Monthly Archives: October 2012

Approaching Destruction

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night sky

night sky (Photo credit: Ha-Wee)

The cloud approaches in the night.  A cloud which appears as the night sky to those who witness its approach.  Who notices?  Who pays attention?

With blind eyes they look.  Though their ears hear they do not recognize the noise.  The air begins to move; taken toward the coming storm.  And alarm begins to fill the minds of all men.

Sparkling sparks mimic the stars.  No technology perceives the impending doom.  Death approaches silent and unstoppable.

Rebellion against the Holy will of God has blinded their eyes.  They refuse to listen to the Holy words which can save them.  Hands filled to over flowing with pleasure and every wicked thing, the people live in alarm.  As they refused to speak of Holy things, so now they refuse to speak of what is coming.  And the mystery of approaching doom escapes their understanding.  “It will not be given to them” is the statement from Heaven.  Understanding and preparation is removed from the face of the earth.

Those who see perceive through eyes born of God.  Those who hear have yearned to hear the Word of God.  They will endure in peace, for they were told long ago of this storm’s approach.  Today is the day for preparation.  Prepare to receive the salvation of your souls.

Let us give praise to the Glorious Judge of all creation.  Not one of His Holy Judgments will lend itself to the blame of wicked men.  His enemies will be utterly swept away with a simple nod of His Glorious head.  And the will of God, that Holy and Perfect will, carries His people into that Blessed Rest.  Praise to the Lord Jesus for His faithfulness to the Father.

By His Grace.

A Thought Worth Thinking

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stop. sit. rest.

stop. sit. rest. (Photo credit: McBeth)

We are throughout the land.  We are scattered but not as a band of men are scattered.  It remains said, “In Him we live and move and have our being.”  Where you are right now, so am I.  What you suffer I also suffer, for we are the body of Christ Jesus.

A rejoicing hair on His Glorious head will cause a tingling in the little toe of His left foot.  Just as well, an assault against His knee is an assault against His nose.

It is good to remember that we are connected even though we are vastly different.  Surely His elbow does not desire ill for His heal.

Origins

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A Sefer Torah, the traditional form of the Heb...

A Sefer Torah, the traditional form of the Hebrew Bible, is a scroll of parchment. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

How amazingly striking is the difference in the writings of the early Church Elders and the writings of men today who consider themselves elders.  What began our faith is not the same power among men today.  We hear the constant ringing of a limp bell which touts the Love of God in Jesus.  But the dedication unto death is the blazing fire which should have strengthened that bell.

What is called the Church today hands out fuzzy blankets to a people stranded in Arctic conditions, wishes them well, then abandons them to the wiles of wickedness all around them.  I do not say this without foundation.  Purity toward the holy life has dissipated in the rising heat of hell itself among the people today.

I urge you to consider what I have posted here.  The world is not void of their writings.  Yet how many take the time to look into these things?  We have all heard the constant voice which appeals to us to remember the height from which we have fallen.

I am no more than anyone who reads these words.  Indeed, I am far less than even the saints of this day.  But why should we settle for a diluted message?  The call of God is urgent, pure, and sure.  It is the same today as it was in the beginning.  It is only the adaptation of this age which waters down the Gospel to a sweet savor of “love”.  As the love between a husband and wife has been reduced to sexual behavior between adulterers, so that LOVE of God has become dispersed to simply mean kindness or restraint from murder.

What of warriors for Christ Jesus?  What of men and women born of the Holy Spirit into a holy life?  How can what is Holy give birth to anything less than Holy?  But the world and the corrupt message of certain men regarding the Gospel have allowed any sin to attach itself to the life of their people.  How will such things become acceptable to the Holy Lord of Life?  Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever!  It is man who has determined, in his “eternal” wisdom, that he can change that pure message from water to tar.

Grasp and return to that message which God has delivered to this day.  He has given His very blood to keep that Word through the ages.  And we would do well to read and learn of the kind of men and women who were used by God to found our faith.  Listening to the message today and reading the message of the starting, one would think we are serving an entirely different God.

By His Grace.

The Leverage of Poverty

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English: Poverty Русский: Нищенство

English: Poverty Русский: Нищенство (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

There has been active debate regarding the “poor” in America.  The liberals have proposed and instituted social programs which do not help the poor in their plight beyond causing them to survive for the sake of gain by those who have created these programs.  This is not the will of God that we might make widows and orphans of those who are quite well attached to family and bodily able to fend for themselves.

We have become a nation of wicked greed, for those who would translate our language into obscure meanings (as does their father from the beginning), have brought a black corruption to the very fabric of daily life in America.  We now rise from our beds daily to witness the poisonous fruit of their corruption among us.  And though we chide and teach them with all our might they only chase after this putrid religion of man all the more.

Yet, what should we expect from those who do not have the counsel of God among their members?  They are black with sin; darkened in their minds and souls by the greed that has become their clothing.  All the while they are making more dependent on their powers, they chide and rail at God’s people for not taking care of the poor.  How is this unlike Pharoah commanding the Israelites to make the same quota of bricks without their supply of straw?

May we look forward to the redemption that belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ.  There is a place where such things will never live again.  We warn with all our might, for it is our holy duty to speak against the folly of man.  But we also understand that what is unholy will prosper more and more before the coming of our Lord.

There was a letter written from Ignatius of Antioch to Polycarp, in which he addressed the proper way to approach poverty and slavery.  We are to be wise in all our dealings in this matter.  For pride is not singular to the rich.  Pride is the companion of even the starving beggar if wisdom of God does not reside in his bones.

“Despise not slaves, whether men or women. Yet
let not these again be puffed up, but let them serve
the more faithfully to the glory of God, that they may
obtain a better freedom from God. Let them not desire
to be set free at the public cost, lest they be found
slaves of lust.”

How then have the liberals helped the poor by encasing them in luxury?  How have they helped the poor by removing the calluses from their hands?   They have made them an item of profit, both for the sake of greed and of power.  Take note and be wise regarding the call of the liberals for duty regarding the poor.  The Lord’s wisdom does not make such slaves of men.  There is a freedom these power mongers know nothing about.

By His Grace.

An Appeal For Prayer

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This picture was found at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebius

I appeal to those who read this blog to consider a request for earnest prayer.  I know God has raised up prayer warriors among His people.  And it occurs to me that perhaps there are a few who read these words.  This appeal is directed toward the salvation of a certain young lady.  Due to propriety, it is not seemly that I should begin conversation with her as such things may be perceived as less than holy intent.  Just the same, it has been on my heart to seek the Lord’s mercy for her salvation.

Please allow me to relate how this soul has risen to my attention as a matter urgent enough to deliver to you.  During prayer one night I was presenting the Lord the list of people He has laid within my reach.  Through one of those souls this girl has been near enough to my life to make me aware of her habits. I had been praying for these souls under two requests, which I had laid out at the start of the prayer.  I had prayed that these might be strengthened in the faith, and that they would increase in holy behavior.

As the prayer moved through I perceived the Lord was willing to receive the words I had spoken regarding these souls.  But when I came to the name of this young woman the receiving was blocked.  It was as if my words were spoken into nothing more than the carpet on which I knelt.  I stayed still before the Lord for a while to consider this.

Weeks later I am convinced that she is in a position vastly different from those souls I had listed before the Lord.  I have since begun to mention her to Him in terms of salvation through His mercy.  And this petition appears to receive His understanding.  But I am still not satisfied that my prayers on her behalf are sufficient.  Therefore I thought it reasonable to appeal to my brothers and sisters for help in this matter.

The Lord has brought to my attention a story which relates this item.  The story is not as short as to incorporate it here in full text.  But I will supply a link which you can read as the Lord directs.  (You will find the story on this link in Chapter 25 of book 3.  http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/250103.htm ).  While I recognize that we are not a people who are used to reading many words regularly. A knowledgable approach is recommended when encountering the salvation of souls. This matter is pressing hard against my heart and mind.  Even this morning, I was wakened early by the thoughts of her name before His Throne.  Thus I have come here to appeal for help.

Specifically I appeal for one of our Family to be brought near her to teach her “The Way”.  And I appeal for prayer that she might be released from the family of death.  One without the other is an utterly useless situation.  As you will note in the story related in the link, simple prayer without discipleship or discipleship without prayer are useless in the salvation of souls.  I may pray, but I cannot disciple due, as I mentioned, to propriety.

I ask you then, by the love of Christ among us all, to hold this young soul up before our Father for the saving of her life.  I know there are so very many we could lift up to the Lord so that our time in prayer might consume every moment of our lives.  But please note that I am not in the habit of requesting prayer from those brothers and sisters who attend the words I write here.

May God grant wisdom and impart desire to whom He wills regarding this.  If you are not affected by this appeal, please do not feel compelled.  I would not want to burden anyone with the things God does not set them apart to do on His behalf.  I thank you for your time as you read these many words.  May God bless you for giving your brother a cool glass of water to drink while we travel in this land baked dry by wickedness.

By His Grace.

“In Our War Against Sin”

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week 15 - Determination

week 15 – Determination (Photo credit: Sweet Dreamz Design)

Have you been consistently overcome by a certain sin?  You love The Lord Jesus.  You know the commands of the Lord.  You desire them almost all the time.  Your prayer life begins to shine like the sun.  Then “BANG”, there’s that hideous sin again.  It is like a punch in the face from a steel beam.  And you fall AGAIN!!!!!!!

You’ve done your research.  You’ve looked to every possible answer.  And still you continue to falter.  The answer is far more simple than you might think.  And I know that statement is simplistic in its very nature.  There is a place of victory.  And I will speak of it as I have come to understand it.

We are told to love our neighbor, to do good to those who hate us and spitefully abuse us.  We are told to turn the other cheek to he who would strike us.  And there is not one Christian who has not heard of such things.  In the way of men these things DO apply.  But in the way of spiritual warfare this is not necessarily the case.

What the Lord is pointing out is that our war is not with other men.  It is with spiritual forces that we war.  And to take out our frustration on men is forbidden.  Here is what I have found in regard to besetting sin.

1. Learn to hate that sin.  Hate what is evil and cling to what is good.

2. Seek the Lord’s guidance in how to approach that sin.  There is only One who is Good.  From Him alone comes the commands that give life.

3. Recognize that you don’t have to know “Why” that particular sin is within you.  You are not a victim!  You are a man or woman who has entered into the warfare of the soul.  This is your opportunity to join the saints in the arena of testing.  The animals threaten to tear the flesh from your body.  Do Not Fear!  Join them with gusto!

4. Allow yourself to become spiritually violent against that sin.

The last item is the focus in overcoming.  Spiritually violent does not indicate that you take any physical or mental action against anything in this world.  Rather we learn to desire to rip that sin to shreds.  This is what it means to hate sin.  Only when we have come to the end of our ability to take care of this problem civilly will we finally turn to a violent hatred of what is within us.  This advent of violence in our hearts must be focused on the sin, not what causes it.

The world will continue to beckon us to sin.  Pay them no mind.  Rather turn your hatred to that specific string of events you have come to know so well.  You know where the sin begins within you.  And you know the certain stages of attack it always follows.  As quickly as you can SMASH that enticement as you would a black widow spider on your arm.

This is the war we all fight, my friend.  If you are still fighting then you are still part of the war.  Take heart.  Take vengeance against the wickedness within you.  Fight with all your might, and God will give you strength!