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Conquering the Evil From Within

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As we approach closer to the end, almost everyone is looking at the evil around them. Very few, unfortunately, look at the evil within themselves. There is no better time than the present to examine the evil lurking in each of us. Remember, that each of us will be judged by a most Holy and righteous God. I must say in the beginning this will not be a popular topic, for looking within can be the most humbling and humiliating experience of our lives. However, it is much better to do it now, rather than being totally exposed and humiliated at the throne of the Almighty. Now, you will have an opportunity to change. When the last trumpet is sounded or if you experience an untimely death, then it will be too late. So, if you are willing to take this journey from within let us proceed. The Holy Spirit will be our guide. He will take you to places that you could never have imagined. Hopefully, it will cause you to have many hours of self-reflection. My hope and prayers are that all who claim to be Christians will take this journey allowing the indwelling Spirit to bring deep conviction to their souls. Let’s begin.

The first stop in the journey is letting go of everything we think we know about ourselves. Depending on how old you are, you have already established certain standards for yourself. Although some of these little unpublished rules and regulations tend to change from time to time in a world of varying opinions, typically it’s easy to retain a certain level of pride for your accomplishments in fulfilling your goals. We all know that pride is a cardinal sin that’s rather blinding as it magnifies our self-esteem and tends to build barriers around ourselves from receiving any rebuke or admonishment from others about our seamless character. When we drop the barriers, then we allow the Holy Spirit to uncover every hidden flaw, digging deep within our hearts to lay a firm foundation. Won’t you allow the Spirit to convict you of every unseen sin? If we truly humble ourselves before God, asking Him to search our hearts and show us every unclean thing, then the Spirit will be happy to oblige (Psalm 139:23-24). We must, then, learn to let go by turning from every sin the moment it is discovered and exposed by the Spirit. If you are willing, it’s nearly impossible to read the Bible and not be convicted of some unseen sin. It is best to discover them now, rather than when it’s too late to do anything about it.

Our next stop on the journey is to carefully examine our every thought. Although these thoughts are hidden from others in the world, they are not hidden from God and the indwelling Spirit. Every thought is laid bare at the throne of Almighty God. God takes such a critical view of the thoughts of humanity that He destroyed the entire world with a flood because of their evil thoughts and vain imaginations (Genesis 6:5-7). I don’t want to shock your insensibility but every person on the planet has entertained an evil thought or vain imagination at one point in their lives. These thoughts often come without notice, either directly from the old sin nature or prompted by the powers of darkness, either way, they must be stopped and cast out immediately. It’s almost impossible to live in today’s world without encountering evil thoughts from every segment of society from lust-filled entertainment to massive greed-driven advertisement. This should cause us to be constantly on guard to immediately cast out the evil thoughts by replacing them with righteous and holy thoughts. Again the Holy Bible is our best resource to understand the nature of evil and the absolute beauty of righteousness in our thinking (Philippians 4:8).

Now, vain imagination is a much deeper topic that is capturing most of the minds of fallen humanity. Simply put fallen humanity is always looking for an escape from a world gone mad. This has been attempted from books to television and from an endless supply of videos to the growing number of social media platforms, but nothing has truly satisfied the demands of fallen humanity. For millions of years, humanity has found success in entertaining vain imaginations in the sanctuary of their own minds. They have successfully conjured up taking trips to distant lands and even to distant star systems. They have imagined interacting with different people or strange creatures all the while being the most important person. Imagining themselves with great wealth, superior strength, and otherworldly intelligence can occupy many hours locked away in the confines of their own minds creating their own adventures. This vain imagination is clearly a trap of the devil to keep us in bondage and away from following God’s will for our lives exclusively. As we take a deep look within, we must be honest with what we find bringing them before God in true repentance. Please remember, that God wants our entire self every moment of every day. To do anything less serves Satan, the god of this world. Cast out the vain imaginations and serve God with your every thought.

The mind is an amazing creation by the hand of God. Although Satan and the powers of darkness are behind the manmade creation of artificial intelligence, it will never be equal to what God has created. Although AGI will appear to come close and mimic the image of the beast in the Book of Revelation, it will never have the capacity to love one’s enemies and to serve others without ever expecting anything in return (Revelation 13:15). Although our minds were created in love to be love, since the fall it also can plan all manner of evil in the secret chambers of the mind. We may be found innocent in a court of law by saying, “Yes we thought it, but we never did it” but in the court of Almighty God, we would be found guilty as charged. Jesus Christ put His finger on it when He said, “But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart” (Matthew 25:28). So, whatever a mind thinks about doing is indeed a sin even though you did not follow through on the trespass. Look within! Have you ever thought about revenge, hurting others, stealing, lying, cheating, deceiving others, or committing a sexual act with others, all done in the cloister of your own mind? The list is not exhaustive where every sin begins in the mind. Cast out the thought immediately and if necessary, rebuke the powers of darkness.

Are you still with me? We are taking a journey within, now, before it’s too late. Our every sin will be exposed, and our hearts will be opened for all to see, so it’s best to deal with it now. Allow the indwelling Spirit to convict you of the sin by listening to Him (John 16:8, 13). If you have not heard the Spirit, then you have not been listening. You will need to stop listening to the world first, all of its lies and propaganda, then you will be able to hear the indwelling Spirit. Once we are convicted of the sin of thinking, which includes vain imaginations, then we must repent by casting out the thoughts and agreeing to never think about them again. You may need to repeat this many times for Satan does not give up easily especially when he discovers that you have a certain weakness. God will help you if you seek His help in prayer. Cry out to God now, not when it’s too late as you stand before the Judge. Every time you cast out the evil thoughts and vain imaginations confess them before the Lord, and you will receive the refreshing waters of forgiveness. I hope you see how important this is for our nation as well. If God destroyed the entire world because of their thoughts, then He can do the same with a nation. I am not suggesting “thought police” but we should spread the word that everyone needs to be mindful of what they are thinking about and cast out the evil thoughts and vain imaginations immediately. Dear children, please don’t wait, ask God to help you conquer the evil from within. Judgement is coming.

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Repent Now or be Destroyed! A Prophecy for America

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When the whole world turned away from trusting in God exclusively for their entire life, then a very dark cloud covered the planet. Allergies, environmental toxins, viruses, and pathogens are only the tip of the iceberg. The infighting, the corruption, and the rising crime rate are only symptoms of a much larger problem. What’s hanging over the world is much worse. Satan and the powers of darkness will increase their stranglehold on humanity by leading them to stumble into or embrace every manner of sin. We are like a runaway train with no way to stop it as the entire world races into the darkness and eventual annihilation. Most of America is on the precipice of sinning nearly every day because of the dark days in which we live. Does the prospect of sinning against God horrify you? The powers of darkness have already overshadowed this whole land bringing forth every detestable perversion. Abortion on demand has destroyed countless children before they can draw their first breath. The powers of darkness have reached into future generations by requiring all children to attend public schools knowing full well that they are like a blank piece of paper prone to receive everything they are taught as the gospel truth. Satan knows that this is the best place to indoctrinate our children with their latest previsions, leading them to turn away from their God and even their parents. Open our eyes to recognize the darkness overshadowing our world.

The Antichrist spirit has already stripped us of our God-given responsibility to raise up our children according to our traditional beliefs. Those in power have set the curriculum for our dear innocent children to learn, with little recourse allowed from their parents. The powers of darkness are leading fallen humanity to teach our precious children to question their biological gender, to examine their feelings to see if it is leading them to an opposite gender from their biological gender. This sick perversion is growing exponentially. Once converted to a different gender, then they proudly proclaim it to the world and their parents. The entire Western world including the news media is now forced to agree with their new gender designation or be punished. Furthermore, the spirit of Antichrist has led the entire world to put their undying trust in their therapists or professionals of psychology to heal their mounting mental illnesses and staggering emotional problems. This too is being taught in public schools where the slightest behavior problem is sending our children to the school counselor steeped in the doctrines of godless psychology. At an early age, our children are being taught to depend on the professionals of psychology instead of depending exclusively on God to answer all of their emotional and psychological problems. The mounting sins in the world are devasting so many lives, it is breaking our hearts. We must learn to repent.

The consequences of our sins are already coming. God is allowing us to sink ever deeper into our sins along with their inevitable consequences (Galatians 6:7). We have already witnessed the unimaginable lawlessness, where people are doing the unthinkable in broad daylight. We have seen people ruthlessly attacked for no reason, children abducted, and women carried off the streets of America to be raped. The consequences of our sins have also led to an epidemic of mental illnesses, drug addiction, and homelessness. We have already felt the increasing earthquakes bringing great devastation to the planet. We have already seen floods, tsunamis, and hurricanes destroying whole cities. We have already felt the heat of rising temperatures, massive forest fires, and the scorching sun leaving its mark on humanity. We have already felt the horror of unstoppable wars devastating whole towns and villages leaving thousands upon thousands dead or wounded. We have already witnessed global pandemics taking millions of lives and leaving thousands more with lifelong suffering. All this is only the beginning of the horrific consequences of our many sins against a Holy God. The consequences of our sins have led to the releasing of the plagues, and woes from the mighty hand of God with the hope that humanity would truly repent. What’s coming is even more terrifying. The only way this can be stopped is through worldwide repentance. This country and the world need to repent now or continue to suffer the consequences.

If we don’t repent now, then our worst nightmare will become a reality as America is completely destroyed with fire and brimstone along with all the other major cities in the world. We know that God can intensify any plague or woe to accomplish His goal very easily or He can bring forth Armageddon by letting go of unrepentant humanity to fulfill their darkest desires to launch a nuclear holocaust. Many citizens in Russia and other eastern countries are already preparing for the unthinkable. Psychologically they are accepting the inevitable, which would lead those in charge to fulfill their orders, without question, and initiate a nuclear strike. This will not be like the Hollywood movies where most will survive and build together a brave new world without hunger, crime, or wars. It will, prophetically speaking, end in total disaster destroying all of humanity. Only the faithful remnant will miss the final world war that devastates humanity by being caught up in the air to meet Jesus Christ. Until that time comes, we must be very busy leading as many as we can to true repentance. Dear children, we don’t have a lot of time for the time is growing very short. When you start leading people to repent you will find a lot of excuses and a lot of blaming. Until you can help them overcome their excuses and their blaming of other things, then they will never come to true repentance. We all need to repent while we still have time.

We have heard all the excuses. Perhaps one of the major excuses you will hear from unrepentant people is that they cannot change who they are because they have had a horrible upbringing or have experienced some horrible tragedy in their past life. I say this is an excuse because they refuse to believe that through repentance and belief in the Gospel that God has the power to make them into a new creation where old things will truly pass away. True repentance from the ways of the fallen world is believing that God can and will give them everything they need for life and godliness. God’s truth will deliver them from the bondage of the many lies that they must continue with their psychological counseling and drugs for their entire life or at least for a very long time. True repentance trusts in God for total and immediate deliverance from their old life that will pass away as they learn how to put off the old life and put on the new life in Christ. True repentance replaces the heart of stone with the heart of flesh. Also, people will blame other things that are causing all the plagues and woes instead of blaming the consequence of their own sins. Most blame global warming for nearly every disaster whereas only a few blame the natural changing patterns of the earth, but neither blame their sins. As long as fallen humanity blames the consequences of their sins on something else, then they will never see the need for true repentance. We must all repent now.

Once you work through all the excuses and the blaming of other things, then you are prepared to help them understand true repentance. Repentance is turning from their sins and agreeing to never do them again. True repentance is feeling remorse and deep sorrow, for our sins and humbly confessing them before God, seeking His forgiveness. The Bible says, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). This evil inclination to sin has been engrained or grafted into our old sin nature through a lifetime of living in a fallen world run by the powers of darkness and his demonic host. Step by step we must learn how to resist evil by casting out every evil thought and vain imagination immediately. Listen to the indwelling Spirit who will bring conviction to your hearts. It will also be necessary to guard our eyes and ears from seeing and hearing every evil in our day, which will cut out most movies, videos, books, music, and social media posts. Dear children, we must be strong because Satan has released an army of demons in these dark days to lead God’s children to entertain every passing evil thought or vain imagination. He knows that his time is short, so he is working relentlessly to destroy all of God’s children before they are raptured to heaven. The world must repent now or be destroyed. Nuclear war is coming resulting in Armageddon. This is a prophetic message for America and the whole world.

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 Subject: “Create in Me a Clean Heart”

Good morning Heavenly Father. As we come humbly before you, Oh Lord, search our hearts to make sure there is no unclean thing. It’s so easy to allow our hearts to be polluted from the things all around us, from the things of the world. We have become experts in our outward behavior while ignoring our hearts. We have become experts at wearing different masks, one for each occasion; one for the family, one for the religious community, and perhaps even another for social media. Help all your beloved children to remove their fake masks and be who they truly are, especially on social media where so many are not behaving from the true character of their hearts. So, instead of becoming experts on our outward behavior and a wordsmith for polished words, let us spend more time guarding our hearts against being polluted from the world. We pray, Oh Lord that you will create in us clean hearts and renew a right spirit within us. Let our outward behavior be a true reflection of our hearts. Let us only fill our hearts with your love and righteousness. We pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me” (Psalms 51:10).

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Rise Above the White Noise

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This is my last article on social media. Time on earth is running out, please print this article from my secure website and share it with everyone you know. We must rise above the white noise to enter into silence and solitude so that we can receive the truth directly from God. The white noise has covered the entire planet for many years now instigated by Satan and the powers of darkness. Although the printing press was created over five hundred years ago to target just readers, other forms of mass communication were created a little over a century ago to enter into every village and town on the planet. Perhaps it started with the telephone, then the phonograph and the radio spreading various opinions throughout the known world. Make no mistake this white noise of various opinions, contradicting thoughts, and meaningless distractions were orchestrated by the powers of darkness. Even in its embryo stage, it created outrageous lies and great confusion sweeping the planet. Satan had taken a huge step toward world domination by capturing the hearts and minds of humanity. What would soon come would sever their religious roots and drive them further into the camp of the enemy. The increasing white noise of lies and confusion would prepare their hearts and minds for a new world, a world without God.

However, less than one hundred ago, the greatest intrusion into nearly every home on the planet was the television. Moving images across the screen would capture the imagination and fill their empty time with a new form of entertainment. In the beginning, it was careful to mirror only the present-day’s ethical and religious norms. In time, this would quickly change by introducing drugs and psychological counseling to benefit humanity, which would eventually nullify their trust in God alone. From the beginning the nightly news seemed beneficial to a world recovering from a world war and fears of continuing fractures to a new world system being formed. Even in its formative stage, the nightly news was being orchestrated by the powers of darkness to lead humanity to trust in their governments to deliver them from any future crisis or harm. Of course, as time progressed nightly news turned into 24-hour news with multiple guests, so-called professionals, expressing their own opinions leading humanity deeper into the pit of confusion. This in time, would raise up opposing groups adding to the white noise that’s leading humanity into the roots of chaos. This is Satan’s plan all along, who is orchestrating the white noise to overcome and control humanity.

All this white noise is deliberate. The white noise is gradually increasing by adding very subtle lines spoken by the actors in their movies with great authority. These movies are streaming out in the millions worldwide affecting the entire population. The movies were so subtle at the beginning that most didn’t notice the clear denial of creation by accepting the scientific belief in evolution. Those watching the movies did not notice the open denial of Biblical authority by emphasizing some disagreement in the original texts through various interpretations. The moviegoers did not notice how they gloriously accepted all the perversions by denying the created order of things, the unique biology of man and woman, created to come together as one. They also eagerly accepted it when the movies glamorized beauty, wealth, and self-importance by denying the beauty of the spirit, humility, and self-denial. The movies even justified the extreme anger and lawlessness to overcome some opposing viewpoints, seemingly for some greater good. Every step of the way movies and videos are leading humanity further and further away from following God and His righteousness. Humanity is slowly becoming overcome by the powers of darkness through a constant barrage of white noise.

Now Satan has pulled out his greatest weapons to defeat humanity and bring them under the tutelage of the Antichrist spirit. He is accomplishing this in three distinct steps. The first step was the internet giving a huge platform to certain people and organizations to express their opinions or to attract people to their platform for financial success. Since the beginning the internet has led most to trust in its platforms and search engines to give them all the information they needed even if it opposed the clear teachings of God. The white noise spread quickly around the entire world having a tremendous effect on public education, government policies, and scientific research. The second step was the social media platforms and trailing close behind was the cellphone. This opened Pandora’s box by giving a platform for every person on the planet. Opinions are flying millions of miles a minute bringing forth great confusion among the masses driving most further away from God and His unchanging truth. Right behind this was the cellphone allowing everyone to spend the largest part of their days following the white noise. This alone has driven humanity away from silence and solitude to hear the still voice of God. I have already written about the third step where AI will be the final push of white noise to lead the entire world to trust in the Antichrist spirit. Only the faithful remnant will see the danger and rise above the white noise.

When we rise above the white noise and spend our days in silence and solitude before the Lord, then we will only see the truth. I have written previously about how only the truth can set us free from all the lies and confusion in the world. I have written previously about the seven trumpets and the seven bowls of God’s wrath in the Book of Revelation. I have shown how they have been progressively poured out on unrepentant humanity since the first century. Any student of history can easily see how the world is dangerously slipping into total chaos and Armageddon. However, we are getting a completely different picture from the powers of darkness who are spreading the white noise. They have carefully explained every plague and woe away by attributing it to global warming, an epidemic of mental illnesses, and unknown viruses. They have self-righteously explained away the final battle and Armageddon by portraying the attacker as the ruthless enemy and not the hand of almighty God rendering His final judgment on unrepentant humanity. The truth is the only thing that will open the eyes of humanity. Only the truth will cause them to repent and humble themselves before an Almighty God. We need to rise above the white noise and enter into silence and solitude before God – before it’s too late.

I had a prophetic vision of the visible rapture of the faithful remnant being caught up to meet Jesus Christ coming in the air to render His judgment on fallen humanity as they shockingly witnessed the earth’s final destruction. This was a shocking vision as I saw God’s faithful remnant suddenly appear in the sky to meet Jesus Christ coming in the clouds (I Thessalonians 4:17). I noticed and felt in my heart that these faithful ones had come from a terrible time of intense pain and suffering. They were all fully dressed, coming from every part of the world. Each appeared to be holding something in their hands to present what they had to the risen Lord. After considerable reflection, it became clear that this was the increase of their talents given to them by God (Matthew 25:14-30). Each had been faithful in using their Spiritual talents to bring others into the Kingdom and to help others grow up Spiritually from one degree of glory to another. It was an amazing sight to witness their great deliverance from what they had experienced and see their amazing joy to finally be in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. It became suddenly clear that these faithful ones vanished immediately from the earth leaving only the coming of Christ in the sky to be seen by every eye. It was not their empty clothes and shoes, portrayed by Hollywood, that brought shock and awe to the world, but it was Christ coming back in the clouds where every eye would see Him coming in judgment (Revelation 1:7).

Their shock and awe would be the final judgment of God as the last trumpet was sounded and the last bowl of His wrath was poured out on unrepentant humanity. They all had their chance to repent, but they refused. They all had the opportunity to hear the voice of God, but they refused. Yes, there was a great falling away because they nullified their trust and faith in God alone. They rejected the gift of the Holy Spirit and utilized their own spirit to follow the works of their own hands. Yes, many gave up waiting because they had believed the lie that Christ would come back before the Great Tribulation and the evil works of the Antichrist (II Thessalonians 2:3). Yes, they could not hear the voice from heaven because they had all embraced the white noise that had covered the entire planet. They were all caught up in wars and rumors of war. They completely ignored the prophecy about lawlessness and the love of many growing cold (Matthew 24:12). The sudden disappearance of the saints, even if they would have seen them, would not have made any difference. They did not become fully aware until they saw Jesus Christ coming in the clouds to usher in the final judgment. Dear faithful remnant, I pray today that you are using the Spiritual gifts and talents that God has given to you to build up the Kingdom of God. In conclusion, this will be impossible unless you rise above the white nose by coming out from among them and entering into silence and solitude before the Lord, so you can hear His still small voice (Revelation 18:4-5). Only the truth will set us free.

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Stand Firm to the End

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Just how bad things will get before the end is really hard to even imagine, but we can prepare now. Although preparation will be necessary on multiple fronts, we will not overlook God’s promises to His elect children that will carry us through to the end. We can all imagine that things are pretty bad if we have recently scanned just the news media headlines. Perhaps something we may not have imagined is the effect it will have on the population. The destruction caused by increased natural disasters, sickness caused by even more deadly viruses, and lawlessness to the point that the legal system just lets it happen will have an unimaginable effect on the world’s population. Furthermore, the fragile economy could deliver a devasting blow to the population and in particular to the poorest in the world. Unfortunately, this does not even consider the new wars that could use biological, chemical, and atomic weapons to render their destructive effects upon the world. Yet, through all this God’s children are told to stand firm to the end. We will examine together how this can be accomplished by the grace of God and trusting in His loving providence.

No one knows how long they will live, but it is important to know that we must stand firm to the end of our lives. No one knows when Christ will return or when the world will actually end, but we do know that we must stand firm to the end. This is all extremely important because when things get really difficult for most of the world’s population it will also have a profound effect on God’s children. We must not allow ourselves to be carried away with the escape mentality that teaches us not to be concerned because God will return for us before things get too bad. Remember, that God is with us now and occupies every true believer (John 14:23). The Bible teaches that we will not be given more than what we can handle or tempted beyond what we can handle (I Corinthians 10:13). God knows how much we can handle, and He will either miraculously deliver us from the trial or temptation, or He will give us the grace to endure it with peace in our hearts. As a believer in Christ, you have already experienced this in your life. As we approach closer to the end, then the temptation to follow the world and strike back with impunity will grow much stronger. To take matters into our own hands will nullify any trust that we have in God leaving us alone to feel the brunt of the world’s hostility. We must learn to stand firm trusting in God’s grace and wisdom in every situation. The world will flip out and we must be prepared to confront it with only God’s wisdom and not the ways of the world.

Not everyone will fight back with vulgarity and open hostility. Many will behave like they have been possessed by the enemy rambling on and complaining a mile a minute without even taking a break to breathe. They have been so overcome with the tragic circumstances in the world from the hate and manipulation of others to experiencing one lawless disaster after another causing them to flip out. Don’t let them pull you into the world to be captured by the enemy of your soul. We must learn to listen first, waiting to speak, then only speaking if we are led by God. God may give us Godly counsel to offer in love or He may only give us empathetic hearts for their trials, but He will never lead us to agree with their worldly ways. The moment we indicate agreement, then the enemy will quickly pull us into the quagmire of satanic defeat. Others may simply cry and complain about what they are going through but again we must be cautious, learning to let God lead in our conversation. People often in this situation are looking for others to blame. Again, we must not be pulled into their blame game. To do so will not help them, and it will pull us into their pity party, often attended by Satan himself. On the other hand, we must always look for every opportunity to share the Gospel with those who are willing to listen. Keep in mind giving them Spiritual help apart from accepting Christ will only create carnal Christians who in time will also blame Christ when things don’t work out.

We must keep reminding ourselves that we are in the world but not of the world. When things get really bad groups of people will be formed to fight against one another. Some will fight against the established order. Others will be formed to fight against certain segments of society. Others will be formed to fight against those of another belief, creed, or color. Others will be formed to steal from those who have more. As chaos reigns we as God’s children must stand firm by not joining any group of people plotting hostilities against another. In the beginning, it will always begin with just hateful words against others. It will begin by establishing a creed or doctrine of beliefs. It will begin with just plotting and planning how they can achieve their goals. Wake up dear children, look around, this kind of thing is already happening. It will grow. These groups fighting one another will bring forth total chaos. To stand firm, dear children, we must not be tempted to join any group that’s plotting hostilities against another no matter how righteous they claim their cause to be. Christ and His teachings turned the world upside down, not by hostility but by true agape love.

I hope you are beginning to see that what’s coming will have a profound effect on the world’s population. We cannot physically leave the world, and even if we could, that would be a mistake, because we are the leaven (Matthew 13:33). We literally hold the world together as the Kingdom spreads to the end of all things. We have already talked briefly about confronting certain people that are emotionally and psychologically affected by the chaotic world, but we must also minister to God’s children helping them to stand firm. This goes well beyond posting an arbitrary post on social media. It must speak directly to the other person in a face-to-face encounter. Only this kind of encounter can read their body language and give them an opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings. Only this kind of encounter can truly address their personal and often hidden issues of the heart. I am afraid that the social media encounter has severely limited our face-to-face encounters, which has created an unseen problem. The limited physical contact with others has greatly limited our ability to communicate effectively beyond the initial greetings and pleasantries. As many enter the public arena, they hide behind their cellphone usage and withdraw into their social media domain where they feel a sense of comfort or protection. On the social media platforms, they have become experts in hiding who they really are and the great internal struggles they are dealing with. No one is truly being helped or helped to stand firm beyond a very few select posts that are often hidden.

One of my first lessons in becoming an effective pastor of the local church was to listen carefully to my congregation during the week, then bring their problems and concerns directly to God before writing my weekly sermons. I am afraid this has become a lost art not only from the pulpit but in our general conversations with others to detect their real needs. Any casual reading of the New Testament letters will detect that they were written to meet the needs of the churches to which they were written. Their greatest needs were Spiritual growth and standing firm in a hostile world, which would be accomplished if the recipients learned that they had a responsibility to one another enabling them to accomplish these goals. They were not called to be Christians in isolation. A beautiful truth that many have forgotten in our day is that “we help ourselves by helping others.” Who are you helping to stand firm in your face-to-face encounters? Finally, learning to stand firm is also learning to walk hand in hand with the risen Lord, Jesus Christ. Everywhere we go and everything we do, we allow Christ to direct our footsteps and our conversation with others, in so doing His Church, all of His precious children, will be built up to stand firm to the glory of God.

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Stand With Christ, Not Politicians

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How do we stand with Christ and not stand with politicians? All the Apostles, prophets, and ministers of old taught us how to stand with Christ. None of them taught us how to stand with their national leaders and politicians other than to simply pray for them. Pray we must. Pray specifically that they will follow the law of God, treating everyone with dignity and respect. Also, pray that we will have an open door to share the eternal Gospel with them. We were taught to pray that they would rule righteously so that we, as God’s children could live in peace. We were taught to stand with Christ contrary to what our rulers did or didn’t do. Are we truly standing with Christ today? This is a question that should reach deep into the heart of every professed believer in Christ. This is a question that will haunt every believer who is sitting on the fence trying to stand with their national leaders and Jesus Christ at the same time. This is a question that will drive a deep wedge between true believers and those who are pretending to stand with Christ alone. This is a question that will separate the flock. This is a question that will eventually expose the wolf who has entered God’s vineyard. So, let us ask the question, “Are you truly standing with Christ alone?” Continue reading Stand With Christ, Not Politicians →