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    8月21日

    GIVING GOD'S WAY

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    First of all, greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and peace to all the Saints of God who will read this. Praise be to God our Father for His love, mercy and grace that He has bestowed upon us. It is just a blessing to be alive and saved at this time in history. We, the children of God, have such an enormous responsibility placed upon us and i, for one, really feel privilged to be one of those who He has called into this ministry. Our job is to make known to the lost the blessings of God, and the love of Jesus, and to help them make the right decision; a decision that is not based on denominations but upon Truth. So, on that note:
    Luke 6:38 "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down,and shaken together, and running over, shall men give unto your bosom. For with the same measure that you mete withal it shall be measured to you again." i love this verse of scripture, but i wonder if we are really seeing the things that are being said by Jesus, here. Most people who i talk to about this always seem to think in terms of money. Most times when we see preachers speaking about giving it is always in terms of money, but i was struck with the thought yesterday: Who did Jesus ever give money to?
    As i watch Jesus' walk i noticed that He gave us a great deal of things, but money was never one of them. He gave us love, hope, joy, faith, health, time,peace, salvation and a whole host of other things; but never money. The greatest of the gifts that Jesus gave us was HIMSELF. So i started to see things under this light. What if, in this passage, Jesus is saying to give yourself? What if we are being commanded to give peace to others when they are going through the midst of their storms? What if He is saying to give joy to those who are saddened and heavy laden? What if we are commanded to give hope to a hopeless world by telling them of the good news of the gospel of Jesus? What if this means that we are to give love to those who others feel don't deserve it, but loving those who have hurt us and seek our hurt? And what if what we are getting back from people; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over; would be the same? Is being a Christian all about making or receiving money? i have always thought that being a Christian was all about being a follower of the example that we have in Jesus.
    Don't get me wrong, i give money also; but even more than the giving of money i give Me. Why? Because in God giving me Jesus, He also gave Jesus me. i am His, i belong to Him, i am His servant, His slave, i go where He send me, say what He want me to say, Do what He want me to do, and i seek not my own. i do this because i realize that if God never give me another thing in this life i know that i have gotten all that i will ever need: Salvation. So i am free to give without asking for money, or making people get out of the will of God by doing things that they have not been commanded to do. So, brothers and sisters: GIVE. Give both the physical things that you have, but more so, give those spiritual things that you have been given from God. Give love. Give joy. Give peace. Give hope. Give exhortation, and exaltation. Give Jesus, don't keep HIM for yourself, don't be selfish; give the wisdom that you have been given by the Holy Spirit, to others. Give it, don't sale it!! Remember, freely ye have received, freely give. It didn't cost you a thing, so it shouldn't cost those who have gotten it from you. Then sit back and watch as those things that the Gentiles seek will be added unto you.
    Love,
    Bro.ken
    *The reason for using i and not I is to remind me that in this gospel it's not about me.  The less significant i am the more the focus will be on GOD. Since coming to Christ i have become more aware of how selfish my thinking was before i knew Him. i just want to always remember it was what HE did for me that made me who i am and not what i do for HIM.  Bro. Ken

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    GOD'S COVERING

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    i* wonder how often is it that we try and make our own coverings. My reason for thinking of this is from watching the fall of man. Isn't it amazing that when they fell that they tried to cover themselves? After realizing their nakedness, because the covering of innocence had been taken away from them, they decided to make figs leaves to clothe themselves. Even though their clothing covered parts of them, it also left so much of them exposed, and it was, in the eyes of God, so inadequate. So we find God putting His covering on them.
     
    Isn't it strange when we fall, we also try and cover ourselves? We promise God that we will pray more, fast more, read more, go to church more often, be better friends, lovers, husbands, wives, Christians; and we forget that GOD has already covered us. God does not have a problem with us dressings ourselves.  In fact, He rejoices when we do dress ourselves. His problem with us is when we try and dress ourselves in our own way. So i've come to this conclusion: when i fall i will remember the covering of God.  i will remind myself that No ritual that i can do that will bring me back in good stead with Him.  i'll just rmember that i have been washed in the blood of the LAMB.  i will remember that, even though i may fall, i am still gathered under the shadow of His wings. i will remind myself that by His stripes, i am healed, and that there is nothing or no one that can seperate me from the love of GOD through CHRIST JESUS, and then i will dress myself in the clothes that my GOD have laid out for me. i will let my loins be girt with TRUTH, i will put on the breastplate of RIGHTEOUSNESS, i will shod my feet with the preparation of the gospel of PEACE, as a weapon of defense i will bear the shield of FAITH, cover my head with the helmet of SALVATION, and as a weapon of offense.   i will use the sword of the SPIRIT, which is the Word of God.  In short, i will remind myself that when i fall, all i have to do is get up and put on JESUS. He has, is, and shall always be our covering, and this too, is a GIFT from GOD.... which mean it, too, is free.
    love
    bro.ken
     
    *The reason for using i and not I is to remind me that in this gospel it's not about me.  The less significant i am the more the focus will be on GOD. Since coming to Christ i have become more aware of how selfish my thinking was before i knew Him. i just want to always remember it was what HE did for me that made me who i am and not what i do for HIM.  Bro. Ken
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    Attainable Perfection

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    Hello again,
         Have you ever noticed how people are always talking about empowerment, and taking it to the next level. That's great and all, but they only talk in terms of the pursuit of carnal happiness; whatever that may be. Today, i want to talk about another kind of empowerment, the kind, sadly to say, that isn't even talked about in the churches today. That is:  The Empowerment To Live Perfect!
         "He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believed on His name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of man, but of God."
         There are several key points in here, some that i will touch on another time, however for now i want to look at the fact that once we receive Jesus in our hearts He empowers us to become sons of God. Some of the newer translations say that we are children of God, and this is a very significant fact. You see, in the Old Testament every reference of the sons of God pertained to angels: Genesis 6:2&4, Job 1:6 & 2:1, so there is some significance to keep the translation as it is in the King James version. 
         Another significant point is the last verse:"Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of man, but by GOD." Why is this significant? When we look at the genealogy of Jesus in Luke 3 we will find, in the 38th verse, these words: Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of GOD!!! The significance of this is the fact that all the other names in this genealogy were of sons born of men, that is until we get to Adam...he was born of God.
         Now let us see how Adam came forth. Genesis 1:26-27: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in His own image, in the , image of God created He him, male and female created He them. So i ask you what is the image of God? Isn't He perfect? And remember now, that Adam was born of God.. not man. As is Jesus, who is called the last Adam. And when we receive Jesus in our lives He give us the power to become the sons of God.
    Some like to argue that no one on can live perfect while on earth, that we are to strive for perfection, and we will become perfect when Jesus returns for us. They say we will be perfect in the sweet by and by. Well let us look at what the Word of God has to say about that.
         1 John 3:1-2 "Behold what manner of love the FATHER hath bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved NOW are we the sons of God (not in the sweet by and by, but right now!!!!!!!) and it doth not appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is. Now allow me to repeat myself -- the first Adam was created in the image of God and he was empowered to overcome this earth and speak those things that be not as though they were. Everything was under his command, and he was under the command of GOD. So was the last ADAM. The differnce is that, while the first Adam fell to the whiles of the serpent, whom he had power over, Jesus did not.
         Here comes something that really gets me with all those "You-can't-be-perfect -here-on-earth" folk: in Matthew 5:48, we are (or) commanded by Jesus to "be ye therefore perfect, even as your FATHER in heaven is perfect". Now here is the kicker for me, and i hope you can follow me on this: If we can't be perfect like our FATHER in heaven is perfect, because we can't live perfect on this earth; can't you see that we won't be able to make it to heaven? We have been a commandment by Jesus to be perfect like God. If we can't, Jesus will judge us to have fallen short and the sentence will be the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone! i ask you, does that seem like a Holy and Righteous God? He's gonna condemn us for not doing what He commanded us to do, knowing that we couldn't? That is not the God i serve. The reason we have received that commandment from Christ is because He knows that He has made the way for us to be perfect, He knows that we CAN be perfect here on earth. Phillipians 4:13 "I can do all things through CHRIST which strengtheneth me. (vinetta i should have underline Ican do all thiings). Well to me it seems reasonable that if i can do all things through Christ Jesus, one of those "all things" would be the ability to live perfect; if not then the scripture should read " i can do most things through Christ which strengtheneth me". 
         Now back to this perfection thing. When we are born again we are born from above. John 3:6 "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. So when we received Jesus in our lives as our Lord and Savior we became a new creation. Our old man passed away, now we stand with the indwelling of God the Father: 1 Corinthians 3:16 "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwell in you?" You have the mind of Christ: 1 Corithians 2:16 "For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he make instruct him? But we have the, mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 6:19 "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of GOD and ye are not your own?
         My question is this: If Job, in the old testament, could be considered perfect by God (Job1:1 & 8; Job 2:3), a man that had only the Spirit of God upon him, could be considered perfect-- by GOD HIMSELF, how in the world we can't live perfect here on earth when we have the indwelling of the Spirit of God, the mind of Jesus, and we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. We can, but we have been conditioned by lying shepherds to think that we can't. 
         Strange thing: One of the Hebrew translation for perfect is blameless. When Paul was instructing Timothy and Titus the kind of man to make a pastor (1 Timothy 3:1- Titus 1:7) the first criteria for them to look for was a man that was blameless! If no one can live perfect/blameless then why are they Pastors, Shepherds, Bishops? It would seem that no man could qualify for that position. And that Jesus left us leaderless. That did not happen. What we have are (or) child molesters and pediphiles, whoremongers and liars, adulterers and fornicators standing in the pulpit making (an) excuses for their shortcomings. Just think, if man gave himself over totally to performing the will of God, like we do in our pursuit of other carnal things, we could realize the perfection that God has bestowed upon us.
    Now, understand, i am not advocating that on our own we can be perfect; we can't. However, through Jesus we are perfect already. We are covered by the blood of Jesus, and we have been sealed unto God by the Holy Spirit. Now we are told by John in 1John 2:1-6 "My little children, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And He is the propitiation for our sin: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. And hereby we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandment, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But, whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of GOD perfected: hereby know we that we are i Him. He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked. The emphasis being not on when we sin, but on "if we sin" God, because He has given us all this power, expects us not to sin... the same expectation He had on Adam, and on Israel. God has empowered us to before Him upright, blameless, perfect. 
    Let us now "Study to show oourselves approve unto God, a worker that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth" 2 Timothy 2:16 And may you never let the enemy lie to you again about who and what you are in the eyes of God. May the Lord add a blessing to the lives of all those who read this.
    AMEN
    bro.ken
     
    *The reason for using i and not I is to remind me that in this gospel it's not about me.  The less significant i am the more the focus will be on GOD. Since coming to Christ i have become more aware of how selfish my thinking was before i knew Him. i just want to always remember it was what HE did for me that made me who i am and not what i do for HIM.  Bro. Ken



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    Time and God

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    Man, at last. i didn't think this thing was going to let me in, this time. Well, i've looked at the last date and see that it has been awhile since we last talked. It is a good thing that i don't treat my prayer life, and reading time this way. Anyway...

    i have been going through some trying times. There have been days when i didn't know which way to turn, or whether to keep going forth, or just stand still. Although i don't believe in going by how i feel, the time had come when i just wasn't feeling anything. It was as if the motivation  had been taken away from me.

    i remember, years ago, when i first came to Christ, how i was shown a candle that had been lit and how high the flame was rising from it, and then i saw the wind blowing against it and i could tell that someone was trying to blow out the candle. i remember hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit telling me that this was me, and that the enemy was going to do everything he could possibly do to blow out the light that had been lit in my soul. Well years had passed and the fire of God was still burning sharp on me, so i tended to forget that this wasn't a sprint that we are called to run, but a marathon. However, it all came back to me clear as day.

    satan will try to stop you from being the child of God, that God has called you to be.  satan has no timetable on your life, remember after he tempted Jesus in the wilderness, satan left Him for a season. All satan concerns himself with is stopping you, and he waits to come at us at our weakest moment. he does everything he can to try and make us "Curse God, and die." But, praise be to the most High GOD, and our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ, that we are able to find strength in our time of weakness, in Christ Jesus.

    Oh come and extol the Lord with me! Was i at the point of turning away from God? God forbid, to live is Christ, to die is gain; however, i was weak and didn't know if i had the strength to carry on, and face my enemies. i wasn't too blessed to be stressed, i was actually so blessed that i was stressed. i know what i have been called to do by GOD, and i know that HE will enable me to complete this calling before HE call me home, but i stopped looking at eternity, and started thinking about time. It has been twenty-seven years since i have been saved, and i look at my age and i see that the years are rolling by pretty fast, and instead of thinking spiritual, i started to look carnally. i forgot that time means nothing to God. i forgot to remember that one day with HIM is like a thousand years and a thousand years to HIM is like one day. i took my eyes off of HIM, and placed them on me. For this, Saints, i ask for your forgiveness. i also ask that you continue to pray for me, that i will be bold in the Holy Spirit, and will continue to preach and uncompromised gospel.

    i had, what my friend vinetta, calls my wilderness moment. Now it is time for me to get up and get back to God’s people and preach this gospel of reconciliation. God loves us all -- the cross is evidence of that TRUTH -- but God is so just that He will only save those who love HIM back. That may not seem right with a lot of people in this life, but, uh, that is the way it is and we have to deal with it. All those who hate wisdom, love death.

     

    Praise GOD always,

     

    bro.ken


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    Broken

    Jesus...
    The beginning and the end, 
    My lover, and best friend.
    The mender of my broken heart.
    Love that will never part.
    Jesus...
    Tonight i just don't have the words. i want to say so much to you, but words are failing me. tears are welling in my eyes,
    Jesus... i apologize. i haven't always loved you the way that you have loved me. in fact Lord i have done to you the very thing that i was broken by when others did it to me. Jesus, forgive me. You have loved me with an everlasting love, and there have been times when i just didn't want to talk to you, didn't want to listen to you, didn't want to be near you because i was too busy; too caught up in me. i forgot, Jesus, that there would be no me, if it had not been for you. Lord why is it that even when i know that i need you and i can't live without you, i can't win without you, i can't abide without you; i feel a need to stay away from you?
    Jesus...
    Why is it i don't boast about you and your goodness and your loving kindness, everyday, to others like i know you talk about me to the Father? i have hurt you, Jesus, by my silence, my neglect, my disobedience; and the Lord knows that i don't want to hurt you. Not you, you beautiful, loving, caring man of GOD. But i do...i ignore the call to come and sit at your feet, to sup with you in your house, to hear your voice as it speaks to my heart. How can i be so stupid to not want to hear you, when i know that you bring to me love, joy, and peace? 
    Jesus...
    Storm clouds are rolled away when you speak. When you speak, my sin sick soul is healed, my broken heart is mended, my fears are replace with love power and a sound mind. So tell me, Jesus, why is it i don't let you speak to me? Why is it that i cover my ears with the cares of this world, this life? 
    Jesus...
    When you are welcomed in my heart, love fills my life. Power comes in the building that is called my temple, my life is delivered from the distress of bondage that engulfs me when i walk away from you...So, tell me, why is it i don't welcome you in my heart everyday?
    Jesus...
    When i call on your name
    satan cowers in shame
    demons hide
    love abide
    angels in heaven sing
    your voice ring
    in my soul
    more precious than gold
    so... Why do i not call? i need you, i want you, i can't live without you...
    Jesus help me to call on you. i'm losing, and it's not your fault, nor is it your will. 
    Jesus...
    Save
    Me!!!
    i'm drowning.
    Father, forgive me for i have sinned against you. i have rebelled against your will for my life, i have taken my soul out of your hands and put them in my own, and i have grieved your Holy Spirit. i am not worthy to be called your son Father, and i know that whatever i am going through i am going through because of my rebellion. Father i know that you have to chastise me for my foolishness, and i don't ask that you let me go unpunished; because i know that better men, and women than me have not gotten away with being rebellious to you; i just thank you for the mercy that you have shown me during this time. Father, tonight i call on your Son Jesus and ask that he come again and let me walk with him... i know that he will take me through this valley of the shadow of death that i am now in. Forgive me Father, in the name of Jesus.
    AMEN
    bro.ken 
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    God's Church

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    Praise the Lord everybody! Let everything that have breath Praise the Lord! i am so grateful that i serve The True and Living God. i serve a God that has made me, not one that i have made! i serve a God who loved me enough to die for me; one who hold me in the hollow of His hand, and is now shaping and molding me into the man that He want me to be so that i can do His perfect will, in this life.

    Today i come to you speaking on the make up of the church. There is an old saying that goes something like this: "You don't wait to get right to come to church, you come to church then get right." For the longest i, too, believed that; however, i had an encounter with God, in His Word, and i found out that this just is not the truth. Let us look at how the New Testament church began. 15And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,) The church began with 120 people who were followers of Christ. Now we look in the second chapter of Acts to see how this church was added to. This is where we find the 120 filled with the Holy Ghost, and spoke with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. But, as with Christians today, the people mocked them and instead of giving God the glory, they said that these holy men and women were drunk.14But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:

     15For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
     16But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
     17And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
     18And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
     19And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
     20The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:
     21And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
     22Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
     23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
     24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
     25For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
     26Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
     27Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
     28Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
     29Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
     30Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
     31He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
     32This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
     33Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
     34For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
     35Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
     36Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
     37Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
     38Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
     39For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
     40And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
     41Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

    Now we see that three thousand souls were added to the church because they gladly received the word, repented, and was baptized. Did they join the church Before they were clean? No, they did not.

    In Act 4:4 we find that five thousand  more men believed the teaching of Peter, concerning Jesus, and they were added to the church; however, Before they believed they were outsiders. they were not numbered with the Saints.

    In Acts 8:5-17 5Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.

     6And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
     7For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.
     8And there was great joy in that city.
     9But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
     10To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
     11And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.
     12But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
     13Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.
     14Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:
     15Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
     16(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
     17Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. Here we find a city filled with the belief that a socerer was a great man, their minds were all confused, but when they heard the preaching of Phillip, an evangelist they turned their backs on their wicked ways (repented) believed the preaching of Phillip, and were baptized. And when the Apostles, Peter, and John came to witness this conversion, prayed for them and they all received the Holy Ghost...and were added to the church! Were they let into the Church before they were saved? God forbid!
    Then we have the eunuch in the chariot, the first gentile converted to Christianity (a Black man!) after confessing that he belived that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. and he, too, was baptized by Phillip. Another soul added to the Church. Also we have the conversion of Saul, who was a Jew, who preached contrary to the gospel of Christ. This man persecuted the Church! Do you think he was a part of the Church? No he was not. But when he met Jesus on the road to Demascus acknowledged Jesus as Lord, then asked what will Christ have him to do. After Ananias prayed for him Saul received the Holy Ghost and " Straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God! Praise the Lord. He was no longer counted as an enemy of the church, he now was a friend. but the Church would not have allowed him in if he had not been changed!
    Finally we have Cornelius. There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
     2A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. Yet he was not a member of the Church until...after he and Peter had had a long talk on many things concerning the Gospel of Christ and 44While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
     45And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
     46For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
     47Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
     48And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days. Now Cornelius and his family and friends are members of the Church. You see with all his good deeds and his alms he was not allowed to become a part of the Church until he recieved Jesus, and was baptized in his name.
    Now if this is the way God have brought people into the Church back then, why do we change that way today? God does not change. So where did this change come from? It came from satan.And why? Because satan comes to kill steal and destroy. How effective has his teaching been in doing his mission? Well just look at all the churches we have now, look at all the break away churches we deal with. Look at the weakness of the churces today and compare them to the new testament church in Acts:4  31And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
     32And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
     33And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
     34Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
     35And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
    A Holy Ghost filled church have one heart and one soul. They are on one accord, and they seek not their own. Is this the church you are in now? Or are you in a church that have whoremongers, and adulterers, and party animals, and sorcerers, and those who worship idols ahh shoot Galatians 5:19-21 says it best...19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
     20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
     21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
    Jesus is coming back for an unblemished church, and it is time that we get away from traditions and get back to the word of God. Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate. To all pastors who believe that come as you are means anyone can come to Church...wake up! That means ayone can come to Jesus as they are, they don't have to try and get right to come to Jesus, because without Jesus none of us would be right, we come to Jesus as we are and He changes us, clean us up, and place us in the family (the Church)
    AMEN 

     

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