Sunday, October 27, 2024
MY STRONG ROCK
Saturday, October 26, 2024
C-I-N-O
Are you a CINO; that is, Christian In Name Only? Many folks play in a wretched religious comedy on Sunday, and then on Monday through Saturday, they are in deep love with the world. They sit and sing with the sheep on Sunday, and then run and eat with the goats all through the week. Be not deceived, God is not mocked: His eyes never fail to see the soul of everything, He searches the heart and tries the reins, and sees through the hypocrite's pretended piety and sanctity.
The enemy sows his tares among the wheat. The Sower said, Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest, I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into My Barn. His fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor, gather His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with fire unquenchable.
Your sinful heart needs the miracle of Grace wrought in you, deep and true, which only comes from the Holy Spirit, not some superficial external religious doings of yours. You must be brought by the Holy Spirit to the simplicity of Faith in JESUS, and the simplicity of The Gospel of Grace of God. You must quit the way of your self-righteousness altogether, and cry out to the living God and plead for Mercy through Christ Jesus. On your very best day, you are altogether vanity, and All of your righteousnesses are as filthy rags, and your formal religiousness is a hollow sham in God's sight. Poor lost sinner, Call upon the Name of LORD while He is near, Seek genuine Faith in The Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and let the cleansing Precious Blood of The Lamb of God pass over your sinful soul. JESUS is the only Name you can trust with your Soul; Believe on His Name, not yours.
Do not be satisfied with being only a nominal Christian; that is, a Christian in name only. You must Be a true-born child of God, for at the coming Judgment, our true spiritual parentage will be discovered. Either the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is your spiritual Father, or Satan is your father. Now remember: By nature, before being born again, we are all in Satan's family. If your Soul is not saved by JESUS, you're skating on thin ice, an awful doom awaits you just over the next hilltop or around the next curve of life. Please don't commit Soul-icide by rejecting the only Remedy for your sinful condition.
Many go to their "holy" place, on a "holy" day, arrayed in their "holy" garb, and pretend to be Christians. But the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart, all the day, every day and every night of the week, not just on Sunday morning. They put on their Sunday best and go through the motions for a pretense. But they quickly lay aside their surface religiousness on Sunday afternoon. They have other habits and manners on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Your Soul needs the Salvation that JESUS gives, tries, sustains, and accepts. A garden that is only tended one day a week will be an overgrown garden. A wife that is only given surface attention a few minutes on Sunday will soon be a disgruntled, contentious wife.
Don't just a church member; you must be a member of Christ Himself by being born again. Your name must be in The Lamb's Book of Life, not just on some church roll. The Lamb Himself must write your name in His Book of Life. The Lamb will write your name down the moment you sincerely trust only in His Righteousness and Blood. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in Sincerity, not pretendedly or nominally.
Jesus must create in you a clean heart, and only He can renew a right spirit deep within you. Put zero confidence in a mere religious profession; You must have Christ living in your heart. Believing in creeds and sound doctrine will not save your soul. An outward profession of Christianity is like a corpse all dressed up, but still cold and dead. An outward profession is a fancy way of still being lost.
Judas Iscariot spent three years with JESUS, he repented, but still he was lost, Satan filled his heart, and he went down into bottomless pit. The devils believed in JESUS, and trembled before He cast them out of men and women, but they still remained devils. You may hold a religious office or title like a deacon, pastor, elder, priest, bishop, cardinal, imam, or some other religious leader, but your Soul must be washed from your sins in Jesus' own Precious Blood.
The religious professor experiments with how much sin he can enjoy and still be a Christian. Only a madman experiments with poison and razor sharp knives. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. If any woman loves her sins, the love of JESUS is not in her. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. JESUS said, Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? and in Thy name have cast out devils? and in Thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity.
Whatever you may be trusting in NOW apart from the Blood and Righteousness of JESUS, away with it forever. Nothing but the Precious Blood of God manifest in the flesh, Nothing but His Atoning Sacrifice for sinners will save you, Come Now to the Lamb of God, and by Faith lay your hand on HIM, and asking HIM to atone for and forgive all your sins.
Friday, October 25, 2024
'THE' SIN DETERGENT
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
LIVE THROUGH HIM
* For in HIM we live, and move, and have our being. If any man eat of this BREAD, he shall Live forever. He that eateth of this BREAD shall Live for ever. Because I Live, ye shall Live also. Live by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. He that believeth in ME, though he were dead, yet shall he Live. Who HIS own self bare our sins in HIS own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should Live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. In this was manifested the Love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might LIVE THROUGH HIM. Now the just shall Live by faith. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also Live with HIM. But if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall Live.
Now Understand: Only JESUS Himself can bring your sinful Soul back from the dead. If you don't believe me, ask Lazarus. (John 11:43; John 12:9; Ephesians 2:1) Until you are born again by the Spirit of Christ, your Soul helplessly abides in death and darkness. Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
* Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should Live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. Alive from the dead; Alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to Live honestly. That he no longer should Live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For for this cause was the Gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but Live according to God in the spirit.
* If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, Live peaceably with all men. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, Live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. Yea, and all that will Live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. For to me to Live is Christ, and to die is gain. For now we Live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. For whether we live, we Live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we Live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.
DEAL TRULY
* Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands. if ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.
* In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity. As newborn babes, Desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. According as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not?
* The wisdom that is from above is first pure - and without hypocrisy. Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned. I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day. And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck.
* But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. Look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom. Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
* Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. We may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.
* And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. Because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully. Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
* Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.
* He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly. Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath. Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. Therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.
* Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord. Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against ME, saith the Lord. But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? They have dealt treacherously against the Lord: for they have begotten strange children. The men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
* And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face. Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me. Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother? I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt. Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. But let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord. Seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another. The Lord deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people. Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant. For it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly. We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly. We have dealt very corruptly against THEE, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses. But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to THY commandments. And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
* I will sing unto the Lord, because HE hath dealt bountifully with me. Deal courageously, and the Lord shall be with the good. Deal bountifully with Thy servant, that I may live, and keep Thy word. Thou hast dealt well with Thy servant, O Lord, according unto Thy word. Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in Thy precepts. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise THY name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me. He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently, HE shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
RAYS OF LIGHT 2
* Never trust works, but be well reported of good works, be rich in good works, be thoroughly furnished unto all good works, shew thyself a pattern of good works, be zealous of good works, be careful to maintain good works, provoke unto love and good works, but Never trust your works
RAYS OF LIGHT 1
Saturday, October 19, 2024
NOW HEAR THIS!
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
LIGHT OR DARKNESS?
Thy word is a Lamp unto my feet, and a LIGHT unto my path. The Commandment of the LORD is Pure, Enlightening the eyes. The Commandment is a Lamp, and the Law is LIGHT. For by the Law is the Knowledge of Sin. Sin is the transgression of the Law. I had not known sin, but by the Law: for I had not known lust, except the Law had said, Thou Shalt Not Covet. Sin will deeply damage and eternally damn your Soul; JESUS will heal and save your Soul.
I urge and compel you to Escape for your life, look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all your sins, Escape to the Cross, let you be be consumed, flee from your present bondage and the wrath to come, for your love for Sinning will inevitably doom you; Flee now to JESUS for sure Safety. JESUS gently urges you again to Look to HIM and Live, and HE tenderly persuades you to be Saved.
The Entrance of THY words giveth LIGHT; it giveth UNDERSTANDING unto the simple. The people that walked in darkness have seen a GREAT LIGHT: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the LIGHT shined. If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is NO LIGHT in them. While ye have The LIGHT, Believe in The LIGHT. The eyes of your understanding being Enlightened.
The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death LIGHT is sprung up. Through the Tender Mercy of our God; whereby the DAYSPRING from on high that visited us. To give LIGHT to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. The way of peace they have not known. The LIGHT of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of LIGHT; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the LIGHT which is in thee be not darkness. To be enlightened with the LIGHT of the living.
The whole world lieth in wickedness; the whole human race is Lost in the darkness of Sin. But JESUS humbled Himself and became Sin for us. He entered into the gross darkness, bore our sins in His own body on the tree, and died in our place. He rose again the third day from the dead, and now shines out of darkness like the gentle sunshine at daybreak. If you are dwelling in darkness today with sin-blinded eyes, Come now to the LIGHT, His name is The Lord Jesus Christ. JESUS is the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of your Soul, and HE by Himself with His Precious Blood will expunge and purge all your crimes against God and heaven. Let the Light of Jesus into the dark cellar of your heart, and He dispel your doubts and despondency, and you will quickly your den of darkness out of disgust for your foolishness, vanity and pride.
For Thou wilt LIGHT my candle: the Lord my God will ENLIGHTEN my darkness. The Lord is my LIGHT and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? They looked unto Him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. For with Thee is the fountain of life: in Thy LIGHT shall we see LIGHT. O send out Thy LIGHT and Thy TRUTH: let them lead me. Awake thou that sleepest, and airse from the dead, and Christ shall give thee LIGHT. Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death.
Friendly Reminder: A candle cannot light itself. Light must be given from above, right out of God's words, via The Gospel of the Grace of God; Divine Light cannot be generated out of a dead soul. Trusting to CHRIST JESUS HIMSELF, that is All.
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified HIM not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. And the LIGHT shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. A Light that shineth in a dark place. Great things doeth HE, which we cannot comprehend. And this is the condemnation, that LIGHT is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than LIGHT, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the LIGHT, neither cometh to the LIGHT, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the LIGHT, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. And ye have not His word abiding in you: for whom He hath sent, Him ye believe not. But I know you, that ye have not the LOVE of God in you.
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I AM the LIGHT of the world: he that followeth ME shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the LIGHT OF LIFE. Walk while ye have the LIGHT, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the LIGHT of the Glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. Walk in The Light, as He is in The Light.
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is NO LIGHT in him. To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to LIGHT, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
The night is far spent, the DAY is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of LIGHT. For God, who commanded the LIGHT to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the LIGHT of the KNOWLEDGE of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. What communion hath LIGHT with darkness? For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye LIGHT in the Lord: walk as children of LIGHT: And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son. Ye are all the children of LIGHT, and the children of the DAY: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvellous LIGHT.
This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God is LIGHT, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in Him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the TRUE LIGHT now shineth. He that saith he is in the LIGHT, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did LIGHTEN it, and the LAMB is the LIGHT thereof. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them LIGHT: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
I AM come a LIGHT into the world,
that whosoever believeth on ME
should not abide in darkness.
Sunday, October 13, 2024
ABIDE IN ME
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye Abide in ME. I am the Vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in ME, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without ME ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in ME, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye Abide in ME, and MY words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
When our hearts are not in touch with JESUS, they pine away and wither, just like a branch, that is separated from the Vine. Constrain Jesus daily to tarry with you.
If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father's commandments, and abide in His love. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
He that saith he abideth in HIM ought himself also so to walk, even as HE walked. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. Ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is Truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in HIM. Now remember: It's not what you know, It's Who you know, that matters the most in this brief life we live here on Earth.
And now, little children, abide in HIM; that, when HE shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before HIM at His coming. Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen Him, neither known Him.
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in HIM, and HE in him. And hereby we know that He abideth in us, by the Spirit which HE hath given us. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.