of apparel cause men to stumble into sexual sin. But I don't know of any man who fell into lust simply because a woman was not wearing a hat over her hair on the top. Likewise, when was the last time you saw men in our culture chose to be disrespectful by holding a public prayer meeting where they all decided to wear hats to demonstrate their rebellion against God? That just never happens because it's not a thing in our culture. So what is the purpose of bringing all this up?  The fact is God is ALWAYS looking at your HEART, not if you're wearing a hat or not. In your HEART you know what it means to be modest and respectful towards other brothers. In your HEART you know what it means to be modest and respectful in your culture and in your house and in your marriage! That is what you're going to be judged on; if you love God with your HEART and your neighbor as yourself and if you kept yourself pure. But no one is going to be sent to hell for wearing a hat while praying or not wearing a hat in public as a female. So let us be mature in our understanding and not legalistic as the hypocrites.

Jesus has come to deliver and set you free

 

Jesus has Come to Deliver and Set You Free

 

           Those who are captive and slaves to sin will be set free IF they put their faith in JESUS CHRIST.  This is what is recorded about Jesus in Luke 4:16-30

“16So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. 17And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:

18“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,

Because He has anointed Me

To preach the gospel to the poor;

He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,

To proclaim liberty to the captives

And recovery of sight to the blind,

To set at liberty those who are oppressed;

19To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

 

20Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. 21And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” 22So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”

23He said to them, “You will surely say this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in Your country.’ ” 24Then He said, “Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. 25But I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land; 26but to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath, in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”

28So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 29and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff. 30Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way.

 

           The Pharisees an the Jewish leaders of that day did not approve of the salvation of Jesus Christ, they were jealous and they wanted people to come to THEM, not to be set free from bondage and sin in the name of JESUS.  Today we have the exact same problem.  The church leaders are jealous of the power of God, they would rather you go to THEM, that you continually say in bondage, that you would not be set free so that you may feel compelled to pay them tithe, money every week and that you would continually go to THEM for your salvation.  But Jesus has come to set you free.  Not that you would be in bondage to SIN and DEAD RELIGION. 

I want to read to you what Jesus was reading from in Isaiah 61:1-3; “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captive, and the opening of the prison to those who are bond; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for  the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.”

           For those that repent and find the righteousness of Jesus Christ, THEY WILL BE SAVED.  But the vengeance of God will come upon those who refuse to repent, just as the vengeance of God came upon the Pharisees who hated the words of Jesus Christ.  Will you be like those who were overjoyed to hear the words of Jesus?  Will you ask Him to set you free?  Will you come out of the darkness of sin?  Will you confess your sin and REPENT?  Or will you go more into BONDAGE and will the vengeance of GOD fall upon you. There is hope for you in the name of Jesus IF YOU REPENT TODAY. 

Hebrew Roots Movement

Jesus was not going around preaching the Ten Commandments, the Law of Moses and the Torah,  like the judaizers and the "Hebrew Roots movement" adherents are today. Jesus went around preaching the kingdom of God and called people to follow HIM, proclaiming that something greater had arrived, which was and IS Himself. Don't be deceived by the Hebrew Roots Movement or the judaizers. Get to know Jesus Christ for real. Hear His voice and Obey Him or God will reject you. 

God Hates Corruption: Remember Ananias and Sapphira

 God Hates Corruption:  Remember Ananias and Sapphira

These are the days to be very serious

about our life.

Many people think, that they can get away

with sin,

so they play games with God, they think,

that they're safe and secure, going to

heaven,

that God will never bring judgment upon

them,

so they continue to do sin, saying that

they are forgiven,

that they were saved long ago

and

they deceive themselves and they deceive

others.

While  I was driving home the other day,

the Holy Spirit reminded me of something

and that was the story about Ananias and

Saphira

and in the story of acts chapter 5, it's

the very beginning of the church age,

you have the apostles, who are

testifying that Jesus Christ is alive

and people are coming into the faith

and people are all giving to the greater

good of the church, helping one another,

being one body, the body of Christ

and you see this man, who goes out and he

buys (sells) a plot of land

and he buys it for a certain sum of

money, maybe that was about a hundred

thousand dollars

of today's money

and then he goes to the church

and he talks to Peter and he tells Peter

that

he has bought this plot of land for

twenty thousand dollars and he will give

ALL the proceeds

or

when he sold the land, I mean,

so all the money, that he got from

selling this land, he will give to the

church and Peter by the Holy Spirit immediately

knows that Ananias is lying

and

immediately after Peter confronts him

telling him that

he could have given any amount of money,

that he wanted to the church, but because

he's lying, he's lying to the Holy Spirit

and immediately for his corruption

Ananias falls dead and the young man, the

young men in the church drag him off to

the graveyard and they bury him.

Just a few minutes later after that of

course Ananias's wife comes in and

they do

kind of a sting operation, they,

you know, ask her, they don't just tell

her, that

her husband's dead, but the church

members, they say: How much was it, that

you bought that or you sold that land

for?

And she says the same thing: oh, it was

$20 000, you know,

and immediately she lies and they

confront her and they say:

well, your husband is already dead and

the same feet, that

drug him out and buried him you will

also be dead with him and she falls dead

and breathes her last and they bury her

next to

her husband, you know the story most

likely.

        I have heard this story,

also taught in the churches and the

pastors act as though

God was once vengeful, He was once very

strict, He was once against sin, but now

God has changed,

now God doesn't stand up against

corruption,

the pastors will come out and say: "Well

if God did that today, everyone in our

church would be dead..."

And they are right. If God did do that,

everyone would be dead and the truth is,

why God doesn't do that in the churches

today is because the churches belong to

satan. (God does not judge The Outsiders first before he judges His own people)

The churches don't belong to the Holy

Spirit, they belong to the devil.

If

God hates corruption and God has not

changed,

the same God who

killed Ananias and Saphira

will also kill and destroy all of those,

who are claiming to be disciples, who are

claiming to be Christians,

but who are living in corruption.

God is against corruption, He is against

the corrupt church

and the corrupt church leaders will be

killed by the hand of God.

God has not changed,

it's not that God used to be strict and

He used to love justice and He used to

love

discipline and now He's gone

mushy, you know, now He's 

lazy in His discipline.

God has not changed,

it is the opinions of men that have

changed.

   The church of today

is many times more corrupt,

we look back at that

situation of acts chapter 5 with Ananias

and Saphira and we just think: man,

that's how it was in the olden days, i'm

glad, God's not like that, that's not true.

God is going to discipline His children

and He's going to kill those,

who are corrupt.

When this happened in the early church,

GREAT fear fell on them, the fear of God

fell upon them, because they knew, that

God was real and He is serious.

We cannot live in any corruption,

make sure, that you get yourself and your

family out of the churches of today,

they're corrupt, more corrupt, than any

organization.

they're bringing people to hell,

the doors of the church are one in the

same as the doors to hell, you go in

there and you're walking yourself into

the pit of hell.

The pastors are agents of satan,

they are corrupt.

Don't allow corruption to come upon you

and your family and therefore

also the judgment of God. Come out and be

separate from the harlot church system,

come out and be separate from people, who

are corrupt,

people who are living in sin and in

bondage.

If you come out and be separate

the Holy Spirit will receive you, you

will become a child of God, Jesus will

lead you by His Holy Spirit,

but if you continue to let men guide you,

who are corrupt in church,

for this reason the judgment of God is

coming upon many Christians, that's why

many of them are sick and dying, diseased,

their families are falling apart, this is

all due to sin

and these things are

the punishment of God.

I warn you to stay separate,

don't get into a church, get out of

church and get into a relationship with

Jesus Christ, He is alive

and He leads His little flock.

His true flock is small and they're

scattered all around the world,

different places,

but when the Holy Spirit calls them out

of the world, then they follow the lamb,

wherever He leads, they sanctify

themselves in His blood.

Jesus purges them of sin

and then they do the acts of

righteousness, every single day they wake

up praying

and praising the Lord and throughout the

day they pray continually, they rejoice

in the Lord, they sing His praises,

they do good for others,

it's not about going to church on

sundays or on Saturdays, it's not about

religion or ceremonies,

it's about living our life

under the guidance of the Holy Spirit

every moment.

Are we doing that, are we connected to

the Holy Spirit?

Are we free of sin and hypocrisy

or are we like the worldly Christians,

who are still into pornography, into

ungodly music, going out to the malls and

watching all the movies,

addicted to the media, acting just like

all the movie actors,

following celebrities,

but at the same time having bible study

in their home, thinking, that they have a

form of righteousness?

Make sure, that you stay separate, keep

yourself far away from dead religion and

people that call themselves Christians,

Churchgoers, pastors, elders,

leaders in the church, keep yourself away

from them,

because the judgment of God is coming on

those, who live disorderly.

God is against sin,

He is against hypocrisy!

and He is certainly against corruption!

May the grace of Jesus be with you.

 

Is your country worth dying for

 

Is Your County Worth Dying For?

 

These are days to be very serious about our relationship with the living God, with Jesus Christ.  None of us know how long we have to live. We could be killed tomorrow.  None of us know if these wars will escalate into a world war, if it will be nuclear war. And there's a lot of talk about this right now.  But more than ever we're finding ourselves in a time to be very serious, because we are in the fringes.  Jesus decides if we live or die, but many people obviously die in war, and a lot of people are willing to die for their country. It came out on the news the other day about how some of the Ukrainians stood up against the Russians and how their last words were curse words to their enemy and all 13 of them were killed, in that battle, in that war.  Do we think that they died a noble death? Will they be able to stand before God and will God say to them; “Good job for cursing your enemies, good job for your last words being profanities and hatred towards others.”? These men were patriotic and many of us are patriotic for our country, but what does it matter if we have a homeland in this world, but we have no part of the kingdom of God?   Jesus said; “What does a man gain if he gets the whole world but loses or forfeits his own soul.”  What will it matter at the end of the day if you have stood up for your homeland if you've defended your property with your own weapons, but your own life is taken, your wife is raped, your children are put in concentration camps, what's it going to matter at the end of the day that you fought for your little bit of freedom in this world?  You would be far better off surrendering, being the slave that you have spiritually been already, and let those people dominate over you, than for you to think that you're free physically, but be a slave spiritually.  Most all Americans are slaves, most of the world, all of Europe included, this continent included, we are all SLAVES TO SIN.  And whether we think we're free men and free women or not, spiritually we are slaves and God gives us into our slavery when we refuse to come out of it.  This happened time and time again with God's own children, the Israelites, they were given into the hands of the Babylonians, they were given into the hands of people who hated them, who made them slaves.  Many of them were tortured and killed.  We know that Egypt forced them in times past to do many work projects and they treated them very poorly.  These things all happened because Israel became slaves spiritually and then they became slaves physically.  

But what land are we willing to die for?  The only land that I'm willing to die for is the New Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Heaven, that is Zion spiritually.  If we have a land that doesn't exist here then moth and rust can't destroy thieves and armies can't break in and steal and take what we have.  Even if we're thrown in prison and put to death, nothing will be able to infiltrate and take over the land that we fight for.  But every land here can be taken over and we know that the end of the world ends in fervent heat and destruction, where the elements burn.  That could be nuclear war.   That could be the hand of God allowing nations to destroy nations bringing the end of the whole world. That could be God allowing climate change to warm up the earth so much, not that it's “climate change” (manipulative agenda from the government) as people say, but maybe God will allow humans to bring destruction upon themselves for their evil?  There's a lot of ways that the world could end, but it looks very obvious for many of us how we may die, at the hands of infidel nations, men who are ungodly, but God allows these men to bring judgment upon the world, because the sins of the world are great.

 I hope that we don't stand up for patriotism, thinking that if we're just patriotic to our own country then we'll make it into heaven, because being patriotic for Ukraine or Russia or the United States or China or whatever country you're a part of, will NOT make you inherit everlasting life.

 God's children are in every nation.  All of us who surrender to the Lamb of God all of us who surrender to him and follow Him wherever He goes, we become part of a new nation. It’s not being a patriotic to whatever our homeland is here in this world and about killing other people, but it is about bringing people into the New Jerusalem, into Zion, that is the kingdom of Heaven, the kingdom of God, winning souls into everlasting life through the power of Jesus Christ.  That is the kingdom that we need to live for and die for and if we're not for that Kingdom, we're in big trouble.  Satan has got many people just to be patriotic, they hate other nations, they have murderous thoughts, even of their brothers and sisters, their own family members.  They're ready to kill for their country for being patriotic, but what do you think will happen when their country is taken over and they are dead and stand before God in judgment?  Will he say, good job?  Will He say good job, you blew up some of the infidels, you're very patriotic?  The kingdom of God is about righteousness and love, loving others as yourself, even loving your enemies. Even those who love themselves they hate their enemies, this world that hates all people, they even love their own though that are like them.  But Jesus called us to pray for people that persecute us and hate us to pray for our enemies, to love others to do good to others, to be good Samaritans.  That is not easy to do, it is easy to hate those who hate us, to have evil thoughts of those that have evil thoughts against us, to slander those that slander us and to stand up for patriotism. But if we want to win the spiritual war, this war of Armageddon, that is the REAL war.  The real war is not Ukraine against Russia, the real war isn't you know, China against the United States or some other war that may happen in the future.  The real war is satan versus your soul.  All the souls that are in this world, that is the war of Armageddon and in the end either you enter into everlasting life with Jesus Christ or into everlasting damnation.

 One of the ways satan gets all of us, is to make us doubt, we start losing hope in the revelations of the Holy Spirit and I know right now a lot of people are discouraged. They don't hear from God as clearly as they can, they're distracted by everything that's happening in the world, by this war and it's very easy to lose hope when you take your eyes off of Jesus Christ.  I don't know how many times I have had a word from the Lord and satan immediately told me; “That word is irrelevant, everyone knows that message already, don't even bother uploading that video, you already know that message that's very juvenile it's very elementary, don't worry about speaking it, you don't need to.  God's children are already safe and secure and the rest of the world won't listen anyways…”  I don't know how many times satan has tried to snatch the Word of God that has come to me and come to others.  But I upload those videos anyway.  The Lord, you know, He gives us messages and we share them with others and the devil constantly brings accusations against us as brethren, satan is called the accuser of the brethren.  And if I were to listen to satan, I wouldn't be uploading this video right now, because even this video I'm making, the devil accused me and said; “You know people already know all this, you know people are either receiving the truth or rejecting it, so don't worry, you know, don't bother preaching the truth…”  But I continue on because I want to obey the Holy Spirit and do His works even if people reject it, even if they don't listen and we can't just pay attention to how people respond.  What drives us should be just doing the work of the Holy Spirit no matter what.  What drives us should be obeying Jesus Christ, living by His words, even if people don't receive it at all.  We can't listen to satan or let him get us down or let him discourage us.  And a lot of people are losing faith because they go and say; “You know what, everyone's either safe and secured and going to heaven or they've already taken the mark of the beast, so why am I bothering anyway…”  Well the reason why you should bother, is because Jesus has called you for a specific task, that is to righteousness and you are still on this earth with a purpose, that is of love, to love others is yourself, to love your Creator and to make disciples.  Not everyone is called of course to go on Youtube, or to preach online or to go preach on the street, but everyone is called to make disciples in one way or the other. When we come to Jesus we become fishers of men, we call others with our life to repent.  There's not a formula to it, it's not about following someone else's formula, it's not about just passing out tracks or something like that religiously, but with our LIFE we have to proclaim the truth, with our life we have to bear good fruit, otherwise we'll get cut off.

A lot of people, they try to make these formulas of following God and these do's and these don’ts, it becomes a religion.  And then they feel guilty and ashamed if they don't do certain things religiously every single day.  But with following Jesus it's about doing life with Him, hearing Him, going where He calls us to go, honoring Him, having His love for others in our heart.  Loving the Lord our God with all of our heart and that out spilling of that love from the Holy Spirit is what drives us, and we want others to know the living God, so of course we tell them about the joy we have in Jesus Christ.

 So, I encourage you not to let satan get you down in these times of war and pestilence and all these things happening in the world.  Don't let satan have his arrows in you, don't let his arrows of hatefulness or bitterness be in you or discouragement or confusion.  We would do much better just keeping our eyes on him and doing the things that we know to be upright and pure every day. Praying!  Praying for others, confessing our sins, apologizing to people that we have offended and keeping ourselves unstained from the world.  If we do these things, we'll be going in the right direction, we'll be walking into everlasting life with Jesus Christ, but if we get discouraged and think; “Well I’m either just going to heaven or hell anyway and the whole world's either going to heaven or hell…”, we'll get complacent and then we won't do the work of the Holy Spirit and satan will be winning.   We don't want to give satan any ground.  We want to fortify our own country, that is our own heart.  We want to let ourselves be a temple for the Holy Spirit, we want to be the living church, that the Holy Spirit resides in.   We are the Body of Christ, we are the light of the world.   Jesus said; “You are the light of the world, let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”  

I want to be shining the light of Jesus. I don't want to be a coward running away, hiding, fearful, doubtful, ashamed, unwilling to apologize.  I want to be able to make it into the kingdom of God and because of that, I continue to fear God, I continue to work out my relationship with God, and as much as possible with others.  I work at peace, not making war with other people, and I diligently pursue the voice of the Lord, hearing His voice so that then I can walk by FAITH all the time.

When there's something we know that is wrong in us, whether it's doubt, a malicious thought, hatred towards, others a bad thought, instantly that stunts us from being able to grow.  If you have any doubt in you at all, then it makes it impossible for you to witness to others, you feel; “If I don't believe in God then how can I tell any anyone else about Him?”  All of that negativity you have to overcome, you have to overcome satan, don't let him speak this kind of doubt into your heart and into your mind.  And when the Holy Spirit gives you a word, don't think that it is too mundane, too boring or that everyone already knows it, but just speak it in truth and in love that others may be edified, that you may edify the true church of God, that people may see your good works that they may glorify God and come out of the world of depression, sin, drugs and alcohol, adultery, fornication and all this wickedness that's in the world.

 I pray that you will be a warrior for the kingdom of God not letting satan take any ground in THAT country.  The country we need to live for and die for is the Kingdom of God, not America or China or Ukraine or Russia or whatever country you're from, because when we have the rebirth, we leave our old nationalities behind, and we become citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. Are you a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven? Do you fight for that country?  Is Jesus Christ your president?  Or do you have a president here on this earth?  Will you kill and murder for the sake of your country?  Do you have hatred towards your brothers and sisters, because they're of a different worldly country than you?   Or truly are you a part of the New Jerusalem the kingdom of heaven.  May the grace of Jesus be with you. 

 

A time to fight and a time to surrender

 

A Time To Fight And A Time To Surrender

What the Holy Spirit desires all people to accept is the truth of God, and that message is about when we as individuals and or a nation should FIGHT, and when we as individuals or as a nation should SURRENDER.  And this is a very important question because it could determine the fate of your own life or the life of your family or the life of YOUR WHOLE NATION.  And as this war between Ukraine and Russia continues, this is also the question.  But it is no question in the mind of Zelenskyy of course.  It’s no question for those who are Ukrainians, obviously they desire to defend their homeland.  But if you are a CHRISTIAN, if you are wanting to follow JESUS CHRIST, you do want to do the best thing FOR YOUR OWN SOUL, your own family, despite what the government says, despite what the political leaders say.  So, what is the right thing to do?  When is the time to pick up weapons and defend your family, and when is the time to surrender?  Because after all, when you are killed, you will stand before God and He will either say; “Welcome into my Kingdom…”  Or “Away from Me you who commit iniquity…”   It will not matter if you were patriotic.  The only thing that will matter is if you were right with your creator.  You need to be thinking BEYOND PATRIOTISM, beyond the countries of this world.  You need to be thinking about the Kingdom of God.  Of course nation will come against nation, kings will come against kings, we know that this is all prophesied.  And people are going to fight to the death.  We will let the world do what the world is going to do and make their decisions, but the word to the WISE is this; HEAR THE HOLY SPIRIT, learn what the HOLY SPIRIT said to men of old.  HEAR HIS VOICE TODAY!  Because if you don’t hear Him and you fight to the death, you may lose your own country, you may lose your own family, you may lose your OWN SOUL.  And in the afterlife you will have no hope.  You will not inherit eternal life for being patriotic.  SO, the word to the wise is; LEARN TO HEAR THE LIVING GOD YOUR CREATOR.  You are hear for a purpose and you need to  figure out what that purpose is.  You need to know when to fight and when to surrender.  You need to know WHAT to fight.  We know that the battle is not with physical bodies or the principalities of this world (flesh) But with the principalities of darkness and we need to know how to fight spiritually. 

              I want to bring to everyone’s memory what happened in the past, this was about 600 BC during the time of Jeremiah, and the Chaldeans which came in to take over, they were part of Babylon, and they came in to take over Israel.  And God warned the Prophet Jeremiah to speak to the king Zedekiah.  No one wanted to hear this message.  Because the message wasn’t to be a valiant king, it wasn’t to defend their nation, but THIS was the message that came from God: (Jeremiah 38:17-18) “Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the LOR, the God of hosts, the God if Israel:  “If you surely SURRENDER to the king of Babylon’s princes, then your soul shall live; this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live.  But if you do not surrender to the king of Babylon’s princes, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans; they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand…” 

              As we know Zedekiah did not want to be a salve.  The Word of the Lord came to Zedekiah through the Prophet Jeremiah, and Jeremiah warned him, if you surrender you will live, but if you try to fight you will die.  Now of course he prophesied over the king that Zedekiah himself would not die, but that he would die in peace, in the sense that he would be a slave until his death, but that he would not physically be beheaded (or killed in the capture).  But he was warned that if his nation fought that they would die, and this is exactly what happened.  Zedekiah basically says he doesn’t want to be a salve, he will never stand down but he will stand up and he wanted to be a war hero, he wanted people to see him as bold, as courageous, he never would be a slave, he would never let his people go into captivity.  But Jeremiah tells him in more or less words that they are slaves already, they are slaves to SIN, and because Zedekiah does not want to hear the words of the Living God, but wants to live according to his pride and defend his family, what ends up happening is they all put to death, the Chaldeans come in, they take over, they make them their slaves, they imprison them, they are prisoners of war, and all of them die. 

              So, the question here is, when is the time to stand up and fight, because there ARE times to stand up and fight, fight for our country, fight for our family… and there are other times when we are called to surrender.  What is the Word of God to us?   We are in big trouble if we cannot hear His WORD!  The word to Jeremiah to speak to Zedekiah was not to be triumphant, it was not to stand and fight, in fact it was the opposite, it was to surrender.  And because he did NOT do that, he lost the war.  They were invaded and they were destroyed as a nation. 

The answer to this question depends on where your nation is with GOD. Is your nation or your family unit, or you personally, for that matter right with God?  Are you living HOLY?  Is evil out of your life?  Are the children of your family clean and pure before GOD? Because if you are and then the LORD calls you to stand up for what is RIGHT and to FIGHT, then HE WILL BE WITH YOU.  But if the Living God is NOT with your army, your soldiers, and if He has prophesied against you because THERE IS SIN IN YOUR CAMP, then no matter how much you try to fight for FREEDOM, you will lose the battel, you will lose the WAR, and everything will be lost including your own family, your own wives, your own children and your own soul. 

We Know that after Jeremiah prophesied that even the wives and children were captured and the prophecy was this; (Jer. 38:23)  “So they shall surrender all your wives and children to the Chaldeans.  You shall not escape from their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon.  And you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.”  We know that even the wives and the children did not escape.  These things will repeat again and again in history.  Men always want to be valiant; they always want to stand up, all of us want to stand up and protect our families, that is human nature.  But the question is; WHAT DOES THE LIVING GOD SAY?  ARE WE HEARING HIM? AND DO WE KNOW WHAT TO DO?  If we listen to Him we will surely live, but if we reject Him for bravery, the arm of the FLESH, for what people think, then we shall surely be put do death, just like all the old kings and all the old nations were.  History just repeats itself over and over and over again.  Who are we listening to?  Do we hear the Word of the LORD?  Can we really hear Jesus Christ?  Do we KNOW how to hear Him?  Or have we been bamboozled by the word, by what strong men look like in the flesh? 

Hearing God starts with being able to see Him in everything, hear Him in everything.  Do you hear God by being able to see Him in nature, being able to see Him work though your own children, seeing Him work through the trials and the tribulations that you see in your own life?  Are you able to overcome when you see these things happening?  And do you lean to hear His voice so that you can move forward in your faith with little steps?  Or do you continue to fall in the small things in your own life, fall to sin, fall to the lusts of the flesh, fall to greed, fall to anger, fall to drugs and alcohol, fall to pornography, fall to all these parasites that come up in your own life?  If you can’t defeat the things that come up in your own life then you can’t defeat the enemy that will come against your family, and if your family is broken down then your town is broken down.  If your town and your city is broken down then your NATION is broken down and you will not just lost the small battles, but you will lose the war. 

I fear God more than losing my own family or my own life and because of this I listen to the WORD OF GOD first!  It doesn’t matter if people think that we are valiant, strong, bold, courageous, it doesn’t matter how we appear in the eyes of the world.  WHAT MATTERS IS IF WE CAN HEAR THE LIVING GOD, IF WE HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT IN US.  SUPERNATURALLY IS HE PROVIDING FOR US.  Do we hear HIM?  Because if we don’t we are in very grave danger of losing our nation, losing our soul, losing our family.  No one will escape. 

Can you see Him working in your life?  Do you hear the Word of GOD, are you hearing HIS VOICE?  If you can’t, you have absolutory no direction or hope.  You will be killed; your family will be killed and all will be lost. 

Following Jesus isn't about joining a local church

Following Jesus ISN’T About Joining a Local Church

Following Jesus Christ is not about joining a local church body, it’s not about anything other than being part of the body of Christ, receiving His Holy Spirit and doing HIS will every day.  Jesus said that His sheep, they hear His voice, they don’t follow strangers, but they will run from strangers.  The Christian church today is full of hypocrisy, sin, vile sins, that even many of those in the WORLD do not commit.  Such hypocrisy GOD HATES.  Christians today are being duped to think that following Jesus means joining a church, getting plugged into a ministry.  But following Jesus has nothing to do with going to church, but everything with becoming the body of Christ.  You cannot be the body of Christ with sin in your life.  You cannot be the body of Christ simply by getting together with other so called “believers”, that is hypocrisy. (playing church)  You can be part of the body of Christ even if you are stuck on a submarine on the bottom of the ocean, or on a satellite somewhere up above the earth.  No matter where you are, if you are a child of God, if you have received His Holy Spirit, you are part of the body of Christ (not because you play church, but because you belong to JESUS) This deception about the “localized church body” is manipulation, it is wickedness.  This is satan’s way to control Christians WHO ARE NOT HEARING THE HOLY SPIRIT!  Satan tells them, “You have to be part of one local church, you have to give your tithe there, you have to submit yourself to the authority there, hear your pastor, listen to him…”  And because satan controls the pastors and the churches, because he has made them into a business, then he will control and manipulate you and your family and walk with you to hell.  Satan is on his way to hell, and he is taking as many Christians as he possibly can.  Satan will be right there by your side, walking with you, taking you and your family to hell IF YOU ALLOW him to.  Don’t be part of these local churches.  Don’t be part of their communion, don’t be part of their prayers, don’t have anything to do with the churches that are 501(c)3, don’t have anything to do with these government churches, the churches that are on all the street corners in the cities and the towns, in our communities, those are NOT the TRUE church.  The true church IS THE BODY OF CHRIST THAT FOLLOWS THE LAMB WHEREVER HE LEADS.  They are HOLY, they are separated for the PURPOSE OF GOD!  They will live for Jesus Christ and DIE FOR HIM!  They honor the brothers and sisters in the Lord because they are PART of the BODY OF CHRIST, not because they are manipulated into a church to pay tithes or to do religion on Sundays.  Don’t be duped by this foolish organization, organizations of men, owned and operated by men and controlled by satan.  Come out and be separate, have your family be separate.  You need to be separate.  And don’t JUST come out of church, but let all church come out of you and out of your family.  Don’t think they way that they do.  Be completely separate and sanctified and HOLY for the purpose of the HOLY SPIRIT of the Living GOD to be working through you.  Otherwise you are not part of the Body of Christ, that is the TRUE body of Christ, that worships the Living GOD in SPIRIT and in TRUTH.  The true church is not bricks and mortar, it is not just a group that meets in a home or a house, but it is those who hear the Spirit of the Living GOD in their souls.  He is working through their heart, He is changing their mind.  Are we part of the true body of Christ or are we just running around joining local church bodies, like the hypocrites, the heathens, the infidels and those who refuse to come into the glory of God, who refuse true repentance.  Are we being deceived and duped by satan?  Satan will go with you to hell if you let him, he will take you there, but it is YOUR choice if you will follow satan or if you will cut off wickedness from your life and join the true body of Christ, if you will follow Jesus Christ with ALL your heart, all your soul, all your might and all your strength!  You can’t follow Him unless you are separate from ungodliness.  Separate yourself from people that are ungodly, family members that are ungodly.  Separate yourself from bad habits, from cursing, profanity, dirty jokes.  Separate yourself from everything that is vile on TV and on the internet, pornography etc… all these things will pollute you.  Sin will take you and your family straight to hell.  I warn you that these day are serious.  We could be dead tomorrow and you need to worry about the afterlife, not about the stock market, not about Covid, you need to worry about your soul’s destination!  You cannot control if OTHER people go to heaven or hell, but you have control over your OWN life.  You can choose to repent.  Jesus will not force you to repent.  He will never force anyone to follow Him with all their heart.  YOU have to choose to follow Jesus.  He has made the way for you to repent with His own blood.  Jesus resurrected from the dead, HE IS ALIVE.  He is willing to lead you and guide you, he loves you, but unless you dedicate your life to Him and get away from people that are causing you to sin, and to do evil, you won’t be able to follow the Holy Spirit, you will not be able to receive His Holy Spirit.  Get out of church, get out of worldliness.  Follow Jesus with all your heart or you will perish.