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Quote – Chuck Missler

05 Mar

It is sixty-six books written by forty authors, written between 1446 B.C. & 90 A.D. But, now we discover that it is an integrated message system from outside our time and space domain.
Chuck Missler

How do we know that?

We know that because of bible prophecy.  Only God knows the future from the past.

Isaiah 46:9-10 – 9 Remember the former things, those of long ago;
   I am God, and there is no other;
   I am God, and there is none like me.
10 I make known the end from the beginning,
   from ancient times, what is still to come.

Only God knows the future.  Everyone else who tries to predict the future has a brutal record.  God is the only one who knows it and shares it with the prophets who were men that loved Him.  It’s only just one of many reasons why we can trust the bible, but it is a reason that separates itself from any other literature out there.  All the other books or people that try to predict the future without God are easily refuted and found to be false.  God is fully accurate.

 
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It Does Matter What We Teach

04 Mar

I have listened to people with an “All roads lead to the same place” theory.

These people have replaced good intentions or sincerity in the place of absolutes.  We will be held accountable for truth when we stand in front of Jesus.

Titus 2:1 – 1 You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine.

We might have to hear the voice of the politically correct police on a regular basis right now, but they will be nowhere to be find come accounting time.  They will be too busy answering for a doctrine they spewed that was not of God, but from the spirit of antichrist. 

God’s Word is love letter to all of us. 

I have seen a talk show host that was talking to someone that had died and came back.  The guest claimed that she saw Jesus.  The host quickly told her, well for you it was Jesus, but for someone else it may have been Muhammad, Buddha, etc.  The person looked at her like, I don’t know anything about that, I saw Jesus. 

Now what would make someone have to intervene and make a comment like the one she made?  I know why, she is a very influential person and is trying to push the spirit of antichrist which is bringing everything in this big happy world together.  Never mind truth, we just need to all respectfully come together.

Jews and Muslims have nothing in common.  Atheists and Hindus have nothing in common.  Christians should believe Jesus when He says I am the only way of salvation, which means it should have nothing in common with any of them.

Jesus is truth, but the principle they are trying to shove down our throats right now of all faiths lead to the same God doesn’t even jive with itself.

1 Timothy 4:1 –  1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;  KJV

Truth.  The Truth matters.  What we believe and what we teach matters.

 
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Philippians 4:4

03 Mar

Philippians 4:4 – 4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

This was one of the songs in church that I remember as kid.

What’s the keyword that many Christians forget in this verse?  A-L-W-A-Y-S! 

If we don’t rejoice in the Lord always, it’s because we’re thinking of too many other things except God.  Is something going good in your life?  Rejoice to the Lord!  Is something going bad in your life?  Rejoice and ask the Lord to deliver and protect you from it.

Jesus even tells you to Rejoice even amongst persecution, because it certainly will not go unnoticed with the one who rules the heavens and earth.

Matthew 5:11-12 –   11 “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Paul reminds us to both Rejoice in hope and in suffering.

Romans 5:1-3 – 1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;

Rejoice, and again I say Rejoice.  The Lord loves us.  He knows what we need more than we do.  That leaves us one thing we need to do.  Obey!

We need to seek and follow our Lord.  This fallen world is temporary and to love it only takes our eyes off the Father.

 
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The Ultimate Computer Warning Virus Software

02 Mar

The Holy Spirit!

Nonstop our lives should be hooked into God and Jesus.  Think of yourself as a computer.  The network needs to constantly linked the home base and if you’re a Christian that needs to be the Lord.

If you stay connected on that network it has software that warns you when a virus is detected.  The closer I am to God, the quicker that software kicks in (voice of the Holy Spirit).  It’s quick to point out, “Wow, that wasn’t a great witness.  Let’s work on seeing if we can do better there next time.” Or “Should you really be listening or watching this?”  The Christian anti-viral warning software protects us from becoming infected.

Infected in this case is calloused.  Our hearts become calloused the further we get away from God.

Here is Jesus repeating Isaiah.

Matthew 13:15 – 15 For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes.  Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.

Whose words were they before they came from Isaiah?  Yes, the Word of God Himself.

John 1:1-2 – 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning.

When we protect our hearts with the Word, we are protecting it with the Son Himself.  We need the software from Jesus in our constant daily walks.

What happens when your surfing the web online researching and you get knocked off?  You’re no longer learning new research.  You’re not staying in tuned with the network and what it has to offer.  When we get out of the Word and don’t think about Jesus and God all day long, we stop hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit.  It all gets drowned out by worldly viral implanted dissuasion.

Stay in the Word, constantly talk and pray to God on a constant basis.  Keep the Holy Spirit functioning at a high level in your life, so the warning software detects and goes off immediately.

 
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We Have A Job To Do

01 Mar

Our job isn’t to go out into this big world and make the most of our lives in the name of ourselves.

I remember watching the movie Troy (like most Hollywood movies not recommending) and the one of the big things the main characters were trying to accomplish was their immortality in history.  They knew they were going to die, so they wanted to be remembered for generations to come by their feats.  For a king it was to conquer in battles.  For a warrior it was how remembered he was as a fighting man.

How is each and every one of us living today?  What are we living for?  What are our goals in life?

Is it to live life to the fullest?  Be a daredevil or risk taker?  Check off all the things on our bucket list?

Okay.

Then what?

You take your last breath and you’re in eternity.

Then what?

Is God going to look at you and say, wow, you sold a lot thingy-ma-jigs!  Very impressive!  Is he going to look at you and say that toy train collection of yours goes unmatched! 

My opinion based on what I read in the scriptures suggests no.  God enjoys the fact that we enjoy life.  He made us to enjoy, enjoyable things.  So where does the problem come in?  When the enjoyment or the focus takes precedence over our Lord.

David was a king and yet his first love was the Lord.  David didn’t inspire to be king; God sought him out and put him in that position.  Others, who have fought to be king in the past, were not thinking God first, but power and gain. 

Our job is to serve our King.  As Christians our first and foremost duty is to honor the Lord and be helpers of the kingdom.

Matthew 24:45-51 – 45 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46 It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. 47 Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ 49 and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 50 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51 He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

We have a job to do!  It’s the most important job of our lives.  Here’s a little known biblical thing that’s not a secret.  It’s not about you.  The Lord will take care of you, what you need to do is serve the Lord.

So when we’re standing in front of the Lord and it’s time to give an account, it’s totally about what you did or didn’t do in His name.  You can be the nicest, kindest person in the whole world and if you haven’t asked Jesus to be your Lord and Savior, you have failed the most important thing on the whole to do list.

Today, make it today that you make the Lord number one.  Time is getting closer on His return.  Every day that you make Him number one counts.  There is nothing in your life too important to put it in front of your King and Savior.

 
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You can’t win with people bent on evil

28 Feb

Luke 7:33-34 – 33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ 34 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’

This was being said to the so called people who served God.  Clearly they weren’t looking for truth.  The people of this generation were looking for a King to come and rescue them from the Romans.  The Messiah was to lift the yoke that they had on them and once again Israel would rule the land.

What was the problem?  What were they missing?

The same thing many are missing today.  They want God to give them all their wants and what they think they need. 

The Jewish people back in the day of Jesus were looking for what they wanted.  Power and a place back on top in superiority.  They weren’t looking for someone to die for their sins.  Most of them weren’t looking at their own sins anyway, but mostly looking at others who sinned around them.  Basically acting like everyday sinful men.

Today we have those who want Jesus, based off what they want Jesus to do in their lives or what they want Jesus to be.  Isn’t this the same recipe of disaster that the Jews went through 2,000 years ago? 

What would have happened if the people who said they were seeking God had actually been truly seeking the scriptures?  What would have happened had they been seeking what God wanted instead of what they wanted?

Luke 13:34-35 –    34 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. 35 Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.”

Jesus is reminding us that not only this generation was rejecting Him and God, but they were killing the prophets sent by God by before Him.  More of the same.

So it shouldn’t surprise us that in the last days, the spirit of antichrist is ripe.  People are not seeking the scriptures for what God wants.  They are seeking out what they want.

We must read the Word of God and seek our Lord.  We need to live for Him, not ourselves.  Why do many new people get bored with church and quickly fade away?  Because at first it’s about them, their forgiveness, their comfort, their needs, something new.  Those that stick around are the ones who want to get to know God better and are forever grateful. 

Live for the Lord.  Seek the Lord.  Look for the Lord!

 
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Quote – C S Lewis

26 Feb

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.
C. S. Lewis

The eternal soul.  Yes this is the reason people should be having an urgency when it comes to their eternal destination. 

I think there are people out there that have the attitude, I’m going to control what I can control and not worry about what I can’t.

This is the rub.  Each and every one of us do control our eternal destiny and it comes in the form of a decision.  Will you choose to accept the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, which is the only thing that can cover your sins?  Will you choose the gift that God has provided so you can return back to being His child?

It is a free gift in the sense that God provided it.  You don’t have to earn it.  However, the bible does indicate that one is suppose to now walk towards God.  We are to die to ourselves and live for the Lord.  That in a sense is why it will cost you everything you got, but that’s because God knows what is best for you.

Seventy years will be only blip on the eternal time clock, but the decisions you make will make that blip of time the most important concerning your destiny.    

The eternal soul.  Yes this is the reason people should be having an urgency when it comes to their eternal destination. 

I think there are people out there that have the attitude, I’m going to control what I can control and not worry about what I can’t.

This is the rub.  Each and every one of us do control our eternal destiny and it comes in the form of a decision.  Will you choose to accept the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, which is the only thing that can cover your sins?  Will you choose the gift that God has provided so you can return back to being His child?

It is a free gift in the sense that God provided it.  You don’t have to earn it.  However, the bible does indicate that one is suppose to now walk towards God.  We are to die to ourselves and live for the Lord.  That in a sense is why it will cost you everything you got, but that’s because God knows what is best for you.

Seventy years will be only blip on the eternal time clock, but the decisions you make will make that blip of time the most important concerning your destiny.   

 
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Sounds Like An Ultimatum

24 Feb

Luke 9:25 – 25 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?

I feel today too many people live by I want my cake and eat it too.

However, this verse doesn’t give that ultimatum.  We need to choose Christ, and Christ is not of the world.

John 8:23 – 23 But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

We need to adhere to the warning.  We have to be honest with ourselves.  We need to read the Word of God and obey.

 
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Once You Know God, Why Turn Back?

23 Feb

Galatians 4:9 – 9 But now that you know God—or rather are known by God—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

Most of us have been there.  Find the Lord and then the spiritual battle is really on.  The devil and his demons do not want a believer to become strong.  We have no idea how much they don’t want that.  They have their hands full already.  Unfortunately the human race is making it easier on them when it comes to getting unbelievers to be further away from God also.

John 8:35-36 – 35 Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

We need to seek God and become strong in His Spirit.  We’re in a war and the darts in form of sin.  The enemy will try and throw anything at you that he possibly can.  However, we have the power in the Holy Spirit which is the gift from God.

You have a chance to either be a Christian warrior and soldier in God’s army or you can stay dormant.  There are two consequences for staying dormant.  One, others miss out on finding God, and two; you have to explain why you weren’t serving God to the best of your ability while you could. 

Today’s the day.  One step at a time.  Choose to serve your King instead of sitting on the sideline or making it difficult for others to even know who you serve.

Don’t go back to the sin of the world, it will cripple you and there’s nothing there anyway.  Don’t return back to your vomit.

Proverbs 26:11 – 11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly.

Do you really think if you choose to serve God, you’ll look at your life and be disappointed?

I’ll vouch that if you learn the bible and try to live your life according to God’s Word; you will be fulfilled and should be excited about the Kingdom you’ll be entering into.

 
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Disputes Among Christians Need To Be Settled Amongst Believers

22 Feb

1Corinthians 6:1 – 1 If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord’s people?

Today too many Christians yoke themselves with people who are unbelievers.  The world encourages all people to do just that.  However, as a believer in Jesus Christ, we are children of God.  This isn’t children in the flesh, but in the spirit.

As children of God we are not suppose to selfishly only think of ourselves.  I work in the field where people are trying to work out disputes.  Today the American system is about self and greed.  This is not a good playing field for Christians to be… disputing in.

2 Corinthians 6:14-16 – 14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

   “I will live with them
   and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
   and they will be my people.”

Disputes among believers need to be worked out amongst believers.  The Word of God needs to be our guide.

What does righteousness and wickedness have in common?  They’re on the opposite sides of the spectrum.  I thirst for righteousness, and our judicial system is anything but righteous at this time.  It’s a greedy free for all. 

We need to seek God and His ways.  He is the ultimate Judge in life anyway, so we better be finding truth rather than ignoring it.

 
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