The Bible can't lead to you

The Bible Can’t Lead You

In my younger Christian life, growing up in church, being raised by parents that were in church, I did at times really want to know God, and I tried my best by the way that I was taught to get to know God, by seeking after mentors, what they think, by reading the bible, by being in bible studies of course.  And occasionally I would really get into prophecy or I would get into, you know, revelation, and it ended up just being something that would scare me or really getting me to thing, but it would never bring me TO JESUS.  I remember one Sunday I sat in church and I didn’t listen to a single thing the pastor was saying because he was boring anyway to me, but I read all the way through revelation, and I remember just reading all those prophecies in Revelation and then I would tell people about what I was learning in Revelation.  I started to get the impression that if we just could decipher prophecy, if we could understand what all the prophets were saying, then we would be better people, closer to God and we would be able to, you know, be saved, to be able to navigate our way to everlasting life.  To me it was much more about understanding the scripture, the prophecy, the prophets, than it was ever about a RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS, and THAT is where the problem lies.  Many Christians today, they DO know the prophecies, they know the scriptures, but they don’t have any relationship with Jesus, they can’t differentiate between HIS VOICE and their own opinions about the scriptures, their own opinions about the prophets, everything they have learned, their doctrines.  They can’t differentiate, they cannot even tell the difference… they wouldn’t know if Jesus was speaking to them compared to some theologian that was lying to them.  They wouldn’t be able to tell at all.  They way we know the difference between truth and error is, not by just bringing things back to the bible, because after all the pharisees did that to Jesus and they found Jesus to be a liar and a heretic and then they crucified Him.  So if we always just bring things back to our own opinion of the bible we are sure to go wrong.  The bible is NOT the “More SURE Word of God”, as Christians say.  The SURE way to know Jesus and to be connected to Him and to be going in the right direction is to receive the HOLY SPIRIT.  And there is only ONE way to do that.  It’s not through bible study, it’s NOT through going to church over and over again, but IT IS THROUGH PRAYER, through dedicating your life to Jesus Christ, asking Him for the Holy Spirit and just asking Him to FILL you with the power from on high, that He would teach you, that He would be your ONLY Teacher.  See, so many people are… they think that they will find life in the bible, and I’m not saying that the bible is something that we shouldn’t read, because after all, there are MANY testimonies of Jesus in the bible, many prophets foretold His coming and even the Old Testament Law is a shadow of Jesus that JESUS fulfilled.  So, the bible will POINT to Jesus, and the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Acts… all those early Apostles, those Prophets, those men of God, were ALL POINTING TO JESUS.  THEY WERE NOT POINTING BACK JUST TO THEIR WRITINGS THAT YOU WOULD GET MORE AND MORE INTO THE SCRIPTURE AND BECOME A THEOLOGIAN.  They were all pointing to the AUTHOR of their FAITH, who is JESUS, not the bible.  So, are we today at a place that we recognize JESUS, that we lift our eyes up to heaven and we just call on Him for our help that HE may save us?  Have we received the Holy Spirit and are we hearing from HIM that we may be guided through life?  The Holy Spirit, HE is the only one who is qualified to lead us and guide us, not the bible, not a theologian, not a pastor… ALL of these things fall short. But if you pray and ask the Lord Jesus for His Holy Spirit to guide you, He will.  The Holy Spirit is not a feeling, it’s not just some emotion that is aloof floating around that you catch.  The Holy Spirit is supernatural guidance that comes from God. He is the Spirit of GOD. He loves you an He will guide you into everlasting life IF YOU LISTEN TO HIM, and not the opinions of men and the doctrines of men and all the stuff that is in church.  So, who are you clinging onto to lead you into everlasting life?  What are you clinging to?  Are you clinging to the church?  Are you clinging to bible study?  To other Christians as your mentors?  Or are you really clinging to the Spirit of God, have you received Him?  Are you drinking the Water of Life, are you drinking Jesus’s blood and eating His flesh?  Are you really getting revelation from GOD or are you just connected to dead religion and you don’t really have everlasting life in you because you are not really connected to Jesus Christ.  May the grace of Jesus be with you.

Worship Jesus because He is God.

WORSHIP JESUS Because HE IS GOD
There are some people that go around saying that you shouldn’t worship JESUS, that He is not GOD, that you shouldn’t pray to JESUS, that you should pray in Jesus’s name, and they mascaraed as if they are very educated and as if they are very spiritual.  (The power just went out, but praise Jesus anyway)   These Christians that go around saying that Jesus should not be prayed to or should not be worshiped have never really met Jesus, they themselves are pretending to be teachers, but they haven’t met the GOOD Teacher.  Jesus and His Father are ONE, just as the angel said, He is Immanuel GOD WITH US. (Matthew 1:23) And those who meet Jesus know that He and His Father and ONE, they KNOW Him as their personal LORD and their GOD.  I want to read to you what Jesus says in Matthew chapter 28 I’m actually going to start in verse 16-20; “Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them.  When they saw Him, THEY WORSHIPED HIM; but some doubted.  And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying;  ‘All authority has been given to ME in heaven and on earth.  Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching the to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.’ Amen.”  They worshiped Jesus in the Old Testament, the Disciples worshiped Him in the New Testament, and those who KNOW JESUS, who KNOW their Lord, they STILL worship Him today.  ALL authority and ALL power has been given to Jesus Christ, He CAN hear your prayers, He does hear the prayers of those who pray to Him who are His children.  His sheep hear His voice, and He hears them.  Are you one of HIS?  Do you belong to Jesus and do you recognize Him as LORD and as GOD?  Or have you been deceived by these people whether they are Jews or claim to be Christians who say that; “You can’t pray to Jesus… He is not God…”  and on and on they blab (acting as though it were a secret scam they are exposing to you) .  Don’t listen to the liars, don’t listen to the devil.  Jesus is ALIVE, HE IS GOD, and He is able to lead HIS children.  PRAISE the name of JESUS, WORSHIP Him and honor Him and you will have life, reject Him and you will perish.  May the grace of Jesus be with you.

sATAN works hard to make Christians feel inferior

sATAN Works Hard to Make Christians Feel Inferior 

The devil tries really hard to make Christians feel inferior or that they are just silly for standing up for Jesus.  Don’t let ANYTHING put you off from praying, seeking Jesus, shining for Him being a light.  Don’t stop talking about Him because JESUS is our ONLY hope of everlasting life and salvation.  He is the ONLY Way and the ONLY Truth.  People that are unwilling to stand with Jesus, they have NO HOPE of everlasting life, Jesus is not going to stand for them when they die, and when they want to enter into the Kingdom of God He is going to say; “Away from Me you who SIN, you who despise MY name, you who work iniquity…”  There is NO HOPE of salvation OTHER THAN IN JESUS.  Don’t think other people are enlightened because they sin and seem to have no conscience.  Don’t think that they are enlightened by science or news stories that try to portray Jesus as false and something else is the truth, it is all a fraud… JESUS IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE AND NOBODY COMES TO THE FATHER, NO ONE ENTERS ETERNAL LIFE WITHOUT JESUS, WITHOUT THE WORD OF LIFE.  So, let no one put you off.  Stand firm in the truth of Jesus.  Don’t be ashamed to let your light shine.  Don’t be ashamed to REBUKE evil when it comes against you and continue to stand in the light of the Truth.  May the grace of Jesus be with you.

Let your light shine for Jesus

Let Your Light SHINE for Jesus

Good morning, today is another day to praise Jesus and to speak about HIM.  HE is the reason why we live and move and breathe.  HE is the reason why we exist.  This life is about LOVE that we may demonstrate the love of our Father to others that all people may be reconciled with their Heavenly Father.  Jesus loves you, He loves me, and we need to display that love towards others, preaching the truth, not siding with error.  And in this day and age that we live we actually have a whole lot of opportunity, a whole l of freedom of speech to be able to share the truth with others.  The only think that will hold you back or stop you IS YOURSELF.  Will you be too shy?  Will you be ashamed of Jesus?  Or will you stand up for Him and take each opportunity captive, to speak for Jesus, to show others His love, to be a light?  Don’t hide your light under a basked or under a bed, but put it on the top of the house, put it on top of you that wherever you go people may your light and praise your Father in heaven.  We don’t live for our own works that people may just say; “He’s a good person, look at the good he does… he gives to the poor, he goes to church 3 times a week…”  We don’t live for dead religion or for people to think that we are just good people by what we do.  But we do need to let our light so shine before men that that they see our good works and glorify our Father in heaven.  If we let our light sine for Jesus, we will be talking to others about Him.  We will be SALT and LIGHT, we will always be sharing the love of Jesus.  So, are you ashamed of the gospel, are you ashamed to stand up for the truth?  Or are you really letting your light shine for your Savior?  Are you telling others about the HOPE of SALVATION in JESUS ALONE?

Christians; Does your faith have any substance?

CHRISTIANS Does Your Faith Have ANY Substance?
So, the question that I want to ask you today is DOES YOUR FAITH REALLY HAVE SUBSTANCE?  The apostle wrote that; NO other foundation can be laid other than that which is already laid, that is Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 3:11) I have been in a lot of Christian churches, not recently, but I grew up in church, and these churches claim to have substance.  They claim to have Jesus, they will even say that it is about JESUS CHRIST, a relationship with Him, NOT about religion.  But these same folks surround themselves with DEAD religion.  It becomes to them all about bible study, all about the knowledge of the bible, all about Christian fellowship, all about their church attendance, all about their tithe, all of these RELIGIOUS things.  They surround themselves with all of these things and it becomes this “Christian” illusion, and illusion that we are men and women of God.  For some it’s also about how they LOOK, if they drive a nice car, if they live in a nice house, if the have a nice-looking family, if they wear a tie… then they think that they are good upright people, BUT THEY ARE MISSING THEIR SUBSTANCE!  Is the substance of our faith JESUS CHRIST?  Are we really EATING HIS FLESH AND DRINKING HIS BLOOD?  I’m not talking about a ritualistic thing in the Catholic church.  Are we really eating Jesus’ flesh and drinking HIS blood?  In other words, is Jesus really in us?  Are we in Him?  Are we literally hearing from GOD when we pray?  Or are we JUST hearing from the pastor? Are we just getting into the bible like a theologian and hearing more sermons, hearing more bible studies, do we think that we are finding life in the bible?  The bible is NOT the substance to our faith, neither is church attendance or anything like that.  JESUS is the SUBSTANCE to our faith HE IS OUR FOUNDATION.  For most Christians if you were to strip away their Bible, they would have no substance to their faith, their faith revolves around other people’s opinion, you know other Christians in their church, their bible studies.  If you were to just strip away their friends and their bible, THEY WOULD HAVE NO FAITH LEFT, they’d just fall over, they would die.  Is our substance REALLY in JESUS?  Is He the reality of our faith because we are in Him, He is in us, we are eating His flesh and drinking His blood, we are having a real WORD from GOD daily?  Is He sustaining us?  Is He in our veins to our very core?  Is He the essence of our being?  Or are we just FAKE CHRISTIANS because we have surrounded ourselves with all of this STUFF that makes us LOOK good, that makes us LOOK like we are a Christian, but we have no substance?  Are we living an illusion?  Or do we really have that substance in Jesus Christ, are we hearing from Jesus DAILY?  Check yourself and see if you are really ALIVE spiritually, or if you are a dead Christian that appears to be alive because you got your bible, your Christian friends, your tie, your nice car, your church… or whatever it is you have… DO YOU REAY HAVE JESUS CHRIST? He is the substance, NOTHING ELSE.  May the grace of Jesus be with you.

Few Christians are unashamed of Jesus Christ

Few Christians are Unashamed of JESUS CHRIST
If you are not someone who is actively following Jesus by daily picking up your cross, it’s pretty easy for satan to get you to be ashamed of the gospel and ashamed of Jesus Himself.  All that satan has to do for you is put someone in your path that you respect or look up to, someone that you don’t want to offend at work or at school, and as soon as that person is in front of you and blasphemes God or speaks evil of the gospel, you won’t want to say anything.  You will become shy, timid, you will just know that if you say anything this person may be against you and your relationship may be damaged.  The devil will put this scenario right on your lap and then the devil will just sit back and watch to see what you will do.  In THESE times will you stand up for JESUS?  Will you be unashamed to make a stand in the TRUTH?  Will you deny yourself, will you take up your cross in THAT moment?  Will you take a good stand for your Savior?  Or will you pretend that you don’t know the truth, will you shrink back, will you say nothing?  I want to read to you what Jesus says in Luke chapter 9 verse 26; “For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels.”  If you are ashamed of Jesus He is going to deny you and be ashamed of you in front of His angels and in front of GOD.  Are we daily taking up our cross?  And are we unashamed of the gospel that brings us everlasting life? Or will we shrink back and pretend that we don’t know Jesus as soon as someone comes in our path that the devil has strategically planted there?  May the grace of Jesus be with you and may the strength of GOD be in you.

The moment you die

The Moment You Die
At the end of your life the ONLY thing that is going to matter is what YOU did with the words of JESUS.  Will your words condemn you or justify you?  It’s not going to be you and your mom, or you and your husband or wife, or you and your dad, or you and ANYONE ELSE.  NO ONE is going to come to your aid.  What is going to save you or condemn you WILL BE YOUR OWN WORDS.  What are you doing with the words of JESUS?  Are you living by them?  Are you speaking them?  Are you eating His flesh and drinking His blood?  Or are you living for OTHER things.  No amount of glory in this WORLD will mean ANYTHING the moment you die.  It doesn’t matter if you were the most famous person, the most rich person, or the most unknown person, the poorest person.  BOTH the rich and the poor the popular and the unpopular are ALL GOING TO DIE JUST THE SAME IN THE END.  The only thing that will matter is how you  lived according to the words of Jesus Christ. By your words you will be justified or by your words you will be condemned.  Check yourself against the words of Jesus.  Where do you find yourself today? Going to heaven?  Or going to HELL?  May the grace of Jesus be with you.