No doubt you listen with great intense;
You who faithfully serve The One of magnificence.
And from your charge you wait to hear,
The praise of the Living One ring in your ear.
Though separation of origin,
And difference in substance,
We serve the same God.
Glory is His!
His name to all is Christ Jesus!
Amen, amen and amen!
By His Grace
One by one the bricks are laid,
And truth begins to build.
The morning comes when sleep is past.
Forgiveness comes for truth’s deep fast.
Dreams retreat before the Fire of God.
The lips confess, both truth and fault.
And soon the Lord replies.
Piece by piece the scales are rent.
He opens up the eyes.
The ears once deaf,
Hear the Lord’s footstep.
Obedience takes its place.
The man becomes what he was not.
The Glory of God,
Takes His rightful throne!
The man will dance throughout the day,
No longer naked or alone.
By His Grace
We say with some semblance of a surety, “God cannot lie”. If that is true, then how can you explain your lack? How is it that so many have a form of religion but deny the power of it? You have agreed that God cannot lie! How then are you weak, O’ Church of the Living God?
You are like those who entered near to the land of Canaan. You testify that God will fight for you. But you make not one step toward the war! With proclamation of great and glorious words, you live a lie
You agree with the Holy words of Christ, “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free”. But you are bound up in fear. Are you able to explain this?
If a man buys a new car, he is filled with pride and tells all his friends about his beautiful possession. He washes it and waxes it, parks it in a safe place, and takes great care of his great possession. (Isn’t this true among so many of you?) With confidence he drives it, for he trusts it with all his heart. His heart is full of pride and joy as people see what he has.
Great big church buildings! High-tech fills them. The seats are plush. The ornaments of religion are carefully and artistically drawn. You have agreed with this construction and spent good money to accomplish your desire. Yet every Sunday, without fail, they are filled with people who do not believe! Can you explain this?
You leave evangelism to those who are professionally trained to do. Why? They urge you and urge you to do the same, yet you fear to speak His Holy Name. Can you explain this?
The power of God’s Holy Spirit and His people has become forced to hide. There is no difference between those who say they are politically correct and those who proclaim they are Christians. Those who worship the creation and deny the Holy God his Holy place, are the same as those who proclaim they are eternal beings! Can you explain this?
I will tell you why these things are so. But what is done about it is up to you. You have exchanged the Glory of God for the glory of man. It is as our truth-filled God has spoken. “You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter”.
It is true, God cannot lie. Will you take the time to believe his promise toward those who do not love him? Are you willing to fear God and stop fearing man? Are you willing to sprout legs and stop being a worm? Are you willing to soar on eagles wings, abandoning your hole in the ground? Isn’t the choice entirely yours?
By His Grace
The day I was born, the day I graduated high school, the days I spent drunk as a youth, the day I accepted Christ Jesus, and every other significant day of my life.
On the days I thought important things happened to me, millions of others experienced their own significant occurrences. Not a single one of them saw the days I saw. Yet time moved forward for us all. The calendar chimed in unison. But the entirety of humanity saw a richly variegated symphony of experiences.
There is one significant occurrence that should happen to all men. Every man should be able to say he has accepted Christ Jesus as his Lord. This is the only common thread we can share for eternity. How that comes to be is also a richly variegated symphony of experiences.
Now I try to preach about Jesus everywhere I go. But as I think of the differences with which we all encounter each day, I am struck to remember to let the Lord Jesus speak on his own behalf.
Who could possibly imagine a single canned gospel delivery for every man? Each delivery must be tailor-made for the ears that hear it. What man can possibly do that?
If you plan beforehand what you will say as you testify about Christ, the chances of profitable delivery are significantly diminished. Bottom line, if we don’t let the Holy Spirit do the will of Christ Jesus in us, we restrict the ears of those who might hear.
Though I cannot condemn the use of gospel tracts, or what is called the Roman Road, it is not wise to dictate what God will say. Those can only be useful examples.
All the same I suppose it is better to testify than to keep your mouth shut. Yet to give free rein to God’s lordship over our testimony is best.
I understand how organized testimonies can help those with a weak faith. But even as the child grows adept at adult things, I think it is quite possible to overcome fear of delivery.
I have no idea who may benefit from this message. But I know that the Spirit of God does not dress us in timidity or fear. True belief in the power of God within us ought to be visible in a boldness, and Godly wisdom.
While it is true that each of us stands before Christ on our own, it is also true that our opportunity to testify to any one man, may be the slightest of opportunity. And so we are encouraged to make the most of the situation.
Who can say how God will lead them in any one place. But let us try to lay aside prepared commercials for the Holy Lord’s testimony.
By His Grace
Peace, every human wants it. But not a single one is capable of grasping it.
In the struggle for peace:
Some try to fill their lives with their desire; amassing to themselves all manner of trinkets. With what commerce they own they purchase peace.
Some use anger to control the world around them; driving others away, lest desires clash.
Many turn to drunkenness, sexual immorality, and drugs; subduing their perception of reality lest they perceive anxiety (Peace eluding them once more).
Most turn to a form of religion; encasing themselves in a structure of belief in God mixed with social righteousness. They find they have the acceptance of man, but they are still void of the acceptance of God. Peace eludes them even while they reach to grab.
Still a few turn to a life of obscure devotion to an obscure god; wasting away with self abuse for the sake of the god they make in their mind. The fruit of the peace they seek is death itself. A wasting death, void of peace, and filled with anxiety.
There is nothing on the face of this planet, nor all creation, that can give peace. If man makes it, or has anything to do with its production, it is immediately laced with chaos. The very peace they seek is wasted by their own efforts to attain or produce it.
True peace must come from a place of perfect Peace and Truth. This entire creation is but a shadow of that place. At our very best we can only manipulate lies to form what we call truth. Because of that, anxiety is king over all humanity.
It is written in the Bible, “Then they will know that I am God”. I never really grasped the full meaning of that until now. Yet by the very definition of Truth, can I say I have grasped its entirety? (I write this while I am on the earth. I have not yet arrived in heaven.)
God the Father, His Holy Son, and the Holy Spirit; these are Peace. They are from eternity and they are life. They alone are Truth, for the Father alone is Truth.
Peace is given not contrived. Unless we receive what He offers, we will have no peace at all.
And let a man rebel against God’s commands, while he is in the process of receiving, he will find peace removed from him by degree. With the stark difference in his soul, the man will perceive the words, “Then they will know that I am God”. (Let the reader understand, I am writing this from experience not conjecture.)
Anything that is extended can be retracted or cut off. Anything that is given can be removed. For the one who has given is more blessed than he who receives.
It is fortunate for the Christian, that what he has received is regulated by perfect loving wisdom. The very purpose of the regulation is to “draw” the Christian to Truth.
If this article provokes anything, let it be this: anyone who is drawn to Truth must go where Truth lives. God alone is True.
It is in this drawing that we begin to understand the words, “Then they will know that I am God”. If you seek Truth, with diligent and humble heart, you will come to understand those words.
Read what God said through Ezekiel. “I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel. [He who struggles with God.] I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand.” (39: 2,3)
God himself will lead us to himself, and this through Christ Jesus His Holy and Righteous Son. Anyone who is drawn to God will lose his own perception of truth. In its place, Christ Jesus becomes King. Progressively, chaos is decimated.
It is not possible for man to manufacture his own peace. But True Peace comes with a price. The cost of redemption has been paid. But the cost of Truth is very steep. A man is forced to pay everything he has.
Who, among God’s people, is willing to pay that price? I suggest to you there is not a single one. But it is God who comes to us all to give what we are neither willing or able to pay.
God provides the place where understanding of these things is far more than academic. It gets quite personal! Isn’t that what he means when he says, “Then they will know that I am God”.
By His Grace
Two teams of men accomplished the securing of position yesterday. The glory of man has become theirs. Oregon and Ohio, have established the sum of their training. Accolades are given. Hopes of many rise to tumult. And a place of decision waits to see the victor appear.
But there is an accomplishing that transcends any glory of man. There is a “sum of training” that waits to be revealed. Accolades for such as worship the Holy Son of God await. But it is not a tumult of pride for those who endure into “The Faith”. It is a Holy Noise of praise for the One who bought them. It is a life of Holy power to become His.
The victory has been secured. The world knows nothing of it. They worship the accomplishments of their own hands. But we wait for the New and Holy Song to appear from within our secured souls.
Let us train now! Let us believe, listen, obey and become today! Why can’t we overcome and glorify the Living God with the sum of our training? Isn’t it because we have balked at the expectations and willingness of His Holy giving?
The victory has been secured. What is this victory? That the Living God cannot lie. If He has proclaimed us as belonging to His Holy Son, then we can rightly receive His proclamation.
Rise up today! Become, for the sake of His Glorious and Holy Name! Then the testimony of His Righteous Son will shine within us. Then we have no shame. Then we have no fear. Then we witness profusely and without ceasing. Then we do not struggle for words. Rather, we become His Holy Word.
Encourage yourself. We only fail to stand because we have not believed.
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