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.”

Obvious Truth That No One is Speaking

We'll praise Jesus today, everyone. I wanted to read to you some plain truth that's right in front of our eyes that Jesus spoke, but that is not commonly taught in church because it is veiled. They don't wanna see the truth because they themselves are in sin and also want you to stay in sin so that you can support these church systems. But for those of us that want to come out of the world, to come out of dead religion, and to be set free, these words of Jesus Christ are for us. So, I'm reading from Matthew chapter 7.  I'm gonna start in verse 12.

 “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”  

There are many churches and many Christians in our town, and they are accepting of many different lifestyles. But there is only one way that leads to the truth and there are very few who find it in that way is through Jesus Christ.  And the reason why it's so hard is because this straight and narrow path with Jesus requires that you daily deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow this Messiah, this king. Even if people hate you and despise you, even if no one is in your corner, it requires you following Jesus by faith and not by sight even when no one agrees with you. You have to be strong in the Lord and confident to follow him because often you will have no support, you won't have any friend in your corner except the spirit of God. This is what I want to bring light to today what Jesus says starting in verse 15.

“15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” 

This statement of Jesus is not widely popular in church because the saying in church with Christians is, you can't know my heart, brother. You can't know my heart, sister. That's not my real intentions. I said that, but that's not my heart. But what Jesus is clearly saying is you can see people's fruit on the outside.  And I wanna expose to you that it is impossible for someone to have good fruit but a bad heart or vice versa. So would it be possible to know that someone's fruit is all bad, but then to suppose, well, I can't know their heart. Their heart must be good, but their fruit is all bad. According to Jesus, I mean, if you follow logic in what he said, that's an impossibility. But that is the truth that in church, Christians don't want you to know or to openly state because a lot of Christians, they have outward problems.  They outwardly curse. They are gossiping. They're speaking evil. They're telling dirty jokes. They're always cussing.  They're taking Jesus's name in vain. And these things are so obvious to see, guys. If someone claims to be a leader in the church, if they claim to be of Christ, yet they're dropping the f bomb, they're cursing people, they're gossiping, they're degrading women, you can know that these people are not spending time with Jesus because any child of God, they're gonna have a pure tongue. Their heart is gonna be pure. They've spent time with the king.  What is filling them is the light of Jesus Christ. There's no way they're gonna be degrading women and speaking dirty jokes and making you feel silly for not going along with their jokes. I don't know how many Christians there are that think it's okay to take Jesus' name in particular in vain, that are always talking in a way that's degrading to people? How can we be called the body of Christ if we're like this? If there is someone that you know in the church that is doing this, you can know that they are a wolf in sheep's clothing. 

If you truly come to Jesus Christ, one of the very first things that the Holy Spirit is gonna take charge of is your tongue. That's why he says he gives you a new tongue. You don't have that old tongue that continually gossips, continually says things that are evil, slandering people, hating people with your tongue, breathing out just things that are murderous, tearing people down. As soon as you put your faith in Jesus, you are humbled, and your speech also recognizes that. You recognize Jesus with every word that you speak.  So you can know for a fact that someone's heart is bad if you can see bad fruit coming off of their lips. This truth is so obvious, so plain, guys. It's right in front of you. Don't be deceived by Christians that say, “oh, that's just what I said. I just dropped the f bomb, but you don't know my heart.  I just took Jesus' name in vain and I told a dirty joke, but you can't know my heart, brother.” That is just ridiculous. It's impossible to have bad fruit but a good heart. If your fruit is bad, your heart is bad also.

And a lot of people's problem is they're not spending time with Jesus.  They haven't truly repented. And even though they're Christians all their life and they've said a prayer, they read the Bible, they're leaders in church, they have never repented and been born again. If we want everlasting life, we have to be born again and truly repent of our sins. Otherwise, these sins are taking us to hell and we're leading other people to hell. We're scattering the body of Christ.  Either we are gathering, or we are scattering. So let's not be deceived by false prophets, by wolves in sheep in sheep's clothing or just plain wolves that are not in sheep's clothing at all. Let us be wise to stand in the truth and to call it like it is. If someone is following the Lord, we encourage them, but if someone is pretending, we know that they are not part of the body of Christ. We stand up against what is evil.  We don't pretend to be like these people are Christians.

How are we doing? Are we bearing good fruit or are we like those Christians who are about to be cut off? I wanna make sure that my own life is right before God, so I stay humble. We keep our nose down, but our head up.  We keep our eyes looking up to Jesus, but we stay humble before God so that he can use us. God doesn't use the proud. He doesn't use the arrogant, but he uses those who are humble that can be used for his purpose that will stay steadfast with him to continue to walk that straight narrow path and not waver. Too many Christians are wavering. They don't take sides with the truth when it gets hard.  They will leave you. They will forsake you, but they don't forsake their life to walk with the Lord regardless of what he asks them to do. So let us be the body of Christ that are separate from the whole religious crowd, separate from this world that is quick to deny Jesus, separate from false prophets and false leaders, separate from walking the line of the world and with God having 1 foot in the world, 1 foot with the Lord. We need to dedicate ourselves as the Lord's disciples fully to him and just walk in purity, calling others to have their new tongue, calling others to be part of this regeneration where they are reproved, made clean, purged of sin, and have on their white robes ready for the wedding supper of the lamb.

We wanna take part with, with Jesus in his new covenant.  It's not about keeping all the laws of the Old Testament as the Judaizers would have you believe. There's many Jews and Christians that try to promote all the Old Testament laws of Moses as if you keep those, you'll go to heaven. They teach the old covenant, the old law, the 613. But we, as Jesus' disciples, are all about the new covenant that was made through Jesus' blood that atones for our sins, and we're all about that covenant and that truth that he puts on our heart that we know good from evil and loving the Lord our God with all our heart, our neighbor as our self, and always staying in the light. We need to be living the new covenant, breathing the new covenant, bleeding the new covenant, and teaching others about the new covenant of Jesus, his death, his resurrection, and that what it actually means to obediently follow him in this new covenant, eating his flesh and drinking his blood, being in genuine communion with him. 

So I wanna pray for those of you that want communion with Jesus, that wanna live by the hard teachings of Jesus and not be riding the fence any longer, but that want the new life in him to be purged and be made new. “So, Lord Jesus, I do pray for your church, my fellow brothers and sisters in the Lord who want to be purged and purified and called out from the world. I pray that they hear your calling and that we will be chosen to do your work and walk in that calling and follow you all the days of our life and be unwavering that we will not be distracted by the world or fall into all the temptations of the flesh, but that we would be separate and sanctified and anointed for your purpose, that we ourselves would be saved and edified, and that we would also help in the preservation of others, that sinners would come to repentance and come into everlasting life and also bear good fruit. So I pray for your church that we would bear more good fruit, that we wouldn't be cut off, but that we would endure with you and overcome with you and, bear much good fruit for you every day, Lord.  In your name we pray. Amen.”

The Last Day and the Afterlife

 Praise Jesus today, brothers and sisters in the Lord. We can be encouraged and take great courage in the fact that when we are absent from this body, we are present WITH the Lord granted we walked our life in the truth of Jesus Christ. We daily have to deny ourselves, pick up our cross, and follow Jesus to the very end of our life. What I wanted to speak about today is a couple deceptions that are in the Christian church that make some people sad or make people feel good about a lie, and that is the reality of both heaven and hell. We know that hell is real. It's a place that Jesus talked about frequently where the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched. We know that it is eternal. Jesus spoke about it in such manner. And he even said to Judas that it would be better that that man was never born. So obviously, if annihilation were true and you just cease to exist, that would be 1 in the same thing as Judas never being born.

But the fact is after Judas committed suicide, he went to the lake that burns with fire that Jesus spoke of because he rejected God, and the last act that he did was suicide. He killed himself. Jesus clearly said it would be better for him that he was never born. Not just because he was the one who turned him in, but because of the torment he would experience in the afterlife ever after that. Likewise, heaven is real.

It's a place where we go when we endure with Jesus to the very end. And also, for those of us that belong to our father in heaven, when we die, we will immediately go to the place where God resides, that he has made for us. There is not a waiting place. There is not this, purgatory idea, and it's not, soul sleep where we just sleep in the ground for a 1000 years. Now there are some churches and some Christians that believe in soul sleep, and they believe that you just stay in the ground for a 1000 years, or a 1000000 years, or however long until Jesus returns, and that all Christians for all time, from the beginning of time up until now if you die, will lay dead in the dirt until the great judgment throne of God when he resurrects everyone on the final day.

Interestingly, if we look what the final day is, the final day is not the final day of the world or the earth, but the final day actually represents our final day, our final breath. So when Jesus is saying endure to the end, he's not saying to you, endure to the end of the world or the end of the universe until the day that the whole world disappears and disintegrates, but he's speaking, endure to the end of your life. Whatever your life is, you must endure with Jesus and overcome to the very end of it. And when you endure to that day, on that day that you physically die, then if you have overcome in the name of Jesus, you will inherit everlasting life. This is a really cool thing, guys, because this gives us hope that our God is the God of the living and that we will immediately be with him in everlasting life if we believe. We don't have to soul sleep or wait 10 years, or a 1000 years, or however many years it is for the Lord to return as the Christians understand it. Because Jesus will return for you as soon as you complete your own life, as soon as your life ends. Now a couple things that were coming to my memory today, one was that when Jesus was at the transfiguration, he saw a couple people that had died, Elijah, Moses, and those people were not soul sleeping. But he saw them in the spiritual realm, and they were alive with his father in heaven. No soul sleep.

And later, when Jesus talks to the Sadducees, and we know that the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. He said that God, his father, is the God of the living, not the God of the dead. If it were true that we sleep after we die and that our soul sleeps in the earth until the last day, meaning the last day of the universe or the last day of the earth, then it would have to be said that God is the God of the dead until the last day when he resurrects, and then God can be considered the God of the living only after he has resurrected those dead bodies. But that is not the truth. The truth is Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, all the patriarchs, all the disciples who put their faith in Jesus are living today in the Kingdom of God in eternity, making God the God of the living and not the God of the dead, and that is how it's to be interpreted.

That's clearly what Jesus said and clearly how everyone who has eyes to see will see it. God is the God of the living, not the God of dead people. Therefore Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Jonah the prophet, all these other guys who serve God in their lifetime and overcame all the trials in this life. They're not dead sleeping in their grave waiting for the final Bemessie or the final judgment throne of God. Their judgment has already come, and God has already judged in their favor, and they're already in an everlasting life with our father in heaven.

So we can take great joy and encouragement in the fact that God, our father, is the God of the living. And if you are living in Jesus Christ, and if you endure to the end, you can also have this hope that you will immediately be with the Lord in everlasting life. You will not have to wait. Interestingly, throughout the years, Jews that were both Pharisees, Sadducees, had this kind of idea that the last day meant the last day of the world and that no one would be resurrected from the dead until the last day, meaning the last day of all people on the earth. And one example of this was when Jesus's friend Lazarus dies, remember he was dead for 4 days, Jesus tarried in this town and it took Jesus a while to come into the town and Mary and Martha are saying to him how his body is already stinking in the grave and how if Jesus was there, Lazarus wouldn't have died yet, but Jesus then says that it's to their advantage that he didn't come because, you know, they're gonna see the glory of God now that he has come and is there.

 

And Jesus says to her, I'm gonna read John chapter 11 starting in 23, Jesus sayeth unto her, thy brother shall rise again. So Martha said unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. And see, you have to understand when Christians and also Jews think of the last day, they're not thinking of the last day of someone's physical life. They're thinking of the last day of the world after everything has come to completion, all the prophecies have been fulfilled, sometime a 1000000 days in the future. And upon that day, God will then resurrect those that are worthy, and the rest he will leave in the dirt to then spend their judgment in hell.

So that is how the Jews saw it, that's obviously how Martha saw it, and it's how many Christians see it today. They they think that their soul sleep or that you won't get your, your heavenly body until years years in the future. And this day will come someday in the future after a rapture and all this stuff that the church has taught. But let's see what Jesus does. So Martha said into him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever live and believe in me shall never die, believest thou this?' She said unto him, 'Yea, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the son of God, which should come into the world.' And when she had so said, she went her way and called Mary her sister secretly saying, the master has come and calleth for thee. As we know, guys, Jesus calls Lazarus out of the dead. And even after 4 days when he would start rotting in the tomb, Lazarus hears Jesus's voice, he comes out fully with the grave clothes, and all people are frightened.

They are amazed. Those that believe in Jesus are completely astonished. They put their faith in Jesus right there, as would you I. But those who are enemies of Jesus are so appalled that he did this. They immediately try to contrive a way that they will kill Jesus because they go out saying everyone is gonna believe in this prophet.

He can open the eyes of the blind, open the ears of the deaf. He can raise the dead after 4 days. How are we gonna stop people from believing in a guy that does this in plain daylight? And they even said, we're gonna lose our kingdom here on earth if people believe in this Jesus and then the Romans are just gonna take it all from us. So they try to secure their boundaries and they try to figure out a way how to silence Jesus and kill him.

Crazy. Crazy that there are people out there that don't care that Jesus can save them and do a miracle, that he can raise the dead, he can give them life. That is crazy to me that people don't see, that they don't they just have nothing to lose. I have known people even on their death beds, their old age. They have nothing to lose, guys.

 

And still they're unwilling to put their faith in Jesus. They're not willing to give up, the absolutely nothing of a life that they have. You know, it it may make sense in the world when you're young that you have something to live for other than Jesus. Maybe you're living for money, you're living for pleasure, you're living for women. But it's crazy to me that people will live their whole life making excuses.

And then even when they're 80, 90 years old, and on their deathbed, some of these people are still rejecting their only hope in Jesus. It's very sad. It's very sad that the Pharisees and that the modern day Christians today literally just hope that there's no resurrection of the dead. They will tell you there's no hell. They will say don't worry about it.

The afterlife probably doesn't exist anyway. And they don't care that Jesus is the risen Messiah, that he can resurrect people from the dead, give them hope and life. But for those of us that see these miracles, Jesus becomes our Lord. We worship him. We don't care that other people are saying, oh, you can't worship Jesus.

He's just the son of God. He's not worthy to be worshiped. We don't believe any of that rubbish. We worship Jesus. We praise his holy name just as all the angels have done forever and ever.

This is our King who was and who is and who will be forevermore. The kingdom is his forever and ever, and every tongue, every nation, every person will confess even if they hate Him that He is Lord and God. Jesus is Emmanuel, He is God with us. He's the one that resurrects people from the dead and gives us life. And if we put our faith in him, today we will have life.

We will be resurrected spiritually from the dead. It doesn't matter how we interpret the words of the Apostle Paul, it doesn't matter all the doctrines in the church, Jesus will resurrect you today, he will give you life today. You don't have to wait. And if you endure with Jesus each day of your life putting your faith in him, denying yourself, putting to death the old man of the flesh and letting that new man be built up by the Holy Spirit, then Jesus will live in you. The return of Jesus Christ will be today for you, not a 1000 years in the future.

Jesus will return to earth right now for you. He will be in you in your heart. He will return into you and be living in you for now and into eternity. And when you live for him until the last day of your life, then you will be raptured so to speak or caught up into the clouds with Jesus because you've lived with Him, you know Him. He is your personal Lord and your personal King, and He will rapture you at that moment, not in a 1000 years, not after a 7 year tribulation, you already had gone through your tribulation.

So the moment you die will be the day that you meet Jesus face to face. You will know that He is in you and you in Him and you will know your Lord. It won't be you just meeting a Bible or meeting some scripture verses. It will be as the Apostle Paul spoke that you will finally meet him face to face. This world hates Jesus.

They hate God. They hate revelation. They hate the truth. Any words of life to them are bitter, they're hateful, they despise it, they make fun of it, they mock it, they try to tear down anything the spirit of life is doing. But for those of us that have our faith in Jesus Christ, we know that he offers the words of life even if they are the difficult words, the hard words to digest.

We continue to go back to him because only Jesus has the words of life. Jesus says, eat my flesh and drink my blood. When Jesus said that most of all the disciples who were on the outside, you know, those 5,000 men that followed him for food the day before, all of them started to walk away saying, who can understand this? We're not gonna be a cannibal. We're not gonna eat this guy's flesh.

We have a father in heaven. Who is this Jesus? They walked away from him and Jesus turned to his own disciples and he said, are you gonna turn away from me also? And then Peter said, Lord, where will we go? Only you have the words of life.

That is where I want to be. I want to be with Jesus because my hope isn't in my money, not in my wallet, not in retirement, not in my car, not in my house, not in the securities and structures and safety nets of this world But my security and my refuge and my rock is in my salvation of my King, Jesus Christ. He is king of kings. He's the God who was, the God who is, and who forever will be. Is your faith in the rock?

Do you have his hedge of protection around you? Or are you like those Christians in the world who are deceived, who think that they have protection because they're in religion? Let us not be like those who are self righteous, thinking that we're right because we go to church, because we've said the prayer of salvation, and think that we are once saved, always saved. But let let us be truly humble before God, daily working out our salvation with fear and trembling, asking for the guidance of the Holy Spirit, not seeking the counsel of men in things that are of eternity, but the counsel of the Holy Spirit who is given to us to lead us and to guide us into all truth and to bring into our memory the things that he's already taught us and to teach us even things to come. So where is your hope?

Is your hope in Jesus, the resurrected king, who will resurrect you on the last day, who will bring you up the day that you die in the everlasting life, or is your hope in this world? I just hope that as a brother in the Lord, I can encourage you in these last days to put your faith in Jesus Christ. None of us know how long we have. We don't know if nuclear war will break out as they talk about all the time now on the Internet. We don't know if Russia or China will start another 3rd war or start a 3rd war that that's gonna destroy everyone.

We don't know if famine or pestilence will break out. The world is a very insecure place. There's no security in the world. Even the kings will say, fall on us and they will dig tunnels under the ground, and still that will not keep them from the judgments that are coming on this world. If we want protection, it's not about just running to the hills or running underground into underground tunnels or having a food source saved up, nestled away safely in some storage bin.

But the true security is in Jesus and in eating his flesh and drinking his blood. Are we being nourished from heaven such as how the Israelites were being nourished by manna from heaven or are we putting our identity and security in the arm of the flesh thinking that we will be secure when everything hits the fan by our own securities? Man, you won't be able to secure yourself enough, there's not enough that you can do to get yourself enough that you can do to get yourself through even a year, let alone 7 years or the rest of your life, however long that is. You would do better to cry out to your Messiah for mercy and say, Lord, save me. Save me from my sins.

Save me from my enemy. Please give me hope. Let me not be discouraged or suicidal or beat down or destroyed by the enemy, but give me hope, give me direction, give me clarity, give me renewed strength so that I can endure to my last day, whatever that is. And also pray that you can bear good fruit so that you can be counted worthy in the last day to escape the judgments that are coming on the rest of this world. Most people, including Christians, are not gonna be counted worthy because they were just religious.

They had their security in their church, and in their Bible, in their family, but they never had their security in their messiah, in the savior of this world. Jesus already made the way for us. He has already died. He is resurrected. The Christians celebrate this every Easter.

But what they should be considering is their own resurrection. How they should be crying out to Jesus for their own resurrection because they're spiritually dead. And anything that is spiritually dead is eventually gonna be cast out into the fire. We wanna be spiritually resurrected. We want spiritual life that we can endure with our Messiah who already has been resurrected from the dead, who has already made the way.

And if we put our faith in him, then he resurrects us. Evil falls off of us, we're purged, we're purified and made as pure as glass and refined as those metals are spoken of, those 12 metals in Revelation, and were made ready for the wedding supper of the lamb. We need to prepare. Jesus is on the way for His bride, for those who are holy and pure. And a lot of people will not be prepared.

They're wasting time. They haven't secured themselves with Jesus. They haven't bound the strong man as Jesus spoke prophetically. They're not making the way for the Lord in their own hearts but they're wasting time with TV, entertainment, the pleasures of this life, living sinful lives, gratifying the desires of their flesh, gossiping, hating their neighbor, slandering others, living for the gospel of demons that is polluting the way of the truth, they're scattering the brethren, persecuting people even unto death. Instead of living holy and being separate, they're joining themselves with the antichrist of this world.

Where will we be in this whole war of Armageddon? And each of these small battles that come up in our life, will we be victorious? Is Jesus Christ fighting our battles? Are we overcoming in the name of the lamb by the word of our testimony? Do we have a testimony?

And are we overcoming by it and by the blood of Jesus Christ? Or have we lost sight because the light is no longer in us? Jesus said, your eye is the light of your body, but if it has become dark, how great is that darkness? The true light, the light of the world, has already come. And if you receive him, he becomes the light.

He becomes your eye. He will come in you. He will be in your body, and you will become part of the body of Christ. But so many Christians don't have the light of the world in them. They're looking for a light in all these dark places.

They're looking for joy and happiness in places that they will never find, and they're seeking God in all the wrong spots. If you want truth, you need to go to Jesus. He is the truth, the life, and the way. A lot of people think Christians are silly. It will come out eventually that the only ones who had the truth are those light bearers, those Christians that were true disciples of Jesus who had the light inside of them in their hearts and who sought after a kingdom that did not exist on this planet.

A kingdom that is spiritual, that can't be achieved by human hands or the setting up of brick and mortar churches, but truly a kingdom that is chiseled out of the rock without human hands that comes to destroy every other kingdom in the whole universe that brings it down from the beginning of time all the way to the end of time. And that rock will become a kingdom that is forever and ever with a king that never comes to an end. And that is the kingdom we wanna become a part of. It's much better than having stock in some big company. You wanna be joined into this kingdom.

You wanna be accepted into it. You don't wanna be ashamed of it because if you're ashamed, the son of man and all the holy angels and all the holy prophets that belong to this kingdom will reject you. Those who are ashamed, the son of God will also be ashamed of them. So put yourself in the righteousness of God. Ask him to purge you and purify you and make you white and clean that you will be accepted and counted worthy to overcome and escape all these things that are gonna happen in the end times.

 

Put your faith in Jesus no matter how many people think that you're silly, no matter how many people cast you out and mock you for what they say is your silly religion. Put your faith in Jesus because it will be known to everyone, every king, everyone great and small that the only ones who are wise are the Christians who put their faith in this messiah, the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. This king who came in humility to give salvation to all people who would likewise humble themselves as a servant and serve him even unto death, denying themselves, denying the old way, and receiving the new covenant, that is the shedding of blood. I hope this message reaches the ears of some who can hear it and that you would put your faith in Jesus Christ. So I pray, Lord Jesus, for my fellow brothers and sisters who wanna hear your truth.

I don't pray for the world or the ungodly or those who don't have an ear to hear, but I pray for those who have an ear to hear, who you have given it to them to have salvation and be joined into the kingdom of God and their feet set upon the rock. I pray that you would open the ears of the deaf and open the eyes of the blind, that they would come into true faith and that they would speak in new tongues and have dreams and visions like the prophet Joel speaks of, and that they would overcome and be made white and clean and purged and be made new, and that they would be ready for the wedding supper of the lamb and the return of the lord. I pray this in your in your name, lord Jesus. Amen.

Is Christian Entertainment Fruitful?

We'll praise Jesus today, everyone.  I wanted to make a short message here while on the go today. As disciples of Jesus, we always want to think about how we are doing for Jesus in bearing good fruit.  Because the Lord tells us that if we're not bearing good fruit, we are going to get cut off.  It's like a branch that gets pruned off of a tree. And if we're not fruitful and not bearing fruit for the kingdom of God, we are likely to be cut off at some point.  You know, the Lord gives us a chance. He gives us chance after chance to bear good fruit, to stop doing things that are evil, to repent.  But at some point, you get cut off from God, you stop hearing from Him.  At some point, you eventually die. And we want to make sure that everything that we are doing is fruitful for the kingdom of God.  And that we are loving the Lord with all of our heart, loving our neighbor as our self and doing the things that God created us to do in this life, instead of just wasting the precious breath and resources that God has given us.  So how can we, with everything we have, bear good fruit? That means that whatever we're doing is for Jesus.  And just not for our own pleasure. Not to gratify the desires of the flesh, but to live in the newness of life.  And to promote the kingdom of God. I think Jesus made it pretty clear in the Gospels what it means to live for Him and His Gospel to deny our self, you know, deny our flesh, take up our process and follow Him every day.  That's what it looks like to read again the Gospels, pay attention to the Gospels. And as you are guided by the Holy Spirit, you start to realize which things in your own life specifically are beneficial to the kingdom of God and which things aren't.  Now, there are some people that want to make really strict rules, saying that “You have to wear this kind of clothing.  You can't wear that kind of clothing. All makeup, all jewelry are satanic. You can't engage in any sport or do anything that's fun because that's against God.  You're not denying yourself if you're doing that.” And that's not the case either. Obviously, God made everything both spiritual and physical.  He made us in this physical realm. And there is a way to use the things that are in this life for His glory.  But there are other things that are in this life that are just useless entertainment.  I may lose you guys in just a minute. I'm in an area that has a dead spot.  We'll pick up in a second if I do lose you. But we want to make sure that what we're doing is not just frivolous and wasting time.  But there's a lot of things that we've been given that are talents and abilities, skills. That are very joyous that we enjoy doing. Everyone's talents and abilities. Sorry guys, a little bit of bad signal through this area right here.  But if we surrender ourselves as Christians to the purpose of the kingdom of God, things in our life are truly a spirit we can use for God's kingdom. And which things are just useless entertainment.  Some things such as video games, movies especially that are just fantasy and violent.  Those are not good for a child of God because they promote perversions. And even though those things are entertainment, they're godless entertainment that lead people away from the kingdom of God.  And if entertainment is sinful, then obviously it's not something you should be doing. Now there are a whole lot of books that also are ungodly. So everyone has their kind of addiction, whether it's going out to the movies and just binge watching television or if it's just reading books.  But in your own heart, you need to figure out between you and the Lord Jesus, if what you're doing is actually fruitful.  You can ask yourself, is what I'm doing producing good fruit for the kingdom of God?  Or am I just purifying the desires of my flesh. And you need to answer that question honestly to yourself and to God.  So if you're reading something that's just a novel, you need to ask yourself, am I reading this because I am learning more about the kingdom of God?  I'm helping someone grow in the kingdom of God? Or am I just doing this to entertain myself, even though I know there's things that are evil in it and my mind is dwelling on things that are evil.  Do I just like it because it's gratifying to my flesh? So there's a line there.  And the way that you're going to know the difference is if you are feeding your spirit and not your flesh.  The more you feed your flesh, the more you're going to justify the desires of your flesh, watching ungodly movies, engaging in things of the world, telling dirty jokes, letting your mind just play out fantasies and things that are evil.  So the more that you allow your mind to think on things of the world that are ungodly, the more you're going to feast on that garbage.  But the more that you feed your spiritual person, that spirit man or that spirit woman, the more you're going to grow in the spirit of God and you're going to learn how you can use the things that you naturally enjoy doing for the kingdom of God.  Now, I'm not someone that's going around saying that all hobbies are bad. There are hobbies that are bad.  People waste a lot of time and their resources on stuff of this world that will not count or matter.  But also, I have seen the Lord truly bless me with being able to, say, for example, coach track and field and be a light to high school students and junior high students.  I love being outdoors. I love being out on a lake. Or…  And these things all can be used for the glory of God. And if we put our into that, we can use that ability for the kingdom of God and glorify God.  Or we can use it to glorify ourselves. One example, Katie Perry and could have been using their ability to serve God and in modesty, building up the kingdom of God.  But they sold their soul... I apologize again, guys, for the bad signal.  I just. Remake this video if I watch it and it's too patchy that we can't understand what I'm saying here.  But. The is we need to use our abilities, our skills and talents for God.  As many people in Hollywood have done movie actors, musical artists.  A lot of these people have willfully given their talent over to Satan to make them popular.  And they have been successful in giving themselves over to Satan. And Satan has made them very popular, such as Katie Perry, who originally was raised in a family that, you know, at least knew something about God.  And she openly states that she has given her life over to Satan for popular.  Are we promoting the kingdom of God or are we promoting our own lives and our own talents so that we become the one who is worshipped?  A lot of people are trying to take worship away from God. They think that, you know, that they should be worshipped.  And they love the feeling of being worshipped. So they steal away from God what is his, and they entertain other people, they entertain themselves. Get there and worshipping true living God, that deserves our worship because he created all things.  He is the identity of love and he wants to save us. We can't save ourselves.  The devil can't save us. In the end, if you draw attention just to yourself, it's about self-entertainment, self-worship.  In the end, you will end in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone.  Because that is where everyone who rejects God will end. So we need to ask ourselves the honest question, are we using our resources, our talents and our abilities to glorify God? Is everything we're doing to promote the kingdom of God?  Or are we using it for our own selfish ambition? So pray about it. Seek Jesus with all your heart.  And he will teach you the difference between what sports, what hobbies, what music, which books are really edifying and glorifying to him and his kingdom and which are totally useless and fruitless to the kingdom of God. Anyways guys, I hope this encourages someone to get their life in order with God.  Not to feel condemnation but to bear good fruit for the kingdom of God. And use everything that you have to win souls into the kingdom to be fishers of men, and to live for the glory of God as a Christian. This is going to be the end of my message here.  As I'm going to quickly be running out of cell signals. So keep praying.  Keep seeking the Lord with all your heart. Those who knock the door will be open. Those who seek will find.  And if you seek the Lord with all of your heart, he's going to come to you. He will make his abode in you.  He will teach you and he will lead you. “So Lord Jesus I pray for those. My brothers and sisters who want to enter into your kingdom.  I pray that they won't allow Satan just to condemn them and get them down. But that they will use their resources, their abilities, their talents. And what you have given them for the glory of God. And that they will be blessed in the kingdom of God.  That they won't give any of them themselves. Any of their…

The Reason of the Universe

 It doesn't make sense that this world created itself. The Big Bang does not make sense. How could something come into existence without a Creator? Anything that we look at in life that is sophisticated, such as a painting or a clock, a car, we don't just assume that it got there by a big bang or by chance. We always wonder who the creator of that object was. So the same goes when we consider the Earth, the universe and life itself. The Creator is always greater than the creation. And when we look at nature, we can tell that it is sophisticated. For example, a tree or an animal, it has very unique properties that obviously were put together by an intellect, by a mastermind. It is impossible that it just so happened without a Creator. And because we believe that there is a creator that created everything the wind, the water, the Earth, the Stars, the moon, everything that we can see, then we have to wonder, why was all of this created and more specifically? Why am I here? The Bible answers that question the reason why we are here is because God is love. He loves his creation, he didn't build creation just to suffer to live in pain and to die, but he created us that we would learn to love because the God that created the universe is the God of love, not as humans understand it carnally or in the world but true love.

So if we want to understand the meaning of life, we have to first love our creator, love the Lord Our God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. And the second greatest command or the greatest thing that we can do, is like it which is to love our neighbor as ourselves. So if you're wondering what the purpose of your life is, it is to love God because he is love and he created everything that is in existence, everything that you can think of in this world he created, and then you love your neighbor as yourself. If we do that, we will start to figure out more what the meaning of life is.

 Too many people including Christians have totally missed the meaning of life. They think life is about religion, they think it's about Bible study or just making money, they think it's about serving themselves, but all of us bleed red, all of us are under time and underweight. And no matter how healthy we are eventually all of us will die and then comes the Judgment where we stand before God, and we will have to hold an account for everything that we did in this life, and we will be judged according to the one who is true love. And he will be asking us if we live according to his sort of Love or if we rejected his sort of love and his sort of Truth for the false ideas of love and lust and all the things of this world that men chase after. We will be judged according to our words and our actions which in the Bible calls our Deeds, Jesus calls it our Deeds. So how are we doing? Are we really loving the Lord Our God with all of our heart and our neighbor as ourself? Are we loving unconditionally even when people hate us even when people drag our name through the mud, even when it's by bad report? Are we still praying for our enemies and those who persecute us and those who disapprove of us for being a Christian? Are we caring what our father in Heaven thinks most of us? Are we living Our Lives as dedicated Christians unto the Lord Jesus Christ and his gospel? You know those that stand up for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Jesus will stand up for them, his angels will stand up for them. But those who are ashamed of the Gospel, who are blaspheming the name of God, who are sickened by the gospel, Jesus will also be spewing them out of his mouth. Judgment will be coming on the world, because they have rejected the only salvation of God, that was through his son Jesus Christ. Are we rejecting Jesus? Are we rejecting the gospel? Or are we accepting the one who is true love that created us? Are we accepting Our Father in heaven and are we accepting his one and only the only begotten son that is Jesus Christ? If you do want everlasting life you need to accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord, your savior and your king, and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. You have to repent of your sins, stop sinning, make a 180 and start walking with the Lord Jesus, holding his hand. Jesus said that we had to overcome in this world and endure with him to the very end. There is a false gospel that is preached in the churches today and across our nation, that says that you don't really have to stop sinning, you don't really have to repent, you can just look like a good person just try to do better but you don't have to fully surrender to Jesus Christ, you don't have to obey him, you don't have to be unashamed of him, you just have to look like a Christian outwardly, and maybe give your tithe once a week or once a month to a church. That is the devil's gospel. The devil is taking this nation of people to hell because they refuse to truly repent and come into the light of Jesus Christ. If we want life, we have to do everything Jesus's way. Jesus is the way; he is the truth and he is the life and no one comes to the father except through him. Are you rooted on the rock of Jesus Christ? Is he your Lord your savior your king？ And are you in love with him？ Or are you like the world who is living for the lusts of their flesh. May the grace of Jesus be with you.

We are ambassadors for the kingdom of God

We are ambassadors for the kingdom of God

As Christians, and as Jesus' disciples, we are to be as ambassadors for the invisible kingdom, the kingdom that the world does not comprehend because it only sees the physical realm around them. We are to be ambassadors to the kingdom of God. And if we belong to this kingdom, and if our feet tread on this ground, then we will be loyal to the king of that kingdom, and we will tell others about his love and his grace, and we will not be like the world. The world loves its own, but it hates what it doesn't understand. It hates true repentance, and it hates the king of the kingdom of God. But if we are steadfast to do what our king wants us to do, and if we continue to tread the ground, then we will be ambassadors for his kingdom, winning souls as fishers of men into the kingdom of God. Which kingdom do you belong to, the kingdom of the world, or the kingdom of God? And who are you an ambassador for, the kingdom of God, for Jesus Christ, or for the kingdoms of this world? Do you stand for what men stand for? You will have to choose which kingdom you belong to. May the grace of Jesus be with you.