Preaching Freedom Bible Study

Judas Iscariot and Cathy Burns

2010-01-14T09:54:00.000-08:00

Jesus said Judas was a Devil, Thief, son of Perdition. Jesus Said that e Knew from the Very Start That he knew Judas believed not. Was e ever a Christian? Well obviously not to anyone KJV bible reader. Dr. Burns, a woman quoted and plagiarized notwithstanding, wrote about this in her work refuting eternal security. Yes Judas was saved! She said.. Well, You can not leave out So many scriptures addressing Judas Iscariot by name and still call it a Bible study. Propaganda yes, Bible study No. Dr. Burns even said Judas was a Bishop of a church and that he was not a sinner! would Jesus trust a sinner? she asks. Our Question is easier. Why dr. burns Leave out the references addressing who Jesus Paul and the holy spirit said Judas actually was? On a side note: This Lesson refutation of Cathy Burns misrepresentation of Judas was a direct result of listening to Ed Watsons Sermon , which after reading Burns Book, turned out to be a plagiarized. READING of her book posing it on Sermon Audio as a Sermon. I read Her work and Listened to the So called Sermon Online at the same time.. ( can you say WORD FOR WORD?) At any rate, I thought it was needful to have an actual bible study on this subject .

It is Not about YOU FIRST

2009-02-19T05:50:00.000-08:00

Php 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Rom 12:10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

Eph 4:2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Eph 4:3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Eph 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

The bible teaches that we are to care one for another and that Christians are not islands unto themselves. Our responsibility for one another is founded on the simple fact that we are ONE in Christ. Caring for another brother is first of all then a caring for oneself and secondly a service to the Lord. Eph 4:3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Eph 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

A Wife and Husband as one flesh are a good example of this selflessness, at least according to God's ideal and his plan, They are not their own they are in fact each others.
Eph 5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Eph 5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Eph 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Eph 5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

1Co 7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
1Co 7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

Putting others first, Caring for others, esteeming them better than yourselves, Humility and meekness serving one another, placing yourselves in subjection.

If a Brother or Sister is in error and we as brothers and sisters in Christ are all in one body, Christ through the apostle Paul prescribes the remedy: Gal 6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Gal 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
: Do not give up on a brother,

2Timothy 2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
2Ti 2:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

Jesus is the way the truth and the Life. Without acknowledging this truth, there is no hope. I higher power is a delusion if that power is not the exclusive power. Jesus said "ALL power is given unto me" (himself)"For there is no power but of God..." That power, "Jesus" became a servant though he was Lord of All. he enabled the lame to walk the blind to see and the dumb to speak, He enabled the week to be strong and as the apostle Paul said;1Ti 1:12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
1Ti 1:13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Thank God for the enabling Christ. Thank God he never gave up on us like we give up on others.

Receiving the Mark just another step of Rebellion

2009-02-05T12:37:00.000-08:00

In today's society, that folks who no very little about the Lord call secular, everything seems to have a number and a name "given" to it or them by someone or something else.
In WWII Men in concentration and death and prisoner of war camps were numbered and catalogued like animals, and even given tattoos or brands to make sure they would not loose their number, which became, for the government that gave them the number, their name.

Their Identification was their NUMBER. Their NUMBER and their NAME were one and the same. And it was MARKED upon their flesh. Do you see, they were forced to have a Number that was their Name that was MARKED upon them?

“Number 149703589 please step forward and get your meal and clothing!”

Today men and women stand in lines at food stamp offices and welfare offices with their Social Security Number in order to get food and shelter and clothing. I went to a "Bill Pay" office today to pay my electric bill and noticed that they also do LOANS... for anyone who has a Social Security Number. Those who do not have a SS number or refuse to furnish one will not be permitted to BUY FOOD with the money that they might have gotten had they had the SS number.

The Number is YOU as far as those who loan money or what we think of as money are concerned. When the IRS sends out a bill or a notice they send it to a NUMBER that is a "Personal Name". When you try to find a Job, one of the first things that you are asked for is your Social Security Number so that they can do a background check on that NUMBER.

Does that NUMBER owe anyone any money?
Does that Number pay it's bills on time?
Does that number own property, a car, a home?
Has that number ever been in court?
Has it any liens against it?
Does it have any traffic violations?
Has it ever been sick or had an operation or have any record in the Medical world that we need to know about?
Has it a checking account?
Any Credit Cards? HMMM are you numbered to do business? To Buy and Sell? Work and Play?

“We will call you Mr. 6. your friend will be Mr. 7 and so forth and no one will ever have your name ( I mean Number) it will be unique to you and even after you are dead, your number, the real you, will live on, unique in our files. Your Number will never Die. We will give you eternal Life!”

What you count as your money is NUMBERED individually, regardless of the country you come from.
Your Checks ( Cheques) are all individually Numbered,
Your credit Card has it's own number and your Driver License has it's own Number. And all these Numbers are cross referenced to your Social Security Number. Soon the cash you get will be only given to you when the numbers on it are registered to you somehow. Your electricity will not be turned on with out it. The supermarkets will refuse to sell you products without it for they will not be able to transact the business without the number. Your birth certificate is numbered and now they even have the SS number on it. If you wish to be married with a state issued marriage license, they ask for your SS number and your spouses' SS number as well. When you have Children in the hospital, they will come into your room within hours of your child's birth with all the paperwork needed to NUMBER them JUST like they NUMBERED you. After all you would not want the government to think you were a poor custodian for a future potential NUMBER. Would you?

“OK Mr. 6 and Mrs 7 you can now take little 372 to your 10 digit ZIP code and wait further instructions.”

OH I would never take a Number... Wake up! you already have been conditioned to do so and that without even thinking about it. Sometimes for convenience, sometimes for fear. But you see the Anti-Christ forces know just how to go after you, The Love of MONEY!
The Bible states clearly "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."(1st Timothy 6:10) and so the Beast and his Image will cause all both small and great rich and poor to be motivated through commerce and the buying and selling process ( not the barter process that is way to complicated for most folks and the Anti-Christ knows this).

The fact is that when the time comes, most folks will want to get this NUMBER or they will already have one. The NUMBER is their NAME for most all buying and selling and traveling and health care and property ownership NOW already. For Now however their name is on a card in their wallet or purse or a "safe" in their home. What will happen when the request first comes down to have this NAME and NUMBER MARKED upon them or placed with in them?
Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

This is in fact an Issue of worship. Whom will you serve or shall I ask who are your serving? If the Mark and the name and the Number are in fact a micro-chip and you find yourself in the great tribulation spoken of by the Lord and you are not a BIBLE Christian,
Then YOU WILL willingly receive it. The Anti-Christ and his image will cause you to do it. And not as it is in the so called Rapture Books all over the net and bookstores, you will most likely WANT it, Just like you wanted your SS number and the other controlling numbers and name you have. God will send you a strong delusion that you should believe a lie that you might be damned because you had pleasure in unrighteousness and refused to Repent when you had the opportunity. The Bible says that ALL liars, Adulterers and thieves and everything that Offends needs to be gotten rid of, and unless Christ is your Lord and Saviour by faith YOU WILL Worship the beast just like everyone who rejects the truth now does. Your Love of money will be the rout of all evil. Your Job will be more important that the Lord and his truth. Your car, your belly, your home, your country and it's prosperity will all be more important that the truth of the Lord to you.

So many today are fighting against the upcoming ' Mark of the beast' there are thousands of websites warning folks about it, prophesying ( LOL ) about it, predicting what it is and who it will be that gives it. Most all of them have great sounding persons and strong web-leaders who proclaim their defiance and state they will never be tagged, chipped, tattooed or otherwise be "Marked or Named or Numbered. Yet these same people in the "Movement" have no problem being Named along with the Man of SIN in their everyday actions.
Liars, the Bible states that the Devil is the Father of LIES ,he is a Murderer and is ruled by his lusts. What difference is their in most of you people listening or reading this now?
How many of the so called patriots and freedom fighters are practicing Murderers? 1John 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
How many are Adulterers and Adulteresses? James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
How many are thieves and Covetous? 1Corinthians 6:9+10 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous,nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
How many of you are drunkards and still say you will not take the mark when it comes? I say you will and you will take it gladly!
Idol worshipers, Sodomites ( homosexuals), those who hold the truth in unrighteousness and who call God a LIAR will all line up and get their Number and Mark and Name.

Jesus asks a Question of those following him? “Whom do men say that I am?”
Mar 8:28 And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets…. But then Jesus asks another question: “… But whom say ye that I am?” And that is the great Question. Jesus said that only though HIM acknowledged as TRUTH could anyone be FREE INDEED. Ye shall KNOW the truth and the truth shall make you free.. And if the son shall set you free, ye shall be free indeed. You see my friends you are for all matters Numbered and Named and Marked already by your thoughts and actions and beliefs? Paul reminded the Romans of their former condition: “ ye were the servants of sin,” and
“Romans 6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.”

And one would know ones master by one’s actions: Rom 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. It was in this context and understanding that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God that Jesus said freedom was only possible to those who confessed that Jesus was the great I Am.. Unless you believe that I AM HE. Ye shall die in your sins.
THEY will DIE MARKED. All your effort to get clean will be for nothing. Those seeking to escape the Mark will find themselves MARKED with their own rebellion against God’s truth and unable to remedy their problem, Jer 2:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre , and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
THEY DIE NUMBERED like Judas Iscariot: Mar 15:28 And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.
THEY will DIE with the MARK of HIS NAME upon them! Rev 14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

So think about this Mr. and Mrs. 67, your only hope of not being Marked and Named and Sold into the Slavery of the beast is to be bought by the Blood of Jesus Christ. You must Confess Christ alone and become his servant or be doomed as the servant of sin you already are. You must be marked and numbered by a Lord. All the talk of personal liberty and freedom outside of the context of Jesus Christ is nothing but sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. Cabbages and Kings!

You want freedom yet you are a slave to SIN.

You want Liberty yet you are ruled by Lust .

You want to be a patriot, yet your father is the devil and the lust of your father ye will do.

You want and claim Rights, yet you DO wrong.

In the words of many, they are free, yet they are not free indeed, they are in fact Slaves and servants to the world the flesh and the Devil. Many reading this who are in fact servants of the Devil will not believe this. Might I say at this point, you have been taken captive by him (2 Tim 2:26) and he lies to you about your freedom. He proposes that which can not be.

Freedom without righteousness, for Jesus Christ is our righteousness and it is HE who came to set the captives free.

Liberty without The Spirit of the Lord ( 2Co 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.) and

and

Rights without law.

What most are really looking for is the Right to do Wrong.
The problem is, is that there is no such thing.
No one has the RIGHT to DO wrong though they may be given the choice and or the ability and opportunity to do so.

Not everyone has the Right even to partake of that which is good without first abiding by certain rules or obligations. For example, Revelation 22:14 states

“Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”

The Lord also declares through the author of the Book of Hebrews chapter 13:10 that

“ We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.”

So the right to go to heaven is conditional and the right to come to the alter of God in prayer is conditional. In other words they are not something that everyone has simply because they ‘want them’. Every man has the RIGHT to justice, Why ? Because God said so, God granted them that Right. Do they have the RIGHT to have it their own way? No. They do however have the RIGHT to have their cause heard and to have their issues judged according to the Laws of God in regard to their issue. They have the RIGHT to be judged not be WHO they are but according to the facts in their cases.
Deuteronomy 16:18-20

Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

You have the RIGHT to have to be accused by at least TWO witnesses in order to be convicted of a crime. You have the right to face your accusers; Deu 19:15

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

IN other words you have the right, because GOD granted it to you, and sometimes only under certain conditions. Now under a classic understanding of a RIGHT most folks reading this will confuse the word with ability or opportunity, yet as We have seen already this is simply false. You do not have a right to conspire to unlawfully take a mans property from him. You do not have the RIGHT to steal. You do not have the right to lie in wait and Kill someone. You do not have the RIGHT to another man or woman’s Wife or Husband. In other words you do not have the right to commit Adultery or Incest or Sodomy or any other such crime against God and his Law. What you have is the Ability. You do not have the RIGHT to be numbered or as someone who is a Christian, to sell yourself back to the devil, You do not have the RIGHT to follow a multitude to do Evil. You do not have a right to do as you please yet surly the ability is there and the will may also be there. The ACLU thinks people should have the right to be homosexuals, that they should be FREE and be at Liberty to be sodomites. Yet the definition of what are RIGHTS simply does not fit, unless you allow those who would pervert the truth to determine the truth. When defining the word RIGHT Noah Webster stated

2. In morals and religion, just; equitable; accordant to the standard of truth and justice or the will of God. That alone is right in the sight of God, which is consonant to his will or law; this being the only perfect standard of truth and justice.
In social and political affairs, that is right which is consonant to the laws and customs of a country, provided these laws and customs are not repugnant to the laws of God.
As an ADVERB he states that rights are 2. According to the law or will of God, or to the standard of truth and justice; as, to judge right..
As a NOUN he then states that a RIGHT is in
1. Conformity to the will of God, or to his law, the perfect standard of truth and justice. In the literal sense, right is a straight line of conduct, and wrong a crooked one. Right therefore is rectitude or straightness, and perfect rectitude is found only in an infinite Being and his will.

Who is it that ultimately determines what words mean and how they are to be used, Sinful men who hold the truth in unrighteousness and rejoice in SIN calling it Good? Or God?
Do all men have the RIGHT to LIFE ?

Amos 5:14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

Do men have the RIGHT to declare something Good that is not Good according to the LORD?

Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Isa 5:21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

The constitution of the united states protects rights, but rights are not the whims of men. Rights are sometimes obligations and sometimes simply conformity to DO RIGHT. This is why the Colonialists stated that Resistance to tyranny is service to God. They knew that if a Tyrant dictated action from his subjects that was contrary to the will of God that to serve him would be in effect to NEGLECT our RIGHTS or to be deprived of them and be forced to do WRONG. You do not have the RIGHT to be conformed to the world yet you may certainly have the ABILITY the Inclination and even the desire to do so. You may feel that it is your RIGHT yet God said it is WRONG. You have the ability yet God would have you as a Christian exercise you’re your RIGHT and serve him.

Those who are in rebellion have no such right.

Look for a moment in a thesaurus and see what words are most like or are interchangeable with the word “Right” as we are looking at the concept: Lawful, Righteous, Virtuous etc. Where as the modern dictionaries and the new Legal Dictionaries have no standard such as the word has been delivered through biblical record. Their MODERN understanding is of a RIGHT is that which is

“considered fair or morally acceptable by most people” “ What is considered to be morally good or acceptable“ ( Cambridge Dictionary Online)

The problem with this is that the people are the determining factor and it is their authority by which something is or is not a right. This also presents a problem that even if it is determined that a certain thing or action is a RIGHT, it will lie with the people to determine WHO and HOW a particular RIGHT is applied or claimed and exercised. Merriam Webster’s modern dictionary makes an interesting statement when defining RIGHTS or A RIGHT when it states

“ Right: (2)Something to which one has a just claim--often used in the plural…(3) something that one may properly claim as due

Are these RIGHTS under the true understanding of the word? The only way we can determine this is to ask the question from the one who is said to be the ONE lawgiver.

Mat 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

God is the only one who can destroy the soul in hell and he states that this is the fate of all those who forget God and who rebel against him. Those who hold the truth in unrighteousness. The Bible states that

James 4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
James 4:15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

It is by HIS will that we LIVE, not by our RIGHT TO LIVE for there is no such right without the obligation of righteousness. One must DO or believe RIGHT to have the RIGHT to LIFE because ultimately LIFE is the grant of the LORD and Eternal LIFE is his GIFT granted to all those who trust his SON Jesus Christ.

So you do not have the RIGHT by birth NOT to be Marked or Tagged. YOU will be marked. The only question is by who. The LORD or by the ANTI-CHRIST.

YOU have no RIGHT to Freedom simply because you are born. Freedom is a GIFT Granted to those who SERVE the Lord Jesus Christ. LIBERTY like RIGHTS is nothing other than the ability to serve God properly, that is according to his Word. God Marks his for safety because they are HIS. Those that are not HIS are marked for destruction: Note what the LORD said to the angel before destruction was to come upon the people of Jerusalem.

“and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.”

…WHY?

“Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark;”

And in the Book of Revelation Chapter 22 God says of those who are in the new Jerusalem

Rev 22:4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

Those who rebel against GOD do not even have the RIGHT to know the truth. God himself as the Giver of RIGHTS determines who gets them and to whom they belong. As much as one might wish otherwise the fact remains that RIGHTS are predicated on Conformity to the will of God, or to his law, the perfect standard of truth and justice. For those who do not receive the truth and seek to be just without the LORD,

2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Pleasure in unrighteousness results in being forbidden from knowing the truth.

I Have a RIGHT to KNOW!
Truly? You said you do? What have you done to qualify yourself to know the truth or even the facts or information in question? Have you done anything or have you believed anything that would forbid you from a RIGHT to KNOW a given thing?
The ironic thing is that those of you reading this that do not have a RIGHT relationship with Christ, a relationship that grants access to the truth, will most likely be standing in a line one day demanding your RIGHT to be Marked and Numbered and Named by the Anti-Christ. You will do so and persecute those who do know the truth as though you were doing God’s service. Ironically enough you will be happy to do it and it will be a matter of your worship as you flounder under a strong delusion to believe a lie.

The rebellious now will be rebellious then.

Those who take the mark of their god the devil now those who are named now will be named later.

Their light that is actually darkness will blind their eyes to the truth when it comes down to taking the mark spoken of in Revelation 13, just as their light now has convinced them to take the name thief, liar, adulterer now with pride, proclaiming their sin as Sodom. Even more, They declare that they do God’s service when they persecute the Saints and they will continue to do so during the tribulation as they line up to proudly to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads. The mark that was already deep in their hearts to begin with. They worshiped their god in their sin and now they will be caused by their false god to proclaim it openly and proudly IN their foreheads and IN their right hands as a brand or mark, making them recognizable to those who deal in commerce in the future. The Commercial Church, the corporate mongrel of church and state controlled by the love of money will preach the doctrine of compliance to them and they will sit in pews and listen to great flowing oratories on the allegorical mystical nature of the book of Revelation. Their foolish hearts will be darkened as they profess themselves to be wise and are found as fools. They will be as GODS knowing good and evil, ever vigilant of their RIGHT to do WRONGS and their Liberty to be licentious!

OH what a delusion! To be weighed in the balances and found wanting, to have built bigger barns to bestow their goods only to have their souls required of them. To be forgotten in the land of the living yet to remember in hell the good things that they once thought they had as they are tormented in the flames along with the rich man in Luke 16.

They WILL take the mark they fought so hard to avoid and do so as an act of worship. As if this were not enough of an ironic twist even more are under the delusion of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. They seek what God destroyed, a tower or system that seeks to reach beyond the reach of God. Somehow they feel that God will understand as they do their own thing calling it their Liberty to do so, and their Right. They confuse abilities with Rights. Yet for their whole lives here on earth they have done the same thing. Religion after religion falling to the beast and his false ecumenical doctrine of toleration. Toleration that is, of everything except the exclusive truth, the exclusionary truth of Jesus Christ as the ONLY way to have Freedom from the Beast and his Mark and His Name and the Number of his Name.

The Number of his Name? The Bible states that the Number of his name is the Number of a man. The Man of Sin. Let me ask a question at this point. If the man of sin has a fate called the lake of fire, what do you suppose the fate would be of all men or women OF sin should be? What is his Number? Six hundred thee score and six.
The Man of Sin, the Anti-Christ and those who follow him and his lie have as their base instinct, selfishness, where as Our Christ, Jesus and his people have as their center Sacrifice. The one group seeks and is taught to seek only their own satisfaction where as through Jesus Christ and his example we are constantly seeking and are taught to seek through the scriptures the well fare of others and the Glory of God. Satan promises autonomous godlike status and Jesus Christ gives true eternal life and a position of being Joint heirs of all. Satan said, disobey God and you shall be as Gods knowing good and evil, Jesus Said Obey God and Live forever and be the Sons of God.

Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

The woman was deceived by this lie, the serpent exposing her selfishness deceived her into the lie of self gratification. One can not satisfy ones self. At least not for any extended time. The Fruit was pleasant to the eye and desired to make one wise, and so she ate and gave to her husband and he did eat. It was a satisfying taste for sure, but no sooner was it digested, no sooner was it past their taste buds, their eyes were opened and their nakedness was exposed. The knew good and evil, and the one EVIL they knew more than anything else was that they had disobeyed the LORD and so they hid themselves. They had pleasure for a season but death was at the door and they knew it. God had said to them that they were to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of Good and evil least the day that they ate thereof they should surely die. The Serpent said that this was a LIE and that they in fact could be as Gods themselves knowing Good and Evil.

SELF'ISH, a. Regarding one's own interest chiefly or solely; influenced in actions by a view to private advantage.

To be as God.. To ascend beyond the reach of accountability, to build a tower of Bable and reach to the very throne where one can establish one’s own rules and Ignore God’s Law. Another definition of Selfish in a religious or political garb would be Luciferianism.

To be Continued.....

Heaven, Hell, and Jehovah's Witnesses

2007-08-16T21:58:00.000-07:00

The Marker for the founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses Mr. Russell, has a strange NWO theme about it, in fact it has for it's cap stone the emblem of the Knights Templar/papist, Cross and Crown. Russell did not like the idea of folks going to hell, so among other apostasies, he promoted the lie of NO HELL/Eternal punishment. They still believe this today. Not addressed in this sermon are the various documented declarations by the JW's and their leaders about so called second Commings of Christ that never occurred. As can be seen on this cover of a book published by the Watch-Tower Bible and Tract Society from the early 1920s called "millions now living will never die." They also USED to say that the Generation that saw the events of 1914 would not pass away before the Lord's Return. ( before 1914 they were teaching that 1914 would be the end) So now that they are all DEAD, what to do? Well simply Change the doctrines to fit the new ignorant followers of the Tract Society. That will the topic of an up and coming lesson, for now however please listen to this message about heaven and hell and those, like the JWs' who are teaching lies about the eternal state of the dead.

Heaven, Hell, and Jehovah's Witnesses

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During this meeting Pastor Slattery addresses those who reject the truth of going to be with the LORD right after death. JWs, Mormons, Some United Pentecostals, and 7th Day Adventists All agree that God is wrong and they promote the false heresy of 'soul Sleep'
This is a BIBLE Study that Preaches.
What happens when Christians ( folks who have been born again by Faith alone in Christ)Die? Well they go to heaven. What happens when a person dies and they do not know Jesus Christ?
Listen to this sermon to help you deal with the 'No Hellers' and the 'Soul Sleepers'
What did Jesus Christ do when he died? OH he was quite busy. Listen to this to be able to deal with those who are manipulating Scripture to prove that which is NOT TRUE.
Where is Paradise, Where was Paradise? Where will Paradise BE?
All things are subject to Christ, Heaven and Hell and everything else too. ARE YOU?

Thank God, The Jews killed Jesus, q&a

2007-06-05T22:48:00.000-07:00

Mark and Felicity Carper wrote:

In your sermon you stated that the Jews were “filthy murderers” that killed the holy one and this doesn’t agree with the scripture.

Matthew 20: 19. And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.

At the time Israel was an occupied country of which Jesus stated,

17. And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples apart, and on the way he said unto them,

18. Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and scribes; and they shall condemn him to death,

19. and shall deliver him unto the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify: and the third day he shall be raised up.

Our own Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in his own words said that the Gentiles Mocked, scourged and crucified him.

Who is the murderer that you should accuse the Jews against the Word of Jesus Christ?

The chief priest who exercised authority over them were Gentiles and the Lord said,

Mark 9: 31. For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.

Mark 10: 33. Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:

Luke 18: 31. Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.

32. For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:

33. And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.

Mark and Felicity Carper

2 Church Street

Belmont, Victoria 3216

(04) 2142 6767

IN Response Pastor Mike wrote back;
Understanding that sometimes loose definitions of words like JEW and Israel and Gentile:

Thanks for writing and listening, I believe that the sermon you are refering to is " Thank God the Jews Killed Jesus" your question was a little rambling but to answer what I think was the question:

I prefer to listen to Peter, Paul and Stephen and James's interpretation of the events.

Act 3:13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
Act 3:14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
Act 3:15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

Act 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Act 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

Act 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. ( the Jewish Leaders)
Act 5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.

Act 7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
Act 7:53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
Act 7:54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

Act 4:9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
Act 4:10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.

1Th 2:14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
1Th 2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
1Th 2:16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

Jam 5:5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Jam 5:6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

So as you can plainly see the scripture that you are referring to are understood according to the plain interpretation of the events by the apostles who were there and inspired by God. The Jews and Israel, meaning the physical seed of Abraham/( not Judaism) Killed Jesus Christ. How did they do it? They did it with the Gentiles AS THE SCRIPTURE states ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: and so in this way and in not other can the scripture that you are quoting can be understood, WHY because that is how Peter, Stephen, James and Paul said it was to be understood.

Thank God they Killed him, for had they not he would not have been qualified to be the Lamb of God that Taketh away the sin of the world.
Israel Killed Jesus as the lamb, how did they do it... with the wicked hands of the Romans, that is, the Gentiles. And the Wicked hands of the Chief priests helped. In this way they are responsible. And because they were responsible Peter Paul and Stephen told them so. It is by this holding them to their responsibility that they can repent and call upon the Lord to be saved.

They will look upon him who they have pierced,
Prophetically: Zec 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Rev 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

Even the Jews in Jesus' day understood what the Apostles were declaring and what the ramifications would possibly be,
Act 5:28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
Funny things is that they had already done it themselves when the confessed...
Mat 27:24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
Mat 27:25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

Jesus himself also declared their Future.
Luk 11:47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Luk 11:48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
Luk 11:49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
Luk 11:50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
Luk 11:51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
Plus a few parables about the servant killing the son..

Anyway as you can clearly see the references as to the culprits are the Jews, at least according to the scriptures. their weapon of destruction being the wicked hands of the Romans,Gentiles.

Add to this divine, instituted blindness and you have quite a soverign God working out all these things in order to fulfil his will and plan , to the Jew First and also to the Greek and Gentile ( Romans 1:16;2:9+10

1Co 2:8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. Luk 23:34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

Were the Chief priests, at least in part also Gentiles? sure.. but remember he came unto HIS OWN and HIS OWN received him Not... But that again is another study...
Anyway I hope that now that you have seen these scriptures in their proper context, it will be easier for you to understand the truth on this matter. Thanks for the email... I will be re posting it on our blog spot with this answer... If I misunderstood your point, please forgive me, sometimes emails can be hard to decipher.
In Christ,
Pastor Mike

Sacrifices must be made

2006-12-22T21:41:00.000-08:00


Michael Slattery, Freedom Baptist, Christmas, preachingfreedom.com

Pontiuos Pilots fatal mistake

2006-12-06T22:24:00.000-08:00


This is an incredible sermon given by Michael Slattery. Jesus had to die for us but did it have to be at pilots hand.

Dr. Christian and Mr. Hyde!

2006-09-28T21:54:00.000-07:00

Have you ever wondered how a supposed Christian can do some of the awful things that they do! What is it that "makes them do it?" Like Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Christian is HYDING something... and he only seeks a way to let it out!
Please watch this service and see what sets the Mr Hyde loose!

REPROBATE SILVER

2005-12-18T20:37:00.000-08:00

Jer 6:30
Reprobate silver shall men call them,
because the LORD hath rejected them.

Reprobate Silver... I just wanted to post this as a potential warning to anyone going out shopping and thinking about Buying Sterling Silver as a Gift or investment,

BRING A a Good strong MAGNET....

Real Sterling Silver is about 92 and a half percent silver and about 7 and a half percent copper.... Neither of these metals is magnetic...

That being said I went to Walmart the other day and looked at some silver chains ... I brought a magnet ... They stuck to it like Glue....

I then went to the WWW and did a little research...

this is a big problem... And I believe the department stores have been notified and they are still Selling the stuff anyway... I know that I notified Walmart costumer service over the phone and also the girl at the counter...

did she want to test the rest of the silver?

nope...... She said she would talk to the manager...

In the mean time... They kept it out for sale...

the magnetic stuff has also been found by other at sears , JC Penny's and Macys....

Now as for Christians ... Isn't this the same as Being called by his name and yet not being Born of His spirit.....

God has TWO Good Strong Magnets!!

Jesus Said of himself....

Joh 12:32
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth,
will draw all men unto me.

This is a Divine Magnet of Love and Grace. Jesus said that he would draw all men unto Him... O what a blessing to know that he draws us!

But there is another magnet of the world//

This is the called sin and compromise that draws men too.. It draws them away from Christ and salvation. Sin not only hardens the heart it corrupts and invades becoming one with those who would be drawn to it. Like any Magnet rubbed upon a piece of steel makes that steel magnetized , So sin becomes exceedingly sinful.

And if in the fullness of time they Die away from Christ they will have to stand before the Second Magnet of God

the judgment Of Gods Holy terrible magnet of Justice

that will search for the Impurities that only the risen Saviour could have purged away in the refining Blood of his perfect sacrifice.

They will then be found out as Gods divine Magnet searches their deepest being and they will be found Reprobate Silver. Impure and unable to be refined because the time of refining is Over and the time of Judgment has come.

There are so many Professors that Look like the real thing but when the magnet of Gods judgment is placed upon them and the books are opened.. they are to be found Reprobate Silver!!

will they be found to have been DRAWN TO CHRIST? Or to

the POPE!! = Reprobate Silver!!

tongues =Reprobate Silver!!

Rock and Roll church Musick= reprobate Silver!!

Baptismal regeneration= reprobate Silver!!

The Talmudist= Reprobate Silver

the Kabbalh= reprobate Silver

Koran = Reprobate Silver

NIV= Reprobate Silver

Modern Zionists= reprobate Silver

Mormons = Reprobate Silver

Christian Identity movement = Reprobate Silver

anything other then Grace through faith and that not of yourselves salvation = Reprobate Silver!!

Do you see Him.... Is he pulling upon your heart?

Be drawn to Him today... Jesus Saves!

The Preacher

Creating God In Our Likeness and After Our Image.

2005-11-06T19:45:00.000-08:00

In the Bible, God goes through great strides in letting us know that He is transcendent, that is he is simply unlike anything that has ever been made, he is unique and not of this world, or any other for that matter. He declares himself to us through the Bible in ways that we might be able to understand, but even then only if we are his children. Gods ways, the bible declares, are not man's ways.

Isa 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,
saith the LORD.
Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so
are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

The very idea of adopting the Lord into a culture or way of life, according to the word of God, is simply an untenable position. Our ways are simply NOT his ways. Our cultures, if developed through Christ rejecting ways are NOT honouring to God. Our ways are NOT his ways. He will not be brought into a way of life that has not been founded by himself and upon himself. He calls for us to abandon OUR ways for HIS ways when we follow Him. He also calls for us NOT to learn the way of the heathen, and yet that is exactly what modern Christianity has done. To be honest modern Christianity is not alone in this perverse phenomenon. Churches have for centuries, attempted to adopt local pagan customs or traditions or myths into their "worship" in order to be more culturally correct in their attempt to "bring them in." Is this the will of God? Are we to declare our ways to BE his ways?

Look what David said when he considered his ways,

Psa 119:59:I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

Psa 119:5: O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

The Spanish will say that their worship is right and true and promote salsa rhythms designed for sexual expression and say that God is pleased. They create a God for their culture. The Rocker will say that his worship is right and true and acceptable to his God and yet his music is born in sexual pagan rhythms and fornication. He has created a God in his own image. His god does not mind tattoos and piercing and yet the God of the Bible states clearly in

Lev. 19:28 "Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print
any marks upon you: I am the LORD."

He says, "That is my Culture." God says,"Your ways are NOT my ways!" The contemporary Christian believes that simply practicing abstinence is serving Christ, and yet God says,

1Co 7:1 "Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a
man not to touch a woman."
1Co 7:2 "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let
every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband."

The Culturally Challenged Christian seeks to establish God's Standards for God and then simply declares that God is pleased with those standards and yet God says,

2Co 6:17 "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the
Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you."

Does Christ establish standards for His people? The contemporary Christian and the Cultural Christian say 'yes', but that those standards are random and without much definition outside of basically being nice. However when this is challenged in any real way the contemporary Christian is, generally speaking, anything but nice, Condescending, yes. Compromising, Yes. Angry and confrontational? YES. Ignorant of the Bible to the point of absurdity resulting in a self-justification of some of the most blatantly unscriptual practices and pagan compromises? Yes.

Experiment 1
Situation: A "Christian" Rock Concert.
Tools: Signs and tracts about the evil known as Christian Rock. Plenty of Scripture, a suit and tie, and a simple black bible.
Results: Insults, Condescending remarks, FIGHTS, name calling, threats, etc., results my vary. After a little while, if you are still there, empty arguments about diversity and some misquoted scripture passages about being all things to all men, with a splattering of arguments that end with a God that is too feeble to win the Lost without compromising.

Experiment 2
Situation: A Bible Study in a Liberal Contemporary Church
Tools: A KJV bible
Situation: After the hugging and coffee and praise dancing, the Pastor or Bible teacher begins her study.
Point to:

1Co 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all
churches of the saints.
1Co 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the
churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to
be under obedience, as also saith the law.
1Co 14:35 And if they will learn
any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to
speak in the church.

Letting them know that according to the word of God, their custom is vain and simply PAGAN in origin:

Results: Insults, Condescending remarks, FIGHTS, Bible correcting, ushers asking you to leave, etc. Arguments ignoring the word of God with a splattering of misquotes about there being neither boys or girls in Christ.

A variation on these themes can be had by bringing up the subject of Queers, Sodomites and/or Christian Rock as well, depending on the subject title. Results will seldom vary much.

You see, just because you add the name 'Jesus' to your tattoo, does not make the tattoo a 'Christian Tattoo'. WHY? Because God's people are told ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you. That you are to present your body a living sacrifice, Holy and acceptable to God. The illustration was simple and even extreme in the Old testament from which Paul draws his allusion, namely,

Lev. 22:20 "But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it
shall not be acceptable for you."

The blemish if it were an accident by nature, would prohibit a sacrifice from being acceptable in the Old Testament, what more of a deliberate one in a living sacrifice?

So it goes, God wishes us to be conformed to HIS image and HIS likeness. Would it not then be fair to say that He wishes us to be conformed to His Likes and Standards? If He is Holy, and calls us to be holy also, should our form of holiness be different from His? Is not His standard and form Holy and therefore anything not conformed to it Unholy?

Peter declares that Christians are born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible seed, by the Word of God. Paul declares that Christians are NEW CREATURES in Christ Jesus, old things passed away behold all things becoming new. Why than will a convert to Christ need to have his old life brought into his new life? To put the question more plainly, if all things are become NEW to those IN Christ Jesus through the New Birth according to the Word of God, why should the new Christian expect to have his NEW WORSHIP with God mirror his OLD walk with the world?

Abraham and the Patriarchs were called out of idolatry to follow the Living God and to walk in God's ways, not the ways of the Culture they left behind in UR of the Chaldees. God testifies in the Book of Hebrews,

(Heb. 11:15) "And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence
they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned."

Moses was brought up in Egypt and is declared by the Word of God to have learned the way of Egypt, and was mighty in word and deeds among them and yet when time came that he would actually serve the God of His fathers he made a stand:

Heb. 11:24 "By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the
son of Pharaoh's daughter. "
Heb 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction
with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Heb
11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in
Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
Heb 11:27 By
faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as
seeing him who is invisible.

He told the Israelites that they were NOT in anyway to imitate the culture that they were bought from, and neither to imitate the culture of the land that they were heading to. God was going to do a new thing with them. GOD WOULD ESTABLISH A CULTURE UNTO HIMSELF.
He declares the warning about cultural worship:

Jer 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not
dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Jer
10:3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the
forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Jer 10:4 They
deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers,
that it move not. (Sound a little like a Christmas tree?)
Lev 18:3 After the
doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the
doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither
shall ye walk in their ordinances.
Lev 18:4 Ye shall do my judgments, and
keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
Lev 18:5 Ye
shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall
live in them: I am the LORD.
Lev 20:23 And ye shall not walk in the manners
of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things,
and therefore I abhorred

Note very closely the following passage of God's Word as he declares a prohibition of adopting native cultures that were not founded upon Biblical standards for use as Christian worship:

Deu 12:29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee,
whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in
their land;
Deu 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by
following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou
enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods?
even so will I do likewise.
Deu 12:31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy
God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto
their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire
to their gods.
Deu 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it:
thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Oh would to God that we Christians conform ourselves and culture to God, allowing HIM to establish a NEW CULTURE in the earth. A Christ Honouring Culture, not fashioned according to the lusts and perversions of past cultures that were founded upon pagan deities and doctrines of Devils! There is simply today NO real difference between 99% of what people call worship and service to God and what God calls the worship of devils.
Tolerance is the Christian standard of the modern Christian and Christian imitator, while separation and holiness is what God calls for as a standard of service. His call is for faithfulness. The modern response is simply hedonistic drivel. God calls for repentance based upon the standard of Jesus Christ but the modern response is a perverse entertainment based upon the world's standards of excellence and popularity.

God declares:

Rom 12:2 "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and
perfect, will of God." 1Pe 1:13," Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be
sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the
revelation of Jesus Christ;"
1Pe 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning
yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
1Pe 1:15 But as
he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
1Pe 1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
1Pe 4:3 For
the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the
Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings,
banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
1Pe 4:4 Wherein they think it
strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of
you:

"Christian" Rock, MOST CCM, and most all 'Cultural Centered" ministries are attempting to take Satan's culture, Pagan customs, worldly amusements and claim that it honours Christ simply because they 'want it to.' They are changing the truth of God into a lie and are laying the foundations for themselves and those that follow their pernicious ways to worship and serve the creature more that the creator.

Some have already gone over.

The next step will be a counter-revival of the lukewarm Laodicean Church mentality mentioned in the book of Revelation. The result being a persecution of all Churches and Real Christians who dare to NOT go along with them.

Yes, they are already here!

2Pe 2:1 "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there
shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,
even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift
destruction."
2Pe 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason
of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2Pe 2:3 And through
covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose
judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

What are the signs? A confusion of the sexes? The destruction of the family!

The deflowering of the chaste virgins that should be the Churches of Christ!

How many women have you met today in "CHURCH" who were dressed in modest apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety? How many "women of God" in the Modern Church did you see today with their glorious long hair as the Lord said it must be? How many men in the modern 'Christian' movement have ignored the call for Separation and Holiness and work in vocations that bring the hire of a whore and the price of a dog into the temple of God? How many Pagan festivals have you seen in the Christian world this year renamed and repackaged to satisfy the modern need for Christians to have an alternative to some pagan holiday in order for them to SAY they serve God and not some dumb Idol?

Let us set a standard of Christian culture based upon Christ. Christians being Christians, a peculiar people, a holy nation with a separated people!

Eph 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Eph 5:17 Wherefore
be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
Eph 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Eph 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Col 3:14 And above all
these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Col 3:15 And
let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one
body; and be ye thankful.
Col 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you
richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Col 3:17
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
IN Christ
The Preacher

SPIRITUAL FEASTING or Physical Gluttony

2005-10-05T10:36:00.000-07:00

The Bible talks about the danger of being a slave to ones
Physical/Spiritual appetite under various circumstances:

The Welfare state:

Pro 23:1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is
before thee:

Pro 23:2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to
appetite.

Pro 23:3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful
meat.

Pro 23:4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

Pro 23:5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches
certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Pro 23:6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither
desire thou his dainty meats:

Pro 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink,
saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

Pro 23:8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy
sweet words.

Psa 141:3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Psa 141:4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works
with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

In practical Living for the LORD in Christ.

Now some have trivialized the word temperate by introducing such
arguments as Temperate adultery in order to excuse their Lack of temperance in
Food or Drink. That is simply bizzar, but nevertheless it is often used.
Ignore it.

1Co 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in
all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an
incorruptible.

1Co 9:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that
beateth the air:

1Co 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection:
lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a
castaway.

Phi 3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so
as ye have us for an ensample.

Phi 3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even
weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

Phi 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly,
and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

Phi 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

General commands against being a man given to appetite: Notice the
words used,, The Drunkard AND THE glutton. not the "Drunken Glutton".
Drunkards and Gluttons have the same problem.

Pro 23:20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

Pro 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to
poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Deut 21:20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is
stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton,
and a drunkard.

FAT, FATNESS, etc. can mean simply the opposite of the word Leanness which
represents weakness and unhealthiness, It dose not mean in any case in the
bible, a person who is a proper weight and healthy as many a sloppy fat
preacher would have you think as he defends himself in his gluttony.

Note:Gen 27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy
dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of
heaven from above;

Psa 36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy
house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

Psa 65:11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths
drop fatness.

Note also a TYPE of Christ in scripture: notice Christ is not typed
out as a fat guy.

Psa 109:24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of
fatness.

Psa 109:25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they
shaked their heads.

Psa 109:26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

Psa 109:27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast
done it.

Fat also means literally the FAT in an animal, the NON meat part. NOT
to be eaten. Fat is not FLESH.

Exo 29:13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the
caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon
them, and burn them upon the altar.

Lev 3:17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all
your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

Lev 7:23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no
manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

Literal FAT, in people, that sloppy stuff that's NOT meat in your
body, is described in the Bible also:

Spiritual Gluttony being generally followed by Physical Gluttony:

Deu 32:15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat,
thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness;
then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his
salvation.

Jdg 3:17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a
very fat man.

Jdg 3:18 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the
people that bare the present.

Jdg 3:19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal,
and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence.
And all that stood by him went out from him.

Jdg 3:20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour,
which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto
thee. And he arose out of his seat.

Jdg 3:21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right
thigh, and thrust it into his belly:

Jdg 3:22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon
the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt
came out.

Eli after he had gotten backslidden, and grew old became HEAVY.. (
Fat?) and because of it when he fell he broke his neck and died. ( Granted he
was 98, but he was blind and had the curse of God on his family.) His sin was
ion NOT RETRAINING HIS FAMILY... not teaching them temperance, self control
allowing them to EAT and DO as they pleased in the temple of God. Illustrated
not only by their sin, but by his being so heavy;

1Sa 3:11 And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at
which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.

1Sa 3:12 In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have
spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.

1Sa 3:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for
the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he
restrained them not.

1Sa 3:14 And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the
iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for
ever.

1Sa 4:11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and
Phinehas, were slain.

1Sa 4:12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh
the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.

1Sa 4:13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching:
for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the
city, and told it, all the city cried out.

1Sa 4:14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth
the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli.

1Sa 4:15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were
dim, that he could not see.

1Sa 4:16 And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the
army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my
son?

1Sa 4:17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the
Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and
thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

1Sa 4:18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God,
that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck
brake, and he died: for he
was an old man, and heavy. And he
had judged Israel forty years.

1Co 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

1Co 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in
your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

ON THE OTHER HAND;
This body will be changed like unto his glorious body, implying that this
present body is LESS then glorious!

Phi 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Phi 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be
fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is
able even to subdue all things unto himself.

AND yet just previously Paul states:

Phi 3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even
weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

Phi 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly,
and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

This can be taken at least two ways,

ONE, Those who can not get enough to eat, gluttons! GAINING WEIGHT
LIKE GAINING MONEY

1Ti 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the
truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw
thyself.

1Ti 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.

TWO, Those who think that they need a sixpac for abs and spend all
their time in the gym working on their midsection.

1Ti 4:7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather
unto godliness.

1Ti 4:8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable
unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is
to come.

1Ti 4:9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.

Should one wish to Eat and EAT AND EAT to be physically Fat... and then
try to justify yourself in contrived bible studies( Pro 16:25 There is a way
that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death)
rather then live a temperate life of self control, or should one rather eat
and drink Spiritually and Justify God and his word in all that you say or do?

Jer 15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was
unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy
name, O LORD God of hosts.

Eze 3:1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this
roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.

Eze 3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

Eze 3:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy
bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my
mouth as honey for sweetness.

Eze 3:4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of
Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

Rev 10:8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and
said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which
standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.

Rev 10:9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little
book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly
bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

Rev 10:10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up;
and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly
was bitter.

Rev 10:11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples,
and nations, and tongues, and kings.

Psa 119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to
my mouth!

Psa 119:104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every
false way.

Psa 141:5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him
reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for
yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

Psa 141:6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear
my words; for they are sweet.

Pro 16:22 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but
the instruction of fools is folly.

Pro 16:23 The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to
his lips.

Pro 16:24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and
health to the bones.

AHH JESUS: I CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS COME IN
THE FLESH!

Joh 4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh
of this water shall thirst again:

Joh 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall
never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of
water springing up into everlasting life.

Joh 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and
I will raise him up at the last day.

Joh 6:55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

Joh 6:56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and
I in him.

Joh 6:57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he
that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

Joh 6:58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers
did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

Joh 6:59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

Joh 6:60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said,
This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

Joh 6:61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he
said unto them, Doth this offend you?

Joh 6:62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was
before?

Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the
words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Thank you Jesus!

IN Christ
The Preacher

God KNOWS ALL THINGS

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ATTRIBUTES OF GOD... OMNISCIENCE

1Jo 3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

Job 37:16 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

Isa 40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

Psa 147:5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

Pro 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Things God is said to KNOW Specifically:

THE STARS AND HEAVENLY BODIES

Psa 147:4 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

Isa 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

Psa 8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

THE ANIMALS:

Luk 12:6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

Mat 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

Psa 104:24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
Psa 104:25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Psa 104:26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Psa 104:27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
Psa 104:28 That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
Psa 104:29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

He KNOWs their NEEDS!

Psa 147:9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.

HE KNOWS the Angels:

Psa 68:17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

Psa 103:19 The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
Psa 103:20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
Psa 103:21 Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.

Mat 26:53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?

God Created ALL things ( John 1:1-4) and Knows ALL things he has created:

Act 15:18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

Act 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

He KNOWS MAN: He Created Him and KNOWS him Perfectly. ALL of them!

Psa 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Psa 8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Psa 8:6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
Psa 8:7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
Psa 8:8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Psa 8:9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

HE Knows ALL MEN.
Psa 33:13 The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
Psa 33:14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
Psa 33:15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.

Mat 10:30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Psa 139:1 O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Psa 139:2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
Psa 139:3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
Psa 139:4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
Psa 139:5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
Psa 139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

1Ch 28:8 Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.
1Ch 28:9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

HE KNOWS all our WORDS and DEEDS

Psa 139:4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

Mat 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Ecc 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecc 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

HE knows Our CRIES and our Sorrows and Cares:

Psa 56:8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
Psa 56:9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

Exo 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

Isa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isa 53:4 Surely he hath borne our grief's, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Psa 31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Psa 31:8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
Psa 31:9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

1Pe 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

He Knows our SINS.

Psa 32:5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Psa 51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
Psa 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
Psa 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Job 13:23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

Psa 69:5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

Amo 5:12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

HE KNOWS our NEED:

THE NEED:
Eph 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

Eph 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Eph 4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Psa 14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Psa 14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Psa 142:4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

THE CURE, He knows that too....

Joh 2:24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,
Joh 2:25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

So then since he KNEW what was in man, and that Sinful man would not come to HIM...

Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

Luk 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

Joh 8:23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
Joh 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

You Might not have known that God knows all your thoughts and ways and works and words, but you do now! You may have been ignorant of your blindness and rebellion against God, But your not ignorant NOW! You may not have thought that God knew everything about you and that your SIN was seperating you from the GOD that created both YOU, Heaven and HELL, BUT YOU KNOW NOW! AND SO I DECLARE THE WORD OF THE LORD!

Act 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Act 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

SOME OF YOU DID KNOW and did nothing before now.

Act 8:22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

SOME READING THIS MIGHT SAY "I HAVE ANOTHER WAY":

Yet the God who knows all declares:

Luk 13:5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

Rev 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Act 20:20 And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,
Act 20:21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

NOW YOU KNOW WHAT GOD KNOWS... well not everything... BUT YOU KNOW too much to Walk away!

Rom 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
Rom 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Rom 10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Rom 10:11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Rom 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
Rom 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

IN Christ

The Preacher

FREEDOM IS ONLY IN CHRIST.....

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1 Peter 2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

After the meetings these last few weeks at city hall and having listened to some who would argue that Freedom is Freedom to do anything you want. I thought it might be time to show just what it is to be Free and to experience Freedom.

First of Freedom can ONLY be achieved when one is no longer bound by forces he is in no control over. The Word of God states plainly that man is, without Christ BOUND, whether he recognizes the fact or not, and that until he is unbound he is NOT FREE either to think rightly or to understand his bondage.

The Bible declares that Satan ( the Devil) has brought lost folks into Bondage and that only the teaching of the Word of God and God's gift of repentance through hearing the word can bring forgiveness and freedom from that bondage:

2 Timothy 2:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
2Ti 2:26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

Not only Lost folks but even Christians can be brought into bondage through he snares of the Devil: In Relation to Pastors( Bishops) the Apostle Paul tell Timothy

1Timothy 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
1Ti 3:7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

And Peter also declares:

1Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

And So Jesus States to those who thought Freedom was a natural birth right:

John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
Joh 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Joh 8:33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
Joh 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. Joh 8:35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
Joh 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

As you can see .. SIN is a Slave Master, those who are unforgiven or in rebellion are not FREE and have NO Freedom because they are the SLAVES to SIN. The Drunk can not understand Freedom until he is FREE to serve GOD through being SET FREE from the service to sin though the redemption which can only be found in Christ Jesus.

So Paul describes:

Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

And

James Declares:

Jam 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death

Therefore the LORD told Brother Paul that the reason he was saving him and sending him to preach was:

Act 26:18 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

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So understanding that Freedom is being made free from the law of sin and death, and being Free from Sin ruling all your decisions, it is easier for the Christian to understand that Freedom is not Freedom to Choose sin and depravity. The Sinner who blithers on about his freedom of Choice has no concept that he is choosing as his master demands, he has chosen to reject the truth and so blindness has over come him and he has lost the ability to do anything other then serve sin. The Bible even declares that the very prayers of the wicked are SIN.

Psalm 109:7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

He may even have so rejected the Truth that sets a man free that God himself will send the a delusion;

2 Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

You wonder how a person can do and say things that are completely contrary to all that you as a Christian knows is right and obvious.

Romans 1:28 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;

They have chose their master and so in many cases God will simply allow them to continue in blindness, a delusion.. they are so deluded that they think that they are in fact Serving God! Even when the persecute you for really serving God. Look what Jesus said about them:

John 16:1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
John 16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
John 16:3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

They think, in their Blindness that they see ; however Jesus warns

Mat 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

The delusion that Darkness is Light!

Jesus said that many would say unto him LORD LORD... but they would not enter into the Kingdom of God. They would profess to him that they sat with him and worked miracles and cast out devil and did many wonderful works and yet Jesus will profess to them that he never knew them... you see their Light was really darkness ( Matt 7:21)

So Freedom is being Set free from Sin by Forgiveness of Sin through the redemption of you from the Sin that you were sold into. Sin was your master. Death was your reality and Satan was your KING and Captor. So Jesus Christ Came and Died in your place to pay for your sin with his blood and life. a Ransom for all who call upon him.

Jesus put it THIS WAY:

Mat 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

and Paul explained through the Inspiration of GOD:

1 Timothy 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
1Ti 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1Ti 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
1Ti 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

Heb 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Heb 7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2Co 5:18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
2Co 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
2Co 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
2Co 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

FREE to Serve Christ . To Be Christ's Slave_ IS to be FREE.

Man was Created to BE Free however Sin changed that.

Free to walk with God. Free to BE with God. FREEDOM was therefore part of Mans nature.
Sin corrupted that nature. Satan/ the Devil/ the Thief , Brought man out of Gods Freedom of LIFE and PEACE into his Slavery where SIN and DEATH rule. Jesus came that they might have that Life restored!

Rom 5:18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
Joh 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

When folks attempt to convince you that freedom is means unbridled ability to do as they please and accuse you of being a hypocite for standing up for Gods law and standards what they are really being told to do by their MASTER is to tell you to TURN OFF THE REAL LIGHT so that they can continue in their sin undisturbed by true TRUTH, FREEDOM AND LIBERTY that can only be found in Jesus Christ and Service to him.

Luk 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

2Co 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Joh 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Rom 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
Rom 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Rom 10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Rom 10:11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Rom 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
Rom 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

The preacher

Barns Notes on 1 Peter 2:16 :

They were not to submit to the chains of slavery; not to allow their consciences to be bound, or their essential liberty to be interfered with; nor in their subjection to the civil magistrate were they ever to regard themselves otherwise than as freemen. As a matter of fact, Christianity has always been the friend and promoter of liberty. Its influence emancipated the slaves throughout the Roman Empire; and all the civil freedom which we enjoy, and which there is in the world, can be traced to the influence of the Christian religion. To spread the gospel in its purity everywhere would be to break every yoke of oppression and bondage, and to make people everywhere free. It is the essential right of every man who is a Christian to be a freeman - to be free to worship God; to read the Bible; to enjoy the avails of his own labor; to train up his children in the way in which he shall deem best; to form his own plans of life, and to pursue his own ends, provided only that he does not interfere with the equal rights of others - and every system which prevents this, whether it be that of civil government, of ecclesiastical law, or of domestic slavery, is contrary to the religion of the Saviour.....The apostle has reference to an abuse of freedom, which has often occurred. The pretence of these who have acted in this manner has been, that the freedom of the gospel implied deliverance from all kinds of restraint; that they were under no yoke, and bound by no laws; that, being the children of God, they had a right to all kinds of enjoyment and indulgence; that even the moral law ceased to bind them, and that they had a right to make the most of liberty in all respects. Hence, they have given themselves up to all sorts of sensual indulgence, claiming exemption from the restraints of morality as well as of civil law, and sinking into the deepest abyss of vice. Not a few have done this who have professed to be Christians; and, occasionally, a fanatical sect now appears who make the freedom which they say Christianity confers, a pretext for indulgence in the most base and degrading vices. The apostles saw this tendency in human nature, and in nothing are they more careful than to guard against this abuse.
But as the servants of God - Not free from all restraint; not at liberty to indulge in all things, but bound to serve God in the faithful obedience of his laws. Thus bound to obey and serve him, they could not be at liberty to indulge in those things which would be in violation of his laws, and which would dishonor him.

A POEM/Song Oh My Saviour

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RHAPSODY Link

Oh, My Dear Jesus, I long to see you.
Someday, Beyond the river!
Oh, Lord and Saviour, I long to hear you,
Someday, I'm bound away,
'Cross the wide O'l Jordan

Oh , My Dear Lord My Soul was Taken
Away, Beyond the River
Your Mercy and grace have Stolen
My Heart, I'm bound away,
'Cross to See heavens Shore

Oh, Blessed Jesus, I'd only falter,
Without, your Tender Mercy!
For You Have crossed the stormy water,
And Said, Come Unto Me
'Cross wide tempestuous Sea.

Farewell, Dear World, I'm bound to leave ye.
Away, To My Dear Saviour!
Oh, Blessed Jesus,You'll not Forsake me,
Away, I'm bound away!
'Cross to Gates of heaven

Pastor Mike
July 24th 2005

Ist John 5:7 bible study...

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1Jo 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

OFFERED BY THE FATHER
Joh 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
Joh 3:15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Joh 3:16 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.
Joh 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Joh 3:18 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.

Rom 4:25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

Jam 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Jam 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Joh 20:21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

Joh 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
Joh 6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
Joh 6:39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
Joh 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Joh 14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

Rom 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Rom 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Transition...I come ... the Fathers will

Heb 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.Psa 40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Psa 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Psa 40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

( ephesians 1:11)

OFFERED BY THE SON

Gal 1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
Gal 1:2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:
Gal 1:3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
Gal 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
Gal 1:5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen

Eph 5:1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Eph 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Tit 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Tit 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Mat 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. (Mark 10:45)

Joh 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
Joh 10:12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
Joh 10:13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
Joh 10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
Joh 10:15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Joh 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
Joh 10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
Joh 10:18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

1Ti 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
1Ti 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1Ti 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
1Ti 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

1Pe 2:21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
1Pe 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
1Pe 2:23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
1Pe 2:24 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.

1Pe 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

1Jo 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
1Jo 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

1Jo 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Rev 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

OFFERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT

Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Act 20:27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Act 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

1Jo 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

Pope Pius IX thought popes are the way the truth and the Life....

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'I alone despite my unworthiness, am the successor of the Apostles, the Vicar of Jesus Christ: I alone have the mission to guide and direct the barque of Peter; I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.' - Pope Pius IX.

We Declare and Define and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff!- Pope Boniface VIII in 1302 and quoted in a footnote in 2000 by JP2 "dominus iesus"

We hold upon this earth the place of GOD Almighty- Pope Leo XIII

Well now that was interesting..... lets here from Jesus on the issue:

‘And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.

But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.’ Luke 21:8-9.

I am the Way the truth and the life and no man cometh to the father but by me..Jesus John 14:6

An old Baptist preacher noticed the problem in the late 1800s:
Spurgeon on Antichrist

"It is the bounden duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist, and as to what Antichrist is no sane man ought to raise a question. If it be not the popery in the Church of Rome there is nothing in the world that can be called by that name. If there were to be issued a hue and cry for Antichrist, we should certainly take up this church on suspicion, and it would certainly not be let loose again, for it so exactly answers the description."

"Popery is contrary to Christ’s Gospel, and is the Antichrist, and we ought to pray against it. It should be the daily prayer of every believer that Antichrist might be hurled like a millstone into the flood and for Christ, because it wounds Christ, because it robs Christ of His glory, because it puts sacramental efficacy in the place of His atonement, and lifts a piece of bread into the place of the Saviour, and a few drops of water into the place of the Holy Ghost, and puts a mere fallible man like ourselves up as the vicar of Christ on earth; if we pray against it, because it is against Him, we shall love the persons though we hate their errors: we shall love their souls though we loath and detest their dogmas, and so the breath of our prayers will be sweetened, because we turn our faces towards Christ when we pray."

I Could not agree more...

The preacher

Charles Haddon Spurgeon : " Arrest the POPE

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II Thessalonians 2:1-12.
'Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition:

Who opposeth and exalteth himseft above all that is called God, or that is worshipped: so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming:

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish: because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.'

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, exclaimed when he read this Scripture passage,

'ARREST THE POPE ON SUSPICION OF BEING THE ANTICHRIST!

Why America's Criminal Justice System does not work.

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This they Do.

Ecc 8:11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

This they Ignore

Gen 9:5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
Gen 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

This they never wish were written

Rom 1:32 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.

Mary the Mommy

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MARY THE MOMMY And Jesus the Big Half Brother.

Mat 13:54 And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?
Mat 13:55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
Mat 13:56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?
Mat 13:57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

Mar 6:2 And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
Mar 6:3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
Mar 6:4 But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.

Mat 12:46 While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
Mat 12:47 Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
Mat 12:48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
Mat 12:49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
Mat 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Mar 3:31 There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.
Mar 3:32 And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
Mar 3:33 And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?
Mar 3:34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
Mar 3:35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

Joh 7:2 Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.
Joh 7:3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
Joh 7:4 For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.
Joh 7:5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.
Joh 7:6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
Joh 7:7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Joh 7:8 Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.
Joh 7:9 When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
Joh 7:10 But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

Act 1:13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
Act 1:14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

1Co 9:5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Gal 1:19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.

COUSIN IS A WORD

Luk 1:36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.

Luk 1:58 And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.

REFERENCE TO A COUSIN AS SUCH :

Col 4:10 Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)

THE VERSE THAT NOT ONE CATHOLIC APOLOGIST SITE FOR THE MAKE BELIEVE PERPETUAL VIRGINITY OF MARY HAS MANAGED TO CONFRONT HONESTLY IF AT ALL:

Joh 2:13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
Joh 2:14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
Joh 2:15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
Joh 2:16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
Joh 2:17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

Notice the Direct Reference was taken from Psalm 69:

Psa 69:9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

Notice Carefully the wonders of rightly dividing the word of truth and searching the scriptures to show oneself approved of God....
NOTICE THE CONTEXT:Jesus' breathren who most bible correctors claim are really cousins, or close relatives ( who happen to be living with his mother in her house) are mentioned in the preceeding verses to this direct quote about our Lord Jesus:

Psa 69:7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
Psa 69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

WHO's Children? OK Question:

Your mom has More Children after she has you...

they are:

1. Cousins

2.Pets

3. Brothers or Sisters

AGAIN STAND IN AMAZEMENT AND BEHOLD THE WORD OF GOD...

John. 7:5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.

Psa 69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

MARY THE WIFE:

Psa 69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

Mat 1:25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.

MARY THE SINNER:

Luk 2:43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.
Luk 2:44 But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
Luk 2:45 And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.
Luk 2:46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
Luk 2:47 And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
Luk 2:48 And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
Luk 2:49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
Luk 2:50 And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.
Luk 2:51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Notice that the Holy Spirit was plain to tell that it was not HIS father and mother searching for him, but rather Joseph and His mother. The Holy Spirit Does not make errors. He is Sinless. He Always understands the Actions of the Son and would never scold him or question Him KNOWING THAT HE IS GOD MANIFEST IN THE FLESH. Why then did MARY? Did she forget that her Child was God Manifest in the flesh for a moment or two? The catholic Apologist and Protestant followers of them would go on and on that these passeges could never meen that Mary was anything but a Perfect Sinless Creature her whole life. Reasoning with such subjective logic that ."it couldn't Be". But that is not enough. Note also that Jesus when preaching and teaching was INTERRUPTED BY HIS MOTHER

NOTE the Following:

Mat 12:46 While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
Mat 12:47 Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
Mat 12:48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
Mat 12:49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
Mat 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Notice that Not only Did his "MOTHER STAND WITHOUT" desiring to speak with him. That is they were not Listening to his preaching or His teaching but rather they were outside. Jesus rather then excusing himself to go and speak with his mother and brothers, uses this as an opportunity to show a relationship with himself. HE IGNORES HIS MOTHERS attempts to interrupt the preaching and teaching of the word of GOD, and streatches out his hand to show that those doing the will of his Father were of a closer relationship to him then even Mary. Was Mary doing the will of the Father in Interupting the preaching service so she could speak with her Son?

One should wonder. There WERE those in Jesus Day who wished to exhalt mary to a Place of veneration and Adoration and they DID come to Jesus and try to Interrupt HIS preaching. Notice in the Gospel of Luke:

Luk 11:26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Luk 11:27 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
Luk 11:28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

What a stern rebuke? What does he SAY to a Woman who tries to exhalt Mary? He says Yea RATHER, blessed are they that hear the word of God( As mary had) and KEEP IT. (As mary had NOT. )

Please do not missunderstand me on this issue , I am not saying that Mary was some Vile psychopath or Reprobate, far be it. She was a Wonderful mother and she was a Wonderful Wife, as her large family attests. She was however a Sinner. For ALL HAVE SINNED and come Short of the Glory of GOD.

MARY the Doubter:

One catholic Apologist makes the following Bible Correcting Statement with Natural Logic.

The Bible elsewhere tells us that, when Jesus was arrested in Gethsemane, "All the disciples forsook him and fled" (Matthew 26:56, Mark 14:50). So if we apply your logic here, we could say "All of Jesus' disciples forsook Him, St. John was one of those disciples, therefore St. John forsook Him as well". But the Bible tells us that John, the beloved disciple, was at the foot of the Cross (John 19:26-27). He evidently did not go into hiding with the other Apostles.
So such reasoning just does not work. A general statement about a group of people does not always apply to every member of the group. There can be exceptions, such as St. John among the Apostles, and, I would submit, the Blessed Virgin among Jesus' relatives. Unlike the rest of His relatives, she knew Who He was, and so could never have thought He had lost His mind.

This is a Very Quaint bit of HUMAN reasoning however the text plainly states that "THEY ALL FORSOOK HIM" however it does not say that they all forsook him FOREVER, neither does it say forhow long they forsook him. Notice that John is eventually with him again as well as Peter who forsakes him again 3 times. So is it any wonder that mary would show up at the crucifixion THE NEXT DAY. As you can see the reasons that they say that she did not sin, is not because she DID not sin , but that she could not sin and make their pontiffs and "fathers" and "Mother Church" out to be Bible correcting heritics in this matter. Their Limited ability to see that God can do as he pleases and yet not contradict his word, is Limited by their overwhelming need to agree with the Roman Pontif and ancient Bible correctors from years gone by such as Augustine. If they were to simply read the text and Accept it,as Spirit Indwelt believers they would be at odds with a Sysytem that pretends to Doctrinal perfection and Purity and that simply can not be allowed to happen. Unfortunatly.

Not to mention the almost rediculous typeology that many of these folks go through in order to place mary as, Mother of the faithfull, queen of heaven and other such Traditions...

Anyway..
Hope this helps

in Christ

The preacher

Born Agains without the Word of GOD?

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Hello Greetings and salutations, I found this information on the barna.org web-site and added a little reality to their comments. theirs are in BLack. My Comments are in RED

In the Preacher

Definition
In Barna Research Group studies, born again Christians are not defined on the basis of characterizing themselves as "born again" but based upon their answers to two questions. The first is "have you ever made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in your life today?" If the respondent says "yes," then they are asked a follow-up question about life after death. One of the seven perspectives a respondent may choose is "when I die, I will go to Heaven because I have confessed my sins and have accepted Jesus Christ as my savior." Individuals who answer "yes" to the first question and select this statement as their belief about their own salvation are then categorized as "born again."

the reason that these folks have such a large portion of their respondents who claim to be born again and at the same time are not soul winners, bible believers, etc. is because By there 2 questions, every Catholic, Mormon, and protestant in the world can answer yes and then respond in the affirmative to their second question ... AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING BORN AGAIN
EXAMPLES
Compared to 60% of all adults, 84% of born again Christians believe “the Bible is totally accurate in all of its teachings.” (2004)

SO 16% Do not believe the BIBLE... and YET these dolts say that they are Born again Christians?

78% of born again Christians believe they “personally have a responsibility to tell other people their religious beliefs” compared to 52% of all adults. (2004)

SO 22% Do Not believe in telling People about Jesus and yet at least 6%, (The difference between 16-22% ) of this group Do not believe the Bible. so the real group so far that Does not believe the Bible is 22%

15% of born again Christians claim that “after He was crucified and died, Jesus Christ did not return to life physically.” (2000)

Of this 22% that Do not Believe the Bible, ( assuming that the 15% is part of the 22%) 15% of those Claiming to be Born Again are ANTI-CHRIST as they do not Believe that Jesus Rose from the Dead and was Manifest in the Flesh.

31% of born again's agree that “while he lived on earth, Jesus committed sins, like other people,” compared to 44% of all adults. (2004)

SO here we have another Group 31% which may or may not include all of those in the previous list of Apostate NON Born again Christians who Barna claims to be born again. So at this Point we have at LEAST 31% of those Claiming to be Born Again are NOT CHRISTIAN AT ALL and have declared JESUS CHRIST TO BE A SINNER.
They Have a Form of Godliness, but they deny the Power thereof. If Jesus were a Sinner.. he was NOT the Saviour. Simply PUT, THESE PEOPLE SURVEYED HAVE A DIFFERENT JESUS. In All Likelyhood one might even be able to add some of the previous groups adherents to the 31% of the "Jesus was a Sinner group" and so no we would be Closer to 40% or more of NON REGENERATED folks claiming to be Born again and BEING Accepted as BORN AGAIN by the SURVEY GROUP. LETS SEE...

About one-third of born again's (38%) believe that if a person is good enough they can earn a place in Heaven. (2004)

NUFF SAID... Born again .. Good enough?

About one out of four (26%) born again Christians believe that it doesn't matter what faith you follow because they all teach the same lessons; a belief held by 56% of non-Christians. (2000)

SURE THEY DON'T Because the 26% are within the aforementioned Apostate Unregenerate's already Mentioned.

Half of born again Christians (50%) agree that Satan is “not a living being but is a symbol of evil.” (2004)

So Now we have a little more paring down of the Numbers

JESUS SAID SATAN WAS REAL.... THE BIBLE SAID IT SEVERAL TIMES. So 84% of Born Again's believe the "Bible is totally accurate in all of its teachings." ( See Number 1) and Yet 50% think Satan is NOT a LIVING BEING? and 31% think Jesus was a SINNER? and 26 Believe that it does not matter what faith you follow and 38 % believe that you can work your way to heaven... FUNNY... what you have here is that of all those surveyed

So here we have it. according to all surveyed in 2004,-38% are Born again Christians.
U.S. and World Population Clocks - POPClocks says that their are 295,586,156 people in the US. as of today.... However for state purposes we will use July 1 2003 because that is the PDF file that I founds date..
according to this Data there were 289,558,274 Civilians in the USA 7/1/2003
Of these 19,769,279 were under 5 years old and 36,752,056 were between the ages of 5 and 13. According to the Survey that saw By them they interview less then 1000 individuals. however let us assume that the stats are accurate for the population as a whole for the sake of argument. Removing everyone from the population under 13 from the population of the US we see that we have approx. 233,036,939 Folks at an age where they are basically old enough for the survey to be asked the Questions about being Born again and the Other data. ( Give or take a few million)
OK They Survey said that 38% of Americans claim to be Born Again. That's 88,554,036 Folks. AT BEST.

OF those "BORN AGAINS" according to the Survey

13,283,105 ARE LOST Because they do not believe that JESUS AROSE FROM THE DEAD.
27,451,751 are LOST Because they Believe that Jesus was A SINNER
33,650,533 Are LOST because they Think that Salvation is gained By being GOOD ENOUGH, and that you can EARN a place in HEAVEN.
44,277,018 ARE LOST because they are CALLING JESUS A LIAR when they SAY that Satan is not a REAL LIVING BEING.

AND THIS IS COUNTING ALL PEOPLE ABOVE 13 years OLD. When these folks did their survey. they Interview the ADULT Population according to a document I just read at their web site at barna.org..

a little older survey...
"Born Again ChristiansBorn again Christians - defined in the surveys as people who say they have made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life today and who say they know they will go to Heaven after they die because they have confessed their sins and accepted Jesus Christ as their savior - still represent about four out of every ten adults (41%). (In the surveys people are not asked if they consider themselves to be "born again" - this is not a self-identification measure.) That figure has remained statistically unchanged since 1995. Women are more likely to be born again than are men - about half of all women and one-third of all men. Baby Busters are less likely to be born again than are older adults. Blacks are more likely to qualify than are whites, with Hispanics the least likely of all.
Six out of ten adults who attend a Protestant church are born again Christians, compared to one out of four Catholics. However, Catholics represent about one out of every eight born again adults (13%)."

NOW Lets do the Math excluding all but ADULTS. that is those under 18 don't count.

There are 216,516,855 people in America as Americans as of July 1st 2003 with 38% being so called Born again's, that means that 82,276,404 out of those 10,695,932 think that Mary Worship, Bowing Before Engraved Images, Working you way to heaven, Indulgences, Relics, and the Priest Hood , and MEENS of Grace are essential to Salvation/(Catholics).
with 41,138,202 not Believing that Satan is a real living being, which is an additional 3138816 less then when you included the Children in the survey.

Bottom Line. Being Born again is Not of Corruptible seed, but of Incorruptible, by the WORD of GOD. and Jesus said YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN. Jesus said that the words that he spoke were Spirit and that they were LIFE.
SO REJECTORS OF THE WORD OF GOD, ( see john 1:1+14) are NOT Born AGAIN. Idol Worshipers are NOT Born AGAIN, for ye Shall no other Gods before me, NEITHER shalt thou make unto thyself an graven image... nether shalt thou bow down they self to them....

CAN a PERSON be Born again and think Jesus was a SINNER? NO!

Can a person Be Born Again and still hold that JESUS Never rose from the DEAD? NO!

The survey proves only ONE THING, well actually TWO things.

ONE. The amount of actually Born again adult Folks in America is WAY LESS THEN 38% OF THE Adult population. IN FACT, if one were able to overlap the Various Groups mentioned, of the 38 percent claiming to be born again At least 75% of those would not Be Born again at all by their own admission of either rejecting the Word Of God Directly, or Indirectly through a false Doctrinal understanding of what Salvation is all about and who Jesus really is. Their's is Lying Jesus, a Dead Jesus, a mommas Boy Jesus, a Sinner Jesus, etc.

TWO
In America as of July 1st 2004 we had 216,516,855 adults. of those 82,276,404 claim to be Born Again. Of those at least 61,707,303 are most likely LOST and ON THEIR WAY TO HELL. which leaves a VERY LIBERAL GENEROUS estimate of only 20,569,101 Actual Born Again Adults in America Today. or about 9.4999998960819932471308065138855% (smile)

So when Looking at the rest of these stats Keep in Mind that "Do Goodies" are NOT the same thing as Born again Christians although it is quite a shame if Christians do not DO GOOD.

Born again Christians are more likely than non-born again individuals to accept moral absolutes. Specifically, 32% of born again's said they believe in moral absolutes, compared to just half as many (15%) among non-born again's. (2002) (For more information, click on the Press Release titled "Americans Are Most Likely to Base Truth on Feelings" on the right-hand side of this page.

And then MOST OF THEM GO TO HELL WITH THEIR FINE ABSOLUTES because in fact they MAY be Christian in the view of the UN or the POPE, but since they are NOT really BORN AGAIN they will never see the Kingdom of GOD.

Nearly all born again Christians (98%) say their religious faith is very important in their life, compared to 52% of all adults. (2004) HOW SAD

PS.
Christian Statistics check out these dolts. Utah according to them is just FULL of real Christians.. MORMONS... and America is 85 % Christian Blah blah blah....

In Christ
The preacher

WOMEN PASTORS AND PREACHERS

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1Ti 2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1Ti 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

1Co 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
1Co 14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
Gen 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Silence Websters Dictionary 1828
SI'LENCE, n. [L. silentium, from sileo, to be still.]
1. In a general sense, stillness, or entire absence of sound or noise; as the silence of midnight.
2. In animals, the state of holding the peace; forbearance of speech in man, or of noise in other animals. I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, even from good. Psa 39.
SI'LENCE, v. t.
1. To oblige to hold the peace; to restrain from noise or speaking.
2. To still; to quiet; to restrain; to appease. This would silence all further opposition. These would have silenced their scruples.
5. To restrain from preaching by revoking a license to preach; as, to silence a minister of the gospel. The Rev. Thomas Hooker, of Chelmsford in Essex, was silenced for non-conformity.

Psalm 39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
Ecc. 3:7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Office of a Bishop:
1Ti 3:1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
1Ti 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1Ti 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
1Ti 3:4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
1Ti 3:5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
1Ti 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
1Ti 3:7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

BISHOP AND ELDERS THE SAME
Titus 1:5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
Tit 1:6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Tit 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Tit 1:8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
Tit 1:9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

PASTOR
Pastor
P`ASTOR, n. [L. from pasco, pastum, to feed.]
1. A shepherd; one that has the care of flocks and herds.
2. A minister of the gospel who has the charge of a church and congregation, whose duty is to watch over the people of his charge, and instruct them in the sacred doctrines of the christian religion.
Jerimiah 17:16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee. (Note Jerimiah was a MAN)
Eph 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

Evangelists:
Evangelist
EVAN'GELIST, n. A writer of the history, or doctrines, precepts, actions, life and death of our blessed Savior, Jesus Christ; as the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. (MEN)
1. A preacher or publisher of the gospel of Jesus Christ, licensed to preach, but not having charge of a particular church.

Timothy was a MAN
2Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
2Ti 4:5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

Phillip was a MAN
Act 21:8 And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him.

THE 12 APOSTLES WERE ALL MEN:

Mat 10:2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;
Mat 10:3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;
Mat 10:4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
Mat 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent forth,

The Apostles ( ALL MEN) Told the Breathren ( MEN) to choose out seven MEN...
Act 6:2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.
Act 6:3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
Act 6:4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Act 6:5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
Act 6:6 Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

THE OFFICE OF A DEACON RESERVED FOR MEN:

1Timothy 3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
1Ti 3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
1Ti 3:10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
1Ti 3:11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
1Ti 3:12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
1Ti 3:13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Examples Given of so called Women preachers by those today that are looking for a Poster child.

Rom 16:1 I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
Rom 16:2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
Rom 16:3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
Rom 16:4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

It is contended that the Greek word for Servant is the same word for Deacon, while this is true, notice the word OFFICE is not connected with Deacon in reference to these or any other women. Also notice that an Old person may be an Elder in a community but not an Elder ( the office) in an Assembly, the reasoning that the pro Women preacher croud use here is simply adding to or taking away from the word.

Rom 16:27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.
Rom 16:12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.

Another Example of wrongly dividing the word when this scripture is Used, Labour in the Lord is Not "Labour in the Word"

1Ti 5:17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
1Ti 5:18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
1Ti 5:19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.

Another Preacher Noted well: ( I have forgotten who)

TALK ABOUT NOT RIGHTLY DIVIDNG THE WORD OF TRUTH:
"As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 2 Peter 3:16. Numbers 22:27-28 is one of the scripture they always run to for justification. "And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff. And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, what have I done unto the, that thou hast smitten me these three times?" Out of pure ignorance and being unlearned, they emphasize the fact that it was a female animal, and because it spoke to Balaam they contend that, that gives them the right to preach. Now after the dust settles down, it becomes evident that they over looked what kind of voice came out of the dumb ass. Read, 2nd. Peter 2:15-16, "Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Boser, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; But was rebuked for his iniquity; the dumb ass speaking with MAN'S VOICE forbad the madness of the prophet." As the scripture states, the dumb ass spoke with man's voice and there is no way that they can go to Numbers to justify themselves as women preachers.

To Prophesy is Not always to make Publick discourses:
JOEL 2:28-32
PROPH'ESY, v.t. To foretell future events; to predict.

PREACH, v.i. [L. proeco, a crier; precor.]
1. To pronounce a public discourse on a religious subject, or from a subject, or from a text of Scripture. The word is usually applied to such discourses as are formed from a text of Scripture. This is the modern sense of preach.
2. To discourse on the gospel way of salvation and exhort to repentance; to discourse on evangelical truths and exhort to a belief of them and acceptance of the terms of salvation. This was the extemporaneous manner of preaching pursued by Christ and his apostles. Mat 4:10. Acts 10:14.
PREACH, v.t. To proclaim; to publish in religious discourses.

OTHER EXAMPLES:
Gal 1:7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Gal 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Gal 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

Ecc 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Ecc 7:27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
Ecc 7:28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
Ecc 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Rev 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Rev 2:21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
Rev 2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
Rev 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
This Scripture is the poster Child for the womens preacher movement. They say Look see there is no difference between men and women in the Ministry.
Questions to answer if their contention is true:
Is there a Difference between Men and Women in a Marriage?
Can a Women be the Husband of One Wife?
Since they say there is no difference between Men and Women, is Same Sex marriage OK?
What are we to do wth the scriptures that teach contrary to their contentions?

Conclusion ... they turn the truth of God into a lie....They say "we are Of GOD, but we will worship and serve him our own way....."

Isa 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach

Isa 3:11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Isa 3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

There is Much more but this is a Good start in your study....

In Christ

The Preacher

PREACHING BIBLE STUDY

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Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Ac 17:10 ¶ And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.

Joh 6:62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.

2Ti 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

2Ti 3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

2Pe 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Mr 2:1 ¶ And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.
2 And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.

Ac 8:4 ¶ Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.

2Ti 4:1 ¶ I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

The Preacher