The Apostle Paul love Jesus and Jesus Christ loved him. The Apostle Paul desperately wanted to see lost souls repent and come into the light of Jesus Christ. How sad it is that many Christians speak evil of the Apostle Paul and other true brothers and sisters in the Lord who do really love Jesus Christ. These evil men are hypocrites who have not received the Holy Spirit, only pretending to be Christian. When we are with the Holy Spirit, evil men and women can speak evil of us but the Holy Spirit STILL bears witness that we are of God. Remember that yhe Spirit of God confirmed the work of the Apostle Paul to the extent that God worked unusual miiracles by the hand of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them. The evil spirits knew Paul truly had the Holy Spirit. Do the evil spirits know that YOU belong to Jesus and they cannot touch you? Or will you be like the Jewish exorcists or the sons of Sceva who the evil spirit answered and said "Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are you?" And then overpowered and attacked them?
Not Called to Celebrate Christmas But to Worship the Risen
KING
Brothers and sisters in the Lord, today is December 25TH,
2020.But as Christians, we are not
called to celebrate Christmas, we are called to honor Jesus Christ with our
ENTIRE LIFE EVERY DAY.Jesus is no
longer a little baby in a manger.He is
the risen Messiah who is calling this whole world to REPENT and to obey the
gospel!Most of the world today is
worshiping Santa Clause, and dead religion and a FORM of Jesus that they have
MADE UP IN THEIR OWN MINDS.But as true
disciples who KNOW JESUS, we follow the Lamb wherever HE leads, and today He is
calling people to REPENT, to live righteously, to preach righteousness, and to
call others also to the HOLY LIFE.Are
you really living HOLY, is your family following Jesus today? Or are you
following dead religion and the FALSE, FABRICATED, ANTICHRIST, the FALSE jesus
that has been set up?Are you truly
following JESUS CHRIST or are you following the WORLD?
I want to tell you a true story about a church that my
family was a part of, but first I want to read to you Revelation chapter 2 and
then ask a question.“To the angel of
the church of Ephesus write, ‘These things says He who holds the seven starts
in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands: I
know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who
are evil.And you have tested those who
say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars; and you have
persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name’s sake and have not
become weary.Nevertheless I have this
against you, that you have LEFT YOUR FIRST LOVE.Remember therefore from where you have
fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and
REMOVE YOUR LAMPSTAND from its place- UNLESS YOU REPENT.But this you have, that you hate the deeds
off the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
churches.To him who OVERCOMES I will
give to eat from the tree of LIFE, which is in the midst of the Paradise of
GOD.
Here’s my
question about this loveless church; they have all these things going for them,
you know Jesus says that they have these works of patience, that they can’t
bear evil, that they have tested apostles, found them to be liars, they do all
these things that are good, BUT then you come to verse 5 and it says; “Remember
therefore where you have FALLEN, REPENT and do the first works, or else I will
come to you quickly and REMOVE YOUR LAMPSTAND.”What do you suppose it means to have your lampstand removed?And what do you think would happen if this
church didn’t repent?Do you suppose
they would enter into the Kingdom of God because of their good works?Do you suppose they would have everlasting
life and be the sons and daughters of the Kingdom of GOD? Or do you think that
when they came to the gates God would reject them because they didn’t have
love?Is love not that important?
(Meaning, could lacking LOVE take you to HELL?)
Now I
want to give a story that actually happened in a church that my family was a
part of.This church was sort of like a
Baptist church but they were non-denominational and they prided themselves in
having good bible knowledge, having good teachers, good bible studies, they had
a lot of people that went there that were wealthy, they could send people on
mission trips, they did a lot of good deeds.Well, at one point of time they invited some missionaries to come to the
church and to speak on a Sunday.And
when this group of missionaries came, one of them had a word from the LORD, a
prophetic word for the church.And when
this missionary shared and said that he had this word of the LORD to share with
the church, everyone was all ears.They
wanted to know WHAT IS THE PROPHETIC WORD THAT THIS MISSIONARY HAS FROM THE
LORD TO US?And so, the missionary
shared what the message was, and he said what the LORD had given him for that
congregation, for the pastor, for all the people there was; THAT THEY HAD A
LACK OF LOVE, THAT THEY WERE THE LOVELESS CHURCH!The church did not receive that message well,
in fact they brushed it off.After that
missionary left the pastor said, (I’m Paraphrasing) “Well that’s not that big
of an issue, that’s not a big problem… it could have been worse.The pastor said;it’s not that big of a deal because we have
plenty of things going good for us and we can just muster up more love, that’s
not that big of a problem…. You know, we have our bills paid, we have good
theology, we have good teachers… they had plenty of LOVE FOR THEMSELVES and
their OWN LIKES, but they did not have the love of Jesus Christ.
So again,
here’s my question, do you think that church, that church that I was a part of,
that had so many good works going for them, would enter the Kingdom of GOD
because they had correct bible knowledge, because they prayed, because they
sent missionaries to different parts of the world?Or do you think they would be REJECTED
ETERNAL LIFE BECAUSE THEY HAD A LACK OF LOVE?The question is HOW IMPORTANT DO YOU THINK THE LOVE OF GOD IS? Is it
important or is it irrelevant?
In
reality if you have no love you are nothing.Jesus will reject you if you reject to love others as yourself and if
you have rejected the love of the Father.There is no way just to muster up more love in yourself, you have to
REPENT, you have to seek JESUS, you have to ask HIM for HIS heart of LOVE.And if you have not truly repented, you will
not have any more love in you.You will
have the love of the WORLD, the love of the flesh, the love of YOUR OWN DEEDS,
but you will not have the love of your Father in heaven.Don’t suppose that you are going to enter
Heaven being part of the loveless church.Without love Jesus Christ will REJECT YOU.There is not way to enter the Kingdom of God
without true love.We need to love the
Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind and
strength, and we need to love others as ourselves.Do we really have the love of Jesus in
us?Have we really repented of our sins
and are we living righteous?Or have we
fallen from our first love for dead religion, for the love of things that God detests?Check your own heart and make sure you are
really in the love of Jesus Christ.
Give Jesus Christ glory, and today is the day to give GOD glory, not to give glory to men, not to give glory to agencies, to churches, but to give JESUS CHRIST the glory. There is a BIG deception, and the deception is for the souls of men. When we see that deception there’s a fork in the road and we have to choose between GOD and EVIL. It is sad that so many people go for the deception in church, which is the easy grace gospel, that you can continue to sin, that you can live impure and that all you need to do to be saved is read your bible, believe that you are saved, say one prayer and go to church. If we truly are with Jesus we are ENEMIES of the church, the church will HATE US, they will HATE OUR GUTS because the SPIRIT OF GOD is against the spirit of dead religion, the spirit of the anti-Christ. I remember, this was about 10 or 11 or 12 years ago now, when I was still in church as a youth pastor, I remember my mom, (my mom is now passed away) but, my mom talked to me and she said something like, “You know Andy, when you see the difference between where the Spirit of God is leading and where the pastor of the church is leading, then you have to make a decision and don’t compromise. When it becomes evident to you that you have to choose either the church and THEIR ideas, or GOD and HIS TRUTH, you have to GO WITH HIM, don’t compromise…” And I remember thinking at that time that there was not any compromise going to church because I believed like every other Christian that we are saved by “grace” which obviously gives many of us a license to sin. I knew it was wrong to sin, but when you are around people who are sinning and living ungodly and compromising then you just start to fall to compromise and you fall to dead religion, and you start thinking you are doing God a favor by giving your money to church, by giving your time to church, by going on mission trips and preaching…. As a youth pastor, living in the church as a hypocrite, I could literally preach on Sunday, then go and live for myself (in sin) and then at night I could lay down on my bed and fall asleep and pray as I was falling to sleep and just say, “God, I just know that I did such a good job for you today, didn’t I do a good job? I did a good job!” And then I would fall asleep believing that I had done a good job for God even though I was living in hypocrisy. But when we see the deception, when we see the deception of our own sin and how satan is blinding us, then we have to come to that fork in the road, those crossroads and make a decision. Will we follow Jesus or will we follow the way of the flesh? And because I want to follow Jesus and not my flesh, that brought me to that fork in the road where I had to leave dead religion, I had to leave church to follow JESUS by HIS SPIRIT!
Last night while I was waking up (well, the Holy Spirit wakes me up in the night) and He said to me in more or less words, just what a disaster it is, how horrible it is when people see the deception and they do nothing. It’s one thing to be deceived, and to be wanting to following Jesus but not to know what is wrong going on in church and you’re are trying to do your best… THE LORD CAN WORK WITH THAT. The Lord will call you out of dead religion, He will give you a new heart. But it’s another thing to come to that crossroads, and to be told that church is a deception and to SEE the deception and the lie and hypocrisy and then to DO NOTHING ABOUT IT, or even worse, to start aiding in that lie and supporting that lie and telling other people, “You got to go to church, you got to pay your tithe, submit to the pastor, submit yourself to those authorities in the church…” It’s one thing to be deceived, but it’s another thing to become a liar yourself and to refuse to REPENT when you see the LIGHT OF THE TRUTH. And we are reaching a point of time when people are seeing the TRUTH, they see the difference between the lie of satan and the truth of Jesus Christ, and they’re choosing satan, they uphold a form of godliness, but they don’t actually walk in the light of the truth. They’re like double agents for satan, pretending to be Christians, pretending to bring people into the Kingdom, but they are bringing people into the kingdom of the demonic. Some of these pastors and Christians they KNOW the truth, they have seen the lie, and they just turn a blind eye to it and they continue to go their way and they think; “Well, God will just forgive me, He will understand, because after all, I need bread, I need water, I need to have my bills paid… and you know as a missionary or a pastor we have to have those bills paid, God would understand…” and they think GOD will make an exception for their SIN. God is NOT going to make an exception for our sins. Either we repent and we overcome and we walk in the newness of life, or we choose the way of the world and the devil and then Jesus will say to us on that last day; “Away from Me you who commit iniquity, I don’t know you…” The whole church is deceived, they think that they can continue to walk in sin and just slowly, that maybe they will be getting better, but if they continue to sin God will just forgive them… They are extremely deceived, they don’t teach righteousness and purity and holiness. If you don’t come out of the church you are bound to think like them, and if you don’t come out from among them and be separate you will touch what is unclean and you’re Father in heaven will NOT accept what is unclean, He will REJECT you. That’s why Jesus will say to MANY people who THOUGH that they were saved; “Away from Me, you who commit iniquity, you who sin, I do not know you…” And those people will have the fright and the shock of their life when they are turned AWAY at the gates. We don’t want to be the ones that are turned away, we want to hear the words, “Good and well done My faithful servant, enter into MY Kingdom…” Will we be allowed entrance because we were right with Jesus Christ and listening ONLY to HIM? Or are we deceiving ourselves and being deceived? Do we see the deception and then choose to go the wrong way? There is no hope for those who see the deception, that see their sin, and then they choose to go the wrong way. The condemnation is that people love the darkness MORE than they love the truth. And you are condemned already if you are choosing your sins yet KNOWING the truth. I encourage you to really REPENT, confess your sins before Jesus. Get right with HIM, because very soon you may have no more opportunity EVER to repent.
The days that we’re living people are being seared, they are receiving that 666 on their hand and on their forehead and we’re reaching the point of NO RETURN. If you are hearing this message and your heart is still soft towards the truth YOU NEED TO REPENT, come out of your sins and receive Jesus Christ, otherwise there will be no hope. There is no hope for the world. There is no hope in satan’s kingdom, in the antichrist, the only hope is in JESUS CHRIST. Many people are still trying to pull themselves together, they are trying to do the best they can in the world to achieve their own security, their own safety. What’s interesting is the mark of the beast, 666, (Revelation) explicitly says that it is the mark of MEN. So, you could think it is the mark of satan, the mark of the beast, which is all true, BUT IT IS THE MARK OF MEN. (mark of a man: Revelation 13:18 Why is 666 the mark of men? Well, consider that on the 6th day is when man was created, and the farthest a man can achieve is a “6”. And the perfect man can be achieved by the DEVIL, the devil can make you LOOK perfect, that is why he is considered looking like an angel of light/righteousness (2 Corinthians 11:14-15) IT IS A DECEPTION! But the farthest you can go is a “6”, but you will never reach the 7th day. The 7th day is in JESUS CHRIST, it is the rest that Jesus gives us when we TRULY REPENT of our sins and come into HIS REST (Hebrews 4), when we receive HIS BLOOD (Revelation 7:14) to atone for our sins (1 John 2:1-2) and when we trust HIM and start living by FAITH (Hebrews 11:6). No one can enter HIS rest unless they overcome number 6, most people stay in the 6th day, the day that is the day of a MAN. sATAN will work with that, he will make people try to be the BEST man they possibly can be. What can man achieve? They can achieve great riches, they can achieve what they think is health, safely and security, pleasure, ALL the things that sATAN can offer you. BUT WHERE DOES IT LEAD? IN THE END IT LEADS TO DEATH! Will we OVERCOME 666? Will we overcome and NOT be seared? Many people have a seared conscience, they refuse to repent. (1 Timothy 4:2) They continually go back to the merchants (of Rev 18:15) and the things of the world, the pleasures of the flesh, the lusts of the flesh. They are trying to secure their lives in the WORLD, (Luke 17:33) it is the MARK OF MEN. Will you have the seal of the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) or will you be seared with 666?
Praise Jesus again to day guys because the Lord Jesus is working in His children and He is really calling people OUT of the world and making a huge difference between those who are His sheep, His children and those who are make-believers and those who are not really going with the LORD. One thing that I have been getting a bunch of emails about and questions about is how, people will ask, “How do I stop looking at pornography, how do I stop doing this certain sin and how do I go forward with Jesus…” and I have one standard answer for everyone and that is YOU HAVE TO MAKE UP YOUR MIND TO GO WITH JESUS. He’s not going to make up your mind for you. It’s your choice if you are going to turn a 180 away from the world, if you are going to go the way of the LORD or if you are going to go the way of the world, if you are going to go the way of sin. People waver because they are still wavering in darkness, they are wondering if it will be worth it to follow Jesus. But our entire life is but just a speck, such a small amount of time, even if you live to be 80 years old, compare that to ETERNITY. Eternity is FOREVER and either we will be eternally with Jesus in heaven or we will be eternally in HELL. And people are willing to sacrifice so much for maybe just 20 years and then they pass away. I had a co-worker who just a few days ago passed away, and it’s sad to see people reject God, THEY HAVE NO HOPE. If you reject Jesus and you die you have NO HOPE. The Lord’s not going to let you come back after you are fully dead. Man is given one life and then comes the judgment and if we are not prepared for all eternity we have made our destiny and we have made our destiny in hell. I encourage you to really make up your mind, you are going to choose while it is still this day who you will follow, if you will follow Jesus or if you are going to follow satan. And Jesus is not going to make up your mind, He’s not going to force you. Jesus will not say; “Hey, you have to follow me…” YOU have to make up your mind if you are going to follow Jesus Christ or if you are going to follow your flesh. So, stop looking at pornography, if you are looking at porn… get anything that is a hinderance OUT of your life. If your phone is causing you to stumble, what is that for your eternity. Is it worth having your phone for a little extra convenience to have your soul taken to HELL? Or is it worth getting rid of your phone if your phone is what is causing you to fall to pornography. What about your TV? People are just so addicted to technology and they are NOT using it for the glory of GOD, they are NOT using it for any good… what is it if you just get RID OF IT? You know we need to CUT OFF the arm of the FLESH, whatever is hindering us from entering the Kingdom of God we need to CUT THAT OFF, so that we can push our way into the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God suffers violence, that’s because satan is trying to steal it away from us. But the violent take it by FORCE. If we’re going to push our way into the Kingdom of God we are going to have to forcefully RESIST satan and his kingdom. We can’t do it like sissies, we can’t just do it relaxed and falling asleep, we have to be warriors for the Kingdom of God and the ONLY what that happens is if we are filled with the HOLY SPIRIT and if we get EVERY OUT of our life that is hindering us. Don’t let anything stop you or hinder you. But no one is going to convince you to follow Jesus until YOU have convinced yourself it is the right way to go. Unless you MAKE UP YOUR MIND to follow Jesus and that NOTHING ELSE MATTERS you are still going to be pursuing things of this world. Ultimately you are going to get exactly what you want, exactly what you are looking for. And if the desire of your heart is actually seeking after the pleasures of the world, after the things that satan can give you, in the end you are going to get what your heart desired, you are going to get satan. Do we want satan to be our father? Do we want to make ourselves our OWN god and do we want our end ultimately to be hell? Or do we want to resist, do we want to overcome? I want to overcome this world because this world has nothing for a child of God. Jesus’s children have nothing in this word. We have to RESIST the world, we have to resist the worldly. We have to resist sinful people, temptations. The only way to enter into the Kingdom of God is if we resist and OVERCOME. It’s not easy, it’s actually impossible. But with Jesus Christ all things are possible and we WILL overcome, but we have to make up our mind to. Your parents aren’t going to make up your mind, the culture certainly isn’t going to make up your mind, YOU are going to have to make up your mind if you’re going to follow Jesus, take up your cross daily or if you’re going to go YOUR way and if you are going to perish in your sins. It’s your decision if you will pick up your cross and follow the LORD with ALL OF YOUR MIGHT. I just want to encourage the true brothers and sisters to fight the good fight. We have to set it in our hearts and in our minds to live for Jesus EVERY DAY. People say; “Well, I would die for Jesus, I would die for you Lord…” Well will you LIVE for Him? Will you die to your SINS today? “Oh, now, I can’t do that…” You start to have a debate in your own heart, a debate with Jesus. It’s like you’re telling God, “I’ll die for you, but I won’t live for you, I won’t stand up for you, but I’ll die for you…” How can you die for your KING if you will not LIVE for Him today? Every day is a choice. Every day is a choice to live holy, to live righteous or to fall into sin, and there are 1 million ways to fall into sin…… (We all know what it’s like to fall into sin and be stuck) We have to SEEK FIRST the righteousness of GOD. As soon as we wake up we have to wake up PRAYING. We have to wake up resisting the devil, putting on the full armor of GOD the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, the sword of the Spirit, the belt of truth and the feet ready to bring the gospel of peace. Are we prepared for the battle, for this war? Are we prepared or will we be easily cut down and destroyed by the enemy because we are not on that firm foundation of Jesus Christ? Are you ready for the attacks that will come? Or are you going to fall to lukewarmness, to laziness and to all the temptations that satan can bring? Will you stand strong in these times and overcome or will you fall to evil? YOU NEED TO MAKE UP YOUR MIND! May the grace of Jesus be with you.
Should You Expect Tongues Immediately After Baptism?
Praise Jesus today guys. I want to make a short message just about being filled with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit baptism and speaking in tongues. Now, some people really are deceived by this, or rather they have a misunderstanding, not a misunderstanding that leads to sin, but a misunderstanding that leads them to confusion and then just to be sad and discouraged, because their view is that as soon as they are baptized in water and come out of that water that they will be speaking in a tongue and on top of that, some of these people think that they have to be baptized by the right guy, and they think that there’s kind of a magic or a supernatural in the man that baptizes them and in the act of being baptized alone. And that is just not true. If you put your faith in men and if you put your faith in baptism itself you’re going to be really discouraged because you are going to come out of that water and you’re not going to be speaking in a tongue, and you are going to be thinking, “What happened? Was I not genuine? Was the man who baptized me not genuine? Was the water not special enough?” and I see this happen… Here’s the thing, in short, you WILL speak in tongues when you are baptized, but it’s not cookie cutter. Christians think everything is going to happen in this “cookie cutter” (all the same) way; first you believe, you have faith, you hear the Holy Spirit, you’re baptized, and then you come out of the water and you speak in tongues, you are a new creation… For me it didn’t happen exactly like that. For me when I received the Holy Spirit, just like it says in Joel, I had dreams and visions. The prophet Joel said that the old men would have dreams and the young men would have visons. I had both dreams and visions. And I did start speaking in tongues, but the tongues that I started speaking in first was of the Lord for me to speak to my church. The Lord wanted me to speak to people IN MY CHURCH about His truth and that had to happen in my native tongue. They wouldn’t have understood anything if I spoke in an angelic prayer language. So, I went out and I spoke to all my friends, my neighbors, I was getting on Facebook and I was sending people letters, telling them about TRUE repentance. That was my new tongue. When we really come to Jesus and receive the Holy Spirit and we are baptized then we do speak in a new tongue, but let’s talk about what that new tongue is. That new tongue is the new language that comes from the Holy Spirit to you to speak FOR THE GLORY OF GOD, whether it is a prayer langue, an unknown language or a known language, but supernatural in that it is coming from the Holy Spirit to rebuke, to chastise, to discipline, to correct, to lead people into the TRUTH OF GOD. It is supernatural but not necessarily a tongue that people will not understand. It might be. It may be a prayer language, but it may also be like how mine was when I repented and that was to correct the church, to speak the truth to people that they may also come out and repent in these times. It’s not a “cookie cutter” formula that you just are baptized in water and then you come out immediately and you are speaking in an angelic tongue, it’s not like that. We need to make sure that we are really submitted to the Holy Spirit and not putting our own ideas, our own formulas on God and thinking that He has to do it the way WE imagine. The Pentecostal church is the worst at that. They think that everything has to happen to their idea in church before THEIR alter. They think they lay hands on people, that they have to get better, they have to receive a tongue… Baptism and that water represents DYING to yourself, it represents DEATH. There is nothing special about the death of the water. What is special is that Jesus is giving you NEW LIFE, He is becoming your Teacher. And what is awesome is that you are laying your life down before Him and He is going to change you and make you into that person that HE wants you to be. But you can’t twist God’s arm and make Him make you speak in tongues in a way that you have seen others do. You cannot make Him give you the spiritual gifts that you have seen others have. You can’t make Him give you a dream or make Him give you a vision. You have to wait upon the Lord because HE truly is the Master and we are the servants. And we cannot manipulate and force the Master to do ANYTHING for us. We have to humble ourselves before the Master and just believe Him, trust Him, have faith in Him, that He will lead us and guide us and give us all the spiritual gifts that we need in time. But are we being faithful with what He has given us? If we have a bit of faith, are we being faithful with what we know we need to do to be faithful to GOD? Do we trust Him? When we know we need to get out of a certain area to repent, to apologize, are we being faithful to repent of the things we need to repent of and to apologize to the people who we have wronged? Are we being faithful to the things that we KNOW we need to do, or are we just looking for things that we perceive that will be supernatural to the world and then upset at God because He didn’t act according to our will? We need to make sure that we are just truly humble before the Lord and doing the things that HE calls us to do. It’s not a formula, every single person is unique and different. But we do need to be baptized in water. We do need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. We need to go from death to life. And we need to speak in our new tongue. The gift of the Holy Spirit is not for a select few people. The gift of the Holy Spirit is for ALL who will believe on the name of Jesus Christ, who will REPENT and who want the guidance of the Holy Spirit. It’s FOR YOU! The power of the Holy Spirit is for YOU. He is alive. The Holy Spirit will guide you. He is our Teacher. Will you receive the Holy Spirit? Will you let Him guide you the way that HE knows is best for you? Or will you just go around like many of the Christians who want to see a sign and a wonder and they are really trying to control God to do it the way THEY want? maybe to impress themselves, maybe to impress the world, maybe they have watched other Christians and they want to mimic them. With the Holy Spirit He’s not like that. He is unique, He is a different Spirit, unlike any other spirit in this world. He is supernatural, but He will be YOUR guide He will be YOUR Teacher, you won’t be His teacher. So, will you humble before Him and start learning from the Spirit of GOD in SPIRIT and in TRUTH? Will you listen with the ears of your conscience in the bottom of your soul? Or will you try to control God and be His teacher and tell HIM how things are done? May the grace of Jesus be with you.
