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Bamboo in a Storm.

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I look at a tree sway in the wind.  It is winter, so there are no leaves on the trees.  The tree is 100 ft high and swaying about 15 ft back and forth.  I consider the power placed on the roots as this tree sways back and forth.  What tremendous pressure is placed on the roots.  No man has to climb such a tree very far before he realizes the danger posed to him from the weight added to this pressure on the roots.

I remember that the Church, and even the individual people of God, are considered as branches in a tree.  How the world and sin place pressure on the people of God.   They buffet God’s people as the wind buffets this tree I see.  How the pressure on the roots, Jesus, grows as sin around us increases.  And I am given pause to consider how mighty must Jesus’ promises and strength be for the sake of His Church.

“Lord, what kind of tree must You have created here.  That we should be able to climb to the top of Your promises and remain in safety.  No sins or plots by men can come against You and Your people that would tear at the roots You have created.  What kind of tree might You be?”

He replies, “I am a mighty oak.  All who are of me can ride the storms with perfect safety.”   But does the Church, the people of the Sovereign God, realize who they are?   Do we see them living as though they are grown from the roots of a Mighty Oak?  No, sadly, we see our brothers and sisters living as though they are simply tiny branches of an over grown bamboo tree.  They live as though they are transplanted into a spindly tree and grown in a storm.  The fear of breaking is about them like a mist. 

Take heart, O’ people of God!  You are of the One who cannot lie!  He has promised to bring you home.  So why do you doubt?  Praise Him and accept His Holy will in your life!  Rest as did our Lord in the boat!  Sleep with comfort in the midst of death and carnage.  You belong to the Holy One of Israel, the Mighty Oak of Heaven!  Raise up with the strength of those who BELIEVE!

By His Grace.

Mealy Mouth Christians?

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The Kingdom of Heaven belongs to Christ Jesus.  Who among us would dare risk it all for His Name?  While the world considers Christians weak, we know the horrors which await the faithful.  A question arrises: “Who will have the ‘guts’ to enter into the war for the sake of God’s peace?”  We do not war for reward.  We war with sin because we desire that our God might have the peace He seeks.  He has every right to the blessings due His magnificent ways!

Who will suit up and embrace the selfish enemy in battle for the souls of men?

By His Grace.

Come! Let us reason together.

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Tossed to and frow, we wander this world as blind men.  Each day brings another buffet from without and within, yet we do not walk alone.  Though you are most wicked, there is a promise from He who is Most Pure.  “Come.  Let us reason together.  Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall become white as wool.”

I tell you as one who knows His beautiful power to transform.  He is Able and does not lie.  For now you fear Him and His lovely law which kills.  But if you will allow, He will turn your fear into a raging torrent of love and power. 

Come!  Let us reason together.

By His Grace.

The “New Age” Lie.

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In my usual day, I rarely come into contact with the “new age” belief structures.  For those of you who are like me, this might need a moment of explanation.  New age belief structures praise the natural things.  By natural things I mean everything that man can see, hear, touch, taste, smell and consider.  There is a powerful pull to follow after their ways because what they worship is larger than any individual man.  Not to mention that the evil of man has corrupted the natural world by his wickedness.   So, not only does their object of worship have a larger place than man, it also has an enemy that they can identify.

But there is One who is higher.  In the new age religion peace among all men and nature is the objective.  Tolerance is the vehicle of their objective.  And wickedness is only something we can correct on our own.  There are many things to say against the religion of this age.  But these three are enough to build a case against the worship of the created.

Peace among men is a useless desire.  We want peace from a selfish point of view.  We want peace because we want to pursue our own interests.  And though we cloak our desire for peace by saying that we want peace for all men, we are not addressing the peace of God in our search and work.  Peace cannot be accomplished by selfishness.  They are at odds with each other and will never produce eternal peace.  I want what is right for me.  But by wanting that peace which is right for me, I consume, or take away, from someone else something they want.  Given full rein, this work of establishing peace will only end in a war over something trivial.

Tolerance cannot be the vehicle to that which is pure.  We tolerate everyone regardless of their actions, thoughts, desires, and ability.  But we cannot do that in order to establish purity and eternal happiness.  For in the toleration of many things we are upholding sin.  Wickedness is sin.  And there is no wickedness or sin which will remain eternally.   Those who willingly accept this idea that tolerance will produce eternal peace are fooled.  And those people are only willing to accept something less that perfection.

Many stories which come from these people portray an age where everyone gets along.  Even though their dreams depend on technology to bolster their manufactured peace, they don’t see that this is not the way into eternity.  They don’t desire to be rid of their weakness, they support or hide it by use of their own hands.  They imagine that they can invent a machine which can transform a criminal’s mind into a righteous man’s mind.  What they believe is false.  It will never happen.  They are trying to create what God has said cannot be.  All men are corrupt and are in need of a transformation that can only come from God.

And finally, the only great success this new age belief accomplishes is that they rid themselves of an awareness of God and His Holy demands of all men.  He has created us.  It is not the other way around.  They worship what He has created as though it is worthy of eternity.  But God says this place of testing will one day be rolled up like a scroll to make way for the eternal.  To you who practise this new age religion in it’s many forms I have this to say to you.  You can do anything you wish for now.  You can believe and say that anything is true.  It’s been given to you to pursue any lie you want for now. 

But you make one grave mistake.  You mistake this life you now live as an end to itself.  God has given this life in this place as a testing ground.  He is watching and will judge every action and thought of the heart.  A day is coming when what we see will be evaporated.  Right now you look at what is created, even your children, and see something “good”.   You balk at my words of warning and say to yourself, “It is not right to think of destruction of all this around us”.  You look at yourself as special and worthy of God’s approval.  But you have not sought the One who made you.  Rather, you turn to the work of your own hands to supply what you call holy.  You have no idea at all of the Holiness of the One who made you.

Even Christians are tempted to fall into your belief.  Yet it is He who corrects our understanding and continually urges us to submit to His Holiness.  In that way we do not worship what is created and keep our focus on Him.  He is willing to teach all men how to worship and follow Him.  But you must lay down your own religion.  If you earnestly seek Him you will find Him.  But if, along the path of your search, you settle for something built by man you will stumble. 

Jesus is His name.  You will find the account of Him in the Bible.  From the first page to the last, Jesus is the name.  Anything less will not survive what is coming from the Most High God.

By His Grace.

Holiness and The Unholy.

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To those of you who say you love Jesus:

It would be wise of you to empty your life of all other “religions” and their trappings, as well as the sins the world around you is committing every second of every day.  We are told a truth by He who cannot lie, nothing unholy will enter eternity.  If you wish to be welcomed by Jesus and His Father, it would be wise to commit to Him alone.  At the throne you will not be welcomed because you held lies close to your heart.  The welcome you desire will increase as you separate yourself from wickedness.   GET SEPARATE FROM HER (this wickedness that blankets the world around you)!

Since “holy” is not a word used in today’s culture I’ll define it here.  Let there be no mistake, what Jesus said regarding holiness stands for all generations and every man woman and child.  “Without holiness, no one will see the Lord”.  Holiness is a purity of the heart, undefiled, separate from sin, and dedicated to the service of the Living God.  As in regard to this generations worship of tolerance, how does embracing other religions and lies fit into being holy?  Not that I should mention the love of money, fame, self, sex, or anything else that is not godly.

By His Grace.

Tolerance

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The primary religion in America is tolerance.  Though at one point Christianity was the primary religion.  Americans have been taught that they must recognize the validity of every belief regarding the nature and expectation of God.  And if anyone stands up in the crowd and announces that he believes that Jesus is the only way into eternity, he is pounced on as though he is on fire. 

I will not tolerate this level of what they call tolerance.  I will tolerate your belief in this manner:  You’re welcome to believe what ever you wish.  I am not your boss nor am I a god that I should force anyone to believe in Jesus.  It’s entirely your choice.  And I am not your judge. 

I can’t expect such people, however, to tolerate my words, nor the words of Jesus.  He has stated that He is the only way to the Father in Heaven.  And He made no apologies for His words.  I will not make apology for my words either.  But you who worship tolerance will not tolerate such a man as I.  And I will continue to, not only tell the story of Jesus, call all other beliefs a lie. 

Your lie even goes so far as to use foreign words as though they were mystical and powerful.  I have something for you to think about.  You use words of other languages because they sound really cool to you.  Hey, think a minute, the word “hello” is just as funny sounding to another language which doesn’t use such a sound to greet.  Do you hear them worshiping a foreign language like you do that of India or China?  Don’t you see how foolish that makes you look?  And you embrace many other items, customs, and thoughts simply because they are not native to your own culture.  But that’s the only power those things have; they don’t belong to your mom and dad’s history so you think they have something they don’t.  And if your mom and dad did those things, then let’s point to grandpa. 

The fault of this religion of tolerance is the assumption that today is a better judge of what is right.  How is it that people of any age consider themselves to be better judges of what is right than the generation before them?  Isn’t that what little children do?  They rebel from their parents because they are sure their way is better.  And don’t parents see their folly?  What do you think you look like before the God of Eternity when you believe your way is better than His?  He set laws.  And if you chose to ignore them it will be at your own loss.  Just as teens suffer loss when they throw away their parent’s admonitions. 

You tolerate everything man.  But you toss out a tolerance for Holiness before the Most High God, through Jesus His Christ.

 By His Grace.