The Election Count – Part 25

Conspiracy theories?

I was told that basically no conspiracy theories are true. That if I just do the most basic research on any conspiracy theory, then I would know that it is false.

But I believe conspiracies exist. I believe SOME “conspiracy theories” are true. I believe people conspire, evil things are done, and then, lies and conspiracies are made to cover them up.

Think of all the conspiracy theories just in our lifetime.

The election was stolen by secret dumps of fraudulent mail-in ballots!  The COVID-19 pandemic is a real virus, but little different from the flu, but whose death tolls have been inflated to facilitate a political power grab by globalists. The COVID vaccine is an attempt to infertilize Americans! Joe Biden is a puppet of the Deep State, Illuminati, who are all sex-trafficking pedophiles. Donald Trump was a Russian agent working for Putin. President Obama was not born in America, but was born overseas and his birth certificate was forged. President Bush had prior knowledge about and allowed the 9/11 attacks to happen. The “plane” that hit the Pentagon was really a US missile. The Oklahoma City bombing was actually a cover-up organized by the Clinton family. Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t really assassinate President Kennedy, he was framed! The moon landing in 1969 was faked! The government is currently hiding proof that aliens are real!

So many “conspiracy theories”. How many of these are not just theories, but true conspiracies? Any, None, Some, All? I believe some of these conspiracy theories are true. Some of them have to be, right? I think so. But can I say for certain which are true and which are false? Of course not. So then how can I say for certain that any are true? How can I know for sure that true conspiracies exist? If I ask Google, she will tell me I’m wrong. Its all been debunked. The news will tell me I’m a crazy crackpot. If I convey even the slightest doubt over a “conspiracy theory”, I’m a nutty, wackjob, conspiracy theorist. What a terrible thing to be called, right? You’re a looney toon. You probably wear tinfoil on your head. You’re credibility is gone. Everything else you say is not credible. Its so easy to debunk and disprove the “conspiracy theories”… just listen to the news organizations and the experts! Nothing to see here! Don’t worry about those crazy, insane, looney, nutty conspiracy theorists spouting lies.

How can you know which are true conspiracies and which are false theories?  For most, you never will, not until judgment day perhaps.

But let me assure you, some conspiracy theories are true. I can say with 100% confidence that conspiracies do exist. How do I know that? How can I be certain?

How else? Because they are in the Bible of course. How else could I KNOW anything with certainty?

Why don’t we the Word of God show us the evidence of a true conspiracy.

Genesis 37:17-20  … And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.  18  And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.  19  And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.  20  Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

Here it is: see for yourself. The evidence of a conspiracy. Joseph’s brethren conspired against him. They sold him into slavery, they fabricated evidence of their fake story, they lied to their Father, and no one discovered their conspiracy. The news was published. And everyone believed their lie. Why wouldn’t everyone believe them?

They even had (made) “proof” that this was no “conspiracy”.

Genesis 37:31-33  And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;  32  And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son’s coat or no.  33  And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.

This was no conspiracy, you nutjob! It was just a tragic accident. Look at the evidence! How could you believe Joseph was NOT devoured by evil beasts. As Jacob said when he saw the coat, “Joseph is WITHOUT DOUBT rent in pieces”.

And none of the 10 brethren confessed, did they? This was a good conspiracy! If this happened today, all you’d have to do is slap a “theory” label on this conspiracy. The lie would be confirmed by all the experts, and the theories of conspiracy would be instantly debunked.

Conspiracy theories are all debunked. Before the experts even debunk them, they are debunked, you see. Just do even the most basic research on Google. Google would tell you the truth. The truth would be what the 10 brethren said, and what the “evidence” and “facts” proved. And anyone that believed that Joseph was still alive somewhere, and/or that the 10 brethren had done something fishy with Joseph would be “cancelled” as a wackjob conspiracy theorist with ulterior motives.

This conspiracy was strong! If not for the Lord making Joseph ruler over all Egypt and exposing this conspiracy, Jacob would never have known that his 10 sons conspired against Joseph.

But see, you’re a nutjob to believe in any “conspiracy theories”.

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But they DO exist. And we know they exist! So shouldn’t we yell about them? Expose them? Fight against them? Is that a Christian’s job? Is it what we should do to stand up for “the truth”? If you think so, consider this… God wasn’t worried about the conspiracy against Joseph, was He? He allowed it. He even USED their conspiracy to save His people Israel. Joseph told his brethren

Genesis 50:20  But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

So actually, to investigate, and interrogate, and expose it would have been to take it out of the Lord’s hands. To work against His will.

I’m not showing you the Bible proof of conspiracies so that you can go and expose them and fight against the. A Christian’s job is not to fight against mankind’s conspiracies.

But conspiracies do exist. And how do I know that conspiracies exist? Because they are in the Bible of course!  Variations of the word “conspire” are the Bible 30 times. There have been MANY conspiracies throughout mankind’s history, and a number of them are called out in the Bible. There are conspiracies exposed ALL OVER the Bible.

2 Kings 12:20  And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo…

2 Kings 14:19  Now they made a conspiracy against him [King Amaziah] in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

2 Kings 21:23  And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.

There are some dangerous “conspiracies” in man’s history! And many were allowed by God to be effective. Kings of Israel and Judah were slain by conspiracies.

But, I will point out, that while the Lord often allowed conspiracies to destroy wicked kings, I did not see any good kings slain by conspiracy.

Conspiracies are exposed all over the Bible.

King Saul claimed David was conspiring against him, and so He conspired against David.

Absalom also conspired against David. The whole nation of Israel conspired with him against David.

2 Samuel 15:12  … And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

Conspiracies are scary, and dangerous! But just remember that the Lord knows them all, and that they are well in His hand.

Hebrews 4:13  … all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

All the conspiracies of the wicked are known to the Lord. And unless the Lord allows them to, they can’t hurt you.

But if you search the Scriptures, you will find this:

2 Chronicles 24:20-21  And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.  21  And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.

So is it possible that a conspiracy will be made against you to kill you? Possibly, yes.

BUT, this was no ordinary death by conspiracy, to have happened without the Lord. This was a martyr of the Lord. Zechariah has received great honor in the Bible already (see Mat 23:35), and will have great honor for eternity.

There are many conspiracies in the Bible. And many instances of the word itself. But here is the only NT instance of the word “conspiracy”:

Acts 23:11-15  And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, *9.  12  And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.  13  And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.  14  And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.  15  Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.

Was it evil? Of course. But do you think God was worried about this conspiracy? Do you think Paul needed to be? Was there any chance that Paul would die before witnessing of Christ at Rome? God made a promise to Paul and no conspiracy of man would thwart His will.

You want to see proof that conspiracies exist, that some conspiracy theories are true!?

Look no further than right here, in your Bible.

This is proof that they exist. And proof that they are DEADLY serious.

Matthew 28:11-15  Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.  12  And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,  13  Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.  14  And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.  15  So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.

THAT is a conspiracy! That is a HUGE conspiracy. Don’t tell me conspiracies don’t exist.

That is a conspiracy designed to hide and tarnish the truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That is a conspiracy from the pit of Hell!

This is where my thoughts went when I was told that conspiracy theories aren’t true. But forget about all the other conspiracy theories in America or in the whole world… This is the type of conspiracy that we ought to worry about. This type of conspiracy is sending people to HELL!

You go on believing what you Google, and what you hear on the History channel, and what you read on Wikipedia.

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But you won’t convince me that “conspiracy theorists” are just rare, one-off, nutty, wackjobs.

See, I could argue that everyone is a “conspiracy theorist”.

If you believe Jesus rose again, and that there was a conspiracy by the high priests and soldiers to lie about the resurrection of Christ, then you’re a “conspiracy theorist”.

But if you believe Jesus did not rise again, but rather that the disciples, by conspiracy, stole away His body in secret, then you are also a “conspiracy theorist”.

Either you’re right or wrong. Either you believe there was a conspiracy, or you just believe the conspiracy. Either way, you have a theory about a conspiracy.

So then you, and everyone else too, is a conspiracy theorist!

But which was true? Who conspired? The disciples or the high priests? How could we know, being 2000 years removed? How can we have any confidence in any of our theories, when both sides have witnesses, and those witnesses are men and women that have selfish motives, and can be threatened or bribed into lying to support a conspiracy? How can we know what the truth is? We don’t know what happened in 1969. We don’t know what happened in November 2020, we don’t know for sure what happened yesterday! How much less something that happened 2,000 years ago!?

Fortunately on something as important as the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, we have the truth written down by the True and Faithful Witness Himself, The Lord God, who cannot lie. He wrote down the truth, and He wrote down the conspiracy, so you would know. You can choose to believe who you want. But He warned you – He showed you what they did in secret. You can watch The History Channel and hear all their “evidence”. You can Google it and read it on Wikipedia. Read all about the “disciples’ conspiracy”. But its written down, in the same Book that you will be judged by.

It was written down, so that you could know the truth, from the conspiracy. So that you could WATCH and see the enemies’ lies and fraud, and to save yourselves, not from the enemies, but from the wrath of the Lord.

Jeremiah 11:9-10  And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.  10  They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

Ezekiel 22:25  There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

These are the conspiracies that God is worried about. The ones that turn from the truth; that slay souls by false doctrine and lies in the name of the lord.

This is why we need to WATCH. WATCH for the wolves in sheep’s clothing.

Watch for the conspiracies, the lies, the ones that devour souls.

Isaiah 44:20  He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

When you’ve been lied to, and you cannot see or hear the truth, you can’t deliver your soul.

Our job is not to fight the Earthly conspiracies and expose them. The Lord will handle those. The only ones we need to worry about, are the ones He’s exposed in Scripture. The only ones we need to worry about are the ones that cause the sheep to perish. The conspiracies, the lies, that if you don’t see through, you can’t deliver your soul.

Redeem the time.

Colossians 4:5  Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

That day is approaching. There is not much time left. We ought to redeem the time.

Ephesians 5:15-17  See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,  16  Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.  17  Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

Its by wisdom that we redeem the time. Walking wisely toward them that are without.

The will of the Lord for me? No the will of the Lord. Get wisdom, give wisdom. Get Jesus, give Jesus.

The time is short! Redeem it.

Pray without ceasing! Every day? 3 times a day? Get in your Bible. Train your children up. I like to use the Audible app to listen. I’d recommend it, or something like it. On the toilet. Cooking in the kitchen, raking the yard, cutting the grass, doing the dishes, folding laundry.

Romans 13:11  And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Vashti’s 4. Praise the Lord! And the Lord will praise her! But… How long were they waiting, starving?! What if she didn’t?

This isn’t about Vashti, this is about all of US! When will we warn the lost?

Its high time to stop living in quietness. Its high time to stop fearing man. Its high time to start watching for souls.

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This soul-winning plan WORKS. Big time! BIGLY! 85-95% success rate, I would guess. When they give us 5 minutes, they just get saved!

The Lord has blessed this ministry. The Lord has blessed this gospel presentation. When are you going to take part in that blessing? Some of you have already. When are you going to put on your shoes (the preparation of the gospel of peace) and walk!? When are you going to start bearing MUCH fruit?

Don’t miss this opportunity. Don’t ignore this open door. Don’t waste this time. Redeem it.

Its high time to start adding to the Election Count.

Don’t mind this election, or any of the dealings or conspiracies of man.

Philippians 3:13-15 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,  14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.  15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

I’ve been otherwise minded. Have you? Is he revealing this unto you?

Have you been minded with the things of the earth?

We need to set our affections on things above, not on things beneath.

We need to be of a heavenly mind.

It is high time to wake up and to watch.

It is high time to redeem the time.

We win in the end

Let them win now. Blue or Red. Either side, Both sides. Let them cheat now. Let them win here.

They’re dancing in the streets, weeping with joy on the television! Let them rejoice now! It will turn into weeping. Let them riot and party and kick around a blow-up figurine of Donald Trump, and laugh!

This is what they will do when they kill the two witnesses!

They win now, they lose later. They rejoice now, they weep later.

Luke 6:25  … Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

But we lose now, we win later. We weep now, we rejoice later.

John 16:20  Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

Psalms 126:5  They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

This is our job. This is what we are to be about. This is how we lay up much joy for eternity. We sow now in tears.

Let them win here. This is their world. We win in the new heaven and in the new earth. Wherein dwelleth righteousness.

We won’t be upset with the outcome of the real Election Count, or the Counter, or the Elected. If there is a vote cast there it will be 100% for The Good Guy. There will be a count, and every count will be true and authentic and will be made by a wise and righteous man. There will be no divisions.

So let them defraud you, let them argue, fight in court. Let them accuse each other. Let them rule as kings over you. Let them take your money in taxes. Let them.

Submit yourselves. One is your king. And they would have no power at all over you unless it was given them from above.

Let them defile themselves. There is no getting away with it. God is not mocked.

2 Thessalonians 1:6-8  Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;  7  And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,  8  In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:  

We are troubled now, we rest later. Soon!

2 Corinthians 4:17-18  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; [How can we do this – resign ourselves to LOSE now?] 18  While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

These things are shadows! We need to look at the things which are eternal, spiritual, the true. We look at eternal life and eternal houses, and eternal riches!

Psalms 30:5  For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

It may seem for a long time. This life may seem long, but you will find that its just a moment, and joy is coming. This is how the Lord cares for His children. Whether its chastisement, or its suffering of evil tribulations of the world, He does not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able. He does not let you suffer long.

Romans 8:18  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

We lose now, for a little moment, but we win for eternity.

The Election Count – Part 23

Lengthening of days?

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

What I believe is that if you will get saved and be godly (seek the Lord, lay up wisdom, preach the gospel) that you will have a promise of life: food and clothing, and of being alive.

That doesn’t mean you will prosper financially, that doesn’t mean that you won’t suffer as a Christian. That doesn’t mean you won’t have health issues, financial issues, and it doesn’t mean you will certainly live to be 100. But (in my thinking) the promise is that you will be alive, delivered through persecutions, until the Lord delivers you from the body entirely.

If there is a promise of the life that now is (and it is applicable to the flesh in this carnal world), then this is what I believed it to be.

This makes sense to me, but I can’t promise you, what God does not. So I’m just laying it all out.

Whether or not there is a PROMISE of this life in the flesh, I think there is something here in Scripture to the idea of righteousness and godliness POSSIBLY prolonging life on the earth.

Psalms 34:12-17  What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?  …  14  Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.  15  The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.  16  The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.  17  The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

You say, well that is OT. But it is said again in the NT.

1 Peter 3:10-13  For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:  11  Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.  12  For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.  13  And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?

But not, notice what part is missing in the NT. I don’t think you will be delivered out of all your troubles, in the flesh. I don’t see a promise of life or deliverance in here.

So what is left here? What is really said? All that is said is that if you desire to have life and see good days, you SHOULD seek righteousness and SPEAK it.

There is value in righteousness.

I think there is some value in your own righteousness. But not to the Lord.

Romans 4:2  For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

Your righteousness has value, not to the Lord, but to your self and other men. Elihu says…

Job 35:6-8  If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?  7  If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?  8  Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

Your righteousness may profit a man, the sons of men, but it doesn’t profit the Lord.

MAY. No promise, no guarantee.

So then, what is the value of man’s righteousness to men?

When it was prophesied that Nebuchadnezzar would be cut down and have his understanding taken from him and live like a beast, Daniel advised him this:

Daniel 4:27  Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

Daniel knew what he was talking about, no?

Break off thy sins by righteousness! Shew mercy to the poor! It MAY BE a lengthening of thy tranquility.

If this has an application to the Christian today, then we see from this pattern, that we ought to break off our sins (1) by righteousness (sounds like getting saved?) and (2) by “shewing mercy to the poor” (sounds like preaching the gospel); get saved and preach the gospel. That is DEFINITELY a lengthening of days / tranquility. Righteousness delivers from death.

Now, that is the spiritual, new testament application. That is how you get life, and life more abundantly.

So there is a pattern here that is true spiritually. It is true of a Christian, spiritually.

But as far as the flesh goes, which has not received eternal life and true righteousness, that doesn’t sound like a “promise” does it? “It may be” a lengthening of days. It’s certainly not a promise, but it may be a delaying of God’s judgment. Judgment is coming on America, on the whole world, and righteousness is the only thing that can delay it.

Because the Lord does not persecute the godly. He does not destroy the righteous with the wicked.

Genesis 18:23-26  And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?  24  Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?  25  That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?  26  And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. … [45, 40, 30, 20, …] …  32  And he said, … Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.

That is not who God is. He does not destroy the righteous with the wicked. So whether the promise of life in godliness is applicable to this present carnal life or not, there is reason to seek righteousness.

Abraham petitioned God for Sodom and Gomorrah… but 1 – he petitioned God to spare the souls, not the place, and 2 – it didn’t work! But the Lord delivered the righteous and his seed out of it, and then destroyed the place.

Our job is not to fight to save America. The only thing we are encouraged to do in Scripture is to plead the Lord on behalf of this place. But not for the country itself. Rather, for the people in it.

So if and when America’s cry comes up before the Lord like Sodom’s, the Lord will determine to destroy it. When it happens, don’t seek to save America.  But rather seek to save the righteous in it. Seek to save those that would come to righteousness in it. Seek to save those that hunger and thirst after righteousness in it.

Our job is to turn many to righteousness, God’s righteousness, so that they may be saved out of her.

Don’t stand with America, you’ll be standing against the Lord. All we can do is plead the Lord for the righteous to be spared. The country may be spared for the righteous’ sake, or the righteous will be spared out of it.

But I don’t believe that Christians, serving the Lord in the gospel, will suffer in the wrath that is poured out on the wicked.

They may suffer persecutions from the wicked. They may be persecuted by Satan. But the Lord does not persecute the godly. He does not destroy the righteous with the wicked.

The only thing that stands in the way of the Lord’s wrath is righteousness. The only people that can delay the Lord’s judgment are the righteous.

So …

Daniel 4:27  … break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

Far be it from God to destroy the righteous with the wicked. If God spares America and lengthens her tranquility, it will not be for any other reason than for those righteous within her.

I think the “promise of the life that now is”, is a promise to have life, food, and clothing for as long as the Lord desires one here to teach and to preach the gospel. And this is how your days “may be” lengthened. But there is no guarantee that your days will be lengthened on the earth.

Righteousness. Godliness. This is how a man’s life, his nation’s days, the WHOLE of mankind’s tranquility MAY BE lengthened.

Job 35:8  Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

It may be a lengthening of your days, it may be a lengthening of all of our days.

Your righteousness may profit all the sons of men. I think America’s days, the world’s days are numbered. Wrath is coming. And soon. But if this country or this world’s tranquility is lengthened it will be because of the righteous in her.

1 Peter 3:20  Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

The flood did not come until the boat was finished, and Noah was safe inside. And Jesus is not coming back before the harvest time; before fruit of the trees are come to the full.

So as long as the true vine is bringing forth the fruit of the harvest, He waits.

While Noah’s ark was being built, He waited. While the city of God, the body of Christ, is being built, he waits. He waits for the righteous and their salvation to come to the full.

Noah, a preacher of righteousness, singlehandedly prolonged the days of the world that then was.

And IT MAY BE that we, still growing the body of Christ, still building the boat, can prolong the days of both the righteous and the wicked: all the sons of men on the earth.

Either the promise is for here and now, or there and soon, or both, there is a promise of life in godliness. So seek godliness and righteousness. Seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness. Show mercy/salvation to the poor. It may be a lengthening of thy tranquility. It may be a lengthening of America’s tranquility. It may be a lengthening of the whole world’s tranquility. Because the day of the Lord is approaching, and the only thing that MAY lengthen the earth’s tranquility is to break off her sins by righteousness.

As ye see the day approaching

2 Peter 3:10-12  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.  11  Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,  12  Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

Peter asks, what manner of persons ought (should) ye to be? Paul gives the answer to the question Peter asks…

Hebrews 10:23-25  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)  24  And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:  25  Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

And we ARE seeing the day approaching.

Speaking on the end times, Jesus says:

Matthew 24:12  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Man’s love has been waxing cold. Why? Because iniquity abounds! I think of the lack of hospitality in this world. The lack of charity. The lack of love for the poor. The lack of hospitality for strangers.

Iniquity is certainly abounding! Are things getting better? Are they staying the same? Is iniquity not growing?

One of the characteristics (probably should not call it a “sign”) of the day of the Lord coming is the exceedance of wickedness in the earth.

Daniel 8:22-23  Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.  23  And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.

Mankind is a tree – a vine with corrupt fruit. The people are the fruit. Today still we are moving towards the harvest, the fullness of the vine. The antichrist, the beast, will come when the evil fruit of the evil tree is come to the full. Jesus himself thrusts in the sickle to harvest when the grapes are fully ripe. And in the winepress of the wrath of God He treads the vine of the earth.

On this vine tree, people are the fruit. Notice that it’s not the transgressions, but the transgressors which are come to the full. It’s the false prophets themselves.

2 Timothy 3:13  But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

We don’t know how close we are. We don’t know how much evil, how many evil men are “the full”. But we know that day is approaching, and we know it hasn’t been getting better and better on the earth, but rather worse and worse.

But notice that the accusation is not about evil men doing evil, its about deceivers deceiving. False prophets! And let me tell you, my opinion is that false prophets and false doctrines are at an all time high.

Joel 3:13  Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

Maybe these things (COVID, mask mandates, riots, anarchy and defunding the police, election disintegrity, race wars, cancel culture, communism, globalism, gay pride, murders and thefts on the rise, abortions legalized and even encouraged, the Bible removed from schools) are happening because that day is near upon the whole world. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe these things are happening because tribulation is soon coming on the world. Maybe its not for a while longer (30 years, a few generations, 500 years…). Regardless, the day is approaching. And quickly. Maybe these are deliberate movements, direct indications of wicked men being come to the full. Maybe not… Maybe the fullness of wickedness is a little ways off still. But its coming… quickly. And we are seeing the day approaching.

2 Thessalonians 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Could these recent events be the “falling away”? What is the “falling away”?

Is it the wickedness of the world being come to the full? The wickedness of America, or of the world? I’m not convinced that the “falling away” has to do with the wickedness of lost mankind.

I don’t think it is good works, and righteousness, and hospitality, and love, from which there must be a “falling away first”. I think it is the truth of the gospel from which there will come a “falling away”?

Luke 8:13  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.

It’s the Lord that they fall away from. It’s the fruit of the good tree that they cannot produce. They fall short of the glory of God.

I believe it is not from “good works” from which they “fall away”, but it is salvation from which they “fall away”.

Hebrews 6:4-6  For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,  5  And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,  6  If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Now, just so you know that is not someone losing salvation, I’ll include the next two verses.

Hebrews 6:7-8  For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:  8  But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

You are either good ground or not. You are either a good tree, or an evil tree. You either bring forth good fruit, or evil fruit. Not both. The tree either has brought forth good fruit, or it has not. And if not, it shall be hewn down and cast in the fire. If a tree has brought forth good fruit, it is a good tree, and will not be hewn down.

Likewise is the ground. The ground is either blessed because it drank the rain, or cursed because it had no rain. No living waters from heaven. These are not saved people losing salvation. This is not good ground. This ground is cursed from the start. These are corrupt trees from the start. These are not good trees that lose their salvation. These are lost people (cursed, rejected children) falling away from receiving salvation – eternal life. These grounds and these trees are separate people.

To “fall away” is TO NOT GET saved; to not receive grace.

The fruit of this earth always results in death. The fruit of the evil tree always brings forth death. To fall away is to have temporary life/carnal life, but not receive eternal life. To fall away is to die.

1 Peter 1:24  For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

None of these passages are talking about people with eternal life losing it – losing salvation.

These are unsaved people who were offered life, but did not receive it / drink it. And when tribulation comes, when the Lord comes with fire, they will not stand. They will not endure the fire – the Sun rising.

These are unsaved people, these are people who SHOULD get saved, but who forsake the truth, thus they “fall away”.

These are people “falling away” from salvation. These are people falling from grace.

Galatians 5:4  Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

This is more likely the “falling away first”. As the gospel is forsaken, leavened, and suppressed in the whole world. As the Bibles are corrupted, the word of God is changed into a lie, and the gospel is hidden from man, the truth of God is changed into a lie. This is the “falling away first”.

And it’s not just unsaved man and the false prophets deceiving. It’s the churches that fall away, being deceived!

To one of the seven churches He says:

Revelation 3:3  Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

The day of the Lord “cometh as a thief in the night”, but that we are not in darkness that that day should overtake us as a thief.

However, those churches that have rejected the light of the gospel, and will not repent, those that sleep on in darkness, those that will not watch (for their souls), He will come on them as a thief… because that is how he comes on the lost. These are churches that need to repent or they will be rightly judged with the lost, because they are lost, having turned away from the gospel. The candlestick, the church itself, is, or will be taken away from his place before the Lord completely.

To another He says this:

Revelation 2:19-22  I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.  20  Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.  21  And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.  22  Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

The individuals of these churches are not exempt from going into the tribulation. Why? Because they’re lost. They need to repent of their works/deeds. Five of the seven churches are told to repent. To repent of their works. They’re teaching works.

This, I believe, is the “falling away first”. The churches have fallen away from preaching the true unleavened doctrine of the gospel. Most aren’t even preaching out of the pure word of God – the undefiled Scriptures. I think we are seeing a falling away from the gospel. We’re not seeing any revivals anywhere anymore. There have been famous preachers in past generations that have preached the gospel and started revivals preaching the gospel of Jesus out of a KJB. But these last few generation’s famous preachers aren’t famous for preaching the gospel and winning souls. They’re famous for their inspirational messages. They’re getting fat with television money (Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar) and leaving their ministries to run fight politics and run for congress (See MLK, Raphael Warnock)

These churches, which were Middle Eastern, then European, and now American churches, which used to be true gospel preaching churches, have fallen away, with very few exceptions… fallen from grace! To me, this is what most indicates the tribulation coming soon. Not globalism, or socialism, or sex-trafficking, or gay parades, or drug wars, or lack of equity and justice. Rather, the fact that the word of God and the gospel has been forsaken. The world will proclaim “peace and safety”, yet without the pure Word of God, and without the pure gospel.

Yes, transgressors will be come to the full, and wicked man will be ready to harvest, but this has been increasing for a long time, and I don’t know when the “fullness” is. But the “falling away”, I believe, is when churches stop preaching the gospel. And in terms of seeing that day approaching, and determining how soon that day is coming, that is much easier to measure: 0. Zero is easier to measure than a great number.

When He tells the church in Sardis to repent, or He will come on them as a thief, it means that that church will go into the tribulation.

1 Thessalonians 5:2-4  For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.  3  For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.  4  But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

That day will come on the unsaved as a thief. But Jesus will not come on the saved as a thief. It may surprise them, while they are asleep. Maybe they were sleeping with the lost, instead of awake and watching as they should be, but Jesus will not come on His own sons, as a thief. Servants, yes. But sons, no.

The only hope we have to delay that day is in the gospel. The only thing we can control is how many people get to hear the gospel before that day comes.

2 Peter 3:10-12  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.  11  Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,  12  Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

Who ought you to be? What OUGHT you to be doing. Wake up! We are hasting unto that day!

What manner of persons ought ye to be? Live like you were dying? Yes, and live like you are dead! Live like you are a rich man who just got out of hell, and go and tell your brethren about that place!

Break off thy sins by righteousness. Stop living for the flesh. But live for the Spirit. Preach!

Hebrews 10:23-25  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)  24  And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:  25  Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

We need to take heed. Take these things that are happening, the falling away of the churches, and these words of God as a warning. Its time to get ourselves ready. Its time to get right with God, be the person you ought to be. Its time to get in Church. Don’t forsake the assembling of ourselves together. Don’t be missing church! When you miss, don’t neglect to listen to the recording. You don’t have to be in church. But you should be. You ought to be in church every Sunday. We don’t beat you guys up or shame you when you aren’t here. That’s The Lord’s job. I let Him do the beatings.

Some generation is going to be raptured. Which means some generation is going to live through the time coming before the rapture. And as we see the day approaching… things could get really bad for Christians. There could be MASSIVE persecution of the Church, worldwide.

And if it begins now, we ought to be ready. We ought to strengthen and prepare ourselves, putting on the whole armour of God to stand through it, and to guide and teach our children through it. To suffer these things and to trust the Lord through them.

What manner of persons ought ye to be seeing the day approaching?

The day is coming… and quickly!

Its not for us. Its for the heathen, the wicked.

Ezekiel 30:3  For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

Isaiah 13:9  Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

Jeremiah 46:10  For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: …

As that day approaches that the Lord will avenge Himself of His enemies, what manner of persons ought we to be?

This is the time to fast, and weep, and hunger, and thirst, and be poor, and be hated and to deny ourselves. Its not time to be rich. This is the time to suffer for His sake!

Jeremiah 45:4-5  Thus shalt thou say unto him [Baruch the son of Neriah the servant of the prophet Jeremiah], The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.  5  And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

As this day is approaching, we should not be seeking great thing for ourselves. We should live in holiness and godliness. We should be prophesying and preaching.

This is a time of judgment. This is not a time for us to seek great things for ourselves. This is not a time to prosper ourselves. Now is not the time to be full, to be rich. Now is not the time to rest. This is a time to wake and walk and work and watch.

Time to stop sleeping and wake up! This is the time to sorrow.

The Election Count – Part 22

• Does God cut off the righteous with the wicked? NO.
• Do Christians have a promise of the life that now is, in godliness? I think so, but..
  1. What does a promise of life mean? What benefits does it include?
  2. What does godliness mean/entail? How is it obtained?

If you will, I’ll explain my thoughts, including my confusions.

Promise of the life that now is

There are 53 instances of “promise” in the NT. Nearly all of them refer to the promise of Abraham; the promise of the Holy Spirit, the promise of the resurrection, the promise of eternal salvation.

1 John 2:25  And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

And I see only two promises mentioned in the NT that could be said to apply to the life on this Earth or in this world.

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

I began teaching you what I believe this means and how it applies. But as I haven’t studied it out thoroughly, and I don’t understand it completely, I should be very careful promising you something that God does not.

One issue is that this is the only time this is said. So, is there a 2^nd witness? (You need 2 or 3 witnesses.)

That doesn’t mean that this is wrong. “Godliness has promise of the life that now is.”

But what does that mean? How does it apply? Does that mean YOU have promise of the life that now is, if you have godliness? And does it mean that you have the benefits of that promise NOW, while in this time, in this present evil world, and in this carnal body of sin?

Or does it mean that you will have these benefits after His return: in the Millenium? These could be millennial promises. For example:

Luke 18:29-30  And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake,  30  Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

Presumably, “the world to come”, is the new earth created after the millennium, but “this present time” is not right now, but on this Earth, which will be the same Earth that Jesus reigns on for 1,000 years in the millennium. So, in the millennium, this man will have all these things. It’s a millennial and an eternal promise. That fits for me. Maybe it is not the true interpretation, but I’m not sure how else you could understand or believe this verse.

So, it is possible that “the life that now is” in 1 Timothy 4:8 is to be understood similarly: that is, that the millennium is where we would receive the promise of life? I guess it could be. Though I’m not convinced at the moment that that would fit for Christians.

So let’s see the other instance of “promise” in the NT that could be said to apply to this life.

Ephesians 6:1-3  Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.  2  Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise😉  3  That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

It sounds to me like Paul is not just quoting the law, he is saying this promise is still active today.

But again, what does it mean? How does it apply? How to you obtain this promise? There is a promise here, but what are the conditions, and what exactly and where and when are the benefits seen? Again, I don’t know for sure. I can tell you what I think, but I don’t know enough to give you the conditions of that promise, and guarantee you that any child will live long on the Earth.

It says obey your parents “in the Lord”. So do the children have to be “in the Lord”/saved to receive the promise? Or do the parents have “in the Lord” / saved, for the children to receive this promise?

Does this apply to today, or to the millennium, or to eternity? The Millenium is a possibility. That is definitely living on the earth, but then, is that living LONG on it? Isn’t the millennium just one day?

Can this be an eternal promise? Is eternity living long on the earth? Maybe on the new earth. But not on this one.

Or is this a promise to the here and now of this present evil world? If a saved child obeys and honours his saved parents, does he have a promise to live long on this earth? Does he have a promise to not be murdered or get sick and die young? Does he have a promise to not be kidnapped, or raped? Have these things never happened before to a saved obedient child? I don’t know if I can tell you for sure that that is a promise from the Lord.

Rather, this is a promise that the child will obtain salvation. So then in that case, if a child who has saved parents (in the Lord), and he obeys his parents, he will have eternal life, salvation. That actually kind of fits for me. And that fits the promise that by beating the child with the rod, we deliver him from hell.

Proverbs 23:13-14  Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.  14  Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

And it fits with this:

1 Corinthians 7:14  For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

If a child has one saved parent, and they honour and obey their parents (who are in the Lord), they have a promise of life – eternal life. Not that they have obtained salvation by works, but that they have obtained the election by birth, and by receiving the promise as Isaac. They are a godly seed.

Malachi 2:15  And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. …

So, I think I’ve talked myself into it, that this is an eternal promise. A promise of salvation. A promise of election. Not a promise of long life (80+ years) in this present evil world.

But I don’t know for sure. How much obedience is required to receive the promise? I’m just not sure I can’t fully define the promise and say exactly how it will work for you or for your children.

But it is a promise. A promise from the Lord. And the Lord cannot break His promises.

Whether we understand this promise fully or not, there is given to us a promise of life. And there are precious few of those in Scripture. So Children, obey your parents (in the Lord).

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

I think when it says “the life that now is”, it means this life. That is, not the eternal life; not the next life; not the resurrection. That to me would be the life that “is to come”. To say that “the life that now is” is millennial or eternal, doesn’t fits for me. Because as a Christian, I don’t expect to be in the millennium with “this life that now is”; with this body, this nature, that I have now. I don’t believe I will have the life that now is, in the millennium. I believe in the millennium I will have the life that is to come; eternal life in the resurrection. So, I believe this promise does apply to the here and now. BUT, I still don’t know for sure how to obtain this promise. Who can obtain it? Who is worthy by their own godliness, to obtain this promise? When am I godly enough? How much godliness is enough?

Also, what are the benefits of this promise?

Assuming this does appertain to THIS LIFE, in this present evil world, I think the benefits of this promise simply are: life. I THINK the promise of the life that now is, is just solely life. It is being alive, with the necessary things of food and clothing. It is simply, life.

Matthew 6:31-34  Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?  32  (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.  33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  34  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

This is not to the unsaved who are “living godly”, of whom it is said that they “having form of godliness, but denying the power thereof”. This promise of food and clothing is to those that seek the heavenly things (salvation) first. For them, I think, the necessary things of the flesh for today will be added.

If this promise of the life that now is truly applies to this life, then that is all I believe the promise is. Life, food, and clothing for TODAY.

No riches for tomorrow are promised. But only the necessary things for today.

I don’t believe that this is a promise of a prosperous life. It is not a life free of hardships or troubles. It is not a promise that you won’t suffer persecutions. But rather, you will suffer persecutions.

John 16:33  These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

2 Timothy 3:12  Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

The promise of life that is in godliness is a promise through persecutions. Not that you won’t ever die, but that you may in fact be given that mercy of death, and possibly the great reward of dying for Christ.

The promise (if so be there is one) is that a Christian, with godliness, will have life, food and clothing through persecutions, for as long the Lord desires him to continue preaching the gospel. The Lord delivers the godly through persecutions, and Himself does not persecute the godly in His wrath. The Lord saved Noah, “a preacher of righteousness”, from the flood, the destruction of the old world.

Maybe that is how you obtain this promise (if indeed there is one): seek and preach His righteousness. Seek and preach the Kingdom of God: Christ in you. Seek and preach the mystery of godliness:

1 Timothy 3:16  And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

The mystery of godliness. Seek it, and hold it, and preach it. Then maybe you obtain godliness, which… has the promise of the life that now is.

So maybe this is what we should define as godliness, rather than “living righteously”, or not sinning.. very often.

What I thought to teach you was what I thought I understood: that the godly don’t suffer randomly. They suffer for a singular reason: they suffer for the cross of Jesus Christ. They suffer the afflictions of the gospel. And they Lord delivers them out of all of them, until He is ready to let them die and come home.

But can I be sure of this? Can we say that every Christian preaching the gospel has been so cared for and delivered though persecutions? I want to believe that, and say that, but I don’t know. I could be wrong.

And I could be wrong entirely. Look at it this way… It could be a promise of the eternal life that now is. What does that mean? Well, we have eternal life already. At least, we have a part of it. We have the Holy Spirit, “which is the earnest of our inheritance”. And now already, in this life, we have a joy, a peace, a love, a brotherhood, a family, all spiritually, now, in this life.

John 15:11  These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

2 John 1:12  Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.

So maybe godliness has promise of this sort of life. The spiritual joy and gladness with the brethren, in the church, of which life and joy we will have in eternity, but we only have a piece of now.

So, there IS a promise here that pertains to this earth, this life. Whether carnally (simply life) or spiritual (joy and peace in Christ). But I don’t understand this promise fully, so I want to be careful not to give a promise that God does not. But I am not wrong to preach that it is true. It is true.  There is a promise of life in godliness. There is a reason to get godliness. To put it on. To be godly. I believe God expects it, and rewards it.

However it works and however it is obtained, there is a promise of life in godliness. That is true.

And so you should pursue godliness.

The promise of the life that now is, which is in godliness, may not be what I think. It may not be protection and food and clothing.  But, if not, if there is no promise to this current fleshly carnal life, then this promise is BETTER than I propose or suspect.

The benefits may not be what we think or what we want. We may get the opposite of what we desire; that is, MORE sufferings. “All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecutions.”

It may not be what you want, or what I want.

But if I am wrong, and on my advice, you pursue godliness in search of a reward of life, then I haven’t led you wrong. I’ve led you to an even better place. A greater reward than of the here and now.

You may not be happy with me now, but you will be at the end.

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

There is a promise here. A promise that, I believe, applies to this life. But I don’t quite understand how to achieve it, or what exactly the benefits are. But this is a promise that we should pursue.

And while I could be totally wrong here, I am not leading you wrong. Because I’ll tell you this: there is nothing else worth putting your hope in. There is no other promise of deliverance. The strength of man and the weapons of man are vain things for safety. There is no other promise of the “life that now is”. (whatever that means). So Seek the Lord. Seek God. Seek godliness. For therein is a promise of life.

The Election Count – Part 14

The kingdom of God

Our fight is not in this world. Our race is not in this world. Because our kingdom is not in this world.

John 18:36  Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

Donald Trump’s kingdom is of this world. Joe Biden’s kingdom is of this world. The Democrats’ and the Republicans’ kingdoms are of this world. And that is why they are fighting. And their servants are fighting!

Our Lord’s kingdom – Christ’s kingdom – is not of this world. If it were, then His servants (we) would fight! We would fight for what is right in this world. We would fight against injustice and fraud. We would wrestle against wickedness in high places.

But we are not called to fight for any kingdom of this world. And if we fight in this world, and against men, we have made ourselves not the servants of the Lord, but of men.

Daniel 2:44  And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

We’ve got to let America go. Its not our kingdom, and like all kingdoms of the earth, it will be destroyed

We have a better kingdom. An heavenly, which shall never be destroyed.

Luke 17:20-21  And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:  21  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

The kingdom of God is just not here or there. It’s just not on the earth. And that is why we are not to fight on the Earth. Our kingdom is not here.

Currently, His kingdom is “within you” – it is Christ in you. The Holy Spirit in you. But one day He will establish His eternal kingdom physically on a New Earth, which will endure forever. It is a spiritual kingdom, at this current time. Not that it is fake or “figurative”, but merely invisible to man. But one day it will be physical and visible – seen and touched of men.

1 Peter 2:5,9  Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. … 9  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; …

We, the Church, ARE an holy nation – a spiritual nation! Our priesthood is a holy priesthood – a spiritual priesthood – offering up spiritual sacrifices. Our city is a spiritual temple!

Revelation 5:10  And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

We are to be made kings in that heavenly kingdom. That is what we fight for: our spiritual kingdom!

America is not a righteous nation. There is unrighteousness in America.

But the church is a “righteous nation”! And one day, we will be led home to our place – our city!

Isaiah 26:1-2  In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city [New Jerusalem]; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.  2  Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

That is not talking about America! America will not enter into New Jerusalem. This is about the Church – the spiritual nation of Israel – the kingdom of God which is within you. Our heavenly nation. A better country. A righteous nation. An everlasting kingdom.

One day, we will enter into our own city through the gates. We will go home. There will be singing and rejoicing. But for now, we are not home.

We are citizens of a better kingdom. Our kingdom is not on this Earth. It’s heavenly.

What separates the citizens within the city, from the dogs without? Walls! And what are the walls? Salvation. Salvation separates the righteous nation from the unrighteous nations.

Revelation 22:14-15  Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.  15  For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

We are a righteous nation because we are inside salvation. And all others, all the lost, are without.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,  10  Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.  11  And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

There is no slipping into the Kingdom of God, like illegal aliens slip into America. There is no cutting through, or climbing over, or tunneling under the border walls.

There is no cheating. There are no fake IDs, no forging of passports. No single thief or liar will enter in.

This is their kingdom. Ours is pure, holy, righteous, and undefiled.

But we are not better than the lost. We were just like them before we were washed in the blood of the Lamb. And they are no worse than us. They just yet still need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb. And that is our job, our fight, our race. Wash them, that they might enter into the kingdom of God. And they MUST be washed, for…

Revelation 21:27  And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

We are strangers and foreigners.

1 Peter 2:11  Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

This is not our country. We are not citizens, but are strangers here.

Hebrews 11:13-16  These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.  …  16  But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

We, as our father Abraham, desire a heavenly country.

We, as our father Abraham have been promised an heavenly country.

The Lord has prepared for us a city. He is preparing a place for us. Mansions in glory!

1 Peter 1:17  And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

We, as our father Abraham, are not citizens, but sojourners in a land that is not our own.

We don’t live here. Its not our home, we don’t fight its battles, and care for its welfare, and argue its politics. And you say, “well as long as we are in the flesh this is our home, so we should…”

This is being fleshly minded. But you can’t have it both ways. You can’t have two kingdoms. You can’t serve two masters. The flesh and Spirit war against each other. What you naturally think, what you think you need to fight, when you’re wronged or offended and you want to fight back, these things are  contrary to the Spirit, the true. We need to be Spiritually minded.

Even David, king of the carnal nation of Israel, understood that the true kingdom and the true land of Israel was not here. His kingdom of Israel was not the true.

1 Chronicles 29:14-15  But who am I, and what is my people, …  15  For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

We’re not from here. We are not citizens here. We were not born here.

We’re just sojourning here for a short time. We’re just not HOME YET.

Psalms 119:19  I am a stranger in the earth: …

An open door

Whether we have a ruler that we approve of, or not. It doesn’t change anything for us.

Whether we had a fair election, or not. It doesn’t change how we should live.

Whether this turns into a socialist nation, or not. It doesn’t change our job. Our job, our race, our fight, is soul winning. And all we need to do our job is the word of God and an open door!

2 Corinthians 2:12  Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,

An open door. An opening to preach the gospel. This is what we need, and this is what we ought to pray for. Not fight for. But pray for. Because it is not the power of men, but of God. If it were up to men, or Satan, the door would never be open. The Lord opens doors.

Colossians 4:3-4  Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:  4  That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

Pray that the door may be opened. Pray that we may have the opportunity to preach the gospel.

But don’t attempt to jam the door open with politics. The Lord is the only one who can open the door.

Its not necessarily a freedom of speech. Paul was in bonds, yet still sought an open door. Freedom of speech is not the only open door. The door could be opened yet while there are still persecutions and laws against preaching.

2 Thessalonians 3:1  Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:

The Lord has opened the door of utterance for Christians in America, giving us a King James Bible, an understanding of the gospel, and a freedom to preach the gospel. That door has been closing, the gospel is being choked. The door of utterance may soon be closed entirely.

The open door to preach, is just one of the required open doors. The other open door is a door of faith: the door that allows people the ability to BELIEVE the gospel.

Acts 14:27  And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.

Right now, the Gentiles have an open door, an opportunity TO BELIEVE, while Israel has been, in large part, cut off and blinded. But this door will also close, and soon! “the times of the Gentiles [will] be fulfilled”.

This is what we should seek. We should desire the freedom and the ability to preach the gospel. We ought to pray that the Lord opens to us a door of utterance to preach, and a door of faith that the hearers may hear. I hope the door in America reopens and stays open, that souls may be saved. But it may be that America is not the open door any more. Maybe there will be another, maybe not.

We’ve been fortunate to be born in and live in a country with a “freedom of speech”. The Jewish apostles and early Christians did not have it. MOST have not had it since the foundation of the church. I’ve told you that freedom of speech is not a Bible doctrine, right, principle. This country was made “free” not because this nation was founded on Bible principles. It was made “free” because of the great persecution that the immigrants from Europe had come out of. This door was opened because another was so violently shut. But whether Godly or not, we are free to preach, the door of utterance is (was, but still slightly) open to preach, and the door of faith is open for the hearers to believe. So what should we do? USE IT!

1 Corinthians 7:20-22  Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.  21  Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.  22  For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant.

The door is open. Use it before it closes! You have a duty to serve Christ with your freedom from men.

As servants, we have the duty to preach the gospel. One day, you will give an account of your doings. How many talents/pounds have you been given? What advantage have you had over the many others that will stand before the Lord? What have you done with them? You could have been born in any place at any time in history. But He put you here and now.

There is a level of service that is expected of you given what He has given/entrusted to you.

Luke 12:48  … For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

You’ve been given MUCH. And The Lord is going to ask for MORE in return.

For all this we have a duty to serve Him with a “reasonable service”.

Oh well I go to church on Sundays, and I organize church activities for the teens and the elderly and the single couples, and I do this and that, and I tithe, and I participate in bake sales, and fundraisers, and charity events, and sometimes I provide special music, and I’m conscious of social injustice, and I’m not racist, and pray while I take my morning walk, I do my daily devotional and blah, blah, blah, … And I think that’s “reasonable”. That is MY “reasonable service”, so I should be pretty averagely rewarded in heaven.

Romans 12:1-2  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.  2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

See that? Your reasonable service is by the mercies of God. Not by your good works. Not by your mercies. Its by showing men the mercies of the Lord. Showing men salvation!

See that? You’re reasonable service is to be a living sacrifice. Sacrifice your life. Don’t live your life. Sacrifice it. Give it up in service. If you’re a freeman, become the Lord’s servant. The world’s freemen use their freedom to serve themselves. Or even to serve other men.  But you can’t serve God and mammon (mankind). And there is so much serving mankind in all those things that we want to believe are our reasonable service. Your reasonable service, is to “be not conformed to this world.”

But we are conformed to this world. We live American lives, we hold American traditions, we celebrate American holidays, we buy American products, we have American apps on our phones, we watch American television, American news and American sports broadcasts, we build American homes and furnish them with American things (made in China of course), we pursue the American dream. How are we NOT conformed to this world?

This life and these bodies need to become sacrifices. Living sacrifices. Stop serving ourselves and give these things up, count them dung, to serve the Lord. Be thus minded. Think on these things… What things are you doing that are not winning souls, or strengthening yourself, your children, and your church to win souls? What things are you choosing to do that you don’t have to do? What things can you give up and redeem that time to serve the Lord? What carnal things can you exchange for spiritual things? What events can you forego? At what events that you must go to can you bring your cards or tablet and witness to somebody? Can you spend time reading, learning, praying, instead of watching TV? Can you order out instead of cooking and cleaning, and use that time to teach your family, or praise the Lord together? It will cost you time and money… it will cost you your own pleasure. Are you willing to trade it? How can you be conformed to the Lord, and not this world?

What things that you must do, can you do while reading, praying (redeem the time)? Or learning doctrine. Or preparing yourself with the gospel. Or while listening to the Bible on audiobook (driving, raking, cooking, folding laundry, …)? Or listening to a recorded church service that you missed?

How can you sacrifice your will/pleasure to complete His will/pleasure?

How can you sacrifice this life to be rewarded in the next?

How can you sacrifice your many friendships and relationships just to win a few souls?

How can you use that open door, instead of using this world, and abusing this world.

How can you be conformed to the Lord, and not this world?

Think on these things… because if you’re conformed to this world, you are NOT completing your “reasonable service”! Your body is not a holy, living sacrifice. How can it be? What sins ought you put away? What evil can you flee from? How can you present your body as a holy, acceptable, living sacrifice, not conformed to this world, not stained by this world?

We ought to GIVE UP our freedom to SERVE the Lord. That is just “reasonable”.

We ought to USE our freedom to become bondmen to the Lord. But what we most often do is use it to live deliciously!

Revelation 18:7-9  How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.  8  Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.  9  And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

We live deliciously, and are at ease in America. And so in the Church, we often are at ease. But this is something that the Lord hates.

Amos 6:1-8  Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!  … 3  Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;  4  That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;  5  That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;  6  That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.  7  Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.  8  The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.

Right now, we are FREE men in a FREE country. We are free to go where and do what we desire. So if we are free: USE IT!! Use it to be the Lord’s bondman! Don’t waste it!

Loving life and living deliciously, increasing ourselves and feasting on this worlds goods, invokes the Lords wrath. We ought to reject these things as dung, and use the open door.

But the freedom is going away. The door is closing. These things are a wakeup call for us while we are free. We may not be free much longer. The door may not be open much longer. Its time, to redeem the time.

The Election Count – Part 12

I see you fighting… but I don’t see you giving anyone THAT on Facebook, or Twitter or SnapChat. How many posts have you posted? How many of them talked about God or Jesus? A lot of them, you say? So what? Lost people talk about God all the time! How many people have liked your posts and said “Amen” and “praise God” and “glory to Jesus” in response to them? A lot, you say? Well.. so WHAT!!?! You think you’re serving God because you get “Amens” from “Christians”? The false prophets and false brethren do the same things! Raphael Warnock did the same thing. You haven’t done a thing to serve the Lord. I say.. you’ve worked against Him. What??? How?? I’ll say it again..

If you’re arguing politics instead of preaching the Gospel, you’re working against the Lord.

If you’re talking about God without preaching the Gospel, you’re working against the Lord.

I’m sure you feel real good about how you’re fighting, and striving, and standing up for “God” on social media. But how many people have been SAVED by your posts on social media? How many people have read your posts and then prayed a sinner’s prayer of repentance? How many have read your posts and were born again? How many heard some Bible truth that shocked them, and opened their eyes after reading your posts? How many went digging in their Bibles for the truth, after they read one of your posts? How many followers of yours have received eternal life from your social media posts? I would wager.. none! You’re not winning souls on social media. You’re not winning souls by arguing politics.

How many people have changed their minds about their political views because of your posts? Any? Some? A few, you say? Well.. So WHAT!?! That does NOTHING for the Lord. But how many people have repented of their WORKS, and believed the gospel from your posts? I’d wager.. exactly ZERO.

I’d bet you’ve never won a single person to the Lord with all your politically charged posts, all your wise observations, all your faith-based, God-centered posts, with all your verse-of-the-days and Scripture snippets, and all your righteous indignation against the liberal elites, in all of your most fervent and creative and wise rebukes against the “radical left”. In all these things, I’d bet you haven’t won a single person to Jesus. I’d bet you’ve never had a single person see your posts and ASK you how to get saved.

Have you ever posted our 5-minute Salvation Plan video? Have you ever posted any salvation plan?

If you did, are you certain was it good salvation doctrine? Or was it something you saw that someone else posted, and it sounded pretty good, it touched you, and so you reposted it? But were you 100% sure of the doctrine? 100% sure that the source was not a false prophet? 100% sure there was no leaven of works – repenting of sins? 100% sure that it contained the complete gospel such that whoever read your post would be able to get saved, with no confusion. If you did, was it only after you got them all pissed off and offended at you? Well how could they possibly get saved after that?

Proverbs 18:19  A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

How can you make a brother out of him when you’ve offended him? You’ve lost a potential brother.

You say, “Oh, well a lot of my posts talk about God, and many even have Scripture!” Well… so WHAT?! The false prophets do the same. Satan can too! Satan will sling some verses at you. He’ll make you feel real silly, look real hypocritical and unrighteous, with some of the verses he will throw at you.

No matter how many Scripture phrases you throw in there and aim them at men like a loaded cannon, calling them “ungodly”, “evil doers”, “hypocrites”, “reprobates”, talking about how these liberals are “double minded” and “unstable in all their ways”, rebuking them as “being filled with all unrighteousness”, and how “professing themselves to be wise, they became fools”, how they “became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened”, condemning their gay pride saying “God gave them up unto vile affections”, and reproving those disgusting, cross-dressing, transgender queens saying they “dishonour their own bodies between themselves”, saying how messed up they are because “God gave them over to a reprobate mind”, saying how “they know not God”, and they are “without hope, and without God in the world”. Telling them how you know it’s the end times because the Bible says “the love of many shall wax cold” and “evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse” and that is talking about YOU, you stinking, rotting, godless liberal!

This is how you fight, isn’t it?

Fire away. Sling away. Keep slinging those verses – casting those stones, ye that are without sin.

This is all Bible wording. Its all true. But you aren’t just and righteous to use God’s word to attack and rail on the lost. To sling these phrases at them as stones. That’s not why these things are written.

Those horrible accusations that are written in the Bible (many in Romans 1-2) are written for a reason. But they are not written for you to use as ammo in your politically charged fighting against wicked men. So you ask, “Well, if not for shaming my enemies, why are these things written?”

These things are written that ALL may know that they are guilty. That YOU may know that YOU are guilty.

Romans 2:1-3  Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.  … 3  And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

You are just as inexcusable as the wicked persons you despise.

We all do the SAME THINGS. And YOU are no better.

If you show them all these things that are written, but they don’t understand that YOU KNOW that YOU are NOT EXCUSABLE, that YOU are THE SAME vile creature that they are, who does THE SAME THINGS, then you are “handling the word of God deceitfully”. You are NOT serving the Lord.

Those horrible accusations are written that all men may know that they are guilty.

These horrible things were written about YOU, you prideful Christian.

But if they hear these things, but yet don’t hear the gospel from you, none of those horrible accusations will help anyone. And if you sling all these things at them, and yet you don’t put yourself in the same abominable boat, and give them the gospel, all you’ve encouraged them to do is repent of their SINS, to clean up their lives. And if they do, well now … they naturally, think they are saved, clean, a good Christian. Because you told them about all the bad things they were doing and now they’ve repented of them, cleaned them selves all up. But now, they aren’t clean are they? Not by the blood of the lamb! No, now they are MORE LOST than they were before you came along. You’ve confused them, deceived them, blinded them.

You’re no different than Raphael Warnock!

No matter how much you beat them on the head with Christianity and proclaim, “Well you’re not really acting like a Christian because Jesus said love your neighbor and if you don’t blah blah blah, you’re just not very Christian! You’re just not a true loving Christian if you don’t… wear a mask to protect others. You’re just not a true follower of Christ if you don’t stand against racial injustice! You just don’t understand the love of Jesus if you support abortions! You’re just don’t understand Christianity if you don’t stand for the death penalty!”

No one who is arguing like this has ANY CLUE what it means to “love your neighbor”. No one fighting on social media has any clue what it means to “follow Jesus”. No one has any clue what it means to “fight the good fight of faith.” None of them has any clue what the true fight of a Christian is.

And since this is exactly what YOU are doing on social media, you must not either. You do the same things, and you fight the same way. You’ve become just like the dogs. Fight, fight, fight politically! … but of course throw some Scripture in when it suits you. Forget the new man, let me put on the flesh, let me put on the dog. Let me get some sharp teeth. And let me fight!

Please understand me: God does not need you to highlight the good and the evil in this world. God does not need you to publicize racism and injustice. To fight for goodness and justice, and to fight against evil and injustices. (What do we wrestle against? Spiritual wickedness!)

Please understand me: God does not want you involved in politics. Some of you still disagree. But at this point, if you disagree, I just don’t know what else I can show you. But I also don’t know what you could possibly show me. Because fighting politically is just not in there in the NT for us Christians. You’re simply, wilfully, choosing to harden your heart. You’re simply willfully choosing to feed your flesh instead of feeding your spirit, and the poor and hungry souls of men. You’re simply being stubborn and rebellious. You STILL think you should argue politics? Show me the verses! Show me a Christian in the New Testament concerned with politics. Show me a NT epistle that tells us to fight against flesh and blood, to argue politics, to fight for justice, or to stand up for what is right and fair in this world. Show me where it says we are supposed to fight to ensure that people have good jobs, and crimeless streets, or that our countrymen not oppressed, or that they have inalienable rights that are not infringed. Or show me where it is your job to just bash and shame people with the Bible. Its just not there! I assure you, this is not godly. Politics is not for Christians!

I don’t know what else I can show you. But if you want to stand before the Lord at your judgment, and explain to Him how you believe you were right to be involved in politics, go ahead. But I’ve warned you. As your Pastor, as one that must give account for your souls, I am clean.

Please understand. Please hear my warning: People don’t get saved this way. People don’t repent this way. You’re kicking against the pricks. You’re beating the air with your fists. You’re wasting your precious time. You’re wasting the wisdom that has been given to you. You’re wasting the living water, the spiritual food that the Lord has entrusted to you to feed the hungry souls. You’re forsaking the spiritual, to strive for the carnal.

And why? Because it feels SO good! It’s an itch that you just have to scratch!

Why? Because its easy. Why? Because men won’t HATE YOU for it. Some will, But some will support you, love you. They love fighters!

But you go and spell out the gospel on social media. You go and give KJV Scripture and lay out the gospel. Or you go and post the 5-minute gospel presentation we have. Give the link on every post you post. THEN see how much support you get. See how much love you get. See how many Likes you get. See how many Followers you keep. Go and preach to all these friends / allies of yours on Facebook, the ones that THINK they are real Christians, and tell them they are deceived, that they DON’T understand the gospel, and that really they’re on the wide and broad path heading to the Lake of Fire. Then see how many “Amens” and “praise Jesus’” you get. I bet it will be as NOTHING in comparison to what you are getting now.

But then.. that’s exactly why you haven’t done that, isn’t it? Because you’re scared to fight the real fight. Because you’d be hated by all mankind. You’d be hated by both sides. Because you wouldn’t like striving that way. You wouldn’t enjoy Facebook and Twitter anymore if it was all against you.

OR maybe you haven’t done that because you know you wouldn’t be able to do it so easily. Because then you’d have to understand your Bible, instead of understanding the economy, or politics, or the law, or American history. Then you’d have to know your Bible intimately, and be able to answer questions in peace and love, instead of just slinging a few verses at these “stupid liberals” in your anger!

Maybe because you wouldn’t be able to answer the hard questions, or to resist wasting your time fighting against the mockers, instead of finding the sheep.

Maybe you still just don’t agree with me. Maybe you think you ARE in fact “letting your light shine”. Maybe you think people are really getting a hold of your Christianity, and understanding your gospel message as you Retweet godly and inspirational posts, and share your verse-of-the-day, and call for love and unity, and trusting in God in this time of division. Maybe you think you’re doing the right thing simply because so many “Christians” are supporting you. Giving you comments, and Likes, and retweets, and “Amens”! So you must be doing right, when you obviously have so much “Christian” support.

Maybe THAT is your REAL problem. Maybe THAT is part of why you are still fighting carnally. Maybe you’re just having a really hard time seeing through this world’s “Christianity”.

You just don’t understand how FEW of these people who are on your side politically, and claim to be Christians, and talk about following Jesus, and the love of God, and loving their neighbors, and even talk about “the gospel”, and “repenting”, and being “saved”, being “born again” … how few! Few! FEW! … of them are Real Christians. Very, very FEW of them really understand the gospel.

You’d know that if you knew how to prove them with hard questions.

But you don’t… Instead, you see a post about God and you think, well this person must be a “Christian”. You see a post about Christ coming back soon, and the antichrist being revealed and you think, “I’d sure like to hit the Follow button on this person, maybe get a beer with this “Christian””. You must have a lot in common. You repost something about how important it is to “love your neighbor”, and you think, God must be so pleased that you took a stand for Him… of course He is… all your “Christian” friends are! You get into a heated argument, and all your “Christian” supporters come out and support your arguments, and help you fight. You sign a petition to defend the Constitution against the radical socialists, and you and all your “Christian” allies sign it, share it, and pray together that it will be blessed and successful. You attend a Make America Great Again rally and its like a sea of like-minded “Christian” brothers and sisters. You see a “Christian” flag waving in the crowd and you just know, that there is my ally, my brother in Christ, my fellow soldier in this fight! Maybe THIS is your problem, you just don’t see through their sheep’s clothing: that so very, very FEW of them are REAL Christians.

But I see it. I’ve proved them. I’ve been talking to a lot of supposed “Christians” for a while now. My father has for much longer. We can both assure you that the large majority of claiming “Christians”, no matter what they proclaim to be or claim to have done, are NOT Real Christians. These are NOT your allies. They are not your Christian brothers and sisters.

Maybe that is your problem. Maybe that is why you are fighting carnally. Because you think so many “Christians” are fighting with you. Because you think you must be amongst the ranks of the army of God.  Maybe you need to start talking to them like we do. Start asking them hard questions to prove them. Start searching for their fruit and pulling the water out of the depths of their hearts to see what they really are – what they really believe.

These people that “Amen!” and Like your posts.. They are not your allies. They are not Real Christians. (And the very, very FEW that ARE, are certainly not wise Christians.) They are DOGS fighting DOGS. And you, oh foolish Christian, have joined the army of the dogs.

Our fight is not “the fight for the soul of our nation”. It’s not the fight against Socialism, Communism Marxism, racism, or any other “ism”. Its not the fight against the downfall of America. It’s not the fight against losing our rights and freedoms. Its not even the fight against the persecution of Christians.

It’s solely the fight for the souls of the elect! Anything else is a distraction, a waste, and direct rebellion against the Lord. You put on the armour of God and you fight WITH the sword of the Spirit – the word of God. Not FOR the sword. Not FOR the word of God. Not FOR Christianity. Not FOR the Bible. Not FOR Christian truths. Not FOR the gospel. We fight WITH the sword – the word – the gospel.

Stop fighting FOR God, and start fighting WITH His sword. Start fighting WITH His word, WITH the gospel. Stop fighting politics. Stop fighting FOR Christianity. And start winning souls. That is our fight.

To Israel God said, go into the promised land, and drive the inhabitants out. Go in and fight against the strong inhabitants, the giants! The spiritually wicked. And The Lord will fight for you.

Though it’s not against flesh and blood, likewise is our fight. We fight against giants. We fight against devils. We fight the angels who sinned, to cast them out and take their place. We fight against spiritual beings MUCH too strong for us. But like Israel, our Lord fights for us. We fight to make place for ourselves and for our brethren in the promised land. We fight to cast down those evil angels and to take their land, to drive them out!

It IS our time to fight. So fight! Fight, Israel! Fight, Christians! Fight, my brethren! Fight, ye sons of God. Don’t be rebellious and choose to not fight the fight like Israel did! Don’t repent when you see war and in your heart turn back again to Egypt like Israel would have.

Its easy to fight flesh and blood. And maybe that’s why you’ve chosen to fight against wicked flesh, rather than fight against wicked spirits.

It IS time to fight. Be not rebellious.

It IS time to fight. But the fight is not against flesh and blood, neither is it fought with men’s hands, or men’s weapons, or even with men’s minds. It is fought with spiritual armour, and spiritual weapons, and a spiritual mind, against a spiritual foe.

Our fight is to win souls WITH the word of God.

That is our battle, and it IS TIME to fight! Its time to grow up, put on our armour, pick up the sword, and fight. Because the battle is almost over. And the end is coming quickly.

Please hear me: Politics is not the fight! Left vs Right, Red vs Blue, Capitalism vs Communism, Law and Order vs Anarchy is not the fight. It doesn’t matter one tiny little bit to God.

If you’re fighting politics, you’re fighting the wrong fight.

But I know that you won’t listen. I know that you’ll continue to fight politics. Just remember that I warned you. When you stand before the Lord and He asks why you chose to leave His fight, to fight with the dogs… To leave the gospel, to serve mankind, to leave the spiritual, to fight the carnal… Remember that I warned you. So fight on! But as your Pastor, as one that must give account for your souls, I am clean.

The Election Count – Part 11

No… no we don’t! “Stand up for” only appears twice in the Bible

Psalms 35:1-2  A Psalm of David. Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.  2  Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

Psalms 94:16-17  Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?  17  Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

Both times it is The Lord who is said to, or is or pleaded to “stand up for” our help. But we are never told to “stand up for” anything in Scripture.

And the only things we STAND IN are: “in the Lord” (1 Thes 3:8). In “the gospel” (1 Cor 15:1). “In the faith” (1 Cor 16:13). In liberty.. “in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free” (Gal 5:1).

You say, but aren’t we supposed to “stand up against” the wicked? Well, let’s see. Because that phrase “stand up against” also appears 2 times:

Daniel 8:25  And through his policy also he [the beast – the Antichrist] shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

Daniel 11:14  And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.

The beast stands up against the Lord Jesus. Evil men “stand up against” their earthly kings.

Neither of those tell us to “stand up against” evil or injustice. Quite the opposite. If you stand up against things you don’t like or agree with, you’re in some BAD company.

“But aren’t there many people in the Bible that have “stood up against” the wicked?” This phrase “stood up against” appears 3 times:

1 Chronicles 21:1  And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

This is something Satan does.

2 Chronicles 20:23  For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

This is something God makes the children of the flesh do – to stand up against themselves – to destroy themselves.

2 Chronicles 28:9-13  But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.  10  And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?  11  Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.  12  Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, … stood up against them that came from the war,  13  And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD already, ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.

This is the only one I found that could be considered a good instance of “stand(ing) up against” or having “stood up against” evil. But if you understand its context, as well as a NT Christian’s role – his spiritual battle, it is not justification for you to fight against evil or injustices.

This passage and its justification to “stand up against” evil – fits your job today, spiritually. This is true today as well, as the only reason to “stand up against” some evil. To stand up against those that would put their brethren into bondage. To stand up against those that would bring God’s people into bondage. To stand up against those that, while they were just as guilty, would put others into bondage for their sins. See where I’m going with this?

Remember, our fight is spiritual. Think doctrine – its all about doctrine – the gospel: salvation. This is what the wolves do… bring men into bondage, attempt to put free men into bondage, for their sins. That is what we stand up against. Grievous wolves entering in, not sparing the flock. “Of whom a man is overcome of the same is he brought in bondage.” So this is not justification for a NT Christian to stand up against evil in America. This is justification to stand up for the flock – that they are not brought into bondage, and that WE and our brethren are not taking those that were made free, and bringing them back into bondage.

You say, well your just playing word games here. I should definitely “stand for” what is right and good! That’s just a Bible fact!

Well, let’s see “stand for”, which appears 4 times.

Isaiah 11:10  And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.

This is Jesus’ job. I don’t think you want to lift yourself up as salvation and rest to men.

Isaiah 40:6-8  … All flesh is grass, … 8  The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

The word of God will “stand for” ever. You cannot be trusted to stand. Flesh cannot stand for what is right and good. Flesh withers. The Lord does not want you to stand for good. You’re worthless, standing with flesh and blood. You’re fists beating the air. You’re grass, trying to stand against the heat of the sun. You will not stand for ever. So why stand at all? You cannot win with flesh, so why fight at all? God doesn’t want you to stand with, to fight with flesh. Not with it, for it, or against it.

Daniel 2:44  And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Jesus does the standing. His kingdom, which is not flesh and blood, shall “stand for” you. And it will stand for ever.

Here’s the last “stand for”. Now, you may think this is advantageous. But pay attention, it is not justification to fight for a better life, or against injustice in this life.

Esther 8:11  Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,

1 instance of “stood for” in the Bible:

Esther 9:15-16  For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.  16  But the other Jews that were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,

This story isn’t here as justification for you fighting for a better life / country / world. This was about the survival of the Jewish race.

Esther 3:13  And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, …

It wasn’t about possessions, wealth, opportunity, freedom, etc. It wasn’t about freedom, success or happiness in this life. It was only about preserving the seed of Abraham. It was about keeping eternal life.

2 instances of “standeth for”:

Psalms 33:11  The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Daniel 12:1  And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

I’m not lying to you or hiding evidence to the contrary.

Not a single New Testament epistle, from Romans through Jude, contains the phrase “stand up” or “stood up”. There are occurrences elsewhere in the NT (4 gospels, Acts, Revelation), but none of them demonstrate or encourage a Christian standing up to evil or oppression. Not a single one contains “stand for” or “stood for”, “standeth for” or “stoodest for”.

There is one instance of “stand against” in the  epistles:

Ephesians 6:11  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

I’m not hiding anything I found from you! This is the only place we, NT Christians, are told to stand up and fight against ANYTHING.

And we are not to “stand against” losing our freedom of religion, freedom of speech, or our human rights. We are not told to stand against those that would take our freedoms, our possessions, our money, our food, or our lives. We never are.

We STAND AGAINST false doctrine – and ONLY against “false doctrine” alone. We stand against lies, tricks, disguises, hypocrisies, false teachings, deceits, subtilties, beguilings, wiles, that cause women and men to eat corrupt fruit. That cause the sheep to go astray. That cause the lost to not be found. That trample down the good seed (the word of God) by the way side.

You strengthen yourself in, and stand up in the word of God. You stand up for the purity of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Because the counsel of the Lord “standeth for ever”. The word of the Lord shall “stand for ever”. That is where you stand. There is your armour. And what you stand against is solely “the wiles of the devil”.

You are NOT commanded to “stand up” for what is right and true and good and lawful in this world. That is not serving God. That is not fighting the good fight of faith. And you will get no reward for “standing up” and fighting worldly evil.

You can choose to do it if you desire, but you won’t be doing it Scripturally. You’ll be doing it rebelliously, defiantly.

You say, “but I’m just standing up for the law. Obedience of the law – the constitution!”

Titus 3:9  But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Its not our job to root out evil in America. Its not our job to call out wickedness and unfairness and injustice in America. That is a fight which is fleshly, carnal, worldly. Its not your job as a Christian. Its not your fight as heavenly-born son of God. You’re fighting the wrong fight. “We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against… spiritual wickedness”. You’re fighting against the wrong sort of wickedness!

Once upon a time, it WAS important to root out evil in the earth. To stand up for the righteousness of the law! Because in the Old Testament, that was the only way to be saved! And if there was wickedness and idolatry and perverting of the judgment, and forsaking of the law in the land, souls would die!

But we don’t live in Israel. We are not under the law. We are not “in works”.

Disobeying the law no longer leads souls to Hell. Rather, a lack of understanding, and believing, and confessing the Gospel of Jesus Christ sends people to Hell. False doctrine leads them to continue in their blindness to how they can be made free from the law. THAT is the evil we should fight against. THAT is what you should be fighting for, posting about, striving to inform people of.

Spiritual wickedness, spiritual oppression, spiritual bondage, spiritual blindness, spiritual imprisonment! That is the ONLY evil we should strive against. That is the only wickedness that we should wrestle against.

But you just keep fighting against the  wrong sort of wickedness, don’t you… You just can’t stop fighting man’s fight, can you? You guys, just love your Facebook, and Twitter and Parler. You just gotta keep posting all those political statements. Posting, and “liking”, and sharing, and retweeting this and that, and commenting on this and that, and arguing for this and against that… fighting for all these worldly things… Doing this, you’ll make some people happy and some people mad. You might please some conservatives, some right-wingers, some supposed “Christians”, and you’ll piss off some liberals. Maybe that is what you like about it. Pissing off the liberals. Getting praise of the conservatives. But they won’t change their minds. Maybe you punch a couple holes in their favorite arguments. Maybe you “win” a political argument against a staunch liberal on social media. Well… Wahoo! The angels are rejoicing in heaven!  A sinner has come home!  A new name written down in glory!!  The Lord has a crown laid up with your name on it… Oh wait.. None of that is true?

Oh, well at least we put those liberal jerks to silence, yeahhh baby!!! Shut up liberal jerks! Maybe they’ll “find the light” and be conservatives… From fighting? Yeah, right! I’ve never seen it. They never let go of their pride, and they never shut up. Do they? You know they don’t!

There IS a way to put your enemies to silence. But its not by arguing politics. Its not by fighting. Quite the opposite:

1 Peter 2:13-15  Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;  14  Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.  15  For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

Ooooh. Ouch. You don’t like that one do you? Submit?? No… You’d rather rebel against the Biden administration than submit to it. You’d rather complain about Governor Hogan’s COVID rules than to, in well doing, obey them.

Submit? No way.. I’d rather keep fighting for social and economic freedom, arguing politics. I know it’s a tough fight, but maybe someday they’ll wise up, and shut up, and listen to my opinion, my knowledge, my logical reasoning, my truth! One day I’ll put them to silence! … Fat chance!

Fools are put to silence with your submission. But you don’t want to it God’s way, do you?

But there is one other way to silence fools, Scripturally. Maybe you fighters will like this one a bit more.

Matthew 22:33-34  And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.  34  But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.

Ooooh. Ouch. You don’t really like that one either do you? By doctrine?? That means you have to preach Christ’s doctrine. That’s a little harder than sharing an article, or reposting a nice bar graph you found. That’s a little more of a risk that you won’t find very much support from your conservative base. That’s a little more of a risk you’ll be hated of all men. You’d rather fight politics with politics, than to fight spiritual wickedness with good doctrine.

But maybe, one day, with all your political fighting you’ll convince them, and they’ll say… “oh I get it now, abortion is murder, and we DO need to build a wall, we need to LIFT all the COVID restrictions, and we better NOT vote for these dangerous socialist agendas”. Maybe .. maybe one day you win yourself a political convert on social media. Well.. Wahoo! The angels are rejoicing in heaven! A sinner has come home, baby! A sinner has repented of his unlawful deeds! A new name written down in glory, baby! Oh yeah, baby! Score one for God, baby!! Here you go Lord, I brought forth some good fruit: here’s one ripe and juicy conservative! Now Lord, you’re gonna wanna slap this pro-Life Capitalist right here, right down there in the front row of your Church there. He’s gonna let his light shine for all the world to see.

Except of course this is all wrong. All mocking aside, you know this is wrong, right?

No one has been saved SPIRITUALLY from this. How could they have… because you chose to fight CARNALLY! Maybe they repented of their “liberalism”, but no one has repented of their WORKS: unto salvation.

If anything, you’ve made them MORE hardened against the gospel. You’ve made them trust in their works. In their turning from their sins. You’ve made them MORE self-righteous. You’ve turned them the wrong way. You’ve turned them farther away from the Lord. You’ve distracted them, deceived them. You’ve convinced them they are better now, cleaner now, fixed now.

You’re no better than the “Reverend” Warnock, are you? You’ve left the word of God, to fight politically. You might as well run for a Senate seat. You’ve left the word of God just like he has.

You’ve left the cold flowing waters to give men the waters of men; the waters of your red, American, patriotic blood.

You’ve left the wisdom of God to give them man’s wisdom.

You’ve left the riches and the mansions in glory to give them Capitalism. What an evil thing that is! Opportunity to buy and sell and get rich. Opportunity to work hard for riches. You think that is Godly? That’s satanic! That is not God’s system He set up! Its Satan’s! With God, if you want to be rich, you don’t buy and sell. You give. Give your things away FREE. And He will give to you. You serve him, and He will reward you. Capitalism is not from above.

You’ve left giving them salvation truth, to give them “freedom of speech”, and “freedom of religion”. What evil things those are! Why are you fighting for that?

Please understand me, no matter how much you argue and fight on social media for what is “right and good and true”, you cannot clean up America. You cannot fix America this way. You cannot teach men righteousness this way.

Isaiah 26:10  Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

No matter how clean the land itself is, even if you were to clean America up, if the wicked are there, they will do wickedly. That’s what they do!

Daniel 12:10  Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

You can’t make them understand righteousness without them getting saved – “be purified, and made white”!

Unless you give them the gospel, they can’t be wise. (of course, they can be “conservative” fools – fighting for the same foolish things that you’re fighting for. But they can’t be wise to righteousness.)

The wicked shall do wickedly. And no amount of you screaming for law and order over anarchy and sedition, or capitalism over socialism is going to change anything. The wicked shall do wickedly.

What are you striving for? What is this perfect vision of America, this fantasized “land of uprightness”, that you are fighting for? The wicked shall do wickedly. (That includes all of us – YOU included… you “conservative”, prideful, highminded, wicked sinner – you’re no less wicked than the “liberals” you hate). So what good is it to clean the land? And how is convincing them to act and vote like you do going to profit the land? As long as you and I are in the land, it cannot be upright. There is no peace to the wicked. There is no peace to America. You can’t have a righteous land of America. So again, what are you striving for?

Please understand me, God does not need you on Facebook or Twitter or Parler, fighting to convince the world of their sin, hypocrisy, racism, covetousness, murders, Godlessness. Why? Because its not your JOB, its not your FIGHT. That doesn’t mean its not important. You say, “well someone’s got to do it.” You’re right. The Lord does. Its HIS fight. He’s got it covered.

Jude 1:14-15  And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,  15  To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

He doesn’t need you to convince the world of their sin.

John 16:8  And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

This is not the Christian’s fight/work. And when Jesus was here it wasn’t His either!

John 8:15  Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.

You sit there and judge men, and condemn men, and accuse men, after the flesh. And think you’re so wise and righteous, and so just, and such a good servant, such a good soldier for God.

But Jesus didn’t judge or condemn! Jesus did not judge a single man according to the flesh. He condemned those teaching false doctrine, but never did He call out a single man for theft, or oppression, or fraud, or adultery, or murder. Never. You judge. But He did not judge.

John 12:48  He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

The word of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ shall judge mankind. Jesus has it covered. Its His job. But that is not our job on the earth.

The Lord is coming to judge the world, and your job is to turn them to righteousness.

Daniel 12:3  And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

You say, that’s what I’m doing! Telling them to be righteous and be Christianly, instead of being all wicked and liberal!

No, “turning men to righteousness”, true righteousness, not one’s “own righteousness, which is of the law”, CANNOT be done with flesh and blood. Not a single one of us is righteous. So how can we make another man righteous? We can’t!

No carnal fighting, social media posts, videos, speeches, images, gifs, news clippings, charts, graphs, nor any words of man’s wisdom that you can SCREAM on social media can make men righteous. The only thing that can make men righteous is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Election Count – Part 10

Don’t despair when the wicked triumphs. Don’t worry yourselves that they will get away with their wickednesses: blackmail, extortion, fraud, threatenings, murders.

Ecclesiastes 5:8  If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

As Christians, we are not to fight injustice! Its not your job to call it out – to accuse the sinners!

If there is lack of justice against black lives, God sees it.

If there is election fraud, God sees it.

If there is oppression and injustice against the poor. God sees it.

If there is censorship and infringement of the your lawful, constitutional rights, the Lord sees it.

If the wicked persecutes the righteous and the innocent, God sees it!

If you yourself are being oppressed, God sees it! He doesn’t need you to accuse your oppressors before men.

Marvel not at the matter. Don’t jump on your social media platform and start calling attention to it – sounding the alarm. Judging evil doings and condemning the wicked. Showing outrage at the matter! Marvel not! The Judge sees it. The Avenger sees it. And the time for Him to reward the wicked is coming.

Remember, God is longsuffering, the wicked have been suffered to be wicked. But judgment is coming; it is set for its appointed time.

Habakkuk 2:3  For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

There is a time coming. Coming fast. Coming shortly. The time of judgment is coming.

Revelation 11:16-18  And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,  17  Saying, …  18  … thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

There is a time coming. That time is coming. Judgment is coming.

The wicked will be recompensed evil, and the righteous will be recompensed with good. That day is coming!  And when it comes you won’t be worrying about an earthly election, or about your jobs, your schools, your human rights, or your free speech. You will be ashamed of what you fought for on the earth. The only thing that will matter is what you did for the Lord, spiritually. What wisdom you found, and what souls you won, or supported winning.

God is not mocked. The time is coming. The wicked will not be unpunished.

Jeremiah 51:6  Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD’S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.

There is a time to the wicked. Each and every nation, and each and every individual has a set time for their judgment. And the time is coming quickly!

Deuteronomy 32:35  To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

Don’t take vengeance, judgment, or condemnation into your own hands!

1 – Robbing God. 2 – He’ll turn His wrath away. (Proverbs 24:17-18)

The time of judgment is coming, and coming fast. Don’t rob God. It is making haste.

Luke 18:7-8  And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?  8  I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. …

2 Peter 2:3  … whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

“But I see all this violent perverting of justice and judgment in the land.. and why is God taking so long!”

Marvel not at it. He’s coming. Judgment is coming.. and coming speedily.

Though it tarry, though you think its sleeping.. its not!

Just believe the Lord when He says so… Its coming quick. And we just don’t understand.. we just can’t see it that it is so.

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3  For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.  3  For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

While the world is drunken and sleeping in the night, happy and drunken, in peace and safety… Jesus will come suddenly, as a thief, to break up and destroy.

Don’t build your house on the sand. Don’t make your house among men. He’s coming as a thief to break up and destroy the house of men.

2 Peter 3:10  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; …

The world will be in complete shock. They won’t see it coming at all, until its too late.

Luke 21:35  For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

Not only will the whole world be taken unawares, completely in shock, but it is coming.. so soon!

Revelation 3:11  Behold, I come quickly: …

Revelation 22:7  Behold, I come quickly: …

Revelation 22:12  And, behold, I come quickly; …

Revelation 22:20  He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. …

Jesus says this FOUR TIMES. I think, no matter what it feels like, we better believe Him!

I know it doesn’t feel like it. But it’s coming, and coming quickly.

The world is like a woman waiting to give birth. I can assure you, 40 weeks goes by faaast! That baby comes quickly! We’re like kids waiting for Christmas! We’re like the hungry waiting for a meal!

But all the while we are seeing wrong judgment… and we despair!

But instead of fighting it. We ought to cry out to the Judge. Like this:

Habakkuk 1:2-4  O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!  3  Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.  4  Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

We see the violent perverting of judgment, and it makes our red blood boil! It vexes our pure spirit and righteous souls! And we sit and wait and watch for our avenger to come to avenge us. To render a recompense to our adversaries. How long must we see these things? How long must we wait. It feels like its taking so long!

But He will come, He assures us. At the appointed time of His vengeance… He will come.. quickly! With His reward in His hand. With vengeance to render a recompense.

As a side note: the context of the passage is the tribulation and the beast reigning on the Earth. Not that this hasn’t been the case before, but this sure sounds more and more like our times. We see iniquity and violence and spoiling (robbing), and we see no judgment. The judges are corrupt.

And we despair.  We get angry and we get afraid.  We worry and fret ourselves. And we vent our anger and fear on social media before the unbelievers!

Psalms 37:1-2  … Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.  2  For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

Fret not when the wicked win, when he triumphs over you. When he cheats and defrauds you. When he wins. When he increases. When he gets rich. When he gets praise of men.

Don’t learn his ways, don’t fight against him, don’t argue with him, don’t accuse, judge, condemn him.

Fret not… his judgment is coming SOON.

Proverbs 24:19-20  Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;  20  For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked [his spirit] shall be put out.

Fret not… his judgment is coming SOON. Fret not… he will get NO REWARD.

Remember, this is not our place. This is not our time. This is not our world. This is not our inheritance. This is not our election. This is not our Election count. This is theirs.

Fret not over the evil doers of this world. They have their portion here and now, in this life.

Prov 17:14 … men of the world, which have their portion in this life, …

Of course they are fighting for this life. Arguing, striving, cheating, clawing, accusing, condemning, clamoring, attacking… This is it. This is all they get. This is their only portion. This is their only hope. They have NO HOPE.

But you do have hope. So don’t be like them. Don’t fight their fight!

Luke 16:25  But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

This is their time to receive their portion. These are their good things. These are not our good things. This is not our place. These are not our things. We have counted these things as dung! And should continue to further count them so. We will receive our portion when we stand before the Judge. And they will receive their “part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.”

So please… just let it go. Let them alone! Let them win now. Let them count the dung as valuable. Let them glory and triumph in their wins and their gains in this world.

Job 20:5  That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

They just get a little time. A short moment. But judgment is coming.. quickly.

One day, soon, we will go to our place, our home, and receive our good things. But not in this life. These are not our things, this is not our place, this is not our fight, and this is not our election. Let it go. Let them alone. There will be no cheating God’s Election count. No single person will be able to cheat the Lord’s Election count. There will be no unlawful striving with God. With the Lord, good things must be attained lawfully.

With God, there is no cheating allowed. But with man, you can’t NOT expect cheating!

Psalms 10:4-7  The wicked … God is not in all his thoughts. …  7  His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

What man can you trust? How can we pick a man to trust? They are all liars, they are all FULL of fraud.

Supposedly “election fraud of any kind is exceedingly rare”. FRAUD is exceedingly rare???? Their mouth is full of it!

That’s like a convicted cheater telling you “cheating of any kind is exceedingly rare.” That’s like a sociopathic liar telling you “lying of any kind is exceedingly rare.” They are all a bunch of cheaters and liars! Their mouth is full of it!

God knows this. All of them are cheaters and liars. Both democrats and republicans. They both are quick to condemn the wicked actions of others, while overlooking their own (party’s/candidate’s) wickednesses. And if you fight politically, so do YOU.

Why?? Why can’t you just stop fighting!?! Why do you have to fight with them? Jesus knows who they are, and what they say, and what they do. He knows what is in their hearts. And He said, “let them alone”. Christians, “let them alone!” Why do you continue to fight with the dogs!?

You don’t need to scream and fight against them from the mountain tops. You don’t need to prove there was fraud on social media. You don’t need to sound the alarm of a socialist takeover of America. You don’t need to attack the Democrats and defend the Republicans. Nor vice versa.

One side won, and one side lost… but they are all full of deceit and fraud! Why have you picked a side? Why are you fighting with the dogs, and against the dogs?

Its not your fight. Its not you strife. Meddle not with it!

Who isn’t a liar and a cheater?  Which organization isn’t biased, partisan, or deceitful?  Which side is above spreading “misinformation”? Which side should you join to fight? Is one side better than the other? Neither side is the Lord’s side! They are all liars and cheaters. Why are you making allies of them?

Psalms 10:7  His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: …

Who is this talking about? Similar phrase in a NT passage…

Romans 3:11-14   There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.  12  They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.  13  Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:  14  Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness [FRAUD]:

Who does this apply to? All. ALL are full of fraud!  One side is not better than the other. One side is not more righteous. No side is just. No side is worth standing up for. You’re making friends of the enemies of God.

Check another similar OT passage…

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

All, all, all have fraud in their mouths.

We can’t pick one pure, independent, unbiased, untainted, unbribable, incorruptible, completely honest man to be a judge or an election official or ballot counter, much less can we find thousands to ensure a fraud-free election! We can’t find a single good man to set over us as our judge, or governor, congressman, senator, or president… How can we trust one side or the other, one source or the other?

You can’t trust what you’re hearing. Any of it could be lies and propaganda. Because all of it is from men, who are ALL LIARS and ALL CHEATERS, ALL FRAUDSTERS.

Psalms 116:11  I said in my haste, All men are liars.

I’m sure you didn’t need the Bible to tell you that. But God made sure it was testified anyways.

There is only one place you can safely put your trust: the Lord Jesus Christ! The King James Bible. There is no other place to safely, 100% trust.

We can wish it was different. We can get involved in politics and strive for it to be different. We can run for office to try and make it different. We can try to train “champions for Christ” and infuse them into important political positions. (Are we conquering this country for Christ?)

But it won’t ever be any different, it can’t be. Not in this life. We can despair, and wish, and fight for a perfect world, or at least a better one. But that (a better country) will never be the case here. The wicked cannot be righteous. The wicked shall do wickedly. He cannot run a fair race! He cannot oversee a fair election.

If an earthy election was stolen… so what? Its not surprising, is it? All men are liars and cheaters!

And WHAT DOES IT MATTER.. what does it CHANGE for us? Our job has not changed. Our fight has not changed. Our war has not been lost. A worldly election, won or lost, has no bearing on our spiritual battle.

It IS time to FIGHT for your nation. It IS time to fight for your family, your freedom.

It IS time to fight for your country! … But not this country, of the United States of America.

You will never, ever make America “a better country”. How do I know that? Its Bible truth!

Hebrews 11:16  But now they [the elect – the saints] desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

“A better country” is, by the Bible definition, “an heavenly” country.

This is exactly what you think you’re fighting for, isn’t it? A better place. A safer nation. “A better country”. Is it not? But now, knowing that “a better country” is by the Bible definition, an heavenly, and not an earthly, ask yourself, are you not just as blind as “Raphael Warnock”? How are you better than him? Because the country you strive for is conservative, and not liberal? Because the “better country” you strive for is based on capitalism and not communism? Is that “better”? Does that make you “better?

“Better” is heavenly-spiritual. But you’re not fighting spiritually. You think you are! You think you’re doing God service by standing up for what is right, what is lawful, what is constitutional.

YOU, ARE, NOT!  You are WRONG! You’re fighting carnally, politically to save your country, to save your rights. You’re fighting with flesh and blood, and fighting against flesh and blood! You are NOT fighting spiritual wickedness!

I thought I was going overboard. I thought you had gotten it.  I thought it was overkill. I thought you agreed with me that we shouldn’t fight worldly, politically..

But you keep fighting… You won’t stop! Why? Why are you still fighting? What are you so scared of? What are you so scared of losing? Why can’t you just let them alone?

Are you scared of losing this precious life? Then you’ve already lost it!

Are you scared of losing your freedoms? Then you’ve placed yourself back in bondage. (free indeed)

Are you scared of losing your money? Then you’ve made yourself poor!

Are you scared of losing your house? Then you won’t have one.

You need to count these things dung.. before they literally and physically turn into it.

We have a better country, an heavenly country. We have an eternal city in the heavens. This is the only country, city, money, house, freedom worth fighting for.

And you are NOT fighting for these, when you argue politics.

You sharing that post on social media that talks about how, this world is just so hypocritical and evil and God-hating, and we just need to come back to God, and love our enemies… Sounds good to the lost… but that’s not serving God. You’ll get no reward for that. That is fighting the world’s fight.

You say, “well that’s just arguing good and evil. Its just talking about how these extremist left-wing socialists… these extremist right-wing neo-Nazi’s, these media nuts, tech giants, these elites, these hypocrites, they’re are on the side of criminals, they’re breaking the law! They’re encouraging supporting of the breaking of the law! These governors and politicians, they are anti-constitutional, unlawful! Don’t you understand Pastor, we HAVE TO stand up for what is right and lawful!?”

The Election Count – Part 9

There are only 2 types of fruit, righteousness, judgment, counsel, wisdom, fear, spirit, life.

There are only 2 types of waters!

John 4:10  Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

John 4:13-14  Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:  14  But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

A man’s water is a man’s doctrine. (Deu 32:2  My doctrine shall drop as the rain… Prov 18:4  The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters…)

Living water is everlasting life! A saved man has living waters – the word of God – the Holy Spirit.

A lost man has his own water – his own blood – which will dry up in time of tribulation / heat.

Luke 8:6  And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.

Psalms 32:4  For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

This is a big deal! A wicked man is going to perish in the evil day because he lacks moisture! He has moisture… but it comes from himself. What is his own moisture? It’s his own water. It’s his own words. His own doctrine. It’s his own spirit.  Its just a tiny bit of moisture, and in time of heat, it dries up!

This is why the wicked are called “wells without water”, “clouds without water”, “trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit”. That is literally what they are!

“Moist*” appears only 4 times in the Bible. You’ve seen #3 and #4.

# 2 takes some study to understand how it fits, but it does fit!

Job 21:24  His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

You’ll find out that it is marrow, oil, spirit, words, doctrine… that is to fill and moisten the bones: to give life to the body. The bones, the body, the soul needs spirit, it needs moisture to live and to endure heat!

And here is # 1. The first, and really the only thing in the whole Bible that is called “moist”.

Numbers 6:3  He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

So what is one’s own moisture?

Deuteronomy 32:14  … and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

That is what man’s moisture is. Blood. That is literally what we are! Moist grapes, yet “without” moisture. Grapes… with just a little moisture. That is what man ate. That is what man became: a grape. And one day mankind will be harvested and trodden like grapes to make WINE!

Isaiah 63:3  I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

Lamentations 1:15  The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: … as in a winepress.

Revelation 14:20  And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

Man’s own moisture is his own blood! That is how he sprang up on stony ground.

Zechariah 13:1  In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

This is not figurative. It needs to be fulfilled literally. Spiritually, Jesus is that fountain opened now. And one day, physically a river of living waters will flow out of His throne on the earth.

Revelation 22:1  And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

Also see Zechariah 14:8, Ezekiel 47:8

Amos 5:24  But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Raphael Warnock and the false prophets and the false brethren love to preach, without understanding.

Your own judgment, righteousness, doctrine, BLOOD will never run down like a mighty stream. Unless it is as when the Lord treads mankind in the winepress of his wrath – as the sacrifice of the wicked! Unless it is as the Earth vomiting man’s blood out (Gen 4:11, Isa 24:20, Isa 26:21).

Let TRUE judgment and TRUE righteousness from ABOVE, run down like a mighty stream of waters!

Your own judgment and righteousness – man’s righteousness – which this man is CRYING OUT for.. is nothing but a lie (vanity) which causes souls to thirst and die! Raphael Warnock is a well without water! He is the blind, leading the blind into the dry ditch, the empty pit, the waterless well. He’s forsaken the fountain of living waters, he’s left the cold flowing waters which come from the Rock, and gone after his own waters, and the waters of this world. He’s left the fruit of the True Vine and gone to reign over the trees which have corrupt fruit.. no fruit! He, being ignorant of God’s righteousness, has left the word of God, to establish his own (man’s) righteousness. And he did this spiritually, long before he ran for a Senate seat.

And is his flock upset? Of course not! They want him to fight for them – to fix their lives in this world.

Fix my healthcare, my job opportunities, my wallet, my neighborhood, my transportation, my schools, my justice system, my security, my state, my country, my planet, fix my life.  But these things are not even worth fighting for.

Luke 17:33  Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

Luke 9:24  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

Establishing goodness and justice in this world, is not our fight, and its NOT EVEN POSSIBLE! There is no peace to the wicked. There is no judgment and righteousness running down like water in this world. Its not even possible without the Lord here.

But THIS is the blindness and ignorance of any man that leaves the spiritual fight, to fight against flesh and blood. What a dog!

Have we seen a dumber dog than the “Reverend” Warnock? A man leaving the word of God to become an activist, a politician? Have we ever seen this magnitude of foolishness and ignorance before??

Oh wait.. we have! Well I haven’t, but at least maybe YOU have… Our dear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who left his ministry to serve mankind. Before he became a civil activist, he was a Baptist minister too. And the world idolizes and celebrates him. The “Reverend” Warnock is just picking up the “Reverend” MLK’s mantle. He’s been praised for just that! In fact, he claims to run the same church that MLK did!

These dumb and deaf and blind, sleeping dogs… let them fight. Let them tear each other apart. They’re fighters. Men of war!

Christians, don’t fight with them, or against them. Take one of them by the ear, and be sorry!

This is their fight. This is their world. This is their kingdom. The false prophets fight this fight.

This is not our fight! But “Reverend” Warnock believes this IS his fight. This is the will of God for him; to get into one of those seats in the Senate and be one of 100 voices in America trying to make this country a better place. The will of God for him is to serve the people of Georgia. To help the marginalized people of America. To build America, to clean it up, to grow it, justify it, to make it righteous, to save it!

Save it?!?!?! Well… why wouldn’t these “Reverends” have seen the spiritual sword coming (heard the words of His mouth) and given the people warning from the Lord??why wouldn’t they have led the people to the fountain of living waters!? Because… the prophets/watchmen of Atlanta, Georgia, just like those prophets/watchmen of Jerusalem, Israel, are blind!

Isaiah 56:10-12  His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. … 11 … and they are shepherds that cannot understand:

The “Reverends” were content to remain dumb, sleeping dogs, and not wakeful watchmen!

Wake up people! Wake up Pastors! This is not our fight! This is not how we shepherd the sheep! This is not how we care for / watch over His sheep! This is not how we feed His sheep! This is not how we save and justify the sheep! This is not watching… this is sleeping!

We are not activists! We are not to be involved in politics. Let the dogs fight. Let the dogs sleep on. LET. THEM. ALONE.

Matthew 15:14  Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

I want to fight! I SOO want to pick a side and fight. I want to shout, and protest, and tweet, and picket. I want to bring forth a railing accusation against men! I want to succinctly and powerfully accuse men of being evil, being two-faced, being hypocrites, being racists, being liars, being criminals, being anarchists, being rioters, being traitors, being cheaters, being thieves, being fraudulent! I want to curse them, and tell them they’re going to be judged for their cheating, and lying, and seditions, and all their wickednesses.

I want to fight! … But this is not my fight. This is not your fight. This is the world’s fight. This is man’s striving. This is man’s government. These things are for men to fight for. Let them fight.

Which is our dog in the fight? None! They’re all dogs. They’re dogs fighting dogs. Which ear will we take hold of?

Which one is our leader? None! Let the blind lead the blind. LET THEM ALONE.

Which one is the righteous man? None! There is none righteous!

Which one is telling the truth? None! Every man (is) a liar!

Which one is fighting for us? None! Only The Lord fights for us!

Which one will save us? None! We’ve already been saved! What need we any more a Saviour?

Which one can assure us a safe and stable life? Which can preserve life? None! They’re all dead! Let the dead bury their dead. Why fight we with the children of the devil? Why fight we with the dogs? Why fight we with the dead? That’s what they all are. Dead men fighting!

So let them alone, and let them fight, and let them sleep on.

As good as this country has been to us, it is not worth us fighting for. If God is giving up this country to destruction, then fighting for it is not only futile, but it’s fighting against God. And this country is DEFINITELY NOT worth fighting against God for, like do the many false prophets, the many dumb sleeping dogs!

We are NOT to fight for this world, against this world, or in this world.

Ephesians 6:12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Our battle is spiritual. If we fight, we do so spiritually, against Satan’s power, over the minds of men. We fight that God may open their eyes and give them repentance.

If we strive, we do so spiritually, against false brethren, teaching false doctrine among our flock. Otherwise, we ought not to fight, even allowing ourselves to be defrauded.

James 4:1-4  From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?  2  Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.  3  Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.  [fighting for this life] 4  Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

To lust after, and fight for the things that man does, is enmity against God. To resist the power, and to rise up in rebellion for freedom from tyranny and oppression, for lower taxes, or more freedom to buy and sell, and run your business.. That’s the fight of mankind, the enemy of God. Don’t join the fight of the enemy of God.

The world chose Barabbas, who was a fighter, a rebellious insurrector, fighting for the rights and freedoms of the people, over the Lord Jesus. The world wants fighters to deliver them from freedom of oppression. The world is clamoring for fighters right now. Give us the fighters! Who will fix my life now? Who will protect me from the threats? Forget the peacemaker, the righteous man, deliver him up to death, as a sheep led to the slaughter, and give me the warrior!

Do you think they (any men) are on your side? They’re not! They’re your enemies. And they will deliver you up as sheep to the slaughter!

John 18:36  Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

If our kingdom were of this world, then we (His servants) would fight! But we are not called to fight. We are not called to war for what is right in this world. We are not called to fight against injustice or fraud. We are not called to fight to defend ourselves.

Our kingdom is not from the Earth. Our kingdom is from another place… heaven. So we don’t fight the fight of this world.

I want to fight against evil! And I can… But there is a way it must be done. It must be done lawfully!

2 Timothy 2:5  And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

If we are to be saved, elected, counted among the elect, it must be done lawfully – Scripturally.

And if we are to receive rewards for our labor, it must be done lawfully – Scripturally. We must strive lawfully – spiritually – Scripturally. It cannot be with iniquity. No fraud! No cheating!

(For a soul-winner that means no deceit (doctrine must be pure), no bribing, no forcing men, or enticing men. They must get saved simply because the Lord draws them and because they sincerely want the truth.)

With this election fight… the worst part is the potential fraud – the cheating.

A righteous man hates wickedness. A wicked man hates wickedness too – but only if it affects him.

An honest man hates cheating. A dishonest man hates cheating too – but only if it causes him to lose.

Among men, you’ll never see both sides calling out cheating… Just the losing side.

Those that profit (win) by cheating, turn a blind eye to it. But God is not mocked. Those that win by cheating are NOT really winning. If you strive UNLAWFULLY, you don’t win the prize. The righteous Judge knows when there is cheating. Be sure your sin will find you out. You may win here, but you won’t win in His courtroom. The witnesses against you won’t be disregarded or thrown out in His courtroom. You won’t get away with something unlawful in His court.

My fleshly mind says, “If there was cheating, I want it investigated! I want those cheaters found out. I want them prosecuted. I want them punished! I don’t want them to get away with it! Attack! Fight!”

But the Department of Justice is corrupt. The FBI is compromised. The Supreme Court is crooked. And the judges of the land take gifts, and judge for reward. This is not unique to America. This is man’s government. And my fleshly mind despairs.. Where is justice? Where is judgment!?

Ecclesiastes 3:16  And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

Why should I condemn America, or Israel, or any nation of this world? The place of judgment is not currently in this world.

It is not in the heart of man, nor is it in the land of America, nor anywhere else in the world.

Habakkuk 1:4  Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

That’s all you get in this world… wrong judgment. The older I get and the more I experience, the more I realize that this country and this world is just full of injustice, full of EVIL! It’s ALL rigged!

Unless you work and work and fight and fight and fight for it, this world will never give you justice. And then, when you do win it, you’ll find out… you’ve lost. Maybe you’ll lose everything here just to get one wrong righted. Just to clear your name. Maybe not.. but you’ll certainly have lost in the next world.

You will not get good judgment here. Wrong judgment proceedeth from the Earth. It doesn’t come from here. Its place, is not here. And my heart despairs!

But I remember… Good judgment comes from above. Righteous judgment comes from the righteous Judge.

I remember… God is not mocked. No one, is getting away with cheating. No one is escaping judgment. Whether there was cheating or no, one day it will be revealed and the guilty parties WILL be recompensed. Be patient… the time is coming, but the time is not yet.

Ecclesiastes 3:17  I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

The Election Count – Part 8

We prove a man by his bread. We examine his fruit. We can know a false prophet by his fruit.

But its pretty obvious even to the world that men like Raphael Warnock have no good fruit. They manifest themselves to the world by leaving the word of God, to serve mankind, to reign over the trees, to fight man’s fight.

Many pastors have done this. Many false prophets have revealed their blindness to the world by doing just this: leaving off bearing fruit for God and man, and going to reign over fruitless mankind.

“Reverend” Warnock, the sow that was washed, may have gotten clean for a while, but now, he’s returned to his own vomit. Its not about the Lord’s word anymore. Its about his own word. His own voice. What comes out of his own mouth. His own vomit. A DOG, returning to his own vomit.

That’s exactly what he is: a dog, a reprobate. I know that because of his doctrine, but the world knows it too, because he LEFT his ministry of supposed “good fruit” and went into politics.

He refused to study the word of God, and instead he studied politics.

He refused to warn the Lord’s flock, and instead he warned against the violation of man’s civil rights!

He refused to protect the Lord’s flock, and instead he protected man’s civil rights!

This is what he did from his pulpit. And now he’s of the mind that this is the true fight that God wants him to fight.

He refused to open his own spiritual eyes when the warning came, when the trumpet blew, and instead he slept on. When he should have seen the sword coming, when he should have heard the word out of the mouth of the Lord, he was sleeping! And since he has only opened his carnal eyes to present carnal threats, he is now of the mind that this is how He cares for God’s people: Politics!

Let’s look at his website to see what the Baptist Reverend Warnock is leaving the flock for. What fight he is choosing to fight? (https://warnockforgeorgia.com/)

Right away, we see what HIS fight is… “Fighting for a better Georgia”

This is right on His website! This is his platform for his Senate bid! This is why he is leaving his flock!

By serving the Lord, he could have laid up his treasures in heaven, and fought for a better resurrection. But instead he wants to leave the word of God and fight “for a better Georgia”.

Christians, this is not our fight! Ours is to preach the gospel to save souls. He could have chosen that fight. But instead, what is he fighting for? What are the “Issues”? What are his “Priorities”?

By preaching the gospel, he could have broken the bread of life to feed the hungry; feed my lambs! He could have forever ended world hunger!! He could have sown the word of God and brought forth fruit! He could have brought forth trees of life with good fruit! That is what Christian preachers do. But instead he wants to leave the word of God and focus on “protecting and growing Georgia’s Farm economy”.

This is why he is leaving the word of God, to serve tables!

By preaching the gospel, he could have given sight to the blind. He could have opened the ears of the deaf. Loosed the tongue of the dumb. He could have healed the legs of the lame. He could have HEALED the sick! That is what Christian preachers do. But instead he wants to leave the word of God and fight for “the right to access affordable, quality [health] care”.

How could you leave the word of God, and serve tables? What a dog!

By preaching the gospel, he could have strengthened the hands of the feeble, given strength to the hearts of the downtrodden, lifted up the oppressed on high. That is what Christian preachers do. But instead he wants to leave the word of God and fight for “equality for LGBTQ+ people and marginalized communities”

How could you leave the word of God, and serve tables? What a dog!

By preaching the gospel, he could have been responsible for the healthy, joyous births of thousands in New Jerusalem. That is what Christian preachers do. But instead he wants to leave the word of God and “support a woman’s right to choose and uphold Roe v. Wade”.

How could you leave the word of God, and serve tables? What a dog!

By preaching the gospel, he could have built God’s house with living stones. That is what Christian preachers do. But instead he wants to leave the word of God and build America’s economy and infrastructure: “building a foundation for prosperity and investing in workers”. He could have invested in the bank: Jesus Christ, the Word of God. This is the investment he is choosing over ministering the Word. He is “investing in workers”! WOW! “Out of thine own mouth”, right?

How could you leave the word of God, and serve tables? What a dog!

By preaching the gospel, he could have been a steward of God’s house, giving meat/knowledge to grow the children of God, giving wisdom and eternal riches to God’s family. That is what Christian preaches do: feed the children of God. But instead he wants to leave the word of God and focus on “rebuilding the ladder of opportunity for all our kids”.

How could you leave the word of God, and serve tables? What a dog!

By preaching the gospel, he could have freed Satan’s prisoners! That is what Christian preachers do. But instead he wants to leave the word of God and fight for criminal justice reform: “ending mass incarceration and giving everyone a fair shot”.

How could you leave the word of God, and serve tables? What a dog!

This is what a dog does! A dog tears flesh. Christians ought not to leave God’s fight and join man’s. We ought not to fight man’s battles of economics, politics, and social justice to better this country/world.

All of our fight can be waged by faithfully preaching the word of God: saving and edifying souls. Rev. Warnock could have done that. But the dog has chosen the vomit. The sow has chosen the mire.

You say, “well those are all good things! Those will help people!”

No, that is foolishness, and those things are KILLING people. He has KILLED his people. He has slaughtered his flock. He has feasted on their fatness. He has stolen their eternal life! That is done! That is what he did to his people.

So now, who gives a crap if he gives them a better carnal life, when he has stolen their eternal life? He’s taught them politics! He’s taught them to forsake the Lord’s good fruit, and instead to serve the trees. He’s put them to sleep, while the sword is approaching. A dumb dog sleeping, refusing to bark, He can’t! A watchman sleeping, refusing to blow the trumpet. He can’t! He won’t open his OWN eyes to see the sword approaching.

And now, he’s leaving his pulpit entirely, to take on the “higher calling”… the office of a US Senator! Can you comprehend this? Can you imagine a man of God doing this?? Leaving the Lord’s work, as a steward in the house of God, to serve man’s government. (He was never a true steward, but that is at least the position he held. A steward leaving the house. A shepherd leaving the flock. A husbandmen leaving the vineyard.)

Ephesians 6:11-12  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.  12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Our fight is not against BOTH carnal AND spiritual wickedness.

It is NOT one singular fight! And you can’t fight both fights.

Our fight is spiritual. We can’t fight carnally. Don’t leave the word of God, to fight against flesh and blood!

How can “Reverend” Warnock be a “Christian” pastor, who reads the Bible, and teaches out of the Bible, and bases what he believes, and preaches, and does, solely on the Bible? How can he justify his actions?

Well, this is how he justifies His “Social Justice Ministry”. He says he is “committed to the call by … Jesus in Luke 4:16-19”… let’s observe:

Luke 4:16-19  And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.  17  And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,  18  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,  19  To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

To Rev. Warnock, this is the call to political activism! This is the justification for his Social Justice Ministry… Wow!

Does that look at all to you like a call for political activism? If its does, I need to do a much better job of opening your eyes! You are blind!

Do you see how BLIND you have to be to think that this is a call by Jesus for us to actively, politically, fight for “social justice”?

Can you see? Can YOU see? Can you see how blind the “Reverend” Warnock is? Because he can’t!

He wants to heal the flesh, and deliver the prisoners in the flesh… those sick, and blind, and bruised of THIS world.

This is the “call of Jesus”, because it was HIS to do. Jesus DID THIS ALREADY.

Luke 4:20-21  And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.  21  And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

Did Jesus set up a Social Justice Ministry? Did He obtain affordable healthcare and criminal justice reform? He says He fulfilled this call. Was He lying? Is Rev. Warnock fulfilling it when Jesus didn’t?

Notice Rev. Warnock didn’t include verses 20-21. Why? Because he wants to fulfill a call that has already been fulfilled. He wants to fight a battle that has already been won.

Jesus DID IT. Fulfilled it. How? By PREACHING!!!!!!! 3 times – “To Preach”!

Jesus DID IT. Fulfilled it. Where? In Jerusalem? In the temple, in the mountains? In Atlanta, Georgia? In the world?

Jesus fulfilled this… in your ears!!!!!

Hey idiots! Hey dumb dogs! Wake up! The fulfilling of this Scripture is by preaching the gospel in your ears! In your ears and down into your heart, where, if a man believes in his heart and confesses out of his mouth, he is SAVED. He is HEALED. He is DELIVERED. He is given SIGHT. He is set at LIBERTY. He is FREED! ALL of those things come upon the man who is saved by the grace of Jesus Christ.

Romans 10:9-13  That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.  10  For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.  …  13  For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

The one and only way to fulfill this “call of Jesus” is by preaching the gospel so a man can believe and be saved! Our one and only job is to save and edify (grow/nurture) the souls of the sons of God.

But this man has left the word of God to save and nurture the flesh of mankind. Why? Because the Bible told him to… or so he thinks. Because he is SPIRITUALLY BLIND when he reads Luke 4:16-19.

He thinks he IS serving God. He thinks he IS doing the Lord’s work, fighting the Lord’s fight, racing the Lord’s race. He sincerely thinks he is following Jesus.

He’s blinder than a bat! Blinder than a mole! He preaches against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of nations and politicians and justifies himself, and condemns them with “the word of God”.

Amos 5:24  But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

He loves slinging this verse at “unrighteous” nations, surely thinking that if he were in charge, he could do this.

He has absolutely no IDEA what this is talking about. You think this is just saying, “hey man, be good and righteous, and stop being evil and stuff”??? He does! Most Christians do. Do you?

Let’s learn the Bible interpretation. Let’s learn what these waters are.

Psalms 72:6-7  He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.  7  In his days shall the righteous flourish; …

Hosea 6:3  … and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

Whoops! And these people are running around accusing each other of not being like a rain of judgment, a fountain of righteousness.

Jeremiah 2:13  For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

It is Jesus Christ. It is Him, and His righteousness that flows down like rain. It is Him that waters the earth and brings forth good fruit.

Isaiah 55:10-11  For as the rain cometh down, …  11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: …

Specifically, it is His WORD that must rain down.

Deuteronomy 32:1-2  Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.  2  My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

Jeremiah 10:13  When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, …

And so now, not just His mouth brings forth rain, but the mouth of a righteous man, preaching His righteousness.

Proverbs 10:11  The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: …

The mouth of a preacher of the gospel is a well of life. A well of living waters.

But of the unsaved: the wicked He says:

2 Peter 2:17  These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

Jude 1:12  … clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

This is who men are. All the righteousness of mankind is like a well that dries up. A cloud that will provide NO RAIN.

And Rev. Warnock, with many other “Christians” are upset that in our communities there is not social justice and if we could just be good, and loving, and fair to each other in America then we would “let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream”.

These waters do not make the Earth a better place. These waters give everlasting salvation!

Isaiah 12:3  Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

That is the water that is supposed to run down!

Proverbs 20:5  Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Proverbs 18:4  The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

Your waters are your doctrine. Your counsel, your words, your wisdom. Your spirit, your life. Those are your waters. Are your waters able to dry up, or are they living waters? When you give a man drink of your well, does he thirst again, or never again?

But a man of himself is not righteous, and cannot possess those good waters, waters of life, without them being given him from above.

Isaiah 45:8  Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness:

The righteousness of God must “run down” from above. From the north.

This is what the interpretation is, this is what the Scripture teaches. But this is what “Reverend” Warnock, in his political fight for earthly justice, misses.

Proverbs 25:25  As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news [the gospel] from a far country.

It comes from a far country. It comes from a heavenly city, above!

Jeremiah 18:14  Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

Will you leave the cold waters that cometh from The Rock? Will you forsake the good fruit, that cometh from the True Vine? … and go to reign over the trees?

He never understood them in the first place, but if it can be said, Rev. Warnock has!

The Election Count – Part 7

Judges 15:4-5  And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.  5  And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.

Foxes destroy fields and vineyards!

Jesus had a big problem with spiritual foxes destroying and setting on fire the spiritual fields that should bear spiritual good fruit. But He did not strive to save the carnal fields!

Matthew 12:19-20  He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.  20  A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.

Jesus didn’t hold political rallies. Jesus didn’t activate and radicalize people to fight for justice.

Jesus didn’t even teach in the streets. Jesus taught in the mountains, and in the deserts, and in private houses, and in synagogues, and in the temple! He didn’t teach in the streets.

He did not strive to be heard, he did not strive to capture men’s attention and bring them to his sermons. They sought Him. “No man can come to me except the Father draw him.”

Jesus’ work was never political. Jesus was not here to fix anyone’s life on earth. He did not prosper anyone, or create jobs or opportunities. He didn’t improve crop yields and ensure everyone had food to eat. He didn’t run a soup kitchen for the hungry or a shelter for the homeless. He didn’t race to put out fires, or give bail out money those that lost their incomes during famine or pandemic.

He did not “teach a man to fish”, except those that he taught to be fishers of men. Spiritual fishers!

Jesus did not try to fix the government, or try to create fairness, or equal opportunities, or more diverse distribution of wealth. Jesus did not get involved in politics. Nor did His  disciples and apostles.

Jesus was never about the world’s business. He didn’t right wrongs. He didn’t fight for “social justice”! He didn’t fight for what was just and right and fair and equal for everybody.

Luke 12:13  And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.

This man’s brother was stealing from him, defrauding his brother. Injustice!!! Oppression!

Its not fair Jesus, help!!!

Luke 12:14  And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?  15  And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

And Jesus offered no help. His only answer was, beware of covetousness! This is not the stuff, and this is not the life that you should choose.

Jesus COULD HAVE judged rightly. Jesus IS a righteous judge. One day the Father will give all judgment into His hand. Jesus is THE righteous judge. And one day we will judge with Him – judge angels. But who has made us judges or dividers or legislators here? Because Scripture hasn’t!

Show me where in the Bible it says we should write, change, enforce, or defend the laws of man? The only governments we make, the only judging we ought to do, is WITHIN THE CHURCH.

And America is not our church. We don’t get involved in the affairs of this world.

While Jesus was on the Earth, He was about His Father’s business: Preaching the gospel. Teaching doctrine. Spiritually working righteousness. Healing the sick, Raising the Dead, Preaching the kingdom of God.  You say, “but He did heal the sick, and feed the poor!”

True.  But He only feed the hungry twice, and as a sign to His disciples. And those that ate, He warned them, labour not for the meat that perisheth! Don’t work to be filled in this world.

The Lord doesn’t need your political help to set up the rulers that He has chosen. And if you’ve chosen to strive for a candidate that He has not, you’ll be found to fight against God, and your work will come to nought. Everything you fought for and fretted over, will all be lost. You’ll receive no reward.. just a waste of time!

Take heed to yourselves. Are you sure your work is the Lord’s work? Or is it perhaps the work of men? Be careful who and what you are fighting for.

If you’re getting active and politicizing, you’re fighting for this world, you’re sowing to the flesh, and all your works will come to nought.

There is no Bible justification for Christians to be active politically! So don’t be a political activist!

The fight

2 Timothy 2:3-5  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.

We are chosen, elected to be soldiers… but this is not our fight.

A soldier does not waste his time and energy on the affairs and things of this world.

“The battle for the soul of our nation”… this fight, is not our fight. Our battle is for the souls of mankind. And our fight is not against our nation, nor for our nation, nor against mankind at all. Our battle is against Satan, and it is for the family of God, the elect of mankind.

Ephesians 6:11-12  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.  12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Our battle is FOR the elect souls of mankind. Our battle is against spiritual wickedness. Our battle is not against political corruption, or socialism, or the destruction of our bill of rights.

We wrestle against Spiritual wickedness. … Hey IDIOTS! It’s spiritual wickedness that we fight against!

And its ONLY spiritual wickedness! Stop the Steal Rally.

It’s spiritual wickedness. Its not carnal wickedness. Its not political wickedness! Its not democratic wickedness! Its not republican wickedness! It’s ONLY spiritual wickedness!

It’s not globalism or communism that we are fighting .. its not the power of Donald Trump, Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi.. Neither of Russia, or China, or any other worldly power… its ONLY of Satan! Its evil angels. Its devils. It’s the spiritual rulers of this world. Its those that rule the darkness. Its those that imprison and blind mankind in darkness! Without the light of the gospel.

Is Satan behind some of this globalism push? Possibly. Is Satan’s agenda aligned with globalism? Yes. The whole world will worship the beast and take his mark/number/name. The beast will assert his rule over the whole earth and no one will be able to buy or sell without submitting to his government. But guess what? … The Lord will require submission from the whole world when He sets up His kingdom too!! (No rain, rod of iron!) So is globalism itself wicked? No. Its just wicked when sinners do it.

In the early church, they sold their possessions and had all things COMMON. So is communism itself wicked? No. It just wicked when sinners do it.

We aren’t to fight against globalism, or a one-world order, or communism, or any other worldly evil. We fight against spiritual evil. And ONLY against spiritual evil.

The issue is not communism, socialism, a one-world order, the removal of free trade, or unfair regulations on businesses, or racism, or class-systems. Its not many you can’t get a good job or get ahead. Its not that you can’t feed your family! It’s not that there is injustice and oppression against the poor. Its not that there are double standards for the rich and powerful.

The issue is that people are hungry, and thirsty, and wounded, and tired, and naked, and blind, and oppressed and imprisoned, SPIRITUALLY.

It is a Spiritual Battle, against spiritual wickedness. We fight against spiritual powers: Satan and his powers: princes, angels, devils, spirits. We don’t fight against flesh and blood!

How is one supposed to fight? With what? And against what?

Not against those rulers and powers of this world, but against spiritual rulers and powers, right?

So what with???? With words? With lawsuits? With politics and rallies and media appearances? With tweets on Twitter? With protests and marches? With sword and spear and rifle? With missiles and fighter jets?

Will any of this combat a spiritual enemy? Will any of this thwart Satan’s will? Will any of this save one single soul?!?!

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

When you take physical action and physical violence to fight a spiritual enemy … You’re like one that beateth the air! Shadow boxing!!! Why are you fighting against spirit with flesh???? How are you going to jack his jaw with flesh? He laugheth at the shaking of a spear! You might as well fight a gust of wind with your hands!

We don’t run uncertainly – carnally, according to the flesh, trusting the flesh. We are not to “trust in uncertain riches”, but to trust in The Lord God who gives us eternal riches. If you run with the flesh, it is uncertain. You can’t trust worldly things. And you can’t run the race or fight the fight with fleshly, or with carnal things.

Why are you trying to serve God with politics! Why are you trying to fight against Satan with men’s powers? Rally men, organize men, stand up men to fight! Lawyer men to fight in court! Warrior men to fight in the streets! Men?!?! Why are we using carnal men to fight against Satan? You’re beating at the air with your fists! You’re fighting the wind with your spears, etc. Laughable!

And what men are we using to stand up and fight? Any that will stand with us against socialism, oppression, and tyranny??? Who are our allies? Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Politicians, Rich men, Lawyers, Government Officials, any men that are against globalism?

These are our enemies, not our allies!

God’s army is made of His elect, His saints!

You don’t use your fists (your flesh) to fight Satan. You use a sword! And not a carnal sword that can be wielded by man’s hands… but a spiritual sword. Which is the word of God, and the Word of God: Jesus Christ. Use that sword to fight. Give somebody Jesus. Cut their souls and hearts with the sword.

Cut them. Peirce them!

If they are obedient to the word, they will humble themselves, and call out to Him to be healed: die and be born again.

Psalms 147:3  He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

If they are disobedient, they will harden themselves, in vain using many medicines to heal themselves.

Jeremiah 46:11  … in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.

This is the only way to fight against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Preach and teach the word of God. Win Souls! Stick a sword into the soul of the enemies, that they may die and be freed. That they may become your allies!

Maybe you think that sounds brutal and wicked, not Godly. Going up to people and trying to stick a sword in their heart. Its much like “kicking/shaking the tree”. Why are you shaking people!?! Why are you going around shaking and kicking people?!? Because that’s how you wake them up!

Acts 12:7  And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.

They’re already wounded and dying… We’re just showing them their wounds. Showing them their mortality. Showing them what is in their heart. Blood, evil, sin, false doctrine.

Luke 2:35  (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

Don’t fight Satan with men’s hands… with men. Fight him with the word of God, piercing the hearts of his prisoners, that they might repent and be saved.

You say, “But that sounds so cruel.. so unchristian! So unfriendly!”

Proverbs 27:6  Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Ephesians 6:11-18  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.  12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.  13  Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.  14  Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;  15  And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;  16  Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.  17  And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:  18  Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

You fight against Satan’s powers with spiritual armour and spiritual weapons.

You don’t educate yourself with history. You don’t get involved in your local community. You don’t become a poll worker. You don’t train to fight as a lawyer in America’s courts. You don’t put on politics. You don’t put on activism.

You put on truth, faith, salvation, righteousness, and the gospel of peace. You fight with the word of God. How? Praying and watching. Watch and pray. Pray, and watch – be a watchman! Pray and search the Scriptures. Then take the word of the Lord at His mouth and give them warning from Him.

This is the spiritual fight, against spiritual wickedness. We wrestle NOT against flesh and blood.

This election… This “battle for the soul of our nation”… is not our problem to solve. This is not our cause to join. This is not our fight to fight. This is someone else’s fight.

This is someone else’s fight! Its not yours!! Why would anyone fight someone else’s fight? … Profit. Money. A gain. Otherwise, why would we? We’ll just get ourselves hurt or killed for no reason!

So don’t meddle with it!

Proverbs 26:17  He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

Try that with a rottweiler, a pitbull. What do you think would happen to your hand? They will tear you!

Don’t mess with someone else’s fight! Don’t get involved in this world’s fight!

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And that is what these activists all are: Riled up, angry dogs.

Isaiah 56:10-12  His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.  11  Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

You say, “well that’s talking about false prophets”… Exactly! They’re the same people! This is what false prophets do! They’ve closed their eyes, being blind to the real danger, refusing to warn the sheep! The real danger is not racism, or white privilege, or communism, or illegal aliens, or gang violence, or social or educational inequality, or abortion, or lack of universal healthcare, or anything else that men strive against.  The real danger is the Lord’s wrath and vengeance; His sword coming to destroy.

If I had a dog, I’d want him to wake up and bark at the thief entering my home. I don’t need him barking at the mailman. Or at the other neighborhood dogs. I certainly don’t need him sleeping. I need to see, smell, and hear the danger coming.

Ezekiel 33:2-4  … When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:  3  If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;  4  Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.  5  … But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.… 7  So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

Ezekiel 3:17  Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

The real danger is the sword that is coming. The word of the Lord proceeding out of his mouth, coming on the earth, to slay his enemies.

The real danger is that men are in the snare of Satan, being held captive in Satan’s prison. All the while the sword is coming. The day is approaching. The enemy is drawing near. Men are on the wrong team, and sleeping!

Wake up! Save yourselves! Flee the city! … But the dogs don’t bark! They do nothing but feed themselves.

This candidate for Georgia Senator is a pastor of a “Baptist” Church in Atlanta! “Reverend” Warnock.

He is no Real Christian. He’s a reprobate. He’s no true man. He’s a spy. He’s a dumb dog. A greedy dog!

Even so, let’s assume for a second that he was a Real Christian… He is a pastor! He has a flock under his watch. He has a ministry given him from God. He is a steward set over the house to minister food to the house of God!

What the mess is he doing leaving his flock?

What the mess is he doing leaving the word of God to run for Congress?

He’s going to leave the word of God, and minister to carnal needs – serve tables???

Acts 6:2  Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

He’s really going to leave the word of God and serve tables???

He’s going to leave the word of God and serve in Congress???

How could you!? How could I?!?

Should I leave my good fruit to reign over the trees???

Judges 9:8-13  The trees [evil trees with no fruit] went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.  9  But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?  10  And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.  11  But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?  12  Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.  13  And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?

You’re going to leave the word of God and serve mankind?????? You’re going to leave the blood of Jesus Christ and go to be promoted over the trees, that have no new wine, no living water?? You’re going to leave the good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees, that are without fruit? You’re going to leave the fatness, the oiled bread of God, and go to be promoted over the trees which have no oil, which have no fatness??

Can you imagine? Can you imagine a wise preacher doing that? Can you imaging an Apostle doing that?

The Election Count – Part 6

Men get involved in politics because we want to have good and strong and courageous rulers to reign over us, and enrich us, and protect us, and fight our battles. The Israelites wanted the same thing:

1 Samuel 8:19-20  Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;  20  That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

What was so wrong with them seeking a king to be over them, and to protect them, and judge between them, and fight for them???

Samuel explained:

1 Samuel 12:12  And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king.

1 Samuel 8:7  And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee [“make us a king”]: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

When we pray and fight and cry for earthly kings and rulers to protect us and protect our rights, and give us justice, and create our laws, and punish our criminals, and to save us from our enemies… are we any different than Israel? We are desiring to be kept safe by a man, and to serve a man, to put trust in a man, when…we’re Christians… the Lord is our king! Why should we reject him?

The Lord your God is your king. To fight for, and pray for, and campaign for another king is to reject the Lord as your king.

That was rejection # 1. Here is rejection # 2:

John 19:14-15  And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!  15  But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

I think there will be a rejection # 3, before the cock crows.

Our president is not some gracious gift to us from God.  A nation gets the king that it deserves.

1 Samuel 12:13-14  Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you. [They made a big mistake! But…] 14  If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:

This is how it works: If YE will continue following the Lord, then shall the king continue following the Lord.

It’s not the king that causes the people to go away from God. It is the people that cause the king to depart from the Lord. Its not the godliness of the king that affects the people. It’s the godliness of the people that affects the godliness of the king that is set over them.

By Israel’s precedent: The wickedness of America’s king is according to her own wickedness.

Neither Donald Trump nor Joe Biden is a gift from God. You should trust in neither.

A country gets the king that its works deserve.

Are we going to strive for a king that our works do not deserve, and that the Lord has not chosen? And are we going to have to strive for the king that the Lord HAS chosen? Of course not. So then… why strive? Why involve ourselves in politics!?

In fact, if you really wanted to have a righteous ruler over you, you wouldn’t go about it politically, you would go about it Scripturally. You would seek the Lord, and obey His voice, and fear the Lord and serve the Lord. You would depart from evil, seek peace. Find godliness and preach it.

1 Peter 3:10-12  For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:  11  Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.  12  For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

Are you worried America is going down the crapper? Don’t seek to save it with politics! Get yourself right with God! You yourself depart from evil, seek peace, real peace. Preach the gospel of peace. Boldly, but with meekness and love! Seek HIS righteousness! Do that, get right with God, then, get on your face and pray. THEN His ears will be open to your cries.

You may save America, for a time. Or, you may only save yourself out of it, like Lot. But if you don’t seek the Lord, you’ll save neither. Righteousness saves! We are saved by righteousness. (not ours of course)

But what is the point of politics? To ensure safety? To make peace? No matter what the outcome, red or blue, there will be no peace. They’ve been striving for thousands and thousands of years, and there has never been, nor will there ever be, peace under man’s government.

Isaiah 57:21  There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

No matter if the country was all red or all blue, there would be no peace.

But that is what they are striving for. Peace! Peace and Safety! Woe unto them when they think they have finally achieved it!

Psalms 127:1  … Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Tying to preserve America when God has given her up to be destroyed… is VAIN.

You trying to preserve the city, when the Lord has sent a sword on it… is VAIN.

So what good are you doing getting involved in politics?

Acts 5:34-38  Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;  35  And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men.  36  For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.  37  After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.  38  And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:

If you sow to the flesh, you’ll reap corruption.

If your work is a work of men, it will come to nothing.

Says the wise doctor Gamaliel, Let these men alone! Let the work of men alone. It will come to nought.

Says Jesus, Let them alone. Let the blind lead the blind. They shall both of them fall in the ditch.

Quit getting involved in politics!  It is the vain work of men, and it will come to NOUGHT.

And… you may be found, even to fight against God.

Acts 5:38  … Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:  39  But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

If the Lord divides America, or destroys America, and you fight to save her… you fight against God.

If the Lord gives power to in an evil ruler to manipulate, cheat, flatter, and conquer America, and you fight against that ruler… you fight against God.

You say, but I don’t fight with violence, only with my voice. I argue, and rally, and protest, and debate and lecture, and opine. I don’t use a sword! But.. your mouth IS a sword.

Psalms 57:4  … even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

You’d be wise to not pick up a sword to fight against flesh. Jesus said, all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword! Only pick up the sword of the Spirit: the word of God. The sword of His mouth! And with that sword, we fight spiritual powers, and not the powers of men.

But Pastors say, “if we don’t preach politics from the pulpit, pretty soon we won’t have any pulpits to preach from.”

I’d respond, that’s not Bible truth. That is man’s wisdom. That is the fear of man talking. “If I don’t protect myself then I won’t have anything left to protect! If I give away my coat, I won’t have anything left to give!”… They speak as if preaching politics will preserve our pulpit from men taking it away. And as if obeying and trusting the Lord seeking His righteousness, God would allow our pulpit to be taken away. And as if when God decides to let them persecute us and we must preach in secret, in hiding, that that is a bad thing (it’s not!), or as if fighting against men will save us from it.

Rather… what will happen is, if you don’t preach the gospel and edify the brethren with Bible doctrine from your pulpit, pretty soon YOU will be cut off from your pulpit. Pretty soon you will be cut off from preaching. Pretty soon you will be put out of the stewardship. Your pulpit will be given to another, or it will be destroyed and your flock will be scattered. Preaching on politics is easy. Even preaching against politics is easy. Interpreting parables, and searching out good doctrine is hard!

You won’t lose your pulpit because you didn’t preach politics. You’ll lose your pulpit for preaching politics over preaching the word of God. THAT is Bible truth. Want to see that in the Book?

Matthew 21:43  Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

They were masters of Israel. The word of God was theirs. Jesus Christ was theirs. Eternal life was theirs. The kingdom of God was theirs. The Doctrine of grace was theirs. But because they would not hear it, and receive it, and preach it, it was taken from them.

Luke 3:9  And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit [not works… words!] is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Matthew 21:19  And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit [not works… words!] grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.

John 15:2  Every branch in me that beareth not fruit [not works… words!] he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Every man that does not speak good fruit, good words.. the doctrine of the grace of Jesus Christ.. will be dried up, be hewn down, and cast into the fire.

If you refuse to bring forth good fruit, He will take away your entire ability to produce fruit.

Luke 20:15-16  So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?  16  He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

You say, well those are all examples of unsaved men losing their ministries. Well, here are some examples of saved persons losing them:

Luke 16:1-3  And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.  2  And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.  3  Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: …

This parable is about winning souls. Settling debts. Don’t waste His goods (fruit, water, bread, etc.)! Take it, and feed His house! That is what a steward does. But if you refuse to do it, you’ll be put out of the stewardship. No pulpit! No power over His goods. No power to preach!

Spoken to one of the seven churches…

Revelation 2:5  Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

It was a church, but it stopped preaching repentance, and so its place (its pulpit as it were) may be removed.

Bring forth fruit, or be cut down. Bring forth light, or have your candlestick removed.

Your stewardship will be taken away, your ability to bring forth fruit will be taken away, your church will be removed from being a (true) church.

Don’t get involved in politics. Focus on being a faithful steward. Focus on bringing forth good fruit. Focus on the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all the other things of this world shall be added unto you.

Did Jesus get involved in Politics? Absolutely not! But Jerry Falwell Jr. says so.

From: https://apnews.com/article/100abe52186be4b1091d9e631ca960c8

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly three dozen black alumni of Liberty University denounced school President Jerry Falwell Jr. on Monday, suggesting he step down after he mocked Virginia’s mask-wearing requirement by invoking the blackface scandal that engulfed the state’s governor last year.

In a letter to Falwell, shared with The Associated Press, 35 faith leaders and former student-athletes told Falwell that his past comments “have repeatedly violated and misrepresented” Christian principles. They said they would stop urging students to attend Liberty, would no longer donate to the university, and would urge fellow people of faith to avoid speaking at the school unless Falwell changes his behavior or steps aside.

“You have belittled staff, students and parents, you have defended inappropriate behaviors of politicians, encouraged violence, and disrespected people of other faiths,” they wrote, advising Falwell that “your heart is in politics more than Christian academia or ministry.”

… Falwell said his involvement in politics was in the spirit of Jesus Christ, “who was not silent about the establishment political folks of his era.”

“All they need to do is read the Gospels — Jesus got involved in politics,” Falwell said in an interview.

I have no idea how you can believe that! I have no idea where in Scripture you could point to justify this stance. If you do, please show me.

Is he talking about the Pharisees and Sadducees? They were religious leaders. The high priests? Jesus never spoke evil of the high priest. That was against the law! Even when the high priest put him on trial by false accusations and brought false witnesses to condemn him to death… “But he held his peace, and answered nothing.” (Mark 14:61) Whoops! I thought Jesus was our excuse to get involved in politics. I thought it was “Jesus Christ, “who was not silent””.

Jesus was not silent about hypocrites teaching false doctrine and laying judgments and burdens on men that they themselves did not obey, nor hold themselves to obey. He was not silent about the self-righteous, judgmental, leaders, who were wolves, dogs, eating the sheep. The Hypocrites, leading souls to hell!

Matthew 23:13-16  But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.  … 15 … ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves …  16  Woe unto you, ye blind guides, …

A hypocrite is a false prophet leading men to hell! That is what Jesus spoke against. That is what Jesus “was not silent about”.

But this was all spiritual. This was about saving souls. The same fight we fight. This was not about saving His country, or bettering the world. Jesus did NOT get involved in politics, or speak evil of his political leaders – “the establishment political folks of his era.”

I have no idea how he could justify this in Scripture. The only thing I can even think of that he could point to, is this:

Luke 13:31-32  The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.  32  And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

You say, “Oh look at Jesus here, bashing on His ruler’s character. What a political statement. What a fighter! What an activist! Well, there’s our excuse to get involved in politics!”

Or you say, “Oh look at Jesus here. What rebellion!”

No, it was none of those things. Here is what you need to know about Herod: Herod was not simply a worldly ruler set over the Jews. Herod held and taught religious doctrine. Herod had a following of his own disciples that held and taught his own doctrine.

Mark 12:13  And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.

Mark 3:6  And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

Herod’s followers were the Herodians. And the Herodians were very much friends of the Pharisees.

Mark 8:15  And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

The Herodians had leavened the word of God, just as the Pharisees had. They were false prophets!

See, this was not a political, nor even an ethical, a moral, or a worldly statement. To call Herod THAT FOX, was to call him a deceiver and a false prophet. Jesus had called him a hypocrite. One destroying the flock of God by leavened doctrine. A FOX, spoiling the fruit! Spoiling the vine of Israel by leavened doctrine.

Song of Solomon 2:15  Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

You don’t let a fox into the garden because a fox spoils the vine. A fox destroys good fruit. A fox leavens the doctrine of the vine, spoiling its fruit! This was a spiritual, doctrinal accusation.

Again, Jesus did not get political!

The Election Count – Part 5

However, if the commandment is to stop serving the Lord, or to serve idols, or to not preach Jesus, or to in some way directly disobey The Lord, then we should reject the commandment of men, and choose the fear of the Lord over the fear of the king. If put in a situation like Daniel, or like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, don’t be careful to reject man and obey the Lord!

But otherwise, if we are under authorities/masters, and not being commanded to disobey the Lord, we should submit to our masters-rulers.

1 Peter 2:18  Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

1 Corinthians 7:20-21  Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.  21  Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

Art thou a servant? Care not for it! “Slavery is evil!” man says. But the Bible is not against slavery. The Lord is not for us overthrowing our oppressors.

American revolutionaries fought oppressions of British tyranny for freedom, and they got it. But that was not the will of God. That was their will.

African American slaves fought oppressions of their white masters for freedom, and they got it. But that was not the will of God. That was their will. The Bible is not anti-slavery, and there is no Bible justification for fighting against it.

If God brings us into bondage instead of freedom, care not for it! Don’t fight against it.

Whatever authority God puts you under.. be subject! Don’t care about it. Don’t worry about it. If you’re in bondage, the Lord put you there. He knows you are there. He hasn’t forgotten you. And when HE decides to bring you out, you’ll be brought out. Did Israel have to fight to be free of Egypt? Did Israel have to fight to be free of Babylon and Persia?

If we are under a yoke, the Lord put us there. So until He brings us out, be subject!

But if we are free men? If you are free… Use it … to serve the Lord.

7

In one respect, being born Americans, we have not had the great honor, privilege, to suffer for Christ. We are very unfortunate in that respect.

But in another respect, we are very fortunate to have been born Americans. We live in the most free nation in the world. Maybe in history. We are free to CHOOSE whom we will serve. Joshua said, “but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

The centurion/captain told Paul “with a great sum I obtained this freedom”. Paul responded, “But I was free born.”

The Lord chose Paul for a reason. Paul was a Roman by birth. Paul had rights, protections under the law that most of the world did not have. Paul didn’t have a master. Paul was free to choose who he wanted to serve. By his Roman birth, he was free to travel and preach.

Our worldly birth is not much different than Paul’s. We’ve been given a tremendous blessing, in that we have been made free to preach the gospel. You could have been born any country in the world, at anytime in history. But you were born in the United States of America, with a 1^st Amendment of the Constitution, with a Bill of Rights giving you the protected right to speak the gospel freely. Much like Paul, we were born free. We have the freedom to preach the gospel. In one of the largest countries in the world. 330 Million people! We even happen to speak the most popular language in the world. What on open door! What an opportunity, what an ability, what freedom, to preach the gospel, to reach the lost on a massive scale! We’re free born! … Use it!

We like to think this is God’s nation, or at least a Godly nation… that it was founded on Bible principles. But America is not God’s nation, and America’s Bill of Rights was not taken from the law of Moses! Its not made of Bible-based principles.

Is freedom of speech a Godly principle? Was speaking whatever you wanted allowed in Israel? Speaking against God and the king was punishable by death. People died for cursing God! Nebuchadnezzar outlawed cursing The Lord. Wise decision! If you were running a nation today, would the wise thing be to allow complete freedom of speech? No, not if you wanted that nation to succeed. Not if you wanted God’s blessing on it. You wouldn’t allow people to run around cursing God.

Freedom of speech has allowed Christians to preach the truth, but it has also allowed false prophets and false religions to deceive people. Its allowed atheists to curse the name of God. Its allowed schools to teach that we evolved from primates and there is no God. Freedom of speech has made wickedness LAWFUL!

What about freedom of religion? Is that a Bible principle? Was it allowed in Israel? Absolutely not! Witchcraft and idolatry was worthy of death under the law. If you were running a nation today, would the wise thing to be to allow complete freedom of religion? Absolutely not! Not if you wanted God to bless your nation. The wise kings of Israel put out other gods and rid the land of their worshippers/idolaters. Freedom of religion has protected Christians from persecution, but it has also allowed this land to be defiled with idols and witchcraft and Satanism! These “inalienable rights” we believe are so righteous and we hold so dear, are not Bible-based principles.

But… we have them. The wicked are free to be wicked, but.. we are also free to be righteous. The wicked are free to serve sin, but.. we are also free to serve the Lord.

We are free in this country to speak the gospel. So… we ought to USE IT! We have that right, though it may not be assured to you much longer. You are free. You may not be much longer. USE IT!

The Lord chose Paul to bear His name to the Gentiles for a number of reasons. But one of them was his earthly birth. Paul had a greater freedom of speech, a greater open door than others in his time did. And so now, do we. You’ve been elected of God, blessed with an understanding of the word of God, gifted an effective presentation of the gospel by God, and also blessed with an open door from man’s government, a right to speak the gospel! Whether godly or not, you’re free. So USE it, before its gone!

As Christians we ought to obey our government, our judges, officers and authorities. Unless we are commanded by them to directly disobey the Lord, or to not preach Jesus, or to cease from worshipping Him, or to serve other Gods or work witchcraft or the like abominations, we ought to be subject / obey. Pay them their due. Wear what they command you to wear. Obey their regulations on your business.

Unless in direct opposition to Bible obedience and service of God, we ought to obey the authority of men.

But, if and when they are at odds, you know who to obey…

Acts 4:18-20  And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.  19  But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.  20  For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

If your government tells you to put on a mask, do so. Be subject.

If they tell you to pay higher taxes, do so. Be subject.

If they tell you to shut down your business, do so. Be subject.

But if they tell you to not speak or teach in the name of Jesus, you ought to obey God, and not men.

If they tell you to not keep a Bible in your home, or not to attend church with your children, or not to pray to the Lord, or not to teach your children the Bible… We ought to obey God rather than men.

“As much as lieth in you”… but that does not lie in us.  Man shall live by every word of the mouth of God. We cannot live without our daily bread, and neither can the lost sheep which need to be found, which need to be fed.

Acts 5:27-29  And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,  28  Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.  29  Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

If you are put in that position, then 1000%, obey God. But if you are not being asked to disobey God, then obey the governments of men that He set over you. They were put in authority over us not by men, but BY GOD.

John 19:10-11  Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?  11  Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

If you are hurt or injured or mistreated or not given justice by our government, the Lord gave them that power over you. Jesus was mistreated! Jesus was delivered under false accusations to a ruler that (while it wasn’t His personal will) allowed an innocent man to be put to death. And Jesus didn’t fight it!

Not only that, but it seems pretty clear that Pilate was put there just for that purpose! How else could we be saved, but that some wicked man persecuted and killed the righteous!?! The Lord put His Son under that evil authority for His glory and our salvation.

Paul was mistreated. Paul didn’t fight it! (Though when put on trial, Paul gave his defence, his defense was the gospel, including his backstory as a chosen Apostle who was an eye witness of the risen Saviour). The Jews were put under the powers of wicked, heathen kings. The king’s law to Daniel was to not pray to the Lord, or be thrown into the lion’s den. The king’s law to Shadrach Meshach and Abednego was to worship an idol or to be thrown in a burning fiery furnace. The king’s law by Haman to all the earth was to destroy the Jews in one day. God gave them power to make those decrees, persecuting His people for well doing. He allowed kings which He set over His people to persecute them and to make evil laws. And then, when they feared the Lord rather than feared the king, He delivered His people through their persecutions with a great deliverance. In all those case, He brought them out and gave them the power and authority over their enemies! There’s a pattern there my friends.

I feel that this COVID-19 Pandemic is as much a work of Satan as any natural accident of nature or any work of man. Satan may have developed this virus himself. Its possible.. This pandemic is about much more than giving power to one political party. This is about something much more damaging than destroying businesses, or taking away our freedoms, or installing socialism. This is about censoring, muzzling soul winners. You think Satan cares about censoring Republicans? They are no threat to him. He cares about censoring soul winners. They are the threat.

Is this all moving us towards a one-world order with the Antichrist at the head? Probably… but more so, Satan wants to shut Christians up, and shut our ministries down. This pandemic is just KILLING our soul winning efforts! The open door in America went from wide open to barely cracked. I think of what a LOSS of souls there has been since this thing started! How many souls have we lost? How many could have been won!?

But you know what? God let this pandemic happen.  He allowed this virus to spread and the fear to build and the businesses to shut down and the mask mandates to be installed. He allowed the governors and mayors to impose quarantines and public gathering limits, and to close parks and public places.

He allowed our rights to be violated. He allowed the open door to be nearly shut on us.

So what can we do? We can’t stop preaching the gospel. We must needs be subject to man where possible, but we must obey God rather than men. It’s a tough place. But for now: Put on your mask, limit your gatherings (where possible – where large ones are not necessary to win souls) but preach the gospel boldly.

If I had an opportunity to preach to a large crowd, in violation of the gathering rules? I’d take it! Shouldn’t I? Shouldn’t you? Shouldn’t we obey God rather than men?

What about the fear of dying from this virus? I don’t have a fear of it. Nor should you. Not because its a hoax. Not because there is no danger there.. But, because as long as you are going out in the name of the Lord, He is your defence. Be bold and be confident in your safety. The Lord protects His servants. The Lord will not let a virus kill you before He is done using you. And if you do get sick and die it will be for His sake, and it will be His will, and it will be rewarded and it will have been worth it.

I think that is the line we have to draw. Obey our government. But obey God rather than men.

As long as we are alive in the flesh, we ought to be subject unto our rulers – Presidents and Governors and Judges, and Police Officers and all such like – and not to resist them.

They are not ordained of men, but of God. And we must needs be subject. But where contrary to Scripture, we ought to obey God rather than men. Where we have an open door of the Lord to preach the gospel, we ought to obey God rather than men.

Politics

I believe a Christian should not be involved in Politics.

You say, “You’re saying that God chooses our leaders in accordance with His will, but this is America! We have democracy. We hold free and fair elections. We have a vote. We can affect change! We can get active in politics and WE can choose good and gentle and just leaders!!”

I think you’re wrong. You have a desire. But you don’t have the choice.

God does His will in the earth. He sets up whom He will. Maybe it will be who America desires, maybe it won’t be. What if God’s choice is not America’s?

How many votes does it take to override God’s will? Is God just a swing state for close races?

Remember, God sets up the ordinances. That is His job. So, if you are politicizing yourself, fighting for your candidates, are you “doing the Lord’s work” for Him, or are you perhaps, fighting against Him? How can you be sure which it is? Are you sure you know which is the better candidate? Are you sure you know which is the RIGHT candidate? Are you wiser than Him? What if you’ve chosen wrong? Will you campaign, and rally, and debate, and fight against His will? If you’ve chosen right, what have you added to His cause? Does He need your help? Does He really need your time and efforts to establish ordinances? Does He owe you thanks when He succeeds? Will you get a reward for your political work? What have you profited Him? I think nothing. I think you’ve wasted your time.

Again, I believe Christians are not to be involved in Politics!

Christians aren’t supposed to a bunch of activists in our communities. The world already has activists. On both sides of the isle, fighting for a better country, a better world. Fighting for a better life (for themselves, and often for others). An activist labours and works to affect change in policies and laws. I shouldn’t have to tell you.. this is not our job as Christians.

An activists works to change laws, control money flow, and also to affect people. To change people’s minds where possible and to get them motivated where necessary. All in the hopes of changing our lives, or country, our world for the better. I shouldn’t have to tell you.. this is not our job as Christians.

Now, there are some similarities between activists and Christians…

Activists are active in this carnal world. They want to preserve and improve men’s lives. No matter what they are doing, correct or incorrect, good or evil, left or right, they are all trying to make things in this world better. Maybe selfishly, maybe unselfishly. But they are all fighting to change their lives for the better. This is how they fight: carnally. This is why they fight: to save and improve the world.

Christians are active, fighting and laboring in the Spirit. We want to GIVE men life. This is how we fight: spiritually. This is why we fight: to save and edify men’s souls.

Politicians and Activists fight to improve this life, which is death. Christians fight to improve the next life, which is true eternal life.

Politicians and Activists fight to improve the life that men already have. Christians fight to give men eternal live that they don’t have.

An activist tries to change people’s minds to think like them.  They argue, and coerce, and shame others to change their minds. And if that doesn’t work, they manipulate them, blackmail them, or even break the law so that they can work their own wills.

Again there are some similarities, but Christians must be different. We MUST not strive. We must not fight against flesh.

We DO want men to change their minds, but we must not be the ones to change them. But in persuading them to believe the gospel, we must be gentle, easy, patient. We should not, and we CANNOT, change anyone’s mind to make them believe the Gospel. That is called repentance. They must repent because they want to. Our labour is to give them knowledge, give them the truth… and if God so elects them, chooses them, HE will grant them repentance. He will open their ears and He will ALLOW them to change their minds. But we can’t force them. And we can’t despise and revile those that don’t hear us!

2 Timothy 2:24-25  And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,  25  In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; …

Does that sound like an activist to you? Activists are angry, often violent. Sometimes passive aggressive. Most of the time just aggressive! The best politicians are good at containing their anger and disgust at their enemies. But we are to teach in love, instruct in meekness. Because our job is not to strive with man. Because our job is not to change their minds, or win their vote, or control their thinking, or impose our will on them because they are stupid and we know best. Our job is not to silence our opposition. Our job is to give eternal life to those that are hungry for it. To give the truth to those that desire it.

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

Our job is to release the prisoners. Our job is to save the oppressed, to heal the sick.

“That’s what we want to do” says the activist. Justice! Healthcare!

Again, there are some similarities in what we want, yes.

But where they want to heal men temporarily with medicine, we want to heal man eternally with the word of God.

Where they want to release the state’s prisoners, we seek to release Satan’s prisoners.

Our job is not political. Our job is spiritual. We do not try to effect national or political change. We do not strive to save or improve our country. We do not strive to repave roads, enable clean energy, clean up crime in our communities, encourage diversity, or even to feed the poor! Our business is not politics. We aren’t in the business of condemning our current leaders or promoting better candidates. We don’t hold rallies, we don’t campaign, we don’t yell “VOTE, VOTE, VOTE OR DIE!” over the megaphone.

Jesus said, “ I must be about my Father’s business.” None of this is our Father’s business, none of this was Jesus’ ministry, and none of this is how we are to serve God’s children.

If you convince yourself otherwise, you’ve deceived yourself… blinded to the spiritual things.

The Election Count – Part 4

Romans 13:1  Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

John 19:11  Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above:

I know non-Pentecostal, non-charismatic churches typically teach that God has stepped back in the Church Age and doesn’t interfere with the lives and things of men, but that is not completely true.

What has happened is that the Jews have been blinded in part, and the gospel has been given to the Gentiles. So there are no apostolic signs, because signs are for Jews. I believe that is true. But there is no Scripture that I am aware of that indicates that God has completely decided to no longer intervene in earthly things. God has always been God. He hasn’t stepped down or resigned. He has always taken care of His people. And He has always been ruler in the kingdoms of men. He’s always set kings up and put them down. Does Satan have power to do this too? Absolutely. Because God has set him up and given him that power too. God has given Satan his seat and His authority. And all those under him. The principalities, the powers, the rulers of the darkness of the this world.

Daniel 7:9-10  I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.  10  A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

God is of course over Satan and his kingdoms, there is no power but of God, and where Satan’s will does not align with God’s, I believe He performs His will over Satan’s, bringing down those that Satan desires to set up and setting up those that He Himself chooses. But mostly, the mystery of iniquity doth already work and so their wills are well aligned, both heading towards the coming of the great and dreadful day.

Do we see God work very often and very clearly today? No. But that doesn’t mean that He doesn’t work at all in the Earth. That doesn’t mean He doesn’t do miracles and wonderful works to protect and provide for those that fear Him. That doesn’t mean that He doesn’t arrange meetings and open doors for Soul Winners. God is a God that hidest himself. You’ll never find him unless you seek for Him. No, He’s not our magic genie, but that doesn’t mean that He has stepped back and refused to help the righteous or to recompense the wicked, or refused to intervene in the Earth at all.

And this is one way that He does guide and intervene in the Earth regularly. He sets up and authorizes our powers. He gives them their authority. There is no man that has authority over you that God did not give authority to. There is no man that can make a rule over you to whom God did not give power to make that rule.

So, whether Biden or Trump or Hogan, or any other man (or woman), honour them, fear them, obey them. Pay them their dues. To resist them is to resist the ordinance of God. To fight against them is to fight against God!

And we aren’t just talking about our President. But our governors, and judges, and police officers and FBI agents. These are the ordinances of God set up to govern, to reward the righteous and to punish evil doers! Are some, even many corrupt? News for you.. they are all corrupt. All flesh has corrupted his way on the earth. But they are the ones God has set up over us.

To resist them is to resist the ordinance of God. To fight against them is to fight against God! How about that Bible Truth for Black Lives Matter? Would you like to be found to fight against God? Would you like to fight that fight?

Luke 20:22-26  Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?  23  But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?  24  Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar’s.  25  And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s.  26  And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.

Caesar was no Jew. He was no son of David. He was not rightful ruler to the Jews. He was a conqueror. He was an oppressor. He took power by force. The Jews had sincere arguments about whether they should submit to him and pay tribute to him.

What was Jesus’ (a Jew) position?  Submit!   And this should be ours too.

Give to man what you owe him. Money, honor, obedience, fear.

This is NT doctrine!

1 Peter 2:13-17  Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;  14  Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers [judges, police officers, FBI Agents, SWAT teams, the national guard, the military], and for the praise of them that do well.  [maybe not to praise us, but FOR our praise!] 15  For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:  16  As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.  17  Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

We are free in Christ, we have liberty Spiritually. But as long as we are in the flesh, we are under fleshly ordinances, man’s government. And the will of God is to submit ourselves to fleshly ordinances. Apparently, this silences foolish mockers. Why? Because they expect Christians to fight against rules and rulers they don’t like. They expect Christians to complain about our ungodly authorities. They expect Christians to protest. They expect Christians to sue them at the law. They expect Christians to defy the unconstitutional orders of a governor. They expect Christians to fight back! They expect Christians to fight oppression and injustice! … Because those are the things that they do… and they think we are no different than them! Because they think there is no truth in us. They think we are just as rebellious as the are. They think there is no truth and no righteousness in Christianity above the world’s righteousness. And indeed, Christians, and supposed “Christians” are some of the biggest fighters. We think its our duty to stand up for what is right with righteous anger!!!

But when we don’t fight, but rather just be subject, submitting to those that God has set over us, we put the ignorance of those foolish men to silence! Not with a railing accusation, but with well doing. By not resisting evil.

Matthew 5:39  But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Fighting against governments is what the wicked do!

2 Peter 2:10  But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

This is why they riot. They despise government. This is why they have “civil disobedience”, because they despise government. This is why they fight to defund the police, because they despise government. This is why they become activists and run for office, because they despise government. They want to be above it, or change it, or just speak evil of it.

This is what ungodly sinners do. You know what they’ve done to Donald Trump. What they’ve said about him, what they’ve said TO him. How they’ve harassed him and accused him and resisted him and mocked him. You know what they did to Barack Obama. Same things. You know what they do to their rulers that they don’t like, on both sides of the aisle. (Mayors, Governors, Congressmen). But we are not like them spiritually. So we shouldn’t be like them carnally!

Are some of our rulers corrupt, and unjust?! Absolutely! But God put them there over us, and we must needs be subject. Maybe they will be good to us. Maybe they will be evil to us. Maybe the Lord put them there to be evil to us just so that we can be praised and rewarded for well doing in the face of persecutions.

1 Peter 2:19-20  For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.  20  For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

The Lord gave them their power over us, and we should be afraid to speak evil of them! We should be afraid to resist them. We should be afraid to lift up a sword against them.

David dealt with a horribly evil king set over him. When David was good, King Saul was wicked to him. But even when as Saul was hunting David to take away his life, and God delivered Saul into David’s hand in the cave, he didn’t fight, he humbled himself, and he said to Saul,

1 Samuel 24:10,12  Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD’S anointed. … 12  The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

And again when Saul pursued to take away his life, and God delivered him into David’s hand, and again some bade David to kill Saul:

1 Samuel 26:10-11  David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.  11  The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD’S anointed: …

It would be so easy to fight against our ordinances.. For David it would have been one of the easiest things he’d ever done.

1 Samuel 24:12  The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee…

Sometimes the law is slacked. Sometimes justice does not go forth. When that is the case, the Lord is the avenger.

Romans 12:19  Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

Hebrews 10:30  For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. …

The Lord punishes the corrupt judges of the land. The Lord avenges the poor and the oppressed.

Vengeance is His. Will you rob God?

If you believe there is injustice against you and you’ve been hurt, or defrauded, and you desire to be avenged, don’t avenge yourself. If I may be so bold to suggest: don’t even go to the law to be avenged. Call on the Lord! He is the Avenger!

And if you have oppressed your Christian brother (stolen, defrauded, slandered, reviled), you better get it right, and get it right quick!!

1 Thessalonians 4:6  That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such,

Luke 18:7-8  And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?  8  I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. …

The triumphing of the wicked is short. Be patient. Wait on the Lord. Let Him be your vengeance.

Dude, just wait a few minutes, maybe a few hours.

But our job as Christians is not to fight against the ordinances. Our job if not to avenge ourselves of injustice and fight against oppression. His job is to see and judge and avenge us. Our job is to submit to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, enduring grief with conscience toward God, and as much as lieth in us, live peaceably with all men. Even to the froward.

1 Peter 2:18-19  Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.  19  For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

It seems so unfair. It seems so impossible. But this is the will of God for us in this world. “Submit to every ordinance of man” and “avenge not yourselves”.

Obey the authorities. Even the froward. Cast your care upon Him, for He careth for you. Present your cause to Him, let Him judge your cause. Trust Him. Let HIM be your sword and shield, and your avenger.

“Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord”

If you’ve been wronged, suffer it. If you’ve been cheated, allow it! Turn the other cheek. If a man sue you a the law and take away your coat, Let him have your cloke also. Hard stuff, but it’s the truth! Van.

1 Corinthians 6:6-8  But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.  7  Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?  8  Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

Apple Watch. Very hard… but I think this is what God expects. Not because He wants you to suffer… but because He wants you to be rewarded when He comes to judge, and innocent when He comes to avenge! God is not mocked! You won’t lose! The Judge is going to make it right!

You’ll be thanked, rewarded for suffering wrongfully, for His sake. Allowing persecution, not resisting evil, for conscience toward Him… You’ll conquer!

As much as you can, obey their power over you and submit peaceably.