Josiahs Scott,
Josiahs@trueconnection.org,
www.TrueConnection.org
Before drawing
conclusions from these sayings, please read the Purpose Statement at the end of this document.
Although the intention of this page is similar to that of Proverbs in
presenting and pursuing Wisdom, Truth, and Revelation from prayer, I'm not
claiming anything more to these words beyond what God confirms them to be. As I
accurately record what I get in prayer and meditation in seeking God for Truth
and understanding, may these things be useful in your life as much as they have
been in my own.
Last
Updated: 5/18/2012
The
proud love to compete, but the lowly are happy when there is peace.
5/16/12-5/18/12
The
answer is not sincerity of motives, but poverty of spirit. If you trust in
sincerity, you will embrace insincerity.
[Our fundamental assumptions about the absolute redemption of
our own earnestness of intention are artificial creations of fleshly justice;
they are shameful idols constantly boasting of our own self-made justification,
which God is constantly in the business of rebuking and condemning throughout
the Scriptures.
Look at where God sorely
rejects the religious hope of men in astonishing harshness; Look at their
surprise at God's rejection of their heart, and then you will see where God has
chosen poverty over a person's own earnestness. Because 'every man will boast
of his own sincere love and devotion' but who will find a man of truth whom God
actually approves of with saving favor? You will not find him among the rich.]
5/16/12-5/18/12
It
often pains me thoroughly when I read the Bible and see how much has not been
perfectly carried through into English (Heb_10:14).
5/14/12
You
have got to be a darkened hypocrite to like modern “traditional” christianity; You have got to be a completely mindless
pervert to love liberal churches; you have got to be a real follower of Jesus
to escape both of their damnations.
5/12/12;
5/17/12-5/18/12
Your
silly religion may indeed make cute little Precious Memories
cards right now, but at judgment they will only make for a shameful fairytale
for your worthless soul to bear.
5/11/12;
5/17/12
Fleshly
people have to remind themselves that "it’s all about christ"
by correcting other people who were not actually wrong in praising the true
favor of God in men.
5/9/12;
5/18/12
Once
there’s glue, her and you, you are no longer two, separation you shall not do,
and any remarriage IS NOT TRUE!
[Can you tell that I have been reading Mat 19 again this morning? –
By the way: “glue” (or “being stuck to”) is mentioned in Mat_19:5, which is
often represented as “cleave” or “joined” in English]
5/7/12
Enough! – Are You Tired
of the Lawlessness of Modern christianity?
My
stomach is so bitter from my ears hearing so much vanity! I cannot handle it
anymore! Give me truth or I’ll die! I am so tired and so sick of hearing
rebellion, foolishness, and the strength of flesh! Tell me that there are
people who care, oh, somewhere… please tell me there are people who care about
truth and righteousness! Speak perfection into my ears and let me hear Divine
Words. Enough foolishness! Enough pride and self-serving vanity! Get your
fornicating opinions away from me! Get away from me, all you christian
idolaters, along with your pagan faith.
My stomach is turned, and I gag. I am ready
to vomit from all of the hatefulness. God is dishonored, and His name is ever
blasphemed. The harlot on the street honors God in truth many times more than
the pastor in the church. He is a harlot, and not even a man! Sleeping with filthiness unto no end. When will I be
consoled? “My wound is incurable.” I am in pain because of blasphemy. My whole
frame hurts. I cannot handle or bear the hatred against God any more, or seeing
the churchy mouth that won’t ever cease from speaking.
God’s name is profaned among all who
mention it. There is no light. There is no cleanness. There is no reverence
toward God. People keep speaking, and they have no heart left in them to do
justice. They ever sin. They never care. They oppress anyone who speaks even
one righteous word. They will not relive those in need. They will not honor any
righteousness. If there is ever even one child who has faith, they kill their
own children, and eat their own flesh. There is no end to their profanity, and
they never cease heaping up their guilt. The wrath of God for all of this will
never be appeased. I am consumed in my sorrow and burning; because of
indignation I am burnt up. The wrath against this hoard will burn with justice
forever. There will be no forgiveness for those caught and discovered in her
guilt.
Flee to the mountains like Righteous Lot,
you who care, if there be any left who do care… I stagger and start to wonder
in grief if He will even find any faith at all on the earth when He returns!
And do I wonder this in vain? I wonder it faithfully, yes, with good reason
too, since it is not written in vain! But all the speakers speak in vain, and
in treachery, in hatred, in irreverence, in strength and confidence that
ascends above the stars of God! Oh, puffed up rule-breaker! Oh, treacherous christian! Oh, evangelist of profanity! Oh, guilty sleeper
with lawlessness! When will sin ever be limited? When will anyone say, “enough”!? When will justice role and say “NO MORE”!? When
will the talking mouth ever be closed?
Oh, sweet truth of perfect righteousness,
you have not been held by the hands of flesh, and you will never be tainted by
their vile transgressing opinions. Though they ascend with their green
fragrance of cesspool water into the sky, they will die before they see light
or ever breathe clean air. But the humble will live forever, and those who are
undone over Your dishonor will reign with You forever
when You burn with terrifying anger upon all who have sinned! You will be justified when You
justify the utterly broken and bitterly poor who have mourned on the earth! You
will fulfill all Your Mercies on those who have heard You,
and sweet victory is given on those who are silent from sin and wait on Your
Truth!
4/30/12
The
Bible never warns us not to take its Words *literally*, but it constantly
threatens us with damnation if we take them *liberally*.
4/24/12; 4/26/12 (Sp.)
Do
you assume that God's ability to scare you has worn off? Just as His thunder
was scary to you as a child, immeasurably more so will His wrath grip you
through and through at the judgment with unquenchable terror... unless it may
be that you already learned to reverence Him with clean and righteous faith
while here on earth.
4/23/12; 4/26/12 (Sp.)
You
will not be forgiven for your rebellious salvation on the Day of Judgment.
4/22/12; 4/26/12 (Sp.)
In
numerous countries (and even more so in ancient societies) women have very
carefully covered themselves (from their head to their entire bodies) lest at any
time men should see them and they be raped on account of the danger of their
beauty, but today in modern countries, women uncover their entire bodies
without any fear that they should be entirely prostituted. Their reverent
caution for safety is exceedingly wiser than our foolish indulgence in
shameless pride. Our rich nations provide extravagant safety to rage out of
control in a frenzy of unbridled immorality. So also will we be hated the more
under unrelenting damnation for our filthy crimes.
If you shrink from being seen by
antagonizing characters in the shadows when walking through the nerve-racking
danger of a narrow and dark alley when alone at night, much more should you
fear advertising your sexual features in plain daylight, since the heat of
God’s hatred and wrath in eternally shaming and destroying you are much more
unthinkable and unbearable than both rape and murder multiplied many times.
4/16/12
Huge Life Rule:
Never make competitive jokes against those whom you wish to have intimate friendship
with.
[Note: Most people who
read this will have no idea how true and important it is, because they will
still turn around and continue right on with competing with the very people
that they ought to be benefiting.]
4/16/12
Today's
church is not the body of Christ, but the harlot of anti-christ.
4/3/12
Although
God's love is infinite, He is NOT all-loving.
3/23/12
I
watched carefully for a long time throughout my life and saw that, indeed,
defending the sanctity of expressing your personality is a destructive evil,
full of folly, rashness, shallowness and defiling sin. Who should wonder so
greatly at this, seeing that the Scriptures so plainly and repeatedly tell us
to deny and crucify the flesh?
3/23/12
If
you keep having to learn the hard way every time you
learn something hard, then there is still something even more critical that you
need to learn that you have not yet learned.
3/21/12
YOU need to be Discipled to Go to Heaven!
Listen,
you are more than free to go off in the wilderness and get a direct revelation
like Jesus, John, Paul and numerous other Prophets in the Scriptures. But
especially if you have not been caught up into the third heaven or received
special apostleship yet, you desperately need to go get discipled into a real
man or woman of God by someone who is sent into your life for this purpose!
Don't just sit around and be a self-competent looser. You must act now and
urgently cry out for the discipleship that is necessary for your salvation,
especially since there is no other answer given by Jesus in the great
commission for you to inherit heaven.
[See: Mat_28:18-20; Mar_16:15-20]
Look, I really am trying to save your soul here! Most people
(especially independent, self-confident Americans) seem to have no clue that
the discipler who proclaims truth is ordained by
Jesus to intimately participate in the salvation of those he disciples.
3/19/12;
3/21/12; 4/16/12
Everyone
is shy of looking like they are a part of a cult, but no one is cautious about
being a heretic.
3/19/12
Better to preach the law which leads men to Christ* (Gal_3:24) than to preach lawlessness which leads men to antichrist (2Th_2:3-12, esp. 2Th_2:7).
[* that is anointed one]
3/19/12
Quick
knowledge is cheap character.
3/16/12
The
Sermon on the Mount does not teach you to "build your life on jesus christ" so that your
"house does not fall". – Let me challenge you (oh “evangelical”):
What did Jesus say to build your house on? What is the "rock" that
will not let your house fall?
3/9/12;
3/19/12
Just
give me a handful of faithful laborers who care about truth to live in
community together, and favor from God’s hand to accomplish His will, and I
will train up a specialized team to translate the most authoritative and
righteous English version of the Bible ever published!
3/6/12
Protestants
have successfully made “Grace” the spouse of anarchy in the mind of most
English speakers.
3/3/12;
3/19/12
Woman
was not taken from man’s skull and brains, but from his flesh and rib. Woman is
Adam’s rib, therefore, from that time onward a wife has been the body of her
husband, and he is the head. If a woman remembers that she is indeed a rib, she
will look up and honor and reverence her head, and if a man remembers his rib,
he will look down and warmly love it and embrace it to his heart.
(see Gen 1-2; Gen 5; Eph_5:22 etc.; 1Co 11)
3/2/12
Protestants
are no less prostitutes than Catholics are.
“like mother like daughter”
3/1/12
Life rule: Do not take people very
seriously when they speak many words to you, because most people have no idea
what they are talking about in the first place. Do not set your heart on their
multiplication of vanity.
3/1/12;
3/19/12
No
one likes to be called by negative names, but at the same time, just about no
one is willing to pay the price that it takes to escape a worthless character.
2/16/12;
3/1/12
The
hypocrisy of falsely, so-called “conservatives” is pretending to know something
with absolute certainty without ever holding oneself accountable to the
integrity of having a reasonable basis to “know” it. As an example, the KJVO advocates demand that the King James Version is a
perfect and divinely inspired English version, but have no basis for completely
ignoring and denying the plain fact that (although it is far better than most)
it has many faults where it falsifies the Greek. It is very easy to demonstrate
that the KJV does many things that are outright wrong (although it does this
far less than modern versions) but KJVO advocates
hate the integrity of the truth of Jesus and lust for the quick and cheap
“knowledge” of their own soul and pagan personal guidance spirits and have an
idolatry of affirming their unstable insanity with absolute certainty,
demanding that clear truth and plain facts are not true. – ‘beware lest you also
fall.’
2/16/12
Confidence
makes a man stand up for what he believes but crucifixion makes a man be
courageous unto martyrdom for what is true.
Jos_24:15 CAB …choose for
yourselves this day whom you will serve…
2/4/12
Many
years ago in Antioch, the pagans first began calling the remnant of
revolutionary disciples “Christians” (Act_11:26), but at the beginning of our
age the pagans became so far gone that they began to call themselves
“christians,” and they have even dubbed their conglomeration of pagan empires
as “Christendom”! Whatever shall we do in this confused and very disturbing
age?
2/2/12;
2/4/12
Oh,
church person... Are you pioneering truth or innovating falsehood? Cease from
your deadly creativity and take up the courageous submission!
2/1/12-2/2/12
Everyone
is lustful toward the selfish shame of their own personal guidance spirit
(their own demon/ daemon) but no one trembles at the glorious might of the
eternal, Monotheistic God.
1/30/12
There
is no hope for this generation as long as modern christianity
is able to keep making massively unreproved claims
that its members are going to heaven. If this prostitute is continuously
allowed to broadcast its treacherous mutiny without anyone having compassion
and zeal to call her bluff on this big conspiracy she will keep condemning all
nations with the power of her anointed lawlessness and the shameful lust of her
perversion. It is high time someone stood up on behalf of God's honor and truth
and had compassion on the poor among men and slew her witch-like reign and
freed her molested victims from the poison of her slavery to sin.
1/27/12
Most church people quote Scripture like this: “...It is not good to... throw ...the little dogs,” (Mat_15:26 CAB).
That is *fragmenting* Scripture, not submissively quoting it.
1/25/12
A
hard hart can keep a required schedule, but it takes a soft heart to constantly
hear from God and make special sacrifices.
1/20/12;
1/22/12
Rich
and sinful people need entertainment, but the righteous cannot survive without
prayer.
1/15/12;
1/18/12
Around
the age of seven I was “saved,” but thankfully around the age of sixteen I was
saved from being “saved”.
1/16/12
(see 12/15/11)
Just
simply abstain from the flesh, consistently and seriously, and wise people will
look over and smile upon your wisdom.
1/10/12
We
often joke about how surprised we will be to see people in heaven who we didn't
think would make it there, but in great contrast to this, Jesus constantly
warned about how surprised we would be when *we do not make it*, even though we
were so sure we would… and Jesus was NOT joking.
Critical Scripture references: Mat_7:13-29;
Luk_13:1-5; Luk_13:22-30
1/9/12;
1/13/12
Once Saved Always Saved?
They
were saved out of Egypt and were going unto the Promised Land. We can be saved
out of sin and seek to make it unto heaven. Most of them fell short of making
it to the promised destination after being saved out of Egypt. We also can fall
short of making it to heaven just like they fell short. These were our
examples. Don’t ever let any heretic tell you otherwise. It really is that
simple.
1/9/12
A
submissive, gentle, quiet, comforting, content, faithful, nurturing, warming
woman can make any reasonable man to run home during his lunch break with a
smile on his face, but a macho woman makes him delay in the driveway before
coming in the house after a long day of work.
Side-Note1: Aren’t there truly lots of Bible verses that
instruct us in this deep truth?
Side-Note2: there is certainly a such
thing as an “unreasonable man,” and I have seen him too many times to count,
but discussing him is for a different time.
1/9/12
I
just want to grab people and say, "DON'T YOU REALIZE THAT ALL OF OUR
MODERN CULTURES ARE GOING TO HELL BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO STOP BEING SO FULL AND
SO CONFIDENT??? And then you want to turn around and add to this
injury greater atrocities and find more ways to make yourself strong,
sufficient, and competent!!! Are you kidding me? What is wrong with you?? Have
you lost your mind??? I am exasperated at your endless indulgence of insolence
and rash and insatiable lust of filthy strength! When will you repent, oh
mighty man, and diligently seek out some reasonable weakness so that your
shameful, wretched, and miserable soul might possibly, maybe, somehow be
saved?”
1/5/12
Most
pastors do everything they can to maintain popularity and influence so they can
“reach” as many people as possible, but Jesus even “hated” His own fan club!
(Luk_14:25-35)
1/5/12
I
wish to God that people would realize that being rational is not an
intellectual capacity, but a moral obligation!
1/4/12
Talking
bad about someone behind their back is gossip;
Only
talking good to someone’s face is flattery;
Combining
these two is hypocrisy;
But
faithfulness talks comfort to the face and praise behind the back, as much as
truth permits.
1/4/12;
1/16/12
It
is treacherous for you to be personally inspired by the level of another
person's commitment before righteously sifting through the level of their
obedience.
12/28/11
Important: this saying will save you if you let it
What
is the first thing you think about in the morning? – I present to you, your
god. And what do you do in those early hours to wake up? – I present to you,
your savior.
12/15/11
The
point of much of the Bible is to make us see that the people who look innocent
and sincere to us are actually guilty and condemned; the point of most
preaching today is to make people who are obviously guilty and condemned look
like they are really “saved.” If you do not leave this gospel and its
treacherous “salvation,” you will be justly damned along with it.
12/15/11;
1/16/12
Search
your heart and search the Scriptures: HONESTLY… is there anything that God said
that you still disagree with? *Fix it now* (while you still have time before
the judgment).
12/15/11
Always
remember: unfaithful and religious people are the ones antagonizing you to be
“balanced,” but Jesus is the One calling you to be an extremist.
12/7/11
People
who do not love rules do not know Jesus.
12/7/11
Grace
Terms
like, "grace period" prove that "grace" in English has the
capacity (and tendency) to imply outlandish and unbiblical connotations that
are outright heretical.
When
the vast majority of people say "grace" they are referring to a
lawless pagan philosophy which has no basis in the Scriptures, neither
linguistically nor thematically.
So
often you try to call people to repentance and mention the surety of damnation
for sin without repentance and they almost invariably think God's eternal truth
can be popped by saying, "but thank god for grace."
And
when you insist on truth instead they usually say, "...but where does
grace come in?" and my answer is, "it doesn't come in" - we are
not talking paganism here, we are talking monotheistic truth! If I talk
about repentance and truth and you have the foolishness and mindlessness to
protest and say "but where does grace fit in," then away with your
worthless and perverted grace, which is of no value at all and is condemned by
the Scriptures!
12/7/11
God
programed cats to instinctively enjoy tearing apart mice with merciless
violence. What makes you think He is going to spare you with gentleness?
(...see
‘like brut beasts’)
It
is within the capacity of God's nature to actively make one creature violently
destroy another of His creatures. God is not some jolly Santa Clause just
waiting to be nice to everyone.
12/6/11
Biblical/Historical
Christianity 101: If you want to follow Jesus, make it to heaven, and escape
the wrath of God, you have to stop watching most all TV and no longer watch
most all movies.
12/6/11
Think
about the most extreme standards of modesty conceivable... Now you are starting
to think Biblically.
12/6/11
Most
people in this age are like the young guy with the Mohawk: they are trying to
make a statement, but they are so desperately shallow that they do not have
much of anything at all worth saying.
12/6/11;
12/8/11
If
someone's heart is not gripped and troubled over the need for obedience, then
they are not my friend. If someone is annoyed at "rules" and thinks
they have risen above the need for treating God's Words as binding LAW, then
Jesus assured us that He will deny even knowing you at His return.
12/6/11
Salvation
does not happen when people get sincere, it happens when people get obedient.
Don't be deceived by the common shallowness and anti-Scriptural non-sense
promoted today – you cannot actually obey God and not pass from death into life
nor can you pass from death into life and not obey God. According to the mouth
of Jesus, if you obey God’s rules you will live and inherit eternal life. It
really is that clear and simple, but it is only the foolishness of heretics
that muddies the pure water. No matter what covenant you are in, obeying God’s
voice has always been the answer to life.
[See, for example: Mat 5-7; Mat_19:17 etc., Luk_10:25-28; Luk 19:8-9;
Deu_30:6-30 (this passage is the basis for the salvation proclaimed in Romans
10); Psa_95:7; Heb_3:7; Heb_3:15; Heb_4:7; etc.]
12/5/11;
12/8/11
WARNING:
Discernment does not exist at all in virtually any form of christianity
today (even including nearly all house churches). And by adding insult to
injury, people go around talking like there is sometimes so “little” of it,
which implies that there is at least a little bit of it still around here and
there in some places, when there is NONE. The well is parched and dry; we are a
barren desert that is poor, wretched, and destitute! We are so blind and
foolish today. Someone has to get as bad as Benny Hinn
and write “anti-christ” on their forehead before a
few of us start to scratch our chin, sit back in our chair, and wisely say how
concerned we are because we think we might be discerning that he is not
sincere… Oh! How wise and cautious we are, aren’t we?? How will anyone survive
when God sends “strong” delusion with “all deceivableness” (2Thes 2) and all
lawlessness is exalted and fulfilled on the earth? When is anyone going to
actually love God more than Disneyland, and fear and
tremble before His testimony with speechless and reverent obedience? It is
almost easier to see a dinosaur walk through the room than to see any REAL,
spiritual, God-reverencing discernment happen in any church at all today. Do
you think I am exaggerating?
12/5/11
Do
we realize that the fantasy of “superman” is a mockery imitation of Jesus?
Jesus was doing real miracles and even flying into the clouds long before that
looser in the red cape ever stepped out of a phone booth.
12/5/11
Jesus’
wrath is hotter than an atomic bomb, and His love is more overwhelming than a
“Song of Songs” marriage! What do you think you ought to do about that?
12/4/11
What
do you do when you live in a culture where the ‘Not Inspired Version,’
and the ‘Old Dead Paraphrase’ are among the most popular bible versions in
stores??
12/2/11
Truth:
All throughout history Protestants have despised the claims of the book of
Romans.
12/1/11
Away
with your rich and successful social clubs, your high steeples, your
professional entertainers and your motivational speakers… away with your
counterfeit conservatives and cancerous liberals, all dressed so nice to
celebrate their own funeral… I do not need to go to the harlotry house to hear
the sweet sonnet of the prostitute today, because I’m getting ready to be
around REAL Christians soon!!!!
11/27/11
WARNING: Those who teach that more
righteousness is done by saying God's name(s) in Hebrew, or by what is falsely
called “keeping the Sabbath,” or other perverted things like this, these people
bitterly hate God.
Since
this saying will be shown true, I am urging you to carefully take it to heart
now so that you will not also bear shame when their lawlessness is condemned.
It does not matter how serious, zealous, hard-core, extreme, or insightful
someone seems to be; it matters if they tremble under the authority of what God
says. There are many people who seem to be real christians
to initial observation, but in all truth they are fleshly, pagan perverts.
Beware of such people, and make for yourself and untainted salvation.
11/26/11;
11/27/11
You
have two options: (1) Hate money, or (2) Perish in hell along with it.
11/27/11
Mark
this down for the rest of your life: The only case where it is fitting to use
money as though you were rich is when it pertains to giving it in selfless ways
that particularly give to God.
This
is why it says...
Luk_12:20-21 KJV But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night
thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which
thou hast provided? 21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is
not rich toward God.
11/22/11
I hate money!
You
should too if you hope to inherit eternal life. You should be informed that if
you do not hate money, then we have this promise in the Scriptures by the mouth
of Peter, that ‘your money will perish with you.’
11/22/11
Most
people do not seem to have any clue that we do not yet have an acceptable
translation of the Bible in English. This is a great tragedy! But the worst
problem of them all is the input of so many “smart interpreters” who do not
have the courage or integrity to translate. They have the academics to make
themselves look qualified to accurately translate the original Greek, and the
heartlessness to paraphrase it in English instead.
11/20/11;
11/27/11
A quiet woman has the potential to prophesy, but one who knows how to talk can only sin.
11/19/11
“Forsake-All” Discipleship is Necessary if You
Hope to Go to Heaven
Why
is it that people in modern society always seem to presume that they can
connect to god whenever they want to, all by themselves, without discipleship,
and with no terms of commitment, and without obeying any requirements? God is
*holy*, therefore, His rules have to be obeyed in order for you to approach
Him. He determined that discipleship should be the means by which you would
have truth transmitted to you, so why are so many still sitting in there chair
as though they need no help?
11/18/11
If
you know God, it is exceedingly glorious to be refused, unacknowledged,
unknown, and unrecognized. In so many ways, this is precious for you much like
virginity is sacred before marriage to a virgin!
Did Jesus seek this out in Luk_14:25-35?
11/16/11
The ABC’s of Being Spiritual
When
you and I seek to connect to the spiritual realm, by default we all connect to
demons. This is the way life is, and this is by virtue of our inherent nature,
which is cursed (Gen 3) and tainted by sin by default (especially see 1Co 15
and the book of Romans). This is what it means to be a gentile and an apostate
Jew, and this is what James (who was a true, wise, monotheistic Jew) calls
being “earthly, soulish*, demonic.” – This is why
Jesus repeatedly said we had to ‘deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow
Him,’ and He very clearly said we have to ‘hate our very own SOUL’ (Luk_14:25-35)!
and He said whoever loses their “SOUL” (yes, that’s
the actual Word Jesus used) for His sake would find it. If you want to be truly
spiritual, the very first thing you have to do is STOP being spiritual the way
you already know how to be spiritual, since your only default spirituality is
actually soulishness* which is connecting to
demon-spirits. (I did not just come up with this; The BIBLE very clearly
teaches these things!)
So
STOP doing your spiritual, churchy thing and getting religious, and stop your ‘talk’en about god,’ and start actually obeying Jesus,
repenting of perversion and sin, and just maybe, you might actually end up
getting Truly Spiritual!
[*
Note: “soulish” (ψυχικη)
pertains to indulging in the invisible part of man’s inherent nature, and it is
an extremely important, critical Bible/ Greek word that is always described as
sinful (i.e. ever since Adam sinned). However, the cheapness of most English
versions almost never represents it, which has greatly contributed to our
wide-spread ignorance in this area (1Co_2:14; 1Co_15:44; 1Co_15:46; Jas_3:15;
Jud_1:19)]
11/13/11
I
am very glad to teach a works-based salvation, because it should be obvious that
Jesus has to “work” in your life in order for you to be saved! After all,
what’s the sense in going around saying that your broken and non-working ‘jesus’ is going to get you into heaven anyway?
11/12/11
If
you are considerate and very careful to take note, you can perceive that Cain,
even after being a murderer, had more reverence for God than nearly anyone in
modern christianity today (Gen 4).
11/12/11;
11/13/11
Curses
and wounds, misery and destruction, yes, even ever-lasting hatred and shame
await those who have been irrational on this earth, because justice must truly
be served against the worthless souls of those who have hated what is right.
This is a painful wound for the foolish, but a glorious longing for those who
have been under their oppression. The wise who have departed await in heaven
for the justice of God against the crewel ones on earth, and so all those who
are wise on earth long for their vindication from heaven, and look on with
wisdom believing for truth to be spread all about the face of the earth.
There is no other salvation in the midst of all these things unless you love those whom God adores. And where is there even a portion of favor for you if you refuse to joyfully take hold of His favor toward His chosen? Because of this, beware that it is not spoken against you in The Last Day, as it was said against Job’s “friends,” “My wrath is kindled against you… for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.” (Job_42:7 WEB)
11/10/11
Very
frequently, salvation simply amounts to whether or not you close your mouth.
11/8/11
Power
+ No Integrity = Scandal
Knowledge
= power? Yes. Therefore…
Knowledge
+ No Integrity = Scandal
11/8/11;
11/13/11
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11/5/11
8:47pm
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Tammi Balstra
Morris His wife
on the other hand was wise and God fearing. :0)
11/5/11
9:08pm
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Sally Hein We like that, Tammi!
11/5/11
9:20pm
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And if we will attain to the righteousness of this woman’s great
wisdom, then it is vital that we pause and very carefully consider these words
(), and deeply internalize God’s bitter
indignation*
in our own hearts against this man’s great foolishness, just as the blessed and
holy Abigail did in her own heart (1Sa_25:25, etc.). Not only did she do this without sinning,
but in fact, she did so in great wisdom, which even God agreed with!
11/7/11
[* bitter indignation – Ex. Jer_2:19; Jer_4:18; etc.]
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Most
church people wait until they agree with the Bible in a certain area before
they obey it, but a (REAL) Christian is one who *denys themself* and everything they believe to be
true in order to obey the voice of God.
11/4/11
Why Do You Expect to Actually Hear God's Voice?
If
you do not have the simple and basic integrity to submit to clear Bible verses,
what makes you think you will actually hear God's voice in prayer? If you
cannot obey that which has already been given, and that which can be easily
read off of a page, you certainly cannot be trusted with anything beyond this
in your own ears which has not yet been revealed to others! God will not speak
with you and entrust you with special and reliable things in a place of
personal intimacy if you won’t even acknowledge His authority in the place
where He has spoken and commanded eternal truth to all!
If
you do not respect and deeply reverence what you already know He has said by
others in front of the whole world, why do you think you should be able to go
to Him in person on your own “prayer time” and ask for something for yourself?
It is time to repent, get truly right with Him, obey all His voice, reject
filthiness, and forsake all these games and all this nonsense in order to
follow Him! There is a door to the path of real discipleship in front of you
right now – so run in NOW… while you may still have a chance!
11/2/11
Very
frequently, I can get overwhelmingly grieved and frustrated over so many people
who say so much, but in the end, still don't have the love to actually DO what
Jesus commanded!
11/2/11
It
is wicked to think you are so spiritual that you do not need to be accountable
to the details.
(Jesus
was more spiritual than you: Mat_5:17-20)
11/1/11
Amazing: church people living
in sin do not need me at all in their life, but those whose sins have actually
been sent away by faith cling to me and demand the gospel from my mouth that
they may inherit heaven. The difference between light and darkness is always so
vast, and “discerning” real Christians is often not really that hard when you
proclaim and represent the real Gospel.
The people who have been made alive by
faith are truly from a “different planet.” Those who have had their sins
disappear are so different than those content to
continue in them! Those who obey righteousness are all perfectly One in Truth, and the world does not receive them, but they
are received by God and they recognize each other, because they are born of
truth together!
10/30/11
I
despair over the worthless life that has an action plan to success that does
not require hearing the voice of God.
10/28/11
I
am laboring over my writings to weed out everything that is
less than perfect that my labor may be found worthy to serve God's holy ones.
10/27/11
church
people who have eclectic limits on how much of the Bible they want to obey make
my stomach feel nauseated and trouble my soul to even be exposed to their
presence, but I am constantly hurting and longing to be around people who
consider it the height of all joy to be found obeying God’s voice and
infinitely honoring all of His Words!
10/27/11
WARNING:
if anyone describes the apostasy of the modern church in terms of fleshly
issues that have no profit to them, they hate Jesus and have nothing to do with
His Gospel.
10/27/11
Calvinism
teaches a “predestination” at the expense of the
Biblical teaching of a definite free will; Arminianism teaches a “free will” at
the expense of the Biblical teaching of an absolute predestination. Both of
these are unsubmissive counterfeits that fulfill the filthy lusts of foolish
flesh.
[Originally written around 2003 for a paper on Freewill and
Predestination]
10/27/11
Instructions
for salvation when reading the Bible: when you find a paradox between two
teachings that you do not understand, say, "I do not understand." Do
not be wicked and lustful for the flesh so as to create another
"Calvinism" or "Arminianism."
10/27/11
One
of the ways you know someone dreadfully hates Jesus is when they are attracted
to the sentiments of the crowds.
10/24/11
Although
God is never predictable, He is perfectly reasonable.
10/24/11
If
Jesus’ Words do not threaten your natural comfort then you are following
antichrist.
10/13/11
Jesus
did not say ‘Blessed are the sincere,’ but He said ‘Blessed are the poor’ (Mat
5:3/ Luk 6:20) and there is a huge eternity of a difference. Do not be content
with sincerity and stop short of the glory of poverty. Your soul is truly at
stake here!
10/13/11
Jesus'
disciples literally left everything to follow Him. Why is it we nearly always
find a way to conclude that we do *not* have to forsake everything to follow
Jesus to go to heaven? This is one of those points of utter exasperation where
all you can say is “he who has ears to hear, let him hear.” Everyone attracted
to truth will certainly be saved, but everyone who makes excuses to not accept
the wedding invitation will be justly thrown into eternal torment.
[Example Scripture references:
Luk_14:12-35; Mat_22:14; Mat_19:27-29]
10/10/11;
10/11/11
The
question is not if you mean well, and if you're really sincere, and if you're
really trying. The question is, “Did you DO what Jesus told you to DO?” Your
intentions are not the question, but your reverence and obedience are.
10/2/11
If
you do not see the Gospel in the Sermon on The Mount,
then you do not yet know the very basics of what it means to be a Biblical
Christian.
9/24/11;
9/25/11
Tell
me: How much sorrow, pain, anguish, confusion, frustration and discouragement
will we need to go through until we finally stop being attracted to the flesh
and learn to honor God by lusting after what is truly obedient and spiritual?
9/23/11
It
is righteous for woman to desire to not be seen. A woman who seeks to be
noticed outside of her house is irreverent toward God (because she disobeys
Him) and guilty among men (because they see her). A marriage of untainted
fidelity (faithfulness) is built by a man who is ambitious to go out and
provide for his woman (and those who may come out of her), and a woman who
delights in the secret safety and warm protection of his shadow (Son_2:3; Rth_3:9).
9/22/11
Any
gospel that is so weak and pathetic that it cannot save people from continuing
to sin and cause them to actually do righteousness is nothing more than the
repackaged heresy which Biblical-historical Christianity has been fighting from
the very beginning (1Jn_3:7).
9/18/11;
9/22/11
Oppose
the evil of the flesh; exalt the perfection of the Scriptures; gain the favor
of God.
9/18/11
Ignoring Bible verses is the sin of apostasy.
9/17/11
Some people use Greek to more specifically and accurately obey the Bible, while others use it as leverage to disobey it. Some use it as a blessed occasion to more effectively reverence God's Words while most everyone else uses it as an intellectual badge to socially justify mass rebellion.
We really do need the scribes which Jesus sends (otherwise He would not have assured us that He would send them!) and we really do need to repent of our own scribes who lead us astray.
9/17/11
A
Muslim who obeys the Qur'an will have less punishment in hell than a
‘christian’ who disobeys the Bible (Heb_2:3).
There
is not a thing sacred about modern christianity,
except the righteous flame that torments and destroys her for her prostitution
(Rev 17-19).
Every
time you confuse the modern church with Jesus’ Assembly you help more people go
to hell.
Every
time you find, obey, and proclaim obedience to the long-abandoned commands from
the Scriptures, you bring yourself and others closer to actually being saved
from sin. If you keep going, you might just end up making it to Heaven!
9/17/11
Just
because you say “Jesus” and a Muslim says “Mohamed” does not mean you are going
to heaven and they are going to hell. There are a lot of sincere pagans,
Hindus, Hare Krishnas, Muslims, Jews, and truly,
there are a lot of sincere christians, but all of these will perish and go into
hell if they do not hear the real Gospel and obey the right Jesus (2Co 11/
Gal 1).
Your “sincerity,” “good motives,” and “good intentions” will not save you any
more than it will a Muslim, even if you seem to mix “Jesus” in with it! You
need the REAL Gospel of repentance and obedience and you need the REAL Jesus
who gives REAL righteousness and perfect truth!
9/17/11
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Modesty is a Heart Issue
When
we preach modesty as an issue of righteousness, we do not in any way seek to
establish external righteousness from what is outside, but because the
management of our sexuality is always at the core roots of our being we know it
comes from the heart:
‘out of the heart come fornications…’
We
see that modesty is not an external righteousness any more than fornication is,
since these two are directly related and often inseparable. Fornication is an
act on the outside which Jesus says flows out of an evil inside, and it is
obvious that whatever is immodest outside is an exhibition from an evil lust
inside. We know that this is not external righteousness because we do not
consider unwilling rape the sin of fornication, nor do we consider a man who is
stripped and crucified to sin, but if anyone chooses these things for the
management of their own body they sin, not from the outside, but from within.
They willingly manage what is outside to fulfill an evil lust inside. The
question then has nothing to do with whether or not extreme modesty standards
seek an external righteousness, but the only real, true question is what is the modesty which the Scriptures demand?
We all know that it is wrong to walk around
naked, and it is only a wicked pervert who all of the sudden starts accusing
someone of “legalism” to defend his conscious from another person’s higher standard
of modesty. We are evil and fool-hearty if we take such cheap shots, and will
not escape the wrath of God against our foolishness if we do. It will not
matter how “strict” (or even “relaxed”?) modesty standards may seem to be
relative to our culture. It will only matter for us to determine what
boundaries God has set, and then we can know for sure that they are issues of
righteousness, all the way down to the heart!
9/12/11
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If
it does not look like the Gospels and the book of Acts, it has nothing to do
with Biblical Christianity.
9/10/11
How “Friends” Affect Your Salvation
Proclaiming
a Biblical Gospel will drastically decrease the number of your friends, but it
will also unspeakably increase the quality of any who may remain. It is exceedingly greater to remain in the wilderness and hurt
alone with John the Baptist, than to draw strength from those who do not share
truth with you nor have your best interests in mind. I plead with you to
diligently consider your friends! The one who has issues with submitting to any
Bible verse, to that same degree, he will abandon you in a heartbeat as soon as
you are not convenient to their lust. If they are faithless toward what is
already written about Jesus in any subtle way, watch them closely, because they
will also betray you in an instant when you least expect. You will quickly
become irritating to them, and they will stab at you as soon as your heart
becomes emotionally ravished with loving truth.
So many foolish and unneeded wounds come
from linking your life with unworthy characters. If you have ever wondered why
you are repeatedly tripped up from giving Jesus the fervent and zealous
devotion which you know you must, now is the time to take zealous heed, and
closely and earnestly consider your friends! Don’t let your life pass away in
worthlessness by investing in vanity! God has ordered you to give your life
away to the poor. If you do not reserve your life for them, the devil will
quickly steal all your substance from underneath you, and you will not know
from what direction the thief came.
Mark these words closely in your heart: you
will live or die, and you will stand or fall based on who you approve of and
share your life with. Don’t let your life be eaten up with bitterness and
destroyed in pain.
Pro_15:16 CAB
Better is a small portion with the fear of the Lord, than
great treasures without the fear of the Lord.
A man who hurts
alone for the sake of holiness and separation from vanity becomes inseparably
welded to God, and is ordained to inherit the comfort from a multitude of
saints who will be faithful to his soul. A small season of loneliness for the
sake of reverence, and your life will appear, and you will appear in greatness
before God. In this way all the prophets were glorified, and you will inherit
their company and exaltation if you will have faith and wait in their example
of patient holiness.
9/7/11
Those
who like to share their opinion have nothing to do with the ‘faith which was
once for all delivered to the saints.’
9/7/11
Some
say, ‘it is very dangerous how you take certain Bible verses and run with
them…’ but the Bible is only dangerous for those who are disobeying it. Every
“dangerous” Bible verse is safety and healthiness to those glorious few who
have been saved by them.
Righteousness will never do the righteous
any harm, and humility is praised and exalted by all who fear God. No game of
flesh will ever gain an acceptable audience before the justice of God, but the
reverent subjection under every Scripture and the acknowledgement of perfect
righteousness will make a man warmly accepted under the scrutiny of heaven’s
eyes.
Righteousness is demanded. Rebellion and
insubordination are condemned. You are not a follower of Jesus if you are not
quickly and warmly acknowledging that perfect proclamation from Heaven*. It is
those who make themselves related to truth that are
saved (Joh_1:11-13).
* Remember and consider these passages:
Mat_11:12 CAB ...the kingdom of heaven suffers
violence [βιάζεται],
and violent men [βιασταὶ]
seize it...
Luk_16:16 CAB …the kingdom of God has been preached, and
everyone enters forcibly [βιάζεται – violently (same word)] into it.
9/6/11
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· Lulu R. de Terrones, ChadSarah Siebz and Del Whaley like this.
Del Whaley Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that
day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and
in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done
many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never
knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. JUST A FEW,
NOT THAT BROADWAY THAT SO MANY ARE DEFENDING.
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Jim Drago So it depends on which way you choose to run with them. :)
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Josiahs
9/6/2011 4:41 PM
Rather, it depends on whether you run *with* them or
*against* them. Everyone who takes any verse at all and truly caries it into
obedience does righteousness, but everyone who runs the wrong way is doing so
because they are attacking them, as an invader runs against a city and as a
molester prays on a victim.
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Jim Drago Absolutely whether we run with them *to*
surrender and obedience, or if we run with them *to* selfish misinterpretation
and disobedience.
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Agreed. Reminds me of....
2Co_2:17 CAB For we are not as the rest [οἱ πολλοὶ – lit. 'those
many'], corrupting [καπηλεύοντες – lit. loosing down; fig. destroying]
the word of God; but as of sincerity [εἰλικρινείας – lit. those judged by sun light (i.e. being so clear that no
corruption stops our transparency)], but
as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ [anointed one].
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Hypocrisy
stops forgiveness! Find how to truly repent of being like them and so often you
can suddenly find how to forgive them. There is something special about
receiving mercy for the same types of crimes that have been done against you
that supernaturally enables you to forgive people as you have been forgiven,
and show mercy according to the mercy you have received.
(see: Luk_23:34
[Byz. Texts];
Isa_53:12 (MT); Act_7:60; Rom_12:14; 1Co_4:12; 1Pe_3:9;
Mat_5:44;
Mat_6:12-15;
Luk_6:27-28;
Mat_18:21-35
– now doesn’t this parable make a lot more sense??)
[also note: Only unforgiving people divorce lawfully wedded
spouses, because they refuse to repent and be forgiven of the same sins for
which they divorce their spouses!]
9/3/11
Legalism
– a term coined to incite paranoia against simple obedience to the Scriptures.
9/2/11;
9/25/11
This might be Helpful to read at Funerals
All
of us are being quickly thrust through this very short life. Most people have
the nerve to ignore the urgency and try to enjoy the ride along the way as
though He were merely a butler or chauffeur who thrust them through so quickly,
as though He were not serious about the soon-coming end. But He is serious who
brings our little life to an end so quickly, and while senseless and irreverent
masses follow pleasures and entertainments as though our purpose here were to
have fun while being quickly thrust along this vain path, a few prepare with
urgency every day, knowing that this small and fragile body must break shortly,
and our only hope is if we may somehow escape its destiny when it does! Do not
ignore the fact that the lamp of this body will soon be put out. We must have a
light greater than this to live in the end.
9/2/11;
9/25/11
The
Bible is the most concrete and immovable expression of Jesus which we have
available today. And we may reapply and say, ‘if you do not love the Scriptures
which you have seen, how can you love Jesus whom you have not seen?’ (compare: 1Pe_1:8;
1Jn_4:20). Are you ready for this?? – The Truth:
you are not more in Love with Jesus than you are with the Bible. Show me how excited
and emotional you are about the Scriptures that are available to you here on
earth and I will show you how attracted you are to the real Jesus who speaks
from Heaven.
9/2/11
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Real
Christians have consistently stood against racism (See Acts, Galatians, etc.).
At times liberals have seemed to stand against it too, but that is easy for one
who delights in the sins of all people alike! There has never been a liberal to
ever tread upon this earth that has cared about real justice. – that is what it means to be liberal. While self-proclaiming
conservatives have at times promoted racism to boast in their preferred lusts,
so also liberals have promoted paganism and disguised it as the ‘justice’ that
opposes racism. You want proof?
“When
we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet,
from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all
of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles,
Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in
the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! free
at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’”*
As
is commonly done today, by quick sleight of hand, Martin
Luther King jumps directly from opposing the ‘racism’ against skin color to
promoting the paganism of different religions, and labels all of the children
of demon-worship as though they were children of God! – This man is not
possessed by a monotheistic justice, but is guilty of pagan gluttony.
* I Have a Dream Speech
Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington
August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.
http://www.mlkonline.net/dream.html
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All
writing inherently serves a purpose. It is clear that one of the purposes of
Holy Writing (Scripture) is to inflame the hearts and minds of people with
extreme and boundless jealousy for the infinite Holiness and truth of God, and
to burn fervently against all the perversions of sin that mock this, no matter
who or what stands in the way! But it is also the job of liberals (“Sadducees”)
to antagonize against extremist zeal from the Scriptures, and to somehow
convince people that simple, direct obedience to the demands of God is actually
naïve, and somehow sinful.
Because of this, it is the purpose of
Scripture to provoke an all-consuming zeal; it is the responsibility of those
who read to give the only reasonable response of infinite devotion to the
Living God; it is the mission of Sadducees to teach that it is self-serving and
‘religious’ to be weak and susceptible under the fear of God’s Words, but by
the kindness and righteousness of God it is the job of zealots and prophets to
rebuke them.
9/1/11-9/2/11
WARNING:
All addictions in this world will send you to hell.
(Examples: 1Co_6:12; 1Co_7:31; 1Co_9:27; 1Co_10:5-14;
Mat_6:24; Luk_16:13; Joh_8:34; 1Jn_5:21;
2Pe_2:19; 1Pe_4:1; Rom_6:10-23,
etc.)
Morally
speaking, coffee is the same as alcohol. Are you addicted?
8/31/11;
9/1/11
Getting
on Facebook is often like walking into a bar: “You better not be here for the
same reason that most people are here for, and you better be
preaching the gospel while you are at it.”
[Note: One of the very few times I
have been in a bar I stuck my head in the door, raised my voice, and called
people to repent. One other time, I carried a Bible in front of me and set it
down on the bar.]
8/26/11
You
can revise a Greek text all you want, but if you do not revise your heart with
reverence and real repentance then you will still have falsehood inside
yourself as well as outside, wherever your treachery may manifest.
8/26/11
There
is a huge, immeasurable difference between pioneering and “innovating.” It has
always been the Prophet's job to pioneer truth. It has always been the people’s
job to persevere in truth. It has always been the heretic’s job to innovate
‘new truth.’
8/26/11
It
is a great treachery today that people are talking about “repackaging the
gospel” in order to treat its core foundations as dispensable wrapping paper.
Sadly, “repackaging the gospel” almost always means replacing it with
progressively worse imitations. Ironically, it is sin that is easily
“repackaged” without altering its contents, because from one generation to the
next, from one fad to the next, any variety of paganism will do when you are
not transmitting holiness and eternal truth. If you are not drastically
affected when people “repackage” your gospel, you have already apostated from
the unchanging God a long time ago. Truth will always remain immediately
relevant to those who have hated sin and been made alive by righteousness. We
must no longer vandalize the only True, and vital life-line to being right with
God.
8/26/11
Quick
information ought to never crown your head with a sense of authority, but fill
your heart with a sense of gratitude. Only the on-rush of revelation lawfully
commissions you to swiftly proclaim the Word of the Lord.
(also see 1Ti_3:6; Jer_1:4-10; Psa_147:15; Mal_3:5; 2Th_3:1; Jas_1:19 etc.)
8/22/11
In
Greek, to know [γινωσκω]
means to expose your comprehension to a certain reality that has been generated
[γινεται].
8/19/11;
8/22/11
Most people are slow to listen and understand, but quick to
speak and respond. This is called
“rebellion” and “folly” by truth.
8/19/11
It
is irrelevant if republicans may hypocritically pretend it and democrats may
overtly mock it, truth is still truth, and it stands as solid and eternal as
ever, forever, amen.
8/16/11
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Birds
do not have arms; snakes do not have legs; fish do not have fingers; Biblical
Christians do not have opinions. If you are walking around with your own set of
opinions and beliefs, you are not of the right species to inherit heaven.
8/16/11
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Jim Drago You mean there are absolutes......No......It can't be........:^)
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josh jmoney evans thats an interesting opinion.
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Josiahs Scott Every absolute Truth is an opinion to a pure fool
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josh jmoney evans only a sith speaks in absolutes.
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You
pervert… It is obvious you hate Jesus. Just leave it to a lawless and mindless
church-fool to quote paganism to promote filthy perversion in mocking the
righteousness of God.
Every religious fool (1) is more responsible than those not making a claim. It is not within Hitler's prerogative to make jokes against Jews, nor is it within reason for a dog to mock the Gospel when they are in the heritage of heresy and apostasy. And if you do not have the zeal of godly sorrow to clear your name as the Corinthians did (2), then your hypocrisy is known (3); you are lustful to die the lawless and fool-hearty death of both of your wicked brothers. Your damnation is just. Your blood be upon your own head! Your filthiness perish with you. I do not have time to entertain the lusts of the rich but only to feed the needs of the poor. I reject (4) your rich and worthless soul with all its injustice, which has hated the kindness of Jesus Himself and mocked the blood of His sacrifice.
1Co_16:22 CAB
If anyone does not [affectionately] love [φιλεῖ] the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be
Anathema (5). Marana tha! (6)
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(1)
Mat_23:17, 19
(2)
2Co_7:11
(3)
Joh_5:42
(4)
For more, see: http://www.trueconnection.org/BibleStudies/Judging_The_Church.htm
(5)
ἀνάθεμα –
That is, completely ‘given up’ to utter destruction (and
burning), sparing nothing; (see point 4)
(6)
μαράν ἀθά
– “Of Chaldee
origin (meaning our Lord has
come); maranatha, that is, an exclamation
of the approaching divine judgment”
(Strongs, G3134)
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Priscilla Batista Brown
Hey Josiah, I know you'll probably deem me as a fool as
well for saying this, but you don't seem loving or kind in your tone towards
josh by calling him a " lawless and mindless
church-fool." It seems very judging to label him those things when Jesus
calls us to not judge, we can leave the name calling to Him!!! Let Him decide
what kind of person Josh is. That's what I think.
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I just saw your website and I think the amount of Scripture on their is amazing. I definitely see where your coming from, but man...something about the tone
is not kind. Maybe I'm completely off. The passage in 2 Tim 3 conveys that Paul
wanted Timothy to stay stong
in the faith and not let evil doers who were not living in the faith deter him
from what he was taught since birth. I don't think he was calling them to be
withdrawn and unkind.
8/18/11 – ~12:30 in the
morning
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Hi Priscilla,
I appreciate hearing from you again. My only aspiration for you is kindness and goodness as much as possible. My ambition for Josh is that I would in no way seem loving or kind in my tone by any means. – this is the glorious scandal of the cross (Gal_5:11) which makes it hard for those seeking to enter in to ever make it in (Luk_13:24, etc. – a serious passage to consider!).
Because the Scriptures specifically command me to ‘withdraw’ and ‘reject’ (as covered in that link) it is required to judge and label him. It is just when we (as humans) feel like we are supposed to “love people,” that Jesus commands us to hate them (Luk_14:25-35) and it is just when we feel like we are supposed to hate people that Jesus commands us to love them (Mat_5:43-48). There is nothing predictable at all about the Gospel. It is an amazing Scandal. If you do not know how to hate, then you have no idea how to love and if you do not have Love then you can never righteously hate. But who ever teaches us to seriously obey Luk_14 in churches today, and who has ever truly distinguished between the Love we are to have, and the love we are commanded to forsake?
Jesus did not seem loving or kind to the Pharisees with the names he used in Mat 23 nor did Stephen with the harsh names he called out in Acts 7, nor will any who zealously follow Jesus in this way.
I am more than content to live and be considered imbalanced and unloving, because this is my glory and life, and because the infinite consolation of Jesus’ scandal, whom I have honored, is my reward, in that I have not done these things on my own in serving myself and I have not fed my own belly, but have labored in strengthening the arms of the humble and weak for their obedience and life.
You are free to prod to understand more if you may somehow possibly hear truth, but if not you are also free to go. But in every way my eager prayer for you is that goodness may be directed toward you and that you may somehow obtain to the resurrection of the dead (as it is said in Php_3:11).
8/18/2011
1:36 AM
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Priscilla Batista Brown Man Josiah thank you so much for your response! I was reading thru Luke this morning and my prayer is that I may see Jesus more and more for who he really is and not for who we sometimes make him become for the sake of our comfort. Your right about the gospel being scandalous. I will definitely take a deeper look at those passages. Glad to hear your doing well
8/18/2011
1:29 PM
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Priscilla Batista Brown
I guess with my other comment what I meant is that you can
still communicate your point to someone who you think isn't living right in a
way that doesn't assume you know them so well. I will think on this more and
ask anything if i need too. :)
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Mat_15:21-28/ Mar_7:25-30
Mar_7:28 CAB
And she answered and said to Him, "Yes, Lord, yet
even the little dogs underneath the table eat from the crumbs of the
children."
This
woman lost all her own personal value, and owned her cursed heritage and
reduced herself to a dog to worship the ethno-centric claims of Judaism.
8/15/11
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http://www.facebook.com/josiahs.scott/posts/10150341089436469?notif_t=like
The
word “grace” as we
commonly worship in pop-christianity is actually nowhere to be found in the
entire Bible.
I
challenge anyone anywhere to find for me one passage in all of Scripture that
uses any word like this as a positive attribute for either God or His people.
[That is, the closest sense to anything like what we commonly call
“grace” in the Bible is when describing false prophets: Jer_28:1 (Hananiah
(H2608) = H2603 + H3050); Jud_1:4, etc.]
8/15/11
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Anthony Alonso – This would be more helpful if you provided the definition of "grace" that you are specifically challenging. Charis does appear positively in a number of areas in reference to God's will, his salvation, his words, etc.
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Josiahs
Scott – I said, "as we commonly worship in pop-christianity" –
pop-christianity does not worship "Charis,"
(favor) it worships "grace" which, in pop-christianity, has nothing
to do with Charis. If we have soberly hated
pop-christianity then we understand that everything it boasts about
"grace" is filthy. Worshiping (Biblical) "Charis,"
is very *uncommon* and is usually harshly opposed by modern christianity.
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Josiahs
Scott – The polluted land we are living in today is crying out for a
distinction!
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Anthony Alonso – I guess I was expecting you to define what exactly you are critiquing. Are you against the word "grace", or a specific definition that you see espoused in "pop-Christianity?" Can you share the definition of grace you are opposing? I am just trying to understand your point from the original post.
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Anthony Alonso – If you really want to get specific and make distinctions,
Biblical Christianity should not be worshiping grace, favor, or charis. It should be worshiping the God who is gracious and
showing favor.
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Josiahs
Scott – Do most church people think about obeying all of God’s commands and
living a life of freedom from sin when they say the word “grace”?
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Anthony Alonso – If you would just answer my original question it would help me
understand the point you are trying to make. I am not trying to argue with your
point, I am trying to figure out what your point is.
From your last comment, it seems like your issue is not the word
"grace" but a misunderstanding of what the function of the grace of
God in the lives of believers. Is that right?
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Josiahs
Scott –
It
is already a disadvantage if we do not actually translate charis.
But when an age comes were most all church people zealously preach “grace” and
exploit this linguistic disadvantage to make boasts that their paganism is in
the Bible, then this is a moral crime of profaning truth that definitely needs
to be confronted. This is certainly the vast majority of churches today, and
this is what “Grace” means to most people. If someone uses “grace” to side-step
foundational Biblical teachings (for example, the need to leave all sin and
obey all of the Bible to go to heaven), then (as much
as God may help me) I will call them on their bluff. If someone says “grace”
and they describe the Biblical teaching about the favor of God that sets us
free from sin and makes us truly righteous, then I am happy to rejoice with
them.
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Anthony Alonso – Oh... Alright. That is helpful. Thanks for clarifying. As a quick follow up, in reference to "for example, the need to leave all sin and obey all of the Bible to go to heaven." Do you mean perfect obedience is a prerequisite of salvation? Or are you trying to say that "grace," properly appropriated, should not preclude obedience, but rather produce it? It miss the conversations we use to have in Gainesville.
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Josiahs
Scott – I say this because we were both in a certain context: One may ask, “Did
they prophesy *before* or *after* being filled with the Holy Spirit in the book
of Acts?” And shouldn’t we rather say, “their prophecy *was* the overflow of
being filled with the Holy Spirit.” – So also with obedience/ salvation, and
the favor of God. ‘Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.’ When a man
actually obeys God… well you know something supernatural just took place!
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Some
people are bound unto righteousness, others are bound to sin. Which are you?
8/13/11
People
who maintain a legitimate connection with Jesus maintain a reverent submission under
the Scriptures.
8/10/11
This
is a worthless life, and he who is wise will conquer it.
8/4/11
Wicked
people seek out perverted doctrine, but righteous people wait prolonged seasons
with desperation in search of truth.
7/31/11;
8/8/11
The devil does not wait around to “play fairly”; The devil is a molester of souls. Because the devil constantly seeks to exploit the common ignorance, we should urgently do everything we can to know truth.
7/21/11
So
do you really want wisdom? Start condemning the flesh and you will have it in
plenteous abundance.
[see: Rom 8:3; 1Pe_4:1-2; and in general: John,
Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, 1st & 2nd Corinthians, and Hebrews]
7/12/11
And
just who needs a ‘spiritual balance’ when you could have 100% Jesus??
7/10/11
It
is not now time in your life to get ‘enthusiastic about god’; it is time to
start flipping some tables over for truth!
7/10/11
Every man is thought to be a hero as long as he steps on other people's toes, but when truth steps on our own toes, then it is counted as heresy and legalism.
7/8/11
The
Greek word that gets represented as “church” simply means “a called out”
assembly. The Greek and Biblical usage usually has very little to do with what
we often call “church” today, but there is at least one place in the Bible
(LXX) that uses this “assembly”/ “church” word in reference to the modern
“church”/ “assembly”:
Psa_26:5 CAB I have hated the assembly* of evildoers; and will not sit with the ungodly.
[* that is, “ἐκκλησίαν”
(LXX) – The same Greek word commonly represented as “church” in the New
Testament; also see the context of the rest of this chapter!]
Jesus
only promised to build *His* Assembly [or “Church”]
(Mat_16:18)
and said nothing about exalting filthy religious social organizations.
7/9/11;
9/22/11
It
is absolutely impossible to commit idolatry with the Scriptures (compare Joh
1:1, etc.)
7/4/11
Here
are several ‘easy steps’ to salvation from modern christianity… (repeat after me):
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I do not have authority over the Scriptures; the Scriptures have authority over
me
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The Scriptures are more alive than I am, therefore they are also truer than I
am (compare Act_7:38)
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I cannot change what God mandated; I must let what God mandated change me
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If I disagree with the Scriptures, the Scriptures remain true and I am shown to
be a liar (Rom_3)
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I can easily be thrown in to hell, but the Scriptures cannot be broken (Mat_5:17-20;
Joh_10:35)
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If I live in righteousness I will be a supporter of truth, but if I live in sin
I will be a condemner of my own soul
7/4/11
‘God
does not want us to remain in sin’ – these are healthy, safe, and sound words
that will save a person if they believe them. Doesn’t God demand from us today
to believe that salvation is given ‘by promise’ from God*?
And there is a promise of life in believing that we can be alive and in peace,
and be found free from sin. – If that does not make you rejoice, then you are
dead without hope, being ignorant of the kindness and life of God. Those who do
not believe in the promised salvation from sin (Mat_1:21) will certainly
perish, since God has promised to righteous-ify [fig. ‘justify’] those who believe, and
condemn those who reject the Gospel of life.
[*see Galatians: Gal_3:14, Gal_3:16-19, Gal_3:21-22, Gal_3:29;
Gal_4:23, Gal_4:28]
6/29/11
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After interacting with so many church people, I was completely dumbfounded that this was the majority of the divorce and remarriage issue when dealing with people: You cannot live in sin and go to heaven. It is because people have first been so confused under churchy propaganda so that they cannot believe this very simple and straight-forward reality that they completely trip when you talk to them about repenting of adulterous remarriage. We have got to stop sleeping with the prostitute spiritually, then it, of course, makes complete sense to not commit adultery physically.
7/2/11
He
who maintains humility after being exalted, wins, but the one who is humble at
first but proud after exaltation is anyone's fool.
[May God help us!]
6/27/11
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Father’s Day
After some disciples honored me
on Father’s Day 2011, I wrote this meditation:
Every ‘father figure’ I
have ever had has bitterly rejected me (including 1 physical and 3 spiritual figures). But God remembered this hated and wandering reject
from His Holy hill and rewarded me with truer riches than I ever lost. Although
this day I have no father on earth to bless my life and care for my soul, yet
on earth God has made me a father to legitimate children in the Good
Announcement of Jesus. Who would have ever thought this?
Let no one praise those who once discipled
me, because it says
Eze_16:20-21 CAB …you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore, and sacrificed these to them to be destroyed. You went a-whoring as if that were little, 21 and slain your children, and gave them up, in offering them up as a sacrifice.
And so they have lost
all goodness to their name. But as for me, God said,
Isa_49:20-21 CAB For your sons whom you have lost shall say in your ears, The place is too narrow for me; make room for me that I may dwell. 21 And you shall say in your heart, Who has begotten me these? Whereas I was childless, and a widow; but who has brought up these for me? And I was left alone; but from where did these come to me?
Psa_107:41 CAB …He helps the poor out of poverty, and makes him families as a flock.
And
Psa_113:9 CAB …settles the barren woman in a house, as a mother rejoicing over children.
(and compare Psa_68:6; 1Sa_2:5; Gal_4:27)
Luk_1:53 CAB He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich He has sent away empty.
And I have rejoiced
because
Psa_27:10 CAB …my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord has taken me to Himself.
(also see Mat_12:47-50; Luk_8:21)
And truly God took me
up and raised me up, and became my only true Father who cares for my soul, and
the glory I have received and hold this day the cruel and bitter treachery of
sinful flesh cannot take one bit of credit for, because there is a testimony
against their betrayal, and because my fullness and consolation comes from God,
and because my reward is forever, and because I have no inheritance here on
this earth!
6/19/11; 7/5/11
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A person begins to be a Biblical Christian the moment they begin to subject their whole life to the Scriptures. A person stops being a Real Christian when they stop submitting to the Scriptures. - do you see why there are so few Christians in the World?
6/17/11
There
are answers in the Bible verses that everyone else is ignoring.
6/17/11
The
most important tenets of what we teach about salvation today was
originally condemned as heresy throughout the first few centuries of the
Churches that Paul and the twelve Apostles founded.
6/16/11;
6/17/11
We
must spend our entire lives zealously filtering out the flesh and constantly
removing the foolish pollutions of this world and its condemned faith. Who is
there who does not need to take up their cross every morning to be received in
purity and peace with God, and lay hold of Divine freedom to follow Jesus?
6/15/11
Modern
christianity is inflamed with the madness of their own
innovations.
6/15/11
Believing
Bible = Heaven; Believing Modern christianity = Hell;
(and that makes an eternity of a difference!)
6/14/11
As
long as the flesh keeps boasting on this earth there will be heresies in
abundance.
6/11/11
Please,
I beg you, be careful to never be excited or gratified by religious social
organizations, neither in their ceremonies nor in their “Worship services,”
because ultimately, the flesh will always end up damning your soul. I wish to
God that someone had warned me about all of this before, but I rejoice before
God that He very kindly and gently helped me in other ways.
6/10/11
We
have got to stop acting like bodily shame is a silly relative cultural thing
that we are childishly subjected to and inhibited by. Bodily shame is a Divine
ordinance which God has ordained as a virtue for managing the sexual
distinctions of our bodies.
6/10/11
No
one like RULES! (except Christians).
5/29/11
Some
people actually like it when God talks, but most people just groan at the
thought.
5/29/11;
7/5/11 (sp. groan)
We
should not do what makes sense to us; we should have enough sense in us to do
what the Scriptures say instead. Then maybe we will have enough sense left over
to purchase some wisdom and understanding.
5/29/11;
5/30/11
If we get as zealous as we need to get, we will somewhat redefine a Christian’s “quiet time” as their “loud time.”
5/25/11
It is a shameful thing to be invested in the flesh. When you finally stand up to be rewarded you will also be cursed, and you will be compelled to admit and bear the guilt of your faithlessness and folly.
5/23/11
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5/23/11
if we ever start preaching the
gospel in the Bible, we are going to get the same reactions.
5/23/11
Mike Evans it seems that jesus wasnt as focused as those who weren't going through the gate or who weren't "right"...he spent some time on those who didnt't know scriptures and this did not seem to be his focus. It seems as long as one is focused on what people are not doing...they're not focused on what is going on.
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Mike Evans And honestly, at some level it seems that you think you got it figured out...and from what i read and experience it seems that people who think they got it figured out and know how to interpret scriptures and life, tend to have a limited scope.
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I know, joe, i'm
sure we have different perspectives and views on things, and how those things
are connected to the faith but still i'm not sure if
you realize this, but when you state some of your posts...it creates a
separation between yo...u and "THEM" and I don't see that in Him. I
don't believe he was about that, but moreso about how
to connect to "them"...because in all honesty, i'm
that idiot who doesn't got it figured out and who
keeps stumbling his way through this maze He's created. "It's not long
walk home that will change this heart, but the welcome home that will."
5/23/2011 12:02 PM
Mike,
I would not have thought that you would still be viewing any of my posts, but because I value you and wish for your benefit, I left the door open. But through this, as Jesus says, “…now they have both seen and they have hated both Me and My Father.” (Joh_15:24).
It is clear that you hate Jesus. Truth is for poor people; perspectives and “interpretations” are for hypocrites (Joh_8:53; 2Pe_1:20). Because of this, I am not willing to play rich and filthy religious games of fleshliness with people who are not serious about obeying Jesus, because, as Jesus legislated for those in His kingdom, ‘it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to their dogs’ (Mat_7:6; Mat_15:26; Mar_7:27).
There was once a Gospel you heard of division (Luk_12:51) and separation (2Co_6:17) but now your welcome mat which you require is at the stoop of every harlotry house in rich postmodern christianity, and you are captivated in her prostitution since she warms your heart with her welcoming christianized pagan immoralities. You cannot leave the apostasy you are now seduced into because a slave is the dispensable pawn of his cruel master. Your damnation is at the forefront of Jesus warning sentiments toward you (Joh_8:53; Joh_8:21 etc.), just as it is the fervent warning of this Scripture you have hated and rejected:
Luk_13:23-28 CAB Then one
said to Him, "Lord, are there few who are saved?" And He said to them, 24
Strive to enter through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you,
will seek to enter and will not be able.
25 When once the Master of the house has
risen up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the
door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open for us,' and answering He will say to you, 'I
do not know you, where you are from.' 26 Then you will begin to say, 'We ate
and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.' 27 But
He will say, 'I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.' 28
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham
and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves
being cast out.
5/23/2011 12:03 PM
Mike has established my warning here: Just repost Scriptures and encourage people to believe them, and some filthy pervert will grown out of their darkness and hatred against Jesus – and that while claiming some kind of christianity (or ‘relationship’ with god)! I warn everyone who cares: flee from this ridiculous pagan game of lawless hypocrisy! Woe to the pagans who claim christianity and make a mockery of everything that Jesus said!
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Age is only a credit to your character if you have used it to endure in faithfulness. And the faithfulness which is approved by Jesus is an infatuation with a reverent justice which always condemns the flesh. The righteous have already distinguished their celebrated honors from that age and experience which is commended by men, because that which is honored by men is only a maintenance of dressed up treachery.
5/21/11; 5/25/11
When
someone is born of the Word of God, they instantly crave truth. One of the
clear giveaways that someone has not been created in truth is a continued
complacency toward absorbing the nourishment of the Scriptures.
5/20/11;
5/25/11
An
unsubmissive posture toward the Scriptures will damn your soul.
Gal_6:7 KJV Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
5/20/11
There
are lots of very smart people; there are very, very few wise people; there are
a lot of people who like to talk about the Scriptures; there are almost no people
who submit under their authority and actually obey the Scriptures; there are
way too many people that like to talk about Jesus; there are so painfully few
people who like to talk like Jesus; there are so many people who like to boast
about how they say they are going to heaven; there are almost no people who
live in such a way that indicates they belong to heaven; there are so many
people who ‘pray to God,’ and where are the people that actually obey Him when
He answers?
5/19/11
Modern
christianity is going to hell. I pray that you would
somehow be spared from this. Modern christianity is a
joke, but God’s severe condemnation of christianized paganism is no laughing
matter. (Rev
17-19)
5/16/11;
5/25/11
Be
weak and vulnerable, and easily crushed by the mighty Words of God; don't puff
yourself up unto the day of destruction.
5/15/11;
5/16/11
The
hippy movements had their immoral rallying cries for “free love,” and today’s
church goers act like God is a prostitute who would share out the intimacy of
His favor (“grace”) upon the lives of those who are not broken and humble.
5/9/11
Joh_5:46-47 CAB For if you believed Moses, you would have believed Me; for he wrote about Me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?" – Jesus shows that you have to believe the Bible before you can come to Him. This is why virtually every church person in our christianized culture has fallen in love with antichrist.
5/8/11
Obeying the Scriptures is a necessary prerequisite for entering heaven to live with God.
4/28/11
As you pray, ask if there is any way to obey.
4/28/11
We
should not know anything emotionally or zealously until we first have a valid basis to believe that
it has been declared from God.
4/28/11
One
of the woes of our age is that people don’t think before they speak, and now
(especially with the advent of the internet) they don’t even think before they
write. Certainly our damnation is just, and we will not escape when God brings
justice to bear for all the addictive crimes of perversion and foolishness we
boast in.
4/28/11
God authorized the original Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, Man gave us the “Authorized Version” of 1611 (the KJV), and overt heretics authorized for us most all of the other filthy rewritten, paraphrased versions in mass use today.
[For more see: http://www.trueconnection.org/BibleStudies/Bibliography_and_Glossary.html#Paraphrases]
4/22/11
People who really know Jesus like to pray A LOT.
4/21/11
It
is not intellectually honest to trust your own intellect.
4/17/11
When
church people talk about “God’s presence” they usually mean “the presence of gods.”
If we ever get to a spirit that is actually Holy and
demands obedience at all times, then we are finally talking about that which is
written in Scripture.
4/16/11;
4/22/11
The
height of a man's integrity can be directly measured by his faithfulness to
repeat the Scriptures and encourage others to obey them. If he is dishonest in
this, he will be dishonest in everything else that truly matters the most.
4/10/11;
10/24/11
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4/5/11
Amy
Stadt, Amira Walcott, Doris
Mayer Reece, Grace Kontaxes, and Brigitte Gonzalez like
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Rion Reece c'mon...you are probably wearing both cotton and polyester or other fibers together even as you write that ;)
4/7/11
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Josiahs Scott you pervert... I did not say I was related to those who make a mockery of obeying God's commands, I said I was related to those who (actually) OBEY all the Bible.
4/7/11
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Rion Reece That was intended to be a lighthearted poke, but now you make me curious. Although you do not know me, you have called me a pervert and a mocker. Do you really beleive that is in accord with Scripture?
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Where in the Scriptures does it teach that you have to 'know someone' before correcting them? On the contrary, the Scriptures teach that you are what you speak, because it says, 'out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.' Because of this, if you speak perversion you are being a pervert, because Jesus teaches that it is in your heart before it comes out of your mouth. No one needs to guess at 'who a person is' when that person plainly displays the content of their heart with their own mouth.
I do not intend to take you more seriously than you take yourself, yet, lightheartedness toward the massive disobedience of the Bible is perversion (compare Mat_12:33-37), because the condemnation of this age and the perishing of souls is no laughing matter. We should cherish any voice at all that speaks to warn this lawless age to be converted to truth. Jesus takes this testimony seriously, and so should we, with great reverence.
Aren’t we told that the moment Peter spoke against truth Jesus called him satan with the Words, 'get behind me satan'? Was Jesus mean-hearted or rude for saying that? Truly, Jesus loved Peter in His hurtful Words more than we claim to love people when we leave them to keep doing wrong. And if I say good things to you, having never met you, we will be friends because of it if you have been affectionate toward truth. A friend rebukes to righteousness but a coward pacifies to complacency.
The language I have used is the language of the Scriptures. Perhaps we are simply not used to it because of the weakness and limitations of our translations. But if you will burn for righteousness you will already be familiar with it no matter what language you speak.
Well, if that is correction, then you should think about what you say.
You speak of obeying the 'whole Bible' and are offended when I remind you that
you do not do so. Nor do I; I cut my hair as I please, just for example. In
truth, it is u...nlikely that
anyone does, if you bear in mind the areas of Scripture that have been changed
by the apostles in New Testament times, such as the eating of foods which were
formerly unclean for the people of God--or for that matter who is included in
that number. It would be silly to obey the former things which God in his mercy
has put aside...but that does not mean that those things are not Scripture or
that they are not part of the Bible. Rather, let us focus on what Jesus
affirmed as the greatest of the commandments--to love God and to love your
neighbor. I am indeed glad if you are full of zeal, but in order to be Godly,
zeal must bear the character of the Holy One---love and mercy.
There is nothing admirable about a child-molester’s love for boys, so also the love you worship is a prostitution which God has passionately condemned all throughout the Scriptures. This ‘love’ without obedience is an abomination before God (Luk_16:15-17), and this is why I said you were a pervert, and God will not forgive your perversion unless you repent. This is why God says, ‘hear the Word of the Lord you harlot’ (Eze_16:35) and again, ‘today if you hear His voice do not harden your heart.’ (Heb_3:7-19).
You hate Jesus who commanded you to be perfect (Mat_5:48; Gen_17:1; Deu_18:13; Job_1:1; Luk_6:40; 2Co_7:1; Col_1:28), and you hate your neighbor lest he should hope and believe in the goodness of God to be freed from the sin you love, obey the Bible, and be saved from your condemnation.
If in your lawlessness you hate the Law-giver, you will not escape the demands of His Laws. If you insult the New Covenant, which is purchased with the infinite perfection of Jesus’ blood, and you act like it does not completely obey and surpass every single iota [the smallest Greek letter] and every keraia [the smallest Hebrew ‘stroke’] of God’s Law, then you are still at the righteousness of the Pharisees, who broke all these things, who’s lawlessness Jesus condemned (Mat_23). All of the commands which were originally given to manage the flesh of the Israelites but are now demanded out of our hearts in truth, if you don’t keep and fulfill them, He has promised us that we will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven, if we are found like the Pharisees doing whatever things we want to do instead of obeying the voice of God (Mat_5:17-20; Rom_2:26-29; Rom_3:31).
You are truly a hater of Jesus and all goodness. You are commanded to repent (Act_17:30), but if you don’t, know for sure that your damnation is just (Rom_3:8).
4/7/11
A woman's greater potential attraction to a man if he shaves his beard is a worthless attraction, loaded with deceptive treachery. Those of a cheap and shallow heart will celebrate this filthy appeal to such shameful imasculation. But those who love God will shun such perversion and despise the fool-hearty appeal with insults.
3/31/11; 5/30/11
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It
is never wrong to focus on rules. It is always wrong to have a lawless
(rule-less) heart. If rules are good then they will not hurt you or anyone else
if you focus on them. If rules are bad then you should rather “focus” on
destroying them as much as possible. But there is no bad-ness in focusing on
good rules that God gave us, because this is the essence of the love of God and
His people!!!
1Jn_5:2-3 CAB By this we know that we love the children of God, whenever we love God and keep His commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
3/26/11
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If
we want to be separate from the kingdom of antichrist, we simply must repent of
using paraphrases!
3/24/11
“Conviction”
from Greek and Biblical usage means to “speak” words to someone which exposes
their ‘moral perception’ (or “conscious” [lit. “together
perception”]) to the guilt they have for wrongdoing.
This is the work of the Holy Spirit (Joh_16:8) which God commands all real,
Biblical preachers to proclaim (as in the Greek of 2Ti_4:1-5; Tit_2:15). If
there are pastors who do not expose the moral perception of their congregations
to an awareness of guilt for those who continue to sin, ultimately they neither
have the Holy Spirit, nor are they real preachers whom God has charged to
proclaim His Words to us, since they disobey 2Ti_4:1-5; Tit_2:15. After all,
how can you expose other people to an awareness of sin which you yourself are
trying to hide from your own conscious?
3/17/11
We
live in a demented culture that thinks that “loving each other” makes wasting
your sexuality as a prostitute a nobler crime.
3/16/11
Everything
in the Scriptures is alive and true. Only God can write down characters on
parchment so that thousands of years later it jumps out and seizes people with
life as soon as they believe it! No other writing can even compare to when God
arranges infinity within characters, and only God can make this same “Word”
into actual flesh for the salvation of mankind. How is it that God saves people
by the arrangement of Words? No one comprehends it, but this is the mystery of
the ages, that God writes life in Words, and that God calls “the Word” Himself,
and wraps it in flesh, and suddenly all mankind can see the salvation of God!
3/15/11
We
are in a culture that is laboring to take homosexuals out of the closet, while
church people set up adulterers in the pulpit, and both parties are ready to
put real Christians behind bars. But all of this is only a small beginning, and
is set to be arranged unto a yet more perfect lawlessness when antichrist is
revealed. Are you ready? It is in this context we say, ‘so comes
The Day of Jesus…’
3/15/11
By
the end of their life, most people end up learning how to simultaneously be
wise in their own eyes and foolish in their own hearts at the same time. Such
multitasking is called “hypocrisy” by the Bible.
3/8/11
One
of my most beloved and deeply defining memories in life was when there would be
people who thought that everyone in church lived in sin, and the guy who first
preached the real Gospel to me used to enthusiastically say to his Monday/
Tuesday night Bible study, “Guys, I REALLY like not sinning!” and everyone was
dumbfounded as to how he could say such things with such joy and faith that we
all knew it was true.
3/7/11;
5/14/12
I
do not really blame Muslims for hating our culture.
3/4/11
There are at least two vital things which are critical needs to come to terms with when it comes to "uncertainties" in areas of truth: 1. to have the integrity to admit that they exist, and are impossible to solve, and 2. to have the courage to set your heart on finding out the answers anyway by zealously insisting on diligently believing and begging God for help and revelation of the answers.
The hypocrisy of wicked religious people makes them confident in defending and exploiting common ignorance without requiring integrity to submit to truth and the cowardice of the lawless causes them to rejoice at the imagination of dissolving the authority of the Scriptures over our lives.
3/3/11
Hide
the body; sanctify sexuality; honor God.
2/16/11
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The Scriptures Cannot Be Idolized
Throughout
all of the history of this age there has never been a being ever created who
emphasized or reverenced the Scriptures “too much.” One sure way to spot
heretics that hate Jesus in this age, is when you find an ever-growing number
of lawless perverts who are worried about ‘not making an ‘idol’ out of the
Scriptures.’ This is an evident display of contempt and hatred for the Word (Logos) of God (i.e. John 1), whom they despise to worship.
These are self-incriminated filthy pagans, infatuated with the dirt of their
own flesh, and repulsed by the truth which God wrote down for us in infinite
goodness when He gave us the life of the Scriptures.
I will gladly be accused of idolatry by
pagans any day for worshiping the One True God by displaying faithfulness and
Love to Jesus and His truth. If we like Jesus in this age then there is a sure
promise of greatness, love and salvation from His hand in the next age. He who
doubts the infinite extent of reverence due to the Scriptures also hates God
who wrote infinite life into them. He who doubts that the Scriptures are an
infinite expression of God incapable of “too much” reverence, does not like the
pure and holy Word that was made flesh.
It takes a presumptuous and sinning ball of
flesh to presume that God would give us flesh as a solution for salvation which
we should at the same time take care not to “reverence too much,” in that, they
think God would give us Scriptures that save (Jam_1:21-25) by something less
than infinite and Divine truth, but He who is born from the Word of God (1Pe_1:23-25;
Jam_1:18) recognizes the
spiritual substance from which he was born, when reading God shinning through encrypted characters on a page.
Ultimately, if the Scriptures are
“limited,” Jesus is “limited” by the same principal (Joh_1:1-5, 14; 1Pe_1:3, 23), because there is no pure ray of light
that shines out of the Sun that does not express the very same substance that
the Sun itself emitted out of itself, and anyone who belittles the expression
of God, of course curses Him from who’s substance this light flows, as men who
spit directly in the Father’s face when crucifying Jesus and spitting in Jesus’
face, because they refused to recognize Him and despised to worship His
Divinity.
Those who had the Scriptures in their hands
but disobeyed them in their deeds did not come to Jesus (Joh_5:38-40;
Joh_8:47), nor did they have
the Scriptures in their hearts (Joh_5:38;
see TSK*; [and compare: Joh_15:7]) and in the end Jesus said they would
actually be condemned by the Scriptures of Moses themselves for not believing
them (Joh_5:45-47).
But all who obey the Scriptures are made wise unto salvation (2Ti_3:14-17).
Woe and anathema to the fool that thinks he has found something better than the
Words of God, because the Word of God is Jesus (1Co_16:22; Joh_1:1-5, 14)!
[* TSK: Deu_6:6-9; Jos_1:8; Psa_119:11; Pro_2:1, Pro_2:2; Pro_7:1, Pro_7:2… 1Jo_2:14] | God’s Word has to be mixed
with faith to profit: Heb_4:2
2/10/11-2/11/11;
2/16/11
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The
good news is that it is impossible to take the Bible too literally, as long as
you actually keep obeying it. This is especially true because the Bible itself
clearly and literally tells us whenever it speaks in parables and analogies. So
if you first take it at face value, you can always know when to brace your listening to
particularly receive a mysterious and deep illustration and prophetic picture
of truth. The only people that feel a need to not “take the Bible too
literally” are those who are already literally disobeying it.
2/3/11
What I Want
I
am longing for truth; I am wanting to be around real
Christians; I am wanting people to agree and like the Scriptures; I am wanting
to hear people affirm God's Words! I have heard enough rebellion; I want to
hear people who like obeying Jesus! I want to call the church to repent and
flee to the refuge of righteousness and zealous obedience to a perfect and Holy
God with flames of Fire in His eyes!
I want to see people stop pretending to be
‘hard core’ and actually separate themselves unto perfect and Divine monotheism.
I want to declare war on the flesh. I want to confront the gluttonizing
indulgence of abominable vanity and worthless pleasures that are being cheaply
passed off as ‘not being sinful’ all around us. I want to overthrow the filthy
tables of our christianized, religious culture! I want to proclaim the high and
stringent demands of God for real deal salvation. I want to lay down God’s Good
and life giving Law of truth and Goodness. I want to demand by God that people
start entering in through a narrow door and walk a difficult way before they
even think about lying anymore about their supposed ‘christianity.’
I want to see people give a reasonable
response to a real God with real wrath and a real hell; I want to see God
glorified in people who take Him seriously with great fear and trembling; I
want to fiercely shut every abominable mouth in church that dares to contradict
the clean and good Words of Jesus. I want to call people to a cut and broken
heart before God, with the weakness and humility that heaven admires.
I want to talk and commune with people who
are actually warmed with fervent Love when God speaks. I want to be around
people that are not happy unless truth is recognized, honored, and celebrated.
I want to see people who know no sense of pleasure outside of burning for
righteousness and the things that prune the soul toward holiness. I want to be
with people who are actually saved from sin, and completely obligated to doing
righteousness. I want to be warmed by people who shun the paganism and filthy
opinions of flesh. I want to know people whose eyes have the light of truth in
them. I want to befriend those who have trashed their TV, cleaned their house,
washed their hearts, dedicated their lives, and sacrificed their bodies for the
sake of truth.
2/2/11
_
Spiritual
people smile due to a warmed heart when you start talking about the prospect of
obeying all of the commands in the Bible, but fleshly people grown in their
darkness because they see this as a burdensome task to even hear these things
mentioned!
1/27/11;
1/28/11
We
often say, “We should do good works, but we should not trust in them” – this is
a shallow and lawless teaching of the modern church and there is not one verse in
the entire Bible that says anything like this. But on the contrary, instead of
saying “do good but don’t trust in it” the Bible
demands that we actually have to repent of it altogether and get clean works
from God instead!
Works of faith never endanger a person of
possibly trusting in their own works, because works of faith are of faith!
It is the works of flesh under the law that will condemn our soul if we do not
repent of them. Whatever works that we are doing which we cannot trust in are
that way because they are sinful and fleshly, and we must repent of them to
live. There is no filth or sin in trusting in the hope of God, that He will
work salvation in us.
1/24/11
If
you agree with and obey every Bible verse you will go to heaven.
(see Mat_5:16-20)
1/24/11
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· Someone posted, “HOLINESS IS NOT THE WAY TO JESUS. JESUS IS THE WAY TO HOLINESS”;
· Another wrote, “Don't be righteous to get close to God, Get close to God to be righteous”;
· Another wrote, “Vance Hall Like a magnet that sits close to metal....over a period of time. The metal will become magnetic. So....when we stay close to Jesus...we become...like Him....Holy... and filled with LOVE.”
·
I wrote, “Could that possibly be what this Scripture is
getting at? – “Follow peace with all… and holiness, without
which no man shall see the Lord…” (Heb_12:14 KJV)
·
But they still said, “another way to say it is, ‘You
don't get good to get God, you get God to get good’ :D”
·
And “Yes, we cannot do it without Him and we depend on
His grace all the time as well. Praise the Lord!”
No
one ever answered my question.
1/19/11
Finally
I wrote as a note:
I Plead with you to
Consider the Gospel of Jesus
Please be warned:
if you hate Jesus and accept the filthy, modern christian
gospel you will definitely be condemned as God’s enemy:
Heb_12:14 KJV Follow peace with all… and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord…
2Co_6:17-18 CAB Therefore "Come out from the midst of them and be separated," says the Lord. "Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you." 18 "I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty."
God
makes very *conditional* promises here, and
your response determines if you are accepted or rejected by Him, and if we fail
to meet Him on His terms then we have nothing but rejection and wrath awaiting
us for our crimes of hatred against God. God gave these things to us in the
Scriptures that we might live before Him in peace and love all our days.
Because of this, please receive and promote such truth, if you love people and
care for their souls… because, truly, we need to repent!
1/19/11
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The
real Jesus is so much more attractive than the perverted one. The real Jesus
has perfect Words of life that emanate out of piercing light. He is always True; Always Holy; Always Perfect! He has no relationship
with the irreverent, but leaves all such to relate to the swine to the end that
He may seek out and save the humble. Anyone who does not Love the real Jesus is
justly damned with the perverted one.
1Co_16:22 WEB If any man doesn't [affectionately] love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed…
1/15/11
People who like Jesus hang on every Word He speaks. People who hate Jesus are often infatuated with the sick paraphrases which our dead religious culture has apostated into (Deu_8:3; Mat_4:4; Luk_4:4; Luk_19:48).
1/15/11
It
is better to leave behind a piano that is out of tune after having intensely
worshiped the real Jesus, than to maintain a piano that is well-tuned so that it
can be left for others to pleasantly sing the sweet sonnet of the prostitute.
1/12/11
Repetition in instruction can strengthen their understanding,
but repetition in commands can weaken your authority.
~1/6/11;
1/9/11
Preserving the particular value of women by keeping them from being on display and loading honor upon their person by hiding its sexual features from being cheaply prostituted before the eyes of men DOES NOT OPPRESS WOMEN, it honors them with exceeding value! Oh that feminists would stop hatefully destroying females, and that men would actually do their job again and protect them as in days of old!
1/6/11; 1/7/11
Cheap Belief or Sacrificial Faith?
Belief due to cultural upbringing and agreeable convenience is one thing, but sacrificial belief is when people actually take up their cross and believe what God said even when everything they feel in their life disagrees with it. Cultural orthodoxy will always result in Biblical sacrilege, because heresy is infinitely bound up in the heart of those who are satisfied and pleased to conveniently do what is right, because when God demands more from them, they think they may bring no sacrifice and still be considered to have conformed to what God said. This is a sick deception. Affordable obedience is shear rebellion in God’s Kingdom, and no one will enter until he has forsaken all to follow. It is time to see the Perl (Mat_13:44-46), take up the Plow (Luk_9:57-62), and make the sacrifice (Luk_14:25-35).
12/30/10
A man who is not skeptical toward his own thoughts is his own fool.
12/29/10
Those who are skillful at hardening their heart will quickly be destroyed with unbearable hatred, but those who are easily convicted will live in safety.
12/27/10
This is an astounding part of the Bible to meditate on: Jos_24:19 CAB And Joshua said to the people, Indeed you will not be able to serve the Lord, for God is holy; and He being jealous will not forgive your sins and your transgressions. (see esp.: Jos_24:13-28)
12/19/10
Mat_5:3-12
(The Beatitudes) – Yes, this kind of people reverently and joyfully receive it
with deep gratitude whenever Jesus shows them great kindness and mercy to help
them know how to get sin out (Act_3:26), but rich people get angry whenever
you interrupt their indulgence for even a moment to offer them any kind of
moral light that might benefit their souls.
12/18/10
On
a regular basis I am urgently praying that God might count me worthy to be an
imbalanced extremist for the cause of truth.
12/13/10
It
is interesting that we find it offensive for Muslims to “oppress their women,” but
we don’t find it offensive at all that we prostitute ours. How is it that we
turn to them and say, “You should become christians too”? What? So they can all
go around showing off their nakedness in public too like we do?
12/11/10
Lawless
people always try to incriminate “rules” and “details” so they will never have
to admit their own faults. No one ever wants to admit and come to terms that it
is wicked and disobedient hearts that destroy people, not governing laws. We
always want to blame God and make Him look bad for making too many rules that
are too hard to obey, and we never want to say, “You know what? For once in my
life I am going to admit that I am actually the problem here, and not the
rules!” – But of course, when we oppose God in these ways, we won’t act like we
are ‘blaming God’ for these things, we will just mock and degrade His
representatives who insist on obeying God’s laws.
We sneer at people and act like they are
unenlightened when they are excited about obeying God’s laws. We act like faith
is when I get to be lazy, sloppy and disobedient and still think I am on good
and close terms with God. This is ‘real enlightenment’ to fools so debased that
they think fleshly apathy is the answer to all faith and truth. In a filthy age
of boastful lawlessness, they are proud to have won every argument by simply
appealing to everything the Bible demands from us as “legalism” and “rules,”
and no one burns to break over their sin, repent, and get a zealous and
obedient heart!
12/9/10
7What
we falsely call “boredom” is nothing more than ‘a mild form of guilt’ (as some
say). It is God’s internal, built in “prayer-notifier”
so that we might arise unto all righteousness, but if we drown this alarm in
entertainment, then we sin against the creation of God and use our bodies for
indulging in pleasures rather than serving the living God.
12/9/10
In this age we use the TV for babysitting our young so they won’t bother us, and we also use it to babysit our own conscious for the same reasons.
12/8/10; 12/9/10
In most cases (with very few exceptions) when I walk into a pastor's house and see a big-screen TV in the living room, I want to through a brick at it and smash the filthy idol. Our culture is so accustomed to “pretending christianity,” that if people lie straight to our face and make a fool of us, while calling themselves “christians” (and even pastors!), we will happily play along with it!
(For more on this, see the Bible study I
did called, “The Woes of Worldliness”
on www.TrueConnection.org)
12/7/10; 12/18/10
It
is always fatal to disagree with the Scriptures, 100% of the time. This fact
urges us to no longer earn the wages of death (Rom_6:23)
but to heed the Words of life (Mat_4:4/
Luk_4:4; 1Pe_1:23;
1Pe_2:2-3)!
If we truly LIVE on “every word that goes out of the mouth of God,” (Mat_4:4 Jos.Trans.), then we also die by every denial of its authority over our lives to give us truth!
11/29/10
One
of the greatest enemies to ever plague and threaten the well
being and safety of all mankind is confidence. If people would just
remove confidence from their hearts, they would almost fall right into heaven.
11/23/10;
11/24/10
It
is time to be true, obedient and holy, because Jesus comes with reward and
judgment.
Rom_13:11-12 KJV And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep… 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
11/23/10
Some things about Truth: Truth is accessible to humans if they can ever be poor and humble, because it always does them good. Also, what you do with Truth is a moral issue that determines whether God damns you or saves you. Truth can be known; Truth Matters. So go and know, and do truth.
11/21/10
If you will listen I will tell you a profound but simple truth: It is simply right for a man not to look at a woman when he is not married to her. If he does not look at her, he will increase and grow into greater and greater holiness and godliness day by day. It is righteousness when a woman does not want to be seen because of the promise of faith. I tell you truly: that woman will become great in virtue beyond measure and will attract even the gaze of God. She will be great in God’s Kingdom as a woman of God protected by the favor of cleanness before any fool even gets a chance to think of marrying her.
11/16/10
The
Greek word behind “Disciple” in English Bible versions
literally means a “learner” in the sense of an ‘apprentice.’ If
we ever stop learning and obeying more truth then we have stopped being
learners or “disciples,” and if we stop this, then in Bible terms we have
stopped being Christians. And from the beginning Jesus has made it clear
that if we have not forsaken EVERYTHING to follow Him, we have not even begun
to “learn” a thing from Him as real Christians, that is, we have not even begun
to be His disciples, (as in Luk_14:25 and onward).
For
more see:
http://www.TrueConnection.org/BibleStudies/Discipleship_JosiahsScott.htm
11/14/10
Although
a person may be hindered from knowing truth by lack of proper information,
knowing proper information will never be the answer for knowing truth.
Missing
information may disadvantage a person from knowing truth, but having
information will not cause a person to know truth.
Although zeal without knowledge is wicked
and foolish, knowledge without zeal is filthy satan
worship.
11/11/10
The
Scriptures say:
Pro_12:4 CAB A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but as a worm in wood, so a bad woman destroys her husband.
If
a woman is a treacherous crown that does not glorify the head of her king, then
do not be surprised if she is seen as a simple, beggarly, unattractive hat,
instead of a glorious woman.
11/8/10
If
a person is hindered from righteousness because they are not motivated to labor
to know and learn truth, then their heart is worth very little to begin with.
Some will say, “I cannot live like that because I just don’t know that much and
I am not that smart.” We might sympathize with this by thinking they are
humble, but in what sense is this said? Being poor in spirit is
not the same thing as being lazy in study.
We are often infatuated with knowing and
absorbing everything we can about people who have captivated our romantic
longings and needs. It is about time some people loved God even more than this.
Tragically, some people will think you are promoting intellectualism when
searching into the (spiritual) mysteries of God’s Truth, but amazingly
God speaks through a messenger and says instead:
Dan_10:11-12 CAB …O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words which I speak to you… 12 …Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to afflict yourself before the Lord your God, your words were heard…
11/8/10
I
am constantly baffled by finding more religious people who hate Jesus. I know
they are as common as they can be, and even though I have lived around them my
whole life, I still can’t help but be dumbfounded seeing
church people angry and disgusted with the goodness, truth and perfection of
Jesus and His true Words. After being raised in church my whole life, the first
time I saw Jesus truly in a person I was as amazed and overtaken with wonder
and excitement as I could be. But then they… the rest of the church people…
they furrow their brow and frown their mouth with darken eyes and insulting
lips… But how could you not love truth? How could you not Love Jesus? Truth
beckons you now! And though it does not make any sense at all
why we would hate the infinite and true God, the only thing that will make
sense when all is said and done is God’s justice in damning such people to an
eternal hell for their unthinkable crimes.
11/5/10
The
church is not going to hell because it does not know about or have the “extra,”
“lost books” of the Bible. The church is going to hell because she refuses to
obey the books she already has! If she would at least do this, then the rest of
her problems would be relatively easy to solve. It is not lack of information
that makes the church go wrong, but lack of obedience with the information she
already has.
11/2/10
For
the last 14 years I have been asking the question: where are the little groups
of truth that I know exist out there somewhere? I am convinced that they are
scattered and hidden somewhere out there throughout the world! I am crying to
God regularly: where are the Sin-hating, Truth-obeying, TV-Smashing,
entertainment-denying, Indulgence-crucifying, humility-loving,
competence-destroying, chatter-loathing, Divorce-forbidding,
Remarriage-opposing, Wisdom-knowing, Modesty-prizing, Head-covering,
body-hiding, Revolution-promoting, repentance-demanding, God-hearing,
Scripture-doing, REAL Christians and their remnant groups that have not
yet bowed their knee to Baal?! (see Rom_11:2-5).
We
know for sure that these two things are so: (1) such groups Exist, and (2)
remnants by nature are never the majority.
11/1/10
Be
a good listener as well as a good exhorter – then you may have actually
overcome the flesh in ministry!
11/1/10
Initial
eagerness may be unplanned honesty, but continued eagerness is intentional
faithfulness.
10/31/10
It
is a lot simpler for us to receive correction from God when we are refraining
and seeking self-denial than when we are jumping into indulgence.
10/24/10
If the height of your spiritual experience in this culture is on Sunday mornings, in most cases, I pity your soul. It is a sad day when toxic waste is a person’s cherished delicacy. And to look for food from the merciless is a great doom. If you trust those who hate you, beware, lest you find yourself dead before the morning dawns.
10/24/10; 11/5/10
It
is my great ambition in life to somehow play some part in calling Jesus' people
out of the Prostitute, and into a bride! (see Rev CH
17-19/ Mat_25:6)
10/24/10
Are haunted houses real? Why yes. When I was growing up I used to go to one every Sunday. They are always full of dead people and evil spirits. The most real hunted house today is the church house.
10/22/10; 10/24/10
If you are not, in Jesus, legitimately meeting the needs that previously drove you into sin, then you are preparing for apostasy.
10/22/10
I have seen so many people who are unwilling to change from living in fearful postures as they project their crimes in every direction. Especially in cases like this, fear is one of the all-time biggest compulsers toward hatred against God and unfaithfulness toward men. Now is the time to repent of this. Now is the time to rid yourself of this crime against all humanity and all righteousness before God. Now is the time to repent of being faithful to the devil, because hospitality toward fear makes you hostile toward truth.
10/22/10
It is about time
that people stop singing ‘worship songs’ about how they love god, and get down
to business and actually repent of their sins and obey Jesus before singing more vain fairy tales! (1Jn_5:1-5; Isa_29:13; Mat_15:7-9; Isa_58:1-3; Eze_33:31-32; Isa_1:10-21)
10/19/10
To some degree, at times God seems to especially suspend our free will in noticeable ways in various scenarios and situations so that the work of God can be accomplished. This is how lots of people get saved at points in history, and this is when glorious things happen and God's kingdom comes.
10/15/10; 10/19/10
The vast majority of ‘christianity’ as we know it today is about self-confident people molesting the widely known reputation of Jesus and the Bible, and using it as leverage to bolster themselves up to promote their very own particular lusts and opinions in the spotlight.
10/14/10; 10/19/10
Thank God for the Bible! But for these ‘bible commentaries,’ pastors
and preachers who teach us to not believe the Bible, well, you can thank the
devil for that!
10/14/10
– from a Bible study
New Covenant Posture Toward “Neighbors”
Old Covenant:
Lev_19:18 CAB And your hand shall not avenge you; and you shall not be angry with the children of your people; and you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord
(Note: they were allowed to “take vengeance” against foreigners and enemies, but not fellow Israelites)
New Covenant:
Luk_10:36-37 CAB So which of these three does it seem to you proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the bandits?" 37 And he said, "the one who showed mercy to him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."
The Old Covenant said, ‘If you find out that they are your neighbor, then you need to do them good.’ Jesus said, ‘if you find out that you can do them good, then you need to treat them as your neighbor.’ – This is the whole point of the parable of “the good Samaritan,” and this is how salvation came to the nations who were previously ordained to wrath, even often by the hands of the Jews, and because even to the nations God through Jesus extended all the rights of native born Israelites by faith in Jesus. Because of this, it is required that we treat everyone in our proximity as our neighbor.
10/12/10; 10/19/10
I gott'a say, submissive wives/ women are
downright amazing to me! Makes me want to go and obey Jesus in a submissive and
reverent posture with my life. (compare 1Sa_25:40-41)
10/8/10
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If we generically talk about all “men” in the sense of “mankind” and a feminist objects and says, “What about women and womankind??” We must say that if there are women that are not defined within mankind then, based on their own words, it must be because they are atrocious pigs unworthy of being associated within the human race.
And if she says, “I am Woman; Hear me roar!” I say, that is not a woman, but a pseudo-woman approaching lesbianism, because she has denied her nature in a sick attempt to look like a man.
But she may still say yet more, “But men need women and could not survive without them as a race.” This is very true. Men need the precious fruit of the earth to live and sustain their lives. Every godly man greatly appreciates this life resulting from nourishing and sustaining fruit. But all fruit which is rotten and sickening to eat is worthless and counterproductive and has failed the purpose of its nature for existing.
10/8/10
Pain does not tell truth, but it only gives you a proper context so that you can endure and wait for truth to come.
9/28/10
Happiness without holiness is lawlessness.
9/27/10
If you feel your heart aching because of internal social barriers that you cannot seem to overcome, then cry out for virtue to conquer your inhibitions so you can actually love people and engage in pouring out your life to meet their actual needs.
9/20/10
Legalism
“Legalism” 1 – Any part of the Bible that we do not particularly want to obey.
“Legalism” 2 – A term we made up so that we can make God look bad if He ever tries to make us feel bad about living in sin.
“Legalism” 3 – A derogatory term we apply to people who think God was actually serious when He said, “Thou shalt not…”
“Legalism” 4 – A catch-phrase that protects us from ever feeling bad about doing whatever we want to do.
“Legalism” 5 – A term that often makes us feel more justified if we indulge than if we ever practice self-denial.
9/8/10
“Legalism” is not in the Bible.
1/19/11
Man
invented the term, “legalism” to defend himself from
the guilt which God’s Laws place on his conscious.
3/26/11-3/27/11
Legalism
– a term we coined to try to get back at God and make Him feel guilty whenever
He points out our sin.
7/6/11
Repentance is truly something only granted by God, and at the same time, we really can choose it.
8/21/10
Who is Right? – Either Truth or
Apostasy Will Triumph in The End
Those who truly
grow up in Jesus always learn to emphasize truth more and more as they mature
into truth, but those who mature into full-blown trees of apostasy cannot
endure toward truth, because they are wrapped up in cementing their silver age
into being integrity-breached professional cowards among those earning bitter
wrath and death, who are completely convinced that they are saved unto the warm
affection toward social lust and pleasing the flesh of despicable men.
Because of his social success and relaxed
retirement of ease, he is proud to have learned to emphasize “doctrine” less
and less, since it was not truth which he was growing unto in the first place,
but apostasy. And having learned apostasy from his master, he cannot help but
focus away from that which he is not matured into, and he cannot praise that
which he is not invested in and saved by.
The fully matured apostate carries himself
above everyone else who even seems to be any bit holy, and considers himself to have long surpassed those who are still hopeful
toward pleasing God by righteous works of truth and cleanness. He considers
himself to have become wiser than those few who still believe in “the ideal” of
being alive from hearing and obeying God. He considers zealous and obedient faith
to be a fairytale that only a few pathetic and gullible people still believe,
while pleasures and indulgence are so easily and readily at hand. He has found
that his own mind should be his guide rather than the gullible and vulnerable
posture of childishly and recklessly being lead around by literally believing
Bible verses.
Why should he trouble his soul to keep
track of fearing God and in keeping himself holy, when his experience tells him
that he could have been enjoying easy christianity and cheap and silly
salvation the whole time, since he says that he wasted his time when he
pathetically went about worrying about such cares in his youth.
Though he no longer labors in the same
vineyard, as he looks over toward the place where people are still laboring
intensely in hope of a great reward, he is fully persuaded that going in the
opposite direction of holiness is what all wisdom, maturity and truth is about.
And he supersedes himself over the naive laborers for holiness, and promises
them that they will eventually fall away, crumble and die into the same
hopeless religion as he did when they are as “mature” as he is. Because He
considers the Love of God to actually be a lie, he despises and threatens his
own death against those who continue to fervently warn his own sinful people of
the wrath of God against their own sinful souls.
He boasts proudly of his advanced god of
indulgence, and laughs at those freshly pursuing the promised reward for zeal
and self-denial, and because he has endured longer in darkness than they have
in light, he confidently asserts his badge of age as false identification to
prove that he is above and beyond their hope of still believing the Gospel. But going in the opposite direction of those who are saved by the faith
of truth does not qualify a person to outrank those who are still pursuing
truth!
It is sure that either truth or apostasy
will win in the end, and he is no counselor of any honor and dignity unto the
younger generation who has betrayed what is right, shamed the heritage of
faith, disrespected the obedient person, and scorned the promises of God by
boasting about the sugar that coats his advanced chair of ease and religion of
success. Yes, either truth or apostasy will triumph in the end. In the mean time, let him not think he is an officer over my faith
who has betrayed the king of my army, and let him fall
down in ruin before all who has hated the hope of my battle.
8/12/10
If a preacher
cannot maintain his zeal for truth in his latter years,
for the sake of loving humanity, remove him from before the people that he may
go and hear the Good Announcement of Jesus again (if he has ever heard it at
all) so that he may be saved before preaching to others.
8/3/10
The most wicked,
personal, long-term crime that can ever be committed against an individual is
when someone in their life chooses not to know them.
This is why the
Scripture speaks of…
2Th_1:7-8 CAB …the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Furthermore, it is
the responsibility of the older generations to extend relationship to the
younger, to use their honorable age to confer potent value upon them who are
young, weak, and aching in need of this, by caring to actually know them and to
be known by them, but in this, most modern people have failed most miserably.
8/3/10; 8/4/10
When Scripture
seems to not make sense, first find out if it is somehow:
Paradoxical - but not contradictory (as in
predestination and man’s choice),
Successive - in that something was updated for the
New Covenant, or
Categorically
Particular - to
where things are often totally opposite depending on what type of person is
being addressed.
8/1/10; 8/3/10
Protestantism was
one of the devil's most decisive moves in history to prevent anyone from ever
getting saved.
8/1/10; 8/3/10
Whatever spiritual and moral things you do in moderation you do as a
coward.
7/31/10
The future
surprise of winning truth always contains an infinite thrill that ought to
retroactively encourage us now.
7/29/10
More Knowledge Demands More Integrity
The more knowledge
we gain, the more integrity we need.
This is because
knowledge makes other people potentially vulnerable to your education or
de-education when you speak what they do not yet know. It is a terrifying thing
when people believe you when you speak, since it is a thing where your soul
stands in the balance, and is exposed to the perfect scrutiny of the judgment
for every word that goes out of your mouth to affect others. Anyone with half
of their senses left will turn to God in fear upon seeing this, and will cry
out and beg God and plead to be saved by the integrity of truth that they may
not be guilty of the blood of others.
And what is
integrity, but a mixture of such virtues as humility, reverence, sobriety, and
righteousness which, if completely and perfectly possessed, and mercifully and Divinely granted, immovably rivet the recipient to solid and
honest truth without wavering. Integrity secures your soul from damnation
because it locks you into solid truth that always agrees with God and never
promotes rebellion. It makes you speak clean and right words that are healthy
and saving to your hearers which you cannot be condemned for speaking.
But we foolishly
glory in our culture by saying, "knowledge is power."
We ought not to
glory in that power, but fear its responsibility before God, since it is not
glorious before God to have power, but to have reverence and faithfulness to
use whatever power He gives us with reasonable fear and trembling.
Let us have
reasonableness to actually love our hearers so that we always give them the
pure and solid truth that is in their best interest. Lies, looseness,
sloppiness, and rebellion never saved anyone, but has only damned people
throughout the ages. So let us actually Love people and save our souls from
Judgment:
1Co_8:1 CAB ...we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
Luk_12:41-48 Then Peter said to Him, "Lord, do You speak this parable only to us [Leaders], or to all people?" 42 And the Lord said, "Who then is a faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season? 43 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 44 Truly I say to you, that he will appoint him over all his possessions. 45 But if that servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying his coming,' and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk, 46 the master of that servant will come on a day which he does not expect, and at an hour which he does not know, and he will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47 And that servant who knew his master's will, and did not get ready or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many blows. 48 But he who did not know, yet did things worthy of blows, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be demanded; and to whom much has been entrusted, of him they will ask much more.
Mat_24:51 and he will cut him in two, and will appoint his share with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
(see all of Luk_12:41-48; Mat_24:42-51)
7/23/10
Most Have Fallen Away
At this point in my life: The great majority of the very few church people who have actually been saved (that I have known) have all fallen away from faith into compromise, great sin, and modern christianity. Most all of the people whom I have known to have had real life, are the most dead and darkened church people I know. Please end the sorrow of my heart and be one who is actually saved and endures in the hard core Gospel unto life, just as truth always demands real repentance and obedience to Jesus in order to be saved.
The primary thread of joy and life I have at this time in life is those few who have more recently responded to the Gospel (Good Announcement) of Jesus within the last three years. I think they are going to make it!
7/21/10
I am so tired of falsehood. I am so tired of lies. Make the darkness cease from before my eyes and let me see the face of those who love truth. In this way my heart will be warmed and my hope established.
This is why David said originally:
Depart away from me, all of those of you working the lawlessness, because [the] Lord has listened into the sound of my crying.
(Jos.Trans of the LXX; Quoted by Jesus in Mat_7:23; Luk_13:27)
7/16/10
I am always completely baffled when people hate Jesus. Is there anyone at all that likes truth, righteousness, holiness, cleanness and goodness? Is Jesus truly that hateful in people's eyes that they always lust after flesh and satan-worship over marriage unto God? Are there really no church people at all who actually like the Bible that they carry to church and store in their pews?
I am astonished.
When I heard the Gospel for the first time (after having been deprived of it for almost 16 years in churches) it was the most beautiful and attractive thing in the world, but to this whole slew of hateful church goers (Tit_3:3) Jesus is hated, despised and mocked with despicable indifference and perverse flesh-glory.
It will not make any sense on Judgment Day, why church people have treated Jesus worse than what they flush down the toilet, especially as much as all of those of modern christianity are purged away from His holy perfection into permanent damnation for such profound and unreasoning hatred against God.
7/15/10
When respect of persons and flattery are practiced, then if the needful things pertaining to actually loving people are ever actually considered at all, then it is usually by accident; They come up quietly and abruptly as an afterthought, and are quickly marginalized. Let us no longer love as the hypocrites do in respect of persons, in the fabricated and shameful love of the flesh, but let us actually love “in deed and in truth,” in that which is actually consistent with the Scriptures of truth.
6/30/10
How do I tell when to get excited when meeting new people?:
When they are excited, do not be excited with them, until you see the solidity and soundness of the love of the truth. When they are humble and eager be more excited than they are in hoping and looking to find and or promote favor to light up in them.
6/29/10; 7/16/10
For the last number of years in particular I have been traveling far and wide within the United States and have found an almost unanimous conglomeration of church goers who utterly hate Jesus.
6/29/10
Prosperity is the land of defilement and apostasy.
6/20/10
There is also a self-serving energy rush that can come about from saying that everyone else is wrong, and this too needs to be repented of, just like the wrong that everyone else is doing. It is unprofitable and vain to sin in calling sinners to repent, since it is a lie that you misuse the words of truth to tell in wickedly bolstering yourself up at the expense of purity. And truth is the only thing worth living for, since the insanity of worthless flesh will soon perish away. Because of this, do not build your rebukes upon it, because this violation and transgression will condemn you along with them.
Save yourself by purity, truth, cleanness, and perfect obedience, and refuse to promote yourself beyond what God lays upon you, and pushes you into.
6/8/10
Woe to the man that fails to be a man in seeking to
please his wife, because God provided Eve to be blessed by having and serving
an Adam, not another Eve. And when a man
fails to be a man, he acts like a woman and insights his wife to be a Jezebel,
and if any man or woman desires this, then they bitterly hate Jesus who made
men and women a parable to tell the world about Himself.
Woe to the
dishonorable man who fails to be a man of God in seeking to please himself,
because he lies to the world by preaching that Christ did not give up his life
for his bride (the real church), and what a demonic lie this is!
Woe to the
woman who fails to serve her husband, because she preaches to the world that
people ought not to submit to Jesus, as though it was right and acceptable for
humans to do their own will.
5/20/10; 8/3/10
God’s declarations about righteousness are
consistently confounding to us so that we will have to consistently choose
between the religion of our own soul and the real faith of Jesus. But if you rebelliously choose what feels
right to you and still call yourself a christian, then it is obvious that you
are playing games and that you need to repent of hypocrisy to live. There is an
even hotter damnation for those who claim to be christians
and yet still follow the demonic religion of their own belly.
~5/20/10; 8/3/10
It is the proper
posture for those in valleys to look up and hope in something higher and truer
than what they are presently experiencing before their face. But if they are godless and disobedient, then
they look up in vain only to have their empty stomachs filled with gravel in
the end.
5/25/10
If prayer is a
refuge to you on earth, then righteousness will be a refuge to you in heaven
before God at the judgment. But if you spend a small amount of time praying now
in this life, then you will have a lot of time to regret it then in hell.
If you spend more
of your time in this life eating than praying, then it should not surprise you
at all if you spend all of your time in the next life praying that you would
stop being eaten, by the flame that is not quenched and by the worm that does
not die.
If you spurn the beckonings of becoming acquainted with truth by
disregarding its priority from before you, don’t be surprised when He shakes
you off from before Him on that great Day.
5/5/10
When it comes to
discipling souls, we cannot and must not be contented to exhort and disciple
them unto regeneration by means of human hands and human words, because this is
willingly intending to build the kingdom of God with “wood hay and stubble.”
People who are given to glorifying the flesh cannot establish perfection nor
can the enemy of God produce the Divine.
4/26/10; 4/29/10
Life is too short and there is too much at stake to try and keep our religion intact. Away with this nonsense! “Prepare the way of the Lord!”
4/24/10
Consensus doesn’t really solve anything when you’ve got a majority of fools.
4/17/10
It is better to be uncomfortably informed than to be woefully ignorant.
Make me disturbed. Make me lose sleep. But by all means give me Truth!
(I said this to the FL disciples during our phone conference 4/7/10)
4/7/10
It would be an act of mercy for God to crush the American church, but we dare not push Him to it.
2/27/10
Religion: Any spirit that imitates God in order to incite various forms of worship toward it from humans.
There is only ONE God, but there are many demons. Because of this there are many more condemned counterfeits than the ONE that is True, and the vast majority of all spiritual activity in the world (including the modern church) is completely demonic.
2/25/10
The Answer for how to be saved is to obey the Bible;
The Answer for how to endure is to never change your gospel;
The Answer for how to do life is to be spiritual;
The Answer for all of life is to have God’s favor;
To not change your Gospel means to consider decreasing in zeal as the same thing as going to hell. Salvation never ceases to be an issue for those who actually attain to it in the end.
To have God’s favor means to have God saying something good about you, and approving of you – when this happens, then you really have life, and you have infinitely won.
2/17/10; 2/25/10
Today’s greatest idolatry: saying the church is saved.
2/16/10
Your surest damnation is to try and justify yourself
with many words.
2/7/10
The
vast majority of nearly every group of church people are
offended when you repeat to them kind words from the Bible about how they can
leave their sin and actually obey the Bible. Now, if you speak such goodness
over people, why would they ever hate the sight of you for seeking and
insisting on their good?
Act_3:26 EMTV To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities."
2/7/10
The fearful callus and puffing of time, and the weight
of experience, brings damnable confidence.
1/28/10; 2/2/10
Religion is the praise and parading of sins and scandals as virtues.
Luk_16:15 CAB And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. Because that which is exalted among men is an abomination before God.
When will we start morning and repenting for our gross faults and character flaws, rather than singing praise songs to them?
1/24/10
It is not worth teaching fools precious truth, because at best, behind your back they will throw your Divine words behind their back; they will set at naught the good labor of your soul, and spit in your face for giving them good Words and precious bread.
1/20/10; 1/30/10; 2/2/10
It is those who are in the habit of worshiping satan who complain when they find you denying the flesh. And the praise of the flesh is satan worship in its most beloved form.
1/11/10; 2/2/10
A pure coward tries to remain neutral to retain the respect of the wicked when arbitrating. He cares nothing about the truth that is at stake in crushing the cause of the innocent, being puffed up by the foolish pride of the fear of man.
1/5, 1/7/10
1/3, 1/7/10
The reverence for God cannot continue indefinitely where the reverence for sexuality has been abandoned.
1/2/10
All religion is a disgusting and vile crime, including the pathetic fantasy that you don’t have one.
12/30/09
First hopes are worth more than refined doubts.
12/31/09
Do you really think that on Judgment day God will stop
at some point to ask people about their various personal views and opinions
before He makes a final decision on where to send people for eternity? If then,
your opinions do not matter before God and eternity, then why do they matter to
you now? Shouldn't you think of them as
the same irrelevant trash that they will obviously appear to be on the Great
Day of God's justice?
Agree with justice now and trash your own opinions,
since this is the only reasonable and proper response. Do this with diligence
before it is too 4 even mark a fool, but simply feed the righteous with right
Words, and in times of corruption, the wicked will elect themselves before all
as those who hate God.
10/28/09
It is better to be an object of meaning than an individual of vanity.
It is better to stand up for what you represent before God and men,
than to glory in your own meaningless life.
It is better to sacrifice your own desires, aspirations, pleasures,
ambitions, and even your own personal concept of morality in this life, to
agree with the lot and role that has been laid upon you by God, than to
gluttonize in a meaningless rich life of pleasure, selfishness, indulgence, and
lust.
10/12/09
So many act so terrified when you simply start taking the extreme
sayings of the Bible at face value, but this large, mighty and strong sword we
wield won’t hurt or damage anything but your idolatry. So why are you so
worried?
10/2/09; 11/4/10
It is the unfaithfulness of a man, and his self-destructive bent toward
slipping and falling into sin, that energizes him to take hold of and promote
the Protestant Reformation. But God Loves those who
are zealously obsessed with rediscovering the Traditions of the Apostles. God
will bless and preserve those who seek to keep and preserve such things,
standing in the way seeking and asking for the old paths to walk in.
9/23/09
The more applicable you view the Bible to always be, the more Biblical
you will be in the end. But if you contextualize the Scriptures right out of your
theology by saying it only applied to those people then, the more of a heretic
you will be. Make it be that each and every verse is always profitable to you
for governing and defining every area of your own life in every way, all of
your days.
9/23/09
Exalted people are
a dime a dozen, but great people are an endangered species.
9/20/09
Those
who seek to “balance out the church,” from what they perceive to be wrong with
it, in the end, are also willing to compromise to do this, because they have
selected and glorified a human solution to a spiritual problem. The church does
not need a balance of what she is already prostituting herself with, but a
total repentance from it, and a raising to life from the dead by the eternal
words of life and pure truth, that will never allow the taint of compromise to
balance it out with the devil.
9/15/09, 9/18/09
Native, Personal Substance of Worship
Your Native, Personal Substance of Worship is always, always
defiled. May God help us and rescue us from this spirit-induced, soul-exalting
religious plague of Demons Disguised as Deity! Personally Generated
Spiritual Experiences are among the most horrible defaults we are ever born
chained to. There will never come a day of escape, unless one day you begin to
die daily (1Co_15:31), hate your own soul (Luk_14:26), and condemn yourself and repent
of your personal satan worship to which you were born
into (Pro_28:13;
Act_19:18-20).
9/4/09
We need good “Sanity Sessions” for every “Insanity Season.”
“Please don’t let me be crazy and believe how I feel right now!”
9/2/09
If we could somehow see the modern church repent, then we would see the
greatest conversion of souls to faith in Jesus ever recorded in history.
7/9/09
Justice and Judgment will come on that Day
I am excited about Jesus coming
back, because a day is coming when all the tears, all the hurt, all the pain,
all the injustice, and all the rage against God and his holy ones will be
remembered before Him on that great day of fire and justice upon the earth.
Nothing in the shadow will be
hidden, nor any secret concealed. All deeds will be brought before the True
light of His justice, and all who have hoped in His Truth will be vindicated,
and those who have hoped in lies will melt away in their shame to everlasting destruction
under the fire of His anger.
Justice will finally come in that
day.
And no one will stand who has hated truth,
nor will those who have done injustice and perverseness with their hands, and
spoken filthiness with their mouths. But those who have blessed the poor in
spirit and upright in heart will reign with Him forever. If we obey the Bible
and fear God, this will be our heritage.
5/9/09
What is a godly
woman like? She is gentle, quiet, submissive, and humble. She is hidden. And what
about a wicked woman, what is she like? She is lustful loud liberated and
loose.
3/16/09
Deception would never greatly prosper if it were not promoted by
sincere men.
It is not the overtly wicked who necessarily need to be deceived in
order to sin, since they already openly embrace evil without much consideration
as a lifestyle commitment anyway.
But those who are gifted in many ways and give themselves eagerly to
what occupies them, these are those who will be the worst off who find
deception first. With all the energy they can, they will make copies of a
falsified document and distribute it widely for others to embrace. While
looking for good, they will enthusiastically spread abroad a message that
kills, and give a good life to a worthless cause.
Sincere people are often the greatest carriers of the most deadly and
infectious diseases, and sometimes they become the devil’s greatest tools.
Seeing all of this, why do we yet go about judging people and
sanctioning them as good based on their sincerity? Why do we still approve of
those gifted people who do well in displaying eagerness, but fail in being
approved by God?
3/13/09
The hardest place
for an exalted person to find the help he most desperately needs,
is beneath him, and the irony is that this is where God almost always hides it
the most. It will not appear above him
where he honors another that seems greater than himself,
and satisfies his fleshly admirations, but it will appear in a person beneath
him, where he must deny his foolish lusts and honor God to find it.
3/8/2009
I can truly help someone who has faith, and I will always be a
stumbling block to those who have none. I can see why Jesus said, “Your faith
has healed you,” because it is so easy to confer the infinite and the
supernatural upon the person who forces the best to come out of you by their
divine faith.
A person of doubt will always
say to me “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” and with such people I will be nothing
beyond any of the other normal and unprofitable people in their lives, and I
will pass through their lives without any eternally benefiting consequence. But
a person of faith says, “We have found the Christ!” And why does this apply to
us? Because Jesus says, “No servant is greater than his Master,” and I have
definitely found this to be particularly true among those I desire to minister
to.
Mat_13:57-58 WEB They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house." 58 He didn't do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
From this we see that unbelief is the worst dishonor to one who seeks
your benefit, and these are profoundly equated as one and the same crime
against one who seeks to minister unto a person or a people. Do you think that
this same dynamic still works today?
Also see this very necessary reading: Heb_13:17; 1Th_5:12-13
(and compare 1Co_4:1; Gal_4:14)
2/11/2009
The more you defile your
value for the foolish confidences gained by valuing the flesh, the closer you
will come to the integrity of the unencumbered faith of a child. You will be
able to operate with clean hands and a pure heart of faith when you dishonor
and disregard the things you have previously learned to gain confidence from.
Ironically, the value of fleshly confidence is the worst enemy to clean faith. Honoring God means despising the very basis and foundation of your
greatest confidence.
See:
Php_3:4-11
2/11/2009
I would rather an unpleasant
manifestation of the real state of things than a pleasant cover up, and
falsification of the matter. This is a fantasy of complacency that loves
comfort more than truth. Until there is an answer to the ignored dilemma,
anything is better than the way it is. This is why Jesus said, “Whatever you
do, do it quickly.” This moment, though more painful, was much better than all
of the days spent with an unbelieving and unconfronted
Judas.
1/30, 2/11/2009
What does it take to be real inside, full of integrity and made in
truth, so that we can corporately stand righteous before God while facing
persecution? Conflict outside exposes us
to the conflict within, as demonic attacks increase. Our relationships with each other must be in
unity now more than ever! But what are
the answers, and what must we guard against more than ever during this crucial
time?
There is a problem when it is easier to connect and relate with the
conflict of hypocrites outside who may persecute us, than it is to the desire
to connect with Jesus on the inside. May
my most immediate and gratifying answer always be an obsession with loving and
knowing Jesus, naturally out flowing from a life given to constant sacrifice,
which proves my bond of love for Him, which makes me always freely and fondly
talk about devotion and love for Jesus, obedience to His commandments and the
love of Truth. If I cannot raise my head
for the shame of my faults and unresolved guilt from lacking personal devotion,
then neither let me raise my head to speak of others when the time comes to
mention the crimes of injustice against us through persecution.
For us, a raw
wound is more readily irritated, and if we react to persecution in the flesh,
we will necessarily be more susceptible to being irritated with each other, and
finding faults. But if we always
believe, then we will never have to keep running around scampering between
relationship conflicts like the world.
If we’re ever found fearfully fortifying ourselves from the pain of
persecution, and giving the natural flesh-based answer to conflicts, then we
will also find ourselves joining with our enemies in opposing ourselves. Truth increasingly matters in times of
stress. Of all the things to not be
fleshly in, persecution is a priority, since we dare not defile our honor, and
act like fools while proceeding forward to accept a trophy and crown of honor.
1/28, 1/30/2009
The
Art of Vanity
Yes, a picture is
worth a thousand words, but a few words of Divine wisdom are worth infinitely
more than thousands of words of artistic expression. There is nothing noble in
the many words of your artistic work which does not speak the Words of
God. Your skill to compose artistic
beauty will impress vain men, but your knowledge and proclamation of truth will
impress God, and all those who fear Him.
Yes, a picture is
worth a thousand words, but who even needs one word from a fool? Don't glory in
how effectively people like your message when skill is admired over truth. If
you are glad when people praise you for vanity's sake, then you embrace your
own worthlessness.
1/20/09
If you start by saying the words that Jesus would never say, then you will never say the Words that only Jesus said.
If our strategy is different than Jesus’ actions then we can be sure that our doctrine is different than Jesus’ teaching. If it does not look like the way Jesus acted, then it is not consistent with the way Jesus believes.
12/15, 12/22/08
The truth that God is speaking is always infinitely more necessary, practical, urgent, real, and demanded than the temporary representative shadow that you are currently experiencing at the moment.
Don’t be a fool. We don’t have time to consider the food you are impressed with when God's testimony in preference for real bread is at stake of being disregarded, and is currently being violated!
[see Joh_6:32]
12/12, 12/22/08
This is specific and mysterious, so you might not understand all of the details…
The flesh, in seeking to preserve its own indulgence will seek every avenue it can to flatter its own trespass and to make it look as normal and good as possible, and will spend much time to loving, protecting, and praising the demonic. He will seek out communion with those who are skilled in despicable rebellion against all that is righteous. He will sing thanks and rejoice in those who murder people and dishonor God.
Every time a man gives a right answer of truth, it grieves a man of flesh to anger so that he is his enemy who seeks to save his soul. He hates all that is right and laughs at the fact that he has been successful in shipwrecking his own faith. He plunges himself headlong from the height of heaven to the deepest pit of hell, and only God can save him and grant him repentance unto life.
12/6, 12/22/08
Whatever wakes you up in the morning is your savior, and whatever is your savior, is your god. If coffee or music wakes you up, then coffee or music is your idol and god.
12/2, 12/22/08, 1/28/09
We ought to never defend or proclaim anything to our own gratification. If it fits our desired preference, it is already suspect. Are you really extended toward God to receive and obey everything He makes available and known to you with pure and open hands? Prove it then by your eager and quick adjustments to His truth to the harsh opposition of your own soul. Let a kind heart burn with indignation for God’s sake and not serve itself! (Rom_15:3)
11/28/08
It is better to end up condemning the whole world, including yourself, and leave no hope of salvation for anyone in your doctrine for the sake of accepting the Scriptures at face value, than it is to twist one divine stroke to give men relief and comfort.
Thankfully there is hope of salvation, but we are in the habit (or addiction) of damning ourselves by polluting this with wicked embellishments to extend it beyond that small remnant that the Scriptures speak of.
11/26/08
A faithful friend will not believe false reports about you, but an unfaithful one will make them up himself!
11/7, 11/24, 11/26/08
We ought to be tired by now of dividing over meaningless things that don’t matter. At the same time we ought to tirelessly fight for those things that do matter, which ought to divide us, such as righteousness and truth. We absolutely must take a sword and wage a good warfare even at the expense of facing bitter toil when wicked people rebel against the Word of the Lord.
No, we can’t all just get along when the majority of us hate Jesus and despise His Law with a passion.
People are necessarily evil. It is only right that we should divide from them in this. But why is it that we willingly embrace hypocrisy by trying to scorn ALL things that divide us, making no difference between meaningless things, and truth, as though truth did not exist at all in the midst of the surrounding vanity? We treat that which is holy as though it were a pile of dung!
One of the greatest sins in which we constantly violate God’s honor, is by treating everything the same. Foolish division is condemned, but righteous division is touching the eternity of God’s truth. But we are lazy and foolish to omit distinguishing between vanity and truth. We sin because we make no difference between what God says, and the meaningless personal opinions of men with which people argue with. Will you insult God’s divine mandate by putting it on the same level as foolish human squabbles?
11/6, 11/26/08
For babies it is a grave mistake to presume that all others were as
ignorant as you were previous to your epiphany of basic things. It’s like you
finally learn the alphabet and you think you have surpassed the entire human
race! So don’t be foolish, but be humble in your learning. Don’t let your
learning glorify yourself, because if it does not glorify God it is nasty and
worth nothing, and harmful to your own health in the end.
11/2, 11/26/08
Especially when dealing with brothers and sisters in the Lord, it is a
crime to believe unconfirmed inferences and guesses against another person.
Whatever you have chosen to believe about a person, their motives, and their
hidden life, it is a crime for you to go on being determined to believe it
without asking their permission. Your guess about a person is by no means
sufficient grounds to charge them with anything, but it sure is more than
sufficient grounds to potentially condemn you.
So what is it to you? Do you have a prophecy or revelation from God
Himself about someone? If not, then discharge your suspicions from your heart
about another, unless they are legitimately confirmed.
This often applies with those in the world as well, especially in the
sense that we are commanded not to even judge their actions.
10/23/08
Integrity is before intellect and learning when it comes to determining
Truth.
10/19/08
Wisdom is a gift from
God that cannot by any means be earned. Truly if we have any real wisdom at all
we have an overflow to be thankful for, seeing that God has been especially
merciful to us in this. Because we know that if it were left to us we would
never even think to seek it out nor would we even begin to know what to ask
for. Even now in ourselfs
we are so foolish. If WE get wisdom, thank God for unexpected mercy! And if we
disagree with these sayings, then by this vary thing we show that these words
do not apply to us seeing that God has not even begun to be merciful to us to
even give us common wisdom.
10/2/08
It's not evident success that makes you triumph in the end, but
determined obedience in the face of unpleasant results. Every
successful disobedience is an utter failure, no matter how agreeable the
results feel. And every painful obedience is in truth, bliss, no matter how
shunned it is.
9/12/08 11/2/08
If you need help from someone, don't hold them on a leash. Make them
free and honor them so that they can bestow God's favor upon your life and
truly help you.
It is improper for a man to climb a hill to the house where he is not
welcomed. But if he is invited in and asked, he is free to help you and bless
you.
9/9, 11/26/08
Jesus has never
been a Hodge-podge of random vagueness, but is always very intentional,
strategic and specific by laying stringent commands upon his followers, to the
effect that they are endowed with the Law within. Those who serve a god of
vagueness are idolaters:
Rom_16:18 KJV
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ,
but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of
the simple.
9/9, 11/26/08
Whether given or
received, an effective rebuke is worth more than 1,000 pices
of silver.
8/24/08
When someone hears
a true exposition of the Word of God, it is often disturbing to them because it
slices away at the perversions that they are used to using to deny the Bible.
8/23/08
You will prove
your adultery when you approach the interpretation of the Bible with the
assumption that your current practice is right.
It is humanism
that assumes the inherent righteousness of people, and it is contaminated
doctrine that takes this assumption with it as a basis to interpret.
8/19/08
When obeying neglected
commands seems to cause disunity, it is not creating a new problem but exposing
a pre-existing one that was quietly festering because of this very area of
neglect. Those who contend over it the
most, show themselves to be most infected. If we withdrawal from these
neglected commands, we help them commit suicide and murder our own soul.
8/19, 11/26/08
I would rather die
than promote something worldly. Regardless of who it
is, I'm committed to let you kill me before I will let you persuade me to compromise.
8/15/08
You are not
hard-core for Jesus when you can point out and criticize the miserable state of
the church, but you are truly hard-core when you have mastered your own life in
service to God. For this reason I worry
about a person who talks to me primarily about other people’s faults, because
this shows me that they do not regard their own as problematic enough to occupy
the weight of their dissatisfaction and time in prayer.
Again, a person is
not proud and “self-righteous” when they blast this evil wicked unsaved church
we live among, but they are stained and defiled who are not conscious of their
own present character flaws, and who are not first concerned with amending
their own ways before even thinking to correct others.
8/12, 11/26/08 [compare 8/8/08 below]
We may say, “I did wrong, but God knows my heart that I intended to do
right.” But on the contrary: Our intentions show what our mind thinks, but our
actions show what our heart thinks. If your deeds are materially sinful your
heart is all messed up, no matter what your mind thinks.
8/13/08
You can be sure that there are serious problems in a person when they
spend more of their time and thoughts concerned with other people’s errors than
with mastering the wildness of their own wicked fleshly mind. If they are occupied like this, we can know
they are bent and unconcerned with their own offenses.
8/8/08
Oh that people would hate disorderly sensuality and boundless chaotic
lustful indulgence! When will we love the strict adherence to life and
goodness? You who say you love Jesus, but oppose up front and clear rules,
don’t you do this so that you can secretly hate Jesus without being seen and
charged? And if you say you love truth, why do you oppose accountability to
this very thing?
8/8/08
Let the complaining person be left unmarried and unfavored
lest you justify their insanity.
8/8/08
Self Expression
We can know that a person has become accustomed to selfishness when it
is grievous to them to depart from expressing
themselves. We can know that the heart is locked in on evil when you value
self-expression. Why? Because the Bible shows us in no uncertain terms that
your “self” (your soul) which you wish to express is
evil. To gain your life (literally, your soul) you have to lose it, but if you
love expressing that evil defiled thing, you will be thrown into hell “with
it,” and you will end with it as your only wretched condemned “possession”
which you will then loath after truly seeing it’s horrible nature which has
completely separated you from God forever.
Consider then and be wise about the state that you will be left in if
you are found loving that selfish natural thing which is God’s enemy. Why would
you delude yourself so much that you even pretend to honor God by exalting His
enemy in “praise and worship”? You will then even complain to me as though I’m
opposing worshiping God when I insist that you actually repent of your defiled
worship of selfishness! Don’t be so
foolish. It does not quench God to crucify man! If you value God, then stop
parading man. If you want God’s Spirit, then crucify your own soul. If you want
satan, then simply express your own soul, because in
this case it belongs to him anyway and expresses his perversion of God’s
design. Don’t use the name of God to create abomination services by exalting
that which God hates.
7/24/08
We cannot honestly define what is right based on the assumption that
there is a right way to do what we are already doing.
7/18/08
It is better to be faithful and counted unsuccessful than to be
successfully unfaithful.
7/15/08
The heart of man lusts after insanity because it is in rebellion against God.
6/12, 6/23/08
No, the Bible is never boring in its content, but we are often shallow
in our understanding. If we only had depth, every page would be thrilling. Its
thrill is disguised within mysteries so that foolish impatient people will toss
it behind their back and never receive its benefits. Why do we always go about
to blame something outside of our own life and responsibility to protect our
own glaring faults? We ought to rather willingly be struck by the testimony of
Scripture that we are weak and beggarly so that we might change. But instead
we, in our hearts, lift up our own hand against Scripture by not insisting on
its justice and splendor to the hurt of our own perception. We would rather say
in our hearts and to others “that part’s boring” than to be afflicted over our
own shallowness and seek change.
6/21, 11/26/08
Women tend to lay down egg shells, and men tend to stomp when they
walk.
6/20, 11/26/08
As long as we do any kind of “church” that is not yet as it was in the
Bible, we ought to always carry around in our body the saying as we meet, “It
is not yet normal. Things are not OK yet.”
6/20, 11/26/08
Seeing is not believing. Obeying is believing.
6/15/08
Any fool can quickly despise, but a heart of wisdom refuses to let any such thing in. Wisdom will never give thought to morally neutral blemishes, it holds no charges against ignorant mistakes, and waits forever for the careless to notice. A perfect heart will constantly seek to toss offenses behind the back, and considers it precious honor to disregard faults. A righteous heart will burn with indignation at seeing God dishonored, and will always love those who are favored by God, even when they mess up. He will not be sloppy, but patient. He will give honor to God, patience toward men, and insistence toward righteousness. He will not allow sin, but will insist on justice. He will despise man’s judgment, and cherish God’s favor.
6/10/08
If you taste and accept that which is uncomfortably true, you please
God, and if you sacrifice your convenience for His truth, you will win His
favor.
6/10/08
No Despising
Any fool can quickly despise, but a heart of wisdom refuses to let any
such thing in, as though it were offered roaches to eat. Wisdom will never give
thought to morally neutral blemishes, it holds no
charges against ignorant mistakes, and waits forever for the careless to
notice. A perfect heart will constantly seek to toss offenses behind the back,
and considers it precious honor to disregard faults. A righteous heart will burn with indignation
at seeing God dishonored, and will always love those who are favored by God,
even when they mess up. He will not be sloppy, but patient. He will give honor
to God, patience toward men, and insistence toward righteousness. He will not
allow sin, but will insist on justice. He will despise man’s judgment, and
cherish God’s favor.
You have won when
you only despise those whom God despises, and when you oppose them with the
same fervency with which God hates them.
6/10/08
One of the most unimpressive things that I have ever seen is those who
have been professionally trained to avoid Bible verses. Though seminaries seem to make some people
sound so smart in their explanations, they are nothing more than professional
Bible avoiders and I am thoroughly unimpressed.
5/31, 11/26/08
Wisdom means becoming as great as possible while
keeping your mouth closed.
5/30/08
Beware of those who submit to virtue because you are around to insist
on it. As long as you are there they will acknowledge things unwillingly and
pretend to comply, and as soon as situations change they will quickly abandon
that which they’ve professed. So don’t entrust yourself to them who make words
that are temporary and have no integrity. Though they may be quick to
enthusiastically comply with you, they will abandon in the day their heart finds
its way to hating you.
5/24, 11/26/08
To avoid dealing with sin so many have cheaply said, “I would rather
error on the side of grace.” But the great problem with this is that the divine
and perfect favor of God is not on any “side” where you error, but it is
separate and holy from human defilement and imperfections. Because of this, you cannot sin “on the side
of grace” but can only sin (and error) against grace. I hope you can now see that there is nothing
noble about this excuse at all.
5/22, 11/26/08
The Bible rescues
us from our own insane thoughts.
5/16/08
Part of Wisdom is
admitting what perspective we have been subjected to, and making proper
adjustments accordingly to fight it:
What does “city life”
do to you to make you blind? What are you more likely to be blinded to compared to a farmer who constantly faces creation? In what
other ways due to various ways of life is a person blinded and polluted by
their culture?
5/9, 5/11, 11/26/08
Those who are
honorable on Judgment Day are not those who are applauded now, but those who
are "booed" and discredited now, but keep doing what is right before
God.
5/9/08, 5/11/08
People grow when someone connected with Jesus is able to selflessly
pour their life out for their profit.
4/29/08
It becomes a crime to consistently overestimate our own good qualities.
We will lie to ourselves and others for this lie’s sake, and discredit truth to
flatter ourselves.
4/29/08
Holy Discontentment Managed by Patience - How good and encouraging it
is when done in faith and hope. Those
who are also hoping for promises will admirably rejoice in you when they see
it, though you are discontented.
4/29/08
Hope is made alive by calling. Life is real when defined by truth.
My friend Angelle responded to this by saying, “The right teachings
(TRUTH) and callings produce the most hope.
It's fueled off of something divine instead of counterfeits.”
4/28/08
Love That Promotes God’s Favor
I was basically asked, “How should we deal with those who we love, but
are not embracing Jesus’ hard-core call?”
If you promote fleshly reforms in human strength for a person then this
is the best you will get, but if you set your hope for God's touch for a person
then you will promote that which is in their best interest, because this is the
"perfect will" of God.
While false hope may rejoice in what is not really there, real hope
(that insists on God's favor) will admit that it is not there, but will be profoundly
proven as the one and only way that we will have the right kind of faith to see
God's touch really happen. A false hope
will leave someone sick, but a true faith will give them the ability to truly
get well.
Those who really get well will thank you afterward when they are cured
infinitely more than they can curse you now for not lying to them by telling
them they are healthy.
“So then, have I become your enemy by telling
you the truth?” (Gal_4:16 WEB).
But it will not be so when one is healed, because then they will bless you for
insisting on their best interest: “One who rebukes a man will afterward find
more favor Than one who flatters with the tongue,” (Pro_28:23 WEB). But whether with your words or by
holding your tongue, insist on God’s favor for others and you will be their
life and salvation in this way.
4/26/08
Don't change your conduct to accommodate the foolish, but uphold your
conduct and get honor from the wise. This honor is from God.
Only
speak what God has commissioned you to speak, but by no means compromise truth
when you are confronted for holding it, because standing for truth is worth
losing all the influence and every position in the world. This badge is the
heritage of the righteous, which is shameful now, but it speaks of much
greatness and joy when rewarded by God.
4/23, 4/24/08
Other people can bless us by making us confront the Scriptures that we
have been avoiding and ignoring all our life.
4/21/08
I am willing to seem to fail in the world’s standards in order to be obedient
to God’s standards.
(reaction to a quote in CPR newsletter)
4/18/08
My friend and I said, “Sometimes it’s easy to confuse personal
convictions with universal commands…” We like so much to talk about “Personal
Convictions,” but “Personal Convictions” are things you get from your feelings;
Commands are what you get from the Bible. Let’s not confuse the two. When presented before a group of people:
Convictions are subjective; Commands are non-negotiable; Convictions
are often opinion; Commands are always truth; Convictions are inferred;
Commands are legislated by God; Convictions are
optional, commands are not.
4/14/08
Suggesting that “the heart of the matter” might contradict specific
commands given in the Bible, suggests that God is not a good enough writer to
properly express Himself.
4/14/08
We are not so spiritual that we don’t have to submit to commands that
govern our conduct.
4/14/08
Even foolish people will try to praise a person when he is exalted
before all, but they do not care that he had sought God first in humiliation.
God is just as much the God of humiliation as exaltation, but if we only regard
a person in their exaltation we have no share nor part with those who are
honored by God.
~4/7, 4/11/08
You cannot plan obedience, you can only choose it.
4/9/08
If your character is still lacking so much as you show today, don't tell me how long you've been reading the Bible. It does not give you credibility, but justifies suspicions to pronounce you guilty!
You've been reading the Bible how long? Don't tell me that because it is to your detriment and shame! It is better for you to say, "I've been a foolish man who has wasted his life for so many years," than for you to admit how long you have been unfaithful to the word of God.
You've hardened your heart and twisted the pure commandments of God. Don't boast about it to me as though I owe you recognition and respect for your stubborn rebellion for all these years!
4/7/08
Whether you’re
disappointed or diluted about your life you need to get delivered.
3/29/08
Independent
Attitude
I was asked,
“…what's the root of women
having an "independent attitude"? I understand that we need to die to
marriage but there's a difference between that and "I don't need a man, I
can do fine all by myself". The attitude almost despises marriage in a
sense.”
[ANGELLE LEWIS,
rose253@ufl.edu, Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:59 AM]
I responded:
"Independence"
despises the very principal of having any authority over one's life. Marriage
can be a reminder of this, so that a woman can be embittered even toward this
reminder, if she considers submission an insult to her value rather than an
honorable means of protection.
If you despise
the honor, then you see no value in the protection. If you rejoice in what God values then
submission is a joy and a crown to you.
[Tuesday, March
25, 2008]
A gentle and quiet
spirit trusts the office of authority. It values honoring what God put in place
over disputing what seems like a better choice.
Pro_18:1 KJ2000
A man, having separated himself, seeks his own desire, and rages against
all sound wisdom.
That is, “separated himself” from the people he ought to be in
community and accountability with. How might this play out with a woman who is
supposed to be dependant and seeks to be independent?
3/25/08
If or When I grow Old
I can never let
the amazement of my learning experiences puff up and overrule the integrity of
my relationship with others in showing myself true. I am not true because I’ve
experienced or learned so much. I’m only true if God upholds me every moment.
In the mean time, I am continually brought under
examination. I cannot be caught up in being infatuated with what I’ve learned
more than others, so that I dismiss those who deserve to be heard.
Every moment I’m
under God’s test to be proven true, before God and man. Until God thunders from
heaven on my behalf,* I am indebted to submit to the testing of all men who
examine me. I’m indebted to respond in eagerness to those who examine my life.
Even after the
greatest revelations I must maintain my humility acknowledging that God may
send a youth to examine me, and I will fail if I don’t acknowledge him and if I
don’t bother to display to him the full grace of God.
* Num_12:5-9
3/24, 4/28/08
Are you saying
that anything other than the supernatural divine grace of God can produce truly
righteous works before God in naturally sinful human beings? Furthermore are
you suggesting that the divine works of God in a person's life are incapable of
saving them? Are you suggesting that God’s works in a person are not divine or
clean enough to justify a man unto salvation?
"…so a man is
justify by works and not by faith alone" (Jas_2:24).
All of these
things are "the gift of God" for our salvation (Eph_2:8-10).
Tit_3:5 KJV Not by works of righteousness which we have
done, but according to his mercy…
2Ti_1:9 KJV Who hath saved us… not according to our works…
1Co_15:10 KJV
…but I laboured more abundantly than they all:
yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
3/22, 4/28/08
Fight for what is
right. Take dishonor. Seek for Truth. Believe in God’s promises.
3/8/08
Keep enduring and
don't be side-tracked by any counter fit.
Be more pleased
with answering the opportunity to offer God the offering of endurance, than the
temporary satisfaction of settling for something else.
3/4/08
· Since when has God ever deferred to your
own since of morality to guide your life?
· Since when has God's perfect law ever
been based on relative human judgments? (1Co 4)
· It is tragic when we always want what we
consider the standard of righteousness to end in our court.
· You can't break His commandments to flee,
and afterward Trust Him to deliver you from falling.
· If we use the "freedom" that we
are supposed to have in God's grace to
sanction our right to define what is lustful then we are defying truth: Jud_1:4 & Gal_5:13
3/3/08, 1/9/10
Pragmatism
We are not serving
a God who is adjusted to our pragmatic ideas of what would work best. We are
serving a God of mystery and divine wisdom far beyond our understanding that we
must obey in faith.
2/28, 3/8/08
Beauty
Do you realize
that what is beautiful in the sight of the Lord is when He looks down and sees,
not the beauty of a woman's appearance, but the beauty of her who is obedient
in pursuing modesty and submission. That is a woman that God calls beautiful.
2/28/08
Submission to
Literality
We don't know
what's best for us, and the only way to find out is to take the Bible at face
value.
2/24/08
A Notable Woman
A foolish man will
pass by a humble and submissive woman and not notice, but the wise will pause
to seek ways to exalt her. Wise men notice the virtue of submissive women.
2/21; 2/23, 3/8/08
The Power of Human
Works
Though your own
works are not powerful enough to save you, they are defiling enough to condemn
you to hell. [Rom_4:5]
2/20, 7/9/08
To assume that
one's own culture is sanitary, is absurdity.
2/20/08
Take the reproach
with honor; take it as a complement from God.
[Said to a friend
named Angelle who was facing compromising oppositions from others]
2/_/08
Divine Love for
people is a sacred thing which defiled hands are unable to grasp.
2/7, 3/8/08
I will continue to
dissuade the buyer until he himself realizes that he is postponing the purchase
of his own life. After all, it is not persuasion that I seek, but rebirth.
2/7, 3/8/08
Though a thousand
unique suns shown upon one blind man, he could not describe their splendor, but
he could only comment on their heat.
2/7/08 – Dealing
with foolish antagonist
Religion
and Rational
Your religion is
that which you surrender up your rational to, to make leaps of faith.
Jesus is
different.
When truth comes,
your rational is finally alive, and soundness is finally established. Since the human rational is naturally broken under
the weight of crimes against God, it is a flood of relief to take hold of the
one that works.
2/7, 3/8/08 –
Dealing with foolish antagonist
Read
the Bible
If a man wrote a
woman a letter proposing marriage, the woman would read it thoroughly through
and through with complete eagerness and zeal. How is it then that so many
people I meet have never read through the whole Bible?
This then is the
problem you face:
How are you going
to interact with people as you ought to, if your values have not been adjusted
by the Bible verses that you have not read yet?
2/6; 2/7/08
Fragmented
Presumptuous Theology –
This is what I
call it when someone fragments a part of Scripture so that it is no longer even
a complete thought, and then presumes a meaning upon it contrary to the
context, or even the rest of the Bible.
If you left the
verse or thought intact, then you could not get away with distorting its
meaning. But you must fragment it first,
so that its meaning is suspended while you presume a contrary meaning upon it
which has no basis except for your own lust.
When you leave
thoughts and verses intact from Scripture, a very dangerous thing happens where
you are exposed and vulnerable to the dictates of God and must honestly choose
to either submit or rebel.
1/23/08
God's Grace
continually forgives past sins, and continually condemns present
lifestyles. If God has truly forgiven
your past, how will it not condemn you if you spitefully abuse it with
continued sin in your present lifestyle?
1/21 4/28, 5/22/08
Joking
The one who does
the injustice makes jokes to the face of his victim, but the wounded take it
seriously.
1/1/08
Prayer
Writing
When praying you
should keep something to write with close by, because you should be intending
to base your whole life upon what you get in prayer. (This is why I integrate
reading the Bible into my prayer time)
1/1, 4/28/08
Shady
Embellishments
When I was talking
to my good friend Angelle, she mentioned being disturbed and dissatisfied with
"shady embellishments" of Scripture from pastors who are more eager
to make a point in their sermon than they are to be faithful in proclaiming
God's truth. This is because flaky and unfounded fancies about Bible verses do
not produce the Truth of God's Word that makes us alive. Fakeness and the lack
of integrity with Truth leaves a gnawing sense of betraying God for a
counterfeit in the back of our minds that we cannot ignore without serious
consequences.
Like it or not,
real faith cannot flow out of deceptive hype.
When our integrity is compromised by taking this counterfeit, we forfeit
the Spirit of truth for a worthless belief that commits our life to foolish
vanity. You cannot be motivated in good
pure faith to obey God and hope in His promises of greatness, when you are
embracing a worthless lie in your heart, based on men's creative imaginations
and dishonest distortions of the Word of God.
1/1, 2/7, 2/23,
11/26/08
It's not like
"you have most things right but just lack enthusiasm in following
God," because you can't lack zeal for God without something being
principally wrong on the inside!
12/29/07
Exaltation
and Humiliation
In looking at the
benefits of godliness, and being captivated by the great men and women of God
in the past, we consistently overlook the cost.
We think we wanna be like Abraham and Moses and Elijah, because God was
so close with them. When God does
impressive things in their lives, in an amazed "good envy," we wonder
why our lives don't look like that too.
But in our admiration of the good we are consistently naïve, not
recognizing that greatness means facing great loneliness, and exultation is
achieved in God's kingdom by enduring great humiliation. Gaining God's special acceptance and approval
consistently means facing the blunt of man's utter rejection.
Bitterness and
humiliation are the pathway God has chosen to
exaltation.
12/29/07, 4/28,
11/26/08
Spiritual
Experience
Whatever spiritual
experience you have that does not conform to strict adherence to the Bible is
not worth a nickel before God, no matter how glorious it may seem.
Rom_16:18 EMTV
For such people do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ,
but their own belly...
Isa_8:20 - Make it according to the Bible!
12/21/07
Just
Forgiven?
Church-goers who
do not want to take responsibility for their ungodly lifestyles love the
bumper-sticker that says, "Christians Aren't Perfect, Just Forgiven."
But this is exactly the sad tragedy of Americanized christianity:
The consistent
pattern of their footsteps shows that they are obviously not following a
perfect God, and in the same way their life-styles prove that they have not
received the freedom from sin that forgiveness brings either.
Just Forgiven? How
Tragic! Not Even that!
12/8/07; 4/28/08
A
Loving Withdrawal
For some reason,
we always act like we are bound to being evil or mean in rejecting and
withdrawing and separating ourselves from the ungodly. We automatically assume
that we will be polar in sinful human excesses,
but it is more than obvious that God has given us both provision as well as
clear and thorough commands for us to be both loving and to keep our distance
from people who are not going the same place as we are toward Jesus.
11 or 12/_/07, 4/28, 11/26/08
Wisdom tells us what
to value, how to value it, and to what extent to value it.
11/21/07
By far the most
wide-spread cancer in the American church today is her stubborn refusal to know
her own lostness.
11/5, 11/17/07;
11/26/08
I’m so dedicated to your best interests that I would rather you hate me
with the knowledge that I tried to save you, than for you to like me and go to
hell because of lack of knowledge.
(From prayer, an adaptation from Keith Green, and Hos_4:6: in light of my last days at my job)
8/17/07
It's high time that we settle forever the vain fantasy that one could
be saved without yet being a disciple of Jesus.
We want to say that we can get saved without actually getting saved. We
want all the promised benefits of salvation without meeting any of its essential
contingencies.
We want to believe that there is an easy option for those who have
neglected so great a salvation. We actually want to believe that we could fail
to meet Jesus' discipleship standards and still make it to Heaven!
We pretend to be doctrinally conservative by dogmatically saying,
"Jesus is the only way" while we hypocritically pretend that we
ourselves don't actually have to follow that "Way" to get to Heaven.
If Jesus is the only way to Heaven, as the Scriptures teach in Truth,
then only those who follow Him in discipleship will arrive at the destination
that He leads to, and all others will find themselves at that great alternate
destination of torment forever.
8/13/07
Any amount of rules will never save or kill you, but their geographical
location will.
8/2/07
I can usually summarize my desire and goal whenever I preach or teach
in this way: That people walk away from hearing me believing the parts of the
Bible that they did not know they were disbelieving.
7/23/07, 4/28/08
Your christianity is not going to save you in
the day that the wrath of God comes and iniquity is found in your heart.
(See Eze_18:9-32; 28:15)
The christian (Pharisees) who say, “We have
Abraham as our father” (by saying ‘I am a christian;’ I won’t be condemned)
will be condemned worse than the one who calls himself a heathen.
7/22/07, 4/28, 11/26/08
Find the Truth that people hate the most and preach it as loud as you
can with your life and you’ll make yourself a friend of God.
6/19/07
I am baffled by all of this because in my flesh I am still estranged from
God after 10 (almost 11) years of following Jesus. Though I hear Him in my
Spirit, my flesh is still His enemy... and mine
too. How can my flesh hate God so much
when my heart continually yearns for Him? I know nothing. But still I know to
“recon it dead” so that I may truly live.
5/10/07; 2/23/08
“Life is good” you say? You're life’s fool. Life is vain; Jesus is
good.
5/8/07, 9/5/07, 2/8/08
A woman who has failed to submit has failed to be a woman.
So many people, both men and women, think of the submission of a woman
as another virtue among many, that should be aspired
toward as all others. I wish they would hear me now so that they may hear the
Scriptures: a woman who does not particularly prioritize submission over other
virtues has failed them all. You should not pursue submission at your
convenience, but rather, at the expense and lose of everything else. It is worth more than the cost of all your
goods, both physical and non-physical, because it is your virtue and the sum of
everything you have!
Show me a woman who has neglected submission in her life, and I’ll
present to you a woman who is complacent toward God, no matter how charismatic
and zealous she may seem to be. Show me
a woman who is quick to lead others that include men, and I’ll warn you of a
woman who despises the Holiness of God!
Show me a woman who sits under “the tree of Deborah” and gives her
supernatural wisdom only when others insistently beg and pry it out of her
mouth, and I’ll show you an amazing woman of God who is destined for greatness
and who will be exalted by God’s own right hand!
If you say in your heart, “I’ll develop submission one day,” I respond,
“then you will be as good as dead until that day comes, if it comes.” Don’t wait around for submission to
come. You must take hold of it with your
life, because it is your life.
Men fight long and hard for honor, but a woman’s victory is determined
in how she submits. If she submits well she will even condemn him as a fool who
has fought for the honor of this life. At the judgment, she will laugh him to
scorn as one who tramples his enemy’s face in the ground in victory. And
through quietness a woman’s proclamation will go throughout the entire earth.
Through diligent reverence a woman teaches us all about the mystery of
the bride of Christ. She instructs all who think that they are wise, through
her humility.
[This was written 13 days before God would send eternally
significant beloved sisters into my life to disciple]
5/5/07; 4/28/08
“No, that's not The HOLY Spirit. God never makes light of sin. That's
the devil you are toying with sir.”
4/23/07
The story of my life: The only way to have a conversation where there
is deep and meaningful agreement is to go and pray. And when I'm wrong then I'm really “out of
gas,” because I have no one to converse with until I straighten out my heart.
[This was written (in faith) about one month before God sent major
disciples in my life, which produced great encouragement.]
4/2, 4/3/07
Man is hopelessly religious so that he cannot find God. No matter what
direction he turns his affinity, he strays further. Even if he insists that he
is not religious, he must insist on it to religious degrees to convince himself
of it. Some have emphasized this estrangement even more by actively pursuing
their religion, and have taken on religious spirits as a regular part of their
lives. But truth is only given to those who hate man’s religion altogether and
forsake it by dying to being men in this life in the first place.
4/2, 4/3/07, 4/28/08; 10/27/10
Man cannot successfully replace God, nor can he escape by substituting
something else in His place.
4/2, 4/3/07; 4/28/08
Far worse than losing all of your physical freedoms is
to lose your fear of God.
3/_,
4/2, 4/3/07; 4/6/12 (Spelling)
To encourage Ecumenicalism and to discourage competition between church
groups many have said, "We are not in competition against the group down
the street. We're in competition against the devil!"
But doesn't this saying prove the exact opposite of what it is
intended? If followers of Jesus are in competition with the devil that includes
those church groups to which satan has annexed into
his kingdom. How is it just at all to
dismiss any need for “competition” with other churches by pretending that they
are not part of the enemy’s territory?
Why are we pretending that other church groups do not hold those very
souls we should be trying to win to salvation?
It is certain that all kinds of evil suspicions arise within polluted
hearts when we embrace the dreaded reality that most churches are enemy
territory that we should be seeking to take for Jesus. However we will only do gross injustice to
the honor of God and the souls of men if we shamefully lie to our hearts and
tell them that we should not be seeking to gain those in other churches.
Whether or not they end up "coming to my church," they are certainly
not in good hands while going to "the synagogue of satan," (Rev_3:9).
3/27/07; 4/28/08
The foolish don't show respect when it is most needed.
3/20/07
I'm trying to be as imbalanced as possible, because extremists are the
only ones who actually believe what they profess to stand for.
3/15/07; 9/19/09
No, I don't respect the lies you believe and value.
3/15/07
When you trust in sincerity, you embrace insincerity.
3/12/07; 4/2/07
When we are young, we are fooled into thinking that we know everything
by the youthful vigor of our new-found “independence.” When we are old, we are
fooled into thinking that we are wise because of the weight of our many
experiences.
In both these cases, we are fooled by the flesh.
Let us no longer live according to the foolish dictates and whimsical
changing circumstances of the flesh.
Let us not take wrinkles and the weight of many experiences for our
wisdom, but rather our continued zeal, fear of God, Humility, and discerning
decisions that distinguish the holy from the common.
The polishing, refining, and INCREASE of these things through age make
us wise in our latter end.
3/8/07, 3/15/07; 4/28/08
I've noticed a common error among all those going toward romance. From Christian to non-christian they all recon that they have been
hard on themselves too much and too long and that this area is the time to be
relaxed for a change. They all suppose that THIS (out of all the other
times and areas in their whole life) is the opportunity to correct their
"Legalism" and "over-harsh-ness" with themselves. THIS is where they are finally learning not
to be "bound" by "rules".
This is where they are "righting the wrongs" by reaching for
freedom and not letting themselves feel or be under any pressure. Interesting
that all these excuses are saturated at THIS time of all other times in their
life when their very life counts on them being stricter than they have ever
been in their whole life!
Of all the times in your whole life that you have, this season among
some potential 80 years, if
any at all, this is the least of all times you should ever
practice on trying to expand your allowance of freedom.
This is the one time more than all others that you should be
super-restrictive and watchful knowing with any wisdom that it is your most
vulnerable time you will ever face, and if there is any time you are likely to
be swallowed by the enemy, this is it as much and more than almost any other
time in your whole life.
1/30, 3/15/07
Whenever people disagree with the clear Words of the Bible, it's never
an intellectual problem, but always a heart lacking simple repentance.
1/21/07
Being free in Jesus seems to be all about defeating insane thoughts.
1/10/07
If you are in High school, don't let the girls have your attention, no
matter how much they strive for it. But if any are virtuous this commands
respect and honor.
1/10, 4/28/08
Someone had written a godless philosophical statement and I opposed it,
and then their justification was that it was speaking "figuratively."
But Speaking "figuratively" does not make morally flawed statements
into morally acceptable ones.
11/27/06; 5/15/07; 4/28/08 [reconstructed]
This is one of the
most frequently updated part of my website. You may
want to bookmark this page so that you can return to it regularly if these
things benefit you.
This page is where
I write down what I get from prayer and listening to God.
This page is not
about trying to prove anything to anyone, but is sort of like a “Blog.”
If you are hungry
for deep spiritual things and open to read what I have gotten, then this page
is for you.
These things are
not all straight-forward teachings, nor intended to be simply understood, but
deep things to be searched out and prayed about.
These things are
not written for the foolish or fleshly (1Cor_3:1; 2:2) but for those pursuing real
wisdom (1Co_2:6-7).
If you want
explanations for any of these sayings you can call me: (352) 222-5471
By calling this
page “inspirations,” I am not trying to say that everything here is prophecy,
but I am convinced that it falls into this category:
1Co_14:6 KJB
…what will I profit you unless I speak to you either by revelation,
or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by teaching?
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