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Believe!

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Settle matters with death. Once a man has settled his mind to accept death as that inevitable doorway to eternity, he is free to live the rest of his days without fear of anything.  Then what can be held against you?  The world is caught up in living.  God’s people are not to be that way.  They live dead and do all they can to retain what they can’t keep; even their flesh.  But God’s people have settled it in their mind that Jesus has taken away that fear of death which once held us as prisoners.

We have heard that Jesus will take His people into the peace of His Father.  We have heard that He is even now preparing a beautiful place for those He incites to love Him.  We see the marks within us of obedience to the Father’s Will.  And we firmly believe the promises He has spoken.  Then we believe, without the slightest hesitation, that God is true.  What He has said He is able and willing to do.

How odd these things seemed to me as I first read them.  But after watching His hand bless my life, belief is the only reasonable conclusion to retain.  For now we don’t see Him with our senses.  But there is a Spirit who confirms these things to our hearts.  Don’t ever let anyone teach you anything other than what the Lord has said in the Bible.  Believe, and you will live though you die.

 

Remember!

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The saying goes, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.”  I don’t believe this is true.  But it’s a good place to start this entry.

What have I learned from a recent battle against unbelief?  I’ve learned to pray for wisdom the very second I realize that I’m up against something “not quite right.”  I’ve learned to look for certain phrases and catch words that liberals use in the traps they lay for those who promote the Living God in truth.  I’ve learned, also, to look at the words surrounding those expected traps.  This might be called listening.  I’ve learned that there is such a thing as what I will call “sugar watered gospel”, which is no gospel at all.  I’ve learned that there is a “bitter truth” attached to the Gospel of Jesus.  The sugar and the bitter collide on the tongues of the proud and the humble.  Sugar is for those who remain in pride as they search out the things of God.  By its very nature pride waters down and sweetens the message of God so that the man of pride might remain proud.  This is a horrible plight for those who embrace false teachings.  Everything they learn gets filtered through the “broad way.”  The bitter, on the other hand, causes a man to fall to his knees with reverence to the Holy Law of God.  These things I have learned.

And one more thing I have learned.  I say I have learned it but . . .  I should have remembered it, for I knew it before.  Perhaps it was the heat of the battle that caused me to forget.  Perhaps it was the awe in me that men could be so very stubborn and wrong.  Perhaps it was that I was cast out by reason of the truth they would not accept.

What did I learn (again)?  I learned to pray for those of that encounter.  I too was once in utter darkness.  I too groped around like a blind man seeking “The Way”.  Even now I find that my forgetting is a sign of blindness.  I should have known.  I should have had mercy on those who bantered their way with His.  Though they thought that I was simply an obsticle to be absorbed or thrown out of the way, it was not my duty to remain their enemy.  They are enemies to themselves by opposing the Lord.  So was I, at one time.  I have learned to strive to remember.  I have learned that when the sweat of battle has evaporated, when breath slows to normal, when the blood has caked on my skin, PRAY for mercy.  Pray that their eyes would be opened.  Pray that they would read the Bible.  Pray that when they do read the Bible, that they perceive the Living God among the words.

I should have remembered.  But the Lord, in His marvelous kindness, reminded me.  Tossing on my bed all night, unable to sleep, He reminded me.  For this I give Him praise.  Not that there was a battle, not that I knew which side I was on, and not that I walked away having left a legacy of the TRUTH.  I praise Him for being merciful to me.  I praise Him that He was gracious enough to remind me to pray for those who oppose The Way.

I apologize to those with whom I fought.  I do not apologize for bringing the truth to bear on the false hood they embrace.  I apologize for not remembering that it is God alone who opens the eyes of the Blind.  May His Holy Will be done forever, for He alone is Good.    Amen.

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God Will Forever be the Key

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There are men who believe that the battle between The Righteousness of God and the wickedness of man is in the hands of men.   I will agree, in part, that man is directly involved in this war.  There is a saying being promoted, “We will be the key.”  um, I don’t think so.  The battle belongs to the Lord Most High through Jesus, His Righteous Son!

It was not the strength of man which parted the sea for God’s people.  It was not the strength of man which brought the Lord’s people out of Egypt.  It was not the strength of man which provided the manna every morning for 40 years.  It was not the strength of man that shut the lion’s mouths, rendered the flames harmless, brought droughts upon a wicked land, nor brought the rain at the prayer of a righteous man.  It was the Lord who did all this.  And we will remember that those who thought they could subdue demons (in the book of Acts) were beaten bloody because they relied on their own strength.  Those men might have been (at least to man’s perception) righteous men.  But they did not embrace the power of the Lord in their attempted conquest of evil.

It was, is, and always will be, the strength of the Lord which delivers His people; individually as well as nationally.  Be wise and remember.  Or at least be wise and read.

Limitless, Abundant, and Victorious Strength

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Sports show us what the human body is able to do.  And every year we see a record broken somewhere.  We see science come up with new things every day.  Inventions abound.  And even right now there’s someone inventing another trinket for us to buy.  There is, apparently, no end to what man is able to do with a clod of dirt.  But these things are not strength.  Oh, I know we call it strength.  But every shred of muscle, knowledge, and plastic tools will eventually render their intent useless.  That clod of dirt will, again, regain the form it had before man picked it up.

There is a strength, however, which man can not contain.  We often find its best examples in those who are at the end of what the world calls strength.  But we also find it in those the world might consider strong.  It is the strength of a faith born of the Holy Spirit of God.  This strength faces all opposition and remains unscathed.  Even in the midst of combat, we find this strength caring dearly for those unable to fight any longer.  The resolve this strength gives defies any word of explanation.  It comes from a place where no man has ever walked.  Yet it finds its purpose met in the wilderness of opposition.

You and I have access to this strength.  It does not become ours, however, until we put it into practise.  And here is where I urge all Christians to reach deep.  When you have reached that end you didn’t know you had, reach deeper!  This is the limitless strength the Lord is waiting to coat His people with.  “You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.”  And too easily we forget Who’s we are.

Lead Out! Let’s Get Moving!

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I speak to the leaders of the Christian army of the Lord.  I speak to the husbands of families.  I speak to the old men who are fathers of many families.  I speak to the young men who are preparing to assume the leadership of families.  And I speak to all men who are in a position to lead others to Christ.

You are blessed with an awesome responsibility.  You are the one in charge of those under you; wives, children, young men and women.  It is your duty to pray for them.  It is your duty to lead by example.

Many think it does not matter how they lead their lives.  They think they are only responsible to the Lord for their own behavior.  And they shirk their leadership position.  Reading the Bible, studying the nature of Christianity, and taking responsibility for every aspect of the Lord’s gift within them, are second to their own desires.  And this has led to a weak Church.

Strengthen yourself for the sake of the Leader of God’s Army in Heaven and on earth.  Hone your mind to take charge of what has been laid in your soul.  Reach deep to present yourself for the task at hand.  You are responsible for the growth of those who look to you for leadership.  Regardless your position on earth, you are key to a number of lives.  A janitor, a clerk, a manager, or any other earthly position, is potentially the fertile ground for the salvation of thousands.

It has been said, “To the walls.”  Meaning that we are in a position now to take charge for the present and future success of tens of thousands of souls.  Grab yourself by the throat, if necessary, pump every ounce of energy into creating a fluid movement forward.  Forget the past, embrace the battle which rages in your face!  Let’s move out!

Respect or Die an Eternal Vagrant

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I see a man who has been fooled into thinking that he can judge the Bible incomplete and even full of errors because there are references to things which are not physically possible, or even proven to be wrong by science.  He takes into consideration that it was once believed that the sun rotated around the earth.  Thus, he discounts the perfect word of God by one mental burp.  In his foolishness he condemns himself.  He judges God by man’s judgment.  He fails to see, for he has forfeited his eyes which God gave him.  And worse, he leads others into that same error.

Be wise!  Respect God!  Respect the Word of God!  Recognize that we are man, and that our understanding is darkened both by the world we live in; that is to say the state of the world being that which is created only, and by the desire of God to test the heart of every man by keeping some things hidden from the eyes of the proud and foolish.