Wednesday, July 22, 2020

God Defines and Condemns All Sexually Deviant Behavior

As with God's damning of all sin, God is, likewise, wholly displeased with the practice of anything that He calls sexually deviant behavior. He is also NOT pleased with any persons or groups who promote any so-called "political correctness" by which they make excuses for anything that God calls sin. Every soul who practices or makes excuses for sin shall answer to God. Be assured that He accepts no excuse for the sin we choose in life, as He says below.

Romans 1:16-32 (King James Bible)
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 

17  For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
18  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;    
19  Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21  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.
22  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23  And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24  Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25  Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27  And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28  And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31  Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32  Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. 

God damns every sin. Yet, in His great merciful love of humanity, God has provided the one clear way, His only way of salvation from all of our sins. The choice is ours to make, whether we choose to repent of our sin and its eternal damnation where none can comfort or help us, or not; or whether we choose God's salvation and freedom. Please choose God's Way for it is the only way to agreement with God and to the only peace and eternal life that He offers to humanity. Reading John and Romans in His Bible can help you understand what God expects of you and why He is so interested in you. He once winked at the sinful bumbling of humanity, but now commands all humanity to repent, as He says in Acts 17: 30.

Return to God Almighty and His Only Savior

Throughout the Bible (God's written word) He continually tells humanity to turn from our sinful ways and return back to Him. He gave us the example of Israel and the Jews, that we might learn from their errors throughout history. He gave us His commands to point out our sinful ways and to prove to us that we cannot save ourselves, especially if we reject His Word, His ways, and His Savior.

Here's a specific example of God's warnings to Israel and to all humanity, that we might heed it and choose His salvation and His only way to eternal freedom.

1 Kings 9:6-9
6  But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
7  Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
8  And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
9  And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.


Please choose God's only path of salvation for He alone loves you so much that He has made the only way to escape from the  eternal condemnation that you deserve for your sin (as we all deserve). His Savior came to set us all free from the burden and damnation of sin.

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

All Leaders and Rulers Need This

Do you want to be a real leader, in truth? Are you already in a position of leadership? 

Joshua 1:8
8  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. 

2 Samuel 23:1-3
1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, 

2  The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
3  The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 

John 3:1-21
1  There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 
2  The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
3  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4  Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
5  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7  Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8  The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
9  Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10  Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
11  Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
12  If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13  And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15  That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.    

All who want to be leaders that please God Almighty must surrender their lives to Him, which can only be done in and through His Messiah, His Christ, Jesus.

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Moses and Israel, Christ and His "my church": Not in Isolation, but Parts of His Whole Body

1 Corinthians 10:11 "Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come."

Learning from true history is a quest of the wise, otherwise, we force ourselves to repeat past errors. 

There is a cancerous doctrine growing in the body of Christ. It attacks the interrelation of Christ's local temporal embodiment and His eternal body. That local-only error claims each local assembly of believers is the whole body of our Lord and Savior, but not an interrelated part of other assemblies or of His greater eternal spiritual whole. Yet, despite their attack on the body of Christ, God wants us united with Him, as Jesus prayed in John 17, and Paul says of all interrelated body parts (Romans & Corinthians).

The Holy Spirit teaches willing believers as God promises to His children (1 Jn 2:27). God shows us, in the OT and NT, that the whole of Scripture is to teach us, whether from the types or illustrations of things in the OT or the fulfillment of those things in the NT. Born again believers who rest on all the promises of the LORD know that the OT and NT deal with the church of the living God, in God's types and pictures. 

Biblically, Moses is a type of the forthcoming Christ and Israel is a type of the forthcoming "my church", of which Christ speaks in Mt 18:16, or the "one fold" of which Jesus speaks in John 10:14-16. The Bible says there is one Israel of God. His Israel prevails until all believers in Christ (God's Messiah) are all united in Christ (after the 1,000 year reign of Christ, that follows the seven year tribulation, called Jacob's Trouble). 

Biblically, the Israel of God is always comprised of twelve tribes, and of a myriad of Jewish souls that God numbers, "as the sand of the sea". God's OT picture foretells how He sees, planned, and builds His "my church". He gave those OT examples so we'd make no mistake about what He wants us to believe about His assembly of believers, His, "my church"; His whole body that we are to discern when communing (lest we think too much of ourselves and ignore that we are His parts within His whole). 

As there is one Israel of God, locally manifested as families, tribes, and cities, but, still, in Him, God's Israel is scattered around the world. Likewise, God says believers in Christ are one in faith and of one eternal body, of "one fold" no matter what local biblical church we are part of (which has nothing to do with denominations, ecumenicism, external hierarchies, or prelates). Local church parts of Christ's body are all that we can see naturally, temporally, visibly, yet, only one church is raptured before the tribulation; only one bride of Christ is at the marriage of God's Lamb. Our natural, fleshly, inclinations are to only admit what is perceivable, but God says we cannot please Him if we do not believe and act in faith. Therefore, biblically, based on the whole counsel of God's Word, both OT and NT, we must see by faith that the church, the eternal body of Christ, is only one body and that He definitely doesn't have multiple brides. Christ Jesus is both the Head and the Cornerstone of the church. His "my church" is built between those two solid facts. Christ, faith, and His body are NOT a religion.

Local-church-only-isolation doctrine does not begin with God's Israel, where God begins. Nor does that error abide by the OT form that God portrays for the church, of many parts making up the whole of the Israel of God: God's biblical picture of the body of Christ. The false local-only doctrine does not allow for the one-ness and unity to which God calls all Jews in His Israel, or to which He calls all believers in John 17. The errant doctrine speaks, as if, the promoters of it were to say that the one Jewish city of Jerusalem were the whole of all the twelve tribes of Israel, in that one location. Such a claim fails to recognize any of the interrelated actions and functions that the tribes of God's Israel play in their proper biblical context, just as that false doctrine fails to accept the spiritual one-ness and wholeness of the body of Christ.

Though scattered around the world and through the ages, individual Jews, their families, and the twelve tribes, altogether, are still the body of God's Israel. Though local churches arise and disappear temporally, as at Jerusalem, yet, Christ's body parts, as local assemblies, are eternally interrelated parts of Jesus' "my church". 

His body, His "my church", never fails.