Faith, Hope, Love-Work Out Your Salvation

1 Corinthians 13:13 Right now three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Philippians 2:12 My dear friends, you have always obeyed, not only when I was with you but even more now that I'm absent. In the same way continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

We are told to "work out" our salvation with fear and trembling. I know that these words directly from the bible are absolute heresy for most "churches" today because 1. they refuse any notion of "working out" your salvation. 2. The bible says we do it with "fear and trembling" but the babylonian church has'nt been given a "spirit of fear" so they refuse to obey this piece of scripture all together. For those of us whose heart is to absolutely obey the Word of God down to the letter, how do we "work out" our salvation? We are saved by grace THROUGH FAITH.....and FAITH is our "work" it takes FAITH to do the "work of God" which is to believe.

Back to faith, hope, love:

1 Thessalonians 1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

Does it surprise you that the "work" our Lord expects from us is "working" our faith and laboring love, being patient in hope? How can your faith be "working" if you never use it? (parable of the talents Matt 25) Love isn't a feeling, its a decision. Jesus first loved us so much that he died for us when we were sinners. Love came with some tremendous pain for our Lord.

The kingdom of our God is advancing itself all around the world today through the few who are truly "in Christ." Each person is in a different position with different gifts and able to apply "faith, hope, love" in different ways. You don't have to look overseas to find the opportunities to do this "work" of God. How many opportunities for "faith, hope, love" do you have within your own household? How about when you step out your front door and people are so torqued up on stress and fear that your natural reaction would be to club them but instead you do the "work" and apply "faith, hope, love."

Our Lord left the possibilities wide open for us. We are looking for the Lord's return each and every day, but is that all we're doing? Just looking at the sky and saying "hurry up Lord?" I believe that the Lord expects us to be "putting out" as the Navy SEALS call it while we are here on earth. That means DOING in accordance with how our Lord would have us do things. Men tell you to "go to church" as your duty to God. Jesus tells you to BE the church by WORKING OUT your salvation in fear and trembling by applying faith hope, love while we are here.

Our Lord specifically pointed out this word FAITH in conjunction with him coming back for us. Luke 18:8
... But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?" One of the areas we apply/work our faith out on a daily basis is for the escape from all that is coming sometime in the future. The Lord impressed me yesterday with the idea that those who take his word for what it is at FACE VALUE will be the happiest in the long run.

If our God said it, and you take it in the most plain literal way, you will be the closest to hitting the target. The bible was NOT written for "christian" scholars. It was written for children. Children naturally apply GREAT FAITH because they haven't had time to be brainwashed yet by the world and its babylonian forms of religion.

Matthew 18:3
... and said, "Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children,you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

The Holy Spirit doesn't have to argue with a child for 10 years to get them to believe what he said is fact/truth when he tells them clearly what he plans to do. There is an escape from ALL coming and that's a fact. That's what was written clearly in Luke 21:36 for us to accept as children.

The escape from all will arrive at its appointed time. While we wait for it I believe the Lord has been speaking to me for weeks on this subject of faith. I think he's trying to get a point across to somebody and I know I'm one of them. Without faith its impossible to please God. When he comes back, if you are sitting around watching the sky but your faith hope and love are lacking, I don't know, that won't be good..I know our master is looking for people today who will exercise GREAT FAITH like the centurion and the woman whose child was sick:

Matt 8:8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. 9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. 10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

Matt 15: 22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. 23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. 24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. 26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. 27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. 28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

The Lord is going to vomit lukewarm "christianity" out of his mouth at some point in the future (rev 3:16). While the lukewarm church is being tossed, should'nt we be striving to make the Lord marvel at our faith? Should'nt that be the goal? Or is it enough to be serviced once or twice a week by your hired hand spiritual employees and hope to skid into heaven by the seat of your pants? I can tell you this, if the Holy Spirit is not there, you have no business there either. When you go into these babylonian temples and the only life there is the "interpretive dance" and the "christian theatre acting troup" you need to keep looking.

How people can drag themselves around to these places days on days, weeks on weeks, years on years, seeing no power, no mountains moved, no FIRE is beyond me. I guess if being part of the walking dead is good enough then far be it from me to criticize. Once this fire burns inside you it becomes IMPOSSIBLE to tolerate the lie presenting itself to the world as christianity. Something inside you wants to leap out and grab people and shake them.

The truth can be found in your bibles, and on your knees before the Lord seeking his face for yourself without any interloper in between. Most husbands and wives don't invite a hired hand helper to sit between them on dates or lie between them in bed at night so WHY would they pay someone to stand between them in their relationship to the Almighty to find out what the Lord is saying to them today? GET THE MIDDLE MAN OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Faith...hope...love and the greatest of these is love, first love for Jesus then for your fellow man. Who knows how much time is left? Lets be found doing what we know pleases our Lord when he comes back. Let us be walking in GREAT faith, hope and love when he arrives. What does a person have to fear if they are doing these things? John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

grace and peace

General Warning

Luke 8 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. 13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. 14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. 15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Sorry for the pun, but isn't this at the "root" of the OSAS once saved always saved license to sin problem? Don't we read above that the people believe FOR A WHILE, then in time of temptation fall away? What does fall away mean? It means they don't believe anymore. What is the "work" of God? To BELIEVE.

John 6:29
... Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God: to believe in the one whom he has sent."

If they no longer believe, they are no longer "in Christ." If no longer "in Christ" they are no longer covered by the blood from which we are forgiven all sins. If they are not covered then they are guilty before God of every sin they've ever committed.

These people referenced above INITIALLY received the word with JOY. When they were feeling all happy and tingly inside they marched down the aisle and "made a decision" for Jesus. But what happened after that day they "made a decision?" They fell away.

I can hear the scrambling now..."uh..well...but falling away doesn't necessarily mean they won't be saved!" Really? Where'd you get that? Some "pastor" tell you that? I've got something that trumps the words of your "pastor" its called the word of God:

Hebrews 6:6
... and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.

Could it be said any clearer? Fallen away=IMPOSSIBLE to renew them again to repentance.

Alot of time is spent here on destroying the doctrine of devils known as "once saved always saved." Why? Do you have any idea how many souls that license to sin will send to hell? Do you have any idea how destructive and devastating it is to the souls of men to entirely remove every trace of the FEAR of the Lord we are supposed to maintain at all times? Through the satanic combination of OSAS and the blatant missapplication of "i wasn't given a spirit of fear!" men have signed their own spiritual death warrants.

The bible is positively OVERFLOWING with WARNINGS to the BELIEVER. Why did the Lord go through so much trouble to WARN us who believe? Go re-read Matt 7:14-28. WHERE are the men and women today are claim to be full of the Spirit of God who are WARNING the churches with the exact warnings our Lord sent to US? The "feel good" "think positive" "I don't motivate with fear" teachers/preachers/etc are a dime a dozen in todays world. Everyone wants to hear things pleasant to the ears. Tell me lies I don't care as long as they make me feel good! That's where this world is today.

There are people all over the world today who claim to be "christian watchmen" but they refuse to warn the people because someone might "get a spirit of fear" or someone may be offended. They have NO IDEA what a watchman according the Lord even means. Here's a clue as to what a watchman does:

Eze 33:7 So you, O son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

These people are so busy watching what Satan is doing that they have no time or inclination to "warn them FROM ME." You read that? The Lord is telling the watchman to warn the people FROM ME.....but what exactly does that mean to warn the people "from me." It means this:

8 When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die; if you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand. 9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

Its time for people to WAKE UP. If people want to be careful not to offend anybody or give anyone a "spirit of fear" thats fine. They just have to be ready to give the Lord an account for the BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS for failure to WARN THE WICKED.

Warn the wicked? Oh, you must mean people like Obama and the hillary clinton right? No, we're talking much closer to home here, like to people who call themselves SERVANTS of Jesus......here's a refresher:

Matt 24: 48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; 49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; 50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

And look what we have here again.....parable of the talents....

Matt 25:26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: 27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. 28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.

There are many more but you get the point. Mankind may be suppressed right now loaded down with all their sins and self righteousness but our Lord is not suppressed. If men and women will not cry out the Lord's warnings to the people then the stones will cry the warnings out instead.

I know there are many who despise all this. Do these "watchmen" think they are doing people a favor by candy coating the bible for people and "sticking to the positive" or any other topic besides shining the floodlight on the iniquity IN THE CHURCH?

I suppose its better for mankind to stay in their warm little "blue pill" cocoons and not be disturbed so on the day they stand before the Lord of Eternity they can soil their pants as He says to them: "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 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? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.(Matt 7)

Great idea, just fabulous. It's time for people, especially those who claim to be christians to WAKE UP. What if all hell breaks loose in the world over the next days and weeks? What if that means no more internet connection and this method of delivery for the warnings of God goes away? Well, then there will be angels flying through the sky proclaiming the gospel and the world will be a much different place:

Revelation 14:6
... Then I saw another angel flying overhead with the eternal gospel to proclaim tothose who live on earth-to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

If the internet goes off tomorrow and the world turns upside down with it, if you are reading this today, you have been warned. I don't want your blood on my hands. I wish I could have the job of being the cotton candied people's favorite messenger but I was raised from birth to do exactly this. I hope I'm wrong about the majority of what is written at this blog and if I am then Lord forgive me. If I'm wrong then I have no idea what this FIRE is burning inside me driving my fingers into the keyboard to get this message of warning out.

done for today, grace and peace

A Big One

This morning as I was driving my son to school the Lord dropped a whopper on me. What has he had on my heart for weeks now? Faith. We talked yesterday about the fact that the Lord doesn't use hedging/partial or weak statements in the bible. He uses authoritative, definite, concrete, expansive words. This in itself is proof that the author of the bible is GOD ALMIGHTY. What need does he have to hedge his statements? If he says it, its fact.

Statements like "pray that you may be counted worthy to escape ALL of whats about to happen.." The word used there is "all." Not some, not a portion, ALL. Ok so what's the whopper He laid on me this morning?

Romans 14:23 But the person who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not act in faith; and anything that is not done in faith is sin.

Let that statement settle in your mind until you really really "get it." ANYTHING that is not done in faith...is sin. Do you realize what that means? It means you can be what the world considers a really "good" person. Maybe even your "church" thinks you are a saint, but you have a little secret they don't know.....you have lost your faith or close to it, your faith "bank account" has a copper or two left in it, basically nothings there.

How does any other man know how much real faith you have? They don't, but be sure of this, both Jesus and the enemy know. Our real faith DOES MOVE MOUNTAINS. But when's the last time you saw a mountain moved? If mountains have not been moved that means there's not even faith the size of a mustard seed within you because thats all it takes...faith the size of a mustard seed to move mountains.

This gets us back around to the question of: why will so few be saved (Matt 7:14-28)? When we consider the fact that ANYTHING you do that's not done in faith is sin, then you can begin to understand how utterly LOADED down with sin most people are, even the apparently "good." Why did Jesus get all over the disciples time and time again about their lack of faith? Because its impossible to please our God without faith.

Hebrews 11:6
... Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who diligently search for him.

Most people view faith as something that's just some auxilliary topic among many to be preached by some hired hand spiritual employee (pastor) but our God sees faith MUCH differently than most people do. It's impossible to please him without faith. Anything not done by faith is sin. With true faith so lacking in this world, in the eyes of our Lord sin is stacked from the ground up through the heavens. Why did Jesus ask if when he came back would he find faith on earth? He could have wondered about other things with that question but he specifically wonders aloud to us WILL HE FIND FAITH ON EARTH?

How "boring" that we're have not moved off this topic of faith now for weeks huh? The Lord apparently has something to say to mankind today about faith. Lots of people are looking forward to the rapture of the church but have they checked their faith lately?

The bible shows us clearly time and time again that the Lord lays out both the reward and punishment for what we do (or don't do). I am convinced that our Lord is not playing some game of "gotcha" where you sell out to him to him completely, make a de-cision for him every day that you wake up then he tells you "uhhhh sorry dude, your violation of chapter 5 subsection F , subparagraph A of 3 John makes you ineligible!!!! GOTCHA!!" He wants all of you and when he gets all of you, when you "abide in him" you have nothing to worry about. You have to be found "in Christ" at the end. You have to FINISH what you started...what's so hard for people to understand about that? In a world that rarely finishes what they start of committ to, staying with anything for life is a tall order. People want a guarantee that they can committ today, then forget their committment tomorrow and do whatever they want for the rest of their life and still get the victor's crown.

Apparently the Lord has a message for me and you today and that is, regardless of where we are on the world's timeline, you need to check your faith. When is the last time you laid your faith on the line in this cosmic battle for the souls of men?

Do you remember the movie Top Gun with Tom Cruise? Remember the part at the end where "maverick" was still so shaken from losing his friend that the other guys he was flying with were locked in heated battle and "maverick" was on a pleasure cruise somewhere else? All the while the guys in combat were screaming "MAVERICK WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU? ENGAGE DAMMIT ENGAGE!!!!!"

The message is clear. We engage with our faith so....engage.

grace and peace

Guess What? More on Faith..

Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

This is more on faith and another body slam of the false gospel called OSAS-once saved always saved, the license to sin. Notice what it says above "but if any man draw back." There are no idle words used in the bible which means if the bible says "if a man draws back" that means he CAN DRAW BACK. Draw back? Yea, remember what a "de-cision" is from last weeks writing? De-cision means to CUT OFF from any other possibility, in other words, once real de-cision has occurred there is NO drawing back because that would mean a real de-cision was not made.

What happens to the person that "draws back?" Perdition...which means utter destruction, damnation, hell. How do we know if we've made a real de-cision? TIME tells us that. How? Answer below:

Hebrews 3:6
... But Christ as the Son in his own house: which house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and glory of hope unto the end.

Hebrews 3:14
... because we are the Messiah's partners only if we hold on to our original confidence to the end.

Isn't that common sense? How do you know who the winner of a race is if you don't continue watching it to the end? How do you know who wins a football game if you don't know the END result? How do you reach the END? Time. Yea, that means its not over until its over. When you are standing face to face with Jesus (one way or another) THEN its over. Until then, its still "game on." How ridiculous would it be for a rider at a horse race to stop running half way through the race and declare "I WIN!"

If you hold your original confidence to the end, then you win. Read it above straight from the bible. What does it take to hold our original confidence to the end? It takes real faith. It takes a DAILY de-cision to cutoff any other possibility from our hearts and minds that conflicts with our love and dedication to the King of Kings. To keep original confidence to the end you have to REALLY WANT what you are believing for. You have an attitude that says no matter what I will have this thing if it kills me in the process of getting it I am completely committed, no turning back. It takes that...DAILY. Give us this day our DAILY bread Lord, remember that one (Lord's prayer)?

Without faith its impossible to please the Lord. Without faith its impossible to believe unto salvation. When the Son of man returns will he have faith on earth? If you are doing all kinds of wonderful things for Jesus, but you are doing them without REAL FAITH, then guess what you are likely to hear when you stand before Jesus on that day?

Matt 21:22 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? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

In other words, "many wonderful works" alone won't get you into the kingdom. When you read here you know what you are going to see...continually aiming at the same targets..like WHY will so few make it through the small gate that leads to life (Matt 7:14). Why will Jesus tell so many "away from me I never knew you" after they list all they did for him?

Here's another scripture the OSAS crowd would like to erase from the bible:

Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

"Work out" my salvation? Yea, you read it right thats what it says. With "fear and trembling?" RIGHT AGAIN! But wait "I wasn't given a spirit of fear!" See how easily they erase entire portions of scripture to their own damnation?

Work out your salvation with FEAR AND TREMBLING. That statement alone destroys the doctrine and theology of the majority of "churches" in America today. Why work out our salvation with "fear and trembling?" Go back and re-read Matt 7:14-28 and get back to me on that question. The cotton candy coated brand of babylonian churchianity will send many to hell. Statements like that are what got the prophets killed, you can understand why yes? The Lord sends his servants to confront this wicked world, especially the churches with their apostasy and wickedness and their natural reaction is "KILL HIM!"

Does that tell you where they are coming from and where they are in the spiritual order of things? How can you "work out" your salvation? You can start by keeping your first love first (Rev 2). Jesus first, everything else second. You can get on your face before the King of Kings and let his Spirit shine a floodlight on your insides to convict you of what needs to go and let you know what is pleasing. You can also hear directly from him as to what specifically His will for your life is. We are not a cookie cutter kingdom. He has specific things for each of us to do and how will you ever know those things if you don't know him INTIMATELY?

It takes FAITH to seek an unseen God day in and day out. He rewards those who diligently seek Him. The Lord has been on this topic of faith now for many weeks. Its one of those fundamentals without which your ship is sunk. There is coming a time when Satan and/or one of his demons or many of them will confront men visibly to their VERY FACE and ask "WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?" When that happens, when demons are visibly walking the earth, what will men need to stand for the kingdom? FAITH.

What will it take on days like today when Satan's servants attempt to steal your escape from all (Luke 21:36)? The number of people seems to grow daily attempting to steal people's hope of escape. What does it take to hold fast to a promise that you KNOW will be fulfilled to the letter enabling an escape FROM ALL when simultaneously being attacked on every side? It will take faith. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways and will receive NOTHING from the Lord:

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Satan knows his game well. He knows that all he has to do is create doubt to ensure a man gets NOTHING from the Lord. He sends people like the post-trib, pre-wrath crowd to create doubt in the promises. Could the Lord have been any clearer when he said escape from ALL that's about to happen? What does ALL mean? What does "about to happen" mean? Does "all" leave any room for going through "some" of what's about to happen? No, ALL removes all doubt.

The Lord makes very definitive statements throughout the bible. The promises are laid hold of by faith. I understand men who claim to be christians doubting the promise that some people will escape all. Their lack of faith does not enable them to lay hold of the promise. Their lack of faith will land them right in the middle of the time of Jacob's trouble. Without faith it is impossible to please the Lord.

Faith is the EVIDENCE of things not seen, the substance of it. Once a man has laid hold of something by faith, he has it, he owns it, its his. Such are the promises of God, they belong to those people who lay hold of them by faith.

Done for today, grace and peace

There doth remain faith, hope, love

1 Corinthians 13 -YLT The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless; 9 for in part we know, and in part we prophecy; 10 and when that which is perfect may come, then that which is in part shall become useless. 11 When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe; 12 for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known; 13 and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these is love.

We know that we are supposed to be watching and ready for the Lord's return each and every day. That's the only 100% sure way to be watching and ready on the day he returns. For every speculation out there for when our Lord's returns, there's someone else who does'nt believe it. This attitude we have taken of readiness always is THE way the bible tells us to be ready for his return. With that said, what if the Lord does'nt show up until Dec 21,2012? The date that you pick in the future does'nt matter, what I'm getting at is the patience necessary to wait for years for the Lord's return if necessary.

The people in this world have a terrible time sticking with ANYTHING these days that's longer than the nightly showing of "dancing with the stars" or whatever other garbage is on TV these days. The divorce rate is very insightful because our relationship with the Lord is a parallel to earthly marriage. How many stick with it till death do they part? This isnt a bash on divorced people but making a point about people's lack of ability to stick with anything. What if the Lord delays? Then what? He could show up any day, today or 2 years from today, meantime what are we doing with what we have been given (parable of the talents Matt 25). What are some of the talents from Matt 25 you ask? I'm sure there are many opinions but here's mine: Go back to the initial scripture posted at the top:

12 for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known; 13 and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Todays babylonian preachers like to twist the parable of the talents into another tool to fleece your pocketbook but do you really think our Lord needs your money? What is our God looking for out of you? FAITH, HOPE, LOVE. It is through faith that I give my money directly to the poor and needy with no hired hand middlemen to fleece it along the way. Every penny goes into the mouth of the hungry. I do this out of love for the poor. I do this in faith that our Lord's heart is with the hurting and needy in this world. This isn't about me though, its about using what we've been given, faith, hope, love. The various ways these "talents" can be expressed is limitless.

Luke 18:8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

Luke 12:35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. 38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

How exactly do we "watch?" Stare at the sky all day? No, we watch through faith. Faith apprehends things that are not seen. Faith expects things that other men scoff at to appear. Faith activates the power of the word of God. Faith gets someone like Noah to build the ark when the entire world was ridiculing, laughing, mocking etc. Hope tells us theres a point to what we are believing for. Love solidifies both faith and hope in the knowledge that the word we trust in, which is Jesus himself (the word) will deliver on every promise made, every time.

1 Thessalonians 1:3 In the presence of our God and Father, we constantly remember how your faith is active, your love is hard at work, and your hope in our Lord Jesus the Messiah is enduring.

When the Lord shows up whether that be today or Dec 2012 or anytime before or after, he expects to find REAL faith, hope, and love. The sinfulness and wickedness of this world hardens people's hearts. People can believe today then fall away tomorrow. Once saved always saved is a satanic lie from the pit of hell, your faith must ABIDE the test of TIME, through the waiting, through the economic crisis, through the pig flu, through it ALL. The Lord gave me this perfect illustration to destroy the lie that making a "decision" one day does NOT mean you are "saved forever."

Here it is: What does it really mean to "make a decision." Do you know what the latin root in that word "de-cision" means? It means to CUT OFF permanently from any other option or opportunity. How do we KNOW that someone has made a real decision for Jesus? The test of time. We are all familiar with the new years syndrome where people all over the world "make a decision" that this year they will lose weight, go to the gym etc etc. How exactly do we KNOW if their "decision" was real or not? At the end of the year they are LIVING, acting out the "decision" made and weight is lost. How do we know that a decision was'nt really made? They weight 10 pounds more this year. It's no different in any other area where people make decisions. So called christianity would have you believe that today you can "make a decision" for Jesus then fall away later, and still be saved. That's like saying I made a decision today to lose weight, then tomorrow and every day after the doughnuts and cheescake look better than my decision, I don't work out and I still expect to lose weight. Does that wash AT ALL? That's utterly retarded, its ridiculous, its illogical and its a LIE. People know it does'nt work with diets, workouts, learning a new language or anything else worthwhile in this world but somehow magically when it comes to the Lord and the kingdom of heaven we have this magical ability to "make a decision" one day thats not really a de-cision/cutting off of every other possibility and still expect to get into heaven.

A REAL de-cision means a true cutting off, NO GOING BACK, bridge burned behind us, the rest of our life lived for Jesus PERIOD. Anything else was not a decision. Do we fall on our face as we go forward? Sure. Make lots of mistakes? Yep. Are we perfect? No. But we are expected to get up after every fall, to learn from every mistake and to become PERFECT as he is perfect.

Matthew 5:48
... So be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."

Our Lord expects RESULTS. Go read the parable of the talents again if you don't believe me. He wants to see SOME PROGRESS with what you have been given. The one who buried his "talent" in the ground was called wicked and lazy then thrown outside with the hypocrites. Where can you use your faith, hope and love "talents?" Question is.....where can you not? Engage....go all in, use what you have been given as a conscious act of your will exercise those gifts. It's what our master expects. We must have something, ANYTHING to show for progress. Do not bury your talents. We are dearly loved children. grace and peace

Separation

Does light share fellowship with darkness? The babylonian church tells you that "attendance" at church is mandatory because we must not break fellowship. Really? If the Holy Spirit is not in attendance there I'm supposed to sit staring at the back of everyone's head week in and week out while the spiritual "guru" pastor pontificates so as not to "break fellowship?"

First of all, how can we "attend church" if we are the church? Wherever we go that's where the church is. Second, we are called to be holy before the Lord. What exactly does holiness mean anyway?

Hebrews 12:14 (KJV) Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Here's the translation from a literal bible,

(YLT) peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

Holiness means separation from wickedness. If Jesus says he hates something, like for instance the nicolaitan teachings and practices I see in every church these days, perhaps I shouldn't be there? Or do you sit there week after week listening to teachings and being part of practices that Jesus hates, which is it? Holiness means COME OUT of the babylonian whore, separate yourselves. Of course most people refuse to do this which comes with a price to be paid:

Revelation 18:4 ... Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, so that you don't participate in her sins and also suffer from her diseases.

There are churches and pastors on every corner of every street in America yet the people are soul starved. Psychology and marketing 101 tell us that satisfied needs don't motivate people. In other words if my hunger is satisfied and you come by trying to sell me something to eat you are out of luck, I'm not looking anymore. You wonder why so called christianity is disintigrating into the occult, new age, atheism etc etc these days? People tried out the babylonian prostitute, found her lacking and went somewhere else to fill the gaping GOD SIZED void within them. They are spiritually STARVING, churchianity promised them a meal and when all was said and done the people went home both starving AND lighter in the wallet, what a deal!!!!

The writing here is as much a condemnation of the apostasy of the "christian" church as it is an exhortation to those who are sick to the point of vomiting with churchianity and want the real thing. The truth is out there for those who want it with all their heart. Satan has masterfully created thousands of "brands" of churchianity in an attempt to bury the true church.

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

You read that? The way of truth will be spoken of as "evil" because of all the false prophets and the MANY who follow them. You still wondering why only a few will be saved in the end (matt 7:14-28)? Where are all the "men of god" today warning people that only a few will make it in? I can hear it already "oh, but that would make people afraid and we weren't given a spirit of fear." Really? Guess what, a "state of fear" and a "spirit of fear" are two DIFFERENT THINGS. Guess what a "spirit of fear" is? ......................its a spirit, what a revelation huh? People today use that quote "we weren't given a spirit of fear" to brush away almost every warning in the bible, how convenient!

All of God's judgements and warnings, every place we are taught about the fear of the Lord ALL BRUSHED ASIDE in one spiritual karate move "i wasn't given a spirit of fear!" Wow, that's one of the best spiri-jujitsu moves I've ever seen. You are told to FEAR him who can and will cast YOUR soul into hell if you are not found "in Christ" at the end. Notice the pronoun YOU that's used here:

Luke 12:5
... "But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him!

Not the heathen, not the muslim or satanist...YOU..read it in context, he's talking to believers. Just like those in the vine in John 15, if they are not fruitful, they are CUTOFF thrown out and burned up. Sound "saved" to you?

John 15
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Nope, we weren't given a "spirit of fear" we were given the Holy Spirit. With the Holy Spirit inside us are we supposed to fear him who can cut us off from the vine and kill both the body and soul in hell? YES.

Instead of manufacturing false doctrines like (once saved always saved-the license to sin but saved anyway) how about doing what the bible tells us to do instead? How can I hold our Lord in reverential awe/fear and still be at peace regarding my salvation?

1 John 3:21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

This nail has been hit so many times its beginning to bend....if you do what you are supposed to do which is spend time daily with the Lord, His Spirit which searches your spirit will point out what needs to be fixed if you are going down the wrong path.

Romans 8:27 ... and the one who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, for the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to God's will.

Here's an interesting one:

Revelation 2:23 'And I will kill her children with pestilence, and ...
... I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts.

The Lord says he will kill THIS CHURCHES CHILDREN off with pestilence, he will STRIKE THEM DEAD if they do not get their act together. Are you a parent? You reading this? He will strike your prized offspring dead. I guess that will be a rude awakening to today's sugar daddy in the sky, puff me up some more cotton candy and lets "do" church! crowd.

Of course, the Lord striking your children down dead can be so easily dispensed with using churchianities handy tool "I WASN'T GIVEN A SPIRIT OF FEAR!!!!!" Yep, that's great all right. I suppose when their children are slain before them they'll just keep repeating that over and over again "i wasn't given a spirit of fear, i wasn't given a spirit of fear, i wasn't given a spirit of fear, i wasn't given a spirit of fear, i wasn't given a spirit of fear, etc etc"

The Lord warns you first. He wants to be merciful and kind. He wants to reason with you before your children get stricken down:

Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

There it is in plain language. Willing and obedient will get you one thing, refuse and rebel get something else. It's up to you. If todays babylonian form of churchianity continues to erase large portions of the bible with their satanic tools (like OSAS and the "spirit of fear" trick) , well..there will be a price.

While preachers are tickling peoples ears and everyone else is out watching satan's chess moves in the world where are the people who are WARNING the church? Where are the people putting what was written squarely in the face of today's so called church? There are a few out there, but few is the key word. Its always a few who "get it." It's a few who find the small gate on the narrow path that leads to life (Matt 7:14).

This is way longer than I thought it would be. Done for today. grace and peace

What is the Spirit Saying to the Churches Today?

Just a short note for today. Do you think that God Almighty is worried about what Satan plans to do on this earth? Really? Do you REALLY think our Lord takes it into any consideration whatsoever?

Our God has plans for today and the future. You need to hear PERSONALLY from him to determine where you fit into those plans. Other peoples speculations and whatever that we see during this age of GREAT DECEPTION are meaningless. You need to hear from the Lord of eternity today. Your hired hand "pastor" cannot give you the words that our Lord wants to give you personally.

I am convinced that time is relatively short. Relatively means days-a few years. In that time our Lord has very specific tasks missions for each and every one of us. Scouring the internet for what other people are saying and "hearing" whatever that may be is almost useless unless we have a personal, direct connection with the Lord of Hosts. First love is primary. You and him alone together is primary. Your "pastor" has NO PLACE, zero, nada between you and the Almighty. One mediator between God and man has been established and his name is JESUS CHRIST.

I am on my face before the Lord daily (close to it). He has given me a specific mission/vision of what to do in these last days. Blogging is part of it but its low on the list. Most people today are so faithless that they really DO NOT BELIEVE they can or will hear from the Lord directly. That will cost them. These people still have faith in the babylonian system of churchianity over the perfect law of God Almighty.

I see the Lord working MIGHTY things in these days before we are called into the ark. Since true believers are few, I think that each and every person who is filled with the Spirit today is called to something amazing. For you, I have no idea what that is. YOU need to find out for you.

At this point I could care less about what Satan is doing in this world, its absolutely IRRELEVANT. The Lord does'nt care and neither should you. The unseen kingdom we belong to is primary. Our Lord never stops building it. Faith, belief, obedience, first love, fundamentals are KEY to all of this. The Lord has saved his best for last for us who believe and are hearing his voice in these last days. We are not some spectators who sit in an overrun position watching the hordes of hell overrun our positions. These are PRE-FLOOD days not tribulation days. These are days when we are expected to do "greater things" than even our Lord did through FAITH. How many people do you know that are doing this?

The lack of true faith and belief are at the root of all the problems we see in the world today. Light drives out darkness EVERY TIME NO EXCEPTIONS which is a body slam rapier through the heart for todays so called babylonian churchianity. You have been warned and encouraged. Warned at your participation in the babylonian whore that calls itself christianity today or encouraged that holiness requires separation faith and belief in what was written.

The responsibility rests squarely on your shoulders today. What will you believe and why do you believe it? Is your faith 100% on the word of God or 50% the word of man, 50% the word of God? Or any variation in between? WAKE UP people. Complete and total faith in Jesus alone who IS the word of God who IS our first love is the only path, the NARROW PATH (matt 7:14) that leads to life.

grace and peace

Faith Like a Grain of Mustard Seed

We are told that faith the size of a grain of mustard seed can move mountains:

Matt 17:20 He told them, "Because of your lack of faith. I tell you with certainty, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.

Question is, when is the last time you saw a mountain moved? What does that tell you about your personal state of faith (not trying to beat you up here/making a point) and the faith (or lack thereof) in the world around you? When the Son of man returns will he find faith on earth? One of the pillars of warning that the Lord has given burdened me with to put in the world's face is Matt 7:14-28. Why will so few be saved?

How about this, most people just pay lip service to real faith and belief. The Lord was constantly on the disciples about their lack of faith what do you think his assessment of faith on earth today is? People "play church" by the millions yet the world is full of darkness and rot instead of light and salt. Mountains are not moved because faith is lacking.

I think the Lord has made it clear to me that these pre-flood days will continue just as they are today right up to the day of the escape from all/removal of the restrainer/revelation of the man of sin. While we live in these "days of the Son of man" what are we doing with the days?

Luke 17:22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.

There are days coming when people will look back at today as "good times." Hard to believe for many people but that's the truth. The Lord always warns before he acts. We've come to a point in these end times when the signs are all around us and undeniable. With the days that are left the Lord has given me a vision mission to move in power utilizing every ounce of faith at my disposal to move mountains before the day I stand before him. It's a mission for the poor and everything has to come from heaven to make it happen. I realize that I am a nobody, the least of the brothers, so what does the Lord expect from you before you meet him face to face? I believe we have been called to operate in power/great faith before we are called home.
The work of God is to believe, we know that:

John 6:29
... Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God: to believe in the one whom he has sent."

How does a person believe without FAITH? I'm talking about real faith here not the lip service paid by churchianity today. The muscles in your body grow weak without exercise, so does your faith. Jesus "moved mountains" with his faith and said we would do greater things than he did:

John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

How many years have you "played church" without seeing a single mountain moved? Is that acceptable? Do you think the Lord is pleased with this? Who is responsible for the lack of mountains moved? Your hired hand spiritual employee (pastor)? No...you are responsible/we are responsible. This is a wake up call not a beat down. We may have days left, we may have years, I don't know. What I do know with certainty is that the Lord has "switched gears" from pointing out all the signs which have now become blatantly obvious to moving in power from today through the last day we stand on this earth.

Does it surprise you that the Lord expects FAITH from us? Not the lip service brand, REAL faith that moves mountains. Most people sit in their buildings getting "serviced" by the spiritual CEO (pastors) expecting great moves of faith to come from someone else. This is what the idolatry of the pastoral system produces, masses of impotent people who look to the "guru" pastors for all the big spiritual things. After all, the "pastor" presents himself to you as a "man of God" a "professional" spiritual guru right? Man of God? What the heck do you think we are supposed to be?

We have been called out of the Babylonian prostitute masquerading around this world as "christianity." We have been called out of the prostitute and into the true body of Jesus where moving mountains through REAL FAITH is the norm not the exception. If you don't know where to start exercising your faith try looking around you at the family and friends who are not "in Christ" today. Each soul moved into our master is a mountain moved, faith exercised. Do you think souls brought "in Christ" impresses our Lord? I do.

Luke 15:3 And he spake this parable unto them, saying, 4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? 5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. 7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

There is so much darkness, rot, despair, lack of every kind, soul starvation etc etc in this world that the places to engage your faith and "move mountains" is limitless. Every aspect of today's dark world is designed to suppress faith. Babylonian churchianity was designed as a system to suppress faith. Don't believe me? The proof is right in front of your eyes everywhere. "churches" and "pastors" are everywhere yet this world is drowning in darkness. Light does not flee from darkness, darkness flees from light, so where is their light?

The spotlight is on you now, not on the prostitute "church" pretending to be a wife while whoring after the world in every way imaginable. The Lord is merciful and he wants you to arrive to the kingdom of heaven in strength and honor with a hero's welcome not skidding in with your pants on fire from a "near miss" with hell. We have been given all this in an act of love. When you see your first "mountain moved" which will only come with faith, you will understand. When we see no mountains moved that means there is not even faith enough to measure up with a mustard seed.

When Jesus asked if he would find faith on earth when he returned it was more than just a question, its was also a prodding statement to you and me to get our act together and engage with whatever faith we can summon today. Use what you have and you'll be given more (parable of the talents Matt 25). If you allow the prostitute and her hired hand servants to sing you a lullaby for the rest of your days on earth, well..that will be tragic. Wake up.

grace and peace

Watching and Ready

Luke 12:35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. 38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

There are many scoffers today who think its useless to watch and be ready today for the Lord's return. After watching through prophetically "loaded" days like yesterday, the scoffers like to taunt but I submit to you that they taunt to their own shame. We were specifically commanded to watch and be ready, no time qualifiers mentioned which means we are expected to be doing those things now..today and every day.

We are watching and ready, yesterday, today and tomorrow. We are exercising our faith, expecting our Lord's return at any moment, exactly as our Lord commanded us to. Faith comes with a reward, did you know that? Disobedience and faithlessness comes with a price, did you know that? When a person's pet doctrine stands directly at odds with clear direction in scripture (like people not praying to escape all), the person, not God is wrong..every time. So when we are told clearly to pray that we may be counted worthy of the escape from all that is coming, then we must do exactly what we were told to do, that's faith, that's belief, and that's obedience. When we are told to be watching and ready today and everyday, and we watch in eager anticipation of our Lord's return (while others sit back and scoff) we are centering ourselves by faith and obedience in our Lord's will.

There is a day coming for the mocker, the scoffer, the unbelieving, disobedient and faithless. As a man believes, so he receives. The people who actively try to steal men's hope through the teaching of false doctrines like:....... there's part of the unfolding of the book of Revelation called "satan's wrath" and "there is no escape from all" etc, etc, those men have a reward for what they are doing. When they find themselves neck deep in the time of Jacob's trouble (because they believed they would be there) I don't think there will be any more laughing or taunting. When they see hell on earth unfolding around them while the echoes of "the great disappearance" reverberate in their mind, there will be more weeping than laughing.

My adult life has been spent in and around the military. My first job out of high school was as a professional soldier. Our Lord gave us this:
2 Tim 2:3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

Soldiers train for war their entire lives for that time when they will be called to go to war. They live in a state of perpetual readiness for that time when what they trained for will be put to use. We are soldiers. We stay in a state of perpetual readiness for our commander to show up and take us where he is. We WATCH like a soldier on a wall. Our commander said he would be back for us and we are to have our lights shining, our eyes open and our backs to this world when he arrives.

Now that we've made it through pentecost 2009 we are approaching the 3.5 year mark from Dec 21, 2012. That's the next "loaded" date, not that we won't be watching every day mind you, but I view each of the "loaded" days on the calendar as a military exercise, a time to remember everything we've been told by our Lord, a time to self evaluate to determine ..am I ready? The book of ecclesiastes tells us there's a time for everything. Today in the days of Noah and Lot, that is, pre-flood, pre-fire and brimstone days, there's still laughing and joking, planting and building, marrying and giving in marriage, and there will continue to be these things right up to the day we enter the ark of our escape from all...on THAT day, we will see who the wise and the foolish are. I have a funny feeling on that day the mockers will fall silent. Keep the faith, grace and peace.

Happy Birthday

Today is the birthday of the true church. It's a day that our Lord gave us his precious treasure in these jars of clay: the promised Holy Spirit. Today is a day to remember what our Lord has done and what he promises to do in the future. There is an escape from all promised. There are rewards and punishments promised.

I spent some time with the Lord this morning and what he gave me has nothing to do with the escape, it has to do with a vision/mission he has given me to do with the time we have left before he shows up. I don't know whether today or tomorrow or next month will be the day we walk into our "ark" and out of this world, but I do know what our Lord expects from us while we are still here. He expects us to use our faith, to exercise it. That in a nuthsell is the parable of the talents from Matt 25.

If the Lord comes back for us today thats great, we'll be with him where he is..in heaven. If he does not come back then we have an opportunity to use one more day to do something..anything with what we've been given on behalf of the kingdom and our Father's glory. Keep your eyes on the prize and expect our master to show up any minute, you can't go wrong living like that.

grace and peace

Pentecost Rapture

I woke up last night at 1am EST and felt the need to pray. I have no idea whether or not the escape from all will take place over the next day or two but if it does I want to remind you of this. A week or two ago the Lord brought to my mind to remind you of Lot's wife. She was on the way out of Sodom and she looked back. If this thing does happen, if the Lord shows up and asks you "are you ready?" REMEMBER LOTS WIFE.

Set it in your heart now that you will not look back at this world or anything in it. We may hear "the bridegroom cometh" or "are you ready" or maybe something else but the point is the specific warning for remembering Lot's wife was given to us who are on our way out!!!!! The Lord is very detail oriented, you have been warned and prepared for everything you need to know for that special day.

If the escape from all is not on Pentecost 2009 is makes no difference whatsoever to us who are watching every day. We are ready and watching every day unlike so many who surround us. We are soldiers ready for our commander to show up at any minute. Some days are loaded with more significance than others and tomorrow seems to be one of those "loaded" days than others so we would be wise to seek the Lord's face TODAY before he might show up. I was on my knees this morning at 1am seeking his face about the next 24 hours and the only thing I received from him is my earlier post from today.

I am convinced that there will be a pre-departure "something" that is a time interval between notification and departure before the escape takes place. Noah wasn't sawing wood then poof went into the ark. Lot wasn't baking bread then poof found himself outside of Sodom. Noah and Lot were both told in advance what was going to happen and WHEN. In Noahs case it was 7 days, in Lots case it was the day after the angels arrived. We see from the "one taken one left" texts in Matt 24 and Luke 17 that we are told those on the rooftop don't go down to the house, those in the field don't go back to try and get anything, that implies TIME to actually do those things between notification and departure. The cherry on top of this is the parable of the virgins. They all heard "the bridegroom cometh!" but the foolish went away to "buy oil" which relates perfectly with the idea of not going down from the rooftop or coming back from the field to try and get anything.

When you get the notification, perhaps wake your family up and pray for 1. all the brothers 2. your family 3. yourself that we all will REMEMBER LOTS WIFE.

grace and peace

Pentecost Eve

On this day before Pentecost, the Lord gave me something that I now give to you. If you've been following the writing here you know there has been a constant and insistent thread for the past month of so and that thread is FAITH. I believe there is a strong argument to be made that Pentecost (the birthday of the church) could also be the last day of the church on earth. This would be the removal of the restrainer (light restrains darkness..the true church IS salt and light), and a switching back to the way the Holy Spirit dealt with men before Pentecost to pick up where the Lord left off with Israel.

What does this have to do with faith? What if the "escape from all" is tomorrow or sometime over the next few weeks? You do know that there is a "worthiness" factor involved with this escape don't you?

Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Unlike the babylonian church's opinion that everyone calling themselves "christians" are on their way up to heaven, we know a worthiness factor must preceed standing before the Son of man.

What are some of the things you think might account for "worthiness?" How about obedience for one? We are told to PRAY that we may be counted worthy of this escape, do you know how many people openly rebel and refuse to do this very specific command even though we've been pointing it out to them for YEARS now? We didn't give the command, Jesus did, disobey and ignore it at your own peril. You will not make the escape without obedience nor will you make it into the kingdom of heaven (being "saved") without obedience. How do we know this? Matt 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Doing the Father's will is called what? OBEDIENCE. So if someone promised you some kind of eternal "life insurance policy" based on a one time decision you made and you find yourself in willful disobedience today, you BETTER wake up and re-read your bible. Because of lies like make a one time decision for Jesus then you are in forever, MANY will be told by the Lord "I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

Here's where we see the tie in (by the Lord's planning not mine) with the writing here for the past MONTH. Another requirement to be counted worthy of this escape? FAITH. Yep, it hit me like a hammer this morning while reading Hebrews 11, its all just in your face "escape from all" and pre-flood, pre-fire and brimstone rapture, see for yourself..faith and ENOCH, faith and NOAH:

Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. 7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

Could this short section of the Word be anymore loaded with "escape from all" meaning? How was Enoch translated? BY FAITH. How was Noah moved with FEAR to prepare the ark? BY FAITH. Do you really think you are "saved" if you are reading this in a faithless condition? Do you really think you'll meet the worthiness factor required of the escape if you are faithless today? When the Son of man comes back WILL HE FIND FAITH ON EARTH????

I cannot overstate the importance of this. Just yesterday we looked at how upset Jesus became with THE DISCIPLES for their faithlessness in dealing with the demon possessed and the feeding of the 5,000. If the disciples were found lacking how do you think you stand in your faith today? This is not some exercises to scare you or make you feel bad its a PREPAREDNESS check...are you ready?

I heard someone else say it well, these things are not to make you scared, but to make you prepared. Bottom line here we've looked at obedience and faith, two whoppers. What does the Lord tell us to wrap up the "worthiness" idea when we look at how Enoch was translated?

Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God

Enoch had the testimony that he pleased God. Simple enough yea? Do you think you can please God living in faithlessness and disobedience? Do you think you can be "saved" or be counted worthy of the escape living in disobedience and faithlessness?

If you want to please God as Enoch did, ground zero, the first building block that MUST be in place is what? FAITH Heb 11:5".....he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him." There is no salvation without faith..we are saved by grace THROUGH FAITH, and that word "through" means your faith is a necessary conduit REQUIRED for the grace to work for you. It does not say "by grace you are saved." By grace THROUGH faith let it sink in. You must be found "in Christ" to be worthy of anything in the kingdom, and how can you lay hold of Jesus with no faith? It's IMPOSSIBLE.

The Lord has been on my heart this past month with the same thing..faith. You have to ask yourself why "many" will be told to go away after calling Jesus "Lord" then going on to recite to him all the wonderful things they have done in his name? WHY will many be turned away? WHY will only a few make it through the narrow gate that leads to life (Matt 7:14)? Do you think its a fair calculation to say that if only a few make it through the narrow gate leading to life, that only a few will be found worthy of the escape from all that's coming? Yep, I think thats a fair enough conclusion. The things written here are written to prepare you not to scare you.

If you have committed every fiber of your being to Jesus, you have laid your body soul and spirit down at his feet and you are doing the things you know please him, do you really need to worry? I think not. If you are of the lukewarm crowd who still loves the world and all that it offers and you still enjoy "playing" church instead of being the church, you might need to worry. You know what you are supposed to be doing without me telling you. The Holy Spirit witnesses to each person's heart, one by one. You KNOW what he's said to you and whether or not you are doing what you are supposed to be. We are not perfect, but we should be striving for perfection in his sight: Matt 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

These are the things the Spirit is speaking to me on the eve of Pentecost. He does not stop working for the kingdom even up to the very end. We don't have long to wait to see if the Lord shows up for us tomorrow or over the next few weeks. In the meantime let's do what Enoch did and be found with the testimony that "we please God." We are dearly loved, grace and peace

One of My All Time Favorites

Unbelievable...simply jaw dropping........









She spelled which word to win the spelling bee? LAODICEAN. That's the front page of msn.com this morning. This is not what my post is about today but this is IN THE WORLD"S FACE kinda stuff. No beating around the bush whatsoever..

To todays writing:

Each time I read this I get a good smile out of it. Not that everything here is something to smile at but here's the part I like:

Mark 9 14 When they came back to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them, and some scribes arguing with them. 15 Immediately, when the entire crowd saw Him, they were amazed and began running up to greet Him. 16 And He asked them, “What are you discussing with them?” 17 And one of the crowd answered Him, “Teacher, I brought You my son, possessed with a spirit which makes him mute; 18 and whenever it seizes him, it slams him to the ground and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth and stiffens out. I told Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not do it.” 19 And He answered them and said, “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to Me!” 20 They brought the boy to Him. When he saw Him, immediately the spirit threw him into a convulsion, and falling to the ground, he began rolling around and foaming at the mouth. 21 And He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. 22 “It has often thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, take pity on us and help us!” 23 And Jesus said to him, “ ‘If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.” 24 Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief.” 25 When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him and do not enter him again.” 26 After crying out and throwing him into terrible convulsions, it came out; and the boy became so much like a corpse that most of them said, “He is dead!” 27 But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him; and he got up. 28 When He came into the house, His disciples began questioning Him privately, “Why could we not drive it out?” 29 And He said to them, “This kind cannot come out by anything but prayer.”

Can you picture this? Jesus is standing there with this boy on the ground squirming all over the place, foaming at the mouth and the father of the boy says "if you can fix my boy" to Jesus at which point our Lord gets this incredulous look on his face and replies back to the guy "if you can?" This guy is asking Jesus "if you can.." What I love about this is the Lord's reply. He replies as we should expect him to..what exactly is it that God Almighty cannot do?

Here's the part that's not so funny.

Think about this:
And one of the crowd answered Him "Teacher, I brought You my son, possessed with a spirit which makes him mute; 18 and whenever it seizes him, it slams him to the ground and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth and stiffens out. I told Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not do it.” 19 And He answered them and said, “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to Me!”

Think about it, this is no different than the case of feeding the 5,000 and it all boiled down to BELIEF. Now these guys were not your run of the mill christians, they were the DISCIPLES, the Lord's inner circle and what did Jesus say "O unbelieving generation...how long shall I PUT UP WITH YOU." If the disciples who walked and talked with Jesus every day were accused of being "unbelieving" and told "how long shall I put up with you" then what is the condition of believers today?

When the Lord who is long suffering and more patient than we'll ever be asks "how long do I have to put up with your unbelief" to the disciples, what do you think he's thinking and feeling about what calls itself christianity today? Today's so called christianity has sunk into such a deep state of mediocrity, apathy, powerlessness from playing church and generations of idolatry (pastoral system) that I have no doubt the words he has today for self proclaiming "christians" is much worse than "how long will I put up with you."

Here's another thing about the casting out of this demon and the feeding of the 5,000 and all the other things Jesus did...Jesus expects us to go GREATER THINGS than what he did, and every single thing we should be doing takes GREAT FAITH.

John 14:12 ... Truly I say to you, He who puts his faith in me will do the very works which I do,and he will do greater things than these, because I am going to my Father.

The Lord has been all over this issue of FAITH with me now for weeks. You think maybe he has an expectation relating to FAITH when he comes back?

Luke 18:8
... But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"

We have Pentecost coming up which has "escape from all" possibility written all over it. We've got the 3.5 year mark from Dec 2012 coming up just weeks after that which has "escape from all" written all over it. We just had the word LAODICEAN splashed across the FRONT PAGE of one of the most heavily trafficked websites on earth. Just mind numbing...The Lord requires faith of us for everything, especially your salvation. Once saved always saved is a LIE from the pit of hell. If you find yourself faithless today you have BIG salvation problems. You cannot abide in Christ (John 15) without faith. You cannot please our God IN ANY WAY without faith. Our Lord is not some vanilla pudding sugar sprinkled candy daddy who is ok with scraping by with a minimum of effort or no effort at all.

This is so very serious. The people who have no faith/no prayer invested in the escape from all we were ORDERED to pray for, can likely expect to dive headlong into the time of Jacob's trouble. They fought for it, the debated for it, they argued for it and now they will get what they believed for. The Lord has established immutable laws in the heavens that stand firm as iron regardless of what you believe. One of those laws is you get what you believe.

John 11:40
... Jesus said to her, "I told you that if you believed you would see God's glory, didn't I?"

2 Thessalonians 1:10
... when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be regarded with wonder on that day by all who have believed-including you-because you believed our testimony

Matthew 8:13
... And Jesus said to the centurion, "Go; it shall be done for you as you have believed." And the servant was healed that very moment.

Back to what the Lord expects from us, he expects faith and not just any faith. We are to live in a way that is pleasing to our God aren't we? When our Lord told the disciples "how long do I have to put up with your disbelief/faithlessness" that obviously was NOT pleasing to the Lord. We know that great faith makes our Lord marvel. The centurion's faith (a heathen!) made our Master MARVEL and he said he hadn't found such faith IN ALL ISRAEL!!!!! Nope, not in all Israel but in a roman soldier. We've already covered in previous posts what an indictment that was on Israel and the today's so called christianity by extension. What the real focus of today's message is, is that the Lord might show up any day for us. When he does show up what kind of condition will your faith be in? What's the last great thing you've exercised your faith on to advance the kingdom of God? How would you rate your own faith? On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being centurion level faith where would you put yourself?

I can tell you that there has been a shift in my life from standing full time on the wall as a watchman, to now coming down off the wall to put the final pieces in place to meet the Lord face to face. Sure I still peek over to see whats coming now and then because you don't have to look hard to see the signs all around us, like on the FRONT PAGE OF MSN.COM...LAODICEAN. No time for debate anymore with people who have no interest in hearing or learning anything different from what they already think they know.

We know from Luke 21:36 that there is an escape from all coming that allows us to escape ALL that's coming and puts us smack dab in front of the Son of man. Not on earth, standing before the Son of man, its very clear. Standing in front of the Son of man will involve giving an account of yourself to the Lord for the receiving of rewards. Its no coincidence that we see crowned (rewarded) redeemed men in Rev 5. Those men stood before the Son of man to get those crowns. How did they get into heaven to stand before the Son of man? Through the open door in Rev 4:1.

I hear and see the Lord working in my life to shore up and solidify the rewards aspect of what's coming. What a loving and gracious God we serve. He could have just allowed us to skid into the kingdom by the hair of our chin but he loves us sooooooo much he wants us to be STAGGERED by whats waiting for us on the other side of the door in heaven. He is a loving Father. Jesus is a faithful savior and high priest interceding for us all the time. There has never been a lawyer in the history of the world that employs sharper wits, or more insightful arguments on our behalf than what is happening today in heaven, by Jesus for me and you.

I am seriously impressed by the thought of finalizing rewards today. That's what the Lord is speaking to my spirit. Many people won't even make it past the starting line because it takes FAITH to do anything in or for our Father's kingdom. That's a simple but immovable fact. The people who argue that you can still get into heaven without faith are in for a very very rude surprise. If you are reading this you have been warned and encouraged today. You have been warned if you think that entering the gates of heaven is some walk in the park exercise based on one decision made on one day in your life. You must commit EVERY DAY, not one day. You must "make a decision" for Jesus EVERY DAY, one day won't come close to cutting it. This is an adulterous generation that wants to have lovers one after the other, not get married and stay married for life. Human marriage is a shadow of heavenly marriage and judging by the statistics I read lately humans are failing MISERABLY in the commit forever department..... FEW will make it in (Matt 7:14). MANY will be turned away (Matt 7:21+). You should be encouraged if you have given yourself completely to the Lord, body soul and spirit to entrust to "that day" when we will see him as he is..face to face.

You might be able to get by in this world with half hearted commitment and "going through the motions" to "fake it till you make it" etc etc, but that won't get you far with the kingdom of heaven. There is so much mediocrity, so much LUKEWARMNESS that is why many will be SPIT OUT/VOMITED UP by the Lord:

LAODICEAN:

Rev 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Do you really think that if Jesus just spued you out of his mouth you are still "saved?" To be spued out of the Lord's mouth..vomited out, that means you WERE "in him" but you aren't anymore. If you have been vomited OUT that means you are no longer "IN him" you are now outside of him. And we know that apart from being "IN CHRIST" there is no salvation ..period. Forgiveness of sins, being covered by the blood, getting credit for what was done on the cross ALL has the precondition of being found "IN CHRIST." In Christ all of your sins have been paid for. Not "in Christ" none of your sins have been paid for. Wake up people..

I just saw this as I was writing..just now....did you notice that both the church of philadelphia AND the church of laodicea have the DOOR mentioned? LOL...wow. The only two churches mentioned involving a DOOR are phildelphia and laodicea. One church is promised to be kept from the trial coming on ALL the earth, the other is promised to get vomited out if they don't get their act together.

The Rev 3 philadelphia church is shown the OPEN door AND the KEY that opens it

Rev 3: And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

The Rev 3 laodicean church is shown the door with Jesus ON THE OUTSIDE KNOCKING.....with the promise to be spued out if they don't get off the fence.



Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

We have just days left before our Lord shows up, or maybe the time of Jacob's trouble doesn't start till 2012, I really don't know. What I do know is that the wisest course of action is to be ready and watching today, and everyday for our Lord's return. Take a good look at the strength of your faith and belief (or lack of). Strengthen what you have. If your "talent" (Matt 25) (faith) is buried somewhere go dig it up quick and put it to work on SOMETHING. Be able to show the master at least a couple coppers worth of faith interest on what you were given.

Last comment and I'm done. The Lord doesn't want us to skid into the kingdom of heaven with the seat of our pants on fire from just barely escaping the flames/just barely making it in. He is a loving Father who wants us to receive a HERO'S welcome when we arrive. Get busy guys..

2 Peter1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: 11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

grace and peace